book of old days

Chapter 146 Resplendent
One day later——"Congratulations, Mr. Sean, from now on, this building is yours."

The notary handed over the land deed and house deed to Sean, and then shook hands with him enthusiastically. The smile on his face was as friendly as if he was facing a long-lost relative. A rich man who can buy a house for [-] gold pounds But the objects he serves, he has always been very polite to his parents.

These days, the government department is not Qingshui Yamen, and it costs money to do things, especially this kind of large-scale economic activities.

Usually, the notary can charge the notarization fee according to the proportion of the transaction. This time, 100 gold pounds will be recorded in the notarization. It can be said that among the three parties present, the notary is the happiest.

He put the third copy in his briefcase, which was for filing in the archives, and shook Sean's hand again.

The fat boss left first with [-] gold pounds, and Sean sent the notary away. He watched their figures disappear into the corner of the street, but he was not in a hurry to start planning the layout of the restaurant, but turned around and went upstairs.

Sean stood on the roof platform of the second floor, watching the well-dressed pedestrians walking up and down the street below. The muddy street exuded the smell of mud, and not far away, the chime of the clock tower chiming was echoing over the city.

He walked around the roof of the building, observing the distribution of the surrounding buildings, and carefully calculating the size of the building. The land area is almost 500 square meters, and the building area is double that. Compared with the decent double-storey commercial buildings in this era, the land below is the real valuable thing. This is a lot in the city center, with a size of more than 500 square meters, plus the surrounding vacant area. With the advancement of technology, it is enough to build a building.

But it may take 200 years until it is actually developed.

"Do you have any ideas?" Agatha walked up the stairs and said to Sean.

Xiao En smiled slightly. The volume of this building was larger than he expected. If it was divided into small shops, there could be ten or eight of them. Even if it is rented out for a year, it can make a lot of money.

But of course Sean is not prepared to do this, he wants to open a big restaurant, a famous landmark company.

"Come on, we're going to get to work."

For the next month or so, he did not leave Norem. Opening a large restaurant is not an easy task. Originally, Sean thought that all he had to do was spend money, but unexpectedly, there were more and more things.

The first is decoration. Although this building is newly built, its architectural style is decent and commercial, but it is far from what Sean needs.

What he wanted was a restaurant that was impressive at first glance, and the exterior walls needed to be repainted, covering the gray and dark brown most commonly used by Brightonians with bright golden yellow.

The signboard uses a huge plaque covered with a piece of red cloth to keep the mystery it should have.

The interior decoration is even more sophisticated. Sean was quite impressed with the resplendent and magnificent style of God's Domain that he saw in the Temple of Gods, so he simply followed it this time.

Of course, after all, the reality is not God's Domain, it is impossible to really use so much gold to build walls, it's just a layer of gold leaf.

Even so, the cost is still huge. In order to avoid overspending, Sean only covered the hall in the end, and added large murals to reduce the investment of gold leaf.

For this reason, Sean spent a lot of money to hire several painters to add several huge murals around the restaurant.

One of the most eye-catching ones, the theme style is based on his "praise the sun" as the blueprint. A person raises his hands high, and above his head is a huge sun shining around him. Naturally, the artist's painting skills are much better than his. At least, it looks very solemn and sacred. The person in the painting is wearing a golden battle armor, his face is hidden in the sun, and he can't see clearly, but he can vaguely see the appearance of Xiao En.

Considering that this is a place for consumption, Sean asked the artist to add many Valkyries, angels, and huge animals with exaggerated shapes on both sides.

Decoration and painting were carried out almost at the same time. Dozens of workers were busy, scattered a lot of banknotes, and bought a lot of building and decoration materials. Sean is a big spender for this store. The remaining [-] pounds from buying the house were spent almost like water.

Agatha, who had witnessed all of this, was in a trance every day, feeling very unreal.

The renovation was finally over, and next, Sean started recruiting people again. Such a large and luxurious restaurant needs a lot of service staff and chefs.

Sean first recruited a large number of waitresses. In this era, the majority of waitresses are still mainly men, usually wearing elegant dresses and white shirts, and they are very polite and decent, which is probably the case in those high-end restaurants.

But this is only limited to those high-end restaurants, and in relatively cheap low-end restaurants, there is often not so much attention. Men, women, the elderly, children, there are no child protection laws in this era, and child labor is very common. up.

Many times these people are not professional waiters at all.

Sean's act of recruiting waitresses is a bit unusual.

Especially considering the style of the waiter uniform he customized, even in Nord, where the folk customs are open, the women who came to apply for the job were stunned and inexplicably horrified.

However, Sean is not worried about not being able to recruit people. The salary he offers is two gold pounds a month, which is definitely a high salary for ordinary people in this era. The living expenses of an ordinary peasant family are generally only ten pounds a year. It's only one gold pound, and twenty-four gold pounds a year is enough to feed a family.

Coupled with the provision of board and lodging, the treatment is definitely a good one.

The key is that it is relatively decent and does not need to suffer too much damage. This era does not need to be modern. Men are used as livestock, and women are used as men. Being a worker requires long hours of hard work, low wages, and harsh working conditions. Often, a person will fail after a few years of work.

So many people would rather wander the streets than enter factories.

Although rural areas like Nordforsen are a bit bitter, and winter hunting is too dangerous, relatively speaking, the quality of life of the people at the bottom is slightly higher.

Even the Nords were not spared in this budding period of cannibalistic capital.

So much so that it was shameful that there were so many women who came to apply for the job, which also gave Sean more room to choose.

Sean specially selected those with tall legs, long legs and good figure to recruit, and in less than a week, thirty waiters were recruited. Pre-job training.

Compared with Agatha's British armed uniform, the uniforms of these waiters are much simpler and cooler. Seeing a group of big white legs in boots and short skirts walking around in front of them is really eye-catching .

The waiter is easy to find, but the cook is not so easy. The most important thing is to ensure its reliability. This is especially important. After all, Agatha only has one person, and she also needs to be responsible for managing the restaurant. It is impossible to cook by herself, so At that time, cooking will naturally only depend on the recruited chefs.

(End of this chapter)