The plant, which was originally used for slaughtering and drying meat, was quickly refurbished into an aseptic incubator in three days.

The interior of the workshop is a three-dimensional culture rack arrangement.

The culture rack is a half-meter column, each column is two meters high, divided into two layers, each layer is one meter high, 30 cm long and wide cubic plexiglass.

At present, according to the program module, the type of meat cultured in the culture rack can be adjusted, and it can be adjusted according to muscle density, fat density, and even whether bones are produced, such as adjusting to loin, upper brain, ribs, etc.

A slender polymer tube runs from top to bottom through the upper and lower glass boxes, which are soaked with the culture agent, artificial serum.

There is a certain difference between the artificial serum in the laboratory and the actual serum produced by animals, the serum contains the interfering agent developed by Pangu Technology, the purpose of the interferor is to accelerate the growth of beef tissue, and the dose of the interferor is controlled by Super Xiaochu.

In the process of mass production, the culture agent mimics the blood, and the nutrients and oxygen in it are guaranteed to be sufficient at all times, so the culture agent is recycled. At the end of the plant, there is a filtration system that collects waste from cell and tissue metabolism and adds fresh substances.

In the design of the equipment, Gao Siqi also considered the cultivation of plant crops in the future, because the waste of meat tissue metabolism is the nutrients of plant tissue metabolism.

In glass containers, primary cells are attached to polymer tubes, absorb nutrients, and grow happily.

If the primary cell culture model is followed, the number of cell passages increases, and mutual inhibition leads to partial cell death.

However, the laboratory has done a trick in the regulation of gene expression, introducing the technology of telomere non-shrinkage, which can allow cells to proliferate indefinitely in the incubator according to the nth power of 2.

The number of generations of proliferation is monitored by Xiao Chu, when each piece of meat reaches 20 pounds, Xiao Chu will control the regulator to adjust the ratio of culture agent, so that the tissue stops growing, this is the time of harvest, and the time from cultivation to harvest is about two weeks.

Because the glass incubator is mobile and detachable, it can be fully mechanized during harvesting, automatically lowering the glass incubator onto a conveyor belt under the shelves and then transporting it to the harvesting hall.

In the harvesting workshop, the incubator will first drain the serum-like culture medium, and the beef will be pulled out with the bundle tube, and the moment it is withdrawn, the bundle tube will be stripped off, and the beef will be packed in a vacuum bag, which ensures the freshness and hygiene of the beef to the greatest extent.

Vacuum beef can be immediately sent to supermarkets or markets for sale, or it can be sent to freezers for refrigeration.

Except for a few technicians, the whole process is controlled by artificial intelligence Xiaochu, and there is no worker. In today's skyrocketing labor costs, this is quite a cost-saving practice.

Xiao Chu quickly calculated the operating cost of the factory, if you do not calculate the cost of buying the factory, land, additional equipment, etc., only calculate the cost of the production project and the salary of the technician, the cost of each catty of beef is seven yuan. And with the expansion of the scale of the factory, the cost will be further reduced, to about five pieces per catty of beef.

Fast production speed, low cost, safety and health are the representatives of large-scale production in the factory.

During this time, Xiao Ming was in Pangu Science and Technology Park to guide the final decoration of the headquarters building and the installation of equipment and instruments, but as long as he had time, he would go to Minghui Food Factory to check the production progress.

After the first small batch, one ton of beef, rolled off the production line, Xiao Ming asked workers to transport it to the village of Panruo and the headquarters of Pangu Technology.

"Publicly explain to everyone that this is our new product, and let the canteen be added to the daily recipe. ”

Gao Siqi said: "The production line is already an assembly line, and we now have a total of four production lines, which can produce an average of 20 tons of beef per week. ”

A well-bred cattle will generally be raised to 1500 catties (0.75 tons) for slaughter.

In this way, the factory produces about 27 cows a week, and it is net meat, without cowhides, offal and other products.

The four production lines of Pangu Technology Minghui Food Co., Ltd. are equivalent to traditional medium-sized pastures. Even medium-sized farms cannot guarantee a supply of 27 cattle per week, which is the gap between technological production and conventional production.

"Is the sales link confirmed?" Xiao Ming was more concerned about this issue.

"Of course!" Gao Siqi said: "We have obtained all the qualifications for the sale of raw meat, and we have also negotiated with the large supermarkets in Jiangcheng to sell them on the shelves." ”

The farmers' market is relatively scattered and difficult to control, so this time the main sales location of beef is the major supermarkets in Jiangcheng.

On the issue of sales, with Gao Siqi as a check, Xiao Ming will not worry too much.

He said: "The main thing is to do a good job in the promotion of food, so that consumers can understand modern agriculture, and then put it on the shelves after publicity." ”

Gao Siqi understands that it is a difficult challenge to use the entire Jiangcheng market to experiment with future agricultural technology this time, and consumers who are accustomed to traditional agriculture have a deep-rooted view that beef must grow on cattle and rice must come from rice fields.

If they know that the beef is from the tissue culture of the laboratory, from a standardized culture factory, they don't know if they still have the desire to buy it.

Xiao Ming and Gao Siqi walked out of the factory together, Xiao Ming pointed to the Jiangcheng TV Tower, a landmark building in Jiangcheng in the distance, and said, "What do you think is the most important landmark building in a city?"

Gao Siqi said with a smile: "The headquarters building of Pangu Technology? haha, I don't know, it shouldn't be a TV tower anyway." ”

Xiao Ming said: "It should be a perfect food production building, and agriculture should be modernized and urbanized. Meat, rice, vegetables, fruits, the food that each city needs should be met by the city itself, and each city should have its own food production bank. ”

Gao Siqi knew what Xiao Ming was expressing, if the life science laboratory had enough samples and enough technical conditions, it would be able to create a food building, from the production of food to meat and fruits.

If this grand goal can really be achieved, then the economic and social pattern of Xia will undergo major changes.

The profession of peasant will be officially launched on the stage of history, and a large amount of land will be available for use, either by returning farmland to forests, or for construction. But it is conceivable that when the supply of land increases, housing prices will fall, and the economy of Xia will face a new transformation.

And countless farmers who have freed their hands, they may be eliminated by history, or they may become new labor under new technology.

Neither Xiao Ming nor Gao Siqi can tell what the future holds, but they believe that time will tell.

But before imagining the future, Pangu Technology has to make a 60-minute documentary "How Beef is Made".