Chapter 268 Comrade, your imagination is even better than mine! (Silver Alliance 4th update)
Hearing Su Wenchen's words, the other party frowned.
"Isn't it too early for you to consider this now?"
"After all, you should have just bred them. Shouldn't your top priority be ensuring the population size of these white pigs?"
“If we feed wheat bran and straw directly at this time, what if something unexpected happens?”
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"In our area, if the breed doesn't have the ability to tolerate roughage, then based on the current situation, there's no need to promote it for the time being."
"Currently, most of our pigs are raised by production teams under the people's communes, and coarse grain corn is the main daily ration for the members."
"If pigs have to compete with humans for limited food, then promoting them will be extremely difficult. Even if they can be slaughtered early, it will be exchanging rural food for pork."
"Rural areas are already suffering. If we forcefully promote pig breeds that compete with humans for food, we will undoubtedly increase the burden on rural areas."
"So at the beginning of breeding, our goal was to breed a pig breed that could tolerate roughage, grow fast, have a low disease rate, and be highly adaptable."
Many researchers at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences were stunned by what they heard.
Isn’t it that your farm breeds pig breeds by making wishes?
Dare to set such a goal right from the start.
It needs to be fed with roughage, grow fast, have strong adaptability, and have strong disease resistance?
This is not a wish, who would dare to think like this from the beginning!
Didn’t everyone come little by little?
Shouldn't it be that one plus one equals two, and after a certain progress, adding one equals three, and finally adding one after stability to equal four?
How come you can just add two and two equals four?
It's not like you can just crossbreed a fast-growing pig with a pig that can tolerate roughage and produce a pig that is both fast-growing and tolerant of roughage.
Because two genius parents may not necessarily give birth to a genius. In most cases, they will give birth to ordinary people, or even a fool. Of course, there is a very small probability that they will give birth to a more genius offspring.
So when faced with Su Wenchen's words, they didn't know what to say.
Something that is theoretically unlikely was accomplished in one step.
After hesitating for a while, a leader of the Animal Husbandry Research Institute under the Academy of Agricultural Sciences finally spoke.
"So you've now developed a breed of pig that not only grows fast, but can also tolerate roughage and has strong adaptability?"
Su Wenchen thought about it and shook his head.
"Theoretically, the white pigs we bred this time only have a certain ability to tolerate roughage."
"If we really talk about tolerance to roughage, it's definitely not as good as our local black pig breed."
"However, there is no problem with using wheat bran and straw as the main feed, but it is best to mix it with some digestion-promoting feed such as alfalfa or pumpkin as a supplementary feed, otherwise it will easily cause problems such as constipation."
"Because at the same time, we also raised a group of black pigs of the same age. They also ate only wheat bran and straw at the beginning, and they showed no signs of gastrointestinal discomfort at all."
"It turns out that our local pig breeds are superior in terms of adaptability and tolerance to roughage."
"These are all recorded in our farm's daily records, which detail the daily conditions of each numbered pig!"
When the people from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences heard this, they were completely speechless.
Being able to eat roughage is already great news. What’s the matter? You, Blue Water Farm, want to breed a pig breed that surpasses the local black pig in the ability to tolerate roughage, and reach the pinnacle in one step!
Then why don’t you breed pigs that can grow meat just by drinking water!
Even going a step further, we can directly breed pigs that can grow meat through photorespiration.
So the people from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences paused for a moment and put down the information in their hands.
He turned and said to the old man.
"Leader, I think this meeting is no longer necessary."
The old man frowned and said directly.
"What do you mean? True is true, false is false. What do you mean there's no need to proceed?"
"For so many years, your Animal Husbandry Research Institute has been conducting research with the support of the state, and now you can't even verify the pig breed?"
Hearing this, the other party hurried to explain.
"Leader, this isn't a matter of skill at all. In our opinion, Blue Water Farm's cultivation method is pure luck."
"Let me make an analogy that may not be quite right. It's like our two units are both cultivating smart and strong future generations for the country."
"Our method is to first select the two best groups of people in the city, and then let these best people get married and have offspring."
"Then find the best offspring, marry them together and select the best, slowly cultivate them generation by generation, and eventually cultivate the smartest and strongest ones."
"Blue Water Farm simply finds the smartest and the strongest, and then they can produce a child that inherits the best qualities of both parents."
"That's right. I'm not saying it's impossible, because in our country, including at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, many talented people have ordinary parents."
"But the probability is really low, so I don't think we need to sit in the meeting room to confirm it."
"Leader, I would like to request that we lead a team and send people directly to Blue Water Farm for on-site verification."
"Because according to Director Su, after the third round of breeding, all of them have become new varieties with stable inheritance."
"This means that the stability rate of its genetic traits has exceeded 90 percent."
"There must be more than one pig weighing over 120 kilograms at Blue Water Farm at just 100 days old, so I think it's better to verify it on the spot than to speculate."
"After all, our Academy of Agricultural Sciences can definitely tell the difference between a pig that weighs over 100 kilograms at 100 days old and a pig that weighs over 100 kilograms at 200 days old."
Then he looked at Su Wenchen.
"Director Su, what do you think?"
Su Wenchen smiled directly.
"I agree with the words of the animal husbandry leader. Nothing is more convincing than on-site inspection."
"To be honest, if it weren't for the difficulty in raising live pigs, I would have even considered bringing one here as a New Year's gift."
Hearing this, looking at Su Wenchen who was still confident, the old man immediately pointed at Su Wenchen and laughed.
"If it's confirmed to be okay, then your farm has truly given the country a great New Year's gift!"
After hearing the old man's words, the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry also laughed.
"Indeed, if it is true, as Director Su said, that it can tolerate roughage, grow fast, and has strong adaptability, then it does have the conditions for direct promotion."
"Our country's meat supply needs to be significantly improved."
Since Su Wenchen confidently invited researchers from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to conduct on-site inspections, most people felt that the Blue Water Farm was absolutely certain to be successful this time.
Moreover, as an organization that has bred high-quality breeds such as the Yuehua Rabbit, many of the people present have had confidence in Blue Water Farm from the very beginning.
After all, most people don’t know how to hybridize and breed localized pigs.
Naturally, I don’t know how difficult it would be for Su Wenchen and his farm to accomplish this.
Lu Anguo, the leader of the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau who is in charge of farms across the country, also spoke at this time.
"As the superior department of the Ministry's Blue Water Farm, I didn't speak up until now because I was afraid that if I did, someone would say that our Reclamation Bureau was deliberately favoring one of its subordinate farms."
"I've been afraid to speak up about whatever concerns you have at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Now that you've finished speaking, I'll say a few words from my heart that I've been holding back."
"When Blue Water Farm bred the Moonlight Rabbit, your rabbit breeding team initially said it was impossible. But when they saw the real thing, they said it was just luck."
"But Blue Water Farm was a small farm in the city at the time, so I think it's normal for you to be surprised, because I was even more surprised than you were."
"Now that Blue Water Farm has developed these fast-growing pigs that can tolerate roughage, you're still saying it's impossible and depends on luck."
"To be honest, I, Old Lu, don't know anything about cross-breeding pigs, but I do understand a very simple truth: if you rely on it once, it's luck; if you rely on it twice, it's also luck."
"And judging by Xiao Su and his team's third generation of white pigs, they're already over a hundred days old. That means they started breeding pigs shortly after they established the farm."
"This shows that they have been working hard with an idea and a goal in mind. Otherwise, they wouldn't have waited until the third generation of pigs had grown up before releasing them."
"If it were an ordinary person, when Yuehua Rabbit became famous, they would probably have been unable to resist spreading the word and asking the Ministry for all kinds of support."
"Blue Water Farm didn't reveal the news until the third generation had confirmed it, and they even completed various trials such as roughage tolerance. I think your animal husbandry department should learn from their experience."
When Lu Anguo said this, many researchers felt a little anxious.
Many people are even wondering at this time whether others have really mastered some new cultivation method!
Is it just that I don’t have the ability enough and I don’t see the trick at all?
Thinking of this,
Several researchers' eyes flashed, and the records that were originally placed on the table and no one paid attention to were instantly gathered together and picked up by a researcher with quick eyes and hands.
When the others saw this, they immediately rushed towards that person.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! This is for everyone to see, what are you doing in your own arms?"
"Go away and let me study it first. I just looked at the general information recorded. If I find any new directions, I'll tell you."
"Why should you go first? Can't I go first? Director, please take care of Old Liu!"
"The information is in my hands now."
After hearing the look of his researcher, the leader who led the team spoke directly.
"Everyone, just be quiet. We'll have plenty of time to study when we get back."
Then he said to Su Wenchen.
"Director Su, could you give us a copy of this information?"
Su Wenchen glanced at the old man and saw that he had no objection, so he spoke directly.
"There's no problem on our farm. This is just a breeding record. It only records some information about the sire and dam lines we selected at the time, as well as some growth data of subsequent hybrid offspring."
"Actually, there's no such thing as breeding technology. And, leader, you're not wrong. Our breeding method at Blue Water Farm is a bit more intuitive. We first select the best sire and dam lines from both sides, and then crossbreed them based on our intuition."
"So, what you said is actually correct, leader. To some extent, we rely a lot on luck."
After hearing what Su Wenchen said, the other party seemed to understand something and immediately clapped his hands.
"I see, so that's how it is. That makes sense."
Upon hearing this, his researchers were all confused. No, leader, what do you understand now?
Didn’t Director Su just say that it depends on luck?
This is essentially no different from their breeding of pig breeds from all over the country using the exhaustive method!
It's just that people choose the correct answer right away.
Even Su Wenchen looked confused, because what he said was all nonsense. He was successful because he had a golden finger, not just luck. But this guy actually figured it out on his own, so what was going on in his mind?
The leader looked at his subordinate's puzzled expression and explained directly.
"Director Su's method is more scientific than ours. We directly collect pig breeds from all over the country and try to breed them repeatedly using the exhaustive method."
“If we try all the pig breeds, the time and cost will be very high.”
"But they rely on intuition, so it's normal for them to be faster than us."
"It's like everyone is counting from one to a hundred and finding the correct answer of fifty, but someone just draws fifty directly and gets the correct answer directly."
"We've been drawing from the first row one by one. By the time we get to fifty, we can get the answer, but it will definitely take a lot of time."
Hearing this, the men scratched their heads.
"Boss, does it make any difference? Isn't it just a matter of luck? What if the correct number is two?"
The other party immediately looked like you don’t understand.
"That's why I say they're amazing. If the correct number is two, then they'll probably just rely on their intuition and pick two."
"It's like on the battlefield, many veterans will often instinctively lower their heads or dodge. Often they know why they do so, but it is this intuition, like foreseeing danger, that can often save their lives."
"If you really ask them why they ducked their heads, they basically can't explain it."
"Of course, this is just a metaphor. For us, it doesn't matter if our intuition doesn't work. We're just eliminating a wrong answer anyway, so the cost is actually much smaller."
"But once this intuition, that flash of inspiration, is triggered, it can often save a lot of time and manpower and yield unexpected benefits."
After the leader finished speaking, the younger researchers nodded thoughtfully.
Su Wenchen was completely dumbfounded.
No, buddy, you really have a good imagination!
You can even help me find other things to use to make logical arguments and convince others, which he had never expected.
Your imagination is more accurate than my own!
I can't even find such a perfect excuse to hide my golden finger.
Finally you thought of it for me.
This is my great benefactor!
From now on, he will have an excuse to breed even more incredible livestock.
Don’t ask about technology anymore. If you ask, it’s just intuition, a flash of inspiration.
As for your question about why he has so many intuitions and they occur so frequently, Su Wenchen can only say that he is a genius!
Isn’t it normal to be more intuitive?
Otherwise how could he be a genius!
(End of this chapter)
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