Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

While Lin Geng was making money, he would occasionally go to the pigeon market or antique shops to buy some antiques or cultural relics that looked good. Although he was not very knowledgeable and might buy some fakes, Lin Geng didn't care. Who made his money easily? If he could buy one real thing out of ten things, he would have made a fortune in the future. Even if he bought some fakes, it was nothing to him.

In addition, Lin Geng would occasionally visit some trust stores and pick out some Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture made of precious woods that were on consignment. There are basically no counterfeits of these things nowadays. When accepting the consignment, the trust stores have already authenticated them and given reasonable prices, so it is impossible to buy any fakes.

Moreover, these Ming and Qing furniture are not valuable in this era, and not many people would collect them. Most of them are the old people from the old society who are short of money now, so they would take these things to the trust store for consignment and earn some money to spend. The buyers are basically for the cheapness, and they buy them for daily use. No one has nothing better to do than to collect these things.

Even if you are rich, there is no place to store these old Ming and Qing furniture if you want to collect them. After all, these things take up too much space, and not everyone can afford to collect them.

However, no one else collects these things, but Lin Geng has the leisure time, spare money, and place to collect them. After buying them, he just throws them into the small world. For this purpose, he even built a large warehouse in the small world to collect Ming and Qing furniture made of precious woods. When the time comes to sell them in the future, any set can be sold at a good price, to prevent these good things from being bought and ruined, and then turned into firewood to be burned after a few decades.

In addition to shopping around for antiques and antique furniture, Lin Geng would go to the Pigeon Market from time to time to purchase some ancient books. These ancient books were difficult and costly to counterfeit, and few people collected them, so the prices were low. There were basically no fakes at this time, so it was most suitable to collect them, and there was no need to worry about buying any fakes.

He even collected a lot of dragon bones, which are tortoise shells or ox bones with oracle bone inscriptions on them, when he was visiting pharmacies. They are now used as medicinal materials, and there are basically no fakes. Regardless of whether they are valuable in the future, they have helped the country protect some good things. When they attract attention in the future, they can be handed over to some national experts for research.

Of course, the best collectibles at this time are still stamps. There are already some philatelists who collect issued stamps, and the post office sells them publicly. Many stamps issued in this era have become sought-after objects by philatelists decades later, and the prices are frighteningly high. Therefore, collecting this thing does not cost much money, and the appreciation potential in the future is very huge. There is no possibility of buying fakes, so how could Lin Geng miss it.

In short, in the following period of time, Lin Geng lived a very leisurely life. He went to the countryside once or twice a month to visit Zhaojia Village and some surrounding villages, bringing some urgently needed things to the villagers there, and then collecting the mountain products in their hands and sending them back to the factory.

Lin Geng no longer went hunting in the mountains at every turn like he used to. He just went for a walk in the mountains occasionally, and killed some prey if there were any. If he didn't find any, he would get one or two wild boars from the space. Anyway, he never came back empty-handed, so people could see that he really went into the mountains to hunt, and that the prey was killed by him personally, so people couldn't catch him.

In addition, Lin Geng also asked Zhaojia Village to take advantage of the mountains and develop breeding industry in every household. He would first help them clear out the wild boars that were causing harm to their village, and also hunt or drive away some wild beasts that might harm their chickens, ducks and sheep.

Then Lin Geng provided some chicks and lambs to every household in Zhaojia Village and asked them to raise them. After all, it was very convenient to raise sheep in the mountains, and Lin Geng would come to take them away after they were raised, so they didn't have to worry about Lin Geng cheating them.

Although it is now a planned economy period and everything must be planned by the commune for breeding or planting, Lin Geng discussed with Li Huaide from the steel mill and proposed that the factory could directly connect with some mountain villages and ask the villagers to raise pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks for the steel mill and supply them to the steel mill.

In this way, the steel mill will have a stable source of meat supply in the future without being affected by the plan, which can greatly improve the food of the steel mill employees.

When Li Huaide heard Lin Geng's suggestion, he thought it was indeed a good idea, so he agreed to it immediately. It happened that he was also in charge of logistics and he still had this authority, so he wrote a letter of introduction to Lin Geng and asked Lin Geng to be responsible for connecting with the local commune and village.

The commune felt that the method proposed by the steel mill was a public-to-public matter and could not be considered speculation. Moreover, it was also a way for the steel mill to solve the problem of employees eating meat. As long as the village was willing, it would not violate any principles, so they agreed.

As for some extremely poor mountain villages like Zhaojia Village, they were also very happy after hearing what Lin Geng said. There were not many good fields in the mountains, but there were unique conditions for raising chickens and sheep.

As long as there are no wild animals like leopards or wild boars nearby to cause trouble, there is no problem in raising pheasants and sheep in the mountains. Anyway, the people in the mountains don't have many fields to tend to. They just need to put in some manpower to raise the chickens and sheep and sell them to the steel mills. They don't even need to ask for money. They will be satisfied as long as they can exchange some food from the steel mill to feed themselves.

Therefore, some mountain villages that are more familiar with Lin, such as Zhaojia Village, are happy to raise chickens or sheep, but are not interested in pigs that need to eat food, because pigs also need to be fed food, and they cannot be left to run around in the mountains to find food like chickens or sheep.

In this era when the villagers themselves cannot even get enough food, raising pigs is undoubtedly an impossible thing for them, so Lin Geng is also helpless. Even though his small world now produces a lot of various grains, he cannot give them to these villagers, otherwise, he will not be able to explain the source of these grains.

Even if he asked the steel rolling mill to help these villagers supply bran and other feed for pig farming, the mountain roads are difficult to travel on and it is impossible to transport the feed into the mountains. What's more, in order to fill their stomachs, the villagers now have to grind bran and other things and mix them into cornmeal, so it is really difficult for them to raise pigs.

Even if it was raising pigs, one could collect grass for them and feed them, but this required more manpower and physical strength, and it was not as labor-saving as raising sheep, so Lin Geng had no choice but to give up.

However, even if you only raise chickens or sheep, it will play a great role in improving the lives of the villagers in these mountain villages. The villagers can use these chickens or sheep to exchange for money and food, and sell eggs for money, which will undoubtedly greatly improve their future lives.