Chapter 921 920 [Writer Promotes Chicken Raising]

Chengdu during the war was still so leisurely, and it seemed that the heavy bombing could not speed up the pace of the city.

As soon as Zhou Hexuan and the others drove to the city gate, many gentlemen from the Chengdu branch of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association (hereinafter referred to as the "Literary Association") were waiting here. Lao She got out of the car and introduced them to Zhou Hexuan one by one.

Zhou Wen, a native of Sichuan, joined the Communist Party in 1932. He once served as the Organization Minister of the Left Federation and is currently the director of the General Affairs Department of the Chengdu Branch of the Literary and Art Association. He will soon go to Yan'an to run a newspaper and later served as the director of the Education Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

Li Jieren, a native of Sichuan, is a writer and industrialist. His representative work is "Still Water Waves". He is currently the general director of the Chengdu Branch of the Association for Literary and Art Circles and the deputy mayor of Chengdu after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Tao Xiong, a native of Jiangsu, is a playwright, graduated from the Foreign Languages ​​Department of Beijing Normal University, and is currently the executive director of the Chengdu Branch of the Literary and Art Association.

Chen Xianghe, a native of Sichuan, joined the Communist Party in 1939. He is a good friend of Shen Congwen and is currently a director of the Chengdu branch of the Association for Literary and Art Circles.

Ye Shengtao, Zhu Guangqian... I won't go into details about these famous ones, but Li Getian is worth mentioning.

Li Getian, a native of Henan, whose pen name is Makino, is the son-in-law of Ye Shengtao, a director of the Chengdu Branch of the Association for Literary and Art Circles, and editor of the journal "Bi Zhen". He is currently a writer and changed his career to a film screenwriter after the founding of the People's Republic of China. But his job is as a bomber pilot and as a flight instructor. He has carried out many bombing missions. Last year, he took a break from illness and wrote articles.

It was not until 1943 that Li Getian finally recovered from his illness and returned to the army to accept Chennault's command. While he was fighting in the air force, he was also writing articles as a military reporter. On one occasion, American reporter Mike Moore set out with the army. The driver Dong Shiliang introduced that Li Getian was also a reporter with the army. After the plane took off, the two reporters were chatting happily. Dong Shiliang suddenly needed to go to the toilet. Li Getian immediately took over as the pilot. Mike Moore looked confused and asked the reporter accompanying the Chinese Air Force if it was necessary. Know how to fly a plane.

"Mr. Zhou!"

"General Feng!"

"Mr. Shu!"

"..."

Everyone came up to greet him one after another, and the one that was mentioned the most was "Black Soil", which was published not long ago by Zhou Hexuan.

That night, everyone held a literary evening in Chengdu to celebrate the second anniversary of the establishment of the Literary and Art Association, and there was another symposium the next morning. Zhou Hexuan, Feng Yuxiang and Lao She delivered speeches respectively, and then discussed this year's literary and artistic national salvation work, focusing on the anti-Japanese thoughts in the novel "Black Soil".

In the afternoon, Zhou Hexuan and the main members of the Chengdu branch of the Cultural Association came to the chicken farm on the outskirts of Chengdu.

This chicken farm was jointly established by the College of Agriculture of Chung-Ang University and the College of Agriculture of Jinling University. It is located not far from the pasture of Chung-Ang University. It started hatching eggs and raising chickens as early as the end of October last year.

Although Feng Yuxiang was ignored in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, he never forgot his identity as the leader of the scientific chicken raising promotion team. In fact, the main purpose of bringing Zhou Hexuan to Chengdu was to promote chicken farming. As soon as he entered the chicken farm, he told the writers: "The chickens here are scientifically raised. They are low-cost, lay many eggs, and grow fast." , it will be of great benefit to the common people. I hope everyone will take a serious look at it, write articles and do more publicity, and try to attract those rich people to learn to raise chickens."

Zhu Guangqian said confusedly: "Is raising chickens still scientific?"

Feng Yuxiang laughed loudly: "Mr. Zhu, you don't understand this. Regardless of industry and agriculture, you need to understand science to engage in production."

The person in charge of the chicken farm first took them to see the earthworm breeding pond, explaining: "We dug a total of ten ponds, which are composted by human and animal manure, enough to provide for the daily consumption of thousands of chickens."

I saw that the pond was densely packed with earthworms, and crawling around would make the scalp of those who are intensively afraid go numb.

Tao Xiong smiled and said: "This is really a good idea. Earthworms cost nothing, and raising chickens doesn't waste food."

The person in charge of the chicken farm said: "Not only does it save grain, but feeding chickens with earthworms and a small amount of grain makes them grow faster and lay eggs earlier and bigger than chickens that only eat grain."

"Come and see the chickens, come and see the chickens!" Li Jieren couldn't wait any longer.

Li Jieren is not only a translator, editor, writer, educator and social activist, he is also an industrialist. He once served as the director of Minsheng Machinery Repair Factory and the chairman of Jiale Paper Factory, practicing the ideal of serving the country through industry. Even if he hadn't met Zhou Hexuan, he would have devoted himself entirely to the papermaking industry next year. Now that he encountered scientific chicken-raising technology, Li Jieren immediately became interested.

The chickens were kept in neat bamboo cages. The person in charge of the chicken farm said: "The chickens are raised over there, and the roosters are raised here. As soon as the chickens are hatched, we have to breed them separately, and the hens are specially raised." They are used to lay eggs, and the roosters are sold as meat.”

Li Jieren also had a poor background when he was young. He studied in France through a work-study program. His family used to raise chickens, and he suddenly wondered: "How do you identify the male and female of newly hatched chickens?"

The person in charge of the chicken farm said with a smile: "This is all thanks to Mr. Zhou. The 'anal separation method' he invented is very easy to use. You can identify the male and female by just opening the chicken's buttocks."

"It turns out that Mr. Zhou still has such abilities." Everyone was greatly impressed.

Chen Xianghe said: "Why are the chickens kept in cages? This is too unfree. Chickens cannot be happy if they are not free, and they will not grow well if they are not happy. I think chickens in rural areas must be raised on time. Only in this way can the chickens grow strong and not get sick.”

The person in charge of the chicken farm explained: "Free-range farming in rural areas has two main functions. One is to save food and let the chickens find food on their own; the other is for health. It is easy to get sick if kept for a long time. But we don't have to do this when raising chickens scientifically. Because earthworms are enough to feed the chickens, and we clean the chicken coop regularly to maintain ventilation and prevent diseases. The advantage of raising chickens in confinement is that it can reduce the amount of exercise the chickens do and make the chickens grow faster."

Chen Xianghe suddenly realized it and praised: "Everywhere in the world is full of knowledge and education."

Others were just watching it briefly, thinking about how to go back and write promotional articles. Li Jieren was much more detailed. He asked for various data in detail, including how much food to feed every day, how many eggs to produce, and how many months there would be financial returns. It seemed that he had already considered opening a chicken farm.

Zhou Wen had received an order from the organization to go to Yan'an to work. He listened to all kinds of data and made up his mind to bring scientific chicken raising methods to Yan'an, so he said: "Can you give me a set of detailed chicken raising information? I want the system to to introduce its benefits to the public.”

"Of course." The person in charge of the chicken farm smiled.

Feng Yuxiang said: "If you want to open a chicken farm, you can contact me. Technicians are being trained in Chongqing. As long as you open a scientific chicken farm, you only need to pay a small technical consultation fee and you can get regular guidance from technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry!"

Zhou Wen used to be the propaganda director of the Shanghai Federation of Left-wingers and was very famous. Not to mention Zhou Hexuan, even Feng Yuxiang knew that he was a member of the Communist Party, or at least someone who leaned towards the Communist Party.

Zhou Hexuan whispered: "Someone has already brought chicken raising technology over to Yan'an."

Zhou Wen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Thanks for the reminder."

As a reward for publicity, each writer brought back a few eggs. As the person in charge of promoting scientific chicken farming, Feng Yuxiang could still mobilize a batch of funds, and sending these eggs was more than enough.

In the following days, articles about scientific chicken raising appeared in newspapers one after another, quickly arousing heated discussions in Chengdu and surrounding districts and counties, and capitalists came to inquire about the news from time to time.

Just as Zhou Hexuan was about to leave Chengdu, someone suddenly came to visit him at the hotel: "Mr. Zhou, is there any real-life prototype of the swordsman Li Tonglin in "Captain of China"?"

Zhou Hexuan said confusedly: "Why do you ask this?"

The man said: "I have been looking for masters to learn Taoism. After I complete my studies, I will go to the front line to fight the Japanese devils!"

Zhou Hexuan admired this man's imagination and asked casually: "I don't know your surname?"

The man said: "My name is Nan Huaijin."