Chapter 235: Aftermath Of The Agricultural Products Draft Meeting
Xiang Xue, as an outsider, made a huge profit from this impromptu decision by the government departments, and the “First Meeting on the Draft for Agricultural Products Increased Production Ratio Adjustment” as the center of the topic once again made ancient gourmet food, Yue Xiang Restaurant, and other symbols related to ancient cuisine become hot social discussion topics.
Before yesterday’s meeting, ancient cuisine seemed to have been monopolized by Yue Xiang Group, to the point where mentioning ancient gourmet food was equivalent to Yue Xiang Restaurant.
After all, Xiang Chuan’s live stream room has a viewer limit, while Yue Xiang Restaurant, planning to open branches across the Third Fleet Main Ship, has no restriction on customer numbers.
Previously, Yue Xiang Group had submitted applications to reclassify crops like yam and beans as edible crops, causing anxiety among some food processing enterprises. When they learned that the Agriculture Bureau was going to adjust the increased production ratios of the three major industries and the land area used by production escort ships, they all broke out in a cold sweat, fearing they would hear anything related to yam or potato at the meeting.
This would make these other food processing enterprises even more miserable.
Fortunately, at yesterday’s meeting, the managers of the three major industries on the Fourth Production Escort Ship each spoke as representatives for their industries, and their proposed topics did not emphasize these two types of crops, mentioning beans at most in passing. Because the topics they raised were even more shocking: suggestions to improve the edible processing technology for rice, vegetables, and pork.
Rice and vegetables were somewhat expected, after all, Yue Xiang Restaurant and the main ship’s school cafeteria had previously launched noodles, so how to handle the other major staple crop rice became a research issue for the Staple Food Department, not to mention vegetables.
But… pork?
All residents of the Third Fleet, upon seeing Chief Steward An Jing from the Animal Husbandry Department take the stage and mention this term, unanimously doubted if their ears were malfunctioning.
Pork! That’s… pork!
Pork can only be used as the best feed for carnivorous animals in the nature reserve, which is the common cognition of the twelve fleets’ 12 billion residents.
And now, people from the Fourth Production Escort Ship are saying… they suggest improving the edible processing technology for pork? One must know that mentioning “suggestion” at such a meeting often means the speaker or their organization behind them has achieved a foundational breakthrough in that field.
When the three departments showcased video materials on these three agricultural products, everyone finally realized with an “oh—” upon seeing the familiar kitchen control panel and cooking methods on the screen.
Sure enough, it’s ancient cooking technology again; it turns out it was the Information Turbulence Processing Office that helped after all!
The Information Turbulence Processing Office spammed a wave of presence in the bullet comments at the time.
With the impression of the colorful, aromatic, and flavorful ancient gourmet food seen at Yue Xiang Restaurant as a foundation, the viewers were also looking forward to what improvement method the Animal Husbandry Department proposed.
Later, all the male compatriots who heard Chief Steward An Jing’s speech, regardless of age, couldn’t help but feel a pain in their lower bodies.
—This… this is truly an unexpected solution.
This overly impactful “technical processing solution” directly caused all the viewers who watched the live stream at the time to have “castrating the genitals” flashing in their minds, making the improvement plans from the Staple Food Department and Vegetable Crops Department somewhat hard to absorb, so they had to go to the Agriculture Bureau official website afterward to find the dedicated summary text or archived video to review and recall the gist.
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In the Class 8 Classroom.
The Class 8 members naturally watched that live stream in real time yesterday morning, and most of the material used in the live stream was actual operation footage from them in the kitchen or at the pig slaughtering site, allowing them to show off in front of their families.
“To be honest, I’m a bit regretting not signing up for A Bite of China Club back then,” Chou Manman sighed. Her Drama Club currently has no notable achievements, while Xiang Chuan has already used A Bite of China Club to make the whole class gain presence across the entire fleet, which really makes the gap felt.
“This isn’t an issue of signing up or not, don’t forget I had an entry test back then. Man Man, do you think you could have tasted the difference between apple juice and orange juice back then?” Xiang Chuan laughed.
Everyone: …right, there was that during club sign-up.
The Class 8 members who had the same thoughts as Chou Manman dry-laughed twice and said no more.
After all, at that time Yue Xiang Restaurant hadn’t expanded its branches yet, and very few people had tasted the yam and fruit desserts, so wanting to directly identify fruit flavors like the A Bite of China Club trio members now?
Heh, back then fruits weren’t even edible crops; who would have nothing better to do than nibble on fruit from ornamental plants?
So the regret of not joining A Bite of China Club spread in the class for half a minute, then everyone was immediately drawn to other topics.
“By the way, I heard from my dad that white rice will probably officially go on sale at Yue Xiang Restaurant by the end of the month,” Xiang Chuan said, taking another bite of the meat bun.
Hearing this, the class erupted in cheers.
“As expected, we have to rely on Xiang Chuan; if we waited for the Agriculture Bureau to publicly authorize it, who knows when it would come down.”
Nancy fiercely patted Xiang Chuan’s shoulder, nearly making her spit out the bun in her mouth.
“Cough cough… go easy. Mainly, this thing has sufficient stock and simple preparation; the Agriculture Bureau didn’t make things too hard for my dad,” Xiang Chuan said, somewhat regretfully looking toward the school cafeteria direction, “It’s a pity the school cafeteria’s recipe authorization is handled by the Education Bureau, even if our principal pulls strings, it probably won’t fully roll out until after the Agriculture Bureau approves it.”
“Be content; compared to pigs and beans, this time is already very short.”
Recalling pork and soy sauce, the Class 8 crowd fell silent.
Unlike most Third Fleet residents who know nothing about these two things, they have tasted pork dishes and soy sauce products, and no one can forget them; otherwise, they wouldn’t now be staring at the pork bun in Xiang Chuan’s hand with heated gazes.
There are many pigs missing limbs, but pigs with their lifelines cut off are still too few; castrated pigs are rare and hard to come by in the current Third Fleet.
Seeing the somewhat dejected young ones, Xiang Chuan comforted, “Aiya, soy sauce might take more time since you have to grow beans and ferment the soy sauce, but pigs grow fast; you know, even in the 21st century, meat pigs reaching slaughter-ready… i.e., edible standards, takes as little as four months at best, or half a year slower.”
This wasn’t Xiang Chuan making it up; after receiving the message from homeroom teacher Zhu Bingwen last night, she irritably gathered some more data that might be useful for visit summaries, and happened to glimpse info on meat pig slaughter times.
Of course, naturally raised pork has better meat quality, but takes longer, at least three to four quarters. For patient and long-lived modern people, that’s like a blink of an eye, but for Xiang Chuan, whose time concept is still that of a 21st century person, it’s too long.
But she also knew that to make ecologically raised pigs meet market demand, it would take at least two to three years of gradual planning; before that, short-term raised meat pigs satisfying market demand isn’t bad.
Mainly, the pork in this bun is actually excellent quality; in 21st century terms: this pig has pork flavor.
Xiang Chuan couldn’t quite imagine how delicious the meat would be if modern people used their modernized ecological breeding method to raise pigs.
By then, she must buy a few pork legs home to make into ham.
These two chapters have a lot of description on situation changes, mainly to lay groundwork for the next high school phase; after entering June, there will be new developments. Writing campus life is really fun.
