The strongest production soldier, awarded first-class merit for feeding pigs.

Expanding the scale requires raising so many poultry and livestock, and the daily feed requirement is enormous.

At least within this small town.

It is definitely enormous.

Chen Jun believed that when the quartermaster went to town to make purchases, the boss would be grinning from ear to ear at such a large order. As the company's "financial manager," the quartermaster was certainly experienced and would be able to complete the task perfectly.

Price is secondary; the main concern is that the quality of the feed supplied must be high, and the supply must be sufficiently stable.

Chen Jun's core business in animal husbandry is to generate treasure chests, so the quality of the feed must be high to ensure the survival rate of livestock and poultry. Money is not a problem for him at all.

As for a stable feed supply, that is of paramount importance; the supply must be timely and consistent.

It should be noted that the Seventh Company, as a border defense mobile force, is hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest county town. If the town cuts off supplies, it will be very troublesome to make temporary purchases.

Having resolved the major issue of food, the next big problem is the second most important one—

use!

Thirty pigs and hundreds of chickens, ducks and geese not only need to be fed every day, but also require sanitation work. In addition, you also need to manage the vegetable garden and feed the fish in the pond.

In a situation where there are only three people.

no doubt.

The workload is enormous; it's simply impossible to complete it manually.

As Chen Jun initially planned, if manual labor couldn't do it, machines and equipment had to be added to replace manual labor and greatly improve efficiency.

As long as work efficiency is improved, the required time will decrease accordingly.

The workload naturally decreased.

However, Chen Jun really couldn't help with which equipment and machines to buy, even though he had a lot of experience. He didn't know what the production department was lacking.

Only those who work on the production line every day truly understand what they need.

This problem can only be passed on to Liu Dazhi and Zhang Lianwen again.

They were familiar with every corner of the production workshop, so they naturally knew exactly what machines were needed.

As soon as Chen Jun brought up the topic, the two of them immediately took out paper and pens and started writing, listing dozens of items of all sizes.

It is mainly divided into two major sections—

For indoor and outdoor use.

Outdoors, it is mainly used in vegetable gardens.

According to Chen Jun's plan to expand the scale, the number of livestock has increased fivefold compared to before, and the demand for green fodder has also increased fivefold accordingly.

Roughage and feed additives can be purchased here.

Green fodder is more troublesome.

Firstly, green fodder is essential for feeding, but the company currently has very limited green fodder available, barely enough to feed the existing poultry.

We also need to go out and collect pig feed regularly, usually every three days, to ensure its availability.

The scale has now expanded fivefold, and the amount of green fodder that your company's vegetable plots can provide is definitely far from enough.

The only way to meet the green fodder needs for feeding the pigs is to cultivate more vegetable gardens.

Conservative estimate...

The area needs to be at least seven or eight times larger.

Because many vegetables cannot be grown in winter, it is necessary to grow vegetables in other seasons to supplement the crop, such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, and store them for use in winter to ensure a year-round supply of green fodder.

To increase the vegetable garden area by seven or eight times, relying solely on people to dig and plant would be exhausting.

Unless you pull all the dozens of people in the company together and send them all to the vegetable garden to grow vegetables.

But that's impossible.

The military grows vegetables to continue traditional practices and in response to the military's policy of self-sufficiency in border defense. It is a pastime and should not be considered a primary occupation.

If three people want to cultivate seven or eight times more vegetable plots, they can only find a way to improve their machinery.

Liu Dazhi and Zhang Lianwen, being from poor backgrounds, were relatively conservative in their spending, only proposing to buy a tiller.

It's the kind of machine where a person walks behind it holding the machine and can flip the ground over.

The price of this machine is not very expensive; even the best one only costs a few thousand yuan. Compared to digging with a hoe, it can indeed improve efficiency a lot.

However, Chen Jun crossed it out.

As a wealthy military man who is never short of money, saving money has never been part of Chen Jun's plans.

In order to spend money effectively and acquire more treasure chests, Chen Jun's core philosophy regarding the purchase of equipment is simple:

If you're going to buy something, buy the best and the most expensive.

Buy it all: tillers, deep tillers, grass shredders, seeders, etc., and make sure they're the mechanical kind, the kind that tractors can drive.

If it weren't for the fact that there are no plains in southern Xinjiang, making it unsuitable for large agricultural machinery...

Chen Jun wanted to get those deals worth hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of yuan.

However, even those small and medium-sized machines are not very useful in mountainous areas like Nanjiang, where there are too many ditches and bumps.

To make the machinery more efficient, Chen Jun simply bought a small excavator and bulldozer.

The purpose of buying them is singular: to level all the ditches and ridges, to create plains where none exist, so that agricultural machinery can enter the field.

To further improve work efficiency.

With limited manpower in the production team, improving work efficiency is the most important thing.

The list of equipment used in the vegetable garden was completed. There were more than a dozen kinds listed on the list. Although the number did not seem large, it stunned the quartermaster and the others.

Even if they know nothing about this kind of thing, they know that agricultural machinery towed by tractors must be expensive, beyond their wildest imagination.

If you were to buy all of these dozen or so genuine ones, it would cost at least a million or more, possibly even over two million.

Is it really worth buying two million yuan worth of agricultural equipment just to feed these few hundred chickens, ducks, geese, and thirty-odd pigs?

Even if you have money, you have nowhere to spend it.

That's not how extravagant it should be.

The quartermaster, Liu Dazhi, and Zhang Lianwen found Chen Jun increasingly incomprehensible, and a single thought popped into their minds—

"Are all rich people this capricious?"

Chen Jun, having already spent at least two million, was in a state of excitement at the thought of soon harvesting the treasure chests, and didn't notice the changes in the three people's eyes at all.

Having sorted out the agricultural machinery needed for farming, the next step is to prepare the electrical appliances needed for home use.

These are largely the same; Chen Jun basically followed the list written by Liu Zhijun and Zhang Lianwen, and then upgraded the scale to "Yidiandian".

Crusher to break up corn cobs, cutter to crush green fodder, mixer to mix with roughage, washing machine to improve cleaning efficiency, and electric vehicle to facilitate the transport of pig feed, etc.

Chen Jun purchased everything according to the highest standards, and bought the best and most expensive ones.