According to the plan of the New York City government, the Centennial Exhibition of Independence will officially begin on May 1.

It was the first world fair in the history of the United States, and it attracted unprecedented attention from top to bottom, not only to New Yorkers, but also to as far away as Hawaii.

The show is expected to run for six months, starting in May and ending in November, with 35 countries already participating in the Centennial of Independence, as well as all states in the United States, including Hawaii, which has just joined the United States.

In this half a year, it is expected that there will be at least 12 million visitors, which sounds a bit much, after all, the entire New York City is now less than 2 million people, but considering that the original independent centennial exhibition still has 10 million visitors, now because of the vigorous publicity of the Times Media, the number of visitors should have a large increase, 12 million is just a conservative estimate, in fact, according to Li Mu's estimate, there should be 15 million talents.

Although there was a rough estimate, Li Mu did not tell anyone that receiving 15 million people in half a year would be a great test for New York City's reception capacity, and Li Mu was afraid that this number would scare Arthur.

On the morning of April 10, Li Mu attended the opening ceremony of the Clinton Castle Hotel.

These are two 16-storey conjoined buildings, with a height of more than 50 meters and a sightseeing bridge connecting the two buildings on the top floor, which has been a new landmark in New York since years ago.

The Castle Clinton Hotel is part of the Beach Club, this is just the beginning in Brooklyn, New York, and the Castle Clinton Hotel will become a chain hotel in the future, and Li Mu plans to open it all over the United States, so that no matter where the members of the Beach Club go, they can enjoy the club's services.

The hotel has a total of 1,200 rooms and can accommodate more than 2,000 guests at the same time, and is equipped with restaurants, swimming pools, meeting rooms, gymnasiums and other service facilities, and is also the first hotel in the world to install telephones in all rooms.

The manager of the hotel is called Adolf Sinclair, who was originally the manager of the guest house of the Junma Automobile Factory, and as soon as the Castle Clinton Hotel was completed, Li Mu transferred Adolf Sinclair to become the first manager of the Castle Clinton Hotel.

The Clinton Castle Hotel was included in the New York City Government as part of the reception of the World Expo, and the New York City Government happily chartered the entire South Building, as the designated reception hotel for the World Expo, and the first political dignitary to settle in was the Prime Minister of the United Cuban States, Green Giles, which was also the first time Li Mu met Green Giles since Cuba's farewell.

Interestingly, it was on the beach in the Bahamas that Li Mu and Green Giles decided to establish the beach club, and now they meet again on the beach in New York to cut the ribbon for the first hotel under the beach club, which has to make people sigh at the wonder of fate.

In the earth-shattering salute, Li Mu and Green Giles, Arthur, Rockefeller, J. Murphy, J. P. Morgan and others cut the ribbon for the Clinton Castle Hotel.

"Come on, let's take a tour of our first hotel." After the ceremony, Li Mu sent invitations to Green Giles and others.

When Li Mu formulated the rules and regulations for the Clinton Castle Hotel, he introduced a part of the service standards and industry norms of the 21st century hotel industry, which were definitely the industry model in the 19th century, so Li Mu is very confident that the Clinton Castle Hotel will be recommended to the world.

"It's an honor..."Greengars and Li Mu smiled heartily, and walked side by side with Li Mu into the revolving door of the Clinton Castle Hotel.

The revolving door has basically disappeared in the 21st century, so Li Mu had hesitated on whether to install the revolving door, but the final result is still to install, which is not determined by the degree of economic development, but by the quality of the people.

When some Chinese in the 21st century see some uncivilized phenomena in the Republic, they will always look at it and sigh with hatred: The quality is really poor!

In fact, when many people say this, the focus is not on those uncivilized phenomena, but on using this sentence to enhance their sense of superiority, open their own level, and show that they are a civilized person.

For example, Japan is recognized as the most polite country in the world, and on the surface, most Japanese people are polite and well-dressed, but does this mean that the Japanese have quality?

In fact, not necessarily, just from the fact that the majority of Japanese have never repented and insisted on refusing to admit all kinds of bestial acts committed by the Japanese army during World War II, it cannot be said that the Japanese have quality.

Most Americans in the 19th century were also unqualified by the standard of politeness, such as queuing is extremely rare in the United States today.

This is actually due to the shortage of materials, on the one hand, there are few supplies in the society, and on the other hand, the purchasing power of the residents is insufficient, so all kinds of reasons come together, it is necessary to install a revolving door on the entrance of the hotel, at least this can ensure that most of the time in and out of the order, as long as there is no fire, the revolving door is very valuable.

Walking into the revolving door, two rows of neatly dressed waiters greeted in unison, all the waiters were men, wearing hats similar to berets, the style of clothes on their bodies was similar to military dresses, the texture was wool, and the leather shoes on their feet were shiny, the overall effect of this set of clothes was more glamorous than most successful people in society, and it immediately raised the Clinton Castle Hotel to a higher level.

"Today is just opened, the situation is a bit special, if you enter the normal business rhythm, every guest will have a waiter to provide professional services when they check in, until they enter the room, in addition, there are professional waiters on each floor, all the rooms as long as the grade is the same, the furnishings in the house are exactly the same, even including the towel position in the bathroom, if the Clinton Castle Hotel expands to other cities in the future, this model will continue to preserve, In this way, whether in New York or Hawaii, guests staying at the Clinton Hotel will find that the hotel they are staying in is exactly the same replica, which will make the guest feel at home. Li Mu led Green Giles and them into the elevator, the elevator is very spacious, more than a dozen people come in one breath, and they don't feel crowded, there are elevator operators in each elevator, and guests only need to move their mouths, and they don't even need to lift their hands.

Li Mu's goal is to locate the restaurant in 12A, and then the Presidential Suite is located in 12A, and the restaurant is placed in 12A to maximize the convenience of the guests of the Presidential Suite.

12a is actually the 13th floor, but Americans are very taboo about the number 13, generally speaking, all high-rise buildings do not have a 13th floor, so the 13th floor is either replaced by 12a or 12b.

This floor is not the same thing as the floor in colloquial language, and Americans actually calculate that the floor is not considered the ground floor, that is, the ground floor is the ground floor, and the second floor is the first floor.

When the elevator doors opened, you were greeted by a red carpet and yellow wallpaper, all of which were imported from the Ottoman Empire, and the price of one square meter was enough for an average family of four to live for a year.

The red of the carpet is bright red, and the yellow of the wallpaper is golden yellow, which is said to be to raise the psychological temperature of diners, making them feel thirsty, so they will consume more drinks with higher profits.

Li Mu didn't know if this statement was true, but thinking about the decoration style in the restaurant in the later generations, it probably made sense.

In order to decorate this restaurant, Li Mu did spare no effort, all the furniture is sandalwood imported from Hawaii, the porcelain in the tableware is Jingdezhen porcelain imported from the Qing Empire, the table knives and forks are imported from Italy, the raw materials are made of stainless steel produced by Carnegie Riem Steel, and the tableware is also pasted with gold leaf in the shape of the logo of the Clinton Castle Hotel, which is genuine gold.

"The chefs here are all from the Empire and France, and the head chef is Yan from the Qing Empire, and he used to serve the prince of the Qing Empire, so everyone, you have a good day today." Li Mu actually doesn't like the so-called French dinner, so he unconsciously brought a little bias when he introduced it.

Li Mu believes that with the Castle Clinton Hotel as the medium, the eight major cuisines from China will definitely be able to conquer these "hillbillies" who have become accustomed to dark cuisine.

Economically, the current Western society is indeed better than the Qing Empire, but in terms of diet alone, the white people whose daily diet is mainly black bread and salad are really "hillbillies".

In fact, Arthur, Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan They have all been conquered by Lao Yan's craftsmanship, and Li Mu's words are mainly aimed at Green Giles.

Lao Yan's craftsmanship is indeed very good, after coming to New York, Lao Yan's hobby changed from planting fruit trees to studying recipes, and now the craftsmanship is becoming more and more exquisite, not only retaining the original color, fragrance and taste, but also after combining with Western food, Lao Yan has also innovated, which is one of the reasons why Li Mu assured Lao Yan to be appointed as the head chef.

Of course, in addition to his good skills, the main reason why Li Mu arranged such a job for Lao Yan was to let Lao Yan be busy, and not stay on Governor's Island all day long and look at Li Mu with eyes similar to that of a resentful woman.

Since Li Mu and Gloria established their relationship, Lao Yan's eyes when he looked at Li Mu were called a resentment, and even looking at the first snow became more and more unpleasant.

Li Mu doesn't care if he is thick-skinned, but he can't let Chu Xue follow him to be blinded, so it's better to send Lao Yan away, anyway, Chu Xue's craftsmanship is not much worse than Lao Yan now.

When he was seated, Li Mu sat next to Green Giles, Arthur gave a welcome speech on behalf of Li Mu, and then Green Giles gave a speech of thanks, and then in the melodious music, the two began to taste the food, and the atmosphere was extremely warm.

"Ream, you must consider opening the Castle Clinton Hotel to Santiago and Havana, I am now really worried that I will not be able to adjust to my old life when I return to Cuba." Green Giles gave Li Mu the highest degree of praise, but this sycophant came suddenly, which caught Li Mu off guard.

"Don't worry, Green, I promise that the Castle Clinton hotels in Havana and San Diego will open before Christmas next year, and I'll ask you to cut the ribbon then." Li Mu agreed happily, this requirement must be satisfied, the best of both worlds.

In fact, Greene Giles's words are also exaggerated, although the Clinton Castle Hotel is good, but it is not so bad that Greene Giles can't live without it.

Green Giles is also the prime minister of the United Republic of Cuba, that is really under one person, above ten thousand people, there are several cooks in the family, and there must be no shortage of cooks in the Qing Kingdom, even if it is not as good as Lao Yan's level, it is not much worse, at least the whole table is still not difficult.

Everyone present is a human spirit, and under the deliberate flattery, the atmosphere of the meal is naturally extremely harmonious. P. Morgan has a witty remark.

Rockefeller and J. Brown Of course, there was a purpose for them to accompany Green Giles to dinner, you must know that both of them had a large business in Cuba and other countries, and Rockefeller had the right to exploit oil off the coast of Cuba. P. Morgan owned the mines and the port, and it would be of no harm to them to have a good relationship with Green Giles.

In fact, if you want to talk about the assets in Cuba and the United States, all the people in the hall add up not necessarily as much as Li Mu, Li Mu currently owns 11 mines, more than 40 plantations, dozens of factories in the United States of Cuba, excluding fixed assets, the total assets are also nearly 80 million US dollars, this number alone has exceeded 90% of the people in the hall...

Well, 90 percent of the time is inaccurate, to be exact, except for Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan and John Vanderbilt, no one can ever own the assets of this number anymore, and it is difficult to even connect closely.

"Come on, let's have a toast to the Castle Clinton Hotel, and by the way, let us wish the Centennial Exhibition of Independence all the best." Arthur's proposal elicited an enthusiastic response from all.

The reason why Glyn Giles came to New York at this time was to attend the Centennial Exhibition, which will open in May, and the President of the United Cuba will also be Sylvester, and Ulysses Grant will ring the bell for the Centennial Exhibition of Independence with Sylvester and King Pedro II of Brazil.