In the middle of the night, Chen Mo slept in a daze when he suddenly felt something brushing across his face: "Baby, don't..."
"Ah Li." It was the cat that crawled onto the bed. Chen Mo thought it was Hill, so he reached out and carried the cat into the bed, gently caressing its head. Suddenly, he no longer felt sleepy.
Hill has been gone for a while and should have settled down in Los Angeles.
I hope she has a good life in a big city.
The two never said goodbye. Hill said she didn't like the country and wanted to go to Los Angeles, and then left.
Chen Mo didn't try to persuade him to stay. During this time, it was clear that Hill didn't like ranch life, and he also had too many things to be busy with.
Chen Mo was not sad when Hill left, but he was not used to having less people around him all of a sudden. Especially at night, when he was sleeping alone in a double bed, he couldn't help but think of him.
After buying the ranch, the leisurely days I originally hoped for seem to be getting further and further away. Maybe it’s because I was used to being busy, working hard, and making money. When I can’t find anything to do in my spare time, I feel panicked and uneasy...
In fact, there are some things that you don’t have to do by yourself. After all, you are a big boss with tens of millions in debt.
…
I slept until dawn, woke up naturally, and was too lazy to get up in bed.
Chen Mo moved to Lake Ranch. Living in the small valley before was too remote. Now that the ranch has expanded to 35,000 hectares, he has to live in the middle of the ranch...
"Boss, Mr. Cohen from the bank has arrived in Judith. I'll go pick him up. Have you gotten up?" Canlby gently knocked on the door and shouted outside. The boss seems to be out of love and has been in a bad temper these days.
Irritated, Canelby tried his best to be gentle for fear of touching Chen Mo's brow.
"Get up." Chen Mo got up and found some formal clothes to put on.
"Then I'm going out."
I got up and sat in the simple office at the ranch for a few minutes. Several cars drove up one after another. Cohen, a middle-aged man with a stout body... Manager and president of Wells Fargo Bank's Lewistown branch.
Chen Mo borrowed 38.5 million yuan from there, which was the largest business deal Cohen had ever handled, and he became particularly interested in the Snow Mountain Ranch.
It is difficult to do any business these days, and banks are no exception, especially in small places.
"Mo, we meet again." Cohen opened his hands.
Chen Mo stepped forward and hugged him, and whispered: "Have you found the person I want?"
"Of course, in the back...this person." Cohen introduced: "Bright, the former ranch manager of the Paulnar Ranch."
"I still am." The man behind him was in his early forties, wearing a suit and looked very stylish.
His appearance and temperament don't look like a large ranch manager, but rather like a senior white-collar worker...
"It won't be anymore soon," Cohen said with a smile.
Today, only Cohen and Bright came here, especially Cohen, who didn’t bring any assistants. They were helping Chen Mo as a headhunter for free...
The Paulnar Ranch is a famous ranch in Montana, raising more than 5,000 cattle.
Chen Mo wanted to hire a manager for Snow Mountain Ranch. During this time, Chen Mo and Cohen became familiar with each other, and Cohen recommended Brett.
Brett's previously serious expression slowly melted away: "Okay, if the treatment is good, I can jump here. Anyway, my contract there has expired and I haven't renewed it yet, so I can leave at any time."
"Annual salary... 200,000. 10,000 will be paid every month, and the remaining 80,000 will be paid at the end of December."
"Not as good as my current treatment." Brett frowned.
"Starting from next year, 0.5% of the ranch's net profit will be your bonus."
"God... you are so good at doing business. How much is a net profit of 0.5%?" Brett made a speechless expression. He is one of the few high-income workers in Montana, with an annual salary of 25.
Ten thousand or after tax.
He has worked at the Paulnar Ranch for ten years, turning an ordinary family-owned ranch into the most famous ranch in Montana.
Americans are very practical. Since they are given an annual salary of 250,000, this person must be worth that price. Cohen and Chen Mo have talked about this person more than once, and they highly respect him...
"My pasture can raise first-grade mutton specially for high-end restaurants. I slaughtered three Angus cattle a few days ago. After being graded by the Ministry of Agriculture's graders, all three Angus cattle were prime grade (except for the hind tendons).
Superior)."
"Except for the hamstring...all of it?" Brett swallowed: "How many months old is the Angus cow?"
"Nine and a half months."
"No way, nine and a half month old Angus cow?"
Chen Mo shrugged his shoulders: "Nothing is impossible, that's the truth. The rating report is right here..." Chen Mo said, opened the drawer, took out the rating report of Angus cattle and handed it over.
With this report, the price of a cow can at least triple. If it is an Angus cow less than ten months old, the price will be even higher.
"200,000 annual salary before tax or after tax?"
"Before tax."
Brett's cheek twitched slightly...
A 0.5% net profit bonus... The ranch's annual net profit would have to exceed 10 million to catch up with his previous treatment.
Just thinking about it feels scary and almost impossible to complete.
"I want an annual salary of 300,000, after tax. As for the 0.5% net profit reward you mentioned, forget it, I'm not interested." Bright shook his head with a wry smile.
"Deal, annual salary of 300,000 yuan, after tax. The payment method is still 10,000 yuan per month, and the remaining 180,000 yuan will be paid in the twelfth month."
"Semi-monthly salary, US$5,000."
Americans can't save money, even high-income earners...
"Okay." Chen Mo smiled and stood up and shook hands with him, then printed out the contract in duplicate, and the two signed the contract under the witness of Cohen.
After the two shook hands again, Cohen smiled and asked Canlby to take him to the racecourse...
"Boss, can you take me to see the grazing animals?"
"Of course." Chen Mo locked the contract in the insurance and took the keys of his Ford car as an invitation.
The Lake Valley has fertile land, abundant pasture, and large areas of farmland. As for the entire snow mountain pasture, the Lake Valley is the only place with fertile land and abundant water resources.
With further expansion of the pasture, the pasture occupies the entire Lake Valley, with a total area of nearly 5,000 hectares.
Leaving the river valley, the desolate atmosphere suddenly hit us...
"The Snow Mountain Ranch mainly raises cattle or sheep."
"Beef. The U.S. mutton market is not big, and exporting mutton is also troublesome." Chen Mo handed Bright a cigarette, and he was stunned for a moment before taking it.
Chen Mo drove the car with one hand and lit a cigarette with the other, driving on the almost barren Gobi Desert: "Although the Snow Mountain Ranch has an area of 35,000 hectares, there are only less than 6,000 hectares of fertile land, mainly in the Lake Valley, which accounts for 5,000 hectares. It is suitable for
There are 15,000 hectares of grassland for grazing. The rest is the Gobi...about 13,000 hectares."
The Gobi is not a desert, but a desert and semi-desert area. The soil is made of bare rock and gravel.
The Gobi is mostly located in places with higher altitudes and less rainfall. The Gobi is not barren of grass. There are clusters of plants far apart, making it look desolate and barren.
If these lands have water sources for irrigation, plants can also grow.
"I heard from Cohen that Snow Mountain Ranch spent US$34.9 million."
"Um?"
"You are here to run a large ranch, not for vacation... You bought the wrong place."
Chen Mo smiled: "It doesn't matter. Even in this desolate place, my ranch can make a lot of money."
"Okay, you stated a fact that I can't refute." Bright saw Chen Mo's confident look and he breathed a sigh of relief: "How many cows can be grazed in the grazing area of the pasture?"
Different places have different regulations on the amount of grazing, which is mainly determined based on the abundance of pasture and whether it will cause damage to the grassland.
Like the previous Snow Mountain Pasture, 10 hectares of grassland can graze 1 cow and 4 sheep, or 13 hectares of grassland can graze 2 cows.
In areas with abundant pasture, you can graze more, but in places with sparse pasture, you can only graze less. The maximum grazing allowed is 1.5 hectares of grassland...
"2,700 cows." Chen Mo said.
5.5 hectares for grazing a cow…
Brett's skull and skin hurt.
The Montana grassland is not as barren as imagined. The problem is the area where the Snow Mountain Ranch is located... It is no wonder that Chen Mo expanded the Snow Mountain Ranch to 35,000 hectares so easily, which is more than 80,000 acres.
"You owe nearly 50 million yuan in loans to the bank. Although it may not be possible to pay it all off in five years... you still have to be careful."
"This is the main reason for inviting you to the Snow Mountain Ranch, Mr. Budget-conscious."