Volume 6: The Great Change Chapter 0883 Once Young
Workers' Village, a business card of Fengtian.
Visiting the workers’ village is a must-do in any government reception itinerary, regardless of whether the guests are from home or abroad.
Nan Yi asked for directions twice, came to a house and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
"I am Mao Renfeng from the Secret Service."
The door opened with a click, and a face poked out. "I guessed it was you. Why didn't you say you were Dai Li?"
Nan Yi smiled and said, "Next time, next time, there won't be a man at home, right?"
"Yes, about seventeen or eighteen." Qi Ying rolled his eyes at Nan Yi and let them into the house.
After sitting down in the living room, Qi Ying poured tea for them. While pouring, he deliberately looked at Nan Yi and asked, "You came here empty-handed?"
Nan Yi patted his pockets and said, "How can I come to see Director Qi empty-handed? Of course I brought a gift. It's a big gift. A credit union draft of 50 million US dollars."
"Don't think I haven't seen God of Gamblers. In the movie, it was a Swiss bank promissory note. How come it became a credit union draft here?" Qi Ying chuckled.
"Comrade, you have a very low level of consciousness and you worship foreign things."
"Nan Yi, you are still the same, never behaving properly." Qi Ying shook his head.
"I call this never forgetting my original aspiration, forever young, forever full of passion, and forever filled with tears." Nan Yi picked up the teacup, blew on the tea leaves, took a sip, put down the teacup and praised: "Qi Ying, your tea is so fragrant."
Qi Ying spat, "Nan Yi, how can you praise yourself like that? Are you reminding me that you were the one who gave me the tea?"
Nan Yi laughed, "Hehe, I was just afraid that you would forget, so I reminded you."
"The plunger at home is broken. Please give me a new one as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, you are the only one who can be so mean to others." Nan Yi waved his hand and said, "Where's Minghui? Didn't he go home?"
"He went to his grandmother's house and won't be back until the middle of next month. I can't go back, so I asked him to go back and help me show my filial piety." Qi Ying said lightly.
"Tsk, that's amazing. Minghui has been trained so well by you. My son is no good. He is a naughty boy who plays all day and even dares to talk back to me. When he reaches his rebellious stage, I am afraid he will piss him off to death."
Nan Yi felt a little sad. Time really flies. When chatting with others, he has reached the stage of belittling his own children and highlighting other people's children.
"Nan Yi, please stop trying to make me happy. I have seen Wu Wei very little, but I saw Ruoyin every day when he was little. Not all biological children can be raised so well. It would be strange if you let your own child grow up wrong. Oh, by the way, is Ruoyin still in Xiangkeng now?"
"I am Liu Zhen's junior sister, studying in the United States."
"Harvard, that's great." Qi Ying said, her eyes lit up, "Nan Yi, Minghui is about to graduate. He is very well behaved in college and has never had a girlfriend."
Nan Yi said with a smile: "Qi Ying, we should not be too kind in our lives. It's not good."
"Hehe, I'm just joking with you. Ruoyin is too powerful. My Minghui can't control her." Qi Ying said with a smile. The smile on her face seemed a little forced. She really liked Nan Ruoyin, but she knew her own business and her son was not worthy of her.
Nan Yi knew that the topic of his children could not be continued, so he said: "It's getting late, shall we go to the chicken farm now?"
"Wait a moment, I'll go change my clothes." Qi Ying said, getting up and walking towards the bedroom.
After Qi Ying changed her clothes and came out of the bedroom, she made another phone call and called a van over.
When we arrived at the chicken farm, we did not receive a very grand reception. Only an ordinary clerk came out from the chicken farm. He seemed enthusiastic, but was actually neglectful.
This is not surprising. Qi Ying is not a relevant cadre and has no control over the chicken farm. Besides, although the chicken farm is very average in terms of efficiency, it earns dollors. As a major foreign exchange earner in Fengtian and a person from the Machinery Bureau, he should be happy to be received by someone.
Nan Yi thought this was a good idea as it would save him the energy to deal with the problems and allow him to focus on the investigation.
Starting at 9:30, he just had a cursory look at the place before arriving at the slaughterhouse. Only when he reached the slaughterhouse did Nan Yi start to observe in detail, especially the storage and processing of chicken racks. Not only did he look at it very carefully, he also had a good chat with the workers.
As it was getting close to dinner time, Nan Yi and his group said goodbye and left.
The reception was just a perfunctory one, so don't expect a particularly sumptuous reception banquet at noon. If Qi Ying was taken to an ordinary staff canteen to eat, Nan Yi was really worried that Qi Ying would be embarrassed.
At noon, Qi Ying treated everyone, and Nan Yi went to Hengxin Tanrou restaurant opposite the Chinese Medicine Hospital. For five people, it only cost about thirty yuan, which was very economical and delicious.
In the afternoon, Tianxian left to meet Xu Lu, and Nan Yi followed Qi Ying to visit some places they had passed by in the past two days, to show the other party the hospitality. Perhaps because they felt that the lunch was too shabby, Qi Ying took Nan Yi to a high-consumption place - the TV tower.
While climbing to a high place and looking into the distance, Qi Ying brought up a topic that Nan Yi didn't like very much.
Qi Ying: "Qu Liuyan called me some time ago. She has returned to China."
"Um."
Qi Ying: "She said she came back to invest and will come to Fengtian for inspection in a few days."
"Have you met her since graduating from college?"
Qi Ying: "No, I haven't seen her since she went abroad."
"Then you'd better be careful. Your sister is not that simple." Nan Yi told Qi Ying about what happened in Jinding Pavilion in Chinatown that year about borrowing money, but did not tell her what happened afterwards.
After listening to Nan Yi's story, Qi Ying said quietly, "Nan Yi, you should have been able to help her at that time, right?"
"Yes, I was already rich at that time. Do you remember the debate between Qu Liuyan and Zhou Maode?"
"Remember, what's wrong?"
Nan Yi laughed, "Recall the content of the debate at that time, the part about Wu Renpin and I setting up a breakfast stall."
Qi Ying recalled for a while and sighed heavily, "I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now that I think about it, you and Wu Renpin were in real danger."
"Yes, it was thrilling. Regardless of whether Qu Liuyan did it intentionally or not, Wu Renpin and I set up a breakfast stall. We couldn't talk about it, not to mention using it as material for debate in public. She almost ruined Wu Renpin and me. I'm lucky that I don't hate her. You still expect me to help her."
When Nan Yi and Wu Renpin set up a breakfast stall, it was completely in compliance with the laws and policies at the time. But so what? They had to cross the river by feeling the stones. Just because a stone sinks doesn't mean it's a bad stone. If the argument that they made a lot of money from setting up a breakfast stall became popular, Nan Yi and Wu Renpin would instantly become shared targets. Students would beat them, and then teachers would beat them. Then people inside Peking University would beat them, and then people outside would beat them. If they were lucky, they would be expelled. If they were unlucky, they would be put in jail.
During college, he wore patched clothes, ate vegetarian food, and kept a low profile, but he was close to Xu Qian, a returned overseas Chinese. It can be said that Nan Yi did this intentionally. He did not want to make enemies, and he firmly grasped the two points of "no small matter in diplomacy" and "attracting foreign investment."
He was poor when he should be poor, had overseas connections when he should have them, and was rich when he should be rich. He kept up with the pulse of the times, treading on thin ice step by step, and working hard. However, his great cause was not accomplished and was almost ruined by the little girl Qu Liuyan. For not finding someone to take her rice, everyone had to scold Nan Yi for being too soft-hearted and not having the ruthlessness of a person who wants to accomplish great things. At the same time, they had to praise him for his magnanimity.
"Are you afraid that Qu Liuyan will seek revenge on you? From her tone, it seems that she is extremely rich now."
"Uh... not really, didn't I just lend her the money?" Nan Yi was surprised, but didn't take it seriously in his heart. "Get someone to check how this little bitch turned over a new leaf. She probably remarried an old man with some wealth, and when the old man died, all the wealth went to her. We have to investigate it thoroughly. Maybe the old man's cause of death is suspicious. If he has tens of millions of dollars, we might as well just treat her as a snack."
"You think Qu Liuyan is a fool. She may not have recognized Ruoyin at the time, but she will definitely remember it later."
"If she really wants to cause trouble for me, I will go all out, kneel down in front of her, shout "Her Majesty the Queen", wash myself clean, smear honey on me, and go to her bedroom to be her concubine."
"Haha, be careful or I'll report you to Liu Zhen."
Although Qi Ying was not sure whether Nan Yi could match Qu Liuyan's financial resources, she was not worried that Nan Yi would suffer a loss. She, who was from another class and once Qu Liuyan's little sister, would stand on his side without hesitation, not to mention his classmates.
From the details to the whole, Nan Yi was able to make good friends with his classmates, so he must have not been idle over the years. Seeing that he can still make jokes easily, we know that he is not afraid of Qu Liuyan.
"Go ahead and sue me. Liu Zhen has been completely subdued by me. She dares not go west when I point her east. She will never chase a chicken when I tell her to beat a dog. As long as I am at home, she will serve her three meals a day and bring me water to wash my feet before I go to bed."
"Hahaha." Qi Ying was overjoyed at Nan Yi's words. "Nan Yi, stop bragging. Everyone in your class knows that you, Nan Yi, are a model worker in terms of washing clothes and cooking."
"It's a rumor, a complete rumor. My family has already bought a washing machine and we don't wash clothes by hand anymore." Nan Yi pretended to be angry and deliberately buried a burden.
"Yes, yes, no need to wash by hand, use a machine, hahahaha."
Nan Yi had been trying to make the conversation more relaxed. As soon as he met Qi Ying in the morning, he noticed that she was not in a good state and looked a little listless. It was probably because she had not slept well for a long time. Considering her age, Qi Ying was probably in menopause.
Haha, he doesn’t dare to mess with a woman in menopause.
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On the other side, Xu Lu was biting a Huanggu ice cream and standing at the door of the Rose Hotel waiting for Nan Yi to appear.
She deliberately wore a dark blue sleeveless dress with white dots and a lapel today. The hem of the dress just covered one-third of her thighs. She wore a pair of white canvas high-heeled shoes on her feet , which made her figure look even taller.
She didn't know which direction Nan Yi would come from, so she could only turn her back to the hotel door and face in one direction. Then, if she heard any movement in other directions, she would turn her head sharply.
He turned his head again and pretended to take the ice cream out of his mouth. However, the ice cream stuck to his lips and was torn apart by the turning of his head. The ice cream jumped up and brushed against the tip of his nose, leaving a little milky white.
Xu Lu didn't care. She stuck out her tongue from her mouth, rolled it upwards, and licked off the milky white on the tip of her nose.
Her behavior caught the attention of the fairy who happened to be there, and she couldn't help but exclaim in her heart: "What a long tongue! What a natural talent."
He took two quick steps and came to Xu Lu's side. "Miss Xu, I'll go with you to handle the formalities."
"Only you? Where's Nan Yi?"
"The boss is busy and asked me to accompany you to handle the formalities." Tianxian said, taking out two contracts and handing them to Xu Lu, "Miss Xu, take a look. If there is no problem, please sign on them."
Xu Lu took it and looked at it. The contract only had a few simple clauses. The general meaning was that she would help Nan Yi test whether Milan Inter had the ability to handle the "procedures". In return, she would receive a reward of 2,000 yuan, and her obligation was to make a phone call to inform him of some details and results of the procedures.
After reading the contracts, although Xu Lu felt that Nan Yi was not efficient at all, she still stood on the street and happily signed her name on the two contracts.
Tianxian took the contract back, confirmed that there was no problem, gave one copy to Xu Lu, and then the two of them walked into the office of Milan Inter together.
Nan Yi and Qi Ying chatted for a long time on the TV tower. Qi Ying told Nan Yi some interesting places in Fengtian, such as the ghost stories of the strange building, saying that people who lived in it woke up the next day to find themselves sleeping in another room or even someone else's home, there were women crying in the corridor at night, someone had held a concert in Daguan, the 6903 Factory Club was changed into a nightclub, etc.
Qi Ying spoke passionately and Nan Yi listened with great interest.
Having stayed on the TV tower long enough, the two went down to the ground. Nan Yi bought a bottle of Jinduo soda at a roadside shop to quench his thirst. Qi Ying watched from the side and lamented at Nan Yi's youth. Although they were in the same grade, there was a big age gap between them. Her son was not much younger than Nan Yi.
Nan Yi drank soda while looking at the goods displayed on the shelves and counters of the shop. On the shelves, he could see Kragus’ refined salted sausages, as well as several types of ham sausages from Chundu, Jinluo, Zhengrong, and Shuanghui.
When it comes to sausage, Chundu can be considered the originator. Other brands are just following its example. To put it bluntly, they followed suit and put their own products on the production line after seeing Chundu become popular.
Master Fan had decided early on on the plan to focus on instant noodles and sausages. Nan Yi was intentionally delaying the development of instant noodles, and he was forced to not start the development of sausages. The raw material for sausages, " pork ", was simply unavailable, and there was no way to establish a stable supply channel for the raw materials.
It sounds a bit ridiculous. The Jigongdan breeding base of the Kenzhi Group has its own Guangdong Pig General Pig Farm, which raises 100,000 pigs. However, Pig General has been included in the "supply guarantee" system of Guangdong Province. Every slaughtered pig is taken away by meat processing plants in various cities in the province. It is easy to leave dozens or hundreds of pigs, but no more is allowed as the meat must be kept for the people.
The Jigongdan Breeding Base also has a Zhongyuan Piglet Breeding Center, which has a larger breeding scale. It has expanded continuously in the past two years and can now supply millions of piglets to pig farmers every year.
This may sound like a lot, but it is not much at all.
The breeding center is under great pressure to sell piglets. They are not worried about not being able to sell them, but about not having enough to sell. Not to mention supplying the entire province of Central Plains, even Tianzhong City where the breeding center is located cannot achieve 100% supply.
Let me put it this way, it will take another two years for the breeding center to complete the pre-orders from Tianzhong City. Maybe it will be able to go beyond Tianzhong after two years, but it is hard to say when it will be able to go beyond Central Plains. Expansion not only requires time, but also feed support.
Kent Mountain, a subsidiary of the Kenzhi Group, produces feed. The company is located in Baigong, Wuchuan, the largest pig-raising province. Kent Mountain's "Chi Bu Ting" feed and "Zhu Doctor" additives have a very good reputation among Wuchuan farmers. The products are in short supply locally, and most of them are consumed in Wuchuan Province, and a small part is sent to the Northeast.
Why is there a shortage of supply and why are there surpluses being sold outside?
Actually, it’s not selling, it’s exchanging.
The main ingredient of pig feed is corn, and the main producing area of corn is in the Northeast. If you want corn, you can exchange it for feed additives.
The Pig General has a breeding scale of 100,000 pigs, and can sell two batches of pigs a year, which means 200,000 pigs. A pig needs to eat about 850 kilograms of feed from piglet to slaughter, which means the annual consumption is approximately equal to 85,000 tons of corn; the piglet breeding center has a breeding scale of 1 million pigs, and can export four batches a year. A piglet needs to eat about 50 kilograms of feed, which means the annual consumption is approximately equal to 100,000 tons of corn. The two together total 185,000 tons.
185,000 tons is just a drop in the ocean compared to the country's annual corn production of more than 90 million tons.
However, among the more than 90 million tons, more than 10 million tons need to be exported. However, the country has vigorously supported pig farming in the past two years. The remaining 80 million tons will not only be used for strategic reserves and food for people and horses, but also have to meet the needs of farmers for pig farming.
This year, not every household in the rural area raises pigs, but at least 60 to 70 percent do. There are about 379 million pigs in the country. If all pigs eat corn, a total of 160 million tons will be needed, and there will be a gap of nearly 80 million tons.
Of course, in reality most farmers only raise one or two pigs, and they don’t feed them the main feed. They usually cook more porridge in the morning, mix the porridge with rice bran, and then feed it with local pig grass.
Therefore, the theoretical corn gap does not actually exist, but the tight supply of corn is a fact.
The current situation is that the amount of corn that Kent Mountain can purchase is very limited, and the feed and additives produced do not even need to be taken out of Wuchuan. They can be consumed around the factory, so sister units naturally cannot take care of them.
The piglets at the Tianzhong Piglet Breeding Center cannot have enough food to eat, so they can only find ways to purchase corn in the Central Plains and then produce pig feed on their own to feed their own piglets. The speed of expansion is limited by the amount of corn that can be purchased.
The piglets from the piglet breeding center cannot leave the Central Plains. If the pig generals in Guangdong Province want piglets, they can only find a way themselves. The current solution is that the Jigongdan breeding base uses the technology it has mastered to breed some of the piglets itself, and then purchase some from farmers outside. In this way, they can barely produce 200,000 piglets a year, not to mention pig feed. In order to prevent the pigs from starving, they really tried every possible way.
It's a chain of frustrations that makes the Reclamation Group have no way to increase the number of live pigs slaughtered in a short period of time. Although Master Fan and his company are from the same village, we are still sorry, but we can't help you. You can just go wherever you want.
Although Kent Hill, Piglet Breeding Center and Pig General cannot achieve internal circulation, it has not hindered the profit-making at all. Moreover, if we look at the three separately, they are actually developing very well and have a promising future.
Looking across the country, the only ones currently capable of ensuring the supply of pork are the major meat processing plants, or more precisely, the meat processing plants in the two major pig-raising provinces of Wuchuan and Zhongyuan. The fathers behind the four brands of Chundu, Jinluo, Zhengrong and Shuanghui are all meat processing plants, and they are all located in Zhongyuan Province.
It can be said that the current domestic ham sausage market is just an internal struggle among the meat processing factories in Central China, and has nothing to do with other places. If anyone from outside dares to jump out, the four brands will immediately unite to kill the outsiders first, and then continue the internal struggle.
The situation Master Fan is facing now is that he lacks confidence internally and is surrounded by wolves externally. Even if he has the courage to be a lone hero and show his heroic spirit of "I will go forward even if there are thousands of people against me", he can't find a chance to jump around. Without pork, he can't produce sausages.
Since pork cannot be found in China, why doesn’t Nan Yi think of a solution from abroad? Isn’t there Shennong Nanliang?
Nan Yi would like to do so, but it is not realistic.
At present, the cost of raising pigs in China is lower than that in foreign countries. Pigs and pork are still export-oriented commodities. We are a pork exporter, not an importer. It is almost impossible to import pork from foreign countries. Of course, there is precedent for China to import a small amount of pork from foreign countries, but that is not due to material needs, but because of political diplomacy.
If Master Fan couldn't take the main road, he could take the small road. If he couldn't make pork sausage, he could directly use high technology to produce chicken sausage and chicken intestine sausage, but in fact...
Nan Yi drank up the soda and asked the shop owner to get him a Chundu sausage. He took it in his hand and flicked it with his fingers. The sausage immediately swayed rhythmically, and the swing was very graceful. He broke the sausage in the middle, folded it in half and held it in his hand, then let go. The sausage popped and returned to a straight line.
After tearing open the outer packaging, you can see that the whole sausage is not broken, but is covered with mottled tiny cracks. Nan Yi twisted the sausage into two halves, and a fresh pork aroma immediately wafted out from the exposed broken part.
Ham sausage has nothing to do with ham, but it has a lot to do with pork. Just chop the lean meat and pork belly, stir them, add some seasonings and preservatives, and then package them into ham sausage. The main ingredient is meat, and it is good meat.
It can be said that the domestic sausage industry has a very high standard. Each singer is like a singer from the national team, and they can sing all kinds of notes at will. There is no place for internet celebrities with sound cards.
Imagine a big stage. The first two people are singing "Defend the Yellow River" and "Mountain Red". At this time, the Internet celebrity comes on stage, waves his short arms, and says with great emotion: "Dear audience members, can you meow with me?"
Others use good pork, but Master Fan uses pig skin , chicken skin, duck skin, chicken frame paste, chicken neck paste, and chicken intestines, and adds a little low-quality starch. What he produces is also called ham sausage. The ingredient list can completely use larger fonts to write pork and chicken. He puts one more kind of meat than others. There is no doubt that this is a conscientious enterprise, the best in the world.
There are ways to fool others, but it is difficult to fool consumers. They can tell who is good and who is bad just by tasting the food. Master Fan can seize the market with low prices at the beginning, and then watch the market slowly give up.
Although there are high-tech ways to improve the taste of Master Fan's ham sausage, high-tech is expensive. Everything related to industry is expensive. The cost of using high-tech to prepare it is only slightly higher than using good pork directly. Now is not the right time to use technology and work hard.
If Master Fan is determined to start making ham sausages in a hurry, there is only one way for him to go - learn from soy milk and high foam, and turn the inferior leftovers into cultural attributes, and strive to squeeze into the "authentic" market.
Of course, this road is too difficult to take, and success is full of randomness. Consumers must be screened from the beginning, and those who like personalized consumption must be picked out. The brand must be classified as a niche brand from the start. It is better not to take this road if products rely on volume to become a niche brand.
Besides, if they go astray, it will affect Master Fan’s brand image. Not only will the ham sausage be affected, but instant noodles will also be affected.
Thinking about something, Nan Yi subconsciously stuffed the sausage into his mouth.
"Are you hungry again?" Qi Ying asked beside him.
Nan Yi waved his hand and said, "No, I'm in the snack business, and I've thought about selling sausages. I saw this here so I bought some to try."
"I thought so."
Nan Yi paid the bill and bought a pack of Bulao Lin candy and Yanbao lamb liver soup. These two things seemed to be new things. Leng Yan and Ma Jiayan had not introduced them to Asia at the beginning, and Nan Yi had never seen them outside. He took the things from the boss, looked at the words on the package, and found that they were produced locally in Fengtian.
After buying the things, Nan Yi and Qi Ying didn't rush to get in the car. They walked and talked along the curb.
When they got tired of chatting, Qi Ying took Nan Yi to prepare ingredients for his dinner, or perhaps it should be said cooked food. They ran across the district to the Dadongmen Market and found an old man in his seventies to buy a roast chicken. The cart had a glass cabinet covered with the words "Zhang Jiuli Roast Chicken" on it.
I heard from Qi Ying that the old man was called Zhang Jiuli. He came from the land of Qi and Lu to Guandong. His roast chicken was delicious and his business was very good. He could sell hundreds of chicken a day.
Nan Yi chatted with Zhang Jiuli for a few words, and suddenly it occurred to him that it seemed that the time had come to promote the development of street roasted chicken and roast duck, and to support the development of duck farming; but before that, they had to plan out a shell powder processing enterprise, and at the same time establish a kitchen waste recycling company. Since large-scale pig farming was not possible, they would first break the whole into parts, seize the泔水 from factories, mines, and schools across the country, and launch a泔水霸战.
"Hey, there's no one to fight against the monopoly of swill, right?"
After buying the roast chicken, Qi Ying also bought spare ribs, sausage and pig's trotters from Lao Yang's shop. According to her, the local people in Fengtian rarely know about Lao Lu's braised pork. In the past, besides smoking opium and playing with women, the little six son of the Lao Zhang family loved this braised pork the most.
Nan Yi also asked Qi Ying whether Emperor Qianlong had ever bestowed a good name on him, but he received a cold shoulder and some complaints from the other party.
Xita, Pangjiang, Zhu Jianlu, Lao Zhang, Lao Yang, Lao Lu, Lao Shen Guang, the vans were running around on the streets of Fengtian. Nan Yi was very touched, and in order to entertain him as best as possible, they even went to three markets for onion, ginger and garlic, to see who had the best onions and who had the best garlic.
Nan Yi asked her if she usually had to go to so many places to buy vegetables. Qi Ying replied that she would go to so many places to buy vegetables in winter. At that time, she would pick the best vegetables and buy a lot to take home so that they would not go bad in the winter. Therefore, she knew all the places selling vegetables in Fengtian City.
Judging from Qi Ying's attitude towards life, Nan Yi guessed that Qi Ying had no plans to move up and was waiting for a glorious retirement in his current position.
Yes, according to Qi Ying's age, she will reach retirement age in just over ten years, receive a pension that gets higher every year, be visited from time to time, help take care of her children and grandchildren , enjoy family time, and be in a good mood every day. Maybe he will even have to come over on crutches to help her celebrate her 100th birthday.
After buying vegetables and returning to the workers' village, Qi Ying went into the kitchen to work, while Nan Yi sat in the living room drinking tea and watching TV. It was not appropriate for him to go into the kitchen to help because of the separation between men and women.
At about 6:15, Wu Renpin and his family of three came over.
Wu Xiaowei is back.
