Zhang Chi turned his head and looked at the direction the police car was leaving.
"If I had only known that I would take the exam to become a police officer, look at it. I did nothing all day long, just wandering around. If I wander around all my life, I would still have a considerable pension when I grow old. How great!" Zhang Chi said.
After hearing this, Miller said to Zhang Chi: "Well, if I call them back, you can trade with either of them at will. Thousands of acres of ranchers and policemen, I believe that none of them will refuse you."
.To be a policeman? In the past, it was easy to work as a policeman, but forget it now. There are complaints and so on everywhere. Before you can collect any money, you will be punished."
"Are you familiar?"
"I've actually been a cop before," Miller said.
Zhang Chi didn't believe it: "No way, I've been here for more than ten years. Why haven't I seen you?"
Zhang Chi felt that Miller was bragging about him. Miller was slightly older than Zhang Chi, but not much older. If he had really been a police officer, there was no way Zhang Chi would not know about him.
It sounds like Folsom can be considered a city, but there really aren't many police officers. It's probably only a dozen or twenty of them, even if they're in the office. I don't know if there are seven groups of police officers actually patrolling.
, that is, fourteen people.
If these dozen faces are unfamiliar to you, they must be new here.
"I'm not in Folsom, but in a small town over in Denver. I've only been working for four or five months, and I've been getting complaints five or six times a month. I really can't stand it anymore," Miller said.
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Zhang Chi joked: "Collecting black money?"
"You want me to be able to talk to you here now? I've already gone in," Miller said with a smile.
Following Miller, he talked to Zhang Chi about becoming a police officer.
Zhang Chi had watched this on TV enough, and it was nothing new. But hearing it from Miller's mouth made Zhang Chi feel that the angle was a bit special and interesting, so he listened carefully.
It’s really hard to be a police officer. There are not enough police officers in many cities now. No one wants to be a police officer anymore. First of all, it’s dangerous. You don’t know who you are going to face on the streets with a gun. Do you think you have to worry about it?
The second is that the money is not much, and the salary of the police is actually not high. At least the police here in Amber are not as high as the salary of white-collar workers in the company.
The third is to be angry.
If you can really take it, it is stable.
The media here like to fan things out. They don't care about justice or injustice. All they care about is sales.
"From the perspective of a bystander, you may think that you should not draw a gun and shoot. In fact, you were not at the scene. If you think about it, you are holding a gun and the person opposite also has a gun. This is not a matter of upper lip rubbing against lower lip. You are a
Living people.
Are you afraid? If there is any slightest sign of disturbance, you will shoot subconsciously. You are not saying what you are going to do, and this is not going to the market to buy vegetables. You are trying to save your life! Slow down, your life will be saved.
Maybe it will be gone. This is not a joke, nor is it playing a game. If you die, you can still live. You only have one life. If it is gone, it is gone!"
Miller took a sip and let out a sigh of relief: "Well, I finally quit working. I will come back and take care of the family ranch with my family. Although the work is a bit tiring, it is better than going out to work all day and worrying."
"It's good to be a cowboy."
Zhang Chi smiled and touched Miller with the beer bottle in his hand.
bite!
"It's pretty good," Miller said with a smile, "but I don't make much money."
"There is no way, the market situation is like this. It is difficult to make a lot of money from ordinary work," Zhang Chi said cheerfully.
Does ranching make money? It really doesn’t make any money.
Without the power of the gourd, Zhang Chi would have lost his pants long ago. Let alone a ranch like Zhang Chi, even if it is a ranch of tens of thousands of acres, if it is purely cattle raising, it will not make any money without other industries.
Normal income is between three and four hundred thousand US dollars, which refers to net income.
Isn’t three to four hundred thousand dollars a year enough for ordinary people? But compared to other investment industries, the returns from ranching are really average.
As for small pastures, say dozens of acres, they cannot be pure pastures. What are most of them? City dwellers who have some spare money work in the city most of the week and return to the pastures on weekends.
Rest and do some work along the way.
There are very few small ranchers who really make a living from ranching, and there will be fewer and fewer in the future.
Without restrictions on land annexation, more and more land will be concentrated in the hands of wealthy people.
Bill, for example, is now the largest landowner in the United States, and he can even influence food prices.
"Beef in supermarkets is getting more and more expensive, but cattle ranchers can't make any money, this is the world," Miller said with emotion.
Zhang Chi smiled but did not respond.
For complaints like this, if you go to a small hotel in the town, you can hear it closing from the moment you open the door, and there may be some pleasant insults.
But is it useful? It’s not useful, it’s not useful at all. If it was really useful, then a few slaughtering companies wouldn’t monopolize the entire American slaughtering market.
Everyone knows who the cancer is, but there is nothing they can do about it.
Unite? It’s easy to think about, but difficult to do.
This gang of slaughterhouse guys united, and whether they were police, judges, or National Guardsmen, they instantly became their people, including many large ranchers who had already stood in their trenches and talked about it.
Birds unite.
The war hasn't started yet, half of the original natural allies have gone to the other side, and the half that are particularly powerful, what else do you think?
Besides, if we want to unite, we should unite early. As for a few major companies taking 80% of the share?
Miller cursed for a while, starting from the governor to the mayor, and finally had enough.
"Amber cattle are on the rise," Miller said.
Zhang Chi naturally wanted to think more after hearing this, so he opened his mouth and asked: "Do you want to raise Amber cattle?"
Miller nodded: "I want to, but I don't have the money."
As mentioned above, ranchers don't make much money. Although the Miller family's pasture has two to three thousand acres, they don't have as many cattle as Zhang Chi's current small ranch. How can they make any money?
They want to invest in Amber cattle, but their family really doesn’t have the capital.
This is what Zhang Chi said. Many ranchers are worth a lot of money, but they don’t have a lot of money in their pockets, so their worth is all inflated.
Now the price of Amber cattle has been rising. This trend is not only caused by the size of Amber cattle, but also the meat yield. There is still an indicator that has not been released, and that is the feeding cycle, that is, the length of the calves.
If the time required to mature a cow is up to standard, Amber cattle may become one of the most economically valuable cattle breeds.
It is possible that these three words have attracted a group of people to bet now. What is the most important thing in making money? Courage. If you dare to bet when you encounter an opportunity, you can win only if you bet. Even if you don’t bet, you will not know.
, it’s useless.
If you don't have money, there is nothing you can do. Even if Miller is Zhang Chi's friend, Zhang Chi can't possibly say that he will sell part of his Amber cattle to his family at a fair price. That's impossible.
This was just giving money to someone for no reason, and Zhang Chi was not mentally ill.
Besides, when you are hanging out here in the United States, you have to understand one thing: my interests are my interests. We are friends, but don’t talk about interests. If we talk about it, we will do business. To put it bluntly, we are friends.
When we are in business, we talk about friendship, and when we are in business, we talk about interests, which are unrelated things.
If you get confused, you will lose money and have no friends.
"The price of Amber cattle has gone up again, to eight dollars a pound," Miller said.
Zhang Chi smiled: "It's good that the price has increased, but it has little to do with me."
Most of the remaining cows in Zhang Chi's pasture are cows. Even if there are young bulls, they still need to nurse most of the time.
Except for a few bulls reserved for breeding, almost all the bulls in the original population had been stabbed, either on their necks or under their crotches. In short, they are now the "milk pourers" of Zhang Chi and his wife at Amber Cattle Market.
action.
In fact, it is precisely because of the methods of Zhang Chi and his wife that those who find inferior cattle can enjoy such good prices.
If Zhang Chi were to let go and sell everything, even the descendants of bulls, then the cattle they found would definitely not be able to sell them at this price. Let alone this price, they would be able to sell breed cattle at a price
Consider them lucky.
"What are you talking about? I said I came here to swim, but I haven't seen you go down a few times."
Sun Yanping came over. He knew a little bit of English, but if you let him understand Miller's spoken English, you would really look down on him.
To be honest, if Zhang Chi hadn't stayed here for ten years, Zhang Chi wouldn't understand what Miller said.
English also has dialects. Just like us in China, although we belong to the same country and speak the same language, the dialects in some places can make you wonder what they are saying after listening to them, and you may not even know them.
Are you talking human language?
Amber's dialect is usually not popular, and it has contributed a lot to the entertainment industry. In the entertainment industry, people who speak this dialect generally have a negative image.
This is how Sun Yanping listened to Miller's speech. He knew it was in English, but he didn't even know what he was talking about. It was better to make gestures.
"We are talking about raising cattle. By the way, brother-in-law, have you caught the fish?" Zhang Chi asked with a smile.
After talking to Miller for a while, Zhang Chi felt much better after seeing Miller's poor appearance.
Sun Yanping laughed awkwardly and said: "We didn't catch them, so far there are only three. Maybe there are not many cockroaches in your pond, or maybe the cockroaches have all gone to school, and we caught the three who skipped class."
Zhang Chi couldn't help but feel happy after listening to his brother-in-law's words.
Unless the fish is farmed, it is very difficult to catch wild ones. Although Zhangchi's pond can be considered farmed, the number of seedlings released in Zhangchi is much rarer than that in artificial farms. At most, they are several times larger.
Ten tails, even if you think about it, there won’t be one.
"Forget it, let's let it go. I'll go back later to get a few cages and put them in the pond. As for whether you can eat them or not, it all depends on whether you have a good taste or not," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"Alright".
There were only three fish, and the total was less than two kilograms. Even if they were cooked, there would not be enough for anyone to eat.