Valley wines, the average price is $700 a bottle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The annual production of 1,000 bottles is only 700,000 US dollars, which is also the only source of income for the valley ranch. By the way, there is also pasture, and every time the grass is at its fattest, someone comes to harvest the pasture, which is also a good income.

However, according to the price of land and houses in the valley pasture, the land use tax and property tax that need to be paid every year are about 3 million. The revenues from wine and pasture are simply not enough to sustain the normal operation of the valley ranches......

But now, the land of the valley pastures has become wasteland. Wasteland is exempt from land use tax, and there are various welfare allowances every year, and even a certain amount of property tax can be exempted. But there is a time limit beyond which the U.S. government has the right to repossess the land if the wasteland has not been developed. Of course, there is only the right here......

In a good mood, Ye Mo took two red wines home in the winemaking workshop.

The villa has been cleaned up, kitchen, living room and master bedroom. I opened the wine, opened the fridge, took a good steak out of it, and made the French fried steak that I had only recently learned. The best steak was blackened by the outside of his frying and looked like it should be fully cooked before it was served on the plate.

There should be a decanting process before drinking the best dry red, otherwise it will be very astringent. The charred steak was paired with a few hundred dollars of red wine, and Ye Mo also made a petty bourgeoisie, pretending to be forced silently.

Not to mention, the red wine for a few hundred dollars is different from the red wine sold in domestic supermarkets for several hundred yuan. At least, it doesn't taste like a nasty oak cork. It's really hard to think that Ye Mo doesn't understand red wine, just relying on his own feelings, it may also be psychological.

When night falls, the night of the ranch is exceptionally quiet, there is no familiar sound of cars and chaotic human language, and there are just unknown night birds and insects, which makes the already quiet night extra peaceful.

A huge house, generally empty, with a sofa, coffee table, TV, refrigerator in the living room...... At night, Ye Mo is used to playing a few games on the Internet, and there is only a bed and a large wardrobe in the bedroom, and there is no TV or computer......

I could only continue to watch the English channel for a while, and by the way, I drank a little wine, poured myself into a daze, and then fell asleep.

Waking up in a large bedroom of more than sixty square meters, Ye Mo rubbed his eyes, heard the sound of birds chirping and flapping wings, and quickly opened his eyes. There were uninvited guests in the room, and a few red-headed and green-bellied unknown birds, like headless flies, were trapped in the room and fluttering wildly.

Ye Mo smiled and rubbed his temples, got up from the bed, opened the curtains, opened all the floor-to-ceiling windows, and drove out the birds that strayed into the room.

After washing up, I changed into a tank top and shorts, and went for a morning run along the ranch road.

It's already five and a half months, and the valley of St. Ynes is still cold in the morning, the air is full of dew, and the leaves of the pasture grass by the roadside are sticking to the crystal clear dewdrops. Vast valley plains, misty and distant hills looming......

At this time, if there are a few cows that eat grass, and they snort twice from time to time, they may be more angry.

The view of the ranch is nice, so quiet that there is not a single noise outside of nature. After exercising for half an hour, when the sun was born, Ye Mo forcibly added a task to himself to practice boxing.

This is a set of unknown boxing techniques sorted out from the "Taoist Cultivation Secret Book". Similar to the artistic conception of Tai Chi, it can mobilize the true qi in the body......

Stepping on yin and yang, the hands are divided into two instruments, one static and one moving, the true qi in the body runs naturally, and the consumption is not much, but it can't resist the scarcity of the true qi. After only ten minutes of fighting, Ye Mo was sweating profusely.

I went home and took a shower and cooked a bacon claypot.

The rice and bacon were taken by Kelvin's family. Kelvin is an old bachelor, his wife is divorced, his children work and live outside the home, and he lives on the ranch alone. used to be with Old Man Ding, and then was forced by Old Man Ding to develop the habit of eating Chinese food, which also has some very funny and tragic stories......

After breakfast, Ye Mo drove his pickup out and prepared to purchase some daily necessities.

The town closest to the farm, Monica, is a small western-style building, there are few people in sight on the clean street, a 24-hour small supermarket, Ye Mo will wonder how many of the expired goods are in it every time he passes by.

The population of Monica Town was close to 1,500 people, but now it is less than 1,000 people, which is mainly forced by Old Man Ding.

It's funny to say, I thought that a Chinese rich man came to the town, but I didn't expect that people bought a ranch and ran it at all, so it was empty. As a result, the town has less and less tax revenue, and naturally, the town has less and less money to withhold......

You know, the valley ranch occupies more than three-fifths of the area of Monica Town, and the land occupied is also the most fertile and best land in Monica Town. Today, Monica Township has only five slightly smaller farms, in addition to the non-tax-paying family farms......

Benjamin has complained that Monica Town has less than four million in taxes a year, of which Valley Ranch pays about three million in land taxes, and there is no personal income tax. As a result, Monica Town can hold on to less than two million dollars.

The government facilities in Monica Town are very well-equipped. There are police stations, traffic co-ordination departments, government offices, tax offices, public schools......

It's really a sparrow, although it's small, and it has all kinds of organs.

The town has a police chief, twelve officers. There are also several personnel in the transportation coordination department, government offices, tax bureaus, public school teachers, etc., and the number of people who eat public meals is close to 60. Bloated and large government institutions, which translates into the generally low salaries of every public official.

How can I build a small town when I can't afford to pay my salary, so the people who originally lived in the town have moved a lot.

Well, and for this reason, the people of the small town don't treat the people of the valley ranch well.

The town couldn't buy what Ye Mo wanted, so he bypassed the town directly and prepared to go to Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara is also known as Santa Barbara, a municipal administrative district in California that locals are more accustomed to calling Santa Barbara County. All the way leisurely, driving the car, listening to the songs. When you encounter a scenic place, you will also stop to take a photo......

Santa Barbara is a well-known tourist city, both for its seascape and for its small-town atmosphere with Spanish characteristics. Unlike big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco in California, Santa Barbara is populated mainly by college students, retired wealthy people, and tourists. As a result, the pace of life in the small city is very leisurely. The greenery of the city is very beautiful, the number of cars on the streets is scarce, and people prefer to use bicycles to travel, sunny, sporty, and leisurely.

Ye Mo took out his mobile phone to navigate, and found the largest supermarket here according to the navigation.

There were a lot of things to buy, rice, all kinds of seasonings from China, clothes and trousers, etc., a mess of things packed into two carts. Then I went to an electronics store and bought a local California calling card, as well as a computer, a laptop, and a desktop combo computer for playing games......

Called the telecommunications company and returned to the farm, where AT&T employees were already waiting for him outside the ranch......

It was already evening, I felt like I hadn't done anything this day, I had dinner, and I was about to download a few games for my computer, when I suddenly heard Kelvin calling him.

went downstairs, Kelvin was wearing sandals and shorts, and a bamboo basket collapsed around his waist: "Seeing that you are bored alone, I am going to Huaxi Valley to catch yellow eels, together?" ”

"Catch the eel?" Ye Mo's expression was weird.

Kelvin shook the beard of his chin and said with a bit of rap rhythm, "It's hot, and the yellow eels in the mud ditch have their heads popping up, and the yellow eels are big and fat now." ”

Ye Mo was not lightly thundered, and asked, "Do you want to eat the yellow eel when you caught it?" ”

"Of course. I'll go back and make you a garlic roasted eel. ”