Chapter 234: Chapter 232: Wild Boar Infestation? The Ranch Owner’s Capture Method!

At night, Jiang Feng was video chatting with his girlfriend.

"A lot of people here like you, even my roommates watch your streams."

"Your popularity on the grasslands is really high."

Liu Yiyi said with a cheerful smile, her expression filled with a bit of joy.

"The feng shui of the grasslands is good, with plenty of strange and rare animals, that’s why it attracts everyone," Jiang Feng replied with a smile.

"That’s not it, there are so many people doing livestreams now. Even if a lot of wildlife parks are livestreaming, they only have a few hundred viewers, not even more than a hundred thousand."

"What’s truly attractive about a livestream is the personal charisma."

Liu Yiyi added.

Liu Yiyi was right, whether a host can attract fans really depends on their personal charisma.

Some people become viral overnight, but quickly fade into silence.

Those game streamers on the platform, or outdoor streamers, usually have personalities that attract like-minded people, which keeps them popular.

As for streamers who rely on good looks, as long as they maintain their looks, they stay popular, but when those fade, they inevitably quiet down.

Jiang Feng’s livestreams are quite attractive.

He has a good nature, coupled with skill, and occasionally stirs things up, naturally accumulating a lot of fans.

The livestream event of roasting a crocodile that night became a hot topic.

However, it still sparked some unnecessary debates, like people questioning how he could eat a crocodile since it’s a protected animal.

Everyone has their own set of beliefs, and these beliefs are not easily broken.

Even if you tell them it’s farmed legally and now cultivated on a large scale, they won’t change their beliefs.

Jiang Feng, however, didn’t mind these things.

He smiled and said to Liu Yiyi:

"Indeed."

Chatting every day made them feel motivated and very sweet.

The next day.

Jiang Feng went to the grassland outskirts, watching the hunting team’s entrance to cull the boars.

The drone was livestreaming from afar, capturing fuzzy glimpses of the hunting team.

A total of four off-road vehicles drove straight through the barren area into the forest behind.

Jiang Feng didn’t capture it too clearly, just said:

"The hunting team hired by Ximeng League has arrived."

"I heard there’s a quota of 300 wild boars to be culled, with a subsidy of 2000 yuan per boar."

"Which means, they have to kill 300 wild boars to complete their mission."

"Don’t think it’s easy, this kind of job is thankless and tough."

Jiang Feng stood calmly on the grasslands.

A few people from the herding area nearby were also observing the situation of the hunting team.

The netizens were very curious about this.

After all, none of them had encountered anything like this.

[2000 yuan per boar? 300 boars is 600,000 yuan, this is a bloody profit!]

[Host, why aren’t you doing this business?] 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

A lot of comments came in, and Jiang Feng replied:

"It’s not that simple. In the previous phase, over in Tongjiang, there was a boar infestation with more than 20,000 of them. The official hunting team was invited, and in two days they only killed eight boars and lost three hunting dogs."

"Let me clarify, the national policy states that boar culling can’t use poison, explosives, traps, or disturb the ecosystem."

"Simply put, you can only rely on hunting dogs and rifles."

"The hunting team has qualifications and will buy hunting dogs, and each dog costs 7000 to 8000 yuan."

"When hunting boars, these dogs often suffer serious injuries or even death."

"How could I let my dogs face wild boars head-on."

Hearing Jiang Feng’s words, everyone was slightly stunned.

Only relying on hunting dogs and rifles?

This makes sense, as it’s important to protect the ecosystem and other wildlife.

But considering it’s about preventing harm, shouldn’t the policy be slightly relaxed?

At this moment, the comments were buzzing.

[Those who want to hunt can sign up over here in Shanxi. The forestry bureau issued a notice, offering a 2500 yuan reward per wild boar, as long as it’s reasonable and legal, make money from the government!]

[Wow, there are real-life side quests to hunt?]

[Forming a team to hunt boars, anyone? I’m a warrior, need a shooter, a mage, and a healer!]

[I’m a healer, sign me up!]

[Healer, let us see your panel, is the healing strong enough?]

[Really hunting for coins? The game didn’t lie!]

Most people were just joking around.

Real-life hunting and hunting in games are completely different concepts.

Boars are not that easy to kill.

Otherwise, various forestry bureaus wouldn’t issue boar bounty notices, offering 2500 yuan per boar to invite people to cull them.

Jiang Feng watched the departing vehicles and said:

"I wonder how their hunting results will be, let’s hope they can cull more boars."

"After all, this is something beneficial to the grassland."

"I also hope a few more hunting dogs can survive. Professional hunting dogs are relentless; they often fight wild boars to the death, and then get killed by the boar."

"Well, let’s see how the forestry bureau handles it. For now, they’ve only allowed hunting of wild boars within the grassland. As for wild boars outside, we still don’t have the qualification to hunt them."

"Maybe later they’ll completely lift the restrictions on wild boars."

Jiang Feng didn’t think much about it.

Hunting isn’t really his thing.

In many places, farmers’ crops are destroyed by wild boars. To prevent this, many farmers build a shed in their fields to stay overnight, just to chase away the boars.

These damaged crops are usually not compensated by the government.

So, the hardest hit are the farmers in areas overrun by wild boars.

Jiang Feng glanced at the barrage and saw everyone talking about forming teams to hunt wild boars. He smiled and explained:

"Don’t bother forming teams; private hunting of wild boars won’t earn you money, but it’ll earn you a pair of silver handcuffs."

"Any hunting team needs to report to the county-level government and above and obtain certification from the forestry bureau."

"In this country, hunting isn’t that easy."

Jiang Feng lives on the grassland, surrounded by wilderness, so he’s naturally familiar with the situation of wild animals.

Hearing this, the netizens wailed.

Jiang Feng looked at the iron fence outside the ranch.

Wild boars can still get through under the fence, so in this situation, the fence needs to be reinforced.

He sighed, "My grassland is so big, there will definitely be wild boars coming in."

"In the coming days, I need to prepare for the prevention of wild boars."

"The forestry and grassland bureau here has relaxed the restrictions on wild boars entering the grassland and causing damage."

"That means, as long as a wild boar comes in, it’s not illegal for us to hunt it."

The higher-ups issued a document, so the lower levels must take action.

Upon returning, Jiang Feng also discussed the wild boar eradication policy with the ranch employees.

The netizens started discussing again.

"I saw online that abroad, they hunt wild boars by helicopter with a sniper rifle, one shot per boar, quite stress-relieving!"

"And using infrared sniper rifles outdoors to hunt wild boars, also one shot per boar!"

"Here, it’s still too restrictive!"

"Guns should be strictly controlled; I think it’s quite good this way!"

Everyone chatted lively, showing considerable interest in what’s happening on the grassland.

Then, Jiang Feng closed the live broadcast, gathered all the ranch employees, and discussed the prevention of wild boars coming in.

Hadan immediately said:

"Anyway, they don’t care about wild boars entering the grassland now. Why don’t we just set up a few traps?"

"We can’t set traps outside, but inside the grassland, no one will mind!"

The others responded:

"We have so many cattle and sheep; how do we set traps without injuring them?"

"Let’s rely on monitoring. If a wild boar comes in, we’ll drive them away or use tranquilizer guns!"

"Even if we see wild boars coming in, with thousands of acres of grassland and tall grass, it’s impossible to find where the wild boars are!"

The discussion was intense.

After all, people are afraid of wild boars; those things can become aggressive and easily injure people.

The employees don’t have hunting rifles, either.

Jiang Feng thought for a moment and said:

"Alright, I understand. I have an idea."

"Let’s go with Hadan’s suggestion and use traps; setting traps on our own grassland isn’t against the rules."

"But not with those animal clamps; I need to protect the cattle and sheep and don’t want the grassland to become dangerous."

"I plan to prepare a large animal cage, placing corn, which the wild boars love, in the middle. Once a boar goes in, I’ll remotely control to pull, and the cage will automatically close."

"That way, the wild boars can be caught."

"There have been similar cases abroad. This way, there’s no risk of harming the cattle and sheep."

Upon hearing Jiang Feng’s words, everyone exchanged glances.

The ranch employees are primarily herders, and apart from veterinarian Lin Wansen, who has more knowledge, the others aren’t very experienced.

However, everyone trusts Jiang Feng unconditionally.

After all, Jiang Feng is indeed impressive.

With the plan set, Jiang Feng started purchasing iron cages online.

These iron cages are very simple, with an iron fence below and a chain mechanism above that can pull the "iron lid" up.

Initially, the iron lid is pulled high up, and the wild boars can freely enter the iron fence to eat.

But once Jiang Feng presses the remote control button, with a "snap," the iron lid will fall, sealing off all exits of the iron fence.

No matter how fierce the wild boars are, they’re still no match for steel.

At that point, the wild boars can be caught.

It’s similar to catching pigeons as children, propping up a basin with a stick, scattering millet under it, and tying a string to the stick. When pigeons come in, you pull the string, and the basin falls over them.

Wild boars, though fierce, lack brains.

And cunning humans can easily subdue them with traps.