bonanza

Chapter 422
"So beautiful!"

"It's so beautiful!" Two foreigners, Richard Williams and James Whistler, praised the buildings on the Bund.

In 1989, nine old buildings on the Bund were approved by the Shanghai Municipal Government as municipal-level cultural relics protection units, and the number of protected buildings soon increased to [-]. Now these buildings will soon become national key cultural relics protection units.

In fact, Yang Dongsheng doesn't think there is anything to protect the things left by a group of colonists. The longest history of these buildings on the Bund is only more than 100 years, and the shortest is only a few decades.

Those courtyard houses that are about to disappear in large numbers in Huajing City started more than 100 years ago.

Like the Beizi Mansion that Yang Dongsheng bought, its history should be at least a building in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it must not be lived in by ordinary people, and its research value is far better than those of the Bund.

But some people can’t stop them from thinking that foreigners’ buildings are good, so they appeared. On the one hand, our own buildings with a history of hundreds of years were demolished in large numbers, and on the other hand, foreigners built them in China with decades of history. The building has instead become a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Where are you going to reason?

"Do you really think these buildings are beautiful?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"Of course!" The two replied in unison.

"Aren't there many buildings like this in Europe and the United States? You should have grown up in this kind of buildings, why do you still think they are beautiful?"

"Haha, where did we grow up in this kind of building? Only people from the Windsor and Bourbon families grew up in this kind of building!"

Hearing what they said, Yang Dongsheng suddenly understood how Richard Williams and James Whistler felt about these buildings. Windsor is the surname of the British royal family and the Bourbon Spanish royal family.

Although there are quite a few such buildings in the West, such poor people as Richard Williams and James Whistler can only see such buildings on TV and in books.

Growing up in this environment, they will naturally have a series of emotions such as awe and curiosity towards similar buildings.

And why do we like this kind of architecture?Probably because even foreigners say they look good.

The three of them sat in the car and saw the buildings from the beginning to the end.

The buildings replaced by the Bund this time include the former HSBC Bank Headquarters Building, the former Shanghai General Assembly Building, Youning Building, Asia Building and many other buildings.

These buildings will be determined to be replaced through competitive bidding—to put it bluntly, they are still sold, just to put it in a euphemistic way.

"How about it, which one do you like?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"I think that one is pretty good!" James Whistler pointed to a building.

"good taste!"

What James Whistler was referring to was the original HSBC Bank building. When the building was built, it was said that it cost about 1000 million taels of silver—almost the profit of HSBC Bank for two years at that time.

After completion, it was known as "the most luxurious building from the Suez Canal to the Bering Strait in the Far East".

Although according to Yang Dongsheng's experience in dealing with foreigners over the years, when they boast about something or someone, they always pretend to be dead, and they must not take it seriously.

However, the HSBC Building is indeed the largest and most luxurious building in the Bund complex, and it can be called a landmark building on the Bund.

This location, this size, this shape... If you take it down, just show someone a look at this building, and they will know the strength of Alice Company without saying anything.

"Actually, I also took a fancy to this building, but since Jimmy chose this one... Boss, I think we should choose that one!" Richard Williams pointed to another building.

Yang Dongsheng nodded, "Since you are all sure, go back and prepare well! Especially Mr. Whistler, you will have many opponents!"

In 1990, perhaps because HSBC was used to being the boss in Hong Kong, it got dizzy and went to Shanghai. After pointing at this building, it wanted to buy back the office building that once belonged to them. A gray nose.

At that time, the Shanghai Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government worked in this building.

Even if HSBC does not come this time, there will definitely be many people who want this building.

James Whistler may face competition from a bunch of financial institutions.

However, Yang Dongsheng was not too worried about James Whistler. James Whistler would just want to compete with others for more money. He was more worried about Richard Williams.

This time, the replacement of old buildings on the Bund has extremely high internal requirements, and it must be a financial institution, a securities institution...

External requirements are very loose, and there is not even a regulation on the total amount of assets.

Now enough high-level people know that Richard Williams is behind a fake foreign-funded company, and Yang Dongsheng failed to enter the financial and securities industries. When the time comes, he will get the admission ticket, and if he can’t get it, it’s another story.

Yang Dongsheng thought for a while and decided to separate the financial department and the real estate department under the finance department, and sign up together to see which one can be selected by blind cats and dead mice!
Back at the hotel, Yang Dongsheng gave James Whistler a wink.

The two came to the coffee shop and found an empty corner to sit down.

"Our people have already arrived in Helanshan City, and have also contacted the local government and the coal industry company. It went very smoothly and we will be able to work soon."

"Yeah!" Yang Dongsheng picked up his coffee and took a sip.

"According to what you said, the financial sector has already begun to short Hanbao Steel! Recently we have recruited many experienced veterans from Wall Street, and the president of Amazon has helped a lot!"

"He's honest!"

The Amazon guy also came from Wall Street.

"The pastures in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea are also progressing smoothly. It's just that several projects we have started to acquire in Australia have failed one after another recently. Except for a bauxite mine, the coking coal and copper mine you want most have not been able to get it. Han The farce of the Corker company's production dispute has become more and more violent in the past two years, and we will not be able to get iron ore in a short time. What's more troublesome is that it is becoming more and more difficult for us to buy land in the desert. Now the government has no I really want to sell the land to us again. The price of desert land has increased several times this year. I heard that a large number of Hong Kong people immigrated here and they applied for a lot of land in the desert.”

"They want to die, whatever they want! You pay attention to these people, and when they can't hold on, we will take over the land!" Yang Dongsheng put down his coffee and glanced at James Whistler, "Do you know why the Australian government doesn't sell the land?" Is it given to us?"

"We are now the largest rancher in Australia, and they are afraid that we will monopolize it." James Whistler said.

"That's only secondary, the more important reason is that there is no shortage of food in Australia!"

(End of this chapter)