Chapter 1583: Master Zhao’s Output Method

During the Spring Festival of the fifth year of Longqing, Zhao Hao and his family spent it at Jinmao Garden in Pudong.

First, Jiang Xueying also had to attend several events on his behalf to celebrate his successful round-the-world voyage.

Second, the Zhao family is used to living anywhere in the world.

There are Zhaojia Hutong and Qilizhuang in Beijing. There are Zhaojia Old House and Banshan Villa in Nanjing. There are also Lengxiang Garden in Suzhou and Jinfeng Garden in Kunshan... These are all places where women often live.

But the good thing about Pudong is that it doesn’t matter which house you live in, everyone feels comfortable living there…

This comfort is not just psychological, because the living conditions in Jinmao Garden are also the most advanced.

It not only retains the poetic and picturesque white walls and black tiles, small bridges and flowing water of Jiangnan gardens, but also adheres to the new design concept that Zhao Hao has always advocated. It is simple and bright, but perfectly integrated with Jiangnan gardens, without destroying the poetic and picturesque artistic conception.

This architectural style originated from another time and space. It was adopted by Master Pei in Suzhou Museum. After being put into practice in a series of new buildings such as Jiangnan Building, it has basically matured.

Its biggest advantage is the improvement of living conditions, which greatly enhances the living comfort.

For example, it uses a lot of glass and frame structures to create good lighting and ventilation that traditional Jiangnan houses do not have. It does not take up as much space as the northern courtyard houses... This is very important in Pudong, where every inch of land is valuable.

In addition, the builders installed air conditioning and heating in all rooms, and set up independent bathrooms for each owner's bedroom. The bathrooms not only have running water, showers, but also large bathtubs for couples to take baths together.

And the flush toilet that Mr. Zhao has been dreaming about for many years!

After staying here, some guests find it hard to get used to living in their own expensive garden villas. No matter how much money they spend, they want to renovate the facilities in Jinmao Garden so that they can live like the Zhao family.

Zhao Hao is not self-satisfied. He is not a bastard who doesn't make money when he has it... Oh no, the way people with high emotional intelligence say it is that only when everyone is well is the real good.

However, many people do not have the conditions to install these devices at home, and they cannot do so even if they spend money. Unless they tear down the house and rebuild it...

Why not come to Pudong to buy a property and build a garden? All the construction land here has three connections and one leveling - running water, sewers, biogas pipelines, and the ground and roads are level! It is definitely the hygiene and comfort you have never experienced before!

The earlier you buy land, the cheaper it is. If you buy it later, it will be expensive and you won’t be able to buy it. What are you waiting for? !

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Zhao Hao spared no expense and invested huge sums of money to build Pudong with the highest standards, intending to turn it into a new life demonstration area in Jiangnan to demonstrate the advanced nature of Jiangnan Group!

It goes without saying that as the Jiangnan Group has developed to this point, it must seize the ideological position.

Although the "science" created by Zhao Hao is now booming, it has successfully established a foothold under the watchful eyes of the two big brothers, rationalism and psychology.

However, in order to gain a living space for science, Zhao Hao had long ago declared that science was an "external science" that did not involve the mind, thus separating science from ideology.

However, the ideological position must be seized, otherwise the Jiangnan Group and its long-term plan will be like a tree without roots and water without a source, and will not last long.

Only if the group firmly occupies this position can his three major revolutions and century-long immigration plan be successfully implemented.

But how difficult is it?

In another time and space, it would have been until the Qing Dynasty entered the country and people shaved their heads and changed their clothes that Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and other ministers of the fallen country would reflect on the problem of whether there was something wrong with this system that had been in place for a thousand years.

However, with their death, the end of the Little Ice Age and the advent of the sweet potato heyday, the Cynics were recruited by the Qing Dynasty one after another, and after they had secured their status as slaves, they stopped reflecting and instead continued to brag for the slave owners.

As a result, the world moved forward rapidly, but China was the only one going backwards. The result was another cyclical law, and China fell more miserably than ever before, with its underwear completely torn off.

Until scholars could no longer deny that China was unprecedentedly lagging behind the world, they completely abandoned the outdated things of their ancestors and struggled to find a new way to become a strong country, until the October Revolution...

But today's Ming Dynasty is still the Celestial Empire that dominates East Asia. The world has been peaceful for 200 years, and the northern barbarians and southern Japanese have gradually been pacified. Regardless of whether they are scholars, farmers, merchants or workers, they still have institutional confidence in the ideology woven by Confucianism.

If Zhao Hao dared to promote "heresies" such as "rituals devour people, rationalism imprisons thoughts, and development is the hard truth", I am afraid that the literati and big businessmen who gathered around him and raised him and science to their current status would immediately withdraw, throw him to the ground, and even become his enemy.

As for ordinary people, they are even less able to understand those metaphysical grand narratives.

Fortunately, Zhao Hao personally experienced the end of the Cold War and the defeat of neoliberalism in China in another time and space. This made him thoroughly understand that the general public actually does not care what ideology the country is based on or how power is exercised, and they cannot accept those metaphysical political theories.

Their criteria for judgment are very simple, they will support whoever can bring them security, feed them and allow them to live a good life!

Therefore, Zhao Hao does not promote any metaphysics, but is only committed to ensuring that more people have enough food to eat and improving their living standards!

But not promoting metaphysics does not mean not promoting it. Just talking without practicing is fake, just practicing without talking is stupid. You have to know how to do it and how to shout!

Pudong New Area is his window to show the superiority of Jiangnan Group! He wants people who come here to feel the superiority of the lifestyle. He also wants to continuously export the superior lifestyle from Pudong to Jiangnan and even the entire Ming Dynasty.

When people found that the citizens of Pudong could cook by turning on the gas at home, they didn't need to burn firewood to keep warm in winter, water came out by turning on the faucet, and the feces disappeared after flushing the toilet...

When people discovered that Pudong residents could take public buses and carriages when going out, eat ice cream and drink soda when it was hot, and have street lights at night, they could watch cartoons in the cinema, watch circuses in the circus, visit parks by the river, and go shopping in the department store.

The worst thing is that the monthly income of people here is equivalent to their annual income.

When they discover that others have lived a life beyond their imagination, their deeply rooted ideological imprints will soon disintegrate on their own!

As stated in The Theory of Sea Power, the improvement of sea power is a natural process. As long as you keep building ships, even if you have no intention of using them, you will suddenly find that in the waters that your warships can reach, your words carry more and more weight, and more and more people will call you daddy.

The same is true in the field of ideology. As long as Zhao Hao continues to spread the superiority of this lifestyle, Jiangnan Group will naturally capture the hearts of the general public.

Zhao Hao firmly believes that as long as the citizens of Pudong live that kind of life, Jiangnan Group will become the idol of the people of Jiangnan.

When this superior lifestyle flourishes throughout Jiangnan, the people of the entire Ming Dynasty will become fans of the Jiangnan Group.

At that point, he wouldn't even need to preach, he could just sit back and watch his opponents crumble. In fact, the more they struggled, the faster they would be finished.

At that time, whatever he says will naturally become the truth.

As for what exactly is the ideology he advocates? Sorry, ordinary people don't care.

As long as he can let them live a good life and keep their good life going, then everything he says is right, and everyone will support him without thinking no matter what he wants to do.

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This is why Zhao Hao chose Pudong over Puxi when opening a port in Shanghai.

Because eight years ago, this place was a wasteland that was half swamp and half saline-alkali land.

If Jiangnan Group can build Pudong to surpass Suzhou, the most prosperous paradise on earth in the Ming Dynasty, in the shortest possible time, then the superiority of Jiangnan Group will be indisputable.

After Zhao Hao set the tone of investing huge amounts of money to build Pudong to high standards, the New District Management Committee headed by Lu Yan had been working hard for eight years based on his blueprint, and the dream city he had outlined had basically become a reality.

The wonderful lifestyles just mentioned can now almost be realized in Pudong New Area.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhao Hao took his children to a beautiful park with fountains and lawns; went to the theater to watch the New Year's blockbuster "Calabash Brothers vs. Red-haired Devil"; went to the circus to watch a circus; and took a public horse-drawn carriage that had six routes and cost only one penny to board. It was a pity that he could not experience the bright lights and nightlife of Shanghai with his children.

In addition to these visible things, a lot of money is actually spent on invisible places. For example, the sewers under the rain gutters that are neatly spaced on both sides of the road. Not only are they very large, they also use advanced rainwater and sewage diversion concepts. I wonder how much money was spent.

After it was built, people said it was a waste. However, there were heavy rains the year before last, and all the cities south of the Yangtze River were submerged in water. In some places, the water level was almost above the city gates.

Only the Pudong New Area, located at the downstream and facing the Huangpu River, did not suffer from waterlogging, and the residents' homes and property were not damaged at all. Only then did people change their attitudes and praise Pudong's sewers as the "conscience of the city."

Someone must be asking, how much the hell does this cost? It's ok to set up a pilot area regardless of the cost, but where is the money to promote it throughout Jiangnan?

But what is surprising is that it actually didn’t cost much. The urban construction company under the management committee has even started to turn losses into profits in the past two years.

The secret is that Zhao Hao adopted a shared ownership policy for the Pudong New Area. He initially attracted people with low land prices. As the group's resources continued to tilt towards Pudong, urban construction became better and better, the population of the new area increased dramatically, and the land price naturally became more and more expensive.

Therefore, the income from land sales alone has earned back all the investment in urban construction, and the management committee even has money to develop Puxi.

Land finance is indeed more suitable for urban construction...

Moreover, the Pudong experience can also be replicated in other counties in the south of the Yangtze River, because various development companies basically hold more than 70% of the land in the county.

It’s just that Zhao Hao wants Pudong to continue the experiment for a few more years to expose all possible problems, so he hasn’t let go for the time being.

(End of this chapter)