In mid-June 1984, just when Hong Yanwu and Shui Qing were feeling great about the achievements they had made for the service company, they finally felt they could relax for a while.
A great event worth celebrating also happened in the "Polar Bear" factory.
That is, the instant noodle workshop prepared by Director Yang has finally started production.
In the original history, instant noodles that had never been produced by "Polar Bear" were born.
To this end, Factory Director Yang held a groundbreaking ceremony.
After the ceremony, the entire factory leadership team and heads of various departments can also visit the workshop.
Hong Yanwu and Shui Qing are naturally among them.
To be honest, Hong Yanwu had never seen the production process of instant noodles.
At first, he was filled with the pride of being an "experienced person" and thought it was no big deal.
I didn’t expect it to be quite shocking when I saw it with my own eyes.
Because the modern assembly line runs smoothly, the speed is "whooshing", and the efficiency is too high.
Stirring, pressing, cutting, pressing, oiling, drying, seasoning, and packaging are all mechanized operations.
According to an engineer in the factory, he heard that this production line only requires a few dozen workers to operate and can produce 100,000 packs of instant noodles in eight hours.
Good guy, the Japanese stuff is really well-deserved!
At this time, in terms of modernization and high technology, it indeed surpasses the Republic by a lot!
And at the same time, everyone was generally shocked and amazed by this number.
Hong Yanwu also gained another insight.
He suddenly understood why his father had seen the production line of the pastry factory.
The old man became discouraged and immediately accepted the reality of "public-private partnership".
And for a long time, I haven't even thought about restoring my ancestral business.
That is fear of the power of industrialization.
Low cost and high efficiency are far beyond what traditional handicraft industry can match.
It's just that his father was limited by the times and ignored one point at the time.
That is, the industrialization of food can never fully satisfy people's appetites and completely replace traditional techniques.
Because this kind of product is produced to a standard.
It is based on the eternal pursuit of low cost and continuous simplification of production steps.
In the process of constantly chasing these two points, it is also a process of getting further and further away from health, safety, and humanistic sentiments.
Such food can only provide the public with convenience, quickness and rough and simple taste.
But it can never satisfy people's inner emotions and high-end, personalized needs.
To put it bluntly, it is just a makeshift thing.
And as someone who has experienced a modern society, he understands this particularly deeply.
In the past life, the entire catering industry was eroded by industrialization.
He once lamented that when he was in a high-end restaurant, nothing tasted good.
He has also experienced the discomfort of being turned off by the signature dishes of time-honored restaurants that are getting worse day by day.
Someone once said to him, "Now that you are rich, you have eaten and seen everything, so it is no surprise. In the past, when you were short of things, of course you think everything is good."
He once believed this to be true, but in this life he felt that it was wrong, at least not entirely right.
Since he woke up from the train station, he has never lost his mouth, and he eats and drinks almost every day.
But until now, he didn't feel any boredom.
The love for traditional food is getting stronger day by day.
He doesn't get tired of big meat dishes like braised pork elbow, Sixi meatballs, rice noodles and pork. The taste is so delicious.
This is of course not because "Zhang Dashao" is so good at cooking that he always gets the glory.
Because the dishes in the cafeteria are still delicious, such as "roasted eggplant with garlic", "charred pork slices", and "tiger skin eggs".
Only a large dining hall can produce such a taste, and its level can definitely be called the "ninth major cuisine".
This can only show that when the phenomenon of food industrialization becomes pervasive, it can only create a monotonous diet.
"Zhang Dashao" said it best, "If you want to make a good dish, you can't even miss the seasonings. Soy sauce, vinegar, wine, salt, sugar, and other auxiliary ingredients such as onions, ginger, and garlic should be used slightly."
No, it doesn’t taste like that.”
It is conceivable that in an era when machines are used to knead dough, yeast and baking powder are used to make dough, and seasonings are seasoned with MSG, chicken essence, blending wine, synthetic soy sauce and synthetic vinegar, what good dishes can be produced?
Not to mention meat tenderizer, Sudan red, capsaicin, these "scientific and technological inventions" that have no descendants and have no virtue for eight lifetimes.
But who does this depend on?
This can only rely on people's excessive pursuit of quick success, convenience, and instant benefits.
It can only rely on people's blind superstition of modernization and Western civilization.
Yes, it is also a kind of superstition to completely believe in technology and despise our traditional humanity and experience.
So now that he has figured this out, he won't be as confused about it as his father.
On the contrary, he had plenty of time and opportunities to strengthen himself and slowly prepare for the revival of his ancestral business.
He can collect treasures that have been forgotten and easily abandoned by people at very low cost.
Just like the copper pot of "Tianxingju", the noodle fertilizer of "Fengzeyuan", and the secret recipe of "Taiye Chicken", these are used to establish the Hong family's absolute advantage in traditional food.
This way, people will wake up from their dreams and rediscover the precious value of traditional skills.
I'm afraid they will find that the Hong family's achievements and heritage already require them to look up to them.
That will be something they will never catch up with in their lifetime.
And Hongjia will become synonymous with traditional cuisine in the capital, and will become a legendary existence that maintains the most complete inheritance and outperforms all time-honored brands in the capital.
That is the future for the Hong family to regain its glory, and it is also his lifelong wish.
"Judequan", "Shundonglai", "Fengzeyuan", "Cuihualou" and "Tanjia Cuisine" are all left to dry.
Eat the leftovers so that it can be your turn!
Humph, with you being ‘Dadong’ and ‘Four Seasons Minfu’, you still want to take the lead?
Whether you can still exist depends entirely on my mood!
Just like that, with this clear understanding and beautiful imagination.
Hong Yanwu clearly had the strange feeling that he was secretly following the "leaps" of the times.
In his mind, the BGM of Wu Ma singing loudly in "A Chinese Ghost Story" seemed to resound, giving him more expectations for the future.
"You live in the way of wolves, well, I seek my own way, I seek my own way"...
Almost like Hong Yanwu, Factory Director Yang also fell into a complacent mood after seeing the start of the assembly line.
It's just that his control and vision for the future are all based on short-term interests, and the foundation is too weak.
Unfortunately, his mind is not very clear yet, and he is far from realizing this.
So when the first batch of instant noodles sold out smoothly, he got excited.
Under such circumstances, Hong Yanwu wanted the company to sponsor the "Journey to the West" crew and advertise during the TV series' broadcast period, but he naturally rejected it.
Factory Director Yang believes that spending such a large amount of money on this is unnecessary waste and money wasted.
Because for a large state-owned enterprise like theirs, whose products are not well-known to every household, why would they spend so much money on advertising?
What a joke!
He even complained about the 10,000 yuan that Hong Yanwu had already sponsored.
Forget about the 500 boxes of soda that I sponsored for "Sunset Street" in the past, it wasn't worth anything.
But Hong Yanwu can't be more and more lavish, using public money as favors in order to make friends with actors.
This guy is just like Xia Boyang in the movie. He is free and loose, has a serious guerrilla style, and is too self-righteous and arbitrary in doing things.
Ten thousand yuan was given lightly, and the names of two units of acknowledgment were exchanged. This is not acceptable.
Is this going to be okay in the long run? The power given to him is not for him to spend money.
Criticism must be done well!
Just like that, Director Yang criticized Hong Yanwu very rudely.
Face to face, he taught him a lesson and said, "As a cadre, you must correctly understand the power in your hands. If you abuse your power, the factory will be doomed. For a qualified cadre, what is the most important thing when he has power? It is not the use of power, but the use of power.
It's to curb your desire for power! But you can't be domineering when you have administrative power. If you have the power to spend money, you can spend money randomly. Even if it's not for your own personal gain, spending money like this casually,
You are also suspected of dereliction of duty."
Not only did he approve Hong Yanwu, but Director Yang later brought Shui Qing along with him, blaming her for not fulfilling her supervisory responsibilities.
They say that home is home, work is work, and she is the leader at work.
We must keep Hong Yanwu under control and not let him dominate the service company.
But what's the result?
This kid Hong Yanwu didn't take Factory Director Yang's official authority seriously at all, and he was even more disdainful of his words from the bottom of his heart.
Although he kept silent, even though he was approving me happily, he was a wilted leopard.
After Director Yang was satisfied, he said a few words casually, relying on his understanding of the direction of social development and experience in the market, and pinched Director Yang's vitals.
Instead, he took the opportunity to teach Director Yang a lesson.