This sprinkler irrigation system is very advanced, with automatic operation, the control device is placed in a room on the second floor of the villa, and if you want to irrigate the pasture, you can just turn on the control device and you can operate the irrigation system, which is very simple, just like playing a game.

That night, Tang Ming irrigated the pasture for the first time, which lasted for an hour before Tang Ming turned off the irrigation system.

In the next few days, Tang Ming had to irrigate the pasture once a day, and the time was kept within half an hour, and the effect was obvious, several kinds of pasture grass in the pasture were growing better and better, far better than when there was no irrigation in the past, which made Mike and them all think it was a miracle, but only Tang Ming knew that this was because the lake water that irrigated the ranch contained pool water.

What is certain is that the cattle in the pasture eat the grass irrigated with pond water, and the growth rate, disease resistance, meat yield, and beef quality will be greatly improved.

The grass grew more and more vigorously, Mike felt that it was a pity that the grass was wasted, so he proposed to Tang Ming to buy some more cattle, Tang Ming agreed, and in a few days, Tang Ming and Mike went to several pastures and bought four thousand cattle.

Of these, 3,000 are shelf cattle, aged between 11 months and 12 months, and can be fattened after a few months on pasture, which are purchased for $6 per kilogram, which costs an average of $1,200 per cow, and 1,000 calves, which are slightly cheaper, around $700 each.

The 4,000 cattle cost a total of 4.3 million, which directly reduced Tang Ming's savings to several million Australian dollars.

But that's not all, then, the 200 rack cattle raised in the ranch can be fattened, and they need to buy fattening feed, which includes corn, barley, sorghum, soybean cake and hay, etc., in addition, salt is also bound to be less, except for hay, everything else needs to be bought, for this, Tang Ming spent another million Australian dollars.

As for the time required for fattening, it takes about 200 to 300 days, the longer the fattening time, the more obvious the marbling of the beef, the higher the grade of the beef, the more expensive the price, of course, the longer the fattening time, the more it costs.

Tang Ming stood next to the cowshed and watched as Mike drove the two hundred cows into the narrow cowshed, mixed the feed together with a mixer in proportion, and fed the cattle.

The cowshed is very automated, and there is even air conditioning, except for the cramped ones, the environment is quite good.

After finishing his work, Mike walked up to Tang Ming and said, "Boss, now that there are four thousand more cattle in the ranch, and two hundred cattle need to be fattened, now we can't take care of a few cowboys at all, and it's time to increase the manpower in the ranch." ”

Tang Ming asked, "Mike, how many more people do you think we need?"

Mike had already thought about this question, didn't think about it, and said directly: "Six more cowboys are enough." ”

Tang Ming nodded and said, "Yes, Mike, you will go to Monte Town tomorrow to recruit cowboys, and the treatment will be calculated according to Klein's standards." ”

Mike said, "No problem, I'll take care of it." ”

Now that the discussion was over, Tang Ming turned around to leave, but as soon as he took a few steps, Mike caught up again, hesitated, and said: "Boss, in fact, you don't need to hire local cowboys, some South Americans and Mexicans have cheaper prices, and you only need to pay them two or three thousand Australian dollars a month." ”

This price is less than half of the cost of the locals, which is very tempting for Tang Ming.

Tang Ming stopped, thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, the ranch doesn't need so many people now, let's talk about it when the ranch expands again." ”

Mike said, "Okay then. ”

Back at the villa, Tang Ming entered the Xia He Cave Heaven, first turned on the generator, connected the pump, and pumped water into the water tank.

Now that the area of the pool has increased, the output of the pool water has naturally increased, from the original three hundred and fifty tons to five hundred and fifty tons, and the water tank that can hold four hundred tons of water can no longer hold the pool water in the entire pool, and every time the water is pumped, there will be one hundred and fifty tons left in the pool, which makes Tang Ming feel a little wasteful, and he is ready to buy two more tanks with a capacity of six hundred tons in a few days.

Tang Ming stood next to the generator, brought a headset, picked up the gun, and began to shoot at the gun target opposite, after playing for a while, Tang Ming walked through the waterhole, checked the gun target, and saw the number of rings displayed on it, and felt very satisfied.

After these days of practice, Tang Ming's marksmanship has improved a lot, basically there will be no off-target phenomenon, ten bullets can hit sixty or seventy rings, and occasionally a few ten rings.

Tang Ming played with guns in Xiahe Cave Heaven, waited until the water tank was full, turned off the generator and pump, and left Xia He Cave Heaven.

Returned to the bedroom and glanced at the calendar, today is the ninth of January, and there are more than ten days to go before the New Year, Tang Ming came to Australia in November, and more than two months have passed.

"What should I buy when I go home?" Tang Ming thought in his heart.

Tang Ming checked on the Internet, there are not many Australian specialties, but they are all very Australian, there are health care products, wool products, opals, and some art souvenirs.

In addition to buying gifts for his parents, he also had to buy some for his relatives and friends to take home, they all knew that Tang Ming had come to Australia, and it was not good to go back without some gifts.

Tang Ming chose for a long time and drew up a purchase list, which had thirty or forty things, including honey, deep-sea fish oil, lanolin oil, wine, milk powder, wool quilt, kangaroo leather crafts, crocodile skin products, various health products, various cosmetics, etc., these items were marked with quantities, the least units were ten, and the most were dozens, in addition, Tang Ming was also going to buy an opal necklace for his mother.

After reading this list, Tang Ming was distressed, so many things, how to load on the plane, thinking about it, Tang Ming was going to charter a plane back, but where to go to charter a plane, this was a problem for him, so, he thought of Lucy.

Tang Ming made a phone call to Lucy's office, only to be told that Lucy had left Westpac.

"By the way, Lucy seems to have left me a business card. Tang Ming searched around the bedroom and found Lucy's business card in a piece of clothing, with Lucy's private number on it.

Tang Ming dialed this number, and the phone was quickly connected, Lucy obviously remembered Tang Ming's number, and said, "Hello, Mr. Tang, do you have something to do with me?"

Tang Ming said: "I'm sorry, Lucy, I'm bothering you, I just called your office at Westpac Bank, and they said that you left your job, so I called your private number." ”

Lucy said, "It's okay, Mr. Tang, do you need my help with anything?"