Chapter 45: Crispy Fish and Smoked Fish
The big things in the world must be done in detail, and the difficult things in the world must be done in the easy.
No matter what time it is, as long as the preliminary work is done meticulously, as long as the needs of people are understood, then Li Zhongxin feels that there will be nothing difficult to do.
Wang Xiping is the director of the soybean oil factory, what he needs and what he wants to do, the general direction is understood, and the rest is nothing more than a matter of details.
After a lively conversation between the two people, an agreement on cooperation was reached. As long as Li Zhongxin's side can provide unplanned soybeans, then the workers of Jiangcheng Soybean Oil Factory will work two hours to turn Li Zhongxin's soybeans into soybean oil.
The soybean meal left over from the soybean oil squeezing was pulled away by the Zhongxin Company, and the soybean oil factory did not care whether it was pulled back for feed or other uses.
Based on the principle of mutual benefit, the soybean oil factory and Zhongxin Company have formed a relationship unit, and at the time of the New Year's Festival, Zhongxin Company will obtain the fish needed by the employees of the unit at a preferential price lower than the market price.
Wang Xiping also reached an agreement with Li Zhongxin that within three months, they could exchange cash for no more than 3,000 yuan in foreign exchange from Zhongxin's company.
With these foreign exchange volumes, these wealthy workers of soybean oil factories were able to buy foreign-funded electronic products on the market.
If Wang Xiping personally wants to buy RB electronic products, Li Zhongxin will also help Wang Xiping buy them.
Li Zhongxin's idea of doing this thing was very simple at first, the dishes made at home were too disturbing for him, and when his grandmother was cooking, because the supply of soybean oil was not enough, he would put some meat oil at any time, and he didn't like the taste of meat oil very much.
Let's not mention that eating meat oil for a long time for the elderly is not good for their health, it is that taste, Li Zhongxin feels unbearable after eating it for a long time. If you want the people in your family to live a happy life, how can you not even eat soybean oil, happiness must start from a little bit.
The supply of soybean oil has been figured out, as long as Li Zhongxin continues to send soybeans over to the machine, enough to start the machine once, the workers of the Jiangcheng soybean oil factory will add a night shift to process the soybean oil that Li Zhongxin needs.
After getting the soybean oil, Li Zhongxin told Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu to gather some women in the village who could work and cook, and let these women obey Li Zhongxin's command.
For Li Zhongxin, the women in the two villages are no strangers, so to speak, almost no people in the two villages do not know this little guy who is called a little prodigy by Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu.
Thanks to the advent of the Zhongxin Company, the villages of Zhubantun and Fulong have changed dramatically, and the people of the villages have made a lot of money by fishing in the river.
Now the mental state of the people in Zhubantun and Fulong Village has come up, as long as Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu want to do something, they are quite supportive, and they also know that it will be of great benefit to be led by these people to do things.
After Li Zhongxin gathered these women together, he consulted the names and surnames of several women, and Li Zhongxin called Aunt He sweetly, two of them were surnamed Zhang, and Li Zhongxin was all called Aunt Zhang, which made several women happy.
Although in the fifties, our great leader Chairman Mao said that women can hold up half the sky. However, even in the 80s, rural women in the northeast still had no place in the countryside.
Li Zhongxin has no way to deal with such a situation, but what! Li Zhongxin told these aunts that as long as they did what he arranged, they would definitely earn no less money than those men in their family, and their status in the family would definitely improve.
After getting acquainted with them for a while, Li Zhongxin explained what he wanted to explain.
Every household here in Zhubantun has a big iron pot, and the big iron pot can be used by the big iron pot of their own among them.
The two Aunt Zhang specially cleaned up the small white fish caught from the river, drained the water after disemboweling and washing them, and then sent the little white fish to Aunt Li for frying.
After frying, put in the ingredients that Li Zhongxin wrote for them, and then put these little white fish into the two pressure cookers brought by Wang Bo and press them again, and after they cooled, they became crispy white fish.
After the crispy white fish was ready, Li Zhongxin asked several other women to sell it near several markets in Jiangcheng City early the next morning, and the price was two cents and three small and one dime for the large.
In the morning and at noon, these people sell in a few good busy sections, and in the evening they sell at the factory gate when the factory is about to close.
If you have something to exchange, you can also trade it for food stamps, comic books, storybooks, and other items. At this time, it is summer vacation, and after the students start school, they will go to the gate of those relatively large schools in Jiangcheng at noon to sell, and the students will definitely eat a lot of this thing.
While explaining to these women, Li Zhongxin specially told the two most clever women to tell them the precautions when using the pressure cooker.
Li Zhongxin remembered that there was a joke in the city at that time, a little leader from the Material Bureau bought a pressure cooker for his father, and told his father countless times in a row, telling him that he must remove the small lid before opening the lid.
The pot in the old man's house was borrowed by the other door because he was invited to eat at the opposite door, so he had to use a pressure cooker to cook noodles.
When the noodles were cooking, after a while, the pressure cooker was sizzling, and the old man pulled the small lid on the pressure cooker hard because he was afraid, and as a result, the noodles jumped out of the small hole in the pressure cooker one after another like elementary school students going to the movie theater.
There are also families who are scared when they use the pressure cooker and run away, only to have the pressure cooker explode.
Therefore, when Li Zhongxin instructed these rural women to make crispy fish, he explained to them the method of using a pressure cooker and the precautions for use very carefully, Li Zhongxin did not want to have an uncontrollable situation because of the pressure cooker.
Li Zhongxin calculated that the small white fish that were caught in the river in the morning could still have some sales, and the small white fish that were caught in the afternoon could not be put on the next day, so these little white fish had to have ideas to turn them into money.
After frying, the small white fish pressed in a pressure cooker are sold for two cents and three, and the larger ones are sold for one dime, because they are not skilled enough in the early stage, Li Zhongxin estimates that these women can make about 4,000 small white fish a day, that is to say, these small white fish can be sold for at least 300 yuan, and the net income of the company will be 200 yuan a day according to 40 yuan a day, and those exchanged for materials or stamps have not been counted.
In this era, the material life is much scarcer than it is now, but because there is no big difference in class, everyone earns about the same money, and people are always happy, and there are no bad things such as complaining about the sky and complaining about their bad fate.
Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu The rural women they found originally lived at the bottom of society, and because they were not laborers at home, their status was even lower to the extreme, and now with such a job, their faces have always been filled with excitement. They were quite serious when making fish, meticulously carrying out the things that Li Zhongxin explained to them, and when selling fish, several of them went out early and returned late, and sold all the crispy fish in their hands before going home. It is precisely because of such a situation that the crispy fish has become a big seller.
The big sale of crispy fish made Li Zhongxin's heart very happy, after all, the matter of fishing in the river, usually fishing is only in the afternoon, if it is the next day, the fish is not fresh enough, with the appearance of crispy fish, the matter of fishing has been able to last from early morning to dark.
After the crispy fish was sold, Li Zhongxin began to think about the production of big fish, although all kinds of materials in this era need to be purchased with tickets, but there are also many things that can be exchanged.
Thinking of time and practicality, Li Zhongxin finally chose to make smoked fish.
Compared with crispy fish, smoked fish also has many benefits.
The smoked fish is salted and smoked so that the nutrition of the fish is not lost, but the taste is fresh and delicious, regardless of winter or summer, the smoked fish can be preserved for a period of time so that the fish does not deteriorate.
There are several kinds of smoked fish in China, which are raw smoked, cooked smoked, direct smoked, hot smoked and other smoking methods.
Li Zhongxin was in charge of catering when he was a resort in later life, and he was very expert in smoked fish, and even what kind of smoked fish to eat was beneficial.
The method of making smoked fish is very simple, and Li Zhongxin took half a day to train two women who make smoked fish.
But what! Li Zhongxin told the two women not to spread the knowledge of how to make smoked fish, because if this technique was passed on, it would affect Li Zhongxin's development plan in the future.
After the smoked fish is successfully made, the big fish caught in the afternoon or evening does not need to be sold, and it is directly taken to the house where the smoked fish is made into smoked fish, and then sold by people in the streets and alleys.
This kind of smoked fish, almost comparable to the taste of Fuli Jixiang chicken or roast chicken, quite popular with people who love to eat fish and like to drink, as soon as it is freshly baked, it is a big sale in Jiangcheng, almost in short supply.
Seeing this situation, Li Zhongxin asked Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu to set up Zhongxin non-staple food stores in two prosperous areas of Jiangcheng in the name of village-run enterprises, specializing in crispy fish and smoked fish produced by Li Zhongxin, as well as some agricultural and sideline products.
The disadvantages of the planned economy are quite obvious, you have to buy a ticket for everything, and without a ticket, you don't want to buy anything.
However, Li Zhongxin has carried out many barters, and has opened up a new market with the fish in his hand.
If you want to eat fish, you don't need money, you don't need to get a ticket, farmers can exchange chickens, ducks and geese, or you can exchange things like food and mountain goods at home.
These are cooked and sold with smoked fish and crispy white fish.
The people in the commercial mouth have all kinds of rare cloth tickets, meat tickets and the like in their hands, and Li Zhongxin also allows these people to exchange these tickets in their hands for fish without spending money.
Anyway, as long as Li Zhongxin thinks that it is worth exchanging, he will exchange the fish, and it is precisely for this reason that there are many people who come to the Zhongxin food store to exchange for fish, and even people from ten miles and eight towns will go to Li Zhongxin's food store to exchange.
After a long period of trading, everyone had mutual trust, and the purchase price given by Li Zhongxin could be said to be the highest in Jiangcheng, that is, at such a time, Zhongxin non-staple food store began to have a stable supply of goods without the indicators of state-owned stores and commercial bureaus.