Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 615: Taking the position of mayor as expected
After singing a romantic song with Maria, Chu Xiangqian returned to the manor at around 5 p.m.

Seeing a few acquaintances from the town coming over in advance, Chu Xiangqian was moved. He stepped forward to chat with them for a few words, pretending to be casual, and mentioned the mayor and assistant of the town.

Sheriff Will frowned slightly after hearing this. It seemed that his relationship with the mayor was not as good as Maria said.

It makes sense when you think about it. Will is the Sheriff directly elected by the townspeople. Although he is responsible to the mayor at work, Will's character is the most annoying when someone points fingers at him.

Even though Chu Xiangqian was his financial backer, he would still take care of his face when getting along with him.

Seeing that Will was unhappy, Chu Xiangqian simply stopped mentioning the invitation to the mayor.

Just know that once the mayor is in trouble, no one in the town will help him.

While chatting with Will and others, I couldn't help but mention the town's high school basketball team, which reached the top 32 of the high school league state at the end of this year.

Sports rely on talent, but whether a team's performance is good or not depends on money.

If you have money, you can train more and invite talented students to attend high schools in small towns and play games.

In this case, it is better to focus on basketball, which is not ranked high.

It can be said that as long as there is enough money, it is possible to enter the high school national league next year.

Previously, Chu donated only 1.8 yuan to a small town high school the year before, sponsoring basketball, football, and baseball.

Then we chatted and talked about the ranches in the town that would go bankrupt or be on the verge of bankruptcy in the second half of this year.

Even those ranches that follow the trend of Chu Qiang and engage in ranch tourism projects will basically encounter increasingly difficult operating problems without obtaining loans from banks.

After hearing this, officials from several small towns couldn't help but hurriedly thanked him. 2 a month, which would be a year.

Sure enough, the residents, ranchers, and cowboys of the town were very worried and vigilant at first.

It is indeed more comfortable than paying taxes directly.

More people hope that the pastures will continue to decline, or they are worried that the animal disaster will expand and may not be solved at all within a year or two.

Basketball these days may not even rank among the top three among all popular ball sports in the country.

As for how much to donate.

The extra $2.4 that Chu donated to Xiang Xiang was money that was to be used in the name of charity, but now the money was used on the small town basketball team according to his wishes.

Naturally, there are fewer buyers who will buy ranches at this time.

The third highest probability is ice hockey, and the fourth most likely is basketball.

Naturally, the price of beef cannot be sold at a good price.

There is no doubt that the first and second ones must be football and baseball.

At this time, there are fewer potential buyers.

It's just that he, the richest man in the town, has no desire to expand, so he doesn't pose much of a threat to other ranches.

But as two or three months passed, Chu Xiangqian showed no regard for those ranches at all, which instead made the town residents, cowboys, and ranchers worried.

Coupled with wheat prices in North America and Canada, prices have remained low for almost two years.

Therefore, Chu Xiangqian knew very well that even if he spent hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars on small town high schools, he would not be able to get good results in football or baseball.

In this case, it is inevitable that a new rich man with unknown character and personality suddenly came to the town. It is better to persuade Chu Xiangqian to buy those ranches.

It hasn't snowed yet in November, but there are groups of wild boars breaking into the pastures in search of food.

It's not that Chu Xiangqian doesn't want to expand, but that he knows that sometimes he has to take a step back to achieve his goals.

Even if the ranch is under the name of the fund, the fund will donate 5% of all assets under its name every year, and the rules for charity will not change.

As the ranch began to receive tourists in August this year, while the income increased, the total assets of the ranch also increased.

If we can't top up the scholarship of US$200 every month, we won't be able to recruit three or five more talented high school students.

In recent years, investing in ranching has not been a good project.

Ranch valuations across California have dropped by 10% or even 20% overall.

And as the value of ranches falls, it becomes harder to get loans from banks.

In the past six months, Chu Xiangqian had been suppressing Maria, preventing her from acquiring several ranches in the town.

Silently calculating the increased amount, Chu Qianqian smiled and nodded, "No problem, starting next month, I will specifically sponsor the small town basketball team for an additional $2 every month."

The total amount of money donated to the town was only about 3. Once the high school basketball team performed well, the amount immediately increased by 2.4.

Before today, Chu Xiangqian would indeed buy several ranches in the town that were bankrupt or really unsustainable after being persuaded by Will and others.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but feel that he might be able to pay more attention to the small town high school basketball team in the future.

If there are really good talents, they have already been poached by those prestigious private schools.

As a sponsor of a high school basketball team, once the basketball team performs well, it means that his voice in the town will increase.

And this year, a serious animal disaster broke out in Bells, which is just over 160 kilometers away from the small town of Solvang.

This is something to be proud of for all small town residents.

Not only Chu Xiangqian knew what these people were thinking.

According to the current per capita salary in the country of only US$1800 per year, these US$200 can support a family of five, not to mention a high school student.

But since we want to push Maria to enter politics, it is better for her to come forward and lend three to five thousand US dollars in the name of the Cattle and Sheep Development Fund to those ranches that are almost unsustainable, so that they can overcome this difficulty.

As for the ranches that have been taken away by the bank, that's embarrassing, and Chu Xiangqian really doesn't like those ranches.

Apart from being small in area and scattered in different directions, there is nothing of value in the pasture.

If you buy it, you will have to send people over to maintain the operation of the new ranch.

Sure enough, when they heard that the Cattle and Sheep Fund could lend money to ranchers in small towns at low prices, the attention of people like Will immediately focused on the loan conditions.

Chu Xiangqian pretended not to understand this matter and said he would leave it to Maria.

After she discusses it with lawyers, accountants and others, she will announce a charter.

And the interest rate is lower than that of banks. Now even Will wants to take out a loan to buy a ranch.

What Chu Xiangqian didn't expect was that Robert would return to Los Angeles so quickly.

In just two days, a prosecutor came to the door with a search warrant from the court. Not only did he scare the mayor, but he was also caught off guard. He actually found evidence against him in his office and home.

When the mayor was taken away, he just thought he would be investigated because he offended a competitor in Santa Barbara County.

With the mayor gone, it was natural to choose a successor, at least a temporary replacement.

Chu Xiangqian no longer had any scruples, and successively invited the town police chief, primary and secondary school principals, assistant to the mayor, and other people with or without surnames to come to the ranch for interviews.

They also asked Simon, the head cowboy of the ranch, and Sam Gordon, who had previously been responsible for managing all the cowboys at Tucker Ranch, to go to the town to find other cowboys and ranchers to build relationships.

Even the boss of the small town's construction company was called over by Chu Xiangqian to make a promise.

Seeing that Chu Xiangqian gave him another hundreds of thousands of dollars for a project, the boss of the construction company immediately patted his chest and promised that all construction workers working under him would definitely vote for Maria when they vote in the future.

And this guy's influence in the town is not small.

After all, there are more than twenty workers working under him, and even more are hired temporarily.

Only then did Chu Xiangqian pat the other party's shoulder with satisfaction.

Not surprisingly, before Chu Qianqian flew back to Hong Kong Island with Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong Sheng, Feifei and Eyuan, Maria was elected as the mayor of the town as she wished.

The first thing she did was to form the Solvang Town Tourism Development Association.

The next step is to standardize the charging standards, and at the same time, in the name of the town, negotiate cooperation with the travel company that has already cooperated with Chu Xiangqian's ranch.

As a result, it goes without saying that at least 30% of ranchers and cowboys have increased their incomes.

Immediately, the funds in the two funds established by Chu Xiangqian for tax avoidance were also given to Maria for her disposal.

Relief for orphaned elderly people or single mothers with children may only cost thirty or fifty US dollars a month. Overall, it only costs several thousand US dollars a year.

But the popularity and popularity gained are not small.

There is also what Chu Xiangqian mentioned before, the improvement of basic equipment in primary and secondary schools, which is now being started in Maria's hands.

Under the name of the M&S Fund established by Chu Xiangqian, it not only holds all the shares of the ranch, but also holds 20% of the shares of Universal Pictures.

In other words, this fund now holds at least US$1500 million in fixed assets, as well as millions in dividends received from film companies.

With an annual charity expenditure of 5%, almost US$100 million needs to be spent.

Not to mention improving the basic equipment of primary and secondary schools in small towns, it would be no problem to build a new campus in two or three years.

But not to mention that Chu Xiangqian wouldn't do this, and Maria wouldn't be so stupid. After spending a little money to gain a foothold in the small town, she set her sights on Los Angeles.

Of course, it is impossible for Chu Xiangqian to hand over all of the annual quota of 1 million to Maria.

Many of the expenses of myself and Margaret were actually spent on funds from the fund.

As long as you work in the fund or be a beneficiary of the fund, you can have a lot of expenses paid by the fund in the name of business trips, inspections, etc.

This method is now and will be a common method used by many wealthy people.

Some rich people and their wives and children have very few assets in their names, but their family can enjoy the most luxurious life by relying on trusts or family funds.

After settling Maria's matter, Chu Xiangqian felt relieved and took Xue Jinglan and others to fly back to the capital on a private plane.

After returning to Beijing and leaving this time, the private plane will take the master, mistress, Gong Er, Yixiantian and Lao Jiang to the ranch to escape the cold.

Of course, before leaving, Chu Qianqian made another trip to Panama City.

While successfully handing over 4700 million in cash to Pablo, he also received a bill of lading for 34 tons of wheat.

In the past few months, hundreds of thousands of tons of grain have been purchased each time. As expected, the price of grain in South America has increased by 15%.

And despite the fact that Brazil, Argentina, and Chile are major exporters of food and meat, in fact the people are often short of food.

To put it bluntly, pastures and farms are basically in the hands of individuals and large companies. They can earn more from exports, and these capitalists don’t care whether ordinary people can have enough to eat.

Ichiro Matsuno relayed Pablo's words. Several large grain merchants in South America have been importing large amounts of wheat from Magnesium and Canada in the past two or three months.

In order to cope with Pablo's order of three to four hundred thousand tons every month.

The previous 40 tons of grain, inevitably due to rising grain prices, could only be delivered to Chu Xiangqian with 34 tons of wheat.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care much about this. It was already early December 61. It was previously estimated that from July to the end of the year, he might not even be able to buy 12 million tons of grain.

Now, because Pablo used his connections in South America, 8 million tons of grain has been taken away from Porto Alegre, Brazil, in four consecutive months from August to November.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian bought more than 60 tons of rice in large quantities from the north of Tianzhu. Although there was still a shortage in Tianzhu, there were 210 million tons of wheat, rice and corn.

Coupled with the food purchased by the Celestial Empire in the past few months, the famine situation within the Celestial Empire was far better than that of Chu Xiangqian's previous life.

At least judging from Chu Xiangqian's own news channels, it is rare to hear of large-scale starvation to death in the past six months.
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The plane landed smoothly at the Beijing Airport. When I got off the plane, I saw a young man wearing a green military uniform standing next to my second uncle.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be that boy Zhang Haiyang.

When Zhang Haiyang saw that it was really Chu Xiangqian who got off the plane, he was filled with excitement and admiration.

I thought that the husband Xue Jinglan married was only good at hunting and kung fu, but I didn't expect that he didn't go to the south, but went abroad to make a lot of money.

After Chu Qianqian got off the plane, he glanced at Xue Jianguo with a frown, and saw his second uncle shrugging, "Who asked you to come back on a private plane, and also informed you that you would take your master, Mrs. Gong, and Mr. Gong to spend the winter in Los Angeles.

Just covering for you has increased my workload several times, so I simply applied to my superiors and asked Haiyang to come over and help me. "

Chu Xiangqian nodded. Zhang Haiyang's identity goes without saying. He is a high-ranking cadre's son and grew up in the same compound as Xue Jianguo and Xue Jinglan. He is far more trustworthy than others.

And this boy is quite reliable. If it were a boy like Zhong Yuemin, he would keep it for himself and refuse immediately.

The two cars quickly drove out of the airport, and although the plane landed at the airport, the parking area was quite far from the area where civil aviation aircraft parked.

After entering the capital, it is natural to go to the front gate first and enter the courtyard.

Master Shifu, Gong Er, Yi Yiantian and Lao Jiang were so happy when they saw Chu Qianqian and his wife, Hong Kong Sheng, Feifei and Eyuan moving in with them as soon as they came back.

Chu Xiangqian was also in the car just now and learned from Xue Jianguo that although Zhang Haiyang had passed the inspection period, he knew very little.

Now the best guess is that Chu Qianqian made a fortune after going abroad, and then he had the money to fly back instead of buying a private jet to fly back.

Even how Chu Xiangqian earned money was arranged by his superiors, who directly assigned him the title of chief overseas representative of Beijing Import and Export Trading Company.

In other words, in Zhang Haiyang's heart, Chu Xiangqian was still a member of the public family.

(End of this chapter)