There are many lakes and rivers in Belarus, and the use of water resources for fish farming has been around for a long time.
In 1990, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the amount of fresh fish raised in Belarus had reached an astonishing 15,000 tons. However, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the amount of fish raised in Belarus continued to decrease due to economic turmoil.
After all, it is a small country. During the Soviet period, it raised fish on a large scale in order to meet the fishing needs of the entire alliance. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, as a small country with a population of only eight million, its narrow market did not have much fish catch.
Demand and annual fish catch production remain at around 4,000 tons.
Production has shrunk to a quarter of what it was during the Soviet period, and nearly 0% of this is from river fishing.
Whether it is farming or fishing, 70% of the catch in Belarus is carp. Even grass carp, silver carp and bighead carp (also classified as carp) are specially imported from China. In addition, most of them are European seabass, six-tailed catfish and European carp.
sturgeon.
In Catfish Village and the vast Pripet Swamp, the unique geographical environment makes it a paradise for catfish.
Regarding the torpedo resources in this area, Lyudbarev, who has long been a senior official of Meili City, is quite clear about it. Based on his fishing experience over the past year, the first fish caught here is the six-bearded catfish, followed by many
A subspecies of European bass. It should be the most common carp, but due to geographical factors, there are not many in local lakes.
Yang Mingzhi wanted to fish on a large scale. With a stable supply of salt, any fish caught could be made into shelf-stable pickled fish.
Including the seven newly established collective farms, as many as ten village Soviet delegations in total rolled up their sleeves and made statements at the meeting, swearing that their respective existences would be able to successfully fight the "fishing campaign."
The enthusiasm of the people was aroused, and Lyudbalev was very pleased.
He was not an absolutely optimistic person. Because he was worried about everyone's blind self-confidence, he stood up again, raised his hands, and said inappropriately: "Comrades, you should not be too excited. If we use fish bombing to catch fish, we will
It will indeed be a bountiful harvest. But after all, we are catching wild fish, and their numbers will not be very large. So, we can catch a lot of fish, and it is too optimistic to expect that quantitative changes will turn into qualitative changes."
These words awakened Yang Mingzhi who was standing on the stage and was following him happily. Yes, this is not a sea. Even if there are fish schools, their scale is not large.
Yang Mingzhi clapped his hands: "What our Supreme Soviet comrade said is very reasonable. We have indeed harvested a lot by focusing on fishing. You should not be too optimistic and think that the fish meat output can be more than potatoes. Of course, the more fish meat, the better.
If we can boil out a lot of fish oil, we can make another batch of soil soap!
Fish will be the most abundant meat available to us, and besides this, we should not let go of anything else we can eat."
"Yes! We can also send people to dig for the dandelions you like to eat." Yevlov stood up and ridiculed. His words made many people in the know laugh.
"Yes, we should dig dandelions. They can be used as medicine and as a vegetable."
"But here, children prefer to blow dandelion pom-poms and watch the wonderful sight of them flying all over the sky."
Yang Mingzhi waved his hand: "It is indeed edible and can help us get through difficult times. In addition to it, now that it is autumn, we should also collect mushrooms on a large scale, dry them or pickle them. There are also those tall red mushrooms.
It's time for the pine trees to bear fruit. When our lumberjacks cut down the big trees, they must collect the pine cones. The roasted pine nuts can also be eaten."
In fact, for example, the "local vegetable" widely distributed in China, that is, shepherd's purse, is originally from Eastern Europe where Belarus is located. Like China, this wild vegetable is also everywhere in the swamps.
There are also bitter chrysanthemum, borage, thistle, etc., whose output is very small.
It is a pity that Yang Mingzhi is particularly interested in dandelions just because of his personal preference and his ability to distinguish them.
He started chatting, and those native Belarusian rural people immediately listed a lot of nouns that he didn't know. Listening carefully to the descriptions, they turned out to be the names of a bunch of wild vegetables. The most familiar among them was shepherd's purse.
The output of wild vegetables is destined to be far less than that of catch, and the same is true for the output of mushrooms. Only catch is the most important supplementary food and the largest source of protein, so another very important issue related to pickled fish is at the forefront.
Leaning on the podium, Yang Mingzhi asked Salinchkin: "You should have come up with a plan for building a salt refining plant."
"Of course! Now it seems that this matter is not only very important, but also urgent."
Salinchkin is also the kind of person who pursues efficiency. He solemnly assured those around him that the salt refining plant could start production in three days at the earliest.
Belarus used to be a shallow sea in ancient times. After the sea changed, the water evaporated, and the remaining salt gradually turned into "salt fossils" after a long period of sedimentation and storage.
Pure rock salt is almost entirely sodium chloride and is colorless and transparent due to its well-ordered molecular structure.
However, it is now discovered that the rock salt excavated from the mines has a natural red-yellow color because it contains a small amount of sulfide and other impurities.
Salinchkin knew nothing about chemical production, but fortunately there were experts in the guerrilla republic.
He could ask the head of the chemistry laboratory, the experienced chemistry professor Ivanov, to explain this matter.
It's just that Ivanov's professional vocabulary made everyone listen to it in a dream. After all, this set of rhetoric is to explain how to turn rock salt into pure edible salt.
Since it is completely achievable in theory, the next step is to build the factory suddenly, and even a simple factory can start mass production of salt.
Yang Mingzhi returned to the podium again, and Salinchkin's promise was really exciting.
"Okay, comrades, maybe by August 20th, salt will be produced in large quantities. So after the meeting, large-scale fishing operations should also start. We will eventually solve the food problem. Next, it should be
Solve the food problem of cattle, sheep and horses.
In my opinion, the overall food supply is still tight, and there is no need for fine feed for horses. We should keep the soybeans and black beans for ourselves. Comrade Warmansky, what do you think?"
"Me." Warmansky, who loved horses dearly, stood up and deliberately glanced at the like-minded Sarinchkin.
"Indeed, the grains dropped by the air were originally limited to the soldiers. When we were raising horses, we only fed some beans and wheat to the horses that were engaged in very heavy manual labor. In addition, their food was always grass.
Although I love horses and have been a cavalryman, I also know that humans are humans after all. If the winter is harsh, those horses are also special food reserves.
But we have always needed animal power, and in order to feed these animals, we should cut grass on a large scale and reserve it."
"I remember you guys have been doing this work."
"Yes. Our Black Earth Village is in charge of most of the horses, and all injured horses are also treated in our veterinary hospital. Including horses that are thought to be dead or exhausted, most of them are treated in Black Earth Village. Now, hay feed is stored
The most are also from our Black Earth Village."
"Winter is coming!" Yang Mingzhi sighed slightly, "Every winter is a test. As far as I know, a horse can survive the winter safely only by eating an astonishing amount of forage. If it feeds on wheat grain,
The demand is much smaller. From the seizures in previous battles, we should have a thousand more horses now?"
"There are still some..." Warmansky thought for a while and said with certainty: "1,500 horses. I have to admit that the number of them is really huge, and they are all excellent beasts of burden.
Horses. According to my observation experience, a working horse, such as pulling a cart, must eat seven kilograms of fodder a day. A quiet horse that does not work only needs two kilograms.
Even so, our winter is really long. We...we should at most..."
Before Warmansky, who was holding a notebook and calculating, could come to a conclusion, Salinchkin directly answered for him: "We need 1,500 tons of hay! If all the horses are busy working in the winter, we will indeed need this much quantity."
"Ah! 1,500 tons, that's a lot. Our existing hay reserves are only 0,000 tons. It seems we have to work harder!"
Yang Mingzhi coughed twice: "If...if we slaughter some bad horses and marinate them into horse meat for the winter, it will not only alleviate the forage problem, but also alleviate the soldiers' meat problem."
However, after seeing the resentful faces of Womansky and Salinchkin, he realized that he had come up with a very bad idea.
"Comrade Commander!" Warmansky asked anxiously for the horses: "They are our important tools. Unless there are unexpected circumstances, we must not kill horses! Especially in winter, when the roads are covered with snow, I am afraid that the most efficient method of transportation is
It's just a horse-drawn sleigh! Besides, we're not that serious at all! You don't have to worry about us at all. After today's meeting is over, I will mobilize the villagers to harvest grass farther away. Well, there are also assaults
Grazing on a large scale, we strive to make all the horses fat and strong before winter begins!"
"I...I completely agree. I'm sorry, I just made a ridiculous idea."
Yang Mingzhi deeply remembered that plane and the bad history about the last days of Paulus and his Sixth Army.
Three hundred thousand soldiers of the Sixth Army were surrounded, and the actual number of troops surrounded was even greater. The civilians serving the German army were mainly Ukrainians and Russians, as well as a group of Poles, Romanians, etc.
Only a small part of the German army has achieved mechanization and motorization, and the logistics model of most infantry divisions is the same as during World War I.
When Paulus persisted in resisting, he received only six tons of aerial supplies every day. What was even more annoying was that ammunition accounted for the majority of these six tons of supplies! The military rations had been used up, and 500,000 people including civilians needed it.
Have a meal!
Each infantry division had at least 3,000 horses. They began to kill a large number of horses to satisfy their hunger amidst the hunger and cold. At least Paulus's situation was much better than that of France more than a hundred years ago. The defeated French army was in the snow and wind.
They retreated with great difficulty, ran out of rations, and faced Kutuzov's tactics of clearing the country from a fortified wall. A tragic tragedy occurred.
Military horses are indeed an important source of food when necessary. Today's guerrilla republics cannot survive by killing horses to satisfy hunger, leaving the more than 80,000 soldiers and civilians in the swamp with time!
The enlarged meeting covering the entire guerrilla republic was basically coming to an end on the third day.
On this day, many people made a plan to solve the problem of various material reserves. In short, the strategy was to do everything possible to collect all the food available before winter, and then use salt as the main method.
The means are stored.
By a show of hands, everyone unanimously approved the addition or deletion of a large number of open-air granaries and the excavation of a large number of cellars, especially for the small soil slope three kilometers away from the Blacksmith Village, the so-called "Black Mountain". The inherent culvert-type granaries must be excavated deeply.
Several major indications that had to be discussed were finally completed on this day and corresponding solutions were obtained.
The public meeting has finally ended, but meetings within the headquarters will continue.
Yang Mingzhi determined the future development strategy for the entire guerrilla republic, which was only a corner of the guerrilla republic.
The guerrilla movement of the entire alliance must obey the dispatch of the guerrilla movement headquarters in Moscow. Due to limited authority, Yang Mingzhi could not temporarily give orders to the three large guerrilla units of his guests. Not only that, on the night after the public meeting ended, Kove
Parker, Boumazhkov and Karmanov jointly stated what they had been asking for - food and ammunition.
"You are too anxious." Yang Mingzhi, who was sitting in the headquarters with his legs crossed, looked impatient. "Can't we slow down? We have just finished the meeting and we need to summarize the meeting documents. The meeting formulated
Some of the new policies will be implemented tomorrow, the headquarters is very busy now, and the entire guerrilla republic is very busy."
Although Kovpak was sitting, he felt uncomfortable. He finally stood up and said: "The Guerrilla Republic is very busy, and we are also very busy. My troops have fully withdrawn, and today is already the seventh day.
I have been paying attention to the rest and recuperation of the troops during these days, and I am very grateful to the comrades in the swamp for their dedication, but it is time for us to evacuate."
After all, they were guest troops. After the battle, the 6th Army's jurisdiction over them was suspended.
Their activity areas are mainly in places such as Bryansk, Shostka and Sumy. It has to be said that the fighting environment there is much more dangerous than the swamps. The reason is that it is close to the German offensive front, and they have to face
They are a large number of elite German troops.
At first, Yang Mingzhi hoped that they would leave early after completing their mission. Even if he gave them some food and ammunition, in the long run, he would not have to feed an additional 20,000 to 30,000 people, and his own logistics pressure would be greatly relieved. Because the 6th Army suffered horrific casualties during the battle,
If we urge them to leave now, the combat effectiveness of the Guerrilla Republic will plummet.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi was happy for them to stay for a while longer, say until September.
That is of course impossible! When they leave their guerrilla zone, the few remaining troops will be unable to exert any combat effectiveness, and the damage to the German logistics will also plummet. Objectively, the longer the main force of these guerrillas stays in the swamps
, the front-line German troops in the northern battlefield will encounter much less damage from the rear, which will cause Zhukov and Konev's troops to face greater pressure. (To be continued)