Chapter 247: The long string of unit notice boards behind Blue Water Farm is too intimidating!
After the commendation meeting in the field, Su Wenchen walked back to Pingcun Brigade in the dark.
As soon as you enter the village.
"Woof! Woof! Woof!"
As the first dog barked, as if it were a command, all the dogs raised by the members living at the entrance of the village started barking at the same time.
As Ping Village develops better and better, almost every household starts to keep a dog.
There was no way around it, because after the Blue Water Rooster became famous, there were chicken thieves stealing chickens from the homes of the members of their brigade every now and then.
Those who were caught were often beaten half to death before being sent to the county police.
Although there are militiamen in the village at night, they are mainly responsible for guarding the brigade's chicken farm and warehouse.
Because of the frequent thefts, even the stingy members usually keep a dog at home.
Otherwise, given the current shortage of Blue Water Roosters in the market, if one were stolen, the members who raise them would be heartbroken for a long time.
Accompanied by the barking of dogs, a big yellow dog rushed out from a distance.
But when I ran over and smelled Su Wenchen's scent.
The original barking sound turned into a series of coquettish "woof!"
After coming in front of Su Wenchen, his tail swung like a windmill.
The dog's entire body lay directly on the ground, exposing its belly.
Su Wenchen smiled when he saw this.
"Da Huang, I haven't seen you for over a month, and you didn't even recognize me at first."
"You're the only dog in the village I've trained!"
Then he squatted down and scratched the big yellow dog's soft belly.
“Ouch!”
After being stroked twice by Su Wenchen, the big yellow dog immediately made a comfortable sound.
Two militiamen with guns on their backs also ran over from the distance.
After seeing that it was Su Wenchen, one of them immediately spoke up.
"Achen, it turns out to be you."
"I just heard Da Huang's barking, and I thought someone else had entered the village!"
"Is Da Huang looking for you to act like a spoiled child again?"
"It's really strange. You know, I'm the one who feeds it the most usually, and you've only fed it a few times, so how come it's so close to you?"
Su Wenchen smiled and looked at the big yellow dog rolling on the ground.
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“Maybe the food I feed you is better!”
After saying that, he looked at the Su family's yard not far away where the lights were already on.
"Brother Dashan, you guys go ahead and do your work. I'll go back first. I'll leave the village safe for you guys."
"Okay, go back and rest!"
"And you don't know, now almost every family in our brigade has a dog, so there are fewer people stealing chickens."
"After all, dogs are creatures. He can kill one with poison, but he can't kill every dog with poison. Besides, the dogs in our brigade are well fed now, so if we don't spend a lot of money to give them good food, the dogs won't pay any attention to them.
"Especially Dahuang. He ignored the chickens that were given rat poison."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he immediately lowered his head and looked at Dahuang with a smile.
"I didn't realize you're quite smart."
"But, Brother Dashan, this is because we have better conditions now. Otherwise, people wouldn't have enough to eat and dogs would be starving, making it easier for them to be drugged."
"That's right. Two years ago, who would have thought we could earn hundreds of dollars a year now? Back then, saving fifty dollars a year was considered good."
"Achen, this is all thanks to you."
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"Okay, Brother Dashan, stop praising me. I've been away from the brigade chicken farm for a long time."
"It's too late today, I'm leaving first!"
"Okay, let's go somewhere else."
After they separated, Dahuang followed Su Wenchen all the way to his doorstep.
Seeing this, Su Wenchen also spoke directly.
"Okay, don't send me off. I'm on vacation these days, so you can come to my house for dinner."
"I'll give you an extra meal these few days."
After saying that, he touched the other person's dog head.
"Woof woof!"
Then, as if he understood, he looked back every few steps and ran towards the doghouse he had built near the brigade warehouse.
After opening the door, Father Su came out of the main room wearing his clothes.
"Youngest, you're back!"
"Who were you talking to at the door just now?"
After Su Wenchen closed the door, he shook his head.
"It's not a human, it's the big yellow dog in the brigade warehouse."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Su's father nodded.
"It's really quite human-like, but I don't know why it keeps kissing you after you've only fed it a few times."
Su Wenchen smiled. This was naturally because he had fed the fish with breeding feed before.
But he certainly wouldn't say that.
“Maybe I held her more when she was little!”
"Okay, go back to bed!"
"You must be exhausted during this period."
Su Wenchen responded and returned to his room.
After pushing open the door, the light cast a warm yellow glow. Jiang Li was leaning on a rattan chair, knitting a children's sweater. Su Wenchen looked at her slightly bulging belly, which stretched the sweater into a gentle arc.
After seeing Su Wenchen, a smile appeared on his face.
"How's it going? I heard from my sister-in-law that your place is really lively tonight. You even set up a podium in the cafeteria, and some people are performing there!"
"It's really lively, but it's all just the employees doing whatever they want."
Then Su Wenchen tiptoed to Jiang Li's rattan chair and placed his palm on her slightly cool little hand.
"I'm not back yet, just go to sleep first, no need to wait for me!"
Jiang Li smiled and turned her cheek to the side.
"I wasn't waiting for you on purpose. I took a nap after returning from the commune this afternoon, so I'm not feeling sleepy anymore!"
When Su Wenchen heard this, he squatted down and put his ear lightly against Jiang Li's abdomen.
"Why is there no movement?"
"Is he asleep?"
The corners of Jiang Li's mouth curled up slightly, and a gentle look appeared on her face.
"This little guy is probably still the size of a goose egg right now!"
"It'll probably take about five or six months for noticeable movement to occur. My belly is just starting to bulge, so it's still too early!"
Su Wenchen held the other person's slightly cold hand.
"Ali, thank you for your hard work during this period."
Jiang Li shook her head.
"Why is this so hard? Isn't this how everyone gets through this?"
"In our commune, there are still women working in the fields when they are seven or eight months pregnant. I feel very happy now."
"I have a husband who loves and cares for me, attentive and caring parents-in-law, harmonious and friendly sisters-in-law, and I will raise a well-behaved and lovely child in the future."
"Do you think the child will look more like you or me?"
"I still hope to be as smart as you, so that I won't be easily harmed in the future."
"Achen, meeting you makes me feel really happy, very happy!"
Su Wenchen also showed a hint of anticipation when listening to Jiang Li's vision for the future.
Then he picked up Jiang Li by the waist from the rattan chair, and the rattan chair made a light sound as it rubbed against the blue brick floor.
"Ah! What are you doing? Put me down. I can walk by myself."
"No, I want to hold you forever. I said I want to make you happier!"
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The morning light was dim, and rays of light shone through the newly replaced glass windows of Su Wenchen and onto the messy desk in the study.
Su Wenchen was biting the tip of his pen, flipping through the yellowed atlas with a focused expression, and making a mark on a place from time to time.
Kitchen room.
Jiang Li tucked her hanging hair behind her ears, turned around and took the bubbling clay pot off the earthen stove.
After serving it on the table.
The rich aroma of millet porridge mixed with the refreshing scent of freshly pickled crispy radish instantly aroused Su Wenchen's hunger.
After Jiang Li set the table, she also walked into the small study room on the side.
Glancing at the map, I saw the densely packed saline-alkali land areas marked by Su Wenchen.
"Is this the hydrological map of the Yellow River flood area that your farm sent us the day before yesterday? Are the areas marked there all the areas your farm is planning to take over?"
Su Wenchen stood up upon hearing this and stretched.
"I marked it out. This is the area in northern Jiangsu Province. There are also northern Anhui Province and western Shandong Province. These two areas are not marked!"
"If we add all of them together, the current conservative estimate is 30 million mu."
Jiang Li blinked.
"Thirty million acres? How big an area is that?"
Although she had worked in the brigade and the commune for some time, she still had no idea how big 30 million acres was.
She just knew it was very big, but she didn't know exactly how big.
After hearing this, Su Wenchen thought for a moment and unfolded a map.
Let me give you an example from a place you are familiar with!
The approximate area of Beijing City and its surrounding suburbs, as indicated on the map, is a total of 1,200 square kilometers.
That converts to nearly two million acres, so now you probably have a standard!
The saline-alkali lands in the Yellow River floodplain that have not yet been managed are almost as large as fifteen Beijing cities and their surrounding suburbs.
This is the result of twenty years of governance, because before the governance, almost half of Henan Province was affected by the Yellow River flooding area.
However, our country didn’t have many resources in the past, so we could only try our best to manage the vast plain in Henan Province.
As he spoke, Su Wenchen circled the area on the middle right side of the map.
"We can only rely on the efforts of the localities themselves, but without a unified plan and support from above, progress will naturally be much slower."
After saying this, Su Wenchen put down the pen in his hand.
"Now that the higher-ups have found some time, they're planning to address this long-standing issue."
Jiang Li blinked and looked at Su Wenchen in shock.
"Such a large project is entirely handed over to your company?"
Su Wenchen looked at Jiang Li's surprised expression, smiled and scratched her nose.
"What are you thinking about!"
"How could such a thing be handled by a single farm?"
"Building dams, preventing floods, treating alkali, and fixing sand—each of these steps requires a massive amount of manpower and material resources."
"Our farm is only responsible for one or two of the following: alkali treatment and sand fixation. Otherwise, how can we really be allowed to build a dam?"
"Now I just draw a map of the untreated saline-alkali land, then go to the site to visit it and plan the future development plan based on the actual situation."
"After all, we live by the mountains and by the water. Without knowing the actual situation, it is difficult to copy the current situation of our farm."
As they were talking, the two walked to the study in the side room and came to the dining table. Su Wenchen picked up an egg, cracked the shell gently, and spoke as he peeled it.
"It's just that the holiday has just ended, and I have to be away for a while again."
After saying that, he put the peeled boiled eggs into Jiang Li's bowl.
Seeing her husband's heartwarming gesture, Jiang Li clenched her fists.
"I'm busy too!"
"Besides, the commune director will retire at the end of the year, so I have to take over some of his duties ahead of time. I have a lot of things to do right now."
"It's already great that I can spare three days to spend time with you. We can still stay at home together all the time!"
"Even if you're not annoying, I'm annoying too!"
Su Wenchen looked at Jiang Li's insincere expression.
"Okay, okay, thank you Director Jiang for taking the time out of your busy schedule to accompany me."
As he said this, he picked up the steaming millet porridge.
"Then let me use the porridge instead of wine to congratulate our Director Jiang on his promotion."
Watching Su Wenchen's actions, Jiang Li's mouth corners slightly raised, revealing her sharp little fangs.
"Hehe, although I can't match your promotion speed right now, I definitely have more stamina than you."
"Haven't you heard the folk proverb? Being fat at first isn't fat, but being fat later can break the kang."
Su Wenchen immediately smiled and nodded.
"Yes, yes, you are fat at the back, and you can crush the kang if you come up."
After hearing this, Jiang Li immediately pinched Su Wenchen's arm lightly a few times.
"I told you not to talk nonsense. You're the fat one that's crushing the kang!"
The hourglass of time slipped away little by little in the loving tenderness of the two people.
A month later, it was December.
A biting cold wind with a few ice crystals seems to tell the people living on this land that winter has completely arrived.
There were indeed still quite a few people at the entrance of Blue Water Farm.
Almost every winter, purchasing agents from various state-owned units in the city would ride their bicycles to purchase eggs.
Because once winter comes, the number of eggs laid by the free-range hens raised by farmers in the production teams below will be greatly reduced.
This directly led to a significant reduction in the supply of eggs on the market.
If they wanted to wait for the supply and marketing cooperative to take the eggs to the city first, just like in the summer, and then go to the cooperative to purchase them, they probably wouldn't even get a single chicken feather.
So now, almost every winter, many factory buyers on bicycles appear every day, waiting at the gate of Blue Water Farm to purchase eggs.
Because at this time, eggs are basically not available from other places except Blue Water Farm.
A cloud of dust rose in the distance.
Three military jeeps stopped one after another at the gate of Blue Water Farm.
Some buyers standing at the door stretched their necks to look at the jeep.
"Hey, look at the military vehicle!"
"What are you doing here? You can't be buying eggs too!"
"Ah! Isn't that stealing our things? It seems it's not our turn today."
"No way! The army should have a dedicated farm for supply! Didn't Blue Water Farm say that eggs are mainly supplied to units in the Lan City area?"
"After all, these chickens are fed with grain from our Lanshui County."
"Who can say for sure? If other regions come to us to procure eggs, we can still say something, but if this involves the military, that's not necessarily the case."
After the jeep stopped at the gate, Lei Bailiang, wearing cotton shoes and a military cotton coat, got off the car first.
Looking at the gate, it was obviously different from the last time I came.
The first thing that caught his eye was the rows of signs with black letters on a white background hanging on both sides of the door.
Only the top one has a horizontal sign that says "Blue Water Farm". The others are vertical signs hung on both sides of the gate.
Farms directly under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
National Yuehua Rabbit Breeding Base
Experimental Unit for Comprehensive Management of Saline-Alkali Land in the Yellow River Flood Area
Foreign Trade Export and Foreign Exchange Earning Red Flag Unit
Provincial Model Unit for Learning from Dazhai in Agriculture
Lanshi Large-Scale Layer Breeding Demonstration Base
Lei Bailiang was stunned by this long list of notice boards.
Because the last time he came here, if I remember correctly, there was a notice board that said "Large-Scale Egg Chicken Breeding Demonstration Base."
How come it increased so much in the blink of an eye?
This long list of unit notice boards at Blue Water Farm is too intimidating!
After looking around, Lei Bailiang basically knew where they were issued.
He was also aware that the farms directly under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Yuehua Rabbit Breeding Base were both issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
The title of Comprehensive Management Experimental Unit for the Yellow River Flood Area was awarded by the newly established Four Provinces Joint Yellow River Management Committee.
The title of Foreign Exchange Earning Red Flag Unit is awarded by their Ministry of Foreign Trade.
The provincial agricultural learning from Dazhai award was obviously given by the province, and the last one should have been awarded by Lan City.
As the other people in the car got out one after another, they followed Lei Bailiang's gaze and saw it.
Many people were also shocked.
The contempt that some people had in their eyes suddenly subsided a lot.
As soon as the few people got off the car, the security personnel from the message room immediately called the scene to handle the matter.
After a while, Su Wenchen, who received the notice, appeared at the gate.
"Haha! Uncle Lei, why didn't you say hello when you came here?"
"Also gives me time to greet you."
Lei Bailiang coughed lightly a few times.
"Ahem, Uncle Lei, I'm here on behalf of the Foreign Trade Department to check on the progress of your preparations for the final skinning of the Yuehua rabbits."
"The contract we signed was for delivery to start three months later. Now the first batch of deliveries is almost here. The foreign investors have already paid, and they are pushing us very hard."
"Don't let anything unexpected happen to you!"
"Otherwise, this would be a major diplomatic incident. Not only would we have to pay compensation, but we would also have to lose our country's reputation."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he immediately understood.
After all, this was a large order worth nearly 100 million US dollars, and it was the first delivery. The Foreign Trade Department was keeping a closer eye on it, so Su Wenchen was not surprised.
So I just made a false suggestion.
"Okay, Director Lei and everyone else, I'll take you to the rabbit hutch for a look."
"After you finish watching it, we'll talk about other things!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Lei Bailiang nodded slightly.
Although he has a better relationship with Su Wenchen now, a mission is a mission.
As one of the leading cadres of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, he cannot put personal relationships before his tasks.
However, just as Lei Bailiang and his group were about to go in, someone pointed at the buyers at the door and asked curiously.
"Director Su, what are these people doing? Why are they standing at the gate of your field and not leaving?"
When Su Wenchen saw the buyers the man was pointing at, he immediately smiled bitterly.
"These are buyers sent by some small factories in Lan City."
"They all come here to buy eggs. After all, our daily egg production is limited, so many of them come early in the morning to queue up in order to grab eggs."
This left the man stunned.
"buyer?"
"Their state-owned units have to fight over the purchase of eggs!"
When Su Wenchen heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he couldn't help laughing.
Because the other party is a low-level cadre in a ministry, even if he is just a clerk, his material supply may not be very sufficient.
But basically everything they need is there, but it’s different for the small state-owned factories in the lower places.
Local resources are limited, and there are many mouths to feed.
If you really don't fight or compete, you really won't be able to eat a single bite. Don't say that you are suffering. At this time, everything is suffering and there is a shortage of things everywhere.
Unless you are in a key unit, you have to find a way to do it on your own, otherwise you can only blame yourself for being incompetent.
At this time, if you really don't fight for it, you probably won't even be able to drink a sip of soup, and even the bottom of the bowl will be licked clean by others, which means you can only get close enough to smell it.
So Su Wenchen was silent for a moment before speaking slowly.
"Our supplies are still quite tight."
"In the entire Lan City, we are the only large chicken farm, although several counties have started to develop state-owned chicken farms."
"But the technology is still not that mature, especially in terms of winter insulation. They still need a long time."
When Lei Bailiang heard this, he looked at the cadre who followed him with a bit of dissatisfaction.
Especially what the other party said just now, there was an obvious feeling of "why not eat meat porridge".
So just say it directly.
"Xiao Liu, after this mission is over, you will personally go to each of the export factories below to conduct research."
"I want to see a detailed research report by then."
As soon as these words were spoken, the young cadre wilted instantly like an eggplant hit by frost.
I can only ask.
"Leader, we can't survey all the over a hundred export factories!"
Lei Bailiang waved his hand.
"No need. Just survey all 37 food bases."
Later, when the group was on their way to the rabbit house, Lei Bailiang asked with some confusion.
"Xiao Su, doesn't your city of Lan have a large-scale laying hen breeding demonstration base?"
“Why isn’t anyone from other breeding units in the city coming to learn?”
"I see so many people queuing up at the door to buy eggs. There must be a big gap in the egg supply!"
Su Wenchen sighed.
"It's not that there aren't any companies coming to study here. To be honest, we have quite a few companies coming to study here every month."
"We don't actually have a shortage of eggs in summer and autumn. Several counties have now planned laying hen breeding based on our farm."
"But when it comes to raising laying hens in winter, they're not lacking in technology, but also in keeping warm."
"We can produce enough eggs in winter because the chicken houses have high insulation and there is an adequate supply of coal."
"Most of the farms that came to learn this couldn't get good enough insulation. As a result, the insulation was less effective, and they had to increase the supply of coal to keep the chicken coops above 20 degrees Celsius in winter."
"As for coal, Director, you know it's not that easy to get!"
At this time, Su Wenchen was very clear that coal was also a scarce resource. He relied on his relationship with Luo Yan, deputy director of the Municipal Planning Commission, to get a total of 20 tons.
That was when the city was in urgent need of eggs.
Now that Lan City has their large egg-laying farm, Lanshui Farm, it is actually difficult for the city to allocate excess coal to some farms for the construction of insulated chicken farms.
Since the urgency is no longer so high, it will naturally be supplied to other places that need it more first.
(End of this chapter)
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