In the twentieth year of the emperor's reign, Yan Liyan heard that celebrities in the Sui and Tang dynasties often liked to be romantic, drinking and reciting poems at parties, so he recruited a group of beauties who were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and good at poetry and songs.

These beauties accompany the wine show.

In order to strengthen management, Yan Liyan asked Long Xiaotian to be the general manager of the hotel.

At first, Long Xiaotian refused, as a dragon in the dragon clan, he actually went to be the owner of a hotel, and the businessman was a ninth-rate businessman with a lowly status.

But after hearing that Yan Liyan had recruited a group of beauties, Long Xiaotian took the initiative to ask to take on this important task. By the time Zhu Bajie heard the news, Long Xiaotian had already gone to the Liyan Hotel to arrange work.

Zhu Bajie beat his chest every time he mentioned this matter, regretting it, he said, "If God gives me another chance, I will definitely ......"

In order to facilitate management, Long Xiaotian divided these beauties into four palaces of spring, summer, autumn and winter, with the name of Fenghua Snow Moon Xiangyu Tianxing, for example, the girls in the Spring Palace are called Spring Breeze, Spring Flower, Spring Snow, Spring Moon, Spring Fragrance, Spring Jade, Spring, Spring Star, and the girls in the Summer Palace are called Xia Feng, Xia Hua, Xia Xue, Xia Yue, Xia Xiang, Xia Yu, Summer, Xia Xing, and so on. The result was just right, there were just thirty-two girls in Liyan Hotel.

Unlike the social atmosphere of later generations, the people of the Sui Dynasty were open, and if you didn't have any romantic affairs, you wouldn't dare to call yourself a celebrity when you went out.

In order to create a boundless style where mountains and rivers reflect each other, Yan Liyan asked Xuanyuan Jingtian to dig a canal and a big lake near Liyan Hotel on a dark and windy night in a certain month.

The canal is called Wuding River, and the lake is named Fairy Lake.

The Wuding River connects Weishui and Jingshui, and leads Weishui into Jingshui. The lake is about 30 acres deep and five meters deep, right next to the Liyan Hotel. The area around the lake was enclosed by Yan Liyan with a painting of the ground, and no one could enter from other places, so they could only enter through the side door next to the Liyan Hotel, and a flower boat and a few boats were specially built in the lake. The flower boat is the hospitality of the top brand Haruka.

The soil from the excavation of the canal and the lake was piled up behind the Liyan Hotel, and after being processed by Yan Liyan's magical power, it became Lei Xing Mountain. Leixing Mountain is fifty meters high and has a radius of one mile.

Long Xiaotian is a business talent, under his management, Liyan Hotel hyped up a group of beauties, proficient in poetry, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and also held a mid-month song party.

The mid-month song party, as the name suggests, is a song party held on the fifteenth day of every month.

On the day of the mid-month song party, enter the Liyan Hotel, regardless of men, women and children, the ticket fee is five taels, and each person who enters the flower boat is charged thirty taels.

Maybe you think that thirty taels of silver is nothing, but in fact it is quite a lot. One tael of silver can be worth a thousand dollars. The price of grain in the Great Sui was about 100 yuan a stone. A tael of silver can buy ten stone of grain. Ten taels of silver can buy a hundred stone of grain. Ordinary people may be able to use it for a few years for ten taels of silver.

The officials of the Sui Dynasty were relatively high, and the number of officials was also large. According to statistics, the number of officials in the Sui Dynasty was 12,576, including 2,581 central officials and 9,995 local officials. For example, although they are all the fifth grades, Danyang Lingyin is the middle 2,000 stone (2,160 stone), the Hui Ji Tai Code is 2,000 stone (1,440 stone), the prince's palace chief Shi is 1,000 stone (960 stone), the prince's palace consultation is 800 stone, and the prince's Zhongshe is only 600 stone, which can reflect the salary level at that time. That is to say, the annual salary of an official at the level of a department-level cadre is about one or two thousand stones, which is converted into two taels of silver, which is almost one or two hundred taels.

That is to say, the money for drinking a few glasses of wine, reciting a few poems, and listening to a few tunes on the boat will cost a department-level cadre one or two months' salary, which is more luxurious than the consumption of the most high-end nightclubs in modern times. If you also add behaviors such as tipping later, then you don't know how high the consumption is.

Yan Liyan's Liyan Hotel can be described as a sky-high hotel, comparable to the heavenly and earthly consumption in later generations.

And it's not like you can get on the ship if you want to pay thirty taels of silver. There are only ten seats on the flower boat, and if the seats are full, the later ones will not wait.

This situation is equivalent to the fact that the box is full and no longer accepts customers.

Long Xiaotian is good at business, especially the opening of this flower boat, which is like a stroke of genius. Sometimes Yan Liyan wondered if he had ever crossed over. It's just a suspicion, no evidence.

Of course, there is no limit to male or female drinking on the flower boat, you can also bring your own female companion, and you also have to pay a silver reward to your female companion. If in the banquet, whose poetry is the best can win the first prize. If Haruka is fortunate enough to be favored, then Haruka will ask the guest to stay alone after the banquet and have a private conversation with each other, and the flower boat will sail to the center without being disturbed.

Long Xiaotian called the guest flower boat "exclusive Oiran", and if Chang'an Shizi had this treatment, everyone would be honored. It's not always time that someone can monopolize the Oiran. Haruka is often left alone.

As for the flower boat sailing off the shore, what will happen when Chunxiang drinks with others, and whether there is something else to do, outsiders don't know. There are also people who bragged to their friends in private afterwards, saying how they were happy with Haruka. But some people say that Chunxiang doesn't donate herself, just drinking and playing the piano, but that feeling is already a fairy taste.

Since the opening of the Liyan Hotel, Zhu Bashi has often gone to Yan Liyan to ask for silver. What does Zhu Bajie want silver for? Get on the boat.

Why does Zhu Bajie have to pay money? This is because Long Xiaotian has strict management.

Yan Liyan also gave Zhu Bajie silver at the beginning, after all, Zhu Bajie had made a lot of efforts in the construction of Liyan Villa.

Later, Zhu Bajie will go to the meeting, and Yan Liyan will talk to Zhu Bajie.

"Why do you like to go to the flower boat so much? Do you like Haruka? Yan Liyan said straight to the point.

"I just like this kind of atmosphere", Zhu Bajie said embarrassedly.

Yan Liyan knew that Zhu Bajie's heart was moved, and he didn't break it.

Yan Liyan noticed that Zhu Bajie was still secretly studying poetry.

So, Yan Liyan taught Zhu Bajie a few poems, such as Wang Wei's "Acacia": "Red beans give birth to the south, and a few branches come in spring." May you pick more, this thing is the most lovesick" and so on. Zhu Bajie is really serious about learning to be a man.

Yan Liyan himself has never been on a flower boat, Zhu Bajie goes every day, and Long Xiaotian is in charge of the affairs of Liyan Hotel, and he has never been there. These doorways are privately passed by the service staff of Liyan Hotel.

Hearing what the people of Liyan Villa said, Yan Liyan secretly praised: "This dragon roaring sky, it's really a good means, old rivers and lakes!" ”

This Long Xiaotian may be a master who is proficient in all kinds of exquisiteness in the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, and he has brought the "ladder to the sky" of the rivers and lakes in the floating gate to the extreme.

What exactly is a "ladder to heaven"? It's cumbersome to explain, starting with an overemphasis on over-packaging, scarcity and restricting supply. Chunxiang Flower Boat only leaves ten seats for guests, which is the way of thinking.

A courtesan can play the piano to several people in one night, but there are not many guests who could have received them, so you can't play music and chant poems in front of the guests in the hall like you can sing in a tea house, right? pushed the boat down the river to make such a gimmick, but the value seems to be a lot more noble.

What's even more powerful is that Long Xiaotian also came up with a trick of "monopolizing the Oiran".

The second is to use guests to put on a show. It is said that Gongyang of Qinghe County has never occupied the Oiran in Liyan Hotel. If you take the Oiran, what kind of psychological satisfaction will you get? You are willing to spend as much as you want, as long as you can afford it!

As for whether Chunxiang is an artist or a body, it doesn't matter anymore, who can get on the flower boat to consume, who is short of women around him? The most important thing is the name. If there is one person who occupies the Oiran, and the other nine celebrities who sit with him are all helping Haruka raise his value, this hand is called powerful.

Why should the poems be compared to the others? On the one hand, this is in line with the casual fashion among celebrities and nobles at that time, and on the other hand, it also determines that the guests on the ship will pay attention to their elegant manners and will not lose face because of the fierce competition, so that Haruka can also avoid a lot of trouble. Long Xiaotian was very thoughtful in all aspects.

Chang'an City is the imperial capital of the Great Sui, there must be a lot of prostitutes who are both beautiful and artistic, and there must be people whose appearance, piano skills, and literary brilliance are no less than Chunxiang, but it is not possible to become an Oiran in Chang'an with these. With the conditions, the means of commercial packaging and hype are also very important, and the emphasis is similar to the hype of popular stars in modern society.

Long Xiaotian used the intangible assets of the city's celebrities and scholars, and his means were not clever. Therefore, Yan Liyan will praise Long Xiaotian for being an old Jianghu.

Yan Liyan originally wanted to talk to Long Xiaotian, but later felt that this was Long Xiaotian's private matter, so he gave up the idea of talking.