Chapter 69: Making Vermicelli

The flesh on Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu's faces jumped excitedly, like a blooming dog's tail flower.

The two of them have always told Li Zhongxin that they hope that Li Zhongxin can find some suitable way out and let the people in the village move, even if the people in the village are tired and tired.

At this time, they believed in Li Zhongxin, because Li Zhongxin's did bring benefits to the people in their village.

The life of the people in the village has improved, and the prestige of Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu in Zhubantun has greatly increased, and no matter where they go in the village, everyone will greet him happily from the bottom of their hearts.

When it comes to the festival, most of the villagers in the village will spontaneously take the only good things in the house and visit them in the homes of the two of them, so that Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu have a feeling that they want to smear the villagers' hearts and minds.

As soon as Li Zhongxin said that he wanted to engage in vermicelli processing, they were suddenly very excited, as long as Li Zhongxin proposed the project, then countless people in their village would benefit.

The best area for making vermicelli is SD, and the most famous area for making vermicelli is Longkou (Huangxian).

In later generations, as long as vermicelli was mentioned, most people would think of the place Longkou. Among the people who came from the east to the northeast, most of them were SD, and among the SD people, Huang County had the most people.

Li Zhongxin's uncle's family are all from Huang County, because Huang County people know how to live a life and are willing to work, and many of the people who got rich first in the Northeast are from Huang County.

When he was in his forties, he and his friends went fishing on a farm below Jiangcheng, and his friend led Li Zhongxin to visit the old-fashioned vermicelli workshop on the farm, hoping to let him sell the old-fashioned handmade vermicelli in the restaurant. Because time has not passed very long, even after he is reborn, he can still remember it vividly.

The general direction of making vermicelli, the process of making vermicelli Li Zhongxin will be, but when it comes to actual operation, Li Zhongxin has no way.

Not only because Li Zhongxin is young and has always liked to hide behind the scenes, but also because Li Zhongxin really hasn't processed it himself.

The equipment for processing vermicelli does not need to be too good, but the place where vermicelli is made must be large, from potato flour to vermicelli making, not only need a large place to work, but also need a large place to dry.

The primary school site here in Zhubantun is very large, and the primary school in Zhubantun has been vacated because of the small number of students merged into the city, which happens to be the site of the vermicelli factory, as long as the potatoes contacted by Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu are in place, they can immediately start developing vermicelli.

In the early 80s, there were no machines for making vermicelli, almost all by hand. The process and process of making vermicelli are very simple, but many people disdain to make this.

There is another biggest reason, that is, in the early 80s, although there has been reform and opening up, people still feel afraid of doing business, for fear that when the policy changes, in the end, it will be in vain, and there will even be imprisonment.

The older people are, the less they let their children do business, and the less they are allowed to come into contact with those who do business.

It is said that those trend-setters who started to do business in the early days of reform and opening up are capitalist roaders, and their rabbit tails can't grow, don't look at them jumping happily now, they will have to pull the list in two years.

Li Zhongxin heard from his elders that in the mid-80s, there was really a little repetition of the policy in the northeast region, and many of the trendsetters under the reform and opening up were invited into the bureau.

Li Zhongxin used to be worried about this trend, but now he is attached to Zhubantun, which is a collective enterprise, and even if there are policy repetitions, it will not fall on his head.

Li Zhongxin told Liang Guofu and Dong Guozhong that they would gather a dozen people, and he explained to them the essentials of making vermicelli that his uncle had taught him.

Why did Li Zhongxin carry his uncle out, the reason is very simple, this kind of thing must be absolutely simple and normal, and it must not make them feel that he is an omnipotent and capable of anything.

Try to find a source for everything, which will help him hide behind the scenes.

After Li Zhongxin called these people together, he began to explain to them how to make vermicelli.

The process of making vermicelli is very simple, after the potatoes are cleaned, they are placed in the prepared rows of vats, and this process is called pulp.

After the pulp in the vat is raised, put it in a cloth pocket to filter out the water, and if the filtered water is dried, it is the potato starch we are familiar with.

Use a large tool like a household cutting board to crush the filtered wet starch and make it fine.

After this work is done, it is time to become a master.

Make a large iron pot with the largest diameter, and make noodles and noodles in the iron pot.

The hardest part of making vermicelli is this process, which generally requires six to eight very energetic men to surround the city, rhythmically use their hands and for more than half an hour, until they don't feel any "bumps" inside, which is completed.

At this time, it is necessary to start leaking powder, the tool for leaking powder is very special, don't look at the vermicelli is very thin, but the tool used for leakage is like a small iron basin to open the eyes of the thickness of the little finger, so as to ensure that the powder leaks out.

Adjust the distance between the drain and the large iron pot of boiling water to control the thickness of the vermicelli.

The leaking powder is boiled in the cauldron until it floats, even if the leakage is successful.

These successful fans will be quickly picked up and placed in a pot of cold water next to them to cool.

After the cooling is completed, the formed vermicelli is picked up with some wooden sticks and hung on the playground of the elementary school to dry, and it can be dried in a few days to become the vermicelli we see.

The winter dish in the north is almost just cabbage, potatoes, and turnips, and the yield of potatoes is quite large and quite cheap.

However, the flour yield of potatoes is not very high, generally good potatoes need five or six catties to produce a pound of starch, if the starch contained in potatoes is low, it takes more than seven or eight catties to produce a pound of starch.

If you buy a small amount of good potatoes in 82, you will pay eight cents a pound, and if you buy a large number of potatoes like the vermicelli factory, the price of a pound of potatoes will not exceed six cents a pound. At this time, the wholesale price of Jiangcheng starch is about seven dimes, even if you don't make more vermicelli, just selling starch is a very profitable thing. Li Zhongxin didn't want to calculate how much money he made, he didn't bother to calculate, after all, he didn't want to do this noodle factory.

On the northeast side, under normal circumstances, potatoes begin to be produced in late September.

Li Zhongxin calculated that making vermicelli in the big place of Zhubantun Primary School should make about 500 catties a day, and the output of starch should be 1,000 catties, and it would be very good to start work for two or three months.

After the vermicelli and starch are made, they can be directly put into the Zhongxin grocery supermarket chain for sale, whether it is for the person who makes the vermicelli or for the Zhongxin grocery supermarket chain, it will be a pretty good thing.

Li Zhong knew in confidence that the production process of the thing he made vermicelli was very simple, it was nothing more than that he wanted to eat some good vermicelli, and he didn't think of a thing, for the now prosperous Zhongxin Company, this is almost chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it.

Li Zhongxin directly told Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu that this noodle factory is named in the name of Zhongxin Company, but it is a village-run factory in Zhubantun and Fulong Village, and he does not participate in management, nor does he participate in dividends or the like, just a request, when he wants to eat good vermicelli, he must send it to him.

Hearing Li Zhongxin say that the noodle factory would be managed by the village, Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu were immediately overjoyed.

The two of them have been in contact with Li Zhongxin for a long time, and many ideas have been opened, and they understand how much profit margin this kind of vermicelli processing plant will have.

Jiangcheng is far away from the emperor because of the high mountains, and it belongs to the kind of region that deviates from the center of the motherland, and the vermicelli cannot be circulated in their place many times.

If you really make good vermicelli, you will definitely not worry about selling, not to mention that there are also loyal grocery supermarket chains that can sell this kind of thing.

The most dishes that Northeast people make in winter are sauerkraut, cabbage and potatoes, sauerkraut pork belly stewed vermicelli, cabbage stewed vermicelli are all quite good stews, and there is also the famous fried sauerkraut powder in the Northeast, as long as they can produce how much, it is estimated that they can sell as much as possible.

You don't need a ticket to buy potatoes, you can buy as much as you want, and you don't need a ticket to make vermicelli, which is definitely a great thing for the benefit of the people of Jiangcheng.

For the prosperity of the people in the village, for everyone to be able to eat good noodles, and for the happiness of the people of Jiangcheng, Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu made up their minds that they must do the best in this vermicelli factory.