Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

A canteen kitchen.

Everyone knew the news that Wang Dong was promoted to deputy director of logistics.

As if they had discussed it beforehand, they all surrounded Wang Dong and said all kinds of congratulations.

Facing Wang Dong who was surrounded by so many people, it would be a lie if He Yuzhu said he was not envious.

But he is still under disciplinary action, so he is not even qualified to be a canteen monitor, let alone deputy director of logistics.

I can only stand aside and watch with envy.

After Wang Dong finally sent the people around him away, he sat on his own chair in the kitchen and fell into deep thought.

Promoting wild vegetable steamed bread is easy to say.

As long as the workers know that wild vegetable steamed buns are cheaper than two-grain flour steamed buns and are more filling, a large number of workers will definitely choose to eat wild vegetable steamed buns.

The oil and water content in the dishes is getting less and less. If you want to have strength during delivery, the best way is to eat more staple foods.

If you don't eat the steamed bread made with wild vegetables, the limited supply of steamed buns and corn bread made with only two grams of flour in the canteen will at best keep you from feeling hungry, but it will be difficult to really get full.

Wild vegetable steamed bread became their best choice.

Because in the kitchen, you can buy at least four wild vegetable steamed buns with the price of three steamed buns made of two pieces of flour.

If you buy the kind of steamed bread that contains more wild vegetables, you might just buy five.

If five wild vegetable steamed buns and three two-grain steamed buns are placed in front of you, even a fool would choose the larger number of wild vegetable steamed buns if he wants to fill his stomach.

What Wang Dong is most worried about now is that someone will mess up his promotion of wild vegetable steamed bread and cause trouble.

When Deputy Director Li led his men away, he was surprised to see the anger and dissatisfaction on Director Yang's face.

This shows that he strongly disagreed with the position of deputy kitchen director, but had to nod under the pressure of the situation.

Wang Dong could also understand Director Yang’s anger and unwillingness.

Since he became the canteen monitor, he has been embarrassed in front of the workers several times, and once he even embarrassed himself in front of the senior leader.

Anyone would be dissatisfied with himself, let alone the other party is the director of a steel mill.

Before, he was a canteen team leader and not even a cadre. In addition, Deputy Director Li was standing behind him, so no matter how angry Director Yang was, he couldn't attack a worker.

It’s different now. I have become a cadre in a steel rolling mill.

Even if he has the support of Deputy Director Li behind him, as long as he deals with him within the rules and makes it impossible for him to complete the tasks assigned by the factory leaders, he can take off his position as deputy director with any excuse.

After all, I am just doing it as a worker and my identity is still a worker.

As long as Director Yang has a reason, it would be easy for him to be taken down.

Unless I can keep my position as deputy director of the kitchen for half a year without making any mistakes and let Deputy Director Li transfer my worker status to cadre status, it will be difficult for Director Yang to take me down again.

So now I have to be cautious.

Not only must he not make any mistakes, giving Director Yang the opportunity to find faults, but he must also do everything he can to complete all the tasks assigned to him by the factory leaders.

Promoting wild vegetables was the first task assigned to me by the factory.

If I can't even do this well, others will definitely think that I am not capable of being the deputy director, and Director Yang will take the opportunity to deal with me.

As expected, Director Yang, who hated him to the core, would definitely not allow him to easily promote wild vegetable steamed bread in the factory.

The canteen is their base camp, and they must first ensure that no problems occur in this matter.

Then he called the two team leaders and several trusted chefs over.

Among all the chefs in the canteen, except He Yuzhu, the others were promoted after I became the monitor of the canteen. I gave them the opportunity to learn cooking and get promoted, so they must be grateful to me and will not betray me easily.

"Monitor..."

Today, Chef Zhou is not only one of the rare ninth-level chefs in the steel mill, but also the leader of the first group of the canteen and Wang Dong's confidant. When he heard Wang Dong's call, he rushed over with an anxious expression.

Then he slapped his lips and continued: "No..."

"I should call you Director now...I was too excited and said the wrong thing..."

Wang Dong replied angrily: "He's the deputy director. Don't yell. It's not good if others hear it..."

Zhou Nanshan nodded quickly: "The director is teaching you a lesson... Then I will call you deputy director from now on..."

Then he asked with a puzzled look: "Deputy Director..."

"Is there a mission?"

"Just tell me. As long as it's something related to the kitchen, I promise to do it for you."

Seeing that all his trusted chefs had arrived, Wang Dong's face became very serious, and he answered very seriously: "You should have heard my first task as deputy director of the kitchen."

"Within a week, most of the workers in the steel mill must choose to eat steamed bread with wild vegetables."

"But the mouths are on other people's bodies, and I can't force everyone to eat wild vegetable steamed bread."

"So we have to do a good job of promotion in the next few days..."

"Our canteen is responsible for providing lunch for more than 4,000 workers in the steel mill. If more than half of these 4,000 workers choose to eat steamed bread with wild vegetables, our promotion will be more effective."

“So you have a very heavy task.”

"Not only do we need to make the wild vegetable steamed bread well, and find ways to improve its taste and satiety, but we also need to make the workers feel that eating wild vegetable steamed bread is more cost-effective."

"Starting tomorrow, the price of steamed bread made of two-grain flour will increase by 20% from the original price."

"The price of a steamed bun made of wild vegetables and three catties of flour mixed with one catty of wild vegetables is 30% lower than the price of a steamed bun made of two catties of flour."

"With one rise and one fall, the price of one steamed bun made of two hectograms of flour can buy two steamed buns made of wild vegetables."

"The price of a steamed bun with wild vegetables made from 4.2 jin of flour and 1 jin of wild vegetables is 15% lower than the price of a steamed bun made from 2 jin of flour."

"The money you spend on two steamed buns made of 200 grams of flour can buy three steamed buns made of wild vegetables."

"As a result, many workers from poor families will choose to eat steamed bread with wild vegetables."

Seeing several people nodding, Wang Dong immediately turned his attention to the two team leaders under his command: "You two must be mentally prepared for the transfer."

“If the other canteens in the steel mill don’t cooperate in promoting wild vegetable steamed bread.”

"You two team leaders are my trump cards."

"Your team leader subsidy is two yuan, and the monitors of other canteens also receive two yuan."

"Swapping you with other cafeteria monitors should be considered a horizontal transfer. No one here has any reason to object."

"If there really is a squad leader who doesn't cooperate, you two can take over at any time."

"But you must make arrangements for the assistants and chefs in advance. We cannot let your departure affect the work of the canteen..."

Another team leader, Zhang Bei, immediately responded: "Deputy Director..."

"You mean that even if we transfer the monitors from other canteens to be the directors of one canteen, we still have to find a way to sideline them so that they can't do anything and can only be cooks." (End of this chapter)