"I can't say whether there is a market for exports, but the demand for rice noodles for personal use will definitely be huge - I think you might as well put it into production." Huang Dashan said to Xun Suji, "The executive committee will start working on an independent field development plan in the autumn.
Thousands of people gather on the beach. It’s easy to cook with rice noodles. You can just add water and seasonings and cook it. It’s easier than noodles—you have to remove the alkaline water.”
"Okay, I'll start producing rice noodles. Making rice noodles is easy and doesn't require much equipment..."
"Haha, do you think you are still making rice noodles in the cafeteria? You can only make rice noodles for a few dozen kilograms at most. You have to aim for a thousand kilograms or tens of thousands of kilograms. The difference between industrial manufacturing and manual manufacturing is very big.
Ask the people at the machine shop to buy you some food processing machines."
"If you put it this way." Mo Xiao'an was a little depressed, "I'm afraid MSG won't be able to pass - although sweet potatoes are not valuable, they are also food."
"Sweet potato deep-processed products like MSG may be allowed to be exported. As long as the added value is high enough. If a ton of sweet potatoes can be exchanged for a ton of rice or hundreds of kilograms of pig iron, Ma Qianzhu will definitely agree."
Mo Xiao'an really couldn't guarantee that MSG made from one ton of sweet potatoes would have such a high profit.
"This is not guaranteed. However, the Japanese made a lot of money when they sold MSG to China in the 1920s. No matter how bad the Ming Dynasty was in the 1920s, we are not necessarily worse than the Japanese."
"In a few days, Zhang Xin will return to Lingao to report on his work. You should talk to him." Huang Dashan said to Mo Xiao'an, "He is in Guangzhou and his understanding of the market is better than our random guessing.
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Huang Dashan said that it is actually not difficult to make MSG. As long as you have bacteria and control the fermentation conditions, you can ferment it with starch or simpler sweet potato dry powder. As long as there is starch or something containing starch.
"Fermentation is a very mysterious thing," Huang Dashan said with excitement as he talked about his expertise. "Bacteria are really cute..."
Mo Xiaoan and Xun Suji couldn't help but stay away from him to avoid being infected with his "cute bacteria".
"This is the fermentation workshop," Huang Dashan pointed to a row of elevated, frame-structured factory buildings at the other end of the yard, with sealed pots and stoves heated by steam or gas.
They are said to be fermentation workshops, but they are actually separate. Huang Dashan ferments several kinds of things in it.
There is a disinfection pool at the entrance of each workshop, which contains lime water. You must walk through it to enter and exit. This is a basic disinfection measure.
"This is to avoid contamination by miscellaneous bacteria." Huang Dashan explained, "Some product fermentation does not have high environmental requirements, while others are more troublesome."
There are now several products in the fermentation workshop that use starch or directly utilize sweet potatoes: in addition to MSG, which Mo Xiaoan is preparing to make money in Daming, there is also kvass, which is now popular in canteens; vinegar that directly uses sweet potatoes to ferment; and finally chemical and food products
Citric acid is an important additive needed in both products. The production process of the latter is relatively complex and occupies a large factory building alone.
“There’s nothing interesting inside, it’s mainly large and small pots, fermentation tanks and pipes.” Huang Dashan said, “I will come here often to take care of this part of the fermentation.”
MSG is currently produced in small batches, with each output being no more than 20 to 30 kilograms. It is mainly supplied to various canteens. Huang Dashan said that if export channels can be opened, large-scale production will not be a problem.
"The equipment of the food factory is very primitive and the scale is not large." After inspecting the entire factory, Mo Xiao'an said to Xun Suji in the office of the director of the food factory, "In addition to the sweet potato workshop, there is also the fermentation workshop. You have to find ways to expand some new varieties.
In addition to exporting production, we also need it ourselves."
This order made Xun Suji feel a heavy pressure. After holding it in for a long time, he uttered: "I will find a way."
"Okay, use your brain more." Mo Xiao'an said, "You know: the food factory belongs to Lingao Cereals, Oils and Food Corporation. In theory, it is under the dual management of the Committee of Agriculture and the Ministry of Light Industry. I am the general manager, and Wu
Nanhai is the deputy general manager. In fact, neither I nor Wu Nanhai manage it well - there are too many things. So up to now, the so-called head office is still a short seller. I discussed it with Wu Nanhai a few days ago, and I
I am going to resign as the general manager. Wu Nanhai will be the general manager and you will be the executive deputy general manager. From now on, you will be in charge. You will use the food factory as the core and gradually support the entire head office."
Xun Suji was shocked this time. He started out as the director of a food factory, and before he got too hot, he became the vice president of a grain and oil company, rising to three levels in a row.
"This," he said a little incoherently, "the responsibility is too great..."
"It's okay. Who doesn't have a big responsibility? The guy who used to be a company commander is now the commander-in-chief of the army. The guy who used to have a bachelor's degree in law is now the president of the court - he looks like he wants to be the minister of justice. You...
In the past, when a chef became a manager of a grain and oil company, he was considered a professional counterpart."
Mo Xiaoan briefly introduced the situation of the grain and oil company to him. Generally speaking, the assets under the name of the grain and oil company have four major parts.
The first is the earliest industry of the Chuanchuan Group: the water-powered mill on the Wenlan River. After several expansions, this mill has become the largest grain processing plant in Lingao. In addition to the water turbine, a steam engine was also installed to control the amount of water.
Working under insufficient conditions. Recently, the Works Energy Commission installed a set of spiral cold-pressed oil equipment for this workshop. It is specially used to process dried coconuts shipped from Yulin.
"The grain and oil processing plant is now directly managed by the Committee of Agriculture, so you should not get involved in the specific management and production details."
"Okay, I don't know how to grind rice and extract oil anyway."
Next is the earliest food processing factory of the Committee of Agriculture in Bopu - Bopu Seafood Processing Factory. Xun Suji is very familiar with this factory - most of the ingredients in the canteen are supplied here. It can process
Salted fish, grilled dried fish, fish slabs, fish sauce, fish oil, dried sea vegetables and fish meal. The operation is very good.
Then there is the slaughterhouse of Nanhai Farm. The original plan was to upgrade it to a meat factory. In addition to slaughtering and providing fresh meat, it also planned to manufacture bacon, sausages, ham and other things. However, at this stage, the meat itself is scarce, and every day
On a good day when pigs and sheep are slaughtered, the meat is almost eaten with no bones or skin left. So far, the so-called meat processing industry has made several kilograms of dried meat and supplied it to people working in remote fields.
Finally, there is the newly built food factory.
Mo Xiaoan said that based on the discussion between him and Wu Nanhai: the Agricultural Committee is in charge of grain and oil factories and seafood processing plants, and the light industry department is in charge of meat factories and food factories. The administrative affairs of the Grain and Oil Corporation are handled by the executive vice president
Manager Xun Suji is in charge of handling it.
"That's it. Any questions?"
"Not yet." Xun Suji had no idea for a while and did not dare to express any opinion.
"It's okay! Wu Nanhai is a very cooperative person." Seeing his confused look, Mo Xiao'an comforted him, "If you have any questions, talk to him more and he will definitely help. After all, he is the general manager!"
He turned to look at the office again. The room smelled of limewash, raw paint, and new wood. The walls were painted white. With a newly made desk, filing cabinets, and a few wicker chairs, it looked very similar.
State-owned enterprise offices in the 1970s and 1980s.
"Are you satisfied here?"
"Very good." Xun Suji nodded repeatedly.
"There is a shortcoming, there is no power distribution here." Mo Xiao'an said with a little regret. Because of saving wires and distribution equipment, many newly built non-critical facilities now do not have power supply, and food factories do not have electric motors.
There are no wires connected, so during night production, we can only light gas lamps for lighting.
"My power distribution quota is not in vain!" This is what Xun Suji never forgets.
"I have no choice but to hold on, there will be bread." Mo Xiaoan said nonchalantly.
After Mo Xiaoan handed over all the procedures and related documents, he slipped away. He still had matters at the garment factory to deal with, and the other thing he said in front of Mr. Wen was: "You can't take the small businessmen with you when they come."
"Silver" - he has to come up with several new products that can keep the goods of small businessmen.
Xun Suji sat alone in the office, looking at the snow-white walls, the standard desk and filing cabinets, and a box of documents and account books from food factories and grain and oil companies, thinking about what he should do first.
Logically speaking, when a new official takes office, he must first want to achieve something. But Xun Suji's mind is on his large box of private goods. The common feature of these things is that they cannot be used without electricity. Since the food factory has no electricity,
I thought to myself that it would be better to go back to the dormitory area to sleep, at least there would be electricity there.
Originally, he planned to discuss with Xiao Zishan whether he could be given a single dormitory so that he could use his quota without disturbing his roommates. This is not difficult to do now: many people stay overnight in their own dormitories.
In the work department, four people sleep alone in the dormitory, and there are many people around. Xiao Zishan will definitely agree.
Xiao Zishan said that it is okay to arrange a separate room for each person, but if he is in the dormitory area, his extra electricity quota will be invalid. In order to avoid disturbing others in the dormitory, the lights in the dormitory area will be turned off as soon as bedtime comes. No matter you
If you have extra electricity quota, you have to sleep. If you want to read and play on the computer, you have to go to the public recreation room, but that's only until midnight.
"By the way, I already have a secretary." Xun Suji's eyes lit up. It would be easier with free labor.
He hurriedly called Xiao Zishan and said that he did not want a separate dormitory and would rather live in the office of the food factory. But he would have to be assigned a secretary.
"Of course she's a girl. She can help me with laundry and other things. But she must be strong and not weak. Yes, she must be able to do heavy work."
"There's no requirement for looks or anything, right?"
"No, I just do it for work. It's good that I don't look intimidating. I need to be cleaner."
Laide's administrative trainee is a girl, dark and thin, with an unattractive appearance. She introduces herself in Mandarin that is not very proficient but can be understood basically, and says her name is Jin Xishan. She is eighteen or nineteen years old this year. She is from Fujian and was born an orphan.
As for why she ran away, during the political trial, everyone thought she would say it was because she was abused by her master, or intended to rape, but they did not expect that the real reason was that the master did not allow the maids in the family to get married.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, local wealthy people in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places had the so-called "maidservant" custom. The maidservants in the family were never worthy of anyone after they reached adulthood, and they stayed at home and worked until they died of old age. This very inhumane practice was to prevent
His own property suffered losses. After all, most of the maidservants were raised from childhood. No matter how much money they can get from marrying, they will never be worth the usefulness of an adult woman's labor force.
Jin Xishan ran to Guangdong in a daze, almost fell into the hands of human traffickers, and was almost "robbed" of her marriage by a wifeless farmer in the countryside. After a lot of wandering, she was rescued by the intimidating people, and then arrived in Lingao.
Kim Heesan? Xun Suji can't connect the person in front of her with the artificial beauty - this is too "real". I don't know which Korean element got it.
Fortunately, Xun Suji didn't expect her to look good. But can such a girl be considered "powerful"?
Unexpectedly, as soon as he packed up his things in the dormitory, he immediately saw the hardships and hard work of ancient working women. He brought a lot of equipment, including a box full of technical information, microfilm and related reading equipment, astronomical telescopes, hand-operated generators, and vehicle-mounted
Supercapacitors, various tools, computers, and a large box filled with various digital products, plus a set of extremely heavy coated paper encyclopedias. These things have almost never been unpacked since D-Day, and there is no room in the dormitory.
There is no electricity at the stall.
Xun Suji opened his folding bicycle and bundled basic maintenance tools and accessories on the bicycle. For other things, he asked Jin Xishan to find Xiao Zishan and sent two laborers to help move the things.
Jin Xishan only borrowed a "Zidian" wheelbarrow and tied all the miscellaneous equipment on the car. Then with a fierce force, she pushed the wheelbarrow with a load of nearly 200 kilograms up. Xun Suji was
I was dumbfounded.
"Hey, hey, it's too heavy. Let's invite two people."
"Chief Xiao said we have to wait an hour for someone to come, and the time is up. Let's go, there is another cart." Jin Xishan pushed the cart to the farm without caring. She talked while pushing the cart without changing her expression.
Out of breath.
Not only did Jin Xishan not rest during the entire journey, but she also chatted with Xun Suji along the way. She talked while pushing the cart, her expression unchanged and she was out of breath.
After arriving at the office, I unloaded my things without taking a rest. I immediately went back to the dormitory area and transported all the remaining belongings in one go. The unloaded things were piled up in a big pile - Xun Suji himself never thought that he would bring this with him.
Jin Xishan took out the broom, wooden basin, rag and soap locust that had just been brought from the Planning Commission warehouse from the car. She was busy doing cleaning, moving furniture, hanging curtains... she was very busy.
Xun Suji just watched blankly and couldn't intervene in anything-except when he asked him for instructions on which luggage to put where, he showed some value.
Xun Suji entered his bedroom and saw that the table had been cleaned, thin bamboo curtains were hung on the windows, a kerosene lamp was placed on the desk with white wood stubble, and everything was neatly placed.
together.
"Chief, are you satisfied with it?"
"Very good." Xun Suji nodded with satisfaction. The secretary is really a good thing. No wonder everyone has been eager to receive it from the executive committee.
Jin Xishan opened her luggage and packed it up again. Her bedroom was arranged in a small room next to it. Although Xun Suji had no idea at first, when he saw that his secretary lived next door, he couldn't help but wish that Jin Xishan was more beautiful...
He unpacked the hand-cranked generator himself, which had not been unpacked since D-Day. He connected it to his UPS, battery pack, and vehicle-mounted supercapacitor one by one, and finally took out a wiring board.
. Seemingly to compensate for the regret of not having played with them for almost a year, Xun Suji plugged in all his PSP, digital camera, notebook and other things at once.
"Okay, Xiaojin, you come and shake this handle every afternoon until the light turns green, do you understand?" Xun Suji said seriously, "This is a very important task, and it must be completed on time!"
"Yes, Chief."
With this human flesh charger, you can fully enjoy the wonderful time of being an otaku at night. Although the 3D characters in front of you are not very "cute", the 2D world is still perfect.
After fully arranging his little life, Xun Suji began to think about what to do to ensure that his salary could be maintained for a long time.
Mo Xiao'an asked him to do something. Where did this performance come from? Exporting goods and the like were too complicated, so it was better to let Mo Xiao'an worry about it. It would be more realistic for him to start by expanding the variety of supplies.
He read the production diagram of the food factory workshop on the wall several times, and checked the supply records and the list of raw materials available from the farm. After studying for a while, he picked up the phone and checked the "Administrative Personnel" book he had just obtained.
I found Wu De's office phone number in the "address book" and dialed it.
In the afternoon of the same day, Yanghe in the quarantine camp received a notice to include among the immigrants who had passed the quarantine period and were waiting for allocation, the workers in the soy sauce garden, those who made tofu, those who opened the groats, those who had worked as cooks, those who had worked as waiters in restaurants, and
The butchers were cleared out and sent to the food factory by the general manager. Wu De also selected a few people from the commune members who had expertise in this field and had not yet gone anywhere.
Xun Suji's first step was to separate the workshop function of the canteen. After communicating with Wu Nanhai and Xiao Zishan, all the indigenous employees and equipment that were originally responsible for making tofu in the canteen were transferred to the food factory and a bean products workshop was established.
Specializing in the production of tofu, dried tofu and yuba, and fermented soybean sprouts and mung bean sprouts. Xun Suji originally planned to ferment tofu to make fermented bean curd, but he soon encountered a problem - not enough soybeans. The soybeans here in Lingao were the same as those at that time
Like all soybean production in rural China, it is a small-scale cultivation of miscellaneous grains. There is no surplus except for supplying a few tofu workshops in the county.