There were so many vegetarian dishes on the table, and they didn't eat much braised meat after the meal. The owner gave each of them two packing papers so they could pack up the meat and take it home themselves.

The woman herself has a small appetite; she only ate a little bit of the pound of braised pork, but she was full from the vegetables on the table. She packed everything up to take home for her family. Overall, she was very satisfied with the meal.

After finishing their meal and leaving the restaurant, everyone got into the vehicles and started two tractors, heading towards Dongcun.

Back at the Dongcun pig farm, Dongtao got out of the car and said, "You all go home and rest for a while. Come back to work at 2 PM this afternoon."

After parking the car, Su Wei went to the back berth and lay down to rest. Dong Qing had originally planned to arrange a meeting between her and Chen Hong after returning from this trip, but he was too busy to pay attention to her and had probably forgotten about the blind date.

Li Yuzhu jumped off the tractor and saw Dong Daming standing in the yard waiting. She walked towards him.

Li Yuzhu walked up to Dong Daming and told him about the construction projects needed for the pig farm.

Dong Daming did a rough calculation and said, "We'll need about eight hundred bricks. I'll calculate the timber and asbestos tiles for you later. This afternoon, we'll haul in a few truckloads of lime and stone powder."

Li Yuzhu said, "Okay, I'll haul away limestone powder this afternoon. The construction projects in the city will be temporarily suspended. I'll bring people here tomorrow to build warehouses and pigsties."

Both the city and his hometown were Dong Qing's own jobs, so Dong Daming naturally had no objections. Besides, wages were calculated on a daily basis, so it didn't matter where he worked. Here, the pig farm kept track of his work hours.

In this day and age, nobody wants the bluestone powder from the quarry. You don't need to pay for it; as long as you have a truck, you can haul it away.

After arriving at work in the afternoon, Li Yuzhu went into the office, placed the account book and invoices she had bought while having lunch in the city on her desk, gave cashier Dong Chunmei 10,000 yuan, and accountant Dong Xiu opened the account book to enter the money.

Li Yuzhu said, "I had my second sister buy a safe and have it delivered this afternoon. From now on, we'll put the money in the safe. Our pig farm has just been established, and many things are still incomplete. You'll need to buy your own office supplies."

Dongxiu said, "Okay!"

There is a small steel mill that is idle in the village. Dongtao took it to the pig farm last year when he was raising pigs, and it has been sitting here ever since.

After Dongqing bought the pig farm, he started using it. Some feeds needed to be processed on a small steel mill, such as corn and soybean cake, which needed to be ground into coarse feed on the mill.

Dongtao notified the village electrician to connect the power to the small steel mill. In the afternoon, he sent one male worker and five female workers to move all the soybean cakes stored in Dongqing's old house to the pig farm and use the small steel mill to feed the pigs.

The old-fashioned soybean oil cakes were as big as cartwheels and were pressed very hard when frying. Such large soybean oil cakes needed to be smashed with a hammer, so five female workers were assigned to smash the soybean cakes while one male worker pulled pig feed on a small steel mill.

Dongtao assigned ten people to Li Yuzhu, each carrying a shovel, to go to the stone quarry to load stone powder on a tractor. Li Yuzhu also assigned five people to go to the lime factory to load lime.

Actually, the stone quarry and the lime quarry are both in the same place, in Fenggou Village, Qingshishan.

Dongqing and Donghui arrived at the meat processing plant at noon. Donghui first took him to the canteen for lunch.

After finishing his meal, Dong Hui went into his office and asked the relevant department to send him a contract. He took the contract and handed it to Dong Qing.

Dong Qing took the contract and read it through. The contract was very reasonable, stating that all finished pigs would be purchased at market prices.

The regulations regarding the sale of live pigs to meat processing plants include feed subsidies. The subsidy is not a fixed amount per pig, but rather a subsidy based on the full price of each pig.

The contract has five clauses.

First;

A subsidy of 10% of the total amount will be provided for each 1,000 pigs sold to a meat processing plant within one year.

For example, if a pig costs 200 yuan, then the pig farm should receive a 20 yuan feed subsidy, which would be reasonable.

If the subsidy is based on each pig, for example, 20 yuan per pig, what is the ratio between a 100-jin and a 200-jin pig? If calculated this way, the meat processing plant would suffer huge losses. Subsidizing based on the total value of the live pigs is the most reasonable approach.

second;

A subsidy of 15% is provided for each pig slaughtered annually (2,000 pigs). All pigs are purchased at the prevailing market price.

Purchasing at market price is reasonable. If the market price rises, the meat processing plant will follow suit; if it falls, the price will also fall.

third;

For every adult pig sold to a meat processing plant, the pig farm receives a 50% subsidy for the piglets.

This contract from the meat processing plant clearly encourages pig farms to raise more pigs, which fully illustrates that the shortage of finished pigs for meat processing plants was particularly large at that time.

Fourth; regardless of size, all piglets purchased will receive a subsidy of 30 jin (15 catties) per piglet, based on the market price of the piglets.

Fifth; the meat processing plant will send a technician to reside permanently at the pig farm to provide guidance, and a veterinarian to reside permanently at the pig farm to treat the pigs. All medicines and medical equipment will be supplied free of charge by the meat processing plant, and the wages of the two people will be paid by the pig farm.

The contract states that (1) if the contract for 1,000 adult pigs is not completed within one year, the meat processing plant will be exempt from paying all subsidies.

(2) If the contract for 2,000 pigs is not completed, the meat processing plant will provide subsidies based on the contract for 1,000 pigs.

The last two clauses clearly state that if the contract for 1,000 pigs is not completed, no subsidies will be paid; if the contract for 2,000 pigs is not completed, the subsidy will be based on the contract for 1,000 pigs.

After Dong Qing finished reading the contract, he casually placed it on the table. Dong Hui asked, "You've read the contract too. How many pigs are you planning to sign?"

Dong Qing said, "If we're going to do it, let's do it on a big scale. I'll sign a contract for 2,000 pigs."

Dongqing eventually signed a contract to supply the meat processing plant with 2,000 pigs annually.

Both parties signed the contract, which was made in triplicate. Dongqing kept one copy, and the other two copies were kept by two departments of the meat processing plant.

After signing the contract, Donghui stood up and said, "Let's go. This afternoon I'll take you to the pig farm to have a look and finalize the purchase of piglets."

After listening, Dong Qing nodded, stood up, and walked out of the office with Dong Hui.

In the afternoon, Dong Hui and other leaders from the meat processing plant accompanied Dong Qing to visit several pig farms, where they observed the pig farming practices. They also placed orders for 2,600 piglets at the farms, exceeding the contract by 600 piglets.

If you sign a contract for 2,000 pigs, you must buy more than 2,000 piglets. It's impossible for a pig to not get sick and die; no one can avoid that.

Selling a few hundred more pigs to meat processing plants at the end of the year is possible, but if it falls short of the contract, the losses will be huge. The contract seems simple but it's not. If you're short even one finished pig, it won't work. Otherwise, what's the point of signing a contract?

Most importantly, the newly established pig farm needs to keep several hundred boars and sows so that it can breed and raise its own pigs before the end of the year, saving money on buying piglets next year.

Even if the meat processing plant breeds and raises its own piglets, it still receives a subsidy for piglets because the subsidy is calculated based on the future finished pigs sold to the meat processing plant. There is a subsidy for one piglet for every finished pig sold to the meat processing plant.

Whether it's piglets or finished pigs sold to meat processing plants, all subsidies are based on the finished pigs and are also based on the market price at the time.