Realistically, what kind of boss do architects like best? Naturally, it's not bad for money.

Because only the boss who is not bad for money can realize the dreams of architects.

For architects, Yan Guang is such a boss who is not bad for money.

Think of the Chelsea of later generations, is there Roman? Chelsea, an owner like Roman Abramovich, is also a good one. But then again, Roman? It's very interesting that Abramovich and his predecessor captured by Putin, the former richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky, are Jewish...

At this time, Yan Guang's personal wealth had already exceeded more than one billion silver dollars before the end of the war, and although the oil fields in the Northeast and the Middle East were nationalized, Yan Guang did not make a penny on them, but with the income from the Tampico oil field in Mexico and the relationship between many domestic factories and enterprises, Yan Guang's personal property still reached more than 2.7 billion silver dollars, which was equivalent to almost 1.25 billion US dollars or 260 million pounds sterling at the exchange rate at this time.

With such a huge asset, Yan Guang naturally surpassed his old friends Rockefeller and Andrew? Dale Carnegie became the new richest man in the world, not just the richest man in the country, especially in Andrew? Carnegie died in 1919.

In fact, it was very difficult for Yan Guang's wealth to surpass that of his old friend Rockefeller, because in this world, even arms and drugs are not as profitable as oil (drugs were not as widespread in this period as in later generations, and ecstasy and heroin were even more unremarkable, as for arms, there are only a few countries in the world, and the rest are all colonies, and there is nowhere to sell them if you want to, so it is obvious that oil is the most profitable in this period).

By the eve of World War I, Rockefeller's fortune had reached nine billion dollars. At the same time, the US government's fiscal revenue was only more than $700 million.

Unfortunately, on May 15, 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was a monopoly (antitrust law). It was broken up into about 37 new companies. So that Rockefeller, the world's first billionaire with a personal fortune of one billion dollars, greatly reduced his ability to print money...

Because of this, Yan Guang can surpass Rockefeller and Andrew? Dale Carnegie, who became the new richest man in the world. However, to Yan Guang's regret, he did not become the first person to own a billion dollars.

Up to now. The largest iron works in China, such as Qijiang Iron Works, Ma'anshan Iron Works, Shanghai Iron Works and several large iron works in Northeast China, are almost all Yanguang.

In addition, the coastal shipyards in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Dalian were also funded by Yan Guang, and at present, there is only one large state-owned shipyard, Fuzhou Shipyard.

In addition, the three largest car factories in the country are all Yanguang. Seventy percent of the official cars procured by the government are provided by these three automobile factories, and about eighty percent of the country's automobile sales are accounted for, and the remaining more than 20 percent are divided between foreign automobile companies such as Ford and some private companies in China.

At the same time several domestic aircraft manufacturing companies. are also enterprises under the name of Yan Guang.

There are also some industry-related industries. was also covered by Yan Guang.

However, in addition to these, Yan Guang rarely made a move in light industry.

Because light industries such as textiles or paper are also monopolized by Yanguang, then the domestic economy will not need to develop. On the contrary, in heavy industry, the return on investment is large and slow, and some landlords and businessmen in the private sector will at most invest in some textile factories, watch factories, bicycle factories, and so on, and even if a few hundred people want to invest in steel mills or shipyards, it may not be enough for a few hundred people to raise funds. They may not be willing to invest in it...

This is also one of the reasons why Yan Guang monopolizes steel and other industries, after all, if it really has to wait for the awakening of domestic capitalism and the development of heavy industry. Even if you wait another ten years, it's enough. …,

As for why Yan Guang invested in heavy industry for the country, but put all these industries under his own name...

"It's obviously my own money, so there's no reason to give the benefits to the country, right?"

What's more, Yan Guang also has ideals, and these ideals all require a large amount of capital investment.

Like the Empire State Building, like penicillin...

However, for penicillin, Yan Guang only knows that it is an antibiotic, and only knows the name penicillin, so the research on penicillin, which is penicillin, is still at a very rudimentary extreme.

By the way, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which is currently under construction and does not know when it will be completed, was also jointly invested by Yan Guang and the Guoshe government. However, based on the principle of state-owned railways, Yan Guang did not ask for shares in the railway, but just asked the government to slowly repay him interest―――――― although this government was actually opened by him, which is also the biggest difference between Yan Guang and Rockefeller...

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Although the architects even Gu Yuan himself felt that an eighty-nine-story high-rise building was enough, since Yan Guang insisted that they did not need to hate Yan Guang because of this, after all, Yan Guang was the ruler of this country, not to mention that the money to build the building was still paid by others, and which of the architects of this era had not dreamed of designing a high-rise building with more than 100 floors?

Of course, some people think that the one hundred and eight floors are actually not bad, but it didn't take long for them to be reprimanded by Yan Guang. "Have you seen too much of the Water Margin?" And had to run away in disgrace.

And so in this case, the design work for the Empire State Building began.

The draft designed according to Yan Guang's ideas came out in less than three days.

The first is the height, since the strict light requires at least 110 floors, so the number of floors of the building is 110 floors, the height from the ground to the roof is also 450 meters, and the height from the ground to the antenna is 530 meters, and there are three floors of space under the building.

As for the shape of the building, it is a reference to the later Empire State Building.

There is no way, the shape of the building designed by these architects is either too advanced or too mediocre, and most of them are not as good as the shape design of the Empire State Building. And Yan Guang also wants to see what shape the American building is going to use to surpass it after he adopts the shape of the Empire State Building?!

However, what Yan Guang didn't expect was that when Yan Guang announced the appearance, almost all the architects raised doubts, and the goal of the questioning was to increase the height of the Empire State Building by dozens of meters. At the same time, it also makes it a classic antenna...

Antenna, as one of the iconic compositions of the Empire State Building. Naturally, it was also depicted by Yan Guang.

For Yan Guang from later generations. The Empire State Building has one, no, it's a matter of course that it has a big antenna, but in fact the Empire State Building's antenna was actually installed in the 50s. It is a TV antenna, and in front of the antenna is an airship mooring tower. And it's obvious. In 1923 there was apparently no television program...

In this regard, Yan Guang felt that he had miscalculated, and at the same time, he could only strongly say that it could be used as an ornament or a lightning rod...

"But..."

"I'll pay for how much!"

"Oh, that's fine..."

That's why architects like employers like Yan Guang. Because Yan Guang can come up with enough money to fulfill their dreams. And honestly. The architects also liked Yan Guang's shape design, although in their opinion the antenna at the top of the Empire State Building was useless ......, although it only took a week to complete the preliminary design of the building and the building model, but this is only a preliminary design, according to the architects' calculations, it will take at least one to two months to complete the entire design of the building, after all, such a tall building has not yet been completed by any country.

They are confident that it will be done. It is also because of Yan Guang's own huge financial resources and the support of the whole country, plus most of the best architects in the country are concentrated here. Otherwise, they really didn't have the confidence to complete such a huge building.

(The Empire State Building was built by the wealthy Lascob, and was designed by designer William Brown from the architectural firm of Shreeve, Lamb, dHarmon.) F. Rambo was in charge, and it took him only two weeks to create the architectural drawings based on the designs of his predecessors. ）

"So, how long do you think it will take to finish..."

Standing in front of the model of the building, which is more than one meter high, Yan Guang admired the larger model of the Empire State Building and asked several architect representatives next to him.

This was really a difficult question to answer, so several representatives of the architects behind Yan Guang looked at each other before pushing one person out.

"I'm sorry, we don't know, but I'm afraid it will take three years..."

Of course, it can't take three years, but architects will inevitably have some lack of confidence in designing and building such a tall skyscraper for the first time, so they will say the figure of three years.

"How many years did it take to build the Empire State Building?" (1 year and 2 months) Yan Guang couldn't remember it a little, but he still nodded. "Anyway, do your best."

As he spoke, Yan Guang handed a form to the architects.

"Then, put everything you need on it..."

It was only a week's time, and of course it was impossible for the architects to figure out everything they needed, but it was no problem to list the initial supplies needed, and several architects had already listed the initial supplies on the form without even doing research and calculations.

"These..."

After glancing at it, Yan Guang nodded, and then handed the form to Yue Chang beside him.

"Let the people below transport all the things above to Shanghai..."

"Yes!"

Before sending the form by telegram, Yue Chang glanced at the form and found that the list on the form was some materials such as cement and steel bars, in addition to the manpower and construction machinery required...

"It takes a lot of money to build such a tall building..."

Even so, Yue Chang is still looking forward to what this building will look like when it is completed, which will be the tallest building in the world...

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Almost all of the largest iron and steel enterprises in China are opened by Yan Guang, and although cement and other cement are not monopolized, Yan Guang has also opened a few cement plants that have brought tens of millions of yuan of income to Yan Guang.

So not long after Yue Chang's list was sent out, all kinds of raw materials had arrived in Shanghai from all over the country.

As for the workers and machines that architects need? As the largest city in Asia, Shanghai has ready-made ones, and the mayor of Shanghai, Tanigaki, is his subordinate.

Originally, the matter came to an end here, although Yan Guang's position is very stable now, but after all, there is no reason for a head of state to run around all year round, right? After all, it's not like the future generations, and the future generations will still have an airplane. But now there is only one ship and train.

But Yan Guang didn't just come to Shanghai for an empire building. Or if only it were an Empire State Building. There is no need for Yan Guang to come to Shanghai in person, as long as the architect is directly summoned to Beijing? ..., Yan Guang's most important task in Shanghai this time is actually to develop Pudong...

Pudong's extent encompasses a huge triangular area east of the Huangpu River to the mouth of the Yangtze River, bordering Fengxian and Minhang to the south. It faces Xuhui, Huangpu, Hongkou, Yangpu and Baoshan across the Huangpu River in the west, and Chongming across the Yangtze River in the north. In the 1980s, in another time and space. "I'd rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong" was the consensus at that time, and the Huangpu River divided Shanghai into two worlds: Puxi was Shanghai. Pudong is just a field of farmland and vegetables overlooking the Bund.

It is the largest financial center in China and Asia and the third largest in the world after New York and London. If you want to better develop Shanghai, the development of Pudong is obviously an imperative thing.

As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Kuomintang, Xu Shichang and others and the then mayor of Shanghai had put forward a plan to develop Pudong, and the most important of them was to build a bridge on the Huangpu River that could be opened to traffic―――――― the Huangpu River is deep and wide, and is Shanghai's main sea, river, and inland shipping artery. Therefore, it is not easy to build bridges. In the Qing Dynasty, the Huangpu River formed the "Changbadu", and as early as the 1930s, there was a proposal to build a bridge. But it has never been implemented.

In the 1970s, in cooperation with the Shanghai Petrochemical Project, the first Huangpu River bridge was built, the Songpu Bridge. The bridge is a porous steel truss girder road and rail bridge, but it was not foreseen that the sea channel would extend to the upper reaches of the Huangpu River in the future, and the net navigable height under the bridge was only 10 meters. In the 1980s, the construction of the Nanpu Bridge began, which was a single-hole double-tower cable-stayed bridge, which crossed the river, and then the bridge on the Huangpu River sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Although Xu Shichang and others believed that it was imperative to develop the ordinary, with the outbreak of World War I and China's entry into the war. At that time, although China did not need to maintain millions of expeditionary forces and huge fleets like Britain and France, the expedition of hundreds of thousands of expeditionary forces to the Caucasus still caused a serious financial deficit in the national government, and the situation that there was a lot of financial surplus every year was even wiped out, even to the point that Yan Guang needed to personally fund subsidies almost every year.

Under these circumstances, neither the Empire State Building nor the construction of a bridge over the Huangpu River was obviously a very realistic matter, so the construction of a bridge over the Huangpu River was postponed until after the war.

After the end of the war, the government's military spending fell sharply, which led to a revival of the government's plan for the development of Pudong. However, the real plan to build the bridge was after getting more than 1,000 tons of gold from Kolchak and the development of Middle East oil fields...

“……… Another is that the government plans to build three bridges on the Huangpu River, which are currently tentatively named Huangpu River Bridge No. 123..."

Although Shanghai is only a city, as the largest city in Asia, the area of Shanghai is not small, so it is naturally not enough to build three bridges on the Huangpu River, but the current development of Pudong is only the most basic stage, so it is enough to build three bridges alone...

After hearing this, several bridge designers and engineers standing in front of him also nodded.

Unlike the Empire State Building, there are more things to consider when it comes to repairing bridges.

There are a lot of things like the location...

And because of the experience of the Songpu Bridge, the three bridges on the Huangpu River obviously can't be too low, so they must be built larger...

"The bridge..."

When it comes to the bridge, Yan Guang thinks of the [Golden Gate Bridge], which was built after the Empire State Building.

The Golden Gate Bridge, like the Empire State Building a few years earlier, is one of the world's seven engineering marvels.

The Seven Engineering Wonders of the World are not the Seven Wonders of the World, the Seven Engineering Wonders of the World are referred to as the World Engineering Miracles, which refer to the seven largest projects from modern times to modern times, selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers. At the same time, the world's seven engineering wonders are the Panama Canal in Panama, the North Sea Protection Project in the Netherlands, the Empire State Building in the United States, the Golden Gate Bridge, the CN Tower in Canada, the Itaipu Dam in Brazil and the Anglo-French Undersea Tunnel. As one of the world's seven engineering wonders, the Golden Gate Bridge, although not as famous as the Empire State Building, is obviously not much worse.

However, Yan Guangzhi never thought of taking the opportunity to build a bridge over the Huangpu River to build a bridge on the Huangpu River that is grander than the Golden Gate Bridge like the Empire State Building.

Because the Kinmen Bridge was built on the Kinmen Strait, although the Huangpu River is not bad, it is obviously not comparable to the Kinmen Strait.

However...

"It can't be built on the Huangpu River. It doesn't mean that it can't be built on the Yangtze River..."

Yan Guang will come to Shanghai because of the importance of developing Pudong. However, this does not mean that only three bridges have been built in the whole of China. You know, after receiving the legacy gifted by Kolchak and the three oil fields of the Middle East. The current national government can be said to be really poor, and only money is left.

Therefore, in addition to the three bridges on the Huangpu River for the development of Pudong, there are no less than 10 bridges on the Yangtze River that are in the research stage and are ready to be built.

For example, Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge, Sutong Yangtze River Highway Bridge, Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge. Runyang Bridge, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge, Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge and Wuhan Tianxingzhou Yangtze River Bridge and Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, etc.

Of course, these bridges can't all be put on the ground at once. After all, the bridge is not a building. They need to come one by one, but Yan Guang is still very optimistic about these projects, and now China really needs these bridges...

In addition to these, there are also Donghai Bridge, Hangzhou Bay Bridge and Qingdao Bay Bridge or something, but these are too difficult, so don't think about it for the time being...

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Because of the relationship between the Empire State Building and the Huangpu River Bridge. Therefore, it is expected that Yan Guang will stay in Shanghai for a month, during which Yan Guang will not only visit the scenery of old Shanghai. There is also the inspection of the design progress of the architects and the exploration work of the bridge architects.

However, while Yan Guang was looking at the architects' detailed design of the Empire State Building, an official on the side leaned over and sneered.

"President, do you want to build a building in Beijing that is so tall, no, even higher than this for your office?"

"Me? Beijing? ”

I have to say that this is indeed a very tempting idea, Yan Guang was also very moved in his heart, but in the end, he shook his head and said.

"Forget it..."

Standing on a 110-story building, looking down on the crowds of people in Beijing while dealing with national affairs, and by the way, you can also do some OOXX things at the top, such a proposal is exciting just to think about, but it is only a little exciting...

"There's no need..."

Indeed, there is no need ...

While it's exciting to work in a skyscraper of this height or OOXX, and the 110-storey building is enough to fit all of Beijing's civil servants, it's not only unnecessary but dangerous...

Because the 110-storey building is a very conspicuous target while it is magnificent.

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it...

China is indeed the third most powerful country in the world, and it is likely to surpass Britain in the next two decades to par with the United States. But at the same time, China's enemies will undoubtedly become very, very many, after all, China's strength itself is violating the interests of other countries.

Not to mention anything else, Japan and the Soviet Union alone are already China's mortal enemies.

In addition, Britain, France, the United States and other European and American countries have been looking at China unpleasantly for a long time.

Plus the resistance and Bolshevik partisans in Iraq, Turkey and south of the Volga ...

Not to mention anything else, mortars are tiny, right? It doesn't have to be difficult to smuggle into Beijing, right? If someone gets a few mortars into Beijing, they don't even need to aim at a 110-story building as conspicuous. ..., although for a building like the Empire State Building, small-caliber mortar shells can't even be tickled, but it can't help but give you once every three days.

And don't forget about Uncle bin Laden's fame ...

"The plane hit the building..."

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About the Empire State Building.

Because it was built at a time of the Great Depression and because of its location away from public transportation, many offices remained vacant until the 1940s, which earned it nicknamed the "Empty State Building" in its early days

In the first year of the construction of the Empire State Building, the United States entered the Great Depression period of the 30s, and the entire building could not find customers who could rent it, so it could only rely on the building to visit and travel to earn income, and it became a big empty can.

It's true about the "Empty Country Building", but there are two main reasons for this.

First, the address of the building is far from public transportation, which means that it is inaccessible.

The second is that when the building was completed, that is, in '31, it happened to be in the midst of the financial crisis, that is, the Great Depression in the United States, so it was a matter of course that the Empire State Building did not have customers.

However, the building was built in 1923, and based on the pace of construction of the Empire State Building, it is estimated that it will be completed by 1925, which is still a few years away from the Great Depression, and the location of the Empire State Building will not be a problem, so there is no need to worry about the customer.

As for whether the Americans will build a taller building than the Empire State Building.

Not at all...

"In the '30s, when the U.S. economy was in the midst of the Great Depression and people were living in greater poverty, Wall Street bosses were keen on the race to build skyscrapers. To show his wealth, millionaire Rascob is determined to build the world's tallest building. He brought in the famous architect William? Ram, how high can a building be? Ram pondered for a moment and then replied, "1050 feet." Lascob was unhappy with the height, which was only four feet taller than the newly built Chrysler Building in New York at the time. So, the architects managed to add a 200-foot-tall round tower, bringing the Empire State Building to a height of 1,250 feet. This skyscraper was built in just 410 days and can be considered a marvel in the history of architecture. ”

That is to say, in fact, the 102nd floor is close to the limit, and the 110th floor in the book is already considered a golden finger. And at the moment, I'm not ready to get a pig's foot for the United States, so the Americans are at most 110 layers...

As for the title of emperor, I have been wondering whether to change the name of the country to the Great Chinese Empire^0^

Of course, it's still a presidential system, just change the name~

But apparently it's impossible to say...

PS: The above is about 800 words, and since it does not reach the upper limit of 7000 words, it is free.