Chapter 1721 Building a stove
The main business in the village comes from Tu Liangzhi. Although there is an extra thoughtfulness now, there is too much work, at least three to five times as before.
Wu Renzhong is now more communicating with the state. The two bases are to be established in Lianhe Township. All kinds of tedious matters are to be handled by Tu Liangzhi. Tu Liangzhi can only do two things. He is good at "internal affairs". With his level and ability, Wu Renzhong has to do all "foreign affairs".
Zhou Zhi's role is more of a "strategist", responsible for coming up with ideas and liaising with the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the provincial capital, the capital and other places.
Not only as a military advisor for the township, but also as a military advisor for the state, Li Yutang often needs to give him thoughtful advice on investment promotion, foreign trade, and air cargo.
Even some specific problems in credit and finance have not been experienced by banks in some business states. The latest "advanced" practices in some provinces cannot be implemented on the surface. They need to be informed carefully and then let them know. Go to your superior business line to understand and clear customs.
In addition, Zhou Zhi also has to study, write papers, and have a lot of affairs of his own, which is not an ordinary busy job.
Even Gillette Abby is very busy. Not only does he have to take care of his children, he also has a chicken farm and a pig farm to be busy with.
Speaking of which, Jilie Abi is the busiest one in Lianhe Township. The Yanan black pig is a local large-scale pig and a high-reproductive pig breed. A sow can produce up to three piglets per year. Ten to forty heads.
The prerequisite is good care.
Fortunately, the current pig farm is not short of feed, potato peels, buckwheat husks, as well as pasture, sweet potato vines, and pumpkins.
Bean dregs have now been eliminated as pig feed, and corn crumbs are used as supplements. The two Yanan black sows have never experienced such care. They are shiny and shiny, and they have already given birth to one litter each. There are forty more piglets in the farm.
No matter how talented Gillette Abi is, he cannot handle so many piglets by himself, so Zhou Zhi must help.
First of all, the teeth need to be cut off. Piglets, especially those from local breeds, have eight sharp teeth that need to be cut off when they are born. Otherwise, these sharp teeth will scratch the sow’s udder, and the piglets will still bite when fighting. They can scratch each other's skin and cause secondary infection.
If the piglet bites the sow in pain, the sow may even eat the piglets.
Therefore, the teeth of piglets should also be trimmed when they are one day old. In order to prevent the blood vessels and nerves in the pulp cavity from being exposed and infected, the best way is to trim only the sharp parts of the teeth rather than extracting the entire tooth. So that the piglets can find suitable nipples and establish a suckling sequence within 72 hours after birth.
Then the tail needs to be docked. In order to prevent piglets from biting each other's tails, piglets that are one or two days old must undergo tail docking surgery. The tails of piglets cannot be completely cut off, and a section must be left to protect the private parts.
These procedures require surgical tools, iodophor, soldering iron, oral medications, etc.
After doing this, raising the piglets for seven days is the most important step in raising pigs, castration.
Before the arrival of Zhou Zhi, the gilts basically ended up turning into lumps of meat. The "pig cutters" among the local fellows would only work on male piglets, and they would not be able to deal with sows with such depth. Surgery, they won't.
Zhou Zhi knew that this technology existed, so he invited agricultural machinery personnel from the state to operate on the piglets and teach them the skills.
After the gilts are cross-stitched, they can be raised as meat pigs just like the castrated boars.
After watching the performance of "castration of sow piglets", the Yi people all looked shocked.
This is undoubtedly a huge improvement. In the past, gilts were raised for up to two months before being slaughtered. Now it is equivalent to doubling the output.
If this can be regarded as "liberating productivity", the liberation of productivity is definitely a bit scary, at least for the Yi people. The first person to learn this craft was not the pig cutter, but Lao Chiri, which made Zhou Zhi realize that the reason why Da Bimo could become Da Bimo was that he had something to do with it.
I saw that Lao Chiri was able to get started after only observing the operation of two gilts. He performed like an experienced hand. Zhou Zhi's shocked look was similar to that of the Yi people around him.
But for Lao Chiri, it is not particularly complicated to make flowers for gilts. This question is not beyond the scope.
This operation is very similar to the castration operation on roosters in the countryside. It is also castrated inside the body, and it has not been done before.
Then the problem arises. Doubling the number of piglets has exceeded the capacity of the pig farm and Gillette Abby, so although Gillette Abby is reluctant to part with it, he can only sell the piglets to There are folks around who are willing to raise pigs.
Many villagers have never even raised pigs, so they need to carefully assemble the township's "construction team" to build pig pens for everyone, and often visit their homes to provide guidance on how to raise pigs.
So Tu Liangzhi can only suffer and be happy by himself, don't expect his wife to help.
“Elbow elbow!” Wu Renzhong rushed over with a illustrated magazine and waved: “Come and see! This is the stone carving in our hometown! It’s so beautiful!”
“Deng Come out?" Zhou Zhi stood up from behind the multi-functional rice grinder with a greasy look on his face.
"Why are you tinkering with this machine again?" Wu Renzhong couldn't understand: "When it comes out, the "Chinese Art" pictorial is not easy to buy in the autonomous prefecture, so the Education Commission has ordered it. My sister told me not to break it. ”
Now is the golden age of physical magazines in China. Color-page magazines such as "Chinese Art" and "People's Pictorial" are really expensive, and ordinary families will not order them. They are mainly supplied to provinces, cities, counties and large state-owned factories. Institutional libraries, libraries and other units are also enough for publishing houses to make a lot of money.
But it has to be divided into regions. The autonomous prefectures are too poor. It is normal that only the Education Committee subscribes to this magazine.
"My cousin taught me that the machine should be maintained regularly." Zhou Zhi stretched out his hand to Wu Renzhong: "His motorcycle was still as good as new after being ridden. How well maintained can you tell me? ?”
After speaking, he patted the machine: “It’s been too busy during this period. If the disease is cured, it will be cured. It is necessary for threshing buckwheat, packing grain, and cutting potato slices. Don't dare to get sick! "
"Wash your hands!" Lieutenant General Wu Ren's Pictorial. He took it into his arms and said, "It's just a machine. You sound like a pig!"
After washing her hands, she took the pictorial and opened it. Zhou Zhi's eyes suddenly widened: "Holy shit, she's so beautiful! Master Zhu Qinghong's skills have soared again!"
The pictorial showed a coral-colored one. Zhou Zhi could only tell at a glance that the furnace cover was a work created by Zhu Qinghong based on the famous treasure of the Nanjing Museum, the hibiscus, stone, flat-ear, and chili cover furnace from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Hibiscus stone is a completely transparent, pink and textured natural stone. The output is rare and fragile. In ancient times, it was extremely difficult to process.
The covered stove is seventeen centimeters in height and fifteen centimeters in diameter. Its abdomen is symmetrically decorated with two groups of dragonflies and ring ears. The top of the lid is also carved with four small dragonflys. Natural textures of the same size, simple and honest shape, fine carving.
"Spring is in full bloom in March, with mist and clouds, and peach blossoms are burning for ten miles." It is beautiful, but there is a problem. It is difficult to show the carving work on transparent things, so although the hibiscus stone lid jar is worth mentioning, it is beautiful. It is called the queen of beauty in Nanbo, but when people appreciate it, they mostly appreciate its color and size, and it is difficult to see the details clearly.
But now this southern Sichuan red flat ear stove is completely different in performance.