Cao Mo washed up, picked up Lucy's perfectly steamed buns, and started to eat them with Lao Ganma. Seeing that Lucy and Kabuga were struggling to read the Chinese information, he gave them a quick and simple explanation of the gold mine.
The simple process of mining and some small and medium-sized equipment that may be involved.
With strong intuition, Cao Mo could tell that Lucy and Kabuga were still on his side, but trust was always mutual.
He can now trust Lucy and Kabuga, but Lucy and Kabuga's trust in him has limits and is not unreserved.
This is also normal.
Lucy and Kabuga are both smart people.
They should know very well that Guo Jian has always been rejecting and wary of local employees like them from the bottom of their hearts. Even if they temporarily accept Guo Jian's threats to win over and isolate Cao Mo, they will inevitably be kicked out by Guo Jian in the end.
In comparison, Cao Mo has been helping them for more than a year.
For Lucy and Kabuga, even if they offended Guo Jian and were kicked out, it was nothing more than losing a seemingly respectable job, and it was not like the sky was falling.
Therefore, there is no need for them to accept Guo Jian's threats and false solicitations.
However, Cao Mo wanted them to drop everything and help him get the whole thing done even after Yang Deshan and Guo Jian were fired from the branch.
This is equivalent to asking the two of them to place their fate on Cao Mo for a period of time in the future.
This is not something ordinary trust can do.
What is Cao Mo?
In the West Africa branch, Cao Mo was just an ordinary dispatched employee dispatched by Yang Deshan and Guo Jian. Why was he called Lucy? Kabuga believed that he was trying to talk to the old chief Felician before Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.
into cooperation?
"Guo Jian will definitely find excuses to fire you if he stirs up discord, but you don't have to worry about anything - if things don't work out, I will compensate you for all the losses before you find a new job and ensure that your family will not be harmed by this.
Influence - You also know that it will not be difficult for me to lose this job and find another job in Draculamore, and even bring you two with me..." Cao Mo made a promise first to calm their hearts.
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Over the past year, more Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises have entered Dracula Mo to work and develop.
Cao Mo does not have as good an education and work experience as Guo Jian, but he is fluent in English. After several months of hard work, he is roughly familiar with the local Yoruba language and is familiar with the local conditions.
It is precisely the gap between Chinese and local employees that makes Chinese employees like him more popular with Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises in Draculamore.
Cao Mo was not worried about finding a new job in Draculamore. He had not changed jobs before because he felt that he was not ready.
Furthermore, the most difficult stage for the family has been over, and they are not particularly short of money. He is only in his early twenties, so why should he be anxious?
He originally thought that if Yang Deshan or Guo Jian couldn't survive in Dracula, he could directly obtain a supervisory position within Dongsheng's West Africa branch.
This is better than jumping directly to another Chinese-owned enterprise.
The situation has changed now, but in order to win the trust of Lucy and Kabuga, Cao Mo not only explained to them the simplified rock gold mining process and the equipment required, but also told them the funds he had available and how to arrange them.
I told them all about the funding plan.
"I don't know how far this matter will go in the end, but as long as you help me, your monthly salary will be directly increased to two hundred dollars in the first three months. After three months, as long as there is even a little profit, I will
I will give priority to ensuring that your monthly salary is raised to US$400; after six months, I will give priority to ensuring that your monthly salary is raised to US$600," Cao Mo said. "In addition to the US$20,000 in the account at this time, I will also
I will raise 20,000 U.S. dollars from relatives and friends in China. If you have spent 40,000 U.S. dollars and still haven’t seen any improvement, I will help you get new job opportunities in other Chinese companies..."
Forty thousand dollars in 2004 is nothing in China. In Zuohai City, where the house price in the city center is close to thirty thousand, it is only enough to buy a bathroom. But in Dracula, a monthly salary of one hundred dollars is considered a decent salary.
, but it is a "huge sum of money" that requires Kabuga or Lucy to work for a lifetime without eating or drinking.
On the one hand, Cao Mo has the determination to "go all in", which can usually boost the morale of others; on the other hand, if he succeeds, he will be tempted by a salary increase of more than six times.
In Kabuga, Lucy was very excited as she weighed the risks she had to take and the opportunities she faced.
What's even more rare is Cao Mo's trust and reliance on them, which they cannot encounter in other Chinese-funded enterprises as well as Japanese, Korean, European and American enterprises.
European, American, Japanese and Korean companies that are more deeply rooted in Kanem, mainly energy and resource-based companies such as oil and mining - Kanem is Africa's largest oil exporter - are more inclined to hire and trust the colonists to stay here.
of mixed-race descent.
These descendants of mixed-race colonists also constitute the upper class of Decuramo City. They live concentratedly on Ikoyi Island, which is a completely different world from the West Bank area.
"I went back yesterday and asked someone to find out. From Draculamo City to the north, there is a small road where you can ride a motorcycle to Lonta - If Manager Guo and Mr. Yang drive to Yibogu Village today, we can still catch up with them.
I saw the old chief Felician ahead," Kabuga said.
Seeing that Kabujia had already thought about this matter after he returned, and coincided with him, Cao Mo snapped his fingers and was so happy that he couldn't help but laugh. He liked to work with smart people.
Not so for people like Guo Jian who are overly smart.
Although the impression of people in the country at this time was that the people in Kanem and other West African countries were poorly educated, lazy, and uncivilized, even the Yoruba and Hausa people, the purest indigenous peoples in West Africa,
There is definitely no shortage of elites in this ethnic group, it’s just that the number is relatively small.
Just like the old days when the country's literacy rate was only 20%, and Chinese people were still regarded as the sick men of East Asia, the proportion of people who have received secondary and vocational education in the population is so low that future generations will find it unimaginable.
Kabuja and Lucy have the opportunity to receive a better education. They are not without the belief and ambition to seek opportunities and join the upper class. However, like some people in the country in the 1980s, they are trapped in poverty and lack the necessary capital to be more advanced.
technology, equipment and experience, and no opportunity to show off their ambitions.
However, they have a future and time...
Cao Mo considered the possibility that he might be kicked out of the West Africa Branch by Yang Deshan and Guo Jian, but he did not consider returning to China after that.
This is mainly because after more than 20 years of rapid development in China, there are not many opportunities for wild development.
Take gold mining as an example. Domestic small-scale gold mining teams and individual gold diggers have been severely prohibited.
Even if there is no blow, domestic gold mining teams and gold prospectors have been engaged in this industry for more than ten or twenty years, and almost all mineral resources have been stepped on and occupied by predecessors.
They don't lack technology, they don't lack necessary capital, they don't even lack brutal means to squeeze out competition. Cao Mo has nothing, so why should he squeeze into this industry?
The situation in other traditional industries is similar.
However, China is vigorously developing high-tech emerging industries with each passing day, and the threshold is even higher.
As a high school dropout, he wouldn't expect to start an Internet business, would he?
Africa is backward, but for people like him, it also means that it is a virgin land full of opportunities.
By staying in Draculamore, Cao Mo can have the same future and time as Kabuga and Lucy...
Seeing Lucy, neither Kabuga had any intention of retreating, and Cao Mo also secretly warned himself to hold his temper, so he didn't get too excited.
To be honest, the economic development and people's livelihood conditions in Kanem and other African countries that have just ended the war are very similar to the domestic situation before the 1950s, and there is almost no industrial system.
This undeveloped virgin land is full of risks and opportunities for adventurers with low starting points; the gold mine in the ancient village of Ibo is probably just one of them.
Cao Mo has been studying and observing silently for more than a year, but his starting point is low and he is weak. As a Chinese, it is difficult to integrate into the local society. He really needs to start up with a start-up capital of 20,000 US dollars.
To achieve anything, local assistants like Kabuga and Lucy are indispensable.
Yang Deshan and Guo Jian rejected it and were wary of local hired workers, while Cao Mo saw it as an opportunity.
Song Yuqing had just arrived, and he wanted to kick Lucy away. He did not hesitate to tease Song Yuqing, but also wanted to keep Lucy. This was also his intention.
As long as Lucy and Kabuga jump on his pirate ship, even if the cooperation in the gold mine of Ibogu Village cannot be negotiated, Dracula Mo will not worry about having no other opportunities to seize...