"What use is that?" Wang Luomiao said, "Previously, you purchased the Purple Mansion Sword Talisman, Storage Ring, Bone Marrow Purify Pill, and so on, costing a total of 650,000 Qian Gold! More than half of that was borrowed. The Li Fire Battle Halberd is just enough to pay off the debts."

"This year’s flood brought in many refugees. Although we got them to work, most of the work doesn’t generate immediate profits." Wang Luomiao spoke eloquently, "The food, drink, salaries, and other miscellaneous expenses for such a large population add up to a significant amount over a year."

"Additionally, the purchase of fixed assets in Qianma Town... Brother, you cannot lavishly spend anymore. Although our family’s income isn’t low, the expenses are higher, and there are already considerable deficits." Wang Luomiao, having grown up with Gongsun Hui, is very sensitive regarding financial matters.

"Well..." Wang Shouzhe felt a bit embarrassed, "I haven’t managed the finances for some time, I’ll check with Aunt later, then I’ll find a way to earn more money."

Currently, the family’s finances are nominally managed by Liua Ruolan as the main wife. But in truth, she’s not interested in managing finances and prefers to spend more time with the kids.

Therefore, the Wang Family’s financial management is still under Aunt Gongsun Hui.

Aunt Gongsun Hui is a woman who can withstand pressure. Even with the family’s growing expenses, she has never complained to Wang Shouzhe.

Only Wang Luomiao knows the significant financial pressure the Wang Family is under. Initially hoping to make a slight profit from the housing estates was dismissed by Wang Shouzhe.

Faced with the pressure presented by Wang Luomiao, after touring the housing estate, Wang Shouzhe hurriedly left.

He couldn’t help but sigh internally, as the larger the scope, the bigger the expenses. No wonder those Celestial Human Families earn a lot yearly but don’t have much surplus.

It seems, aside from accelerating the construction of factories for cement, glass, and paper, further efforts need to be made in Qianma Town.

The place, costing tens of thousands, can’t just sit there without generating benefits.

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Several months later.

The difficult winter has passed.

As spring blossoms, all creatures are reviving.

The Wang Family’s advanced team seized the opportunity while the Celestial Person Huangfu Family was in a tizzy, establishing a stable foothold in Qianma Town. They won people’s hearts where needed and expanded where necessary.

Actually, many are focused on Qianma Town.

Everyone knows the Ping’an Wang Family spent a huge price on this place to throttle the lifeline of the Celestial Person Huangfu Family.

However, many were flabbergasted as the first action the Wang Family took in Qianma was to harvest and completely remove all the original pasture — Alfalfa — in one go.

Alfalfa is a perennial pasture, and as long as it’s not utterly exhausted, it can produce multiple harvests a year, being a high quality and affordable pasture.

While complete harvesting can indeed yield immediate profit, and taking advantage of the Celestial Person Huangfu Family’s scarcity of pasture, pushing up market prices and capitalizing on it.

But that’s ultimately a way of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Replanting alfalfa would require considerable manpower and resources.

Could it be, the Ping’an Wang Family intends to plant food crops on this piece of land in Qianma Town?

Yet everyone knows, although the land area of Qianma Town is vast, mostly it’s sandy soil unsuitable for high yields of food crops.

Only by planting drought-tolerant pasture and converting it through pasture into beef or mutton can it yield the maximum benefit.

The original Qianma Huangfu Family was not foolish; if they could grow grain crops, why would they plant pasture?

Surprisingly, once again astonishing all observers, the Ping’an Wang Family planted alfalfa again.

This baffling move was mocked in secret by the Huangfu Family and some adversarial families, wondering if Wang Shouzhe got his head trapped in a door.

But by next spring, they would no longer find it laughable.

The alfalfa planted by the Wang Family grew rapidly, soon turning the mountains and fields green, and the new alfalfa had thick roots extending deep into the sandy soil to absorb water, producing lush and juicy grass, greatly favored by cattle, horses, sheep, and other livestock.

What’s the significance of this?

This signifies the Wang Family intends to strike down the Changning Huangfu Family, a comprehensive provocation and suppression tactic.

Don’t underestimate the small alfalfa.

In the livestock and meat production industry, conversion rate is one of the most crucial metrics. How much fodder and grain can produce how much meat? It’s the core of the meat industry competition for survival.

A pasture growing more rapidly and having better palatability would significantly reduce the cost of producing the same amount of meat. Simply put, the Wang Family can raise a cow at a lower cost; as long as they sell at the same price, the profit is higher.

But clearly, the Wang Family won’t do that.

This is absolutely not the time to pursue higher profits, but to crush the opponent. With the Celestial Person Huangfu Family lacking pasture, forced to supplement at high prices from elsewhere, already escalating their meat production costs substantially, they’re barely keeping operations going now. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

As long as the Wang Family intensifies breeding more pigs, cattle, it will substantially lower the market price of meat. By then, every livestock the Huangfu Family raises would result in a loss of Qian Gold.

Livestock farming is indeed the Huangfu Family’s primary industry.

The actions by the Wang Family are a plan to suppress, no, completely crush the foundations of the Huangfu Family.

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