With the arrival of the 1970s and the previous visit of Kixinger that led to this trip to Nikrosong, the central leaders really understood the importance of diplomacy.
Therefore, Longxia Kingdom has made significant progress in its diplomatic relations, and the number of foreign guests coming to Longxia Kingdom for business visits and inspections is also increasing.
Since most foreign guests come to Longxia Country in an unofficial capacity, the reception standards must be lower.
This means that the vast majority of foreign guests cannot stay at the State Guesthouse and can only find accommodation on their own.
However, due to the relatively slow development of Longxia Kingdom, there are very few places in the entire Jingzhou that can provide high-end accommodation except for state-owned guesthouses.
The Jingzhou Hotel, which was built in 1900, has become the first choice for foreign guests besides the State Guesthouse.
With the departure of Ji Xingge, domestic policies began to gradually relax, and the first wave of diplomatic relations and foreign visits came. However, the original scale of Jingzhou Hotel was far from meeting the needs of receiving foreign guests.
So in 1954, Jingzhou Hotel underwent its first expansion after the establishment of the new Longxia Kingdom.
After much discussion, the superiors approved the construction of a new seven-story building on the west side of the original site of Jingzhou Hotel.
This building, which later became known as Building C of Jingzhou Hotel, became one of the tallest landmark buildings in Jingzhou City after the main structure was completed.
In the following ten years, Jingzhou Hotel became an important venue for state units to conduct important business activities and receive foreign guests, and many bigwigs were concerned about the development of Jingzhou Hotel.
After more than a decade of development, the expanded Jingzhou Hotel has once again reached saturation, and its current size can no longer meet market demand.
The country also took into consideration that after the news of the Magnesium President's visit to Longxia Country spread, the country will surely usher in a new round of foreign visits. If we want to satisfy these foreign guests, we must absolutely not let down the chain in terms of reception.
Therefore, after Jingzhou Hotel submitted an expansion application to the Jingzhou Municipal Government and the municipal government submitted the application to the central government, Jingzhou Hotel started its second expansion project after the Spring Festival this year.
The new expansion project adopted the method of demolishing the old and building the new, retaining the seven-story building built in 1954, demolishing the original site, and building a new 14-story building about 50 meters high.
However, the superiors who were in charge of supervision and funding at the time were not satisfied after reviewing the design plan.
What he meant was that land in Jingzhou is very scarce, especially in the city center. Allocating a piece of land for construction is equivalent to losing a piece of vegetable land.
Therefore, where conditions permit, we should maximize the value of every inch of land.
In other words, he felt that the Jingzhou Hotel could be built a little higher so that more guest rooms could be added. This would make it easier for Jingzhou to receive foreign guests in the future, and it would also allow foreigners to see the new look of the capital of Longxia.
Therefore, the designer in charge of the Jingzhou Hotel expansion project urgently revised the plan, setting the building height at 100.25 meters and the expected number of floors to be 21.
As the plan was finalized, construction teams and vehicles began to enter the site, but due to backward technology, Longxia Kingdom did not have advanced equipment at that time.
So starting from April, the construction team took nearly two months to completely demolish the East Building on the original site, and the new construction project began.
After more than three months of intensive construction, the New Jingzhou Hotel was only built to twelve stories high. With the president of the Magnesium Country about to visit the Longxia Country, and Xu Jianguo reporting the intelligence that the Soviet Union was planning to launch an attack.
Considering the height of the New Jingzhou Hotel and its geographical location, which is only a few hundred meters away from the red wall, and the fact that a little further away are the residences of a number of central leaders, Wei Guoqiang, Minister of the Ministry of State Security, directly ordered the construction to be stopped and reported the potential safety hazards to his superiors.
Later, after a high-level meeting and discussion, it was decided to adopt Wei Guoqiang's suggestion and directly issued an order to the Jingzhou Military Region, asking them to block the entire construction site. The troops that carried out this order were officially from the command of Dong Jixiang, who had just taken office.
Although Wei Guoqiang had discovered this safety hazard as early as possible, and had arranged a large number of personnel to check all floors after sealing off the construction site, he only shifted his attention elsewhere after confirming that everything was correct.
But what he didn't know was that the cunning Sulian people had prepared two plans in advance before formulating the attack plan.
One of the plans was implemented at the construction site of the New Jingzhou Hotel.
In order to ensure the success of the plan, Sergei, the person in charge of the operation, arranged a large number of bribed Longxia people to monitor the progress of the project. Based on the speed of construction, he deduced that the New Jingzhou Hotel should be built to the twelfth or thirteenth floor when the president of Magnesium came to visit.
This height, coupled with the distance, makes it absolutely easy for a sniper to kill the target.
Moreover, considering that the State Guesthouse might be equipped with bulletproof glass, the Sulian people were specially equipped with armor-piercing bullets and more than a dozen snipers. A month in advance, they brought a large amount of supplies and equipment and carrier pigeons, and divided into seven groups under the cover of night, hiding in a manhole under the New Jingzhou Hotel that had not yet been connected to the grid and put into use.
According to Sergei's plan, these suicide snipers were divided into groups of two, one was responsible for using armor-piercing bullets to break the window and the other was responsible for shooting and killing the target. If the plan was successful, they would commit suicide by shooting themselves.
Every three days, they would use carrier pigeons at night to inform the traitors of Longxia Kingdom near the construction site of the situation, and these traitors would then pass the message to Sergei.
As for why Sergei received the news in advance to leave the stronghold in Heilongjiang Province, it was because these damn traitors informed him that the construction site was blocked by the troops.
The cunning Sergei smelled danger in the intelligence and felt that his plan was likely leaked.
But he was not panicked, because the traitor's intelligence did not mention the exposure of the second group of people, which made him feel somewhat relieved and proud.
In fact, the root cause of this matter was Wei Guoqiang's mistake at work. When he arranged people to inspect, he only focused on high-rise buildings, but did not pay too much attention to the inspection of underground spaces.
But this cannot be entirely blamed on him. Xu Jianguo handed over the intelligence half a month before the Magnesium people arrived in Longxia. No one would have thought that the cunning Sulian people would have arranged for people to hide in the construction site a month ago, and eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the manhole without revealing any clues, and not even a trace of strange smell was emitted.
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