Chapter 228 Great War, Good Business (Part 2)
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Neijiang, Baima Industrial Zone, Tuojiang Power Equipment Company, and the sixth workshop of steam turbines.
Tuodong is the most advanced and largest power equipment manufacturer in China and even the world. Since the assassination of Aohuang, it has been working at full capacity here, changing from the original two-shift system to three-shift service, and people have been shut down continuously.
It's time to rest now, and the workers in the workshop are sitting in the lounge, drinking cold drinks while chatting.
"It's incredible, it's so terrible. There are 100,000 engines, and the European foreigners bought our 100,000 units at once. Oh my God, the goods we have stored for several years have disappeared at once. Now we have to work overtime..." A young technician sighed.
A young worker smiled and said, "Haha, this is not the foreign devils who fought well in wars. If they didn't fight, how could we have such a good business? The foreign devils bought everything, and they wanted everything. I heard from my mother that the food, vegetables, fruits, chickens, ducks, fish, and other things in the countryside were all opened, and the purchase price increased by 10%.
"Isn't it? Even the old grains were sold out in our village," another worker interrupted.
"Chen Liang wants it too? The foreign devils are not fools, can't they eat it?" someone asked in confusion.
A worker curled his lips: "What's this? The meat-in-law factory in our hometown even collects old sow meat..."
A middle-aged worker widened his eyes and said anxiously: "Ge, this is OK? Isn't this illegal? Now the imperial court, oh, the government, I'm very tight about the food safety issues. The meat-dressing factory on your side is too brave..."
Wang Qinian smiled and explained, "Haha, brother, you don't understand. Those old grain, rice, old pork, meat, etc. are exported and given to foreigners. These products are not allowed to be sold in China. Whoever dares to violate the rules will be severely punished, and they dare not."
"Old Wang, it's not great even if you sell it to foreign devils..."
Wang Qinian said disapprovingly: "What's wrong with the foreigners themselves? We are already very conscientious. You may not know what the foreigners themselves are. They add mercury to cheese, copper carbonate to tea, and sulfuric acid to wine. If you go abroad, don't eat these things. If you eat them, you will ensure that your stomach becomes a chemistry laboratory."
Now Chinese workers are joining literacy classes and employee night schools to learn various basic cultural courses and common sense courses, and chemistry is also a learning content. Employees in veteran companies like Tuodong have higher quality, at least at junior high school or even high school levels. Everyone can basically understand the chemical terms Wang Qinian said, and a few people who don’t understand and ask the questions will understand.
"Oh my God, these foreigners are so crazy. Can these things be eaten?" Everyone felt their hair stand upside down when they heard it, thinking that these foreigners were too terrifying.
"Why can't you eat? As long as you don't eat something that will die immediately, they dare to do it. These are all said in books and newspapers. There are foreign books and newspapers in the library. You can go and take a look when you have time..." Wang Qinian said with some slight silence.
"You don't have to go to the library, sometimes there are these things on the radio," said the technician.
Wang Qinian was very "so we have a conscience. Those old sow meat, such as old and old, are just not delicious, and they are not poisonous and will not eat people. Besides, how many things the foreigners have stolen in our China and how many bad things they have done, what is worth sympathy for?"
"Well, Lao Wang said it right. It's just this foreign devil. It deserves to die." Everyone nodded.
Wang Qinian's words were not exaggerated at all. European and American capitalists at that time were indeed so righteous. In Europe and the United States, mercury was an important and common food additive. Yes, you read that right, it was mercury because this thing can be anticorrosive. By nonsense, the bacteria were poisoned to death.
For example, after adding mercury compounds to milk, the soluble protein in the milk will undergo chemical reactions when it encounters heavy metals such as mercury ions, and the protein will denaturate and settle. But this doesn't matter. Capitalists just need to filter the milk simply to separate it. The filtered liquid is milk, and the residue under precipitation will not be wasted. They will make these things into cheese. In this way, they will obtain two products of milk and cheese at once, and they will almost never rot. Anyway, there were no testing standards at that time, and they would not determine the protein content. As long as the people can drink the milk taste, it would be good. As for whether there will be problems with eating, conscientious capitalists don't care, but they don't eat it themselves.
In addition to "mercury milk", there are also the famous "cinnabar sausage" and "cinnabar ham". Uh, it is to add cinnabar (mercury oxide) to the seasonings for sausage and ham for dyeing. Those who have studied chemistry in junior high school know that cinnabar is a common pigment. Its colors are very bright and pure, and have excellent stability. This thing is often used as ink paste. Even if the marks printed with cinnabar ink paste have been around for hundreds of years, they are as bright as new as they have just been covered. Adding sausage to this thing, the colors naturally appear bright and cute, appetizing, and can also be anti-corrosion.
In addition, adding sulfuric acid to the wine makes the wine look stronger. Add ingredients such as copper carbonate and lead chromate to the tea leaves for dyeing, so that the tea leaves are outstanding in color and can prevent mold. There is also the addition of chalk to the flour as a whitening agent and add gypsum to increase weight. In addition, messy additives such as alum, copper sulfate, alkaline carbonate, etc. are also used.
Sodium nitrite, Sudan Red, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide and other things that were criticized in later generations were very legal "safe" additives and preservatives in this era. As for the methods such as mixing water into wine and milk, mixing charcoal powder into pepper, and adding chicory, oak seeds into coffee, it is already the most common and harmless. That is, after entering the 2nd century, it has only been a little astringent in recent years.
"Dingling..."
At this time, the electric bell in the lounge rang.
Wang Qinian put down the water cup and stood up, saying to everyone: "Okay, the rest time is up. Let's continue to live. Today, we will complete these five train turbines. The new Silk Road is waiting to use the locomotives. It is not possible without our steam turbines."
"Okay, let's go to live..." Everyone stood up.
In addition to this place, other workshops were also busy. This war made Tuodong a big profit, and he received two big orders in less than two months. First, Russia ordered 20,000 trucks, and later the Germans also came to order 40,000 trucks and 40,000 engines. The total of 100,000 trucks and engines made Tuodong clear all the inventory.
Now Germany is to hoard materials on the one hand and to win over China on the other hand, so it has made a big order for China, because now China and the belligerent countries only charge real goods and real silver, and does not charge money. So Germany paid a full 30 tons of gold (about 200 million US dollars). Unlike the bears, they are not short of army weapons, and their own productivity is enough to satisfy. The things they order mainly various civilian supplies, food, clothing, medicines, electronic products, etc., as well as the most important airships, aircraft and submarines.
The price of the goods sold by China is still very conscientious, and it only increases by 20% compared to the usual price. Oh, Germany is going to be anxious, even if it is usually expedited, it will charge a fee. Not to mention that during the war, it is only 20% more expensive than usual. For example, the American capitalists increased by 30%, and they also received an order of 100 million US dollars this time. Although the increase is not large, this is just the beginning. After this year, the prices of those related materials will at least double.
But Germany doesn't care, because they picked up the money for free. At that time, because the Germans' attack speed was too fast, the French government ran too fast, so Paris's gold reserves had only time to transport a small part of it, which turned out to be cheaper. At that time, France had 103 tons of gold reserves in the National Bank of Paris, and almost more than B10 tons of gold fell into the hands of the Germans.
In addition, Belgium and Luxembourg had a worse experience than France. Their gold reserves were not at all transferred, and they were all accepted by Erdezi. Belgium had 2-ton gold, and Luxembourg had more than 6 tons. Although this country was only big, it was a major steel country at that time. Its output was second only to Germany, Britain, Russia, France and the Austrians in Europe, and was higher than Italy. It reached 130,000 tonnes in 1913 (Italy only 930,000 tons). As a result, these wealth accumulated by selling steel became Germany's trophy.
Anyway, these 106 tons of gold were picked up for free, so Erdezi didn't feel sorry for her to spend it.
In fact, the trade between other countries and belligerent countries is now unwilling to collect banknotes. After the outbreak of World War I, the belligerent countries controlled the outflow of gold, issued paper money that could not be cashed out, and prohibited the free exchange of gold and paper money. The gold standard ended. Naturally, everyone refused to ask for banknotes that could not be exchanged for real gold and silver. Not only in China, but also in the United States.
In other words, the belligerent countries can only buy things in the international market. Before the war started, the gold reserves of the main belligerent countries were as follows: 1,405 tons (local 1,095 tons, Australia-10 tons), 103 tons of France, 233 tons of Russia, 439 tons of Germany, and 37B tons of Austro-Hungary. The above figures are only official reserves, not including the number of royal and private holdings. The British figures are only the reserves of the central bank of the local and Australians, not including the private property of the royal family and aristocrats, nor the reserves of other colonies. If the royal family and private holdings of various countries are added, this amount will be at least over. For example, the British royal family is estimated to have 26 tons of gold, and the Tsarist Russian royal family is estimated to have 40,060 tons.
As the saying goes, money is not omnipotent, but without money, it is absolutely impossible. Gold is a natural currency. Just from this gold reserve, we can see that the allies are at a great disadvantage. Niu Niu is too rich. The gold they actually occupy accounts for about 75 of the global total.
In the original time and space, most of the gold from the Allied Powers flowed into the United States, and the United States was overwhelmed. China in that plane was too weak and had no qualifications to serve. But now it is different. China in the plane has the qualifications and strength to share meat on the table. Wen Desi is now very envious of this large amount of gold. Although it is impossible to get all of it, if you use some strength, you can still get half of it. Therefore, he gave the Germans a discount price, so that they could give them more strength, so that the Allied Powers, especially Niu Niu, would spit out more gold.
For this goal, we must try our best to arm Germany so that they can make the Allies even worse. These old imperialists are not easy-to-efficient. If they are not forced into the Jedi, they will not be able to generously bring heavy bleeding.
Nanchang, Jiangxi.
Poyang Xianggao Food Company is a local private enterprise. The owner is a young man named Wancheng and comes from a landlord family. The boss of Wancheng Wan studied in the UK and studied food processing major. After returning to China in 2009, he opened a food factory, mainly flour and rice noodles. When the land reform was started in the local area, their family took the initiative to sell the excess land to the government.
Because the Party Government of Science and Technology and Social Sciences encouraged the private sector to start industries, he purchased a batch of new machines and key technologies that were open to the private sector with land transfer fees and bank preferential support. He also built a large number of construction to expand the scale of the food factory and added many new products. Canned food is the main product, because this is also his professionalism and is most familiar with it.
Poyang Lake has rich aquatic resources. Before the founding of New China, due to limited preservation technology and poor transportation foundation, there was basically no development, let alone large-scale breeding. After the Party of Science and Technology unified China, in order to improve people's living standards and increase protein intake, various breeding industries were vigorously developed in various places. Poyang Lake was quickly developed and hundreds of fish farms and pig farms were established around it. Wancheng's food company also had sufficient raw materials.
The outbreak of this battle also made Boss Wan’s business a lot, and he counted the money and his hands were cramped.
Today, several civil servants dressed in civil servants came to Xianggao Food Company in Poyang. They moved a few boxes from the car and found Wancheng's office directly.
"Oh, it's Liu Ke, it's really a rare guest... What's the price today?" Wan Cheng suddenly became nervous when he saw the person. Because the Chief Liu who came here was from the Nanchang Food and Drug Administration, he specialized in their organization.
Wen Desi attached great importance to the quality of "imported goods". When he was still a "warlord" and had not obtained national power, he established the Food and Drug Administration on the territory, which was specifically responsible for supervising and managing the quality and hygiene issues of various "imported goods". It can be said that among all countries in the world today, China has the strictest in this regard, and the regulatory system and relevant regulations are also the most complete.
"Hello, Manager Wan. We are here to check the product quality..." The person who came was not polite and directly explained his purpose.
"Okay, no problem, no problem..." Wan Cheng hurriedly took them into the workshop, changed into special work clothes in the locker room, and then entered the production workshop for random inspections. The production workers in the workshop were all wearing white work clothes, hats and masks, and focused on the work on their hands.
"The environment here is relatively clean, but you still need to conduct further testing..." Section Chief Liu first looked at the environment in the production workshop carefully, nodded slightly, and asked the analyst to take out a measuring instrument and start taking samples everywhere.
"Section Chief, all environmental parameters have met the standards..." More than ten minutes later, the analyst reported to him.
"Okay, let's continue to check the products." Section Chief Liu pointed to the dozens of canned foods in front of him. This was randomly extracted 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..."
"Yeah, it's not bad." Section Chief Liu nodded and said to Wan Cheng who was obviously relieved: "Manager Wan, this batch is exported to canned food..." He pointed to the few canned foods on the table with Russian and German labels. The labels of these canned foods were printed with a cute cartoon fat pig. The product name is "BaeuvcPIeT", "!" (lunch meat).
"Yes, these canned lunch meat are exported to Russia and Germany..." Wan Cheng hurriedly said: "Liu Ke, we all follow the documents and the raw materials of these exported goods are strictly separated from domestic products, and we will never mix them..."
Section Chief Liu said seriously: "Just know, the standards of exports and domestic sales are different. If you are careless in this regard, the consequences will be very serious...
Yes, China now implements double standards for products, first-class domestic sales, second-class exports to Europe and the United States, third-class exports to the third world, which is completely opposite to the big picture. Because Wen is always a person who protects his shortcomings, people are different in his eyes. He can't even do "everyone is equal", so funny opinions such as "diplomatic affairs are nothing small", "preferential treatment of foreign guests" and so on are even more fartful to him.
Take canned lunch meat for example. Domestic lunch meat must be made of qualified good meat, starch content must not exceed 10, plant protein, etc., etc. must not exceed 10, meat content must not be less than 8, and many internationally "legal" additives are not allowed to be used, and they are very strict. Of course, there are also people who do not believe in evil, but after dozens of bosses were fined to lose their fortunes and were under labor reform for more than ten years, others became honest.
The canned lunch meat exported is a completely different matter. Don’t think about the authentic and qualified fresh meat. Basically, they are inferior meat such as old sows, husbands and boars, expired frozen meat in cold storage, and poorly sold water and fat oil from pork skins that are not very good, feet oil, groove heads, etc.). As for the content, as long as it reaches 6, starch, plant protein and other things, just add it hard, as long as the final lunch meat still tastes meaty, it will be qualified.
As for internationally "legal" additives such as Sudan Red and sodium nitrite, they are naturally very useful. Because of these things, the appearance and color of the exported lunch meat is better than that of domestic sales. The bright and attractive red of the export version looks really appealing. Of course, with Sudan Red, it is for the help of it. In addition, the shelf life of the export version is much longer, which is the credit for sodium nitrite.
In addition, there is another technology for manufacturing raw materials that has not been opened to private enterprises, that is, "recycled meat". The raw materials are sick pork, dead pork and spoiled pork. The manufacturing process is very simple. These things are mixed with water, mixed with some additives and made into "base material", and then a special fungus is put into it for breeding. This fungus uses "base material" as nutrients and will soon grow into a pink jelly-like thing. After picking this thing, it will be "recycled meat". In fact, this is an animal feed from the 2nd century, not for people to eat.
After crushing this "recycled meat" into meat paste, add pork flavor conditioner to pork paste, and add beef flavor conditioner to be beef paste. Add whatever meat you want, add whatever flavor conditioner to it. It is very convenient. However, there are many relatively high-end technologies, so they are not open to the public. They just sell the finished meat paste directly to companies with export orders, and let them take it back and process it into canned food and sell it.
But even so, Chinese companies are still much more conscience than European and American capitalists. Even if it is "recycled meat", it has undergone a transformation, at least it does not use dead meat or spoiled meat directly. Moreover, the nutritional content of "recycled meat" is definitely enough. At most, you say it is not considered real meat.
Poyang has an export quota to high-quality food companies, so he is naturally qualified to buy this kind of "recycled meat". These things are mixed with their inferior pork, made into cans and sent to the frontline of the European War.
Although those who know the inside story don’t agree with this kind of thing, Mao Xiong and Er Dezi are very satisfied with this product. Of course, they don’t know the inside story, uh, or even if they know it, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, they are all for gray animals and cannon fodders, not for noble men, so they almost almost have to eat it. It’s good to eat meat, and they can’t be picky?
As we all know, frontline soldiers need to maintain their combat effectiveness in high-intensity combat, and they need to consume enough protein and fat every day. However, it is difficult to provide soldiers with fresh meat (except for senior officers) on the battlefield. Most of the things they can eat are bacon. This kind of thing is hard, it is inconvenient to handle and difficult to digest. To be honest, even the American soldiers, who are the most luxurious in supply of materials, also ate bacon from the Civil War during World War I. As for the hardness of this thing, soldiers can make crafts with this thing, and they can also be polished with files and grinding wheels. And the most important thing is that although bacon is unpalatable, the price of this thing is not cheap.
Chinese canned lunch meat is different. It can not only be stored for a long time, but also easy to eat. It can be eaten when opened. It can be eaten with hot and cold food, and it can also be made into dishes with other foods. Not to mention the nutrition and taste, it is so strong that it is so strong that it is not known where to go compared to the mummy-like bacon. This is the truth. Because of the addition of flavorings, spices and MSG, this thing tastes delicious, at least when I just ate it, it can be said to be fragrant and delicious.
The most important thing is that the price of lunch meat is much cheaper than bacon, so after the representatives of Russia and Germany tasted the samples, they purchased a large amount of money. This also made Chinese canned manufacturers rich, and even the workers in the factory laughed at the bonus. There are also upstream and downstream industries, such as logistics and transportation, breeding, steel, chemical industry, and even printing industry, which has benefited from it, which can be said to have driven a series of companies.
Chapter completed!