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Chapter 244 Peanut Oil

There is a well-known couplet. The tap water in Shanghai comes from the sea, and the peanuts in Shandong fall in Dongshan. Shandong has a long history of peanut cultivation, and its output ranks among the top in the country.

In 1861, Yantai was opened to the outside world. In 1862, after the American missionary Melis arrived in Yantai from Shanghai, he gave 250 grams of Virginia peanut seeds to Yang Delai, a farmer in Dayangjia Village, for trial planting. After that, it gradually spread to Zhaoyuan, Huangxian, Qixia and other places.

By 1890, Shandong's annual peanut export volume had reached more than 30 kilograms, and it had increased to 1891 million kilograms in 375; in 1908, Qingdao Port exported 450 million kilograms of peanut kernels and oil, worth more than 120 million customs taels; In the TV series "Once Upon a Time in Qingdao", there was a plot of peanut futures trading, which also reflected the widespread cultivation of peanuts in the rural areas of Jiaodong at that time.

Up to now, peanuts are planted all over Shandong. Among them, there are two main areas that produce peanuts. One area is the southwestern area of ​​Shandong with LY as the center, and the other area is the eastern area of ​​Jiaodong in Yantai, Weihai, and Qingdao.

The city with the highest output is Laixi City, Qingdao, which is known as the hometown of peanuts in China. Its per capita peanut production ranks first in the country. In the future, 1/4 of the peanuts exported nationwide will come from Laixi. The peanut oil used by Luhua is from Laiyang, The peanuts in Laixi and Pingdu, the orchid flowers and arowana in Yihaijiali, and the first workshop in Laixi all use local peanuts as the main raw materials.

Zhucheng's peanut planting area is definitely not as large as Laixi, but it still has more than [-] mu, and the annual output is not small. It is also a good choice to slowly accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity.

So as soon as Li Lei heard that Chen Guang was carrying out reforms in Zhucheng and sold a large number of state-owned enterprises, he came immediately, hoping to take down the oil mill and at the same time take over the entire peanut purchase business in Zhucheng.

As for the Luhua brand, I am afraid that there is no chance, because as early as 1986, the Luhua Oil Extraction Factory was established in Laiyang, but it is possible to cooperate with them. Yihai Kerry and COFCO only became bigger and stronger after the cooperation. Now Luhua may not have contact with Yihai Kerry and COFCO. Li Lei has plenty of time to look for opportunities.

After discussing the acquisition of the oil mill in Zhucheng this time, go to Laiyang to meet Luhua's boss, Sun Mengquan, and see if he can get a share in his company. At the same time, he can further cooperate with Li Denghai in the corn oil business.

"This is negotiable!" Chen Guang's eyes lit up when he heard this. The oil mills in Zhucheng are not in a good condition now. The peanut oil they produce can only be sold locally, and it is difficult to sell it outside. It has been in a state of loss for a long time, and the market The inside has long wanted to get rid of this burden.

Then he introduced the situation of the Zhucheng oil extraction factory. Now there are oil extraction factories in every flower production area in Shandong. These oil extraction factories usually adopt two technical methods. One is the traditional soil extraction, which has simple production technology and is hygienic. Poor conditions, smoke and foam when cooking, unable to form large-scale production; the other is called leaching oil, which is extracted with organic solvents. Solvent elimination, high-temperature refining, decolorization, deodorization, etc. are required in the production process, which will inevitably cause some loss of nutrients.

These two methods have their own defects, and the native method is even worse, so don’t see those small vendors on the Internet boasting that their peanut oil, rapeseed oil, and soybean oil are all made by ancient methods. In fact, if the ancient method is good, why? Want to innovate technology?
However, Zhucheng Oil Extraction Factory is currently using the indigenous method of oil extraction. Maybe because it is not intuitive enough to just talk about it, Chen Guang directly took them to the oil extraction factory for a site visit.

Entering the factory area, the workers got the order and started to make according to the traditional method. First, they crushed the peanuts with a grinder, steamed them in traditional water to ensure that the water was added, and then stir-fried them in a coal cauldron. Each batch was 10 kg to ensure Stir-fry evenly, and finally wrap the peanuts and grits with gauze and put them in an old-fashioned press for pressing. The pressed peanut oil is uniformly placed in a special blue-glazed oil tank, and naturally settles at a constant temperature.

"The quality of our peanut oil is absolutely unbeatable. It is bright in color and has a pure fragrance. It tastes different from those produced by machines!" The workers in the factory are very proud of their products.

"Can your peanut oil meet the export standard?" Li Lei asked.

As soon as these words were said, the faces of the workers suddenly drooped, because this is a defect that most peanut oil manufacturers in Shandong cannot overcome. The pressed peanut oil will smoke when heated to a certain extent. This is because of the phospholipid content in peanut oil. The reason is higher, and European and American countries believe that oil fume pollution is serious and has great harm to human health, so they are unwilling to import this kind of peanut oil.

In the future, after six years of scientific and technological research, Luhua developed the "anhydrous dephosphorization" technology, which can not only remove the phospholipids in peanut oil, but also successfully retain the active nutrients in the oil, and successfully passed the European and American countries' standards. Audit, so as to export to overseas, earned a lot of foreign exchange for the country.

Chen Guang also understood the shortcomings of Shandong peanut oil. Seeing Li Lei's full confidence, he couldn't help asking, "Mr. Li, can you solve the problem of peanut oil smoking, so that the produced peanut oil can meet export standards?"

"I have read some foreign research materials, and I have some ideas. If we can take down the oil mill and update the equipment and production process, this problem should be solved!" He said that in fact, he was a bit conservative, "Anhydrous The dephosphorization technology has not yet been fully researched by Luhua, but Li Lei already has complete information in his mind, and only needs to try a few times to produce a finished product.

Chen Guang rubbed his hands excitedly. In fact, as soon as Li Lei proposed the idea of ​​buying the oil mill, he planned to sell it. The oil mill now owes a lot of loans to the bank, and even the salary depends on government support. If it goes on, if someone buys it, not only the bad debts of the bank can be made up, but the government can also take the opportunity to get rid of the burden, and don't need to move out the original small amount of money to fill this bottomless pit.

Now when I hear that Li Lei has mastered more advanced technology and can export Zhucheng's peanut oil to foreign countries, he will be even happier!Now, that place can earn foreign exchange, which is a great thing for the local leaders!He didn't suspect that Li Lei was lying, because he had already checked that he had indeed helped local food processing companies in Luxiang City realize their dream of earning foreign exchange overseas, and now they provide Luxiang with a large amount of foreign exchange income every year. Since it can be done in Luxiang, it can definitely be done in Zhucheng.

And taking a ten thousand step back, even if you can't do Zhucheng, it's not a loss, at least you get rid of a big burden, right?Thinking of this, Chen Guang wanted to give the oil mill to Li Lei directly. In fact, that's what he did when he went to Heze in the future. He sold all the companies that could be sold.

"Mr. Li, let's go back and talk!" Chen Guang immediately took Li Lei back to the government compound. One really wanted to buy it, and the other wanted to sell it sooner. It was easy to talk about.

At the beginning, Chen Guang tried to retain a part of the shares, but Li Lei firmly refused. He would rather help the oil mill repay the bank loan than make even the slightest concession on property rights, so Chen Guang thought about it and agreed; Then it was Li Lei's turn to raise the conditions. It turned out that none of the management of the factory must be allowed to stay.

The workers are not afraid to stay, because the scale of the current oil extraction plant is very small, and En is unable to digest the peanuts that Zhucheng grows every year. In the future, it will definitely expand and recruit new people. When there are more people in the future, these people will not be able to make a difference Besides, the factory was owned by Li Lei at that time, and he just opened it if there was a thorn in his head.

Chen Guang thought about this and agreed. He was actually very dissatisfied with the factory leaders. Who told them to turn the factory into what it is now?
It took a few days to discuss the details, and then the two parties finally reached an agreement and signed a formal contract, and the Zhucheng Oil Press has been Li Lei's property ever since.

The management of the factory had already been transferred at this time, and the workers were a little flustered, but they soon calmed down, because Li Lei paid back the wages owed last month as soon as Li Lei came, and the workers got the money, which is considered knowledge Seeing Li Lei's sincerity, he was immediately relieved.

Then Li Lei announced the new rules and regulations, and increased the assessment bonus without reducing the original salary. As long as you abide by the system and work hard, you can get more than before. They have to be fired, carrots in one hand and big sticks in the other. The previous leaders have left and no one takes the lead, and the remaining workers can't make a fuss at all, and they all happily accept this reality.

Who wouldn't want to earn more money?In the past, I was too lazy to work because it was not beneficial to work. Now I can get double the income if I work hard. If I am stupid, I will not work hard. So the workers were quickly appeased, and they changed their lazy style in the past. Started to work hard.

In addition, Li Lei was still nearby and asked Chen Guang for a piece of land to expand the factory. The scale of the oil extraction factory was too small before, even if there was no place to put the updated equipment, it had to be expanded.

Nowadays, there is no such thing as bidding, auctioning and listing for land acquisition. The leader approves the approval, and the approval is very happy. It is a good thing to expand the factory, which means more employment, more taxation, and more importantly The most important thing is to buy more peanuts. If local farmers want to sell peanuts, they don't need to wait for foreign oil mills to buy them.

"Is it enough to give you one hundred acres first? If not enough, you can add more." Chen Guang asked considerately. He wished that Li Lei would expand the oil mill to a larger area.

"Enough is enough." One hundred acres has actually exceeded Li Lei's expectations. Given the conditions of Zhucheng, it is not suitable for the oil mill to be too large, otherwise the peanuts will have to be transported from outside, so it is better to go to Laixi , or Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai and other coastal cities have opened factories well. These places either have a lot of raw materials or are close to the sea and have convenient transportation, which is more suitable than Zhucheng.

Of course, even if we set up factories in Qingdao, Laixi and other places in the future, Zhucheng will not let it go. It is still possible to use it as a regional production center. Relying on locally produced peanuts, the peanut oil produced can meet the daily needs of surrounding cities. demand; and because it is located in an economically backward area, the labor cost must be lower than that of big cities such as Qingdao, and the company still makes money.

Chen Guang approved the land, and Li Lei went to pay the money and go through the formalities, then went to the local architectural design institute and put forward specific requirements, and they came up with a plan, and the local construction company was responsible for the construction. The expansion of the factory will be completed.

In addition, Li Lei has already notified Ma Tianyou, gave him a list of the equipment he needed, and asked him to find a suitable partner to buy them, ship them to Qingdao by sea, and then ship them ashore from Qingdao to Zhucheng, presumably waiting for the factory. When the building is almost completed, these devices will also be in place.

At the same time, Li Lei also transferred some management personnel from the food factory, and selected some workers from the original workers of the oil mill who had higher prestige, older qualifications, or stronger learning ability. Allocate people to mix and form a new temporary management team, and they will be responsible for the daily operation of the factory.

After these people arrived, there were some small frictions with the workers in the factory. These were normal phenomena, and Li Lei didn't care about them. It's nothing more than division and wooing. They are very familiar with these methods, and they quickly mastered the daily management of the factory.

But it is not without problems, Li Xinwang soon discovered this, so he approached Li Lei, "Xiao Lei, although making food and cooking oil have some similarities, but these people have never produced peanut oil after all, so they are very familiar with the process. I am not familiar with it. If we maintain the original relatively primitive production process, it may be okay, but if we want to carry out technological innovation and introduce more advanced production process, I am afraid it will not work. You must pay attention to this problem! It is best to find a solution as soon as possible. !"

"That's for sure, what can you do?" Li Lei had actually thought of a solution, but he didn't say it right away, but wanted to see how much Li Xinwang had improved.

"I found out that there is a peanut research institute in Laixi, which not only studies how to cultivate high-yield peanuts, but also studies peanut oil processing technology. Do you think we should go there to recruit some technicians?" Li Xinwang proposed his own scheme.

"This is a good idea. Try to give them better conditions. As long as they have real skills, I dare to give them five times or ten times their salary!" Get active, not afraid that you won't be able to poach people.

"However, these can only solve technical problems, and there are still no talents in management, especially peanut oil production management! Where should these people be found?" Li Lei continued to ask.

"Let's go to Laixi. There are many oil mills over there, so there must be someone who knows how to do it!"

"That's okay, we'll go to Laixi to scout people!" Li Lei had the same plan, so the two packed up and went straight to Laixi, the hometown of peanuts.

(End of this chapter)