Starting from 1950

"Your improved stir-fried noodle recipe has been approved by the authorities in Andong, and soon all stir-fried noodle production across the country will be based on your recipe."

Zhou Zheng sighed inwardly. He had initially supported Su Yang in developing the new fried noodles business, but later regretted it a little. He never expected that the kid would actually make a name for himself.

Upon hearing this, Su Yang was also deeply moved.

Did I change history?

"By the way! Some experts have been inspired by the enemy's military rations to develop a process for dehydrated vegetables. From now on, food factories will not only have to produce fried noodles, but also dehydrated vegetables."

As Zhou Zheng spoke, he opened the drawer, took out a stack of documents, and handed them to Su Yang.

"Dehydrated vegetables?"

Su Yang frowned as he took the document. Dehydrated vegetables weren't difficult to make; people had been eating dried vegetables for thousands of years.

The difficulty lies in mass production and industrialization.

He opened the document in his hand with a sense of skepticism.

Process 1: Sun drying method.

Applicable crops: Chinese cabbage, radish, mustard greens, daylily, scallions, garlic, etc.

The first step, raw material inspection and initial selection: Remove rotten leaves, yellow leaves, insect-infested parts, and soil from the roots, retaining only the intact parts...

The second step is to wash the drain...

.......

Step 6, save and save...

Su Yang's brows furrowed more and more as he looked at the scene.

Sure enough! This document simply compiles various methods for dehydrating vegetables; the actual production process is essentially a traditional folk method.

He flipped through the pages again.

"Process 2: Drying method using a homemade drying room."

Drying room dimensions: 6 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 3 meters high (can be adjusted according to production capacity), walls made of adobe/red bricks, roof covered with thatch and tar paper...

Su Yang quickly flipped to the end.

"Based on a team of 10 people (including those responsible for sorting, washing, cutting, spreading/drying, and storage), and with a 100-square-meter drying yard and one earthen drying room, it is estimated that the daily processing capacity will be 500-800 jin of fresh vegetables, producing 50-120 jin of dried vegetables..."

He couldn't help but shake his head.

Ten people can produce about 10 kilograms of dried vegetables every day, which requires a drying yard and a drying room, and they also have to rely on the weather.

This is so inefficient!

Two months into the war, logistical supplies still cannot be guaranteed.

When Su Yang followed the 352nd Regiment, he had a deep understanding of the poor food conditions of the soldiers on the front lines.

When there are no combat missions, the cooks are responsible for the meals of the entire regiment. Although the food is not good, with vegetables such as radishes and potatoes and a mix of coarse and refined grains, at least it is hot.

Combat missions were much tougher. Each person was given a bag of fried noodles weighing 5 to 10 kilograms as rations for the next few days. It was truly a case of eating fried noodles with a mouthful of snow.

During mobile warfare, there were often situations where supply trucks could not find the combat troops for several days in a row, and the soldiers had to eat frozen potatoes to fill their stomachs.

More importantly, with our firepower completely outmatched by the enemy, almost all of our battles were fought at night.

Because enemy planes cannot operate at night, the accuracy of artillery is also affected.

However, night blindness caused by malnutrition is even more deadly. Many soldiers cannot see the road at night and fall to their deaths in the mountains.

Su Yang could probably guess the plan above.

After these battles, our side captured a lot of enemy soldiers' rations, and Su Yang himself ate quite a few of those spoils of war.

Canned food, compressed biscuits, and dehydrated vegetables—foods commonly found in military rations in later generations—were already available to the enemy at this time.

In the past two months, our experts have probably done a lot of research on the captured military rations.

Although the production processes for canned goods and compressed biscuits are simple, given our current impoverished state, even if we were to crack the code, we wouldn't be able to achieve mass production.

In particular, the hydraulic equipment needed for compressing biscuits is so rare that you probably can't find more than 10 in the whole country today, and my country has absolutely no plastic packaging or vacuum packaging technology.

Therefore, the higher-ups decided to focus on dehydrated vegetables to supplement the nutrition of the frontline soldiers as much as possible under the existing conditions.

Zhou Zheng looked at Su Yang, who remained silent, and couldn't help but sigh:

"Your new fried noodle recipe has been ordered to be promoted nationwide from the rear in Andong. Now, much of our factory's production pressure has been relieved by our sister factories. The higher-ups mean that our factory will continue to serve as the benchmark for dehydrated vegetable production. The fried noodle workshop has already stopped production; we'll focus all our efforts on improving the dehydrated vegetable production process..."

"This isn't right, is it?"

Su Yang couldn't help but say, "Factory manager, this is a production matter. Why are you telling me this? I'm just a pest control officer in the security department..."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Zhou Zheng glared at him. "Now the security department is under my control, you have to listen to me!"

"Isn't the security department under the jurisdiction of the public security bureau?" Su Yang muttered.

"Snapped!"

Zhou Zheng slammed several sheets of paper on his desk. "Look for yourself!"

Su Yang picked up the several documents with red headings and examined them with some suspicion. They read:

A Detailed Explanation of the Core Principles for Future Management of Factory Security Departments

He gets a headache whenever he sees these densely packed documents, which are not only written in traditional Chinese characters but also vertically.

After patiently reading through it, I roughly understood the meaning of the document.

The document states that the factory's security department should "combine vertical and horizontal management, with horizontal management as the primary focus, and provide guidance on public security matters."

In layman's terms: From now on, the security department of each factory will be a functional department of the factory, and personnel matters will be managed by the factory, and salaries will also be paid by the factory.

As for the public security department, it is only responsible for guiding and supervising the factory's security department in carrying out security patrols, guarding key areas, and handling public security disputes.

"Fine! It's all under the government's jurisdiction, and I'll obey whatever arrangements are made. So, factory manager, what do you intend for me to do?"

Knowing that he would now truly be Zhou Zheng's soldier, Su Yang readily acknowledged the difference between the two kings.

"That's more like it. It wasn't a wasted trip to the battlefield."

Zhou Zheng praised her, then said seriously, "You're a smart kid. Your new version of fried noodles made our factory look good last time. This time, with the dehydrated vegetables, we'll be figuring things out as we go. Go and assist Wang Cui. Use your imagination and come up with any ideas you like!"

"That's all?"

Su Yang pursed his lips and smiled, "Okay! I agree!"

Zhou Zheng was taken aback when he saw this; he was actually a little unaccustomed to Su Yang not being lazy.

"Factory manager, do you have any further instructions?"

"And then there's the rat problem; you can't let your guard down on that either."

"I see!"

"Then go back and start working."

......

Su Yang left the factory director's office.

"Gah!"

Xiaoyu darted like an arrow released from a bow towards the corner of the stairwell.

Su Yang glanced at her and saw that Xiao Yu had caught another mouse.

A thought struck him, and he said to Xiaoyu, who was pecking at a rat's head, "Xiaoyu, from now on you'll catch rats in the factory."

"Gurgle!"

Xiaoyu responded and said, "Leave it to me."

Su Yang nodded with satisfaction. With Xiao Yu helping him catch mice, he could finally free up his hands to do some things he had planned long ago.

He told Xiaoyu to move around freely and then opened his control panel.

My level is still 20, and my attributes haven't changed at all.

Su Yang ignored the other information and focused his mind to open the cooking option.

"Rice cake, boiled silkworm pupae, red bean buns, bubble tea... I found you! It's you!"

"Instant noodles!"