Chapter 7 Leisurely Everyday Life
Rick sat leisurely in the yard enjoying the sunshine that was approaching dusk, and the workers who passed by would bow their heads and call Mr. Rick in obedience.
No way, in these turbulent times, it is not easy to have a stable job.
Chef Brysgate Stegels, whom Rick had brought back, was busy in the kitchen with an apron, the flames of the stove raging, his hands on his hands insulated gloves, and a huge frying pan on which huge pieces of beef were quickly cooked. Spices such as oregano, thyme and rosemary are added to the marinated beef, which releases an enticing aroma under a fierce fire.
Ordinary cooking methods simply can't satisfy the Saiyan's astonishing appetite, and knowing his boss's completely abnormal appetite, Blythgett can only use this way to fry the meat as quickly as possible.
Other workers put plates of bowl-sized dinner plates on the dining table outside the villa, where he now lives in the villa left by the original rancher.
The original owner of the ranch was a business owner in Austin, and he used the ranch as a place to relax in his spare time, so he put a lot of effort into it.
The villas are not wooden structures that can be dismantled and assembled as in other farms, but are made of reinforced concrete. It covers an area of more than 300 square meters and has three floors.
In the United States, labor is extremely expensive, whether it is mixing concrete or prefabricated steel bar, it requires a lot of labor. The cost of this reinforced concrete villa is staggering.
Moreover, when the property tax is levied, the tax is not only related to the cost of the house, but also includes the cost of demolishing the house. Demolition of difficult and expensive reinforced concrete houses will only be built by real local tyrants.
Rick found a large tree in the primeval forest that more than a dozen people hugged together, cut off a section of the trunk and split it to make this large dining table. At this time, it was already full of hard dishes, all big fish and meat, and a whole roast sheep occupied the center of the table.
Rick ripped off one of the legs of the roasted whole lamb, tore the crispy roasted lamb from it, wrapped it in lettuce and stuffed it into his mouth.
As he ate, he pondered ways to launder money.
He made money too fast, and the knives were piled up, but this was not conducive to his money laundering.
As for money laundering through the Dark Hotel, it would be tantamount to revealing all his identity information to the Dark Hotel, and Rick doesn't like that.
"There must be other ways to invest, it is useless to just invest money in the pasture, my income is too single, and there must be more industries, so that when calculating income, these unsolicited money can be counted little by little and declare taxes."
Rick's brows furrowed, making Blesgert almost think that the meat he had made was not tasty, and he was relieved to know that the boss was thinking about something else when he asked in fear.
Traditional methods of money laundering, such as opening restaurants, game parlors and car washes, will not be until the Year of the Monkey to launder the money he earns.
What really comes in handy is making movies, and through yin-yang contracts and false reporting of shooting costs, a movie can wash away thirty or forty million dollars if it goes well.
Investing in art is a similar method, the rough point is to buy a famous painting at a low price, and then send it to auction in the form of "consignment by an unknown collector", and the money launderer is auctioning the painting for an amount far above the normal price.
A more covert way to launder money in art is to select the paintings that are suitable for money laundering on the market, and compare them with hundreds of thousands, the same type of operation that has a circulation of 100 to 300 on the market. It can be the work of the same painter or the same genre
After a certain number of paintings are collected at a low price, and then the price of such paintings continues to be inflated dozens of times through negotiated transactions or false transactions, the paintings with previous income can be used to launder money.
Although the cycle of this kind of operation is very long, it is very hidden, there are almost no hidden dangers, and even the rabbits can be beaten on the grass, and some piglets who don't understand will be sent to their hands.
In this case, the authenticity of the work is irrelevant, and even the fake is better than the real thing.
It's a pity that those money laundering intermediaries are usually black, if there is no strong background to deter, none of their money dares to be black, and in the case of not wanting to implicate Rick's identity, Rick can only find a way by himself.
Rick munched on beef, and in addition to beef, there were tacos, Mexican burgers, roast corn, and cold beer.
For Braithget, because of Rick's terrible appetite, preparing food every day was a strenuous physical task.
After eating a pot of beef, Rick took a perfectly toasted wheat cake from the basket, sandwiched the juicy, sauce-coated steak and stuffed it into his mouth in a few bites.
He ate very quickly, and in an instant he drained a basket of wheat cakes and steaks, and carried a whole bucket of fresh milk with more than 7,000 milliliters, and drank it all in one go.
5,000 acres of pasture, in addition to raising almost 3,000 cattle and sheep, of which there are 32 acres of orchards, mainly citrus, 45 acres of vegetable gardens, planting all kinds of vegetables, mainly sold to the capital city of Austin, 200 acres of alfalfa pasture, and the rest are all ordinary corn and soybeans.
Even if the seeds are planted now, it will take at least six months to provide enough feed for the beef cattle, but the original 200 acres of pasture can be used directly to raise cattle.
Rick has little interest in vegetables, and more than 3,000 cattle and sheep are not enough for him, so he recently contacted a farmer who raised a good breed of Angus cattle, and Rick planned to buy all his Angus cattle outright.
More than 1,000 acres of land are used for farming, more than 2,000 acres are used for grazing, and the rest of the land is the practice and shooting range that Rick prepared for himself, as well as a horse farm.
The horse farm is because Rick is interested in horseback riding and plans to try it, and he doesn't know what the horse meat tastes like.
There is also a hunting ground for cougars, where you can occasionally go in to hunt and eat a few cougars.
There are too many cougars in the neighborhood, and workers often shoot and intimidate them, so Rick doesn't have to worry about not having a cougar to keep him in captivity.
And in order to keep the cougars wild, Rick will not choose the way to feed, he will consider putting some American bison in them and letting the cougars hunt on their own.
The lush alfalfa undulates like a wave, dotted with purple alfalfa flowers. From time to time, you can see the cattle leisurely grazing on the grass.
But when you see that the cattle in the herd are smooth and smooth, their fur is shiny, and the smooth muscle contours can be seen as they walk, you know that these cattle have been carefully raised, and all of them are very valuable.
Almost all of the vegetables grown in the vegetable patch are tomatoes, Brussels sprouts and basil.