Things happening in Africa are too far away for ordinary people. Even the news of the "Afrika Legion" expedition did not occupy even half a tofu-sized section in newspapers.
For ordinary people, they are more concerned about their own lives than the grand ambitions of the empire. 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 and call them again!"
Then he sat in the lobby, reading the newspaper and waiting to call the customer.
Life is not easy!
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In the early morning, sunlight pours in through the large windows. Standing by the window and looking up, what comes into view is a park-like street with street trees planted on both sides. There are high-rise buildings on both sides of the street. Because there is no smoke emitted by factory chimneys.
, the view from here can even reach one or two miles away.
"It's really hard to imagine! The sky in the city looks so clean."
Tom's sigh made Carnegie think deeply.
"Electricity! This is the miracle that electricity brings. They don't have thousands of chimneys here, so the sky is naturally cleaner than many places."
After a brief chat, they went to the bathroom and started to freshen up.
"Hey, this faucet seems different."
After studying the faucet for a while, Carnegie finally understood.
"This faucet is raised."
I tried to lift the handle of the water faucet, 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 the boiling water while washing his face, Carnegie cursed and studied 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 it.
Pointing in the direction of the handle, Carnegie tried it and immediately exclaimed.
"Oh my god, this kind of faucet can actually adjust the water temperature! If you aim at the red label, it will be hot water, if you aim at the blue label, it will be cold water, and if it is in the middle, it will be warm water..."
Facing the faucet with a mixing valve that can adjust the temperature of hot and cold water, and the washbasin with an automatic flip-down drain valve on the bottom of the basin, Carnegie was stunned.
"There is hot water. By the way, I remember someone said in the travel notes that there is a 24-hour hot water supply here. This is the biggest feature of the Ming Dynasty. It is just right for taking a bath first..."
24-hour hot water supply.
It is undoubtedly an extremely miraculous thing in this era. For Carnegie, his surprise now is no less than that of the Chinese who first went abroad in the 1980s to face the 24-hour hot water supply. Or even worse. After all,
In this day and age, all this is unthinkable.
To Carnegie, everything here is like two completely different worlds, one is the future and the other is the past. Ming Dynasty is the future, while the United States is the past.
Pushing open the frosted glass door, Tom saw the bidet. This bathroom can be used for both bathing and showering. Everything was beyond their imagination. In American hotels, you can also take a bath, but taking a shower
You need to make an appointment an hour in advance, and they need time to prepare hot water. Because the process is too cumbersome, they didn't even think about taking a shower yesterday.
But what about here?
There is actually hot water available 24 hours a day!
This was simply unbelievable. After taking a comfortable hot bath and changing into a hotel bathrobe, Carnegie couldn't believe it when he looked at this not-so-luxury hotel.
Not because of the electricity, but because everything he felt here was so different.
"Tom, do you know how much this room is worth?"
Carnegie, a businessman, said.
"What?"
"It's worth at least 100,000 US dollars. The faucet that can adjust the water temperature is worth 50,000, the bathing facilities are worth 50,000, the flip-up drain valve is also worth 20,000, and the light adjustment device is worth at least 30,000...
"
They talked about the value of those commodities one by one, and those values were just the royalties for purchasing these products. If we describe it according to the market, the things in this house are all treasures worth millions of dollars.
Any businessman who comes here is like being in a treasure house, and what they see must be countless wealth.
After a while, Carnegie said with some enthusiasm.
"We are right, this is a treasure trove! God! This is definitely a treasure trove."
Looking at Carnegie who was a little fanatical, Tom also agreed deeply.
"These products are things we have never seen before. Hey, how could they hide such good things?"
Tom is obviously overthinking. It’s not that Ming hid the good things, but that they need corresponding supporting facilities, such as mixing water faucets, at least hot water supply. In Europe and the United States in this era, there is no water heater supply at all, and one person can take a bath.
It is often a big event that the whole family is busy with.
How to use the mixing valve when there is no hot water supply?
Therefore, there are some lifestyles that people in Europe and the United States cannot enjoy at least for the time being. This is the unique lifestyle of the Ming Dynasty.
While sighing at the magical and inconspicuous little objects in the room, Carnegie glanced at the phone on the table. There was a phone installed in this room. Not only could he contact various departments of the hotel at any time, he could also contact other places at any time. He could use this
A communication tool to talk to people in all districts of the city, as long as you have their phone number.
This is what they saw from their travel notes, and they can even make calls in Nanhua City, hundreds of kilometers away!
Before they had time to test whether this was true, the phone rang. After picking up the phone, fluent English came from the phone:
"Hello Mr. Carnegie, I am Fang Hao, the hotel front desk manager. I have a Mr. Lin from Dahua Steel Company looking for you..."
Listening to the voice on the phone, Carnegie was silent for a while before speaking.
"Ask him to wait in the lobby for a while while I have breakfast first."
"OK,"
After hanging up the phone, Carnegie looked extremely serious, then stared at the phone and said.
"Tom, their people are here, do you think they will be willing to sell us steel-making equipment?"
The reason Carnegie came to Daming was because he wanted to introduce open-hearth steel-making furnaces here. In fact, he had already introduced the Bexmel converter from the UK three years ago. It was the steel produced in the converter that was used to roll cheap rails.
, he succeeded in winning a large number of railway orders during the economic crisis, but the rail quality of Daming was better and the steelmaking technology was more developed, so he came here and wanted to purchase open-hearth steelmaking equipment from here, even though in
France also has similar equipment, but it is far less advanced than the Ming Dynasty.
"Even if they don't sell it, we can still check it out!"
Tom said,
"This place can always bring us a lot of inspiration. Perhaps, this is really the city of the future!"
Carnegie was silent for a while and then said.
"This name is indeed worthy of its name!"
After sighing, Carnegie said.
"Come on, let's go eat first and don't keep Manager Chen waiting too long. Then, I think we can explore the city first."
Tom took the call,
"Yes, now I want to know what this city is like more than talking about business."
After they finished dressing up, they left the room and walked to 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 it was very high-end.
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The breakfast in the hotel is very rich, with both Ming-style meals and European-style meals. Out of curiosity, Carnegie and the others tried the Ming-style breakfast, but after just one bite, their eyes lit up. Ming-style breakfast