Chapter One Hundred and Two: A New Ranch
How big is 800 square kilometers? For example, the total area of Hong Kong is only 1104 square kilometers, which means that the land that Su Zhen has now is full of three-quarters of the size of Hong Kong, and Hangzhou City, at this time, the urban area of Hangzhou City is only less than 700 square kilometers (Xiaoshan and Yuhang were only incorporated in 2001), which means that the land area is about the same as the area of an ordinary large city.
With this land, Su Zhen became one of the few large landowners in the United States.
The next morning, everyone got up and drove to the town's airport, where a helicopter was already waiting, where did the car come from? Also rented.
The rented helicopter is not a small helicopter used by Su Zhen Ranch, but a big guy like Bell 430, with a lot of internal space, and it is no problem to sit seven or eight people, not to mention that Su Zhen and his entourage, including Mark as the pilot and the agent sent by Citigroup, are only 6 people.
That's right, the pilot is Mark, and after being hired, Su Zhen learned that Mark is simply an all-rounder, and almost all kinds of small planes, boats, and vehicles can drive, which he learned at the Army Paratroop School and the Naval Aviation Technology Training Center during his time with the seals, which made Su Zhen secretly pick up a treasure.
The plane took off slowly, and ten minutes later, the agent reminded Su Zhen that he had reached the range. Unlike the pastures in Yizhou that are very close to the town, this ranch is completely a field without human tracks, and it is seventy or eighty kilometers away from the nearest town, Encampmente, but it doesn't matter much, in fact, Su Zhen plans to build an airport here, which is much more convenient, and such a large ranch, although there is also some infrastructure, but looking at the information, it was all ten years ago, Su Zhen estimated that everything had to be updated, and it would be thankful that it could be completed before winter, not to mention that Su Zhen was also preparing to build a resort villa area.
After getting the agent's reminder, Su Zhen looked down from the window, this is a vast and vast plateau, yes, it is a plateau, the average altitude of this land is more than 2,000 meters, or the average altitude of the entire Wyoming is about 2000 meters, which is the second highest plateau in the United States.
Su Zhen asked Mark to park his plane in a clearing in front of the largest and most beautiful lake in the land, which is 6 square kilometers in size, several times the size of the lake in Yizhou Ranch, and is about to catch up with Hanghu Lake.
The grassland area of the whole land accounts for more than half of the total area, and although the quality is not as good as that of Illinois, it is also the best grazing grassland.
What's more, in addition to large grazing meadows, there are also large areas of harvestable woodland, a considerable number of wild animals, plus several scenic lakes and several rivers passing through this land, so Su Zhen plans to build this ranch into a comprehensive recreational pasture that integrates grazing, logging, farming, and hunting.
Several people got off the plane, and several women were attracted by the beautiful scenery of the lake, indeed, the lake was so beautiful, blue and very clear, shining like crystal in the sun.
"This lake is so beautiful, what is it called?" Rachel asked the agent on the side.
"It's called Lake Anna, and it was named after his wife by the previous owner, but he took his wife to Mexico after the bankruptcy, and in fact you could have given it a new name," the agent replied.
"It's so beautiful, shiny like crystal, why don't you call it a crystal lake?" Ruolan said.
Hearing this name, Su Zhen was cold, hell, what is the name of the evil sect, I have to say the name of this evil sect, and hurriedly said, "Crystal is not as good as diamonds, so it's better to call it Diamond Lake."
There is a red villa by the lake, it looks like it has been around for many years, but it seems that Citigroup has maintained it well, the villa shows no signs of damage, and the furniture in the house is also covered with white cloth.
Su Zhen is not going to live here, although this lake is very beautiful, and there are animals drinking here from time to time, but this lake is completely in the grassland, surrounded by open grassland, the highest is a little gentle slope, there is no feeling of being close to the mountains and rivers that Su Zhen likes, and the layout of the house is not liked, but it is still good to entertain guests in the future. But Su Zhen is still ready to build a resort villa area by the lake, but not for himself, but for his subordinates to be rewarded in the future.
Because Su Zhen was not interested in this lake, after watching the group for a while, he set off again, and finally the plane circled around the area two or three times, and Su Zhen finally decided to build his villa in a clearing in the mountain forest, not far away There is a small stream, and this angle can almost overlook the large area of the pasture, which feels very good.
After looking at it all morning, Su Zhen was very satisfied with the land, and immediately asked the agent to take the contract confirmation book and sign it to determine the ownership of the land.
However, the land is bought, but there are many things to care about, because it is a comprehensive leisure ranch to be built, which naturally cannot be as casual as the ranch in Yizhou, such as the location of logging farms, meat processing plants and other factories, the division of pasture farms and forest farms, all kinds of infrastructure, the living areas of employees, and the most important airport location, these need to ask someone to carry out a reasonable design, and the follow-up work is very troublesome, although the process does not require Su Zhen to do anything, but the design results must still be Su Zhen's decision. And Su Zhen estimated that all the construction costs would have to be tens of millions of dollars on this land.
After seeing the ground, the group turned back to Harvard.
After returning to Haval, Su Zhen handed over some of the follow-up things of the land to Erica and Ruolan, while Rachel went back to the investment company in San Francisco to preside over the situation, and Su Zhen himself called several main persons in charge of the ranch over for a meeting.
Old John and the others didn't know what was going on in Lu Dao, because Su Zhen hadn't called everyone for a meeting for a long time, and the last time they had a meeting was before Christmas last year.
After Su Zhen and the others arrived, they said, "I bought a 200,000-acre ranch in Wyoming."
A few people were stunned for a moment, and after a while, Jensen asked in disbelief: "BOSS, what you just said is 200,000 acres instead of 20,000 acres?" ”
Su Zhen smiled, "Of course it's 200,000, I made a lot of money investing in the Internet this year before I bought it, and it cost 150 million and it's a whole piece of it together."
Old John nodded on the side, the price of such a large contiguous pasture is indeed not high.
"What about the boss, did you call us?" Bella asked.
"Such a large ranch naturally needs managers, you are considered the old people around me, naturally give priority, I want to ask which of you is willing to move?" Su Zhen replied.
Old John shook his head first, "I'm old, and I've lived in Haval, but I'm not interested in going that far." ”
Little John looked a little hesitant, Bella and Jensen looked eager, and Grace looked indifferent.
Looking at the appearance of everyone, Su Zhen smiled, "Don't rush to give me an answer, just go back and think about it, just give me an answer tomorrow." The meeting then adjourned.