After the sound equipment was installed, the Li Shunde Hotel organized a ball, inviting the consulates of various countries in Tianjin, as well as Chinese and foreign businessmen, celebrities, and gentry to participate, among which there were naturally many female dependents. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And this dance party immediately caused a sensation in Tianjin. First, the effect of modern audio equipment is far from being comparable to the musical instruments of this era, and secondly, the dazzling lighting effect is unheard of in this era, not to mention the song and dance arranged by the time-traveler, which is also very different from this era.

Although the level of the performance team of the traverser can only be regarded as average in the old time and space, it is better in the form of novelty, the style is unique, and it is enough to attract people, and the ball is different from the formal theater performance, the requirements for the performers are not high, as long as there is enough novelty on the line, in addition to the music library of the traverser, there are a lot of various music, spring and snow, lower riba people, Chinese and Western classics, country, jazz, Rock and roll, it's all everything, all of them are time-proven classics, and of course they are all things that the prom attendee has never heard before.

As a result, after this ball, the Li Shunde Hotel once again became the focus of the Tianjin New Area, and the prom attendees naturally boasted to others about what they had seen at the ball, while those who did not attend the ball were full of curiosity.

Yang Yuxin saw the success of the ball, and immediately announced that the Li Shunde Hotel would hold a dance party every week, and publicly sell dance tickets, to meet Li Hongzhang, three dances have been held, and each dance party is full, and the scheduled dance tickets, has been scheduled for two months later, and even the scalpers who fried the dance tickets, fortunately, the Li Shunde Hotel launched the real-name ticket purchase system at the very time, and only then did this trend brake.

Every Monday morning, if someone yawns and says, "It was too late at the ball at the Lishunde Hotel last night, and now the whole person is still groggy." Immediately, it attracted a mixture of envy, jealousy and hatred. And if someone has a ticket to the ball at the Lee Shunde Hotel, they will immediately become the new favorite among the ladies because each ticket can bring a dance partner.

After the ball was successfully held, Yang Yuxin was not satisfied, and soon asked the Ministry of Enterprise to build another movie theater in Lishunde Hotel. Yang Yuxin checked the information, it is generally believed that the inventor of the film is the famous inventor Edison or the Frenchman Lumière brothers, the former invented the movie mirror in 1893 and created the world's first studio, which is regarded as the beginning of American film history, in 1896, and launched the 3-dimensional projector, began to show American films to the public, and the latter on December 28, 1895, in the "Indian Salon" at the Grand Café at 14 rue Capucine in Paris The day on which his own film was projected onto the screen is also widely regarded as the Invention Day of World Cinema.

However, in this era, the movie is still in the most primitive stage, not only the picture is rough, there is no concept of lens and editing at all, and there is only a black and white picture, or silent, far from being compared with the old time and space, and although the traveler cannot shoot the movie by himself at present, there is a large library of films, so Yang Yuxin believes that if a small movie theater is opened in the Lishunde Hotel, it can not only enhance the brand effect of the Lishunde Hotel again, but also enhance the soft power of the time-traveler in this era.

After discussion, the Ministry of Enterprise and Chemistry approved Yang Yuxin's request, but what was given to the Lishunde Hotel was not a movie projection equipment, but an LED display. Although the traverser currently has several sets of film projection equipment, not only three passenger ro-ro ships have cinemas, but also seven warships also have projection equipment, in addition, when retreating, also brought 5 pieces of LED display required by the original project, the smallest is also 2.4 meters wide, the largest piece of width of nearly 10 meters, of course, several LED displays are also installed on the passenger ro-ro ship, and the Ministry of Enterprise and Chemical Industry takes into account the long service life of the LED display, and it is not easy to move, so it was decided to pull out a 3.2x1.8 widescreen LED display to Li Shunde Hotel. Installation construction is now underway.

Li Hongzhang and his entourage came to the door of the Li Shunde Hotel, and the people who received them immediately gathered in Longlong to meet Li Hongzhang and greet each other. Because most people know Li Hongzhang, it is inevitable that they will say a few more words, talk to each other about their experiences after parting, and so on. At this time, the members of the observation group also met with their own consuls in Tianjin and introduced their identities to each other.

More than half an hour has passed, and everyone's greeting and cold announcement have been carried out almost completely, Yang Yuxin first came to Qin Zheng and Li Hongzhang, and said: "Political Commissar Qin, Li Zhongtang, the time is almost up, let's attend the advanced hotel." ”

Qin Zheng also nodded, and said to Li Hongzhang: "Zhongtang, let's go in first." ”

Li Hongzhang said: "It's okay." ”

The two walked into the hotel first, Li Jingfang and Zhang Peilun followed behind, and Yang Yuxin beckoned others to enter the hotel's restaurant to take a seat, so everyone also entered the Li Shunde Hotel in turn.

At this time, it was already dusk, and all the lights in the hotel were turned on, illuminating the hotel brightly, only shining everywhere with gold and dazzling. Li Hongzhang couldn't help but be surprised, he heard Zhang Peilun say that overseas Chinese had installed many electric lights in the Li Shunde Hotel, and they were as bright as day, Li Hongzhang was skeptical, because he was a person who had seen electric lights, and knew that the so-called "bright as day" was actually an exaggeration, but only then did he know that what Zhang Peilun said was indeed not an exaggeration.

However, after all, Li Hongzhang is a sincere and serious person, although he is surprised in his heart, but his face does not show it, and the members of the observation group do not have Li Hongzhang's self-cultivation, one by one, they open their eyes wide, look around, and are amazed at all kinds of lamps, as if they are countrymen entering the city. Most of the consuls from various countries in Tianjin have come to the Li Shunde Hotel, and they are explaining to them, and there is a great deal to let you see the world.

Of course, the seats are all arranged in advance, and everyone is seated one by one under the guidance of Miss Etiquette, Qin Zheng, Li Hongzhang, Li Jingfang, Zhang Peilun and others are naturally the chief sitting, and the accompanying guests are several gentry in Tianjin, including Zhao Weizhong, and there is no foreigner. It didn't take long for the entire banquet hall to be full.

Then Qin Zheng instructed Yang Yuxin to open the banquet. Maids and waitresses walked back and forth between the seats, bringing out all kinds of silverware, porcelain, glassware, all kinds of delicious dishes, dried and fresh fruits, fine wines, etc., and brought them to each table like flowing water. And it started to play beautiful music.

The members of the Observation Group had spent two days at sea, and now they were finally able to settle down and have a good meal, so they all put aside their duties for the time being and concentrated on the food in front of them. They raised their cups and drank happily. After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere gradually became warmer, and everyone toasted and drank with each other, of course, the most come, naturally Qin Zheng and Li Hongzhang.

However, Qin Zheng and Li Hongzhang are people who are used to seeing scenes, so they deal with it very decently, of course, this is a formal banquet after all, and everyone will pay attention to proportion, and no one will mess around at will.

The banquet lasted for nearly two hours before it ended, and the guests said goodbye and left.

The head of the Mission, Mackliney, first gathered the members of the Mission together and announced the itinerary for tomorrow. Because tomorrow morning the travelers will have a formal meeting with Li Hongzhang, and in the afternoon they will organize Li Hongzhang and the observation group to visit the factory opened in Tianjin, and the meeting with the observation group will be arranged for the morning after tomorrow, so tomorrow morning, the observation group will have nothing to do, and they can move freely, and they can solve their own lunch and go back to the Li Shunde Hotel to eat, but at one o'clock in the afternoon, they must meet at the hotel.

However, McClini also reminded the members of the observation mission that this is the territory of overseas Chinese, not Shanghai, and there is no extraterritoriality here, so everyone should be careful about their behavior, and they should not be arbitrary, otherwise they will make trouble and blame themselves for all the consequences, and the observation team will not be responsible.

When the members of the Observation Mission heard this, they all nodded their heads and said that they would not mess around. And immediately went to the consul of his country, and agreed to meet in the consulate tomorrow morning to learn more about the situation in Tianjin. Although the consuls of various countries could answer all the questions of Shanghai by telegram, the telegram was too simple after all, and the Shanghai side lacked an intuitive understanding of Tianjin in the past, and could not ask anything, so the Shanghai side sent an observation delegation to Tianjin. While on board, the members of the observation group saw with their own eyes the superior performance of the overseas Chinese warships, and also had a preliminary impression of the overseas Chinese, and after arriving in Tianjin, their observation points were also very different from those of the consulate personnel, and everyone had many problems.

In particular, the members of the French and American observer groups not only made an appointment with the consulate for the meeting, but also asked the consulate to invite businessmen from Tianjin to attend the meeting. Because now France, the United States and the traverser have greater economic and trade exchanges, France has provided hundreds of various machines to the traverser, the factories opened by the traverser in Tianjin are basically the French machines, and the traverser from the United States to order not many machines, but now there is an American salvage team is working in Dagukou salvage, in addition, the Tianjin shipyard project provided by the United States has also been launched, the actual economic and trade volume is larger than France. Naturally, the two countries need to know in detail about the implementation of these projects in order to decide on their position in the next step of negotiations with the crossers.

After all the members of the observation group and the consul of their country had made an appointment for tomorrow's meeting, Yang Yuxin also arranged for personnel to lead the members of the observation group to his room to rest.

Li Hongzhang was personally sent to the arranged guest room by Qin Zheng, and the two also agreed that they would send a car to pick him up at half past eight tomorrow morning, and at nine o'clock the two sides would hold a formal meeting on time in the Tianjin Administrative Building, and all the leaders of the traverser would attend, and Li Hongzhang would also read out the edict sent by the Qing court to the traverser at the meeting site.