Since the beginning of this year, the farm has expanded its soybean planting. But right now, soybeans themselves are out of stock, and Nick wants him to fight for them. Xun Suji decided not to compete with this horse madman, and simply made a substitute - broad bean tofu.

Broad beans are easy to grow and live, and the yield is high, plus the root system has the effect of nitrogen fixation, and the bean husk is an organic fertilizer. The farm planted a lot to improve the soil. The supply is sufficient. In the years when supply was difficult, broad bean tofu was also a common substitute. Its disadvantage is that it is ugly in appearance, it is black when made, and the texture and texture are far less delicate than real tofu.

Soybeans are not enough, mung beans are an important food therapy to relieve the heat, the tofu workshop bean sprouts business had to continue to look for broad beans, Xun Suji used porcelain pots and clay pots to make sprouted beans.

After the production of substitutes for the tofu workshop was formalized, Xun Suji put together the people found by the immigrants to form a sauce garden team. This team is really unambiguous: bankrupt sauce garden shopkeepers, unemployed sauce masters and handymen, a group of sauce garden practitioners from all over the world gathered in Lingao to form the first commercial entity under the Ministry of Light Industry - Tianchu Sauce Garden.

He didn't put it in the food factory, but went to Dongmen City to find a remote place. Xun Suji's idea is simple, since the Crossing Group has been gradually abolishing the supply system, with more and more immigrants joining, the consumption of pickles and other things will also increase. It is much more convenient to place both production and business premises in Dongmen than on farms in the Green Zone.

He originally wanted to name this sauce garden "Liubiju", but he heard that this Liubiju has existed in Beijing for many years - the legend says that the plaque of "Liubiju" is the title of the famous Yan Song. Reuse is inevitably suspected of impersonation. So I used the name of Wu Yunchu, the inventor of Chinese monosodium glutamate, who has made outstanding contributions to the Chinese food industry.

"Actually, the name of the kitchen is very good. Stylish! Intentionally! Mo Xiaoan said when the Heavenly Kitchen opened, "In the future, when the food factory becomes bigger, it can also be called the Heavenly Kitchen." ”

Tianchu Sauce Garden uses traditional techniques and equipment to brew bean paste, chili sauce and soy sauce, as well as pickling various pickles and pickles. The products are not only supplied to various canteens, but also sold to the outside world. The chefs and men in the sauce garden come from all over the world, bringing the flavors of their respective hometowns. Xun Suji is a chef himself, and he is well-informed about what to eat, and he is good at mixing the strengths of other families. It didn't take long for the fame of Heavenly Kitchen Pickles to spread.

COAG was impressed by this initiative. In the original vegetable plot, some of the vegetables in the vegetable field could not be consumed in time and were forced to be converted into feed, especially cabbage and radish, which were produced in large quantities. Now that we have a sauce garden, the excess vegetables are consumed by the sauce garden and are not wasted at all. Huang Dashan came to the sauce garden several times to do jishu guidance, and also sent a number of new fermentation bacteria.

The travelers also expressed their sincere joy to have such a sauce garden, and it is always good to have one more food that can adjust the taste. Not long after the opening, many people came to Tianchu to offer advice and contribute to the secret method of making pickles and dried vegetables in their hometown.

Xun Suji saw that the demand for pickles was good and the supply of red peppers was sufficient, so he customized several large kimchi jars from Xiao Bailang and taught the guys in the sauce garden how to make Sichuan kimchi. Soon Sichuan kimchi was available in the cafeteria, and the refreshing and delicious kimchi was very popular with everyone in the hot summer months. Even the gentry and officials in the county sent people to buy and taste the new.

Then he started the brain of the little shrimp in the seafood processing factory. Every day, there are a large number of small shrimp that are not of grade in the catch of Bopu, in addition to drying shrimp skin, it is directly used as phosphate fertilizer or feed. Xun Suji remembered that he had eaten "Jinzhou side dishes" in the Northeast, which was soaked in shrimp oil - delicious, with a huge salty taste, and it was very delicious. The so-called shrimp oil is actually the upper clarifier extracted after fermentation with salt from small shrimp. As for the mixed sediment in the lower layer is "shrimp paste", which is also a seasoning sauce.

After he talked about his idea to the seafood processing plant, he quickly got this "shrimp oil". The characteristic of "Jinzhou side dishes" is that most of them are pickled with "small vegetables", and small cucumbers, small eggplants and the like are the most popular, and these are inherently inexpensive - they are sifted out of the vegetable garden.

Neither Xun Suji nor Mo Xiaoan expected that Tianchu Sauce Garden would become one of the most important export enterprises of the Ministry of Light Industry in the future.

A few days after Mo Xiaoan handed over the affairs of the food factory, Zhang Xin returned to Lingao. That night he ordered Zhang Xin to be invited to his office -- he wanted to hear about the man who was at the forefront of the sale. It is also the opinion of a professional who came from a dry sales background.

"I don't know how you're going to sell MSG." Zhang Xin said that after listening to his initial idea, he said, "If you want me to say that if there is no problem with food control, the idea of dried rice noodles is good, because everyone wants to eat it." But MSG is the icing on the cake. The rich don't need it, the poor don't need it. ”

Rich people eat exquisitely, and they use the broth made from the slow cooking of whole chicken and ham, and they don't look down on your artificial umami agent. It's a problem for the poor to have enough to eat, and they can't think of this thing - and MSG is only a seasoning after all, not canned soup, and putting some MSG can't "turn water into chicken soup", which makes its sales very problematic.

"Isn't that hopeless?"

"No, there are still sales." Zhang Xin said, "In addition to the rich and the poor, there is also a middle class on this shijie, but you can expect it to be exported in large quantities. Also, small traders who come to high trade don't like it either - they don't need the customers they are dealing with. It is possible to use the restaurant industry. ”

"Whether it's the catering industry, it's good to be able to sell it."

"We can try this." Zhang Xin thought that he could use it in the kitchen of Qiwei's inn, mule and horse shop, and other places. If the response is good, it is natural that someone will come to the door to ask.

"If you are a small businessman in Guangdong or Fujian, and you have sold out of goods when you come to Lingao, what do you think is more popular to bring back the goods?" Mo Xiao'an listed, "They probably don't dare to salt it, after all, it's a crime." Sugar is a bulk cargo, and it is not interesting for them to bring dozens of catties, and there is sugar in Leizhou. There are also many ...... in Fujian."

"The first is to be cheap, the second is to be novel, and the third is to be easy to use." Zhang Xin said, "Australian goods now have a reputation for being exquisite and easy to use, and the general public cannot afford to consume mirror glass, but they envy Australian goods and want to use Australian goods. Just as some people may not be able to afford a Mercedes-Benz car, but it is a psychology to have a Mercedes-Benz mark as a key ring. ”

Zhang Xin's opinion is to develop something cheap and good to cater to this mentality in the market.

"In fact, the sewing needle is good, the steel mouth is good, and it can be called the first in the market in terms of appearance. It can reflect the impression left by Australian guys on everyone. Zhang Xin commented.

"However, the sewing needle needs to be made of steel, which is a first-class control material......"

"How much steel can be used in that," Zhang Xin disagreed, "How much iron is a 12-pound shell just from a cannon?" A single cannonball can make many, many needles. ”

Mo Xiaoan hesitated: "There is also a problem of production capacity, sewing needles are produced by machinery factories, and they are not urgently needed materials, and they are often ranked in zuihou." ”

In fact, less than 10,000 sewing needles were produced in total before being discontinued. Not only do the machinery factory have too many things to do, but everyone is very little interested in manufacturing this kind of small hardware and daily necessities.

"This equipment can't be put in the machinery factory, although you all belong to the Labor and Energy Committee -- but this group of people in the machinery factory are playing with machinery, and they are not enough to build steam engines and boilers, so you want them to make sewing needles for you? Talk to the Governor and let the machinery factory manufacture a few more complete sets of needle-making equipment and put them into the establishment of the Ministry of Light Industry. Workers, you call the machinery factory to help you train, and the raw materials are allocated by the Planning Commission, so that the sewing needle factory can ensure that the work starts every day. ”

Mo Xiao'an thought about why she didn't think of it earlier! Machines and people are in the hands of others, so naturally things will not go well.

"The mouth is open!"

"We also hope that the light industry sector will sell more new products, and will always sell mirrors and glassware, and sooner or later it will be aesthetically fatigued."

"How's the sale of flat glass?"

"How big a market can this kind of thing be like a glass mirror?" Zhang Xin's view of luxury goods is very clear: although luxury goods have huge profits, they are not the main direction of development of commodities. But now it's cold in the heights. The measure proposed by Mr. Wen to cheapen small mirrors has not been implemented so far, after all, the current profit is considerable and stable.

The Industrial Energy Commission itself is not willing to cheapen the mirrors now, the production capacity of the glass factory is limited, and once the sales skyrocket after the cheapening, it will be even more difficult for the glass factory, which is already struggling with its own tasks.

"You can also pay attention to the food, it's not MSG - is there any cheap mass snack or something, you can buy several of them in one article...... For example, sugar."

"Sugar?"

"Sugar!" Zhang Xin said, "Yes, children eat candy." When I was a child, I lived in a small county town in Hunan, and a relative went on a business trip to Guangzhou and brought me a packet of fruit candy. At that time, I felt that it was an incomparably delicious ...... in the world," Zhang Xin immersed himself in the memories of the past.

"Will there be a market?"

"At least in Guangzhou, it can't be without. Don't forget how Wenzhou people made their fortune back then. ”

"I know that—chicken feathers for sugar."

"The sugar summoned by chicken feathers is just the maltose that farmers make in their spare time. In China, where material conditions were extremely scarce at that time, Wenzhou people were able to accumulate the first funds, and in Daming, it may be possible. ”

"I see, in the candy industry." Mo Xiao'an nodded. That's really a train of thought. First of all, sugar is a bulk product of the group, and there is a lack of raw materials, and this is a deep processing to enhance the added value of products.

Although the price of sugar is not low now, it is about "stones" being sold, and no matter how cheap the candy is, it has to be penny or two. All down, the profits of candy are much higher.

Zhang Xin also mentioned a few materials that could be exported in large quantities, first of all, writing paper. Now that the chemical sector has been able to produce sulfuric acid and caustic soda, large-scale batch papermaking is no longer a problem, whether it is bagasse papermaking or straw papermaking in Leizhou, the paper made by the crossing group is definitely the cheapest. After mixing with kaolin, it can also make the whitest paper.

"Writing paper is expensive." Zhang Xin said that although the raw materials for papermaking are cheap, in the past when there were no chemicals, it took a long time and a lot of labor to rot and pulp the raw materials for papermaking, and the only chemical that could help was lime.

Mo Xiao'an's Ministry of Light Industry has a local papermaking workshop, which is produced by papermakers found from immigrants from the mainland. Mo Xiao'an is clear about the low efficiency of local papermaking. Most of the paper produced is used as toilet paper, except for the higher quality of the paper for writing.

The paper industry in the Ming Dynasty was already quite developed, but its value was still not low. In addition to the special tribute paper that each paper production place had to pay tribute as detailed as "zhang", the government also practiced a system of "accepting paper": prisoners who were interrogated and convicted of crimes had to pay a certain amount of paper, and later the litigants involved in the case had to "pay paper".

In the past, the paper used for the ledger was already extremely thick and poor, and it was such a paper, and Zhang Xin also saw someone using the back of it to write. Writing paper was not cheap at the time.

"When we talk about paper, we have to talk about books, and books are not cheap. We have a chance. Zhang Xin said.

What is the price of books in Guangdong, Zhang Xin said, the price is very high, higher than any country in the 21st century. A set of good prints in the city will cost at least one or two taels of silver.

"The engraving book should be very mature in the Ming Dynasty. Engraving is a stereotyped time-consuming work, can't it be used repeatedly after completion? ”

"The cost of engraving is high, and it is not easy to preserve. Insects are rotten and have to be repaired or replaced every year. This long-term maintenance cost is not low. ”

Moreover, engraving is labor-intensive and takes up a lot of space after completion, so booksellers are reluctant to engrave unpopular books or new works that cannot be sold for a long time. Therefore, it is difficult to publish new books in ancient times, and the authors often have to engrave them at their own expense, and the authors who are shy in their pockets can only find sponsors according to KAO to publish the book. Li Shizhen wrote the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and it was also with the help of Hu Chenglong, an engraver and bibliophile in Nanjing, and Wang Shizhen, a literary giant at that time, that he was able to see his works begin to be engraved during his lifetime. The length of time and the cost of publishing a book are unimaginable to modern people.

"You can consult Zhou Dongtian about this, he specializes in this specialty. It's better to set up a movable type printing factory. ”

After talking to Zhang Xin, Mo Xiaoan felt that he was greatly inspired. I wrote a few pages full. Zhang Xin had another business promotion to talk to him.

"This matter has a direct connection with the Ministry of Light Industry, and it also involves whether we can still occupy the commanding heights of fashion consumption in Guangzhou in the future!"

Ancient societies were likewise fashionable and fashionable. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou, a place with a strong commercial atmosphere and the supremacy of consumerism, occupying the commanding heights of fashion could change the consumption habits of the wealthier citizens to a great extent, so that all kinds of high-yield "Australian goods" could enter the market smoothly.

"What is it?"

"Ziming Building is renovated." Zhang Xin said.

"It can't be PEPI doing some kind of demon moth again." Mo Xiao'an's instinctive disgust + suspicion of this person.

"It's her idea, but it's a collective discussion in Guangzhou." Zhang Xinyi first emphasized this "collective discussion": "We want to make Ziminglou a fashionable place for consumption in Guangzhou......

"Don't be the Ming version of the heavens. In this way, it is easy to engage in intelligence relations, high, really high! ”

"Where," Zhang Xin smiled, "it's more complicated." ”

The guiding ideology of this renovation is to transform Ziming Building into a model of "Australian lifestyle". Install a variety of modern living facilities and sell all kinds of enjoyment to wealthy families who can afford to talk a lot of money, including food, clothing, housing, transportation and other aspects.

"Attention is a pleasure for life, not a luxury."

"What's the difference? Ordinary people can't afford it. ”

"There are many kinds of ordinary people. There are still many people in Guangzhou who live a prosperous life. Zhang Xin has been in Guangzhou for a long time, and he has a relatively deep feeling of the social life of the Ming Dynasty, and the life of the people in Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta area, is quite stable and prosperous. Especially in a city like Guangzhou, although dead people can be seen from time to time, and there are not a few beggars, the living conditions of ordinary citizens are still passable.

This kind of citizen class, which can barely be called the "Ming middle class", although it may not be able to go to Ziming Lou to spend a lot of money, but just as the modern middle class is particularly obsessed with words such as "high-end", "elegant", "luxurious", "superb", "noble", etc., they always have to endure starvation to buy a LV bag, and sometimes they have to pretend to be chic to go to some places where they will feel distressed for a while to consume, and the enjoyment of life of the rich is the object of their imitation. If you can't enjoy all of them, you can enjoy at least a small part of them.

"I generally understand what you mean, Ziming Mansion is similar to a high-end club, a nightclub or something like that."

The sample of Ziming Lou is a high-end nightclub in modern time and space, which is nothing more than the sound of dogs and horses, eating, drinking and having fun. It's just that all of this will be packaged with jishu, ideas and products from modern time and space.

"Then PEPI is a prostitute or an old bustard." Mo Xiao was open-mouthed.

"Kao, PEPI is desperate for you. Nominally, she is Guo Yi's concubine......"

"Xiao Guo's appetite is really good."

"Didn't you say it in name?" Zhang Xin said dissatisfiedly, "Don't make a joke, this is a tentative commercial promotion activity in Guangzhou standing on the mainland, if it is successful, your Ministry of Light Industry will have orders rolling in!" ”

"Okay, okay, I'll hear you."

"The first thing we want to do now is to develop a complete set of sanitary ware." Zhang Xin gave him a list, "The sanitary ware must be taken out within two months, and the others can be slowed down."

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