Su Zhen did not blindly expand his ranch aimlessly this time, but found a huge benefit in it.

Previously, when he looked at the annual statement of the property in his hand for the previous year, he found that several ranches in his hands had begun to earn huge profits for himself. Last year, the total revenue of the three ranches reached a staggering $120 million, of which 40% came from pastures in Illinois, 40% from ranches in Wyoming, and the rest from ranches in Australia.

Among them, the profits of the pastures in Illinoisia have basically reached an upper limit in recent years, and the fluctuations are not too large, and the ranches in Wyoming have begun to surpass the signs of Illinoisation after two years of development, after all, the larger ranch area is on the table, although because of the climate, the ranches in Wyoming are not as fertile as Illinois, but through Su Zhen's continuous injection of space water, there has been a significant improvement, and I believe that the income of the ranches in Illinois is only a matter of time.

The Australian ranch was originally mainly raised with sheep, and now the export market for wool is not in a recession, so the profit is not high, and now it has slowly begun to raise beef cattle at the request of Su Zhen.

Although the profits of the ranch are much worse than those from the Internet companies and the stock market, and even only enough money to pay taxes, but after all, because of the limitations of memory, he will definitely have to slowly withdraw from the stock market in the future, and even the industries of those Internet companies, Su Zhen will slowly sell off, leaving only a part.

But the ranch is different, this income is permanent, and because of the growth of the population and the increase in the level of consumption, the income of the ranch will only increase, and the land is also a non-renewable resource, I believe that it will be more and more difficult to buy land in the future, otherwise those consortium families will not be operating the original industry at the same time, but also continue to buy land, in the process of dealing with several consortiums during this time. Su Zhen found that the families in these consortia had also been slowly increasing the amount of land in their hands.

This also made Su Zhen, who had gradually neglected the ranch because of some windfall profits obtained by being lost in the Internet stock market, slightly vigilant, and at the same time looking at a large amount of idle funds in his account, Su Zhen became interested in investing in the ranch again, no, just a few days ago at a meeting, Su Zhen met this old Mr. Alqi Emerson, and during the conversation, Su Zhen heard the meaning of wanting to sell the ranch, and the reason was very simple. The old gentleman had no sons, only two married daughters, and the old gentleman was too old to continue to take care of the ranch.

Thinking of this, Su Zhen couldn't help but look at the scenery outside the car window, this ranch is very well maintained, this ranch is located in the richest central valley in California, it was bought by the old Archie more than thirty years ago, which is also natural. It would be impossible to own such a large area of ranch in California now, although California is a relatively late state to the rest of the Americas due to its location on the West Coast. But because of the late 19th century, because of the discovery of gold, California developed extremely rapidly, although in the 20th century. The gold mines have been exhausted, but because of the abundance of land in California itself, the people who come to pan for gold have not left. Because of the industrial development of California during World War II, California became the richest state in the entire United States, and now California's population has reached nearly 40 million, accounting for 10% of the total population of the United States, so it was only a few decades ago that it was possible to buy such a large piece of land, which is now, you can buy a piece of land more than 10,000 acres in California and have fun.

Of course, because of this, if Su Zhen wants to take this land, it will be a sky-high price, the price of land in California is dozens of times that of Wyoming, and several times more expensive than that of Yizhou, and unlike Wyoming's ranch, which has more than half of the mountain forests, 80% of the land in this ranch is grazing land and arable land, so according to previous estimates, the price of this ranch in Old Archie exceeded 2 billion US dollars, and when he thought of this price, Su Zhen's heart twitched a little, This price will spend almost all of his remaining funds, and the money earned through the stock market crash has not been much left after various investments last year, but fortunately, the dividends of several companies in his hands have supplemented him a lot, otherwise he really can't buy this ranch.

After more than an hour of driving, the car finally stopped in front of a table house in the ranch, Su Zhen looked at this table house, a very typical American farmhouse yard, just looking at this house, ordinary people will only think that there is an ordinary rancher living here, and will never think that there is a super-rich man with a net worth of tens of billions.

Hearing the movement outside the house, an old woman in ordinary clothes came out of the house, "Hello, who are you looking for?" The old woman asked.

"Hello, ma'am, I'm Su, and I've made an appointment with Mr. Archie" Su Zhen thought that this was the nanny of the old Archie's family, but obviously he guessed wrong.

"Oh, hello, I heard Archie talk about you, young man, come in" The old woman opened the door of the small courtyard and invited Su Zhen and his party in.

"Archie, you're talking about Sue," the old woman shouted back to the barn beside her.

"Okay, I know it, my dear, you entertain me, I'll come right away" It turned out that the old woman was the wife of old Archie, which surprised Su Zhen very much.

"Let's sit down in the room first, I have made a cookie, you may try it," greeted the old woman, or Mrs. Emerson, very warmly.

"Very honored, Mrs. Emerson," Su Zhen replied, and then asked a few of Mark's bodyguards to wait outside, and only entered the courtyard with a purple shirt.

Entering the house, Su Zhen took a look, the inside of the house was the same as the appearance of the house, very simple, typical western cowboy style, which surprised Su Zhen and Xu Zishan beside him, and there were no servants in the house at all, compared with Su Zhen's luxurious life, the life of old Archie was simply an ascetic.

"Come sit down and try the cookies I made," Mrs. Emerson beckoned the two to sit down warmly, and served coffee and cookies.

"Thank you very much, Mrs. Emerson," Su Zhen thanked Zi Shirt and tasted the cookies, which tasted really good.

Not long after the two sat down, they saw a person coming in from outside the house, it was Old Archie, but it was different from the old Archie in a dress that Su Zhen saw last time, the current old Archie was dressed as a cowboy, and there was a leather skirt in front of him, obviously Old Archie was working in the barn before.

"I'm old, I'm useless, I haven't been doing it for long, I'm tired" Archie said with a smile when he saw Su Zhen sitting in the living room, and knocked on his waist while undressing his leather skirt and putting it on the side.

"Mr. Archie laughed, at least you are much more industrious than me" Su Zhen said with self-deprecation, as a rancher, Su Zhen also worked with cowboys when he was in Yizhou, but after moving to Wyoming, Su Zhen has not done it for a long time, but he is becoming more and more like a landlord and old wealth.

"Ha Luha, the little guy is too modest, just because you can create this family business at a young age, you can make the whole world look sideways" Old Archie smiled and sat opposite Su Zhen, "How about it, my wife makes good cookies, right?"

"Very delicious," Su Zhen said with a smile, and Mrs. Archie on the side smiled when she heard this.

"Ha Luha, that's natural, not only my wife's craftsmanship is good, but also the raw materials, the wheat, olive oil, sugar, and milk used are all produced by the ranch itself, all of which are good things, and there are absolutely no artificial additives," said Old Archie with a smile.

Su Zhen nodded, paused and said, "Mr. Archie, I think you know my intention for coming this time, I don't know what you think?" ”

"Young man, don't worry" Old Archie took a cookie, waved his hand and said, "Before that, I have to test you"

When Su Zhen heard this, I'll go, buy a ranch, and there will be an exam? However, the situation is stronger than people, and Su Zhen had to accept "Mr. Archie, please speak".

"Do you know how to ride a horse?" Archie asked.

"Of course," Su Zhen replied, do you want to test riding? Speaking of riding, Su Zhen is still very confident.

"Come with me," said old Archie, and got up and went out first. Because Zi Shirt couldn't ride a horse, Su Zhen asked Zi Shirt to sit and followed.

"Pick one yourself, there is a spare saddle over there, just take it yourself" Old Archie took Su Zhen to the stable, and said to Su Zhen, Su Zhen looked at these horses and saw that these horses were not precious horses, but ordinary quart horses, but they were obviously carefully cared for, and their spirits were very good, Su Zhen quickly chose a sturdy chestnut horse and put a harness on the horse, Old Archie looked at Su Zhen's movements and nodded, his movements were very skillful, and he obviously rode horses often.

The two led the horse out of the stable, and after getting on the horse, Old Archie didn't say what he wanted Su Zhen to do, but just asked Su Zhen to follow.

The two rode horses for more than ten minutes, and then they saw a group of cattle in the pasture and the cowboys who took care of the cows.

Seeing the herd, Old Archie untied the noose from his horse, handed it to Su Zhen, and then pointed to a calf in the herd and said, "Su, do you see that calf?" That's the first test, a rancher who can't cowboy is not a good rancher."

Su Zhen suddenly realized, it turned out that Old Archie was testing his cowboy skills, and the first project was to set a calf, but this was not too difficult for Su Zhen, so he took the lasso and drove forward.

I have to say that I haven't done this for a long time, Su Zhen is already very rusty, but fortunately, because of long-term boxing, Su Zhen's body coordination is still very good, and after a few attempts, he successfully lassoed the calf, and then dismounted and tied the calf, all in one go.

Old Archie and the surrounding cowboys applauded, "Yes, although it is a little rusty, but it is very good" Old Archie praised with a smile, after all, Su Zhen is not a professional cowboy, and he who understands Su Zhen's industry naturally knows that Su Zhen can't spend a lot of energy on this, and it is beyond his expectations to be able to do so well. (To be continued......)