Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 669 Utilization of Biological Resources

Sun Xiangfu knew that those people in the audience who had never been involved in breeding might have been terrified by the data he had silently calculated in his mind, so he said again, "We know the difference between chickens and ducks eating insects, fish and shrimp, and grains. Then, we have to calculate the cost difference between feeding these chickens and ducks with insects, fish and shrimps and feeding these chickens and ducks with grains.

Once the number of chickens and ducks exceeds [-], it is impossible for ordinary people to feed them so many insects, fish and shrimps, because judging from the chicken raising technology explored before, if you want more chickens to grow fat and lay eggs, you must They have to be kept in enclosures to reduce their activities.

If they can't be free-range, they won't be able to eat so many bugs, and the value of fish and shrimp itself is several times higher than that of food. If they are specially caught to feed chickens and ducks, the loss outweighs the gain.

Of course, we can still calculate its cost first. According to the actual situation, if we only use grain to raise a thousand chickens, in fact, only one person can do it. If a family raises chickens professionally, it can reach Thousands, even tens of thousands.

However, to feed these chickens and ducks these high-nutrition insects, fish and shrimps, and mixed feed made of green feed, then at least two more people are needed to specialize in these feeds. You should have calculated just now, a thousand chickens Through high-nutrition feed, more eggs can be produced and less deaths can be achieved in a year, and an additional economic value of about 5 to [-] yuan can be created. Two people can grow and collect insects, fish and shrimp, and green plants suitable for chickens full-time. Feed and labor costs, based on the current wages, cost about [-] yuan, and the real increase in income is actually only [-] to [-] yuan. "

"One thousand chickens can make a difference of [-] to [-] yuan more, that is a great improvement!" Seeing Sun Xiangfu stop to take a breath, Changsun Wuji answered again.

For a rich man like him, thirty or fifty pennies may not be a big deal, but for ordinary people, this is a lot of income. At the current grain price, this money can buy almost a thousand shi of rice , This is the harvest of almost [-] acres of high-yielding rice fields in two seasons!
Changsun Wuji's role as a flatterer was well played, and Sun Xiangfu took the opportunity to take over the conversation, "Then, here comes the problem, our Datang not only raises a thousand chickens and ducks, counting all the chickens in the country, it is more than [-] million. Zhao, could it be that these chickens all rely on people to catch insects, fish and shrimps to make feed to feed them?"

After hearing this, everyone knew why Sun Xiangfu wanted to raise flies, because everyone just thought about the picture in their minds for a while, and they all said, "Of course it's impossible!"

For 20 chickens, two more people are required to specialize in making feed. What about [-] million chickens?How about a billion? What about [-] billion?

Datang will not allow millions of people to serve chickens and ducks!

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "So, just now, what this student is going to talk about is a way to help us solve this problem. Maybe you didn't hear the beginning and end of what he said. You thought it was just to raise flies, but it is not, except for flies. In addition, there are many kinds of fast-reproducing insects that can be raised, and feeding flies is only one of them that is more efficient, the technology is not complicated, and it can quickly achieve large-scale. Its maggot shape before adulthood is chicken Ducks are very fond of food."

Hearing the word 'maggot', many officials present felt sick and wanted to turn around and leave, because they felt that there was nothing more dirty than this thing in the world.

Sun Xiangfu also smiled helplessly and said, "The fly maggots we want to raise are not those dirty maggots in the latrine, and those dirty maggots have certain toxins in their bodies. If they are directly used in large quantities to feed chickens , may lead to an outbreak of chicken plague, causing chicken farmers to lose weight..."

Then, Sun Xiangfu gave everyone a general introduction to a more scientific method of raising fly maggots. In fact, he is not a professional in this field, and he doesn't quite understand what he said about space, temperature, and other things. I only know that the climate in the south of the Yangtze River is warm most of the time, which is suitable for artificial breeding of maggots. After the previous rounds of elimination, it can be made non-toxic, and can be eaten by chickens and ducks in large quantities, that is, the ones that die after laying eggs Flies are also good feed for chickens and ducks.

Moreover, it is very simple to scale up this thing. It only needs to build some more airtight fly houses of about ten square meters. A fly house like this can raise at least [-] flies. Continuously feeding a small amount of pig manure and chicken manure fermented feed can continuously obtain these large amounts of fly maggots, which reduces the labor cost of raising chickens and the cost of feed prices by more than half, and also solves the problem of chicken The scale of duck breeding is too large to provide enough insects, and it is difficult for them to eat mixed feed of fish, shrimp and meat.

"This is the economic benefits created by bioscience and technology."

After Sun Xiangfu uttered this concluding remark, all the officials at the scene, including Changsun Wuji, were quiet for at least a minute before they roughly understood what he said.

Before that, no one had ever thought of raising a kind of insect as its food in order to raise a kind of poultry, and also specially researched a whole set of very mature technologies for raising a large number of such insects.

Therefore, when everyone knew that they could do this, they immediately felt that their Ren and Du channels had been opened up, and their spiritual wisdom had been opened up. When they looked at the pictures of the biological chain posted on the activity blackboard, their eyes began to pop up. Jin Guang, because this is an idea that can make them rich!
"It's still early, everyone can look at it board by board, and understand each species by species. I just want to tell you roughly that the insect breeding technology currently mastered by Jiuyuan County can be developed into a higher-yielding industry. Yes, there are dozens of them. Like Li Yuanchang, after Wu Meiniang left, you should have been asked to build a maggot room and ant nest room! Next year, the number of red-headed centipede, a specialty of Suizhou, will definitely increase a lot Doubtless, Shanyang Pharmaceutical Factory, there should be no shortage of this medicinal material in the future..."

Sun Xiangfu wanted to point it out to everyone, and immediately let everyone know that every biological chain on these pictures can indeed be applied to the actual industry, and they can better understand what Sun Xiangfu just said , the importance of biological science and technology.

Not long after, Sun Xiangfu walked off the stage, and at this time, a student had already taken over the baton and began to talk about some scientific knowledge about other insects.

Actually, these flies!Ants!Earth turtle!And so on, the insects that have been cultivated are only used as feed for other species, the economic value is not high, and there are many species that have been cultivated during this period, but there is no scientific scale.

For example, during this period, people already knew that the male wax worms could secrete white wax, lac worms could produce lac, and cochineal worms could extract dyes, but because of the backward breeding technology, they could not be used to make large-scale industries. , so that its output benefits the entire population.

Sun Xiangfu spreads more of this kind of biological knowledge to everyone, hoping that everyone can make use of these human-available resources earlier and make certain progress, like later generations, let alone scorpions, white snails, and Tenebrio molitor, it is the price ratio Gold and silver Cordyceps have been artificially cultivated.

After entering this garden party, it can be said that there are dry goods every minute. After browsing through the biological chains and biological introduction display boards, Changsun Wuji grabbed Sun Xiangfu's arm and asked, "You guys from Jiuyuan County? , just teach these 'science and technology' that can help the common people to do business?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "You can also say that! I think the purpose of human beings to acquire knowledge is to make their lives better. This knowledge can play such a role."

For Sun Xiangfu's idea, Changsun Wuji also agreed at this time, looked around, and whispered, "These students, my Changsun's high salary hired them back to develop industries, you have no objection!"

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Of course not, but after today, people from other families will probably have the same idea. At that time, there may be a situation where the highest bidder wins, because it is a must to go to that company to work. I have no right to interfere with the freedom of these students."

Sun Xiangfu cultivates talents to promote social progress. Naturally, he also hopes that these people can realize their social value, earn money, and live a better life. Most of the children who grow up in the environment of Jiuyuan County are healthy both physically and mentally. Yes, even if the aristocratic family wants to use benefits to win them over and corrupt them, it is actually in vain, because in the future they will find that more and more such talents will emerge into the society, and when the common people are all talents At that time, their tricks are useless.

Hearing this, Changsun Wuji said a little depressed, "Is there no other way?"

Sun Xiangfu smiled again and said, "Why did you bring so many children from your own family here? Why do you still ask me if there is any other way?"

Hearing this, Changsun Wuji thought to himself, "Fortunately, the old man guessed his intentions early on," but he said, "But they came to learn by themselves, after all, they were a bit slow."

Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter if you are slow, anyway, these things can't be made all at once, and in the long run, if your Changsun family wants to develop such an industry, you need someone who knows how to manage it." isn't it?"

Changsun Wuji nodded in agreement and said, "That's the reason, but if the old man sends all the children of the clan to Jiuyuan County to study, I am afraid that other families will do the same. At that time, you little one I'm afraid Jiuyuan County can't teach so many students!"

"That's why I let you stay nearly half of the place in Jiangling City! A city at the level of a capital city doesn't have a decent school. What's that called? The first batch of graduates from our Jiuyuan County School, I'm afraid In the future, everyone will be in the field of education. Moreover, if everyone comes to learn, it will be good. If there is more demand, the scale will naturally increase. When all the schools in Datang teach practical learning, our country will be incredible."

In Sun Xiangfu's view, the education problem has never been so easy to solve. Even if it is really based on practicality, many people may be eliminated due to the changes of the times. Fortunately, he chose a relatively small group. He majored in agriculture. Before he graduated, he was sent to a place for an internship by the school. After that, he was directly persuaded to continue his graduate studies. In fact, he spent most of his college life working. If he was like some other majors, he might be on campus. I have a lot of time to talk about girlfriends, live a comfortable life for a few years, and then, like millions of fresh graduates every year, I get mixed up in the vast crowd and do jobs that are completely inconsistent with my major.

Hearing what Sun Xiangfu said, Changsun Wuji was a little surprised and said, "You have already thought about these things?"

Sun Xiangfu shrugged with a smile and said, "Do I need to think about this? I always go there, and the school education is there! A hundred-year plan, education is the foundation! Look at Shanyang, it is the first to implement A place where all children study, is it already providing us with a steady stream of talents?"

Changsun Wuji thought about it, really, a few years ago, there were rumors among the people that doctors from all over the world came out of Shanyang. Now, it is not limited to medicine. Those students who have completed basic studies in Shanyang are now either studying in Chang'an Guozijian , or, they have passed the imperial examination directly and become officials, and the students of the agricultural college have also graduated in batches from this year. After that, there may be rumors that the world's agricultural officials will leave Shanyang.

"Building, it must be built, and I will give it to His Majesty later. In addition, the old man also remembered one thing. You have confirmed that there are food crops overseas that are different from my Tang Dynasty. So, overseas, will there be different crops than mine? Datang's insects and animals?"

"Of course, the exploration team is also responsible for searching for these species. If they can return safely next year, they should have some gains."

In fact, in the search list that Sun Xiangfu gave Zhao He earlier, there were many species of insects and animals. Among them, Tenebrio molitor, native to North America, is an insect of great economic value, but I don’t know if Zhao He can succeed. bring it back.

"Then, can these new crops and the breeding of insect pets be handed over to my grandson?"

"Those things are all from Overseas Exploration Investment Co., Ltd., and your eldest grandson is already big enough, and I'm worried if it continues to develop..."

There is still a half sentence behind Sun Xiangfu's words, "Your elder Sun may not end well".

And Changsun Wuji, who understood what he meant, had already started to look cloudy and uncertain. It was not so easy to be the second richest man in the Tang Dynasty, especially when his eldest grandson was a relative trusted by the emperor. The Guanlong family, They will automatically move closer to him, forming a new super-powerful interest group that even exceeds the strength of the five surnames and seven families.

(End of this chapter)