As soon as Abacha came over early in the morning, Cao Mo secretly communicated with him that today they still wouldn't take up the topic of the industrial park project easily.
In fact, it doesn't matter if Cao Mo and Abacha don't pick up the topic.
Shen Ji said that when he came to Kanem this time, in addition to looking at the second phase of the crushing plant project and the acquisition of oil palm land in Lonta, he would also definitely inspect and study other investment opportunities, and even arranged to meet with China Civil Engineering and others in his schedule. Senior officials from Chinese-funded institutions and officials from the consulate met and socialized.
In the afternoon, we ran to the shore of Lake Cornero, found a fishing boat, and everyone got on it.
The wind and waves in the outer sea are strong, the fishing boats are too small, and it is the rainy season in Canem, so it is dangerous to go out to sea rashly. Lake Cornero is nearly four kilometers wide from east to west and is connected to the outer Atlantic waterway. The blue lake water has excellent scenery.
Although it is not a luxury yacht, it is still a kind of enjoyment to sit on a fishing boat and float around Lake Conero in the afternoon.
The topic brought up the industrial park project more than once. In the end, Cao Mo said in embarrassment: "Sika, the Felician family really wants to build a small industrial park here, and even the Felician family electric company. When signing the power grid agreement with Sika Aidet Power Grid Company, there was a clear condition attached, that is, the right to independently build a transmission grid in the western coastal area of Lonta, west of Ibogu. This is preparation for the construction of an industrial park..."
Cao Mo also specially introduced the complex equity relationship and the spin-off and establishment process of the New Power Grid Company. He had no rights at all in the New Power Grid Company. If he broke it up and showed it to Shen Ji, Lu Yan, and Xie Sipeng, he would not have to worry about exposing anything. On the contrary, it can protect him better.
"You also know that the power supply in Kanem is too short - there are currently some manufacturing industries in Draculamo, but industrial power consumption is a source of distress. The Felician Family Electric Power Company has built a project west of Ibogo. They have the power of an independent transmission grid, and they are vigorously developing hydropower in the north of Lonta. They are determined to build a small industrial park on 3 to 500 acres of land around the Konai Lake, attract manufacturing companies to settle in with low electricity prices, and then collect land rent to make profits... …”
"How big is your industrial park?" Lu Yan asked.
"Three to five hundred acres of land," Cao Mo said. "It can't be compared with the domestic ones. The Sika family and the Felician family are far from comparable to Dongsheng and Taihua in terms of strength. Their early stage Let's consider building a gravel road from Yibogu, building a substation, connecting a high-voltage transmission grid, and building a small water plant and sewage treatment plant. It would be a huge amount of money to raise 20 to 30 million yuan. It’s still RMB, not US dollars…”
"If we want to really build an industrial park, why don't we build a dock here?" Lu Yan asked contemptuously.
I don’t know how Zhou Han managed to give Lu Yan medicine quietly. Seeing him giving advice like an expert, Cao Mo pretended to smile bitterly:
"It's not that I haven't thought about it, but if the terminal needs to increase in scale, the investment will not be small. If it increases in scale, it will also need to obtain import and export rights and the docking authority of international commercial cargo ships. This is not even something that the Oyo State government can handle. We also need to open up relations with the federal government. If the Draculamore Port Group feels that building a port here will cause direct competition for them and shoots behind their backs, then it may not be something that the Sika and Felician families can resist. ——The Felician family has considered it very carefully. What they can do in the early stage is to circle three to five hundred acres of land to build a small industrial park. No matter how big it is, they will not be able to promote it!"
"Does Taihua have any chance to participate in investment?" Huang Hebin asked in Chinese at this time.
"If Taihua is willing to participate in a small project worth 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, I can help you match it up. If the deal is finally concluded, just give me a commission of 100,000 to 200,000 yuan." Cao Mo also shamelessly said in front of Shen Ji. Talking about his commission.
Shen Ji smiled and turned his face away.
"The commission is easy to say, but the investment of 20 to 30 million is still a bit low. We can inject more funds," Huang Hebin said, "After all, it would be a pity not to build a port in such a good location."
"I'm afraid this is difficult," Cao Mo said. "If we want the industrial park to be attractive, the Felician Family Power Company's cheap power supply is the guarantee, and the Felician Family is willing to provide cheap power to the companies that settle in the industrial park. I saw the additional land rent income. Anyway, the meat will rot in the Felician family's own pot, and the Sika family only has the opportunity to take away a small amount of rights and interests. In fact, I want to participate a little bit, to It depends on whether the Felician family will give this opportunity. If Taihua participates and directly injects a large amount of funds, and takes away most of the land rent at once, how will the power supply be priced? Of course, there are domestic actuaries who can Calculate the equity ratio and power supply pricing that is suitable for everyone. However, in the three years I have been in Kanem, except for Draculamo, which is better, I have found that other local businesses are not as complicated and thoughtful as us Chinese. , they are even worried about whether the gringos have calculated something after the complicated calculations. You have to know that this country has been colonized for hundreds of years, and is still wary of us gringos..."
Cao Mo did not further seduce them, it was not his business. In the end, he patted his butt and even declined directly, saying: "If Taihua doesn't mind investing three to five million to participate, I can help you match them. I guess there is still hope to convince the Felician family, but if you want to take away the controlling stake - I won't even help you. I still have the trust of the Felician family now. If they think that my elbow is out If I am disabled, then it will be difficult for me to eat this bowl of rice..."
Cao Mo said this, then purchased a bunch of seafood from the fishing boat and brought it back to Yibogu to make seafood barbecue...
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After playing happily for two days, Cao Mo, Yang Deshan and the others accompanied Shen Ji, Lu Yan and three girls back to Dracula Mount - Shen Ji didn't come to Dracula Mount for fun after all, and Lu Yan came to Dracula Mount Dracula Moore also has the task of studying and considering the business and investment projects of Taihua West Africa Branch.
So in the next two days, Cao Mo followed Yang Deshan and Shen Ji to run the crushing plant, crude palm oil storage, oil palm supply family business, acquired oil palm plantation land, and the newly established plantation management team.
Dongsheng already has 26 dispatched employees in Deculamo, and as many as 400 local employees. When the second phase of the crushing plant is completed and the initial acquisition target of 40,000 acres of oil palm land is completed, the number of locally hired workers will be Increased to 800 people.
Yang Deshan and even Guo Jian had to put all their energy into the daily operations of the branch. Other investments could only be regarded as investments, and only Cao Mo could continue to hang around outside.
When Shen Ji came this time, Yang Deshan also found an opportunity to talk to Cao Mo in private.
The branch will no longer be responsible for the salaries of Ade and Op. Cao Mo also needs to pay for the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle and bear the daily expenses.
Of course, there is no need to think about it, this is what Shen Ji meant.
Shen Ji did not expel him directly, but allowed him to continue to receive a salary in Dongsheng Bai, which was to give Chen Rong face, or to acknowledge that they had a secret friendship.
Cao Mo didn't think it was anything. He had been taking advantage for so long, so he should be satisfied. If he explained clearly, there wouldn't be any embarrassment.
In the future, he personally will continue to receive a salary from Dongsheng, and it cannot be considered as a free salary. After all, he is also helping to promote many of the branch's businesses in Longta.
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Cao Mo temporarily returned to Yibogu to deal with some matters. Two days later, the day before Lu Yan and Shen Ji were about to take the flight to leave Draculamore, Huang Hebin called him, and Cao Mo made a special trip from Yibogu at night. Shen Ji and Lu Yan met with Shen Ji and Lu Yan at the Lana Del Rey Hotel where Dracula Mo stayed.
In Lu Yan's room, Huang Hebin directly talked about a compromise plan they had come up with in the past few days:
"Is it possible for us, Taihua, to build an independent industrial park on the east bank of Lake Cornero? This industrial park can be right next to the industrial park that the Felician family wants to build, and there will be no conflict. We mainly start from To attract domestic companies to settle and build factories, the Felician family mainly attracts manufacturing industries from Draculamore or other places. Of course, the industrial park that the Felician family wants to build may also share the port and other facilities we invested in and built in the future. Facilities are mutually beneficial to everyone.”
Cao Mo glanced at Shen Ji, Lu Yan and Zhou Han who were sitting next to him. The plan they came up with did not surprise him at all. It could even be said that he had left Taihua such a choice, but at this moment Still holding his posture and asking:
"How much investment do you plan to make?"
"The first phase only needs 2,000 acres of industrial land to start with!" Huang Hebin said, "As you know, the project is too small and has no meaning for us at Taihua."
The two thousand acres of industrial park is actually not that big for Taihua. In terms of the infrastructure of the industrial park, the investment may not even require 100 million. Cao Mo looked at Shen Ji with some confusion and asked: "We, Dongsheng Participate?"
"Thaihua is involved in port investment and construction in China. The inner side of Lake Cornero may only be able to build small and medium-sized berths of five to six thousand tons, but the port resources on the outer lake and the sea are good, and there are conditions for building a large seaport. This is Taihua's We at Dongsheng are not qualified to participate in the investment direction." Shen Ji said with a smile.
Hearing what Shen Ji said, Cao Mo understood where Zhou Han's real culprit was to lure the Lu family into taking the bait.
At present, Kanem does not have the ability to develop high-end manufacturing. Except for a few cities such as Draculamo, there is no prospect of developing real estate anywhere. It can only rely on low-cost labor and land prices to attract low-end manufacturing companies and industrial park projects. The profitability is actually very weak.
In Cao Mo's view, Taihua is willing to get involved in the flesh and blood business to make quick money, so a simple industrial park project should not be very attractive to them.
When it comes to ports, that's a different concept.
Draculamore, as the most prosperous port in West Africa, is currently saturated.
From the perspective of long-term development, Lake Conero and the Port of Draculamo are only 40 kilometers apart. If Taihua can invest in building a seaport outside Lake Conero, as a subsidiary port of Draculamo, its income level will eventually be the same as every year. is directly related to the throughput.
As Africa's largest crude oil exporter, Kanem has a large amount of foreign exchange earnings. However, the domestic industrial system is extremely backward, and Kanem is destined to import a large amount of industrial products, grain, gasoline, and diesel from abroad every year. This makes Degu The old port of Rameau is already overwhelmed.
Of course, starting the construction of a large new port in Kanem involves a lot of complex economic, political and geopolitical factors.
Even from a technical perspective, just the survey, design and demonstration of a large seaport terminal may not be completed in two or three years, let alone other promotion work.
However, in the short term, we will first invest in building an industrial park and build a bulk terminal with several thousand tons of berths in the Port of Conero. This small and medium-sized terminal is also limited to domestic shipping in Canem and does not involve the berthing of international cargo ships. The investment scale, construction difficulty and period are limited. The Oyo State government can decide the whole thing and even welcome it extremely.
This industrial park and small port project will become their starting point and starting point for promoting long-term new seaport projects.
Of course, Cao Mo intuitively felt that there was still some lingering flavor in what Shen Ji just said.
The next moment, Cao Mo was shocked. He suddenly thought that the Jidam family controlled a smuggling group behind the scenes.
Why did he ignore this? This is the real goal of this group of people!
Cao Mo subconsciously looked at Huang Binhe and asked, "Taihua intends to be a sole proprietor of the industrial park project. Have you ever thought about finding a local partner in Kanem?"
Huang Binhe glanced at Cao Mo warily, and then said lightly: "We at Taihua are currently considering sole proprietorship to facilitate and quickly negotiate. In the later stage, we may consider bringing in new investors from the local area - of course, nothing is finalized. , in the end it depends on the progress of the negotiations.”
Damn it, no matter the subtle changes in the expression between Huang Hebin's eyes and nose, or the expressions of Lu Yan and even Zhou Han sitting aside, Cao Mo's intuition told him that Huang Hebin was lying.
They have already reached an agreement on cooperation with the Jidam family.
In the eyes of Huang Hebin and the Lu family behind him, the basic idea is to build a port on the shores of Lake Konai. Even if it can only dock ships of five or six thousand tons in the initial stage, it will be convenient for Jidam, who controls the smuggling group behind the scenes, to Sending bulk goods into the country - this benefit is even more substantial than building a large seaport in the future.
Those brats like Huang Hebin are actually playing the trick of building plank roads openly and crossing Chencang secretly!
The so-called industrial park project is just a pretense. Their purpose is actually to build a port terminal for a certain purpose in Lake Conero.
Zhou Han saw through their intentions of smuggling, so he appropriately handed a bait wrapped in meat and honey to their mouths!