Rebirth of the Super Landlord

"Very good, you can inform your lawyer and come over to negotiate the contract." After Su Zhen successfully completed the last 'assessment', Old Archie said to Su Zhen with a smile.

"Have you agreed to sell the ranch to me?" Su Zhen asked in surprise.

"Yes, there are not many people like you who can do cowboy work now, and there are many people who want to buy my ranch, but those guys just regard this as an industry, not a life, let alone cowboy work.

Even the riding skills are so bad, how can I be a rancher? I can’t trust those guys to hand over the ranch that I have worked hard for decades to.” Old Archie nodded, then sighed and said, “I can see that.

"Although your movements are a bit unfamiliar, they are very standard. At least you have studied hard. The unfamiliarity is because you haven't done it for a while. This is not surprising. After all, your main business is investment."

Su Zhen felt a little ashamed when he heard this, and couldn't help but thank Old John in his heart. If it weren't for Old John's careful teaching, he wouldn't know these things. Speaking of which, I haven't visited Yizhou for a while. I'll go back and see when.

"But before that, I have another request," Archie said.

"You said it," Su Zhen nodded.

"Although the ranch is sold to you, I still want to live here." Old Archie said. "Although this request may be a bit excessive, after all, I have lived here for decades, and I am still reluctant to leave here, and I also

I’m really not used to life in the city.”

"There is no problem at all. You can always live here. This is still your home and you can still enjoy everything here." Su Zhen agreed without thinking. Compared with getting this pasture, this point of the other party

Requirements are not an issue at all.

"Haha, thank you then. Let's go back now." Old Archie smiled and rode ahead, and Su Zhen followed excitedly.

Back at old Archie's house, Zishan was chatting with Mrs. Emerson. It seemed that Zishan had coaxed the other person well, and Mrs. Emerson's smile never faded.

Seeing Su Zhen and old Archie come in, Zishan cast a questioning look at Su Zhen. Su Zhen nodded with a smile, and Zishan also showed joy on his face.

"By the way, little guy. I still have some ranches in California and Washington state. I wonder if you are interested in taking over?" After sitting down again, Old Archie asked Su Zhen with a smile. He chatted with this little guy on the way.

I was very happy. I felt that I was very compatible with the other party, and I felt more comfortable selling my property to the other party. So I thought of handing over the rest of my property to the other party.

Su Zhen was overjoyed when he heard this, but then his face turned bitter and said, "I'm afraid it won't work. Now I don't have much money, so buying this ranch is already the limit." Although old Archie sold the ranch and gave him an extremely favorable price.

-2 billion U.S. dollars, but he understood the weight of the "some" that old Archie mentioned. That was more than one million acres of land, more than twice the size of the current ranch. Although Su Zhen could not

It seems like there is too much land, but the key is that he can no longer afford that much money.

"This is not a problem, you can pay in installments." Old Archie waved his hand, took a sip of coffee and continued, "I plan to leave the money from selling the ranch to my two daughters, except for 100 million each, and I plan to use the rest.

Come and set up a charitable fund, and then you just need to pay the remaining money to the fund account on time."

Su Zhen was solemn when he heard this. The old man's donation was no different from a LUO donation, and Su Zhen had to be in awe. Don't look at the news of later generations like Bill Gates and Buffett who were willing to donate most of their property, so you would think that Americans would

There are many people who do this. News is news. The reason why it is rare and rare is news.

Although Americans have a tradition of charity, most of them are limited. Most Americans still like to leave their property to future generations. However, most of them use trust funds, using their own companies and inheritances as a business fund.

, their descendants and their families can only withdraw a certain amount of living expenses from the fund every month or year, thus exempting them from huge inheritance taxes. This is the method adopted by major conglomerates and families in the United States, which is why people like Mellon and Rockefeller

, the reason why big families like Morgan obviously have countless assets, but their family members do not appear on the rich list, and although those family members cannot use these huge properties as their own luxury, they still

These inheritances can be used for business operations, so this method is much better than direct inheritance.

"If that's the case, then I'm naturally happy," Su Zhen said seriously. He would be damned if he didn't agree to such a good thing. Although he would be saddled with billions of debts, he had so many excellent people.

It only takes a few years to make money back from the industry, but the opportunity to buy this land is very rare. Although the United States is vast and sparsely populated, there are really not many large areas of land for sale. More than 90% of them are extremely

There are hundreds of acres of scattered small pastures. What use does Su Zhen have for those small pastures? The more those small pastures are bought, the higher the various costs will be. So old Archie is willing to sell all the pastures, which makes Su Zhen overjoyed.

.

"Haha, that's good, Alyssa, bring me the brandy that I treasure. I want to have a good drink with Su." Seeing that Su Zhen agreed, old Archie said to Mrs. Archie, and then smiled and wanted to say something

Su Zhen said, "Don't refuse, I know you are not an adult yet, but how can a cowboy not drink? The current laws are also true. In the past, children in the West started drinking at the age of twelve or thirteen.

So you have to drink this wine, as long as you don’t sue me afterwards."

"Oh no, of course not. I'd be more than happy to have a drink with you." Old Archie said that he had accepted the offer. Su Zhen would be a bit ungrateful if he refused again.

Soon Mrs. Emerson brought four glasses and an old-looking wine bottle.

"Haha, you know Su, this brandy was made from the peaches grown on the pasture when I married Alyssa. It was more than thirty years ago. It is definitely the best brandy," Old Archie said quite a bit.

I opened the wine bottle excitedly and poured half a glass for everyone. The rich aroma of wine immediately overflowed.

"It is indeed a good wine." Su Zhen smelled the aroma of the wine and praised it. Because Mark likes to drink, Su Zhen also knows something about wine. There is another famous name for the aging of brandy - XO. XO means EXTRA

(Exceptionally) OLD (old), top-grade aging. Only old puree wine can be called XO, and the aging period of brandy is 12 years to 50 years or even hundreds of years. However, in the West, due to various reasons,

Wine that can last for hundreds of years is extremely rare, so Old Archie’s 30-year-old brandy can be said to be of the highest quality.

When Su Zhen and Zishan left, both of them were already a little drunk. The degree of brandy was not low. Although it was not as strong as some high-strength wines, it was generally in the 30s or 40s, let alone something like this that was more than 30 years old.

The wine was aged, and Su Zhen was not completely drunk because of his good health. The purple shirt beside him was already swaying, and he could only rely on Su Zhen to support him. On the contrary, the two old men, although they also smelled of alcohol, were still very sober.

After putting the two of them in the car, they returned to the house.

When Su Zhen woke up the next day, the sun was already shining brightly. Seeing that Zishan was still sleeping soundly beside him, he took a bath by himself, then called Erica and asked her to contact Old Archie's lawyer.

To draft a contract, since the price was negotiated with Archie yesterday, the lawyers on both sides only need to prepare the contract, and then both parties will sign and pay.

Erica knew that Su Zhen went to discuss the ranch, but she didn't expect it to go so smoothly. What surprised her even more was that the deal was not just a ranch, but all the land owned by old Archie. In addition to knowing

In addition to the 620,000-acre ranch in California, there is also a 100,000-acre orchard in Orange County in southern California, a 150,000-acre farm and a 280,000-acre ranch in Tehema County in northern California, as well as two separate locations in California.

A 230,000-acre farm in Ellensburg, Washington, and a 290,000-acre ranch in Yakima. The total area of ​​these lands reaches 1.67 million acres, which is a huge land of more than 6,700 square kilometers, and because the transaction includes

All properties on these lands were acquired, so the total transaction value of this transaction reached an astonishing US$6.7 billion.

Although this transaction saddled Su Zhen with a huge debt of more than 4 billion US dollars, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a very cost-effective deal. At the same time, Su Zhen will also become the landowner with the most land in the United States, and

Debt does not mean anything, otherwise there would be no such thing as debt ratio. You must know that these pastures, farms and orchards are good assets that have been making profits. Su Zhen's goal this time has far exceeded his original goal.

Hope, this made Su Zhen happy for a long time.