Chapter 148 Get some black technology for Guijie Hotel
Zhu Youxiao's Guijie Hotel is designed in accordance with the scale standards of international hotels. There are large enough squares in the four directions of southeast and northwest, taking into account the parking space of horse-drawn carriages, as well as greening and environment.
Different hotel and hotel accommodation rooms are designed in four directions according to different consumer groups, with complete functions.
The large open space in the middle that surrounds the courtyard is currently built with cloisters and pavilions, and flower beds and vegetation are designed.
In the future, high-rise guest rooms will be expanded in this vacant land to prepare for the future when Beijing becomes an international metropolis. At that time, the four-story guest rooms in the north and south buildings alone will definitely not be enough.
In the past, the east side was used as a dining hall for civilians, mainly serving food.
The lobby on the west side of Guijie Street is arranged in the style of teahouses and private rooms, specifically for the common people and wealthy households in the city. This group of guests has strong spending power and generally orders meals, and has certain requirements for chefs and ingredients.
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Therefore, the business in the west lobby does not focus on volume, but mainly focuses on mid-range consumption.
Wei Liangqing and Tang Renjie just divided their labors.
He has a wide range of interpersonal relationships. Wei Liangqing, who has been mixed up in society, is responsible for the public taste, and a group of ordinary apprentices follow him to learn and cooperate.
Tang Renjie’s cooking focuses on savory and savory dishes, which is particularly in line with the appetite of local mid-range customers. In addition, Hakka’s cooking skills are excellent, and he is also in charge of the kitchen here.
You can also advertise it, saying that you can order royal dishes for one hundred taels per table, the price is very affordable~
Within the hotel, Wei Liangqing, Tang Renjie and others were promoted to Jinyiwei, temporarily serving as intelligence personnel. They are not professional Jinyiwei, but part-time. In fact, they are like spies in later generations. No one knows that they have another identity.
Zhu Youxiao took Liu Qiao and Wei Zhongxian to develop within the hotel and they officially joined.
In addition to catering, Zhu Youxiao focuses on creating international-class guest rooms and conference functions that are in line with Ming Dynasty status.
In the next few years, high-rise guest rooms will be expanded in this open space in the freight yard to prepare for use when Beijing becomes an international metropolis in the future. At that time, the four-story guest rooms in the north and south buildings alone will definitely not be enough.
The original cargo yard was to be located outside Dongzhimen. Now that the capital is very cramped, it is more suitable to move the cargo yard outside the city.
The construction of the Guijie Hotel has started as scheduled. It is expected to take three years to complete. This new building with stone as the foundation and wooden upper floors has been initially tried with the aid of steel structure.
Xu Guangqi and Huang Kezuan hired a group of craftsmen who had gone abroad, and they took them to participate in the design and construction of stone and steel structures. A large number of outstanding Ming craftsmen constructed the main body of stone and wood.
The first and third leaders of the Ministry of Industry participated in the design, and of course the craftsmen also tried their best to win the favor of the Ministry of Industry.
The construction of the Guijie Hotel was not paid to the Ministry of Works, but they certainly could not be allowed to work in vain.
Zhu Youxiao bought a hotel shareholding.
Shares were not an unfamiliar thing in the late Ming Dynasty, but for royal shops, 10% of the shares belonged to the Ministry of Industry, and one-third of this 10% belonged to Huang Kezuan, Xu Guangqi and the design craftsmen.
If you generously invite them to become the protagonists of the hotel, they will be more motivated to work.
This time the design was personally guided by Zhu Youxiao.
He designed the Guijie Hotel with four floors above ground and one underground floor. Zhu Youxiao called the underground floor the equipment floor.
The kitchen, warehouse, boiler room, and future steam engines are all in the basement. The lighting and ventilation in the basement rely on the surrounding light wells. In fact, this kind of basement is called a semi-basement.
A hand-cranked elevator is used to serve food. The four-wheeled trolley is locked when it reaches the floor. When the food truck comes back, the buckle is opened and the bell is shaken. The person responsible for shaking the food below lowers the elevator.
The hand-cranked elevator is essentially a pulley block. Zhu Youxiao, under the guise of Mozi, built a set of movable pulley blocks for delivering food on different floors.
In addition, there are some "Mojia" black technologies.
Tap water.
In his previous life, Zhu Youxiao invented the water pipe network. The Guijie Hotel also designed a cast-iron shell wooden core water pipe and a hand-controlled hydraulic press upper and lower water network.
Temporarily leave holes for water supply and drainage, and then install the water supply and drainage after the cast iron pipes and steel pipes are in place. In the future, hand-controlled hydraulic presses will also be used to supply water to the upper floors. Several large water tanks will be installed on the roof to provide water for each floor.
Fire water is dual-purpose.
There is also an automatic cooking machine.
The steam version of the automatic cooking machine has been sketched out and is expected to be built and piloted at the Guijie Hotel next year.
Zhu Youxiao used a piston steam engine in his drawings.
The piston moves up and down to drive the lever, pushing a whole row of automatic cooking spatulas to stir. Although it is not a rotary cooking machine, it saves a lot of effort to move only the cooking spatulas.
What's more subtle is that there is a sink next to the stove of the wok. The water is heated by the wok, and the high-temperature hot water is injected into the steam furnace, which greatly saves the fuel of the steam engine itself.
In short, the cooking pot heats the water, the steam engine injects the hot water and heats it slightly to continuously produce steam. The steam pushes the pistons to move up and down, and the pistons drive the levers for cooking.
The energy utilization rate is staggeringly high.
As long as one person focuses on lighting several pots and one person focuses on adding seasonings to several pots, the automatic cooking machine can operate efficiently.
Although manpower is very cheap, the size varies greatly.
The apprentices Xin Dongfang is training can use the automatic cooking machine to make standardized food.
A large kitchen uses a large steam boiler to push levers, a large wok, and a steam integrated cooking machine, which are enough to support a large food supply.
By then it will be much more convenient to mass produce lunch boxes.
Moreover, after the success of this steam engine, it can be improved and used in other industries, thus becoming the Steam Ming Dynasty.
After inspecting the Guijie Hotel, since it was the morning, Zhu Youxiao took a look and saw that even before the renovation, there was a lot of unused space in the current lobby. Even if it was only for an hour or two, it would be a pity. Seeing that Wei Liangqing was also thoughtful, he asked
He asked: "Are there many people drinking tea in the afternoon?"
"It's a lot, but only half of the lobby is used, and only 40% of the private rooms are occupied."
"You can use it when you have free time and use it as a teaching tool for Xin Dongfang."
Relying on the Guijie Hotel, we provide chef skills training. You can start as an apprentice, and you can also learn literacy and preliminary knowledge about agriculture, culture, tourism and health.
During this field trip, I saw that in the lobby of the Guijie Hotel, there is a place for performances by flute players, singers and storytellers.
When there are a lot of customers, or when private rooms are specially reserved, there will be musical instrument performances in the lobby, storytellers, and artists who change faces and perform tricks to entertain customers, earning some tips from hotel guests and a small hiring fee from the hotel, etc.
Hard-earned money.
In addition to learning cooking skills and buying vegetables, washing vegetables, chopping vegetables, garnishing dishes, and settling accounts, you can also officially hire entertainers such as performers, storytellers, and face-changing artists, so that they can not only make money by performing when there are guests, but also teach at Xin Dongfang Skills School. While cultivating some traditional literary and artistic talents, you can also learn some culture to supplement yourself. Wouldn't it be beautiful~