After feeding the chickens, Xie Shen went to feed the pigs. Seeing that the pigs were eating happily, he happily put his hands on his hips and shouted, "Sister, I'm going to catch insects tomorrow."
Sweet potatoes are hard to find, but insects are easy to find.
"good."
Xie Yun picked the roots of Rehmannia glutinosa and Polygonatum sibiricum and put them aside, and threw the rest into the pigpen. The leaves and stems of these two plants can be fed to pigs.
Then, she and Xie Shen stood in front of the pigpen and watched the pigs eat inside.
The pig pens in the countryside are not very hygienic. Even though they often clean up the feces and put new soil in the pens, it is still a pig pen after all.
There was a sour smell standing there.
But Xie Yun and Xie Shen didn't react at all. They were very happy just watching the pigs grunting and eating.
Xie Yun looked at his big black pig, but his mind was thinking about the various policy changes regarding pig farming from the 1950s to the 1970s in the world he used to live in.
When the people's communes were first established, private individuals were not allowed to raise pigs. All previously raised pigs and chickens were directly incorporated into the commune collective. Not long after, a great famine struck, accompanied by a sharp decline in the annual number of live pigs slaughtered.
There was no other choice but to relax the control and encourage individual pig farming, giving rewards, purchasing the pigs at a higher price, and giving out prizes.
For example, for every 60-kilogram live pig purchased, a reward of 15 kilograms of feed grain and 30 feet of cloth coupons was given. For every kilogram exceeding the standard, an additional 0.5 kilogram of grain was awarded. This reward policy was implemented in more than 20 provinces across the country, but there was no unified standard for the amount of the reward materials.
Before long, there was a pork surplus, and many places across the country encouraged people to eat "patriotic meat." Even workers were being levied against them: workers had to buy five kilograms, and cadres had to buy fifteen kilograms. They had to buy meat and eat it.
Some workers' family conditions are not very good and they cannot afford the discounted patriotic meat. It doesn't matter, they can buy it on credit and eat the meat first and pay later.
At that time, you didn’t need a ticket to eat meat. Meat was slaughtered and supplied locally at rural fairs, and farmers were encouraged to buy meat.
Later, the rewards for pig farming became less, the problem of pork surplus was solved, and the patriotic meat disappeared.
According to Xie Yun, there is no real surplus, it’s just that people can’t afford it.
Moreover, a popular view during this period was "revolution when poor and reform when rich", and everyone lived a very "ascetic" life.
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