Chapter 56： Acquisition of ranch (2)

"Traveling? Why do you suddenly have this idea?"

Yangcheng sprinkled mayonnaise and black pepper sauce on the plate, saving you having to dip every time, trouble! Taking a big bite of meat, his right hand quickly tapped on the phone screen.

"I have been busy with the Victoria's Secret show in the past few years. Or I have a baby and haven't been on vacation for a long time. I just have time recently. Why don't we go together?"

After reading Kerr's reply twice, with a fork in his mouth, he typed in with both hands, "Yes, where do you want to go?"

The project for the acquisition of Forum Publishing Company is currently in the bargaining stage. The bargaining work is carried out by Yang Sen. Yang Cheng relies on Yang Cheng to talk about it.

He doesn't need to stare every day. Now that the information transmission is so advanced, many things can be negotiated with a single phone call. If it doesn't work, it will be video, or if it doesn't work, it will fly back urgently. It takes only 10 hours, of course, it can't be too far.

"To New Zealand?"

Yang Cheng put down the plate, took a sip of the juice, wondering if New Zealand was a bit far away. At this time, the highlights of the Brazil World Cup match were put on the TV. He stretched out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, typing on the phone.

"New Zealand will have a chance to talk about it later, shall we go to Rio? The World Cup is being held there. Do you like football? Not American football. I am talking about English football."

"Football? Fortunately, go to Rio if you like. The beaches there are also good."

"That's it, when can you leave?"

"A week from now? I will be participating in the recording of Jimmy Tonight Show in a few days."

"Yes, call me when you are done, and I will arrange the schedule."

"OK dear..."

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Three days later, on the last day of June, the sky was a little gloomy and it seemed to be raining.

It was 9 o'clock in the morning, and Yang Cheng walked out of the bedroom of the Waldorf Astoria imperial suite. The hair that had not been taken care of for a long time was a bit long, and his sleep was compressed and deformed.

Rubbing his hair, yawning, drooping his eyelids, looking vaguely at the dusty White waiting in the living room, said silently, "White, are you back so soon?"

He finished the assignment 3 days ago, and White set off in a light car. Everywhere he went, he would call Yang Cheng to make a simple report. White was still in San Diego last night and appeared in New York in the morning. Flying back overnight, the dark circles in his eyes were heavy.

"Mr. sorry, I disturbed you to sleep. That's it. I was supposed to go to a ranch in Montana today as planned. But last night I suddenly received a call from the owner of Juan Ranch, Mr. Juan. He said on the phone that he needed urgently. A cash repayment of the bank loan. If we can’t make a decision as soon as possible, he will sell the ranch to the buyer who offers a lower bid but can pay the cash immediately.” White apologized to Yang Cheng and quickly and concisely explained the reason. .

Yang Cheng shook his head to wake up, put his hands in the pockets of his pajamas, and recalled the information about Juan Ranch introduced by White after arriving in California the day before yesterday.

Juan Ranch is located in the northeast of Santa Barbara, in the valley close to Padris National Forest Park. It covers an area of ​​more than 8,300 acres and approximately 33 square kilometers. It is a luxury private ranch known as Tennessee-'Blackberry Ranch' , A resort ranch built for the blueprint.

The ranch belongs to the radiation area of ​​Los Angeles. It is a 2-hour drive from Los Angeles and a 30-minute drive from downtown Santa Barbara. The transportation is fairly convenient.

The reason why White values ​​it most and recommends it to Yang Cheng is that Juan Ranch has a complete infrastructure, fishing, horse riding, golf, hunting and other entertainment projects. After Yang Cheng receives it, it does not need to spend too much time to rebuild. As long as a small amount of funds is invested in reconstruction and repair as envisaged.

The reason why Juan Ranch has come to this day and is unable to sustain it is entirely due to the inaccurate positioning of the ranch owner and his stubborn personality.

In the beginning, the positioning of Juan Ranch was to target middle-class families in the western United States, and to give those people who are busy with work a place to spend leisure time with their families.

However, the owner of the ranch, Juan, is eager to recover the cost, resulting in overpriced, middle class can not afford to spend, and the real rich are disdainful, the situation is very embarrassing, if Juan realized the problem early and made timely adjustments, it would not be impossible to recover. However, Juan is overly confident and prefers to believe that it is not his business problem that no one comes, but the lack of vision of the customer.

After a long period of time, Juan Ranch was branded as a mid-level brand. This label is difficult to take off as many ads and praises as you put on it. You missed the opportunity to enter the high-end field, and did not keep what you depend on for survival. For middle-class customers, the business of Juan Ranch has gone from bad to worse, to the point where no one cares about it this year.

The acquisition of Juan Ranch that year has consumed more than 90% of Juan's assets. The subsequent construction relies on bank loans, and there is no other source of income to transfusion to the ranch, so now there is only the option of selling.

Some people may be worried that now that Juan Ranch has been put on a certain label, can Yang Cheng change the status quo after receiving it?

In fact, this is not the case. First, the purpose of Yang Cheng's acquisition of the ranch is not to make money, but to use it for leisure and vacation, as long as it can be self-sufficient to maintain a balance of payments.

Second, with Yang Cheng, Yang Sen, and grandfather Liu Muqian's contacts, there is no need to consider whether anyone will come to play after the ranch reopens. Instead, you need to worry about whether too many people will disturb the quiet environment.

When White reported on the day before yesterday, the quotation for Yang Cheng was 32 million U.S. dollars. If the land is leased alone, the price is a bit high. Even in California, but including the added value of infrastructure, 32 million U.S. dollars is not so. It's hard to accept.

But no one in Yang Cheng is so stupid that he has so much money that others will quote any price. . . Why is the other rebirth party both a space and a system, and he still has to make money on his own? . .

"Hmm... Do you know what the other buyer paid?" Yang Cheng sat down and asked with his hands on his shoulders.

White shook his head, "I flew back before I had time to investigate, and it happened that the HR of the Waldorf Astoria asked me to talk."

Yang Chenggang was still wondering that this matter could be solved with a single phone call, so why bother to fly back? So, I wanted to poach White by himself and caught the Waldorf Astoria by surprise. After all, each imperial suite corresponds to an exclusive housekeeper, White. Suddenly resigned, or quit to work with his own super VIP client. In the case of insufficient preparation, I would like to try to save White.

This is understandable. Of course, Yang Cheng will not be provoked by this. "Okay, you can talk first. The time in the morning should be enough. We will leave for Santa Barbara at noon. You will inform Mr. Juan in a moment and I will personally Visit the ranch."

New York is three hours faster than Los Angeles. Santa Barbara and Los Angeles belong to the West Eighth District. They departed from New York at noon. It should be noon when they arrived in Santa Barbara. The time on the watch seems to be teleported.

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At 12:20 noon local time, Yang Cheng’s Yuanshan ship landed safely at Santa Barbara Airport.

Speaking of it, this is the first time he has visited Santa Barbara. When he got off the plane, he still sighed that this is a city full of Spanish style.

Before landing, Yang Cheng deliberately looked down from the porthole of the plane, and saw a white-walled and red-tiled building surrounded by green palm trees. The white sandy beach separated the small city from the blue sea, as beautiful as A picture scroll slowly unfolded in front of Yang Cheng's eyes.

Stepping on the land of Santa Barbara, a lazy sunlight envelops Yang Cheng, causing him to slow down unconsciously, as if stepping on a heavy step would destroy the tranquility of the town.

The ground crew waved their hands at Yang Cheng with a warm smile, welcoming the guests. The warm and cordial smile infected everyone including Yang Cheng.

At this moment, he found that he had fallen in love with this small city. There was no reason for it. There was no one, two or three. There was a magnet-like attraction in the dark that held Yang Cheng's heart.

"White, I like Santa Barbara, you made a great choice." Turning back and complimenting White, he took out a toad mirror and put it on. The noon sun was a bit dazzling.

A group of 4 people walked out of the airport, White walked a few steps past Yang Cheng, and walked towards an old cowboy wearing a cowboy hat, jeans and a gun belt at his waist.

Yang Cheng secretly guessed that this is Juan, the owner of the ranch?

White walked over and shook hands with the old cowboy, chatted briefly, and brought him back to Yang Cheng.

"Sir, this is David Juan, the owner of Juan Ranch." While introducing Yang Cheng, White also winked at Yang Cheng and signaled that this person is not easy to deal with. Remind Yang Cheng to be cautious.

Yang Cheng nodded clearly and stretched out his hand first, with a harmless and polite smile on his face, and said, "Hello, Mr. Juan, this is Yang Cheng. Just call me Jason. I am very happy to meet you. I can see from the picture that your ranch is very beautiful."

David Juan is about the same height as Yang Cheng. He looks very tough, with a thick beard on his chin, adding a bit fierce, unsmiling hand out, and holding it in Yang Cheng's hand like a shovel.

"I'm not good, put away your nonsense, and now take you to the ranch, and I will leave immediately if you leave a check. If you don't like it, don't waste time. You leave by yourself, understand?"

Hansen stepped forward to show the hillbilly who despised his boss, Yang Cheng patted Hansen on the back and signaled that he was okay, "Whatever you do, I understand your rules, then let's go? Mr. Juan ?"

He took back the deformed and numb palm held by David Juan, shook it in the air with a wry smile, and regained blood circulation, touched his nose, and said in his heart, "No wonder the ranch can't go on, this temper is really stinking. "

Looking at the back figure walking in front, Yang Cheng shook his head. He was not irritated by David Juan’s vulgar attitude. On the contrary, he liked to deal with this kind of happy, angry guy, who wrote everything in this way. The person on the face is relatively simpler and simpler, one is one, two is two, and one more decimal point is too lazy to talk to you.

If it is the kind of old fox whose joy and anger are invisible, and the army can always keep smiling before the battle, it will make Yang Cheng even more jealous.

smiled and walked out of the airport with his hands on his back, looking around the clean and tidy street, the gentle breeze with the fragrance of flowers, refreshing, squinted his eyes and took a deep breath, then slowly spit out, feeling very good.