Zhang Chi whispered: The guys who collect money are always so positive.
Zhang Chi walked slowly toward the crowd. Halfway down the road, he met a returning cowboy, a cowboy from a Colorado ranch. Zhang Chi knew him but was not familiar with him, but now, he was quite familiar with him.
"What's going on over there, who is there?" Zhang Chi asked.
The cowboy replied: "The people from the Internal Revenue Service, except them, came here with their noses smelling the smell of money. This time, they said that all cattle found in the mountains should be priced according to the current market price.
Collect taxes. These people are really poor and crazy.”
Zhang Chi didn't understand it very well, but anyway he knew that he had picked up the cattle, but there was a bunch of dogs who wanted to take away a large part of his hard-earned money without spending any effort.
Don't think that just giving you some money will solve the problem. If this thing doesn't charge you more than 20 points, it won't be called US tax.
Reluctant to part with it!
But what can I do if I can't bear it? If someone has a big fist, then you have to listen to them.
He continued walking towards the crowd, and when he arrived, Zhang Chi stood beside Melika.
Melika was looking at the tax bureau personnel who were counting cattle with Cannon and others. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a person standing next to her, so she turned her head and glanced.
When he realized it was Zhang Chi, he smiled and said, "Are you awake?"
Zhang Chi nodded and grunted, and then asked Melika: "Why did these guys come so early? It would be great if they could come so quickly when I lose something in my ranch."
Zhang Chi, who made sarcastic remarks, kept looking at the staff.
Melika laughed softly twice, without saying a word, and continued to look at the staff, as if she was afraid that they would harm one of her calves.
The cattle counting here is a bit slow. I don’t know if Cannon did it on purpose or for some reason. In short, one cow is counted one by one, and each cow has to be tagged. It takes a lot of time to count each cow. You must know that there are two thousand here.
There are so many cows. Even if half of the cows are ear-tagged and branded with the ranch's mark, how much time will it take in total?
Anyway, Cannon is not in a hurry, and neither are the cowboys at Zhangchi Ranch. What is anxious is the staff. Since they want to collect first-hand data, they have to wait honestly, otherwise they will end up on their own.
number.
These people are probably not as good at counting cattle as even Zhang Chi. There may be professionals such as accountants among them, but their professions are obviously not very helpful in counting cattle.
The staff actually noticed that the cowboys at Zhangchi Ranch did not like them. In fact, they also knew that they were not welcome, and they were probably used to it.
At this time, they were not as righteous as those shown in the TV series. They were all tall and handsome, and the women were either extremely beautiful or had an extraordinary temperament.
Now this group of people is standing in front of Zhang Chi. Most of them are ordinary people, with a few crooked melons and bad dates mixed in. They look a bit painful.
Zhang Chi didn't want to see these people, so he called Brian over.
Brian came over and asked, "BOSS, what's the matter?"
Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and nodded: "Tell Cannon not to torment them, count the numbers quickly, and tell them to get out of my pasture."
There is a branch director who Zhang Chi can talk to and build relationships with. How can Zhang Chi be willing to talk nonsense with a bunch of little soldiers who count cattle?
Brian laughed after hearing this and said, "Okay, I'll go over and tell him that everyone is dissatisfied with these guys and think of a way to deal with them. Since you said so, we won't care about them anymore."
Hearing what Brian said, Zhang Chi couldn't help but turn his head and look at Melika.
When Melika saw Zhang Chi looking at her, she smiled. Zhang Chi didn't know whether it was Melika's intention.
Cannon and the others are not afraid of retaliation if they cause trouble for these people, because as long as you don't break the law, they actually have nothing to do with you.
Of course, things like jacking the tank, subduing and turning into a move, etc., all exist, but these two skills are not used by people like Zhang Chi Ranch. Generally speaking, this kind of move is used on people who have no relatives, no background, and no money.
Generally speaking, ranchers like Zhang Chi don't bother with anything.
Brian went over to talk to Cannon.
Cannon asked everyone to count the cows first, that is, to count the number of cows, and at the same time classify the big cows and the calves. The prices for big cows and calves are different.
With Zhang Chi, everyone moved much faster. In less than twenty minutes, the number of cows was counted. A total of 2,173 cows were driven back, including 1,300 cows.
There were seventy-nine bulls, and the rest were all calves.
Melika already knew the number of cows. In fact, Cannon and others had already counted them in the morning. Counting them again now was just a joke.
"Have you thought about what to do with these cows now?" Melika asked.
Zhang Chi really thought about it and opened his mouth and said: "Transport a batch to the ranch in Colorado. The density of that ranch is too small. I wonder how it can be loaded with more than two thousand more?"
But Melika shook her head: "We can't accommodate so many cows. You forgot, we also need to supply fodder for the horse farm in China."
"How much food can a horse eat with that amount!"
Zhang Chi felt that the horse farms he had seen were indeed quite big, but no matter how big the horse farm was, it only contained a few hundred horses. Merica had thousands of acres of pastures, and her own grass had already been planted.
Are you worried that you won't be able to raise so many cattle?
"It's quite a lot, I think, let's put all these cattle on the ranch here, transport the original Gascon to the ranch in Colorado, and sell all the mixed cattle," said Merica.
After listening to Melika's words, Zhang Chi thought for a while, and for a while he had no good solution. This is the trouble of happiness. There are more cows in the family, but the pasture land is not enough. You said this happened.
"I still need to buy a ranch," Zhang Chi said with a long sigh as he looked at the cattle.
Melika also nodded and echoed: "I want to buy it. Last time I didn't succeed, so we have to be more cautious this time."
"Be picky, anyway, we have money in our hands," Zhang Chi said.
When Melika heard what Zhang Chi said, she couldn't help being happy and said with a smile: "You seem to be pretty good at it."
"No, no, you are much better at this than me. You operate, and I will...cover you from behind," Zhang Chi laughed and said.
Now you can see that the entire pasture is full of cows. Originally the density was a bit high, but now it's so good that the cows are almost squeezing them.
Although it seems that if our country has more than 3,000 acres of land and more than 3,000 cows, one cow can almost fit into one acre of land.
It looks quite big at first glance, but in fact it's not that big. There are still woods on Zhang Chi's pasture, and the water in the creek has not dried up yet. Once the messy area is reduced, don't you think about it?
Cow, what else could there be like?
After the numbers were counted, the group left with the data.
Zhang Chi rolled up his sleeves and started working with Cannon and others.
The job is simple to say the least, but it is a bit time-consuming and not a heavy job. It involves branding the cattle with the mark of the pasture and tagging the cattle's ears with basic information about the cattle, such as height and weight.
If you want to know your height and weight, you must have a scale. Zhangchi Ranch does not have this. The scales used now must be rented.
As for borrowing something, Americans don't seem to be used to it. Unlike our neighbors who have a good relationship and can even borrow bags of salt, they are not used to it. Generally speaking, it is renting. It is also convenient to rent things here. There are many
Everything can be rented.
"This thing is well made!"
Zhang Chi saw the newly made railings and couldn't help but praise them.
This thing looks quite simple. It has a bell mouth, and the cattle enter through it. At the end of the bell hole, only one cow can pass through.
If a mother is carrying her calf, the calf usually passes first, and the mother follows the calf and passes easily.
The trumpet eye is connected to a two or three-meter aisle. Under the aisle, there is a scale. Whether it is a calf or a large cow, everyone must pass on this scale.
You can't run when you pass, because there are fences on the front and back of the scale. After the previous cow passes, the fence will be closed. When the cow enters, the fence behind will also be closed, thus trapping a cow here.
In the middle of a section of fence.
In this way, the cow can only stand on the scale.
He waited patiently for his weight to be weighed and his shoulder height to be measured before he was let out by the cowboy.
After being released, there is still a passage with fences on both sides, and at the end is an iron fixed fence.
This thing has been around for a long time. It has the same Cannon design. The two of them used the welding machine to do the welding. The places that need to be reinforced are iron bolts that are directly attached. There are special hardware stores that sell this thing.
The cross flower has a three-way bolt head, which can be connected directly.
There are two tasks to be performed in the fixed pen. The same is to tag the cow's ears. The height and weight just recorded have been recorded, and together with the number of the cow, they are entered into the tag, and then passed through the tagging machine.
Punch into the cow's ear.
From then on, the cow had a fixed household registration.
As for the matter of branding, it goes without saying that Zhang Chi took a lot of detours. It was not until Cannon joined in that the matter of branding was officially settled.
The current brand of Zhangchi Ranch, which is the imprint of the ranch, is still a Chinese character with a circle hanging outside the Chinese character. This is quite common for us Chinese, but for Americans, this logo is a bit trendy.
It's like in China, if you create an English design, people think it's tasteless but still a bit foreign. In other countries, if you create Chinese characters and mix them with English, many people will think it's quite Internet.
Thank God NO.
Not only for the current ranch, starting from this year, the Colorado Ranch’s imprint will also be changed to Zhang character pattern. After all, Merika’s surname is also Zhang now.
Melika Marie Chapter, this is not stamped, it is written in a serious legal document.
The current Zhangchi Ranch uses dry ice. The branding head is thrown into the dry ice tank, taken out, and used to brand the hind legs of the cows in the fixed stall, and then waits for a few dozen seconds.