"Passenger friends, the terminal station of this train, Shanghai, is coming soon. The train is preparing to enter the station and stop. Passenger friends, please take your belongings and luggage and be ready to get off. Don't crowd, fight, or queue up.

get off."

"We're at the station, we're at the station. If you haven't exchanged your ticket, please come and exchange it quickly." The conductor banged the iron ladder with his key and shouted loudly.

Pedestrians in the carriage started to move, put on their clothes, packed their belongings, and hung up their large and small bundles.

Li Wulan was lying by the car window looking here and there. The two of them brought a big canvas bag, so she was not needed.

"There aren't many people, so why is it so hard to buy tickets?"

"This is a sleeper berth. Just look at the hard seat and you will know that the toilet is full. Didn't you look at the dining car? There is no place to eat."

Li Wulan nodded and looked in the direction of the car.

The train has entered the city.

Shanghai was still a relatively crowded old city at this time.

Puxi has just started, and Pudong is changing little by little. The fashion of the times is mixed with the ancient customs, high-rise buildings and low alleys are crowded together, and the dark, narrow and bright and spacious complement each other.

This is a contradictory city, where poverty and wealth are mixed together.

After getting off the train, under the reluctant eyes of the MLM salesperson, Li Wulan took Zhang Yanming's hand and walked out of the North Square with the crowd of people.

Zhang Yanming was carrying a large black canvas bag on his back, and Li Wulan was also carrying a bag filled with leftover food.

The North Square is small and is surrounded by a circle of high-rise buildings. An overpass crosses the road to the north and leads to the opposite side.

Wu Nong's soft words were all incomprehensible to her ears, and her eyes were full of unfamiliar high-rise buildings. This made Li Wulan, who had never been far away, very uneasy. She held Zhang Yanming's hand tightly and followed him one step further.

step.

Looking at the overpass in his memory, Zhang Yanming pointed to the opposite side: "Behind the high-rise buildings over there are the slums here. They are all old houses and it's very messy."

Li Wulan couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north at all. She looked at the people passing by and asked in a low voice: "Where are we going?"

Zhang Yanming turned his head and looked east. There was a bus station over there. After thinking about it, he decided to walk to the roadside and take a taxi. The buses were too slow, and none of them could go directly to the destination. It would take a while to get off the bus.

At this time, there are still many old streets and alleys in Shanghai, most of which are very narrow and crowded with people. Traffic jams have begun to form.

Queue up at the queuing fence made of thick iron pipes and wait for the bus.

The large flow of people gradually dispersed, revealing the subway station entrance on the other side of the square.

At this time, Line 1 has been opened, but it does not pass where Zhang Yanming wants to go.

"What is the subway?"

"It's a railway that runs underground. It's very fast and there are no traffic jams."

"Can I look outside?"

"No, just run in the hole below, it's dark outside."

"That's so scary."

"Haha, it's inconvenient for us to sit there. When we get back to the capital, I'll take you to sit there and get a feel for it."

The taxi is here, Santana. The driver is wearing a suit and tie, but his eyes clearly don't look down on outsiders.

The local residents here are quite exclusive. In their minds, except here (themselves), they are all rural people. Even though they still have open-air urinals and use wooden barrels to defecate at home.

The open-air urinals in the alleys of Shencheng are really open-air, with no obstructions. Pedestrians can pass by and the poop remains unchanged. It is somewhat similar to the open-air toilets in Asan nowadays, where a few buckets are placed in a designated place.

"Licha Hotel."

The driver didn't answer the call, turned on the meter, and drove off, merging into the fast traffic before exiting the station.

"There are so many cars and buildings. I feel like this place is richer than our place."

Zhang Yanming nodded and said nothing.

How can it be that there is no money? With the support of one country, various major reduction and exemption policies, and even at the expense of the bright future of other provinces to build such a place, how could it not develop?

Zhang Yanming even felt that the people here were too useless. If it were placed in the Ruhr, the development would surprise everyone.

The car turns left and right, stopping and going, heading from the station towards the Bund.

The Richa Hotel is located at the mouth of the Suzhou River on the Bund. It was the best hotel and the best place in Shanghai at that time, and it was the business card of Shanghai in the modern century history.

It has been many years since the country stopped the development of the Ruhr. There are dozens of securities markets with hundreds of members. The "country's first stock exchange" with up to eight stocks was opened in the Peacock Hall of the Rich Hotel.

This is also the last year that the Shanghai Stock Exchange is here.

It only took five years for this first domestic securities firm, which claims to be unprofitable and only serves investments of several million, to invest heavily in building a new luxurious securities building in Puxi.

It was also from this time on that these filthy financiers who did not produce or make profits and only sucked blood from enterprises became noble professionals. They earned huge salaries, wore suits and shoes, and drove in luxury cars, showing the shameless demeanor of successful people.

A trend has arisen that will destroy industry.

Lingnan, on the other hand, has completely given up on its own industrial development and branding, and is proud of becoming a foreign-owned foundry.

At the same time, there was also the rise of the idea that it is better to buy than to build. A large number of scientific research institutions were closed and disbanded, and a large number of projects were cancelled, including those that had been successful. The money saved was used to buy luxury cars, build high-rise buildings, and eat big meals, realizing modernization.

This is the 1990s, a transitional era. Some people are singing loudly and some are crying in the darkness.

As soon as I got off the car, a breath of history hit me.

"This building is beautiful." Li Wulan raised her head and admired.

Compared with the large areas of Soviet-style slab buildings in the north, the European-style buildings here in Shanghai are more in line with Chinese people's aesthetics, and are even a bit stunning.

Directly opposite the Licha Hotel is Mao Tse's Consulate General, with tricolor flags flying on the eaves and heavily armed soldiers standing inside.

Zhang Yanming looked up at the exchange's sign, pulled Li Wulan a few steps eastward, entered the reception hall of the Licha Hotel, took his ID card and opened the room.

Since the time of subscription in 1992, this place has become a gathering place for stock players. Professional speculators have been squatting in the hotel's cafe for many years, several stock salons have emerged, and many stock celebrities and rich people have been produced.

Of course, there are losers. But losers will not be remembered by history.

The room is on the sixth floor. It is a deluxe double room with an area of ​​more than fifty square meters. It needs to be booked for four days in a row before you can check in.

Two people were lucky enough to enjoy the old-fashioned hand elevator service.

The Licha Hotel has two guest room areas, one with an old-fashioned elevator and the other with a walk-in area. This is where the first elevator in China was installed.

The room is a bit old, but very tidy. The layout and furnishings are a mixture of Chinese and Western styles, but they are actually a bit foreign and unfashionable. There is no way, you can't expect the big state-owned system to give you something original.

Looking out from the window of the room, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Huangpu River, the widest watershed, and there is a constant flow of people on the steel-framed Suzhou Bridge.
Chapter completed!