In the next few days, the whole ranch was quite busy, and the cattle in the ranch were lost a lot in addition to the hundreds of dead cows, but fortunately, each cow had the imprint of the pasture, so it was quickly sent back by the surrounding pastures, and Su Zhen's ranch also had some extra cattle sent back.

All the losses were also counted and passed on to the insurance company, and when the insurance company completed the investigation, the compensation money would be transferred to the account of the ranch company.

But the most troublesome thing was the fence around the ranch, because the tornado passed right over the edge of the ranch, and several kilometers of fence were destroyed, and it took a lot of time for the cowboys to repair this fence.

In order to reward the cowboys who have worked hard, Su Zhen is very generous and adds a bonus to the cowboys' salaries this week.

At noon that day, Su Zhen was feeding two eagles in the living room, and in addition to asking about the situation of the pasture in the past few days, Su Zhen put all his thoughts on the two eagles, and what was fed to them was extremely fresh cow liver soaked in space water.

Maybe it's because of the abundance of food, or maybe it's the effect of space water, the two little eagles can walk on the ground, and the fluff has faded little by little, growing a little gray-brown hair, which makes Su Zhen very happy, which is a symbol of the transformation of chicks into young birds.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Su Zhen opened the door and saw that it was Old John.

"Hey, John, what's the matter?" asked Su Zhen, and took John into the house as he spoke.

"Yes, boss. There's something to discuss with you," said Old John, as the servant brought two cups of coffee, and Old John took a sip of his coffee and continued, "Remember Old Jack on the west side of the ranch?" ”

"Yes, what's wrong" Su Zhen was very puzzled, although he and Old Jack's ranch were adjacent, they didn't have much contact, they had only met at a few drinking parties, and the other party was very old, so it was normal for him not to talk to him.

"This typhoon, Old Jack's Bobcat Ranch suffered serious losses, and the insurance company that insured them went bankrupt this time, and Old Jack was hospitalized in a fit of anger, and his sons all lived in the city and had no intention of running a ranch, so they were ready to sell their ranch." Old John looked at the puzzled Su Zhen and explained.

"What do you mean? Buy it? Su Zhen asked, and after seeing that Old John nodded, Su Zhen thought about it and said, "Old Jack's ranch is bigger than ours, right?" It seems that there are more than 40,000 acres, and there are tens of thousands of cattle, which is not cheap to buy."

"Indeed, but this opportunity is rare, this farm is big enough, there are several water sources, and our ranch is completely adjacent to it, if you don't have 60 million in normal times, you can't get it at all, but now the other party is in a hurry to sell, it is estimated that you can buy it for about 50 million, which is very cost-effective." Old John introduced.

Su Zhen frowned, it was indeed a good deal, but he didn't have so much money now, although twilight and night

brought more than 100 million to himself, but he opened an investment company and cooperated with Paramount and Lionsgate to make movies, plus he just acquired the winery, although he relied on the strength of Twilight and Night, and made some money for Su Zhen and the ranch and began to make money, but the funds in his account were only 20 million, and it was a fool's dream to buy a ranch worth more than 50 million, and he still owed the bank a loan of 20 million and had not yet repaid.

"But I don't have that much cash now, and it's also a problem to buy a ranch and recruit people," Su Zhen said helplessly.

Old John shook his head when he heard this, "Don't worry about manpower, Old Jack has a cowboy who is familiar with his hands, and when the time comes, he will come over, and their salary is lower than ours, I believe they are happy to work for you, so BOSS, you just need to find a way to raise enough funds, I don't know much about this matter, it is better to call Erica over and ask"

Su Zhen thought about it for a while, and called Erica, a professional, over to ask.

Soon Erica came over, and after Su Zhen explained the situation, Erica thought about it and said, "This problem is actually very simple, as long as you negotiate with the other party to settle in installments, you can use the contract to continue to borrow from the bank to pay the balance after signing the contract." ”

"Is that okay?" Su Zhen was very surprised, the thing that gave him a headache was actually OK in a few words in front of Erica?

"Of course, in fact, many real estate developers use this model to expand, but although this expansion model is fast, but there is a lot of risk, you must ensure that the purchased property can be profitable, otherwise once the investment fails, there will be a disconnection of funds, and eventually lead to bankruptcy," Erica explained.

Su Zhen heard what he said, high interests are naturally accompanied by high risks, but Su Zhen is not worried about whether the ranch can make money, there is space in hand, not to mention the meat quality of the cattle raised, the cost of the ranch alone is completely saved.

Once he had a clue, Su Zhen began to make the acquisition, and if the acquisition was successful, Su Zhen would become the largest farmer in northern Illinois, and the third largest rancher in Illinois.

The next day, Su Zhen went to Old Jack's ranch with Old John and Erica to investigate, and during the inspection, the careful Su Zhen found that a small area in the northeast of Old Jack's Ranch has been affected by his own pasture, and the grass condition is obviously much better than other places, but the people of Old Jack's ranch don't seem to find out, Old John also found this, but he didn't make a noise, in his opinion, this is his boss's luck, Old Jack has such a good meadow and doesn't know it, who is to blame.

Because old Jack was lying in the hospital, it was his eldest son Huck and the lawyer who came to negotiate, Huck seemed to be very anxious to knock down the contract, and the experienced old John pressed the price at 52 million to buy the entire ranch and the remaining more than 20,000 cattle and thousands of sheep on it, and finally finalized a down payment of 15 million, and the rest was paid within a year.

In this way, this more than 45,000 acres of land belonged to Su Zhen, and Su Zhen's 23,000 acres of medium-sized pasture expanded into nearly 70,000 acres of super-large pasture at one time. Almost most of the land in the northern part of Harvard Town is under Su Zhen's name.

This time, such a large ranch is not going to buy a helicopter, and Su Zhen has also considered whether to use a helicopter directly for grazing, which can save a lot of manpower. But he was dissuaded by old John, although it is convenient to graze by helicopter, but it has a great impact on the meat quality of the cattle, because even if the small helicopter will have a certain noise, it will make the cattle have a sense of unease, and the grazing with helicopter will make the herd move too fast, which will affect the meat quality of the cattle.

After hearing this, Su Zhen gave up decisively and chose to still use cowboy grazing.

As soon as the two ranches merged, the number of cowboys soared from the original dozen to nearly forty, and the cowboys of the original Bobcat Ranch were still slightly uneasy when the ranch was just put up for sale, afraid that they would lose their jobs, and they were relieved to learn that the ranch was acquired by the Garden Ranch next door, and the original cowboys were relieved after being hired, and at the same time they were also very happy, after all, the salary of the Garden Ranch was high in the entire Harvard.

The combined ranch was too large, and it was obviously unrealistic to rely on Thomas Sr. to manage it, so the two veterans John Jr. and Jensen were brought up, and no longer directly carried out grazing work, but cooperated with Old John to manage the ranch.

Of course, Su Zhen did not forget the other two patriarchs, Grace and Bella, Grace took two cowboys to be in charge of the herd, and Bella was in charge of moose.

Speaking of moose, this thing has brought a lot of profits to Su Zhenke, the deer king Binbo in addition to his own few wives and concubines, he doesn't care about other deer at all, so Su Zhen's ranch began to sell moose meat, which is a rare commodity, although moose have been excluded from protected animals because of the stability of the number in recent years, but there is only one month a year to allow hunting, and the hunting requirements are very high, so Su Zhen's ranch moose meat is very popular with high-end restaurants all over the United States after it was launched, and because of the quantity, the price is several times that of beef, and it is still in short supply.

Now, after more than half a year of breeding, the number of deer has increased from more than 100 to more than 200, because only those adult male deer that are driven out by Bimbo are selected for each slaughter, so the small amount of sales will not affect the reproduction.

Su Zhen also occasionally rides Binbo, this guy is much bigger than a horse, and he has a very wild temperament, except for Su Zhen, he doesn't throw other people's face at all, in fact, Bella's job is the easiest, Binbo himself will take the deer to graze, and he doesn't need Bella to graze at all, so Bella only needs to take a sheepdog to watch them.