Late at night, under the glow of the lights along Vienna Ringstrasse, the Austrian International Grand Hotel standing there shone with exceptional brilliance.
In Vienna, where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, an Austrian Grand Hotel covering a staggering 2,888.88 mu was absolutely a splendid sight to behold.
The hotel was fully equipped with every kind of entertainment facility. It was the most luxurious hotel of the era, and also the most expensive—without equal.
Being able to stay there was itself a symbol of status. Even the cheapest rooms cost over a hundred Divine Shields.
Different rooms corresponded to different ranks of status. The palace-style buildings within were reserved for nobles alone. No matter how wealthy ordinary people were, they could only stay in the commoners' district.
Thus, this was Franz's most disastrous investment. Everyone followed the rules: capitalists would not set foot in the noble district, and nobles would not stay in the commoners' district.
Even among the nobles, hierarchy was strict. Everyone chose rooms matching their status and never crossed the line by so much as a step.
Now, ordinary rooms were often bustling with business, while the high-class noble district had barely any guests. The highest-tier Imperial Palace, especially, had yet to receive a single customer.
It was not that the hotel refused ordinary people entry. The problem was that no one dared cross the line even half a step. This was determined by social custom; once one's behavior exceeded one's status, one would be shunned.
Gradually, this became the hotel's rule: whatever one's status, that was the treatment one deserved. If it was full, then one simply went to another hotel.
The Imperial Palace, originally priced at 8,888 Divine Shields, became rather awkward. Ordinary people could not stay there, but if a