With such worries, Chu He looked at the surrounding situation and asked, "Which building is the Walnut Cake Shop?"
"It's East No. 1." Park Ji-hyun said.
Chuhe crossed the square and walked along the edge of East Building 1. Whether it was East Building No. 1 or several other buildings within his sight, most of the storefronts were covered with boards. From the signboards on the doors, it could be roughly seen that less than half of the shops that were open for business were less than half of the rented storefronts. Most of them were commercial enterprises under the name of the Senate. There were very few clerks in the open shops, and they were not very enthusiastic. Even soliciting business seemed weak.
And there are almost one-third of the first-floor shops in the whole world that are not rented out.
It seems that business in this big world is really not going well, and the plague has really hit hard.
After walking past a few houses, my eyes suddenly lit up. It turned out that this one was very impressive. The sign was not just a front door, but extended all the way to the second floor. The entire front door sign, from appearance, color matching to form, was all created by Chuhe in the old time and space. Small and medium-sized supermarkets in tier 18 cities are generally the same.
Looking at it, it doesn't look like a shop opened by a local aboriginal. Chu He knew that local merchants did not have the habit of making such fancy door openings. Most of them were just simple signboards with a cover. The signboards are usually very simple, and the competition is nothing more than the name of the person who inscribed the plaque.
This kind of fancy door looks like a commercial enterprise of the Senate.
He had been away from Lingao and Caijinkou for many years and knew very little about the business system of the Senate. This company in front of him immediately interested him. When I walked over and took a look, I saw the signboard said "Zhongyi Trading Company Guangzhou Branch".
"Zhongyi Trading Company?" This name is familiar to Chu He, because Zhongyi Trading Company has a strong presence in Jeju Island. It not only opens shops and food processing plants, but also does a lot of agricultural promotion in Jeju Island. It can be said that its popularity in Jeju Island is much greater than that in other senatorial areas. When he was the dean of a national school in Jeju Island, he had many dealings with this trading company - students' work-study programs, three meals a day, scholarships, etc.
The most surprising thing about this enterprise is that it is neither run by the agricultural department, nor the commercial or light industry system. Its competent department is actually the Ministry of Science and Technology. Moreover, it was run under the "personal care" of Zhong Lishi, the head of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The "Jong Yi Trading Company" in Jeju Island was started during the business trip when Dr. Chung went to Halla Mountain to survey and selected the observatory site at 126 degrees 30 minutes.
Although the Senate does not like various departments to run "tertiary industries", the actual demand always exceeds the regulations. Zhongyi Trading Company is the result of a compromise between rules and reality.
Since Dr. Zhong built a serious bell and completely wiped out the shame of being the "maker of holes in the Senate's buildings", he made up his mind to build a brand new "new one" on every piece of land under the jurisdiction of the Senate. concept of time”. Spread the timing of "Tiger Head Observatory" to all ruled areas - if possible, it can also be spread to areas without rulers.
Therefore, whenever an area becomes the ruling area of the Senate and the situation is completely stabilized, a bell tower will be built. This bell tower either stands on a military fortress, on a commercial building, or as a local administrative building. Above the institution - in short, every building in the local area that can best highlight the presence of the Senate has such a bell tower. A bell tower signifies the permanent occupation of an area.
On the wall of the central hall of Hutou Observatory hangs a huge world time zone map and zone map, with the locations of all the bell towers densely marked on it. As time goes by, there are more and more bell towers on the map. Of course, by Dr. Zhong’s standards, it was still too little.
As the core of the empire, the senators were responsible for the specific work of their respective departments in the early days. With the expansion of the ruling area and the increasing number of institutions, the role of the elders gradually changed from specific affairs. The topic often discussed during internal gatherings of the elders is: Why do you want to time travel? Which place do you like?
"Why do you want to time travel?" Regarding this question, different elders have different answers. Some people like to lead troops to fight, some people like high-end maids, some people like to be superior to others... It can be said that every senator has his own unique ambition. If it weren't for these, who would be willing to abandon the life in the original plane and come here to take risks?
Zhong Lizhi's idea is very simple, that is, he can "engage in research" without any scruples, no longer restricted by the hell "professional field", and he can do whatever he wants. At the same time, he can also engage in his favorite "rebirth technology research", exploring how much time and how many technology points it will take to rebuild technology - this is actually what he is most interested in.
He usually lives a low-key life and rarely appears in the Senate. He usually stays at home and studies things. After establishing the Hutou Observatory, he rarely comes to Lingao. However, he also had his own thoughts: the Senate was very generous in terms of scientific research funding, but writing a project report to apply for funding was far less comfortable than finding ways to make money on his own. So Dr. Zhong embarked on the road of no return by engaging in the tertiary industry to make money.
Most of the technologies and products of the Ministry of Science and Technology are subject to confidentiality issues, and it is impossible to make a small amount of money from them. Before precision instruments became popular, enclosing plots of land to develop planting was a good choice. Not only can it solve the food ration problem for your subordinates, but you can also make money by selling excess production. So Zhong Lishi applied to the executive committee to approve hundreds of acres of land in Chengmai on the grounds of engaging in "sideline business to improve workers' lives." In addition to growing rations and raising chickens, a large number of peppers are also grown. There is no condiment more popular than cayenne pepper. Soon, Hutou Observatory Farm became a "pepper planting base".
At the beginning, apart from the employees of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the harvested peppers were eaten by themselves, and the excess was sold to the agricultural department. Of course Dr. Zhong was not content with being a grower, so he set up a "Zhongyi Trading Company". "Zhongyi Trading Company" nominally aims to "solve family members' employment" and "activate business". In fact, it soon opened a food factory "Zhongyi Non-staple Food Factory" with the registered trademark "Zhongyi" - meaning "quality" Consistently”.
Relying on his experience in biological purification in the old time and space, Zhong Lishi has done some research on the construction of brewing and food factories. Under his guidance, Zhongyi Noodles produced some popular products. These products mainly include: Australian red sweet chili sauce, Australian red spicy sauce, Australian shallot oil seafood chili sauce, Australian mellow chili sauce and other products.
Australian Red Sweet Chili Sauce is made from seeded red chili peppers, which are dried and ground into very fine chili paste. After natural fermentation, syrup, fish sauce, and concentrated juice are added to make a bright red paste-like chili sauce. This sweet and spicy sauce tastes salty rather than sweet, with a delicious brewed sourness and fruity aroma. It was used in flavored dishes in the original plane.
Australian red spicy sauce is made from chili paste mixed with sesame, peanut and other nut pastes. There is a spicy aroma that can make some ingredients that are too bland full of spicy flavor. There is no oil in this sauce, and it tastes fragrant but not greasy.
Australian red onion oil seafood chili sauce is a muddy seafood-flavored oil chili sauce made from dried shrimp, dried fish, and scallops, added with very fine chili sauce and boiled with scallion oil. This sauce has some characteristics of the original version of Shacha sauce, Korean hot sauce, and oil hot sauce, and is very popular.
Australian hot sauce is a black, relatively thin hot sauce. This sauce tastes like garlic chili sauce, sour and spicy. The ingredients are ground so finely that they can be brushed evenly on various foods like paint.
The chili sauce of "Zhongyi Non-staple Food Factory" is particularly popular and is always in short supply. In addition to these chili sauces, "Zhongyi Non-staple Food Factory" also provides sauerkraut to the northern elders. With these industrial supports, the Ministry of Science and Technology is living a pretty good life.
For these products, Mo Xiao'an often litigated with him, because in the light industry department's view, Dr. Zhong's behavior was a typical "excessive profit". The lawsuit went to the Senate, and the final settlement was that Dr. Zhong would provide the formulas and processes of related foods he developed to the light industry department. After fulfilling this obligation, "Zhongyi Trading Company" could produce and sell these products on its own.
Chu He didn't patronize this trading company when he was in Jeju Island. The conditions on Jeju Island were far inferior to those in Lingao. Although as a veteran, he had no shortage of meat and vegetables, the skill of the cooks was really mediocre. The cooking skills of his secretaries were honest. It's not that good to say the least, but the rich condiments and pickled products in the trading company saved his appetite.
Unexpectedly, Dr. Zhong also opened a store in Guangzhou. Chuhe thought.
He originally wanted to just walk over, but he didn't expect Park Ji-hyun to be unable to walk as soon as he saw this trading company. For the people of Jeju Island, Zhongyi Trading Company is not only a store or restaurant, but also represents a symbol of their lives. For the first time of many, when I saw this familiar signboard, I couldn't help but feel homesick.
"Chief... should we go in and take a look to see what side dishes we can buy..."
Seeing the eager eyes of his guard, Chu He could only nod his head: "Okay, let's go in and take a look."
The two of them strolled in. The layout of Zhongyi Trading Company was basically the same. The first floor was the sales department, which sold various foods produced by Zhong-style non-staple foods. The second floor was the catering department, which sold various products "invented" by Dr. Zhong. Snack fast food.
As soon as he walked in, a clerk came up to greet him. Chu He said, "Just taking a look, there is no need to greet us specifically."
Although he was dressed in ordinary clothes, as soon as he spoke pure "Newspeak", the clerk immediately understood that he was a veteran.
"Yes, Chief, take your time and take your time. Call me if you need anything." The clerk responded immediately.
Zhongyi Trading Company adopts a very fashionable open-shelf sales style, but the inside is more like the food wholesale department in the small commodity market of the old time and space than a supermarket.
