Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 167: No. 18 on the Bund to be demolished

Fang Mingyuan's sudden departure brought the farce to an end. Zhang Guangbei looked at Fang Mingyuan's retreating back bitterly, but did not dare to pursue him again.

Liu Yong looked at Zhang Guangbei with disdain and didn't bother to talk to him anymore. He continued to walk to the cafeteria with the tableware in hand. But he was thinking in his heart whether he should ask Liu Yuyan what was going on. Although Liu Yuyan was tall

She is quite beautiful and has a good personality, but he doesn't think Fang Mingyuan will like her, at least for now. This Zhang Guangbei is so boring!

Anyone familiar with Shanghai knows that Jiangning Road, People's Square, and Xujiahui are important business circles in this metropolis. Compared with them, the commercial flavor of the Bund, which was once home to foreign banks, is much lighter. Here

, people coming and going focus more on the endlessly flowing Huangpu River, the Pearl Tower that is about to be completed, and the thousands of blinking lights at night. In the old Shanghai era, the Bund represented the fashionable and dazzling Bund.

, now only those buildings with weather-stained exteriors are left. As for the stories behind the bronze doors, most people have ignored or even forgotten them.

No. 18 on the Bund, built in 1923, was once the headquarters of the British Standard Chartered Bank in China. This five-storey building has a construction area of ​​about 10,000 square meters. It was designed by a British bank and adopted the Renaissance style.

The building built in this architectural style has been in public ownership since the 1950s and has been used by many state-owned enterprises. It has fallen into disrepair and has lost its former luxury. The internal and external walls are even covered with dirt. It looks like nothing.

It doesn't have the same style as it did back then.

"Mingyuan, the building behind it, is said to be demolished by real estate developers in the near future!" Lin Rong pointed to Route 18.

Fang Mingyuan squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the building behind No. 18. The surprise in his heart was extraordinary! He didn't know until today that No. 18 on the Bund was actually two buildings at the front and back. The area of ​​the back building was slightly smaller than the front building.

, but the architectural style is unified. However, in his previous life, this building was demolished in the 1990s on the grounds of real estate development. After that, these buildings on the Bund were designated by the Shanghai Municipal Government.

To protect the building.

Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but secretly rejoice. If he hadn't been walking around the Bund with Zhao Ya and the others, he suddenly wanted to acquire a few buildings. Lin Rong and the others immediately started collecting information to see which buildings had the potential to be acquired, and the result would be known.

I heard this news. Now that I know this, I will naturally not let history repeat itself!

Although No. 18 on the Bund is not as famous as the original HSBC Building, it is also a masterpiece among the architectural complex of that year. This most open square building not only has the auspicious number eighteen in the eyes of the Chinese people, but also has excellent Feng Shui views.

Looking at the Oriental Pearl Tower under construction across the river from here, No. 18 is exactly opposite to it, and it is also the middle one among the Bund buildings built along the river in Puxi.

Fang Mingyuan knew that in the previous life, after entering the 2000th century, this place was rented by a Taiwan-funded company, and an Italian building restoration company restored the place and restored the original appearance of the building. Later, it became a Shanghai city.

A place famous for its fashion and elegance.

As noon passed, the roads here were busy with traffic and pedestrians. These buildings, known as the "Architecture Group of All Nations", were full of vicissitudes of history under the sunlight. Here, a section of Shanghai City is recorded

It’s unbearable to look back on the past. European-style buildings one after another tell the story of a past that is heavy but cannot be erased. Although all this in retrospect gives people a sense of breathlessness and oppression, the buildings themselves are not guilty. The "Architecture Group of All Nations"

Still shocking with their own charm, they impacted Fang Mingyuan's vision.

"Which unit in Shanghai is using this place now? Why should the building behind be demolished?" Fang Mingyuan asked in a deep voice.

"It is currently used by Shanghai Shencheng Export Company. However, they do not have the property rights here. The property rights are in the hands of the Shanghai Huangpu District Government. As for the building behind it, the district government sold the land behind it to a real estate development company.

The company and the back building tolerated their development and were asked to demolish it," Lin Rong explained.

"Shanghai Import and Export Company?" Fang Mingyuan frowned and asked, "Is this a state-owned company?" Shanghai is also known as Shanghai, and companies that dare to bear such a name are generally not small companies.

"Mingyuan, Shencheng Import and Export Company was still among the top ten import and export companies in Shanghai three years ago, but now, due to a mistake in a major transaction in the past two years, it has caused direct economic losses of tens of millions of dollars.

, the company's vitality was seriously damaged. Later, although the company's leaders changed a lot, the company did not improve at all, so it had to move here." Lin Rong said, "There used to be some companies in the building, but now they have all moved.

I left because I thought this place was too shabby and it didn’t show my class in receiving guests.”

Fang Mingyuan nodded calmly, but he felt a strange feeling in his heart. He knew how fashionable and luxurious this place would be two thousand years later. People who didn't have any real money in their pockets would probably not even have the courage to step into this place.

No!

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 covered with dust and vines. It really looked like

It looked very dilapidated.

In front of the gate are four marble pillars, which are gray and unremarkable at all. But Fang Mingyuan knew that these four marble pillars were a sensation back then, because the mines that could provide them had been exhausted long before the 18th century.

, even the architectural community in Italy, where it originated, had never used marble columns of this material again after the 18th century. The Italians who were responsible for the restoration of the building at that time were very surprised why in the building built in 1923,

There will be marble columns that have long since disappeared in Italy.

Later, after many investigations and contacting the British company that built this place, we found out that these four pillars came from an abandoned ancient church in Italy. They were dismantled by the British and transported to China, where they were eventually used in

Here, just these four marble columns are a considerable historical wealth.

There is also its gate, which is a combination of Chinese and Western materials made of bronze and brass. The copper gate has extremely exquisite patterns. Two different materials are used on the same gate, but they are combined so seamlessly that future generations are amazed.

I was filled with admiration. But now, due to the layers of paint added on, the original appearance of this door is completely lost.

Pushing open the two-color bronze door of No. 18 on the Bund, Fang Mingyuan should be stepping on round patterns paved with crushed marble. Looking up, he can see evenly arranged square reliefs on the ceiling. It is said that this was the British architect's vision of China at that time.

A careful interpretation of the idiom "the sky is square and the earth is round". But now, all of this can no longer be seen as it originally was. The whole building exudes a bleak atmosphere.

"What do you do?" The sudden voice startled Fang Mingyuan and the others. A middle-aged man walked out of the room on the side of the gate, looking at Fang Mingyuan and the others with a wary expression.

"Excuse me, does Shanghai Import and Export Company have its office here?" Fang Mingyuan asked casually.

The middle-aged man's face changed slightly, and he waved his hands and said: "I don't know, there are no companies in this building now, it's just an empty building."

Fang Mingyuan could see that this man was not sincere, so he smiled and said: "Uncle, we are not here to collect debts, but we want to ask Shencheng Import and Export Company where No. 18 on the Bund was originally rented to them. We want to be here

Start a company.”

After hearing what he said, the middle-aged man looked at Lin Rong and Chen Zhong again. He probably regarded them as secretaries and bodyguards. Then he said with a smile: "Come here to open a company. Either I'm talking about you, or I'm talking about you."

If you don’t have enough money, you can’t work here. Look at the environment here. Even when customers come, when people see the appearance of this place, they lose the desire to continue to cooperate with you. Listen to me, even if it is

Go to a remote place and rent a few decent offices, but don't open a company here."

Fang Mingyuan smiled and continued to chat with this person. He learned from his mouth that since No. 18 on the Bund was state-owned, many state-owned units had done business here, but later they all felt that

The office conditions here were too bad, so I moved out. At that time, some rent could be collected every year for building repairs. Now in the past few years, there is no cost for repairs. He is regarded as the housing management office in Huangpu District.

People, since the building area here is tens of thousands of square meters, only Shencheng Import and Export Company is working here. In order to prevent the building from unnecessary damage, they were sent here.

The reason why I just said that there are no companies in the building anymore and it is just an empty building is because in the past two years, people have always come to the door to collect debts from Shencheng Import and Export Company. If they can't get the money, they will make trouble in the building and sometimes even smash the building.

The Shencheng Import and Export Company now has no money to pay for the damaged items, and the leader of the housing management office is very unhappy about this.

"You have to say that this house built by foreigners is really strong. Even if you look at it, both the outside and the inside are in ruins. But I think there will be no problem in using this house for another hundred years." The middle-aged man said with emotion,

"It's not like the houses built in our country in recent years. They were only used for a few years and they cracked here and there."

Fang Mingyuan nodded in agreement. It was indeed as he said. Nowadays, it is faster and taller to build a house, but the durability of the building has declined. In the future, when the Wai Wai Wai Lou comes on stage, people will

You will understand how corrupt China's construction industry has become.

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

"You mean that building at the back?" the middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "That building is lower than this building, with a construction area of ​​about 8,000 square meters. But the dilapidation there is now more serious than here. That area is more dilapidated than this one.

The land was indeed bought by a developer, and I heard that it will be demolished and rebuilt with a new building 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 party walked out of the building. During this period, no one came in or out of the building at all.

The *** of the Shanghai Huangpu District Committee, surnamed Ji Mingli, is forty-two years old this year and was promoted to this position just the year before last.

To be able to become the district committee secretary of a central district in 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 difficult thing for Ji Li. Huangpu

Huangpu District is the old district of Shanghai. Although it is the core urban area, it is now showing its age. Compared with the vibrant Pudong District across the river, Huangpu District has a strong foundation, but lacks motivation. And

Most of the enterprises in the district are old state-owned enterprises, and now they are facing a series of problems.

How to find new economic growth points for Huangpu District has become Ji Li's biggest concern.

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

It would be a good idea to build a number of residential projects and office building projects in some prime locations in Huangpu District. The development of real estate will inevitably drive the development of steel, cement, transportation and other industries, thereby boosting the economy of Huangpu District

develop.

The first pilot project is near the Bund. The district government has reached an agreement with Shenyi Real Estate in the city. The district government will provide the land and Shenyi Real Estate will be responsible for the construction. After completion, 51% of the sales will be

It is owned by the district government. The expected profit is about 300 to 500 million yuan. Three to 500 million yuan, in 1995, is also a considerable amount of income. And this is net income!

So Ji Li has always been satisfied with his success in brokering this agreement.

However, his good mood was broken this afternoon. News came from the city's housing management department. Sun Zhaolun, the general manager of Carrefour Group, formally made a request to the city management department to acquire Building 18 on the Bund, and also emphasized that

It was mentioned that the two buildings before and after No. 18 should be acquired together.

This undoubtedly disrupted Ji Li's plan!

If the back building of No. 18 on the Bund cannot be demolished, then the design of the new community will need to be greatly adjusted, and the originally decided construction period will also need to be adjusted accordingly! In this way, Shenyi Real Estate will inevitably increase the cost it originally expected.

The cost! It means a reduction in future profits! This is a result that Ji Li cannot accept!