binnovel Chapter 156 Food
Chapter 156 Food
After get off work, Wen Qing returned to Balizhuang and found Zhuang Xian had not come back yet. Then she remembered that Zhuang Xian had said in the morning that he, Fang Yuan and Lin Qingyuan would invite the people from Jizhong City Xunda Bicycle Factory to dinner in the evening to discuss the development of the factory.
Wen Qing simply made some fried rice with egg. After eating, she went into the space and started to take care of the crops in the space.
Now that there is more space and land, she has to hurry up to plant crops. Fortunately, only planting rice requires transplanting seedlings, which is a relatively complicated procedure. Other crops are directly sown. Even so, it takes 10 days to complete the planting.
The food in the space will mature in about 50 days, and it takes a lot of time to harvest the crops. With current machinery and equipment, only 50 acres can be harvested every day.
Therefore, she has to spend half of her time every month working in the space, and the other half to take care of the winery operations and Zhuang Xien's life. These all take up her spare time and make her very busy.
The good news is that her mental power is stronger now, and she can use it when it is inconvenient to enter the space.
When the new factory is built, it will produce 80 tons of liquor per month, which will require 100 tons of grain. The current space can only produce an average of 60 tons per month, leaving a gap of 40 tons, which must all be purchased on the market.
To this end, she registered a grain company, which is located at No. 48 Majia Lane. Now she needs to recruit people, and she can only do this herself.
While Zhuang Xien is not at home, Wen Qing can stay in the space longer and plant all the remaining land.
After she finished planting, she went to the orchard to pick apples. Seeing that there were 5 tons of apples in the warehouse, she decided to make cider.
Making fruit wine is relatively simple. After crushing the apples, add fruit wine yeast and put them into stainless steel winemaking tanks for fermentation. Stir regularly. After the fermentation is completed, pour out the juice and carry out a second fermentation. After the second fermentation is completed, it can be bottled. Each brewing takes 2 months, but only 25 days in the space.
The wine brewed in the space uses the spring water in the space. The wine tastes better than the wine brewed outside. Wen Qing is not in a hurry to sell it, so he keeps it in the space first.
The Sifeng District Industrial Bureau conducted investigations at the rate of one enterprise per day. Some factories were relatively large, with many equipments and complex technologies, and it would be impossible to thoroughly investigate them with only three people from the Industrial Bureau.
For such enterprises, they mainly train the enterprise's technicians, teach them how to conduct technical surveys, and provide practical guidance for them to conduct investigations. Otherwise, the technical survey of 140 medium and large enterprises in the region would take at least a year to complete, and they do not have that much time.
Wen Qing worked honestly and never showed off. She respected Section Chief Tong very much and won praise from Dong and Wu. When Director Ye asked about Wen Qing, Dong Yali said, "Xiao Wen is a humble person and doesn't put on airs as a college student."
Wu Yi also said: "Xiao Wen has strong professional skills and is familiar with many of the equipment in the factory."
Director Ye and Director Li also felt that Wen Qing was sensible and not as aloof as an intellectual.
After planting the fields in the space, Wen Qing began to study electric bicycles in her spare time.
The battery is the key to electric bicycles. Currently, there are lead-acid batteries, but they are large in size, heavy in weight, and low in efficiency, making them not very suitable for use on bicycles.
A bicycle propelled by a battery must also have a motor that converts electricity into power, and the bicycle must be able to switch between electric and human power.
According to her memory, electric bicycles would appear in the 1990s, so she wanted to be one step ahead and solved the problems of batteries and motors, which made the design of electric bicycles simpler.
Wen Qing was busy with the design, while Zhuang Xien was busy with the operation of the Schindler Bicycle Factory.
He adjusted the development direction of the factory. Now they produce 5000 mountain bikes and 1 city bikes per month, and produce 5000 of them for Feiniao Factory, bringing the monthly output to 2.
At Wen Qing's suggestion, Schindler Bicycle Factory bought a new production line dedicated to the production of bicycle helmets, seats and some other bicycle accessories. Later, when motorcycles became popular, with the experience of producing bicycle helmets, they could easily switch to the production of motorcycle helmets, which had great market prospects.
On Sunday, Wen Qing agreed with Zhuang Xien to return to Erxia Village early in the morning.
她找来王建国和柳泉，一起商量招人的事，这次准备招38人，其中20个车间工人、6个销售、2个送货、2个库管、1个人事、1个财务、6个保安，成立保卫科。
Wang Jianguo introduced a retired winemaker named Wang Guozhang, 56 years old this year. He used to work in an Erguotou winery. At the age of 50, he gave his job to his son and retired. Now he is willing to work at Changxia Winery.
After Wen Qing discussed with the two, they decided to let Master Wang do the job first. If there are no problems, it will be settled on. The salary for the first quarter will be 200 yuan, and after becoming a regular employee, the monthly salary will be 300 yuan, with a bonus at the end of the year.
Now Liu Quan and Wang Jianguo each earn 400 yuan per month, Tan Yuanfang earns 350 yuan per month, and the new winemaking workers in the factory earn 50 yuan per month. After one year, they all earn more than 80 yuan, which is twice the average salary of Pingjing enterprise employees. Therefore, people from nearby villages are eager to come here to work.
Wen Qing asked Liu Quan and Wang Jianguo to recommend candidates for employees. Liu Quan recommended his friend and Wang Jianguo recommended young people from their village. Wen Qing nodded and asked them all to come for a trial. She also asked Liu Quan to go to the town to post a recruitment notice explaining the recruitment conditions.
As for security personnel, Wen Qing plans to go to the Veterans Office to recruit veterans.
After talking about recruitment, Wen Qing went with the two to see the maintenance of the mud cellars in the new winery. Wang Jianguo said, "Sister Wen, do you think these cellars are ready to start making wine?"
Wen Qing looked at the test data of the mud cellars and found that the content of various microorganisms was not much different from that of mature wine cellars. Wen Qing said to Wang Jianguo: "Let's start production of these 40 wine cellars."
This time, it took six months to maintain the mud cellars, which saved two months compared with the previous batch. This shows that their method of maintaining the mud cellars is correct and will be of great reference value for the maintenance of mud cellars in new factories in the future.
Wang Jianguo called the workers over and arranged for them to prepare grain and start brewing wine tomorrow.
Wen Qing went to see Captain Liu and asked about purchasing grain from Erxia Village.
Liu Changgui asked: "Xiao Wen, do you want to buy food from our village?"
Wen Qing nodded, "Uncle Liu, our winery needs food. Instead of buying food outside, we should buy it from the village."
The main crops grown in Erxia Village are wheat, sorghum, corn, and a small amount of rice.
Liu Changgui said: "If the price is right, we are certainly willing to sell it to the winery." At least it is convenient to transport.
Wen Qing replied, "We are all from the same village, I can't lower the price, we will add 5 cents per catty to the market price."
Captain Liu was very satisfied and told the news to the villagers after returning. The autumn harvest had just passed and the villagers had not yet sold all their grain, so the winery purchased 20 kilograms of grain at one time.
Seeing that most of the villagers had made money, Captain Liu asked, "Xiao Wen, will the winery buy our grain from the village every year?"
Wen Qing nodded affirmatively, "Our Changxia Winery will definitely continue to purchase grain from the villagers and will not lower the price."
Seeing that Captain Liu was worried, Wen Qing suggested that the purchase agreement could be signed in advance, and Captain Liu agreed to discuss it with the villagers before signing.
Captain Liu smiled and said, "From now on, we won't have to worry about selling the sorghum in our village, and we won't have to transport it outside. If everyone agrees, I'll draw up a contract and we can all rest assured."
Of course, Wen Qing wouldn’t care if the villagers didn’t sell to the winery.