Although those companies do the same business, most of the major agricultural production areas have been occupied by the big four food processing companies.

If he wanted to sell the cattle, he might have to lower the price, because that would require more transportation costs. But it's only one time, and it doesn't matter if you lower the price a little.

"You're going to San Francisco tomorrow to market your beef too?"

"That's right, just try to see if you can see the beef from the farm and sell it directly to those restaurants. It's not just beef, though. Perhaps, I can sell even the entrails and bones of cows. ”

"I see. You're looking for those restaurants in Chinatown. Bill said with a smile. "It's a great idea. Do you know. I went to a Chinatown not long ago and found that there were people selling cooked beef offal. Although I didn't dare to eat it, it smelled really good, and many Chinese ate it. You know that's really unimaginable. ”

Link smiled and said, "Yes." Animal offal, which Americans don't eat, is the best ingredient in the eyes of the Chinese. Perhaps they can't imagine that people in Europe and the United States do not eat animal offal, but regard goose lesions of fatty liver as a superior delicacy. ”

"Haha. That does make some sense. Harry whispered a chuckle. "I've heard that Chinese eat everything. But I think that's why they can feed so many people. ”

Although Link was born in the United States, he also traveled to China, and he ate a lot of Chinese snacks in those days.

He also had his own opinion on this: "I think it's a symbol of food culture. In the eyes of the Chinese, they are also very surprised that we don't eat and that don't eat. They wondered how California would be flooded with crabs. We and Europeans don't eat fish with intermuscular spines, we don't like meat with bones, we don't like meat with too much fat. Of course, animal offal is not eaten. In my opinion, that's not cooking at all. ”

He smiled and said, "Maybe someone is talking about nutrition and healthy eating." But the obesity rate in Chinese is much smaller than in the United States. God knows how many American children now have type 2 diabetes by eating genetically modified foods every day? It is said that there are more than five million. Can you imagine that it's a disease that usually happens to adults, and it's mostly kids from families who don't have much money? Most of them aren't fat. ”

Harry shrugged his shoulders and said, "Maybe biology tells us that animal guts are the most likely to enrich harmful substances. ”

Link shook his head with a smile and said, "The liver and spleen are indeed yes. But we still think foie gras is delicious. ”

"I think that's a matter of perception. "Bill hates thinking about complicated stuff the most. "So you went to Chinatown to sell cow offal?"

"Maybe bones. You don't know that in China, the bone marrow of beef barrel bones is also a rare delicacy. ”

Bill couldn't imagine anything good about cow bones that were usually only used to feed cattle in the United States: "Well, I wish you success!"

Link did intend to go to San Francisco. California is the state with the largest number of Chinese in the United States, and the Chinese in this state have a certain amount of power. Of course, there are black forces among them. It is said that there is a gang that was once one of the top 10 gangs in the United States. Of course, still is.

But he wasn't looking for the gangsters. That thing sticks and probably won't get rid of it for the rest of your life.

Early the next morning, he, Warren, and two other bodyguards flew to San Francisco in a small plane.

They stayed at the Hilton Hotel in the Financial District, which has a lot of Chinese restaurants nearby.

Link has no acquaintances here, and he can't find anyone to introduce him to the people he wants to meet. So he had to find the door himself.

His target is those Chinese restaurants. He walked around the neighborhood and had a rough idea in his heart.

At noon, he entered a restaurant called "Fan Ji Chinese Restaurant".

He asked the bodyguards not to think of themselves as bosses and entered the restaurant like four friends. As soon as I entered, I was greeted by a Chinese girl in a red cheongsam. Maybe I saw a Chinese person, and she spoke in Mandarin: "Welcome, do you have a reservation?"

When Link went to China, he heard a tour guide say that there are now two languages in China, one is Mandarin and the other is Cantonese. The Han Chinese are the only ethnic group in the world that has two languages. It is said that there are many dialects in China, and before that Cantonese was also a dialect. But a few years ago, Cantonese seemed to have been adopted as a language by some organization around the world.

The tour guide also said that most people in a province in southern China who were school-going children were bilingual.

Well, Link wants to say that the kids there are really quite remarkable.

However, he found that most of the waiters here spoke Mandarin. A small amount can speak both languages at the same time. It seems that they are much dumber than the children of that province.

The greeter handed them over to a waiter. The waiter took them to a seat in the lobby. This is the round table. When he was in China, he knew that this was the main table format of the Chinese.

The waiter smiled and waited for them to order.

Link took a look at the menu for a while and found that there were really a lot of beef dishes here. There were two kinds of characters on the menu, one of which looked like Chinese characters, but he found it plausible. The other is English.

He looked at the clerk for a while: "How is the Chinese I learned different from the characters on this?" ”

The waiter glanced at him, and when he said that, he knew it was an ABC. She smiled and replied, "Yes, because the Chinese used in Chinatown is traditional Chinese, and you may learn simplified characters." ”

Link Ke's face was abrupt, in fact, he still didn't understand in his heart, but he didn't ask this again, but instead inquired about the news: "Then your boss is an immigrant from the mainland of China?"

"Yes. The waiter didn't say much. "What do you want to eat, sir?"

Link looked at the recipe for a while and asked, "I'm from Nevada, and it's my first time eating Chinese food." Can you tell us about any of the specialties?"

"Okay. We have authentic boiled fish, boiled beef, back pot meat ......"

Link interrupted her and asked, "Boiled beef, that's how to do it." ”

"Well, this dish is a bit spicy. Of course, if you can't eat spicy, we can ask the chef to put less chili peppers. ”

Link nodded and said, "Then let's have a boiled beef." ”

He saw the English on the menu and asked, "What kind of dish is this brisket?"

"This is a very famous dish in China. It takes a dozen seasonings to simmer for several hours. The beef is soft and fragrant, and it is very tasty. ”

"That's one too. And this red stewed beef tendon and stir-fried tripe?"

He ordered a few dishes made of beef, and then a few others. The waiter saw that he had ordered eight dishes and one soup for four people, and thought that he didn't know that the amount of Chinese food was quite large, so he reminded: "Sir, the food you ordered may not be eaten by four people." ”

Link, of course, knows that Chinese food is generous. It's not like a Western restaurant at all, where some dishes are served on a large plate with less than an ounce of food in the middle. Those things are so expensive that people feel like they're eating gold, and it's not enough to take a bite when they are all licked clean.

But he didn't just come to eat, he also wanted to taste the food in this Chinese restaurant: "It's okay. You follow suit. We had a lot of food. ”

The waiter saw that this handsome guy didn't listen to persuasion and didn't say much: "Okay." ”

After she left, Link kept an eye out for the guests who came to eat. It was noon, and it was already time for dinner, but he found that there were more than thirty tables in the hall of the restaurant, and only a dozen tables were seated, and many of them were empty. However, today is a weekday, and it is normal for fewer people to come to eat at noon.

The dishes he ordered were quickly served. He picked up chopsticks, although he was not very skilled, but he was not a beginner. Looking at Warren, the three of them first clumsily couldn't use chopsticks, and finally had to pick up a fork. He smiled and said, "If you want to use chopsticks, you can't use them for a while without studying." Try these dishes and see how they taste. The dishes that come up are all edible. ”

Warren smiled and scooped some vegetables into his bowl with a colander and said, "Don't worry, boss, we ate bugs raw when we were training." ”

Link felt a little disgusted in his heart, and said with a smile: "Then don't think about other factors, just say how you feel, whether it's delicious or not." ”

In Fan Ji they ate a full meal.

Next, they went to several Chinese restaurants that looked like they could be sized for two days in a row. In the end, Link felt that the first one best met his requirements.

The dishes are delicious, and the beef is also used a lot. The most important thing is that such a restaurant that maintains the basic taste of Chinese food has many customers. And there are five branches in the San Francisco area, so you can consume a lot of beef in a day.

So he took Warren and them to Fan Kee Chinese Restaurant. This time, he booked a private room in advance.

The waiter led them into a private room.

After Link's order, he said to the waiter, "Can you please ask your manager?"

"May I ask you for our manager?" the waiter looked at him suspiciously for a moment.

Link pulled out a business card and said, "I run a big farm and want to talk to him to see if I can supply ingredients directly to your restaurant." ”

The waiter took the business card and looked at it, and immediately said, "I'll tell our manager." ”

Soon someone entered Link's private room. But the person who came in wasn't the restaurateur Link wanted to meet, but a young woman. She looks like she's only in her twenties, never more than thirty. And the information he found showed that Fan Ji's boss was also the manager of the main store, a middle-aged man of about fifty.

"Hello Mr. Hans, I'm Shirley Fan, and I'm the assistant general manager of Fan Kee Chinese Restaurant. Sometimes our general manager leaves, and I hear that you want us to use ingredients from your farm. Can you elaborate on that?"

Fan Shirley uses English.

Chinese and English are very different in terms of language habits, and Link still feels awkward to talk in Chinese. Now that she speaks English, he's a little more relaxed.

Link stood up and shook her hand, reached out for her to sit down, and said, "Of course." But I take the liberty of asking, can you make a decision on behalf of Fan Ji?"

Fan immigrated to the United States as a child and knew that Americans like to go straight. She understood that Link was only questioning her position and power, and did not think that Link was despising or discriminating against her.

She shook her head and said, "I can't make a big decision on behalf of Fan Ji. But as long as it is beneficial to us, I will try to convince our general manager. ”

Link understood, she was probably the daughter of Fan Ji's boss, or a sister, niece, or something. He nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll talk to you first." He paused and said. "You know, I run a couple of farms and raise quite a few cattle. However, the cattle are mainly raised in the traditional way of grazing, and only in the winter the cattle are kept in locks, and in order to maintain the weight of the cattle, they are fed some corn and soybeans, and they are mainly dry pasture. ”

"Aren't they all raised like that?" asked Fan Xueli with a frown.

Link said with a smile: "There are still cattle like mine today, but there are also many cattle that are all fed with corn flour. At least in the last six months, in order to gain weight, those meat processing companies will gather some half-sized cattle, put them in a pen, and then feed them with increased growth hormone, so that they can better absorb the starch of the corn, so as to achieve the effect of rapid fattening. ”

Fan Xueli listened and asked a little puzzled: "Isn't that good? Intensive production and improving efficiency are the key to production." ”

"But what about a 600-pound cow that grows to 1,300 pounds in six months? And, you know, not all animals are suitable for intensive breeding. For example, cows usually eat only grass, while pigs eat everything. ”

"You mean, it's not good for cows to eat corn?"

"You can gather information about this, of course, I doubt that there will be no such news on the American website. But there's one thing I think you should believe. Cattle in the U.S. eat genetically modified corn. Genetically modified plants can easily cause abnormal changes in the animal's body. ”

"Really?" Fan Xueli asked when she heard this. "Are you sure?"

Link shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's what the experts say, anyway. And experts have also confirmed that if cattle eat corn, they produce deadly bacteria in their digestive tracts. There have been many bacterial outbreaks in the past, which are actually related to this. Maybe you can keep an eye out for it too. You know, a slaughterhouse, a lot of cattle are killed in a day, as long as one is infected, it is possible that all the beef will be infected. ”

Of course, Fan Xueli would not be stupid enough to listen to him, and said, "Thank you for the reminder." But what's the advantage of your cattle? I mean, how do you make sure you're producing better beef than theirs?"

"The way we farm is the way we keep the cattle healthy. In addition, we will build our own slaughterhouse, and each cow will be slaughtered separately so that there will be no cross-infection. Finally, our cattle will be organic. ”

"Your cattle are organic?"

"Yes. My farm has been raising cattle on a ranch that I have been raising for decades and is fully eligible to apply, and I have decided to apply as well. The other two ranches will be able to apply in another year. ”

Fan knows that Americans are now also paying attention to healthy eating, and of course they are all middle-class and above. So now the organic food market in the United States is growing by more than 20% per year. Most of the customers who visit Fan Kee are tourists or the local middle class. Having the gimmick of healthy food may make Fan Ji more competitive.

And it is true that there has always been a farm-to-fork movement in the United States, which is maintained by a small number of farmers. This means that only farms sell meat or other things directly to consumers, without going through middlemen. By doing so, you can reduce costs.

She pondered for a moment and asked, "And what is the price of your beef?"

"It's the same as what you're buying now. ”

"In that case, we can't talk about it. Fan Xueli shook her head and said. "If that's the case, we don't need to change suppliers. ”

Link smiled and said, "Maybe you think the price is high, but how do you know if there is no higher profit if you don't try it." Maybe you can sell our beef separately from other suppliers' beef at two different prices. ”

Fan thought about it for a moment and felt that if Link was offering organic beef, it would indeed be worth trying.

However, she decided to leave the matter to her father to decide: "This matter, we will consider it." Thank you, Mr. Hans, for your suggestion. I will not hinder you from dining, and I wish you a pleasant meal. ”