Chapter 31 Let’s have a pot first

"Is this the form you're using for testing?" Wei Jie handed Shengxia the restaurant application form with "Hot Pot Restaurant" on it. He was trying to find an excuse, but Shengxia insisted, "Huh? No, it's not. Oh, you came just in time. Come and help me try the food."

Food tasting?

"I don't know if the people of Volk can accept the corresponding taste. Personally, I prefer the spicy hot pot, but the mushroom hot pot and the clear soup hot pot are also very good. It's a pity that there are not enough tomatoes to support the tomato hot pot. But with the existing ingredients, being able to stir-fry the hot pot base is already very good." Shengxia began to talk about this matter like a treasure.

Seeing this, Wei Jie simply blocked Sheng Xia's path with one foot before she could make a move. Sheng Xia looked at him with a puzzled expression. Wei Jie coughed, glanced at the construction team members in the room, and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to pull Sheng Xia to the corridor to ask her what she wanted to do.

"Your schedule is very tight." "I know." "You don't know!"

Shengxia wore a helpless expression, while Wei Jie began to list off the details. "Tomorrow alone, your schedule includes inspecting the completion of the internal cameras, security station, garbage station, fire station, and emergency reserve station. You'll also have to meet with the relevant police and federal security personnel. After that, you'll organize the construction of the Volk Continuing Education College, arrange for the Volk population to enter the melt cave in batches, and meet with the corresponding working groups for each batch. You'll also have to meet with the people sent by the Independence Army. The joint meeting of all the major factions is scheduled for tomorrow..."

After a long babble, Wei Jie slapped the restaurant application form in his hand and said the key point: "How can you possibly find the time to open a restaurant? Even if you do, where are the staff, chefs, dishes, decoration, design, and budget?"

Seeing Wei Jie's angry expression, Sheng Xia subconsciously raised an eyebrow. Wei Jie finally realized that he had spoken a little too loudly, so he coughed twice and turned to ask Sheng Xia, "Have you ever considered that you might not even get four hours of sleep a day? If you keep going like this, your body won't be able to take it anymore."

Shengxia: ... "To run a hot pot restaurant, you can only sleep well if you eat well."

Wei Jie: ...Forget it, let him take charge of this matter. He can’t just watch Shengxia collapse from exhaustion.

But what he didn't expect was that when he followed Shengxia to the tasting room reserved by the hot pot restaurant, he saw Mo Siming and some senior members of the population export faction and the biological faction already waiting there. To be precise, they were not just waiting, but a group of people gathered together to eat most of the dishes with hearty appetite. The atmosphere was extremely lively.

So when he saw Shengxia bringing people in, the other party felt quite embarrassed as if he had been caught cheating.

Wei Jie: ...

Mo Siming and his group: ...

After a few seconds of silence, Mo Siming said, as if he had given up, "How about we join in?"

So Wei Jie was inexplicably assigned a seat, and the atmosphere during the food tasting was so good that the core members not only held a private meeting scheduled for tomorrow but also discussed the core issues. Everyone expressed their loyalty to Shengxia.

In this way, the overall situation of the various forces on the planet Volker was initially determined.

After finishing the steaming hot pot, Wei Jie watched Mo Siming send the others off. He couldn't help but go to the kitchen to find Sheng Xia and mutter to her, "I know what you're planning. This hot pot restaurant in the food court can not only be used to entertain VIPs, but also as an intelligence gathering station. It can also lead other restaurants to align with your standards. It really is a hundred benefits with no harm."

Just when Wei Jie was still immersed in his endless imagination, Sheng Xia looked up and said, "No, I just want to eat hot pot in winter."

Wei Jie: ...No, he doesn't believe it at all.

However, just as he looked at Shengxia in disbelief, Shengxia handed him a food tasting questionnaire seriously and asked him to fill it out. Of course, if he didn't like the food just now, he could bring his family here for another meal in the evening.

"Do you like spicy hot pot?" "I... clear soup." "Tsk tsk tsk, that's so tasteless."

Wei Jie: ...

Watching Shengxia earnestly teaching the chef in the tasting room the secret of frying the hot pot base, Wei Jie sighed and was just thinking that Shengxia had a very down-to-earth side when the children who suddenly came in to help caught his attention. It was not until this time that he realized through careful identification that... Aren't these the children from the Independence Army?

When Mo Siming went to the Independence Army before, he specially called him over to meet them. The people who came to meet them were the children of the Independence Army. The leader was named Xizi. Yes, he still remembered Xizi's eyes that were as deep as black gemstones.

He stepped back, and the actor came in from behind him carrying some side dishes and said that this dish was very strange and would make him very prone to diarrhea.

Seeing this, Shengxia looked up and taught him, "Your diarrhea isn't caused by this dish, but by the greasy food you ate. Hmm, it seems we should adjust the daily side dish ratio. I think the clear water pot might sell better."

If you haven't eaten anything oily or spicy for a long time, then it's not a good idea to try spicy hot pot right away. The people on the Volker planet have been living on a light diet and nutrient solution for a long time, so it's not suitable for them to eat too much spicy hot pot.

Alas... it's a pity that the Food Program Group specifically reported a list of Sichuan peppercorns, Sichuan peppercorns, and local peppers from the Volker Planet. According to them, they have been trying to extract the corresponding raw materials and make nutrient solution, but the audience is really not wide, and they have been losing money on the market for many years.

If Shengxia can solve this problem, the Food Planning Group will be very grateful to Shengxia and is willing to actively participate in the enterprise deepening reform plan proposed by her.

"With all due respect, it's not that we're uncooperative with you. You're a very respectable planetary commander, but economic problems can't be solved simply by fighting and killing. Of course, this isn't to put you in a difficult position. It's just that, given the current food supply on Volk, this issue is far too thorny. If your corporate reform plans are too radical, well, I suspect you'll destroy the jobs of most of Volk's citizens."

When the chief representative of the Food Planning Group mentioned this matter, Wei Jie was leading people to check the corresponding food reserves nearby. In the words of the chief representative of the Food Planning Group, he actually admired Shengxia for opening the Rongdong Cave for free. Everyone could see her desire to help the world.

But compared to other big forces, the Food Planning Group looks huge, but it is actually very difficult to break even in terms of profit margin.

"It would be easier for us to give up, but the market is like this. Apart from arms and other businesses... we are the only relatively large company left in the high-profit sector that can still survive and provide for people."

"I know that. You have a conscience." Shengxia had Xiaoai check the background of the Food Planning Group in advance. It was an industry that had been passed down for five generations. Logically, with such a large scale, it could monopolize the price of food raw materials and raise the price, thereby causing the price of nutrient solution to soar.

But perhaps because they are afraid of conflicts with other forces, the annual price of food raw materials supplied by the Food Planning Group is very stable. On the contrary, it is the upstream nutrient solution companies that keep pushing down the price every year, causing them to be very cautious every year and consider it a good thing if they don't lose money.

Of course, this is all superficial information. Shengxia specifically asked Xiaoai to investigate the entire Food Planning Group's top management and the corresponding personnel network. She was originally worried that the Food Planning Group might appear to be doing well externally, but in reality, it had other "black money" connections with major nutrient solution companies. However, she unexpectedly discovered that they were related to the Independence Army.

They secretly provided the independence army with a lot of expired nutrient solutions. The eldest son in the family was even kidnapped by the nutrient solution company, which nearly led to the Food Planning Group's bankruptcy and restructuring. Fortunately, one of the population export faction came forward to provide financial assistance, and the group was able to avoid bankruptcy.

It is said that the previous planetary commander was also very interested in the Food Plan Group, but his proposal disappeared before the Food Plan Group could agree to it.

The corresponding proposal was provided to Shengxia by the Food Planning Group. It was basically an attempt to bypass the upstream nutrient solution company's forced collection of a portion of grain, and then release it to the market to stabilize the price when the nutrient solution price soared.

To be honest, this was a relatively mild proposal, but before the planet commander could respond, he disappeared.

"I will be responsible for helping to digest this portion of food during this cold winter. I also need you to provide corresponding project managers and food researchers to cooperate with me."

The preliminary cooperation plan between the two parties was thus verbally agreed upon. The food researchers and the corresponding project leaders were all shocked when they received the planetary commander's special invitation to spend the winter in the "core area" of the melting cave.

Afterwards, under the persuasion of senior staff of the Food Planning Group, they entered the core area of ​​Rongdong in advance with a mentality of "eating the last meal of execution", and developed the "spicy hot pot" that had never been heard of before in anticipation of midsummer.

A small pot of hot pot base, although it looks simple, is actually the result of the joint efforts of many food researchers during the renovation of the Rongdong Cave.

When they learned that Shengxia would build a food court in Rongdong, their anticipation was so intense that their eyes couldn't contain it, but they were too embarrassed to say it out loud and could only suppress it in their hearts.

"Hmm." Shengxia thought it was time to give this "hot pot restaurant" as a gift to these food researchers. However, she suddenly thought of something else: "Have the senior executives from the major media groups arrived at the hot spring area today?"

"What are you preparing?" Wei Jie hadn't finished speaking when Sheng Xia began assigning tasks: "Prepare a hot pot banquet for about 80 people. I'm having dinner with senior executives from major media groups tonight."

Hearing this, the actor couldn't help but ask Shengxia from the bottom of his heart: "Didn't you let us come here to study? What's the difference between us doing hard labor now?"

As soon as the actor finished speaking, the children immediately wailed loudly, and then they couldn't help laughing together. The liveliness and relaxation in their bodies were completely different from the image of the gangster children Wei Jie had seen on the street in the past, and this change seemed to have formed naturally. It was so subtle that no one even paid special attention to it.