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The next day, Tang Feng went to visit the old Mrs. Jones, who now lives in Lamberton. Before the ranch transaction, Tang Feng had met the old lady who was nearly eighty years old once, so this time they met again, and the two of them talked quite smoothly.

"Oh, you're talking about Mark and the others! Yes, these guys are very good, especially Mark, who has been working on my family's ranch for nearly twenty years, and has taken good care of those two farms. Don, if I were you, I wouldn't hesitate to hire these lads back again, they are all very familiar with the inner workings of the ranch. A few years ago, Carl (Jones Sr.) and I basically didn't bother with ranches and farms. "The old lady is nearly eighty years old, but her body is very good, her eyes are not dazzling or deaf, and she is very confident when she speaks.

It's just that Mark. Johnson is a middle-aged man in his forties, and the old lady still screams "young man" and "young man", which is a bit weird. But this also speaks volumes about Mark. Johnson and the others used to have a very good relationship with the Joneses, otherwise the old lady would not have called him so affectionately.

"Well, since you also suggested that I continue to hire them, then I will follow your advice. Mark: They also made a good impression on me. ”

"Don, you really should hire them again. One is that they are familiar with the work of the ranch and the farm, and the other is that they are not greedy at all, which is the most important thing. Don, you know, on the Texas farms, these hired farmers and cowboys are generally split in half with the owners, but Mark they want less, they are only 40%, so if you hire them, you will make more. ”

Mrs. Jones is talking about this kind of sharing, which is actually a very common situation in Texas. There are many large ranches and farms in Texas, and there are many people to hire. However, this kind of employment is generally not directly paid, but the two parties agree on a share, and the farmer and cowboy who are finally hired take their own share according to the agreed share at the end of each year.

In Texas, this split is generally 55 cents, that is, the owner and the employee each take half of it. For example, if Tang Feng's farm sells a total of $1 million in grain and cash crops this year, then according to the rules, Tang Feng can take 500,000 of them, and those farmers can take the remaining 500,000 dollars.

This amount may seem like a loss to the owner, but don't forget that the owner doesn't care about anything but seeds, farm machinery, and fertilizers and pesticides, and all the work on the farm is done by the farmers. The price of seeds is very cheap, agricultural machinery is basically a one-time investment, and it is no problem to use it for ten or twenty years, as for fertilizers and pesticides, that thing is not very valuable in the United States, plus these things Tang Feng is only responsible for providing funds to buy, and the specific things are handled by those farmers, in fact, in a year, if you can sell one million, Tang Feng only needs to sit and get a net profit of more than 200,000 US dollars.

And although those farmers seem to be able to earn 500,000 yuan, don't forget, whether it is to buy seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, or sowing, irrigation, weeding and applying fertilizers, these tedious work are the responsibility of these farmers, and agricultural machinery and spraying pesticides and fertilizers of aircraft oil, including the maintenance costs of these agricultural machinery are borne by these farmers, so a year, farmers have paid a lot of labor and energy, really calculated, after deducting labor costs, the income is actually not more than the owner.

In fact, this ranch cannot be regarded as a real pasture and farm, because in this more than 3,000 acres of land, there are more trees, and the area of real pastures and farms only occupies about half of the area of this land. Therefore, the annual output value of this ranch is only about 2 million US dollars, and according to the 6:4 split, these six people can get 800,000 US dollars a year, and after deducting some oil costs and maintenance costs, one person can get more than 100,000 US dollars a year.

This income is considered a high income even in the United States. And Mark. Johnson took the initiative to reduce the share because the conditions of this ranch are too good, and it belongs to the high-value pasture, so they are willing to use the reduced share to obtain long-term employment from the owner.

This job is for Mark. Johnson is a high-income and relatively stable job, but this money is nothing to Tang Feng, if you want to live with an income of more than one million this year, it is really a dignified star core.

Therefore, Tang Feng didn't care much about whether he was divided or not, what he cared about was Mark. Johnson's character as a person. As long as these six people have good enough character, Tang Feng can even give them some more. Everyone else is divided into fifty and fifty, so we can also follow this standard!

After saying goodbye to Mrs. Jones Sr., Tang Feng drove the Porsche 918 supercar he had just bought, and Shi Shiran returned to the ranch. Johnson them, let them come to work tomorrow.

This notice naturally got Mark. Johnson cheered a few of them. For these pure farmers and cowboys, being able to work in a large ranch is definitely a very comfortable job. Unfortunately, the death of their former employer, Jones Sr., made them wait for half a year, and now the new owners of the land have decided to hire them, which is undoubtedly a great news for them.

With Mark. With the arrival of Johnson, the work on the ranch and farm began to become organized, and the calves, ponies, lambs, as well as chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic animals were purchased in Jack. Smith and Alain. Under Davis's operation, he has been bought back one after another, with these four cowboys here, Tang Feng doesn't need to worry about these jobs at all, he only needs to pay for it.

As for the farm, there are Johnson and son, and there is no need to worry about Tang Feng, everything is going very smoothly. This also made Tang Feng secretly sigh, it is really easy to use as an acquaintance!

Under the scorching sun, these people have been so busy for almost a month, and the farm and ranch are already on track. And Tang Feng also ushered in Sam and Explorer Company, and of course, Sam came with Christian. Albert is the managing director of Down Mining.

Sam not only brought Tang a U.S. passport, but also invited Explorer to resurvey the twenty-one old oil wells at the Tang Ranch. At this time, under the rock formation three thousand meters deep below this pasture, a huge oil field has quietly formed.