My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 418 The Golden Palace Bestows a Title
Wu Shengyun wouldn't insist on having Wei Dong express something just because Chi Shiming joined later and is now busy with real estate projects in Shangzhou, Shanghai, and Jiangzhou.

He focused his attention on the Golden Mansion.

Moreover, his focus was not on the commercial real estate project itself, but only on completing the podium as soon as possible, starting the decoration as soon as possible, and creating an aura of a commercial empire that could awe all!
Damn it.

No wonder there's a saying that intelligence is essentially a form of class division.

Wei Dong himself is by no means particularly intelligent; at most, he has the energy of a twenty-year-old with the composure of a sixty-year-old, plus forty years of Tianyan benefits, which basically guarantees that he has the ability to execute effectively, suppress his greed, and avoid making mistakes.

Why was his first thought to follow You Qili and explore the world? Why did he continue to associate with Jin Zhuoqun even though he knew Jin Zhuoqun was an insatiable wolf cub?

It's because they know that there's a chance to succeed by following an exceptionally intelligent person.

Is he really destined to sell cured meat for the rest of his life?

The things that truly enabled him to advance to higher levels all required him to rely on this kind of guy to gain momentum.

Only people like this can carve out a career path. Dong Xueying, Lao Geng, Lao Zhang from the photo studio, and Lao Qin from the guesthouse can follow along and maintain the status quo, but it's wishful thinking to expect them to create a completely new world on their own.

Steve once said: "The best thing about working with smart people is that you don't have to worry about their egos."

That's why he likes to work with geniuses.

A bunch of mediocre people are lucky to even get a piece of the pie, yet they keep whining and arguing about why they get less and why they're not being respected enough.

Intelligent people can find the right direction and exert their efforts based on their own logical consistency.

Chi Shih-ming devised a method on his own to make a fortune by reselling goods between Hong Kong and Jiangzhou.

Wu Shengyun had a very clear idea: if the boss wanted to assemble the national sales team to establish authority, cleanse, screen, and unite everyone, then he had to put on a show that would make everyone wow.

The new factory area is one example, and together with the adjacent Hong Kong-owned industrial zone, it definitely showcases our strength.

In 1985, it was more than enough to impress salespeople across the country.

But after visiting Hong Kong, he realized that all the billionaires and tycoons owned their own commercial buildings.

This was already a super status that transcended eras in 1985.

Because individual businesses have only been allowed to exist for a few years?

Last year, Jiangzhou was still trying to create a "private shipping magnate," hoping to leverage the family's overseas connections to build a private economy.

But Wei Dong has already surpassed this benchmark for private entrepreneurs with his impeccable performance.

While other private enterprises of the same level across the country were still cautiously exploring their development scale, Weidong happened to appear at the forefront of economic system reform in Jiangzhou, becoming the largest enterprise in the first economic development zone in the country.

This is a historical coincidence that even Wei Dong, with his supernatural vision, couldn't have imagined.

Even if it was partly his own deliberate choice to maneuver and evade.

Otherwise, if he had followed You Qili's example and insisted on continuing to develop in Shangzhou around 84, he might have been imprisoned as well.

It was precisely his experiences selling cured meat, selling titanium ingots in East China, and selling camera film in the North that made him clearly realize that Jiangzhou seemed quite good.

After a trial run involving sanitary napkins and threats to withdraw, Wei Dong ultimately decided to establish his base in Jiangzhou, knowing full well that it would become the birthplace of a directly administered municipality.

Therefore, Wu Shengyun was determined to make the Liujin Building project a success.

In fact, from the time he proposed to participate in the acquisition and restructuring of the Jiangzhou Hotel, which was also two bank buildings from the Republican era, it can be seen that this clever guy is very good at using magnificent, towering, and imposing buildings to create a grand impression.

This is different from Chi Shih-ming, who focuses on real estate development and wants to make money through real estate transactions.

Wu Shengyun was only using this thing to achieve a higher goal.

It already hints at the master's touch, treating architecture as a financial tool.

But what did the buildings in Jiangzhou look like at that time?

The most beautiful and magnificent building in the entire city center is the Great Hall of the People. Apart from that, all the buildings are gray brick and concrete structures and wooden structures with bamboo walls left over from the Republican era.

The 14-story hotel built two years ago, including the Queen's Restaurant, is already a "luxury building" in the most central street area.

It is also the most common square shape.

Wu Shengyun was racking his brains trying to figure out how to make the podium of this currently only seven-story Golden Building stand out and completely overshadow the style of the building opposite.

Normally, the podium of a 20-story building should not be put into use before the entire building is completed.

Fortunately, there are many special cases handled these days.

Wu Shengyun was able to finalize the matter by leveraging his connections with various departments within the Beijing Liaison Office.

Then, after returning from Shanghai, the first thing they urged was to demolish the row of old storefronts blocking the entrance on the ground floor, move the photo studio and other shops to the first and second floors to start decorating and renovating the shops, and quickly carry out the exterior wall decoration and construction, and clean up and renovate the street curbs and other things.

Throughout June and July, and into mid-August, he was working at breakneck speed to expedite the progress of various tasks.

Rang Weidong now lives just a few hundred meters away from the city's central hospital, and in the evenings when he has free time, he often takes his wife and children for a walk to cool off. Watching him go, it felt like he was being given a royal robe.

This plot of land, which is 40 meters wide and more than 30 meters deep, faces the main street in the city center across the street from the Queen Restaurant, has an alley at the back, and a side road on the side.

The biggest advantage of this small, almost square area is that it is less than 200 meters from the monument in the center of the street, and is a prime location surrounded by streets and alleys on three sides.

First, the forty-meter front was divided into five storefronts of the old shops, which were transformed into beautiful and magnificent buildings.

These were all long, narrow shops that stretched from the front street to the back alley. The four time-honored brands that were once on par with Liujin Photo Studio were naturally extremely grateful and gave their full support, as their shop space was expanded several times over for free.

The centrally located Liujin Photo Studio is undoubtedly the most impressive, with the first floor transformed into a photography art exhibition hall. Famous works from previous years, especially last year's nationally renowned award-winning photographs on the theme of "Reform and New Style," are enlarged, framed, and illuminated.

Having already showcased its high-end style, a wide staircase leads to the second floor, where the entire floor houses a massive photography set, workspace, and studio.

This directly established it as the largest photography studio in Southwest China, and possibly even in the country.

Liu Taiyuan was so grateful that he watched over the shop every day, both inside and outside. When he met Wei Dong, he was so eager to sit by the roadside and have a couple of drinks.

Because the big spender who provided the funding squeezed into a commercial lobby on the side.

But considering that Wu Shengyun had photographed so many building exteriors in Hong Kong and Wei Dong had photographed so many buildings in Japan, this guy chose to make the entire exterior wall with stone decoration, which was extremely rare in mainland China at that time!
Normally, construction companies at this time are mostly state-owned, and it would be difficult to see such "luxurious" practices except for a few national-level model projects.

Even suppliers of marble, granite, and other types of stone are hard to find.

It just so happens that Wu Shengyun had worked in ironware factory sales for a few years and had come into contact with stone manufacturers, so he was aware of this information. It also just so happens that the zoo invited a nearby art academy to help make some clay sculptures and plaster statues.

Meanwhile, the Academy of Fine Arts in Jiangzhou has just erected several nationally award-winning white marble sculptures at both ends of the newly built Yangtze River Bridge, which are quite famous.

He followed this lead and found that the art academy's fixed source of white marble was in Sichuan, one of the three most famous production areas in the country.

They went there themselves to purchase and customize the goods, used their own special transport fleet to haul them out of the mountains, and then used barges to transport them back to Jiangzhou from upstream.

Not only did they transform the entire podium building into a gleaming white marble "white building" in the past two months, but they also established a stone trading company along the way!
Because the place is remote and isolated, the only means of transportation is by road, which is over 100 kilometers long. Even the local quarries have little capacity to transport more than 20 tons per vehicle.

During the planned economy era, apart from relying on state-run professional transport fleets to transport large quantities of stone as required by Late, local vehicles could only transport five to ten tons.

Therefore, the marble, white marble, and granite produced locally are like treasures that are known to all but cannot be sold.

Now, the best moving company fleet in Southwest China, along with a private 100-ton barge fleet, can connect to the Yangtze River shipping network as far upstream as possible.

Wu Shengyun has made the most of the abilities that Wei Dong has combined.

They managed to transport the goods from Chengdu to Shanghai at a cost of 15 yuan per ton, instead of the usual cost of transporting them there!

This led to Wei Dong's company building developing a particular fondness for exterior marble, granite, and white marble decorations whenever it needed to project an impressive image.

Direct from our own source, cheap!

But the results were astonishing; this must be an incredibly wealthy company.

Imagine being surrounded by old, gloomy, dilapidated brick and wood structures from the Republican era. Even the buildings from after the liberation are mostly two or three-story structures with red bricks and black tiles.

Suddenly, a white phoenix has sprung out of the chicken coop.

Hanbaiyu sounds and looks like jade, but it is actually a type of limestone, which is considered white marble.

This place produces building materials that are said to be the whitest in the world, with a purity of 98%.

The construction team has extensive experience in stone cutting and also has equipment to grind stone into thin slabs for fixing onto the wall.

It has the grandeur of a state guesthouse, all pure white!

Yes, the Citibank White House is like that, but it uses gray sandstone, which looks very rough upon closer inspection.

If white marble is finely processed and polished, it can achieve a crystal-clear, pure white jade texture.

When Wei Dong and his wife were squatting across the street with their baby, all they could see was utter disbelief. Was this really their house?
They intended to build a large building, but they didn't expect it to become such a "super luxurious" and grand structure.

The city and district officials were shocked and came to ask you how much you spent.
Isn't this a bit too extravagant!

Let Weidong show you the bill from that stone quarry. It's cheap, incredibly cheap, only seventy or eighty yuan per cubic meter!

It costs a few dollars per square meter to cut it off!
Look how little it cost to cover the entire exterior wall of my house.

It's only a bit more expensive than spray painting.

Now they are buying from state-owned mines at planned economy prices, so cheap that Wei Dong is tempted to keep buying and stockpiling them along the riverbank, hoping to make a good profit by reselling them later.

But as soon as you walk on the streets of Jiangzhou, you can't help but be drawn to this "white building" and finally understand what a magnificent building looks like.

Wei Dong felt like he'd been screwed over by this guy!

This is forcing me to ascend the throne!
(End of this chapter)