"Director of the forestry farm, your ranch has been planned well and the construction has been very effective. You have done a good job on your mission." Dong Shuheng casually walked around the ranch and looked at the construction status of the ranch.
The ranch has been under construction for two years and is beginning to take shape. It is just one of dozens of ranches, farms, mines and logging operations in the area.
After leaving Kulun, Dong Shuheng went around the south bank of Yue Lake.
The Fuxing Army built a new sacrificial temple at the place where Su Wu herded sheep, and Dong Shuheng went to participate in the sacrificial ceremony.
Su Wu’s sheep herding is a kind of spirit and a treasure of national culture. Our ancestors still knew that the dignity of the country and the nation should not be violated.
Su Wu would rather shepherd sheep in the desolate Moon Lake than surrender to the Huns. The scepter in his hand represents the dignity of the man.
Even if it becomes a bare stick, it still represents the dignity of a man.
Therefore, such ancestors deserve to be worshiped like gods.
Confucius did not believe in ghosts and gods, but he advocated sacrificial activities. The major affairs of the world were only military affairs and sacrifice.
Sacrifice is not a superstitious activity, it is just a form of ancestor worship of the Chinese people.
Some people say that Chinese people have no faith. This is wrong. What we believe in is our ancestors.
In addition, he also took the two ladies to the edge of Moon Lake to take a look at the scenery here.
I originally planned to spend a few more days there. After all, the beauty here is like a fairyland. Especially in autumn, mist will appear on the lake. The beauty is beyond description in words.
But suddenly, it rained heavily here.
It rarely rains in autumn in this place, and rain at this time means that severe cold is coming early.
The weather was so bad that Dong Shuheng and his party had to leave early and rush to the next stop, Nerchinsk.
This place was developed relatively early by the Renaissance Army.
After two years of construction, the current Nerchinsk City can no longer look like its original state.
Many processing factories have been established outside the city. There are wood processing factories, leather processing factories and many canneries.
The large sausages produced here in Nerchinsk are rich in flavor and very popular in the mainland.
Rich people usually put a sliced Nerchinsk sausage on their dining table.
Now the city is an important commodity distribution center, radiating to a large area in the west and north.
Relying on convenient river transportation, it connects Yuehu Lake and the Heilongjiang Basin.
Every year, a large number of specialties from Yuehu Lake and the north are collected here. After being processed, they are transported down the river to the coastal areas of the south and places along the Yangtze River.
Some were also shipped to the Joseon Kingdom, Taiping Liao Kingdom and the shogunate.
The Renaissance Army has begun to enjoy the dividends from the initial establishment of the Greater China Economic Circle.
After Dong Shuheng walked around Nerchinsk, he came to the pasture below.
At first, he asked Lu Guoyi to lead a group from the northern foot of Taihang Mountain to the grassland, and abducted a large number of herdsmen from the grassland here.
These herdsmen chose to believe in the Fuxing Army, so Dong Shuheng could not treat them badly.
So they and a large number of captured livestock were placed around Nerchinsk.
These people are civilians, and they were originally managed by nobles. But now there is no one in charge of them.
Dong Shuheng knew that these people were used to being restrained and could not completely let them go freely, so he divided them into animal husbandry teams.
Some officials were sent to manage them.
Then, a state-owned pasture was set up in the form of a state-owned farm in this lush area east of Nerchinsk, which was managed by the Bureau of Reclamation under the Ministry of Agriculture.
These grassland herdsmen turned into workers at the FNA ranch.
In addition to raising cattle and sheep, growing pasture and grain, each pasture also requires the young and strong male herdsmen to participate in militia training and accept the management of the training department.
"Thank you very much for the compliment, President." The forest director of the ranch was very excited at this time. Although he knew in advance that a big shot was coming, he didn't expect that this big shot would be the president of the Renaissance Army.
At this time, Dong Shuheng was able to praise him, which was more beneficial than any reward.
"President, look, that area surrounded by a large wooden fence is our dairy farm. There are more than 500 cows in the dairy farm now, and more than 100 female workers are responsible for milking."
"The milked milk will be sent to Nerchinsk's food factory to be made into various cheeses, butter and milk powder."
The herdsmen on the grasslands themselves were able to make various dairy products, and the Tsarist Russians who surrendered in Nerchinsk brought with them European technology for making cheese and butter.
This allows Fuxing Army's food factories to quickly turn hard-to-preserve milk into a variety of dairy products that are easy to preserve.
Various dairy products have become as important commodities as wool and leather in the grassland areas.
Dong Shuheng also introduced some good dairy breeds.
Prairie people originally liked to milk mare's milk, but the yield of mare's milk was not comparable to that of cow's milk.
Dong Shuheng is so committed to promoting dairy products because he wants to improve the dietary structure of the Chinese people.
Nowadays, people under the rule of the Fuxing Army generally have poor physical fitness. In fact, in addition to not having enough to eat, it is also related to their diet structure.
Protein intake from too few and too single sources is an important reason.
We have always been an agricultural country.
Cattle and horses are used as important draft animals.
Except for the dignitaries, few ordinary people can enjoy milk.
Now the promotion of drinking milk has become part of the New Life Movement.
The Women's Mutual Aid Association has also been helping to promote the use of milk powder.
Not every child can receive breast milk from birth.
Many women who have given birth are unable to produce breast milk due to physical reasons.
Rich families can hire wet nurses, but ordinary families can only feed them with rice soup. Such children are likely to die young.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng's promotion of dairy products can also increase the survival rate of infants and be of great help to increase the population.
The current price of milk powder is actually not cheap, mainly because the quantity is insufficient.
When the number of dairy cows decreases in the future, milk powder will definitely be able to enter ordinary households.
Now, for ordinary families with many children, the government of the Renaissance Army will subsidize milk powder for them.
Now most of the milk powder produced by these ranches is actually taken back by the government. However, the government will also pay the price to the ranch.
Although it is a state-owned ranch, like most farms, they are responsible for their own profits and losses.
Dong Shuheng didn't want these people to really think that he had just been served an iron rice bowl and eaten from a big pot.
"Director of the forest farm, how is the milk production?" Dong Shuheng asked.
"Now we can deliver twenty buckets of milk every day," the forest director replied.
The bucket he was referring to was the big wooden bucket mounted on a bullock cart, not the small bucket used for milking.
The Renaissance Army has made special standards for milk buckets.
Each bucket can hold approximately 350 liters of milk.
"Your dairy cow population will continue to expand. Our demand for dairy products will continue to increase, and the gap is huge!" Dong Shuheng said.
Now that the baby boom has arrived, Dong Shuheng knows very well that with the increase in birth rate and the improvement of people's living standards and income.
In the future, the consumption of various dairy products and milk powder will increase.
At present, herdsmen on the grasslands do not have the customs and technology to raise dairy cows specifically.
Most herdsmen only milk cows and horses when they are giving birth, and the yield is not high.
But at this time, Europe already had the technology to breed dairy cows.
At this time, the technology of raising dairy cows in these state-owned ranches of the Renaissance Army was learned from the Tsarist Russians.
However, Dong Shuheng believes that this technology will definitely become more and more mature.
Because the Renaissance Army may be the one that pays the most attention to agricultural and animal husbandry technology research now.
Dong Shuheng even had a wild botanical garden established in Kunming and Chang'an respectively to collect and cultivate wild food crop seeds from all over the world.
He knew that these things would be of very high value in the future.
No matter when, survival is the first need of human beings.
Food is an important condition for survival.
"Yes, President, the heifers in our pasture are all raised like big girls. We just hope that they will
They can mature and produce milk earlier," the farm director replied.
At this time, a sound of "吭哧吭哧" came from the distance.
"Uh, President, I'm afraid the tractor that cut the grass has come back." the field director explained.
Sure enough, in the distance, a walking tractor with tall haystacks piled on top of its carriage was driving slowly from a distance.
Dong Shuheng was not surprised. These tractors were the first batch of walking tractors produced, and farms all over China's east, west, north and south were allocated a certain amount of rations.
The main purpose is to test the actual working conditions of tractors under different climate and terrain conditions.
It’s not surprising that a place like Peachtree Bay Ranch can get one.
"Director of the forest farm, how do you use this tractor?" Dong Shuheng asked casually.
"President, don't tell me how good this tractor is."
"This is the first time we've seen this car that eats gas."
"He is now the star here. The novelty has just passed during this period. At the beginning, every time we went out to cut grass, they were all vying to get on the tractor."
"To put it simply, this guy is very powerful, durable, has a big compartment, and can hold a lot of things. We have been using this car for a month and it has not broken down yet," the forest manager couldn't help but praise it.
This tractor just needs to be maintained once in a while. When not in use, just keep it in the warehouse.
The horses and oxen that pull the cart have to be cared for by dedicated people.
If this tractor is used, the pasture can be used to raise more profitable cows.
The forest manager calculated this account very carefully.
"As long as it's easy to use, let me tell you some good news. In the future, we will also have a lawn mower. This tractor can not only pull things. Soon we will build a larger tractor and install a machine on it to automatically mow the grass.
." Dong Shuheng said with a smile.
Now this kind of small tractor can only be equipped with a lawn mower on the front. It has not been used yet.
"That's a good relationship, President. If that's the case, we can raise more cows and cows, and we don't have to worry about no one taking care of them. Now, just cutting grass every year consumes a lot of manpower and time," the forest director said.
He doesn't worry about the people on the machine ranch having nothing to do.
There are many things on the ranch now that are very labor intensive.
For example, taking care of those cows, one person can only milk a few cows.
It would of course be better if there were machines that could take over the most difficult and tiring work of mowing.
"Aihua, come here." Dong Shuheng shouted to Aihua who was following behind the forest director.
Dong Shuheng had just heard the forest director introduce this young man’s deeds.
I didn't expect that this young man, who was as skinny as a child, could kill so many Tsarist Russians.
"The president called you, but you still haven't come over." Seeing Aihua standing there stupidly, the forest director quickly reminded him angrily.
He had just tried his best to help this boy show his face in front of the president.
There were so many kids from the grasslands in the pasture who were all dumbfounded, so Lao Lin thought that the kid Aihua was pretty smart.
Then Aihua, a boy who is so young, can make such great contributions. He may become a general in the future.
If their Peach Tree Bay Ranch had a general, he would be honored as the farm manager!
So when he took Dong Shuheng to visit the ranch just now, he took Aihua with him.
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