Chapter 703 A Piece of News

Half a day later.

221 Base.

Factory Director's Office.

"Xiao Xu, your suggestion this time is very effective."

Putting down the report compiled by assistant Zhou Cai, Li Jue smiled and said to Xu Yun kindly:

"According to the feedback from various branches, everyone's work enthusiasm is higher than before, and the organization is very satisfied."

Xu Yun, who was opposite him, smiled and scratched his hair without saying much.

Although only five or six core members including Xu Yun, Li Jue, Qian Wushi and others attended the small-scale meeting today, Xu Yun did not lose his sense of propriety because they were all acquaintances.

According to the original idea of ​​the organization.

After the news of eating beef during the New Year was made public and the cattle shed was placed on the commuter train line, the base's refutation of the rumor can almost be stopped here.

As for the slaughter of cattle and sheep, this job can be directly handed over to the masters of the slaughterhouse. Everyone just needs to wait quietly for the arrival of New Year's Eve.

However, not long ago, Xu Yun proposed an idea:

Can we hold a public slaughter of cattle and sheep on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month?

Although there were no refrigerators in this era, it was already snowing heavily in Xihai Province in January, and the lowest temperature could reach minus 20 degrees Celsius, which was already a natural ice storage environment.

You know.

The temperature of refrigerators in later generations was only minus 15 to 18 degrees Celsius, and in some cases it was even minus 12 degrees Celsius.

The selection of the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month to slaughter beef was in line with traditional customs, and the time would not cause the beef to deteriorate.

So after this idea was proposed, the base management did not have much objection to the selected date, but there were some different opinions on whether to make it public.

Some more conservative factory leaders believed that there was no need to spend energy on such things. Their reason was simple:

The entire 221 base had tens of thousands of employees, and each branch factory had one or two thousand people, so a very open venue was bound to be needed when slaughtering cattle.

Once the venue is wide, it means that the distance between the audience and the center of the venue will be extended - as short as ten meters, as long as twenty or thirty meters.

At this distance, except for a few comrades with excellent eyesight, most employees cannot see the appearance of beef.

Just like in the future, if you find someone across three classrooms, it is relatively easy to distinguish whether the person is a teacher or a student or to determine who the other person is, but want to see the content of the paper in the other person's hand?

This is obviously very challenging.

The same is true for public slaughter of cattle.

So some factory leaders think that doing so will not have much emotional mobilization effect, because people can't judge from close.

But in the end, under Xu Yun's insistence, Li Jue still agreed to this plan.

To be honest.

At that time, some factory leaders treated this plan with a mentality of watching a joke - this mentality is actually not malicious, but it is simply a bit puzzling that Li Jue still favors Xu Yun in such things that are not related to scientific research.

There is no way.

After all, there are only five people in the management who know Xu Yun's descendants, and even Yuan Guoliang knows nothing about Xu Yun's origins.

In their opinion, Xu Yun's plan will probably be a cold reception, and they estimate that many employees will come to take a walk and go back.

What they didn't expect was that.

At the beginning of today's event, the employees burst into great enthusiasm for participation.

Even if they found that they couldn't see the situation on the chopping board clearly after arriving, they still didn't complain about the base's approach, and didn't turn around and leave because they felt bored.

Some of the employees are relatives of the factory leaders, and they were still talking about it when they went home.

It is said that there were many people at the scene who didn't know each other beforehand, but they still chatted happily, and even some young men and women took this opportunity to expand their social circles - as for whether they can succeed in the end, it depends on God's will.

Therefore, from the perspective of pure victory and defeat, Xu Yun is obviously a winner this time.

Of course.

Xu Yun did not lose his composure because of such a "victory". After all, if you think about it from another perspective, the psychology of these leaders is still easy to understand.

It's like a consultant suddenly parachuted into your research group in the future. He conquered everyone with his personal ability in scientific research, but then he suddenly started to raise opinions on things like water dispensers, tables and chairs, and takeout, and some of his opinions seemed meaningless, so everyone would have some doubts.

So Xu Yun coughed lightly and took the initiative to change the topic tactfully:

"Director, how many kilograms of meat did our base produce this time? Is it enough to make dumplings?"

Hearing Xu Yun ask about the amount of meat, Li Jue's expression suddenly became a little complicated. He took the report from the table and shook it a few times, saying:

"Enough, enough, the amount of meat is much more than we expected."

"According to the statistics of various sites, the fifty cows we slaughtered this time produced a total of more than 20,000 kilograms of meat - the kind without bones."

"More than 70 sheep produced more than 3,700 kilograms, which is a lot more than we expected. If I had known earlier, I would have kept some cattle and sheep for breeding."

At the end.

Li Jue couldn't help but have a hint of heartache in his tone.

I mentioned it earlier.

According to Xu Yun's original idea, the base's New Year's Eve dinner was an unlimited mode, and the employees were given as much as they could eat.

But in this way, everyone's meat quota would be directly increased from the original 5 liang to about 1.5 jin, which means an increase of one jin per person.

The entire base has more than 17,000 employees, which requires more than 17,000 kilograms of extra meat.

Therefore, the base is also preparing according to this number.

Li Jue and others want to come.

The number of cattle and sheep sent by the organization should be about the same. The number is one or two more than what was originally reported by the base. In the end, it will probably be an extra 1,800 kilograms. This part will be treated as extra food for everyone.

However, these big guys with profound knowledge in military and scientific research ignored an important parameter of the slaughtering industry when thinking about it:

Net meat rate.

The calculation method of this concept is (cattle carcass weight - beef bone weight) ÷cattle live weight × 100%. Beef carcass weight refers to the live weight of the cow before slaughter excluding the head, viscera, blood, leather and hoof limbs below the wrist joint. The remaining weight, which is the beef on the bone.

To put it simply, this concept is the percentage of pure meat produced from cows to live cows.

In the future life where Xu Yun traveled through time.

Due to sufficient feed and advanced breeding technology, the net meat rate of most breeds of cattle can reach about 50%.

There is even a type of beef cattle called Simmental cattle in Mao Xiong and Bangzi, and the net meat rate can even exceed 55%.

Don't underestimate this mere 5%. Calculated based on the weight of a cow of 1,000 kilograms, 5% is a full 50 kilograms.

But this period is different.

The rabbits have no skills and no feed. Most old scalpers have a meat-free rate of only about 35%-40%.

And this number is the same as the salary of 3000-6000 on later recruitment websites. Basically, just look at the lowest one.

Li Jue and the others also used the figure of 35% for calculation. This is almost the stereotype of many people - especially the base leaders, because the clean meat rate sent by the organization in the past few times was almost 35%.

The result was unexpected.

According to the current situation, the clean meat rate of these cattle and sheep sent by the organization is actually as high as 43%.

The 8% difference in net meat rate made the actual amount of meat produced much higher than Li Jue and the others expected.

After all, there are so many achievements produced at the base during this period, and the organization will inevitably select extremely high-quality samples when selecting cattle.

In other words.

Now the meat from these cattle and sheep has far exceeded the expectations of the base leadership, which makes Li Jue both happy and sad.

I'm happy that the base will definitely have a good year this year. There will be several thousand more kilograms of meat, and the average quota for each employee can be another three or four taels.

Originally, Li Jue and the others were a little worried that there was not enough meat. You must know that many workers are actually big eaters, after all, they do manual labor.

Now that this incident has come out, Li Jue's last concern can be completely dispelled.

The sad thing is that if he had expected it in advance, he would definitely save these cows and keep them first.

Think of this.

Li Jue suddenly glared at Xu Yun angrily and asked him:

"Xiao Xu, you must have noticed the problem of clean meat rate a long time ago, right?"

Hear this.

Xu Yun's eyes were instantly filled with confusion again. He was left in infinite terror and calculated the level of the fourth-level gene lock. He looked like he didn't understand anything:

"Director, what are you talking about? I don't understand."

Li Jue immediately rolled his eyes at him:

"It's strange that you don't understand. I understand now. No wonder the fire couldn't burn you to death - your kid's stomach is full of bad water. If there is some water, how can the fire get in?"

Looking at Li Jue, who was blowing his beard and staring, Xu Yun scratched his head without any panic, laughed twice, and said nothing.

He had indeed seen it early.

After all, he and Academician Zhou Shan were engaged in the breeding of local donkeys in real life. When the two were talking about burning donkey meat, they had talked about the concept of clean meat rate many times.

Besides, the reason why he focused on Neon Wagyu was because Wagyu had a high meat content and was rich in fat. Now that those cows have arrived at the base, how could he forget about this?

When he saw the cattle sent by the organization, he realized early on that the meat content of these cattle was high.

But he didn't say anything out loud.

After all, people these days are not as over-nourished as later generations, and almost everyone does not have much oil and water in their stomachs.

During these days at the base, everyone Xu Yun saw was more or less thin. The few fat people he saw were also anxious obesity caused by excessive stress.

Therefore, Xu Yun was naturally very happy to allow the employees of the base to eat more meat - anyway, the meat would not go bad in this weather, and the base had already made a freezer with ice cubes.

Of course.

Xu Yun was obviously not the only one at the base to notice that these cattle and sheep had a high meat-cleaning rate. For example, when Comrade Gonbu, the captain of the livestock sideline team, saw them, he concluded that these cattle and sheep must produce a lot of meat.

However, most of the employees like Kampot are the grassroots personnel of the base and do not know the base's plan for the amount of meat. Even if they are aware of this, it is of little use.

At the same time at the decision-making level.

Xu Yun risked making many leaders confused or even unhappy by pushing the "nonsense" plant-based meat-cutting plan.

The purpose of this plan is to enliven the atmosphere, let everyone have a fun time, relax and at the same time have a positive motivating effect.

Secondly, it is to disperse the beef from the single point of the slaughterhouse, so that the slaughterhouse cannot know the total amount of meat in real time - the slaughterhouse does not have a phone.

What Li Jue said about "bad water" was also referring to this matter - he thought Xu Yun only came up with the idea to cheer up the employees' emotions.

Now that I think about it.

This guy had already made up his mind to get everyone to eat more meat.

Looking at Li Jue who had a look on his face like "You're deceiving me with my feelings", Xu Yun had no choice but to restrain his cute expression, couldn't help but sigh and said:

"Director, please don't blame me entirely for this matter. I have a reason for doing this."

Li Juehu stared:

"What's the reason?"

"Maximize benefits."

"fart!"

Li Jue immediately slapped the table, causing the lid of the tea cup to clang several times, and said angrily:

"You think I'm stupid? If you raise these cows and sheep and then kill them when needed next time, wouldn't the benefit be higher than if you add a few taels of meat to everyone now?"

When Xu Yun heard this, he raised his head and looked at Li Jue without fear:

"Yes, if you can really kill all those cattle and sheep when necessary, the benefits will definitely be higher than what I am doing now."

"But with all due respect, given your character, or the character of those of you older generation, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to wait until that 'time of need' in this lifetime."

"I dare to bet you that at most, when the shortage of supplies reaches an extreme, everyone will kill one or two cows and sheep - or the old ones. The rest are the so-called reserve supplies."

Talking and talking.

Xu Yun sighed quietly and continued:

"If this was in previous years, it would be barely reasonable, but our current situation is already different from before."

"Now that we have Mao Xiong's winter wheat base, good times may be far away, but in any case, it is impossible to have the situation of drinking elm leaf soup again."

"Instead of that, why not kill these cattle and sheep at once so that everyone can have a good time?"

Finally.

Xu Yun also raised his eyebrows and spread his hands towards Li Jue:

"Anyway, director, those cows have been cut into pieces now like 2.5 Satoru. No matter how unhappy you are, you can't change this fact, right?"

to be honest.

From the time he traveled to Base 221 to the present, it is not that Xu Yun has never had disagreements with others.

However, Xu Yun's previous handling methods were very gentle, either convincing people with reason, or turning around and solving the problem in a more tactful way.

He has always been respectful and close to all the members of the base. This is the first time that he directly contradicts Li Jue like today.

because

He felt that some of Li Jue's concepts should indeed be reworked.

like he said.

If Li Jue could really kill all the cattle and sheep when supplies were scarce, then Xu Yun would never have any objection to Li Jue's approach.

but

Whether based on the decryption of later documents or the consistent style of the rabbits, Xu Yun can make a very accurate judgment:

[When needed] must be a perfunctory rhetoric from Li Jue, which is the same as what many Internet writers in later generations would say [code, code, code].

For example, Xu Yun met an author named Pei Tugou and he did this every day. He talked about code words every day, and actually quietly opened the Baldur Gate.

The same goes for Li Jue.

Seniors like him who have experienced hard times have a consciousness or understanding that is engraved in their bones:

No matter how bad the situation is, they will still wave their hands and say, "Just hold on a little longer, it will be over after a while."

If they really can't hold on anymore, they will only select the oldest ones from the cattle and sheep, and then keep the remaining cattle and sheep until [when needed].

80% of those cattle and sheep can survive until the end of their lives, and then they will be dragged to the chopping board and cut into meat.

Not to mention the taste, the difference in meat volume between young adults and old people is huge.

Li Jue's spirit is worthy of admiration and recognition by all future generations.

But while Xu Yun admired him, he believed that this kind of awareness was not worth learning in some situations.

What do some situations mean?

The answer is now.

Nowadays, the winter wheat trade between Rabbits and Bears is not stable. Under Xu Yun's suggestion, the capital has also been using the interest-free loans from Neon people and Neon Domestic to purchase grain.

At the same time, Yuan Guoliang and Zhou Kaida's long-term Shennong project is about to be launched, so there is no need to worry about not having enough food for staple food.

At the same time, the organization is also planning to popularize black soldier fly breeding. Black soldier fly larvae can provide an appropriate amount of protein intake.

In addition, when Xu Yun was in Lop Nur, he and Peng Jiamu reminded him of the location of the country's largest potassium mine in the future. Potash fertilizer, which is crucial for agricultural planting, is expected to be produced on a small scale within a year.

True.

This kind of life is still far from the definition of "good life", but at least there is no need to dig wild vegetables, gnaw tree bark or even eat Guanyin soil.

In other words, Li Jue and the others will probably not encounter a real shortage of supplies until the day Black Myth Wukong is released.

So Xu Yun confidently fought against Li Jue. Anyway, the meat has been killed. You have to eat it whether you want it or not!

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Looking at Xu Yun who looked at him calmly, Li Jue suddenly fell into silence.

Even if you don't want to admit it.

But there was a voice in his heart telling him that Xu Yun was indeed right.

For example, when the base was most scarce in supplies.

A big leader in the capital personally negotiated for more than 1,000 kilograms of lamb legs. The meat after bone removal was estimated to be only 300 kilograms. The base ate it for three months - this was a vote by all employees.

At that time, a workshop with more than ten people could only get one lamb leg. They took turns sucking it during meals. Each person could suck the bone five times per meal. Even so, many workshops sucked a piece of bone for a month.

So if those cattle and sheep were not killed, they would probably not be on the chopping block until their lifespan expired.

Thinking of this.

Li Jue sighed a little depressed.

But just when Li Jue was a little depressed, Qian Wushi on the side suddenly bumped his shoulder with his elbow.

Li Jue looked at the big man in confusion.

Qian Wushi pointed to the desk calendar in front of Li Jue, casually turned it to a date a few months later, and glanced at Xu Yun on the side.

June 17th.

A question mark suddenly appeared on Li Jue's face.

What does this mean?

That date is neither a festival nor a solar term.

But soon, he understood the meaning of this time:

This is the day when Xu Yun was discovered by Lao Guo and others. Master Qian Wu was reminding him that Xu Yun came from the future.

Wait!

Origin?

Li Jue suddenly widened his eyes and completely understood what Master Qian Wu wanted to express:

Xu Yun is a man from the future. Now he can kill all these cattle and sheep without worrying about it. Doesn't that mean that in the original history, there will be no worse days in the country than in the past?

After all, if there is no reference to the actual historical trend, given Xu Yun's stable character, even if many of the current projects are stable, he will never do such a thing.

In other words.

In the time when Xu Yun came, the rabbits didn't have to worry about this anymore, let alone the timeline that he kicked countless times now.

Thinking of this.

Li Jue's pupils suddenly burst into an inexplicable brilliance, and the depression in his heart instantly dissipated.

In fact, after knowing Xu Yun's true identity, Li Jue has been thinking about asking Xu Yun about some future things.

For example, how was the country at that time, whether Xiaoshi was still the only secondary original country, whether he was evaluated as a technical leader, etc.

However, the writer had advised before leaving the base not to ask Xu Yun about the future, otherwise Xu Yun might disappear as he appeared.

Therefore, for a long time.

Li Jue and several other big men who knew Xu Yun's background could only bury this idea in their hearts, and try to communicate with Xu Yun as colleagues on weekdays.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yun's behavior today also hinted at some information in the future:

The rabbits in the future will not lack food.

Food.

The status of these two words in Li Jue's heart is basically at the same level as the atomic bomb.

If the atomic bomb is a weapon, then food can undoubtedly be regarded as a culture.

A country without an atomic bomb can easily succumb to nuclear deterrence, while a country lacking food may be triggered by external blockades at any time.

For example, the well-known Tang Dynasty in history.

During the Tang Dynasty, the population of Guanzhong had expanded to the extreme, and this land had been cultivated for 700 years during the Qin, Han, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the grain production was no longer good.

Although Chang'an had a large population, people often starved to death.

At that time, Luoyang had food. Emperor Gaozong of Tang and his wife Wu Zetian often went to Luoyang to eat, calling it "eating". They often took thousands of officials to Luoyang to eat.

If Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had not launched the Tanglong coup to create the Kaiyuan Prosperity, food shortages would probably have become one of the fuses of the Tang Dynasty's troubles - not a direct cause, but certainly one of the internal causes.

There are many similar examples in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, so I won't go into details here.

Now Xu Yun seems to have a quarrel with me, but he also inadvertently leaked such good news.

Thinking of this.

Li Jue suddenly felt that the big bald head on Wu Xuelin, who used the alias Wu Ke, became more pleasing to the eye.

Then he coughed lightly, picked up another document from the table, and said to Xu Yun:

"By the way, Xiao Xu, in addition to notifying you of the relevant results of the slaughter, I have two other things to synchronize with you."

Xu Yun hurriedly made a listening gesture.

Although he and Li Jue had a quarrel, he always respected Li Jue very much - especially Li Jue's mustache, which made him look very comfortable.

Li Jue first raised a finger and introduced:

"The first thing is the venue layout for the Spring Festival. The venue planning was just released this morning. This is also a very important task."

Xu Yun nodded in agreement.

After the establishment of the [Sanqing] project, the base has now received two reinforcements, with a total number of employees as high as 17,000. The venue for the New Year's Eve dinner is indeed a link that needs to be carefully considered.

For example, the size of the venue, ventilation conditions, temperature, traffic load, etc.

Especially since the New Year's Eve dinner was at night, there were no big street lights in the village like in later times. Even if the venue was divided, we still had to consider the possibility of trampling.

In addition, there were some special events that had to be taken into consideration.

For example, if someone fought at the dinner table, or if the other side of the strait had a U2 reconnaissance plane harassing them on New Year's Eve.

Indeed.

Although the infrared imaging technology of reconnaissance aircraft these days is very poor, the photos taken at night are as dark as the faces of Onmyoji players, and nothing can be seen at all.

But no one can tell the brain circuits of someone on the other side, and it cannot be measured by ordinary people's thinking.

Then Li Jue took out a folded paper from the file, flattened it and put it on the table:

"Look, this is the arrangement of the New Year's Eve dinner venue we planned."

"The venue for the New Year's Eve dinner is divided into twelve locations, six in the living area and six in the factory area-the six points in the factory area are not in the main factory area."

"Half of the living area is occupied by workers in the production workshop, and this part of the personnel is mainly workers who have not been told the truth about the base"

"In addition, there are some arrangements for security duty personnel, and here are several main passages"

mentioned earlier.

Although many employees in the 221 base have passed the political review, they have not actually been informed of the specific production tasks.

That is, they know that their work involves major national projects, but they don't know that this project is an atomic bomb.

This group of personnel is mainly composed of workers in the production workshop, and this group is also the easiest to keep secret.

For example, you produce a bearing every day. The parameters of the bearing are very precise, but it is difficult for ordinary people to associate it with the components of an atomic bomb.

There are about 5,000 people in this group in the base, so the base will focus on distributing them in the three branch venues in the living area this time.

At the same time, several major factories, such as the second branch that studies explosives and the sixth branch responsible for cold explosion experiments, do not have dining tables.

The location of the branch venues on the factory side is mostly ordinary factory areas at the back.

At the same time, there are special agents patrolling in real time in several major factories to ensure the safety of some important intelligence.

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More than a minute later.

Xu Yun slowly raised his head from the paper in front of him.

The base has done a very detailed planning of the site, and he basically can't find any problems.

After all, for a veteran like Li Jue who has organized various large-scale activities, planning a New Year's Eve dinner for less than 20,000 people is also a professional match.

So he quickly said to Li Jue:

"Director, I have no objection to this plan, there is nothing to add."

"By the way, the other thing you mentioned is..."

"Another thing."

After hearing this, Li Jue carefully put away the site plan for the New Year's Eve dinner and smiled mysteriously at Xu Yun:

"That is..."

"All the overseas students you worked so hard to bring back have returned home successfully the day before yesterday."