Chapter 794 Carnegie in the Grand View Garden (3rd update, please subscribe)
What happened in Africa was too far away for ordinary people. Even the news about the "African Legion" going to war did not occupy even half a piece of space in the newspaper.
For ordinary people, compared with the empire's grand ambitions, they care more about their own lives. After all, life is reality.
As an employee of Dahua Steel Company, Lin Ye hurried to the Peace Hotel at 8 o'clock in the morning and waited in the lobby.
"Wait until 8:30 before calling them!"
Then he sat in the lobby, reading a newspaper while waiting to call a client.
Life is not easy!
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In the early morning, the sun pours in through the large windows. Standing by the window, you can see a street lined with trees that looks like a park, with tall buildings on both sides. Because there is no smoke from factory chimneys, you can even see a mile or two away.
"It's really hard to imagine! The sky in the city looks so clean."
Tom's sigh made Carnegie agree deeply.
"Electricity! This is the miracle of electricity. They don't have thousands of chimneys here, so the sky is naturally cleaner than in many places."
After a brief chat, they went to the bathroom to wash up.
"Hey, this faucet seems a little different."
After looking at the faucet for a while, Carnegie finally understood.
“This faucet is lifted up.”
I tried to lift the faucet handle and water flowed out.
After brushing his teeth, Carnegie shouted as soon as he washed his face.
"Shit, damn, it burned me to death..."
Although he was scalded by boiling water while washing his face, Carnegie cursed and started to study the faucet. Only then did he notice the blue and red labels on the wall behind the faucet. Although he could not understand the Chinese characters on it, he looked at the direction the handle was pointing, tried it, and immediately exclaimed.
"Oh my God, this faucet can actually adjust the water temperature! Aim at the red label for hot water, aim at the blue label for cold water, and if it's in the middle, it's warm water..."
Carnegie was stunned by the faucet with a mixing valve that could adjust the temperature of cold and hot water, and the washbasin with an automatic flip drain valve at the bottom of the basin.
"There is hot water. Oh, by the way, I remember someone said in a travelogue that there is a 24-hour hot water supply here. This is the biggest feature of Daming. I can take a bath first..."
24-hour hot water supply.
This is undoubtedly an extremely magical thing in this era. For Carnegie, his surprise is no less than that of the Chinese people who first went abroad in the 1980s and were surprised by the 24-hour hot water supply. In fact, it is even more surprising. After all, in this era, all this is incredible.
Everything here is like two completely different worlds to Carnegie, one is the future, the other is the past. The Ming Dynasty is the future, and the United States is the past.
Pushing open the frosted glass door, Tom saw the bathtub. This bathroom could be used for both bathing and showering. Everything was beyond their imagination. In American hotels, they could also take a bath, but they had to make an appointment an hour in advance. They needed time to prepare hot water. Because the process was too complicated, they didn't even think about taking a bath yesterday.
But what about here?
There is hot water 24 hours a day!
This was simply a little hard to believe. After taking a comfortable hot bath and changing into a hotel bathrobe, looking at this not-so-luxurious hotel, Carnegie could hardly believe it.
It wasn't because of the electricity, but because everything he felt here was so different.
"Tom, do you know how much this room is worth?"
Carnegie said as a businessman.
"What?"
"It's worth at least $100,000. The faucet that can adjust the water temperature is worth $50,000, the bathing facilities are worth $50,000, and the flip-type drain valve is worth $20,000. There is also a light adjustment device, which is worth at least $30,000..."
Talking about the value of those commodities one by one, those values are just the patent fees for purchasing these products. If described according to the market, the things in this house are all treasures worth millions of yuan.
Any businessman who comes here feels like he is in a treasure house, and what he sees is bound to be countless wealth.
After a long while, Carnegie spoke with some enthusiasm.
"We've come to the right place. This is a treasure trove! Oh my God! This is definitely a treasure trove."
Looking at the somewhat fanatical Carnegie, Tom also expressed his deep agreement.
"These products are all things we have never seen before. How could they hide such good things?"
Tom was obviously overthinking it. It was not that Daming hid the good things, but that they needed corresponding supporting facilities, such as mixing faucets, or at least hot water supply. In Europe and the United States at that time, there was no water heater at all, and one person's bathing was often a big event that the whole family had to deal with.
How to use the mixing valve if there is no hot water supply?
Therefore, there are some lifestyles that people in Europe and the United States cannot enjoy, at least for now. This is the unique lifestyle of the Ming Dynasty.
While marveling at the magical and inconspicuous little objects in the room, Carnegie glanced at the phone on the table. There was a telephone installed in this room, which allowed him to not only contact various departments of the hotel at any time, but also contact other places at any time. He could use this communication tool to talk to people in various districts of the city as long as he had their phone number.
This is what they saw from the travel notes. They could even make phone calls in Nanhua City, which was hundreds of kilometers away!
Before they had time to test whether this was true, the phone rang. When they picked up the phone, they heard fluent English:
"Hello, Mr. Carnegie. I am Fang Hao, the front desk manager of the hotel. Mr. Lin from Dahua Steel Company wants to see you..."
Listening to the voice on the phone, Carnegie was silent for a while before speaking.
"Please ask him to wait in the lobby for a while. I will have breakfast first."
"OK,"
After hanging up the phone, Carnegie looked extremely serious, and then he stared at the phone and said.
"Tom, their people are here. Do you think they will be willing to sell us steelmaking equipment?"
The reason why Carnegie came to Daming was that he wanted to introduce open-hearth steelmaking equipment from here. In fact, as early as three years ago, he had introduced the Bayesian converter from the UK. It was precisely by relying on the cheap rails rolled from the steel smelted in the converter that he successfully won a large number of railway orders during the economic crisis. However, Daming's rails were of better quality and its steelmaking technology was more advanced, so he came here and wanted to purchase open-hearth steelmaking equipment from here. Although there were similar equipment in France, they were far less advanced than those of Daming.
"Even if they don't sell it, we can still check it out!"
Tom said,
“This place always brings us a lot of inspiration. Perhaps, this is really the city of the future!”
Carnegie was silent for a while, then spoke.
"This name is really worthy of it!"
Carnegie said after sighing.
"Let's go eat first. We don't want to keep Manager Chen waiting too long. Then, I think we can tour the city first."
Tom took over.
"Yes, now I am more interested in knowing what this city is like than talking about business."
After they finished washing and dressing, they left the room and walked towards the elevator. The elevator started moving and took them to the restaurant on the second floor. The door of the restaurant was wide open, and the decoration inside seemed simple, but very classy.
The breakfast in the hotel was very rich, with both Ming-style and European-style meals. Out of curiosity, Carnegie and his friends tried the Ming-style breakfast. However, after just one bite, their eyes lit up. The Ming-style breakfast tasted great...
(End of this chapter)
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