Chapter 149 The Battle of Xiangjiang Feng Shui

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On the morning of the second day, Li Huayong, Lao Chang of "CEFC Group", and Lin Wei, sisters and brothers, stood together to watch the groundbreaking ceremony of the Bank of China Building.

In addition to the representatives of the owner Bank of China and the construction party "Huatian Consortium", there were also "related households" such as Li Huayong, Lao Chang, and Lin Wei who were invited.

Li Huayong came to the scene at more than 9 o'clock, according to the "auspicious time" strictly selected by Mr. Feng Shui, the time has almost passed an hour, and the whole ceremony has not ended.

Li Er was stunned and sneaked over, and Li Huayong joked with him:

"Why, you, the Minister of Engineering, dare to slip away? You are too unreligious, look at the Lu brothers, and Lao Lei. โ€

Li Huayong pointed with his finger, and in the center of the venue, there was a large square table for sacrifice, on which there were a number of pig's heads, a number of incense candles, and a number of yellow paper. And the Lu brothers and Lei Jianjun, under the guidance of a feng shui gentleman, are now kneeling meticulously in front of those pigs' heads.

Li Er was stunned and smiled bitterly: "How did I know that it was so troublesome for the people of Xiangjiang to hold a groundbreaking ceremony, Lao Lei had no choice, a little person like me, then naturally he would hide as far as he wanted." โ€

Li Huayong smiled, when the construction started, the worship ceremony was carried out, such a trend was most prosperous in Xiangjiang, followed by Wanwan, and then gradually spread in the mainland from south to north.

Li Er was stunned and glanced at Lin Wei's sister and brother: "I know that Xiangjiang people like to do this, but today is inevitably too cumbersome, you see that it is almost an hour of tossing now, why is it endless." โ€

"It should be, Li Gong, you don't know, Lao Lu, they do this for a reason. โ€

"What's the reason for that?"

Li Huayong shook his head, and said to Li Er in a ridiculous tone: "Li Gong, I think you, the minister of engineering, are completely unqualified, don't you know that the construction land of the Bank of China Building is a "fierce land", Xiangjiang people think that the feng shui here is not good, Lao Lu, the reason why they made the worship ceremony so grand, in addition to praying for the safety of the construction in the future, also has the meaning of asking Mr. Feng Shui to change the feng shui here. โ€

Li Huayong's words not only made Li Er stunned, but also the Lin Wei sisters and brothers on the side, Lin Kai couldn't help but open his mouth and said, "How come I don't know?"

Li Huayong glanced at him, "It's normal for you to know at your age, let me tell you, here's the thing." โ€

Li Huayong told an allusion about the Bank of China Building:

Whether it is in real history or now, the Bank of China Tower was built this year, but this project was established in 1982. It is said that when the Bank of China intended to build a building in Central, the British government of Hong Kong at that time deliberately sold a piece of land with a very small location and extremely poor transportation conditions to the Bank of China. Forget about these alone, more importantly, the original site of the Bank of China Building, that is, where Li Huayong and others are currently standing, when the Japanese devils invaded Xiangjiang, here was a prisoner of war camp for the Japanese devils, and many people died in it, in the view of feng shui, such a place is obviously not suitable for building a new building, which is the origin of the so-called "fierce place".

"I see. โ€

After listening to Li Huayong's words, Li Er and Lin Wei were stunned and their sisters and brothers suddenly realized one by one. For such words, Li Er was stunned and Lin Wei listened to it, but Lin Kai became interested:

"Brother Yong, do you still know feng shui?"

Li Huayong smiled, then he suddenly remembered what Lin Kai said yesterday "Wangfu's appearance", he first glanced at Lin Wei with a smile, Lin Wei was inexplicable by him, and then he bragged to Lin Kai:

"Of course, I learned the authentic Xuanmen of Feng Shui, Xiao Kai, let me tell you, as far as you Xiangjiang Feng Shui masters are, it's really not enough to see in front of me. โ€

Li Huayong's words made everyone laugh, and Lin Wei glanced at him: "Bragging." โ€

Li Huayong didn't talk to Lin Wei, but he said to Li Er stunned: "Li Gong knows so-and-so, right?"

Li Huayong reported a place name to Li Erzi, Li Erzi was stunned for a moment, and then reacted:

"You know, what's wrong with the pier?"

Li Huayong said proudly: "My hometown is not far from that place, my feng shui was learned in that place, do you think I am considered the authentic sect of Xuanmen?"

Li Er was stunned and laughed: "Count, of course, it's really ho, if what you said is true, then it is really Xuanmen authentic." โ€

Lin Kaiqi said: "What is so powerful?"

Li Er was stunned and explained to him: "Shaolin Wudang you know, right?"

"Yes. โ€

"You know Quanzhen Sect and Zhang Tianshi, right?"

"Yes. โ€

"Are these considered Xuanmen authentic?"

"Well, it seems to count. โ€

"Feng Shui is also called Kanyu in China, and the place you Brother Yong said is the birthplace of Kanyu Studies, which can be said to be the ancestor of all Feng Shui gentlemen in the world, if your Brother Yong's ability is really learned there, do you think it is considered the authenticity of Xuanmen?"

Lin Kai's eyes flashed with little stars: "Amazing, amazing!"

Lin Kai is so foolish, Lin Wei is not so easy to deceive, she didn't say anything at this time, but the meaning of disbelief on her face was obvious.

Li Huayong smiled, and he continued to fool Lin Kai: "Xiao Kai, do you know why everyone says that Central is the best place for the whole Xiangjiang Feng Shui?"

"Why?"

"The development of Central is due to the cornucopia of Victoria Harbour. You see, the water on Hong Kong Island flows down from the Pearl River, passes through the Kap Shui Mun, enters Victoria Harbour from the Big Mouth, passes through the Kwun Tong Reservoir, and then flows into Lei Yue Mun, and finally there is a Tung Lung Chau blocking it, so that it does not flow away so quickly. The water enters rapidly and the water comes out slowly, and the water forms two "cornucopias" of curved water at the middle two turns. Do you know what this is called in Feng Shui? This is called "Nine Songs of Water", which is the supreme pattern of sentient water! And what does "water" represent? I don't need to explain too much. โ€

Lin Kai hurriedly said: "I know, I know, isn't "water" just "wealth", in our Xiangjiang, "water" means that there is money. โ€

"Not bad, not bad," Li Huayong said with a teachable face:

"After talking about the water, let's take a look at the topography of the north and south banks of Victoria Harbour, you look at the opposite Tsim Sha Tsui, which is a convex terrain, and the Central where we are now is a concave terrain! You look at these two terrains, if they are put together, can they be put together into a perfect plane? Let me tell you, this is an excellent feng shui, which is called "catering and sending together" in feng shui, which is generally used in architectural feng shui, and it has reached such a degree of consistency in the terrain, but there are few places in the whole of China!"

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Li Huayong decided to continue to pretend to be the end, and he set his sights on the HSBC building not far away:

"You should have heard it before, many feng shui masters in Hong Kong think: the best place in Xiangjiang feng shui is in Central, and the best place in central feng shui is this HSBC building, why do they say this? โ€

Li Er was stunned and Lin Kai looked at each other, and Lin Kai and Lin Wei looked at each other. It should be said that Li Huayong's pretense of these words was quite successful. Anyway, what is the "Nine Songs to the Water", what is the "Catering and Sending Together", and what is the "Fighting Three Evils", Li Huayong's mouth came out of a professional term that seemed to be in Feng Shui, and the three of them were stunned.

Lin Kai was energetic at this time: "Sister... Ah no, I can't see it, Brother Yong, I didn't think you were really a master. I just heard you keep saying that Mr. Feng Shui of Xiangjiang thinks so, Mr. Feng Shui of Xiangjiang says this, why do you think they are not right?"

"It's not all wrong. โ€

When pretending to be addicted, no one could stop it, Li Huayong shook his head and made a master: "I can only tell you like this, most of you Feng Shui gentlemen in Xiangjiang only know a little bit about the skin, and there are really few who really understand the essence of Feng Shui." โ€

I must admit that Li Huayong's forced pretense is a bit big, so big that even Lin Kai is a little hesitant:

"Let's say ....."

"For example, they think that the HSBC Building is the best feng shui in the whole of Central, which is very wrong. โ€

"Ahh......h

Li Huayong couldn't hold back a laugh, he remembered the famous "Feng Shui Battle" between the Bank of China Tower and the HSBC Building in later generations:

"The best place for Feng Shui in the whole of Central is, of course, the treasure land of the Bank of China Tower. โ€

"Ahh โ€

"Please note that the person who said this is the "Evil Land" is your Feng Shui Mr. of Xiangjiang, and I didn't say that. โ€

"So, what do you think is good about the feng shui here?"

"Heaven must not be divulged. โ€

Li Huayong was amused in his heart, but on the surface, he made righteous and stern statements: "The question you just asked, after a few years and the completion of this building, you will naturally know." โ€

It's not that Li Huayong doesn't want to continue pretending, but after saying this, he can't continue to pretend.

And to be honest, in the real history, the feng shui battle between the Bank of China Building and the HSBC Building was mostly caused by "inexplicable".

In real history, after the completion of the Bank of China Building, many Feng Shui gentlemen in Xiangjiang were puzzled: This Nima is not scientific? This building is obviously not good "Feng Shui", it is obviously built on a "fierce land", and its cost is so low, but why after it is completed, it can steadily overpower the HSBC Bank Building, which has excellent feng shui and high cost next to it?

Why does it attract so many people's attention, and can even become a new landmark for the whole of Central and even the whole of Hong Kong?

However, these people forget that "Feng Shui" itself is the real "pseudoscience". Whether a building can attract attention or not, the most important thing is the charm of the building itself. The main reason why the Bank of China Tower can stabilize the HSBC Building is in this place. And if a building only talks about feng shui and ignores the building itself, it is really putting the cart before the horse.

Of course, "Feng Shui" also has the advantage that all Feng Shui masters are very good at telling stories, otherwise how could it attract so many believers.

It is precisely because of the wonderful stories told by Mr. Feng Shui of Xiangjiang that the "Battle of Feng Shui" is wonderful and has become a strange story in the history of Xiangjiang architecture and even the history of architecture in the whole world.

After the completion of the Bank of China Building in real history, it was impossible for those feng shui gentlemen to immediately admit that the feng shui of the Bank of China Building was good and slapped themselves in the face, so strange theories emerged one after another.

One of the feng shui gentlemen is a master, and he suddenly thought after seeing the shape of the Bank of China Building: Ah, everyone says that the shape of this building does not look like a triangular steel knife? Moreover, these three cold blades, one pointed at HSBC, the other pointed at the Hong Kong Garrison (British Army), and the other simply pointed directly at the Hong Kong Governor's Office!

One has to admire this feng shui gentleman's imagination and storytelling ability. And what's even more bizarre is that as soon as this feng shui gentleman's voice fell, several things that happened later became footnotes to this story:

Soon after the completion of the Bank of China Tower, the incumbent Governor died of a heart attack, and the next two Governors also underwent major and minor surgeries in the following years. And HSBC, which was pointed at by the other side, is really not happy. Shortly after the completion of the Bank of China Tower in 1990, HSBC's performance suddenly plummeted, and its stock price plummeted, and HSBC's headquarters as far away as the United Kingdom were affected by the Hong Kong stock price.

The so-called coincidence is probably the meaning of the book, the story told by this feng shui gentleman actually made the vast majority of Xiangjiang people believe it at that time. Therefore, shortly after the completion of the Bank of China Tower, it really received a lot of criticism for it. This accusation is not an ordinary accusation, and some people have published articles in newspapers criticizing the shape of the Bank Tower, accusing it of destroying the feng shui of Central.

Of course, this kind of criticism alone is nothing, and the more interesting is yet to come. In order to fight against the "three-edged steel knife" of the Bank of China Building, the surrounding buildings have taken painstaking action, these are the real good The first action is still the HSBC Building, and the next year, the top floor of the HSBC Building set up two 17-meter-long steel cannons, directly to the Bank of China.

Since then, this straightforward "knife battle" has been talked about by all Xiangjiang people and even Chinese people around the world for many years. Until Li Huayong crossed, if you go to Xiangjiang, you can still see these two majestic cannons on the roof of the HSBC Building. Why is it erected there? It is to deal with the "evil spirit" of the Bank of China Tower.

In addition, a funny thing happened to the cannon of HSBC: I don't know which year a typhoon blew the cannon on the roof of HSBC, and the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at Standard Chartered Bank. This frightened the senior management of Standard Chartered Bank half to death, and they hurriedly protested to HSBC, and this protest was not an ordinary protest, they sent a lawyer's letter to HSBC, demanding that it be corrected within a time limit.

To tell the truth, why did Li Huayong immediately think of "building wind resistance" when bidding at that time? It was because he remembered this anecdote, a 17-meter-long cannon of pure cast iron could be blown crookedly, which showed how powerful the typhoon in Victoria Harbour was.

After the cannon was erected on the roof of the HSBC building, the rest of the story became more and more interesting. Li Huayong looked to the side, that is, the land between the Bank of China Building and the HSBC Building, which was still an empty land in these years, but after the 90s, this is the famous "Cheung Kong Industrial Building Headquarters".

It is completely conceivable that when Li Chaoren got this land, he must have been very entangled in his heart, right?

This Nima is the Bank of China Building with a three-edged steel knife on one side, and the HSBC Building with a cannon on the other, and his headquarters is sandwiched between the two buildings.

At this time, it was time for Mr. Feng Shui to perform, and at the suggestion of one of Li Chaoren's royal feng shui masters, he decided to adopt a self-protection scheme of "shields on all sides".

What does it mean to be surrounded by a shield on all sides? It is to design the Changjiang Industrial Building in the form of a bunker, the appearance is impermeable like a fortress, and the exterior is all made of bulletproof glass! With a steady momentum, it resisted the "knife cut" of the Bank of China and the "bombardment" of HSBC.

The total height of Cheung Kong Industrial Building is about 280 meters, more than 100 meters higher than the HSBC Building, and at the same time, it is deliberately about 20 meters lower than the Bank of China Building, so as to cleverly avoid the relative position of the "knife and cannon".

It must be admitted that after the completion of such a Changjiang Group building, although it has been repeatedly criticized by the outside world for not being beautiful enough, it has been safe and sound after completion. There was a feeling that there was a lot of war outside, and I was strolling around myself. After entering the 90s, Li Chaoren gradually became the real richest man in Xiangjiang.

Li Chaoren used the method of "shields on all sides" to resolve the "swords and cannons", and other buildings naturally followed suit. Throughout the 90s, the feng shui gentlemen of Xiangjiang simply showed their might, pushing the architectural feng shui of Xiangjiang to the extreme.

Citibank Building: Two feng shui principles are used in the overall design of the building's appearance: catering to the situation + calling the shape and drinking the image. That is, the Bank of China is a steel knife with a protruding edge facing the Citi, which is a concave scabbard. In this way, Citibank cleverly turned the originally sharp steel knife into a "treasure knife back to the sheath" to welcome and send off.

Hong Kong Lippo Group Building: In terms of how to deal with the "knife and cannon brake" of Bank of China HSBC, the building was designed in the shape of steel and copper pillars. Looking at these two little Iron Heroes, there is quite a "Lao Tzu invulnerable" formation.

Xiangjiang Far East Financial Center: In addition to using the feng shui principle of "shields on all sides" of Cheung Kong Industrial Building, it is also simple to make itself into a large bronze mirror.

As we all know, the bronze mirror is one of the most commonly used props in Feng Shui, which is used to reflect all evil spirits. Therefore, the meaning of this building is quite significant: "Master and I are injured and shot armor, cut me, Lao Tzu will hack you to death......"

The above is part of the "feng shui battle" that took place between the buildings in Xiangjiang Central, and all of this was caused by this Bank of China Building. Thinking of his efforts for this building, Li Huayong smiled happily at this moment.