Chapter 108 Chapter 108 New Taste
The administrative and logistical staff were moved by the sincere hearts of the professors from the Agricultural University, and they did their best to arrange daily meals for the technical staff at the factory. Cars were still waiting outside so that the professors could return to the suites in the division headquarters guesthouse to rest at any time.
But after entering the factory, the old professors were busy day and night getting familiar with the production equipment, the technical links of noodle rolling, cutting, steaming, cutting and drying, seasoning and preservation technology. They ate and lived in the factory and rarely returned to the guesthouse.
The families of the 1st and 2nd Regiments and the unemployed young people arranged by the local authorities all entered the factory.
The first batch of technical personnel selected by the factory cadres and the staff representative conference have begun to learn from the engineers sent by Japan.
The whole factory has been busy for half a month, and the family members who originally came there to earn a salary have unknowingly been drawn into the atmosphere of seizing the time to learn technology.
I only remembered to eat when the food in the cafeteria was cold.
When it was time to get off work in the evening, he refused to leave.
Liang Xin urged everyone to go back, but everyone was still unhappy and started to ask Liang Xin to go back quickly.
Reporters at the base have been following the news about the family-employed factory. They stayed in the factory for a few days and wrote an article titled “An Extraordinary Family-employed Factory.”
How is it extraordinary? The examples of family-run factories in other units were used.
A serious logistics battalion-level cadre usually least wants to be the director of a family factory. Once he is assigned to manage a family factory, he will feel that the sky has fallen and his military career has come to an end.
Why?
Because the wives of officials working in the family factories are more unruly than the other, and if you make one of them unhappy, she will go back and whisper in your ear, and it is very likely that she will make your life difficult.
Therefore, it is very normal for employees in family factories to be late and leave early, and no one cares at all.
In fact, it is placed in a military factory. The old hands have heard a lot that after the military is converted to civilian use, it is common for some people to just slack off and steal leftover materials or even directly steal the factory's products and resell them.
Therefore, I heard that a group of wives of officials drove the factory director back home, and the factory director drove the wives off work, but couldn't drive them away, and they worked overtime until they forgot to eat and sleep. This was the first time that all the comrades in the army had heard of such a thing!
During the product preparation period, Liangxin also supported reporters’ follow-up reporting.
This will ensure that the conscientious instant noodle factory continues to be exposed in newspapers.
Regardless of production, new things about the family members working hard and contrary to common sense can also arouse the interest and expectations of the people's comrades.
The senior professors became familiar with the whole set of production equipment and technology. The technical staff from both China and Japan also tried to produce several samples based on the wheat flour and oil produced by Jiangmen Farm. Then Liangxin held a new flavor research and production meeting.
"The two flavors of Japan's Sanjing instant noodles have been adapted to local flour through process adjustments by technicians."
Liang Xin asked Zhong Xuelian and Li Mao to distribute the printed materials to everyone in the conference room. "At present, the three fresh flavors and miso pork bone soup flavors have a high repetition rate with the flavors of the other ten production lines in China. I personally think that these two flavors are not suitable as flagship products and should be introduced to the Chinese market. When it comes to eating noodles, we Chinese can go back to 4,000 years ago. Our ancestors in the Neolithic Age began to knead and stretch noodles. It has been passed down to this day. It can be said that every Chinese has eaten noodles. Shanxi's knife-cut noodles, Shaanxi's oil-splashed noodles, Beijing's fried noodles, Xinjiang's pulled noodles, there are countless varieties. These noodle making methods can not only provide us with new flavor ideas, but also show that instant noodles have a very considerable market in our country. This is the noodle making method I summarized from all over China. Let's take a look first."
The old professors put on their glasses and looked through the materials compiled by Liang Xin together with the cadres from the technical department.
The sound of flipping papers could be heard intermittently in the conference room.
About ten minutes later, Professor Liu said, "Director Liang, the noodles eaten by people in the north of my country are different from those eaten by people in the south. For example, northerners pay attention to the chewiness of noodles, while southerners pay attention to the soup and toppings. Should we adapt to local conditions, or should we develop a taste that suits the taste of people all over the country as the flagship product you mentioned?"
Li Mao said: "If we want to do it well, I think we still have to unify the taste first."
Liang Xin nodded and said, "Our flagship product is the irreplaceable flavor of Conscience Instant Noodles. It is the flavor that comes to mind when people think of Conscience Instant Noodles. No matter where they smell it, they will immediately think of Conscience Instant Noodles."
“Since it’s about taste, we need to work hard on the seasoning.”
Professor Li said: "The three-fresh flavor is egg, shrimp and chicken, and there is also pork bone soup. Why not use eel bones from the Jiangnan region to make soup, which has a rich and delicate taste."
"Not everyone eats yellow eels." Another professor shook his head. "Just hearing the name, I wouldn't spend money to buy instant noodles of this flavor. I see that the mutton noodles have a very good soup base, and mutton soup has a long history in my country."
"No, no."
A worker representative waved his hand and said, "Many female comrades here don't like to eat mutton. Mutton is very smelly. We can't just consider adults. Children are also the key target of our sales market."
Professor Liu said, "It would be better to replace the mutton noodles with this Tibetan specialty, highland barley noodles cooked with yak meat."
Liang Xin turned to the second to last page of the materials. "As for beef, braised beef noodles are the most famous and popular dish in state-owned restaurants and eateries across the country. Beef is indeed more acceptable to most people than mutton."
"No, no."
Professor Li shook his head like a rattle, "The supply of beef is far less than pork. With 1.5 kilograms of meat coupons per month, it is difficult to buy beef once or twice a year."
"What Professor Li said makes sense. The supply of raw materials is indeed a problem." Liang Xin said, "Currently, cattle are still used as agricultural labor by rural members. The number of working cattle on hand is as high as more than 70 million, and beef cattle account for less than 5%. However, in pastoral areas such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet, the supply of beef is sufficient. In the past, it was difficult to transport it to cities due to logistics reasons. But now we have dehydration technology, so we can consider cooperating with them to produce raw materials for braised beef noodles."
Professor Li continued, "So Director Liang wants to make braised beef noodles?"
“I’m swaying between braised beef noodles and old hen noodle soup.”
Liang Xin smiled and said, "We have to produce both flavors. It's just that other people also have chicken noodle soup, but beef is very rare. I want to try it, but unfortunately, rural areas have not yet completely switched to mechanized production. They still adhere to the concept that "cows are heirlooms, and killing cows is like cutting off food." The country also has policies to protect oxen. If we only rely on the supply from pastoral areas, we always feel that there is not enough sense of security."
"Don't worry, Director Liang."
Professor Liu saw Liang Xin's idea and said, "As long as the problem of beef raw materials can be solved, we can come back at any time to help the factory research new flavors of braised beef noodles."
"Thank you, Professor Liu."
Liang Xin was not afraid that they would not continue their research, but when she heard Professor Liu mention beef, she thought of the most popular beef-flavored instant noodles, so she took the opportunity to join in the conversation.
But since Professor Liu has made such a guarantee, it is also an extra surprise.
"I think we should go with chicken noodle soup." Li Mao said, "We have a ready-made mechanized chicken farm, and we import the exclusive patented Ross chicken from the UK. The taste is unique and others can't imitate it. Besides, braised beef noodles are a famous signature dish in restaurants, but old hen noodle soup is something every household dreams of eating. I haven't eaten much beef, so if I want to buy... I might buy beef, but I won't miss the instant noodles with old hen soup flavor!"
Many lesbians at the scene raised their hands to express their agreement, and the gays did not object either.
During the difficult times, every household was only allowed to raise three to five chickens, and a bowl of chicken soup noodles was a delicacy they could never even imagine.
Liang Xin introduced the chicken farm to the farm through Lu Wei in order to prepare for the raw materials and flavors of instant noodles. "Chicken soup alone is not surprising. We changed it to the golden partner of chicken soup, mushroom chicken soup noodles, and launched it on the market as a flagship product. Beef can be used as a treasure, and it will be developed and supplied in limited quantities at the same time. When the national policy is further relaxed, we will consider letting Director Zhang build a beef cattle farm, and then distribute it to the market on a large scale as the next flagship product."
Passed unanimously.
"Now I want to get to the point."
Liang Xin turned to the last page of the materials. "Currently, whether it is domestically developed or instant noodles on the Japanese market, the seasoning packet is basically only one pack, which contains MSG, salt, shrimp powder, miso, pork bone powder, and chicken bone powder. The egg instant noodles from Beijing Hongqing Food Factory No. 1 have an extra bag of sesame oil. The key to whether our conscience instant noodles can win the first battle lies in the seasoning packet. I hope that in addition to the seasoning packets that other companies have, we can also use the original mushroom chicken soup as a sauce packet, and match it with a dried vegetable packet, a total of three seasoning packets, as a trump card advantage for market competition."
The conference room suddenly exploded.
They have tried Japanese instant noodles and domestically produced instant noodles, and none of them contain vegetables or original soup sauce packets!
The old professors looked at Liang Xin's smiling expression and realized that their mission had just begun!
Not only did they not think that Liang Xin was forcing them to do something, but they were very excited and wanted to use the technology they had learned from Japanese technicians to upgrade their own sauce packets that were not even available in Japan!
During the rest of the meeting, Liang Xin coordinated the technical department's ideas and made appropriate suggestions that were in line with the current era's personality to help them get inspiration.
The Japanese technician, who had only listened to the translator and hardly spoke during the whole process, was surprised and excited after hearing Liang Xin's opinions, and pulled the translator to join the discussion with the old professors.
After the meeting in the conference room, Liang Xin accompanied them to the production workshop, where they continued discussions on the production equipment. They then went to the farm and held a meeting with Director Zhang to discuss the vegetable and mushroom harvests and the production plan for the next quarter.
In the evening, perhaps because it was too dark, Lu Chongfeng drove to the farm to pick up Liang Xin from get off work.
Both the old professors and the Japanese technicians in the technical department were so excited about Liang Xin’s seasoning package development plan that they were unwilling to leave the workshop.
Both cars were waiting in the factory. Liang Xin didn't stay with them any longer to raise technical issues. She also had the most important marketing and sales related issues waiting to be arranged, so she went home first with Lu Chongfeng.
Lu Chongfeng looked at Liang Xin who didn't want to talk in the passenger seat, took out a thermos cup and handed it to her, "Red dates and white fungus soup."
Liang Xin looked up in surprise and looked at the green thermos cup. "Did you stew it?"
"I asked my elder sister to stew it when I got home from get off work." Lu Chongfeng put his hands on the steering wheel, driving at night, his eyes fixed on the road ahead, "I know you didn't come home by dinner time, you must have had endless meetings today."
“How thoughtful.”
Liang Xin smiled and unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup. She took a sip of the warm red dates and white fungus soup. She felt her throat, which was about to smoke, was instantly moisturized. "It's sweet but not greasy. It's very comfortable."
Lu Chongfeng glanced at Liang Xin drinking her soup and said, "At noon and in the evening today, someone kept calling your house looking for you."
Liang Xin casually replied: "Who?"
"A food factory in Beijing offers 800 yuan a month to be the factory director. Once you get the position, you will be allocated a four-bedroom, one-living-room apartment for senior officials based on the factory director's administrative level."
Lu Chongfeng said, "A food factory in Shanghai has offered you a job as deputy factory manager at 2,000 yuan a month. They also said they have already arranged a high-end apartment on the Bund for you and are waiting for you to move in."
Liang Xin made a "tsk" sound.
Lu Chongfeng asked with a smile, "Are you not moved by this?"
Liang Xin took a sip of soup slowly and said, "Money can't compare to people."
"who?"
Lu Chongfeng looked curious, "So much money, but it's not as attractive to you as him?"
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