Siheyuan: Pushing Huairu, the Prime Minister admits defeat

"The production of bread and biscuits seems to be quite high, but it's a pity that these things are so common that they don't suit my taste."

Hearing this, Li Weijun shook his head, stood up and searched in the cupboard, but only found half a bag of Iraqi candied dates that he had bought a few days ago to satisfy his craving for the time being.

"That's strange. For such a big food factory, it's good enough to have bread and biscuits. If you want to eat them, I'll secretly bring you some next time. As for whether they suit your taste, I have no idea. Besides, there are so many food factories in Beijing, and they all have the same old things. If you can come up with new tricks and help our factory improve its performance, I'll have to thank you."

These days, although there is unified purchase and sales.

However, the levels of department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives are different, and the rebate profits are naturally different. They all produce the same bread and biscuits, and the factory with a greater demand will have a greater profit margin.

Therefore, the competition between food factories is equally fierce.

Xu Wanjun giggled, put on her cloth shoes, and hugged Li Weijun from behind, like a child in a honey pot, begging, "I heard from Xu Damao that you seem to be going on a business trip to other places to purchase internal reference tablets in a few days. How about you help him find out what new things are available in coastal cities, what delicious new things are there, and bring him some rouge and powder by the way."

"New things? How about your factory laying a new production line?"

Li Weijun scratched her nose lovingly and fed her the candied dates in his mouth.

"Hmm, hehe, you are the best. Of course, our factory director and secretary were in a meeting yesterday. The supply and marketing cooperative has not been purchasing biscuits and bread from our factory recently. We have hundreds of people in our factory and they are counting on these purchase orders to pay out benefits. If you can really come up with some good ideas, you will be a great benefactor of our factory and you will be at the top of the table."

As she spoke, Xu Wanjun took out a newspaper published by the food factory from her pocket.

It clearly said there was a prize-giving contest and the government was actively seeking help from the general public to pool wisdom to select new foods. The requirements were that the food should be easy to produce, taste delicious, have low operating difficulty, be highly adaptable to the environment and be efficient.

I looked at the bonus again. Wow, it was fifty yuan, plus the permanent friendship from the food factory, a total of fifty-three kilograms of biscuits and one hundred loaves of bread.

It can be said that this is a big deal. Just from a glimpse of the situation, we can see the difficult situation that Xu Wanjun and her food factory are in now.

It makes sense. Although many employees in the food factory have stable jobs and will never go hungry, if their performance levels do not meet the standards, their welfare benefits will also plummet.

Many factories, including rolling mills, have to raise their own wages. Some factories that are poorly managed and unable to make ends meet often stop paying wages but not stopping work.

"Hey! I was just dozing off when a pillow was handed to me. Sister Wanjun, I have an idea. If your food factory can come up with this product, it will surely be the best in the whole capital, no, even in the whole country. By then, you will be very famous."

"Is it that mysterious?"

Seeing Li Weijun's solemn assurance, Xu Wanjun couldn't help but become curious.

She begged Li Weijun in a coquettish and pitiful manner, but Li Weijun had no intention of hiding anything.

After enjoying a round of flattery, he readily and clearly explained the method of making simple instant noodles in later generations.

If we trace the origin of instant noodles in a broad sense, we can find it as early as the Han Dynasty, when the Marquis of Huaiyin was at war with Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, in order to alleviate the crisis of inconvenient storage of food and fodder for the march.

On a whim, they cooked buckwheat flour and wheat flour into a batter, steamed it into large pancakes, and cut it into noodles of varying widths. They could quickly fill their stomachs by soaking them in a little water. Not only was it light for the soldiers to carry with them, it was also efficient.

But this thing fails to capture the soul of instant noodles, which is taste. Instant noodles may lack nutritional value, and eating them for a long time may pose a hidden danger to your health, but it is undeniable that slurping instant noodles in your mouth and then taking a sip of the rich and spicy soup tastes simply amazing.

If Li Weijun's prediction was correct, chicken soup noodles were invented not long ago in the neighboring country of Sakura, and they are only popular in the region so far.

If I could seize this opportunity and quickly make a name for myself in the country, it would be still unknown who would be the ancestor of instant noodles.

Li Weijun wanted to develop traditional pickled cabbage and spicy beef noodles, with the aim of differentiating them from the Little Sakura chicken soup instant noodles next door.

Although in this era of poverty, it is conceivable how difficult it is to quickly promote instant noodles, a fast-moving consumer product that is high in oil and salt.

For the same price, the general public still prefers to buy cornmeal, while slightly better-off families mostly choose bread and biscuits.

But Li Weijun didn't care, because the market he was targeting was not this group of people at all.

Li Weijun vaguely remembers that when he was young, instant noodles were a precious gift for every household during festivals. His father would come back from the mine every week and bring back a box of instant noodles distributed by the mine.

As parents, they are reluctant to eat it and can only have a bite when the food improves, and they drink up every drop of soup.

Therefore, although the production of instant noodles consumes huge amounts of materials, oil, and salt, the profits generated are also considerable.

Ordinary people can't afford it, but there are always some people who flock to it.

Not to mention, instant noodles can be promoted as a special product in partner countries. Earning foreign exchange is one purpose, and building a reputation is another.

Li Weijun knew very well that the food crisis in previous years, in addition to natural disasters such as famine, was also caused in large part by the need to repay foreign debts, and the country could only export some cheap agricultural products to pay off the debts.

Our industrial base is weak now, so if we can export light industrial food such as instant noodles, it will definitely be much more economical than directly using grain to pay off debts.

Sure enough, after hearing what Li Wei was saying, Xu Wanjun's eyes lit up, and a light flashed in her eyes. Soon, she said with some doubts.

"Fried food, isn't that just Sanzi? I've eaten it soaked in water before, it's not as mysterious as you say, don't lie to me."

"Hey, why would I lie to you? How about this? First light the stove in the house and ventilate the doors and windows. I'll go outside to buy some raw materials and make it myself for you to try."

Seeing that she didn't believe him, Li Weijun went out to the central courtyard and found Sha Zhu who was preparing the evening banquet. He wanted Sha Zhu to save some fine noodles for later use and also to find out who had canned sauerkraut or something like that.

"Pulled noodles? How can you have noodles at a buffet?"

Sha Zhu was stunned when he heard this, but thinking that Li Weijun had indeed helped a lot in his blind date with Yu Li these days, he nodded in agreement.

Since it's just a simple demonstration product, Li Weijun doesn't have strict quality control, so he just needs to be detailed.

This is not difficult. There is some dough left over from steaming buns in the morning. It only takes a quarter of an hour to knead and pull the dough in one go.