Chu Xiangqian doesn't care about the 5 more cowboys in the ranch, and the monthly salary of 17 people adds up, even if it is calculated according to the salary of normal employees, it is only less than 2,200 US dollars.

With the addition of 2 months of bonuses per year, the salary for 14 months is only about $30,000.

Simon thanked him in a hurry, and he didn't think about whether his 17-year-old son and Hans's eldest daughter, who was only 15 years old, would be willing.

A year later, the weekly salary of $26 is already higher than the salary of many cowboys who have worked on the ranch for three or five years.

There is no need to think about this at all, not only Simon and Hans will agree immediately, but the two young men and girls will not hesitate at all.

As for the three middle-aged women, there is no need to think about it either.

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The cattle and sheep that Chu Xiangqian got out of the novice village were all half a year old. Cattle and sheep are generally slaughtered in 12 to 18 months.

It is not necessary to raise the ranch until it is 18 months old, and the 1-year-old Angus cattle can weigh 400 kilograms before they start fattening.

After two months, the bull can basically reach 600 kilograms, and the sheep will be about 100 kilograms.

In other words, after 8 months, 450 cattle and 1,050 sheep were slaughtered every month on the ranch.

However, the number of cattle and sheep in the pasture has reached 3,600 and 8,000.

In the future, for example, we will have to recruit people, and we will definitely have to keep bringing hay.

Otherwise, even if 10,000 acres of pasture is all pasture, it will be difficult to maintain such a large number of cattle and sheep.

Fortunately, the grassland in the south of the novice village can be refreshed every day, and the amount of forage that can be collected every day is dozens of tons.

500 tons of hay are sent over every month, which is enough for cattle and sheep to consume, and at least 400 tons of hay can be resold to other pastures.

In the winter, you can make a lot of money just by selling hay.

As for seed retention and farrowing, there is no need at all.

Based on the calculation of $0.39 per pound for raw cattle and $0.28 per pound for live sheep, the income of cattle and sheep is $297,000 a month.

After deducting cowboy salaries and other expenses, there is at least $290,000 per month.

Of course, the account can't be calculated like this, and you must deduct the cost of buying half-year-old cattle and sheep, and pasture.

Make a profit of $90,000 per month, and the annual deposit income is $1.08 million.

It is equivalent to earning back the money invested in the ranch in 6 years.

This is already a high return on investment, after all, this is a farming and ranching business, and it is impossible to return to the capital in a year or two.

In fact, the annual profit of 3.56 million US dollars is higher than the profit of many listed companies in this year.

Of the $1.08 million in the previous year's profit, 5% of the annual profit needs to be spent on charity, which is 54,000 per year.

It doesn't seem like much, but it's enough for Chu Xiangqian to bring all the sheriffs and police over first.

Even only one or two thousand dollars is equivalent to increasing the income of the sheriff and the small-town police by a third, or even half.

Of course, if the sheriff's appetite is too great, then send him to God.

Car accidents, electric shocks, drowning, being bitten to death by wild beasts, there are many ways and means.

Moreover, the beasts in the novice village can be embodied in reality, and when the sheriff went hunting that day, ten or eight wild wolves suddenly appeared to attack him.

Along with the pounced on him to interfere with him.

It was so unaware that no one would suspect that it was murder.

Chu Qianqian looked at Simon and asked, "By the way, how much is a ton of hay?" ”

Simon was stunned for a moment, and then remembered the 48 tons of high-grade hay that Chu Xiangqian had brought back.

After thinking about it, he said, "If you bring back the kind of alfalfa grass, it's $20 per ton of hay." ”

Chu Xiangqian was suddenly surprised, "So expensive? ”

But Simon shook his head and said, "BOSS, now the wheat kernel has fallen to $70 per ton, which has caused the price of forage to fall a little."

Otherwise, alfalfa grass will cost $22 to $25 a tonne.

Moreover, the price of high-quality pasture has always been strong, and many pastures are used to raise horses. ”

After speaking, Simon calculated for Chu Xiangqian that in the 18 months from birth to slaughter, an Angus cow would average an average of 18 kilograms per day before it was one year old.

After one year of age, the average is about 25 to 30 kilograms.

It is equivalent to a cow being slaughtered in 18 months, which needs to consume about 10 tons of forage.

And 10 tons of alfalfa grass is calculated for 200 dollars.

Cattle that are 18 months old weigh between 700 and 800 kilograms on average and are sold for around $600 to $650.

It can be seen that the cost of raising cattle with hay is indeed not high.

However, most pastures are still reluctant to buy alfalfa grass, and there is no need to buy it.

The business of the ranch is not how to raise cattle and sheep, but how to grow pasture.

Even in winter, when cattle and sheep are kept indoors, they are 8 percent hay and 2 percent alfalfa grass to feed.

When it is necessary to fertilize, it will be adulterated with grains such as corn kernels and oats.

But if you think that cattle raising is highly profitable, it is also very wrong.

Reduced pasture yields due to epidemics and droughts will cause loss of pastures.

What's more, the taxes in the United States are really high.

Combined with the cost of insurance, cowboy salaries, and family support, a ranch that can make a profit of 15% per year is already a very good ranch.

In the event of an accident, there is no need for drought or disease, only the amount of cattle raised in the country that year is enough to make many pastures have to borrow.

Then, a few years later, the cycle is repeated, and part of the farm has to go bankrupt.

Chu Xiangqian originally wanted to transport one or two thousand tons of forage every month, but thinking that 1,000 tons was only 20,000 US dollars, it would take him a lot of time.

And other ranchers are reluctant to use such good forage.

The real need is also in winter or when there is a drought.

If you can't sell it when you ship it, you can really only rot in the warehouse.

As for the drought year, Chu Xiangqian would sell the ranch to the surrounding ranchers if he was stupid.

I hope they can't hold on, and then go and buy their ranches themselves, and buy all the surrounding ranches step by step.

Think of the largest ranch in the United States, the Wagner Ranch in Texas, which covers 520,000 acres.

The ranch he owns is only 10,000 acres, and the gap is not half a star.

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Watching the cowboys brand the cows and sheep was eagerness at first, but after a long time, Margaret got bored.

Pulled Chu Xiangqian, who was thinking about things, "Honey, we haven't visited the ranch yet, why don't we ride a horse and run around?" ”

Chu Xiangqian nodded indifferently, but Simon was afraid that something would happen to the two, so he hurriedly said, "BOSS, the ranch is too big, it's best to walk around."

And don't go to the canyon. ”

10,000 acres is about 4,020 hectares, about 40 square kilometers.

The entire Hong Kong Island is only 78 square kilometers.

It can be seen that these 10,000 acres are really not small.

Take a drive around, less than 2 hours.

This is still a road, and if the road conditions are bad, you may not be able to go around for three or four hours.

However, running in the pasture on horseback, the real activity area is not large, and after running for an hour, you can indeed run from the entrance to the canyon.

Chu Xiangqian's heart moved, he looked at Simon and asked, "Is there danger over there?" ”

Seeing that Chu Xiangqian finally asked himself about this, Simon couldn't help but sigh and said, "BOSS, it seems that the former rancher didn't tell you.

Since last year, horses have been passing by in the canyon. ”

As soon as Chu Xiangqian heard it, he understood that he must be a flour merchant or a tobacco merchant, riding a horse to transport things to Los Angeles.

At this time, the United States has cracked down on flour, and it can even be said that in the thirty years of 6, 7, and 8, it is the largest and most determined 30-year war period between rice and flour.

When Reagan took office, he even openly spoke out about the dangers of flour in a nationally televised speech.

His daughter-in-law, Nancy, also publicly called on young people to stay away from flour.

It's a pity that the people of the United States will listen to their husband and wife, and the negative impact of the Vietnam War on the United States is very large.

Young people use all means to avoid conscription.

Self-harm, taking Canada to change citizenship, desperately trying to get into college, or simply playing missing.

Those who are chosen, before going to Yuenan, are all kinds of does.

All kinds of parties are drunk and dreamy, and flour and other things are always indispensable.

When they arrived in Yuenan, the military of the United States actually took the initiative to give flour to the soldiers for the sake of morale.

So much so that during the Vietnam War, half of the soldiers of the United States used contraband in 68 years, it rose to 6 percent in 70 years, and by the time the United States people were driven away in 73 years, at least 7 percent had used contraband.

The flour case nearly paralyzed the military justice system in Viet Nam.

It has been reported that flour crimes in military courts are as many as traffic accidents in civilian courts in the United States.

Chu Xiangqian then asked, "Did the other party have contact with us, or did a shootout?" ”

Simon shook his head, "There must have been contact, and once they pointed guns at each other, but the shootout didn't happen, after all, we didn't want to die." ”

Chu Xiangqian knew that this was a normal person's thinking, "This is also the reason why the former rancher sold the ranch?" ”

Simon was silent again for a moment before he said, "I discussed with Hans that the canyon stretches for dozens of kilometers and is flanked by forests.

Maybe it's a tobacco farm in Los Angeles where some gang grows tobacco. ”

"Fake", Chu Xiangqian scolded directly.

Simon hurriedly comforted, "BOSS, as long as you don't care about those people, they won't come to mess with us." One is that we are locals, and the other is that the cowboys have Santa Barbara County-issued gun licenses.

Moreover, if someone enters the ranch with a gun, it is itself a violation of the castle law, and if we fight back, even if we kill someone, it will be fine. ”

The so-called castle law says that when a stranger enters the owner's house, the owner can shoot without warning.

But afterwards there is no trouble, which state to score.

In a gun-prohibiting state like California, there will still be trouble if you don't give a warning and shoot people directly.

If you can't get it right, you have to go in and step on the sewing machine.

But if the other party has a weapon on him, it will really be a dead death, and even the media will not blame the owner.

It's easy to kill a team of horses, but revenge afterwards is the trouble.

Even if both sides are bogey, the flour merchants are more willing to take risks for the sake of profit, and the ranchers and cowboys are not so determined.

I couldn't see it at first, so I let the other party take a shortcut from this side of the canyon from time to time and go to Los Angeles.

Chu Xiangqian and Margaret naturally lost interest in riding horses, and returned to the Mid-Levels Manor with Margaret, and the chick immediately persuaded him to leave the ranch.

Chu Xiangqian shook his head, picked up the phone and called Yongdao's people, asking them to apply for a gun license for themselves.

In fact, if you have a gun in the ranch, the small town police can't control it.

But if you shoot at people or animals like wild boars or elk, you will still be in trouble.

Chu Xiangqian also thought about going to the town to apply for a gun license by himself, but he was neither a US nationality, nor even a green card, so it was not ordinary difficult to apply for a gun license.

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A $50,000 bill made him a VIP member of the Santa Barbara County Firearms and Shooting Club.

To put it bluntly, members of the United States Gun Association can not only hold guns secretly in Santa Barbara, but also carry guns in public in small towns.

Of course, it must be a covert possession of a gun.

This was not troublesome at all for Chu Xiangqian.

With a holster on his shoulder, he reached under his arm and pulled the gun out of his carry-on compartment when needed.

When encountering inspections, they just brought a holster and did not rob it, and the police had no reason to find trouble.

Then a truckload of weapons and ammunition was delivered to the ranch.

The Remington 700, which is the best bird sniper of this era, is equipped with an 8x scope, and it can be hit anywhere within a few hundred meters.

This gun is also the most common and popular rifle for hunting.

G3, FN FAL automatic rifles, AKs, and even the MG42 machine gun that Chu Xiangqian had in mind got one, and it was also equipped with a drum with 100 rounds of ammunition.

But to be honest, at this time, Europe and the United States are completely unable to compare with the AK series of red polar bears in rifles.

Margaret looked at Chu Xiangqian on the table, placing a table of long and short firearms, and the whole person was in a bad mood.

And Arthur, the captain of the ace agent's guard, watched Chu fiddle with the MG42 machine gun with a bracket forward, and his heart was also sudden.

Compared with the first general-purpose machine, the MG34, the G42 is in the ice and snow at minus 40 degrees Celsius, or in the low bushes.

Or in the hot desert, on the pile of rubble, the failure rate can be kept extremely low.

It can be said that this gun is the AK of machine guns.

The characteristic "snort" sound, like a chainsaw, was a nightmare in the eyes of the Allied soldiers.

When this thing landed in Normandy, I heard that half of the casualties were caused by this gun.

And by the time you hear the sound, you've been shot in the body, often several times.

Then there is no need to rescue at all, you can only wait to die or already die.

Arthur, as an Englishman, knew too well how terrifying the lethality of this gun was.

For Chu Xiangqian just because there were some flour merchants who took a shortcut to the pasture, he bought this kind of murderous aura, Arthur really wanted to grab Chu Xiangqian s collar and yell a few words, are you crazy.

Chu Xiangqian, who got the new toy, didn't care about Arthur and Margaret's expressions and thoughts at all.

According to the manual, check the performance of the machine gun little by little, and hurriedly assemble the gun back.

Then he took a box of 250 rounds of ammunition, two more drums, and a barrel that could be changed at any time, and said to Arthur, "Man, let's go try this gun, how about it?" ”

Arthur's face darkened when he heard this.

But to be honest, although I hate this gun, the man is still very interested in firearms.

(End of chapter)