After the gathering in Rongcheng, Song Weiyang returned to Rongping City for nearly half a month, carefully inspected the company's situation in the first half of the year, and exchanged views with Yang Xin on the research and development of new products.

"It's certain that we will launch fruit juice drinks next year, and the state will encourage it," Song Weiyang said, "but since we call Xifeng Food and Beverage Company, we can't just make beverages, we also have to start with food." ”

"Biscuits, fructose, or eight-treasure porridge?" Yang Xin asked.

"Instant noodles. Song Weiyang said.

Yang Xin smiled bitterly: "I spent 50,000 yuan on market research last year, and the competition for instant noodles is too fierce." Mainland brands include Huafeng, Longfeng, Hualong, Zhongcui, Nande, Bluestar, etc., and foreign brands include Master Kong, Uni-President, Meichu, Yingduo, and Lucky...... Last year, there were more than 1,000 instant noodle manufacturers in the country, more than 2,000 production lines, and the production lines with a class output of 50,000 copies were eliminated, and now there are large-scale production lines with a class output of more than 100,000 copies. The high-end, mid-range and low-end products of instant noodles have been occupied by domestic and foreign brands layer by layer, and it is difficult for us to fight our way out. ”

If it was after 2000, Song Weiyang would have suggested the development of non-fried instant noodles, and Wugu Dojo would have set off a bloody storm in the Chinese instant noodle market.

But it was still 1996, and except for mineral water and purified water, other beverages and instant noodles belonged to the "high-class diet", far from rising to the concept of "health". At this time, the launch of non-fried instant noodles has only one result: high costs lead to insufficient competitiveness, and losses make money.

"That's what I think," Mr. Song said, "isn't we in the railway system now? In addition, we should start from the taste, the hottest ones now are braised beef noodles and spicy fried sauce noodles, we can engage in Laotan sauerkraut noodles, pickled pepper beef noodles, and pork rib noodles in soup. Research and development of distinctive seasoning packs, taking into account both heavy and clear taste consumer groups, and promoting through huge advertising and inherent channels, will definitely be able to fight their way out of the instant noodle market. ”

"This method is also fine," Yang Xin nodded, and asked again, "How about making ham sausages?" ”

Song Weiyang denied and said: "Don't do it for the time being, this is a bit far, we must take it step by step." ”

The matter was settled, and Xifeng began to develop sauerkraut and soup flavors, ready to be put on the market during the Spring Festival this year. As for the factories, due to the sharp increase in instant noodle brands in the past two years, many state-owned instant noodle factories are on the verge of closure, and this year, from the central to the local government everywhere to sell state-owned enterprises, Xifeng Company can easily pick up several instant noodle factories for nothing - as long as the debt and employment problems can be solved, the local government will be fully reversed, and various policies will be greenlit all the way.

As for Wang Leehom, who was replaced by the 21st layer of purification, he was thrown to endorse Xifeng Iced Tea, and Uncle Ge Youge was replaced, and the advertising song he sang was still the song "Love Is You".

And the new spokesperson of Very Coke, Xifeng Company is contacting Aaron Kwok, if you want to be young, energetic and dynamic, just let Guo Tianwang sing "Move".

Then look at the whole country and see how much local companies are resisting foreign investment.

By the summer, the home appliance industry can almost declare victory, and it will be a complete victory. The CEOs were too lazy to shout patriotic slogans of the Anti-Japanese War, and began to build the world's top 500 companies with great interest, and put forward the "technological revolution" to break the monopoly of foreign technology and make each one more high-end.

At the beginning of July, Kelon took the lead in announcing an investment of 1 billion yuan to set up an electrical product research and development institute in Japan.

Subsequently, Haier, Changhong, TCL and other brands have announced the establishment of "cutting-edge technology centers" in the United States, Europe and Japan.

It's heroic and atmospheric, but it's actually all hype. After they made foreign brands half-dead, they are still continuing to fight the civil war, and the price war is playing to the death, where is the spare money to develop core technologies?

After these enterprises set up technology research and development centers abroad, they continue to make "breakthroughs". For example, the "photocatalyst air conditioner" is to add an activated carbon filter to the filter, the cost of the filter is less than 1 yuan, but the price of the air conditioner has increased by hundreds of yuan. There is also a "annular three-dimensional air conditioner", which is known as a patented technology developed with an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan, which is actually to install a timer on the fan blade and let it change and shake up and down and left and right regularly.

The technological innovation of domestic brands has become a conceptual war from the very beginning.

Haier is no exception, what kind of "sweet potato washing machine". Legend has it that Mr. Zhang inspected the rural areas of southwest China and found that farmers used washing machines to wash sweet potatoes, and the drainage pipes were often blocked by sludge. So Haier launched a washing machine with two drains, a thin tube for laundry, and a thick pipe for washing sweet potatoes, and then raised the price to hype.

After the "success" of the watermelon washing machine, Haier launched a washing machine that can wash lobsters and a washing machine that can make ghee, all of which are black technology products.

The problem is that after the farmers in the 90s bought the washing machine, they used it as a treasure, and usually used two layers of plastic film and cloth sheets to protect it. Hell, the farmer took the washing machine to wash the sweet potatoes, and a basket of sweet potatoes was sifted in water for a few minutes and cleaned, much faster than using a washing machine.

As for the washing machine for ghee...... It's too beautiful to look at.

At the end of August, Song Weiyang returned to Shenghai.

Time Cafe.

Lin Zhuoyun held a homemade Italian pie and asked Song Weiyang to taste (try) the freshness (test), and said while cutting the cake: "My sister will bring Doudou over tomorrow, I'm afraid they are not familiar with the road, can you drive a van to pick it up?"

"No problem," Song Weiyang carefully put the pie into his mouth, frowning, "It's too sweet." ”

Lin Zhuoyun tried it herself: "No, I think it's just right." ”

"Maybe there's something wrong with my sense of taste. "Song Weiyang likes to eat salty, while Lin Zhuoyun prefers sweets, which is an irreconcilable contradiction between the salty party and the sweet party.

"Then I'll do it a little less next time. Lin Zhuoyun said.

A policeman suddenly walked in, took out a notebook and asked, "Who is responsible here?"

Lin Zhuoyun hurriedly responded: "I'm responsible, what's wrong?"

The policeman asked, "What are you doing on the 27th of this month, that is, yesterday?"

"I read books in the morning, watched in the store at noon and in the afternoon, and went to the Fudan campus for a while in the evening. Lin Zhuoyun replied.

The policeman asked, "Can anyone testify?"

Lin Zhuoyun said: "The clerks can all testify that our café is open until 10 o'clock in the evening. ”

The police went to investigate the other clerks, and the details were fine, and asked if any suspicious characters had been found in the past few days.

Song Weiyang handed over a cigarette and asked, "Comrade, what's the big case?"

"Are you?" the policeman asked.

"I'm the owner of this café," Song Weiyang said, "and I've been in Sai Kham province before, and I only flew back this morning." ”

The police immediately let down their vigilance: "You haven't read the newspaper yet, writer Dai Houying and his niece were killed yesterday." Dai Houying was stabbed more than 30 times, and the scene was very miserable, and now the city's police force is doing a big investigation. If you spot any suspicious targets, call the police immediately, and don't go out alone at night. I'm going first, and I'm going to the next store. ”

Dai Houying's case, Song Weiyang immediately had an impression.

This person's long story "People, People!" had a far-reaching impact in the 80s, and his works were translated into many languages. She was previously an associate professor at Fudan University, where she has been an associate professor since its merger.

When Dai Houying died in his previous life, Song Weiyang happened to return to his hometown during the summer vacation, and after the start of school, he found that the whole school was discussing - because Song Weiyang studied at Shenghai University, and Dai Houying was a teacher at this school.

This case is so big that not only the whole country is shocked, but many countries such as Britain, the United States, France, and Japan are tracking and reporting it. Dai Houying's daughter is abroad, and the uncle of the niece who was killed with Dai Houying is also the principal secretary of a certain district in Shenghai. This series of circumstances has put a lot of pressure on the public security organs to solve the case, not only the whole city investigated, but even Dai Houying's hometown went to 23 villages door to door.

Although Song Weiyang forgot about this incident, as soon as he communicated with the police, he immediately remembered who the murderer was.

The murderer worked in Wujiaochang, not far from the Time Cafe - that is, the hotel opposite the restaurant where Song Weiyang invited Ma Xiaoyun to dinner for the first time, the murderer worked as a chef in the hotel, and this job was introduced by Dai Houying.

The identity of the murderer is the grandson of Dai Houying's middle school teacher, who came to Shenghai from his hometown to work. Dai Houying was very enthusiastic to help introduce the job, but the murderer saw the money, killed Dai Houying and his niece, and robbed the passbook, cash, jewelry and Walkman.

Do you want to report it to the police?

Although the case will still be solved in the end, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources.

The question is, how to explain it?

Alas, if only he had thought about it in the morning, Song Weiyang could still stop it, but unfortunately he completely forgot about it.

The police were about to walk out of the café, and Song Weiyang suddenly said, "Wait a minute." ”

"What's wrong?" the policeman asked back.

Song Weiyang said: "I know of a person who works as a cook in the hotel in front of him. The last time I met a friend at a hotel, he said that he was a relative of Mr. Dai. ”

"Really?" the police were very excited.

Song Weiyang took out his mobile phone and said, "You make a phone call and find a few more comrades." I don't know if the cook is the murderer, but it's certainly right to be prepared to prevent him from jumping off the wall with a kitchen knife. ”