Chapter 312: Farmhouse

The taste of chicken is not much different, but the difference between fish is huge. http:/// All living things on the earth originated from the ocean, and the variety of organisms here is the largest in the world. The future kitchen of urban residents may be the left chicken coop and the right fish box, and the diverse fish bring a variety of needs to the owner, in addition to being full, you can also enjoy health and deliciousness.

As with the Windsor Commune's concept of subsistence farms, specially treated fish crates allow for luxurious delicacies at a lower cost. At present, salmon breeding is not well developed, it is an expensive ingredient, because the cost of fishing in the sea remains high, especially in inland cities, and salmon is not something that ordinary people can eat every day after more than 100 years of history.

Downing is particularly concerned about the "kitchen farming" of this fish, not to mention its delicious taste, but also less spines and more protein, and the fat it contains is a deep-sea fish oil that is particularly beneficial for cardiovascular health. Freshwater fish such as grass carp, crucian carp, herring and bighead carp, which are commonly eaten in the Qing Dynasty, have a growth period of half a year to a year, while the growth period of salmon is about three years, and even if it can be farmed, it will be at least several times more expensive than ordinary fish.

The reason why salmon takes three years to grow is related to the fact that it has a "wintering gene", that is, it reduces its growth rate in the winter when it eats food to survive, which is similar to the principle of hibernation.

Rearing salmon in a controlled environment can reduce the three-year growth period to at least two years, because the thermostatic mechanism will control the water temperature between 16 and 18 degrees Celsius, which is the most suitable for salmon production, and minimize the time it takes for salmon to start wintering genes.

Salmon is the food of the aforementioned salmon and bears, and it is the creature that nourishes the forest. Therefore, there is a bit of particularity in raising salmon, and it is necessary to create a counter-current environment for it. Ordinary fish box 0. A width of 5 meters is sufficient.

The salmon box should be at least 1 meter wide, and a unit is no longer a 1 by 1 specification, but the entire 1 by 4 space unites to form a ring, a bit like a standard 400-meter athletics field. The four corners of the salmon playground had to be designed to turn the water around, simulating about 0 per second. 15 cubic meters of running water.

With artificial currents, salmon can happily swim against their self-righteous currents, never stopping.

Why is it so difficult for family farmers to break free from the control of the Urban Agriculture Company (already named)? In addition to the equipment, fry cultivation is a technology-intensive task. Salmon in the wild will return from the sea to spawn in their birthplace, so it was a painful process at first for scientists to simulate this qiē.

For example, salmon migrate upstream of rivers to spawn, and scientists estimate that the temperature will drop to 4 to 13 degrees. Pregnant fish are not happy to be fertilized in plain sight, so nurses have to squeeze their eggs out by hand. The treatment of males is similar.

Contrary to what we all imagined, the fertilization of fish has now become a "blender" operation in the construction industry, and of course, it has to be gentle. Females under 4 kg can lay about 2,000 eggs per kilogram, and semen is much easier, only about 10 ml of semen per 10,000 eggs.

The intensity and duration of the stirring are finely controlled with a blender, and each 10,000 eggs is divided into a control group, and the temperature, concentration, duration, and strength are ...... Wait a minute. The current number is just the prediction of fish farming experts, and different fish species will naturally have their own optimal parameters. The first batch was Downing's own designation of "Atlantic salmon," his favorite species of salmon.

The 10,000 eggs are divided into 500 pieces, and each of the 20 or so eggs is separated by reusable plastic hexagonal "hive" incubators. One reason for this is to facilitate the removal of eggs infected with water mold, and after large-scale industrial conservation of fish fry, each chamber is directly inspected with a machine, and if there is infection, all 20 eggs in the chamber are discarded.

Eggs that die for an inexplicable reason can quickly cause a large area of water mold, so silencing can ensure a survival rate. Eggs need a lot of oxygen to breathe as they grow. At this time, there will be a spectacular scene unique to the big industrial era: 500 droppers change the water of 500 small nest rooms at the same time, and their dissolved oxygen content, temperature, and hygiene are strictly controlled. (Baidu search network update is the fastest and most stable)

A conservation array of 10,000 droppers can handle a workload of hundreds of millions in 10 minutes, and a single fry breeding center can supply a large city of salmon families to raise fry. Newly hatched juveniles eat the yolk sacs around them, and when they have eaten up the initial food, they have to eat very small "open feed".

When the small fry can be transported to thousands of households, the size is only 5 mm, and the fish consumed by small families in the next year is only packed in a small package through the unmanned maglev logistics network elegantly factory, quietly adopted by the owners from the nearby wind bird network node, and it is also drunk to think about it.

The "Eastern Baikal Club", where the richest people in the world gathered, jokingly called Downing the "fish boss" after the invention of the automatic spearfish boat, and now they are even more exclaimed after learning the details of the kitchen fish box project: the name of the fish boss is even more worthy of the name.

Of course, the ambition of the fish boss is to raise the fish as fatten as possible, but there are thousands of fish in the world, and the scientific research funding is distressing. There are as many as 30 types of salmon alone, so where can I make sense?

So, the brain hole of the fish boss began to play a role. If there is another kind of scientific research in the world that can be free, do you believe it? Don't believe it, it's true. After some thinking and discussion with his colleagues, Tang Ning decided to launch the first game on the PC platform: Fat Fish Cultivation.

This amazing game was actually developed by an urban farming company, and its combination of game and reality is revolutionary, because the process of fattening fish is the process of real yàn. After the player adopts a batch of fish, the urban agriculture company actually hatches a batch of fish in the actual yàn room, and the whole game corresponds to the real fish one by one.

The company parameterizes each link of fish farming, and then completely hands it over to the player to control the entire process, and hundreds of parameters such as supply, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and duration of each link are all the content of the game, and the labor and material costs of its operation are the cost of playing the game.

The company itself harvests a large number of free amateur fish farming scientists, as well as a large number of jù after the actual yàn, and in the future, it will be able to develop the best kitchen fish box solutions based on the fat fish champions of each fish species. Since the cost of the whole process is paid by the player, they have the property rights to the final finished fish, and of course, they can also go to the real yàn room often to inspect their small fish during the whole process.

This development game is so revolutionary, the first phase of the game only 5 kinds of fish (that is, the four big Chinese fish and Atlantic salmon) has sparked a frenzy of millions of PC users around the world, and the initial "server" capacity of 100,000 batches of fish fry was almost sold out on the first day, and more than a million users signed up for the queue.

In the words of the players, "It's like buying a dozen fish!" "Each player will be able to see their little fish from the remote video. Why are players so crazy? If you think about it, this is the first global public appearance of the video feature, and it actually comes in the form of a PC game. Is this game high-tech?

Due to the large amount of bandwidth consumed by video transmission, players could only play for an hour a day, and even so, soon there was a trend of players posting photos of their small fish on the Internet, making those who were still in line for adoption feel itchy.

The central city of this fish farming game was Munich, which ended in 1870, and the figures of Reuters and major financial institutions showed that the GDP of the German Confederation had surpassed that of the British Isles in this year, and it aroused the patriotic enthusiasm of the German nation, and the prestige of the former president of the Confederation, Mr. Windsor, reached its peak in the New Year of 1871.

The British said sourly, what are the Germans proud of? You haven't counted our colonies yet. Also according to the predictions of some authoritative financial institutions, the economy of India alone could surpass that of Germany in three years!

At this time, people realized that an India under the East India Company would become the world's number one economic power! The four major countries of Brazil, the western United States, Malaya, and Israel (in fact, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and other oil countries) are all regions with vast territory and strong economic development momentum, and they are all first-class economies.

Even New Guinea, a place that should have been poor to death, was lifted out of poverty on a large scale due to the emergence of the Windsor Commune, and the slaughter of wild animals such as birds of paradise was basically zero, in addition to the reason why everyone became rich, but also because a large number of dissatisfied natives were arrested and sent to Brazil as slaves.

Because the Windsor consortium's ability to lead the people to prosperity is so strong that even Brazil's retention of slavery has been praised by economists as "beautiful talk". Of course, Brazil's industrialization has developed rapidly, leading to a massive decline in private slavery, and 80% of the current slaves in Brazil live in concentration camps, free from lynching by their masters, and enjoy the same eight-hour work as workers in some European industrial countries do.

One third of the 80 percent of the slaves voluntarily lived in concentration camps because they could not find suitable jobs for the time being, and they were called "free slaves", and the camps were completely free to enter and leave without guards.

Anyway, the Germans enjoyed a short period of world firsts, and Munich was the first to set up a fish farming center full of joy and technology, followed by 25 international metropolises, and then hundreds, and the variety of fish became more diverse because of the good business of the game.

For this innovative way of scientific research, scientists around the world are very happy, so that they have another channel when applying for scientific research funds, they can participate in the development of the game, once the game is developed, there will naturally be a steady stream of players around the world to help them raise animals, the original expensive biological materials can be turned cheap in this way.

The Windsor Consortium has the world's largest animal breeding base, the cost has been high, and the person in charge of the base was inspired by the fish farming game, and the Windsor Animal Base was the first to introduce the game model to other animals.

It's a pity that ordinary players are not very interested in mice, rhesus monkeys and the like, and they are not cute enough. On the contrary, chimpanzees, which are claimed to be the most intelligent animals besides humans, are also close relatives who are most genetically similar to humans and are very popular.

Large animals are not suitable for the popularity of games, and you think, how much meat does it cost to raise a big tiger? So there are few players of this type, and one of the most successful games is insect breeding proposed by South African scientists. Scientists in Africa have a different perspective.

Because Africa is poor, many people have problems eating, so the South African entomologist came up with a concept: "A grasshopper can grow with only twice its weight in forage, and it is even more protein-rich than cattle and sheep." A typical cow grows up and consumes more than 15 times its body weight in forage, so humans can use insects like grasshoppers as a main dish to solve the problem of protein sources. ”

Under the impetus of entomologists, the research on the edible breeding of grasshoppers, termites, crickets, spiders and other insects has developed rapidly, and the ensuing insect farming industry has really helped a considerable number of African refugees to avoid the fear of famine.

Of course, people outside Africa are still not accustomed to eating insects directly as vegetables, and still have to make them into feed for poultry and fish, so African insect farms have become a huge industry in African agriculture, almost a match for Downing's tailor-made ant farming industry for Brazil.

A significant portion of the protein in the chicken and fish feed that future urban agriculture companies will provide to urban dwellers will come from insect farming in Africa. Since the cost of laying the main lines of transportation is quite low, you think about how much it costs to erect power poles, so since the company was founded 66 years ago, after four years of development, the footprints of the company have spread to all the major tribal settlements in Africa.

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia and other more than a dozen of the most economically developed regions are all places with air trains that can be reached by the "traffic police" of Human Footprint.

The great warlords of Windsor basically have more than 10,000 military and police in these areas, with a military strength of more than 200,000, and on the black African continent, there are more than 2 million employees affiliated with the Windsor Consortium. To put it mildly, even if the Windsor Emperor's nest in the world is wiped out, and the 200,000 troops of Black Africa go out to fight the Great Qing Kingdom, I am afraid it will be enough for Zuo Zongtang to drink a pot.

None of the forces, including the British Empire, the Great Germany, and the Lancy Alliance, could counter the huge military and corporate power of the Windsor warlords on the African continent, and the Windsor consortium became the de facto ruler of the continent, and the Windsor Council's African Primary Industry Policy Committee was upgraded to a generic African Council, which is the de facto governing body of the vast continent.

The African Commission had already helped Africa's liberal fighters fight skirmishes, with attack helicopters and infantry fighting vehicles fighting in tandem, and of course a handful of tribes vying to become Africa's rulers, establishing Downing's anarcho-continental policy for Africa.

With the exception of a few areas occupied by British colonists, such as South Africa and Nigeria, the African continent is a magical continent with no taxes, and the Windsor Consortium can earn a lot of money by providing African residents with tools for hunting, fishing, animal husbandry, and construction, which is enough to build infrastructure for human settlements.

Whoever wants to come to the Magical Continent to make money has to rely on his own skills and the goods that can be provided to the Africans. Obviously, the vegetable tart, tasteless chicken coop and kitchen fish box of the urban agriculture company are very much in line with the lazy nature of the African guys, how can they not love the vegetables, chickens, eggs, and fish that the family can't eat without having to do it themselves?

The three major items of the Qing people were refrigerators, washing machines, and telegraph machines (at this time, the popularity of Cheng dù far exceeded the expensive PCs), and the Africans were good, and Kampala, on the edge of Lake Victoria, where the Windsor consortium first started business, became the largest city on the African continent, and the residents of Kampala regarded vegetable tarts, tasteless chicken coops, and kitchen fish boxes as the three major items, as long as there was food.

With the "three major things" in the eyes of Africans, African men can marry daughters-in-law, and even marry two daughters-in-law if they have two sets.

Africans have low requirements for life, clothes? Isn't it decent to wear a pair of pants? House? Isn't it OK to call a few fellows to build a thatched hut together? It's not raining much here! Car? Isn't it enough to go all over the world without being afraid?

Only for food, Africans are very concerned, no wonder there are three major African **. Fortunately, the Windsor Consortium has a good heart, as long as African residents successfully graduate from the primary school of English education and promise that their children will be sent to primary school, they can apply for a free three-piece set from the African Development Bank, and they can live a life of worry-free food and clothing.

Thanks to the insect farming techniques of South African scientists, Africa has its own fist product, feed. As a result, the cost of the three major items is not high, and it truly reaches the realm of "can't eat enough" expected by Africans.

Because of the fear of war, the residents of the Great Qing Kingdom are also crazy like the three major pieces of Africa, most of the Qing people have a verbal anti-Windsor position, but they say no, but the body is very honest, because the fishery expert who has personally communicated with Downing revealed that the disaster resistance of the three major pieces of fresh food is the driving force for the Windsor Consortium to enter the aquaculture industry.

The residents of the Great Qing Kingdom nodded secretly in agreement, it is to save a little to improve the self-sufficiency of food, otherwise if you fight with the warlords of Windsor who are terrifying when you think about it, the price of food will definitely rise in the Qing Dynasty, and there will be no place to buy the three major items at that time. The current people of the Qing Dynasty are actually slowly civilized, not Ma Daha, who doesn't even know what the Windsor Consortium is.

The most unresisted in the entire Qing Dynasty is the urban agriculture company with Princess Sissi as the president, because this is really a life-saving thing, and some stunned young people boycotted every Qiē of the Windsor Consortium, but were beaten by other patriotic young people, so the entire Qing Dynasty was more tacit.