Chicken and duck eggs are more valuable than meat these days, especially in the military.

As the saying goes, money touches people's hearts. Li Mengxi couldn't completely guarantee that the people responsible for raising chickens and ducks would not be greedy at all, so he had to reduce greed as much as possible.

Raising chickens and ducks does not require many manpower. A cart puller is responsible for pulling a cart full of chicken coops, and there is a replacement manpower.

Then one person is responsible for pulling another cart, and the fish scraps are placed on the cart. The fish scraps are feed for chickens and ducks. This cart also needs a replacement person.

In other words, four people are enough to be responsible for raising chickens, ducks and piglets.

In order to facilitate monitoring, Li Mengxi thought that the chicken and duck carts could be kept in front of his eyes, and then when collecting the chicken and duck eggs, he could collect them himself, without using the hands of others.

There were not many manpower needed, and the manpower in the Carpenter Camp was all useful and difficult to transfer. So Li Mengxi went to the Minfu Camp and randomly found four young men who looked honest and honest. He transferred them to the Zichong Camp and was responsible for feeding them.

Chickens, ducks, and piglets.

For the peasants, raising chickens and ducks might be a good job. The four chosen peasants were all overjoyed when they saw the chickens and ducks jumping around in the cages.

The work was assigned to four civilian workers. The four civilian workers pulled the car behind Li Mengxi's van and started working consciously.

Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment when he saw the farmer feeding the fish offal to the piglet.

In Li Mengxi's old impression, pigs eat leftovers, porridge and the like, rather than meat. Fish intestines and gills are meat.

Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment and then remembered that pigs can really feed meat. Pigs are omnivores, just like humans. If humans can eat, pigs can also eat.

The farmer took several large handfuls of fish offal and threw them into the pig trough. The piglets grunted as they ate.

Li Mengxi saw that the peasants did not have tools to load the food, so they used their hands, which was too dirty.

Also, chickens and ducks are placed in cages, which is fine. Pigs are also placed in cages and raised on the car. There seems to be some problem that I didn't notice.

Pigs are excrement-making machines, and it is difficult to clean the excrement in cages.

Therefore, the pig cage must be specially modified.

When Lu Li and others made the cage, they considered installing a deep wooden water tank in the cage to prevent water from being put into the water tank. As the cart jolted, the water would be spilled out. The carpenters also considered that the size of the pig was too large.

As the pigs grow older, the cages are purposely made larger. However, the carpenters seem to have forgotten that pigs are terrible at making manure and cannot be raised in the same way as chickens and ducks.

Raising pigs during the march was really troublesome, Li Mengxi scratched his head.

If there is really no other way, then change the cage. Anyway, the pigs are small, so change the cage every three to five days.

There is no problem in maintaining one item.

Li Mengxi didn't know much about raising chickens, ducks and pigs.

The pigs have been fanned anyway, and the chicken and duck coops are also paved with wheat straw. The chicken coop is comfortable, but it still needs sand. The chickens need to eat sand to help digest food.

"Brother, look, it's laying eggs!"

His brother's happy cheers interrupted Li Mengxi's thoughts. Li Mengxi turned his head and followed his brother's pointer. He actually saw a hen laying an egg.

Li Mengxi smiled, stepped forward and took out the egg. The egg was still hot in his hand.

There are eggs to eat tonight.

Li Mengxi left to find water to wash the eggs, and then went to the wounded barracks. There were many free utensils and hot water in Tian Bu.

Borrowing a small earthenware jar, Li Mengxi threw the eggs into it, put it on the fire and started cooking.

The water was still cold and had to be boiled for a while. Little Brick couldn't wait, squatting beside the earthen urn, biting his fingers, and waited impatiently.

While waiting for the eggs to be cooked, Li Mengxi was thinking about the eggs.

We are not at the chicken coop at the moment. Suppose that there are chickens laying eggs while we are away. Then will the four peasants who came to raise chickens and ducks secretly take away the eggs?

not sure.

In order to avoid abnormal wastage of eggs as much as possible, Li Mengxi thought carefully and felt that there was only one way to prevent self-stealing. Li Mengxi thought that the check and balance method could be used.

To put it simply, one monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat.

Also, when there is only one person, if someone's bicycle is unlocked on the roadside, thieves may be brave enough to steal it; but if two people are walking together, there will be more fear. The more people there are, the more restraints they can have on each other.

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When no one was around, the farmer saw the eggs in the chicken coop, and maybe he suddenly became suspicious and stole the eggs.

If there were two people, the number of people who would dare to steal eggs would be much smaller.

Maybe sometimes, there just happen to be two eggs. Citizen A and Citizen B discuss it and say that we both have one egg each. What do we think?

Kaminfu must be smart.

Note that at this time, citizen A has to discuss with citizen B before he can get the egg. This is a restriction. The existence of citizen B restricts A and prevents A from being unscrupulous.

Folks can no longer take eggs unscrupulously, which effectively reduces the frequency of egg loss.

Furthermore, if there are more people, the interests will be greater. A has no scruples in taking the eggs. When there is one more person, even if A is smart, but when A and B discuss sharing an egg with each person, A needs to bear the risk, and A cannot be sure about B.

What kind of person is he? If he is an upright person and reports to the superiors, it will be a huge risk.

One person is unscrupulous, two people may be nervous about sharing one egg, three people are even more nervous, and four people may share the spoils unevenly because there are only three eggs, resulting in mutual constraints and checks, and no one can get the eggs.

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Therefore, people who raise chickens and ducks should not consider saving manpower. Instead, they should arrange for more people.

There are seven or eight people assigned to one car, who are responsible for watching over one car.

With only two people, it is easy to coordinate their interests, but with seven or eight people keeping an eye on each other, coordinating the interests of seven or eight people is ten times more difficult than two people.

Therefore, the more people there are, the less likely the eggs will be stolen.

This reminded Li Mengxi that this seemed to be a matter of probability.

Suppose that the probability of an upright person in the crowd is one percent.

It is known that the egg will be stolen only if everyone agrees to take the egg and everyone coordinates well.

So, ask, what is the probability that the egg is stolen when there are two people.

When there are two people, no one of them can be upright.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! That is, multiplying the probabilities, the probability of the egg being stolen is 99%x99%=98.01%.

In the same way, if there are three people, the probabilities are multiplied, 99%x99%x99%=97.05%

For four people, it is 96.05%.

Five people are 95.09%.

It is not difficult to calculate that the probability of egg theft is inversely proportional to the number of people guarding the eggs.

The more people there are, the safer the eggs are.

This is just a probability.

There is another related probability.

You can't always have just enough eggs, right?

If there is only one person, no matter if there is one egg or five eggs, this person does not have to take care of anyone's interests.

That is, if there is only one person and this person's hands and feet are not clean, then the probability of the egg being stolen is 100%.

However, if there are seven eggs among six people, they can divide them. Each person will take one and leave the remaining one there.

But when there are only five eggs among six people, six pairs of eyes are staring at each other. Even if all six people want to get the eggs, no one can get the eggs because there are not enough points.

It can be inferred from this that when the number of people is greater than the number of eggs, the theft of eggs is likely to be minimal.

The conclusion is that the more people there are, the greater the chance that there will be more people than eggs, thus making the probability of egg theft smaller.

So, it's obvious.

There is an effective way to reduce egg theft. Find a group of people to check the chicken coop. Four people are too few.

When Li Mengxi thought about the problem clearly, he came back to his senses and looked down. The water in the urn had been boiling for a while.

The eggs are cooked.

Li Mengxi quickly picked up the eggs with a spoon, thought for a moment, found cold water and threw the eggs into the cold water.

Life experience told Li Mengxi that if you put boiled eggs in water and freeze them, they will be easier to peel.

This is because due to thermal expansion and contraction, the shrinkage ratio of eggs and eggshells is different, thus causing the shells to separate.

After a while, Li Mengxi fished out the eggs, shook the water, and handed them to his brother with a smile.

The younger brother clumsily put the eggs on his knees and peeled them carefully with a runny nose. After a while, the eggs were peeled.

"Brother, you eat." The younger brother gave the egg to Li Mengxi sensibly. Li Mengxi looked at his younger brother's dirty hands and sniffling nose, and shook his head in disgust.

"You can eat it, brother won't." Li Mengxi shook his head.

Xiao Zhuan was unwilling to let Li Mengxi take a bite, so Li Mengxi reluctantly took a small bite, and then Xiao Bian happily ate the eggs and eggs, with simple happiness on his face.

After Xiao Bian finished eating the eggs, Li Mengxi led Xiao Bian back.

Back at the van, the farmer came over and said with a smile that another chicken and duck had just laid eggs.

Li Mengxi showed a somewhat false smile on his face, pretending to be surprised, "Ah, that's great!"
To be continued...