Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

She was just a continuing education student, yet she was visibly haggard and had an expression that said, "Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going?"

"By the way, let's get down to business. The grass here is a bit different from the common varieties you encounter at school. Please be careful when you're in the lab."

While outside, the grass is all sprouted, it's a different story inside the laboratory.

"This is a species that is somewhere between a plant and an animal. It is not a natural herb, but a synthetic product. It may not look very good in the laboratory, so you'd better be prepared."

So, even though the two had mentally prepared themselves, when they followed Yelena into the laboratory, they still instantly turned pale.

A terrifying red substance spread within the container filled with nutrient solution, growing strange things on it, including eye-like fruits and a thick layer of red wood covering the surface. Although it should be a hard material, it gave the impression that this thing would come to life and extend hundreds of tentacles.

"You made a mistake again?" Yelena calmly glanced at the thing. "Why has it grown so big?"

"Just doing some research, the thing the boss gave me is pretty interesting."

"It's best to destroy it as soon as possible..."

“No problem, Miss.” The researcher quickly destroyed the giant, indescribable object. Next came the more normal things: spheres about the size of a thumb formed from clumps of red roots.

"The data sheet from the trial planting in the laboratory is here, and these are also new varieties for supplementing nitrogen for livestock."

"That's... an insect?" The plump, white substance wriggling in the test tube looked exactly like an insect.

"No, it's a plant, just one that contains insect genes. You can think of it as a plant that looks like an insect, or..."

“I’ve seen far more disgusting insects that look like plants in Old Xia’s lab than this,” Yelena said, her expression unchanged. “Compared to his mountain-modified slime mold, this thing is actually quite delicate and cute.”

"Let me explain. This is a newly cultivated protein-rich forage grass, or you could say it's an insect, but it's roughly the same. It grows roots like a plant and then lives in symbiosis with several nitrogen-fixing bacteria. It synthesizes a large amount of primary nutrients, such as amino acids, through inorganic matter and soil organic matter."

“And then next…” the researcher tapped the jar.

"This insect-like tissue assembles these raw materials into a large amount of plant protein and even some animal protein, which is stored in the grass stems and seeds. This cannot be eaten directly by livestock. It needs to be taken back and processed together with the grass leaves before it can be given to livestock as a supplementary nitrogen food. The appropriate amount is your research topic."

"By the way, please also send us a copy of the results report. We also need to try to cultivate the next variety, and strive to get it right the first time, so that it can be eaten directly to supplement various proteins." Only in this way can the quality of the milk source meet the standards.

“Okay, notify the warehouse to load the seedlings onto the truck and deliver them to…” Yelena glanced at the terminal. “Random No. 6 has just finished preparing the land there. Let’s plant them there. We should be able to get them in time.”

"Next, let's go to the other side and look at the feed and automation equipment for meat livestock. These basic information tasks are what you need."

After all, it is necessary to understand the parameters, working methods and efficiency of these devices and feeds in order to plan a reasonable processing flow and a high-speed industrial system for processing agricultural products with as little waste as possible.

Compared to the nascent ranch in the occupied area, the ranch planned by Lao Xia in Satie has already reached its peak scale, and the cows do not produce milk in winter.

This is because they need more heat to combat the ambient temperature, and the ranch also needs to fatten them up more at this time.

However, eggs are completely unaffected by the season; at least, Lao Xia's improved laying hens don't have this problem. These relentless protein-producing machines chatter and scurry around in the cages, and the automatic feeding conveyor belts ensure that each egg house has enough water, food, and calcium-supplemented bone meal.

"Last truck, unload!" After checking that there was no one at the feed inlet and the hopper's operating position according to the safety manual, and most importantly, that there was no one in the hopper, the foreman pressed the button. Why such a tedious check?

This was, of course, related to a serious case of excessive animal protein and the detection of heme in the feed.

Pig and beef bones from the slaughterhouse fall into the feed hopper, along with eggshells from the egg processing plant, and are crushed together. After being sterilized by high-temperature steaming, they are made into supplementary feed for laying hens to supplement calcium and other nutrients.

"Starting tomorrow, we won't need to refill the supplies..."

"In previous years, it wasn't like this..."

"The key issue is that there isn't enough raw material this year. The slaughterhouses are running out of bones, and large ranches and farms are being built in other areas, so we're running a bit short on supplies."

As for the decline in egg production efficiency, that's inevitable. The factory's orders have also been adjusted, so there won't be a situation where insufficient production capacity leads to undeliverable goods.

However, this also means that production capacity and delivery targets almost overlap, and workers can no longer simply take a couple of eggs off the production line.

"I've made it clear to everyone else that the workshop will be very strict during this period. If anyone is caught bringing eggs home again, things won't be as easy to talk to as before." In the past, as long as it wasn't too excessive, workers could occasionally bring one or two home to replenish their bodies, and no one would say anything.

However, the delivery volume is now fixed, and the feed and production capacity have been readjusted, leaving almost no redundancy. If each workshop environment takes a few eggs with them, then the final batch of eggs will be dozens less, and the shortage will exceed the production fluctuation redundancy.

Previously, there was no problem that the output of the entire farm exceeded the delivery order quantity, resulting in a surplus. Rather than letting it rot in the warehouse, it was better for the workers to divide it up and take it home to eat themselves or give it to their children to supplement their health.

Of course, this kind of thing was a privilege reserved for management in the previous factory owners; ordinary workers didn't have this benefit.

However, it's fortunate that their boss is from the Star Alliance. It's common for them to build too many redundant war reserves and simply distribute them as welfare.

After all, almost every link in the entire production chain does not require profit. If there is no profit, then producing too much will not lead to serious deflation problems.

Since there's no money to buy them, just distribute them directly. A planned economy is the simplest way to deal with this kind of production surplus.

Once the money is distributed, a few more large-scale expansion and development projects can be undertaken, and it will all be wasted easily, since no profit is needed anyway.

Conversely, the biggest headache for planned economies is not what to do with overproduction, but what to do with shortages. Workers have high wages and strong purchasing power, but there are no goods on the shelves, and supplies need to be rationed. This is the problem of this economic system.

The problem is exactly the opposite of that of a market economy. One is that there is plenty of consumer power, but because the production of goods is planned, there is a surplus and shortage. There are no things on the shelves, and people have to rely on various coupons to buy them. This results in a fundamental shortage of private supply, and people have money but can't buy things.

A market economy, on the other hand, produces enough goods, with everything available on the shelves, and money can buy anything, but workers don't have money, and supply far exceeds consumption.

When your productivity reaches a level like Lao Xia's, which exceeds market demand by several times, it seems that running a planned economy is going very smoothly. Money is just a benchmark for measuring labor and value, not a representation of profit. There are enough goods on the shelves, and workers' wages and purchasing power are also strong enough.

Workers' wages + industrial consumption = commodity value, rather than commodity value + capitalist profits > workers' wages. The latter would lead to the economic crisis common in capitalist markets.

Money accumulates rapidly in the hands of capitalists through profits, and because of the existence of the marginal utility of consumption, which is far greater than workers' wages, total consumption power will eventually continue to decline, while commodity prices will continue to rise due to additional profits.

Ultimately, this led to the Great Depression. Nobody had the money to buy things, so paying workers high wages would lead to bankruptcy, and lowering commodity prices would also result in bankruptcy.

Instead, the only solution is to lay off workers, reduce wage expenses, and destroy excess products.

This explains why the Xia Group was still able to expand its workforce and engage in large-scale production during the early stages of the Great Depression.

Because all internal trade or consumption requires little to no profit, any excess production is simply distributed as welfare, since Kazdel has plenty of people who are starving, and their produce is agricultural.

The freight costs are the same; all the transportation industries belong to him, and the fuel is also his. He doesn't need to make a profit; the entire process is directly planned and consumed. It's perfectly fine to use the output of each industry to cover wages or monetary expenditures.

Therefore, the Great Depression forced capitalist countries to wage wars just to survive, while the Soviet Union successfully completed its industrialization and expansion, remaining almost unaffected.

On the contrary, they gained a lot of benefits. After all, while Americans were starving, Soviet workers had medical insurance, resorts, and high wages. At one point, more than 10 people lined up every day to try to immigrate to the Soviet Union.

"Loading! Hurry up, stop chatting!" The warehouse was full of trucks waiting to transport the goods. "Six hundred tons of egg yolk powder, get it shipped out quickly, we still have it ready to cook over there!"

The convoy that arrived was from a pastry factory. The Winter Snow Festival had just ended, and all the luxury foods such as cakes and desserts that had been put on the shelves before were sold out.

To be honest, the managers and workers of these processing plants, which had just moved from Longmen, didn't understand why they were selling so fast.

Now they understand, and deeply realize, how wise it was for the higher-ups to ask them to expand production and hire more people—who the hell knew your purchasing power was so strong!

In Longmen, these luxury items are simply not on the daily spending list of ordinary families.

In Ursus, only a minor nobleman could afford to eat cake during the festival, but here... yesterday we delivered over a dozen truckloads of goods to the supermarket in Satie City, and today the supermarket has been calling the factory nonstop.

From the factory manager to the director, everyone was given a severe dressing-down. The gist of the matter was: "Are you trying to feed chickens with this little bit of stuff you sent? Order another shipment, three times the amount of the last one!"

Otherwise, the soldiers who just came back from the front lines would buy everything, and the citizens would cause trouble for the supermarkets, which would then have to cause trouble for the suppliers.

This doesn't even include the military's orders. Frontline soldiers can't celebrate holidays, so they can only receive small cakes or something to celebrate, as well as the cities and villages in the occupied territories.

In order to enhance cohesion and public acceptance during this major holiday, we've decided to give everyone some small cakes and other delicious snacks as a way to share the joy with the people.

With such a huge amount of demand coming their way, it's no wonder that the people from the pastry factory rushed over to order more.

"Where are the fresh eggs? Where are the fresh eggs?!"

"Cream? Does anyone know who to ask for cream from?!"

The scene was extremely chaotic. People were carrying delivery slips and looking for people everywhere, frantically contacting transport vehicles, and searching for the phone numbers of other manufacturers that were consuming the products, asking if they had any spare parts.

Fortunately, all of this was within Lao Xia's planned limits. It was just that the factories generally felt that such a shortage was probably not safe and that they needed to stock up more, which led to temporary excessive demand. After Lao Xia intervened and explained the situation, things became much more stable.

However, the Doctor immediately cut the holiday needs of the occupied territories by more than half. What a joke! Giving everyone a small cake with cream? Do you think the national treasury is some kind of treasure trove?

Issuing one to each soldier is manageable, since it only applies to a few divisions on the front lines, so the cost is not high, and it even seems a bit stingy.

But if everyone in the occupied area gets one, brother, that's hundreds of millions of people! If each person takes a bite, this year's surplus storage will be completely wiped out. Are we not planning to make a living next year?

So now it's been changed to one slightly larger regular cake for each family, made with synthetic cream, plus a can of meat.

The meat canning was due to a shortage of fresh meat transport capacity caused by previous rectification and inspection of the transportation lines. Even though a large amount was sold to Theresis, there was still a large amount left that could not be sold, so it was used to distribute welfare to the occupied territories.

As for the even cheaper canned fish and meat, which is almost a byproduct of vertical agriculture, these cans were piled up at various food supply points as a purely political task, in order to demonstrate the wealth of the new regime and to symbolize the new life it brought to everyone.

Passersby could take a few items home as long as they registered their identity, which was intended to encourage people in the occupied areas to register their identity and establish a population management system.

This can also effectively deal with certain hidden opposition forces and saboteurs, as well as spies sent from the South.

Green Shipyard, Phase I

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After much research, I decided to brave the difficulties and take responsibility for the 48 yuan I spent on the game, so I carefully studied the game "Deep Sea Voyage".

I discovered some really ridiculous settings. This thing has gravity and drag models. What I mean is: it has wave-making drag and air resistance. If a boat is thrown into the water, it will move on its own or even capsize. The shipyard's first accident: the front was light and the back was heavy, it was uneven from side to side, and it capsized the moment it left the dock.

So, I spent countless hours successfully building a frigate that I had no idea could operate, move, or even use.

A light frigate that is 83 meters long, 11 meters at its widest point, and 9 meters high.

Image: Frigate;

The ship is propelled by two gas turbines with a combined power of 3600 horsepower, and due to a problem with water ingress into the propulsion shaft connection, water leakage inside the cabin could not be stopped.

When even using a water pump couldn't stop water from entering the sump, I chose to seal the sump.

First Mate: Captain, how is the chief engineer supposed to get down there and work? Me: I don't know either. He could consider using psionic control…

However, the buoyancy was insufficient, and water was taking in significantly. The watertight compartments could not provide enough buoyancy, so I chose the green method—inserting helium pumps into every compartment and filling the entire ship with helium, so that the ship would not take in water!

First Mate: Then we can't breathe either! Me: Wake up, you're robots, you don't need to breathe. First Mate: Then it's alright.

Next, we started making the missile. The first time we made the missile, the launch crater wasn't deep enough, so we removed one deck layer to make it deep enough. The longer the missile, the more modules we can fit inside.

For example, high-explosive warheads, infrared guidance, active guidance, fuel tanks, tail fins, etc., and of course, all of the above can be customized and replaced.

First Mate: Can this missile really be launched? Me: No problem, don't worry, but we don't know how far it will fly or whether it will turn back...

Finally, the main gun, of course, is an electromagnetic railgun. After dismantling an electromagnetic railgun system, I knew what to do, so I built an electromagnetic railgun. The performance parameters are shown in the figure below.

Then I discovered that I could customize the shells. That's right, shells can be customized, from the fuse to the warhead to the propellant. You can even decide the propellant loading factor, the warhead loading factor, the color of the tracer rounds, and the fuse mechanism.

(For example, the penetration fuse can be set with penetration depth and impact delay, the default values ​​are 5 meters and 0.1 seconds, which means that the shell will detonate 0.1 seconds after hitting the target or after traveling another 5 meters. It will also detonate if the kinetic energy is exhausted...)

[Gunner: I have no problem with whether this cannon can fire shells, but I'm curious about its recoil absorption of only 93, while the recoil force is 4300. Our ship's tonnage might not even be 4300. When we fire, won't the turret fly off?]

That's all the progress we've made so far. The lower deck and superstructure haven't been built yet, and there are no anti-aircraft guns.

I originally wanted to put a helicopter at the stern, but there were no prefabricated helicopters. Building an airplane is more troublesome than building a ship. After all, I can waste tonnage on a ship, but I can't do that with an airplane.

Chapter 87 Investment