Chapter 477: Gains and Losses

Li Zhongxin could see the kind of thoughts in Mitsui Masako's heart, and there were still some gains and losses in the hesitation.

The hesitation was because she felt that Li Zhongxin, as the chairman, if she wanted to do that, it seemed to be an act of seizing power, and more things were because Li Zhongxin thought of cooperating with the Black Province.

As for the other things, as Li Zhongxin said, the original general manager of IISJGKCG or a newly hired professional manager can operate it.

It can be said that it is nothing more than Li Zhongxin who gave her the credit for the development of IISJGKCG company.

As for the kind of big shopkeeper in Li Zhong's confidence, who doesn't want to worry about anything, Mitsui Masako can't figure it out anyway, she doesn't think that Li Zhongxin is to throw off the burden on her, so he completely handed over a rising star like iisjgkcg company to her for management.

After Li Zhongxin and Mitsui Masako finalized these things, Mitsui Masako was very happy to treat Li Zhongxin to a Thai meal.

After eating Thai food, Li Zhongxin directly proposed to Masako Mitsui that he would visit Ikeda City in Japan tomorrow, hoping that Masako Mitsui could accompany him.

Later, when he was engaged in foreign trade, Li Tadanobu visited Ikeda City, Japan, where he also visited the first instant noodle museum in Japan.

Li Zhongxin remembers very well that the staff at the museum told the history of instant noodles.

In 1958, Momofuku Ando invented the world's first instant noodle ——— "chicken ramen". After World War II, there was a serious shortage of food in Japan, and ordinary people were so hungry that they even ate potato seedlings. Momofuku Ando occasionally passed by a ramen stall and saw a crowd of poorly dressed people lining up for twenty or thirty meters against the cold wind, and he couldn't help but take a great interest in ramen.

In the spring of 1958, Momofuku Ando began researching ramen. He built a 10-square-meter laboratory in the backyard of his house in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, found an old noodle making machine, and then bought a Chinese wok with a diameter of 1 meter, a bag of 18 kilograms of flour, cooking oil, etc., and devoted himself to the study of instant noodles.

Momofuku Ando envisioned instant noodles that are easy to eat as soon as hot water is added. He set five goals: first, that the taste was not only delicious but also that he would never get tired of it; second, it can become a common item in the family kitchen and has a high preservation; Third, it is simple and does not require cooking; Fourth, the price is cheap; Fifth, because it is food, it must be safe and hygienic. In this business, he is completely a layman. The ingredients of the noodles are very delicate, and he has a lot of knowledge, and he tried everything he thought of, but the results were not good.

After some hard work, he finally solved the preservation problem. Later, he was inspired by the way his wife made fried dishes, and there were countless holes in the flour coat of fried food, like a sponge, because the flour coating was mixed with water, and the moisture in it would be dispersed during the frying process, forming "holes", which would soon soften when added with boiling water. In this way, by dipping the noodles in the broth to give them flavor and then frying them to dry, you can solve the problem of preservation and cooking at the same time. Momofuku Ando was so excited that he called this method "instant hot oil drying" and obtained a patent for the instant noodle method.

At the time, chickens were kept next to the research hut in the backyard, which were often used to kill the table. One day, my mother-in-law put chicken soup made from chicken bones in the ramen, and my son actually ate it deliciously. It was then that Momofuku Ando decided to use chicken broth for instant noodles as well.

Momofuku Ando distributed the prototypes to acquaintances everywhere, and was praised as "having a different flavor from the existing ramen, and being very convenient enough to be a new product."

Momofuku Ando asked a friend who worked in a trading company to send the samples to the United States to test the reaction, but the United States immediately replied with a request to order another 500 boxes. Momofuku Ando realized that food really knows no borders, and he had a vague hunch that maybe this product would become a global commodity in the future.

Li Zhongxin knows very well that in China, the sales volume of instant noodles is definitely a very terrifying number, and he remembers that in later generations, he happened to hear the financial news broadcast that by 2017, the retail sales of instant noodles in the country will exceed 80 billion yuan.

80 billion yuan, how much instant noodles represent, everyone can imagine.

With such a vast market and such a huge piece of cake, Li Zhongxin wants to take the lead in occupying a part.

Japanese instant noodle companies use mature assembly line operations, and he wants to do it here, and he must also do that kind of super-large assembly line production, and he must not make a small fuss, or not do it, and if he wants to do it, he must invest in a super-large instant noodle production enterprise.

For things like the process of producing instant noodles on the assembly line, Li Zhongxin also visited the process of producing instant noodles on the assembly line of Nissin Group when he visited the instant noodle museum in Japan.

The instant noodle production line is composed of a brine mixer, a brine metering device, a double-shaft and two-speed dough mixer, a disc curing machine, a compound calender, a multi-layer dough steaming machine, a square noodle cutting and sorting machine, a frying machine, an air cooler, a conveyor, etc.

In the fully enclosed aseptic workshop, there are eight giant flour storage tanks and four palm oil storage tanks, and the whole production is completed by a complete set of automatic machines for circular operation, and the raw materials do not fall to the ground and do not touch, and even the supporting forks, wrappings, and noodle bowls are prepared and put into the production line in one go, so as to avoid secondary pollution throughout the process.

The giant "dough mixing robot" constantly prepares the flour automatically, and the kneaded dough is transferred to the resting area. In the "rolling" process, the upper and lower retractable pressure pipes evenly press the flour strip into the shape of a long strip. When it comes to the "wave control" link, by slowing down the delivery speed, the noodles are piled up to form a curved "several" shape.

After the noodles are cut to a uniform weight, they fall directly into a box-shaped container, where they are conveyed by a conveyor belt to the instant noodle frying area for regular frying.

In terms of oil control for fried instant noodles, special machines are also needed to control the oil so that all the excess fat in the instant noodles can be removed.

Imported palm oil with good stability, and unlike ordinary fried food, the frying box of Zhongxin instant noodle factory is completely airtight, so that the oil is separated from oxygen and avoid oxidative rancidity. According to the speed of nearly 1,000 pieces of dough per minute on a production line, the production line runs 24 hours a day, constantly replenishing, filtering, and updating new oil, and regularly sampling the oil to ensure that the oil on the production line is always in a fresh state.

"The oil in the fryer is like the water of the Yangtze River to form a "living oil" system, which is completely replaced every 12 hours to keep it fresh. ”

In terms of labor, in Li Zhongxin's eyes, such a large-scale instant noodle processing factory does not need too many workers, flour and oil are passed to the flour storage tank on the assembly line, to say that the need for workers, it is nothing more than the instant noodles are packaged after weighing and sampling, which probably requires some manpower, and the whole process is fully automated.

As long as the large-scale assembly line production equipment is built, and some skilled and capable employees are found, it will not take much time for the large-scale instant noodle production enterprise under Zhongxin Company to be successfully built.

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