Chapter 73. Build a Hotel

     After the cold air moved south and it rained, the highest temperature in Yóushì dropped to about 22℃, and the temperature at night was only 16℃.

 

     But tourists who boarded Xingzhou Island found that the sun was warm on Xingzhou Island. Although the sea breeze was a little cool, the body temperature was only about 26℃.

 

     In this weather, playing shirtless on the beach will not be too hot, but will feel very comfortable.

 

     At night, tourists only need to put on a thin coat and walk on the ring road around the island without worrying about catching a cold or fever due to the cold.

 

     This weather is not bad for camping tourists. There is hot water in the shower area. After taking a hot shower, they hide in the tent, or get into the sleeping bag, or cover a blanket, and then rest at ease.

 

     There are fewer diving tourists, but the coaches of the diving center have been busy every day since they started working for nearly three months. They have been taking tourists and students one after another. The money they earn in three months is equivalent to their income in the past six months. Therefore, after the number of tourists decreases, they will not fall into anxiety due to the decrease in income.

 

     After checking the accounts, Li Yaolin asked the store manager: “After three months of working together and observing, who do you think can take over your position?”

 

     The store manager was startled by her question, thinking that if his position as store manager was taken over, what would he do?

 

     Is the boss going to fire him?

 

     But on second thought, Li Yaolin would not fire him for no reason.

 

     Looking back on the three months since he joined the company, he managed the diving center well. Not only did he not receive any complaints, but he also helped the store sell a lot of diving equipment and negotiated cooperation with diving equipment manufacturers to increase profits. He has no credit but also hard work, right?

 

     He suddenly remembered that the position of manager of the marketing department was still vacant. All matters of the department were first handled by Deputy Manager Shen, who then reported directly to the boss. Now the boss’s question may have a double meaning!

 

     The store manager had some expectations, but he was very calm. After thinking for a while, he said, “Zhou Yingying is good. She has strong business ability and is good at communicating with others. She is lively and cheerful, has a good relationship with her colleagues, and is highly regarded by students. Most importantly, she is also very concerned about the store.”

 

     Li Yaolin thought that Zhou Yingying’s current ambition must have been due to her previous experiences and lessons.

 

     Li Yaolin asked again, “Do you think you can be the manager of the marketing department?”

 

     The store manager guessed what was in his mind, his heartbeat accelerated, and his breathing became a little faster. He said, “I have confidence!”

 

     Li Yaolin knew that he was capable, and asking this question was just a formality. What if the store manager just liked being a store manager and didn’t want to be promoted? If she suddenly promoted someone else, wouldn’t it be embarrassing if she was rejected?

 

   “Then let Zhou Yingying be the deputy store manager first, and let her learn from you for a month. If there is no problem with the final assessment, then you can officially hand over the work. You will have to work hard to take on multiple duties during this month. First, go to the marketing department to learn more. After New Year’s Day, you will officially start working in the marketing department.”

 

     The store manager nodded heavily: “Okay, thank you for your cultivation!”

 

     Li Yaolin: “…”

 

 

 

     She finally understood why the boss likes others to flatter him, because it really sounds good.

 

     Of course, what the store manager said was not flattery, but it sounded really high in emotional intelligence.

 

 

 

…

 

 

     During the off-season, it is actually OK for the marketing department to be directly led by Li Yaolin. However, she will build a hotel next. After the hotel is built, she is afraid that she will not have much time to manage the affairs of the marketing department.

 

     So it is better to let Manager Jiang come to familiarize himself with the business earlier, so as to avoid being in a hurry and spend more time adapting to the new job and getting along with new colleagues.

 

     Ask Li Yaolin if she has saved enough money to build a hotel?

 

     The answer is of course yes.

 

     After the National Day, the average daily number of tourists received by Xingzhou Island has exceeded 3,000, and at least 300,000 development funds are received every day. She started saving before the National Day, and she has accumulated more than 20 million yuan.

 

     Every day before going to bed, she has to take a look at her assets. Seeing that the eight-digit funds in the 【Assets】 list are not less than a penny, and are increasing day by day, she not only sleeps peacefully, but also wakes up with a smile in her dreams.

 

     Although she wanted to keep the money in her account for a while, it was development funds. Apart from developing the island, it could not be used for eating, drinking, playing, or buying luxury goods, and it could not make her money make money.

 

     So instead of leaving it there, it would be better to use it to build a hotel so that she could realize her dream of being a billionaire with over 100 million in savings as soon as possible!

 

     She did it as soon as she said she would. She first asked Liang Ying to help her design a hotel exterior with the characteristics of Xingzhou Island. After the design draft came out, she began to think about how many floors the hotel should have, the layout and functions of each floor, etc.

 

     Every time the employees who worked on the third floor of the office building passed by, they could see that their island owner did nothing all day long. She was either looking at something unknown on the computer or grinning at her mobile phone.

 

 

 

     “Is the boss… in love?”

 

     The employees communicated privately.

 

     “When have you ever seen the boss look at a man differently? It’s definitely not a romantic relationship.”

 

     “Who said that romantic relationships must be with men?”

 

     “?”

 

     “You don’t have to talk to humans. Aren’t there many romantic development mobile games now? The characters in them are so beautiful.”

 

     “???”

 

     Zheng Xuan heard the gossip of her colleagues and said, “I think there might be a big project that makes the boss earn money.”

 

     Employees: “…”

 

 

 

     Compared to the previous speculations about romantic relationships with paper people, this speculation is more reasonable.

 

     But Director Zheng, aren’t you the boss’s good sister? Why are you discussing the boss’s gossip here?

 

     Zheng Xuan said leisurely: “Just because I know her well, I know she is definitely not in love. Liang Ying recently submitted several hotel exterior design drafts, so the boss is likely to build a hotel. Building a hotel is a big project, so it’s normal to be happy!”

 

      Before leaving, Zheng Xuan turned around and asked her project team members: “By the way, how are the postcards and commemorative cards designed? We have to determine the samples half a month in advance to send them to print and produce for distribution for the New Year’s Day activities. What is the progress? Have the first batch of tourists booked the figures followed up?” 

 

     Employees: “…” 

 

     Thinking of the pile of work, the employees lost the mood to chat and dispersed. 

 

 

 

     Not long after, Li Yaolin finalized the project of building a hotel. The planned hotel is an economy hotel, covering an area of 2,400 square meters, with a total of 5 floors, 5 meters high on the first floor, and 3 meters high on the rest of the floors, with a total height of 24 meters. According to the plan, the first floor is the hotel lobby. Considering that not all tourists will go to the seafood buffet restaurant for breakfast, and some tourists staying in the hotel need to have breakfast, a kitchen and restaurant are also planned. Even so, there is still nearly 1,000 square meters of open space on the first floor, so Li Yaolin planned two multi-functional halls, which can be used when holding meetings on Xingzhou Island. There are also game halls, table tennis courts, billiard rooms, board game rooms, gyms and tea rooms.

 

     Let tourists spend the room rate of an economy hotel and enjoy the infrastructure services of a four-star hotel.

 

     The second to fourth floors are standard twin rooms, double rooms and family rooms, with about 90 rooms on each floor.

 

     The fifth floor is divided into two types: luxury suites and sea view rooms. The balcony and windows of the luxury suites face east, where you can see the green plants and seabirds on the island, while the balcony of the sea view room faces west, where you can see the blue sea at a glance.

 

     There are a total of 40 rooms of these two types.

 

     The cost of the hotel, including various decorations, is 25 million yuan. After using the 20% discount card, it only costs 20 million yuan.

 

     Li Yaolin thought about it and decided to improve the hotel’s specifications appropriately since there is still extra development funds!

 

     She decided to widen the area of the first floor, so that she could build an outdoor swimming pool on the second floor of the hotel like the diving center.

 

     Looking at the planned renderings, Li Yaolin couldn’t wait to start the project on the APP. The only thing that bothered her was that she hadn’t thought of a name for the hotel yet.

 

     “What’s a better name for the hotel? How about Poseidon Hotel?” Li Yaolin thought, since she wanted Poseidon to have a happy and satisfying holiday, she might as well name it after Poseidon!

 

     The little mermaid said: “This specification is named after Poseidon. Are you sure the island owner is not humiliating Poseidon?” 

 

     Li Yaolin was acting like a drama queen, and said pitifully: “This is the development fund I saved up for half a year. This is the best hotel I can give to Poseidon!”

 

     The little mermaid: “…”

 

     “Why does the hotel have to have a name? Aren’t they all mine?” The island owner, who was bad at naming, gave up thinking and entered a name at random.

 

     The little mermaid laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes after seeing this: “Island owner’s hotel, hahahaha…”

 

     Li Yaolin poked the little mermaid expressionlessly: “What are you laughing at? The specifications of this hotel are not worthy of Poseidon, but worthy of me! Next time I will build a hotel called Mermaid Barbecued Pork Restaurant.”

 

     Little mermaid: “…”

 

     Forget it, when will the revenge end?

 

     Finally, the name of the hotel was confirmed to be “Poseidon Holiday Hotel”, the same as the name of “Poseidon Holiday Diving Center”. The island owner meant that they were all industries of Xingzhou Island, and there was no need to give them so many fancy names.

 

     Employees: “…Boss, you are just too lazy to think of so many names, right?”

 

 

 

     The construction period of the hotel is two months, which is the longest construction period among the projects developed by Li Yaolin, but this includes the construction period of decoration, which is considered fast.

 

     After planning the hotel, Li Yaolin’s development funds were suddenly reduced to only a few million, which made the island owner, who was used to seeing tens of millions of assets every day, feel a little lost.

 

 

 

     In order to return the assets to eight digits, the island owner decided to find a way to make more money!

 

     She opened the Poseidon Market, which she had not visited for a long time.

 

     Last time, after Poseidon’s satisfaction reached 40, Poseidon Market had some new products, but she was so overwhelmed by the surprise after the rating that she had no time to look at them carefully. Today, she had some free time, so she decided to see if there was anything practical!

 

     She thought that except for the 【Sea Fishing Area】and 【Seafood Area】, the rest of the products in Poseidon Market were systems, but she didn’t expect that the product this time was not a system, but a seal.

 

 

 

   【Seal of Poseidon’s Blessing (Island Owner Version)】

 

     Description: A seal with the effect of “Poseidon’s Blessing”. The “Island Owner Version” is only for island owners with island owner authority, and the effect is 47% of the original seal (Seal of Poseidon’s Blessing).

 

     Price: 500,000 yuan

 

     Limited time discount price: 499,000 yuan

 

 

 

     Li Yaolin: “…”

 

     Why don’t you just mark it as “robbery price”?

 

    A seal costs 500,000 yuan. Isn’t it more valuable than the official seal? !

 

     But what is “Poseidon’s Blessing”?

 

     Seeing that the island owner’s seal can only play 47% of the role of the original seal, she subconsciously glanced at the sea god’s satisfaction: Sure enough, this role is linked to the sea god’s satisfaction!

 

     Only when the sea god’s satisfaction is higher, the role it can play will be stronger.

 

     But, what exactly is the blessing of the sea god?

 

     Fortunately, there is a little mermaid. Li Yaolin directly shook it out to answer. It said: “The island owner is really lucky. This seal can be randomly brushed out in the sea god market! Anyone who gets a token with this seal can get the blessing of the sea god!”

 

     “What does the island owner’s seal mean?”

 

     “It means that the island owner can use this seal in the name of the sea god and give others the ‘blessing of the sea god’, but the effect is definitely not as good as the original seal!”

 

     “Then if I use it twice, can’t it be superimposed to 94% of the effect?”

 

     Little mermaid: “…”

 

     It said: “Each time you stamp, the effect can only be used once, and it cannot be superimposed! And when a person holds multiple tokens with this stamp, the effect cannot be superimposed either.”

 

     Li Yaolin did not expect that there was an anti-loophole mechanism. She asked again: “What if the satisfaction of the sea god is increased to 100%?”

 

     “Its effect will also be enhanced!”

 

     This seal is a bit useless to Li Yaolin. After all, she can’t hold it in front of others every day and say that she wants to give them the blessing of the sea god. It would be strange if others don’t treat her as a fool!

 

     But after hesitating for a few minutes, Li Yaolin still spent nearly 500,000 yuan to buy it.

 

     This seal is made of white jade. Li Yaolin does not understand jade and can’t tell whether it is valuable jade or ordinary stone.

 

     The seal is the same size as a dime, with twelve sides.

 

     Although the seal is small, the words printed are very clear. Li Yaolin can vaguely see the words on it: “…Xingzhou Island, Island Master Seal.”

 

     There are no words of blessing engraved on it. Li Yaolin was about to find ink to try its effect. The little mermaid said: “This seal does not need ink. Besides, how can ordinary ink match the seal produced by Shanghai God?!”

 

     Li Yaolin directly printed it on her hand.

 

     The little mermaid stopped her again: “If the island owner wants to appear in front of everyone with this seal in the future, she can try this!”

 

     Li Yaolin: “…”

 

     This seal also has waterproof and anti-fading effects?

 

     Fortunately, I didn’t poke it on the back of my hand, otherwise it would be really hard to wash it off if it was mistaken for a tattoo.

 

     There happened to be a postcard sample designed by the cultural and creative product group on the table. She picked one and poked it. A blue twelve-sided seal immediately appeared on it. The vertical characters inside were “Xingzhou Island”, and the three characters “Island Master Seal” were relatively small, standing horizontally at the bottom of “Xingzhou Island”. At first glance, it looked like a sailboat logo.

 

     Li Yaolin looked at the little mermaid with shining eyes: “Did I get a blessing?”

 

     Little mermaid: “…”

 

     You are the island owner. This seal can only work through your hands. What blessing do you want?

 

     Li Yaolin: “What? I don’t have a blessing!”

 

     Why does the sea god’s ancestors still treat people differently?

 

     Although the island owner was disappointed, she thought of how to use this seal, so that the 500,000 yuan would not be wasted.