The mushrooms on the ground next to them were more precious. Because they were afraid of being crushed, they were placed on the top of the backpack and covered with banana leaves and carried into the city.
Occupy the stall, spread the leaves, and place the top mushrooms on the leaves. These are basically more "noble" mushrooms such as chicken fir, matsutake, tiger paw, chanterelles, and morels. .
There is still a lot left next to the basket, placed in a less conspicuous position. Those are slightly inferior mushrooms such as porcini, jimhouqing, and green-headed mushrooms.
This is a big world of mushrooms. There are at least twenty or thirty kinds of mushrooms, many of which I can’t even name.
As soon as Matsui Zuo and Jin Chun arrived at the intersection, they were already completely stunned, with their mouths open and unable to close.
The mushrooms in front of any of the folks with simple clothes and dark bare feet would cost a lot of money in Tokyo prices!
However, these things are placed here, like cabbage and radish, for anyone to choose from.
"Elbow..." Matsui Zuo swallowed and tugged at Zhou Zhi's sleeve: "That matsutake is so thick..."
"It's thick and doesn't taste good." Zhou Zhi thought in his heart Silently rolling his eyes: "We are going to choose the one that is neither big nor small, and has not been unearthed for a long time."
"Really? Let's eat this for lunch today?"
After talking about this, Zhou Zhi remembered that the current way of eating matsutake in the autonomous prefecture may be different from the conventional way of eating that was popular in later generations, so he asked Li Yutang: "How do you eat matsutake in the prefecture?"
"Just wagyu. It's the same as liver mushrooms, stir-fried. "Li Yutang said: "Or stew chicken soup, what's wrong?"
"I'll ask the hotel to prepare a brazier for barbecue later, and prepare some mustard. , Qionghai Hotel has pepper and salt shakers, right?”
“I’ll take care of it.” Li Yutang’s secretary said with a hint, “Let them prepare it.”
He Dayong said. I don’t like mushrooms very much. This person is the owner of the Jiachuan Water Company canteen who enjoys eating meatballs and Saturday Mother’s kimchi. However, this scene surprised him: "Why so many?!"
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"This is only collected from towns within a two-hour drive of the autonomous region." Zhou Zhi said: "If special transport vehicles are equipped in the future, this amount will be at least five or six times more."
"But not all All mushrooms are suitable for making mushroom sauce. The flavor of wild mushrooms is great, but the real flavor needs to be dried.” The thoughtful foodie attributes began to show. Lai: "So if you want to make mushroom sauce, you need to use half of the dry products and ordinary fresh products to achieve both texture and taste."
"The advantage of doing this is that it can also reduce the inventory pressure in the cold storage."
“That makes sense.”
“Elbow, how long does it take for the matsutake here to be transported to Tokyo?”
"The problem with mushrooms is aging during transportation." Li Yutang seems to have done his homework: "The current mainstream preservation methods include sodium metabisulfite preservation, kinetin preservation and long-term preservation."
“Of the three delayers, the cheapest The first is sodium metabisulfite, which has a longer storage time, followed by kinetin. The longest retarder can store mushrooms at room temperature for eight days. "Eight days is too long," Zhou Zhi directly vetoed the proposal: “And various residues may exceed standards, making it difficult to To gain access to the Japanese and Korean markets. "
"Whether it is cold food or a retardant, its core function is to slow down breathing and reduce oxidation," Zhou Zhi said: "We contacted. to the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who recommended the adoption of The latest vacuum preservation technology "
" is to bag the mushrooms, then remove the air in the bag, and then refrigerate them at a low temperature of 2 to 5 degrees, which can also extend the shelf life of the mushrooms. Eight days to ten days.”
"Our group is very familiar with this technology." He Dayong said happily: "Our aluminum bag pickles use vacuum packaging technology."
"And this is just an insurance measure, real air cargo We have to save time," Zhou Zhi said: "It takes four hours from collection to arrival of matsutake, and then another four hours before entering the starting point of the cold chain, sorting, bagging and sealing, before taking the flight at 3pm. Go to Shudu Airport and divide into two routes at Shudu Airport, one to Hong Kong Island and the other to the capital, and then from the capital to Seoul and Tokyo. "
"If the time adjustment is controlled well, we are sure. In two and a half days, the matsutake mushrooms from Liangshan Prefecture will appear in the farmer's market in Tokyo."
"If the entire cold chain is completed, it will take two and a half days, which is very exciting..." Matsui couldn't help but nod.
“But the cost will also be very high.” Zhou Zhi said with a smile: “It really corresponds to the old saying in Sichuan-the price of tofu becomes the price of meat.”
"I'm not sure about the price in Korea, but the market price of matsutake in Tokyo is about 1,500 yen for one hundred grams."
"One hundred grams? Why such a strange unit?" Li Yutang I was a little confused.
“Because matsutake is sold in island countries, and rich people buy it.” Zhou Zhi said: “Fifteen hundred yen per hundred grams, which is fifteen thousand yen per kilogram, almost seven thousand One pound of Japanese yen, divided by eight, is almost eight "One hundred pounds."
"How much... less?" Just now, no one had any idea about the price of one thousand five hundred yen. Now when Zhou Zhiyi converted it, Li Yutang almost stared. Came out: "Eight hundred and one catties?!"
“You can’t make much money even if you weigh 800 pounds. We need to build a cold storage, equipped with refrigerated trucks, a cold chain workshop, and we need to keep up with the packaging, foam boxes, ice bags, and then several flights, the same in every city You need to build or rent a transit cold storage near the airport. In addition to these troubles, you also have to connect with the other party's market, including advertising and investment..." Zhou Zhi counted the conditions on his fingers and shook his head: "This is a fresh product, and most of it is given to airlines. Company.”
"That's right, the airline route is too long..." Li Yutang also reacted. If it weren't for such a high price, no one would be willing to go through such trouble.
And fresh goods are different from dry goods. Once there is a flaw in any link, they will be worthless after the shelf life.
“It is both an opportunity and a challenge.” Zhou Zhi said: “Governor Li, we must not forget that the ultimate purpose of building this channel is to arrange a way out for the high-value economic flowers and fruits produced in the Anning Valley. It is one of the keys to the upgrade of the Anning Valley's agricultural economy."
"Yes, we have some experience with aviation and railways, but air freight is indeed a shortcoming that must be made up for." Li Yutang! said.
“Fortunately, whether it is cherries or pomegranates, it will take several years to bear fruit, and the output is destined not to increase at the beginning. Matsutake and chicken fir, regardless of their weight, volume, and value, are very suitable as Products in the exploration period. "Zhou Zhi said: "Two years, no more, no less, just right."
Li Yutang knew why Wu Renzhong had grown so much during this period. He was now gradually becoming familiar with Zhou Zhi's style, which was due to his sound thinking.
His thinking is not dot-like or linear, but network-like. He can always discover the correlation between many seemingly independent points and connect them in every possible way, gradually connecting them. As the leader of a state, he admired his ability to condense scattered forces from all aspects into a combined force. (End of this chapter)