Chapter 232: Chitchat Among The Animal Husbandry Ministers
[Pig thigh bones… they’re called bone marrow bones, right? I couldn’t gnaw the outer part of the bone, Xiang Chuan told us we could only eat the stuff inside the bone, and I didn’t believe it, haha! But the bone marrow inside really tastes great, Ainuo said the texture is like tofu, not sure if that’s true. Unfortunately, the quantity was too small, everyone only got a small piece.]
[The texture of pork liver is so unique, a bit chewy, but also a bit powdery, it’s just that it looks a bit scary… Do all cooked livers have this much cell wall-like patterns?]
[The large intestine and small intestine are too amazing, I… I don’t know how to describe that texture, very chewy, tastes great dipped in chili oil. Originally, when I knew this was the part leading to the excretory organs, I felt a bit repulsed, but I don’t know how that got to Xiang Chuan, she told me that the main components of modern fertilizer mostly come from animal manure. Thinking that I’ve eaten solid food and liquid food for so many years, who knows how much of that stuff was on those green vegetables, so I stopped being entangled.]
[We could only eat pork patties, but they were really delicious! Clearly like the beef buns, it’s minced meat chopped up, but the pork patty has a texture that’s more… easy to eat than beef? Is that how to describe it? Sorry, I don’t know how to express this feeling either. Anyway, if the A Bite of China Club or Yue Xiang Restaurant could launch pork buns, I’d be happy to recommend them to my family, of course, if our school’s canteen could introduce them, that would be even better, haha…]
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After dinner time, in the Animal Husbandry production management department meeting room of the Fourth Production Escort Ship.
Aksim General Manager and Chief Steward An Jing looked at the light screen in front of them, this was footage from subordinate employees squatting in front of the dormitory where students were temporarily staying after mealtime, interviewing Nongda Affiliated High School students on their feelings after tasting pork, since most students only ate meat patties, the employees mainly targeted the students from Class Eight Grade One.
On the video screen, the students chattered excitedly, in tones of surprise and with clumsy expressions, describing the pork feast they just had.
“This time I win.” Chief Steward An Jing looked smugly at his old classmate, “Shi Li, I told you developing the pork market definitely has prospects, see, didn’t I bet right?”
Aksim General Manager smiled helplessly and shook his head, thinking his old classmate was still so competitive, but he replied unwillingly, “This is just luck, if Classmate Xiang Chuan hadn’t happened to go to the pig farm, if she hadn’t happened to see that problematic pig, the result would still be my victory.”
“Luck is part of strength.”
Chief Steward An Jing put his hands on his hips, looking like he didn’t want to hear any excuses.
Knowing the other party wouldn’t accept any excuses once he won, Aksim General Manager could only shake his head, then change the topic: “But this way, our Animal Husbandry can also secure a sufficient share in the draft.”
“Yeah.” Hearing the word draft, Chief Steward An Jing’s smug expression also toned down a bit, “This castrated pig, plus the previous freshwater fish, our chips can finally compete head-on with the other two departments.”
“But we can’t relax our vigilance, the staple food crops side solved the rice problem, plus cooperating with Yue Xiang Group to plant soybeans, the market impact that the rumored new seasoning might bring will also be a factor for the captains and Agriculture Bureau to favor staple food crops.”
“The vegetables department is the same, Classmate Xiang Chuan proposed the method of raw vegetables this time, followed by matching with new seasonings and our meat, it might also increase planting areas.”
After a round of analysis, both fell silent.
Aksim General Manager smiled, “Feels like no matter how we fuss, the total proportion of the three departments remains the same.”
“Who made our production escort ship have only three departments, resource allocation is always four to three to three, if one day there’s an extra department, it could be evenly split into two point five.” Chief Steward An Jing said grumpily.
“If that day really comes, I estimate before the new department is established, the possibility of our three departments cooperating to pressure the captains and Agriculture Bureau to withdraw the decision is greater.”
After all, none wanted their resources suddenly taken by a new department dropped from above.
“Can’t say that, if the other is a seafood department, I’d be willing to vote yes.” Chief Steward An Jing shrugged.
Hearing this, Aksim General Manager was stunned, then smiled helplessly and shook his head.
Indeed, as staff cadres engaged in agriculture, they naturally had strong curiosity about seafood products that still had much development potential, and supported the captains and Agriculture Bureau using part of the escort ship’s land to open such a department.
But the problem was, the Fourth Fleet “Poseidon” that exclusively held ocean resources wouldn’t let other fleets take away their only unique export, even after several serious warnings from the First Fleet, they still went their own way. And the First Fleet could only help manage during the Fleet Exchange Period, for situations like now where the twelve fleets were hiding in some route corner, they could only post more “initiatives” on the space-time network to put on a show.
But the Third Fleet was different now.
Aksim General Manager propped his chin with both hands, muttering: “Maybe, during this Fleet Exchange Period, we really can get something from the Fourth Fleet.”
The Third Fleet now held the latest (oldest?) edible processing technology in the three major agricultural fields of staple food, vegetables, and Animal Husbandry, plus crops like edible fungi, yam, soybeans, etc., included in large-scale planting projects. If preparations were made before the Fleet Exchange Period started, they really could make a good profit from other fleets in technical exchange and export.
Chief Steward An Jing naturally knew his old classmate’s idea, she joked: “Maybe the Agriculture Bureau is thinking the same, so they deliberately cut off the space-time network link with the upper levels, the purpose being to prevent our agricultural layout adjustment and Classmate Xiang Chuan’s ancient gourmet food from spreading to other fleets. Just to catch them off guard.”
“Can’t say that randomly, the upper levels said it’s because the space-time network signal station malfunctioned that it can’t connect, oh.” Aksim General Manager smiled.
“Hey, that might fool young people who haven’t experienced the Fleet Exchange Period.” Chief Steward An Jing snorted disdainfully, “The space-time network signal station is the technological crystallization piled up by the Tenth Fleet and Eleventh Fleet with technology and manpower, in over twenty thousand years even stellar magnetic field storms didn’t cause signal issues, and now it ‘happens’ to malfunction when Classmate Xiang Chuan and Yue Xiang Group launch ancient food? Who believes that?”
“Don’t say that, their prepared local area network is pretty useful, isn’t it?” Aksim General Manager shook the personal terminal in his hand.
“It’s precisely because the functions are too complete that there’s a problem, just announced space-time network signal station malfunction, less than a day later launched a local area network covering the fleet range. The upper levels are just short of writing ‘we did it on purpose’ on their faces.” Chief Steward An Jing said, suddenly laughing, “But this is good too, when the Fleet Exchange Period comes, we can let other fleets see the results of our closed-door development.”
“If we can exchange for some good biotechnology from the Fourth Fleet, Sixth Fleet, and Seventh Fleet, I’d be content, then it’ll probably keep Classmate Xiang Chuan spinning.”
Thinking of this morning when Xiang Chuan was forced to accept the “request” he issued, the reluctant expression on her face like a child who had three days of summer vacation left but was assigned ten sets of test papers, Aksim General Manager couldn’t help but chuckle softly.
Capable kids with opportunities are destined to bear more labor.
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At the same time, Xiang Chuan was in the dormitory organizing the beef offal list she was preparing to ask Chief Steward An Jing for, she suddenly shivered.
She scratched her head: surely no one was thinking about her again, right?
