Return To 1977 Chapter 946: Instant noodles
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In mid-June 1984, just when Hong Yanwu and Shui Qing were feeling great about the achievements they had made for the service company, they finally felt they could relax for a while.
A great event worth celebrating also happened in the "Polar Bear" factory.
That is, the instant noodle workshop prepared by Director Yang has finally started production.
In the original history, instant noodles that had never been produced by "Polar Bear" were born.
To this end, Director Yang held a groundbreaking ceremony.
After the ceremony, the entire factory leadership team and heads of various departments can also visit the workshop.
Hong Yanwu and Shui Qing are naturally among them.
To be honest, Hong Yanwu has never seen the production process of instant noodles.
At first, he was filled with the pride of being an "experienced person" and thought it was no big deal.
I didn’t expect it to be quite shocking when I saw it with my own eyes.
Because the modern assembly line runs smoothly, the speed is "whooshing" and the efficiency is too high.
Stirring, pressing, cutting, pressing, oiling, drying, seasoning, and packaging are all mechanized operations.
According to an engineer in the factory, he heard that this production line requires only a few dozen workers to operate and can produce 100,000 packs of instant noodles in eight hours.
Hey guys, Japanese stuff is really well-deserved!
Based on this point of view, in terms of modernization and high technology, it indeed surpasses the Republic by a lot!
At the same time, everyone was generally shocked and amazed by this number.
Hong Yanwu also gained another insight.
He suddenly understood why his father had seen the production line of the pastry factory.
The old man became discouraged and immediately accepted the reality of "public-private partnership".
And for a long time, I didn’t even think about restoring my ancestral business.
That is fear of the power of industrialization.
Low cost and high efficiency are far beyond what traditional handicraft industry can match.
It’s just that his father was limited by the times and ignored one point at the time.
That is, the industrialization of food can never fully satisfy people's appetites and completely replace traditional techniques.
Because this product is produced to a standard.
It is based on the eternal pursuit of low cost and continuous simplification of production steps.
In the process of constantly pursuing these two points, it is also a process of getting further and further away from health, safety, and humanistic sentiments.
Such food can only provide the public with convenient, fast and rough and simple taste.
But it can never satisfy people’s inner emotions and high-end, personalized needs.
To put it bluntly, it is just a makeshift thing.
As a person who has experienced a modern society, he understands this very deeply.
In the last life, the entire catering industry was eroded by industrialization.
He once lamented that he was in a high-end restaurant but felt that nothing tasted good.
He has also experienced the discomfort of being turned off by the signature dishes of time-honored restaurants that are not as good as the previous day.
Someone once said to him, "Now that you are rich, you have eaten and seen everything, so it is no longer strange. You were short of things in the past, so of course you feel that everything is good."
He once believed this to be true, but in this life he felt that it was wrong, at least not entirely right.
Since he woke up from the train station in his life, he has never lost his mouth. He eats and drinks almost every day.
But until now, he didn't feel any boredom.
The love for traditional food is getting stronger day by day.
He doesn’t get tired of meat dishes like braised pork elbows, Sixi meatballs, rice noodles and pork. They taste so good.
Of course, this is not because "Zhang Dashao" is a superb cook and he always gets the glory.
Because the dishes in the cafeteria are still delicious, such as "roasted eggplant with garlic", "charred pork slices", and "tiger skin eggs".
Only a large dining hall can produce such a taste, and its level can definitely be called the "ninth major cuisine".
This can only show that when the phenomenon of food industrialization becomes pervasive, it can only create the monotony of a hundred dishes.
Zhang Dashao said it well, "If you want to make a good dish, you can't even miss the seasonings. Soy sauce, vinegar, wine, salt, sugar, as well as auxiliary ingredients such as onions, ginger, and garlic, use If it’s slightly wrong, it’s not the same flavor.”
It is conceivable that in an era when machines are used to knead dough, yeast and baking powder are used to make dough, and seasonings are seasoned with MSG, chicken essence, blending wine, synthetic soy sauce and synthetic vinegar, what good dishes can be produced?
Not to mention meat tenderizer, Sudan red, capsaicin, these "technological inventions" that have no descendants and have no virtue for eight lifetimes.
But who does it depend on?
This can only rely on people’s excessive pursuit of quick success and instant benefits.
It can only rely on people's blind superstition of modernization and Western civilization.
Yes, it is also a kind of superstition to completely believe in technology and despise our traditional humanity and experience.
So now that he has figured this out, he won't be as confused about it as his father.
On the contrary, he had plenty of time and opportunities to strengthen himself and slowly prepare for the revival of his ancestral business.
He can collect treasures that are forgotten and easily abandoned by people at very low cost.
Just like the copper pot of "Tianxingju", the noodle fertilizer of "Fengzeyuan", and the secret recipe of "Taiye Chicken", these are used to establish the Hong family's absolute advantage in traditional food.
Wait until people wake up from their dreams and rediscover the precious value of traditional skills.
I'm afraid they will find that the Hong family's achievements and heritage already require them to look up to them.
That will be difficult for them to catch up with in their lifetime.
The Hong family will become synonymous with traditional cuisine in the capital, and will become a legendary existence that maintains the most complete inheritance and outperforms all time-honored brands in the capital.
That is the future for the Hong family to regain its glory, and it is also his lifelong wish.
What’s called ‘Judequan’, ‘Shundonglai’, ‘Fengzeyuan’, ‘Cuihualou’, and ‘Tanjia Cuisine’ are all left to dry.
If I eat the leftovers, it will be your turn!
Hmph, you, ‘Dadong’ and ‘Four Seasons Minfu’ still want to take the lead?
Whether you can still exist depends entirely on my mood!
That's it, with this clear understanding and beautiful imagination.
Hong Yanwu clearly had the wonderful feeling that he was secretly following the "leaps" of the times.
In his mind, the BGM of Wu Ma singing loudly in "A Chinese Ghost Story" also sounded, giving him more expectations for the future.
"You live in the way of wolves, hey, I seek my own way, I seek my own way"...
Almost like Hong Yanwu, Director Yang also fell into a complacent mood after seeing the start of the assembly line.
It’s just that his control and vision for the future are all based on short-term interests, and the foundation is too weak.
However, his mind is not very clear yet, and he is far from realizing this.
So when the first batch of instant noodles sold out smoothly, he got excited.
In this case, Hong Yanwu wanted the factory to sponsor the "Journey to the West" crew and advertise during the TV series' broadcast period, but he naturally rejected it.
Director Yang believes that spending such a large amount of money on this is unnecessary waste and money wasted.
Because for a large state-owned enterprise like theirs, whose products are not well-known to every household, why would they spend so much money on advertising?
What a joke!
He even complained about the 10,000 yuan that Hong Yanwu had already sponsored.
Forget it about the 500 boxes of soda that I sponsored for "Sunset Street" in the past, it's not worth anything.
But Hong Yanwu can't be more and more lavish, using public money as favors in order to make friends with actors.
This guy is just like Xia Boyang in the movie. He is free and loose, has a serious guerrilla style, and is too self-righteous and arbitrary in doing things.
I gave him 10,000 yuan lightly in exchange for the names of two acknowledging units. This is not okay.
Is this going to be okay in the long run? The power given to him is not for him to spend money.
Criticism must be criticized well!
In this way, Director Yang criticized Hong Yanwu rudely.
Teaching him face to face, he said, "As a cadre, you must correctly understand the power in your hands. If you abuse your power, the factory will be doomed. For a qualified cadre, what is the most important thing when he has power? It is not the use of power. You have to curb your desire for power! But if you have administrative power, you can't do anything. If you have the power of spending money, you can spend it randomly, even if it's not for your own benefit. If you spend money, you are also suspected of dereliction of duty."
Not only did he approve Hong Yanwu, but Director Yang later brought Shui Qing along with him, blaming her for not fulfilling her supervisory responsibilities.
It is said that home is home and work is work. At work, she is the leader.
Hong Yanwu must be controlled well and he cannot be allowed to dominate the service company.
But what is the result?
Hong Yanwu didn't take Factory Director Yang's official authority seriously at all, and he was even more disdainful of his words.
Although he kept silent, even though he gave me a lot of approval, he was a languid person.
After waiting for Director Yang to be happy, he said a few words casually, relying on his understanding of the direction of social development and experience in the market, and pinched Director Yang's vitals.
Instead, he took the opportunity to teach Director Yang a lesson.