Fang Mingyuan's sudden departure made this farce end without a hitch, Zhang Guangbei looked at Fang Ming's distant back fiercely, but he didn't dare to catch up again.

Liu Yong glanced at Zhang Guangbei with disdain, and didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, so he continued to walk towards the canteen with the tableware.

But I was wondering if I should ask Liu Yuyan what was going on. Although Liu Yuyan is very beautiful and xìng is not bad, he doesn't think that Fang Mingyuan will like her, at least for now. This Zhang Guangbei, seeing the wind is rain, it's really boring!

Those who are familiar with Shanghai know that Jiangning Road, Renmin Guangchang and Xujiahui are important business circles in this metropolis, but compared with them, the commercial taste of the Bund, which used to be home to foreign banks, is much lighter. Here, people come and go to focus more on the flowing Huangpu River, the soon-to-be-completed Pearl Tower, and the flickering thousands of lights at night. The Bund, which once represented fashion and dazzling in the old Shanghai era, now only those buildings that have been mottled in appearance have been left with weathered appearance. As for the stories behind the bronze doors, the vast majority of people have ignored or even forgotten them.

Built in 1923, 18 on the Bund "was once the headquarters of the British Standard Chartered Bank in China." The five-storey, 10,000-square-metre building, designed by a British company and built in the Renaissance architectural style, "has been classified as a public ownership since the fifties, and has fallen into disrepair after being used by a number of state-owned enterprises, and it is difficult to find the luxury of the past, and the interior and exterior walls are even covered with dirt." It doesn't look like it was back then.

"Mingyuan, the building behind it, it is said that it will be demolished by real estate developers in the near future!" Lin Rong pointed to No. 18 Road.

Fang Mingyuan squinted slightly, looking at the building behind No. 18, and the surprise in his heart was not trivial! He didn't know until a day that this Bund No. 18 was actually two buildings in the front and back, and the area of the back building was slightly smaller than the front building, but the architectural style was unified. It's just that in his previous life, this building was demolished in the nineties on the grounds of real estate development. Later, these buildings on the Bund were designated as protected buildings by the Shanghai Municipal Government.

Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but secretly rejoice, "If I hadn't accompanied Zhao Ya and them to the Bund at that time, I would have wanted to buy a few buildings." And Lin Rong and the others immediately began to collect information to see if those buildings had the possibility of acquisition" The result was that they knew the news. Now that I know this thing, I will naturally not let history repeat itself!

Bund 18, although not as famous as the original HSBC building, but also the most open square building, not only has the auspicious number 18 in the minds of Chinese people, but also has an excellent feng shui sight. From here, the Oriental Pearl under construction, No. 18, which is under construction across the river, is exactly the right position opposite to its four eyes, and it is also the middle one in the Bund complex built along the river in Puxi.

Fang Mingyuan knew that in the previous life, after entering the 2,000th year, this place was "rented by a Taiwan-funded enterprise" and restored by an Italian architectural restoration company, and the original appearance of the building was restored, and later, this place became a famous fashionable and elegant place in Shanghai.

As the noon time passes, the roads here are bustling with traffic. Known as the "Architectural Ensemble of All Nations", these buildings are full of a sense of history that has endured many vicissitudes under the sunlight. Here is a record of a period of the Shanghai market that is unbearable to look back on. The European-style buildings tell a heavy but indelible past. Although all this in retrospect, it gives people a sense of oppression that is breathless, "However, the building itself is not guilty, and the "Buildings of All Nations" still shock and impact Fang Mingyuan's vision with their own charm.

"Which unit in Shanghai is using this now?"

Fang Mingyuan asked in a deep voice.

"Now it is used by the Shanghai Shencheng Export Company. However, they also do not have the property rights here, and the property rights are in the hands of the Huangpu District Government of Shanghai. As for the back building, "the district government sold a piece of land to a real estate development company, and the back building was asked to be demolished because of their humiliation." Lin Rong explained.

"Shencheng Import and Export Company?" Fang Mingyuan frowned and said, "This is a state-owned company?" Shanghai is also known as Shencheng, and a company that dares to bear such a name will not be a small company under normal circumstances.

Three years ago, the "Mingyuan" Shencheng Import and Export Company was still among the top 10 import and export companies in Shanghai, but now "due to a mistake in a big transaction in the previous two years, resulting in direct economic losses of tens of millions of dollars", the company's vitality has been greatly damaged. Later, although the company's leadership changed a lot, the company did not rise at all and had to move here. Lin Rong said, "There were originally some companies in the building, but now they have all moved away, and I think this place is too tattered and tattered, and the reception of guests is not of grade." ”

Fang Mingyuan nodded silently, but there was a strange taste in his heart. He knows how fashionable and luxurious this place is two thousand years later, "People who don't have some real money in their pockets may not even have the courage to step here!"

Accompanied by Lin Rong and Chen Zhong, Fang Mingyuan crossed the road and came to the door of No. 18, from here, the walls of No. 18 were already full of dust and vines, and it did look very dilapidated.

In front of the gate are four marble columns, gray and "not at all inconspicuous." But Fang Mingyuan knew that these four arrowed stone pillars were a sensation back then, because the mines that could provide them had long been exhausted before the eighteenth century, and even the architectural circles of Italy, which originated in Italy, had not used marble columns of this material after the eighteenth century. It was strange to the Italians who were in charge of the restoration of the building that Weishenme had marble columns in the building built in 1923 that were long gone in Italy.

Later, after many verifications and contacting the British company that built this place, it was clear that these four pillars were from a deserted ancient church in Italy, and they were demolished by the British. These four marble columns alone are a considerable historical treasure.

There is also its gate, which is a bronze and brass two materials made of a combination of Chinese and Western, the flower is extremely exquisite copper gate, two different materials on the same gate, but the combination is seamless, people in the future will be amazed. But now, thanks to the layers of paint, "it is completely impossible to see what it was."

Pushing open the double sè bronze gate of No. 18 on the Bund, Fang Mingyuan should be stepping on the round shape pattern paved with broken marble, and when he looked up, he saw that the ceiling was lined with uniform square reliefs" It is said that this is the British architect's elaborate interpretation of the Chinese idiom at that time, "the sky is square and the earth is round". It's just that now, "all this is completely unrecognizable, and there is a dull atmosphere in the whole building."

"What are you guys doing?" The sudden voice startled Fang Mingyuan and them. I saw a middle-aged man walking out of the room from the side of the gate, looking at Fang Mingyuan and them with a wary expression.

"May I ask if the Shencheng Import and Export Mu Division is based here?" Fang Mingyuan asked casually.

The middle-aged man's face changed slightly, and he waved his hand again and again, "I don't know, there are no companies in this building anymore" is an empty building. ”

Fang Mingyuan saw that this person was a little insincere, and said with a smile: "Uncle, we are not here to collect debts" but wanted to ask Shencheng Import and Export Company, where this Bund No. 18 was rented to them in the first place. We want to open a company here. ”

Hearing him say this, the Middle Easterners looked at Lin Rong and Chen Zhong again, "I guess they are regarded as secretaries and bodyguards", and then they smiled a little and said: "Come here to open a company, it's not that I said you, or you don't have enough money" You can't work here, "Look at the environment here" is that customers are coming, and when people look here, there is no longer a ** to continue to cooperate with you. Listen to me, even if you go to a little more remote and rent a few decent offices, don't start a company here. ”

Fang Mingyuan smiled and continued to talk to this one, "I learned from his mouth that since the Bund No. 18 has been state-owned, "many state-owned units have done business here, but later they all moved out because they felt that the office conditions here were too inferior". In the past, some rent was collected every year for the repair of the building, "Now in the past few years, there is no longer even the cost of repairs.

He is a person from this housing management office in Huangpu District, "because the construction area here is tens of thousands of square meters, but only the Shencheng Import and Export Company works here, in order to prevent the building from being damaged undeservedly."

I was sent here.

The reason why I said just now that there is no company in the building, it is an empty building" is because in the past two years, "there have always been people who come to the door to collect debts from the Shencheng Import and Export Company, and if they can't collect it, they will make trouble in the building, and sometimes they will smash the things in the building, and the Shencheng Import and Export Company now has no money to compensate for those smashed things, and the leaders of the housing management office are very unhappy about this."

"You have to say that this foreigner-built house is really sturdy, don't look at it outside and inside it is no longer the same, but I think this house will have no problem with another hundred years. The middle-aged man sighed, "It's not like the houses built in our country in recent years, which have only been used for a few years, and they are cracked here and there." ”

Fang Mingyuan nodded approvingly, it is indeed as he said, building a house is faster and higher now, but the durability of the building has declined. It will not be until the future, when the crooked building is crisply debuted, people will understand how much the construction industry in China has been eroded.

"Uncle, is the building in the back the same as this building?I heard that it is about to be demolished?", Fang Mingyuan continued to ask.

"You said the building in the back?", the middle-aged man thought for a while, "that building is lower than this building, and the construction area is about 8,000 square meters." But now it's worse than it is here.

The land was indeed bought by a developer, and I heard that it would be demolished and rebuilt in a few days. Come to think of it, the developer seems to be called Shenyi Real Estate!"

It wasn't until dusk that Fang Mingyuan and his entourage walked out of the building. During this time, there were no people entering or leaving the building at all.

The secretary of the Huangpu District Party Committee of Shanghai City, surnamed Ji Mingli, is 42 years old this year, and he was just promoted to this position the year before last.

To be able to become the secretary of the district party committee of a central district of Shanghai at the age of forty, Ji Li certainly has the ability and background. In the past two years, "how to further develop the economy of Huangpu District has been the most head-scratching thing for Ji Li." Huangpu District is the old district of Shanghai, "although it is the core urban area, it is now old. Compared with the vibrant Pudong District across the river, Huangpu District has a strong foundation, but it lacks momentum. Moreover, most of the enterprises in the district are old state-owned enterprises, and now they are facing a series of problems.

How to find a new economic growth point for Huangpu District has become Ji Li's greatest concern.

After a long period of consideration, Ji Li believes that with the development of the national economy and the increase of national income, both companies and individuals have a considerable demand for improving the office environment and living conditions.

Therefore, it should be a good idea to build a number of residential projects and office projects in some prime locations in Huangpu District. The development of real estate will inevitably drive steel, cement,

The development of transportation and other industries has led to the economic development of Huangpu District.

The first pilot project is near the Bund, and the district government has reached an agreement with the city's Shenyi Real Estate that "the district government will provide the land, and Shenyi Real Estate will be responsible for the construction, and after completion, 51% of the sales will be owned by the district government." The profit is expected to be around 300 million to 500 million yuan. Three to five hundred million yuan, in '95, is also a considerable amount of income. And that's pure income!

So Ji Li has always been satisfied that he successfully brokered this agreement.

However, his good mood was broken this afternoon, and news came from the city's housing management department that Carrefour Group's general manager Bei Zhaolun officially put forward a request to the city management department to acquire Building No. 18 on the Bund, and also emphasized that the two buildings before and after No. 18 should be acquired together.

This undoubtedly disrupted Ji Li's jihua!

If the back building of Bund No. 18 cannot be demolished, then the design of the new community needs to be greatly adjusted, and the originally decided construction period needs to be adjusted accordingly! And in this way, it will inevitably increase the cost originally expected by Shenyi Real Estate! It will also mean a reduction in future profits! This is an unacceptable result for Ji Li!