In the Huanghuai Great Plain in April, the wheat fields close to harvest are like a golden sea, and the wheat waves that rise and fall with the wind are the waves of the sea. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This grain-producing area in China since ancient times is still one of the largest grain-producing areas in China.

As a result, when outsiders mention the Central Plains and Anhui Province, their first reaction is that they are important agricultural areas, so that the achievements of the two provinces' vigorous development of industry and animal husbandry in recent years have been submerged in the sea of wheat.

The second Sino-Russian war has been going on for a whole year, but the impact of this war on China seems to exist only in newspaper propaganda, whether it is industry, commerce, or agriculture, it seems that it has no impact at all.

At least those foreigners who eat mixed rice in China, foreigners who do business in China, do not feel the slightest influence.

200,000 troops are fighting on the battlefield, and a war of such a huge scale must be of national concern to Europe and affect the lives of thousands of people, but in China, this war has not even caused China's domestic food prices to fluctuate.

The war situation in the Northeast needs to be supported by the Northeast that has been developed for ten years, and the war situation in the Northwest needs to be supported by the salary territory that has been developed for so many years.

Food, clothing, shoes, medicines, cooking oil, meat, ammunition, and livestock should all be dealt with on the spot.

The traditional Han area is not felt at all.

For many European countries, 200,000 men is much more than their standing army, but for China, for the latter's standing army of one million, it is only a local war.

The northeast and northwest were originally the key defensive areas of the Chinese, and they were garrisoned by heavy troops, but the mobilization of the local military districts alone made the total strength far more than 200,000.

Even the Chinese themselves cannot feel the 'impact' of this war on their lives, and foreigners can feel the Mao.

Chenzhou Prefecture is a subordinate town of Huaining County.

A thriving town, it is the only way for Zhoujiakou and Huaining, the capital of Chenzhou.

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, this town has taken Zhoujiakou as a weather marker, and has been prosperous and declining with the prosperity and decline of Zhoujiakou.

History has changed, and sea transportation is replacing the position of river transportation as the main channel for the transportation of materials from north to south in China, but this is a 'great cause' that takes a long time to complete, and it has not yet been completely 'changed from dynasty to generation'.

The smooth flow of the Jialu River has made Zhoujiakou an important commodity distribution center connecting Jianghuai in the south and Shanxi in the north. In the past 200 years, Zhoujiakou has prospered because of this, and it is still prosperous because of it.

The building near the water got the moon first, and Zhoujiakou moved next to each other, and still lived a small life with his own taste.

The public carriage drove unhurriedly and stopped at the bus stop outside the east gate of the moving entrance. The so-called bus stop is actually a straw shed with five brick houses and a straw hut for cattle, with a large courtyard with a seven-foot-high fence and a hay pile and a well. There is a garage in the courtyard, and there is a large 'door' on the south side of the two rooms at the west end, which can park four cars. Of the remaining three tiled rooms, one was a fine storage room for horses, one was for the various parts and repair tools of the carriage, and three beds were laid out, and the last room was an office, where the watchman lived.

There were six people in the entire bus station, including the stationmaster who supervised the accounting.

"Lao Liu, don't go. Nothing said today will let you go. Liang Guangliang grabbed the arm of Liu Lei, a technician at the town's agriculture and animal husbandry station, and shouted: "It's noon, let's go eat first." If you want to leave, you have to finish your meal before leaving. ”

Liang Guangliang is the stationmaster of the bus station, but he has another identity as a farmer, even if his family's land is covered with alfalfa, and he also finds his comrades-in-arms to raise funds to build a cattle farm, and his family is also a farmer.

Because the three sons are not reading materials, and the youngest son with the highest knowledge has not been admitted to high school, and he is unwilling to let his sons go to work in the factory as soldiers, Liang Guangliang himself came down from the battlefield, and it was the war that made the Liang family, who was poor and white, have such a little family background now, so he is reluctant to let his children suffer.

The sons have no big culture, and they work hard wherever they go.

There is a Huayao company at the port, the output value is not small, and the subordinate ones are machinery manufacturing, iron manufacturing, and leather, and the wages of the workers are not low, but the management is very strict, and they are very hard-working in the factory. The most important thing is that the company's rights structure is simple, in addition to the manager and deputy manager of the three branches, the following is the workshop director and chief engineer in charge of production, the chief engineer does not even have a deputy, and the bottom is the technical backbone, that is, the master you just entered - the leader of the work group, and then the most basic workers. Even if you work in it for ten years, unless the masters above you retire or have an accident, you won't have to move.

Therefore, Liang Guangliang's three sons are all in their own cattle farm, one is in charge of overall work, one manages logistics, and the other goes to various places to run sales.

Don't look at Liang Guangliang holding on to his position as the bus station manager and not letting go, but the cattle farm is the foundation of the Liang family, and the shares in it are the main capital of the Liang family.

For the technicians of the agricultural and animal husbandry station, Liang Guangliang is very stammered on weekdays. Because of the breeding of this thing, it can't be done for a long time without technical support. Although Guangliang's cattle farm has not had a major epidemic, there are many farms across the country, and there are many cases of bankruptcies due to the epidemic, which are not uncommon in newspapers.

Cattle farms need farming stations!

During the New Year's holidays, Liang Guangliang and the shareholder representatives of the cattle farm will prepare a generous gift to reward the agricultural and animal husbandry station.

Of course, all this is within the scope of the law and is the gratitude of the common people to the comrades of the agricultural and animal husbandry station, and it is absolutely not enough to commit the crime of bribery.

Liu Lei was also hungry at this time, so he didn't excuse himself, and walked towards the restaurant outside with Liang Guangliang. He is the deputy director of the agricultural and animal husbandry station, and he is also the first person to major in animal husbandry in the moving agricultural and animal husbandry station.

Liu Lei was not polite to Liang Guangliang, just a light meal. He did Liang Guangliang a great favor, if Liang Guangliang didn't take the initiative to send it to the door with white flowers twenty years ago, that is, Liang Guangliang himself would not be a man.

Liu Lei has just applied for two European breeding cattle from above, Simental cattle native to the Alps in western Switzerland. The main production areas of this cattle are the Simmental Plains and the Saanen Plains, and it is a large and excellent breed of milk, meat and service. In other words, this kind of cattle not only has a high milk production, but also has no worse meat production than specialized beef cattle breeds, and its service performance is also very good, which is simply a perfect cattle breed.

Eight years ago, this kind of cattle was introduced from Europe to China, first raised in Shandong, used to improve China's local cattle, the effect is very obvious, the production performance of the hybrid generation can generally be improved by more than 30%.

The cattle were then introduced on a large scale from Sweden as breeding cattle, and were tested in different breeding farms such as grasslands, mountains, and plains, and the results were generally good.

So that in just a few years, the distribution of Simmental cattle has spread all over the country, in the north in the northeast forest grassland and Horqin grassland, south to the central and southern Nanling Mountains and its mountainous areas, west to the vast grassland of Xinjiang and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other places, it has its figure.

However, as a result, the number of breeding cattle in various regions is limited.

The cabinet can only ensure that the number of breeding cattle in the two breeding bases of Luxi and Nanyang is not too small, and the rest can only be released, and the rain and dew are evenly wet.

It has been four years since the agricultural and animal husbandry station at the port was moved, and only now two breeding cattle have been allocated.

The cattle farm set up by Liang Guangliang is the largest breeding farm in the entire moving town, and it is also one of the few cattle farms -- Zhoujiakou started by relying on the cattle market, and there is a tradition of raising cattle in the local area, and the 'sowing base' of these two breeding cattle is the Liang family's cattle farm.

In addition to the bus station, a short walk to the west is the security room at the east gate of the moving entrance, and there is a policeman standing in the small booth outside the security office, which is Chen Han's policy requirement, and the security room must be manned at all times. It's just that the policeman's demeanor is lazy, the big guys are eating, and he is standing guard here alone, which is really boring.

After passing the security room, you will enter the commercial area of the moving town.

The so-called business district is also said to be like this, and it must not be compared with Huaining and Zhoujiakou, but it is still prosperous compared to the general townships. Department stores, grocery stores, grain and oil stores, garment shops, cloth shops, tobacco and liquor, restaurants, it's time to eat, and they are crowded.

Liu Lei and Liang Guangliang walked one after the other, the ground was concrete, it had been several years, but it looked quite smooth.

There are a wide variety of goods in the storefronts along the street, from farm tools and horse-drawn carts to small needles and threads, from production tools to consumer goods. The supply in the fruit store is not inferior, the south and the west, mangoes, durians, lotus mist, loquats, raisins, jujubes, dried fruits and chestnuts, many things that northerners have not seen have appeared in the stalls. There are also those who buy cooked food, Liang Guangliang propped up two sausages on the stall, cut half a salted duck, and pocketed tofu skin and peanuts.

Liu Lei didn't stop him, he enjoyed his peace of mind. If the two breeding cattle fall into the Liang family's cattle farm, no matter how good or bad the future benefits are, it will give the Liang family a good advertisement.

And the Simmental cattle work really well, and this is all a fact that is visible to the naked eye. The newborn weight of the first generation of cattle in Xiza is 60 catties, and the local cattle are only 45 catties, which is a full third shorter.

The average daily weight gain, the hybrid cattle are 6 months old for one catty and two taels, 18 months old for one catty, and the local cattle are correspondingly eight taels and seven taels less;

At the age of 6 months and 18 months, the weight of hybrid cattle is about 300 catties and 650 catties respectively, while the local cattle are less than 200 catties and 430 catties respectively. That's a huge gap!

-- Chen Han has now officially abolished the original 16 taels system, and changed it to the 10 taels system to which Chen Ming is more adaptable, and the customization of one Hua Jin is not much different from the original weight, it is 600 grams, which is slightly larger.

The two walked forward for a while, and at this time, several private restaurants appeared on both sides of the road, and Liang Guangliang took Liu Lei into a newly opened restaurant. To be honest, the store is not big, there are only seven or eight tables, and it is a meal at this time, and the store is full. But when the shopkeeper saw that Liang Guangliang was coming, he immediately cleaned up a table in the bedroom of the back room.

Because of what, because his beef soup shop with the name of Luoyang is a cow from the Liang family's cattle farm.

"Boss, here are two bowls of beef vermicelli soup, a plate of beef with sauce, and two side dishes." Liang Guangliang shouted. The cooked food he sold on the street had long since been thrown to the boss, and the boss had put it on a plate and served it together.

"When you drink beef broth, you have to put chili peppers. There are plenty of chili peppers in the soup, and the taste is really fascinating. This boss does have a hand in cooking beef soup. ”

Liu Lei is here for the first time, because he went to the Provincial Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau to ask for cattle before, and this shop was just opened during the period when he left the port. After taking a sip, I suddenly feel rich and mellow, self-sticky, and heavy, and the taste is really good. He knows that there is a lot of soup in Luoyang, and the locals often say: "A bowl of Luoyang soup in the early morning is not appropriate for a fairy." ”

"Where's this boss? I don't have a sound accent like Luoyang's. ”

Liang Guangliang laughed, "He's from Luoyang." It's the one who moves. ”

"When I first went to be a soldier, I brought them into the army."

"It's just that this kid didn't become a soldier, he became a firehead. You don't have to learn this hand-made soup from anyone. I've been out of the army for six years. ”

"He was discharged from the army the year before last. originally opened a shop in Kulun, but this battle frightened this kid again. packed up my belongings and ran back with my wife and children......"

Liu Lei's face was weird, he looked back at the busy figure of the shopkeeper, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see the appearance of a soldier. "He's going to be a soldier?"

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In the huge China region, the people who are busy in April and May are not only farmers and herdsmen, but also tide makers on the sea.

After years of operation, the high-end impression of its brand has been deeply engraved in the hearts of countless Chinese people, and the hunting operations in the fishing grounds of the North Pacific Ocean have become active again as the ice floes in the sea melt and the weather warms. In Kamchatka, south of the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands, west off the coast of Japan, and east off North America, whaling ships are setting sail.

On small islands in the North Pacific, the simple whale processing plant re-emitted black smoke and boiled with a foul smell.

On the inner harbour pier of Port Oja, a Chinese-style whaling ship slowly raised its sails and prepared to sail out to sea. This ship is now the most common whaling ship in China, with a tonnage of 500 tons + and four sampans hanging on the outside, which can drift at sea for many years.

The deck of the ship is wide and tidy, and sailors can pull the whales they hunt onto the deck for processing, such as cutting whale fat, skinning, etc. Below deck is a tiny refinery where a steam oil refinery is installed to extract the whale's most valuable part of the oil in the first place. However, due to the small internal space of the cabin, the processing capacity on board is still relatively limited. But if a whale takes only the most valuable part and discards a large amount of whale meat, then such a boat is sufficient.

Such a ship was also loaded with certain items such as fuel, drinking water, whaling equipment, barrels, food, medicine, and self-defense artillery.

Its standard displacement also reached 500 tons, and the full load displacement was almost 700 tons. The crew doesn't need much, the Chinese sailing boat, it doesn't run fast enough, but the maneuvering is convenient enough.

More and more people in China are already using whale oil, and the latter needs to be used for the role of whale skin and bones in addition to lighting lamps, making candles, and acting as a lubricant for machinery. If you hit a sperm whale, you are likely to find ambergris. Elastic baleen was used as plastic at this time, and the popular women's corset corset was made of baleen and was in great demand.

Today, among China's exports to the West, whale baleen has also become a sought-after commodity. This thing is not of great use in China, it can also be used as carving, but almost no Chinese people like it.