March 10, 1631, Baietan, Guangzhou New District.

Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" is ringing softly in the lobby of the hotel, with its sleek marble walls and ceiling lights, and guests sit on sofas waiting to register.

The newly opened Baietan Hotel sits in the south and faces north, and its location is at the big intersection of the new district facing Baietan, which is far away from the White Swan Hotel in the future.

At present, it seems that all the government departments in the planning have their own plots of land in the building complexes in the new area, but most of these plots are still green landscapes, and the real ones that can be used for office are one- and two-story simple buildings facing the street. In addition to the Prime Minister's Residence, the Parliament Chamber and the supermarket version of the Royal Palace, the most complete is the Baietan...... However, this is only a three-storey ordinary matchbox square building, not even a podium of the white swan in later generations.

It can be seen that the priority of Baietan Hotel in the eyes of the crossing is still very high, after all, it is the façade of the new district, and it is a government-designated hotel used to receive people from all walks of life.

Bai Shen understood that Juren was sitting on the soft and elastic leather sofa with Shopkeeper Wu at the moment, looking around at the decoration in the hotel lobby.

"It seems simple, but in fact it is extravagant, and there is a set of truths in it, I am afraid that it is brought from outside the territory."

The white man, dressed in a royal blue satin robe, leaned back on the sofa, blinked, his hands crossed on his belly, and kept looking around at this lobby that 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 White Goose Pond Hotel is naturally full of the concept of later generations.

First of all, in terms of architectural layout, the reinforced concrete structure and the transparent lobby with a ceiling height of 5 meters surprised the Ming people. Because in this era, no matter what kind of hall, even if it is a palace, it is supported by log pillars, and this kind of broad hall people who are common in later generations have really not seen it. That's why many of today's guests look up at the ceiling from time to time: people can't figure out why the ceiling hasn't fallen yet.

Speaking of the ceiling, it is even more surprising to see a large chandelier hanging upside down overhead, with handmade wrought iron branches and bones, inlaid with layers of natural crystal lampstands, and emitting bright electric light. Many people who enter the door for the first time, even rich men in the city of Guangzhou, have people who can't finish looking at them for a long time with their necks tilted up and looking like countrymen.

Fortunately, Master Bai is not included in this.

Master Bai had crossed the sea to Chikan once, he had seen the electric chandelier, and he had also seen the glazed night scene on both sides of the Taijiang River, so he was not timid in other aspects except for being slightly surprised by the volume of this chandelier today.

What fascinated him was the floor and walls in the lobby.

Pale yellow, the light can be seen, you can really see the beautiful slate of your own reflection on it, just like that, it is laid under the feet of the knife, and the white master enters the door at the beginning, and he is not very neat when he walks.

There are also warm red slate slabs pasted on the wall, which are noble and atmospheric, and can also reflect the shadow of people, which sets off the grade of the entire hotel lobby suddenly, so that the newcomers can feel the extraordinary sound of this place for the first time.

Prior to this, due to the backwardness of the basic industry, the cement and standard Yizhou green and red bricks that have gradually become well-known in the past two years are almost the ceiling of the Ming people's cognition of new building materials. Traversal, who has been committed to completing the foundation, will naturally not make a fuss about some upgrade projects, such as high-end decoration stones.

The stone tiles that Mr. Bai saw on the walls and floors of the lobby today are actually emergency products that have been temporarily processed.

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

Of course, because there is no production line in this area, the batch of stones dedicated to the Baietan's hotel are temporarily processed in the kiln area. This situation must lead to labor-intensive and costly, but fortunately, in this era, raw materials are not valuable, 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 finally cut and polished these decorative wall and floor tiles by semi-manual under the guidance of the traversal.

In fact, Mr. Bai didn't know that these floor tiles and wall tiles, which he loved and saw business opportunities from, had been included in the subsidiary investment plan of the cement plant, and he himself was one of the shareholders of the cement plant.

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After sitting in the lobby for about half an hour, a young student wearing a red cardigan came over, smiled and bent down to Bai Juren and said, "Hello, Master Bai from Zengcheng to participate in the Nanyang Investment Association." I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but the reception desk is available now, please come with me. ”

Hearing this, Master Bai hurriedly got up, took Shopkeeper Wu and a small servant and went to the reception desk with the four of them to register.

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

Lighting the kerosene lamp that is standard in the guest room, the doorman smiled and introduced the operation of various facilities to the guest, and then took the tip of Mr. Bai and then retired.

Generally speaking, in addition to the more luxurious and luxurious façade, the other aspects of the Baietan's hotel are not as good as the official hotels on both sides of the Taijiang River. Because there is no electricity in the rooms here, and because the pipes and boilers are not yet fully completed, hot water is not available 24 hours a day.

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

However, compared to other hotels in this era, this clean and luxurious Baietan's high-end hotel opened by the public is already a paradise, and the rest are small details, so you don't have to care.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Mr. Bai went to the restaurant to enjoy a luxurious buffet of three taels of silver per person (with conference subsidies). Afterwards, the participants went to the exotic bar on the second floor to drink white wine and listen to piano and violin plays. In the end, the old man who returned to the room took a hot bath and fell asleep peacefully under the service of the little maid.

Early the next morning, in the large conference room of the hotel, Mr. Bai and the rest of the rich men from Fujian and Guangdong who were interested in investing in Nanyang sat together, chatting and exchanging pleasantries with each other, while waiting for the main protagonist to appear.

It didn't take long for Mayor Ding Liqiuding to appear first, surrounded by a large number of plainclothes entourage. Behind him was Wang Bo, the commander of the Pioneer Army, who was wearing a straight olive green military uniform and also arrived with a large number of adjutant staff officers.

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