"Don't worry, it's too expensive to store blood for a long time. The medical department under me also conducts blood storage in Havana. It's impossible to travel that far to Veracruz."
"I mainly want to increase the number of healthy women in the army. We now have a serious imbalance between men and women, which has caused many social problems."
"In the task of reproducing offspring, a man only needs to ejaculate a bag of pus, and a woman needs to be pregnant for ten months. A man's sperm can be cryopreserved, but a woman's sperm is irreplaceable. So women are very important!"
Lena Fox explained on the radio that the reason why she sent multiple medical teams was to attract a large number of women to Havana at a relatively small cost. This made Zhou Qingfeng greatly relieved when he learned about this.
At the end of the communication, Lina asked Zhou Qingfeng about his current work. As a result, Uncle Zhou said with a depressed look: "The maggot raising thing went very smoothly, but the inspection was not so pleasant."
The so-called "maggot raising" is a very important part of the food production plan carried out by the "Aurora Legion". The success of the plan is related to the life and death of many people.
A few months ago, when the 'Aurora Legion' was still on the Great Abaco Island, Zhou Qingfeng and Lina began to prepare for the upcoming nuclear bombs. They knew that nuclear winter would destroy the earth's ecology.
Circle, the two named their plan 'Noah's Ark'.
To put it bluntly, this was a plan to try to restore species diversity after nuclear winter. At that time, no matter whether it was flying in the sky, swimming in the water, or running on the ground, as long as all kinds of animals and plants could be obtained, the army arranged manpower to reserve them.
Even if you can't get a living one, you still have to get a dead one and keep the DNA.
As a sub-project of the "Noah's Ark" plan, the restoration of agriculture and animal husbandry has become a top priority. At the very least, it is necessary to ensure that sufficient seeds for various crops and poultry and livestock can be left to restore the population in the future.
Now that the nuclear winter has been three months, the 'Aurora Legion' has settled down safely in Havana. As early as when it was building a greenhouse to grow vegetables, the Legion specially appointed Deng Chengwen, who was originally sent to dig coal, as the agricultural director and began to raise crops.
The matter of raising pigs and chickens.
However, raising pigs and chickens requires feed. However, there is no sun in winter and the temperature is low. You can’t expect to get feed by ordinary farming. When Deng Chengwen was building a large-scale greenhouse to grow bean sprouts, he took aim at another method that does not require sunlight.
Just live things - maggots. You can often see this kind of fly larvae that burrows in feces and urine in rural manure pits.
So disgusting, right? But this thing is a treasure!
Maggots start from eggs and hatch in only twelve hours. They grow very quickly. They become pupae in four or five days and emerge as adults in three days. The adults are flies. They can lay eggs after three to five days, and they can lay one or two hundred eggs at a time.
, a pair of house flies can reproduce up to twenty times a year, producing up to 200 million offspring.
Maggots are high-quality protein. Protein powder can be extracted, and advanced nutritional products and medicines can be developed. Don't underestimate it because you think it is disgusting, although it likes to live on feces, garbage, corpses and other humus.
Well... maggots do make people feel disgusting. But one advantage is that they can be used to feed chickens. Chickens are less likely to get sick after eating them. They grow quickly and lay more eggs. We won't feel sick after eating eggs and chicken, right?
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In order to provide enough meat, the 'Aurora Legion' is determined to start by raising maggots. The first step is to find humus. Needless to think, it is feces. The Chinese people's racial talent for farming is really no joke. Their ancestors used fermented feces and urine as food.
When it came to fertilizer, Europeans thought it was a witchcraft.
You bastard of evil arts, if you have the guts, starve to death!
Since there was no pig manure and chicken manure, the feces of the 300,000 people in Havana became the first choice for raising maggots. When the maggot farming industry developed in Havana, Zhou Qingfeng just happened to take care of the city of Merida in the Yucatan region. This ghost place is still
There are really no special resources, but no matter what, the feces of half a million people cannot be wasted.
Don't laugh, look at my face, this is a serious matter, related to whether the legion can continue to develop, so everyone should use feces to feed maggots!
In order to do this well, Zhou Qingfeng mobilized 10,000 Mexican laborers to build greenhouses. There are local stocks of portable boilers, and the fuel can be used with dead grass everywhere in the Yucatan Peninsula. By the way, the flat Yucatan area is a tropical grassland.
There is no other climate here, with dead grass everywhere.
The simple greenhouse was made into a semi-underground hollow insulation model, and Havana also supported 500 technicians. Well...the biggest skill of these technicians, apart from repairing the greenhouse, is to prepare manure. Zhou Qingfeng went to inspect it once, and then he
Never want to go there again.
Anyway, it is to accumulate and ferment manure, and add various humus, such as animal carcasses, rotten fruits, etc. Without carcasses and fruits? Then just manure is no problem. As long as chickens and pigs are raised in the future, there will always be various animals
The body came out.
Zhou Qingfeng's maggot breeding factory initially built 500 rooms. The fly species were provided by Havana. Under the hands-on training of technicians, the local Mexican workers quickly learned how to raise these things. To put it bluntly, the most important thing is to maintain a constant temperature.
The maggots will freeze to death, so just wait and don't worry about anything else.
A maggot-raising room is about two meters high and 100 square meters, with wooden shelves stacked in dozens of layers. Because the growth of maggots is very fast, workers will start harvesting after four or five days. Each maggot-raising room can produce something every day.
Three to four tons of fresh maggots, the daily output of 500 maggot breeding rooms is nearly 2,000 tons.
Generally speaking, a greenhouse should be built near the maggot-raising room to continue raising chickens and pigs. Modern broilers can be put to the market in forty days, laying hens can lay eggs every day, and pigs can also eat dried maggots. This will also be possible in the nuclear winter.
I can start production and save myself.
But Zhou Qingfeng is very clever. The Yucatan area is not under his direct control, and only maggots are raised here. After the maggots are raised, they are transported to the chicken farm in Havana. He would rather spend this effort than let the 'Enclave'
people see actual chickens and pigs.
If Zhou Qingfeng was exposed by the people of the 'Enclave' that day and had to retreat, he could have shouted, 'If you have the guts, go eat maggots in the manure, it is very nutritious.'
And precisely because of the endless supply of maggots as feed, chicken farms and pig farms in Havana began to open after the nuclear winter. The earliest laying hens and broilers began to lay eggs and hatch more offspring, and the first batch of sows also gave birth to eggs.
With the first generation of piglets, the entire breeding industry is slowly expanding.
"Oh, five hundred maggot breeding rooms are still too few! Let's build a thousand more in the second batch. This way we can have more supply of meat, eggs and poultry." Zhou Qingfeng became more confident after the completion of the first phase of the project.
With a wave of his hand, he began to recruit more Mexican laborers, collect more feces, and produce more maggots.
"Speaking of which, raising maggots should be promoted. There are tens of millions of people in Mexico City. How much feces can be produced? How many maggots can be raised? As long as we ensure that the chicken seeds are not leaked, we can let the enemy provide us with assistance.
, even if it is shit, it will be beneficial to us."
After giving the order, Zhou Qingfeng said seriously: "This matter must be recorded. Let future generations know that for the continuation and development of mankind, I will not let go of even shit and urine. What a big sacrifice I have made."