After the matter here was dealt with, Zhang Cheng wanted to drive back, but seeing that Sister Emma slept so soundly, it was not good to disturb people's dreams - the principle of not doing to others what you would not do to others Zhang Cheng occasionally abides by it, of course, only within the scope of his own people.

Idle and bored, Zhang Cheng took out a few bottles of soda from the refrigerator and turned on the TV to watch the news, which can be regarded as caring about national affairs.

First there were black riots, in fact, black riots are not a big deal, since the American plutocracy decided to deindustrialize in the country, black riots have not stopped, the original industrial city of Motor City Detroit has become a ghost, and the Los Angeles riots of 92.

The seedling of this black riot is said to be a white policeman who killed a black man, but the black man attacked the police first, and the police are also people, so don't the police need to protect themselves? The answer is of course yes.

The federal police are already complaining that the criminals are using machine guns and the police are using revolvers - the firepower on both sides is not on the same level.

Black people make trouble because they feel discriminated against (in fact, it is fundamentally because of the inferiority complex of black people) -- in fact, they don't want to think that Chinese Americans in the United States have definitely been discriminated against less than them in the past hundred years, but why are there no Chinese people making trouble? It is only a matter of the last few years that Chinese Americans have been able to take to the streets to protest against the unfair laws that are clearly directed against Chinese Americans.

A deeper underlying factor is that the emancipation of black slaves in Lincoln's time was to add cheap labor to the factories and mines of the big American capitalists - although the blacks were free after the Civil War, their standard of living dropped significantly. For the southern slave owners, they also valued their own property. Now, these jobs have either been replaced by mechanized assembly lines or by large numbers of Mexican-Chinese immigrants who are more educated and faster learners, both legal and illegal.

Except for a few blacks who can make a fortune in athletics or other sports, many more blacks are always associated with poverty, relief, crime, etc., just look at the bankruptcy of Detroit and the endless gunfights that have become a cancer in this immigrant country.

Although the United States is the owner of Africa's best interests, it has nothing to do with African-Americans in the United States, even if the American police and judges are fair in law enforcement, black people in the United States will feel that they are being discriminated against as they are now - it is not that American police and judges have shot whites and wrongly judged whites, but only blacks feel that they have been discriminated against, isn't this actually very revealing.

Now many unreasonable blacks in the United States feel that blacks in the United States should be united. Form a strong group. In this way, they will have more say - the problem is that this group is based on violent resistance to the law, not a peaceful group. The purpose of this group is that black people kill us black people, you white people can't kill them, even if that black person is a bastard.

There is no such good thing. Zhang Cheng can only say. Wait until the group is really built. They will be dealt with by the police and the National Guard to the federal forces - playing this will only lead to faster death. The United States today is no longer the United States of Washington and Franklin, when the South still fantasized about democratic secession from the Union and was defeated by force by the Northern Union, let alone now.

The news of the black riots was followed by a collapse in oil prices. Compared to the peak and trough of oil prices in the past month, the price of oil is now only half of it.

To outsiders, it seems that OPEC's refusal to cut production and the reduction in oil prices caused by European and American sanctions against Russia -- in other words, the price of oil is only half of the price of the peak period, and OPEC is also making a lot of money. Moreover, OPEC is not one-minded, and sometimes it is normal to promise to cut production but not to cut it. Wouldn't it be in vain to let others make money by reducing their own production?

As a well-informed insider, Zhang Cheng knows more that the reason for the collapse of oil prices is more because China, the United States and Russia oil companies have received the news that in three to five years, the oil resources of the foreign colonies, which are much lower than the current ones, will enter the three countries of China, the United States and Russia on the earth.

The three superpowers all have oil reserves of more than a few years or even more, since the price of oil will plummet in the future, and selling oil short now is an opportunity -- Zhang Cheng also remembered this stubble when he saw the collapse of oil prices on the news, and Zhang Cheng, who is not very enlightened about economics, saw the news and realized that he had missed an opportunity to make a lot of money in the futures market.

And now the risk of entering the market is too great, those people on Wall Street claim to eat people without spitting out bones, Zhang Cheng feels that he throws this spare money into it, maybe it will be swallowed by the other party without splashing - manipulating prices is too easy for them, and the capital market will always be a big fish eating small fish, and whales eating shrimp.

After caring about national affairs, Zhang Cheng found that there was nothing he could do to interfere - nonsense. It seems that it is more suitable for you to sleep with a girl and make money steadily.

After returning to Reno, Zhang Cheng answered another phone call, Jenny's sister Annie, the master who taught Anne Chinese kung fu was 80 years old half a month later, and asked Anne to invite Zhang Cheng, a master, to watch the ceremony. Zhang Cheng counted the days, and his birthday was already after returning from an expedition in the Sierra Nevada with Santana, and he should come down.

It's not easy for the average person to live to be 80 years old, even if there is no Alzheimer's disease or in a hospital bed. This old man is almost eighty years old, and he can still lie down seven or eight young men casually, and it is worth seeing this point - this may also be a Taishan Beidou figure in the martial arts world in the western United States.

As for the gift, it should still be very face-saving to pick two catties of Xianjia tea and send it over.

After replenishing the wine and tea leaves at the two strongholds in Reno, there was still a little more than a day for Zhang Cheng to come to Yezi's stronghold.

Ye Zi didn't find a suitable university this year - the school that was willing to accept her was either too far away or too bad, and as for scholarships or anything, this little money was no longer in the scope of consideration. Ye Zi is going to take the American college entrance examination again in the winter, and try to go to the west, especially Nevada or California, in the spring or fall to find a better college - anyway, according to her age, there is no hurry.

In fact, according to Zhang Cheng's meaning. As long as it's not a stepping stone to becoming a scientist or finding a job, you can't get into college -- even an American college diploma is not attractive to people like Steve Jobs or Gates.

After teasing the white tiger baby for a while at Ye Zi's house, Zhang Chengan calmed down and looked through the real estate information he got from the real estate broker on the massage sofa.

The leaves heated the stewed beef, loaded a large plate, sat next to Zhang Cheng, ate a piece by himself and then fed Zhang Cheng a piece, the white tiger baby smelled the fragrance and wanted to climb up to get a piece of the soup, but Zhang Cheng waved his hand and blasted away.

Ye Zi asked, "What's there to see?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "My mentor said that world food prices will rise in the future, and I have a little spare money to invest in land recently. ”

Zhang Cheng pointed to the photo and said, "What do you think of this?" Alpine pasture in Carson City, 301 acres irrigated by natural springs. The price is also good. For less than $3 million. ”

Ye Zi took a look: "2.99 million." How different is it from three million, and if you pay insurance or something, it must be more than three million dollars. And this ranch now has not a single cow, only a few old houses. It's still wooden. Didn't you buy a ranch of several thousand acres? ”

Zhang Cheng: "I bought it for you." The cattle can be separated from my pasture. The house is a little older. But we don't live there. For cowboys. ”

Ye Zi: "That's not bad. Three hundred acres of pasture should be enough to raise a few hundred cows, right? ”

Zhang Cheng: "If you are willing to buy pasture, you can raise 2,000 cattle on such a large pasture." ”

Yezi: "Then raise a thousand." Home-grown meat is safe to eat, just like beef from your ranch. The taste is better than the same grade of beef bought in the supermarket. Ah, open your mouth. ”

Zhang Cheng ate the beef: "Then take your time first, divide the past five or six hundred heads, and in two years, the cows will give birth to calves, and there will be a thousand heads." Tomorrow I have an appointment with a real estate agent and a lawyer, and you will come with you. ”

Zhang Cheng also has a crush on a farm, but in Ohio, it is already the Great Lakes region of the eastern United States. Zhang Cheng has a small eye on the farm, which is only 75 acres, but sells for as much as $1.9 million – because of the well-developed irrigation system, the market price of the same standard farm will not be less than $25,000 per acre. This 75-acre medium-sized farm is already the largest farm for sale.

The text says the farm currently grows wheat, corn, soybeans, oats and alfalfa. There were stables and very large barns for poultry and livestock, but now they were very clean. The stream that runs through the farm is very clean and clear enough to catch some small fish, and there are plenty of safe wildlife on and near the farm, such as raccoons, deer, eagles, pheasants, foxes, and a great place to spend time relaxing and hunting on private territory.

There are still natural gas deposits on the farm that have been discovered and are in use, and if they are only used for their own use, they can provide the farm with free and unlimited natural gas resources -- heating in the northern region is very important in winter, and a newspaper in New York predicts how many people will freeze to death in New York this winter every year before the onset of winter, and the predictions are often not very different from the facts.

What's more, this land has not had any natural disasters since the beginning of the history of the United States, droughts, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., and it can be said that it is a treasure of feng shui. It's worth the price. And there's never been a crime reported in the region – and it's no exaggeration to say that it's the best place in the United States.

The ultimate way to make a quick buck could be to convert the plot into a commercial and residential area of about 50 households (1.5 acres each) – all labeled with beautiful scenery and free natural gas.

In addition to the largest farm for sale, the original farmer is willing to provide ten years of free management - it seems that he does not want to retire after selling the farm, but this is exactly what Zhang Cheng meant, Zhang Cheng has no time to go to Ohio to manage the farm, even if the farmer is unwilling to provide management services, Zhang Cheng also wants to hire a professional manager to take care of the farm.

I took a look at two pieces of land, and although I only spent a fraction of the spare money in my account, it was still very early to file my taxes, and I had time to go patriotic with a big ticket -- spending money in the United States is patriotic.

The next morning, after meeting with a lawyer and a real estate agent, Ye Zi and Zhang Cheng signed to buy two pieces of land respectively, Zhang Cheng and Ye Zi started the day's patriotic cause with a lawyer who charged by the hour.

It's still raining in the southern part of the United States. However, Zhang Cheng's hometown was either snowing or sleet at this time. There is still some time before Zhang Cheng returns to his hometown for the Chinese New Year, but some large gifts for his parents may as well be transported by air first - because many things, such as cars, involve tariff issues, so this time Zhang Cheng deliberately brought a lawyer and handed over the problem to the lawyer to solve, and the lawyer took the money to do things, which is an internal matter.

The first is to choose a car for the old man, although the sports car is more stylish, but it is not in Zhang Cheng's consideration, the chassis is too low in the hometown and there are not many places to run in the city, so you can only put it in the garage to watch and play. In the end, I chose a Lincoln KMT with snow mode. Tens of thousands. It doesn't seem to be patriotic enough, but the lawyer calculated that it would be more than twice as patriotic with the addition of air freight costs and customs duties.

Then there are gifts for mom, cosmetics and nutritional supplements. Zhang Cheng didn't dare to buy indiscriminately. I simply chose to buy clothes. The best clothes are made-to-order. Zhang Cheng is looking for this company to provide global door-to-door tailor-made services. Zhang Cheng ordered five sets of clothes for his father and fifty sets for his mother (each set included corresponding clothes, shoes, bags, etc.) -- this distribution ratio was also formulated according to the principle that men should wear the same as others, and women should wear different clothes than others.

The costume designer Zhang Cheng found no less than $2,000 per set of custom-made clothes. A lot of winter clothes have to use expensive furs, which is even more patriotic, and when this bill arrives, it must be a big patriotic time.

The rest of the gifts don't need to be bought with money, home-grown tea, send a few catties back - send back naturally the dehydrated tea, which may slightly affect the taste, but after dehydration, it can be stored in the ordinary environment for a longer time.

Red wine and beef are the same, the last time my mother called and said that the beef left behind when I went back for the Chinese New Year last year was finished, and I went to the market to buy beef and came back to cook it tasted too bad - not to mention that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

After completing the order, Zhang Cheng called his father and said about it, and the delivery from the province thought it was a special express.

After hearing this, my father did not complain about Zhang Cheng's indiscriminate spending, but said: "The Audi I bought last year was already better than the manager's car, and I didn't let others drive my car. This time, Lincoln, who was fully imported, was not hungry for him. ”

The atmosphere car in China is the face of a company, and Zhang Cheng can't help this kind of thing, so he laughed a few times on the phone: "It's a big deal, Lincoln is here, and Audi will drive it for Uncle Li." ”

Dad said again: "Your holy blood red wine, our manager, your Uncle Li, also tasted it, if it weren't for the fact that red wine and white wine are two systems, it is estimated that we would have to go to your old Johnson master to poach the winemaker." ”

"You can't dig it up." In fact, it's useless to dig it up, everyone has the same brewing method, and our wine is good.

Zhang Cheng knew that his father couldn't let go of that winery, so he didn't persuade his father to come to live in the United States, where he was unfamiliar with life and didn't understand the language. Dad's generation was fortunate enough to catch up with the assignment, and after graduating from high school, they took over to work at the county's state-run distillery -- and unfortunately caught up with the mass collapse of small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises.

In fact, I heard that before the closure of the distillery, the sales were not bad, that is, the triangular debt was either not returned to the bank and did not give loans, there was no money to buy raw materials, and the workers who did not produce still had to pay wages, and finally had to go out of business.

In the later wave of reform, my father and several young people from the distillery bought the distillery with a strong loan partnership, insisting on both money and goods - although it was only marketed in a dozen provinces and cities mainly in the north, the result was that it was profitable every year, and a few years ago they also bought a piece of land and built a new factory, which specialized in the production of vodka for export to Russia, and the Russians complained that the vodka was now made by the Chinese.

In the afternoon, there was good news from the real estate agent, there were two large ranches for sale in Texas, one for 6,000 acres for only $6.26 million, and the other for only 2,760 acres but a five-bedroom, five-bathroom mansion with stone construction and plenty of entertainment facilities, and the asking price was only $4.75 million.

As soon as Zhang Cheng heard this price, he knew that there must be no modern irrigation facilities installed, and later checked the information transmitted by the real estate agent, and sure enough, it was the same. Although both ranches have lakes and seasonal streams - and even large numbers of ponds have been dug - the ground is more leguminous shrubs than alfalfa and there are plenty of wooded areas inhabited by wild animals, so the ranches have much fewer cattle per unit area and are certainly much cheaper.

The two ranches used to be mainly integrated ranches - cattle raising + tourists hunting together, and there was never a shortage of harmful animals in such a large ranch.

The only good news is that the two ranches are adjacent, and if you pull out some fences, you can create a large ranch of more than 8,700 acres with mansions, and as for the irrigation equipment, go back and let the nanomachine people deal with it - even if you want to protect water and wildlife habitat, at least six or seven thousand acres of high-quality pasture can be developed.

After reading the information, Zhang Cheng decided to buy these two Texas ranches without much thought. The two ranches add up to more than 10 million, and there is still a long way to go before Zhang Cheng's patriotic goal.

The newly bought farm is better to say, there are still crops in the field, and the management has not changed. The three ranches that he and Ye Zi bought were the standard three nos - no cows, no cowboys herding cattle, and no names.

You can't register a company without a name, so it's not troublesome to come up with a name. There are no cattle to buy in Texas, and the cattle at Leaf Ranch can be divided from Bruce Ranch, and if there are no cowboys, they need to recruit workers to solve the problem, and if Americans are not willing to be cowboys, Zhang Cheng doesn't mind hiring some Latino cowboys. (To be continued......)