Chapter 92: The Landlord of 180,000 Acres

After eating and drinking, Li Zitao returned to the hotel and sat by the window waiting for Ben's arrival.

Until the early hours of the morning, the 20-member team of our team finally arrived, and after asking the housekeeper to prepare supper, they discussed about tomorrow's meeting.

"Priority should be given to minerals and railway lines, and farms should be as close as possible..." Li Zitao's first consideration was oil and minerals.

As for animal husbandry, of course he will also consider it, but it should be ranked second.

Buying farms and intervening in animal husbandry, on the one hand, is hoarding land, and on the other hand, it is considering the future supply of McDonald's and Subway.

Owning its own production, research and development, and animal husbandry industrial parks is the trend of future development.

"By the way, did the survey company find it?" Li Zitao asked.

Ben, who was burying his head in his mouth, wiped his mouth and said, "We have commissioned three survey companies, and this will take a lot of time."

"Well, there's no rush." ​​Li Zitao tapped his fingers on the table, and continued: "When the deal with Morgan is completed, let them give priority to surveying those lands."

"Okay, boss." After wolfing down his supper, Ben went to rest under the arrangement of the housekeeper.

In the next few days, a lot of information and materials need to be checked, and there will be no sufficient rest time. Tonight is their last relaxing moment.

The next day, Li Zitao personally led the team to attack JP Morgan. It was Juliana who received them, but there was an executive director beside her.

Judging from the director's attitude towards her, Li Zitao can probably infer that her status in JP Morgan is at least as important as the director's.

No wonder being able to enter and leave the financial world that is 'forbidden by women' really has a lot of background!

"Let's get started!" Following Li Zitao's order, the three meeting rooms fell into a busy handover.

In addition to countless materials, there are three or five telephones on the table in each conference room. The think tank's huge peripheral team will be responsible for verifying asset information on the spot.

Although Li Zitao believes that JP. Morgan will not play tricks in the documents, it does not mean that there are no problems in these industries.

Morgan also has misjudgments. If Li Zitao's people can't tell which are garbage industries and which are high-quality industries, then they can't blame the other party for deliberately cheating him.

The entire transaction lasted 28 days before it was finally fully concluded.

In 28 days, it has expanded to 800+ outlying institutions and traveled all over 7 states.

As for Li Zitao's S.H.I.E.L.D., 600 graduates boarded a cruise ship to Liberia under the personal leadership of Samode.

As the only independent government country in Africa, Liberia also has a backer, and its supporter is the federal government of the United States.

As for sending Samoy to go, of course it is because of his skin color, the black brothers belong to the same family!

"Boss, the railway lines we got include the Chicago Northwest Railway, the San Antonio Railway, the Galveston West Railway, and the Midland Railway."

The corners of Li Zitao's mouth twitched when he heard this, it was like a hammer to the east and a hammer to the west.

Fortunately, most of the railway lines are in Texas. The biggest harvest is the more than 20 lines of the Chicago Northwest Railway Company.

In addition to the railway lines owned by Ace, and the railway lines radiating out from Chicago as the center, Li Zitao controls one-sixth.

"Unfortunately, the important arterial lines are in the hands of the Central Railway Company and the United Railway Company." Li Zitao muttered unwillingly.

The corners of Ben's eyes started to twitch again, and he really wanted to throw the documents in his hand on the table and leave, "Even if they go bankrupt, is there any part for you to intervene?"

That is an important arterial transportation route running through the east and west of the United States. With Li Zitao's current influence, even if he can initiate the acquisition, the federal government will veto the transaction.

Not to mention that they are in the hands of the Forbes and Vanderbilt families respectively,

That was two generations of American railroad tycoons.

However, as the Vanderbilt family grew more and more descendants, its wealth was greatly dispersed among each descendant, making its influence greatly reduced.

With the onset of the Great Depression, the railroad business fell off a cliff.

It is precisely because of this that a large number of railway companies have gone bankrupt. It is not known whether the Central Railway Company and the Consolidated Railway Company can survive this disaster.

"If the boss grows faster, it's not impossible to take them down." Ben thought silently in his heart.

"Merge all the rail lines into Ace, do an accounting review of it, did anyone ask about the recent McDonald's franchising?"

"Many people are asking, when will we open up the right to operate?" Ben's eyes lit up when he mentioned this matter.

The potential shown by McDonald's is higher than what the think tank predicted. Those clean, fast and cheap burgers are far more popular than their phenomenon.

"There is news that only 50 places are open in each state at present, so let me kill them severely." Li Zitao didn't mean to be soft-hearted at all.

He has no money now, and if McDonald's doesn't make any more money, he'll have to drink Northwest Wind.

"Understood, BOSS, in the valley between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the San Rafael Mountains, we purchased a large number of pastures, occupying about three-quarters of the entire valley,

The total area is 3,000 acres. According to the survey, the local pastures are mostly aquaculture. In addition, it was once a famous grape growing area in California.

Before Prohibition, more than 80 wineries opened there. "

"Send people to the local area to hire experienced winemakers, re-cultivate the wine industry, and select the best quality pasture breeding grounds as professional horse farms,

Beef cattle and free-range chickens are all used in other places. Is it suitable for growing vegetables? "

"Of course, California is a big agricultural state, the most suitable for growing vegetables and fruits."

"Where's the lettuce?" Li Zitao asked.

"The weather there is very good, the southwest can maintain seven hours of sunshine a day, no problem at all."

Lettuce, that is, lettuce.

"The Asa Ranch near the main road of Solvang is a famous horse farm and livestock ranch in Santa Barbara County. The beef cattle raised there are basically supplied to high-end restaurants."

"Is the distance between the two places far?" Li Zitao asked.

"Less than 100 kilometers." Ben flipped through the files.

"How big is Asa's area?"

"Over 10,000 acres."

Li Zitao was a little surprised, and immediately said: "Use the Asa Ranch as the main breeding place, build a professional slaughterhouse and experimental field, and be responsible for the food supply under the Golden Arches in the future."

10,000 acres, fully enough for current consumption.

"We also have a lot of ranch and land in northern Texas, Asia (Arizona), southeastern Ohio, and Alaska, with a total area of ​​180,000 acres."

180,000 acres, more than 700 square kilometers, twice the size of New York City, Li Zitao's head hurts.

With such a huge land, it is necessary to recruit management on a large scale.

The previous three surveying companies were simply not enough. If they finished surveying these lands alone, World War II might have already broken out.

"Acquire a survey company, purchase equipment, recruit experienced personnel, conduct a comprehensive survey of the land currently owned, and check out every inch of resources for me."

Grandma's, this is the land he bought back with real money. Although the price is cheap, it is still money!

The price of these lands is actually not cheap, and the unit price of some high-quality pastures is as high as $600 per acre.

Of course, there are also cheap ones, such as the desolate and uninhabited Alaska.

The land there is half sold and half given away. It only costs 8 dollars an acre, which is about the same price as a beef cattle, and it is almost like saying "hematemesis is a big sale." '

The small company that bought these lands at the beginning also had the idea of ​​trying their luck, and drilled wells in the enclosures one by one, hoping to see if they could mine black gold.

They bought it for $10 an acre, which is just as pitifully low.

This is because the Geological Bureau of the United States believes that there are potential oil layers and natural gas fields in Alaska, otherwise it may really be given away.

Covering an area of ​​1,717,854 square kilometers, accounting for 20% of the total area of ​​the United States is still a region, not even a state. How miserable is this?

The northern part of Alaska is in the Arctic Circle, and the weather is cold all year round. Except for the southern inland area, which is suitable for living, other places can freeze to death.

Fur traders and salmon fishing and processing industries are the most abundant in Alaska. In 1897, gold mines were discovered here.

So the gold rush has also made this place more lively, but in comparison, people are more willing to go to San Francisco and California to pan for gold, rather than to Alaska, which is frozen all year round.

So all in all, this place is a desolate ice land.

Walk outside for ten days and ten nights, don't talk about meeting someone, there are no ghosts!

In order to purchase these lands, Li Zitao spent a total of 60 million US dollars, and the other four railway lines spent 36 million US dollars.

Among them, the Chicago Northwest Railway is the most expensive, and its price alone is 13 million.

"Send people to survey Alaska first. Didn't the Geological Bureau say that there are oil layers there? Drill deeper for me!!" Li Zitao growled like a hungry wolf.

Thinking of the weather in that ghostly place, Ben felt his teeth aching: "Looks like I'll have to pay a lot of labor costs again."

The harvest in mines is also not small, and they won the Tyrone Open Pit Copper Mine in New Mexico, the Chint Open Pit Copper Mine, and the Henderson Molybdenum Mine and the Aurora Molybdenum Mine in Colorado.

The cost reached 8 million, of which the two molybdenum mines accounted for 77% of the cost.

Molybdenum is currently being widely used in medical and agricultural fertilizers.

And some scientists discovered to him that molybdenum element can produce many changes in steel, coupled with the scarcity of known molybdenum ore, making its price too high.

In fact, there are still many options for the South American sector, but considering the complicated situation between the United States and Mexico, Li Zitao feels that these things should be considered later.

"All the acquired minerals are merged into FSC, and the compensation for minority shareholders must be done well." In order not to leave people with trouble, Li Zitao also specifically explained that he must give them enough compensation.

The more the status and identity are different, the more Li Zitao has to pay attention to the influence of this aspect.

Human beings are very complicated animals, and they always like to sympathize with the weak. If Li Zitao and the Kendy family, Morgan, and Rockefeller are in trouble.

People all over the country are melon-eating people, and they all sit there with small benches and wait to watch a good show.

But if he, a Chinese, bullies the small shareholders who are weaker than him, hehe...

If it weren't for SHIELD and he was lucky enough to get Eisenhower's support, he would have been shot black many times now.

Why are Rockefeller and Morgan Jr. walking alone in the street, people will only pay respectful greetings and high respect to them, instead of a shiny bullet?

Because of their sense of racial identity, they are recognized by the whole country, and Li Zitao wants to achieve this, very difficult, very difficult.