On the second floor, there is a lobby for guests to rest. The lobby is very distinctive in design, using a semicircular theater-style arrangement, with a circular performance venue in the middle - dedicated to performing various "improved versions" of songs and dances.

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The third floor is where the six sets of brand new bathroom equipment are suitable, including the manually pressurized massage bathtub. Considering that the load-bearing capacity of the wooden floor is very limited, Zhang Xingpei deliberately added some structural supports.

These six rooms equipped with modern bathroom equipment are naturally VIP rooms. Not only are they luxuriously decorated and comfortable, but they also have special stairs and passages that are completely unrelated to other levels.

Bathing means a lot of water. The main water in Guangzhou city comes from two parts - one is water delivered by watermen, water trucks and burdens, most of which come from the Pearl River Basin, and the other is digging wells by oneself. Guangzhou is right on the Pearl River, and the groundwater level is very high.

When Ziming Tower wanted to build a bathhouse, it naturally could not rely on watermen to deliver water. Therefore, in addition to the original two wells, several more wells were drilled. A mechanical water pressure device was installed on the water wells to increase the speed of water extraction.

The water that is manually pressed from the well is poured into a newly built cement reservoir through a stone trough, and can be used after a short period of sedimentation and alum treatment.

But there is a big problem with this system. If the supply of hot water can be solved by several effective traditional technologies, such as fire pit flues, then the tap water system throughout the building requires them to

Building a high-level water tank - It is easy to build a water tank, but how to raise the water from the ground to a height of three or four stories is a thorny problem.

Zhang Xingpei originally planned to install a boiler and a steam engine and use mechanical power to lift water. However, the technical content of these two is really high. If there are no knowledgeable workers to maintain it at all times, the boiler will be a time bomb, and the vibration of the steam engine during operation will cause

The high-heat steam during exhaust, coupled with the exhaust smoke from burning coal - the thick black smoke is enough to completely eliminate the luxurious and elegant atmosphere Ziminglou attempts to create.

If there is no need for machinery, unless Ziminglou plans to hire people to lift water to the water tower manually, the workload seems to be terrifying. So Wang Luobin took action - his task was to find an inconvenient method for water lifting equipment.

Powered machinery requiring a steam engine.

Steam engines cannot be used, and manpower is too inefficient, so travelers generally turn to wind and water power. Water power is not feasible in Ziming Tower - as for wind-powered water lifting equipment, Wang Luobin believes that it is not feasible -

―To effectively lift water to a water tower more than 10 meters above the ground, they must build a behemoth with a height of more than 12 meters and a windmill wing of 5 meters. It is difficult to predict what such a behemoth will bring to Ziming Tower if it stands in Guangzhou City.
Chapter completed!