"Skyscrapers are cities created by wealth and power, they are ** and fame and fortune!"

Architecture is an indispensable part of human society.//Materially, architecture meets the actual functional needs of human beings, shelters human beings from wind and rain, and provides shelter; on the spiritual level, architecture creates a specific space, affects people's instinctive psychological feelings, and arouses the resonance of the soul, so architecture is also called "solidified music". To a certain extent, architecture records the development and changes of social culture, carries the footprints of the development of human civilization, and is known as "a history book of stone". From ancient times to the present, in all civilizations, architecture has been regarded as a permanent monument to express human power. In the famous buildings that have survived to this day, not only contain specific cultures from different periods and regions, but also represents the long journey of human beings to seek their own meaning of existence in the vast universe.

Historically, architecture is closely related to power. There are inevitable reasons why those in power like architecture: from the most basic perspective, civil construction can provide a large number of job opportunities, absorb surplus labor, and contribute to social stability. The decision and courage of those in power can also be well reflected. More importantly, architecture can be used as a means to tell the world the great achievements of builders. Buildings, the tools used by rulers of the city to lure, inspire and intimidate, seem to have always been equated with power.

"Even a thousand years later, when people mention ** companies, they will still look up at this company that has changed a country with a look!"

As early as the beginning of the founding of ** Company, Li Zicheng had such a cry to those employees on the coastal deserted beach in Lianyun, and this even became the motto of ** Company. In the past four years, this barren beach on the East China Sea coast has become the most prosperous city in China and even the Far East. Now this young city has various crowns, the first city to plan urban subways, the first city to establish urban light rail transit, the first city to popularize gas, the first... Well, there are too many firsts, but for the world, this city has an extremely distinctive feature, and this feature is that this is the first private city in Asia.

Yes, it is a private city. Although according to the national city level regulations, Lianyungang, which already has a population of 650,000, should have become a municipal city. However, there is no mayor or public government agency here. It is a city belonging to Li Zicheng personally, or to the ** Company. Everything here is. The ** Company provides water, electricity, medical care, education and leisure for the city. The most important thing is that they do much better than the government. Even in the surrounding diffuse residential areas, the management rights will be entrusted to the Lianyungang Management Committee.

As the owner of this city, ** Company, a giant trust-style company with a large-scale Chinese company with more than 200 directly affiliated subsidiaries across the country and 170,000 employees, naturally established its headquarters here. In the past four years, in order to facilitate office work, the company's headquarters has been moved several times.

Until five months ago, the company headquarters made another decision - to move!

And this time, according to the company's senior management, we will "build a building that will not be eliminated in the next hundred years." For ** Company, this building will mean ** Company's "rule" over the city. Anyone who comes here will look up to this building!

On the construction site of the "** Building" with an area of ​​more than 1.5 inches, there are scaffolding and mixers everywhere, with bricks stacked, smelling of damp and freshly stirred cement. Around the building that has already shown its shape, a layer of protective net is surrounded by a protective net. Ten electric elevators for transporting raw materials are constantly sending shift workers and building materials to the top, and above, the elevator is still rising. The building is rising every day. To put it in a sentence in the newspaper, it is "to try to compete with the heavens."

Skyscrapers are extremely new for the whole world. It was not until 1885 that the Chicago family insurance building became the tallest building in the world at a height of 54.9 meters. Almost ten years later, the Manhattan Life Insurance Building made human work and residential buildings exceed the limit of 100 meters for the first time at a height of 106.1 meters. However, until six years ago, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in New York broke the limit of 200 meters with 213.4 meters. It seems that the height of skyscrapers is endless...

However, even after thirty years of development, skyscrapers are still engineering challenges for construction engineering technology. Almost every skyscraper needs to face such and such technical problems during construction. The only three skyscrapers in the world that exceed 100 meters and two skyscrapers over 200 meters are concentrated in the United States and in New York. Skyscrapers have long become a symbol of the prosperity of the United States. Perhaps only the United States can build skyscrapers in the world, and only New York can have real skyscrapers.

However, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Lianyungang, a coastal city similar to New York, has also begun to build skyscrapers. For ** companies that are limited by railway land and have limited land resources, building skyscrapers seems to be the only way to solve land tension. However, this approach is an unprecedented challenge for China's construction engineers and construction technology. The person who meets this challenge is Lin Baoren, the "chief architect" of ** company. In the past three years, he has not only designed "** Village", but also designed and supervised more than 20 buildings. In high-rise buildings, Lin Baoren may be the most experienced architect in China, but even so, he dare not take it lightly, because anyone understands what this building means. Every country must have a "building that the Chinese people look up to", and this is the future "destiny" of ** Building.

At this time, Lin Baoren, wearing a rattan hard hat, is the chief architect of the "world's tallest building". In the past five months, as the chief architect, he has installed his home in the Lixiang Hotel opposite the construction site, and supervised the construction progress of the project day and night. Of course, what is more important is to solve the various technical problems faced during construction.

"No. Maybe we should consider..."

Holding architectural drawings in both hands, Casgilbert, the architect who designed the Woolworth Building, the world's tallest building, which is 241.4 meters tall, expressed his objections. As a well-known American architectural engineer, there have been differences with Lin Baoren in some architectural concepts since the day he accepted the ** company's hire, especially in the world's tallest building thirteen months later. But in the end, he still "submitted" to the company's choice.

"I have considered your plan again and again. Mr. Gilbert, we must understand that a building will be a Chinese building, a building that is enough for Chinese people to look up to, so its appearance cannot be Western,..."

As Lin Baoren, who continued to do so, insisted on his own point of view, Chinese architecture must be Chinese. Although he fully borrowed the design of the Woolworth Building when designing this 286-meter building, and Cass Gilbert also put forward valuable opinions☆ After the finalized architectural structure, in terms of appearance design, the latter prefers the Gothic eclecticism of the Woolworth Building, while Lin Baoren prefers the "Eastern" style.

"But you have to understand that this building is not a test subject!"

When he reminded Lin Baoren, Casgilbert added.

"This is a building that will exist for more than a hundred years!"

"So, we need more Chinese elements!"

Lin Baoren smiled slightly. In order to pursue the speed of the building, construction started after the main design of the building was completed. What the two people are now arguing about is actually the differences in appearance inlaid conception.

"Lianyungang..."

Lin Baoren said in an upset with a finger pointing out of the construction site.

"The buildings here are too Western now, and there is not much difference from Shanghai. The buildings are either British, American, German, or Italian. Maybe it will become an architectural museum, but I will eliminate everyone who comes here to feel the belonging of this city, one day..."

Taking a deep breath, Lin Baoren's eyes became extremely hot.

"Maybe I'll design a city, a real, Eastern-style modern city!"

"It will take sixteen months!"

Standing by the window of the office and looking at the construction site that was vaguely visible in the distance, Mu Xiangyue muttered anxiously in her heart. This building was one of the most important decisions he made this year. At this time, the "** Building" with a 26-story "** Building" has been built. At this time, it has become the tallest building in Lianyungang, even in China and Asia, but it is at least sixteen months before he can truly become it.

"It's a pity that no one can understand the importance of this building!"

Thinking of the opposition encountered when he proposed to build a new "** Building", Mu Xiangyue felt a little regretful. Their vision was too short-short-sighted. "The raw materials are too high now, and a building requires tens of thousands of tons of steel. This alone means that it exceeds the expenses of millions of yuan...", "The labor is too expensive now", "technologically immature"..., etc., those people raised various oppositions.

The price of steel is indeed a bit higher, and it is indeed a technical test. But what they did not expect is that the ** company has as many as 7,000 employees at its headquarters alone, and it is increasing at a rate of 5% every month. It can be said that as the company expands, the number of employees will only increase. Next year, the headquarters may exceed 15,000 employees. Now, these 7,000 employees are distributed in more than a dozen office locations in Lianyungang, occupying a large amount of land, and the division of office areas will be detrimental to the unity of the company.

For the sake of the future, Mu Xiangyue insisted on building a company headquarters building that can accommodate all headquarters employees. Of course, more importantly, this tallest skyscraper in the world will be looked up to by all Chinese people, just as they look up to the ** company.

Of course, it is not that no one understands his painstaking efforts, at least the chairman has never opposed it!

However, compared to skyscrapers, the chairman seems to be more concerned about other things. For example, the recent negotiations between the company and the US Morgan consortium, and the patent sales contract signed by the chairman before the war with the US Steel Company, made the US Steel Company need to deliver millions of tons of steel to the chairman, which was once a long-term supply contract of only tens of millions of dollars. Now it has become a US Steel Company that needs to bear hundreds of millions of dollars in losses due to the price increase of steel. In the US newspaper industry, many people call this "JP Morgan's Waterloo", and

It said that if JP is still alive, he might be angry to death. The Morgan Consortium seemed to realize that there might be some loopholes in the original contract, so that in recent months, the company has been negotiating with the Morgan Consortium. Although the progress is not smooth, Mu Xiangyue knew that in the end, the Morgan Consortium would still make concessions because they must respect the sacredness of the contract. If they violate the contract, it will cause damage to the reputation of the Morgan Consortium. It is unimaginable and even more unbearable for them to bear.

"It's a pity that such a contract is too few, not more than $300 million. If Zhiyuan could have signed a few more such contracts, it would probably be..."

Shaking his head and smiling, Mu Xiangyue felt that she seemed to have become greedy, which was really a lack of human heart! Now Morgan has sponsored ** Company with such a huge amount of funds, which is enough to establish dozens of large enterprises, so people should not be too greedy.

"manager!"

At this time, a young man walked in and saw the young man entering the room. Mu Xiangyue's face suddenly showed a smile.

"Zi Xin, is there anything wrong?"

Yu Youcheng, who came in, was a student of the third phase of Lianyungang Business School. He was one of the few students recommended by Taylor. You should know that Taylor never recommends his students easily. Any students he recommended must have some outstanding features. Just like Yu Youcheng who entered the house at this time, perhaps he did not have any professional business studies, but he was very good at sorting out orders in complicated things, thanks to his work. Mu Xiangyue could easily manage hundreds of subsidiaries under the company and adjust the development of each company in a timely manner.

One industry and one enterprise may seem easy, but how to manage such a huge company that involves all aspects of operation is an unprecedented challenge for any leader. What makes Mu Xiangyue glad that he has such a good helper now.

"Beijing sent a telegram!"

Yu Youcheng didn't speak much, in fact, except for official business, he rarely spoke. One of the important reasons why he applied to Lianyun Business School was just because he failed to get into Dehua University, the best engineering university in China.

"The Prime Minister's Telegram?"

Mu Xiangyue was stunned. After receiving the telegram, she just glanced at Yu Youcheng.

"Zi Xin, do you have any report on the progress of antibiotic trials in the Big Pharmaceutical Company?"

"Chairman, in the dy4-3-232 classification, if you need it, I will send it to you in five minutes!"

Yu Youcheng answered truthfully that the reason why he is good at sorting out complicated things is very simple. He used seemingly simple classifications to classify and classify various companies and reports, and at the same time, with his extraordinary memory, he remembers those classifications and categories. The manager's work has been greatly alleviated in this classification and classification.

"Take it over and I'll take a look..."

While giving orders, Mu Xiangyue ordered Yu Youcheng again as if she was remembering something.

"Let's do it! In the afternoon, we'll go to the big pharmacy company!"

"Manager, at 2 pm, you have to go to the automobile manufacturing plant to check the progress of the project, and at 3 pm, you have to visit the small factory..."

For the reason of reminding the manager, Yu Youcheng emphasized it specifically.

"Those small businesses are extremely important to the company! Nowadays, many of the company's industrial accessories are produced by them..."

Yu Youcheng made Mu Xiangyue frown. It was a long time ago that small enterprises with workers ranging from more than a dozen to dozens of people depend on the company to survive. While the company subcontracted a large number of parts processing to small enterprises, the company achieved greater development due to partial manufacturing outsourcing.

Developing small and micro-enterprises in affiliated areas is one of the development plans formulated by the company at the beginning of the year. More importantly, those small enterprises also undertake technical training for "technical technical students". However, as the company manager, he rarely contacts small enterprises directly. On the one hand, it is unnecessary, and on the other hand, there is no time at all. However, when faced with their invitation, he has to make a gesture.

"See if you can squeeze some time. If it really doesn't work, let go of the matter of going to a small business for the time being! After all..."

While pondering, Mu Xiangyue said something.

"The Prime Minister's affairs are more important!"

In Mu Xiangyue's heart, his feelings for Li Zicheng are multifaceted. Mu Xiangyue never dared to forget his kindness for him, let alone that unconditional trust. A scholar died as a confidant. Four years ago, Mu Xiangyue knew that he might have sold it to Li Zicheng for the rest of his life, but he was willing to sell it.

"manager……"

Although he didn't say much, when Yu Youcheng heard the manager's words, he frowned slightly and said without hesitation.

"You are the manager of ** Company, and you must be responsible for ** Company, for and not for the Prime Minister!"

Yu Youcheng's words only made Mu Xiangyue look at the young man in surprise. When he looked at him, his eyes were full of disbelief. He...

"The Prime Minister may be the chairman of the company, but the company is a company after all. You cannot sacrifice the interests of the company just because the chairman is the prime minister, or because the prime minister is the chairman, the interests of the country are sacrificed. Officials have official conduct and enterprises have enterprises to do. If the government and enterprises do not distinguish between officials and enterprises, this way may not be a good thing for the company, and it may not be a good thing for the Prime Minister!"

"oh……"

Mu Xiangyue, who was originally just surprised, was so curious about Yu Youcheng's words.

"Zi Xin, let's talk about it!" (To be continued., vote for recommendation, monthly vote,.


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