1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 221 Once this color comes out, it will probably cause a stir in the foreign fur industry.

After the voting is completed.

Su Wenchen carried out a large-scale expansion of the rabbit house, because the money he allocated at the meeting was mainly for the expansion of the rabbit house.

Ten thousand dollars doesn't seem like a lot.

But at this time it is actually a huge sum of money. In an era of extremely low labor costs, most of the money is actually spent on purchasing construction materials.

After all, they only spent more than 30,000 yuan to build the entire site, although they had the help of a batch of materials allocated by the Planning Commission.

But this also shows that the purchasing power of money is still very strong at this time.

As time passed, rabbit houses were built here one after another, especially after the grass from the Oriental Commune arrived.

The rabbit house also began to expand rapidly.

There was even a point where there was a shortage of staff, forcing Su Wenchen to transfer a group of employees from Shiquan Field.

After all, although the number of chickens there has gradually recovered to more than 20,000 during this period, there are still more than 600 people, which means there are still too many idle people.

So Su Wenchen also transferred half of the idle employees to the rabbit house.

However, after the people were transferred here, the dormitories in the living area were no longer sufficient, so new staff dormitories had to be built.

In addition, two years later, the first batch of employees will be able to participate in housing distribution.

So Su Wenchen simply built the staff and family housing together.

So basically during this period of time in the second half of the year, the entire Blue Water Livestock Farm was filled with the noise of construction.

The rabbit house expansion, chicken house expansion, staff dormitories, and staff family buildings, the projects are one after another.

For this purpose, Su Wenchen also directly recruited a large number of temporary workers from the county to serve as the main force of construction.

In addition, except for the rush harvest period, almost every brigade, especially some brigades with poor conditions, will organize a large number of people to come here to earn extra money.

So apart from spending money like water, there is no other problem.

Since this was the only year that all the profits from their farm could be retained, no one else had any objection to Su Wenchen using all the money to build the farm.

Otherwise, after this year is over, a large part of the profits will have to be paid to the city or county, and it will be difficult to build houses on such a large scale again at that time.

After all, it's easy to give money out, but it's not so easy to get it back.

At that time, you will probably be told to figure it out yourself!

It is the beginning of the tenth month in the lunar calendar, the beginning of winter, the water is frozen and the ground is frozen, all things are put away.

However, in the living area of the entire Blue Water Livestock Farm, there was a scene of bustling activity.

early morning.

The frost had not yet dissipated at seven o'clock, but the front of a newly built three-story red-brick apartment building was already crowded with figures dressed in blue and gray.

Various slogans such as "The working class leads everything" were painted in red around the building.

On the temporary podium in front, the organizer was testing the sound of the microphone. Even though sharp electric sounds could be heard from time to time around, the onlookers were still chatting around with great interest.

"Hey, I heard that after the family building is built, all married employees who are in the first batch of employees can apply directly."

"Didn't they say that you have to work for two years before you can get a housing unit? Why is it earlier now?"

"It seems that they said that since the building has been built, it can't be left empty. Besides, all the employees in our farm are first-year employees, and we haven't hired anyone since then, so it doesn't matter whether it's early or late!"

"Who said there is no difference? I'm not married yet. I was planning to get married next year so I can get a room by then. What should I do?"

"It's okay, just get the certificate in advance. But this time there is only one building, with a total of 18 households."

"Add to that a number of newly built small bungalows outside, and there seem to be only 38 households in total. I don't know if we can get a house in the apartment building. Don't let the leaders divide it all up."

"Of course they can. I heard from the farm office that the leaders were not allowed to participate in the allocation of the first few batches of tube-shaped buildings. They all lived in bungalows. It was said that it was arranged by the farm director himself."

"Really? That's good. Without those officials involved, our chances of getting a share would be much greater."

"But I think the bungalow is not bad either. I went to see it with my boyfriend on my day off. It's more than 50 square meters, much bigger than the apartment building. It also has a vegetable garden, so I can grow some vegetables to supplement my family income."

"It's better to live in a building than a big house. It's so prestigious to say you live in a building! Even though this is not in the city, it's still a building after all!"

"And I went to see it and it was about ten square meters short, which means there was one less toilet. We have to go to the public toilet on each floor."

"If the kitchen is also built near the entrance, the area inside will not be much different."

"What you said makes sense, but there are only eighteen households, and I don't know if we can get in line."

Accompanied by the heated discussions of the employees below.

Su Wenchen and several leaders in the field were also checking the newly built simple tube building room by room.

Since they did not have the technology to build this kind of three-story building before, Su Wenchen only asked to build one temporarily.

After all, there are no professional construction teams now. The most professional ones at present should be the engineering teams of the army.

Although this type of three-story tube building was common at that time, it did not require any high level of technology.

However, Su Wenchen only built one tube building, mainly to accumulate technology so that he could build it in large quantities later.

In a straight suite on the second floor, Su Wenchen looked at the somewhat small apartment with a frown.

Since Zheng Xianghong and Zhang Zhenhua are now focusing their energy on the chicken farm, Han Yang is in charge of the construction of houses in the living area.

So after seeing Su Wenchen's expression, he immediately explained.

"Director, this is a standard straight suite. The total indoor area is 28 square meters, which is a little more than the stipulated average of 27 square meters. I can guarantee that there is absolutely no cutting of corners."

Then he introduced him to Su Wenchen.

"Director, the county and various factories basically have this type of straight suite. At the door, you can set up a coal briquette stove as a kitchen."

"The back is the main bedroom, living room, and dining area. There is a small room at the back, which is usually for children to live in and can also be used to store miscellaneous items."

"Even for families with many children, it is no problem to order a bunk bed."

"Director, our farm is rich, so I built it a little bigger. There are only 18 households in one building. Some factories can accommodate 30 households in one building in order to accommodate more people!"

Su Wenchen looked at the style in front of him and understood why it was called a tube building. There was no particular type of apartment at all. It was just a straight tube from beginning to end.

Su Wenchen then walked out of the room. Zheng Xianghong and Zhang Zhenhua were also looking around next door.

After Su Wenchen walked in, he looked at the two of them and said.

"What do you think? Any comments?"

After hearing Su Wenchen's words, both of them shook their heads.

Zhang Zhenhua said directly.

"I think it's well built. It looks like it's even bigger than the one at Longshan Farm."

"There will definitely be no problem if a large family lives here."

"Director, isn't it a bit unfair that these leading cadres cannot participate in the first batch of distribution?"

Hearing Zhang Zhenhua's words, Zheng Xianghong immediately retorted.

"How is it unfair? I think leaders should set an example. How come Comrade Zhenhua is planning to abuse his power for personal gain and move in first?"

Hearing Zheng Xianghong's words, Zhang Zhenhua immediately said anxiously.

"When did I say that? I wasn't talking about myself. The bungalow I live in is quite nice and has a large area. I was talking about other cadres."

Su Wenchen waved his hand.

"There are only a few in the first batch, so let's just forget about it! Let the cadres carry forward our fine spirit."

"And to be honest, with such a crowded apartment, I don't think it's better than a bungalow if I had to choose."

If this type of tube-shaped building did not occupy a small area, Su Wenchen would really think it would be better to build a bungalow.

However, building just a bungalow would take up too much space, especially since their living area is surrounded by farmland.

If we want to build all bungalows, we will have to occupy a large amount of farmland of the production team, and the use of the land will require various approvals from the county, which is quite troublesome.

After all, there are only a few hundred people in their field, so if they want to build tube buildings, about ten buildings will be enough.

But if we build bungalows, we will have to build hundreds of them and occupy so much land that the higher authorities probably won’t approve it.

After looking around, several people came down together.

On the temporary theme stage in the open space in front of the building, the melody of "We Workers Have Power" was echoing.

Su Wenchen walked up with the materials he had written in advance.

"Well, today is the day for the completion and acceptance of the first residential building at our Blue Water Livestock Farm. I know what everyone wants to hear, so I won't say anything unnecessary."

As soon as Su Wenchen said this, there was laughter from the audience.

Apparently, most people thought that Su Wenchen was going to say a bunch of meaningless clichés first.

"After careful consideration by the farm's Revolutionary Committee, the policy of welfare housing distribution at Lanshui Livestock Farm was officially launched after the completion of the first family building."

"First of all, regarding the conditions for housing allocation, since the current employees in the field are the first batch of employees who came in last year, the requirement of two years of service was cancelled for the first batch of employees."

"For every additional year of service, one extra point will be awarded."

"Second, only employees who are married can participate in the welfare housing distribution. If both husband and wife are employees of the farm, they can accumulate one more point."

"Third, if you are recognized as an advanced individual or outstanding worker in the farm, or a county-level model worker, you can earn one more point for each one you receive."

"Fourth, if you research, invent, or improve the equipment and breeding techniques on the farm through personal efforts, you will get an additional 1-10 points depending on the situation."

"According to the above conditions, this welfare housing distribution will be based on the score. Those with higher scores will be given priority in the housing distribution and can be selected first."

“If the points are the same, a random draw will be used.”

"The first batch of registrations will end at the end of this year, which is two months away."

"After the first batch of names are confirmed, they will be posted on the publicity board for a week. The keys will be handed over only if there are no problems." "So if you find that any leading cadres are corrupt in the housing allocation, you can come to the on-site office to report during the publicity period."

"You can ask me or a few deputy directors."

Since employees in this era attach great importance to housing allocation, Su Wenchen would definitely not show favoritism if someone really did deliberately tamper with it.

And below, after hearing what Su Wenchen said, some people started counting on their fingers.

After all, there are not many houses in the first batch, and only fifty families at most can get a house, and only half of the families can live in a building.

However, after counting most of them, I found that the first batch seemed to be people who had won awards such as Advanced Individual and Outstanding Employee, or both husband and wife were in the field, otherwise everyone seemed to be basically the same!

After all, this group of people all came here at the same time. As for improving the breeding technology in the farm, nothing has been done so far.

Therefore, most of the people who can get extra points are either married to employees in the factory or have been recognized as outstanding employees.

Especially those who have been awarded as outstanding employees, no matter whether they are men or women, are even more popular.

Because this means that you can basically participate in the first batch.

Since there are still two months left before the registration deadline, there is still one more opportunity to be recognized as an outstanding employee at the end of the year.

For most employees, this opportunity is crucial, and it can be said to be the key to whether they can get a house.

Hence, all of a sudden, everyone below started to get ready to go.

After all, although there is a house behind, no one can say for sure about uncertain things.

Besides, you can move in first and enjoy it first.

Between living in an eight-person dormitory and living in a tube-shaped building with your spouse, the latter is definitely more comfortable.

After it was over, the group walked into the venue.

Han Yang said directly.

"Director, look at the eyes of the workers in the field. They must be working like crazy in the last two months of the year."

"It's a pity that we are a breeding farm, otherwise, with this momentum, the output would be doubled."

Su Wenchen smiled.

"If the output doubles, it will exhaust people to death."

"But while we're at it, let's also prepare for winter."

As he said this, he looked at Li Zhenhua and Zheng Xianghong.

"The issue of keeping your chicken coop warm during the winter is of utmost importance."

"Especially for the newly built chicken house this year, we didn't use insulation foam for warmth, but just a combination of two layers of walls and straw."

"So you still have to observe carefully. I went to the city for a meeting some time ago, and the Planning Commission hopes that we can still have enough eggs this winter."

Now, as more than half a year has passed, the new secretary Zhou in the city has gradually reached a certain balance with Mayor Zhai.

With the first group of instructors sent by Secretary Zhou, a group of people took complete control of some state-owned factories and departments over the past six months.

Directly became the leader of that unit.

There are also some people who, like Zheng Xianghong in Su Wenchen's field, are in a suppressed state.

Now the temporary position of political instructor has been abolished and he has been directly transferred to one of the leaders of the unit and also the deputy director of the field revolutionary committee.

However, the cancellation of this position also means that the support the other party has received from Secretary Zhou has been reduced.

Because the new secretary has gradually gained a foothold, a group of people have already come over.

In addition, Mayor Zhai and I reached a tacit understanding, and the situation has basically calmed down.

Therefore, those who came with him and have proven their abilities before will continue to be reused, while those who have not proven their abilities will naturally have no value in training and will no longer receive resources and support.

What happens next and whether you can stand depends on yourself.

So now Zheng Xianghong in the farm no longer shouts about ideological problems like before, but of course he is still trying his best to compete with Zhang Zhenhua for the management rights of the chicken farm.

Because this is her last bargaining chip. If she loses the management rights of the chicken farm, she knows that she will lose her value in front of Secretary Zhou.

Having lost Secretary Zhou's protection, she felt that given the hatred she had with Zhang Zhenhua over the past six months, she would probably be killed by him.

However, the fact that Zheng Xianghong can currently get along with Zhang Zhenhua is also tacitly approved by Su Wenchen.

Otherwise, after Mayor Zhai and Secretary Zhou reached a tacit understanding, he could easily drive the other party back if he wanted to.

But now Su Wenchen felt that if the other party really left, it would not be a good thing.

It is not a good thing for him that Zhang Zhenhua has complete control over the chicken farm.

Checks and balances is actually a lesson that every person in a high position needs to learn.

It is human nature to be greedy. If Zhang Zhenhua takes control of the chicken farm, would he want to take a step further on behalf of Su Wenchen?

At that time, Su Wenchen will naturally face new challenges from the other party.

So before this, Su Wenchen felt that Zheng Xianghong's existence was a good thing for him, otherwise Zhang Zhenhua would definitely focus on him, and he didn't want to divide too much energy to deal with the other party.

Because he wanted to focus his energy on the rabbit house, and because Su Wenchen discovered that he seemed to have thought too simply before, the progress of the localization breeding of Rex rabbits in the past six months was still a bit slow.

To truly hybridize and breed high-quality local Rex rabbits, even if you have the golden finger, it will take many generations of attempts.

However, rabbits only reproduce quickly, giving birth once a month. Otherwise, like pigs, they give birth once every six months. It will take a long time before local breeding can be achieved.

After returning to the field, Su Wenchen did not go back to the office, but went directly to the rabbit house that he was most concerned about.

After half a year of expansion, the rabbit house is completely different from before.

Su Wenchen walked north along the repaired cement road for a while and came to a long row of rammed earth houses.

The wall is made of rammed earth, and the slogan "Produce good varieties through self-reliance" printed with lime is still clearly visible.

Here, Su Wenchen did not use the same insulation construction method as the chicken coop.

Instead, they directly built houses using rammed earth, which was the most time-saving and material-saving method of the time.

Because when breeding fur rabbits, what we want is the high-quality fur they can produce.

A suitable low temperature environment will stimulate the activity of the rabbit's hair follicles, causing the rabbit's hair to thicken, increase its density, and make the fur denser.

It can also reduce the secretion of sebum, making the fur drier and fluffier, thereby further improving the gloss and feel of the fur.

This is also the reason why Su Wenchen chose to raise fur rabbits instead of wool rabbits at the beginning.

As soon as Su Wenchen walked through the door, he was greeted by rows of wire cages. Workers wearing sleeves and carrying wicker baskets were moving between the cages, feeding the otter rabbits in the cages.

Su Wenchen walked to the innermost room. The cages here were different from those outside. Basically, there were only a few rex rabbits in one cage.

The colors are also different, and each cage has a wooden sign hanging on it with a number written on it.

One of the young technicians was recording the Rex rabbits in the cage one by one.

"How is it? Has Xiao Miao changed today?"

After hearing the voice, Miao Zhiguo turned around and saw Su Wenchen, and immediately showed an excited look and said to Su Wenchen.

"Director, there are new changes. The one you're paying special attention to has become a completely different color from the other Rex rabbits, and it's very shiny! Very shiny!"

When Su Wenchen heard this, he walked over and said.

“When did the change happen?”

Listening to Su Wenchen's question, Miao Zhiguo flipped through the notebook, followed Su Wenchen around several cages, and said while looking at the otter rabbit in a cage.

"Director, because the change happened last night, I fed it with No. 1 breeding feed as required yesterday. The color of this feed is currently more silvery white, but it is different from ordinary silvery white. It has a high gloss and can be seen at a glance."

"And how should I put it? It gives me an indescribable feeling. Anyway, I think it looks very beautiful!"

"As for heredity, we can only experiment slowly later on."

As he said this, he flipped through the notebook a few more times.

"Director, this female Rex rabbit was bred to be purple-blue in color, and the male rabbit was hybridized with a local white female rabbit for three generations to become a gray-white Rex rabbit."

"Of the babies born with it, only this one has changed color. The others are either white or gray, so we are still unsure whether this color can be inherited."

Su Wenchen squatted in front of this extremely shiny silver-white Rex rabbit.

The texture of silver scales was like the pouring moonlight, and as Su Wenchen's perspective moved, the entire hair flowed like a flowing galaxy.

Looking at this luster with a strong sense of the future, Su Wenchen couldn't help but want to touch it.

However, the rex rabbit inside, after seeing Su Wenchen's big hand, immediately put down the food in its mouth and looked at the big hand stretched out vigilantly.

However, there was really no place to hide in the small cage, so Su Wenchen finally touched him.

Touching the fur that was as silky as silk, Su Wenchen felt that as long as this Rex rabbit could stably inherit the fur color.

Once this color comes out, it will probably cause a stir in the foreign fur industry.

Because this color is relatively rare in this era, in later generations this color is generally called Aurora Silver, which can give people a strong sense of the future.

Of course, now he has the naming rights, so he will simply call it Yuehuayin.

In fact, Su Wenchen was not sure whether this color would be popular at this time, but judging from its moonlight-like color and rarity, there would definitely be people who liked it.

Because this color can only be obtained through chemical bleaching and dyeing on fur even in later generations, and it will also shorten the service life of the fur.

At this time, dyeing technology is simply not up to that level.

So this is the unique color. Su Wenchen even felt that if he made up a story saying that the Rex Rabbit had the blood of the Jade Rabbit, a mythical beast from the East, then its value would skyrocket!
Of course, this kind of story must be made up by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and they will definitely not join in the fun.

After all, at this time, apart from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, it is still a bit risky for other places to be involved in such things.

(End of this chapter)