All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

Zhou Yongcheng hung up the phone and stood to one side of the hall, looking at the documents on the wall.

"Zhou Yongcheng?"

Zhou Yongcheng turned around and saw a woman in business attire.

The woman was about the same age as Zhou Yongcheng, and not very tall, probably only about 1.5 meters.

She wasn't particularly beautiful, but her features were well-proportioned and she had a pleasing appearance that grew on you.

Zhou Yongcheng thought the woman looked familiar, and suddenly he called out.

"Zhang Min?"

Zhang Min was Zhou Yongcheng's junior high school classmate. They weren't particularly close, but they knew each other since they were classmates.

"I thought you didn't recognize me. What are you doing here? Aren't you cold wearing so little?"

Zhou Yongcheng was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, while others were already wearing two, and they were even thicker ones.

"I've come to see the county head about something. You work here."

Zhang Min sized up Zhou Yongcheng. He was looking for the county magistrate to do something. Did Zhou Yongcheng know County Magistrate Zhu?

"Yes, I'm at the Civil Affairs Bureau, I'm here to take care of some business."

At this moment, a young man in his twenties walked into the hall. He looked around, saw Zhou Yongcheng, and walked over.

"Mr. Zhou Yongcheng?"

Zhou Yongcheng turned his head and saw a young man, who must be the secretary the county magistrate had mentioned.

"Yes, that's me. Wait a moment." Zhou Yongcheng turned to Zhang Min and said, "I have something to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

Zhou Yongcheng then left with his secretary.

Zhang Min saw Zhou Yongcheng being called away by the county magistrate's secretary. Someone who could get the county magistrate's secretary to come down and pick him up must not have any special background.

Zhou Yongcheng arrived at Zhu Cheng's office, where the secretary poured him a cup of tea.

"I thought you'd forgotten about me," Zhu Cheng said with a smile.

"I've been too busy lately, so I came here today to check on the farm," Zhou Yongcheng said.

"Since Mr. Zhou is so agreeable, we'll head over in a bit. I'll take care of a few documents first."

"Okay, you get busy first."

Zhou Yongcheng sat on the sofa playing on his phone, watching current events. The most discussed topic online was always food safety. Recently, many unscrupulous merchants have been exposed. I wonder how black their hearts are, that even food is industrially manufactured.

The international situation is also very disharmonious, especially with the United States, which dared to cause trouble in the South China Sea. Should we go to the United States to stir up some trouble? They're not even letting us have our little lives. We can arrange something for them.

Not long after, Zhu Cheng processed several documents.

"Let's go, let's go take a look at the farm."

The two went out and arrived at the gate, where the county magistrate's car was already waiting.

"My car is outside. Where is the farm? Send me the location."

"The car will be here soon. Let's go take a ride in my car first."

Upon seeing this, Zhou Yongcheng got into Zhu Cheng's car, and the car drove towards the breeding farm.

"Why did you park your car outside? You could have driven it in."

"Brother, I also wanted to drive in, but the security guard stopped me. He said that cars are not allowed to drive in if no one is working inside."

Zhu Cheng was somewhat surprised. "That's impossible. Now anyone who's here on business can drive in."

The secretary said that the Party Secretary wouldn't allow outside cars to drive into the county government building, and Zhu Cheng had nothing more to say.

Soon they arrived at the breeding farm, where the county head was present and the farm manager personally received them.

The scale of the breeding operation is quite good. They raise yellow cattle, and the person in charge said that their farm still has 300 cattle, and 180 of them can be sold.

Zhou Yongcheng and his group checked on the cattle inside; they found the cattle to be very robust.

“I think this cow is alright. You’re feeding it hay, so you shouldn’t have any trouble selling it.”

"We're not worried about selling them, but we can't get a good price. We sold a batch of cattle before, and the buyers only offered twelve yuan a day. At such a low price, we can't make any money after deducting costs; it's not even enough to cover labor costs," the person in charge said.

"The main problem is that there are too many cattle farms in our county. They produce tens of thousands of cattle every quarter, and it's really hard to find a market for them. This particular farm is about to sell over a hundred head of cattle, and other farms also have cattle to sell. With so many cattle being sold, prices will be driven down," Zhu Cheng said.

Zhou Yongcheng never expected that their county was actually a major livestock breeding county, with so many farms, yet the price of beef was still not as high as the price of pork a few years ago.

It makes sense, really. Everything is afraid of market saturation. Once supply exceeds demand, prices will definitely come down.

Some people might even lower the price to avoid losing money, and then the price reduction would be even more significant.

"Are there that many farms in our county?"

“There are many. Even your Daba Town has one. Your village doesn’t count. The farm is in Shangyao Village. It’s not large. It only raises a few dozen cattle.”

Zhou Yongcheng nodded. "I understand. What price are you prepared to offer for the cattle that this farm is about to sell?"

After considering it for a moment, Zhu Cheng said, "How about around fifteen? If the price is too low, they won't even have enough money for fodder."

"Is there a slaughterhouse in the county?"

"Yes, and the prices are quite reasonable," the person in charge said.

He often dealt with people at slaughterhouses and knew their prices were fairly reasonable.

“I want all the cattle that are ready for slaughter at this farm. I will take them all to the slaughterhouse, process them, and then have refrigerated trucks come and pick them up.”

The deal was considered to be in the preliminary stage. After returning to the county town with Zhu Cheng, it was almost evening, so Zhu Cheng invited Zhou Yongcheng to dinner.

Inside an unnamed private restaurant, Zhu Cheng and Zhou Yongcheng sat together drinking and chatting.

"Come on, brother, this is a bottle of good wine, Maozi. I've kept it for over a year and couldn't bear to drink it."

People who drink Maotai are people of status, especially the good Maotai, which ordinary people can't afford.

Zhou Yongcheng looked at the spittoon on the table and wondered what it would be like to drink spittoon from the 1980s in the real world. He wondered if he could get some to try.

Even if I don't drink it myself, I can give it to my second uncle and the others. This batch of beef will be sent to the Zhengyangmen Underworld, and then we'll get a batch of thatch and see how the Zhengyangmen Underworld is doing.

Zhou Yongcheng raised his glass to Zhu Cheng and said, "Come on, let's have a drink."

The two of them clinked their glasses and drank it all in one gulp.

"Brother, you really helped me a lot. Thank you so much this time. Let's have a drink."

The two of them kept drinking, one cup after another.

The two drank until after 9 p.m. before parting ways. The secretary first took Zhu Cheng home, and then took Zhou Yongcheng to the guesthouse next door.

That evening, when Zhou Yongcheng went to cultivate in the unknown world, a new light source appeared in the mysterious space, indicating that there was another new world that could be traversed.

Zhou Yongcheng, however, did not plan to travel through time for the time being; he wanted to deal with the beef issue first.

He entered an unknown world to cultivate.

The next day, Zhu Cheng was busy with official duties, so he sent his secretary to accompany Zhou Yongcheng to handle the matter of buying cattle.

One hundred and eighty cows were weighed one by one, and the weighing was completed in no time.

The 180 cattle weigh a total of about 200,000 jin (approximately 100 tons), and the value of this batch of cattle is over 3 million yuan.

The weighed cattle were all marked and locked up to one side. At this time, the trucks to transport the cattle had also arrived. All the cattle were to be taken to the slaughterhouse. One hundred and eighty cattle would keep them busy.

It's good to have a secretary to help you with things; you don't have to do many things yourself. It's just a pity that what he does isn't good enough to hire a secretary to do things for him. Besides, there aren't many things to do; he spends most of his time in other worlds.

Several trucks will haul the cattle, and it won't take many trips for them to reach the slaughterhouse.

After working hard for most of the day and getting everything sorted out, he only needed to wait a few days for the slaughterhouse to process the cattle so that refrigerated trucks could come and pick up the beef.