Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 200

"Life should not only be about work. It is really a good thing to have such a holiday every year, allowing workers to go home and reunite with their relatives and enjoy a good life!" Gerich enjoys this kind of life very much.

Especially compared with the time in Wuhan, when the factory was on holiday, but leaders at all levels would come to visit him, a foreign friend, for fear of leaving him out in the cold, and Gerich was too embarrassed to decline the kindness of the leaders, so the Chinese New Year It's also rare to relax, and it's almost busier than usual.

This kind of thing doesn’t exist in Li Lei. You don’t have to think about socializing. You can sit in the spacious living room and watch TV, and watch Li Lei and Li Xinwang’s family play mahjong together. After I learned it, Gerich also went up and tried a couple of times, and found it quite interesting.

When it was time to eat, a table was filled with all kinds of delicious dishes. Everyone sat around the table, watching the Spring Festival Gala while eating and drinking.

Li Lei also specially prepared dishes such as German pork knuckle and pickles for Gerich. Although Chinese food is delicious, people love the food from his hometown after all.

Those foreigners on the short video website are clamoring for eating Chinese food, either because they think it is new, or because they have mastered the traffic code. If they are asked to eat Chinese food every day, they will probably not be able to bear it.

Li Lei observed carefully, and saw that although Gerich was also tasting Chinese food, the most he ate was pork knuckle and pickles, and he only drank German stout.

There are not many classic programs in this year's Spring Festival Gala, but the overall atmosphere is still relatively lively. The director just wants everyone to have a happy new year. There are not so many programs with a preaching meaning in it, so generally speaking, everyone watched it. happy.

Li Lei noticed a person. Niu Qun's cross talk "Qiao Li Ming Mu" made the audience remember a line, "Leader, colon." This sentence has been popular for a long time after the Spring Festival Gala. In the future, Niu Qun will go to Mengcheng, a big county to raise cattle. He was temporarily appointed as the deputy county magistrate, but he failed to do things with good intentions. If there is a chance in the future, he can cooperate.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Li Lei arranged a car and driver for Gerich and his son, and asked Xu Zhengyang to take them out for a trip. I haven't had time to take a good look around, let them walk around this Spring Festival.

They didn't come back until the Lantern Festival, ate a Lantern Festival at Li Lei's house, and returned to the agricultural machinery factory on the [-]th day of the first lunar month to continue working.

Li Lei walked around in various units, and after the workers calmed down and began to work hard, he went to Langfang to inspect the breeding of white-feathered chickens.

"Chengping, is there any difficulty in raising white-feathered chickens?" Sun Chengping is now in charge of the Langfang farm. Luxiang has been on the right track, and he was sent to Langfang to build a new factory.

In the past few years, Sun Chengping has changed several places of work, but Sun Chengping has no complaints. This time he came to Langfang on his own initiative. On the one hand, Li Lei gave him a good salary; It is much more comfortable than Luxiang, and you can often go to the capital for a stroll.

"It's really different from raising Hailan hens, but the people sent by Zhanhai are very good. I just listen to him in terms of technology, so it's been smooth so far!" Sun Chengping and Li Lei finished the disinfection together, and then entered In the white feather chicken coop.

"This kind of chicken grows really fast, and it's almost time to start breeding. Now more than a month has passed, and the yellow feather chickens we raised before have not yet grown up. These white feather chickens are almost ready to sell! The taste is not as good as the yellow feather chickens. !” said Sun Chengping, pointing to the white-feathered chickens in the chicken coop, and these white-feathered chickens seemed to weigh four or five catties.

Yellow-feathered chickens are also divided into different varieties. The fast-type yellow-feathered broiler chickens can be slaughtered within about 65 days, the medium-speed type is between 60-100 days, and the slow-speed type is generally more than 100 days; while the white-feathered chickens only need 42 days to be slaughtered. day time.

Of course, this is the result of years of optimization. White-feathered chickens are not so fast now, but the time for yellow-feathered chickens to be slaughtered has not reached the level of later generations, so the ratio of the time for these two chickens to be slaughtered is still similar to that of later generations.

"White-feather chicken is definitely not as good as yellow-feather chicken for stewing soup and cooking; for frying, white-feather chicken is better, so KFC is more suitable for white-feather chicken!" Li Lei gave a pertinent evaluation.

"White-feather chickens eat less and grow faster. The overall cost of raising chickens is much lower than that of yellow-feather chickens. If the sales price can be lowered, there should be many customers buying it!" Sun Chengping nodded, and the biggest influence on sales is now. The most important factor is the price. If the price is cheap, consumers can tolerate the defect that it is not very tasty.

You must know that people in the whole country can only eat half a chicken every year on average, and most people are only willing to eat one during the Chinese New Year; if the price of chicken can be reduced to a level acceptable to the people, there will definitely be no shortage of sales .

Those farms that raised white-feathered chickens failed to do this because their breeding methods were wrong. They still raised white-feathered chickens according to the method of raising local native chickens, and the scale was relatively small, so the white-feathered chickens that were raised in the end were not Not much cheaper than yellow feather chicken.

When the prices are similar, the difference in taste is highlighted. It is not surprising that the white feather chickens they raise cannot be sold. However, Li Lei can keep the price down. In addition to supplying KFC, he can also use the price advantage to conquer ordinary chickens. consumer.

"The size of these chickens is still different from the ones we raise in Heyang?" Li Lei looked at it for a while and found a problem. The white feather chickens raised in the old farm in Heyang are almost the same size, but there are some differences here.

"Well, I also discovered this problem, and finally came to the conclusion that the training of the breeders was not in place, so there was a phenomenon of inconsistent quality. Afterwards, the training has been strengthened. When the next batch of chickens are raised, they will definitely be good. Some!" Sun Chengping explained.

"Then when supplying KFC, we must carefully select them. After all, we have just started large-scale breeding. It is understandable for a small problem to occur. Just correct it as soon as possible! But if it continues like this, it will be troublesome." Screening finished chickens of different specifications is a waste of time and increases labor costs, and the machine has to be adjusted accordingly, which is far less convenient than finished chickens of uniform specifications.

"I have formulated new regulations, linking the standard uniformity of finished chickens with the breeder's bonus, so they are very attentive now, paying more attention than before!" Sun Chengping's management level is also improving.

"There is always a process of adapting to a new job, as long as you can improve!" Li Lei can still accept this small problem, but if it is still the same after half a year, it will not work.

After visiting the chicken coop, I went to look at the advanced cutting and processing equipment imported from abroad. A whole production line was rolled out. The white feather chickens enter from this end, and when they come out, they become chicken wings, chicken legs, chicken breasts and other parts. KFC can Take it directly for processing.

In addition, there is a frozen processing workshop, where frozen chicken wings, chicken legs, and chicken breasts can be stored for a longer period of time. In this era when the cold chain system has not been properly established, this is one of the few ways.

Chicken heads, chicken necks, and chicken feet are not needed by KFC, but they will not be wasted. Chicken feet can be wholesaled to merchants, or processed into chicken feet with pickled peppers, and chicken necks can also be made into snacks. It's a bit more troublesome, but it can also be made into five-spice chicken head or stewed chicken head, which is very popular among ordinary people in some places.

A few days later, the first batch of chicken wings, chicken legs, and chicken breasts were processed, and Li Lei brought the finished products to Wang Dadong and asked him to inspect the goods.

Wang Dadong immediately arranged for an inspection, and the inspection result was very satisfactory. Although there was still a little gap between the uniformity and the foreign imports, it could still meet the requirements of KFC. At the same time, due to the absence of tariffs, the cost was greatly reduced.

In addition, Langfang and the capital are close, and in terms of freshness, the products provided by Li Lei can be imported, so it is not surprising how to choose.

Let the kitchen randomly select a batch of samples for processing, and then send them over for everyone to try. The taste of the finished chicken wings and finger-licking chicken is almost the same as before.

"Boss Li, you have solved my big trouble! We can sign the contract now!" Wang Dadong took out the contract he had prepared a long time ago, and Li Lei asked the accompanying lawyer to read it and sign his name. After that he was the supplier of KFC.

"This contract is only for the branch in Beijing. If your farm in the special zone can reach the same level, then Xiangjiang's supply contract can also be handed over to you!" The cost of exporting from the special zone to Xiangjiang is also much lower than that of imported goods Well, Wang Dadong is the president of the entire Far East region, not just the store manager of the Beijing branch.

"President Wang can rest assured that since our farm in Langfang can do this, then the farm in the special zone can definitely do it too! I will go to the special zone in two days, and when the white-feathered chickens over there are ready for slaughter, I will invite You go to visit, and you will be satisfied when you see it!"

For now, the number of white-feathered chickens raised in the SAR farms is more than that in Langfang, because there is only one KFC in Beijing, but there are several in Xiangjiang. In addition, there are Western-style fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, which also need eggs and white-feathered chickens.

"Mr. Wang is definitely not satisfied with just opening a store in the capital. If we open stores in other places, such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, we can still supply you!" Li Lei was not satisfied with signing contracts one by one. Want to become KFC's strategic partner.

In the future, if KFC opens a new store, there is no need to sign a new contract. As long as Li Lei's products can be supplied, he will use his eggs and chicken wings.

"I'm currently communicating with Shanghai, but the efficiency is a bit slow. It is estimated that the first branch will not be opened until next year! Do you also have a farm near Shanghai?" Wang Dadong naturally hopes to have such a partner, after all, he manages a supply It is much easier to manage a business than to manage ten companies.

If there are no accidents, the first KFC in Shanghai will be opened on the second floor of Dongfeng Hotel on the Bund, and the business will also be very good after opening.

"We have a farm in Hefei, and we are now negotiating with Shanghai to build a farm in the suburbs of Shanghai." Li Lei will definitely not let go of such a big market in Shanghai, so he has already contacted Shanghai in advance .

Now that the population of Shanghai is increasing, the supply of vegetables, meat and eggs has become a very troublesome matter, so he is very welcome to come, and the discussion is almost done now.

"After the farm is built, as soon as you sign the contract with Shanghai, I can start raising white feather chickens immediately, so that when your new store opens, you can supply it immediately! It will be the same in the future. Where will your new store open? White-feathered chickens can be sent anywhere!"

"It couldn't be better! I'll wait for your good news. When the time comes, let's go to the special zone first and then go to Shanghai!" Wang Dadong has already thought about it, if Langfang, Shanghai, and the special zone can maintain the same product quality , then he has absolutely no reason not to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Li Lei.

At least from the current point of view, Li Lei's work efficiency is higher than that of all other suppliers. If other suppliers can also reach Li Lei's level, then his work will be much easier.

He thought that Li Lei could save him effort, and Li Lei also thought about how to get more orders. The supply of eggs and chicken is not enough. It would be even better if he could win the supply contract of beef. KFC’s There is also beef in hamburgers, and McDonald's uses more beef than KFC.

It’s just that the raising of beef cattle is more troublesome than broiler chickens and pork pigs, so it hasn’t started yet, but this year must be put on the agenda. There will be new changes in the policy environment.

After staying in the capital for a few days, the chicken delivered these days was also approved by Wang Dadong, and there was no problem, so Li Lei left with peace of mind.

So I used the name of New Century Investment Company to buy two air tickets to fly to the Special Economic Zone. Nowadays, ordinary people are still restricted from buying air tickets, but it is much more convenient to use the name of a foreign-funded company.

The comfort of today’s airplanes cannot be compared with that of later generations, but there are also advantages. The stewardess’s appearance level is much higher than that of later generations, and the service attitude is better; but there are also disadvantages. At this time, smoking and drinking are allowed on the plane. Airplanes are not like trains, and windows can be opened for ventilation. Li Lei enjoyed the ravages of second-hand smoke very much.

Overall, although there are various disadvantages, taking a plane is still much better than taking a train. At least it can save Li Lei more than a day's time. He departs in the morning and arrives at the special zone at noon.

When he came out of the exit, he saw someone holding a sign to greet him. Before he came, he had notified the special zone farm, and the farm arranged a car to pick him up.

After meeting with the pick-up staff, he was ready to go to the parking lot to get on the car, but after walking not far, Li Lei was attracted by a group of people. He couldn't help but stop and walked over, and asked curiously, " What are you buying?"

(End of this chapter)