Siheyuan: A Cook in the 60s

"Not really, that's it." Jing Yu felt a little pain in the root of his teeth, and pointed to his temple: "It works well here."

"Isn't that nonsense? If it doesn't work, why not let him come?" Zheng Xuan and Jing Yu are good friends and have been playing together since childhood.

Even though we haven't seen each other for a while, it doesn't necessarily feel like strangeness.

"Anyway, go down first and don't keep people waiting."

"to make."

Cao Wei looked at the two people coming out from the front, waved at them, and threw two cigarettes over.

Zheng Xuan had sharp eyes and looked at the special cigarette box.

Wow, he can smoke any kind of cigarette.

"We are already acquaintances, so I won't be polite. Get in the car, I'll take you to find something to eat."

"This..." Zheng Xuan hesitated.

"Okay, Lao Zheng, let's go. It's just a meal. He has money, he'll treat us." Jing Yu pulled Zheng Xuan into the car.

"Master, where are we going?" the driver Xiao Zhao asked.

"Go and see how your fellow apprentice's craftsmanship is going."

"Yes."

"I'm talking to Lao Jing, and Lao Zheng. Is it okay for me to call you Lao Zheng?"

"No problem, we're all family, just be casual." Zheng Xuan also relaxed a little.

"Which factory do you want me to take over?"

"How did you know you had to take over?"

Cao Wei rolled his eyes and said, "Come on, you can't let yourself build one. I'm willing to build one, are you willing?"

Zheng Xuan was speechless.

Everyone else was rushing to take over, but this guy was still complaining.

Factories in some places are disliked, but factories in other places are very popular. Especially if the leaders have given a heads-up, then the conditions for taking over should not be too harsh.

It's okay if this person asks to build it himself.

"Well, don't mess around with that. The key is how to sell it. You've done a good job in creating jobs."

Zheng Xuan felt that these two were a little weird.

The car was going very fast.

After a while, they arrived at the restaurant where Sha Zhu was.

"Wow, this is a really nice place." Zheng Xuan looked up and down at the restaurant.

There is a Samadhi Tower hanging above and the Sichuan Restaurant and Tan’s Cuisine below.

Sha Zhu's restaurant is one of the best restaurants under Cao Wei. The location is not too famous. On the contrary, it is quite secluded. But the business is still good every day. The only thing about Sha Zhu's dishes is that they are expensive, but they taste really good.

In the past, "Tan's cuisine" was a standard "noble cuisine", with rules on when to enter the restaurant and how to cook it. But now, those rules are gone.

"Master Cao, you're here." Qi Su came over with her daughter-in-law. Before coming, Zhao Boxue had already notified them through the "BB machine".

"Well, sister-in-law, please."

"Hey, look at what you said. I'll take you there." Qi Su chuckled.

Take them to a relatively secluded small room.

The room was decorated elegantly, and this was a decoration concept that Lou Xiaoe brought from Hong Kong. It looked very refined, not awkward, but comfortable.

"Just let Erzhu take care of the arrangements."

"Okay, then you guys sit down for a while."

In addition to the dining table, there is also a sofa and a coffee table in the room.

"This small house is not simple." Zheng Xuan sighed.

A proper restaurant would not be like this. Most restaurants only care about the turnover rate. They want you to finish eating and leave quickly, so they would not put a tea table for customers to slowly make tea.

"Come on, let's sit down. Before the food comes, let's talk about something. The environment here is good and it's more relaxed."

As the host, Cao Wei was the first to invite everyone to take a seat.

It’s still the same old rule, the teapot is lit before any words are spoken.

By the way, he gave some cigarettes to a few people: "The ventilation here is good, it can disperse the smell."

"Old Cao, what are you going to do this time?" Jing Yu didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.

"How do we do it? First, tell me what the situation is in that factory?"

"There's nothing much to say. I just can't do it anymore. The equipment in the factory..."

"Let's talk about the equipment first. What I'm talking about is the hard targets. You know me. I won't work for a lot of ancestors."

"I'll take care of this aspect."

"It's good that you can solve it." Cao Wei nodded and continued, "In fact, even if you don't tell me about our current domestic problems, I know them in my heart. In addition to the gap in equipment, there are also gaps in management and workers."

By the late 80s, many instant noodle factories were gradually getting on track. Instant noodles were no longer a luxury and gradually became available to ordinary citizens.

But in the early 90s, foreign giants began to set their sights on the mainland market.

Yes, the instant noodles here are cheap, but there are too many people.

This is a piece of extremely fat and juicy meat.

As soon as foreign products come in, they directly attack with a dimensionality reduction attack, and this dimensionality reduction attack does not refer to competition with state-owned enterprises. Instead, they take the high-end route.

High-end instant noodles?

In the eyes of later generations, yes, but for most people, it is a joke. Instant noodles are high-end? Rich people will not eat this stuff, and poor people will not eat it either. This is just a niche market that cannot be more niche. But in the early 90s, foreign brands actually sold high-end instant noodles.

This is not the point.

The point is, after a series of investigations, Jing Yu sadly discovered that if she wanted to go out, the first thing she had to deal with was to solve the bad reputation she had before. In addition, she had to control various production links, allocate costs, and market marketing. All of these were troublesome things.

You ask why not let those established brands take over.

All I can say is that everyone has their own reasons. The most common reason has been mentioned by Jing Yu above.

"The most important aspects are three." Cao Wei held up three fingers. "First, the factory's production method. I will go to Hong Kong to see if there is a way to introduce some more advanced machines. Second, the taste. I have a plan for the taste. I can do some experiments when the time comes. Third, the marketing aspect. Where do you plan to go?"

"The north." Zheng Xuan said solemnly, "The north is in chaos right now. We have a lot of things to exchange with them, but they don't trust our things very much. Therefore, we must have a stable source of supply."

"I understand." Cao Wei nodded.

He finally understood why such a thing could cause the leader to come and talk to him.

So he was planning to share some of the benefits...