Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 584 Covert Struggle Under the Guise of Cooperation
Wang Laowu's Home-Style Dishes.

Inside the small restaurant, which is less than 50 square meters, the walls are covered with slogans and posters in the style of the 1960s and 70s.

'Collectivism is good'

"Five Stresses, Four Beauties, and Three Loves"

"Class struggle is effective as soon as it's grasped."

'Prepare for war and famine, be ready to fight at any time'...

On the solid wood dining table in the middle area of ​​the restaurant.

Yu Yang flipped through the menu while chatting with the owner.

"Pre-cooked food incident? I've been quite busy lately and haven't paid much attention to that."

The shop owner put on an apron and went into the kitchen to prepare the vegetables. Through the glass partition, he explained, "Recently, many media outlets in the south have been reporting on our semi-finished vegetable cold chain transportation through the internet, newspapers, and news channels of small city TV stations. They have also used misaligned and long-distance shooting to create many seemingly plausible photos and videos."

"Although the wife in the related reports didn't slander us, the comments below and the passersby we interviewed had all sorts of conflicting opinions. Some said that our ingredients and seasoning packets were made using a blender; others said that our workers used their feet to pedal shovels to feed the ingredients; still others said that we mixed pre-cooked dishes with frozen meat, frozen chicken gizzards, duck gizzards, and frozen pig intestines during transportation..."

"In short, report it however disgusting it is."

"As a result, fewer and fewer people are coming to the restaurant to eat lately."

"Goodness!" Yu Yang exclaimed as he put down the menu after hearing the explanation. "One serving of stir-fried duck blood, one serving of shredded pork with green peppers, and two steamed buns."

"Okay!"

"Their rumors about our restaurants are simply an attempt to suppress Sanxi Catering and force Sanxi stores to close down. Once there are more individually owned restaurants, they can then promote the vegetables, chilled meat, various seasonings, and so on that they have invested in."

The boss nodded, gritting his teeth, and said, "So, it must have been done in North America!"

"Makes sense!"

Yu Yang strongly agreed with this.

Today, the Sanxi Catering has become a self-contained system.

The upstream industries include: Sanyuan agricultural planting area, Sanyuan food semi-finished food ingredient supply center, and Sanyuan food pre-made ingredient package supply center.

The midstream industries include: provincial-level logistics distribution centers and prefecture-level city-level central restaurants.

Downstream industries include: Sanyuan Fast Food, Sanyuan Restaurant, Sanxi Restaurant, and Sanxi Express.

among them.

The central restaurant of the prefecture-level city's three departments is a large-scale centralized processing plant for semi-finished vegetables and pre-made seasoning packets. It is mainly responsible for stewing, braising, making braised meat, barbecue, and cold dishes.

The prepared dishes are then transported to the Sanyuan fast food restaurant within the country via cold chain before 3 a.m. that day.

The latter's kitchen is responsible for heating, seasoning, and enhancing the flavor before selling the food after 5 a.m.

Therefore, Sanyuan Fast Food has now spread to cities and towns throughout the East, with almost every street having one, and they all basically taste the same.

Whether you eat Yu Xiang Rou Si (shredded pork with garlic sauce) at a Sanyuan fast food restaurant in Northeast China or at a Sanyuan fast food restaurant in Dongshan, Nanyun, Guangqu, Tibet, or Hong Kong, the color, aroma, taste, and texture are all the same.

This is also a characteristic of Sanyuan Fast Food.

Because Sanyuan Fast Food's menu cannot cover everything.

The trade hall continued to acquire street-side shops in large cities and small towns in the east, and arranged for families within the factory to run them, creating the 'Three-System Restaurant'.

These include fried chicken shops, roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) shops, zhuangmo (Chinese steamed bun) shops, baozi (steamed bun) shops, beef soup shops, donkey meat sandwiches, liangpi (cold skin noodles) and roujiamo (Chinese hamburger), crossing-the-bridge rice noodles, roasted meat rice, spicy and sour fish, mala tang (spicy hot pot), various hot pots, various stir-fried chickens, and so on.

The ingredients and seasonings used also come from the three central restaurants in various prefecture-level cities.

Therefore, the fried chicken in restaurants across the country from all three systems is equally crispy, equally spicy, equally sweet, equally salty, or equally seasoned with cumin, Sichuan peppercorns, Orleans spices, etc.

The sandwiches from all three major catering chains across the country have the same fillings, the same shape, and the same packaging.

Similarly, beef buns taste the same, pork buns taste the same, chive and egg buns taste the same, and Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles taste the same...
But you can't say they're unhealthy.

On the contrary, the above foods are all prepared using aseptic techniques, and no restaurant in the world is cleaner, more hygienic, more nutritious, healthier, or more delicious than them.

Especially in terms of the law, no restaurant is more legitimate than them.

Like a cold dish.

According to the regulations of the Dongfang Food and Drug Administration and relevant departments, any restaurant that prepares cold dishes must set up a separate cold dish preparation room of a corresponding size according to its scale.

A cold dish preparation area is not just a room, a cutting board, and a few knives; it needs to be equipped with a sterilization system, a preservation system, a purification system, a water supply system, and so on.

Therefore, considering operating costs, 99% of small restaurants in Dongfang do not have separate cold dish preparation rooms, yet they all violate regulations by making cold dishes.

However, the central restaurant of the prefecture-level city has a large-scale, formal cold dish kitchen, and its cold dish chefs and head chefs are all graduates of formal catering colleges in the Hundred Schools Alliance. They are genuine high-achieving students in cold dish preparation.

In summary, Sanyuan Fast Food and Sanxi Restaurant are essentially cutting costs to an extreme degree while ensuring hygiene, compliance, health, and deliciousness.

This has resulted in the three-system catering industry having extremely low prices, extremely high profits, and extremely strong competitiveness.

Besides.

In order to promote its three series of vegetables, three series of meats, three series of seasonings, and three series of grains and oils, and to satisfy the tastes of different customers, Sanyuan Agriculture has created a Sanyuan Restaurant that is independent of the central restaurant in the prefecture-level city.

They source ingredients from Sanyuan Agriculture's headquarters, supply them through a provincial logistics distribution center, and cook the dishes on-site in their own independent kitchen on the same day.

Although the chefs all come from the Hundred Schools Alliance Culinary Academy, and many even come from Sanyuan Fast Food and Sanxi Restaurant, the differences in cooking techniques and heat control result in different colors, aromas, and flavors in their dishes.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the semi-finished vegetables, pre-made seasoning packets, and dishes processed on the same day used by Sanxi Catering cannot be considered 'pre-made dishes'.

If we have to name one, it would be the military rations series sold by San Yuan Foods in South Vietnam.

But military rations could not be sold in the streets and alleys of the East, and were even impossible to buy in the East at all.

Even if you buy it overseas, it will be confiscated if you bring it back.

The reason is simple: the ingredients used in military rations all come from genetically modified growing regions in Europe and America.

Genetically modified organisms do not comply with the food and drug standards formulated and proposed by the three lineages in the East.

Yes, the three-line food and drug standards.

After all, the three-lineage genes are the strongest in the world. If you don't listen to the three-lineage collective, are you going to listen to the capitalists in Europe and America?
So what are you made of?
Is it socialist or capitalist?
Based on the above.

Sanxi Catering holds at least 45% market share in the Eastern catering industry, whether openly or covertly.

At the same time, it has bound a large number of family users, hotel users, school canteens, and won OEM business from many overseas food companies by using three series of vegetables, three series of seasonings, three series of grains and oils, and three series of chilled fresh meat.

Thus, through a combination of factors, Sanyuan Agriculture, relying on the four southern provinces, western industries, Amur State Farms, and others, has secured at least 90% of the food supply in the eastern catering market through a seven-year business battle.

At this point, with the three countries cooperating, the three systems no longer blocking the influx of North American food that meets Eastern regulations, and North America no longer blocking the influx of food from the three systems that meets North American regulations, both sides are bound to engage in some underhanded tactics in order to expand their own market share.

Companies like Tyson, Nestlé, Danone, Heineken, Mondelez, Kellogg's, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars, and General Mills—if they don't crush these three major restaurant chains, how will they sell their beverages? And how will they sell their frozen meat, frozen chicken wings, frozen sausages, frozen egg tarts, frozen steaks, and frozen hand-pulled pancakes?

Therefore, by classifying Sanyuan Agriculture's semi-finished vegetables, pre-made seasoning packets, and dishes prepared by the central restaurants of prefecture-level cities as "pre-made dishes" and then attacking "pre-made dishes," one can avoid "directly attacking the Sanyuan system and triggering conflict between the two sides" while gaining market share for oneself.

Even if Yu Sanyuan questioned North America about this matter, North American Foods could reply, "We are belittling pre-prepared meals, not the three-system catering."

Unfortunately, the American investors didn't realize that the essence of the three-tiered catering industry was fourfold: first, to benefit the people; second, to create jobs; third, to promote the brand; and fourth, to accumulate assets.

Just like the small restaurant in front of us.

The total cost of acquiring the land and rebuilding was 6 Hong Kong dollars.

Now, after six years of inflation, and with the support of the surrounding industries built by the Sanxi Group, such as Sanyuan Pharmacy, Sanyuan Bookstore, Sanxi Toy Store, Sanxi Clothing Store, Sanxi Glasses Store, Sanxi Hardware Tools, Sanxi Internet Cafe, Sanxi Sporting Goods, Sanxi Small Ornaments, etc., forming the town's commercial street, this small restaurant, priced at 20 yuan, can be taken over by someone paying the full amount on the same day.

If we wait another 10 years, until Sanyuan Construction Group finishes developing the surrounding communities and Sanxi Group promotes the upgrading of the town's infrastructure, this shop will be demolished, and my family can get at least 50 yuan, plus three three-bedroom apartments.

Therefore, even if the three restaurants don't open, the collective can support the restaurant owners and their spouses every day, or support one cashier, three waiters, and two chefs at the fast food restaurant. As long as the increase in real estate value is taken into account, the collective will never lose money within 10 years.

However, if an American-owned food company resorts to underhanded tactics, our company will definitely retaliate.

Yu Yang took out the SY customized handheld console and let the AI-Mountain God do whatever it wanted.

next second.

A series of news stories related to North American food, presented in the form of data, flooded the global internet.

E. coli and Salmonella contamination in Hamburg, North America, led to kidney failure in 551 people and 21 deaths.

North American protein powder contains excessive levels of heavy metals, which can cause men to become feminine and women to have stubble and look like men.

The proliferation of additives in North America, with the exception of ADM, consists of unregistered and substandard products, all of which are carcinogenic, leading to a continuous rise in cancer rates in North America.

North American hormones and antibiotics exceed the three-European standard by more than two thousand times. The former affects the user's personality and causes diseases such as depression and mania, while the latter affects the user's drug resistance and kidney function, causing imbalance in bodily functions.

North American frozen French fries have alarmingly high levels of acrylamide, according to laboratory test results.

A certain cola formula has highly overlapping ingredients with pesticide components, with laboratory data analysis attached…

At this time.

The shop owner brought over two stir-fried dishes and two steamed buns on a tray. "The food's here. Would you like some drinks? We also have an unopened bottle of our factory's special brew."

"Thank you, I've quit."

Yu Yang put down his phone, noticed the shop owner's hopeful eyes, and thought that there hadn't been many customers in the shop recently, so the shop owner must be quite lonely. So he changed the subject, "Alright, have some, it's been a long time since I've had a drink, let's have some."

"Then I'll have some peanuts."

Soon, the shop owner brought over another tray.

On top are the factory's special brew, two blankets, a stack of peanuts, and a platter of several kinds of braised bean products.

The shop owner took off his apron. "Don't be offended. My wife is six months pregnant and went back to the factory on leave. I don't like playing games or watching movies. Besides cleaning, I really don't have much to do. Now that we've finally welcomed you, one of our own, we should have a chat."

As he spoke, he poured a full glass for the two of them. “I’m forty-six this year, the same age as my wife. My child is twenty-eight and my grandson is eight. I came here four years ago to run the shop, thinking I would run it well, work my way up to retirement, travel around, and see the beautiful scenery of the factory. I never planned to have a second child. Who would have thought that I would suddenly get pregnant this year?”

“I originally planned to have an abortion, since it is quite dangerous for an older mother. But my son and daughter-in-law said that a large family is essential for a strong community, and that they and their grandson would be going to war in the future, so someone would have to take care of us in our old age… Plus, the factory has advanced medical technology, so I decided to give birth in the end.”

“In the past, raising another child would have been difficult, but now the factory benefits are good…”

The shop owner seemed to have been holding back for a while. After downing a glass of wine, he told the whole story about his family situation.

Yu Yang was a good listener. After the shop owner had finished speaking, he briefly introduced himself.

He was simply a graduate of the law department of Dongshan Agricultural University, who became a lawyer for the third department after entering the factory. He went around protecting the rights of the third department stores and handling some conflicts between the third department stores and local officials.

The conversation then turned to the purpose of the trip: to see how the local area had developed and progressed after the introduction of foreign investment.

"How's Guanxian doing this year?" Yu Yang asked, raising his glass to look out the window at the street scene.

Although the surrounding businesses are mainly three-line stores, the local government is responsible for infrastructure such as roads and green spaces.

Therefore, the whole place looks rustic and unsophisticated, and when a few cars drive by, they kick up a lot of dust.

The shop owner also raised his glass, but asked in surprise, "Guanxian?"

"Yes, this is a township under Guanxian County, Liaocheng City. You must have been to the county seat, right? How is the overall development?"

"Brother, this is Huaiyin District."

"???"

"Dongshanfu Huaiyin District, are you lost?"

"Are you kidding me? I took the subway from Shiliying to Liaoshi, and then took the light rail to get off here. How could I possibly have come to Huaiyin District?"

"Take the railcar? Guanxian got the high-speed rail last year, the railcars have been dismantled long ago, where are you going to take the railcar? You probably think the light rail is a railcar, don't you?"

"The Changqing Light Rail, isn't it from Changqing to the West Railway Station?"

"In 05, Changqing connected with Liaocheng, and the light rail in Dongshanfu was extended. This year it was extended to Huaiyin District, and next year it will open to Shizhong District... The place where you got off is the temporary terminus of the Huaiyin light rail."

Yu Yang was reading international news the whole way and didn't realize he had taken the wrong stop.

There was no itinerary planned for this trip, and the accompanying factory secretary and Chang Fu and Chang Shou did not remind them of it.

"Goodness, I thought this was Guanxian County." Yu Yang exclaimed, looking out the window at the street scene, which was even worse than the towns and villages outside the Third Ring Road in Beijing.

The shop owner curled his lip, "Aren't you insulting Guanxian? They have high-speed rail, agricultural airports, and numerous enterprises in Liaocheng that have invested in poverty alleviation projects like the zoo, botanical garden, stadium, community activity center, and large residential communities in Shiliying. What does Huaiyin District have? Jingshi Road?"

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in silence.

Five men dressed in Sanyuan Construction uniforms walked into the store, looking travel-worn.

"Boss, five servings of fried rice with two extra fried eggs per serving, and five servings of salty soup."

"Alright." The shop owner put down his wine glass, tied on his apron, and said, "Excuse me, brother. Just leave the cutlery here. I'll have a drink later and then clean up myself."

Yu Yang nodded. "You're busy."

Then he looked at the five men and asked, "Brothers, which project are you working on?"

"The old city's shantytown renovation project involves renovating the exteriors of six-story buildings. I don't know why the headquarters would take on this kind of project."

"I remember when we were attracting foreign investment, wasn't it agreed that it would be demolished?"

"Dongshan Prefecture is reluctant to part with it."

(End of this chapter)