Lu Ming

Chapter 533 Reception
On March 1631, 3, Baietan Hotel in Guangzhou New District.

With smooth marble walls and ceiling lights, in the hotel lobby filled with decoration ideas of later generations, Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" is playing softly, and guests are sitting on sofas in twos and threes waiting for registration.

The newly opened Bai'etan Hotel faces north and is located at the big crossroad facing Bai'etan in the new district, opposite to the later White Swan Hotel.

In the current building complex in the new district, it seems that all the planning government departments have their own plots, but most of these plots are still green and landscaped, and the ones that can really be used for offices are simple buildings with one or two floors facing the street.In addition to the prime minister's official residence, the parliament hall and the supermarket version of the palace, the White Swan Hotel is the most completed. However, this is just a three-storey ordinary matchbox building, even a podium of the later White Swan Nothing compares.

It can be seen from this that the Baietan Hotel still has a high priority in the eyes of the people who travel through. After all, it is the facade of the new district, and it is a hotel designated by the government to receive people from all walks of life.

Bai Shen and Bai Juren were sitting on the big soft and elastic leather sofa with shopkeeper Wu at the moment, looking around at the decorations in the hotel lobby.

"It looks simple and simple, but it is actually extravagant. There is a set of principles in it, and I am afraid it is a pattern brought from outside the region."

Master Bai, who was wearing a sapphire blue satin soft robe, leaned back on the sofa, blinked his eyes, folded his hands on his belly, and kept looking around at this lobby he had never seen before.

Master Bai didn't know that what he said unintentionally was exactly the correct answer.

Since it is a signboard, the lobby of the Baietan Hotel naturally uses the concept of future generations.

First of all, from the perspective of the architectural pattern, the reinforced concrete structure and the transparent lobby with a ceiling height of 5 meters amazed people.Because in this era, no matter what kind of hall, even the imperial palace, it is supported by log pillars. This kind of spacious hall that is common in later generations has never been seen by Ming people.This is the reason why many guests look up at the ceiling from time to time today: people can't figure out why the ceiling hasn't fallen down yet.

When it comes to the ceiling, there is a large chandelier hanging upside down above the head, with handmade iron branches and tendrils as bones, inlaid with layers of natural crystal lampstands, emitting bright electric light, which is even more surprising to Ming.Many first-timers, even rich men in Guangzhou, can't finish watching them looking up like country people with their necks up.

Fortunately, Master Bai was not included.

Master Bai has been to Chikan once across the sea. He has seen the electric chandelier and the glazed night scene on both sides of the Taijiang River, so today he was slightly surprised by the size of the chandelier, but he was not timid in other aspects.

What fascinated him were the floors and walls in the lobby.

Pale yellow, light can be seen, the beautiful stone slabs on which you can really see your own reflection, just like being cut by a knife, it is spread under your feet. When Master Bai first entered the door, he couldn't walk very smoothly.

There is also the warm red slate on the wall, which is noble and atmospheric, and can also reflect the silhouette of people, which immediately sets off the grade of the entire hotel lobby, so that Ming people who are newcomers can feel the extraordinaryness of this place at the first time.

Before that, due to the backwardness of the basic industry, the cement and the standard Yizhou-made green and red bricks that have gradually become familiar to people in the past two years are almost the ceiling of Ming people's understanding of new building materials.The people who have been committed to supplementing the basics will naturally not make a fuss about some upgrading projects, such as high-end decorative stones.

The stone tiles that Master Bai saw on the walls and floors of the lobby today were actually temporary processed emergency products.

Fujian produces high-quality granite, marble and other stone materials.What is pasted on the wall of the hotel today is a natural royal red wall called "Taiwan Red".I don't know why later generations call this high-grade stone produced in Fujian Taiwan Red, but today it is worthy of the name here: these products are all from the kiln base.

Of course, since there is no production line in this area, the batch of stones specially used for Baietan Hotel are all temporarily processed in the kiln area.This kind of situation will inevitably lead to a waste of labor and materials, but fortunately, raw materials are not valuable in this era, and workers are not valuable, so after wasting a large number of high-quality raw materials mined by local stone factories in Fujian and Taiwan, the craftsmen in the kiln area are finally crossing Under the guidance of the public, this batch of decorative wall and floor tiles was cut and polished by semi-manual.

In fact, Master Bai did not know that the floor and wall tiles that he loved and saw business opportunities from them had already been included in the subsidiary investment plan of the cement factory, and he himself was one of the shareholders of the cement factory.

After sitting in the lobby for about half an hour, a young man in a red double-breasted vest came over, smiled and bent down and said to Bai Juren: "Hello, this is Mr. Bai who came from Zengcheng to participate in the Nanyang Merchants Association." Sorry to keep you waiting, the reception desk is free now, please follow me."

Hearing this, Master Bai hurriedly got up, took shopkeeper Wu and a servant, and followed the four of them to the reception desk to register.

After the registration was completed, the four of Master Bai and his party opened two rooms. After receiving the room card and key, they were taken to his guest room by the doorman.

After lighting up the standard kerosene lamp in the guest room, the doorman smiled and introduced the operation of various facilities to the guests, and then left after receiving a tip from Master Bai.

All in all, apart from the extravagant appearance, the Baietan Hotel is not comparable to the business hotels on both sides of the Taijiang River in other aspects.Because there is no electricity in the rooms, also, the hot water is not available 24 hours as the pipes and boiler are not fully finished.

The supporting power plant in the new area is still far away. The hotel provides lobby chandelier lighting, which is actually a simple donkey power generation system, which can only be used for lobby lighting. Kerosene lamps are still used in the guest rooms.

However, compared to other hotels in this era, this clean, luxurious and high-end Baietan Hotel opened by Transit is already a paradise, and the rest are small details, so don't worry about it.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Master Bai went to the restaurant to enjoy a luxurious buffet of three taels of silver per person (with conference subsidies).After that, the participants went to the exotic bar on the second floor to drink white wine and listen to piano and violin performances.In the end, Master Bai returned to his room, took a hot bath, and fell asleep peacefully under the care of the servants.

Early the next morning, in the big conference room of the hotel, Master Bai sat with other wealthy men from Fujian and Guangdong who were interested in investing in Nanyang, chatting with each other while waiting for the main lord to appear.

Not long after, surrounded by a large number of entourages in plain clothes, Mayor Ding Liqiu Ding first appeared on the stage.Behind him was Wang Bo, the commander of the Pioneering Army, who was wearing a neat olive green military uniform and also brought a large number of adjutant staff to the scene.

(End of this chapter)