As the saying goes: the family has a lot of money, but the hairy one doesn't count.

Why is Chen Mu so confident in raising chickens?

The reason is that he didn't plan to raise it at all.

He planned to encourage the people of Dunhuang to raise chickens, and he was responsible for collecting eggs to ensure that they were produced and harvested as much as they could, so that the people had no worries.

Some people will worry that the chickens will lose money if they die, and Chen Mu will also provide them with insurance services. As long as you raise chickens in Dunhuang, even if you are insured, you will lose ten copper coins if you die a hen. (Chen Mu even considered taking out a loan, but felt that the timing was not right.) Now there is a lack of capable people around Chen Mu, and there are very few people who are literate, so Chen Mu is too busy to work alone. ）

Wouldn't this be a death penalty?

No, Chen Mu plans to sell feed, the cost is very low, and the price is also very cheap. Use the power at hand, use these soldiers for free, occupy industrial land for free. And of course, the prefectural magistrate did not dare to collect taxes from the military.

Removing these costs, Chen Mu is almost making a sure profit.

Chen Mu has a little research on chicken feed.

Back then, his comrade-in-arms Lao Zhang was so poor that he came to annoy Chen Mu all day long, begging for something to do. Chen Mu said, I will give you money to support the elderly, but Lao Zhang has a good face and refuses to accept the money directly, so he has to do something. So Chen Mu gave Lao Zhang a project and asked him to do chicken feed processing.

Of course, it is not an ordinary chicken feed, but a pure green feed, which is specially provided for "wandering chickens", in fact, it is not really a free-range chicken, just eat this kind of feed, and the eggs produced are similar to those of free-range chickens.

They mix dry ingredients (various grains, straws, corn stalks, etc.), wet grass, and insects, and then process them into small particles by machine.

Chen Mu always thought that this was a good deal, but for him at that time, it was already a small profit, and he didn't have much interest. On the contrary, it is appropriate to give the project to Lao Zhang.

It's a pity that this project was later dried up by Lao Zhang.

The difficulty of this project lies in the breeding and breeding of insects, and what is the most suitable insect to raise.

At first, Chen Mu designed cockroaches.

But Lao Zhang said that isn't nonsense, I heard that there are cockroaches in your feed, who can buy them?

As a result, Lao Zhang had to raise all kinds of maggots.

When he came to Dunhuang, Chen Mu found that the cockroaches here were particularly arrogant. In the middle of the night, you can climb on people's faces, eat hair, and nibble on eyelashes. And it is very large, and the adult is the size of a thumb. It's scary to think about.

The locals don't call this insect a cockroach, they call it "stove ant", and the literate Tang Liu says that this thing is called 甴曱 (yóuyuē).

Raising chickens is risky, but raising cockroaches is not. This thing eats everything, and the disease resistance is extremely strong, the reproductive ability is off the charts, the only drawback may be winter, the winter in Dunhuang is relatively cold.

But these problems are not difficult for Chen Mu, and now Chen Mu is most lacking in industrial land. With a wave of his hand, this land is mine, and the county magistrate sent the title deed over in a hurry.

Back in Dunhuang, before the lame man came back, Chen Mu told Yuan Hong his thoughts. Yuan Hong thought about it for a long time and felt that this matter was a bit unreliable. Chen Mu didn't explain to him, and said directly, you go to find a piece of land outside the city and build a few closed houses, the kind where insects can't climb out.

Yuan Hong thought about it and took the order.

Yuan Hong went to run errands, Chen Mu sat in the house to design drawings, and he wanted to make a crusher.

In fact, the structure of the simple crusher is very simple, that is, the roller and the parallel knife, but there is no electricity and engine, Chen Mu wants to design an animal power crusher.

Seeing that Chen Mu was concentrating on painting, the little sister didn't dare to disturb, and when she was delivering tea, she poked her head and found that Chen Mu's painting was simply unsightly, and asked with a smile: "Brother Mu is painting here, it doesn't look like anything." ”

"It's not like that." Chen Mu smiled: "The painting is almost finished, I will go to the sappers and make it for me." ”

"What is this for?"

"Crush all kinds of grass." Chen Mu picked up another drawing: "This one is used to crush beetles, and finally mix dry and wet grass scraps and fine pieces of beetles, break them into pellets, and feed them to chickens." ”

"Will this work? It sounds like a waste of time. ”

"What, I don't believe you Brother Chen Mu?"

The girl smiled shyly: "Believe, I believe whatever my brother says." "Yunnan

Chen Mu is sometimes more superstitious, he feels that the surname Zhang is not in line with him, so he does not plan to let the cripple and Zhang Han interfere in this project. Although Zhang Cripple's original surname is Huo.

Whether this project will succeed is still a question mark.

However, there is a lot of grass near Dunhuang, especially near Xinghubo and Dajingze, where the grass is shady. Chen Mu sent people to pick up grass and hoarded a large number of them.

The soldiers asked Chen Mu why he did this, and we didn't have many horses.

Chen Mu said that prevention is better than prevention, in case we run out of food, we can eat grass for a while.

The soldier was speechless.

Soon after, rumors began to spread in the ranks that the grain in Dunhuang was about to run out, and our general had begun to prepare to give us grass.

Chen Mu was not worried about these rumors, because he opened the warehouse and let the soldiers take a look at it when he was fine, so that they could know that there was enough food.

The most important thing is not to fight now, and there is no fear that the morale of the army will be slightly weakened.

The household registration system of the Liang Dynasty was very strict, and these people would not easily become deserters, especially in this isolated Gobi city, if they wanted to run home, they would die on the road nine times out of ten.

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When the cripple came back, he also brought back three hundred prisoners, and after these prisoners came back, they were directly arranged into the troops, and now Chen Mu's soldiers have increased to eight hundred.

Chen Mu asked, why so few.

The cripple said, the other captives were all taken away by Tang Yun's kid, and it was a coincidence, he arrived as soon as I arrived, he was of a higher level than me, of course I couldn't snatch him.

Chen Mu scolded his mother: I talked to the king about this, and he went to cut off his beard?

"What is a truncated beard?" The lame man thought for a moment and said, "It's better to have fewer people, because there is not enough food to spare." Oh yes, I heard Tang Yun say that you may have to go back to Luoyang next month. If that's the case, take me with you. ”

"Okay, I'll take your ashes with me."

Chen Mu had a suspicion that those captives were given to Tang Yun by a lame man.

This old thing is too cunning.

But if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with the lame man's approach, he is also thinking about the First Brigade, not for personal gain.

The importance of food is self-evident, if it really comes to the day when there is no food, and the troops who deliver food have not come, it will be completely dumbfounded.

Later, when the lame man heard about Chen Mu's plan of "building cars and sending eggs", he immediately understood Chen Mu's intentions: "You want to use this method to attract people over, so that the population of Dunhuang will increase." ”

"Yes." Chen Mu sighed: "There are too few people here, it is not as good as Putao City and Jimo City." I'm going to attract people there. I'm not just a means of this, I can also be tax-free, send real estate, send real estate, I don't believe they won't come. ”

The cripple nodded: "Makes sense." ”

The lame man smacked his feet and said, "But..., you raise stove ants..., how disgusting that thing is, it's better to raise maggots." Alas, you give me this job, I think I can do it better than Yuan Hong. ”

"Stop me! This project says nothing to you. ”

"The project? The word sounds fresh. The lame man wondered, "Why can't you give it to me?" Am I worse than Yuan Hong? ”

"Anyway, I won't give it to you. You just asked. ”

"It's okay to give it to Zhang Han."

"Don't give it!"

"Hey, you can't put it in the hands of outsiders when it comes to making money."

"I think Lao Yuan is a real person."

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