Taking advantage of Zou Wenhuai and others' free time to collect theater information, in the afternoon, Shi Zhijian first went to the Yuen Long factory and then to To Kwa Wan.
As Shi Zhijian continues to advertise the product in newspapers and magazines, the Yuen Long factory's instant noodles production has now reached an astonishing figure, accounting for an astonishing 60% of the instant noodles market, and another 4%.
Ten was divided between Yongkang and three other instant noodle companies.
According to Liu Jianxiong, the demand from the Kowloon Walled City is still increasing. Previously, Liang Jiashu told Shi Zhijian that a single walled city can make a profit of one million per month. It seems that it is not nonsense. As long as the factory can keep up, it can even exceed
million.
As for the soda production in To Kwa Wan, it has almost reached saturation. The reason is that the venue is too small.
Fortunately, it is winter and the beverage market is not at its hottest yet. According to Shi Zhijian's calculations, when the Shek Kip Mei factory is officially put into production next summer, it can just make up for the lack of soda beverage production and further occupy the Hong Kong market.
Finally, Shi Zhijian met Uncle Qi, the research and development master of the soda water factory.
Shi Zhijian was still thinking about the secret recipe of Wong Lo Kat, but unfortunately the final result given by Uncle Qi was that the negotiation failed.
It's not that Wong Lao Ket really guards the secret recipe and doesn't sell it, but the price for selling the secret recipe is too high. Asking for one million is more ruthless than robbing a bank.
When Shi Zhijian heard what Uncle Qi said, he immediately gave up on Wong Lo Kat.
Since Wanglaoji herbal tea cannot be made, then we will develop other herbal teas ourselves.
Uncle Qi is a thoughtful person. In order to make up for his mistake of not dealing with Wong Lao Kat, he took the initiative to develop a new herbal tea of his own. The taste is similar to Wong Lao Kat, but the auxiliary medicinal materials are more precious.
Shi Zhijian tasted the taste and felt it was very wrong.
The biggest fear of herbal tea is that it is too sweet and astringent, and it is too bitter. Only when it is not sweet, not greasy, not astringent and not bitter can it be called "neutral".
Chinese people traditionally like moderate things, and herbal tea is the same.
Seeing how much Shi Zhijian admired the herbal tea he developed, Qi Shu couldn't help but be happy and asked Shi Zhijian to help name the herbal tea. Shi Zhijian originally wanted to use Qi Shu's surname as a brand, but when he heard that Qi Shu's surname was "Shi", he decided to use it as a brand.
My name was almost the same, so I gave up.
Shi Zhijian regretted the unpronounceable "Master Shi" brand. Of course he would not give such a good herbal tea such a name, so after thinking about it for a while, he immediately named it "Baozhilin Herbal Tea"!
Upon hearing the three words Bao Zhilin, Qi Shu and others were all amazed, what a great name!
Factory boss Lai gave Shi Zhijian a thumbs up, thinking that Shi Zhijian's skill in choosing the name was really great.
Of course Shi Zhijian knew why they were so surprised, because there was a very popular movie series in this era called "Once Upon a Time", starring "Guan Dexing", and the main villain in it was "Shi Jian", which was just one letter different from Shi Zhijian's name.
From this perspective, the name of this herbal tea "Bao Zhilin" immediately became a big publicity stunt.
The three characters "Bao Zhilin" are the golden signature in "Once Upon a Time", making them famous without any advertising.
With such a good herbal tea name, Shi Zhijian couldn't help but feel proud and asked when it would be officially produced.
Boss Lai and others replied that it would take at least one month from research and development to mass production.
Shi Zhijian nodded and asked Fatty Kun to register the brand trademark first to prevent others from snatching it away. As for whether the three words "Bao Zhilin" are considered plagiarism or not, that is a matter for the beholder.
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After settling the matter at the soda water factory, Shi Zhijian hurriedly drove to Shek Kip Mei.
Now the Shek Kip Mei factory has almost taken a large prototype. A huge factory shed covering an area of 1,000 acres has been built. All materials are blue thick iron sheets.
This kind of iron sheet is not very expensive, at least compared to bricks, tiles and cement, the overall price is much cheaper.
Therefore, many Hong Kong people who have no money to build a house like to save some money to buy this kind of iron sheets to build "tin houses".
So much so that in the future, Hong Kong will have dedicated tin house areas from Hong Kong Island to the New Territories and then to Kowloon, which will be almost as few as the earliest wooden house areas.
Especially in 1975, when the Vietnam tide surged, in order to resettle these refugees, the British Hong Kong government took the initiative to build refugee camps out of iron sheets, bringing this method of building houses with iron sheets to its peak.
As the person in charge of the Shek Kip Mei factory, Boletti basically spent all his food and accommodation at the construction site during this period.
Shek Kip Mei is also a famously poor place. It doesn't even have water. You can imagine how bad the living conditions are.
After all, Bertie came from a wealthy family and was a top academic at Cambridge University. She had never suffered much hardship since she was a child.
Shi Zhijian originally thought that she wouldn't be able to hold on, but until now, Boletti has never cried out in pain.
The weather in Hong Kong is gradually getting cooler in January. Even if there is no winter scene of snow falling in the sky, it still makes people feel a little bit chilly.
Especially the weather in Hong Kong has been a bit abnormal recently. From three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky began to rain continuously, which made people feel a little more melancholy.
The machines on the construction site were humming, and hundreds of construction workers in blue overalls were still busy like ants.
Shi Zhijian was wearing a black trench coat made of woolen material and a black top hat, leaning against the car, holding a Marlboro cigarette in his mouth, waiting for Bertie.
The foreman at the construction site said that something happened at the construction site not long ago. A worker accidentally pricked his finger while tying the steel wire. Boletti was dealing with the accident.
When he was about to finish smoking a cigarette, Shi Zhijian saw a group of people pouring out of the construction site. The man at the head was slender, wearing red work clothes that were different from ordinary workers, and a red safety helmet on his head.
From a distance, it looks like a flame coming quietly, adding a touch of warmth to this cold rainy day.
When the flame walked up to Shi Zhijian accompanied by everyone's chatter and laughter, Shi Zhijian couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Bai Ledi's current appearance.
In just a few days, the originally smooth and fair skin of Bertie became a little tanned, and her energetic cheeks were also full of haggard, but her eyes were still so bright and charming.
When Bertie saw Shi Zhijian, her expression didn't show much surprise. She turned around and said a few words to the people around her, then turned around again, quickly took off the helmet she was wearing, and threw it away inadvertently.
He lowered his hair and said to Shi Zhijian with a smile: "Sorry, I was busy dealing with the accident just now. If you are in a hurry, I can briefly report the situation here."
Shi Zhijian smiled, took off his windbreaker, walked up and put it on Bai Leidi naturally, and said: "No need to report, I have seen everything - thank you for your hard work! If it weren't for you,
I don’t know when such a big factory will be built.”
Bertie smiled, turned back and pointed at the honest and honest workers and said, "You thanked the wrong person. They are the ones who really should be thanked."
Shi Zhijian laughed, clasped his fists with his hands and said boldly to the people behind Bai Ledi: "Thank you!"
