Chapter 279 Everything is ready, but new problems are discovered
"I don't know about that. With the aquaculture booming now, maybe some people are doing this?"
Lin Heng's question did not receive a definite answer from Director Zhang.
However, Lin Heng actually knew the answer, which was definitely no, because the construction focus of Taibai City at this stage was the textile industry, handicraft workshops, etc.
The main focus is on developing the textile industry and investing in various mechanical and electrical factories. In addition, it supports small handicraft workshops, and there is almost no investment in breeding and planting.
But in fact, the environment here is very suitable for the development of planting and breeding industries, and later it did transform in this direction.
He does have an advantage in this area now, and can be one of the first to try it out. But because of the different cities and development directions, he doesn't get much support.
Just like this Fisheries Research Institute, it only sets up this department and doesn’t take care of anything else.
"Then may I ask about all our feed production equipment?" Lin Heng asked again.
"We only have one medium-sized pellet machine here," said Director Zhang.
Although the man didn't say it, Lin Heng actually understood that since there were not many shrimps raised, the pellet machine must be idle.
"Then can I rent this pellet machine?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
"Well, we don't have such a rule here." Director Zhang shook his head, obviously thinking it was too troublesome and unwilling to help.
Lin Heng chatted for a few more words, but the other party just said that they would hold a meeting to study it and asked him to wait patiently.
Helpless, Lin Heng had to say goodbye and leave.
After leaving the door, Lin Yue couldn't wait to ask: "Brother, have you reached an agreement?"
Lin Heng shook his head and told him the general content of the conversation.
After listening to this, Lin Yue couldn't help but complain: "This is the same as saying nothing. I haven't accomplished anything since coming here."
"The main thing is to get to know the person. I haven't thought about getting it done right now. Practice makes perfect." Lin Heng said with a smile. He was not in a hurry.
Now that I have gotten to know you, I will be able to learn more during my next private visit.
"Then let's go to Qingshui Town next?" Lin Yue asked again.
"Yes, let's go to Qingshui Town first." Lin Heng got in the car and nodded.
Soon they arrived at Qingshui County. As they entered the town, they could see many canals, ponds, and pits that were obviously dug by themselves.
You can tell at a glance that this is raw material farming, the yield is very low, and the economic benefits are very average.
I randomly found an uncle on the street and handed him a cigarette and asked, "Uncle, do you know where to buy shrimp?"
The uncle took the cigarette and said with a smile: "I have shrimps at home, how many do you want to buy?"
"How do you raise shrimps here?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
"How is it?" The uncle looked surprised and replied, "I just spread some manure every year and feed them some wheat bran and rice bran in the summer. What else can I do?"
"I see. I want to buy some big shrimps. I want the ones that are five centimeters long. I don't want the small ones." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Lin Heng was not surprised by the breeding model here. Without any scientific guidance, the fish were basically raised in the wild.
There is no need to raise seedlings, just rely on natural hatching, and then feed them casually, and then wait for the weather to eat. If the shrimp get sick or die, we don’t know why, and we can’t save them.
The uncle lit up the cigarette with a match and took a deep puff. He smiled and said, "You want to buy some shrimp? They cost two dollars and a half a pound."
"Yes, if you have any at home, I would buy 20 kilograms, without having to distinguish between male and female." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then I'll put the cage in for you today and you can come get it tomorrow?" the uncle said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, went to the pond near his home first to take a look and recognize the entrance to his house.
Then he found three other stores in the town, all charging two dollars and a half per pound. He also had people catch the fish in cages, and would buy from whichever store had better quality the next day.
After finishing, he decided to come back tomorrow to check the quality. It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when he turned back to the city. He found a place to eat and wanted to rest, but found that there was no place at all.
Lin Heng is thinking about whether to buy a house in the city. In this era, houses in the city do not have financial attributes and are very cheap. A house in the center of Taibai City only costs two to three thousand yuan, and a house in a slightly more remote area costs more than one thousand yuan.
The average house price is only a dozen yuan per square meter, but in this era, there are very few individual home buyers. Houses are mostly allocated by units, and the procedures for individual purchases are cumbersome, but it is much simpler for units or groups to buy.
Lin Heng knows which areas of land will be valuable in the future and where demolition will occur. Buying real estate is a very cost-effective investment.
He can only register as an individual business owner now, and he has to wait until after 1987 to register a private enterprise. However, he can use the individual business to buy some factories, which are large in area and can make a lot of money from demolition in the future.
But if you want to buy it, you have to find the right person, otherwise it may be difficult.
Sitting under the shade of the tree, Lin Heng gradually recalled the past. The memories of his previous life flashed through his mind quickly and finally turned into a sigh.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yue, the eldest brother who was watching Bai Heshui nearby, turned his head curiously.
"Nothing, just a casual sigh." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.
He just lamented the terrifying power of the times. Even if he was reborn, he could only go with the flow of history. If he had the slightest thought of going against the current, he would feel bound by a dragnet.
That saying is absolutely true, a speck of dust from the times is like a mountain when it falls on a person.
He felt that he had to go back and think carefully about his future development path and write a plan. Such nonsensical messing around would not work.
Although my memory is much stronger than that of ordinary people now, I still need to sort out the context carefully.
"Well, let's just go with the times and take it slow."
Lin Heng sighed in his heart. In his previous life, he had already accepted the fact that he was mediocre. All he could do was to follow the trend of history.
Thinking of this, he felt the power of those great men who led the nation to rise.
"It's almost time. Let's rent a car and then take our things back." Lin Heng said after looking at his watch.
After saying that, he took the initiative to drive the car because his elder brother had rarely been to the city and didn't know the way.
Lin Heng first went to the silk factory and found out that there was indeed silkworm pupa powder there. They usually grind it into powder and sell it to the feed factory in Ancheng.
At two cents per pound, it is much more expensive than peanut cakes and the like, but this is made of silkworm pupae after all, so the value of the animal protein is not too low.
"What if I buy by tons?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
"It's still the same price, four hundred yuan." The salesperson said with a smile.
"I see. Then I'll buy 500 kilograms first. Is it in stock?" Lin Heng asked.
"It's in stock." The salesperson said with a smile.
"That's fine. You guys load the goods first and I'll call a truck to pick up the goods." Lin Heng nodded.
"No problem, I'll arrange for you to load the goods right away." The salesperson nodded with a smile.
Lin Heng went out and called a large cargo tractor, which came in and pulled 500 kilograms of silkworm pupa powder and paid 100 yuan.
Then Lin Heng went to buy 500 kilograms each of wheat bran, bean cakes, peanut cakes, and rice bran, spending a total of 1,115 yuan.
Finally, I spent another 40 yuan to buy 500 kilograms of bone meal.
After buying all these, the big tractor was almost loaded with things, but it was not finished yet.
Lin Heng bought five more cans of oxygen, and together with the bottles, he spent 25 yuan. These are all pure oxygen, which can be released into the water when the shrimp fry are lacking oxygen to quickly increase the oxygen concentration in the water. He also spent five yuan to buy five sets of oxygen release pipes and gas stone equipment.
"Let's go back." Lin Heng said after buying these things.
His elder brother drove a sidecar in front, and he sat on a big tractor behind.
Accompanied by the roar of the diesel engine, Lin Heng set out on his journey home.
It was 3:30 in the afternoon when we set out from the city. We walked slowly and it was already 5:30 when we got back to the village. It had been raining for a while and the road was not easy to walk on.
The people in the village were already used to seeing tractors, so they knew it was brought by Lin Heng without having to guess. However, even though they knew that, everyone was still curious about what he was pulling.
"This is feed, right? There's so much of it."
"I don't know how much he can make from shrimp farming. This investment is terrifying."
The villagers stood at the edge of the courtyard, watching curiously. They saw the series of things that Lin Heng did and looked forward to the final result.
"Hey, your breeding base is well built!"
Arriving at Red Maple Mountain, the tractor driver exclaimed in surprise.
"Okay, let's drive directly to the warehouse upstairs." Lin Heng said with a slight smile. His elder brother had already opened the door in front.
"Okay." The tractor driver said with a smile and stepped on the accelerator. Accompanied by billowing black smoke, the tractor climbed up the hillside and arrived in front of the warehouse.
"So much feed?" Father Lin, who was standing nearby, asked with a smile.
"I'll need to buy more in the future." Lin Hengtian said as he got out of the car and went to open the warehouse door. Then he said, "The category is written on each bag. Just put them on the shelf according to the category."
"good."
Father Lin and Lin Yue came over to help unload the goods.
Lin Hengze first took down the oxygen cylinder and put it aside.
"Son, what is this?" Lin's mother asked curiously.
"Oxygen cylinder, for shrimps." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"How do I use this?" Lin's mother was puzzled. She didn't even know what oxygen was.
Mother Lin didn't think her mother was annoying. She smiled and patted her: "I'll explain it to you in detail later."
After saying that, he went to move the feed. The price of the feed this time was relatively expensive, but it was difficult to bargain for small-scale purchases, or you had to find the right person.
Next time when I have free time, I will ask someone about it and expand my network.
It took half an hour to move all the bleaching powder and feed into the warehouse and put them on wooden shelves. Then Lin Heng paid the balance of the transportation and sent the tractor away.
After the tractor left, Lin's father asked curiously, "Son, where are the shrimp fry you bought?"
"We'll go down and pull them tomorrow. They're still catching them today." Lin Heng replied.
“I see.”
Father Lin nodded, and then asked about the price of feed. Lin Heng took a sip of water and answered these questions one by one.
After a short rest, Lin Heng and his elder brother walked back together.
The gate to his yard was half-closed, and Lin Heng drove his tricycle straight in. In the yard, Xiaoxia was playing hopscotch with three or four children. When she saw Lin Heng, she ran over excitedly and said, "Dad, I want to ride in the car."
"I'll take you horseback riding after I'm done with my work these few days." Lin Heng hugged her and asked with a smile, "Where's your mother?"
"I want to ride a horse." Xiaoxia clenched her fists excitedly, and then said, "Mom went to the backyard with Teacher Tian Yan."
Lin Heng comforted her with a few words, took off his coat, held it in his hand and went to the backyard.
"Hey, you're back. Did things go well?" Xiulan asked in surprise when she saw Lin Heng, holding a hoe in her hand.
Lin Heng nodded: "It went smoothly. Are you going to dig melon seedlings?"
Tian Yan held a plastic bag in her hand that contained a few watermelon and cantaloupe seedlings. She smiled and said, "My mother wanted some, so she asked me to come over and get two. I hope Boss Lin won't mind."
"There are a lot of seedlings, you can dig two more." Lin Heng waved his hand.
After finding Xiulan, he turned around and went back into the house to change clothes. Actually, there was nothing to do, he just wanted to see what she was doing.
Xiulan washed her hands and went into the house and asked, "Are you hungry? Do you want me to cook for you now?"
"I'll have dinner with you later. I'm not hungry." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.
"Okay then." Xiulan agreed and went out again.
Lin Heng changed his clothes, went out to the backyard, sat down in the gazebo to rest, and stared at the lively little fish in the water.
Xiulan brought Lin Heng a glass of water and turned to leave. She was not the kind of woman who wanted to order her husband around as soon as he came back.
Lin Heng lay on the railing to rest for a while, went to get some feed to feed the koi, and then went to the back mountain for a walk to see the musk deer and the lambs.
As the temperature gets hotter, fruits, vegetables, flowers, plants and trees have all entered their peak growth period, and they look different almost every two days.
Back in the front yard, Xiulan was picking ash vegetables. Lin Heng looked at her and said, "Would you like to go to the city with me tomorrow and buy some summer clothes?"
"No, it's too sunny." Xiulan shook her head.
"It would look better if your skin was tanned." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan looked at him and explained softly, "I really don't want to go. It's too hard to run."
"Okay then." Lin Heng spread his hands and didn't force it. He reached out to help pick the vegetables.
While chatting, Lin Heng and Xiulan talked about what they saw and heard today. Xiulan listened carefully and then talked about her boring daily life.
After picking the vegetables, Xiulan clapped her hands and said, "By the way, please buy me a piece of cloth tomorrow. I plan to make pillows and cushions."
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "Then why don't you just come with me? I don't know which one to buy."
Xiulan was very happy to hear that Lin Heng kept inviting her. She smiled and spread her hands and said, "I want to take Xiaoxia with me. My mother asked me to go pick bamboo shoots with her tomorrow, so I can't go. So just pick the good-looking ones. I believe in your taste."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded helplessly.
Soon it was dark and Xiulan started cooking. Dinner consisted of three dishes and a soup, and the rice was made with steamed buns made from oil residue.
The dishes include fried bacon with pine mushrooms, cold-mixed gray vegetables, spicy and sour shredded potatoes, and fish soup made with yellow croaker.
"Delicious!" Lin Heng nodded repeatedly while eating the steamed buns and dishes. Xiulan's cooking was really to his liking.
Xiulan was very happy and said softly, "I left a few for you to heat up tomorrow morning. If they're not enough, I'll get some."
"Enough, enough, there are still so many dishes." Lin Heng waved his hand.
After finishing the meal, Xiaoxia hugged Lin Heng and said coquettishly: "Dad, I want to listen to Shenhua's story."
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you later." Lin Heng nodded with a smile. He took her to wash up first, and then told her a few mythological stories to coax her to sleep.
"Oh, aren't you tired?" Xiulan said in surprise as she looked at Lin Heng crawling over.
"I'm just mentally tired, but my body is very strong." Lin Heng smiled and stayed close to his wife.
Besides, if you don’t enjoy yourself now, you won’t be able to enjoy yourself for a long time when Xiulan becomes pregnant.
Seeing Lin Heng's face gradually approaching, Xiulan took the initiative to hug her neck, and soon they stripped off each other's last bit of clothes.
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In the blink of an eye, it was already early the next morning. Since there were not as many things to do today as yesterday, Lin Heng was not in a hurry to get up early.
Normally, he got up at eight o'clock and had breakfast. Xiulan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't forget what you want to buy. Also, drive slowly and be careful."
"Don't worry." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
I drove to the road and was about to call my brother when I saw him coming out with two plastic bags.
"Didn't we see a lot of ripe mulberries on the road yesterday? I plan to pick some today." Lin Yue said with a smile. The city has a low altitude and high temperature, so the fruit trees ripen faster.
Mulberry is also called mulberry and mulberry date.
"Let's get in the car." Lin Heng nodded. He also took a bag to pick up some. The mulberry fruits there were much bigger than those in the village.
The mulberries in the village are mostly two centimeters long, and the few trees you see on the road have large mulberries that are three or four centimeters long.
They drove to the city in an hour and twenty minutes, bought the things that Xiulan wanted, and bought some summer clothes for her family, and then bought a can of oxygen, some plastic boxes for shrimp, and large plastic bags.
After buying things, I came to Qingshui Town and first went to the house of the uncle I met yesterday.
"You guys are finally here. I almost thought you weren't coming."
Seeing Lin Heng coming, the uncle hurriedly said.
"Have you caught all the shrimps?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
“The shrimp cages were confiscated and are still in the pond. I’m afraid they’ll die if I bring them back,” the uncle said with a smile.
"Then let's go and take a look." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"good."
The uncle took a scale and two large buckets to his own pond. When he reached the pond, he took off his shoes and pants and went into the water to fish out the shrimp cages.
After a while, five shrimp cages were fished up. Each cage contained nearly five or six pounds of shrimp, which was more than what Lin Heng caught in the wild river.
"Some of these shrimps have already spawned." Lin Yue said while looking at the shrimps in the cage.
"It's warm down there, that's normal." Lin Heng nodded. He looked carefully and found that not all the female shrimps were carrying eggs.
"Are these shrimps of good quality?" The uncle poured the shrimps into the bucket with a smile, and then the three men picked the big ones into another bucket.
After picking out a few, they threw the unwanted ones back. They carried the bucket they had picked home, found a large plastic basin and poured the fish into it. Lin Heng made careful selections, three females and one male.
Lin Heng first carefully looked at the shrimps, and after finding that there were no problems, he continued to select. Normally, you would not be allowed to choose like this when buying shrimps, but Lin Heng bought the shrimps at a high price, so he naturally had the right to choose.
"Okay, let's weigh it." Lin Heng said.
"Don't take the others, there are still many good ones." The uncle said with a smile.
"Just buy this much." Lin Heng shook his head.
"Okay then."
The uncle poured out the shrimps and weighed them with a scale. There were a total of six pounds of shrimps, which was fifteen yuan.
Lin Heng divided the shrimps into six large plastic bags, filled the bags with one-third water and the remaining two-thirds with oxygen, and then tied the bags tightly and sealed them.
After buying from this store, Lin Hengyou went to several other stores and finally bought a total of 15 kilograms of shrimp fry, but this was more than enough.
In addition to buying shrimps, he also bought a thousand silver carp and bighead carp fry, all of which were small fry weighing only one or two pounds. After the purchase, the two of them drove back quickly on their sidecar.
The plan to pick mulberries on the way was cancelled because the sun was too strong at noon and we were afraid that too many shrimp and fish fry would die when we returned. However, this mulberry tree is not far from Huangtan Town, so it will be the same next time we come to pick mulberries.
Lin Heng hurried back to Hongfeng Mountain, opened the door, and quickly came out of the incubation room.
"Mom and Dad, come over and help move the things."
Lin Heng looked at his parents and said quickly.
"Okay, I'm coming." Father and Mother Lin nodded and came over to help move things.
In the hatching pond, Lin Heng had used gauze to separate several grids of two or three square meters. He opened the plastic bags and poured the shrimps and fish into these small grids.
After pouring it out, they start picking out the dead shrimps. As long as it is transported, death is inevitable.
There were about one pound of dead shrimps picked out, but they had all been dead for less than an hour, so they could be taken back and eaten.
"Son, why did you buy so many fish fry?" Mother Lin asked while looking at the fish fry next to her.
"Those are silver carp and bighead carp. They purify the water and can eat the bait that the shrimps can't finish." Lin Heng explained, turned on the small aerator in the pond, and then went out for tea and rest with his parents and eldest brother.
"Now that everything is done, we can just take care of it?" Father Lin asked curiously.
"Yes, that's right." Lin Heng nodded. "The next step is to cultivate shrimp fry and then raise shrimp. The shrimp will be fully grown in September and can be sold."
"May God bless you and everything go smoothly this year." Lin's mother said.
After resting for a while, Lin Heng went into the house again and started sorting the shrimps.
Place the best quality ones in one grid and the others in another.
"Are these many shrimps enough?" Father Lin asked curiously.
Lin Heng explained with a smile: "In fact, these are more than enough for female shrimps. A female shrimp can give birth to three to four thousand small shrimps. Generally, one mu of pond only has 50,000 to 60,000 shrimps, which means that only two kilograms of female shrimps are more than enough. That's why I picked out the best shrimps."
"One or two kilograms is enough?" Lin's mother was shocked. This amount was too small.
"Yes, there are no natural enemies in our pond, and the survival rate of shrimp is very high. But for safety reasons, I still bought some more. You can't believe everything written in the book." Lin Heng nodded.
If you were to pour the breeding shrimp directly into the pond and let them reproduce freely, you would need a lot of them, hundreds of kilograms per acre of pond.
However, Lin Heng adopts the method of seedling cultivation, which is to first hatch and grow the shrimp seedlings in an indoor hatchery and then release them into the pond. This intensive breeding method has high technical requirements and high returns.
His parents didn’t understand any of this, so they thought it was magical. To Lin Heng, it was all basic knowledge, but he had to say that he had read it in a book.
Through his observations over the past few days, he discovered a not-so-good problem that made him very troubled.
(End of this chapter)
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