And Tongguo happened to be on the list of beef importers allowed by China, so before coming, Xiao Feng came with a purpose.

With the opening of more and more celebrity chef chains, their beef consumption is also increasing, and they basically consume three to four tons of beef every day to make cooking kits.

And this amount will increase in the future, and it will be difficult to hide the origin of beef by 'importing' from Belarus alone.

In fact, the best way at this time is to buy a few pastures and mutton by yourself to form a closed loop of the industrial chain to reduce risks.

In China, the good pasture areas have basically been occupied by those dairy companies, and if you engage in captivity, the cost is too high.

First of all, cattle raising is now a highly polluting industry, and it is difficult for you to get the EIA qualification, and secondly, the domestic labor cost and feed cost are not low, coupled with miscellaneous vaccines, anti-bacteria and other problems, which leads to the high cost of domestic cattle raising.

Therefore, the best way to solve this problem is to buy pastures abroad for breeding.

And first of all, the best place is Russia, which is close to Bincheng, the place is big, the environment for breeding is good, the land is there, the price is low, and the labor is not expensive.

When Xiao Feng went to Russia to investigate, he found that the price of beef there was really very touching, the money to buy one pound of beef in China, you can buy three pounds of good beef in the regular market there, if you go to a small market in the countryside, you can buy four pounds of good beef.

But the problem now is that the state does not open the beef market to Russia, and is afraid that a large number of low-cost Russian beef will rush into the domestic market and completely destroy the domestic beef cattle breeding industry.

Therefore, we have to find other suitable places, not to mention Europe, there are many countries, and the land is generally not open to the outside world.

The only overseas ranch areas suitable for Chinese investment are the United States, Australia and Canada.

But the problem now is that the attitude of these countries towards China is not particularly friendly, and the United States does not need to think about it at all, and the pastures in Australia and Canada are not very easy to buy now.

The most important thing is that the cost of raising cattle in these countries is not low, plus freight, so it is not cost-effective to buy pastures and raise cattle on a large scale in these countries.

And after Jesse's last survey of the investment climate in the Copper Country and Ithaca region, he gave several investment advice.

Among them, the concept of island farming made Xiao Feng shine.

The Calapague archipelago in Ithaca has more than 100 islands, large and small, of which only five are inhabited, and the rest are all desert islands.

Together, the total area of these islands can be more than 500 square kilometers, with the large ones being more than 100 square kilometers and the small ones being a few hundred square meters.

These deserted islands are home to some seabirds, there are no other creatures at all, and the vegetation on the islands is dense, making them ideal for raising livestock.

And this kind of thing has been done by the Spaniards and the Dutch before.

In the 16th century, when the great explosion of seafaring, the Spanish were the first to complete the voyage around the world, and after that, the Spanish sent one expedition after another.

These fleets crossed the Atlantic, first colonizing the South American continent, then crossing the Strait of Magellan, entering the Pacific Ocean and exploring westward, eventually discovering the Philippines, China, and Southeast Asia.

The first to follow in the footsteps of the Spaniards were the Portuguese, then the Dutch, who sent fleet after fleet to venture into the oceans.

But in an era when there was no navigation and no map of the sea state, ocean exploration was a high-risk task, especially when it came to the question of how to get supplies.

Therefore, many expedition ships, when they go to sea, they will bring a lot of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep on board, on the one hand, they can eat fresh meat at critical times.

On the other hand, after discovering the desert islands, the crew put the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks on those desert islands, let them breed freely, and then the passing boats could go to the island to catch these cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks as supplies.

Both the Spanish and Dutch insisted on doing so, so in the 18th century, there were countless bison and wild sheep living on the Pacific islands between the South American continent and the Australian mainland.

Because there were no natural predators, those islands became a paradise for these cattle and sheep, and they multiplied on the islands in large numbers, which also greatly helped the sailors of that era to improve their lives.

This habit has been maintained until modern times, with the development of navigation technology and food storage technology, sailors no longer go to the island's cattle and sheep, but began to hunt a large number of these cattle and sheep that do not need money in exchange for money.

Later, the government of the Copper Kingdom made a windfall by hunting and killing the bison and wild sheep on the islands in their waters.

So now, on those desert islands, it is rare to see bison and wild sheep, but on some private islands close to the South American continent, there are still many large and small pastures, raising cattle and sheep.

And Jesse's investigation report to Xiao Feng made this suggestion, and this can be said to be a hit for Xiao Feng, who lacks a reasonable cover for the source of beef.

Those desert islands have no water, electricity and no network, and a modern person may go crazy when he stays on the island for a week, but for cattle and sheep, it is different.

And if you breed on it, it also saves a lot of trouble for human beings, there is no world of cattle and sheep, and there is no worry about cattle and sheep being eaten, surrounded by the sea, and not afraid of cattle and sheep running away.

There are plenty of plants on the island, and there is no need to prepare food for cattle and sheep, they can also wander around the island, and they don't have to go to stocking at a fixed time every day.

It can be said that as long as the cattle and sheep are thrown to the island every year, they can come directly to harvest them in the next year.

The only thing to worry about is not to let people, just go to the island and steal cattle and sheep.

Moreover, the location of this archipelago is just below the center of the Pacific Ocean, and it is reluctant to be shipped from Indonesia and Australia, and the cost of shipping from here to China is much lower than that from South America or North America.

So after looking around, Xiao Feng felt that this was simply the perfect island ranch!

However, originally he was the only one, and it might cost a lot of money to take a few islands from here and engage in breeding, but he didn't expect that the two brothers of the Chen family would look like they were welcoming with their hands and feet, which made him strange.

Are these two guys really so generous?

"Yes, you can have that!"

The attitude of Chen Xu and Tang's brothers on the other side completely confused Xiao Feng, could it be that they really wanted to give those Daobai to themselves?

At this time, the Chen brothers also noticed Xiao Feng's surprised look on his face, and then the two glanced at each other, and explained to Xiao Feng with a smile.

"Mr. Xiao, don't be surprised, that's actually the case. In the early years, when our fathers took this archipelago, it was to leave a way back for our people, and if we couldn't get along with those copper people in the future, we could retreat to the island. For more than 100 years, we have gotten along well with Araukans and native whites, but always... ”

Xiao Feng understands the meaning of the Chen brothers very well, after all, they are Chinese, an ethnic group that is difficult to integrate in the world, because anyone who is a Chinese will always maintain that unique culture and plot in his heart.

Otherwise, if you look at Southeast Asia, Malay, Indonesia, there are so many Chinese living there, living there for hundreds of years, but they are still Chinese.

Even in the world's most powerful country, the Chinese still retain their own living habits, and Chinatown!

This is also the most afraid of the Chinese in the United States, hundreds of years have passed, they have integrated the Germans, the British, the Italians, but they can't integrate the Chinese, do you say they are afraid?

The situation is similar in the current copper country, although the situation in the Ithaca region is better, but some people in the upper echelons of the copper country have always been hostile to the people in this area.

And Chen Xutang and they are worried about this, so they always want to develop the Kalapag Islands and reserve a piece of land for their own people.

“。。。。。。。。 Especially in the sixties and seventies of the last century, large-scale anti-Chinese trends broke out all over the world, and massacres against Chinese broke out in South Vietnam and Indonesia, and even Indonesians did it again in the nineties of the last century. In South America, there have actually been cases of covert rubbing, so we can't help but guard against it. When my elders left, they told me that the Calapague Islands must not be given up, and that they must be developed as a foundation, and I have always kept it in mind... ”

Chen Xu and Xiao Feng talked about their thoughts, Xiao Feng couldn't help but be in awe of them, in this era, there are really not many people who can still have such insistence on feelings.

"But now the environment on the island, Mr. Xiao, you have also seen, electricity has only been connected for decades, people can only rely on fishing and farming for a living, no access to the Internet, the few entertainment in ordinary times, is everyone to watch together, Yonglu sent back from China all kinds of film and television discs, the island does not even have a decent shopping mall, cinema, how do you say to develop? Even people can't keep people! Especially in recent years, more and more young people have left Meihua Island to live in Ithaca or the capital, and go to the world. We can only do it in a hurry!"

Hearing what the Chen brothers said, Xiao Feng finally understood that it was the unique sense of crisis of the Chinese that made them so anxious!

"Ten years ago, there were 200,000 people living on these nearby islands, but now there are only more than 50,000 left, and most of them are elderly, not even children... Hey!"

Chen Xutang also sighed and shook his head, there are fewer and fewer people on this island, maybe it will be abandoned one day.

And what he is most worried about is that at that time, the government of the copper country will be able to justifiably engage in means here, and at that time, their back road will be completely cut off!

That's what they fear the most!