Chapter 308 Great Changes in Five Years
Liujiazhuang's request for police support has attracted great attention in the district.

In just one month, a police station was established in Liujiazhuang. Although it is administratively under the jurisdiction of the district bureau, this change undoubtedly brought a new breath to this ancient village.

The establishment of Liujiazhuang Police Station not only injected new vitality into the village’s public security management, but also provided a brand new work platform for the retired militiamen in the village.

As Liu Zhiye had foreseen, this security team consists of multiple parts.

Except for a few comrades who were directly dispatched by the branch, the rest of the members were concurrently staff members from the training center, and also included personnel recruited locally from Liujiazhuang.

Together they make up a team of more than 30 people. Although the number is small, each one has been carefully selected.

The comrades dispatched by the branch have rich experience in public security. They play leadership and guidance roles in the team, ensuring that the actions of the entire team are orderly and efficient.

The personnel in the training center are elite talents transferred from the Municipal Bureau. Their professional knowledge enables the team to be more adept at dealing with various complex situations.

Although the personnel recruited by Liujiazhuang lack experience, their enthusiasm and sense of responsibility make the team more dynamic and cohesive.

Under the leadership of Director Zhou Weiguo, the team quickly demonstrated strong combat effectiveness.

Public security personnel patrol day and night, strictly guarding against all kinds of illegal and criminal activities, ensuring that the public security order in Liujiazhuang is in good order.

At the same time, they also actively carried out various publicity activities to enhance the villagers' legal awareness and safety awareness, which greatly improved the public security environment in the entire Liujiazhuang.

That’s right, the director of the police station is Zhou Weiguo, the former head of the public security department of the Red Star Factory.

After Liu Zhiye's careful cultivation, Zhou Weiguo has grown rapidly in recent years. Last year, he was transferred to the Jiaodaokou Police Station as deputy director, demonstrating his outstanding talents and potential.

Now, he has come to Liujiazhuang Police Station to serve as the first director. In fact, this was all Liu Zhiye's deliberate arrangement.

With Zhou Weiguo as his friend, Liu Zhiye felt relatively relieved.

Zhou Weiguo, this close confidant who is in charge of the work of the Security Department, has been Liu Zhiye's right-hand man for many years.

With his outstanding leadership and rigorous work attitude, he managed the Security Department in an orderly manner and won wide praise.

In Liu Zhiye's eyes, Zhou Weiguo is not only a trustworthy and capable assistant, but also a young man with unlimited potential.

In the future, he can also become a strong assistant to Liu Zhiye in his career.

Zhou Weiguo knew very well that Liu Zhiye's intention of transferring him to Liujiazhuang was very exciting. Liu Zhiye entrusted his hometown to him to protect. This heavy trust was undoubtedly a great encouragement to him.

"Director Liu, please rest assured. With me, Zhou Weiguo, here, there won't be any problems with the public security management of Liujiazhuang."

Liu Zhiye patted Zhou Weiguo's shoulder gently, his eyes gleaming with admiration. This is a smart man, he secretly admired in his heart.

"Xiao Zhou, come here. These two are my third uncle and my brother-in-law Liu Fusheng. You two must work together from now on. In the future..."

Then, he said to the third uncle and others: "Xiao Zhou was brought up by me, and I regard him as one of my own..."

When Liu Yuanhai and Liu Fusheng heard the news, they were immediately filled with joy.

It turned out that the new director was someone they were familiar with, which undoubtedly made things a lot simpler.

Liu Yuanhai held Zhou Weiguo's hand tightly and said enthusiastically: "Director Zhou, coming to Liujia Village is like coming home. From now on, the security of our village depends on you, so please take care of it!"

Zhou Weiguo smiled and replied: "Uncle, you can call me Weiguo from now on. We are a family, there is no need to be polite."

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With the establishment of the police station, Liujiazhuang has regained its long-lost simplicity and tranquility.

Time flies, and it seems that this place has returned to the social environment full of rural flavor and human touch a few years ago.

The winery, which started production in March, had produced 50 tons of fruit wine by the end of April.

The alcohol content of these fruit wines is generally 5-10 degrees, with a maximum of 14 degrees.

Fruit wine is a type of alcoholic beverage that is fermented from the sugar in fruits and yeast. It has a fruity aroma and a relatively low alcohol content.

In the tipsy afternoon, a glass of fruit wine is quietly placed on the table. Its alcohol content is moderate, not too strong, and people can taste it easily.

Because of these characteristics, fruit wine is loved by a large number of people, especially women who like to drink.

The price of the "wild fruit wine" produced in Liujiazhuang is so affordable that it is shocking. A 500ml bottle of wild fruit wine costs less than 7 cents.

Once it was launched on the market, this wine won the favor of consumers for its unique taste, pure fruity aroma and low price.

"Wild Fruit Wine" quickly occupied the low-end consumer market for wine in the capital area through the huge system of supply and marketing cooperatives.

Soon, the supply and marketing cooperative systems in Tianjin Port and Hebei Province heard the news and sent representatives to the Liujiazhuang winery to discuss business.

Uncle Sanda and his friends had never expected that "Wild Mountain Fruit Wine" would be so popular. Not only them, but also Liu Zhiye had never expected this situation.

In fact, there are reasons for this.

In recent years, tight food supply has caused the brewing industry to fall into a serious production crisis, and the prices of alcoholic beverages have therefore risen sharply.

In this era of relative material scarcity, the high price of alcohol makes most people reluctant to drink. But now there are cheap low-alcohol wines, which are also a good choice.

As market demand continues to heat up, the newly launched "wild fruit wine" has quickly become a hot commodity, and the situation of supply exceeding demand has put wineries under great pressure.

This fruit wine has attracted many wine-loving consumers with its unique taste and natural wild fruit aroma.

The winery is striving for breakthroughs. They plan to expand production scale and continue to improve brewing technology in an effort to reach new heights in taste.

At the same time, they are also looking for ways to reduce costs in order to provide consumers with more high-quality and reasonably priced products.

In addition, the winery also plans to enrich its product line to meet the needs of different consumers.

The nearby food factories are also gradually emerging at a steady pace. Unlike the unique demand for alcoholic products, snacks are not indispensable in people's daily lives.

However, the old Beijingers love to eat local specialties such as preserved fruits and candied fruits, and the market is still very broad.

If we were to ask what specialties in Beijing are worth buying these days, preserved fruits would probably be the first to be mentioned.

Preserved fruit is a special flavor of the old capital and is a high-end snack. When people from other places come to Beijing for business or sightseeing, they always like to buy some preserved fruit to give back to their relatives and friends.

Folklorist Tang Lusun recalled in his book Chinese Food: "In the early years, when southern friends went to Beijing for business or sightseeing, they would always bring back some Beijing specialties and local products to give to relatives and friends before leaving... If they wanted to buy some delicious snacks, they would most likely go to a dried fruit shop, buy a few preserved fruits, pack them in boxes, and take them back home as gifts. They were the most popular Beijing local products."

Some people think that preserved fruits are candied fruits, but in fact, the two are different.

Preserved fruit originally refers to fruits soaked in honey, thick syrup, etc. "Preserved" originally means fried, so it is also called "honey fried".

Preserved fruit is a semi-dried fruit product made by peeling and core-removing fresh fruit, cutting it into blocks or slices, soaking it in sugar, and drying it.

People in Beijing are accustomed to calling this kind of fruit with low water content and no juice as preserved fruit, such as apple preserved, pear preserved, apricot preserved, peach preserved, sand fruit preserved, fragrant fruit preserved, crabapple preserved, jujube preserved, green plum preserved, and red fruit preserved.

This kind of fruit product, also known as "Northern preserved fruit" or "Northern honey", is brown, golden or amber in color, bright and transparent, with a dry surface and a little sticky, and a water content of less than 20%.

Winter melon strips, candied water chestnuts, candied lotus root slices, candied ginger slices, etc., which are covered with a layer of powdery white sugar coating, are called sugar-coated candied fruits, also known as "Southern candied fruits" or "Southern honey", and generally come from Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places.

More than a dozen kinds of preserved fruits are put together and called "assorted preserved fruits", which are commonly known as "Gao Za Ban Er" or "Xi Za Ban Er" by people in Beijing. Speaking of the production skills of preserved fruits in Beijing, it originated from the imperial kitchen of the Ming Dynasty and was originally a palace snack.

In order to ensure that the emperor could eat fruits all year round, the chefs classified the fruits produced in each season and soaked them in honey, and gradually added cooking and other techniques.

In the Qing Dynasty, the art of making preserved fruits was introduced from the palace to the people. Jin Yi recorded the description of preserved fruits by the palace maids around Cixi in "The Memoirs of Palace Maids": "The palace is famous for its snacks, candied fruits and preserved fruits in autumn and winter, and sweet bowls in summer."

In 2015, the "Traditional Production Techniques of Beijing Preserved Fruits" will be included in the list of representative projects for the protection of Beijing's municipal intangible cultural heritage.

Beijing preserved fruits are not only a representative of classic Beijing food, but also a cultural inheritor and one of the golden business cards of Beijing.

Therefore, Liu Zhiye knows that this industry is also a sustainable industry. Although the market is not as broad as other industries, it will also have a market of hundreds of billions in the future.

In the future, the market size of China's dried fruit and candied fruit products will reach 2023 billion yuan in 1462, and is expected to increase to 2028 billion yuan by 3353.

If Liujiazhuang immediately invests in the deep processing of fruit industry, it will have a valuable first-mover advantage. In the future, this field is expected to become a pillar industry of Liujiazhuang.

The preserved fruits produced in Liujiazhuang are known as the best of the "northern preserved fruits", and their main raw materials all come from the abundant local fruit resources.

In Liujiazhuang, a village hidden deep in the mountains and with abundant water resources, it would be a waste of resources if the fruit industry was not developed.

There are mountains covering dozens of miles here, like a natural treasure trove, waiting to be discovered.

There are also abundant water and fresh water resources, which provide unique conditions for fruit cultivation.

At the turn of spring and summer, the fruit trees in the mountains are full of various fruits, like a vivid picture scroll.

"Beijing Flower and Fruit Garden!"

At first, some visitors to Liujiazhuang praised it highly, and later this praise gradually spread in the capital and became a consensus among people.

Since the return of spring, the streets and alleys of the capital have become bustling, and the fruits of Liujiazhuang have begun to appear on the market.

The strawberries are gorgeous and juicy, the cherries are crystal clear, the mulberries are sweet and sour, the watermelons are refreshing and cooling, the apples are crisp, sweet and juicy, the Beijing white pears are sweet and delicious, the golden silk dates are plump and sweet, the pomegranate seeds are crystal clear, the grape clusters are tempting, the apricots are sweet and soft, the plums are sweet and sour... These delicacies continue to bring enjoyment to the people of Beijing from spring to winter.

In Liujiazhuang, in addition to rich fruit resources, there is also a well-known specialty - "Jingxi Rice".

However, this precious rice is subject to strict planting conditions and its yield is extremely limited, making it not something that ordinary people can easily taste.

Jingxi rice is high-quality japonica rice. The rice grains are oval, plump, crystal clear, and the rice is oily, sticky but not glutinous, with the right hardness, fragrance, and elasticity. The rice porridge is green in color, has a unique aroma, and a sticky and smooth taste with rice oil.

After several years of careful cultivation, Liujiazhuang's "Jingxi Rice" has been promoted to a top-level rice variety, with a status comparable to that of a "state gift", making it a distinguished choice for entertaining and giving gifts to foreign guests.

Today, there are 700 acres of rice in Liujiazhuang's rice fields, with an output of about kilograms per acre, totaling approximately million kilograms.

In the 12.2s, the purchase price of ordinary rice was adjusted to 60 yuan per catties. However, the price of "Jingxi rice" was almost five times more expensive, that is, more than yuan per catties.

In other words, this year Liujiazhuang’s harvest of “Jingxi Rice” alone amounted to more than 2 million yuan.

In addition, rice field farming has produced two special products - "Shengfang Crab" and freshwater fish, both of which are famous in Beijing.

One acre of rice field can raise about 600 "Shengfang crabs". "Shengfang crabs" are large and thin-shelled, with powerful appendages and a strong physique. Their shells are dark green and their bellies are milky white.

After steaming, the crab is yellow and fat, tender, fragrant and sweet. It is extremely nutritious. According to tests, every 13.0 grams of edible part of Shengfang crab contains 7.32 grams of protein, 496 grams of fat, 544 kilojoules of energy, 468 micrograms of Va, 0.14 milligrams of calcium, 0.39 grams of phosphorus, 1.6 milligrams of riboflavin, and 18 milligrams of niacin. Shengfang crab is also rich in 7.46 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body, with a total amount of grams of amino acids.

"Shengfang crab" is a type of Chinese mitten crab, named after its production area. It is famous for its "golden melon and jade navel" and is as famous as Yangcheng Lake hairy crab and Daze Huajin crab.

About three million "Shengfang crabs" are raised in more than 5,000 acres of paddy fields, and the harvest can reach more than 1.5 million kilograms.

In the capital, whether it is the Zhengyanglou restaurant, one of the famous "Eight Great Buildings", or the ordinary stalls selling aquatic products on the streets, they all have a special liking for the "Shengfang Crab" farmed in Liujiazhuang.

This little crab has long been the first choice on their shopping list.

In addition, thanks to the strong demand from the supply and marketing cooperative system and major related units, Liujiazhuang's "Shengfang Crab" is always in short supply.

Therefore, the crab income from Liujiazhuang is hundreds of thousands of yuan every year.

There are also various freshwater fish in the paddy fields, and it is time to harvest them this year. Thanks to the excellent environment and scientific breeding, the largest fish weighs more than ten kilograms, which is amazing.

With the arrival of winter, these freshwater fish will be put on the market one after another, and are expected to bring the village a huge income of hundreds of thousands of yuan.

In addition, the animal husbandry industry, which the village initially engaged in, has also shown encouraging growth momentum.

Because raising cattle is not cost-effective nowadays, beef is not something a family can afford.

Moreover, if dairy cows are raised without the support of modern equipment, if the number of cows is too large, it will lead to serious waste of milk resources.

Therefore, the scale of cattle breeding has always been small, and they are all raised to meet Liu Zhiye's needs.

In addition, other breeding industries have also undergone earth-shaking changes. Sheep and pig farming are no longer the small-scale operations of the past, but have become large-scale and magnificent.

Especially in the pig farming industry, once it is scaled up, scientific breeding methods must be adopted, otherwise it is very easy to cause infectious diseases, which will bring a devastating blow to the entire farming industry.

To this end, Liujiazhuang built a large-scale breeding farm that can produce 5,000 pigs annually.

A pig farm with an annual output of 5,000 pigs is considered a very large pig farm in today's society.

In those days, there was no feed like in later times, and the cost of raising pigs was high. How could we raise pigs on a large scale when there was not enough food?
The reason why Liujiazhuang can raise so many pigs is, on the one hand, due to its special geographical location and the abundance of wild products.

On the other hand, it is due to the widespread application of biogas.

In this way, rice stalks and corn stalks that were originally used to burn for heating and cooking can be processed into feed, barely meeting the needs of pig farming.

This large-scale pig farming is prone to breeding many pathogens. Based on the principle of epidemic prevention and hygiene, the pig farm was built at the foot of the southwest mountain more than 2 kilometers away from the village, on a high, open and flat terrain.

This new pig farm has water and electricity, underground sewage facilities, and a road leading directly to the main road in the east of the village. It is better to have the pig house facing north and south to facilitate natural ventilation.

In the field of laying hen farming, the pace of formalization is also firm. At present, Liujiazhuang chicken farm has raised about 500,000 laying hens and broiler chickens on a large scale.

These chickens thrive under careful care, providing a solid foundation for the stable operation of the chicken farm.

The establishment of this chicken farm not only meets the villagers' demand for non-staple food, but also solves urgent needs for many large enterprises and institutions, becoming an important link in their non-staple food supply chain.

As a result, animal husbandry has now become one of the village’s main sources of income, bringing the village more than four million yuan in additional income at the end of last year alone.

With the completion of the village's number one project, biogas power generation and gas engineering, it indicates that the village's industrial electricity use, residential electricity use, including domestic heating, is completely unrestricted.

Moreover, biogas power generation has many benefits. Biogas power generation technology is a new energy comprehensive utilization technology that integrates environmental protection and energy conservation.

It utilizes the large amount of organic waste from industry, agriculture or urban life.

For example, the biogas produced by anaerobic fermentation of wine lees, livestock manure, village garbage and sewage can drive the biogas generator set to generate electricity, and the waste heat of the generator set can be fully used for biogas production.

Biogas is an absolutely environmentally friendly energy source and a renewable resource.

Five years have passed. Since returning to his hometown, Liu Zhiye has used various means and cheats to help this unknown little mountain village gradually transform into a new business card for the western Beijing area.

(End of this chapter)