New Gods of North America

The milk from Kansas, in this era, might not be directly transported to the East Coast. Even Kansas might not be considered the best dairy farm in the American Federation.

However, the beef cattle and calves raised in Kansas are now somewhat oversupplied.

To ensure profits, some large farm owners even control the scale to prevent prices from falling too quickly.

Wayne believes that if there is a market, the mayor and others would likely be willing to offer installment payments and other methods to expand the sales of local products.

If development goes smoothly, the church can purchase calves from Kansas on credit, hire believers to raise dairy cows and make cheese on the church's farm, and then Wayne can recycle them.

As for the sales after recycling, it naturally relies on the reconstituted cheese researched and improved by Chef Parker. This stuff is actually just a gelatin product with cheese and various ingredients added. The taste may not be as good as real cheese, but the cost can be very low.

As everyone knows about agricultural and sideline products,

You get what you pay for, but buying "two points of goods" might cost you a dime, and the price of "three points of goods" might even sell for a dollar.

Conversely, as long as the cost can be slightly reduced, the market share may increase a lot.

Wayne is not sure if this path is feasible.

Anyway, judging from the popularity of hamburgers and hot dogs, plus labor costs and site rental fees, it might still not lose money in this era.

You can try opening one or two stores first. Even if it doesn't make money in Virginia, it can at least save some of the detective agency's food expenses.

If hamburgers don't sell well, then just sell reconstituted cheese slices.

Using cheese produced by the church for production should prevent people from deliberately nitpicking.

More importantly, this operating method is "exclusive".

If products from various states of the American Federation want to be sold to other states, in a sense, they must have local wealthy people for "transfer", otherwise, it is easy to be inexplicably hindered if you only make money yourself.

The local church does not have to worry about this problem.

Wayne even recently looked at the detective agency's food expenses. If this opportunity can be used to open up the logistics line from Kansas to here, then even with transportation costs, the price of "internal purchases" of meat feels like it can still be reduced.

Maybe the overall scale is not large, but it is still a feasible business.

As for the premium part of the product, that is considered a "little something" that the detective agency pays to the church.

Wayne didn't tell Tom Hagen about the follow-up matters, but Tom Hagen didn't need to worry about Wayne joking about this kind of thing.

So after he roughly understood Wayne's idea of cultivating a group of cheese producers, he nodded and left the office with the list without giving a reply.

Luke Matthew's "physical examination" still takes some time.

Wayne was not idle at this time. Since the "tribute" had been completed, he walked out with Tom Hagen and said that he still had something to do and would be back later.

Tom Hagen waved his hand in the corridor, indicating that Wayne was free to move around.

Wayne left the cathedral and took a carriage driven by Doug to find Mr. Wiseman.

Today is Sunday. Usually, people either go to church or stay at home.

Wayne is not sure if Mr. Wiseman is definitely at home, but Wayne and Lina had previously found an address in that guy's office, which is estimated to be where he lives. Anyway, he is idle, so let's go to his door to take a look.

When he arrived at the destination and knocked on the door, after a few words with the servant, Wayne knew that he had indeed found the right place.

Mr. Wiseman seemed surprised by Wayne's visit. Wayne waited at the door for more than ten minutes before the servant opened the door again and invited Wayne in.

Mr. Wiseman's home should be considered a so-called "townhouse".

Although it is quite spacious, the location is not very good. It is in a neighborhood that does not match the identity of the middle class, and it is still on the edge of the neighborhood. If you climb over the wall next to it and cross the road, you will be out of the neighborhood.

According to the general perception, such a residence is generally suitable for novice lawyers who have no burdens and have just entered the industry, or middle-aged lawyers who have just paid off various loans and do not have enough money on hand.

Judging from the previous list with a total final payment of more than 5,000 US dollars, Mr. Wiseman, as a lawyer, should not be drawing low commissions.

Living in such a place seems a bit too low-key.

The reason why Wayne felt that Mr. Wiseman was a little "surprised" by his visit was because Mr. Wiseman seemed to be reading a newspaper in the living room just now, and he had almost drunk half a cup of tea. He didn't look like he had just woken up.

In terms of the area of this house alone, it obviously wouldn't take more than ten minutes to simply go upstairs to report.

Mr. Wiseman looked very calm.

First, he asked the servant to prepare tea for Wayne, and then pretended not to care and asked, "Maybe I remembered it wrong, but I don't seem to have told Mr. Wayne my address in Richmond before?"

Wayne also put on a "that's not important" expression:

"I run a detective agency. For private detectives, sometimes 'understanding the client' and 'solving the commission' are equally important things."

Mr. Wiseman was a little absent-minded, and his eyes quietly looked at an hourglass placed on the fireplace,

as if to avoid eye contact with Wayne.

However, what Wayne wanted was this effect.

This guy had just approached the door not long ago, and the detective agency was attacked again last night. Wayne suspects that Cohen Pharmaceuticals still has remnants in the local area, so he specifically ran over to scare him to see if he could find the answer.

Given the extent of Mr. Wiseman's cooperation with Mr. Baker, if there are any remnants, he is likely to be aware of them.

The sand slowly fell in the hourglass that seemed to have just been turned over not long ago.

Following Mr. Wiseman's gaze, Wayne deliberately praised, "This hourglass looks good."

Mr. Wiseman is, after all, a professional lawyer, and his basic professional qualities feel good. He seemed to quickly regain his composure. "Is the matter that I entrusted Mr. Wayne to investigate so quickly yielding results from your detective agency?"

"Not yet. I came to visit today to tell Mr. Wiseman another thing."

Wayne brought out the prepared reason first, "The final payment that Mr. Wiseman mentioned before to be transferred to us, that is, those left by Mr. Baker, does not need to be given to the detective agency anymore. To avoid trouble, I specifically came to notify you."

Mr. Wiseman raised his eyebrows slightly. "Why? That's quite a bit of money."

"It's quite a bit."

Wayne continued according to the script, "I have already reported the matter to the cathedral, and the corresponding money has also been donated to the church. Whether Mr. Wiseman mails a check or directly deposits it into the local church's public donation account is fine."

Mr. Wiseman's gaze quickly condensed over.

Wayne was not too surprised by this, and then pretended that the matter was over and directly talked about something else. "By the way, Mr. Wiseman, our detective agency was attacked again last night. Do you know what other colleagues Mr. Baker has in Virginia?"

This guy's expression suddenly became very difficult to understand.

He seemed to think for a while before starting to answer, "I don't know the internal situation of Cohen Pharmaceuticals, but I know that Mr. Baker once secretly went to a place where there might be the people Mr. Wayne is looking for."