On July 5th, in Shanghai, it turned into moderate rain.

The drizzle drizzled from the light gray dome covered the wide Huangpu River in a thin layer of white mist.

At 12 Bund, in the 1980s and even before, the entire Shanghai-city rights center and urban history were condensed in this beige neo-Greek-style building.

In 1912, HSBC bought properties of Bedfa Company No. 11 Bund and Meifeng Company No. 10 Bund. With HSBC's business in China, HSBC invited the British famous architectural design institute to build its headquarters in the Far East in 1920.

At the beginning of the building design, the energetic HSBC and the equally energetic British Empire were standing on the top of the entire planet.

At that time, HSBC set the tone for building a building, "No matter how many difficulties or troubles you have to go through, as long as there are materials suitable for this building, you must find a way to get it."

The eight luxurious cylinders made of a whole piece of Italian marble in the bank hall are one of the building materials HSBC has transported from Europe to the Far East at all costs.

At the end of 1920, Wilson of the Gonghe Foreign Company completed the draft of the HSBC building. In 1923, a brand new new Greek-style building rose from the ground in the plot north of No. 11 of the Bund.

The HSBC Bank Building in Far East adopted the rigorous neoclassical composition that was popular at that time, and the overall building adopts a typical neoclassical three-stage division.

The main body of the building is five floors high, the central part is seven floors high, and there is one and a half floors of the basement. The main body of the building is a steel frame structure, with brick filling and granite stone on the outside.

The building uses the main gate and the dome above the main gate as the central axis, and forms a strict symmetry on both sides. Six delicately decorated copper doors are in the style of Roman stone arches. One high and low cylindrical lamps are placed on the left and right of the gate, and a pair of copper lions.

The middle section of the second to fourth floors of the building body is usually made of six Ionic columns. The circular dome above the center of the top floor is a copper frame structure. The base of the dome is a triangular mountain flower imitating the Greek temple. The dome as a whole has become a typical symbol of the building in the years that followed.

At the beginning of the building's completion, the British newspapers described the building as a Noah's olive leaf, the most beautiful and spectacular building from the Suez Canal to the Bering Strait.

Due to the low lead clouds and continuous rain, the lights on No. 12 of the Bund were lit early at this time. The white or yellow lights were reflected through the narrow windows on the beige surface of the building, making the whole building look extremely magnificent.

A sudden surge of river wind blew, and the misty raindrops fell on the crimson desk next to the window through the half-closed narrow Victorian lattice window.

Feeling the sudden chill outside the window, Yan Hongji held up his upper body and slowly covered the window beside him.

After signing the remaining documents on the desktop, Yan Hongji pinched his neck with his hands and stood up, slowly walking to a gray file cabinet against the wall.

Opening the lock-free cabinet door and taking out a yellowed document from it. Yan Hongji did not return to his desk, but stood behind the window and looked at the Bund covered by mist and rain for a while.

In the early 1990s, Shanghai City was far less prosperous than the world's top international metropolis in later generations. The Bund, built more than a hundred years ago, is still the most eye-catching area in the entire Shanghai City.

Retracting his gaze outside the window, Yan Hongji slowly opened the yellowed document in his hand.

The header of the document is written in bold font No. 1, "Opinions of the Future of the Shanghai City Intellectuals Symposium in 1958".

Below the title, there is an abridge of two numbers smaller than the title. Although the document has been a few years, the slightly faded font of the No. 3 can still be seen clearly. It says the appearance of Shanghai City after the four modernizations were fully realized in 2000. It is now compiled into an outline as follows:

1. Diet.

At any important bus intersection, a restaurant, a snack shop or a tea spot will be set up. Every morning, someone will automatically cook the guest meal and put it in a thermal bucket. Whoever passes by can come in and eat it. Seeing that the food is almost done, he will take out some raw materials from the reserved warehouse next to it to cook for the people behind him.

The breakfast is mainly rice and several kinds of pasta, with a little meat. The ingredients for the breakfast come from the vegetables and pigs in the land outside Shanghai. They are automatically killed, cut and picked, and the nearby people's commune will automatically deliver them nearby.

2. Clothing.

The colors of the fabric will be greatly enriched, and the differences between men and women's clothing will be greatly reduced. Basically, they are polyester fabrics, and cotton fabrics will be completely eliminated.

Three, tools.

Due to the great development of technology, the original factory is no longer suitable for existence. After the disbandment, the factory will only retain a few universal machines.

If people need something, they can go to the factory to see if there is any. If there is one, they will take it away on the spot, and if there is no one and cannot be made on the spot, they will write a big-character poster and post it at the door. Those who know how to do it will naturally come to do it. If the raw materials needed by the machine are almost used up, people near the source of the raw materials will be notified that they will automatically bring some ore when they come to the factory to do business, and renewable energy will be placed in the warehouse of the universal machine.

If you need something, the machine will not be able to build it for the time being, you can write a big-character poster and seek help from those who know it. After seeing the big-character poster, you will help you create what you need on the big-character poster, and then write annotations on how to make this thing and publicize it in the form of a big-character poster.

4. Residence.

The original sturdy stone houses were allowed to be used after some decorations reflecting feudal and capitalist content were chiseled. The newly built workers' villages were expected to be eliminated in that era. In the era when communism was about to reach, the family structure would undergo great changes and almost complete disintegration. People can freely choose to live here today and where they will live tomorrow, and they can live there for a few days at will. All household appliances are automatically disinfected, and broken quilts and daily necessities can be made or collected by themselves at the universal machine.

Five, transportation.

Bicycles can only be used for children, and adults can use motorized tricycles that are more fuel-saving. The elderly will continue to extend their lifespan because of taking immortality medicines. They can still drive vehicles at the age of 100. Middle-aged people born in 1958 will still have the same strength as young people at that time.

Trains have been automated and unmanned, and they are like fully automatic assembly lines to travel around the country. Taking trains is not expensive, and people across the country basically rely on trains for long-distance travel.

Yan Hongji read the document several times, then sighed a long time, returned to his desk to prepare it, and took a black-skinned booklet from the document shelf on his right hand because he often read the curled edges.

Putting the booklet in front of him, Yan Hongji adjusted his sitting posture and straightened his body. After turning on the black cover of the booklet, a big title was revealed on the first page of the booklet.

"Sensing City, Data City"
Chapter completed!