Dominate the Country

Chen Ming had no time to pay attention to the Chinese envoys who had just crossed the ocean. He held a piece of intelligence that had just been sent by the Northwest Military Region. This was an emergency, but it made him furious, and his forehead was full of blue veins.

Chen Ming's eyes were wide open at this moment, as if he had seen an enemy he hated to the core, and his whole body was emitting deep murderous intent.

"How audacious, how audacious."

"These dogs are so bold that they dare to tamper with military supplies. They don't know how to live or die, and each of them is guilty of a crime that cannot be punished!"

These black-hearted businessmen, if they dare to make trouble with military supplies today, they will dare to bribe and corrupt officials tomorrow, speculate and defraud state property. For such illegal businessmen, Chen Ming would not think it was too much to kill them ten times. Each of them is black-hearted and is an unforgivable bad seed!

A whole battalion of soldiers, a whole battalion of soldiers. About 500 people ate the same batch of military rations in less than two hours, vomiting and diarrhea, and all of them were admitted to the hospital. Fortunately, they were not in battle or on the march. Although no one died, the nature of the disaster was so bad that it needs no explanation.

It can even be said that such military rations could be stored in the warehouse by the logistics department, so someone among the quality inspectors and the person in charge must have been bribed.

"Investigate it thoroughly for me. No matter who is involved, I will never tolerate it!"

Chen Ming's words came out easily and simply, but the people and factories that suffered and were affected were all over China. That number was much larger than the number of officers and soldiers in the battalion that was harmed.

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Zhu Pingan opened the window of his office. His current office had been moved to the easternmost room on the third floor of a newly built four-story building.

Six or seven years had passed in the blink of an eye since he gave up the construction team in his hometown and ran to Lushun to run a food processing factory.

Zhu Ping'an is a decent man who doesn't lie or cheat. He doesn't cheat or sell inferior products as good ones. Although he relied on the relationship of his brother-in-law Ge Ming [Ge Er] to expand the food processing factory he owns, he has established his own reputation over the years. The small food processing factory has been expanded several times in the past few years and is now considered a mainstream enterprise in Lushun.

The entire food processing factory covers an area of ​​more than 30 acres, with seven large warehouses and four small warehouses, and more than 400 employees.

Opening the window of the office, the earliest processing workshop of the food factory is outside the window, which has now been converted into a cleaning workshop.

These workshops are no longer as simple as they were in the early days. The wooden trusses have been replaced with tinplate, and the roofs have been replaced with thin and heat-insulating light wood boards. Boilers and steam engines have also been added to the processing plant. The former should not be mentioned, and the latter is used as a source of kinetic energy. The steam engine has been invented for so many years, but it is no longer as useful as it was back then.

Many factories in China are increasingly introducing steam engines.

Looking out of Zhu Ping'an's office window, the chimneys were emitting black and white smoke, and the sky above the processing plant was covered with a layer of fog.

There was a strange smell in the air.

It was a little sweet, with the smell of seafood and the fragrance of meat.

This was the processing workshop making canned cooked food and compressed dry food.

The former were mostly large pieces of meat and fish, including beef, horse meat, whale meat, mutton, and pork. The latter, in addition to sweet potato flour, corn flour and potato flour, also contained a considerable proportion of bean dregs powder, sea bone powder and fish powder. Of course, there was also a little beet.

More than 40 years ago, A. Margraf, president of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, first discovered that beetroot contained sucrose. Through further artificial selection, his student F.C. Ahad cultivated a variety of beet with large tubers and high sugar content in the roots in the suburbs of Berlin in 1950.

It was a big step beyond the beet cultivation in China.

After this thing was successfully cultivated, it was soon detected by the European Office, and then it was shipped back to China by the European Office before Britain and France noticed it. Now the beets in Northeast China have had initial development.

Beets contain sugar, which is also a necessary substance for the human body. Sugar is high in calories, so it is used in compressed dry food, which is just right.

Ge Ming worked in the Immigration Bureau a few years ago, and his counterpart was North American immigrants. The food processing factory run by his brother-in-law was listed on the list of materials purchased by North American immigrants by Ge Ming. The products it produced were of qualified quality and the price was not high, of course not low, and it was easy to get on a fast track.

After several years of operation, the production scale of Zhu Ping'an's food processing factory has expanded five or six times, from the earliest compressed dry food, dried shrimps, and dried fish to the current coverage of canned food, fruit juice, pulp sauce, meat sauce, pickles, compressed dry food, biscuits and other varieties. The industrial scale is certainly not ranked in the entire Lushun area, but just talking about the food industry, looking at the entire Liaoning, it can also be ranked among the first-class enterprises.

However, in the past two years, due to the war, Zhu Ping'an's products are not only supplied to the North American market, but also to the military. The logistics department does everything for the sake of profit. The Northeast is at war, and the procurement of military food materials is of course best from the Northeast.

Because of the military, the production plan of the food factory has changed a lot, and the product line has been greatly adjusted. Now, except for the basic products that have not yet reduced production capacity, the products such as juice, pulp sauce, pickles, and biscuits have all given way to canned food, compressed dry food and pickles.

Zhu Ping'an's food processing factory has only three products that are favored by the logistics department: canned food, compressed dry food and pickles.

"They have issued a new quota of 5,000 cream biscuits. Why are the bureaus suddenly willing to give immigrants such good food?" Zhu Ping'an looked at the latest order sent by the logistics department of the Immigration Bureau and muttered to himself.

The profit of producing products for the Immigration Bureau is not comparable to that of military supplies. It's just that military supplies are not often available, and the Immigration Bureau is the real backer. Zhu Ping'an can only let some workers work overtime in shifts.

In addition to cream biscuits, the people from the logistics department of the Immigration Bureau said that they also need to produce a large number of fruit candies and milk candies this time, as well as chocolates, canned fruits and other "rare" things. I don't know what the Immigration Bureau is thinking.

Although Ge Er is already the deputy director of the Immigration Bureau, he will never tell Zhu Ping'an about the information that should not be leaked.

Zhu Pingan picked up the latest production schedule and plan sent by the workshops on the table and drew a few lines on it with a pencil.

There is not enough beef, horse meat and pork, only mutton and whale meat are in sufficient supply. New seafood is delivered every day, so there is no shortage.

There is no shortage of salt, seasonings, but there are fewer potatoes, soybeans and corn, less milk powder, and chocolate. All of these need to be finalized by the purchasing department as soon as possible. But he is in the Northeast, how can there be fewer potatoes, soybeans and corn?

All he sees are these things.

Zhu Pingan looked at the variety of products that were missing or delayed in delivery, and he felt uneasy. His original name was not "Pingan". People in the countryside would rather not have a big name. The name "Pingan" was given to him to ensure safety after he formed the engineering team.

The progress of the plan was a bit slow, and Zhu Pingan felt like a big stone was pressing on his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh.

If there is less cream and chocolate, cream biscuits cannot be made.

There is not enough beef, horse meat and pork, so the production speed of canned food will slow down.

Finally, potatoes, soybeans and corn are needed in compressed biscuits and canned food. Especially soybeans. Insufficient soybean delivery affects not only the production of compressed biscuits, but also the production of tofu, fermented black beans, soybean paste/pickles, and tofu, fermented black beans, soybean paste, etc. are all necessities for the production of canned food and pickles.

On the railway tracks in the factory area, workers are pushing flatbed carts to the cleaning workshop. The carts are full of beets, peppers, winter melons and cabbages. On another track, the dry cut shreds, thin slices and evenly sized blocks are transported from the drying workshop and then sent to the production workshop at the back.

Zhu Pingan was watching intently when his secretary suddenly knocked on the door to report: "Boss, Mr. Shen Yuan is here."

Shen Yuan, who was sent to North Korea for a term, was transferred to the Dalian Civil Affairs Bureau as director last year.

"Please ask him to wait downstairs for a while, I will be down soon." Zhu Pingan said and began to organize the forms in his hand, put them into a document folder, and put them into the drawer together.

Two clerks from the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Health Bureau came to the factory with Shen Yuan.

Zhu Pingan was shocked after listening to Shen Yuan's introduction. People who do food business are not afraid of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but they are afraid of the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Health Bureau. This is a bad star coming.

Zhu Pingan was shocked by the clerks from the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Health Bureau who suddenly appeared, and when he figured out why the clerks from the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Health Bureau came to him, Zhu Pingan was stunned.

There is really no shortage of bold people in this world. Under such severe punishments and laws of the court, there are still people who are playing tricks on the issue of military funds. They are disgusted with their lives, right?

Shen Yuan comforted Zhu Pingan in a gentle manner, saying that the government still trusts him. In so many years of random inspections and investigations, the quality of Zhu Pingan's factory's products has never been unqualified, and his reputation within the government is very strong.

Therefore, the Quality Supervision Bureau and Health Bureau of Dalian Prefecture and County jointly carried out strict inspections, and they would not exclude their factory during the first batch of inspections, but only sent two clerks to the factory with Shen Yuan.

As for why Shen Yuan came, the root cause was Zhu Ping'an's brother-in-law. Ge Ming's official position was comparable to that of the prefect, and Zhu Ping'an was his only brother-in-law, so it was better not to offend him.

Especially since Ge Ming was a Jingguan and was in the position of the Immigration Bureau, if he slightly twisted his mouth, the people in the logistics department of the Immigration Bureau would place the order in Sakhalin Island, Tianjin, Yantai and other places, and Dalian Prefecture would not have time to cry.

Therefore, although Zhu Ping'an himself was honest and dutiful, his weight was really not light. Especially in Dalian Prefecture, where industry and commerce were developing and growing. Food processing was a major economic growth point for them, because they had the best ice-free port of Lushun on the entire northern coast, which was a key link in the immigration trade route between the mainland and North America.

The Immigration Bureau, a government office with a low level but great power, really holds half of their lifeline.

Of course, Shen Yuan is not stupid. He brought people to the food factory this time to give Zhu Pingan a shot of prevention, but at the same time he really wanted to check the factory's food processing procedures.

This mission came directly from the emperor's decree. Who dares to be careless? The official hat will be taken off immediately.

No one will run into the gun at this critical moment.

There is an old saying in the Chinese officialdom that goes like this: Don't hit the diligent, don't hit the lazy, just hit the blind!

If you don't work well at this time, you really don't have eyes.