1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 262 That little mouth of hers! She went for further training with Deputy Director Han, huh? (Silver Alliance, Chapter 1)
The large truck drove along the cement road all the way to the farm gate.

"Beep! Beep!"

Two car horns sounded, and two security personnel emerged from the guardhouse on the side of the gate, slowly opening the door.

She glanced into the car twice, and upon seeing Su Wenchen in the passenger seat, her pace quickened immediately.

As the vehicle drove into the yard, the transport team's driver immediately turned to look at Su Wenchen.

"Director, are you going to the field office or somewhere else? I'll bring it to you."

Su Wenchen shook his head when he saw a large crowd gathered on the roadside where he had just entered.

"No need, just park the car. What are those people doing gathered up there?"

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, the other party turned the steering wheel and pulled the car over to the side of the road, explaining as well.

"That's the big rock that Deputy Director Zhang brought back. I guess the people in the farm office are arguing about what shape it should be carved into!"

Su Wenchen nodded.

After getting off the bus, I walked straight over there, and as soon as I got close, I heard someone say something.

"If you ask me, we should just carve a portrait of the leader, and then everyone will avoid all this trouble."

"No, I called the ministry office and they said that in organizations like ours, erecting a half-body portrait of a leader requires approval."

"Do you think we can just set up anything like the commune?"

"Then what should we do? How about sculpting a bust of our Director Su?"

"Is this a good idea? Should we call and ask the director?"

When Su Wenchen walked over and heard this, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

You bunch of bastards, are you trying to kill me?!
And what current leader would carve this thing at the gate?
Isn't this just handing over leverage? They're probably thinking they're living too comfortably!

So Su Wenchen spoke up directly.

What are you all doing gathered here?!

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's voice, everyone immediately turned around and exclaimed in surprise.

"director!"

"Director, you're back! You've come at the perfect time!"

"We're discussing the statue. Director, what do you think about making a bust of yourself?"

Upon hearing this, Su Wenchen immediately retorted irritably.

"Get out of my way and give me back the statue! You think I've lived too long, huh?!"

Then he walked over and looked at the huge rock.

Su Wenchen said directly.

"Don't bother with any busts, carving those things takes too much time. Just carve 'Long live the working people'."

"After all, I alone cannot represent the farm; only the working people of our entire farm can represent our farm."

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, someone immediately applauded.

"It has to be the director. I think that's a good idea. It saves a lot of effort and also allows him to represent the entire farm."

"I don't think there's a problem. Why didn't we think of that!"

"Yes, that's why it has to be the director!"

Su Wenchen looked at the venue, which was gradually becoming more like Hanyang.

He simply said yes.

"You little chatterboxes! You've all had training with Deputy Director Han, haven't you!"

"I haven't seen you for a month, and you're already trying to sweet-talk me!"

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, someone immediately spoke up.

"Director, isn't it because Deputy Director Han said that the people in the field office should be a little more polite with their words?"

"That way, people will have a good first impression when they interact with us!"

Su Wenchen rolled his eyes.

"Then why the hell are you using it on me? Do you think I don't know what kind of people you are?!"

"Their mouths were all loose, like that old lady's belt."

"Alright, stop imitating Deputy Director Han's ways. Behave properly in public, don't bully others, and don't act servile. We're a farm directly under the ministry, after all. It would be embarrassing for me if word got out!"

As soon as Su Wenchen finished speaking, he saw several people hurrying over from the office area.

The two at the very front are Zhang Zhenhua and Han Yang.

As soon as he arrived, Han Yang immediately said.

"Director, you're back. How was our work? It was my idea to put something up at the door."

Su Wenchen snorted coldly.

"Not bad my ass! You've turned the entire office into a bunch of bootlickers."

"What, are you a salesperson we've trained in advance for our farm? Be a little sweeter with your words."

"And our farm's eggs have reached the point where they can't be sold?"

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, Han Yang immediately chuckled.

"Director, I'm just doing this because the Ministry of Foreign Trade is asking me to conduct sales training for the foreign affairs staff of import and export companies. I'm just using our own staff from the field office to practice first!"

"Otherwise I'll be really nervous!"

Su Wenchen was somewhat puzzled.

"What sales training? Haven't all the Moonflower Rabbits already been sold?"

Han Yang shook his head.

"It's not from our farm, it's ordinary Moonflower rabbit fur from Beiwan Commune."

“These aren’t in high demand, and we now have our own import and export company, so the import and export company under the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Foreign Trade has been transferred to our Lan City.”

"However, this requires our import and export company to negotiate with the outsiders ourselves."

"So, doesn't that mean I need to train a group of salespeople who are proficient in foreign languages?"

Su Wenchen nodded.

"That's true, but you also need to be careful not to be too subservient to outsiders."

"Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to the domestic audience, and foreigners might not respect you either."

Han Yang nodded immediately.

"Don't worry, Director. It's not just me; there are also specialists from the Foreign Trade Department who are in charge of the training. I just didn't want to lose face in front of the Foreign Trade Department!"

Hearing this, Su Wenchen felt slightly relieved. He also knew that since this involved foreign trade, it was normal for the higher-ups to conduct the training. Otherwise, if Han Yang were to train himself, he was afraid that he would end up training a bunch of sycophants.

Then Su Wenchen turned to the side and pointed to Yang Wanlou not far away, introducing him.

"This is Comrade Yang Wanlou, the head of the finance department of the first branch farm."

After saying that, Su Wenchen pointed to Han Yang on the left and said...

"This is Han Yang, the deputy director of the main plant. He is mainly in charge of the plant's foreign trade import and export company."

After Su Wenchen finished his introduction, Yang Wanlou immediately stepped forward.

He shook hands with the other person. "Hello, Deputy Director Han! Hello!"

Han Yang responded with a smile.

"Haha, Section Chief Yang, hello, welcome to the main farm for a visit and learning."

"Wow, I can't believe it! Our branch farm has been built up so quickly!"

Su Wenchen ignored Han Yang's sentiments and pointed to Zhang Zhenhua, who was not so eloquent, standing to the side.

"This is Deputy Director Zhang Zhenhua, who is mainly responsible for the chicken farms at the main farm and the daily operations here."

Upon hearing this, Yang Wanlou immediately went over and shook hands with him even more warmly than before.

"Deputy Director Zhang, it's an honor to meet you. I heard on the way here that this magnificent gate was your idea!"

Seeing how enthusiastic the other party was, Zhang Zhenhua was taken aback at first, and then spoke directly.

"Comrade Wanlou, welcome to the main site, but the area near the entrance is not my idea."

"I just mentioned it to the field office as the director instructed. At most, they approved a funding slip. It was mostly the people in the field office who made the arrangements!"

Then he looked at Su Wenchen and said.

"Director, what do you think?"

Su Wenchen nodded.

"It's really quite nice, it must have cost a lot of money!"

"How's the finances at our farm? How much money do we have left?"

Zhang Zhenhua thought about it.

"Including the road repairs, the total cost was about 60,000 yuan!"

"The main expenses were on cement; the rest didn't cost much."

"As for the venue's finances, the income and expenditure statistics for this year have just been released. If we don't count the foreign exchange from Yuehua Rabbit, the total revenue for this year is 1.14 million yuan."

"The chicken farms account for the majority of the production. This year, more than 70,000 chickens produced about 1.9 million catties of eggs. However, our output was too high, and other brigades also started chicken farms, so the price of eggs was not high this year, only 50 cents per catty."

"After removing some damaged orders and adding the culled hens, our total income is only 960,000 yuan. The remaining 180,000 yuan comes from the rabbit breeding we did with the commune earlier this year, which produced exported fur and canned rabbit meat."

"I'm not too clear about the specific costs at the rabbit farm, but the costs at the chicken farm are very high."

"This year alone, we transported four million jin of feed corn from the county grain depot."

“This year the county raised our pay by one cent, which is calculated at seven cents per kilogram. This alone has cost us about 300,000 yuan.”

"Another major item is our employee wages and benefits. This year, the total cost of wages and benefits at the headquarters is about 350,000 yuan."

"We also added a few new staff buildings this year, which cost more than 100,000 yuan, so we now have a little over 300,000 yuan left in the account."

"If you need specific and detailed amounts, you'll have to ask the finance department, Director."

Su Wenchen nodded. It was pretty much as he had estimated, since these major expenditures all required his personal approval.

So Su Wenchen probably already knew what was going on.

The chicken farm turned out pretty much as he had estimated. After all, he was now a real chicken farmer and knew exactly how much profit a chicken farm could generate.

As for the egg production at the chicken farm, these laying hens are only fed a breeding feed once at the breeding farm when they are born, and then they eat normal mixed feed. So their egg production has gradually decreased to a normal level.

However, in this era, the egg production rate is still very high.

Because the ratio of feed to eggs produced is almost two to one, which is about half more than the normal feed-to-egg ratio of this era.

Two pounds of feed produce one pound of eggs, which is almost at the modern standard.

Of course, this is also because their chicken farms are actually quite similar to modern chicken farms in many places.

The various lighting methods and feed nutrition standards are already the most advanced of this era.

Even so, after deducting feed and labor costs, they only made a profit of over 300,000 yuan.

Su Wenchen could imagine that without his cheat-like abilities, chicken farms in this era would indeed have faced great difficulties in development.

Based on normal egg production rates and employee wages, a large-scale chicken farm with over 70,000 chickens could only earn less than 100,000 yuan after a whole year of hard work.

This is assuming there isn't a large-scale outbreak; if a serious illness were to occur, things would be even worse!
It's no wonder that egg-laying chicken farming in Lan City couldn't develop before their Blue Water Farm was established.

Because before you have mature technology and talent, you should be prepared to lose money.

The reason why many places in Lanshi dare to do this now is entirely because their chicken farms have developed and matured, and have accumulated enough experience in treating and preventing diseases in laying hens.

Once others learn it, they can naturally replicate it, which is definitely much better than them figuring it out on their own.

Su Wenchen opened his egg-laying chicken farm to others for visits and learning, partly because it was a state-owned enterprise, and partly to support other chicken farms.

This was also to pave the way for their farm's transformation in advance.

After all, they are now Bluewater Farm, no longer Bluewater Chicken Farm.

They want to become a giant integrated farm in the future, so they will definitely have to get involved in everything. Therefore, Su Wenchen thinks that maintaining the current scale of the chicken farm is sufficient.

Later, when there's free time, people can take charge of other industries, such as pig farming!
This is even more important than egg-laying chicken farming.

Moreover, in terms of making money alone, Su Wenchen felt that raising rabbits was more profitable than raising chickens.

He hadn't expected the rabbit farm to earn 180,000 yuan this year, because they only raised one batch of Rex rabbits and then switched to Moonflower rabbits afterwards.

I just didn't expect that even this would amount to 180,000.

The main reason is that at this time, the cost of rabbit feed is really too low compared to grain.

There aren't many people growing pasture grass; they have to grow it themselves.

Therefore, the rabbit's development will definitely still mainly rely on the branch fields.

Thinking of this, Su Wenchen spoke directly to Zhang Zhenhua.

"Old Zhang, do you have any new development plans for the main plant after the New Year?"

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Zhang Zhenhua sighed.

"Director, I'm still considering it. The chicken farm has almost reached its expansion limit, and if we want to increase the profit margin, we need to carry out deep processing of the products."

"The reason why the rabbit farm makes so much money is that a large proportion of it is processed into canned food."

"Back then, nobody knew what the future of canned rabbit meat would be like, so we supplied the rabbit meat and they supplied the equipment, and the profits were split between the two of us."

"Looking at it now, this is definitely a huge profit, but processing the eggs is quite troublesome."

“I sent people to the city’s department stores to investigate a lot of egg-related products. Eggs are indeed popular, and so are the products made with them.”

"All kinds of sponge cakes, peach shortbread, and egg rolls are selling very well, and they all require pastry coupons, so the profit margin is also very high."

"But flour, sugar, and lard are all hard to come by."

"The production department even suggested pickling them into salted eggs or preserved eggs for sale, but it turned out that the price wasn't much higher than fresh eggs."

"Moreover, after trying it, we found that about 15% of the moisture is lost after pickling. So, the price is no longer competitive compared to fresh eggs. We might as well just sell fresh eggs. After all, our chicken farm just wants to increase profits, not that we can't sell the eggs."

"As for producing high-profit products like pastries, our factory doesn't have many other sources of ingredients. Flour is a little better; we can talk to the city and they should be able to provide it."

"But sugar and lard are not so easy to come by."

Hearing Zhang Zhenhua say this, Su Wenchen also felt that it was still too early to develop the tertiary industry at this time.

Because their farms currently do not have enough raw materials.

Once the branch farms are all built up, we'll have hundreds of thousands of acres of land as a backing.

It wouldn't be too late to consider vigorously promoting the tertiary industry at that time, because then we could produce our own raw materials no matter what we did, saving on transportation and other people's processing profits, and the profit margin should be much higher.

(End of this chapter)