Chapter 228: The Great War, Good Business (Medium)

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Neijiang, Baima Industrial Zone, Tuojiang Power Equipment Company, Steam Turbine Sixth Workshop.

Tuodong is the most advanced and largest power equipment manufacturer in China and even in the world, since the assassination of the Emperor, it has been producing at full capacity, from the original two-shift system to three shifts, and people have been shut down.

It was a break time, and the workers in the workshop were sitting in the lounge, chatting with cold drinks.

"It's incredible, this is terrible, 100,000 motives, a whole 100,000 units, the foreign devils in Europe bought 100,000 of us at once, God, we have been in Tun for several years The goods are gone all of a sudden, not to mention, and now we have to work overtime to do ......" A young technician sighed.

A young worker smiled and said: "Hehe, this is not the foreign devils who are good at fighting, if they don't fight, where will we get such a good business? The foreign devils buy everything, eat and wear, and everything." Listening to my wife, the grain, vegetables, fruits, chickens, ducks, fish and meat in the countryside are all open, and the purchase price has risen by 10%. ”

"Isn't it, in our village, even the old grain has been sold," another worker interjected.

"Do you want old grain? Foreign devils are not stupid, can't they eat it?" someone asked puzzled.

A worker pouted: "What is this? The meat factory in our hometown even collects ...... old female pork."

A middle-aged worker's eyes widened, and he said hurriedly: "Ge Laozi, is this okay? Isn't this illegal? Now the imperial court, oh, the government, is very tight about the safety of this food, and your meat factory is too fat, right......?"

Wang Qinian explained with a smile next to him: "Hehe, brother, you don't understand." Those old grains, old rice, old female pork, etc., are all exported goods for foreign devils to eat. These products are not allowed to be sold in China, and whoever dares to violate the rules will be severely fined, and they will not dare. ”

"Lao Wang, even if you sell it to foreign devils, it's not good......"

Wang Qinian said disapprerovingly: "What's not good, compared to the foreign devil himself, we are already very conscientious." You may not know what the foreign devils themselves are talking about. They add mercury to the cheese, copper carbonate to the tea, and sulfuric acid to the wine, and if you go abroad, don't eat these things, if you eat them, your stomach will become a chemical substance."

At present, Chinese workers are enrolled in literacy classes and night classes for workers, and they learn all kinds of basic cultural and general knowledge courses, and chemistry is also the content of learning. The employees of enterprises with old qualifications like Tuodong are even higher, at least at the level of junior high school or even high school. Wang Qinian said these chemical terms, everyone can basically understand them, and the few people who don't understand them will understand it if they ask the people next to them.

"Oh my God, these foreign devils are crazy too. Can you eat all these things?" everyone listened to it, and they all thought that this foreign devil was too rebellious.

"Why can't they eat it, as long as they don't eat something that will kill people immediately, they dare to do it. These are all mentioned in books and newspapers, and there are books and newspapers in the library that introduce foreign countries, and you will know ......when you have time to read them," Wang Qinian said with some ostentatiousness.

"You don't have to go to the library, sometimes it's on the radio," the technician said.

Wang Qinian is very: "So, we have a conscience." Those old grain old female pork or something, it's just not delicious, and it's not poisonous and won't eat the dead. Besides, how many things have foreign devils robbed in our China, how many bad things have they done, and what is there to sympathize with?"

"Well, Lao Wang is right, it's this Liyang devil, he deserves to die" Everyone also nodded.

Wang Qinian's words were not exaggerated at all, and the European and American capitalists at that time were indeed full of discipline. At that time, mercury was an important and common food additive in Europe and the United States, yes, you read that right, it was mercury because this thing could be preservative, nonsense, bacteria were poisoned.

For example, when mercury is added to milk, the soluble protein in the milk encounters mercury ions, a heavy metal, and a chemical reaction occurs, and the protein denatures and settles. But it doesn't matter, the capitalists only need to filter the milk to separate, and the filtered clear liquid is the milk, and the sediment will not be wasted, they will make these things into cheese. In this way, you get two products of milk and cheese at once, and almost no **. Anyway, there was no testing standard at that time, let alone measuring the protein content or anything, as long as the fart people could drink the taste of milk, it would be good, as for whether there would be a problem with eating, the conscientious capitalists didn't care, anyway, they didn't eat it themselves.

In addition to "mercury milk", there are also the famous "cinnabar sausages" and "cinnabar ham", well, which are dyed with cinnabar (mercury oxide) in the seasoning of sausages and hams. Anyone who has studied chemistry in junior high school knows that cinnabar is a common pigment, its color is very bright and pure, and it has excellent stability. This thing is often used to make ink, and the marks made with cinnabar ink, even after hundreds of years, are as bright as new as when they were just stamped. This thing is added to sausages and ham, and the color naturally looks bright and cute, which is appetizing, and can also be preservative.

In addition, sulfuric acid is added to the wine to make it stronger. Ingredients such as copper carbonate and lead chromate are added to the tea leaves for tea dyeing, so that the tea leaves have outstanding color and can also prevent mildew. There are also chalk added to flour as a whitening agent, cooked gypsum added to increase weight, and alum, copper sulfate, alkaline carbonate and other messy additives will also be used.

Sodium nitrite, Sudan dyes, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide and the like, which were criticized in later generations, are very, very legal "safe" additives and preservatives in this era. As for what is mixed with water in wine and milk, charcoal powder mixed in pepper, chicory and oak seeds mixed in coffee, etc., it is already the most common and harmless. That is, after entering the 2nd century, it has only slightly converged in the past few years.

"Jingle Bell ......"

At this moment, the electric bell in the lounge rang.

Wang Qinian put down the water cup and stood up, and said to everyone: "Okay, it's time to rest." We continue to live, today to complete these five train steam turbines, the new Silk Road is waiting to use the locomotive, without our steam turbines will not work. ”

"Alright, let's live...... everyone stood up.

In addition to this, other workshops are also busy. This war made Tuodong make a lot of money, and in less than two months, it received two large orders, first Russia ordered 20,000 trucks, and then the Germans also came to order 40,000 trucks and 40,000 motors, which was a total of 100,000 trucks but it was not enough for Tuodong to empty all the inventory.

At present, Germany has opened a large order for China in order to hoard materials on the one hand, and to win over China on the other hand, because now China and the belligerents only accept physical goods and real money and silver, and do not collect banknotes. So Germany paid a full 3o tons of gold (about $200 million) this time. Unlike the woolly bears, there is no shortage of weapons in the 6th Army, their own production capacity is sufficient, and the things they order are mainly all kinds of civilian materials, food, clothing, medicines, electronics, etc., as well as the most important airships, airplanes and submarines.

The price of this batch of materials sold by China is still very conscientious, and the price has only increased by 20% compared with usual. Not to mention that in the war period, it is already very generous to be only 20% more expensive than usual, like the group of capitalists in the United States, which has risen by 30%, and they also got an order of 100 million US dollars this time. Don't look at the increase is not big, this is just the beginning, and after this year, the price of those related materials will at least double.

But Germany doesn't care, because they picked up the money for nothing. At that time, because the Germans were attacking too fast, the French government ran too hastily, and only a small part of Paris's gold reserves could be shipped out, and the result was cheaper for the Germans. At that time, France had 1o3 tons of gold reserves in the National Bank of Paris, and almost more than 1o tons of gold fell into the hands of the Germans.

In addition, Belgium and Luxembourg suffered worse than France, and their gold reserves were not transferred at all, and all of them were laughed at by Erdezi. Belgium has 2-ton gold, and Luxembourg has more than 6 tons. This country is only a big nose, but it was a big steel country at that time, and its output in Europe was second only to Germany, Britain, Russia, France and Austria, and higher than Italy, reaching 130,000 tons in 1913 (only 930,000 tons), and as a result, the wealth accumulated by selling steel became a trophy for Germany.

These 1o6 tons of gold were all picked up for nothing anyway, and Erdezi didn't feel distressed when he spent it.

In fact, other countries and belligerents are now reluctant to accept money for trade. After the outbreak of the First World War, the warring countries controlled the outflow of gold, banned the free exchange of gold and paper money, and the gold standard came to an end. Naturally, people are reluctant to ask for banknotes that cannot be exchanged for real money, not only in China, but also in the United States.

That is, now the belligerents can only buy things on the international market with real money. Before the start of the war, the gold reserves of the main belligerents were as follows: 14o5 tons for Britain (1o95 tons for the homeland, 1o tons for Australia), 1o3 tons for France, 233 tons for Russia, 439 tons for Germany, 37B tons for Austria-Hungary. The above figures are only official reserves and do not include the number held by the royal family and private individuals. The British figure is only the central bank reserves of the mainland and Australia, not including the private property of the royal family and nobles, nor the reserves of other colonies, if you add the gold held by the royal family and private individuals of various countries, this amount will at least more than double, such as the British royal family is estimated to have 26 tons of gold, and the Russian royal family is estimated to have 4oo6o tons.

As the saying goes, money is not everything, but without money you can't, gold is natural currency. Just from this amount of gold reserves, it can be seen that the Allies are at a great disadvantage, Niu Niu is too rich, and they actually occupy about 75% of the global total gold

In the original time and space, most of the gold of the Entente countries flowed into the United States, and the United States was exhausted, and China in that plane was too weak to be qualified to be on the table. But now it's different, China has the qualifications and strength to serve on the table. Wen Deji is now very greedy for this large amount of gold, although it is impossible to get all of it, but if you work hard, you can still get half of it. That's why the Germans were given a preferential price, so that they could give more strength and let the Entente, especially Niu Niu, spit out more gold.

In order to achieve this goal, it was necessary to arm Germany as much as possible and make the Entente even worse. These old imperialists are not fuel-efficient lamps, and if they were not driven to the desperate ground, they would not have been able to contribute generously and hemorrhage.

Nanchang, Jiangxi.

Poyang Xianggao Food Company is a local private company, and the owner is a young man named Wancheng, who comes from a landlord family. This Wancheng Wan boss studied in the United Kingdom, majoring in food processing, and set up a food factory after returning to China in O9, mainly flour and rice noodles. When the land reform began, the family took the initiative to sell the surplus land to the government.

Because the government of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology encouraged the private sector to set up industries, he purchased a number of new machines and key technologies open to the private sector with land transfer fees and preferential industrial loans from banks, and built a large number of new products to expand the scale of the food factory. Canned food is one of the main products, because this is also his specialty, the most familiar.

Poyang Lake is rich in aquatic resources, but before the establishment of New China, due to the limited preservation technology and poor transportation infrastructure, there was basically nothing to open, let alone large-scale aquaculture. After the reunification of China, in order to improve the people's living standards and increase protein intake, the Science and Technology Socialist Party vigorously carried out various aquaculture industries in various places, and Poyang Lake was quickly opened, and hundreds of fish farms and pig farms were established in the surrounding areas. As a result, Wancheng's food company has an abundant source of raw materials.

The outbreak of the First World War this time also made Boss Wan's business very good, and he counted the money and had cramps in his hands.

Today, a few people dressed as civil servants came to Poyang Xianggao Food Company, and they moved a few boxes from the car and went directly to Wancheng's office

"Oh, it's Liu Ke, it's really a rare guest...... May I ask what is more expensive today?" Wan Cheng suddenly became nervous as soon as he looked at the person. Because the section chief Liu who came here is from the Nanchang Food and Drug Administration, and he is in charge of their industry.

Wen Desi attached great importance to the quality of "imported goods", and when he was still a "warlord" and did not take national power, he established a food and drug administration in his territory, which was specially responsible for supervising and managing the quality and hygiene of various "imported goods". It can be said that among all countries in the world today, China is the strictest in this regard, and its regulatory system and related laws and regulations are also the most perfect.

"Hello, Manager Wan. We are here to spot check the quality of the product...... "The person who came was not polite, and directly explained the intention.

"Okay, no problem, no problem...... Wan Cheng hurriedly took them into the workshop, and after changing into special work clothes in the locker room, he entered the production workshop for spot checks. The production workers in the workshop are wearing white overalls, hats and masks, and are concentrating on their work.

"Your environment here is still relatively clean, but you still need to further test ......" Section Chief Liu first took a closer look at the environment of the production workshop, nodded slightly, and asked the analyst to take out a measuring instrument and start sampling everywhere.

"Section chief, all environmental parameters have met the ......" Ten minutes later, the analyst reported to him.

"Okay, let's go ahead and spot check the products," Section Chief Liu pointed to the dozens of cans in front of him, which were randomly drawn by civil servants on the production line and in the warehouse

More than two hours later, the analyst reported: "Section chief, all the parameters of the sample are qualified and meet the relevant national standards......

"Well, that's good. Section Chief Liu nodded, and said to Wan Cheng, who was obviously relieved: "Manager Wan, this batch is canned food for export...... he pointed to the few cans on the table with Russian and German labels, and the labels of these cans are printed with a cute cartoon big fat pig, and the product name is "BaeuvcpIeT", "!" (Luncheon meat).

"Yes, these canned luncheon meats are all exported to Russia and Germany...... Wan Cheng hurriedly said: "Liu Ke, we are all in accordance with the regulations of the text, the raw materials of these export goods and the domestic products are strictly separated, and we will definitely not mix ......"

Section Chief Liu said sternly: "It's good that you know, the standards for export and domestic sales are different, and if you are sloppy in this regard, the consequences will be very strict...

Yes, now China is implementing double standards for products, the first-class domestic sales, the second-class exports to Europe and the United States, and the third-class exports to the third world, which is completely opposite to the big picture dynasty. Because Wen is always an extremely protective person, in his eyes, people are different, and he can't even do "everyone is equal", so what kind of funny views such as "diplomacy is no trivial matter", "preferential treatment of foreign guests" and so on are even more fart for him.

Take canned luncheon meat as an example, the luncheon meat sold in China must be qualified good meat, the starch content shall not exceed 1o, vegetable protein shall not be more than 1o, and the meat content shall not be less than 8, and many internationally "legal" additives are not allowed to be used, and the implementation is very strict. Of course, there are also those who don't believe in evil, but after dozens of bosses were fined and bankrupt, and were sentenced to more than ten years of labor reform, everyone else was honest.

Exporting canned luncheon meat is another matter entirely. Don't think about the qualified fresh meat, which is basically inferior meat such as old sows and old boars, expired frozen meat in cold storage, and fat, foot oil, trough, etc. As for the content, as long as it reaches 6, it would be fine. Starch, vegetable protein, etc., just add it hard, as long as the final luncheon meat can still taste meaty, it is qualified.

As for the internationally "legal" additives such as Sudan dyes and sodium nitrite, they are naturally also very useful. Because of the use of these things, the appearance and color of luncheon meat sold abroad are better than those sold domestically. The bright and alluring red color of the export version does look appetizing, and of course, Sudan dyes can help. In addition, the shelf life of the export version is much longer, which is due to sodium nitrite.

In addition, there is another raw material manufacturing technology that is not open to the private sector, and that is "regenerated meat". The raw materials are diseased pork, dead pork and spoiled pork, and the manufacturing process is very simple, which is to add water to these things and crush them, mix them with some additives to make a "base material", and then put in a special fungus to let it multiply. The fungus feeds on the "base" and quickly grows into a pink, jelly-like substance, which is picked to become "regenerated meat". In fact, this is a kind of animal feed from the 2nd century, not for human consumption.

After this "regenerated meat" is crushed into meat puree, adding pork flavor regulator is pork puree, adding beef flavor regulator is beef puree, and what kind of meat you want, just add whatever taste regulator you want, which is very convenient. However, there are still many advanced technologies in this technology, so they are not open to the private sector, but only sell the finished meat puree directly to those companies that have export orders, and let them take it back to be processed into canned food and sell.

But even so, Chinese companies still have a much better conscience than the capitalists in Europe and the United States. Even if it is "regenerated meat", it has undergone a transformation, at least it does not directly use dead meat and spoiled meat, and the nutritional content of "regenerated meat" is definitely enough, you can say at most that it is not real meat.

Poyang Xianggao Food Company has export quotas, and naturally it is also eligible to buy this "regenerated meat", which is mixed with defective pork, canned and then sent to the front line of the European war.

Although people who know the inside story are not impressed with this kind of thing, Mao Xiong and Erdezi are very satisfied with this product. Of course they don't know what's going on, uh, or even if they do, it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's all for gray livestock and cannon fodder, and it's not for the nobles and lords, it's almost almost, it's good to have meat to eat, and they have to pick and choose?

As we all know, front-line soldiers need to consume enough protein and fat every day to maintain their combat effectiveness in high-intensity combat. But it was difficult to provide fresh meat to soldiers on the battlefield (except for senior officers), and most of what they could eat was salted meat. This kind of stuff is hard and hard, very inconvenient to handle, and not easy to digest. To say that this kind of thing is really a bunker, even the American GIs, who had the most extravagant supplies, had eaten salted meat during the Civil War during World War I. As for the hardness of this thing, anyway, the GIs used it to make crafts, and they could also use files and grinding wheels to polish it. And the most important thing is, don't look at the salted meat, but the price of this thing is not cheap either.

The canned luncheon meat in China is different, not only can it be stored for a long time, but it is also easy to eat, it can be eaten when it is opened, it can be eaten hot or cold, and it can also be made into dishes with other foods. Not to mention the nutrition and taste, compared to the mummy-like bacon is so strong that I don't know where to go, this is the truth, due to the addition of flavorings such as food flavors, spices and monosodium glutamate, this thing tastes, at least when it is just eaten, it can really be said to be fragrant and delicious.

The most important thing is that the price of luncheon meat is also much cheaper than bacon, so the representatives of Russia and Germany, after tasting the samples, bought in large quantities. This has also made China's canning producers rich, and even the workers in the factories have been laughed at with bonuses. There are also associated upstream and downstream industries, such as the logistics and transportation industry, the breeding industry, the steel industry, the chemical industry and even the printing industry, etc., which can be said to have driven a series of enterprises.

Hello is really good, the cannon fodder on the front line in Europe has plenty of delicious meat, their government has saved money, China's related industries have made money, and the market has prospered.

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