Volume 1 Chapter 0057: Trouble
"Nan Yi, Nan Yi."
"Uncle Yaohua, what's the matter?"
Nan Yi had just finished talking about the tape with Xian Weimin and Xian Weile and had just walked to the pier by the river when Xian Yaohua came over.
Xian Yaohua had already taken out a cigarette before he even reached Nan Yi's side. The cigarette reached Nan Yi's hand first, and the lit match followed closely behind.
Click!
Sparks spread rapidly.
"Nan Yi, Yaodong is not here, so the people from the brigade came to me to ask if the brigade supports them in breeding."
"What to raise?"
"Pigs and poultry chickens, ducks and geese."
“In principle, I don’t really support members engaging in breeding.
It turned out that the third team only raised a few dozen pigs, and the pig shed was stinking; as for chickens, there were not many in the entire Wenchang area, but you could also see that the chicken shit was everywhere.
There are also ducks, but there are not many of them now. Otherwise, the lotus ponds and rivers would be full of duck shit.
If members want to engage in breeding, the number may not be large at the beginning, but once they taste the sweetness, the scale will definitely expand.
I can’t imagine what Wenchangwei would look like if thousands of pigs and tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese were raised .
We only have a garment factory now, but we will have a food factory in the near future.
What would the merchants think if they came and saw that there was a smelly pig farm next to our food factory?
Do they think that the food in food factories is unhygienic?
In my opinion, not only should Wenchangwei Brigade not engage in large-scale farming, but even the more than 100 pigs it currently raises must all be slaughtered by the end of the year and the pig pens demolished.
Starting next year, pigs will no longer be raised in the area where the brigade’s buildings are concentrated, and the number of chickens, ducks and geese must also be controlled. The total number of these three items cannot exceed two per person.
They have to be circled for me, I don’t want to see them pooping all over the team.”
After hearing Nan Yi's words, Xian Yaohua looked embarrassed, "This is not good. Wenchangwei is a rural area and everyone is a farmer. It is unreasonable not to allow raising chickens, ducks and geese."
"I didn't say no, I said we should control the number. Why raise so many? Even if a household raises 50 hens, even if each hen can lay 250 eggs a year.
I'm counting the highest number. How many hens can lay so many eggs in a year?
Even if it's 250, that's 12,500 a year. If I send it to the purchasing station, even if I calculate it at the highest purchase price, seven cents a piece is the most I can get, right?"
"Not that much. Usually we charge 4 or 5 cents each."
"I will treat all the eggs they hatch as special grade, even if it's 7 cents per egg, that means I can get 875 yuan a year.
It takes at least half a year to raise a hen from chicks to laying eggs, and the most powerful chickens can lay eggs for two and a half years.
Two and a half years plus half a year is three years. A hen can lay 625 eggs in three years, which is an average of 208 eggs a year. The highest annual income is 728 yuan.
Doesn’t this sound quite high at first glance?
More than 700 yuan a year, about 60 yuan a month, which is better than the salary of most workers.
But how did I calculate this?
These are all calculated based on the most ideal conditions. If you really want to support it, you would be lucky if you can get one-third of the income a year.
How many eggs do you think are needed to hatch chicks in order to ensure that you will have fifty hens?
What about the other chickens that have hatched?
How much food should be fed to fifty hens in a day?
Is it okay to only let the hens eat grass seeds and earthworms without feeding them rice bran?
What if you have a huge fortune, but hairy things don’t count?
If there is a chicken plague and all the hens die, can they afford the loss?
Uncle Yaohua, if anyone can’t figure it out, just ask them to answer these questions.
I can give an answer and I think I can handle it. I can raise fish if I want, but I am not allowed to raise them in the village. I have to mark out an area on the tidal flats, the farthest place from the village, and I can raise fish there if I want.
But I have to make it clear to them that they should take care of the chicken shit and not let me smell the chicken shit.
As for the work points, we also explained to them that staying at home and raising chickens does not contribute much to the team, so they just need to not complain when the work points are calculated at the end of the year. "
"Okay, I'll go and explain it to them."
Nan Yi had thought about breeding. In his plan, the reclamation team would go out and engage in breeding in the future. Whether it was chickens, ducks, geese, quails, ostriches, or pigs, cattle, sheep, and rabbits, they would all be involved in that.
But he had never thought of engaging in breeding within the Wenchang area. No matter what he raised, once it reached a large scale, the surrounding area would surely stink. He did not want his home to become a smelly garbage dump.
But it is not a good idea to force the members to stop raising children, as they will think that the team is hindering their ability to make money.
As for people, they don’t know how to turn back until they hit the wall.
Nan Yi thought bitterly, "If we want to raise them, let the disobedient members do it first. When they lose everything, they will learn their lesson and work in accordance with the team's rhythm."
Nan Yi never thought that if he just waved his hand, all the members of Wenchangwei would unite around him, and everyone would be convinced by him and completely obey his orders.
Before Wenchangwei underwent earth-shaking changes due to his work, there would definitely be people who disagreed with him.
Even if he built Wenchangwei into the best team in the country, there would definitely be people who disagreed with him. But by that time, even if there were different opinions, they would have to keep them to themselves.
Nan Yi was self-disciplined and prudent, and sought common ground while reserving differences. He allowed different voices in Wenchangwei. The key was that they should not hinder the development plan he had in mind.
It takes three to five years to remove rust and reshuffle the cards, and eliminate those things that make it difficult to see the big picture and cause confusion for yourself.
Nan Yi thought all the way and walked automatically towards the reclamation team.
On the way, in a pumpkin field by the roadside , a few kids were squatting there, not knowing what they were doing.
He took two quick steps and waited to see clearly what the kid was doing. Nan Yi's anger suddenly rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
"Get up here, you little bastards."
The little guys in the field heard the noise and saw Nan Yi, and they wanted to run away.
"Run, where are you going? I know who you are. Let's see how you run."
When the little guys heard this, they didn't dare to run away. They walked to Nan Yi's side one by one, looked at the ground, and didn't dare to speak.
"Ah! You've only had a few full meals, and you're wasting food like this, ah..."
Nan Yi was very angry. He had already raised his hand and was about to slap halfway, but he pulled it back abruptly.
"What else can you do? Shit and pee in a pumpkin? In a famine, a pumpkin can save a family's life, didn't you know?
I……
Forget it, I am too lazy to scold you, take the pumpkins you have tampered with home each, and go back and explain to your parents what you have done.
You guys, you guys! "
Nan Yi pointed at a few little bastards and turned away.
When the pumpkin is not ripe and still growing on the vine, many rural children born in the 1970s and 1980s would dig out a piece of it and then poop and pee in it.
Poop and pee , then cover the dug piece back. In a few days, the pumpkin will grow back and you can't tell from the outside that it has ever been dug up.
The same thing happens when the cabbage is still small, and you poop on it. As the cabbage grows, the leaves wrap into a ball and the poop gets wrapped inside.
If what people born in the 70s and 80s did was just a prank and harmless, then these little bastards were born in the 60s and most of them had experienced hunger when they were young.
Having experienced hunger, they still didn't cherish food. This made Nan Yi really furious.
If he didn't want to add unnecessary obstacles to his plan, he would have really thrown back the slap just now.
Two bad things happened in one day, which made Nan Yi lose the mood to go to the reclamation team. He washed his face at the pier, suppressed his anger, smoked a cigarette, and went home in a depressed mood.
