The Industrial Giant Reborn.

Chapter 307 Small Goal: Become America's Largest Landlord

In the next few days, Chen Zhiwen still took a helicopter to visit all over the Wager Farm, and when he came across a suitable place, he came down to camp.

The people around, besides their own bodyguards, are several professional "barbecue experts" from Wagga Farm. They know that the person in front of them may be their future boss. In order to give the new boss a good impression, they have made a With my best efforts, many of the game at Wagga Farm suffered.

Compared with other buyers, Chen Zhiwen was obviously much more straightforward. At least in terms of funds, he could pay in one lump sum. Although most of them were money from the bank, for the Wagga family, it was no different.The other potential buyers all have very long payment cycles.

This is actually normal. Hundreds of millions of dollars is a very large sum of money for non-first-line large companies in the United States. This kind of transaction, even if it uses bank credit, is very conservative, and many of them are transactions in installments to ease funds. pressure.

The Wagga family's debts are not light, and they urgently need a sufficient amount of funds to alleviate them. The business negotiation team hired by Chen Zhiwen discovered this. Using this as a bait, they kept pressing down on the deal. In the end, the two parties agreed to a settlement of 1.35 million U.S. dollars. price deal.

For farms, office buildings, etc. in the United States, if foreign capital acquires them, it is enough for both parties to agree directly. The U.S. Department of Commerce does not care about such matters, and even encourages foreign capital to invest in industries that have little impact on national security or information security. , Who would refuse someone who came to send money?This kind of real estate will not be transferred to other countries like high technology.

With the confirmation of both lawyers and a third-party audit agency, Chen Zhiwen signed the acquisition contract. Since then, he has become the owner of the largest farm in the United States.

For this transaction, he himself only needs to pay 3000 million U.S. dollars in cash. The rest of the funds are borrowed from JP Morgan Chase Bank. If you can use the bank's money, you don't need your own. A large amount of funds must also be operated in this way, and the interest generated by the loan can also avoid taxes to a certain extent.

"Congratulations, Mr. Chen, you have become the owner of Wagga Farm, the number one farm in the United States." After Dan Wager confirmed that he had the first funds in his account, the stone in his heart was relieved. The amount of this transaction was indeed in He expected it, but being able to trade quickly is also a very big advantage. In today's era of high inflation where the interest rate is as high as 15 points, the debt will expand like a snowball every month. Now that we have this fund, It's no problem anymore.

However, he is still a bit reluctant to part with this century-old farm, which can be said to be the place where his generation grew up.

"Mr. Wagga, with such a large sum of money, he can do what he wants to do." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

"There is nothing we want to do. We people, the only pursuit in this life is to be able to keep the wealth passed down from our ancestors." Dan Wager said helplessly.

"It's really difficult." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.In the inheritance of rich families, major problems may occur within a few generations, which is a problem that occurs almost everywhere in the world.

I bought this farm by myself. In fact, I also have this idea. In addition to buying a large amount of land, a large area of ​​land is eternal wealth. Although there is not much room for growth, it is far inferior to real estate or even investment, but it can be regarded as the most conservative. The most stable investment, anyway, is to use bank funds. In a few years, bank interest rates will drop, and international food prices will rise. Super large-scale farms will definitely have a lot of profit margins.

Unless in the 21st century, the legendary controllable nuclear fusion can be commercialized, otherwise, the output of global food and meat still depends on the land, sun, water and other environments, so farms are an eternal rigid demand, even if it falls, it will not fall Besides, when the Asian economy rises in the future, the demand for food will only increase.

"Okay, the transaction is over. We will completely move out within half a month stipulated in the contract. All the employees will stay. I hope you can keep them, Mr. Chen. They are all good at managing the farm. said Danvager again.

The transaction between their family and Chen Zhiwen is purely an ordinary transaction, unlike the factory acquisition that may involve trade unions and employment issues, therefore, the transaction contract does not contain any issues on how to deal with employees, but many employees on the farm today are He was his former subordinate, not a friend, but a little friendly, so naturally hope that everyone can continue to be the same as before.

"Don't worry about that, I need professional people to manage it." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

An hour later, the lawyers of both parties left, and the Wagga family began to go back to pack up and prepare to move out. After all, they did not expect that the farm with hundreds of millions of dollars would be sold so quickly.

"Mr. Chen, hello, my name is Tam, and I'm the manager of Wagga Farm." A blond man who is about 50 years old, quite strong, but looks like an employee of a large company came over said politely.

"Tam? You haven't been working on this farm all the time, have you?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, I am a professional manager who specializes in farm management. I was invited by the Wagga family to manage Wagga Farm three years ago, but I was also born in Texas and stayed on the farm when I was a child." Tam introduced.

"Okay, then what do you think, how should the Wagner Farm maximize its profits?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

Although investing in Wager Farm, the greater interest is because I want to acquire this land with an area as large as two Hong Kong. After all, Chinese people like land in their bones. My mother planted a little onion and garlic.

But since it was acquired, it is impossible to really leave it here and make use of it no matter what. After all, to give him a vacation, in fact, only a small piece of land is enough.

Tam was obviously ready for a long time, and said: "Mr. Chen, the Wager Farm has a very large area. From the perspective of economic benefits, it is the most cost-effective to carry out the cattle ranching industry. The investment cost is much lower than that of growing grain, and it is also It will not have a great impact on the existing environmental layout. Although the US economy has not been very good in the past two years, people's demand for beef is still very high. Our farm itself also has a slaughterhouse, but it requires a certain amount of investment. To scale up, we need to hire more people.”

"Animal husbandry? Okay, I heard from Danwager before that if we want to expand the scale of animal husbandry, we need to invest in digging several artificial lakes?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It's not just an artificial lake. If the scale of animal husbandry expands too much, we need to wrap our entire farm with barbed wire to prevent the cattle from getting lost or being attacked by wild predators, and some people may even have the idea of ​​​​beating cattle." Ta said Tom.

"How much money do you need?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"In the past two years, the Wagga family had made a budget, and it needed about 2000-3000 million US dollars. According to this plan, after the money is invested, our farm can easily pasture 50 head of cattle. The above is not impossible, if they are all beef cattle, it will be 5% of the entire US demand." Tamm said with a smile.

"It's impossible to have such a large market vacancy. What do you think if you raise dairy cows?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

The number of grazing cattle in the United States is as high as tens of millions every year, most of which are dairy cows, because in the United States, many people drink milk as water, and basically everyone drinks it for breakfast.This is the largest market for the milk industry. Even in the 21st century, when China's economy has developed to the second largest in the world, with a population of 14 billion, the demand for milk is far lower than that of the United States.

In Hong Kong, Chen Zhiwen established Yili Dairy to enter the dairy market, but the main purpose is the future mainland and nearby Southeast Asia. The milk can be sold in the past. After being processed by the special production line of the European Tetra Pak Group, the milk can be stored for half a year.

As for the largest market in the United States, Chen Zhiwen knew that he could only look for opportunities in the United States.

"We don't have any experience in the breeding and subsequent processing of dairy cows, but if you want to try, I can go to a few of my friends who have experience in this area." Tam thought for a while and said.

"Don't worry, the artificial lake is going to be dug anyway. You should be responsible for the bidding first. I will send a finance manager to assist you. As for the barbed wire, I will purchase it from Asia and ship it to the port near here. Inside the farm If so, let’s expand the breeding of beef cattle for the time being.” Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

There is no need to buy things like barbed wire in the United States. The cost of the steel industry in the United States is too high. At present, it is basically based on high-end steel.Although the domestic steelmaking is a bit poor, there should be no problem with this kind of barbed wire that doesn't have much requirements. Even if you add the freight, it will be much cheaper.

With such a large land area, as long as the funds are in place, it is no problem to become the largest cattle farm in the United States. Even if you set a small goal first, if you buy other farms in the future and expand in this field, it is also a good choice.

At present, he still has a lot of funds in the United States. In addition, he will try his best to use loans for investment and his own companies will continue to make money in the United States in the future. Too much money is hard to earn and transfer out immediately. This will definitely be targeted after a long time. After all, there are more funds involved, especially games, electronics, beverages, and retail. The scale of each business is now enough to attract the attention of the highest level in the United States. It is only from one country to make money. Not investing is definitely not a solution for long-term development.

Therefore, he needs a large number of investable objects in the United States. However, the future technology companies are still small in scale and cannot accommodate much capital. Several suitable traditional companies such as Coca-Cola and General Electric have not yet reached the investment time. Appropriate, with the current interest rate, housing prices will continue to fall in the next five years, so, when there are not many choices, investing in land is considered a good choice.

Maybe if you are not careful, you can also become the largest landowner in the United States.

PS: The last day to ask for a monthly pass

(End of this chapter)