Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1699 Factory

Although Zhou Zhi was the instigator of this incident, seeing the deputy governor of the autonomous prefecture being so humble to a former poor boy and a young worker of the county water company, one could not help but sigh at the bizarreness of the world.

This is also a special phenomenon of this era. Among the freelancers who go into business, the vast majority are from a class with low quality, low education, strong job replacement potential, and very low income.

But this era gave them the opportunity to shine. Many lucky ones accumulated their first pot of gold, further developed considerable industries, and accumulated huge assets.

For example, the three famous pig-raising brothers in Shuzhong have steadily worked their way to the top of the rich list.

After more than ten years, the quality of entrepreneurs has generally improved. If someone like Dayong, who only has a junior high school diploma, wants to make a name for himself, it seems... he can only join Deyun Club.

Brother Dayong was well trained by Sister Xiaojuan'er, and he didn't have the temperament of a nouveau riche, and there was no gold on his body. However, he still stuck to his old habits from his youth worker days and dressed very thinly. When everyone was still wearing thick coats, he wore a light blue shirt jacket and a dark heavy silk cardigan. With his hair combed back, he looked a bit like Wan Ziliang without the dimples.

"How much bank debt does the food factory have now? How many workers and cadres are there?" Brother Dayong asked the core questions as soon as he opened his mouth: "How big is the current factory area? What is the existing production capacity? What is the peak production capacity?"

Li Yutang felt lucky at this moment, because Zhou Zhi had told him that He Dayong could be considered a gangster, and his style of doing things was direct. Therefore, sticking to the facts was the attitude, and being fully prepared was the key, and there was no need for any other fancy tricks.

Sure enough, the data that I memorized in advance came in handy.

After listening to Li Yutang's introduction, Brother Dayong said, "Governor Li, we are not very satisfied with the situation in Zhengchang. The most unsatisfactory point is that there are too many management cadres."

"If we were to take over Zhengchang, the debts owed to the bank would be a minor matter. The cadres in the factory would be the major issues that would affect the future development of the enterprise."

"Of course, we won't say no to any of them, but we have our own set of standards for the appointment of management. Therefore, for all positions in the factory, our human resources management subsidiary will come to select and evaluate them. Whether cadres or workers, we will treat them equally. Only those who pass the selection and evaluation can take up management positions. This is the most important principle in our group's modernization and restructuring, and it is also our bottom line. If the state does not even agree to this, I think the subsequent negotiations will be difficult."

Zhou Zhi nodded secretly in his heart. When you meet someone after three days, you should look at him with new eyes. Brother Dayong has been fully experienced.

"Introducing a modern enterprise system is the key to solving the company's problems. The state has a consensus on this point." Li Yutang said: "The state's idea is to cut the Gordian knot. This time, the factory will be completely and thoroughly transformed so that it will no longer drag down the state's already tight finances."

"Of course, we are not without advantages. I should have introduced them to you by now. We have all-natural green food here - bracken and mountain mushrooms, which can be developed into very good health food. When we get to the food factory, you will be able to see the salt water mushroom processing production line we introduced."

There is an old city in the capital of the autonomous prefecture. The old city is square in shape, but unfortunately all the ancient buildings are gone and only some remaining city walls remain.

Next to a section of the city wall is the Zhengchang Food Processing Company. This company is actually the earliest Zhengchang Soy Sauce Factory. After liberation, it was a public-private partnership, street collective ownership, contract management, and corporatization. Until today, it is insolvent and waiting for restructuring.

In fact, there would be no problem if the sauce factory had just continued to operate soy sauce and vinegar honestly. However, after every major change, the first thing the manager did when he took office was to carry out his own outrageous operations. First, he blindly expanded production capacity, and then the market failed to open up. Next, the equipment was idle, the loan could not be repaid, and the workers were aging and the number of retired workers increased, so the factory became burdened.

Then they started to reform, and then looked for a way out everywhere, but failed again. This vicious cycle continued again and again, and finally the factory was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The factory’s last attempt to save itself was to introduce a saltwater mushroom production line.

The so-called salt water mushroom production line is actually similar to the canned fruit production line, but the fruit is made with sugar water, while the mushrooms are made with salt water.

Moreover, fruits are preserved in cans, while mushrooms are preserved in large food-grade plastic barrels. One barrel can hold 30 kilograms of mushrooms, and with salt water it weighs 50 kilograms.

The shelf life of this kind of salted mushrooms can be up to one year. In later generations, many restaurants in big cities that specialize in "wild mushroom pots" actually use this kind of mushrooms.

In Zhou Zhi's opinion, such a production line is actually a failure. The only commendable thing about this thing is that it retains the texture and shape of the mushroom, but the taste is completely gone.

Those inexperienced "foreigners" in big cities think that what they are eating is a mushroom stew made from delicious and expensive fresh wild mushrooms. In fact, the real method is to use some artificially cultivated fresh mushrooms, and add this kind of "water mushrooms" that are taken out of the salt water and soaked in clean water to remove the salt taste. The more conscientious merchants add broth made from dried mushrooms and chicken and duck bones, while the unscrupulous ones directly add essences and seasonings, chicken oil and boiling water, and then serve it on the table and it becomes a "wild mountain treasure mushroom soup stew". If they don't charge you six or seven hundred yuan, they don't know how to run a business.

Even so, this production line did not catch up with the good times when mushroom pots became popular in later generations, and was slightly ahead of the times. Just from the workers' lazy canning movements, Zhou Zhi knew that this production line would not be profitable.

On the contrary, Matsui Zou and Jin Junyi were watching with great interest. These two guys were exactly what Zhou Zhi called the foreign brats. Seeing countless wild mushrooms being handled so roughly, they felt like they were about to have a heart attack.

"These are boletus, shimeji mushrooms, red mushrooms, chanterelles and the like." Zhou Zhi explained in a low voice: "Matsutake and chicken mushrooms are two precious ones, and they are reluctant to deal with them like this."

It's funny to say that these nouns are so damn professional that Zhou Zhi can't even be found in the English dictionary. On the contrary, Japanese people like mushrooms so much that there is no mention of mushrooms in the Japanese dictionary.

Especially Matsutake, the Japanese love it to their core, and they look for it all over the world. Then the whole world regards the Japanese word "Matsutake" as the standard name, and it has become a "transliterated foreign word" in various countries.

At least Zhou Zhi discovered that in the Japanese-English-Chinese dictionary, the pronunciation of this word in Japanese and English is exactly the same.