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The old man who drove the Lamborghini farming is here again.
It is still familiar with deep pockets and bad luck.
The year before, the reality show "Clarkson's Farm" was broadcast.
Just with the beautiful scenery of the English countryside, the spicy laughs throughout the film, and the dramatic contrast of earning £144 after working hard for a year... has gained a super high reputation, so that this "rich old man farming metamorphosis" smoothly circled a wave of fans.
Now, finally waiting for the second season, the old man has unlocked the copy of "Farmhouse".
The domestic website rating is as high as 9.6 points.
Time Jun will inspect the goods for everyone at the first time——
Farming bittersweets
Unloading armor and returning to the field is the dream of many 996 urbanites.
This rich and powerful host is no exception -
Jeremy Clarkson, nicknamed "The Gorilla".
As a former BBC gold medal host, he has accompanied the veteran car show "Top Gear" for 22 years, always driving luxury cars around the world.
Enough of the car, he remembered that he had bought a private property back in 2008.
A farm with 6,000 acres of open land in beautiful countryside:
So on a whim, I wanted to farm my own land and shoot a show by the way.
The operation of rich farming is often beyond people's imagination.
The most intuitive is the agricultural machinery he configured, allowing the audience to have a good taste of what is called all-round "agricultural industrialization".
The tractor had to be a ten-tonne Lamborghini R8 that cost £40,000.
I went to the used car auction and spent more than 80,000 pounds on a bunch of agricultural equipment.
And all kinds of magical gadgets.
For example, this little machine with a "calf call".
Hang it on the cow's tail, and when the cow is about to give birth, it will receive a text message from the machine.
If you have any idea, you can immediately use the "banknote ability" to achieve it.
Fancy a farmhouse beer?
Gorilla bought a stake in a local brewery and hired a master brewer to make a lager beer — using barley from his own farm.
The pure and mellow aroma of wine makes the gorilla drink cup after cup.
The co-pilot of the director team still held a wine glass, really happy like a fairy.
It's just that money can't solve all problems, and there are times when it's self-defeating.
In order to match his giant tractor, he spent a lot of money on a giant cultivator.
It looks magnificent, however...
The ploughing machine was too heavy, so that the Lamborghini tractors all cocked the front of the car and swayed.
Seeing that the villagers pinched a cold sweat and angrily called him a fool:
In the end, the happy villager Xiaochuan can only be invited to lie in the front of the car and use the "human flesh buff" to drive safely.
In contrast to the gorilla's wealth and flawed flaws, the village's farmers appear simple and capable.
For example, the villager mentioned above, Little Fat Kaleib, a young guy who claims to be the best farmer in the village.
Sometimes, his perception of the world makes people wonder how he grew up?
He has never been on a train, and he didn't even know that 2023 belongs to the 21st century, and he couldn't tell the difference between Gandhi and Genghis Khan, and shocked the gorilla who has always been unforgiving to the point that he had nothing to say:
A brain that has not been polluted by knowledge
But more often than not, Kaleib's familiarity with the land, crops, and animals is truly amazing.
There will even be deliveries...
The peasants seem to have wisdom that grows from the soil, primitively rich and powerful.
It seems that the last vitality that can survive in the apocalyptic text makes us urbanites sitting in front of the screen feel ashamed.
Farm stay
Through the lessons of blood and tears in the first season, gorillas seem to understand that it is difficult to make money by farming, or to make money by opening a farmhouse.
After all, he has a star effect, and there must be many people who are willing to come to this small village to eat and drink.
Just do it.
In order to ensure that everything in the restaurant comes from the family farm.
From potatoes and beer to chicken and beef, you have to do it yourself.
In his imagination, a cow was like a succulent gold mine, feeding hundreds of people and earning enough to earn ten thousand pounds.
It's just that the imagination is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
First of all, the gorilla did not disappoint us, and everywhere we went, there must be accidents.
Cutting a potato chip, you can almost cut your thumb, and the crime scene is bloody and blurry.
Having to go to the doctor, he laughed at himself: cooking is more dangerous than farming.
The result calmly added: It's your cooking.
Secondly, the new business of cattle raising has also encountered many difficulties.
For example, the "nemesis" of the ox - the badger, is needed to fight wits and courage.
Badgers can easily transmit tuberculosis to cattle, causing outbreaks of infectious diseases in cattle.
There was a cattle farmer in the village, and for this reason, 60 head of cattle died, and the losses were heavy.
Wouldn't it be nice to shoot the badger directly?
However, badgers are also a national key protected animal, and killing them faces 12 months in prison and a hefty fine of £40,000 each.
How trivial and hard the farming life is, how ridiculous the daily life of the unlucky farmer is, and how touching the joy of a good harvest is.
For example, when the rapeseed is ripe, the gorilla finds that there is a "bare" field in the field. It turned out that when Kaleb sowed the seeds, he missed this place.
It is rare to catch Kaleb making a mistake, and the gorilla happily takes Kaleb to execute him on the spot.
However, the hard-mouthed Kaleb refused to admit his mistake.
The gorilla did not give up and secretly prepared a "revenge plan".
Seven months later, he took Kaleb on a helicopter and saw a few large characters made of wildflowers on the farm appear - "Kaleb's Gap".
It turned out that he re-sowed the "word" where Kaleb had forgotten.
It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, such a spicy British humor, it is really too strong!
Of course, the most touching thing is to witness the harvest of crops and the prosperity of animal husbandry.
This season, the gorilla finally overcame the potato problem and grew hundreds of high-quality potatoes:
We also witnessed the birth of several calves and saw the scene of deep affection:
There is laughter, healing and warmth, which meets all the audience's expectations for the next meal variety show.
Fight with people
The biggest change in the second season is the promotion from "fighting with the sky" to "fighting with people", and the "dramatic conflict" has increased significantly.
Last season, Gorilla wanted to open a shop on the farm, although it also had to deal with a lot of red tape. But after all, the scale is small and the program is few.
Opening a restaurant is different, you need to face farmers' neighbors, environmental protection departments, all kinds of police, civil society... Multiple resistances.
And even archaeologists?
And between people with different positions, opinions often fight -
For example, the police said that more lights need to be lit in the restaurant for safety.
Environmental organizers say it's better not to light lights for the sake of environmental protection.
Hearing that the gorilla is one head and two big, I want to give up countless times.
But there is no way back.
After all, he invested almost £250,000 in cows alone...
Fortunately, he can arbitrarily gather a group of workers and think tanks to take charge of his "crazy ideas".
For example, before getting approval, open the restaurant.
Fighting a guerrilla war with the government, a very bloody act:
The plot of the gorilla opening the restaurant is exciting to watch, but most of the source of "blood" is because the gorilla has an unlimited gold coin version of the "banknote ability".
If it were real farmers, it would be hard to laugh.
This is another theme of the purpose of the second season – real farmers, how bad can they be?
For example, after the United Kingdom left the European Union, they no longer received agricultural subsidies paid by the EU.
At the same time, cheap pork exported by the EU is squeezed, so that pig farmers cannot sell pigs ...
And it is difficult to reduce losses and carry out some operations.
Even if the gorilla wants to open a restaurant and take the farmers to get rich together, it can only be dismissed by reasons such as "protecting the environment" and "maintaining the beauty of the countryside".
In desperation, farmers can only watch their crops and livestock lose money day by day.
It turns out that the real agricultural life is not the "Li Ziqi" style of quiet years, nor is it the "book of getting rich" lying flat for retirement.
Some just work day and night, at the mercy of the weather and those at the top.
Many times, urban people's yearning for farming is more inclined to a kind of Yegong good dragon.
Because I don't understand it, I put a filter of pastoral life in front of my eyes.
Fortunately, through such a variety show, we can feel the real peasant life and understand the bitterness and joy in it.