"Huzi, have you noticed a problem?" Fang Dajun asked.

"What's the problem?" Xiao Zhonghu was completely confused, he had seen all the vegetable markets in the city, and there was nothing special about it.

Fang Dajun said with a smile: "Think about it again, what is different about this vegetable market, compared to the outside?" ”

"It's no different!" Xiao Zhonghu said uncertainly, the boss's tone, then there must be a problem, but he really can't think of it.

Fang Dajun shook his head, "The problem is that the market here is too small for the population of the steel plant. ”

"Too small?" Xiao Zhonghu still didn't understand.

"Yes, I'll give you an account, take Beidou as an example, there are about 150 permanent households living on the street, and there are thousands of workers in the steel mill alone, if you add the aborigines, it should be more than 1,200 households. This is an eight-fold gap, but if you look at the scale of this vegetable market, not to mention the eight-fold size of Beidou, it is less than half. Here's the problem, tell me, how did this happen? Fang Dajun analyzed, the situation is indeed the case, the steel plant is such a vegetable market, it should not be this phenomenon.

Xiao Zhonghu also reacted immediately, frowned and thought for a moment, and replied: "Should the workers eat in the food group?" ”

Fang Dajun still shook his head: "There are only 1,000 workers, but the population is seven or eight thousand, not to mention that the workers only pack one meal, that is, three full meals, then there are still six or seven thousand people to eat." ”

"So what's going on?" Xiao Zhonghu was confused, and he admired the boss even more, since the boss would ask so. That must know why.

Fang Dajun was no longer selling Guan Zi at this time. Laughing: "According to my observations. The situation should be divided into several kinds, one is that the merchant solves part of the ingredients, and the other is the storefront snack bar.

In other words, workers should have the habit of spending outside often, after all, this is not in the countryside, or it costs money to buy vegetables and cook by themselves, and because of the relationship between living electricity, sometimes workers have to eat outside. Also because of the problem of workers' working hours. There is time to buy groceries.

Finally, not all workers have already started a family, and those who have already started a family do not necessarily bring their wives and children with them, which leads to the fact that some single workers with wages will often spend outside.

To sum up, it is more profitable to open a restaurant in a steel plant, and it is divided into two kinds, one is mobile sales, and the other is a fixed storefront. ”

"Boss. You mean we're here to open a restaurant? Xiao Zhonghu's eyes lit up, after all, it was related to eating.

Who knew that Fang Dajun shook his head and said, "Open a restaurant." But it's not an open restaurant. My plan is to build a small shop with a good location, and then make a lot of trolleys, divide the area, cover all the steel factories, and sell snacks everywhere. For the time being, the first thing to sell is vermicelli. ”

"Vermicelli? It's delicious, but will it make a profit selling this? Would you like to eat it? Xiao Zhonghu asked several questions one after another.

Fang Dajun smiled, the lethality of vermicelli is very great, especially for children and women, it has a congenital irresistible advantage, powdered rice noodles, hot and sour noodles, Zhenzi powder, etc., the taste is flexible and changeable, plus the vermicelli he sells is processed from sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes belong to coarse grains, so there will be no policy problems in this way.

In addition, vermicelli is a fast dish, first soaked in water, down to the boiling pot, do not need high heat, boil it over low heat to get up the pot, faster than the speed of cooking noodles, the popularity is also large, quite aspects of operation, he also has full confidence.

This may not be done for the sake of making a fortune, but the potential impact is endless.

He adheres to the mentality of working hard and being lazy, taking advantage of the current interest, and holding the funds, he immediately mobilized the salesmen to take action to find the shop, requiring the place to be small, but the flow of people at the door should be large, and in the afternoon, he found it, the location is at the school gate, and the primary school, junior high school, and high school are all connected together.

This is a golden port, the shop is only about 30 square meters, the same is an old house, the asking price is not low, 60 yuan a year, according to the square, half more expensive than the shop rented before, and this shop does not have a toilet, there is no stove, even the water has to be picked up next to it, it is really a little inconvenient, the location is not too good, there are already seven or eight shops from the school gate, all of them are selling children's things, there are also noodle restaurants. Don't look at the work of just a few steps, and after you open the shop to do business, you will find that these few steps, each step is linked to money.

Fang Dajun thought about it for a while, and then rented it, but this time the lease period was not long, only three years, which made Xiao Zhonghu strange, because the boss made a move, and the contracted land was fifty years, that is, renting a house, all of which started in ten years, three years, and this was the first time.

In this regard, Fang Dajun did not explain much, the profit of catering is very large, but the current conditions do not allow it, cadres have not yet formed a habit of eating and drinking, this industry, for the time being, do not plan to get involved too deeply, as long as there is a foundation to enter, it is okay, and it will be done slowly in the future.

In the afternoon, the tractor ran to this side, and also brought the news over, the time has reached the 10th, all the equipment of the cement plant has been successfully debugged and installed, today has crushed the raw materials, and has been trying to burn the first furnace, and the first furnace is not burning limestone, after all, the cost price is not cheap, three dollars a ton, a furnace can burn about 30 tons, can get 20 tons of cement clinker, that is, about 1.3 tons of limestone calcined out, mixed with the rest of the materials to get a ton of cement.

The cost of a ton of cement alone is four yuan, which is only higher than honeycomb coal. Because the production process is more complicated, if the cost of a ton of honeycomb coal can be suppressed to 10 yuan, then the cement is almost 15 yuan, a difference of more than 30 percent, which is not a small gap.

Today's burning of a furnace is coal gangue, this is a free thing, calcined out will shrink by half, but as soon as it comes out, it is equivalent to slag, slag is six yuan a ton, plus transportation has to rise a five cents a piece, just this aspect of earning. Moreover, coal ash can also replace the mixed clinker, which is equal to the price at which cement can be sold.

Calcining coal gangue is also a relatively important production process, and so many plasterers are not needed in the current sales warehouse. Fang Dajun pondered it again and again. Write a note for the tractor master to take back.

The construction of the second vertical kiln was started ahead of schedule. It will cost about 1,000 oceans, because there is a surplus of stone and the craftsmen have gained experience, so the construction period can be shortened, and it is expected to be completed in 10 days.

When completed, the kiln was used specifically for calcining the gangue, which is done because the gangue does not need to be cooled quickly after calcination. So if you occupy the previous vertical kiln, it is a waste, because there is no refrigeration equipment.

Because of this, he can now use a second vertical kiln to calcine coal gangue, occasionally a furnace, and even lime or other products to be calcined in his free time.

Seeing the tractor go away, he didn't go back with it, still delayed in the steel plant, and there were still some things that were not done.

Tomorrow is November 11, 1982, as the traditional Singles' Day. Belch! He didn't want to spend it alone, so he would go back early tomorrow morning.

"Singles' Day. Boss, what do you mean? Xiao Zhonghu was confused again.

Fang Dajun smiled, without much explanation, this kind of traditional festival can only be experienced by single men in later generations, speaking of which is full of tears, it is early to cross, and I don't know if this year's Singles' Day in later generations is a bloody battle, the grand occasion is not there, but he has the opportunity to dominate the Singles' Day in later generations!

In the afternoon of the same day, the place he went to was actually a food station, and although the animal husbandry station was in charge of livestock epidemic prevention, taxation and other issues, slaughtering and selling were under the jurisdiction of the food station, and there was such an organization in the town.

He went to negotiate business and send money, and as for why he didn't take advantage of the convenience of the commune and slaughter it directly, it was because the meat parts he needed were a bit special.

What is needed this time is the pig stick bone, the pig's blood, and the pig's large intestine, these three things, which are sold with vermicelli, are in great demand, and the fresher the better, because there is no refrigerator available now.

Things are going well, these three things are not mainstream consumption, even if there are special family needs to buy, stick bone stew soup is time-consuming, pig blood can not be eaten every day, the taste is good, but also consumes oil, and the pig intestine, not everyone likes this taste, and it is not convenient to cook at home.

Fang Dajun now ordered a small amount, just talked about the intention first, the most important amount is to say two, on average, there are about ten pigs to be slaughtered every day, it is simply weak, seven or eight thousand people, only ten pigs a day, one pig killed, all parts, including internal organs, is not a hundred catties in weight, equal to five pigs in later generations, this is still consumed in a large enterprise, it can be seen how bleak the current standard of living is.

As soon as he finished here, he began to walk from the street to the end of the street, taking Xiao Zhonghu to make a good record, and recording all the confidence that he found useful, this is first-hand information, maybe when he can use it.

And in the evening, there was suddenly a honeycomb coal propaganda, which made Xiao Zhonghu confused, the township propaganda was all picked in the morning, why was it chosen here in the evening, and the formation was also very large.

And when the effect came out, Xiao Zhonghu and others were impressed, the effect was unexpectedly good, no wonder someone else could be the factory director, this vision was simply too vicious, it seemed that Fang Dajun had never missed a single time since his debut, and everything he was sure of was finally proved to be correct.

Gradually, his prestige was reflected, and even if the people below did not understand all the things he explained, he didn't have so many questions, and even if he wanted to ask, he only asked in the past, which saved him a lot of trouble in explaining, and it was impossible to have time to explain these things that would be reflected in the future at all times.

The sky is beautiful tonight, the sky is full of stars, the Big Dipper is still dazzling, exactly the same as thirty years later, the legendary lunar eclipse will have to wait for more than ten years, and the solar eclipse has to wait for more than twenty years, and his life has been advanced by thirty years.

The night of being single is really easy to be sentimental, and after this year, the farmers have been allocated land, not to mention wealth, at least everyone can eat a full meal, this is full of warm thoughts, can he think about the major events of his life in advance.

"Or get married next year!" Fang Dajun muttered, turned sideways and pulled the quilt and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, the sun rose from the east as usual, as if there was a misty purple gas rising, according to the ancient books, such a scene represents a saint will come out, shook his head, quickly sobered himself up a little, loaded a large package on the carriage, out of a week, and when it was time to go back, originally planned to go directly to the city after the end of the steel plant, but thousands of years, this is not a mistake to miss a Singles' Day.

He was deeply touched by this festival, and said that he couldn't live it alone this year, otherwise the life he crossed would be too much of a failure. (To be continued......)