After taking a turn in Chicago, Li Yaoyang's biggest feeling is that skyscrapers are really not something that ordinary people can play with.

At least the combined capital of him and Moffett is not enough to play!

They inquired about it and calculated the accounts, and if they were to fund it completely, they would at least have to sell all the assets of the two, and they would have to borrow some of them to make it up.

However, skyscrapers are an inevitable product of the development of the times.

Of course, the population density of various countries is different, it is not comparable, there is no good quality of buildings, the ugly country is in this era, and after this era, it will not be built again, and then it will be the turn of the newly rising Oriental Dragon.

And now the ugly country is very crazy, and in a few years, the staggering Empire State Building, in 1930, is brutal, and there are no security measures.

Who would dare to think about it in the future?

When a country industrializes to a certain extent, it will build these things, ugly people will cover it, neon people will cover it, Huaxia will build it in the future, and even Ah San will build it, which is normal.

It's just that the population density of different countries is different, and the countries with more populous populations are more dense, and they cover a lot more.

Industrialization will give birth to a country's infrastructure very quickly, and many people mistakenly think that infrastructure construction is built a little bit every year, which accumulates over time, but in fact it is not.

Infrastructure construction in all countries is in a fixed period, and suddenly there is a leap in infrastructure construction, and then it stagnates.

Then only a few repairs were made to the infrastructure, which is the case in the ugly country, and the trend of building high-rise buildings is now in the twenties and thirties, and the rapid progress of infrastructure construction is almost once in half a century.

The biggest advantage of centralized infrastructure is low cost, in the same period, the output of steel and cement increased sharply, and the cost of infrastructure fell rapidly.

At the same time, the country has cultivated a large number of science and engineering talents, and only then has there been the rapid advancement of infrastructure.

As for the problem of "duplicate construction" as some people say, all countries have it, for example, in 1910, 400,000 kilometers of railways in the country were demolished, and then half of them were demolished, is it considered duplicate construction?

Calculate! But even if it is dismantled in half, it will still be of great benefit to the ugly country, after all, the cost is low.

After a few decades, the population stabilized and the demand for high-rise buildings decreased.

In areas with rapidly growing populations, such as Silicon Valley, it is difficult to build high-rise buildings because of the earthquake zone.

High-rise buildings appear to be high-rise buildings, but in fact they are the further advancement of industrialization and urbanization, and at that time, the degree of urbanization in the ugly country was already quite high, and there was no need for urbanization anymore.

In the future, China's high-rise buildings and infrastructure will stagnate.

The Ugly Country is the birthplace of skyscrapers, and for a long time to come, the world's most skyscraper will be located in the Ugly Country, and this situation will not be reversed until the crown princes of the Middle East fart at home and oil begins to collapse from the ground.

Why didn't the ugly country build a building later?

One is the technical difficulty.

The height of skyscrapers was clearly limited by technology, such as the Empire State Building a few years later, which was the tallest building that technology could handle at the time.

But after that, the Chouguo Construction Company has not built a single skyscraper more than 500 meters.

The second is the Federal Aviation Administration's height restrictions.

In a rare move, the height of various man-made structures has been imposed nationwide.

The Federal Aviation Administration does not allow skyscrapers taller than 609 meters to be built because it would make airlines safer.

And some city airports are built very close to the city center, such as Seattle and Miami, and skyscrapers usually cannot be higher than 300 meters.

Singapore actually has similar regulations.

Therefore, if you want to build a super high-rise skyscraper now, it is actually the best time, and when the airport appears on a large scale, and then you want to build a building, the approval procedures required are enough to make people headaches.

The third is the lack of available land.

In China, many high-rise buildings are built on flat land, but in ugly cities like New York or Los Angeles, the density of buildings is far greater than one might think.

Anyone who has been to New York knows it, and if you haven't been to it, you know that the high-rise buildings over there are shocked, not because they are extremely tall, but because these buildings are extremely dense.

When you walk down the street and look up, you can only see a glimmer of sky, and the buildings are very close to each other!

This is also the reason why the ugly people once sat in the well and watched the sky, it is all a pattern!

So it is not easy to find a new skyscraper flat land, and in most cases, the developer has to buy the old buildings on the land first and then demolish them.

Taller buildings often require larger bases, which means developers need to buy more buildings.

So to build a skyscraper may require the demolition of two or three old buildings, or even more.

Technically, they can still build the tallest buildings, but the high cost will still put many developers off.

Fourth, there are many opponents.

In some cities, such as San Francisco, casting a shadow on nearby residential buildings will always prevent skyscrapers from being approved to build higher.

For example, one building was originally planned to be 370 meters, but due to complaints and protests over shading, the final construction plan could only be reduced to 326 meters.

Comrade Pu once tried to build the world's tallest skyscraper in New York City, called the TV City Tower, which was designed to be 510 meters and has 130 floors, and it was planned to be built on the riverfront of West 66th Street.

He also contracted NBC to be the main tenant of his building.

However, some local community organizations did not like the building and opposed Comrade Pu's proposal, which eventually led to the proposal being canceled.

Fifth, I'm not interested!

Yes, just not interested.

It is known that one of the main motives for the development of the tallest buildings was to increase the image and prestige of the city.

For the ugly country, many of the country's cities are already famous in the world, and they don't need a tallest building to raise their profile.

Chicago used to have some skyscraper schemes, such as the World Trade Center, 7 South Dearborn, and the Post Twin Towers, but unfortunately, the developers behind these projects were not big players and ultimately failed.

And some powerful players, such as some tech giants such as Facebook and Apple, prefer to use the campus as their headquarters.

Supertall skyscrapers owned by tech giants are only seen in movies, such as in The Amazing Spider-Man, where Oscorp is headquartered in a skyscraper called the Oscorp Tower.

Many of the world's largest companies believe that a tall skyscraper can hurt their business, and one example is Sears.

Sears was the largest retail conglomerate in the world at the time, but after the Sears Tower was built, Wal-Mart and other retailers began to overtake it, and Sears eventually had to sell.

Sixth, and most crucially, there is no money!

Lack of money is still the worst enemy of skyscraper development, especially in ugly countries where labor is very expensive.

You know, in the construction of the Empire State Building, it was built at a time when labor was very cheap, and most of the workers were immigrants.

Later, most of the construction workers in Chouguo were local Chouguo.

Dubai's Burj Khalifa costs $1.5 billion, and even the 426-meter-high 432 Parkway is much more expensive than that in an ugly country, and it's much slimmer than the Burj Khalifa.

If the Burj Khalifa were to be built in New York City, it would cost at least $3 billion.

In addition, most of the skyscrapers built in Huaxia are financed by the developers themselves, and these developers are mostly state-owned enterprises, and it is not difficult for these companies to finance their projects.

But in ugly countries, where skyscraper construction is financed by individual investors and lenders and some investment banks, the lack of funding will lead to the cancellation or postponement of projects.

Wealthy companies, such as Apple, prefer to build a ring structure with only 4 floors and cost $5 billion, which is the new love of tech giants right now.

That's not to say that skyscrapers aren't popular right now, some famous companies still want to build skyscrapers as their workplaces, they just don't want it to be the tallest building.

In fact, any building has a lifespan, and any building has risks, and skyscrapers have raised the focus on life and risk.

Leaving aside the risks at the time of construction, the problem of dealing with the skyscraper after its end of life is enough of a headache, and the cost of demolishing a building may not be as small as the cost of building it.

But at this time, the ugly country, just like China 100 years later, is at a moment when the economy needs rapid growth, the people need to be rich, the society needs progress, and the times need development.

The construction of high-rise buildings can stimulate related industries, and can promote employment and local economic growth.

These are very important to the ugly country now.

In short, although it is difficult to build skyscrapers now, it is indeed the best of times.

The ugly country is the real "infrastructure madman" in this era.

A few years later, the country began to build the Empire State Building, and it took just over a year to build the 381-meter-high Empire State Building.

This will be very difficult for many countries in 100 years, so how did they do it 90 years ago?

In fact, the construction of the Empire State Building was entirely based on a bet.

At this time, the West was setting off a frenzy of building high-rise buildings, and the more than 200-meter-high Ugly Country Life Insurance Building, Manhattan Bank, etc. were built one after another.

And in 1930, two American businessmen made a bet to see who could build the tallest building in the country in the shortest time.

The two American businessmen were Chrysler, the founder of the Kleist Company, and Rascob, a shareholder of General Motors.

In this way, Chrysler began construction in the heart of Manehattan, and Lascob bought a plot of land on Fifth Avenue to build on what would become the Empire State Building.

As soon as the bet began, the two began a construction frenzy.

In order to be able to build the Empire State Building quickly, Lascob did not care about the cost at all.

The first step was to recruit a large number of construction workers, and then a steady stream of materials was transported to the construction site.

At that time, the number of simultaneous workers reached more than 3,500 at its peak.

Moreover, at that time, it can be said that the work was carried out 24 hours a day, and the materials were constantly being sent in, which were later used for construction, and there was no material accumulation at all.

Crucially, when the Empire State Building was built, the workers had no protection at all, at most a rope tied around their waists and no hard hats at all.

And due to the technical limitations of the time, there was no large machinery to use, so no matter how dangerous the place was, there were workers to go up.

When the building reaches the upper floors, it inevitably shakes, and if one is not careful, someone will fall down.

However, at that time, those who chose to work in such a dangerous place were still in high demand.

It was the time of the Great Depression and there were so many unemployed people, so even though it was dangerous, people still rushed to get there.

It is also for this reason that the capitalists at that time did not use the workers as human beings at all, as long as you were a little lazy, you could be replaced, after all, there were still countless people waiting for work outside.

Under such circumstances, the Empire State Building was quickly built.

In the end, it took just over a year, 410 days to be specific, and a 410-meter-high building was built.

The edifice was arguably built entirely with the lives of the workers, but at the time, the official report said that only 5 workers had died.

Many media outlets do not believe this number at all, and the death toll must have far exceeded this number.

However, it has to be said that it is indeed a miracle that the ugly country was able to build such a tall building in such a short time in 1930.

During planning and construction, the design was changed 16 times, yet more than 3,000 workers completed the building in a record time of one year and 45 days.

It has a height of 381 meters (1,250 feet), 102 floors, and a total cost of $45 million.

The Empire State Building was built using 60,000 tons of steel, 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite, 10 million bricks, and 730 tons of aluminum and stainless steel.

If you want to build a 120-meter-high building according to this standard, you must prepare at least 12 million knives without rushing the work.

Is this equivalent to $500 million in later generations, which means that you can take it out?

Anyway, his family knows his own affairs, and Li Yaoyang knows very well that he has a few steel hammers in his pocket, and at most he takes out a fraction of it.

Maffitt estimates that it is not bad, and it is unrealistic to rely on the two of them to support a project.

It's not that you can't ask the bank to borrow money, or simply make an investment bond and do a crowdfunding.

And now it's okay to engage in bonds, the Great Depression is coming, set a 3-5 year bond, and then use worthless money to repay, inside and out.

What? Is this a pit man?

Damn, ugly people are also people?

Anyway, Li Yaoyang is not ambiguous at all when he makes ugly people, and he doesn't hesitate, as long as he has the opportunity, he will not do it.

Thinking about it like this, he immediately figured it out, and his mind suddenly opened up.

He even began to ponder, why not just play bigger, the entire 200-meter-tall building, and then open a cloud casino or something, then it won't attract the attention of all ugly gamblers?

As soon as he told Moffett about the idea, the two hit it off.

Maffett is a capitalist, and in the eyes of capitalists there is no nationality, no people, only interests.

Pit people? Isn't that a natural skill that comes with your bones?