The middle-aged man saw the pieces of paper in Fang Mingyuan's hand at a glance, and walked over quickly and said, "Little comrade, these pieces of paper I dropped just now, can you give them back to me." Fang Mingyuan saw him clearly head-on, the middle-aged man in front of him looked like he was about fifty years old, his face was full of wind and frost, half-black and half-white hair, rough hands and some old-fashioned clothes, all of which showed that his financial situation was not well-off, but his eyes were bright, just with a little anxiety.

Fang Mingyuan pulled over a chair and said, "Please sit down, from here, you are from the Heihe Daozi Feline Breeding Center?"

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Little comrade, I still have urgent matters here, can you give me that paper."

As he spoke, he saw another person coming up the stairs, it was the middle-aged man who was chasing the section chief Li just now, I saw that his steps were heavy and his face was gloomy, needless to say, the person did not catch up. "Lao Wang, people are young, I haven't caught up! Huh?"

Huang Gui immediately stood up, picked up his plate, sat down at the driver's table, and gave him a seat.

"Two old comrades, please sit down. What do you call the two of you, my surname is Fang. Fang Mingyuan not only did not return the document in his hand to the old Wang, but put it on the table and pressed it under his hand. The middle-aged man carrying the bag looked at Chen Zhong, and then at Huang Gui who was avoiding them, and said helplessly: "Lao Li, sit down." The one in Fang Mingyuan's hand is the original document, if it is torn or dirty, if you want to open a copy, you have to run a few government departments, and it takes a lot of tongue, this young man is not like an ordinary person, since you want to sit by yourself, then sit.

Fang Mingyuan beckoned the waiter in the restaurant to give two more refreshments, "Do you want to order anything more?" I've always been interested in tigers, and I saw that the two of them came from the Siberian tiger breeding center, so I wanted to ask about the situation of Siberian tigers in our country now. Can you please take a moment and give me a lesson? Hearing Fang Mingyuan say this, Lin Lian helped to say a few more words on the side, and the two of them relaxed, and the atmosphere at this table became lively. It turned out that the middle-aged man in the bag was named Wang Yugang, who was the director of the Heihe Daozi Feline Breeding and Breeding Center, and the other person was named Li Guangcheng, who was the chief of the financial section of the Heihe Daozi Feline Breeding and Breeding Center. This time, the two went to Bingcheng to ask the relevant departments for help.

"Our Heihe Daozi Feline Breeding Center was established in 84 years, at that time, the country did a survey on the number of Siberian tigers in the wild, and the results were checked, oh my god, there are 20 to 30 Siberian tigers in the wild in the country! You know, in the mid-seventies, there were more than 150 of them at that time. The country is in a hurry, and it can't let this Siberian tiger go extinct. This is one of the top 10 most endangered animals in the world, and everyone in Shijie is paying attention to it. So we set up the Heihe Daozi Feline Breeding Center, there were only eight Siberian tigers at that time, and we studied how to make them have more tiger cubs. Wang Yugang sighed with emotion. Why are there so few Siberian tigers in the wild? There were more than 150 in the 70s, and the situation of 10 years is just that, and the rate of decline is too fast!" Chen Zhong asked in a deep voice, he is a layman, but the layman also understands that if there are only twenty or thirty animals left, it is very dangerous, and if he is not careful, the wild Siberian tiger will be gone.

"Can it not be fast? According to the traditional view of Chinese medicine, the meat and internal organs of the tiger can be used to treat a variety of chronic diseases, and the value of an adult tiger is hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of thousands, who doesn't blush, so the Siberian tigers in the wild are hunted by poachers. And this Siberian tiger is a large animal of the feline family, and grows in the north, its reproductive rate is also low, a Siberian tiger life expectancy is generally twenty-five nine years, almost to three or four years old before sexual maturity, every year from December to February of the next year * , the gestation period is about 105 ~ 110 days, each litter generally gives birth to three or four litters. These cubs grow up sucking the tigress's milk and follow the tigress for a year or two before they can live independently. This life is not as fast as death, and of course the wild is gone. Li Yucheng said bitterly, "Those bastards, I don't want to think about it, if they are completely exterminated, they can still go to the Soviet Union to fight tigers?" Even on the Soviet side, there are not many left, and there seem to be only about 300 of them. ”

"Doesn't it seem that a protected area has been set up in China over the years, and it doesn't have any effect?" Lin Lian looked at the photo of the Siberian tiger in her hand and said.

"Hehe, girl, don't worry about saying something you shouldn't say, and your words are rough. To say that there is no use for a fart is to erase the achievements of the workers in the reserve, but I would say that there is also a fart!" Wang Yugang said bitterly, "In such a big forest, there are only a dozen patrol officers, and there are no decent means of transportation. Moreover, there is a very important problem, that is, our country does not have the vast sparsely populated forests of the Soviet Far East, and we have prepared a fragmented reserve for Siberian tigers. There are two or three in a district, how do they breed? And the forest is the living environment of the Siberian tiger, but it doesn't mean that if you set aside a forest for it, it will survive, there must be a tiger's prey object, such as wild boar, deer or something. In the territory of an adult Siberian tiger, there should be no less than 150 wild boars and 200 deer, so that a cycle can be formed and the tiger can survive. In the past few years, those damn poachers, not only fighting tigers, but also causing tigers to have a lot of predators, this place of activity is smaller, and there is less food, can there be a lot of Siberian tigers?"

"Hey......" Li Guangcheng said with a long sigh, "There are fewer tigers, everyone is anxious, but there are more tigers, and we are also anxious!"

"Section Chief Li, it's not good to have more tigers, what are you anxious about?" Lin Lian was even more strange, didn't Wang Yu just say that what they were studying was how to make the tiger have more cubs.

"It's not like you can't afford it, right?" Fang Mingyuan said softly. This result is as he expected, in the previous life, there have been many incidents of breeding tigers being starved to death. Once, Fang Mingyuan remembered, it seemed that dozens of heads had starved to death, which caused a sensation throughout the country and sparked heated discussions among the people. It's just that he didn't expect that it had only been ninety years, and there were already signs of it.

"Alas! I just can't afford it!" Wang Yugang patted his thigh and said, "I'll settle accounts for you, this tiger, the little tiger doesn't count, according to adult tigers, they have to eat several kilograms of meat every day on average, three or four kilograms lower, and ** kilograms higher, mainly beef and chicken, and you have to feed some chicken bones, pills or something to supplement nutrients." This daily meat money alone is a large piece of expenditure, and it has to be good meat, if you eat it badly, it will be even more troublesome. Counting the various equipment in the center and the salaries of the staff, it is a huge amount of money every year. When it was first established, it was okay, there were only eight tigers in total, and there was government funding, which was not bad. But later, we overcame the difficulties of Siberian tiger breeding, and the number of tigers rose vigorously, and the price of meat was also rising, and workers had to increase their wages, but the government's allocation did not rise, and the money was not enough. ”

"And how many tigers do you have now?" Lin Lian asked.

"Eighty-seven, of which forty-seven are already considered adult tigers, and by next year, there will be ninety-one adult tigers." Li Guangcheng said with a sad face, "But the money in the center's account now, let alone paying salaries to us people, is all used to buy meat, which is not enough!"

"That's it!" Lin Lian exclaimed happily, "Your work is really effective!"

"It's just that the effect is too significant, and it has become such a result!" Wang Yugang cried and laughed and said, "Girl, give birth to them, but you can't feed them, it's better not to let them give birth." ”

"In our center, the workers have only received half of their salaries this year, but this is the case, if the government does not allocate funds, by December, the tigers in the garden will have to go hungry." Li Guangcheng remembered the experience of begging his grandfather to sue *** these days, and felt bitter.

"Haven't you ever thought about how to make money with tigers, and then use the money you earn to feed tigers? Purely relying on state financial allocation, hehe, don't look at those gang of officials who eat oily every day, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on food and beverages as if they were playing, and let them send you money...... It's tantamount to asking for skin with a tiger!" Fang Mingyuan sneered.

Wang Yugang and Li Guangcheng glanced at each other, and secretly wondered in their hearts, what is the origin of this young man?

"Of course we have thought about it, this tiger is full of treasures, not to mention tiger bones and tiger skins, it is tiger meat, which many people are willing to buy at a high price. Of course, this live tiger can't be killed and sold, but in the process of breeding, there are always tigers that die normally, like our original eight tigers, which are now nearly 20 years old, and in a few years, it will die of old age, and its tiger skin and tiger bones can be sold! The money earned in this way can be used to feed its children and grandchildren. "We also thought about contacting the circus and zoos in other cities and renting out a few tigers to them, so that we could not only save their food money, but also have more money to feed their brothers and sisters." ”

"Hey, Section Chief Li, these tigers of yours are all descendants of the original eight tigers?" Fang Mingyuan suddenly remembered a question.

"Yes, all of them are descendants of the original eight tigers."

"Aren't you worried about all inbreeding and leading to the degradation of the tiger species?" There are updates to the latest chapters in a timely manner