1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 216 You know, you are the one I trust the most in the field!

Chapter 216 You know, you are the one I trust the most in this field! (Guaranteed -in-)

After leaving the small hall.

Su Wenchen and Miao Yuan walked around two rows of red brick silos and followed the coal ash path directly to the rabbit house in the north.

Along the way, you can occasionally hear the sound of the crusher crushing various auxiliary materials in the silo.

Hearing the roar of the crusher next to him, Miao Yuan also started to explain to Su Wenchen.

"Director, we originally planned to build the rabbit hutch here. After all, this place is close to the cement road in the middle of the farm, so everything can be easily transported here."

"But there's a buzzing sound all day long in the silo! The old employee who helped us with the daily training of these Rex rabbits said that these Rex rabbits are like most rabbits, not very courageous, and will be scared and alert if there's a little noise, so we had no choice but to move them to the corner."

"Although it is a little troublesome to transport water and materials, it can at least better ensure the health of the female rabbits during pregnancy."

"Otherwise, the female rabbit will be frightened frequently during pregnancy, which is not conducive to childbirth."

It was obvious that Miao Yuan did not want Su Wenchen to think that he moved the rabbit house at random, because the location of the rabbit house was originally chosen by Su Wenchen to be built around the main road.

After all, he only considered the convenience of transporting various materials at that time. As for whether the rabbit was timid or not, he was not so clear.

Listening to Miao Yuan's explanation, Su Wenchen really didn't think that Miao Yuan did anything wrong, because he was not a god and it was impossible for him to be perfect in everything.

So he needs someone to help him find and fill in the gaps.

So Su Wenchen nodded and replied.

"From this perspective, we should indeed move there."

While the two were talking, a worker happened to come over from behind pushing several large buckets of water on a wheelbarrow.

"Director! Miao Ke!"

Su Wenchen turned his head to take a look, then quickly pulled Miao Yuan to the side of the coal ash road and cleared the middle of the road.

When the workers walked over, Su Wenchen stomped his feet, and immediately a little coal dust rose under his feet.

"Lao Miao, it's better to repair this road with cement."

"At the beginning, they were not prepared to use it immediately, so they didn't dig a well. The rabbit house needs water and feed every day, and walking on this coal ash road is too dusty."

"Not only is it difficult for the workers to walk, but the coal dust that is raised and floats into the water is also bad for the rabbits."

Su Wenchen even thought about whether they should build their own water pipeline on the spot.

Because tap water is much more convenient than asking employees to draw water from a well.

However, this thought only stayed in Su Wenchen's mind for a few seconds before disappearing.

Because whether it is purification equipment, building water towers, or a huge water pipe network, the costs are still quite high at this time.

Perhaps after a few years of operation, they will be able to build their own pipelines. But now they do not have the spare capacity to build their own tap water pipelines.

Miao Yuan didn't know that Su Wenchen's mind had instantly turned from road construction to tap water.

So he agreed anyway.

"Okay, Director. There's still some cement left in the warehouse. It should be enough to build a two-meter wide strip."

Then the two of them followed the coal ash path all the way to the newly built rabbit house.

As I walked into the rabbit house, a fishy odor mixed with the smell of grass hit me in the face.

More than twenty wire cages were neatly arranged together. Inside the iron mesh were rex rabbits with blue fur, leisurely nibbling on the grass in the cages.

Seeing this, Su Wenchen walked to a cage and started observing.

The ears of the Rex rabbit in the cage immediately stood up, and its amber eyes looked at the approaching people with great vigilance.

Su Wenchen also discovered that even if rabbits were farmed, they were indeed much more vigilant and timid than chickens and pigs.

Then he grabbed a handful of freshly cut grass from the side and handed it into the cage.

Looking at the fodder handed over, the Rex rabbit in the cage seemed to find that this person was similar to the one who fed it before.

Then he began to nibble leisurely again, and the food was delivered to his mouth.

However, at this time, not only the mother rabbit was eating, but there were also five pink and hairless baby rabbits wriggling under its belly to eat.

After seeing Su Wenchen clapping his hands and standing up.

Miao Yuan pointed at the baby rabbit that was feeding.

"Director, you see these five baby rabbits were born not long ago. This time we have imported a total of 200 adult Rex rabbits."

"One hundred and eighty female rabbits and twenty male rabbits."

"I asked the people who breed them, and if these male rabbits mate naturally, one male rabbit can mate with ten female rabbits."

"If we use artificial assistance, we can mate thirty to fifty female rabbits at a time, but!"

Having said that, Miao Yuan hesitated.

Because at this time, artificial intervention in fertilization was seen in many places as an evil means of capitalism.

Su Wenchen waved his hands. He knew what Miao Yuan meant. With Zheng Xianghong, who was always looking for trouble, promoting artificial insemination now would be asking for trouble.

Although he knew that this was the future development trend, basically large-scale breeding farms would have to rely on human intervention.

But during this period of controversy, when people are still watching, this is not necessary.

So he said it directly.

"Don't think about that for now. What is the average breeding cycle of this rabbit? How long does it take for it to produce a litter on average?"

Su Wenchen still wants to see how many of these Rex rabbits can be bred in a year.

Miao Yuan was also relieved when he heard Su Wenchen's plan.

"According to the farm where we introduced them, the oestrus cycle of this type of Rex rabbit is usually one to two weeks apart, and the gestation period of a female rabbit is usually about one month. They said that if they are bred immediately after giving birth, theoretically they can give birth to ten litters a year, with five to eight baby rabbits in each litter."

"That is, in extreme cases, a female rabbit can give birth to fifty to eighty rabbits a year."

"But in reality it is almost impossible to achieve that condition. Generally speaking, five to eight births a year is the limit."

"So based on the situation of their farms, adding up all the losses, it is normal for a breeding rabbit to produce 20 to 40 per year."

Su Wenchen was also a little surprised when he heard this.

These rabbits are really fertile. Taking all the accidents into account, they can give birth to twenty to forty offspring a year. Just taking a middle value, these one hundred and eighty female rabbits alone can give birth to more than five thousand offspring in a year.

Then Miao Yuan continued.

"By the way, they also said that if we are willing, they can introduce us to a local state-owned leather tanning factory. As long as the fur is complete and qualified, they will buy it at ten yuan per piece, but they need us to deliver the skin to them."

"Director, I didn't expect that the fur of this Rex rabbit is so expensive. Do you think we should sign a purchase contract with them?"

Although both companies are state-owned enterprises, except for those with special approval, general state-owned enterprises also have procurement contracts before.

Miao Yuan was very satisfied with this price.

What's more, the other party doesn't want the rabbit meat. The rabbit meat can be sold for some money later. Even if it is not sold, it can be left for the employees of my unit to eat, which is also very cost-effective.

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"No, we can just sell it to the leather factory in our own commune at the same price."

At this price, Su Wenchen would naturally not sell it to any other place.

He actually started the fur rabbit industry with the intention of promoting Jiang Li, and their farm was within the scope of other people's commune.

No matter from which aspect, priority will be given to supplying their local factories.

However, Miao Yuan was a little confused.

"Director, is there a leather factory in our area? How come I don't know about it?"

Apparently he had been concentrating on the rabbit house during this period and had no idea of the news from the commune.

However, even in normal times, they would not pay special attention to the information of the commune.

After all, they are two lines, and there is not much communication between the two sides.

Su Wenchen nodded.

"After the commune learned that we had introduced this breed of rabbit, they asked the deputy director of the commune to set up a workshop to tan leather. We are also planning to promote it to the families in the brigades below. Each family can raise a litter of rabbits. This can not only improve the conditions of the members, but also increase some income for the commune."

After hearing what Su Wenchen said, Miao Yuan also understood.

After all, although he didn't pay much attention to the commune, he was still aware that the director's lover was the deputy director of the commune.

Obviously, it is very likely that this was the idea given by the director!
But he would definitely not ask about such things. Besides, it was a public matter, so he had nothing to worry about.

While the two of them were talking here.

Su Wenchen watched the female rabbit he had fed at the beginning gradually eat the food, and he also saw the full picture of its attributes.

【Rex Rabbit LV0】

Current status: Eating

You can choose to breed in the following directions: increase the number of reproduction, increase the growth rate of offspring, and improve the offspring's disease resistance and tolerance to roughage.

You can choose to cultivate the fur in the direction of fur: improve the purity of fur color, increase the skin area, and improve adaptability and disease resistance.

Introduction: This rabbit breed is a domesticated subspecies of the French rabbit. It has short and dense fur that is soft and shiny. It has the advantages of fast growth, low feed requirements, strong adaptability, and good fur quality.

After reading the two training directions.

Su Wenchen took another look at the formula for breeding leather rabbits. It only contained two common medicinal materials, angelica and astragalus. The rest were young grass, soybean meal, straw, and various auxiliary materials mixed in certain proportions.

Since it only needed to be fed once, Su Wenchen clapped his hands and led Miao Yuan out of the rabbit house.

"By the way, Lao Miao, who is in charge of feeding and mixing the ingredients in the rabbit house here? Where are they?"

Hearing Su Wenchen ask this, Miao Yuan scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly.

"Director, Xiao Miao is in charge of the feed group. Didn't I ask him to go with me at the beginning? He went there to learn for a few days and he seems to like feeding rabbits."

"I asked him to join the breeding group here to feed the rabbits."

"But the rabbit house is different from the chicken house. They have to go to the river to cut the rabbit grass every day, so they are probably cutting rabbit grass together on the river bank at this time."

When Su Wenchen heard this, he looked at Miao Yuan in surprise.

I didn’t expect Miao Yuan to transfer his son to the feed group in the rabbit house?
Since he didn't know, it was most likely that Han Yang helped him, because Han Yang was in charge of daily personnel management during his visit to Shanghai.

However, the life in the rabbit house at this stage is much more difficult than that in the chicken coop. As someone who has been cutting grass for pigs for several years, Su Wenchen has a deep understanding of this.

When he first arrived at the team, he tried to cut only one basket of grass, but his arms were sore from cutting. However, the amount of rabbit grass cut by the breeding group behind the rabbit house every day was definitely a small amount.

At least before the grass from the Yellow River flood area was delivered, this was not an easy job, so he didn't expect Miao Yuan to be so cruel.

But he also roughly knew what Miao Yuan was thinking.

Because the original management of the chicken coop were all promoted by Su Wenchen from those employees with outstanding performance.

Now the staff there is basically complete.

Miao Yuan's son has been working in the logistics department, basically a small employee who moves things and runs errands. He has a long way to go before he can move up. Now he has been transferred to the rabbit house.

According to Su Wenchen's promotion habits, as long as the rabbit house expands in size, the management will basically quickly promote some of the people who worked at the beginning.

If Miao Yuan's son performs really well, Su Wenchen will really give him priority.

Because the situation is different now than before. In the past, he had Secretary Li standing behind him and didn't have to worry about anyone challenging his authority.

Now the former Secretary Li seems to have been promoted.

But he was so far away from me that I didn't even get to see him for the last time because he was in Shanghai at the time.

So at this time, Su Wenchen had to unite some forces that could be united.

After all, although he is still the top leader, Zheng Xianghong now has the new Secretary Zhou standing behind him. If anyone can find something wrong with him, he will be able to be overthrown.

So although Su Wenchen temporarily withstood the opponent's first two attacks, he couldn't just sit there and wait to die.

Su Wenchen can only feel at ease if he has the other party's handle, because people like Zheng Xianghong are completely different from Zhang Zhenhua who came earlier.

Su Wenchen would not dare to relax unless he caught her handle, but it would be difficult to do this alone.

He couldn't use the art of splitting himself into two, so how could he possibly keep an eye on the other person and see when the woman would make a mistake or reveal a flaw?

So people are more important at this time.

So after seeing Miao Yuan's arrangement, Su Wenchen looked at the embarrassed Miao Yuan and said directly.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, Lao Miao. Xiao Miao is one of the first batch of veteran employees in our farm."

“Now I am taking the lead in doing the more strenuous work of mowing the lawn.”

"The rabbit house needs to build its own ingredient warehouse. I got a formula for fur rabbit feed from Shanghai this time. I think I should just let Xiao Miao come over to take care of the ingredients."

Su Wenchen did not explain where those recipes came from or anything like that. That's the good thing about being a leader.

You don’t have to say what you don’t want to say. You don’t need to explain at all. The following will automatically fill in the blanks for you. The things you fill in your own mind are more credible than a lot of explanations from you.

If you are doing work, it is different. After all, if you don’t explain your unknown formula clearly, how can your leader believe it?
When Miao Yuan heard Su Wenchen's words, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Captain, is this to give him some experience?"

Because he was so surprised, Miao Yuan even called out the name from before.

Su Wenchen looked at Miao Yuan's expression. Although he said so, he still hoped that his son could be valued.

Otherwise, why would he go to so much trouble to push his son in front of Su Wenchen?
Could it really be just for a rabbit? Which adult doesn't want their child to succeed?

Su Wenchen raised his hand to stop Miao Yuan from speaking.

"Isn't this just training down there?"

"Being in charge of the ingredients is not an easy job. I'll have someone send the formula over later. Ask him to experimentally divide the ingredients into groups and give them to the rabbits to try."

"See what the difference is between feeding once and feeding ten times. What are the specific differences between the rabbits in each group after eating? Record all the data."

"We can't just run the fur rabbit industry as a sideline business. We have to operate it with the spirit of the main business. I have high hopes for this industry, and the same goes for Xiaomiao."

After hearing Su Wenchen's promise, Miao Yuan suddenly felt optimistic about his son's future.

After all, judging from Su Wenchen's attitude, he is being trained as a core technician, so as long as the rabbit house expands in scale in the future.

Wouldn’t that be the next Hou Guozhong?

After all, Old Hou was promoted step by step from an employee to a leadership position by Su Wenchen.

Miao Yuan, who had not made any progress for many years, knew clearly that at this time, some people might take four steps in a year, while some people could not move a single step in four years.

If he doesn't do anything particularly outstanding in his life, then his life is basically over.

At the beginning, he took advantage of the opportunity of Shiquan's construction and gradually became a cadre. He knew very well that without any backing, his son would be lucky to become a cadre, let alone surpass him.

As it turns out, it seems that it is possible to surpass him if we try harder.

So after hearing Su Wenchen's words, Miao Yuan looked at Su Wenchen seriously and said.

"Director, don't worry. I will explain everything you tell him and I will let him study all the relevant information about this kind of Rex rabbit."

Listening to Miao Yuan's words, Su Wenchen smiled and nodded. Since he had already eaten his cake, he had to work, because no one could eat the cake he drew for free.

After walking out of the rabbit house, Su Wenchen stood with his hands behind his back and looked at the rows of houses in the distance.

"Lao Miao, you know, you are the one I trust the most in our field!"

"You came here with me from the time the farm was built. It was a wasteland at the beginning. I didn't expect that in less than a year, we have developed to the current scale!"

Hearing Su Wenchen's sigh, Miao Yuan's scalp suddenly went numb.

Because he actually knew Su Wenchen quite well. The more he talked about feelings with you, the more difficult it would be to deal with this matter. However, he had already boarded the boat, and his son was also tied up.

If I talk about getting off the boat now, I'm afraid I'll be the first one to drown.

Miao Yuan swallowed and asked cautiously.

"Director, please arrange it directly. As long as I am capable of doing it, I will do it."

Obviously, although Miao Yuan had no way to retreat, he still left room for maneuver in his words.

After all, it's not worth risking your life for your future.

Seeing Miao Yuan's nervous look, Su Wenchen waved his hand.

"Why do you look like that? Are you afraid that I'll ask you to do something speculative?"

"It's the new instructor Zheng. You said she was not familiar with the site when she first arrived, but she is quite concerned about the production tasks."

"What position did you say she held in the provincial capital before?"

Although Su Wenchen did not say it explicitly, Miao Yuan understood it immediately. He wanted him to find out the background of the new instructor Zheng.

He said it was not an easy task!

If this woman knew about this, he would be very sad in the future, considering how fierce he was today.

But since he has already stood on Su Wenchen's side, this problem is not that serious.

After all, if Su Wenchen was eventually purged, he would naturally suffer the same fate, so it was not so important not to offend anyone.

"Director, I understand. I will ask my friends in the provincial capital when I get back. However, I didn't know many people there before, so."

Although Miao Yuan is capable of this, he certainly cannot guarantee anything. However, he can definitely find out some simple information, but the deeper information is generally more difficult.

Su Wenchen also knew what Miao Yuan meant.

"It's okay, Lao Miao, just do your best. If you find any news about Instructor Zheng on the field, please tell me in time."

As the two were talking, they returned to the venue.

Looking at Hou Guozhong moving a table out of the house, Su Wenchen walked over and asked in surprise.

"Old Hou, what's wrong with you? Are you really going to work in the chicken coop?"

"Why are you still moving things out?"

Hou Guozhong saw Su Wenchen coming over and put down the big table in his hands.

"Director, come here. It's not me, Deputy Director Zhang, who insisted on moving to the chicken coop to work."

Then he looked around and found that only Lao Miao was paying attention to this side.

Then he whispered.

"He said to stay away from that woman. He didn't want to meet that woman at all!"

Su Wenchen was a little confused when he heard this. Was he scared away?
"Is it that serious? Besides, we are all in the same field. How can he run to the ends of the earth?"

Hou Guozhong shook his head.

"I think there are other factors as well. When you and Lao Miao went to the rabbit house, Instructor Zheng went to the office of Liang Hong, the head of the production department."

"The two behind went to the chicken coop, talking and laughing."

"Deputy Director Zhang then asked someone to move things over there to work."

Su Wenchen raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He didn't expect that this instructor was such a difficult person.

As soon as he arrived, he chose Liang Hong, who was the easiest to break through, as the breakthrough point.

As a female, and also in charge of the production department, Liang Hong is the easiest to make a breakthrough.

One reason is that the other party is a woman, and the other reason is that the other party has been here for a short time, coming after the New Year.

Compared with people like Lao Hou Miaoyuan who have been there since the beginning, they are naturally much easier to win over.

Moreover, the other party's speed of action was as fast as his. He asked Miao Yuan to find out the other party's background, and the other party was probably also asking about his background in detail.

So this person is really a difficult one.

Su Wenchen first glanced at Hou Guozhong, then spoke to Miao Yuan.

"Lao Miao, go and do your own thing!"

"Just hurry up and do what I said before. I'll help Lao Hou move the table over."

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Hou Guozhong shook his head.

"Director, how can I use you for this? Wait for Xiao Xu from the field office to move the stool over, and then come to help me."

Su Wenchen said with a smile.

"Old Hou, why are you still so polite? When we were building the farm, didn't we just carry the logs one by one?"

When Hou Guozhong heard Su Wenchen say this, his expression relaxed.

"Isn't this Instructor Zheng who's here? He's so strict about even calling someone a name, who would dare to say anything nonsense?"

Obviously, Zheng Xianghong did not succeed in killing Zhang Zhenhua.

However, the leading cadres in the field still felt the tense atmosphere.