Just when the construction of the new Chinese colony was in full swing, the construction of the mainland did not fall behind.

As the most densely populated and highly developed area in the East Coast Republic of China, the capital region has experienced rapid economic development in one town, two forts, and five townships recently. Beginning in the second half of 1638, the economic structure of Dingyuan Township on the shore of Dayu Lake was transformed, from the traditional potato planting, fishing, fishery product processing, and salt drying to wheat and potato mixed cropping, cage fish and shrimp farming, fishery product processing, refined salt and deep processing of agricultural products, so as to achieve sustainable economic development.

Under such a policy, some residents who used to make a living from those traditional industries have lost their livelihoods. One of them is Zhou Dahe, a young man who just turned 25 years old and came to the East Bank two years ago. After arriving here, he was assigned to the fishing team of Dingyuan Township on the shore of Dayu Lake in a daze, and was engaged in fishing for fishery products in Dayu Lake. However, after years of overfishing, the fishery resources of Dayu Lake have already shown an obvious trend of green and yellow, and it is becoming more and more difficult to see big fish, and the harvest of each net is getting less and less. Finally, last year, the Government Council finally put an end to the fishing activities that had lasted for many years in Dayu Lake, and Zhou Dahe and his fishing teammates suddenly became a rare "unemployed" in the East Coast Republic.

Of course, it's not like they don't really have nowhere else to go. No, the township government gave them two choices: one was for the township government to write a letter of introduction, introducing them to some vocational schools in the county town for re-education, to acquire a skill, and to move on to other jobs; The second is to stay in the newly established local aquaculture school to learn new cage culture techniques, and then carry out cage culture fish and shrimp trials in the Dayu Lake Basin. As a result, most people choose to stay locally. After all, many of them have already dragged their families with them. I don't want to go anywhere else. Even if the place is just over ten kilometers away.

The young Zhou Dahe surprisingly chose to enter the county's accounting vocational school for further study, he was born as a shop boy, he originally knew some arithmetic, and also had some experience in business management, so he made rapid progress after entering the accounting school. After graduating this year, he was lucky enough to catch up with the expansion of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, so he was recruited and assigned to the newly established branch office of Zhenyuanbao as a loan officer.

Today is the day of registration, and the small steamer that Zhou Dahe took from Dongfang Port slowly docked at the dock of Cotton Farmer Fort. He gently dusted off the soot from his white shirt. Then he put on his top hat and strode towards the "bus" stop set up by the dock.

The so-called bus is actually just a large passenger carriage, that is, an enlarged version of the four-wheeled carriage in Europe. This kind of carriage is pulled by two horses, can carry nearly 20 people, has no rubber wheels, no shock absorbing springs, and can imagine the feeling of sitting up. However, fortunately, the extension of Highway 1 (Cotton Farmer Fort - Zhenyuan Fort) has been built, and the road surface is a smooth asphalt pavement, which feels quite smooth to walk on, and there are no bumps and discomfort as imagined.

The weather was not bad today. It's about ten degrees. There were eighteen people sitting in the carriage, and it seemed that most of them were herdsmen from Zhenyuanbao who had come to the cotton farmer's fort to catch the market. They carried in their arms, large and small parcels, which were bought at the bazaar.

"The little brother is very raw, the first time you go to Zhenyuan Fort?" A wrinkled middle-aged man sitting next to Zhou Dahe asked with a smile, "I have to take this road almost every few days, and I basically know everyone who often walks this road." Hehe, it's the first time I've seen you, little brother, what's the matter, go to Zhenyuan Fort to find someone? ”

"It's not." Zhou Dahe replied shyly, "I am a loan officer who has just been assigned to Zhenyuan Fort, and today is the date of registration. ”

"Loan officer?" The middle-aged man was in awe, "But the loan officer of the Yuanbao branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank?" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Dahe nodded and said, "I just joined the Northwest Reclamation Bank last month, and after the training, I was assigned to Zhenyuan Fort, which is said to be in charge of credit business. Of course, we have to go to find out what to do. ”

"Ah, that's a big shot." Someone next to him exclaimed, and the herdsmen's eyes suddenly became cautious when they looked at him.

"Hey, little brother, then we're going to the same place." The middle-aged man patted Zhou Dahe's shoulder hard, and said with a smile, "I'm from the Animal Husbandry Bureau, let's live in the same compound, okay, you can come with me after you get out of the car." ”

"The eldest brother is from the Animal Husbandry Bureau, and I am from the Northwest Reclamation Bank, how can we still live together?" Zhou Dahe asked with some confusion.

"Hey, it's from a big city." The middle-aged man said with a smile, "Not long after the new Zhenyuan Fort was established, the city wall is only more than 700 meters, which is a standard small place. At present, the township government, the police station, and the branches of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, the Animal Husbandry Bureau, the General Administration of Textile Industry and other institutions are all crowded into one compound. Hehe, but to put it mildly, the yamen in Yuanbao and Cotton Farmer Fort in this town are the most majestic in your Northwest Reclamation Bank except for the township government. You ask these herdsmen, is the Wang Supervisor of the Dingyuanbao Branch Office prestigious? ”

"Who dares to offend the king?" A red-haired herdsman shouted, his Chinese sounding awkward, but the meaning was clear: "The sheep sent by the government are in his hands, and he will lend to whomever he says!" Sometimes a batch of good sheep comes down, and those who have a good relationship with him can get it first, and those of us who have a good relationship with him can only wait first. ”

After the red-haired herdsman finished speaking, he seemed to be a little angry, and turned to the middle-aged man and said, "Technician Liu Jilu, your agricultural technology station just brought down a hundred bighorn goats from the east coast this year, but I haven't won one yet. Eunuch Wang gave all these sheep to his fellow Xuzhou villagers, fuck, those sheep gave birth to two or three in each litter, and they gave birth to lambs once every six months. These little lambs can be bred again after more than half a year, and in less than a year, the loan can be repaid, I! ”

"Magician Liu Jilu" said with some embarrassment when he heard this: "Vincent, you just talk about these things for a fart!" It is true that the bighorn goat on the east bank was brought back from the breeding center by our agricultural technology station, but we only collected it on behalf of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, and the final distribution right is still in the hands of Wang Dajian of the branch office. He said that he would send it to whomever it was, and we had no right to express our opinions. ”

I still know a little about the bighorn goat Zhou Dahe on the east bank, which is a new gadget just made by the Livestock Breeding Center of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture. The breeding center is located in the southeastern ranch township, built by the Animal Husbandry Bureau, and its livestock pens keep a large number of livestock from all over the world, such as the Andalusian horse, the Lusitano, the Finnish horse, and the Turkmen horse. Holstein cattle, Simmental cattle, South African cattle and other meat and dairy cows; and some goat and sheep breeds selected from Europe, the New World or South Africa.

There are more than 80 employees and technicians in the breeding center, and the task assigned to them by the Animal Husbandry Bureau is to breed new varieties in a specific direction by crossing different kinds of livestock. For example, cattle can choose the direction of high milk production and meat yield, and sheep can choose the direction of high gross rate and meat production for cultivation, and the breeding center has established a complete parental pedigree for each new breed bred by crossbreeding, so as to carry out systematic and complete scientific research. Last year, the breeding center had crossed some goats from the Bantu blacks in South Africa with native goats to create a new breed, the East Coast bighorn goat. The goat has the advantages of large size, high meat yield and strong fecundity, and the technicians are still further researching to improve the breed of the East Coast bighorn goat and make it have more advantages.

A total of more than 100 bighorn goats on the east coast were cultivated before and after the breeding center, and most of them were sent to Zhenyuanbao, a sheep breeding center, for stocking experiments, except for a few that remained in the breeding center for breeding research. The results of the stocking experiment are encouraging, and the ewes of the East Coast bighorn goats only need more than six months to give birth, and each litter can produce 2-3 lambs, which is better than other breeds of goats. Moreover, this kind of goat is larger, the meat yield is higher, and usually only farmers need to cut some hay to raise, and even sometimes some crop stalks such as wheat straw can also be used as feed, which is extremely resistant to rough feeding.

The advantages of the East Coast bighorn goat are so prominent, you can imagine how much farmers love it. The first farmers to receive the East Coast bighorn goats were elated because they needed only one year to pay off the loan they had to pay off when they adopted the bighorn goats. Of course, these people also made the farmers who could not adopt bighorn goats very angry, and the red-haired Vincent in front of them was one of them.

Hearing that the topic shifted to his immediate boss, the head of Supervisor Wang of the Branch Office, Zhou Dahe closed his mouth knowingly. Behind the criticism of his boss, if this is spread out, do you want to mix there in the future?

After seeing Zhou Dahe shut up, the middle-aged man "Liu Jilu Operator" simply closed his mouth, and the car fell silent for a while. The carriage was not moving fast or slow, about ten kilometers per hour, and at this time it had not yet left the boundary of the cotton farming village, and on both sides of the road were large areas of cotton fields that had been planned to be extremely neat, and cement irrigation canals that were densely packed like cobwebs in the fields. The farmers worked unhurriedly in the fields, and occasionally a few technicians from the agricultural technology station wearing blue shirts walked around to guide the cotton farmers in their work, showing a thriving atmosphere everywhere.

Looking at this scene, Zhou Dahe's mind couldn't help but pop up with the four big words "deep roots" that he had learned in school. To develop industry and agriculture, to enable the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and to steadily improve their living standards, is to truly understand the deep-rooted and fundamental true meaning of doing so. (To be continued......)