I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

With the agricultural consultant in place, this part-time Master of Agriculture who hired for 3000 yuan has shown his value.

Chapter 171 The Popular Wealthy Pig

The seeds and agricultural machinery needed for the first phase of the agricultural production plan have all been in place.

And Zhu Fugui led various ministries and commissions to establish the [Daming Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Production Steering Committee] for the purpose of overall planning, quick recommendation, and strive to complete more than 15% of the first-phase agricultural production plan indicators in this year's spring plowing.

That is to reclaim 7.5 mu of land.

According to the design of the agricultural consultant, of the 7.5 mu of farmland, only 1.25 mu of rice is used.

It's just because the supporting water conservancy projects required by the Xinjin Agricultural Area have not yet been completed, or have just begun.

Without sufficient water conservancy facilities, rice cultivation is not suitable.

It's just considering that the southerners are mainly in the territory of Ming Dynasty, and rice is their favorite food.

But to be honest, few of these miserable poor ghosts have actually eaten white rice, and most of them grew up eating sweet potatoes.

White rice is just an obsession.

This point has been fully reflected in several Japanese people.

Zhu Fugui once checked people's sentiments in a large cafeteria, and saw a few Japanese people eating rice for several nights, but they had little interest in the braised pork on the side.

What's even more exaggerated is that they actually eat dumplings with rice, or steamed buns with rice, or even zongzi and siu mai that are also made of rice.

As if carbohydrates have magical powers.

Naturally, this diet is neither scientific nor healthy.

However, health is only one aspect of eating. Eating the food you like and gaining happiness are also very important.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui still arranged 1.25 mu of rice for this year's spring plowing task.

The rest of the land uses corn as the main food crop. Comrade Khrushchev will be very pleased when he knows this, and he will smile happily.

The corn seeds Zhu Fugui bought are all high-yield varieties, with a production capacity of 900 kilograms per mu.

Of course, this has to be based on intensive cultivation.

With the traditional agricultural production mode and a small amount of agricultural machinery, a farmer can take care of about 50 acres of land.

Although the yield per mu has increased, the labor cost is very high, which is completely unsuitable for the current actual situation of Ming Dynasty.

In Daming now, the most expensive thing is people.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui decisively chose militarization, large-scale agricultural machinery, and extensive planting.

According to calculations, if agricultural production is carried out in this way, the maximum harvest of corn per mu is only 600 kilograms.

But a soldier in the production department who is proficient in agricultural machinery can manage hundreds of acres of land, and he can also have a lot of spare time for military training.

Rough calculations show that the 7.5 mu of land required only 500 soldiers from the production department, but the grain output reached 4500 million kilograms.

Based on the annual ration requirement of 150 kg per adult, this food is enough to feed 30 million people.

Of course, the common people of the Ming Dynasty were not the Japanese in the Edo period, or the poor peasants under the Manchu Qing rule. If they could eat enough food, they would be happy. They wanted to compete with the Westerners, and they had to eat meat. To drink milk.

Of course, it is still too extravagant for the whole people to drink milk, but pork must at least be satisfied.

The piglets that Zhu Fugui bought will naturally not be the kind of local pigs that are slow to slaughter, have a very low meat-to-feed ratio, and a high fat ratio, but they are delicious to eat.

The pigs imported by Daming are mainly Duroc and Landrace pigs.

Many people in the country have a plot of native pigs, and they always feel that Chinese people have forgotten their ancestors by raising foreign pigs.

But in fact, both Duroc and Landrace pigs have a large number of Chinese domestic pig genes in their pedigree.

In the pre-industrial era, China undoubtedly had the best pig breeding resources in the world.

It's just that the development of our animal husbandry technology is too slow, and the breeding level has not been improved, so the Europeans used Chinese domestic pigs to improve native pigs, forming a series of high-quality meat pigs.

Breeding is still a shortcoming of our country in the 21st century, but in this time and space, the Department of Agriculture of Ming Dynasty is clearly at the forefront of the times.

In particular, the article "Research on the Separation of Pea Traits and Prospects for Agricultural Application" written by His Majesty Zhu Fugui, which was published in the "Daming Royal Journal of Science and Technology", laid the foundation for breeding science.

For things like peas and flowers, Zhu Fugui allowed the young people in the Department of Agriculture to explore slowly, but for food and pork, they could only surpass Britain and catch up with the United States, and seized the day and night.

Duroc = Rich No. 1

Landrace Pig = Fugui No. 2

Zhu Fugui swore that if he was only half as ferocious as his ancestor, Comrade Zhu Baba, the officials of the Department of Agriculture who came up with these two names would surely be out of their heads.

However, after discovering that the common people all praised Fugui pig for being good and Fugui pig for being wonderful, which actually caused the cultural value to soar, Zhu Fugui recognized it with a pinch of his nose.

It has to be said that both Fugui No. 1 and Fugui No. 2 are high-quality meat pigs, and the meat-to-feeding ratio of the entire growth cycle can reach 1:2 in general.

In other words, two catties of corn can be exchanged for one catty of pork.

And the speed of slaughter is very fast, it only takes half a year.

However, the lean meat content of these pigs is too high, which does not meet the appetite of the Chinese workers, and they are relatively delicate and easy to get sick.

Zhu Fugui has asked the Grand Duke of Seattle to provide several local sows for crossbreeding with Fugui No. 1 and Fugui No. 2 in order to obtain better taste and stronger body.

And these are the jobs of the boys in the Department of Agriculture.

Anyway, Zhu Fugui used PPT to explain more than a dozen kinds of artificial sperm collection methods for pigs, and then he slipped away.

According to the meat-to-feed ratio of 1:2, then half of the corn, about 2000 million kilograms, will become 1000 million kilograms of pork in about half a year.

Based on the 21st century China's per capita pork consumption of 40 kg, these pork can make 25 people happy to eat meat.

Of course, the Chinese in the 21st century had plenty of meat besides pork, such as beef, mutton, and aquatic products, while the Ming Dynasty had nothing but a small amount of poultry.

在21世纪各国肉类消费量：美国：120；澳大利亚：111；西班牙：97；以色列：96；加拿大：94；意大利：90；德国：88；法国：87；巴西：85；英国：84；俄罗斯：69；南非：58；中国：58；沙特阿拉伯：54；日本：45；土耳其：25；巴基斯坦：14；印度尼西亚：11；尼日利亚：8；印度：4。

It can be seen that the Chinese eat meat far less than the European and American powers, but they have been criticized.

Sure enough, only a certain world power will be loved by Westerners.

To be honest, looking at the amount of meat eaten by the third brother, let alone Europeans like it, the Chinese may also like it.

Zhu Fugui's goal is to make Ming's meat-eating index reach 30-40, which is close to the level of European powers in this era.

In fact, Zhu Fugui is not very clear about the meat-eating standards of Europeans in this era, but he read a book by a European scholar, saying that the average amount of meat eaten by Europeans in the Middle Ages was 100 kilograms.

Zhu Fugui didn't know how they lived and went back, but let's believe it.

Anyway, it is an old tradition that China will finally realize what Europe and the United States brag about.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui regards pork production as a major issue no less than food security.

But as the saying goes, if you have millions of dollars in wealth, those with hair don't count.

After all, the data on paper faces many risks. A heavy snow or a swine fever can wipe out half a year's efforts.

Therefore, while Zhu Fugui vigorously promoted Fugui pigs, he also bought a lot of veterinary drugs from later generations, which were managed by the Animal Epidemic Department and reported to him.

Grabbing corn with one hand and pork with the other, in April of the second year of Dewu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Fugui moved around in the fields and pigpens, leaving many classic photos for future generations.

In particular, Zhu Fugui was wearing a big straw hat, hugging two cute little piglets, smiling so much that he showed his eight teeth, and the old farmers on both sides praised the emperor's leadership. This scene was frozen in the photo.

"His Majesty the Emperor Shares Fattening Experience with Big Breeders", the "Da Ming Times" printed with this photo was once snapped up and sold out.

Chapter 172

Throughout April, Zhu Fugui was very busy, busy leading the soldiers and civilians to reclaim the wasteland in Xinjin.

The most important way to open up wasteland is the traditional craft of Homo sapiens - setting fire.

The ancestors of Homo sapiens relied on this skill to win invincible opponents all over the world.

Tens of thousands of acres of wasteland were burned down, and the young men of the Daming Land Reclamation Team and the Production and Construction Corps ate all kinds of strange meat.

All kinds of cute little animals became delicious after the fire, and everyone became a little animal lover.

Eating wild animals is prone to infection with parasites and strange viruses.

Zhu Fugui repeatedly emphasized that food safety must be paid attention to, and all meat obtained from burning waste must be handled uniformly.

As for saying that it is definitely impossible to just throw it away, it would be too wasteful.

In fact, in many areas of North America in later generations, hunting wild animals is a custom of life. Even if a deer is killed by a car, or a half-decomposed wild deer carcass is picked up, it will be taken home for barbecue. This is legal.

It can be said with certainty that their per capita game intake is at least several times that of the Chinese. I really don’t know why Bi Lian blamed it. At most, I can only say that the Chinese are more economical and are better at using leftovers such as pork belly and chicken feet. In their eyes, they will have the impression of eating everything.However, this is the real low-carbon, real environmental protection!

Zhu Fugui has raised so many Chinese laborers, and he has never seen Cantonese eat Fujianese, so everything is slander!

Of course, there must be many problems in domestic animal protection, but this cannot be viewed in isolation from the stage of social development.

Zhu Fugui has seen recipes about passenger pigeons in housewife magazines of this era more than once.

Passenger pigeon is a kind of pigeon that loves to travel. Its meat is delicious. In just 200 years, European colonists ate this pigeon with a population size of 50 billion to extinction.

In the 60s, the passenger pigeon population had begun to decline, but it still had a huge size.

It's a pity that they are widely distributed in North America, but they do not include the Rocky Mountains. Zhu Fugui has not had the chance to see them so far, and I don't know if they are really so delicious.

Compared with corn, the timing of sowing rice is more tense.

The latitude of Xinjin area is actually very high, about 47 degrees north latitude, which is higher than Harbin (45 degrees north latitude).

However, due to factors such as ocean currents, Xinjin is much warmer than Harbin, and even warmer than Nanjing in winter.

In fact, East Asia is almost the coldest in the latitudes of the world. Shanghai, which is known as "wet and cold" in winter, has a latitude similar to quasi-tropical regions such as Cairo and Havana, and Beijing is comparable to Rome, which wears curtains every day.

Therefore, the temperature in Xinjin is actually close to that of the Jianghuai region, but the temperature in summer is lower, and it can barely achieve two crops a year.

That is, sowing in April, harvesting in July, sowing in July, and harvesting in October, a total of two rounds.

In terms of planting methods, Zhu Fugui abandoned the traditional intensive farming, and also abandoned the planting mode of raising seedlings and transplanting seedlings.

In the homeland of China, the common people pick up one-acre and three-point fields, and take care of these precious crops carefully with a handful of feces and urine, striving for high yield.

But it's not necessary here at all.

The combination of the endless land and the near-extinct aborigines is equivalent to a near-infinite supply of production factors.

One of the purposes of Zhu Fugui's organization of the [Daming Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Production Steering Committee] is to promote the direct-seeding technology of rice.

Although direct-seeding rice has three major problems: hard seedlings, heavy weed damage, and easy lodging, what does it matter?

When the yield per mu drops, it will drop, and Zhu Fugui doesn't care at all.

The Yankees used rice live broadcasting technology in later generations, and they were basically live broadcasting on dry land.

They use special seeders with a width of 7 meters, and one manpower can sow 1000 mu of land in one day.

If an airplane is used, 4000 mu of land can be sown in one day, and the effect is terrifyingly high.

Of course, Daming didn’t have any planes for sowing. All he bought were second-hand agricultural machinery, and the price-performance ratio was the priority.

A high-end seeder costs 6 to [-] yuan, and a larger one costs [-] to [-] yuan.

However, there are also many ordinary products that cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to choose from.

In the end, it was the agricultural consultant who helped to contact a group of products replaced by local farmers.

[New multi-functional precision hole-sowing wheat-corn hybrid conventional rice sowing and cultivating machine]

The original price was 13000, and the depreciation price was 7400. Zhu Fugui bought 20 units at one go.

This kind of planter looks a little thin, but the effect is very good (see the comment section of this paragraph for the style).

It can sow and ditch together, and according to different seeds and different requirements, it can accurately sow the number of seeds required for each row, adapting to the requirements of rice planting in different varieties and regions, especially suitable for sowing hybrid rice.

However, because of the low price, the width of this product is far less than the 7-meter level used by Yankees, so only about two hundred acres can be sown every day.

But this is also a terrifying number that small artisanal farmers can't even imagine.

A total of 1.25 mu of rice can be sown in less than four days by 20 seeders.

However, compared with Zhu Fugui who was in high spirits, others were not so optimistic.

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty are basically mud-legged children who grew up in the farmland since childhood.

Although they can't eat white rice, the rice has been planted before. In their view, not raising seedlings is a waste of money. If the person who proposed it was not Long Live, they would have rolled up their sleeves and made a good theory.

As a layman, it is very difficult for Zhu Fugui to persuade the Chinese laborers who have helped transplant rice seedlings and do farm work since childhood to change their minds.

Even Lao Li looked at Tian Ban worriedly, and the tears in Little Mung Dou's eyes, if the apple muscle was not too thick, the tears would have stayed: