Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 266 Deepening the Roots ([-])

While the construction of the New China colony was in full swing, various local constructions did not fall behind.

As the most densely populated and most developed area in the Eastern Republic of China, one town, two forts, and five townships in the capital area have recently experienced rapid economic development.From the second half of 1638, the economic structure of Dingyuan Township by Dayu Lake began to transform, from traditional potato planting, fishing, fishery product processing, and salt drying to wheat and potato hybrid planting, cage fish and shrimp farming, fishery product processing, Refined salt and deep processing of agricultural products began to gradually transform in order to achieve sustainable economic development.

Under such a policy, some residents who used to make a living in those traditional industries lost their jobs.Zhou Dahe is one of them. This young man who just turned 25 this year came to the East Bank two years ago.After arriving here, he was inexplicably assigned to the fishing team of Dingyuan Township on the shore of Dayu Lake, where he was engaged in fishing for fish products in Dayu Lake.However, after these years of overfishing, the fishery resources of Big Fish Lake have already shown a clear trend of starvation. It is becoming more and more difficult to see big fish, and the harvest of each net is also getting less and less.In the end, last year, an official document from the Government Affairs Council finally ended the fishing activities that had lasted for many years in Dayu Lake. Zhou Dahe and his fishing team teammates suddenly became "unemployed people" that are rarely seen in the Eastern Republic. By".

Of course, it's not like they really have nowhere else to go.No, the township government gave them two choices: one was for the township government to write a letter of introduction, introducing them to some vocational schools in the county for re-education, acquiring a skill, and switching to other jobs; Stay in the newly established local fishery school to learn new cage farming techniques, and then conduct cage farming experiments in the Big Fish Lake Basin.As a result, most of them chose to stay in the local area. After all, many of them had brought their families with them and were unwilling to go to other places, even if this place was only more than ten kilometers away.

The young Zhou Dahe surprisingly chose to enter the accounting vocational school in the county for further studies. As a shop clerk, he already knew some arithmetic and had some familiarity with business operations, so he made rapid progress after entering the accounting school.After graduating this year, he was lucky, just in time for the expansion of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, so he was recruited, and then assigned to the newly established Zhenyuanbao branch as a loan officer.

Today is the day to report, and the small steamer that Zhou Dahe took from Dongfang Port slowly docked at the pier of Miannongbao.He lightly brushed off the soot falling from his white shirt, then straightened his top hat, and strode towards the "bus" stop set up by the pier.

The so-called bus is actually just a large passenger carriage, which is an enlarged version of the European four-wheeled carriage.This kind of carriage is drawn by two horses and can carry nearly 20 people. It has no rubber wheels and no shock-absorbing springs. One can imagine the feeling of sitting up.Fortunately, the extension of Highway No. 1 (Miannongbao-Zhenyuanbao) has been completed, and the road surface is a flat asphalt road surface. It feels quite stable when walking, and it is not as bumpy and uncomfortable as imagined.

The weather today is not bad, about ten degrees.Eighteen people were sitting in the carriage, most of them seemed to be Zhenyuanbao herdsmen who came to the market in Miannongbao. They were holding large and small packages in their arms, which were the goods purchased at the market.

"Little brother, the noodles are very raw. This is the first time you go to Zhenyuan Fort?" A wrinkled middle-aged man sitting next to Zhou Dahe asked with a smile, "I have to take this road almost every few days. Hey, I basically know everyone who often walks this way. Hehe, this is the first time I see you, little brother, why, go to Zhenyuan Fort to find someone?"

"No." Zhou Dahe replied shyly, "I am a loan officer who has just been assigned to Zhenyuan Fort, and today is the date for reporting."

"Loan officer?" The middle-aged man was in awe, "But the loan officer of the Zhenyuanbao branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank?"

"Yeah." Zhou Dahe nodded and said, "I just joined the Northwest Reclamation Bank last month. After the training, I was assigned to Zhenyuan Fort. It is said that I am in charge of the credit business. Of course, I have to go to know what I do. .”

"Ah, that's a big shot." Someone next to him exclaimed, and the herdsmen looked at him with caution.

"Hey, little brother, then we went to the same place." The middle-aged man patted Zhou Dahe's shoulder vigorously, and said with a smile, "I'm from the Animal Husbandry Bureau, and we live in the same compound, that's fine." , follow me after you get off the bus."

"Brother is from the Animal Husbandry Bureau, and I'm from the Northwest Reclamation Bank, how can we still live together?" Zhou Dahe asked with some doubts.

"Hey, it really came from a big city." The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Zhenyuan Fort was newly established not long ago, and the city wall is only more than 700 meters long. Bureau, General Administration of Textile Industry and other institutions are crowded in a large compound, there is no way, small places are like this, not so particular. Besides the township government, your Northwest Reclamation Bank is the most prestigious. Ask these herdsmen, is Supervisor Wang of the Dingyuanbao sub-office majestic?"

"Who dares to offend Supervisor Wang?" a red-haired herdsman yelled. His Chinese sounded awkward, but his meaning was clear: "He holds all the sheep issued by the government. Loan to whoever! Sometimes the first batch of good sheep comes down from the boss, and those who have a good relationship with him can get them first, and those of us who have a normal relationship with him have to wait first."

After the red-haired herdsman finished speaking, he seemed a little angry, and turned to the middle-aged man and said: "Technician Liu, your agricultural technology station just brought a hundred bighorn goats from the east bank this year, but I have only one goat." Not yet. Wang Dajian distributed all these sheep to his fellow Xuzhou villagers. Damn, those sheep give birth to two or three lambs per litter, and they give birth to lambs every half a year. These lambs can be raised again for more than half a year Breeding, it won't take a year, and the loan can be repaid, I'm sorry!"

"Technician Liu" said with some embarrassment after hearing the words: "Vincent, you're just saying this for nothing! It's true that the bighorn goats on the east coast were brought back from the breeding center by our agricultural technology station, but we are just doing it for the northwest. The Reclamation Bank is the representative, and the final distribution authority is still in the hands of Wang Dajian of the branch office. He said that it will be distributed to whoever it is, and we have no right to express opinions.”

Zhou Dahe knew a little about the bighorn goat on the east bank. It was a new thing just created by the Animal Breeding Center of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture.The breeding center is located in Ranch Township in the southeast. It was built by the Animal Husbandry Bureau. A large number of livestock from all over the world are raised in its livestock pens, such as Andalusian horses, Lusitano horses, Finnish horses, and Turkmen horses; Stein cattle, Simmental cattle, South African cattle and other meat and dairy cattle; and some goat and sheep breeds selected from Europe, the New World or South Africa.

The breeding center currently has more than [-] employees and technicians. The task assigned to them by the Animal Husbandry Bureau is to breed new breeds in a specific direction by crossbreeding different types of livestock.For example, cows can choose the direction of high milk production and high meat production rate, and sheep can be selected for cultivation in the direction of high wool rate and high meat production. The breeding center has established a complete parental lineage for each new breed produced by crossbreeding. To conduct systematic and complete scientific research.Last year, the breeding center used some goats snatched from Bantu blacks in South Africa to crossbreed with local goats to breed a new breed - East Coast Bighorn Goat.The goat has the advantages of large size, high meat production rate, and strong fecundity. At present, technical personnel are still conducting further research to improve the breed of East Coast bighorn goat so that it has more advantages.

The breeding center has bred more than 2 East Coast bighorn goats. Except for a few who stayed in the breeding center for breeding and research, most of them were sent to Zhenyuanbao, a sheep breeding center, for stocking experiments.The results of the stocking experiment are gratifying. It only takes more than six months for the ewes of East Coast bighorn goats to give birth to cubs, and each litter can produce 3-[-] lambs, which is better than other goats.Moreover, this kind of goat is larger in size and has a higher meat production rate. Usually, farmers only need to cut some hay for feeding, and sometimes even some crop stalks such as wheat straw can be used as feed, which is extremely resistant to rough feeding. .

The advantages of the East Coast bighorn goat are so prominent, it is conceivable how much farmers love it.The first batch of farmers who brought back bighorn goats from the East Coast were elated because they only needed one year to pay off the loan they owed on adopting bighorn goats.Of course, these people also make those farmers who cannot adopt bighorn goats extremely jealous, and the red-haired Vincent in front of him is one of them.

Hearing that the topic turned to his immediate superior, Superintendent Wang of the branch office, Zhou Dahe shut his mouth knowingly.Criticizing my boss behind my back, if this gets out, do I still want to hang out there in the future?

Seeing Zhou Dahe shut up, the middle-aged man "Technician Liu" simply shut up too, and the car fell into silence for a while.The carriage was driving neither fast nor slow, about ten kilometers per hour. At this time, it was not out of the border of the cotton farmer's village. On both sides of the road, there were large cotton fields that were planned very neatly, and the cement irrigation in the fields was densely covered like a spider's web. canal.Farmers are working unhurriedly in the field, occasionally there will be a few technicians from the agricultural technology station in blue shirts walking around to guide the cotton farmers to work, showing a thriving atmosphere everywhere.

Looking at this scene, Zhou Dahe couldn't help but think of the four characters "deep and solid" that he had learned in school.To develop industry and agriculture so that the common people can live and work in peace and contentment, and their living standards are steadily improved. This is done by the higher-ups.

(End of this chapter)