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Chapter 530 Real Business War
As a representative of the Eagles colonizing Xiangjiang, the history of HSBC and the history of the Eagles' occupation of Xiangjiang complement each other, and they have made a lot of profits for them.

As early as 1865, shortly after the Ying people had just gained a firm foothold in Xiangjiang Island, HSBC Bank was established, and there was the first generation of Hong Kong HSBC Bank Building.

It's just that at this time, HSBC has just become a bank, and its strength is relatively weak. Office buildings are mainly leased, but with the development and growth of HSBC.

In 1866, HSBC Bank bought a large amount of land on Queen's Road, and the plan of HSBC Bank to build its own building was put on the agenda.

In 1886, the building built by HSBC Bank was put into use, and it is also known as the second generation of HSBC Bank Building.

Different from the first-generation building, the design of the front and rear parts of the second-generation building is quite different, and it seems to be composed of two buildings with different styles.

The side facing Queen's Road is dominated by colonnades and octagonal dome roofs, which is a Victorian design, while the side facing Des Voeux Road is dominated by a series of arched corridors.

This use is 50 years.

In 1933, the building of HSBC Bank became obsolete, so the wealthy HSBC Bank rebuilt the building and started the construction of the third-generation HSBC Building.

Because of the money, the rebuilding speed was very fast. The building was put into use in just two years. Compared with the second-generation building, the third-generation building is more majestic.

The building is 70 meters high and has 13 floors. It was not only the largest building in Asia at that time, but also the first building equipped with air conditioning. Because it was so luxurious, the building of HSBC Bank became the Japanese garrison during the Japanese occupation of Xiangjiang.

Compared with the Yingguo people, the Japanese army is much uglier. They not only occupied the building but also robbed it. There are two bronze lions in front of the third-generation Hong Kong HSBC head office building, which imitate the front of the Shanghai HSBC Bank building.

After the Japanese army occupied Xiangjiang, due to shortage of supplies, the two bronze statues of Queen Victoria and HSBC Taipan Jackson were transported to Yokohama, stored in the dock warehouse, and prepared to be melted into military materials.

After Japan surrendered in 1945, the two lions were discovered by soldiers from the beautiful country.

The five-star general MacArthur ordered these to be transported back to Xiangjiang and placed at the gate of Daihuifeng Building.

After the third-generation HSBC Building has been put into use for more than 40 years, some dare to say that it has fallen behind the times. Not to mention Riben, Bangziguo and other places, even Xiangjiang has many buildings that are taller than the HSBC Building.

This is something that HSBC, which has the title of the uncrowned king of Xiangjiang, cannot tolerate.

So from 1976, HSBC started the construction of the fourth generation of HSBC.

In order to show the power of HSBC to the world, HSBC found the famous architect Norman Foster and asked him to design a unique building.

So Norman Foster racked his brains and spent a lot of time to make the design drawings. The fourth-generation building took several years from conception to completion.

其中建设时间从1981年7月开始，1985年5月20日落成，1986年4月7日正式启用，由当时的港督尤德爵士主持开幕仪式。

The fourth-generation HSBC Building is 180 meters high, with 46 floors and 4 basements. It used 30 metric tons of steel and 000 metric tons of aluminum, and its construction cost exceeded HK$4 billion.

It was the most expensive building in the world at the time and the first building costing $10 billion.

In the history of Lei Weidong Time and Space, the fourth-generation building has been serving as the general management office of HSBC Group until 1993, when HSBC Holdings moved the general management office of the group to London.

Compared with the previous three generations, the fourth-generation building, which cost one billion U.S. dollars, is magnificent. Surrounded by outstanding or famous buildings, it does not appear to be slightly inferior.

It is full of simple and elegant demeanor and heavy technical style, and at the same time, it is not lacking in novel and flexible structural concepts. All these make the idea of ​​building the bank to be the best bank in the world at the beginning of the establishment of the Bank into reality.

The building covers an area of ​​5000 square meters, with a nearly rectangular plan. After completion, the HSBC Bank located in the auxiliary road at the southern end of the Elephant Plaza is located on a strong north-south central axis due to the backdrop of the city's external space.

From the perspective of appearance and structure, steel columns and steel trusses are obviously exposed on the shape of the building, becoming the protagonist of the facade.

The bottom of the building is completely open, and the escalator extends down from the second floor, and people enter the building from the escalator, and the space inside the building is also as open as possible.

This building shows the achievements of modern technology everywhere, and belongs to the "heavy technology" architectural style. Although this kind of building does not have additional decorations, its actual cost is quite expensive.

The common feature of these famous high-tech buildings is that the structure is fully exposed, showing the original shape of various electromechanical equipment, but without making people feel abrupt.

At the same time, the appearance of the whole building is rich and changeable, which is quite different from traditional skyscrapers. The eight sets of uneven combined columns seem to have the courage to penetrate the sky, which reminds people of Gothic style, while the symmetrical pattern makes it solemn and elegant. It has a taste of classicism.

The green leaves hanging from the courtyard platform from time to time express the interest of nature, and the breath of humanity and nature moistens the original rigid external lines in the silent place.

It stands majestically, with the demeanor of a metropolitan building, but also in a variety of styles without losing the local flavor, which complements Hong Kong, a city full of vigor and unique feelings.

From the perspective of its internal space, the entire floor structure is suspended on two rows of eight sets of combined steel columns with a distance of 38.4 meters from east to west and different heights.Elevator rooms, workshops, toilets, etc. are arranged on the outside of the two rows of combined columns, so the central part has great flexibility in use.

The building has a total of 33 usable floors, which are divided into five groups and suspended from the composite columns by the oblique suspension structure.From the bottom to the top, each group is reduced from eight structural floors to four structural floors; and the height of the obliquely suspended structure is two structural floors.

Eight sets of combined columns divide the floor plan into three bays from south to north, each bay is 16.2 meters wide.Since the heights of the eight groups of combined columns are not equal, the number of bays on the floor plan also changes correspondingly with its height.

There are three bays below the 28th floor, two bays on the 30th to 35th floors, and one bay on the 37th to 41st floors.In addition, the two structural floors where the oblique suspension structure is located are treated as one-floor usable space. On the plane, one of the bays in the middle is used as an indoor public rest hall and elevator group parking floor, and the two bays on both sides are used as Outdoor garden deck.

In the floor plan, the east and west groups of combined columns are connected by a 3.5-meter-wide channel belt, and translucent prefabricated panels are laid on the channel belt, so that the central part of the floor plan can penetrate natural light.

The usable area between the corridors is laid with 11.1 meters long and 2.4 meters wide prefabricated steel floor slabs. Each floor slab can be disassembled and moved without affecting the entire structure. Therefore, some floors can be "abandoned" to form a small-scale atrium. Escalators solve local vertical traffic.

It can be said that as long as the HSBC Building is in Xiangjiang for a day, the people of Xiangjiang will not ignore the role of HSBC, just like the famous saying of Chen Haonan in the movie Young and Dangerous.

"If you are capable, go and collect protection fees from HSBC."

This simple line clearly shows HSBC's dominant position in Xiangjiang.

Why did Lei Weidong choose to deploy the clone army in Xiangjiang, let them rob HSBC, instead of launching in Switzerland, robbing the Swiss bank.

The reason is simple, Lei Weidong's purpose is not just to grab money and gold.

If it was really about gun money grabbing gold, Lei Weidong would definitely choose Switzerland, where there is not only the world's largest private gold trading market, the "Zurich" gold trading market.

It is said that there are more than 1000 tons of gold kept in the Swiss Central Bank in the "Zurich" gold trading market alone.

If you count the Swiss Bank's own gold reserves and the wealth stored in Switzerland by countries around the world, even HSBC cannot be compared with Switzerland.

The reason why Lei Weidong let the clone army rob HSBC is very simple. Lei Weidong wants to swallow HSBC and take back this century-old bank that has sucked blood for hundreds of years.

It is not enough to rely on ordinary commercial competition. Ordinary people think that commercial competition is negotiating and signing contracts, intrigues, mergers and reorganizations, financial hype, insider trading, and entertaining guests with sophistication.

In fact, these are superficial phenomena, the lowest-end competition in business.

Real business competition, especially high-end competition, has long since shed human sophistication. It can be said that poisoning, killing people, grabbing official seals, and physically destroying enemies.

HSBC can grow so big, relying on the ability of the empire to influence the world, relying on the invincible eagle fleet.

It can be said that it is impossible for Lei Weidong to win HSBC through commercial means of policy, no matter how much money he has, it is impossible, even though many of these people are Chinese, such as Li Jiacheng, who have joined the board of HSBC.

In fact, everyone knows that Li Jiacheng's entry is just for show, and the real power is only in the hands of the people of Yingguo.

So we can only find another way, robbing the HSBC bank's vault and emptying it is only the first step, and shelling the HSBC bank building to turn it into ruins is the second step.

As for the third step!
"Weidong, the call from Xiangjiang is from Sister Shalena, I have something urgent to call you." While the clone army was invincible in Xiangjiang, Lei Weidong took people to clean Mrs. M's lair.

Collect important items such as gold, foreign exchange, and jewelry, and then lead everyone to evacuate to the warship and prepare to go home.

Not long after boarding the boat, Shalena's phone call came.

Because she was at sea, she couldn't get through the phone, and Salina, who was anxious to find Lei Weidong, could only call the warship and let Yazi transfer it.

"Salena, why are you in such a hurry, the phone call is already on the warship." Lei Weidong asked after picking up the satellite phone on the warship.

"Weidong, something big happened. The army appeared on Xiangjiang Street. An army composed of dozens of tanks lifted Xiangjiang into the sky." Salina didn't go to the scene, but through the TV broadcast, Salina knew every move on the scene .

As a strong woman in the shopping mall, Salina keenly felt that the military robbery of HSBC's vault was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"There are still dozens of tanks on Xiangjiang Street. Could it be that the north side can't fight them?" Hearing that there were tanks in Xiangjiang, Lei Weidong's surprised tone could be understood even by Selina on the other side. feel.

"It's not the army in the north. I've asked experts to look at it. The army that appeared on Xiangjiang Street is a beautiful national soldier, and the tanks are M1A1 tanks that shined in the Wanwan War.

Coupled with the matching armored vehicles, the Humvee is 100% beautiful. Knowing that Lei Weidong had misunderstood, Salina quickly explained to him.

Not only Salina, but many people in Xiangjiang know that the army that robbed the treasury belongs to the beautiful country. It is said that the governor of Hong Kong has already given advice to the beautiful country, asking the beautiful country to find out which army is the one that committed the crime and came to Xiangjiang to rob.

"They are robbing the treasury, did they succeed?" Lei Weidong asked knowingly.

"I don't know, but the soldiers have already entered the vault, and the gunfire stopped after a while. It is estimated that the vault has been completely occupied, but I don't know if the gold has been moved out.

Frontline reporters did not report.

But there is a piece of news you must like, that is, a dozen tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery have gone to the headquarters of HSBC Bank. I guess they are not there to eat. HSBC Bank is in trouble this time.

Even if gold can keep most of it, if the office building is bombed, the stock will definitely fall sharply, falling to an unexpected figure. "

"You want to buy the bottom?" Lei Weidong asked.

"Correct!"

Salina nodded, and replied: "I hope to get your support, Weidong, to grant me the right to mobilize all funds. HSBC does not need Standard Chartered, and can handle more than a billion dollars.

If HSBC wants to get it done, it needs at least billions or even tens of billions of dollars. "

"Since you want to copy it, go ahead and get the mainland capital to act together. HSBC is the card of the ghost. Only our family can't withstand the pressure. We must get the mainland to make a move together."

Worried that Shalena would eat alone, Lei Weidong specifically reminded her.

"Don't worry, I won't make such a junior mistake." Salina responded with a smile, "The Dongfang Group can do so much, my ability is only a small part, and the main thing is Weidong's influence.

If it weren't for you holding real power in the police force, so that those who fight the autumn wind dare not act rashly, the Eastern Group would have been divided up by hungry wolves.

In order to swallow HSBC this time, I not only agreed with Sister Hua to let Huajia Capital take the lead, but also contacted the capital in Shanghai. This time, HSBC Bank can be said to be doomed. "

"Very good, Le Huizhong, get ready, report as much as you can on HSBC's losses, especially if the HSBC building collapses, you must record it and show it on a loop on TV, you must control public opinion, and don't let ghosts Guy flipped."

Lei Weidong ordered.

In order to become bigger and stronger, a bank needs not only hard power but also soft power. If Lei Weidong doesn't show up, the ghosts who control public opinion can easily turn black and white, and say that HSBC's losses are small.
In order to restore the confidence of the shareholders in HSBC and use their money to tide over the difficulties, he must find a way to get rid of the ghost's abacus.

(End of this chapter)