Chapter 995 Cultivating New Varieties

In April, a little-noticed story was published in the newspapers.

Dahua's white-feather chicken project was successfully cultivated and began to enter the stage of large-scale breeding.

The white-feather chicken is a breed developed by Dahua through cross-breeding technology and according to the direction given by Wu Changqing.

This breed is characterized by a fast growth cycle and low feed consumption.

It takes at least five or six months to grow an ordinary native chicken. This kind of white-feathered chicken can grow to four or five pounds in 40 days, which is four to five times faster.

This improvement is quite remarkable, which means that the difficulty of obtaining meat will be greatly reduced in the future, the price of chicken will be greatly reduced, and even ordinary people can even afford chicken.

As for safety and nutrition, there is no need to worry at all.

Although the nutritional value is not as good as native chicken, the gap is not very big.

How good is the food grown with chemical fertilizers, and how good are artificially bred white-feathered chickens? Those are issues that only people who are full of food will pay attention to.

Dahua currently does not have such pretentious people. If there is meat to eat, it can satisfy most people. They are not so picky.

After successfully breeding white-feathered chickens, the imperial court immediately established a large-scale breeding farm in the suburbs of Jiangning, with an annual output of 10 million white-feathered chickens.

This number is actually very small. In the original time and space, flower growers produced 4.2 billion white-feathered chickens in 2017.

If not, why would there be so many cheap chicken legs and wings on the street?

The successful cultivation of white-feathered chickens is difficult for ordinary people to feel any great significance from it.

After all, this kind of impact is not intuitive enough, unlike the hot air balloon and the first person in the sky, which can bring great visual impact to people.

As for the white-feathered chicken, in the eyes of ordinary people, it's just another kind of chicken.

Even though chicken has become cheaper, it's not a drastic change.

But in fact, the role of white-feathered chicken is much greater than that of a hot air balloon. It is a big killer that can be eaten by everyone.

Being able to feed everyone in the world is a great achievement pursued by all the emperors in the past.

Now, Wu Changqing not only wants everyone in the world to have enough to eat, but also wants everyone in the world to have meat to eat.

The achievement of truly accomplishing this goal cannot be exaggerated.

In recognition of the contribution of the white-feather chicken breeding team, Wu Changqing directly awarded the title of earl to Wen Zhaoyan, the main person in charge of the project.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the world has really changed. When will a chicken farmer be knighted?"

Among the people, some people do not understand Wu Changqing's award.

That was a count, an honor that many generals could not earn even if they fought tooth and nail on the battlefield.

And now, a chicken farmer actually got it.

"They are not raising ordinary chickens, they are chickens that can grow up in more than a month. If you can breed a pig that can be slaughtered in a month, not to mention the earl, even the marquis and dukes will have your share."

said another.

"It's strange, why does the chicken raised by Wen Zhaoyan grow up so quickly?"

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Breeding white-feathered chickens is an official project to benefit people all over the world.

And some individuals, after understanding the laws of genetics, are also cultivating something in private.

Such as goldfish and pet dogs.

Goldfish has become an ornamental fish as early as the Song Dynasty and was respected by a small group of wealthy people.

However, people at that time did not know how to cultivate artificially, so there were very few types of goldfish.

Now, the laws of genetics have been explained in Dahua’s textbooks.

According to these rules, some people began to artificially breed goldfish, and soon various strange-shaped goldfish were cultivated.

There are flat heads, goose heads, tiger heads, lion heads, longevity heads...

In terms of colors, there are several types.

These cultivated goldfish were sought after by the upper class as soon as they were launched because of their unique shapes.

Most dignitaries have a fish tank or even a fish pond with goldfish in their homes.

Whether these goldfish are good-looking or not is actually debatable.

However, when most people think that keeping goldfish is a reflection of status and sentiment, this goldfish has become synonymous with good looks.

Coupled with the secret promotion by interest groups that cultivate goldfish, goldfish has gradually been accepted by people, who think that this thing is really good-looking and has the same purpose as diamond marketers.

The same goes for pet dogs.

Before that, Dahua basically only had native dogs.

However, with the increasingly frequent exchanges with foreign countries, some other breeds of foreign dogs have also entered Dahua and hybridized with local native dogs.

During this hybridization process, some will show various strange shapes due to genetic defects.

For example, the body is very long, like a sausage. Another example is that the face has many wrinkles, the hair is extremely velvety, etc.

This is a morbid condition, and the health status of these dogs is much worse than that of normal native dogs. However, because of its uniqueness, it is easily sought after by some Chinese people.

After mastering the laws of genetics, some dog owners began to deliberately breed such sick dogs.

Under deliberate screening, these pathological characteristics become more and more obvious.

Originally a dog with a long body, it was suddenly cultivated into a monster.

Originally there were only a few wrinkles on the face, but it was suddenly cultivated into a face full of wrinkles.

The more obvious these pathological characteristics are, the higher the price can be sold.

When the news of Wen Zhaoyan's title spread, a man who had bred a large number of pet dog breeds also came to the government to apply for key rewards.

In his opinion, what he did was similar to Wen Zhaoyan.

Even, in some ways, one's own achievements should be higher, because dogs are more expensive than chickens.

However, his unreasonable request was eventually rejected by the government.

Cui Jin was naturally unconvinced and cheated on the government, saying that the government was partial and operating in secret. Finally, the Police Department arrested him and imprisoned him for picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

Until he went to jail, Cui Jin didn't understand where he went wrong.

They are also cultivating new varieties, but why do they receive such great treatment?

When the news of Wen Zhaoyan's knighthood was published, Dahua started a small trend of cultivating new varieties.

In the eyes of many people, cultivating new varieties is much simpler than inventing.

However, only after they try it will they know that it is not difficult to breed new varieties, but it is extremely difficult to breed a new variety that can benefit mankind.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of people who try, end up failing.

However, there are some lucky people who, by mistake, have gained something in this regard.