Scratching his hair, which was already not short, and looking at the queue in front of him, he didn't know how many people were lined up, Zhang San couldn't help but sigh.

At the city gate, a large number of people are lining up to walk outside the city gate, if you don't know, I'm afraid you think that the common people are fleeing the famine. In this long procession, there were several cars mixed together, and Zhu Erdian rode on one of them.

Sitting in the car, leaning back on the seat, looking out of the window, Zhu Erdian certainly did not think that all the Chinese outside had fled, and he still had a better understanding of the situation in China today.

Since the formation of the Kuomintang, the situation in China has become increasingly stable.

This is not to say that the shape of the country has really stabilized, after all, it has only been a little more than a year since the establishment of the national government. It may not be much to settle down the whole country in such a short period of time, but it is definitely not an easy task for a country with a large territory like China.

So at least in some remote areas, chaos still exists, especially in some remote mountainous areas, even in later generations it is a place where the government cannot effectively manage, let alone the national government that has just been established for more than a year?

Yan Shao has no choice but to deal with it little by little, and strive to stabilize the situation in the whole country within two to three years, that is to say, at least to improve the security of the provincial capitals, counties, towns and cities in various provinces, as for those villages, especially those in some remote mountainous areas, need to come slowly.

Although there are still many places in China at this time, which are still chaotic, they are waiting for Yan Shao to govern. But as the capital of China, Beijing is unlikely to be chaotic.

At this moment, almost all of these people walking at the city gate are heading for the 'Empire State Building' that is under construction.

'Empire State Building'. In today's China and the world, there is probably no building more eye-catching than this one. After all, this is a building that is taller than the world's tallest building, the Woolworth Building in the United States, before it is completed.

Who knows what will happen?

Chinese are the best lively, 'onlookers' such a thing is more like an instinctive talent for Chinese, knowing that there is such a big excitement next to Beijing City. How could the people of the city live idle?

Therefore, in Beijing, except for those who are not interested in this or have something to do, almost all of the rest run outside the city. See what the world's largest building looks like.

In fact, not only them, but even the ministers of Zhu Erdian and several other countries also traveled by car for this reason...

For example, Zhu Erdian is very curious about what this rumored world's tallest building looks like...

Are all the rumors from the outside world true?

"The highest ......... in the world Architecture..."

Muttered. Zhu Erdian instinctively glanced out the window.

The four-lane grey road on which the car travels is wide and smooth. There are even specially marked sidewalks on both sides of the road, and the trees planted on both sides of the road make the whole road look very beautiful.

If there is a fly in the ointment, it is that in addition to cars, there are mule carts and horse-drawn carts, and even small donkeys holding people...

The paved road was full of these things, and although there were a few cars in it, it still looked a bit of an eyesore after all.

But this scene falls on the people of this era. Even in the eyes of Zhu Erdian, there is nothing strange about it. After all, automobiles have just begun to enter thousands of households in this era, and there are still a large number of people using things such as mules and horses to transport supplies. Even until World War II, the German army was still transporting supplies through guò mules and horses―――――― of course, this was mainly because of the fuel problem, at that time Germany itself was already running out of fuel, and how could it be able to convert all the logistics mules and horses into trucks.

It can be said that looking at the world, things like horse-drawn carriages are still people's most mainstream means of transportation, and if humans want to replace things like mules and horses with cars, I'm afraid it will take many years, and even the streets of London are mixed with cars and horse-drawn carriages, so this scene may be very eye-catching in Yan Shao's eyes, but it is a very common thing in the eyes of others or Zhu Erdian. Even if there were, I thought the road was too beautiful, and it was a little uncoordinated.

"But, Mr. Minister—" Sitting in the co-pilot's seat, a counselor named Helgar, who came out with Zhu Erdian this time, looked back with some hesitation. Was that building really as tall as it was rumored? I heard that it seems to be more than a hundred floors to be built? ”

The words were full of unbelief.

It's no wonder he doesn't believe it, after all, the tallest building in this era is the Woolworth Building in the United States, which is only 57 floors. The Chinese, who have always been discriminated against, actually claimed to build a building with more than 100 floors this time, and not many people believe it.

Especially abroad, even if they believe it, most of them are readers of the novels that Yan Shao wrote in the past. For them, Yan Shao has created many glories and miracles in the past, and since this is the case, it seems that it is not strange to create some more.

"In addition to the engineer who supervised the work, I'm afraid that Yan Shao is clear about this..."Zhu Erdian shook his head gently, and he actually didn't believe it in his heart. But............... According to rumors, the building outside the city is now taller than the Woolworths Building, which should be true, so even if there are not more than 100 floors, there should still be 60 or 70 floors..."

After all, it was a building with more than 100 floors, and if there were so many floors, I am afraid it would be as tall as two Woolworths buildings.

Having lived in China for so many years, although Zhu Erdian will not discriminate against Chinese like those racists, he does not think that Chinese can do things that white people can't do, not to mention that as a white person, he still has a little superiority over the yellow Zhu Erdian. What's more, it's a building with more than 100 floors, not 20 or 30 floors...

So subconsciously, he felt that it might be a lie made up by some people.

But even so. At this stage, the building is taller than the Woolworths building, which should be fine. Every time he thought of this, Zhu Erdian's heart felt a little uncomfortable.

Forget about the Americans, it's a white country anyway. There are several industrial powers in the world, and they have something to do with Britain seriously. Therefore, the world's tallest building light appeared in the United States, and Zhu Erdian could barely accept it, but this time it was actually built by Chinese, which made Zhu Erdian feel a little uncomfortable.

Let alone...

"The Empire State Building..."

With this name in his mouth, Zhu Erdian felt that this proposition word was a little intriguing. Especially in the rumors, this name is still Yan Shao...

Imperial. What an empire is is very clear, after all, the country he is in is the largest empire in the world. But now Yan Shao actually named the building he built 'Empire State Building', which is some...

"Intriguing..."

As for a 'republic' form of government like China. Is it suitable to make an 'empire' building? After all, isn't the New York State Building called the 'Empire State Building', you must know that the United States is a federal country, so the name of the building has little to do with the form of government.

"Let's speed things up...", he muttered for a moment. Zhu Erdian said to the driver. "I'd like to see what kind of building it is..."

"Yes. Sir..."

What Zhu Erdian was sitting in was an ordinary 'Liulan' car, which was no different from the private cars of later generations, and was not fully enclosed like the luxury cars of later generations―――――― Yan Shao had a similar one, and it was bulletproof.

Because of this, Zhu Erdian's voice was very light and entered the driver's ears.

After getting Zhu Erdian's order, the neatly dressed driver stepped on the accelerator, and soon the car, which was originally driving very smoothly, sped up a lot...

The whole road. In addition to the lanes dedicated to cars and horse-drawn carriages, there are sidewalks on both sides for pedestrians. There are also a lot of pedestrians on the road used for cars. But this did not affect the driving of the car, so the car drove very smoothly.

After driving for more than ten minutes, Zhu Erdian could finally faintly see the 'Empire State Building' standing on the ground in the distance. Since there are no high-rise buildings around, the unfinished 'Empire State Building' is very conspicuous.

"It's already so high from a distance, but how tall can it actually be..."

Pursing his shriveled lips, Zhu Erdian thought in his heart.

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Walking out of the simple room, looking at the ordinary people outside the barbed wire fence who were looking up at the 'Empire State Building' with amazement, Wang Xuan's face showed a hint of pride, but in the blink of an eye, this bit of pride disappeared completely, and was replaced by a headache.

As the chief engineer of the 'Empire State Building', since the completion of the presidential palace, Wang Xuan has been squatting in the simple room next to the Empire State Building every day.

This means that Wang Xuan has not yet married, otherwise he would have been squatting here for several months, and I am afraid that his daughter-in-law would have scratched him to death.

Wang Xuan is also helpless in this regard, and the presidential palace is forgotten, although the banquet hall is definitely the largest banquet hall in the world. But in fact, as long as you don't skimp on money, it is not difficult to build such a large banquet hall―――――― the difficult thing is to build a pillarless banquet hall, with the technology of this era, it is impossible to build such a large pillarless banquet hall, so Wang Xuan added a lot of pillars to it.

Although this makes the presidential palace still shocking, it is still a little worse than the pillarless one.

Because of this, although Wang Xuan was also well-known in the world after the banquet hall was built, he still focused a considerable part of his energy on the building in front of him.

The Empire State Building...

As the tallest building in the world, it is more than 200 metres taller than the second-largest Woolworth Tower. The number of floors is fifty-two stories higher. As long as this building can be brought out, Wang Xuan will definitely be able to completely become famous in the world, which is also the biggest wish in his life, and Wang Xuan also knows very well that the building he is currently building is likely to be the largest in his life, so he has been very careful in the process of supervision.

In the process of construction, it can also be called foolproof. Even if there are a few who want to make a fortune on it. They were all taken away by members of the Special Affairs Bureau who came out of nowhere―――――― they didn't want to think that this building was paid for by Yan Shao, and the meaning was so heavy. How is it possible that there is no supervision from the Secret Service?

And cutting corners, or shoddy, no one checks these even if anyone checks them, but as long as someone checks them...

How can it not be found?

These people are simply stupid, but they also make a difference.

Killing chickens and monkeys, at least after they set an example, few people dare to fool around on this. There is not a single one who wants to make money from it. Even those workers, after seeing the scene of the foremen who had been showing off their might and power being escorted away, became diligent one by one.

On the other hand. While designing the Empire State Building, Wang Xuan also knew that this building would never be hidden. After all, the height of this building at the time of design was 450 meters, plus 109 floors, it is almost impossible to hide such a tall building. Even if the magicians who seem to be powerful in the future come, I am afraid that there is no way to do it.

So Wang Xuan already had this building exposed. And the preparation that caused a sensation.

This is also what he has been looking forward to, because only when there are more people who know it, can his name be spread, but he never thought that after it was passed out, it would bring more trouble...

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In Yan Shao's view, what people pursue can usually be divided into two categories, one is fame. One is profit.

Wang Xuan is the former, of course. This is not to say that he is not interested in Li, after all, he is also a mortal, but compared to Lei, fame may be more attractive to him.

And if you want to gain fame, you naturally need someone to help promote it. Otherwise, no matter how big you do, no one will know.

So at the beginning, Wang Xuan actually had a welcoming attitude towards the people outside.

It's just that he obviously didn't expect that there would be so many people coming, and...

And got into so much trouble...

At the beginning, there were only a few hundred or thousands of onlookers, but after a while, due to the propaganda of those newspapers, there were tens of thousands of people outside the barbed wire fence at the peak, and even in normal times, there were 10,000 or 20,000 people...

With so many people gathered outside, the darkness was overwhelming, how could the workers who usually work hard. Being watched by so many people, they also felt that something was wrong.

In addition, after so many people were crowded outside, it became inconvenient for vehicles to pull supplies and materials in and out.

Forget it, the problem is that there are too many people, and there will definitely be some chaos.

Like pushing, pushing, or thieves, or some obscene blanks taking advantage of the big girl in the crowd, all kinds of things, people can't help but have a headache.

There are also some ignorant and foolish people, who actually openly burn incense and worship outside, every time they think of this, Wang Xuan feels a headache. Even a few days ago, a few newspapers approached him to take pictures and interviews or something, but it didn't make him happy...

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Almost as soon as Wang Xuan had a headache there, Zhu Erdian's car also arrived around the building.

When he saw the towering building in the distance, not to mention Helga, even Jurdian showed a shocked look. Although he had been prepared in his heart long before he came, when he saw the scene in front of him, he was still deeply shocked...

After more than half a year of construction, the Empire State Building is now quite partially completed. Just now, Zhu Erdian had silently counted that the entire building was about sixty-one floors, although it was not clear what the height of the entire building was, but this number of floors alone was enough to make people believe that the height of this building had surpassed that of the Woolworths Building.

Opening the door, Zhu Erdian stepped out of the carriage, and then looked at the building that had to be looked up to see the top, and after a long while, Zhu Erdian recovered from the shock.

At this time, Zhu Erdian suddenly felt as if someone had pulled his sleeve and tried to sober himself up, Zhu Erdian looked at Helga, and found that he was pointing to a location dozens of meters away, but after looking over, Zhu Erdian saw Thunder who also had a big mouth? Copa...

In the meantime, Ray? Kopa also seemed to see Jurdian, and when he saw Jurdian looking at him, Ray? Kopa gave him a very reluctant smile.

In later generations, this type of building will certainly be criticized as a model of extravagance and waste. But in this era, this magnificent architecture is the standard for measuring the strength and wisdom of a nation.

Although it is nothing if it is not built, the nation that can build such a magnificent building is worthy of respect and attention, at least in the eyes of other countries.

Jurdian and Ray? This was the case with Kopa, especially Jurdian, who, after seeing the unfinished building in front of him, was already worried about his country's interests in the Far East.

In Jurdian with Ray? After Copa, the ministers of several other countries also heard the news and ran over. After seeing such a building, almost everyone was shocked, especially Rizhiyi, who was even more jealous and shocked, obviously unable to imagine that the Chinese were capable of building such a building.

At the same time, photographs of the Empire State Building have spread throughout the country through newspapers and even around the world. And it was this photo that was spread all over the world by land and water, which made this building a complete sensation in the world, and reporters from all over the world flocked to it like a smelly piranha. (To be continued......)