Is this reason...appropriate? Wang Yuanyuan was a little stunned. She argued, "But now there are very few people coming to Beichong to buy hemp, and the market seems to be shrinking."
"That's just the market that others want you to see. As for the truth," Chen Taizhong smiled coldly, "Maybe you will never know."
The next day, Wednesday, it was cloudy and drizzly. Chen Taizhong exercised in the district government for a while despite the rain. However, he did not eat at the district government, but went to the cadre training center. Whether he wanted to or not, he had to accept this change.
Unexpectedly, he stayed at the training center for less than half an hour, and just after breakfast, he received a call. Three more families in Qiantun Town had skin rot in their farmed salamanders.
This rotten skin disease, together with erythroderma and tail rot disease, are also known as the three major diseases of salamanders - these three major diseases are for the Beichong salamander. There are too many diseases in the salamander in nature, but Beichong is the most popular.
Yes, it’s these three.
Erythroderma mainly means that the water is not good. Once a salamander has a wound on its body and is infected by external bacteria, its skin color will easily turn red. In fact, not only the skin color will turn red, but most of them will die at that time.
Changing the water frequently can solve this problem.
The source of tail rot is still a mystery. If you change the water frequently and add antibiotics and other drugs, you can effectively prevent and treat common saprolegnia and mouth rot, and erythroderma can also be curbed to a certain extent.
But tail rot disease is really difficult to prevent. There are too many possible influencing factors. If you want to effectively prevent and treat it, you can only increase the dosage of the drug, but in this case, the adult fish will not be so natural.
These are other things. The problem now is: the giant salamander has skin rot!
Rot skin disease is the most common disease in salamander breeding. If you want to prevent it, it is best to prevent it by increasing the dose of antibiotics - even if some fish will die, most fish can survive.
However, this disease can affect Chen Taizhong. But there is another cause and effect - this disease is mainly caused by unclean diet, that is to say, the giant salamander ate unclean things.
District Chief Chen rushed to the home of a farmer, and technicians from the breeding center were also present. They reported to the leader that after investigation, the three salamanders became ill probably because they ate loaches bought from the market.
Beichong now breeds a lot of loaches. At first, they supplied salamanders as bait and also sold them to restaurants. Because there are so many of them, the prices are not very high.
But the strange thing is that the price of loach in the restaurant is very low. It is loved by some migrant workers - after all, it is meat, especially the fried loach in the kebab. Although the price is not low, it is
Sold by the piece. After a hard day's work, having a bottle of beer and some skewers is a magical day.
By now, the reputation of Beichong fried loach has spread to other places. Together with spicy duck neck, snails and spicy crayfish, they are all famous snacks for relieving the heat on summer nights. You can find them everywhere at street stalls in Yangzhou.
Therefore, many people come to Beichong to purchase goods. Although some people from other places have begun to raise loaches, in terms of breeding scale, Beichong is still the most popular, and Beichong people are honest and do not use those messy drugs to accelerate ripening.
This is the so-called east does not light up and the west lights up, and Beichong breeds loach. It was originally intended to provide bait for salamanders, but unexpectedly, spicy loach has become a famous dish in Beichong. As midsummer approaches, people and merchants buying loach are getting more and more popular.
Come more and more.
As soon as the demand increased, the price of loach immediately rose, causing people and salamanders to compete for food. Farmers' breeding costs increased, but they still had to buy it - salamanders are not easy to breed, and the bait is also a big reason
, when feeding, you can’t just feed prepared food, you have to feed live animals every now and then.
So some people select some half-dead loaches and sell them to farmers. There are many outsiders who come to buy loaches. They always hope to buy the strongest loaches to avoid death during transportation.
In fact, a few deaths are not a big deal, but if there is any disease, mass deaths will have a big impact.
In short, good loaches are sold to humans, and bad loaches are sold to giant salamanders. It is normal for problems to arise after eating them.
After hearing the explanation, Chen Taizhong shook his head in confusion, "Can't I just buy the loach and raise it for two days?"
This is common knowledge that everyone knows. The belly of a loach is full of mud. After you buy it, you need to raise it for two days so that it can spit out the mud before you can start cooking. If you are in a hurry, you can also add some salt to the water or cook it over low heat and spit it out.
Mud is faster. If you want to make live fish like loach drilled into tofu into the dish, you have to beat eggs into the water and feed them so that the loach can change its stomach.
"If you raise it for two days, it may die," the farmer replied with a frown, "If the loach is dead... then it will have another price."
This is true. Chen Taizhong frowned and shook his head. He also felt that this problem was a bit unsolvable. Then, he realized another question, "Have you ever bought a dead loach?"
"I've bought it, and the giant salamander will eat it too. Just don't die for too long. This thing actually has a good appetite," the farmer replied nonchalantly, "The key is that live animals are too expensive."
Looking at the five giant salamanders hiding in the darkness of the pond, Chen Taizhong shook his head sadly. After half a year of breeding, the giant salamanders in Beichong generally grew to eight or nine taels. In another half year, they would reach about half a catty. At this time,
Ready for sale.
The best time to sell salamander is between two and four pounds. One reason is that the meat can be eaten quickly, which is economical for farmers, and the other is that the market has strong tolerance. A two-pound salamander costs 8,000 yuan per catty, but only one pound per two pounds.
Sixty thousand.
But a five-pound salamander costs 30,000 to 40,000 yuan just to buy, and such a big salamander cannot be eaten by five or six people - you can eat it even if you try hard, but you can't eat other dishes.
?
Of course, the phenomenon of waste does exist, but most people are still unwilling to waste such valuable things, so in short, salamanders between two and four pounds are the best sellers in the market.
The giant salamander, which will see profits in half a year, is currently lying there half-dead, with ulcers of varying sizes on its body. Chen Taizhong looks at it and feels sorry for the farmer.
He couldn't say it, so he threw some immortal power at it and sighed, "I'm telling you, fellow man, this is obviously a valuable thing. You can't keep it indiscriminately like this. When we collect the fish, they will be tested. If the antibiotics in the body exceed the standard, it is necessary to
Downgraded.”
"It eats better than humans," the farmer replied sadly, "I only see a meat-eating baby every three to five days in my house. It can't survive without eating meat every two meals."
This is also the current situation in Beichong. In many places in Beichong, they still only eat two meals a day during the off-farm season. This family can afford to raise salamanders and the conditions are not bad, but it only takes three to five days to eat one meal. It’s not that they can’t eat it.
I couldn't bear to eat it.
"If you set the level a little higher, you can make money at all." Chen Taizhong raised his hand and patted the farmer on the shoulder. "The profits from raising this thing are already quite high. You have to learn to stop it in moderation and feed it more good food."
…Where can I make all the money?”
"If you loosen your grip, one fish can provide one more person with food," the farmer replied sadly. For rural people, the cost of food rations is not high. They raise food at home or grow it in the field, but if they sell it for money, they can go to the farm.
If you sell it in the town, you don't have to worry about selling it for four to five hundred yuan. "Who wants to earn less if you can make more?"
"There is something wrong with your investment philosophy," Chen Taizhong continued to educate him. "Nowadays, when people with spare money invest, the first thing they must consider is capital preservation. In addition to capital preservation, the more you can earn, the better... You must first consider capital,
You can’t beat the odds.”
"When I can protect my capital, I also have to consider making more money," the farmer argued. "Feeding live animals like this is supposed to be the safest... Half-dead ones should be fine, right?"
Chen Taizhong was speechless immediately. He thought of the pigs and sheep that died of the plague, and the villagers had to carefully process them before eating them. For a moment, he understood this mentality a little bit - waste is shameful.
After all, he was still too poor. Like Lu Tianxiang, who was the richest man in Beichong after all. When he ate at his own home, the food was very simple - the pork head meat served to District Mayor Chen was all bought fresh.
He believed that Mr. Lu would be generous when socializing in Luhai, but when he returned home and closed the door, he should still be frugal.
My poor people of Beichong, when can we put down this heavy burden? Chen Taizhong sighed softly, "I understand your eagerness to make money, but with such a large investment and salamander breeding is a new thing, we still require stability first.
."
"Don't worry if you make money slowly. As long as you make money every day, step by step, and go down-to-earth, you will make endless money. It will be more appropriate for you to consider how to make more money after you have mastered the art of breeding.
A little...what do you think?"
"District Chief Chen, you have good advice, I know it," the farmer sighed, took two steps back, picked up the tobacco bag in his hand, stuffed shredded tobacco into the pot in his hand, and asked, "
District Chief Chen, what do you think this is?"
"The Beichong Cigarette Factory has been established. Do you think I know what it is?" Chen Taizhong frowned slightly.
"I grow these tobacco leaves myself," the farmer stuffed the tobacco slowly and handed the pot to Chen Taizhong, "Want a couple of puffs?"
"Forget it, I can't stand the smell," Chen Taizhong calmly took out his cigarette and scattered two cigarettes out - District Chief Chen is not a germophobe, but...you don't know how many cigarette holders he smoked.
It’s been years, let me take two puffs?
"I have grown tobacco leaves and ramie." The farmer put District Chang Chen's loose cigarette to his ear, lit his pot slowly, took two puffs, and then spoke slowly, "I also make a lot of money."
I have to make some money, so... I have my own ideas about how to make money."
"The government's policies are not long-lasting. I can only catch what I can see," he exhaled a thick puff of smoke and squatted down, "If District Chief Chen can stay in Beichong for ten years, this giant baby fish,
It doesn’t matter if I feed them live animals every day, I can also raise loaches myself, because I trust your policies, but... can you stay for ten years?"