The main body of production of Nandu factory is naturally the production building, the production building is diagonally opposite the factory office building, not far away, a total of seven floors, the first floor is the raw material warehouse and the finished product transit warehouse, the second floor to the sixth floor is five workshops, the seventh floor is the staff dressing room.

I took a turn on the first floor, first looked at the operation of the raw materials in and out and the finished product transit warehouse, and listened to Wang Feng's explanation.

After looking at it for a moment, Song Yuanchao nodded noncommittally, and then walked up the stairs and went directly to the first workshop on the second floor.

As soon as you go up to the second floor, you can feel a deafening sound of machinery filling your surroundings and feeling a wave of heat rushing towards you.

"A workshop is the milk candy workshop, but also the earliest workshop of our factory, in the fifties when the Nandu factory was first established, this workshop existed, and now it is the six workshops of the whole factory, including the branch factory, the largest output value and the most personnel workshop."

Wang Feng raised his voice and introduced to Song Yuanchao, Song Yuanchao nodded, and Wang Feng turned left from the stairs to the workshop office first, and when they arrived at the workshop office, Yang Yongjian, the workshop director who was drinking tea, was stunned for a moment when he saw Wang Feng walking in with Song Yuanchao, and then stood up.

"Director Song, why are you here?"

"Hello Director Yang, didn't I just come here today, just take a look and get familiar with our factory." Song Yuanchao stepped forward with a smile on his face and shook Director Yang's hand, while noticing the sweat on his face that he hadn't had time to wipe off.

"Hehe, I just entered the workshop and worked around, if you come a little earlier, you will have to go to the assembly line to find me." Yang Yongjian said happily.

"You, the director of the workshop, still have to work in the workshop?" Song Yuanchao asked slightly intentionally.

"Of course." Yang Yongjian smiled and nodded, picked up a cigarette from the table and handed one to Song Yuanchao, and threw another one to Wang Feng in the back.

Song Yuanchao took the cigarette and swept his eyes around, and before he could ask anything, Yang Yongjian explained with a smile: "Smoking is prohibited in the workshop, but the workshop office and staff lounge can still be smoked." You also know that there are not many people who don't smoke, I have a workshop of more than 100 people, and half of the men smoke, it is not practical to really let everyone ban smoking, so there is a rule, absolutely no smoking in the workplace, but you can smoke in the office and lounge. ”

"This regulation is good, it not only takes care of the actual situation, but also ensures the safety and hygiene of production, how about it is implemented now?"

"It's okay, it's not that there are people who don't follow the rules, and some sneaky cases of smoking in other places still exist, but we usually catch it strictly, and it's just that we don't see it, and we have to deduct half a month's bonus directly if we find it." Yang Yongjian said.

Song Yuanchao nodded, and when he saw Yang Yongjian handing it over with a fire, he quickly tilted his head slightly and lit the cigarette, and thanked him at the same time.

"I was born in the front line of the workshop, entered the factory at the age of sixteen, and now I have been working in the factory for 19 years in the blink Chinese New Year's Eve of an eye." Smoking a cigarette, Yang Yongjian said with a smile: "From the initial apprentice to the later regular employee, to the team leader, shift leader, and deputy director of the workshop...... He has been the director until now. ”

"Although I am a cadre, but my personality is like this, people from the grassroots line sit in the office and can't be idle at all, always love to run to the workshop, and when I run, I want to do some work on the assembly line, hehe, I'm not afraid of your jokes, my wife often says that I am working hard, not being an official."

Yang Yongjian said self-deprecatingly, a thirty-something female comrade in the office was secretly covering her mouth and having fun, and Song Yuanchao also smiled, and at the same time glanced at the female comrade.

"I forgot to introduce you, blame me, blame me." Yang Yongjian hurriedly said: "This female comrade is Xiao Yu, the statistician of our workshop, she is responsible for the work of workshop picking, production statistics and finished product data summary, as well as the monthly salary list of workshop workers is also her job, this old Wang knows." ”

"Yes, Xiao Yu is responsible for the production and payment of wages in the workshop, and will send the table to the labor department every month, and on the day of the salary, she will go to the finance department to collect the wages of all the people in the workshop to be paid here, and the work of other workshop statisticians is basically the same." Lao Wang hurriedly echoed on the side.

"Hello Director Song." Xiao Yu greeted Song Yuanchao generously, and Song Yuanchao politely said hello to her, but because the other party was a lesbian, Song Yuanchao did not shake hands with her.

"Our workshop is the largest and most popular workshop in the factory, in addition to me and Xiao Yu, the workshop office also has the branch secretary Lao Kang and deputy director Lao Cao, Lao Kang, you saw it at the meeting this morning, and now it is in the machine repair room, as for Lao Cao is on the middle class today, it will take a meeting to arrive."

"There are also two shift leaders, their work follows the working hours of the workshop section, and the technician works in the machine repair room, and I will take you over to see ...... later."

Yang Yongjian is a veteran of the first workshop, he has worked in the factory for 19 years, except for a few years in the third workshop as the deputy director of the workshop, the rest of the time is in the first workshop, and he knows the situation of the first workshop well.

Listening to Yang Yongjian's introduction to the first workshop, Song Yuanchao slowly had an overall image in his heart. After chatting for a while, after a cigarette was finished, Yang Yongjian got up and said that he would take Song Yuanchao to the workshop to have a look, Song Yuanchao readily agreed, and followed Yang Yongjian straight into the workshop.

The first workshop is the workshop for the production of milk candy, Nandu Food Factory is a comprehensive food factory, the main products produced have three categories, one is candy, one is pastries, and some are beverages.

Speaking of candy, especially toffee, the most famous in the country is naturally the white rabbit in Shanghai. The fame of the White Rabbit is particularly loud, and it can be said that everyone knows it.

Nandu factory also produces milk candy, Nandu's milk candy learning is the white rabbit of Huhai, the brand used is called Nandu, although limited to the formula and process, the taste is not as good as the white rabbit of Shanghai, but it is quite famous in the local area, especially near Huizhou.

In addition to a few kinds of milk candy, there are also Jinling's more distinctive kraft candy, fruit candy, nougat, etc., these candies in nougat because of the limited supply of raw materials and product shelf life plus weather and other reasons, a year usually only four to five months of production arrangement, other candies constitute the main candy product structure of Nandu factory.

As for pastries, in addition to some traditional pastries, Nandu Factory also produces seasonal pastries, such as moon cakes, chongyang cakes, and rice cakes.

In addition to the main factory, there is a branch factory, a branch factory produces beverages, this branch was originally a small beverage factory, more than ten years ago under the name of the Nandu General Factory, now it is mainly the production of orange soda and salt soda two drinks, but salt soda is usually produced only in summer, orange soda is produced all year round, but the market can only be regarded as so-so.

As soon as you walk inside the real workshop, a heat wave sweeps in.

The confectionery workshop is divided into two sections, one front section and the other post-section.

The front section is all gay, and there are no female comrades in sight, mainly because of the poor production environment in the front section and the need for great physical work, these jobs can only be done by gay men.

The first link of the front section is the steam boiling procedure, the boiler outputs the high-temperature steam, and then boils the prepared syrup at high temperature through the pipeline, the humidity and heat of this link are very high, and the boiled syrup usually reaches more than 135 degrees, according to the different processes of producing candy, this temperature will also vary, if it is made of nougat, the temperature will reach about 155 degrees, which is much higher than boiling water.

The boiled syrup will be poured into the iron drum by the workers, and then the iron bucket will be poured into a special blender for about 40 minutes of rapid stirring, which is similar to the foaming of egg whites, so as to slowly turn the brown syrup from watery to semi-solid white toffee.

Although the principle of this large mixer is similar to that of later generations of household mixers, it is much larger, with the weight of each mixer reaching more than 2 tons, and the body is all made of thick cast iron, which is directly fixed on the cement floor.

In the second procedure, there are nearly 30 such mixers, divided into four columns, and the middle ground of the two columns is laid with a special guide rail, on which is placed a steel trolley, operated by two masters with big shoulders and thick waists.

There is a huge stainless steel container on the mixer, this container is similar to the cauldron, with a diameter of more than one meter, which can hold about 150 catties of syrup, the syrup is poured into it, and the stirring blades inserted in the container after starting the machine begin to rotate rapidly, and the thick steel blades collide with the stainless steel container, coupled with the fast weight and speed, although the container is fixed on the machine, it still cannot avoid the loosening and collision of the fixed place, so as to make a violent clanging sound.

After about 40 minutes of high-speed stirring in the mixer, the syrup inside begins to turn into a semi-solidified toffee initial shape, at this time, switch to low speed reduction, and add a certain amount of additives and milk powder at the same time to bake.

When it comes out of the oven, such a bulky thing is not resistible even if it is a master with amazing strength, and the temperature inside is very high, and it is easy to burn. Therefore, the guide rail on the ground in the middle comes in handy, the master will first turn off the machine, and then unload the container directly from the machine, then firmly grasp one of the ears (handle) of the container with both hands, use the instep to push the bottom of the side of the container, and then twist the waist in one direction like a shot put player, and use the strength of the waist and shoulders to directly throw the whole container out in one direction.

When the container is thrown out, the hand holding the ear handle must be ajar, and the experienced control container crosses a graceful arc in the air, so as to accurately land on a trolley with a hollow steel ring placed on the ground rail.

When the container has landed steadily and stopped on the hollow steel rim cart, Master will push the cart forward, and when it reaches the stainless steel cooling table in front of it, he will hold two stainless steel plates in his hands, dip his entire hands, including his bare arms, in the starch jar on the side, and begin to dig out the semi-solid toffee in the container with his hands.

Digging requires a high level of skill, which is usually developed with long-term practice. You must know that although the temperature of the semi-finished toffee is lower than that of the syrup, it still exceeds the high temperature of 100 degrees, and the starch on the hands is used to prevent burns, but once the action is not in place or the action is not completed within a safe time, then the burn is inevitable.

Song Yuanchao saw with his own eyes that a master took two steel plates and dug out a pot of toffee from the container in just three strokes, and it was dug cleanly.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, three times is too much, according to Yang Yongjian, the last time is already cleaning up the residue in the container, the skilled master calls this two and a half, that is, it must be basically dug in two times, and the last half is to clean up, which is the real veteran.

After the semi-finished toffee is dug out, one master wraps the hot toffee dumplings in his hand and moves it from the back of the cooling table to the front, and then another master pulls the candy and cools it by hand.

This kind of operation reminds Song Yuanchao of the craft of making ramen, which looks somewhat similar, and waits for the master to operate on the cooling table for about ten minutes, and after feeling that the cooling and pulling sugar are similar to the experience, he will move the whole piece of milk candy that has become solid but still soft to the side of the strip machine.

As the name suggests, the strip machine is to gradually stretch the large pieces of milk candy that have not been completely solidified and cooled under the action of the machine, and the final diameter of this long strip is the diameter of ordinary milk candy.

After the strip is pulled, the cutting machine rotates the blade to cut a section of about 1.2 meters long strip of toffee into real toffee length, and then enters the rear section through the conveyor belt.

Compared with the front section, the rear section is all lesbians, these female comrades sit in front of the packaging machine, the packaging machine is connected to the reciprocating conveyor belt, and the unpackaged milk candy sent by the conveyor belt can fall into the container of the packaging machine through the baffle operation, and then the packaging machine runs continuously, "swallowing" rolls of candy paper and unpackaged naked sugar, and "spitting" the finished product from the other end.

When the finished product came out, the female worker who operated the packaging machine used a stainless steel shovel of a specified length to shovel the toffee out of the finished product of the machine, and placed it neatly in the cartons that had been prepared long ago.

When one carton is full, the women's union will put the full carton aside, and then take a new carton and continue to repeat the work just now.

There are at least 30 packaging machines in the packaging link of the rear section, which are divided into four columns like the mixing link of the front section.

During the period, there were also several workers pushing the trolley back and forth in front of the packaging machine, and the finished carton was transported to the back position by trolley.

As for the rear position is the final weighing and packing link, the carton sent from the packaging machine will be weighed, and a few pieces will be removed from the carton or a few finished toffee will be added according to the requirements, so that the weight of each box of packaging is completely compliant.

To complete this, the carton will be wax sealed, the so-called wax sealing process is to wrap the carton with wax paper, and finally use a pen to dip the melted wax water, like glue to apply and seal.

After the wax seal is completed, it is finally time to pack.

A large carton is loaded with six cartons of toffee, each carton is 2 kilograms, the whole box is 12 kilograms, after filling the sealed box on the side of the wooden warehouse board, and so the carton is full of a wooden warehouse board that is, 40 boxes, naturally there are special transport people with hydraulic vehicles to pull out these finished products, temporarily stacked in the small warehouse behind the workshop, and so on every once in a while to carry the freight elevator to the cost transit warehouse on the first floor for registration and warehousing, and finally sent to the finished product warehouse of the factory for storage.

Song Yuanchao had never been in contact with these, and he was very interested in watching them all the way, and Yang Yongjian accompanied him and explained the process and characteristics of each process for him.