Chapter Seventy-One: The Peace Hotel
ps: The cold is still not good, dizziness, and there is something wrong with what is written, please forgive me.
Looking at the obvious European-style building in front of him, Zhao Qing's face was full of sighs, such a hotel composed of two buildings would still be a well-deserved No. in the city in later generations. 1 has to be amazing.
Built in 1929, the North Building of the Peace Hotel, formerly known as the Chinachem Hotel, is a Gothic building of the Chicago School, with a height of 77 meters and a total of 12 floors. The hotel is located at the intersection of East Nanjing Road and the Bund in Shanghai. In 1929, Jewish businessman Victor Sassoon conceived and created the "Cathay Hotel", which became known as the Peace Hotel.
Designed by Palmer Turner, an architect in the Gothic style of the Chicago School, it features a green copper-sheathed roof at an altitude of 77 meters. The exterior wall is made of granite stone blocks, entered by the revolving hall door, the lobby floor is paved with milky white Italian marble, and the top bronze openwork chandelier is luxurious and elegant, and has the reputation of "the first floor in the Far East".
The South Building of the Peace Hotel, formerly known as the Huizhong Hotel, has its main entrance at No. 23 Nanjing East Road and No. 19 on the Bund. It was built in 1908 in the Renaissance architectural style.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, for a series of reasons, he became a state-run hotel, specially used to receive dignitaries from various countries and foreign friends with great influence who got off the plane by Mingzhu.
Turning his head to look at the endless crowds on Nanjing Road and those ancient buildings, Zhao Qing finally found a little modern feeling.
I'm afraid that this place is now the main face of the pearl, the ancient pearl has gradually failed to keep up with the pace of the times, so they as the forefront of reform and opening up, there will be a series of preferential investment activities.
Zhao Qing just looked around casually, and walked towards the hotel under the leadership of Smith.
After entering the hotel, Zhao Qing saw a man dressed in a suit and tie, and wearing a pair of poor oily leather shoes on his feet, walking quickly towards their group.
"Mr. Smith, you're back."
The man came to Smith, and his fluent English with a Californian accent came to his face, so Zhao Qing deliberately looked at her twice.
"Lu, how is the room I told you to prepare before I leave?"
"Mr. Smith, the rooms are all ready, all you need is your friend's check-in."
Hearing this, Smith nodded at Zhao Qing, and Zhao Qing immediately asked for his passport and Zhang Qian's passport and handed it to the man together, along with the passport and a tip of one hundred dollars.
"Thank you very much, sir, it's just that this is not a capitalist society, and there is no need to tip."
The man surnamed Lu only glanced at Franklin, who was enough to cover his salary for several months, and just gently removed the passports of the three under Franklin, and then said "Wait a minute" to the three and walked towards the service desk.
"David, this person should be called rigid and inflexible in your Eastern language, where in this world are there people who don't like money?"
Smith looked at everything in his eyes, and after Lu Jinqiang left, he pouted and said.
"Boss, a few people smoking next to me and people shopping at the counter over there, I found a dangerous aura in them, you see us?"
Zhao Qing didn't take Smith's words to heart, Smith's heart was good, but the squirrel didn't get rid of it, maybe that person made his money offensive ineffective, but what Zhang Qian said in his ear made his heart flutter, but his face didn't show it.
"Well, don't worry about them, we're just here to travel, and it shouldn't have anything to do with us."
Zhao Qing thought about it, he had nothing to do with the country, and besides, this was the first time he came here, and they didn't know who they were, saying that their public identity was the third young master of the Zhao family, but as long as they investigated a little, they knew that the gold content of their third young master was very low.
For people like themselves, they should; Temporary will not be paid attention to, of course, after the exposure that he is the big boss behind Hu Ming, it is another situation, but the current transmission speed is too slow, Zhao Qing believes that there are only a few people who know, and besides, he and Hu Ming are separated and not together, and they probably won't know where they are.
If this is the case, then how can there be a situation of these people here to be applied to someone else, which means that there is an influential person living here.
"But boss, do we need to be responsible for your safety?"
"Zhang Qian, you are also from this country, you should know that in this country, especially in places like this, do you think that the kind of gun-wielding or robbery abroad will happen? Especially here, the Peace Hotel, which is the business card of the Pearl City. ”
Zhao Qing turned his head to look at Zhang Qian, and began to speak softly.
"I'm sorry, boss"
"It's none of your business, you've been begging for a living abroad for many years, and it's almost rare to come back, and there's no way to still visit here with your old eyes."
"Mr. Zhao, the place where you live is located in the presidential suite in the north building, and these two gentlemen live in a standard room opposite your room."
"You've been very thoughtful, thank you."
After speaking, Zhao Qing made a gesture of invitation to Lu Jinqiang, then pulled up Smith, who was sitting beside him without an image, and walked towards the door behind the service desk under the leadership of Lu Jinqiang.
"David, this is the best place in the whole pearl, I couldn't find a better place to receive you, but the food here is still very good, I find that I already like the kind of food that is a little sour and a little sweet.
The taste is really good, it makes people really linger, and I really can't resist the food in it. ”
"Well, since you can make such a picky person eat a dish that you want to continue, I also want to taste it, and after a while, we will go to the pearl that has been famous all over the world in the twenties and admire... Well, Manager Lu, there is nothing to pay attention to at night. ”
"Mr. Zhao, this is the pearl, a new society under the leadership of the party and the state, if you want to go out at night to see nightclubs and other things, I think you will probably be disappointed......"
"Manager Lu interrupted, I'm not Smith, I don't have that hobby, I mean is there a forbidden area or any other thing or place here?"
Zhao Qing's interruption and words made Lu Jinqiang a little embarrassed, but he was worthy of being the person who could be selected as the manager of Datang in such an important place, with a smile on his face, he continued to stretch out his hand, leading the way in front, he knew that he was thinking too much. xh:.74.240.212