Chapter 581: Forage Processing Plants and Feed Bases
Immediately after the meeting of the managing directors, the members of the Board of Directors were convened to discuss the aftermath of the war. And the most important thing is the extremely serious work of receiving immigrants this year.
In fact, some committee members also have a lot of complaints about the company's acceptance of so many Mongolians, but in the vast grasslands of the north, relying on migrants of Han people to reclaim the desert and the frontier is nonsense. If you want to control the steppe, you can't do it without the Mongols, only they are the masters of the steppe.
Therefore, transforming these Mongolian herders and making them one mind with the Far East has become the primary task of the Far East at present. The first batch of Mongolian herdsmen who were reformed are currently in good condition, and in the first phase of the northward plan, the main cavalry brigade and the Mongolian militia brigade were well received by the Military Commission.
After the meeting of the board of directors, the departments of the Far Eastern Company began to run wildly.
The War Department, the Navy Department, the Political Department, and the Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission have all withdrawn a large number of personnel, and even the Air Force, which has the smallest number of personnel, has withdrawn more than 10 personnel, and a large number of backbone members of the Mongolian militia companies have also gone south. Various departments of the Nationalities Affairs Committee, grass-roots brigades, detachment departments, musket militia companies, and other departments have also withdrawn a large number of employees. These officers and soldiers and company employees rushed to the resettlement team in Shenyang to accept the work arrangement.
Hu Wei led the immigration working group, and the plan had already been formulated, and a large number of employees of the company were assigned to various departments and immediately entered the working state. The jobs mainly include the grassroots cadres of the squadron brigade in the migrant camp, as well as the service support personnel of various departments of the migrant working group.
The Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission and the Storage Center of the People's Republic of China have also opened their war readiness warehouses and material reserve warehouses one after another, and countless materials have been transported to the resettlement camps in various places through railways, highways, and waterways. After several years of accumulation, the Far East Logistics Strategic Reserve System is very sufficient.
This is all frightened by the last food shortage, so in recent years, Far Eastern companies have been desperately accumulating family funds. Grain, cloth, cotton, leather goods, and all kinds of dry goods and other materials are piled up in strategic reserve warehouses in various places. These supplies are enough to keep the Far East afloat for a year in the face of extreme disasters with no harvest. But this time, the company is facing a severe situation, and it can't care so much.
At the same time, the Luzon Management Committee, the Nanyang Management Committee, as well as Zheng Zhilong on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Xiang on the Guangdong coast, and Song Shiping on the Jiangsu and Zhejiang coasts, all took action. A large number of food and other supplies. loaded a sailboat and sailed to Liaodong.
The Far East is like a huge machine, once it is in operation, it suddenly bursts out with amazing energy. It took less than a month to alleviate the critical shape shì. The work of the Migration Working Group is gradually on the right track, and the dire situation has stabilized.
Two months later, Song Tao led the westward detachment back to Liaodong, bringing with him a large number of prisoners, most of whom were old and weak, women and children, as well as herds of cattle, sheep and horses, and wooden wheeled carriages full of booty.
The Chahar Ministry is really rich. The loot is abundant, and the quality is much better than that of the Nen Korqin Department, and the central ten thousand households are really not blowing. Song Tao brought back so many prisoners, but fortunately, the Far East Company had just carried out a large-scale mobilization, and both materials and personnel were currently very full. If it weren't for the fact that he had faced so many captives, Hu Wei would have died of sorrow when he saw it.
The grasslands on the north bank of the Liao River are now full of fine pastures. Mowing is done 3-4 times a year, during the summer months. A large number of Mongolian herders are harvesting pasture here. Wagons loaded with grass are sent to grass processing plants and feed bases on the banks of the river. Processed hay bales, straw cakes, grass meals, grass pellets and other hay are piled up, and rows of warehouses are also filled with bags of refined feed.
Tens of thousands of Mongolian herdsmen get up early and work here every day, and these poor herdsmen have relied on the weather for thousands of years to eat, driving cattle and sheep to chase the abundant pastures for grazing. Whenever they encounter a white plague, they can only watch their cattle and sheep starve to death.
But when they're here. It suddenly subverted their previous concepts. Originally, the grass could still be planted, and the grass here has a well-developed root system, lush growth, tall body, solid stalks, and very good quality. When have these hard-working herdsmen seen such high-quality pasture, they don't need to mobilize at all when it comes to mowing. These Mongolian herdsmen worked hard as if they were crazy, and they were excited like children.
Herdsmen who have been herding on the grasslands all year round have seen batches of forage grass sent into forage processing plants, quickly processed into hay in straw sheds through drying equipment, and then stacked in open storage yards after processing by bundling equipment. Haygrass processed by drying equipment has little effect on the nutrient content and digestibility of the grass because the water evaporates quickly.
Many first-time herders bow down as if they were crazy when they see the mountains of bundled hay in the open storage yard. Only herders who have been nomadic in the grasslands all year round know what these processed pastures mean. Every time they chase the pastures and sleep on the grasslands, they hope to encounter such abundant pastures. Every winter, they need a lot of hay.
They prayed countless times for the Immortal Heaven to give them abundant pasture, but the grassland they saw here was better than the most abundant pasture they prayed for the Immortal Heaven to give the grassland herdsmen, how could they not go crazy.
In addition to hay feed, the forage processing plant also processes large quantities of silage, which is cut off from the air, producing organic acids that are durable and reduce nutrient loss. Green fodder is timely silage, and its nutrient content is generally only about 10%. After lactic acid fermentation, the texture is soft, with a sweet and sour fragrance, and most livestock like to eat.
Silage can not only be used all year round, less affected by natural disasters, but also have a shelf life of 3-4 years. Since the feed is fermented, the parasites and their eggs are killed, which can reduce the occurrence of endoparasitic diseases. Some weed seeds also lose their ability to germinate due to fermentation, reducing the chance of weeds being spread by livestock manure.
The feed base produces bags of refined feed every day, and there are professional and technical personnel of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry carefully allocated the feed, as long as it is used for the cavalry units of the Far Eastern Army, each generation of refined feed. In the first phase of the battle of the northbound plan, hundreds of thousands of bags of refined feed for the war horses alone were consumed, and the two-year production inventory was almost exhausted.
As large numbers of cattle, sheep and horses migrated to pastures near river banks in the Far East, a large number of herders finally had a place to use. They take turns receiving half-day training each day, and spend the rest of their time taking care of cattle, sheep and horses, or harvesting pasture, working in the hay processing plant and feed base. (To be continued......)