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The main body of production in Nandu Factory is naturally the production building. The production building is diagonally opposite the factory office building, not far away. It has seven floors in total. The first floor is the raw material warehouse and the finished product transit warehouse, and the second to sixth floors are five workshops. , the seventh floor is the staff locker room.Walking around on the first floor, first looked at the operation of the raw materials in and out and the finished product transit warehouse, and listened to Wang Feng's explanation.After watching for a while, Song Yuanchao nodded noncommittally, then walked up the stairs to the first workshop on the second floor.As soon as they reached the second floor, the deafening mechanical sound filled the surroundings, and at the same time, they felt a rush of heat. "Workshop No. 50 is the toffee workshop, which is also the earliest workshop in our factory. This workshop existed when Nandu Factory was first established in the 16s. Now it is the workshop with the largest output value and the largest number of staff among the six workshops in the whole factory, including the branch factory." Wang Feng said. He introduced to Song Yuanchao in a low voice, Song Yuanchao nodded, and together with Wang Feng, he turned left from the stairs and went to the workshop office first. When he arrived at the workshop office, the workshop director Yang Yongjian, who was drinking tea, was taken aback when he saw Wang Feng walking in with Song Yuanchao. stood up. "Director Song, why are you here?" "Hi Director Yang, I just came here today. Let's take a walk around and get acquainted with our factory." Song Yuanchao smiled and shook hands with Director Yang, and at the same time Notice the sweat on his face that he hasn't had time to wipe off. "Hehe, I just worked in the workshop. If you came a little earlier, you would have to find me on the assembly line." Yang Yongjian said cheerfully. "You, the chief workshop director, are still going to work in the workshop?" Song Yuanchao asked slightly surprised. "Of course." Yang Yongjian nodded with a smile, picked up a cigarette from the table and handed Song Yuanchao one, and handed another one to Wang Feng behind him.Song Yuanchao took the cigarette and glanced around. Before he could ask anything, Yang Yongjian explained with a smile: "Smoking is prohibited in the workshop, but smoking is still allowed in the workshop office and the staff lounge. You also know that non-smokers But there are not many people. There are hundreds of people in my workshop, and half of them are men who smoke. The room can be smoked." "This regulation is good. It not only takes care of the actual situation, but also ensures the safety and sanitation of production. How about implementing it now?" The situation of lottery in other places still exists, but we usually catch it strictly, so it’s fine if we don’t see it, and if we find out, we will directly deduct half a month’s bonus.” Yang Yongjian said.Song Yuanchao nodded, seeing Yang Yongjian handing it over with a fire, he quickly tilted his head slightly to light the cigarette, and thanked him at the same time. "I was born in the front line of the workshop. I entered the factory at the age of 35. I am 19 this year. I have worked in the factory for [-] years in a blink of an eye." Smoking a cigarette, Yang Yongjian said with a smile: "From the initial apprentice to the later full-time employee, Then to the team leader, the shift leader, the deputy director of the workshop, and the current director.” “Although I have become a cadre, my personality is like this. I love to run to the workshop, and when I run, I want to do some work on the assembly line, hehe, I am not afraid of your jokes, my wife often says that I am a hard worker, not an official." Yang Yongjian said mockingly, a three-year-old in the office The ten-year-old lesbian secretly covered her mouth and laughed, Song Yuanchao also smiled, and at the same time glanced at the lesbian. "I forgot to introduce you, I blame me." Yang Yongjian said hastily: "This lesbian is Xiaoyu, the statistician of our workshop. The monthly payroll is also her job, and this old Wang knows." "Yes, Xiaoyu is responsible for the production of the workshop payroll and the payment of wages. She will send the payroll to the labor and management department every month. On the day of payroll, she will go to the finance department Keba

The wages of everyone in the workshop are collected together and distributed here, and the work of other workshop statisticians is basically the same. "Old Wang hastily echoed from the side." Hello, Director Song. Xiaoyu greeted Song Yuanchao generously, and Song Yuanchao said hello to her very politely, but because the other party was a lesbian, Song Yuanchao did not shake hands with her. "Our workshop has the largest output and the most people in the factory. In the workshop, apart from me and Xiao Yu, there are branch secretary Lao Kang and deputy director Lao Cao in the workshop office. You met Lao Kang at the meeting this morning. He is now in the machine repair room. As for Lao Cao, he is on the middle shift today. , it will take a while to arrive. ""There are also two supervisors on duty. Their work follows the working hours of the workshop section. The technicians work in the machine repair room. I will show you there later. "Yang Yongjian is a veteran of the first workshop. He has worked in the factory for 19 years. In these 19 years, except for a few years in the third workshop as the deputy director of the workshop, the rest of the time is in the first workshop. For the first workshop Listening to Yang Yongjian's introduction to the first workshop, Song Yuanchao slowly got a whole image in his heart. After chatting for a while, after a cigarette was finished, Yang Yongjian got up and said to take Song Yuanchao to the workshop. Song Yuanchao He readily agreed, and followed Yang Yongjian straight into the workshop. The first workshop is a workshop for the production of toffee. Nandu Food Factory is a comprehensive food factory. There are three main products produced, one is candy, the other is pastry, and the other is It’s drinks. Speaking of candy, especially toffee, the most famous in the whole country is the big white rabbit in Shanghai. The reputation of the big white rabbit is particularly loud, and it can be said that everyone knows it. Nandu Factory also produces toffee Nandu's toffee is learned from Shanghai's Big White Rabbit, and the brand it uses is called Nandu. Although it is limited to formula and craftsmanship, the taste is not as good as Shanghai's Big White Rabbit, but it is quite famous in the local area, especially near Huizhou. Except for a few In addition to toffee, there are also Jinling’s more distinctive brown candies, fruit candies, nougat, etc. Among these candies, nougat is limited to the seasonal supply of raw materials, product shelf life, and weather effects. There is only a production schedule of four to five months, and other candies constitute the main candy product structure of Nandu Factory. As for pastries, in addition to some traditional pastries, Nandu Factory will also produce seasonal pastries, such as moon cakes, Chongyang cakes, and rice cakes. .In addition to the main factory, there is also a branch factory. The first branch factory produces beverages. This branch factory was originally a small beverage factory. However, salt soda is usually only produced in summer, and orange soda is produced all year round, but the sales are only so-so. As soon as you enter the real workshop, the heat wave will blow in. The candy workshop is divided into two sections, one is the front section The other is the rear section. The front section is full of gay men, and there are no female comrades at all. The main reason is that the production environment in the front section is harsh and requires a lot of physical work. These jobs can only be done by gay men. The first part of the front section is the steam cooking process. The boiler outputs high-temperature steam, and then the prepared syrup is boiled at high temperature through the pipeline. This part has high humidity and heat, and the boiled syrup usually needs to be above 135 degrees. Depending on the candy production process, the temperature will vary. If it is nougat, the temperature will reach about 155 degrees, which is much higher than boiling water. The boiled syrup will be poured in by workers Put it in an iron bucket, then carry the iron bucket and pour it into a special mixer for about 40 minutes of rapid stirring. This stirring principle is somewhat similar to the foaming of egg whites, thus slowly turning the watery brown syrup into a semi-solid The appearance of white toffee. Although the principle of this large mixer is similar to that of later generations of household mixers, it is much larger. Each mixer weighs more than 2 tons, and the body is all made of thick cast iron.

Made, fixed and installed directly on the concrete floor.In the second procedure, there were nearly 150 such mixers, divided into four rows, and a special guide rail was laid on the ground between the two rows, and a steel trolley was placed on the guide rail. Rough master operation.There is a huge stainless steel container on the mixer. This container is similar to a large pot, with a diameter of more than one meter. It can hold about 40 kilograms of syrup. The thick steel blades collide with the stainless steel container, coupled with the heavy weight and fast speed, although the container is fixed on the machine, it still cannot avoid loosening and collision at the fixing point, resulting in a violent rattling sound.After the mixer has been stirring at high speed for about 100 minutes, the syrup inside begins to turn into a semi-solidified toffee initial shape. At this time, switch to a low gear and reduce the speed, and add a certain amount of additives and milk powder at the same time.When it comes out of the oven, such a bulky thing can't be resisted even by a master with amazing strength, and the temperature inside is so high that it is easy to burn.So the guide rails on the ground in the middle come in handy. The master will turn off the machine first, then remove the container directly from the machine, then firmly grasp one of the ear handles of the container with both hands, and use the instep to support the bottom of the side of the container. Then twist the waist in one direction like a shot putter, and use the strength of the waist and shoulders to directly throw the entire container in one direction.When the container is thrown out, the hand holding the ear handle must be half off, relying on rich experience to control the container to draw a graceful arc in the air, so as to accurately fall to a hollow steel bar placed on the ground guide rail. circle the car.After the container falls down steadily and stops on the small car with hollow steel rings, the master will push the car forward, and after arriving at the stainless steel cooling table in front, hold two stainless steel plates in his hands, including his bare arms Dip it in the starch jar on the side, and start digging out the semi-solid toffee in the container with both hands.Digging requires high skill, which is usually developed through long-term practice.You must know that although the temperature of the semi-finished toffee is lower than that of the syrup, it still exceeds 1.2 degrees. The starch on your hands is used to prevent burns, but if the action is not in place or the action is not completed within the safe time, then Burns are simply unavoidable.Song Yuanchao saw with his own eyes that a master dug out a pot of toffee from the container with two steel plates in just three strokes, and it was clean.Actually speaking, three strokes is too much. According to Yang Yongjian, the last stroke is already cleaning up the residue in the container. Skilled masters call this kind of two-and-a-half, which means that two strokes are required to basically finish the digging. The last half is cleanup, which is a real veteran.After the semi-finished toffee is dug out, a master wraps the hot toffee ball with his hands and moves it from the back of the cooling table to the front, and then another master manually pulls and cools the toffee.This kind of operation reminded Song Yuanchao of the craft of making ramen. It looks a bit similar. After the master operates on the cooling table for ten minutes, and feels that the cooling is similar to that of pulling candy based on experience, the whole piece has become solid but still It was still a large piece of soft toffee moved to the stretching machine beside it.As the name suggests, the stretching machine is to gradually stretch the large pieces of toffee that has not been completely solidified and cooled into long strips under the action of the machine. The diameter of this long strip is finally the diameter of ordinary toffee.After the strip is finished, it passes through the cutting machine, and the rotating blades of the machine cut the long strips of toffee about [-] meters long into real toffee lengths, and then enter the post-work section through the conveyor belt.Compared with the former section, the latter section is full of lesbians. These lesbians sit in front of the packaging machine. The packaging machine is connected to the reciprocating conveyor belt. The unpackaged toffee sent by the conveyor belt can fall into the packaging machine through the operation of the baffle. of the container, then the wrapper does not

It runs continuously, "swallows" rolls of sugar wrappers and unwrapped naked candy, and "spits" the finished product from the other end.When the finished product came out, the female worker who operated the packaging machine used a stainless steel shovel of a specified length to shovel out the toffee from the finished product outlet of the machine, and placed it neatly in the carton box that had been prepared earlier.When a carton is full, the female worker will put the full carton aside, and then take a new carton to continue the work just now.There are at least 30 packaging machines in the packaging link of the post-work section, which are divided into four columns like the mixing section of the previous section.During the period, several workers pushed the trolley back and forth to each packaging machine, and transported the packaged cartons to the back position with the trolley.As for the last position of weighing and packaging, the cartons sent from the packaging machine will be weighed, and a few pieces of toffee can be removed from the carton or added to the carton according to the requirements, so as to make each box The weight of the package fits perfectly.After completing these, the carton will go through the wax sealing process. The so-called wax sealing process is to wrap the carton with wax paper, and finally dip the melted wax water with a pad pen to smear and seal it like glue.Complete the wax seal, and finally it is boxed.Put six cartons of toffee in a large carton, each carton is 2 kg, and the whole box is 12 kg. After filling and sealing the carton, put it on the wooden warehouse board beside it. After 40 boxes, there are naturally special transporters who use hydraulic trucks to pull out these finished products, temporarily stack them in the small warehouse behind the workshop, and transfer them to the cost transfer warehouse on the first floor for registration every once in a while. Warehousing, and finally sent to the factory's finished product warehouse for storage.Song Yuanchao had never been in contact with these before, and he was very interested in watching them all the way. Yang Yongjian accompanied him and explained the craftsmanship and characteristics of each process.