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Chapter 23, the wave of family separation caused by pigs.

(The following is from Kyoto Non-staple Food Business Journal, not fictional! Also, the previous meat cut-off is also from it, not written for the sake of misery.)
Listening to the voice from the speaker, Zhao Chuanliang immediately understood.

It is indeed a good thing.

This is a cut of meat in the city, and the reward mechanism has been implemented above to stimulate pig and chicken farming in rural areas.

"Buy 6 and keep 4" for raising pigs, and it is allowed to raise three pigs, that is to say, sell two of the three pigs, and keep the remaining one for the family to eat, or sell it all to the purchasing station.

And for every big fat pig weighing more than 120 jins sold, 100 jins of feed grain, that is, corn, will be rewarded.

The most important point is that you can raise sows.

In the past, only castrated boars were raised for tail cutting, but now sows can also be raised.

In addition, if the piglets born by sows are sold at the commune's listed price, each piglet will be rewarded with 50 catties of feed and grain separately.

There are also three chickens, but each chicken submits 1 catties of eggs every year, and three chickens are 4 catties.

It doesn't look like much, but it's actually a lot.

Now the eggs are relatively small, about 10 to 12 per catty.There are sixteen or seventeen in a catty and a half.

Moreover, chickens these days are not fed any feed at all. Without nutrition, it basically takes two days to lay an egg, and sometimes it takes three days to lay an egg.

And it doesn't lay eggs when it's cold.

There are more than 100 eggs in a year.

But generally speaking, it is indeed a good thing for the countryside.

It is estimated that after this news, everyone will sign up enthusiastically next spring, because it is also mentioned above that the order fee for the piglets will be paid by the production team.

After the pigs are sold, the money will be returned to the production team.

Moreover, the pig raising this time is not part of the pig group, even if it is raised to death, it can still be sold if it is dragged to the commune, but it is much cheaper.

This gave everyone confidence.

Sure enough, the person who heard the broadcast said that the captain will go back to inform in a while.

I just wanted to tell you the good news in advance.

Now all the people in the village came back from the farmland, trying to figure out what was going on.

After all, the speaker is not very clear.

After coming here, hundreds of people were divided into several circles.

The Zhao family, the Li family, and some people with other surnames, after all, everyone is related.

Moreover, the Zhao and Li families have been the two major tenant families in this area from a long time ago.

In order to compete for good crops, there were also some frictions.

"Arita, what did you say?"

"Yeah! Does it mean that you can raise sows?"

"..."

There was a lot of discussion in the Li family and they asked Li Youtian, with a look of excitement on his face.

Others also looked over.

Li Youtian smoked a pipe and shook his head: "I don't know the specifics. Captain Zhao went to the commune for a meeting. He should be back in a while to inform you. Don't worry."

This is for everyone, after all, he is a vice-captain.

When everyone heard this, they were all discussing there.

Zhao Chuanliang also mixed in the crowd and came to his parents.

Seeing him coming, Yang Huaihua blinked her eyes: "Why are you back again?"

He was speechless for a while when he asked this question.

What do you mean come back again?Don't you want to let yourself come back?

Then he said in a low voice: "I'll go back and tell you that there is a good thing."

My mother's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she didn't say anything more. As for the rest of the family, they probably understood what it meant.

Zhao Chuanliang glanced at Wang Shun and his eldest son Wang Gang, and thought for a while.

See everyone's focus here.

Quietly out of the crowd.

When I came to the edge of the well, I pulled open the stone slab vigorously, and saw a hole inside, with a sack inside.

I reached out and grabbed a handful, and I was sure it was wheat.

Hastily put the slate up, made a little cover up and left immediately.

Without disturbing the crowd, he returned to the team.

Then he whispered to Zhao Chuanyong next to him: "Old Fifth, go and call Second Uncle over, don't talk, just drag him over."

"Hey!"

Yongzi got the order and hurriedly walked towards militia captain Zhao Tiezhu quietly.

After a while, the other party came from the front of the crowd to the back.

Zhao Tiezhu was surprised for a while: "Why? This is it, just drag me here, and don't say why!"

"Second Uncle, come here!"

After looking at the Zhao family all around, and his sight was blocked, Zhao Chuanliang greeted him.

Then he put his hand next to the other's ear and muttered for a while.

The other party looked surprised.

"real or fake?"

"Second Uncle, don't worry about it, come to my house when you're busy, and I'll tell you in detail, don't let people see anything."

Zhao Tiezhu hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.

He didn't say anything and finally left.

Everyone else was paying attention to what was going on on the radio, and no one cared about the few words the two of them had to say in such a small time.

After a while, captain Zhao Tieshan came back on the only bicycle in the team.

Also look happy.

"team leader……"

"Captain Zhao..."

People shouted at him.

Facing the swarming crowd, Zhao Tieshan hurriedly parked the car: "Don't worry, don't worry."

Then he came to a high place and began to read what he just said.

It was similar to what Zhao Chuanliang heard.

It's one thing to hear rumors, but it's another thing to hear the captain say it himself.

Hastily and distrustfully asked:
"Really? Are you rewarding so much food?"

"Yes, don't worry, this is the document issued above."

"Really don't want us to pay? The team pays? Sell it later and pay it back?"

"Correct!"

"Is it okay to die?"

"Yes, it's okay! But if the pig dies, it will be sent to the commune for sale. It's okay if it doesn't meet the standard."

…………

Zhao Tieshan continued to answer the villagers' questions.

Zhao Chuanliang listened and nodded. In the past, there was a standard for collecting pigs, and it has been changing over the years.

From the earliest 120 catties is the minimum standard, if it is lower, it will not be taken back and raised again.

It has been reduced to more than 80 kilograms now.

It can be seen to what extent the city is short of meat.

"Okay, all that needs to be said has been said. I will count the quantity needed by each household in a while. The city is ready, and the spring livestock will be brought to the commune."

"It must be three heads!"

"That's right, fools don't want three heads!"

"Captain, we are going to split up, can we have six?"

"That's right, we are also separated! Can you raise more?"

…………

For a while, people started talking again.

Hearing this, Zhao Tieshan had a headache for a while, and he didn't expect this to happen.

He yelled at everyone: "Go back first, we have to hold a meeting to study this, not to say that you can do whatever you want."

It's almost time to eat, and I guess these people are not in the mood to go to the fields.

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly walked towards the house.

Zhao Chuanliang's family naturally followed suit.

(End of this chapter)