After reading the information of the Kidman family, Su Zhen looked at the land that Nicole said, according to the information, this land has been hanging on the trading market for several months, but there are many people who ask and see little, most of them retreat after learning the price, and the price of more than 600 million Australian dollars is enough to scare off most people.

According to the data, the exact area of this land is 213854 hectares, of which the grazing pasture area is only 43,671 hectares, only 20% of the total area, and the rest of the land is mostly hills and jungles, because it is low around and high in the middle of other continents, Australia is high all around and low in the middle, so although this land is on the coast, it has a large number of hills, but the altitude is not high, and the highest point is not more than a thousand meters above sea level.

Su Zhen estimated, from this price, Australia's land price is much higher than the United States, in fact, it is true, although Australia is a vast and sparsely populated country, the population density is only 2.1 people per square kilometer, but the area that can be used for animal husbandry and arable land is only 260,000 square kilometers, far lower than the total area of the United States of 1.97 million square kilometers, more than 90% of Australia is uninhabited wilderness, but even so, it is very rare, after all, such a large area of land, Nowadays, it's hard to get it.

After another half a month, the Sydney Olympics, which lasted for a whole month, finally ended, on the third day after the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, Liu Ru and Liu Shihua and Ruolan took Xiao Tingting back to the United States, while Su Zhen, Lux and Mark stayed, because they had made an appointment with Nicole Kidman to see the ranch, and the day after Liu Ru and Liu Shihua left Australia, Su Zhen called Nicole and made an appointment to see the ranch together.

On the day of the appointment, Su Zhen and the three of them saw Nicole dressed in a white shirt + jeans at the airport, looking extremely young and beautiful. Standing with Lux, who also dresses as a cowboy, she looks like a sister, and she doesn't look like a woman who is over thirty years old at all.

The ranch to be seen is located in the western part of Victoria in southern Australia, not close to Sydney in New Wales, eastern Australia, and because the plane was requisitioned by Liu Ru and others who returned to China, Su Zhen could only charter a small plane with an Australian airline.

As mentioned earlier, the original owner of this land is Nicole's distant cousin named Hick Kidman, whose father was a core member of the Kidman family, so he owns this vast land. But after his father's death, this Hick Kidman, unlike his fathers, had no interest in managing the land, preferring the feeling of calling the wind and rain in the financial markets, but he did not have enough money, so he planned to sell the land.

Speaking of which, Schick's determination to sell the land also has something to do with Su Zhen, since Su Zhen soared in the stock market, many rich people have become interested in investment, and Schick is one of them. Officially stimulated by Su Zhen, he was ready to sell this land, and the funds used to enter the capital market to do a big job, so after Hick got the news from Nicole that it was Su Zhen who wanted to buy the land. It is also quite surprising, it can only be said that this world is too small.

Because there is an airport in this land, the plane does not need to land in the surrounding city airports, Su Zhen noticed when he got off the plane. The scope of this airport is very large and is built on a wasteland, looking at the bare land outside the airport. Su Zhen frowned, shouldn't it all be such land?

Ni on the side could see Su Zhen's expression, and knew what Su Zhen was thinking, so she explained, "This is the only wasteland within the ranch, with an area of only more than 10 hectares, and it is precisely because it is wasteland that it is used for the airport, so that it will not affect the environment of the pasture and the mountain forest."

Su Zhen nodded when he heard this, if there are only more than 10 hectares, it is acceptable.

At this small airport, Su Zhen met the owner of the land, Hick Kidman, a sturdy and cheerful middle-aged man.

"Welcome to Australia, my friend" Sigg gave Su Zhen a hug very familiarly, and then hugged Nicole, and then took a few people on a helicopter, because the airport is still a little far away from the ranch area, and the helicopter is much more convenient than a car, and in this upgrade, Su Zhen can also observe the land more clearly.

Sure enough, Su Zhen, who was sitting in the helicopter, could clearly see that most of this land was hilly forests and woodlands, but in the same way, there were many rivers and lakes in it, and the hydrological resources were much richer than those of Wyoming, so Su Zhen at least didn't have to worry about irrigation, but looking at those rivers, Su Zhen swallowed his saliva and asked, "There won't be crocodiles in these rivers, right?" ”

Hick was stunned when he heard this, and smiled randomly, "Of course not, although there are many crocodiles in Australia, they are all distributed in the waters of the north and northeast of Australia, and there are no crocodiles in the south, you can rest assured of this" But then he paused and said, "In fact, even if there are crocodiles, they are not terrible, generally crocodiles rarely attack people, in fact, the most dangerous in Australia is snakes, Australia's poisonous snakes are the most in the world in terms of species and numbers, but Australia's large ranches basically have medical stations, all equipped with antivenom, So it's pretty rare to get bitten to death."

Hearing Hick say about snakes, Su Zhen was fine, but Lux and Nicole tightened their bodies, as if they had felt the slippery body of the snake, and they had goosebumps all over their bodies, after all, there are still a few women in the world who are not afraid of reptiles.

Because Su Zhen wanted to observe the pasture, the helicopter did not drive fast, and after more than ten minutes, the helicopter flew to a vast grassland, and there were cowboys grazing a large herd of sheep on the meadow.

"Is that a sheep?" Su Zhen looked at those bulging bodies and asked, obviously it should not be meat, but fluffy fluff.

"That's right, they're sheep, and they're Australia's most famous specialty, merino sheep," Hick says with a smile.

"Do you only keep sheep here?" Su Zhen asked Sigg.

"Of course not, there is basically no ranch in Australia that will raise a single kind of livestock, because that is too cost-effective, once the price of a certain product plummets, it will be a loss" Sigg shook his head and continued, "Because Australia's population is small, it is impossible to consume the annual agricultural output, so Australia's agricultural economy mainly relies on exports, so in order to prevent losses due to the single product, it is basically mixed, just like my ranch, in addition to raising sheep, There are also a lot of dairy cows and some horses, beef cattle are not raised, compared with the United States, the cost of beef cattle in Australia is high, it is difficult to make money without much advantage, in addition to the pasture also planted a lot of wheat and sugar cane, in addition to a vineyard and a winery, to say that the whole ranch is the most profitable, in addition to the wool is this winery."

Also, Australia is different from the United States, the United States has enough population to consume most of the local farm products, but Australia can't, because Australia's population is too small, the market is extremely narrow, such as sheep, there are 160 million sheep in the whole Australia, and the amount of wool produced every year is astronomical, while Australia's population is only 20 million, how can it be consumed, so it can only rely on exports, but to Su Zhen's surprise,

"Look, kangaroo" Just when Su Zhen and Sick were chatting, Lux suddenly pointed to the outside of the plane and shouted, Su Zhen and the others turned their heads to look out of the window of the plane, and there was indeed a group of jumping creatures on the grass in the distance, which was the symbol of Australia, kangaroos.

Seeing this, Schick smiled and said, "Kangaroos are very common in Australia, don't look at them as cute, but they are very fierce, and kangaroos have always been a big problem for ranchers, and the government also allows kangaroos to be hunted in moderation."

Su Zhen was a little puzzled when he heard this, and asked, "Since kangaroos are a symbol of Australia, why do ranchers hate kangaroos so much, and the government also agrees to hunt them?" ”。 Lux also looked at Hick, wanting to hear his explanation.

"There are many symbols of Australia, such as emus and koalas, but these creatures have become symbols because they are rare and unique, but the kangaroo is different, the kangaroo has become a symbol entirely because of its number, there are too many kangaroos, there are more than 50 million kangaroos in Australia," Sigg explained.

Su Zhen was shocked when he heard this, so much? In his previous life, he had always thought that kangaroos were rare animals... Now it seems that not only does it not hesitate to have... It's simply flooding, which is more than twice as many as Australia's entire population.

Seeing Su Zhen quite surprised, Schick continued with a wry smile: "And kangaroos are different from other animals, they are very adaptable, even in urban parks and golf courses, they can be seen in parks, golf courses, they will not only eat the turf of parks and golf courses, but also break into farms and pastures, destroy cash crops, and compete with livestock for food and water, so kangaroos are already a scourge to some extent, and you must be careful when driving in the wild, because you know when a kangaroo will suddenly pop out of the road." Therefore, there are many car accidents caused by kangaroos every year, so when you drive into a kangaroo, the government's instructions are to just hit it."

Hick paused and then continued, "In fact, the government does not prohibit the hunting of kangaroos, there will be millions of kangaroo hunting indicators every year, but most of them are some meat companies to do this, the public because of their love for kangaroos, basically will not hunt kangaroos, but if you like hunting, kangaroos will be good prey, because the taste of kangaroo meat is good, the nutrition is also very good, and the texture of the fur is also excellent, of course, the kangaroos allowed to be hunted are only a few ordinary breeds with a specified number, After all, there are still a small number of kangaroo species are relatively rare, and there are only kangaroos in the wild and pastures that can be hunted, and kangaroos in protected areas and ecological parks cannot be hunted.

Su Zhen and Lux were already stunned at this time, the kangaroo really deserved to have a rat character...... It's a scourge like a mouse. (To be continued......)