Chapter 1036 The beginning of the second year of Da Ming When
everyone heard the standards proposed by Luo Chong for breeding beef cattle, they also felt that it was very reasonable. Several officials from the Sinong Temple who were present immediately took out paper and pen and began to take notes. After they remembered almost everything, Luo Chong continued to add.
"In the beginning, sheep will be the main livestock, and the scale can be larger. The specific number should be calculated based on the number of 20,000 acres of corn stalks.
"For beef cattle, you don't need to get too many in the early stage. Improve the breed first. Raising one or two hundred is probably enough, and then it will be pigs.
"There must be pigs in this integrated breeding farm, and the number must not be less than 500. This is mainly used for experiments. At that time, your Sinong Temple must cooperate with the Medical College of Xuefu County in Ruyang County to mainly study how to make pork high-yield, grow fast, and improve the sterilization technology of meat quality.
"This technology is led by the medical college, and your Sinong Temple must also send people to participate in the study. After the technology matures, you must organize a group of people to learn this sterilization technology, and then send them to the Animal Husbandry Bureaus of various counties and counties in the Han tribe in the future, so that they can provide livestock sterilization services for local people."
Sterilize pigs?!
Sterilized pigs grow faster? Have more meat? And taste better?!!!
Everyone was confused when they heard this. It was the first time they heard such a statement, and they didn't know who the leader heard it from.
"Chief, this, is it true or not, what is sterilization? And can this sterilized pig really grow fast? "An official from Sinong Temple asked with some disbelief.
"Sterilization means literally that it means to end reproduction. Through a sterilization operation, the pig's genitals are cut off, making it unable to go into estrus. If you have seen pig farming, you should know that pigs are particularly active and excited during the estrus period. They don't eat well and like to make noises. How can they be fattened like this?
"But the sterilized pigs are different. After being sterilized, the pigs lose their fertility and no longer go into estrus. They will become lazier, and they will eat and sleep all day long. They are not active and do nothing. They grow as much as they eat, so they grow faster.
"But this technology is not mature yet. What you have to do at Sinong Temple is to cooperate with the medical school to conduct research. You are responsible for providing the venue and experimental living subjects. The medical school will perform the sterilization operation and ensure that the pigs can survive the operation.
“What you have to do is to wait for the medical school to sterilize the pigs, and then you will be responsible for raising them well, recording and summarizing the feeding methods. You also have to compare the sterilized pigs with the non-sterilized pigs to see the differences between the two, and which one grows faster after eating the same feed. You also have to measure the weight of the pigs regularly.
“You have to create a file for the pigs, such as who its parents are, who its breed is, how many days after birth it was weaned, how many days it was sterilized, how much it eats every day, what it eats, and how much weight it gains. Finally, through a large number of comparisons, you can summarize the optimal feeding plan and make technical reserves for the establishment of large-scale pig farms in the future. "Hearing the official's doubts, Luo Chong immediately explained to him.
This explanation also stunned everyone present. They originally thought that the leader did not know what sterilization was, and maybe he just heard it from someone. As a result, Luo Chong explained it in a set of ways, and even said that he would create files for the pigs, recording when they were weaned and how much they ate every day. This was too incredible.
However, when they thought that the person who said this was Luo Chong, they were relieved again. Who is Luo Chong? Luo Chong is the scientific godfather of the Han tribe. The scientific saying "bold hypothesis, rigorous verification" was proposed by Luo Chong, and Luo Chong's requirements were indeed rigorous. Let alone pigs, even the people of the Han tribe did not have such detailed files.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him with a confused look on their faces, Luo Chong spoke again.
"Have you written it down? Look at what I'm doing. Oh, and the same goes for the breeding of beef cattle. We also need to create a file for each cow, especially the blood relationship of the parents. This is related to the bloodline of the cattle, so that its genetic source can be traced back when it is improved in the future. It is not enough to just be able to hybridize
a new breed, you also have to stabilize this bloodline. "After hybridizing to get the desired breed, you have to let it multiply horizontally several times, and after several generations of gene precipitation, you can completely stabilize a brand new breed so that it will no longer have the phenomenon of inter-generational inheritance and atavism. You must treat this rigorously, treat it as a subject, study it well, and summarize it well. It would be best if you can summarize some theories in the future and write a book with these knowledge."
Luo Chong continued to speak, and the people from Sinong Temple were also taking notes. Although they were still confused, they all felt the leader's attention and expectations for this technology. Of course, these people did not dare to treat it carelessly. They must get things done, otherwise they would not be able to report to the leader.
"Then, Chief, how do you solve the problem of feed for these pigs? What do so many pigs need to eat?" An official from the Sinong Temple asked again after taking notes.
"What do they eat? Don't ask me this, but ask yourself. I've told you all, don't think about profit first, don't think you are raising pigs, but doing experiments, do you understand?
" "What is an experiment? It means classification, comparative analysis. You should build more pig pens and raise various experimental samples in different pens. Feed this one with corn, that one with soybean meal, this one with potato vines, and that one with vegetables. Compare and see what feeds them to grow faster and at a lower cost, and then expand the proportion of that formula and continue to observe.
"So, you have to find the answer yourself, instead of asking me here. If I know everything, what are you doing?" Hearing that someone else asked this kind of question, Luo Chong immediately guided them angrily.
He only knew that the pigs in his previous life had to be castrated. After being sterilized, the pigs grew faster and the meat was not so smelly. In the past, there were people who specialized in this kind of work, called pig castrators. It was said that they were very efficient. It only took two minutes to cut off a sow's ovary and sew it up. Those little boars were even faster to deal with, but Luo Chong had never done this before, so how could he know how to do it?
Anyway, the task was handed down, and it was up to them to do it. Luo Chong, the head of the Han tribe, only needed to supervise them.
After discussing the farm, the farming and breeding of the entire base were almost done. Luo Chong asked the guards to take some photos of tractors and rotary tillers working, and kept them for publicity. Then he took people home. The county governors also said goodbye to Luo Chong and returned to their respective counties.
The tasks of these county governors were also very heavy. Spring was about to begin, and the agricultural counties had to check the county's preparations for spring plowing. Plow cattle, population, seeds, and farm tools, everything that needed to be solved had to be prepared and solved immediately.
Counties and counties in the manufacturing industry should also immediately go back to arrange production tasks for next year. For example, the research institute of Xingang County should immediately start researching harvesters after returning from vacation, and start mass production as soon as possible after finalization, so as to solve the problem of spring corn harvest in the first quarter.
After Luo Chong returned home, he received another battle report sent back by Qubing from the north, which once again reported their achievements during this period.
However, the results achieved by the Shen Ce Guard in the second phase were not great. Qu Bing also asked Luo Chong in the letter whether they would take prisoners when they implemented the third phase of the elimination strategy in the spring of next year. If they did not want prisoners, they could just kill them directly, which would reduce a lot of losses for the Shen Ce Guard.
According to the battle report, their second phase strategy was not well implemented, and there were some changes. It was originally thought that the cannibals would move south on a large scale after being hit hard by the Han tribe in the first phase because of insufficient food
and unable to survive. In this way, the Han tribe could wait for the enemy to tire and find a way to annihilate their living forces during the enemy's movement. However, the facts were beyond expectations. It seemed that the first phase hit the enemy too hard, or the cannibal population had been annihilated for the most part. Those enemies who were supposed to move south had gained more living space in the forest because of the disappearance of their neighbors, solving their survival problems. Therefore, they did not have to move south. The empty villages left after being captured by the Han tribe became their new living space.
It's not that the cannibals haven't had teams heading south in the past month. There were two teams of hundreds of people, all of which were intercepted and captured by Qubing. Perhaps the villages behind them discovered that the Han tribe was blocking them, and they themselves had gained more living space, so there was no need to risk going south.
Of course, it is also possible that the enemy discovered a new passage and went south from other places, but Qubing and Youye could only mobilize a limited number of troops, so they couldn't set up a comprehensive defense, and they didn't find it. This is not impossible.
In short, the results of the second phase of the strategy of the Shen Ce Guards were negligible. The number of prisoners captured by their main force in the river bend was not even as many as the first battalion captured in the salt pond. Although the
salt pond was not a large place, it was of great strategic significance. As long as the enemy could not obtain salt replenishment for a day, then this place was something they could not give up, and they had to continue to grit their teeth and send heads to the salt pond.
Although the cannibals are becoming more and more cautious and cowardly about the issue of the salt pond, no matter how cowardly they are, they continue to send people to the salt pond. Although the number of people has changed from thousands of collective actions to hundreds of echelons and multiple waves of salt mining, and then to 180 people stealing mining, and even sending people with containers to directly rob the brine of the salt pond, they still haven't given up.
The countermeasures of the first battalion are also very simple and crude. Since you have sent fewer people now, the first battalion will not be disgusted. No matter how many enemies come, they will eat them all first. They only have to keep a little bit, so that the enemy cannot take back a grain of salt or a drop of salt water. As long as the enemy cannot replenish salt, the salt pond will become a kind of containment for the cannibals.
Qubing now understands the situation and begins to feel a little bit of salty. A small number of soldiers are left to garrison the river bend position, and then the rest of the militia and the main force all begin to rest, so that the soldiers and civilians who have been busy for half a year can rest for a month to prepare for the final cleanup in the spring of next year.
Qubing also included his third-phase strategy plan in his report to Luo Chong. He thought the operation to eliminate the cannibal tribe was extremely dangerous, even more dangerous than the guerrilla warfare in the past six months, so he was not prepared to commit all his troops.
According to his idea, during the elimination process, only 2,600 people from the Shen Ce Guard would be used as the main force, and another 1,000 elite militiamen would be dispatched as auxiliary troops, mainly as guides, because they were more familiar with the climate and terrain here.
Qubing said he wanted to temporarily reorganize the team. In the action team, the militia would be assigned to the squad level, and each squad would be increased by two or three militiamen, preferably three, from a squad of nine to a squad of twelve. In this way, each squad would still have three combat teams. In this way, each combat team would have a local guide, which would greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.
Moreover, clearing the forest and destroying the cannibal villages did not require too many troops. What they wanted was to exterminate all the enemies, to massacre, not to manage. After conquering a place, there was no need to garrison or maintain public order. The troops never stopped, and they killed wherever they went until all the cannibals were wiped out.
Luo Chong thought about it and felt that there was no problem. According to Qu Bing's report, the number of prisoners of war captured on the northern front, including all the young and strong plus the old, weak, women and children of the cannibals, had exceeded 30,000, which was enough to meet the Han tribe's demand for slaves. Even if there were more slaves, the Han tribe would not need them.
Because these slaves did not speak the language and did not understand technology, they could only be driven to do the hardest, most tiring, and least technical hard labor, even work like paving roads, because the roads built by the Han tribe were becoming more and more advanced, not the dirt roads of the past, slaves were not competent.
And hard labor like digging soil and digging artificial rivers, which could be done with a shovel, would also be withdrawn from these areas with the application of various engineering machinery in the Han tribe.
After much thought, perhaps the only work that can be done by slaves now is heavy physical labor such as moving bricks that does not require skills.
In view of the fact that the number of prisoners of war on the front line has met the needs of the Han tribe, Luo Chong replied and agreed to Qubing's battle plan. In the battle against the enemy in the second year of Daming, no prisoners are needed. The strategic goal is to completely exterminate the cannibal race and the exterminate the giant ape. All other military goals must take precedence over this strategic goal.
In addition, Luo Chong also proposed that during the sweep, the three-light policy should be implemented, that is, kill all, burn all, and bury all.
There is no third choice for all cannibals found, regardless of gender, age or status, except killing and capturing them.
All cannibal houses, altars, production and living tools, and all signs of human activities found must be burned to ashes. Even stone altars must be blown up and completely destroyed to completely wipe out this evil civilization from the world.
As for burying the dead, it means to deal with the corpses of enemies and animals. They need to dig large pits and bury them deep. After the temperature rises in spring, it is necessary to prevent the corpses from decaying and evolving into a plague.
After sending this letter, it was mid-April, and the people from all over the Han tribe began to get busy, preparing for the upcoming spring plowing.
In the mechanized farming experimental field, the tractor fleet was also busy for several days. It took half a month to plow all 20,000 acres of land and complete the preparations before sowing.
In a busy and peaceful atmosphere, the second year of Da Ming quietly began with the melting of ice and snow.
(End of this chapter)
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