The Lord of the World Begins from the Siheyuan

Li Ming arranged to have lunch together to reward Lou Xiao'e.

She has been quite busy recently, so I have to coax her from time to time.

Several professional managers have just come to the company and have not yet fully figured out the boss's style and temperament, so they will be cautious and report frequently to ask for instructions.

In this way, Lou Xiaoe has to make decisions on big and small matters.

Although she holds the position of chairman, she actually does CEO stuff every day.

Plus her original job as financial director.

Lou Xiao'e's work content has become exactly the same as that of the boss of a small entrepreneurial company.

The establishment of Xingchen Company was too short, which was inevitable.

If you set up a company and then hand it over to professional managers, this kind of boss is basically a big boss.

You can check the accounts at will.

There are many legal and compliant ways to hollow out companies.

Not to mention a lot of ways to sue.

Lou Xiaoe can only work harder for the time being.

Only when the couple and several managers have been together for a long time, and everyone has enough tacit understanding with each other, or replace some reliable people, can they feel more relaxed.

Lou Xiao'e asked about his evening schedule, "Are you busy tonight?"

Li Ming drank tea comfortably, and Lou Xiao'e's tea-making skills improved. "There shouldn't be anything wrong with the mushroom vaccination in the afternoon. I think I will be free in the evening."

"Congressman Chen and the reporters are here at the banquet tonight. Do you want to attend?"

"I may arrive late."

"There's no need to force it. My dad has invited some of his old friends, so the banquet won't be too impressive."

"It's okay, as long as you don't take pictures. There are also big customers of the company. Since you have made their money, you still have to give them some face."

"Ah."

"Bring the newspaper over here. Let me see if there are any ads that I like."

Lou Xiao'e followed the instructions and brought a large stack of newspapers over.

The two of them gathered together to discuss where to have lunch.

Li Ming found a restaurant specializing in Cantonese cuisine based on the advertisement in the newspaper.

". Braised sea tiger wings with fresh crab meat, steamed dragon and tiger squid with emerald unicorn, geoduck in lobster soup, braised three-yellow chicken with ginseng and dendrobium."

Lou Xiao'e advised: "Are you very hungry today? You've almost filled the table with what you ordered, is that almost done?"

Li Ming returned the menu to the waiter, "These will be served first."

"Okay, sir." The waiter politely withdrew.

Li Ming then said: "It's my first time here. I don't know which dish is delicious, so I might as well order more."

"If it doesn't taste good, we won't come here anymore."

He rarely eats in Hong Kong City, so it is impossible to ask his uncle and others. They are either in banquet halls, tea restaurants or dance halls, not places to have dinner.

"Yeah." Lou Xiao'e added, "It's a pity that their signature dish, the secret charcoal-roasted goose, needs to be booked one day in advance."

“If it’s delicious, we’ll make a reservation in advance next time.”

"Ah."

Li Ming thought again, "In addition to seafood, the chicken, duck, and pork we will eat later may be carefully selected and supplied from the mainland."

"I've also heard that there are several trains in the mainland that are dedicated to supplying dishes to Hong Kong cities."

"Not bad, you have gained a lot of experience in Hong Kong City."

Everyone loves to hear compliments. Lou Xiaoe smiled and served him some cold dishes.

"This 'Crispy Jellyfish Mixed with Sesame' is good, you should try it too." Li Ming also took the initiative to bring her some vegetables to make her happy.

His purpose was obvious. First, this meal was meant to reward her, so she had to look good.

Secondly, when night comes, she will naturally reciprocate the favor.

“The ‘Cantonese Braised Goose Palm Wings’ is also good.”

Lou Xiao'e is in a very good mood now, "How are the instant noodles and ham sausages in Beijing?"

Li Ming said casually: "There is still no progress. I was busy with other things yesterday afternoon and this morning."

"Yesterday afternoon, I went to Xiangyanghua to instruct Captain Gao and his team on how to handle the cultivation materials for shiitake mushrooms."

"There were two important meetings in the factory this morning, and I couldn't get away from them."

Lou Xiao'e said speechlessly: "I always have meetings, and every meeting is very important."

Li Ming frowned slightly, "There is a movie review meeting today, which is really boring."

"The other meeting is really important because it's the first time."

"Criticize 'cultivation'."

"So I have a meeting in the factory honestly in the morning, so I can't get away."

"Alas!" Lou Xiao'e frowned cutely, "This is not a good place in Hong Kong City either."

"That's right here in Central, Hong Kong Island. The leaders of the Yingguo gang are here, and the security is a little better."

"I heard from Manager Wen Guangshun that there have been several gang fights outside our factory in Sham Shui Wat, Kowloon."

"I've encountered it once."

Li Ming immediately asked: "In front of our factory?"

Lou Xiao'e quickly waved her hand and said, "No, it's on the way to our factory."

Li Ming said helplessly: "If it's at the gate of our factory, it's a provocation to us, but we can still control it. If it's on the road, it's really hard to control."

"Yes. If we were at the factory gate, I would have told you already."

"Yeah. There are quite a lot of public housing estates in Sham Shui Wat, and there are a lot of people living there. It's quite chaotic there."

Li Ming thought of that silly Brother Qiang, who came to warn him not to wholesale fruit to people and collect his warehouse protection fees. He was fooled by him, and he didn't know if he was hacked to death.

He quickly shook off this thought, "This place is not as good as the capital. When I'm not with you, be sure to take security with you. Don't find it troublesome."

Lou Xiao'e nodded and said: "When you were not in Hong Kong City, I always took it with you."

"But every time there is one car in front, followed by two cars behind, four cars in a row. The scene is a bit big."

"There were a lot of reporters this morning, so I followed my brother and the people from the company without the bodyguards."

With more than 10 full-time bodyguards, you can basically fight a small gang war.

This level of security can be said to be unique in Hong Kong.

Many rich people still drive to work alone.

Lou Xiao'e can't compare with those people. First of all, she is a woman and seems to be easy to bully. Secondly, she is not a vernacular person and does not have the uncle relationship with those gangs.

Li Ming was fierce, but not powerful enough.

Some desperate people think that even if they offend him, it doesn't matter. At worst, they can just avoid him and make him unable to find him.

Li Ming has always put safety first and always thinks of the worst-case scenario.

"Let your brother spread the word to the outside world that the security manpower is actually sent to you by many people."

"I have arranged a few bodyguards, and your father and your brother have arranged people for you, so we have gathered so many people."

"Others will only envy you for being pampered and won't think you are arrogant."

This is a good idea. Lou Xiao'e said happily: "I will tell my brother when I get back." "And ask your brother, consultant Huang Fuyi and manager Xu Zhiyong to increase their efforts to apply for a few gun licenses. Try to complete the procedures as much as possible to avoid unnecessary trouble." Being attacked and accused.”

"I'll rush them."

The two of them had a sumptuous lunch together.

Li Ming sent Lou Xiaoe back to the company and returned to the capital.

First, I went to the Security Department for a walk.

Nothing was going on in the factory, so Li Ming drove the pickup truck to the Xiangyanghua Brigade again.

Secretary Gao, Captain Gao and others did not open the sterilizing pot in advance, but were waiting for him and his bacteria.

"Chief Li, are the mushroom strains and plastic bags covered with canvas on the truck bed?"

"That's right. The breeding started last winter." Li Ming said nonsense.

The strains were actually cultivated by him in his small world.

He checked the information and found that as early as 1956, Chen Meipeng, the first director of the Edible Fungi Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, obtained pure strains of shiitake mushrooms using tissue separation and spore separation methods.

Director Chen Meipeng also led the researchers to achieve many breakthroughs, including the trial cultivation of straw mushrooms with rice straw, the pure mycelium of Agaricus bisporus, the cultivation of Pleurotus gracilis in bottles with sawdust, the cultivation of mushrooms with pig and cow dung instead of horse dung, and the isolation of mixed strains of Tremella fuciformis and Agaricus aureus. , Isolation of pure strains of Ganoderma lucidum and Hericium strains

Many of the technologies we take for granted were acquired during this period.

‘78%栎木屑+20%米糠+2%糖与石膏’的配方也是陈梅朋所长在57-59年之间研究出来的。

Later, rice bran was replaced by wheat bran, just because rice bran is not easy to preserve.

The bottled yield was not high. In 1964, the Shanghai Institute successfully researched the ‘seedling briquetting cultivation method for shiitake mushrooms’. Unfortunately, the strains were not suitable, and it was not until 78 that the sawdust cultivation technology was popularized.

In 1980, Peng Zhaowang, a farmer in Gutian, Fujian Province, developed the "technique of growing shiitake mushrooms in outdoor sawdust bags" and taught it to everyone for free. This got out of hand, and production capacity quickly exploded across the country.

Therefore, it is not unusual at all for Li Ming to be able to obtain the strains of shiitake mushrooms, and the source of his technology can withstand the scrutiny of others.

After lifting the canvas on the truck bed, Captain Gao saw rows of bottles covered with mycelium and exclaimed: "So many strains of bacteria are needed!"

Li Ming smiled and said: "We have 5000 bags to vaccinate. A little bit in each bag is a lot."

"It turns out that everything is here." After Captain Gao finished speaking, he directed the people who had washed their hands to quickly start unloading the goods.

After unloading the goods, a group of people took out the material bags from the sterilizing pot and cooled them down to about 25 degrees.

Li Ming then arranged for them to fumigate the bags with formalin and potassium permanganate for 45 minutes.

Formalin is formaldehyde. There is no problem in fumigating and sterilizing the outside of the bag with formaldehyde.

Moreover, during the growth process of shiitake mushrooms, they can also produce trace amounts of formaldehyde.

The fresh mushrooms purchased in bags may sometimes have a pungent smell, which is aldehydes produced by the mushrooms themselves through some anaerobic reactions.

Rinse with tap water first, then soak in tap water for a while and then you can use it with confidence.

Mushrooms are usually cooked in soup, and formaldehyde also evaporates when cooked. If you fry it, blanch it in water to remove any formaldehyde that may be present.

If you are really worried: it is best to soak fresh mushrooms in water for 10 minutes; eat more umbrellas and less handles, as the umbrellas of mushrooms contain less formaldehyde than the handles.

A large crowd of people gathered to watch Li Ming personally demonstrate the vaccination operation.

With the inoculation box he prepared in advance and the simple homemade inoculation tools, the inoculation work is indeed simple, but the gestures must be faster.

After Captain Gao and others saw it, they felt confident that it was really not difficult.

Three or four people work in one inoculation box, and seven or eight people work in two boxes, working together to inoculate the bacterial bags.

A cannery warehouse converted into an incubation room.

Rows of inoculated bacterial bags are arranged neatly in a 'well' shape.

Li Ming warned again: "Be sure to pay attention to the temperature and humidity. The temperature is around 25 degrees and the humidity is above 70%."

"In three days, if I don't come here, you will have to come and check the growth of mycelium."

"If there are spots of red, green, yellow, black and other colors, it means it has been contaminated with bacteria and needs to be cleaned up in time."

Captain Gao promised: "We will take good care of it."

"We had a good look at the fermented sawdust piles before."

Li Ming said with a smile: "I will arrange 5000 bags for the first time. I just believe you can do a good job."

Captain Gao suddenly said: "That's right. We made a bit of noise. Those people from the vegetable company thought we were going to produce cans."

"They came over this morning to take a look and asked some questions from the members who were watching the stove fire."

People from the vegetable company originally knew that you have a canning factory, and the production and processing of canned food also requires high-temperature sterilization.

What a large group of people from the Xiangyanghua Brigade did yesterday was indeed a bit like producing cans.

Li Ming said indifferently: "They can ask whatever they want."

"When the time comes, we will remove the bags and take the mushroom sticks to the greenhouse to produce mushrooms. Sooner or later they will know."

Summer vegetables are cheap, and the income-increasing effect of greenhouses is not outstanding, so he simply took out the two-acre greenhouse under his name and changed it into a mushroom-growing shed.

If the weather gets too hot, he will add a layer of straw thatch on top. With two layers of hollow straw thatch, the temperature in the mushroom shed can be easily adjusted.

There are certain temperature changes, light changes, and the most important thing is to have fresh air, that is, sufficient oxygen, so as to help the mushroom fruiting bodies differentiate and achieve high yields.

They were busy here, and the news had already spread.

The greenhouse did not catch up with the first wave and lost a lot of money. This time people from the nearby production brigade came to visit the Xiangyanghua brigade early.

Leaving Party Secretary Gao, Captain Gao and others to deal with it, Li Ming withdrew first.

Harbor City.

Marco Polo Hotel.

Centennial Hall.

Li Ming transformed into Director Li Buren and arrived belatedly. The guests finally met the legendary fierce man who could pick a hundred.

"Congratulations!" "Long time admirer!" "Nice to meet you!"

He followed his uncle around with a wine glass in hand.

"That Mr. Chen just now is our big supplier of flour. He has the same surname as Councilor Chen, but they are not related, so the relationship between the two parties is not good."

"This Mr. Liu supplies us with palm oil."

"That Dai Sheng's company is engaged in wholesale, and it has more than 100 stores." In English, store means grocery store.

At this time, there were no large supermarkets in Hong Kong City, and they would not appear until the 70s. In 71, there seemed to be more than 3 grocery stores.

Usually it is my uncle who maintains the relationship between suppliers and customers, and he is more familiar with these people than Lou Xiaoe.

In fact, it is because we are all men, so it is convenient for us to take a sauna, drink and sing together.

Today's Xingchen Company's banquet was very festive and lively.

The only thing that was not harmonious about the whole venue was the reporters who were divided into three or four groups.

There are two groups on both sides of the strait, plus those who don't stand and some British-owned ones.

Fortunately, for the time being, it's a matter of course.

Li Ming thought about it and said, "Brother, we should invite them separately in the future, or don't invite them at all."

This is also the first time for my uncle to host such a large banquet in Hong Kong City. "I didn't think carefully enough."

"This hall can seat two to three hundred people. If there are too few people, it will look deserted. I used to only think about the crowds and the excitement, and forgot about this."

Li Ming echoed, "It's quite lively tonight."

It was inevitable that things would go wrong, and he did not criticize them too much.

My uncle drank wine mixed with water all night and burped, "Should I take you over to meet those uncles again?" (End of Chapter)