Ran Jiang first reported several sets of data, including Yiwu's current population, arable land area, specialties, etc. "From these data, we can see that in addition to arable land, Yiwu only has a little candied dates and brown sugar, and it is definitely not possible to develop agriculture in Yiwu!"

"But Yiwu has a tradition of exchanging chicken feathers for sugar, and engaging in small commodity management can be said to be the only way out for Yiwu! When I was studying in another place, I saw Yiwu people selling small commodities on trains many times. At that time, I truly saw the vitality of our Yiwu people."

"It was they who told me that it was worth it to come back! As long as you give some spring breeze and some chance, the people on this land will not be poor again with their wisdom and diligence!"

"And a few days ago, I looked at the markets in various townships in the county. Although we are speeding up the closure and governance, there are not fewer and fewer people doing small commodity transactions, but more and more people."

"I asked them the reason, and they also knew that they were catching speculation now, but if they didn't do this, their wives and children would be hungry, and they were caught and hungry at the same time. It was not surprising that they made such a decision!"

"At the same time, there are many problems with the state-owned enterprises in the county, such as insufficient initiative! The Chen Jianghe I told you a few days ago has returned. Do you know what business he has done?" Ran Jiang asked.

"What business?" Xie Gaohua asked curiously. He instinctively felt that this question was not simple.

"He went to the cotton yarn mill to buy cotton yarn heads that the cotton yarn mill didn't want. The cotton yarn heads were useless for the cotton yarn mill, either sent to the workers or threw them away directly; but Chen Jianghe saw the business opportunity from it, and took the cotton yarn heads back and made them into mops and took them out to sell!"

"In this way, not only has it increased the income of the cotton mill, but it has also led people around to make money, and at the same time avoided wasting resources. This is a good thing that can be achieved by killing multiple shots in one fell swoop."

"If there were no small businessmen like Chen Jianghe, those cotton yarns could only be thrown away as waste, and the villagers in Chenjia Village would not find any opportunity to make money! If state-owned enterprises do these things, it would probably be unprofitable. The cost of recruiting workers in factories to make mops is too high."

"From this perspective, the private economy can be used as a supplement to the state-owned economy. Many great economists have mentioned that there are articles in the People's Daily and Guangming Daily." Ran Jiang took out the newspaper and handed it to Xie Gaohua.

"Yingjie, you have really read your book." Xie Gaohua was very pleased. There were too few young people who thought clearly like this and knew how to use policy theory to provide a basis for themselves.

"I also went to the Yiting Breeding Farm in our county. This farm specializes in raising two-headed black rice noodles that are most suitable for making Jinhua ham. The ham has been sold well. The scale of the farm has expanded a lot. The number of pigs has increased, but the feed cannot keep up. The feed outside is not only expensive, but also a shortage of goods, and it cannot be bought with money."

The two-headed black is the commonly known as the Jinhua pig, which is native to Huashui, Huxi, Yiting in Yiwu, Xiaosun in Jinhua, Lipu, Caozhai and other places; its tail is longer and straight, and the hair on the head and tail is generally black and the body is white; because the hair on the head and neck and hips are black, and the rest are white, it is called "two-headed black".

It is best to use Chenghua pig for making double-cooked meat. For Xuanwei ham, you should choose the black gold pig originated from the Wumeng Mountains and the Jinsha River. For Jinhua ham, you should naturally use Jinhua two-headed black pigs. This pig is of moderate size, thin skin and thin feet, tender flesh, bright red color, and moderate fat and thinness. It is very suitable for making high-quality ham.

But good pigs are hard to raise. If you want to raise two black pigs well, you should not use messy things to feed them. It is best to use barley as feed. There is a saying in the local area that "will not raise pigs, just black soybeans and barley."

Therefore, as the scale of pig breeding deepened, the breeding cost was lower and the meat yield rate was higher, gradually replacing domestic local pigs.

These pigs do provide the people with a lot of meat, making meat a delicacy that ordinary people can enjoy in their daily lives; but the taste of these meats is still far from many specialty local pigs.

"I told Chen Jianghe about this. He said that the barley in Fuyang County next door has good harvests this year and the yield is high. Farmers are worried about how to deal with it. They only need a very low price to buy it." But the farm did not know that it was so easy to find out, and the initiative was really bad.

"I have also learned about the situation of the farm. There is indeed a problem of feed shortage. If this is the case, you can tell Chen Jianghe that if he can get barley, I will let the farm collect it. It doesn't matter if he can make some money." Xie Gaohua's idea is still very flexible.

"When it comes to the breeding farm, I remembered another thing. Some time ago, the state-owned food factory asked us to close the Buddhist temple and the ham factory run by farmers in Yiting Town. The reason is that Jinhua ham has been exclusively operated by state-owned food companies in the past few decades and farmers have no right to participate. How do you think this problem should be solved?"

Jinhua ham is a specialty of Jinhua City, as famous as Xuanwei ham in Yunnan. Yiwu is a subordinate county in Jinhua. There is also a tradition of making ham here. Several towns have been producing ham for many years.

Originally, many farmers also made a small amount of Jinhua ham themselves, but later they were all produced by state-owned factories. In recent years, with the relaxation of policies, many old craftsmen have also begun to pick up their former abilities, and the state-owned factories are now unhappy.

Ran Jiang thought about it and said, "I have also conducted a survey on Jinhua ham in the early stage. The Jinhua ham produced in Yiwu is famous nationwide and is in short supply every year!"

The reason why Jinhua ham is popular is not only due to its long-term fame, but also due to the influence of modern great men.

Mr. Zhou Shuren once gave the teacher Jinhua ham. Comrade Wu Hao often gave Jinhua ham to foreign guests in foreign affairs activities, so the reputation of Jinhua ham has been maintained until now.

"The ham produced by the state-owned ham factory every year will be sold out soon except for the special supply! Therefore, some farmers produce ham by themselves, which does not affect the interests of the state-owned ham factory!"

"They prevented local farmers from producing Jinhua ham, perhaps because they were afraid that the quality of the ham they produced would not be guaranteed, which ruined the reputation of Jinhua ham."
Chapter completed!