Shao Yuanyi's home is at the west end of the village, located below an extremely thick Palana pine tree. Every summer, under the shade of the trees is a good place for everyone to enjoy the cool air. It was said that when I first came last year, there were still quite a lot of big trees here. In less than a year, many big trees were cut down and became the beams, furniture, doors and windows of people's homes and other items.

Because people often come here to enjoy the cool and chat, the villagers often post some notices on the tree, and sometimes even meetings are held under the tree. Shao Yuanyi glanced at him and saw that several notices were added to the tree during the time he left home.

The first notice was issued by the village office. The content was that each household took turns to patrol the canal and do a good job of irrigating each acre of land. Each person who was on his turn was responsible for cooperating with the people at the water lifting station, when to fetch water, when to stop water, and how high the water level in the field should be controlled, so that no major mistakes could be made. At the end of the notice, the rotation time of each household should be clearly stated in detail according to the house number.

The second notice was issued by the township government. It roughly means that a few days later, a technical expert group of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture from the south will demonstrate to the farmers in the village how to artificially inseminate livestock to increase the conception rate of female livestock and quickly increase the number of livestock populations. The notice requires everyone to properly arrange the work at hand and try to observe and study at that time.

The third part was issued by the township armed forces department. After the busy farming period, it will be a routine militia training period. At that time, the militia directors of each village will arrange for all adult men to conduct concentrated military training, including queue training, live ammunition shooting, firearm maintenance, battlefield first aid, etc. After a period of training, the militias from each village will concentrate on the village for meetings. After the autumn harvest every year, the militias from the East Coast border will, under the leadership of the regular army mobilized by the military headquarters, clear the neighboring indigenous tribes, so that they will not pose a threat to the East Coast people.

The last notice was a wanted order issued by the police station of Ping'an County in the north. A criminal gang of Mameluco (Portuguese and Indian mixed race) wandered to Meihe Township, Ping'an County two months ago to traffickers. After being discovered by local militia, they shot two people on the spot. The other five escaped by chance. At present, they may have already wandered to Dafengbao and the Forage Ridge area. The township police station offered high bounties for these people. The rough faces of several people were also drawn behind them.

After silently recording the contents of the notice, Shao Yuanyi pushed open the yard door and walked into his home. Someone was walking in the kitchen at home, and the chimney on the roof was also emitting smoke from the cooking stove. His newlywed wife Natasia was sitting next to the well in the yard to kill fish. After hearing the sound of someone pushing the door, she looked up and shouted in surprise: "Dear, you are back!"

Shao Yuanyi nodded with a smile on his face. Then he asked, "Ana is cooking?" Anna is Natasia's cousin. She just moved from Russia to the east coast a few months ago and is currently living in Shao Yuanyi's house. After getting her ID card, she was preparing to go to Ping'an County, northern China to try her luck. The textile factory there has been recruiting workers. She wanted to be a high-income textile worker. However, Shao Yuanyi advised her to go to school. Although she is already older, going to school does not have any harm to her. After graduating from elementary school, she returned to the countryside. With the current desire for talents in the Mucaoling, it is still okay to be a clerk in the township government. Although her income is not as high as that of a female worker in the textile factory, she is better at leisure. However, young girls always yearn for life in big cities and cannot endure the loneliness of the countryside. Anna is always a little resistant to going to school.

Shao Yuanyi and Natasia had just been married for a few months. They got married at West Lake Fort. Shao Yuanyi still remembers the scene on the wedding day: when the wedding was halfway through, several naval soldiers in sky blue navy uniforms hurriedly sent a lot of gifts that were hard to see on the market: silk clothes, whale oil soap, whale oil candles, high-end leather goods, and red envelopes worth nearly 600 yuan accumulated, which made Shao Yuanyi a little stunned.

Later, he asked his wife Natasia and father-in-law Petrov to find out that these things were sent by comrades and classmates of Petrov's dead son Yuri. The most expensive one was a handmade clock with auspicious patterns from Major Lu Ming, commander of the First Navy Fleet. When these gifts were sent, the eyes of some of the village cadres present changed. People who could climb to the commander of the First Shanghai Fleet, which was unimaginable, were worthy of their careful treatment.

A wolf-green dog raised at home rushed up happily and wagged his tail around Shao Yuanyi. Shao Yuanyi hugged it and scratched his neck, and Zhaocai narrowed his eyes comfortably. Anna walked out of the kitchen, shouted "brother-in-law" in inexperienced Chinese, and then walked outside the yard like a mouse seeing a cat, pumped a bundle of firewood from the pile of firewood by the wall, and then slipped into the kitchen against the wall again, making Shao Yuanyi funny.

A pot of soup was stewed on the coal ball stove at the door of the kitchen. The scent of the fragrance made Zhaocai stay by his side and refused to leave. Shao Yuanyi lifted the lid of the pot and found that the stewed soybean belly lung soup, which was his favorite food and the food that many Ming people in the village loved. In fact, at the beginning, some immigrants from France did not know that because of religion or other reasons, they did not eat these things. However, the power of the environment was huge. After seeing that the Ming and Estonians in the village were eating very happily and the prices were indeed cheap, these French people gradually ate them and gradually threw their original customs behind them. Assimilation, or changing customs, were obtained bit by bit between these details.

It will take a while for lunch to finish. Shao Yuanyi first walked to the pigpen to add some pig food to the pigs in the pen, and then walked through the main hall to the back of the house. There was a large grassland behind the river. Shao Yuanyi built a cow hut here with wood and raised four or five cows. In fact, this is the case in almost every household in this small village surrounded by mountains and rivers. Everyone also planted large areas of alfalfa on the hillsides in front of the village. Alfalfa grew very fast, and there was a village who bought a horse-raised grass harvester from the Northwest Reclamation Bank credit officer, so it was very convenient to harvest alfalfa. Therefore, every household in the village raised two cows, more than a dozen sheep, and the same was true for Shao Yuanyi's family. The difference was that he did not raise sheep, and all raised cows.

Next to the cattle house is a forage room, which stores the harvested alfalfa. Some nearby farmers plant many sweet potatoes in front of and behind the house. Whenever the sweet potato vines grow out, they cut some of them and feed them to pigs and sheep. It is also very practical. Artificially grown cattle grow faster than cows grazed in large ranches. They are willing to produce meat. They can grow more than 300 kilograms a year and can be slaughtered in two to three years. There are many types of cattle that come from the hair, including beef cattle and dairy cows. The cow adopted by Shao Yuanyi is Holstein cattle. This cow is a kind of meat cow. In addition to growing meat, it can also milk regularly. In addition to eating it, most of the milk is sold to the village dairy factory, processed into cheese, milk powder and other foods, and then exported to all parts of the country.

Last year, a cow in the cow pen gave birth to a calf, and it is only a few months old now. Shao Yuanyi grabbed a handful of silage-fermented corn stalks and sweet potato vines, then chopped it up with a guillotine, mixed some alfalfa and soybean meal, and used it as a special feed for the calf. These feeds are easy to digest and have high nutritional value, making them very suitable for calfs in the growing stage.

Looking at the few cows in the pen who were raising their heads down and eating grass, Shao Yuanyi was a little depressed. The cow that had just been brought back at the beginning of the year was for nothing, but the bull and two cows I raised last year actually gave birth to one calf. This bad luck made Shao Yuanyi very unhappy. However, he was not alone, and not every cow in the village had given birth to every cow. In this way, the artificial insemination method of the animal mentioned above was also beneficial. It was indeed a good method to increase the pregnancy rate of the female animal and increase the number of livestock.

Shao Yuanyi is not a ignorant person. He also vaguely heard people mention this method that the breeding station had been using for a long time. In the past, it was mainly used to breed mares in the military horse farm. After vigorously developing animal husbandry in the hilly areas of Huxi, the superiors finally decided to introduce this method here to quickly reproduce domestic livestock populations. For this reason, I heard that the Ministry of Agriculture also organized people to make many condoms (the function is everyone knows). The condoms are made of whale intestines, which are strong and durable, and are about the same size, which is very suitable for the needs of breeding stations.

I heard that after using this method on the military horse farm, the mare conception rate increased directly by more than 30%, which greatly increased the growth rate of the number of horse herds on the east coast, effectively ensuring the demand for national defense and industrial and agricultural horses. Now, there are hundreds of cows in a village here, and a 30% increase of one to two hundred cows a year. If it is placed in the entire township or even the entire Huxi Agricultural Zone, then adding more than two thousand cows a year is not a problem. This number is huge. Based on the preferential price of beef cattle imported from La Plata, more than two thousand cows is 30,000 yuan. This is not counting the milk output. If these are included, the economic benefits will be higher.
Chapter completed!