CHAPTER 211: CHAPTER 210: BUILDING A CAREER, BUYING DUCKLINGS

After this group left, Lin Wanwan received another phone call from the driving school.

After the first lunar month, Lin Wanwan went to Qiantang and hadn’t been to driving lessons for a month, so the coach was urging her.

Although she hadn’t practiced driving, she had been self-studying the theoretical knowledge in her spare time. Actual driving requires more practice; there are no shortcuts in this kind of thing.

If she just wanted to get a driver’s license, she shouldn’t take the test here. Instead, she should sign up at a driving school in the Central West, where it’s much more relaxed. Once she gets her license there, transferring to this city wouldn’t be difficult.

But the problem with just obtaining a document without undergoing strict learning and assessment is becoming a road hazard, which is not Lin Wanwan’s intention.

Speaking of which, although she hasn’t learned much about driving a car this month, her horse riding skills have improved a lot.

Following Grandpa Sun around to visit patients, all on horseback, not to mention that horses are living creatures and understand human nature. Now she can ride quite well. Regarding horse riding, Lin Wanwan considers herself somewhat talented.

Having scheduled her driving lessons with the coach, Lin Wanwan put on a mask and headed out again. This time, she was going to the largest agricultural wholesale market in the city to pick up the Khaki Campbell ducklings she had previously ordered.

Ordinary ducks lay around 120 to 150 eggs a year, while the hybrid Khaki Campbell ducks from Britain lay over 250 eggs annually, and each egg weighs about 70 grams, larger than ordinary duck eggs.

Therefore, even though Khaki Campbell ducklings are much more expensive than ordinary ducklings, they are still worth it.

Lin Wanwan wants to take these Khaki Campbell ducklings back to the Great Tang and have the children in the school raise them. No feeding them with fodder, just like the existing chickens and ducks in the clan, letting them forage along the beach.

By that time, part of the eggs could be sold to Jie Yuting in the modern era, and some could be sold directly in the town of Great Tang, another good project to increase income.

Start by buying a portion to test the waters in the market. If it works, the clan can start breeding and selling duck eggs, which isn’t considered commerce.

Many hybrid chickens, ducks, and grains in the modern era have impressive yields. However, they all share a common point; they cannot be self-propagated, with breeding technology being a monopolistic method.

Dreaming of hatching the same quality of chickens and ducks from the eggs of purchased ducklings is unrealistic. The chickens and ducks bred by modern technology are results of four-system supporting hybridization, something just anyone can’t easily do.

Huaxia’s breeding industry has gone through much hardship to escape foreign breeding monopolies and price threats.

The famous White Feather Chicken had a monopoly advantage abroad, treating Huaxia’s breeders harshly, continuously raising the price of breeding chickens while selling fewer sets each year at their discretion, always holding them by the neck.

But Huaxia never lacks elites willing to speak out. For the White Feather Chicken, Shengnong spent a decade and invested one billion to build a secret breeding base in the deep forests, cultivating their own White Feather Chicken.

Later, the news leaked out, and foreigners got wind of it, issuing an ultimatum to Shengnong to destroy the breeding base or cease cooperation.

Destroying the base would mean the previous billion investment gone to waste; refusing would mean they face breeding stock supply shortages, unable to provide sufficient chicken to customers, risking large-scale breach of contract and financial chain breakdown.

This decision was extremely difficult to make, and foreigners gave no room for negotiation, offering only half an hour for consideration. The chairman of Shengnong didn’t want to submit but couldn’t outright refuse the foreigners.

After a moment of silence, he called the breeding base. After hanging up, he pointed at the foreigners and shouted, "You have 10 minutes to leave Shengnong!"

Foreign sanctions followed, but it didn’t matter, for the new breed of domestic White Feather Chicken succeeded early in the year.

This was not only Shengnong’s victory but also Huaxia people’s victory, ushering Huaxia into the era of "Chicken Freedom."

Food is the primary need, regarding food, one can never rely on imports, because when you lack grain and meat, the selling price in the capital market will be unbearably high for ordinary people.

Grandpa Yuan Longping is so respected because he ensured that Huaxia people’s grain is firmly held in Huaxia hands, preventing foreign threats.

Previously, Lin Wanwan went to the Great Tang to obtain hybrid seeds, which for the Great Tang, was akin to a grain monopoly. But after living in the Great Tang for a long time and having many exchanges with local official Xiao Chong, she changed her mind.

At least for now, she doesn’t possess monopolistic capabilities. If everyone could only get high-yield seeds from her, she might be torn apart by the Great Tang’s Gate Valve nobility.

It’s better to take smaller steps; her own clan can do it, but outsiders should still use ordinary seeds, that’s her happy decision.

Calling a van to transport the Cambell ducklings she ordered to the small villa, it was already 2 PM, which equated to 4 AM in the Great Tang, and for Lin Wanwan, it felt like an all-nighter.

Although there were still things unfinished, like finding a way to buy some old Yellow Flower Pear Wood logs to play the "gambling wood" trick, the quality didn’t matter; it was just for deception.

With the gambling wood operation, she could covertly transfer Yellow Flower Pear Wood purchased from Qiong State into the modern era legitimately.

But this isn’t urgent; after all, Yellow Flower Pear Wood is piled up in the large warehouse and won’t run away.

Lin Wanwan yawned. Once she got home, she traveled through time back to the Great Tang and fell asleep right away. Hopefully, the little ones won’t bother her early tomorrow morning, she wants to sleep well to make up for lost sleep.

As for the annoying uncle’s family from the morning, she long cast them out of her mind. Life shouldn’t be filled with such extremes; staying away from them makes happiness levels higher.

She guessed her uncle’s family wouldn’t just appear once, there’s a reason they’re here domestically, but she didn’t want to spend too much energy dealing with them.

Face soldiers with generals and cover the water with soil, no matter what tricks they want to play, she’ll take them on.

There are so many wonderful things, today she just made a fortune of over two million using Xiao Chong’s anthology, and she can bring ducklings full of modern civilization back to the clan, there’s no time to dwell on them. Regardless of their ability, they can’t do much to her.

Isn’t it better to think about things that make you happy? Most illnesses, after all, come from excessive contemplation and anger.

Now she only wishes to stay healthy, with enough energy and time to enjoy traveling through time, saving her clan from dangers, raising kids, farming, teaching students, and creating the Great Tang Peach Blossom Spring paradise.