Zhang Yun rolled over from a mule, then threw the reins to an Italian doorman who walked from the communication room, and kept entering the factory directly. As the vice president of the South China Sea Fishery Company in charge of daily production, Zhang Yun is always very busy, no, he just communicated with the fleet that chased the squid from the Falklands Baleen Whale Harbor about the problems in the operation process, and he rushed to the Luoqia seafood processing factory under the fishery company non-stop.

The Luocha Seafood Processing Factory, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the state-owned Nanhai Fishery Company, was initially responsible for processing some seafood, such as whale meat, cod, slippery fish, red shrimp, etc., and employed more than 500 workers - a typical labor-intensive industry. Previously, the main products of the factory were all kinds of canned products, and the main customers were the military and ocean shipping companies.

Since Zhang Yun led the team to start a breakthrough in the whaling industry on the East Coast, whale meat, a large and easily available bulk seafood, has become the main product in the early days of the seafood processing factory. More than 20 cooks in the seafood processing plant cook whale meat all day, but their craftsmanship or work attitude is very problematic, and the various flavors of whale meat are canned and transported to the front, causing great protests from the soldiers.

For no other reason, the taste is so bad! These people are simply making pig food, and although the food they make is nutritious, in terms of taste, they are simply challenging everyone's tolerance limit! To this end, the military department specially sent a senior staff officer to negotiate with the seafood processing factory.

The time of negotiation was the beginning of this month (September), and Zhang Yun remembered that he had received the group of uncles from the military department. The Senior Staff Officer was accompanied by technicians from the Logistics Department of the War Department, and these so-called "technicians" brought food flavors voted on by the front-line soldiers. and instructed the Luoqia seafood processing factory to correct it immediately.

"What a bunch of rampaging bulls!" Zhang Yun secretly slandered the arrogant Qiu Ba. Then he pushed open the door and walked straight into the kitchen of the whale meat processing workshop. The chefs who were busy saw Zhang Yun come in. They all stopped what they were doing and said hello, and then continued their previous work.

Zhang Yun also said hello to everyone, and then couldn't wait to sit down at a small Eight Immortals table in the middle, picked up the food in the wooden bowl on the table and tasted it one by one. These are all new products developed by the chefs in accordance with the "Military Rations Regulations" just issued by the Joint Staff Headquarters, and these products are generally improved by absorbing the salty, fresh, and fragrant requirements put forward by the soldiers, and the taste should be much stronger than the original.

However, Zhang Yun was still not at ease, and he decided to check it himself, that is, he had to try each new product himself. Then the representatives and technicians of the military department were asked to also come and try the food, and finally finalize the production. To be honest, this is not a very pleasant job, Zhang Yun's salary is good, and the standard of living is also very high, so he is used to eating exquisite food at home, and he comes to the workshop at this time to taste all kinds of canned food that is cursed by the soldiers as "pig food", which in itself is a kind of destruction of his stomach.

"The No. 1 boiled whale meat tastes average, and lacks a green onion aroma, which is a requirement that everyone emphasizes, and the taste is not fresh enough. Write it down and keep changing! ”

"No. 2 boiled whale meat tastes much fresher with soy sauce added. But the quality of this soy sauce doesn't feel good, change! The soy sauce produced by Dafeng Food Company smells of oil, and the time-honored handmade soy sauce in Ping'an County is not enough, so they can recruit people to expand production. ”

"The No. 3 braised whale meat tastes good, the miso seasoning is also very good, and the spices are well placed. Well, there's also a smell of garlic cloves, good! This kind of good! ”

After tasting the three servings of food in front of him, made using the whale meat cooking regulations that have been revised I don't know how many times, Zhang Yun wiped his mouth with a wet towel, and then said: "First revise the cooking regulations, and then make another portion of boiled whale meat and roasted whale meat, and after tasting it, invite representatives of the military department to come and try it, if they think it is no problem, then finalize the production." Remember, whale meat is not as good as beef and mutton, the meat is rough and the taste is heavy, and all kinds of onions, garlic and spices must be put enough, otherwise the taste is very unpalatable. You must have bought this kind of meat often at home, and you know very well how difficult it is to buy cured meat back, don't trouble me anymore, I'm being noisy by those loud hiccups right now. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yun was also a little depressed, the group of Qiu Ba of the army and navy were okay to say, but the tastes of those militiamen who went out with the army were so picky, which made people a little speechless. You must know that many of them have not been on the East Coast for a few years, and a few years ago they couldn't even eat in the Ming Dynasty, and they could eat very fragrant with bran nests, wild vegetables, etc. Now that I have only been living comfortably on the East Coast for a few years, I have begun to criticize the taste of canned whale meat, which makes the Luoqia seafood factory that processes these canned foods a little depressed.

As more whale heads are caught on the East Coast in the waters off Baleen Whale Harbour, the biggest by-product of whale meat is accumulating. Most of the meat is salted in Baleen Whale Harbor and then shipped back to the mainland for further processing or direct sale. Of course, there are also a small number of whale meat directly dehydrated in Baleen Whale Harbor to make spiced whale jerky, but the taste is just like that, anyway, it is mainly the navy that consumes these whale jerky, and they often cook these brick-like jerkys with other things when they are at sea, so they ignore the taste of the food itself.

And with the outbreak of the war with the Spaniards for La Plata, the War Office finally set its sights on whale meat, a cheap meat. After all, no matter how bad it is, it's meat, which can provide enough protein and fat for soldiers. According to the regulations of the War Department, soldiers need to consume at least 200 grams of protein, 60 grams of fat, and 700 grams of sugar every day. Then order whale meat in large quantities.

After all, military spending is tight, and the supply of beef, a luxury on the domestic market, is scarce - after all, although the cattle recovered from La Plata are mainly reproduced and reproduced, and no one is short-sighted enough to slaughter them for eating - and whale meat is so cheap that it is obvious what to choose.

However, the bureaucrats at the War Department did not take into account that the bad taste of canned whale meat would seriously affect the morale of the soldiers, and thus the health of everyone, which they did not expect. However, since the problem had been discovered, they corrected it in time, so they immediately collected the soldiers' requirements for the taste of canned whale meat, and then returned to China to instruct the manufacturer to improve the recipe.

For example, the commanders found that due to the swampy and rainy climate in the Paraná River basin, it was extremely humid, and the soldiers were wallowing in muddy water for many days, and many people suffered from beriberi. After the report of this problem, the Ministry of Health immediately sent a team of experts to the front line by steamboat to investigate, and the conclusion soon came out: because the soldiers' daily diet lacked a large number of vegetables and fruits, after all, where did the marching army get such a good logistical supply, so the intake of vitamins was greatly insufficient, coupled with environmental, psychological and other factors, it is not surprising that many people have beriberi.

After identifying the cause of the problem, the War Department quickly responded to it. On the one hand, they sent their logistics purchasing manager to the canned food factory in Jushu Township, hoping to purchase a large number of canned fruits produced by the factory. However, at this time, the fruit cultivation in Jushu Township and Liming Township had not yet been scaled, and the output was extremely limited, and the only little canned fruit output could not make up for the huge demand of the War Department. Therefore, the army purchasing manager, who was already going crazy, immediately contacted the Brazilians to import a large batch of tropical fruits from there, and then quickly transported them back to Ping'an County for processing by steam engine sailboat.

On the other hand, cod oil, a by-product of the cod processing workshop, another workshop of the Rocha seafood processing plant, has also come into the eyes of the army, and of course, cod liver oil made from whale oil offal has also been included in their range of choices. These two by-products, rich in vitamins, combined with canned spinach cod processed for the Navy at the Rocha Seafood Processing Plant, and semolina (containing bran flour), which was specifically requested by the War Department, gradually recovered from beriberi. According to the latest survey by the War Department last month, only 0.25 percent of the 4,000 soldiers on the battlefield in Santa Fe had beriberi, and the East Coast Army took the lead in the battle against beriberi.

It can be seen from this that war is really a systems project, and no link can be sloppy. Before the outbreak of the war, the staff officers of the self-confident military headquarters thought that they had considered all the things that should be considered, but the war had only been going on for a year, and the front had already reported a basket of problems, which broke the eggs of the arrogant staff officers.

However, the good thing is that the problem was found in a timely manner and corrected quickly. For example, the navy and army that went to the Pacific Ocean this time were equipped with a large number of canned non-staple foods in accordance with the newly formulated "Military Rations Regulations of 1647", such as: the second version of the improved canned whale meat, canned beef, canned cod and spinach, canned boiled soft fish, canned sea bream and mushroom sauce, canned fruits, canned carrots, ginger, green onions, and other canned vegetables, in addition to carrying some dairy cows in order to provide fresh milk supplies for the officers and soldiers.

However, none of these things that were hastily catalyzed during the war were useless, because he made the logistics system of the East Coast Army more refined and experienced. In addition, many things, such as the various types of canned fish, meat and vegetables that were urgently developed, can be sold to ordinary citizens in the post-war peacetime to enrich everyone's diet, and of course, they can also be exported abroad, and I believe that they can make a lot of money back. (To be continued......)