Chapter 56 Acquisition of Ranch (2)

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

Yang Cheng sprinkled mayonnaise and black pepper sauce on the plate, saving the trouble of having to dip it every time! While eating the meat, he quickly tapped on the screen of the phone with his right hand.

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

After reading Ke'er's reply twice, with a fork in her mouth, she typed with both hands, "Yes, where do you want to go?"

At present, the project of acquiring Forum Publishing Company is in the negotiation stage, and Yang Sen is in charge of the bargaining work, and it is up to Yang Cheng to negotiate by himself, and it is estimated that JP Morgan will pick up the skin.

He doesn't need to stare at him every day. Now that information transmission is so developed, many things can be settled with a phone call. If it doesn't work, he can make a video call, or if it doesn't work, he will fly back urgently. It only takes 10 hours, and of course it can't be too far away.

"To New Zealand?"

Yang Cheng put down the plate, took a sip of juice, and wondered if New Zealand was a little far away. At this time, the highlights of the Brazil World Cup were played on the TV. She stuck out her tongue and licked the corner of her mouth before typing on her mobile phone.

"New Zealand will talk about it later, shall we go to Rio? The World Cup is being held there. Do you like football? It's not American football, I mean English football."

"Football? It's okay, go to Rio if you like, the beach there is also good."

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

"A week from now? I'm going to be on Jimmy's Tonight Show in a few days."

"Okay, call me when you're done, and I'll arrange the itinerary."

"OK honey..."

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3 days later, the last day of June, the sky was cloudy and it seemed that it was going to rain.

It was 9 o'clock in the morning, and Yang Cheng walked out of the bedroom of the Imperial Suite in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Her hair, which had not been taken care of for a long time, was a little long, and it was fluffy and deformed due to the pressure of sleeping.

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

After he assigned the task 3 days ago, White set off in a light car. Every time he went to a place, he would call Yang Cheng and make a simple report. Last night, White was still in San Diego, and he appeared in New York in the morning. After flying back overnight, the dark circles around my eyes were heavy.

"Mr. sorry, I disturbed your sleep. That's it. I was supposed to visit a ranch in Montana today as planned, but last night I suddenly received a call from Mr. Juan, the owner of the Juan ranch. He said that he urgently needs A cash payment to repay the bank loan, if we cannot make a decision as soon as possible, he will sell the ranch to the buyer who bids slightly lower but can pay the cash immediately." White apologized to Yang Cheng and told the reason quickly and concisely .

Yang Cheng shook his head to wake himself up, put his hands in the pockets of his pajamas, and recalled in his mind the information about the Juan Ranch that White had introduced the day before yesterday when he arrived in California.

Juan Ranch is located in the northeast of Santa Barbara, close to the valley of the Padres National Forest Park, covering an area of ​​more than 8,300 acres, about 33 square kilometers. It is a famous luxury private ranch in Tennessee - "Blackberry Ranch" , a vacation ranch built for the blueprint.

The ranch belongs to the radiating range of Los Angeles. It is 2 hours' drive from Los Angeles and only 30 minutes' drive from downtown Santa Barbara. The transportation is quite convenient.

The reason why White valued it the most and strongly recommended it to Yang Cheng is that Juan Ranch has a complete infrastructure, with fishing, horse riding, golf, hunting and other entertainment items. It only needs to invest a small amount of money to rebuild and repair according to the plan.

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

In the beginning, Juan Ranch was positioned to target middle-class families in the western United States, giving these people who are busy with work a place where they can spend leisure time with their families.

However, Juan, the owner of the ranch, is eager to recover the cost, which leads to excessively high prices. The middle class can’t afford it, and the real rich don’t bother to come. The situation is very embarrassing. If Juan realizes the problem earlier and makes timely adjustments, it will not be unrecoverable. However, Juan is too confident and prefers to believe that it is not his business problem that no one comes, but the lack of vision of customers.

Over time, Juan Ranch has been branded as a mid-range brand. This label is difficult to remove no matter how many advertisements and praises you place. You missed the opportunity to enter the high-end field and did not retain the brand 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’s ranch had consumed more than 90% of Juan’s assets, and the subsequent construction relied on bank loans, and there was no other source of income to transfuse the ranch, so now the only option is to sell it.

Some people may be worried, since the Juan Ranch has been marked with a certain label, will Yang Cheng be able to change the status quo after taking over?

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

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

When White reported the day before yesterday, he quoted $32 million to Yang Cheng. If the land is leased alone, the price is a bit high. Even in California, if the added value including infrastructure is included, $32 million is not that much. It's hard to accept.

But Yang Cheng is not so stupid that he has so much money that he will pay whatever price is quoted by others. He can't afford to be hurt without a golden finger, alas. . . Why is it that the other rebirth party is both a space and a system, and he has to make money by himself, which is unreasonable. . .

"Well... do you know what price the other buyer paid?" Yang Cheng sat down, folded his hands on his shoulders and asked in a deep thought.

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

Yang Cheng just wondered that this matter could be resolved with a single phone call, so why bother to fly back here on purpose, so it turned out that he poached White by himself and caught the Waldorf Astoria by surprise. After all, each imperial suite corresponds to an exclusive butler, White Sudden resignation, or jumping to work for his own super VIP client, under the circumstances of insufficient preparation, I guess I want to try to save White.

This is all understandable, of course Yang Cheng will not criticize it, "Okay, you can talk first, there should be enough time in the morning, we will leave at noon and fly directly to Santa Barbara, and you will inform Mr. Juan in a while, and I will personally Visit the ranch."

New York is 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles. Santa Barbara and Los Angeles belong to the West 8th district. It takes off from New York at noon. It should be noon when it arrives in Santa Barbara. Just looking at the time on the watch seems to have teleported.

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

Speaking of which, it was his first time to Santa Barbara, and when he got off the plane, he was still sighing 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 building with white walls and red tiles, surrounded by green palm trees, and the white sand separated the small town from the blue sea, which was as beautiful as A picture scroll slowly unfolded in front of Yang Cheng's eyes.

Stepping on the land of Santa Barbara, Yang Cheng was surrounded by a lazy sun, which made him slow down unconsciously, as if stepping hard would destroy the tranquility of the small town.

The ground staff waved at Yang Cheng with a warm smile to welcome the guests. That warm and friendly smile infected everyone including Yang Cheng.

At this moment, he found that he fell in love with this small town for no reason, and he couldn't tell, but there was a magnet-like attraction in the dark, holding Yang Cheng's heart.

"White, I like Santa Barbara, you made a great choice." Looking back, he praised White, took out his toad glasses and put them on, the midday sun was a bit dazzling.

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

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

White walked over to shake 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, indicating that this person is difficult to deal with, and reminding Yang Cheng to deal with it carefully.

Yang Cheng nodded clearly, and stretched out his hand first, with a polite and harmless smile on his face, he said, "Hello, Mr. Juan, I'm Yang Cheng, just call me Jason, very nice to meet you, I can see from the pictures that your ranch is beautiful."

David Juan's height was about the same as Yang Cheng's, and his appearance was very tough. His thick beard grew on his chin, adding a bit of fierceness. He stretched out his hand unsmilingly, and held it in Yang Cheng's hand like a shovel.

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

Hansen stepped forward to give a good look to this country bumpkin who despises his boss. Yang Cheng patted Hansen on the back, indicating that he was fine, "Do as you please, I understand your rules, so let's go? Mr. Juan ?”

Withdrawing the deformed and numb hand held by David Juan, he shook it in the air with a wry smile to restore blood circulation, touched his nose, and thought, "No wonder the ranch can't continue to operate, this temper is really stinky. "

Looking at the back of the person walking in front, Yang Cheng shook his head. He was not annoyed by David Juan's vulgar attitude. On the contrary, he liked dealing with this kind of moody guy, who wrote everything in the The person on the face is relatively simpler and simpler, one is one and two is two, and I don’t bother to talk to you about one more decimal point.

If it's the kind of old fox who can't show his emotions and anger, and can keep smiling all the way to the front of the army, Yang Cheng will be even more afraid.

Smiling and walking out of the airport with hands behind his back, he looked around at the clean and tidy streets. The gentle breeze carried the fragrance of flowers, which was refreshing. He squinted his eyes and took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly, feeling very good.