Chapter 93 To be the center of the world
Mr. Zhao almost didn't get angry. Where did this go? He spent a lot of money and used much science and technology to build the world's highest wonder!
Not to mention anything else, just the structure of this building was calculated by Hua Shuyang over and over again using mathematics and mechanics knowledge, and he also specially developed a structural mechanics. And the tower is full of scientific and technological achievements! Why did it become a Feng Shui Tower? Just call Xuelang to be the host, anyway, his head is also round...
Unfortunately, he couldn't hit Lao Niu in the face, so he had to smile dryly and remain silent.
Fortunately, the ceremony began, and Niu Observer and two prefects, together with President Jiang and Director Lu, went on stage to cut the ribbon. This topic of Zhao Hao's depressedness ended.
Mr. Zhao came to take a look, he would not come on stage.
Looking at Niu Mowang who was smiling like the stars on the stage holding the moon, he whispered to Secretary Ma behind him:
"When I look back and discuss the appointment of Annan Governor, remember to remind me to recommend Niu Observation."
"Oh." Sister Ma smiled sweetly. In fact, she prefers to be a little secret than being a mother.
After cutting the ribbon and setting off the whip and the leader speaks, it is time to visit the Oriental Pearl Tower.
Mr. Zhao has not yet become rich. For the sake of this little vinegar, the world's tallest building is not a completely useless wonder.
First of all, its tower and the lower sphere are combined, and it is a huge water tower that can accommodate 100,000 households.
The function of the water tower is to store water, and when the water supply is insufficient, it plays a role in regulating and replenishing. The second is to use the high potential of the water tower to automatically send water, so that the tap water has a certain pressure head.
With the current technical level, if you want to use tap water for every household, the difficulty lies in the water tower.
First, how to build a high-altitude water storage device that can withstand huge water pressure, and second, how to lift the water onto the tower.
The former has reinforced concrete and half of it is solved. Calculate the mechanical structure, and the other half is also solved.
As for the second article, it will be no longer a problem as the Zhangjian steam engine matures.
In fact, before the Oriental Pearl, six 50-meter-high water towers had been built in Pudong, which could supply water to 400,000 homes. Moreover, the style of the water towers was very beautiful and had become a symbol of various blocks.
With the water tower, it is much easier to lay a pipeline network and send water to the household. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, my country had a ceramic underground water supply pipeline system. With the technical production capacity of Jiangnan Group, whether it is ceramic or cast iron pipelines, it is no problem.
The upper sphere of the Oriental Pearl Tower is divided into upper and lower parts, with a bell tower at the bottom, with dials on all sides, providing accurate timekeeping services to the people on both sides of Huangpu and the river in the city.
The upper part is an air exhibition hall called "Yiling Hall". Various exhibitions can be held, and the telescope can be used to overlook the Jiangnan landscape. Of course, you can also see the stars at night. If a war occurs, you can also make a watchtower. But if this function comes in handy, it means Mr. Zhao's great failure...
Today, the "Address Hall" was used as the most vulgar function to hold a celebration banquet.
Because the location of the 'Single Hall' is too high and there is no elevator... In fact, it is not difficult to design a steam-powered or hydraulic lift. It is rare to be safe and comfortable. At least in a short time, people still have to climb up along the spiral ladders. It is really unwise to drive on it.
So we can only adopt the form of a cold dinner.
Cold dining or buffets are not unique to the West. We began to be popular in the Qin and Han dynasties. Nowadays, scholars and officials make an appointment to go out to the garden with prostitutes. When they go to the water and drink, they will adopt this form, so the guests will not feel abrupt.
Moreover, this form can discard the rules of the wine table that one table holds one person’s feet, so that everyone can be more comfortable during the New Year.
Although it was a cold dinner, the preparations of the Management Committee were not vague at all.
In the center of the banquet hall, under the huge crystal chandeliers, there is an oriental pearl tower made of flowers. The shape of the flower shape is a circle of long dining tables in the shape of the "mouth". The top is covered with expensive velvet dining tablecloths, filled with a wide range of meat, vegetables, fruits, snacks, and dozens of wine and beverages. Whether it is the platter or tableware, they are beautiful and exquisite.
Guests do not need to feast themselves, and there are well-dressed girls and handsome-looking girls for them. There are also well-trained waiters who walk through the guests with wine and let them use them. They will not make the men who are used to being served and feel uncomfortable.
The full banquet is guaranteed by Weijixian Pudong flagship store, and its only disadvantage is that it is expensive.
Accompanied by the soothing and pleasant sound of the piano, the guests held glasses and scattered in groups of three or five on the edge of the circular banquet hall. While chatting, they admired the Huangpu River that turned into a winding yellow dragon under their feet, and those short and small buildings. Oh, it feels great to be high above.
A true nobleman only needs to step on people under his feet to feel comfortable.
Therefore, Mr. Zhao will never become a noble, but he is also very happy to be able to see the new district from a bird's eye view of the new area from a high place.
From a high point, the whole Pudong is like an open fan shape, with the end of the fan handle being Lujiazui. This oriental pearl tower is like a fan nail. No wonder Lao Niu talks about superstition.
The entire new district is divided into several blocks by a main road crisscrossing like a chessboard.
The closest area to Lujiazui is the commercial area. In order to save land, the buildings here are generally three or four floors high, with signs on the streets and traffic.
Especially now it is the Lantern Festival, merchants are hanging out carefully crafted lanterns to attract customers, as if they attract people from all over Pudong here.
Outside the commercial area is a large residential area. Although these houses are of different sizes and layouts, according to the regulations of the Management Committee, they must all conform to the New Jiangnan style with good lighting and ventilation. Pink walls, black tiles and green trees are neatly located in the field grid, which looks bright and traditional.
Outside the residential area is the factory area. Lu Yan introduced to Mr. Zhao that the new district has registered and opened 779 factories of all sizes, including silk cotton spinning, paper and leather making, iron making, garment and dyeing, slaughtering and oil pressing, etc.
Although the industrial zone is a bit dirty and some of them seem to be illegal buildings, it is the existence of these large and small handicraft workshops that can support the population and prosperity of the city.
Further out of the factory area, to the north is a port area with twenty or thirty Popeye cranes, and the rest are large areas of farmland.
Zhao Hao estimated that the farmland area accounts for 90% of the entire Pudong New Area. If the 600,000 acres of land rented from Jinshanwei, the proportion of non-agricultural areas would be even lower.
But in just eight years, it is definitely a miracle to have a city scale of more than 100,000 acres.
You know, the prosperous areas outside the city are less than 50,000 mu, and even Beijing is only 100,000 mu.
Such a rapid expansion speed brings a sharp rise in urban strength.
According to statistics from Jiangnan Bank, in the eight years since the opening of Pudong port, its GDP has exceeded Kunshan, ranking third in Jiangnan, second only to the richest Suzhou City and Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty.
If it continues at the current rate of doubling in two years, two years later, that is, the tenth anniversary of the opening of Pudong, it will surpass Nanjing and become the second city in Jiangnan. Like Suzhou, the center of the Taihu Lake Economic Belt, which is also developing rapidly, it will become the new Jiangnan Gemini!
Of course, Pudong is so powerful that in addition to the right time, place and people, it is also inseparable from Mr. Zhao's preference.
Thinking back eight years ago, Zhao Hao refused to let the shipping port for the sea transportation of grain be set here, which led to the opening of Pudong.
Then he ordered people to repair the seawall, divert the water from the Huangpu River to erode the saline-alkali land along the coast of Pudong, and turn the former million acres of wasteland into a large cotton planting base. After lying down from Xuge's hometown, most of the cotton-spinning industry in Huating was moved here.
Under the stimulation of the group's massive orders and scientific management, this place became the center of the textile industry in just a few years.
Most of the grain produced by tens of millions of mu of fertile land at home and abroad is distributed here, usually used as grain transport in the north, and is generally the food for prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, it has long become a new rice market outside the four rice markets, and its scale is already the largest.
Zhao Hao also placed the logistics orders of his largest gold-swallowing beast coast guard troops in Pudong as much as possible...
In addition, the headquarters of the Jiangnan Development Bank, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Bank, is also established here.
So why is Pudong so powerful and why is the residential land in Pudong so valuable? Everything has a reason.
But the general public will not explore these preferences, they will only think that it is the magic of the city itself...
"I couldn't figure it out when the young master said that Pudong would not build a city wall. Now I understand that only cities without walls can grow freely like mushrooms after a rain, and the upper limit is far beyond those of cities with city walls." Lu Yan said sincerely.
"Hahaha, you still have to be cautious and impatient and continue to work hard." Zhao Hao said to Lu Yan in dissatisfaction: "It would be strange if the group gives you so many resources. We must strive to surpass Suzhou as soon as possible and become the economic center of the Ming Dynasty, East Asia, and the world!"
"We will work harder." Lu Yan couldn't help but sweat on his forehead. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the young master gave him a more difficult new task.
However, he likes to turn this wasteland where his ancestors lived into the center of the world. The sense of accomplishment brought by this incident is so strong that at his age, as long as he thinks about it, his blood will be boiling and he will be so excited that he can't sleep at night!
Seeing that the two were almost chatting, Secretary Ma leaned into Zhao Hao's ear and whispered that there was a man named Liu Yishou who wanted to talk to him.
Zhao Hao was stunned for a moment, and after being reminded by Sister Ma, he remembered that he was another person who came into his sight because of his ancestors.
But unlike Lu Shen's beautiful name, Liu Daxia is notorious...at least for Mr. Zhao, it is absolutely stinkable.
Moreover, this person had a trouble before the eternal sinner Liu Daxia set off. Although Zhao Hao easily settled it, he still left the negative influence of "the powerful and powerful suppressing famous ministers", which made Mr. Zhao even more unhappy.
However, Liu Daxia unexpectedly was able to complete the entire journey of the global voyage. It is said that he performed very well. He also learned two foreign languages, took the initiative to serve as a translator, completed the crew training subject on the ship, and obtained a sailor certificate.
Chapter completed!