When he heard Jiaying calling for dinner downstairs, Cao Mo hung up the phone and took toiletries and went downstairs to the bathroom to wash up. But the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the house in Qingjietang was worth buying.
Before going abroad, the average housing price in Xinhai city exceeded 5,000. At that time, Cao Mo had just worked in Dongsheng for a year and his monthly salary could barely reach 3,000. Many people around him felt that the housing price was unattainable.
Cao Mo didn't think there was anything unacceptable about the house price, but he was broke and not qualified to discuss such a high-end topic with others.
Now in 2005, the average house price in Xinhai City has begun to sprint toward 10,000 yuan, and high-end real estate projects exceeding 20,000 yuan have repeatedly appeared in the central area.
Cao Mo paid attention to the domestic portals where people were unable to bear the heavy burden, housing prices were about to collapse, and the country would inevitably take action to suppress the rapid rise in housing prices. However, when he thought of the chaotic West Bank District of Dracula, all the decent commercial houses were gone.
It was still five thousand or six thousand per square meter. Cao Mo had no idea how high the housing prices in Xinhai were at this time.
He wanted to transfer part of the profits to the country, and this was the purpose of registering a trading company.
However, even if a domestically registered trading company intercepts these funds, it still needs to make some value-preserving investments. It cannot be deposited directly in the bank, right?
There are many safe investment channels in the country, but Cao Mo’s energy is limited. In what areas should he focus his domestic investment?
Although there are many very pessimistic and negative remarks about domestic economic development on the Internet, especially on BBS forums, Cao Mo has lived and worked in Kanem for three years. After making comparisons, he can more clearly understand the rapid development of the domestic economy.
The period will last for many years.
This also means that in the next ten to twenty years, domestic fixed asset investment will enjoy the dividends of rapid development.
Because the Yeyangxia Hydropower Gorge was built with advance funding from China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, the Conero Lake Industrial Park can actually use the remaining US$500,000 in the Stari Trust Fund. Cao Mo now has a lot of funds at his disposal.
Before Cao Mo came back this time, he had exchanged more than one million U.S. dollars and deposited it into his account at the United Bank of Oman. When he needed to use it, he could exchange it for tens of millions of RMB at any time.
In Kanem, just like in China, there are restrictions on exchanging local currency for U.S. dollars, but it is very convenient to exchange U.S. dollars for local currencies. After all, except for the United States, the U.S. dollar is a high-quality asset that all countries are vying for.
The size of a country's U.S. dollar foreign exchange reserves directly reflects the country's hard power.
This was one of the reasons why Cao Mo was eager to register a trading company and transfer part of the profits back to China.
In the future, his profits in Yibogu will be large, and it will be difficult to exchange them for U.S. dollars on a large scale.
However, if only the local currency Naira is deposited in Kanem's bank, there is a possibility of substantial depreciation in the event of major political turmoil in Kanem.
In Cao Mo's opinion, it would be more reassuring to exchange it into gold or RMB assets.
Now he can buy the house with the front yard next to Tianzifang and the back patio facing Qing Street and Tanghe River without taking out a loan.
In Cao Mo's impression, when buying a house in China, it is complicated to apply for a loan from a bank. If the house is paid in full, the transfer should be done quickly.
He thought that he could secretly buy the house so that Jiaying wouldn't be too distracted and could study with peace of mind.
Thinking of this, Cao Mo felt very beautiful.
"What are you laughing at? It's so weird?" Yu Jing opened the door and came in. When she saw Cao Mo's smile in the mirror, she felt a little creepy and asked curiously.
"Is there any?" Cao Mo asked.
"Quite!" Yu Jing nodded, but she blushed inexplicably.
It didn't matter if Yu Jing didn't blush, but when she blushed, Cao Mo immediately thought of the scene he saw that morning, and thought with a smile, although Yu Jing is not a particularly beautiful girl, her figure can really make up for everything.
Of course, Song Yuqing was not much smaller than her and was even stronger. Cao Mo didn't think there was anything strange about Yu Jing.
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Jiaying and the others gave up their room and rented another house from Mrs. Zhou Xiaojiao's house, which was on the street and less than 300 meters away from his house. Jiaying usually cooked at Mrs. Zhou Xiaojiao's house.
After Cao Mo washed up, he was pulled by Jiaying and walked over. From a distance, he saw a red Audi A4 parked in front of Zhou Xiaojiao's old lady's courtyard.
"That's Tian Zhen's car. Don't listen to grandma. Tian Zhen has a bad temper and doesn't think highly of others. I think there is hope for you, Cheng Xi!" Jiaying whispered to Cao Mo.
Tian Zhen, the granddaughter of Mrs. Zhou Xiaojiao, went to the same school as Cao Mo in primary school and junior high school, but was three grades ahead of him.
Although we are neighbors, boys and girls usually don't get to play together, not to mention there are still three years left.
Cao Mo didn't know Tian Zhen very well. He had heard that she went to study in the UK after finishing her bachelor's degree in finance and economics, but he had almost forgotten what she looked like.
At this moment, I saw a girl in a camel coat getting out of a red Audi.
Jiaying half raised her head to say hello, but the girl looked here and then pushed the door open and entered the courtyard - Cao Mo's intuition told him that Tian Zhen didn't recognize him, but it was impossible that he didn't recognize Jiaying.
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"No, that's how virtuous she is," Jiaying said unhappily, "My grandma and I rented a house from Littlefoot's grandma's house. She came back several times and murmured in front of me and grandma, saying that dad and brother are all unrighteous.
Of course, every time she says that, grandma will win against Grandma Littlefoot, not to mention how wonderful it is."
"Grandma Little Foot is almost eighty, isn't she afraid of giving someone a heart attack? Alas..." Cao Mo sighed speechlessly and pulled Jiaying into the courtyard.
The yard of Mrs. Zhou Xiaojiao's house is quite typical, narrow and messy. There are also some plastic bottles and other debris collected from unknown places piled up in the corridor. The small open space is surrounded by two small vegetable gardens with red bricks, and there are two small vegetable gardens.
Onions, garlic, greens, red peppers and other vegetables.
Tian Zhen had already entered the house. At this time, he walked out of the main room, pretending to have just recognized Cao Mo and Jiaying, and greeted him warmly: "Are you Cao Mo? I haven't seen you for several years. How old are you?"
so high!"
Of course, Cao Mo's handsome and upright appearance also surprised her, but that was all.
"..." Cao Mo looked into the front room that served as the kitchen and saw Grandma and Mrs. Zhou Xiaojiao busy inside.
"My grandma called me and asked me to come over for dinner. She said she wanted to introduce someone to me. It turned out to be you... Do you also work in Dongsheng? I just heard your grandma say that you work in Africa. So you are from the West Africa branch?
I work in the company, is this a vacation when I return to China?" Tian Zhen asked.
"Yeah, I'm taking a month's leave - you've also applied for Dongsheng. Which department are you in?" Cao Mo didn't expect to meet Dongsheng's colleagues in the neighborhood, so he asked curiously.
"I'm at the headquarters building..."
The oil pressing factory contracted by Dongsheng founder Ding Xuesheng in the early 1980s is located not far from Tianzifang.
As Dongsheng's development grew larger and larger, the factories were moved to suburban counties in the early 1990s, and several new factories built in the late 1990s were located in other provinces. However, the old oil pressing factory in the 1980s
After it was demolished in 2000, Dongsheng bought the land and built a 32-story headquarters building.
With the construction of the headquarters building, Dongsheng has added a real estate department in addition to the grain and oil department and the building materials department. Last year, it officially established a new overseas investment business department, and its scale has ranked among the top 500 private companies in the country.
Before Cao Mo was transferred overseas, he worked in a factory of Dongsheng in the Jinhu District Industrial Park. At that time, the Dongsheng headquarters building had just been completed, and he had not seen what the headquarters building looked like.
However, next year he and Song Yuqing will go to the Overseas Investment Division to report, which is also at the headquarters building. Unexpectedly, Dongsheng only started to recruit fresh graduates from top domestic universities on a large scale a few years ago, and now they are all recruiting returnees.
"The service at the headquarters is great. If you work for a few years, you can be promoted to the position of finance and operations director - I will have to rely on you to take care of me from now on." Cao Mo was just polite when Tian Zhen kept talking and didn't say which department he was in at the headquarters.
said.
"How did you get transferred to the West African Branch? I heard that the recruiting conditions for the West African Branch are now very high, and they are the hot spots in the Overseas Department. Do you know anyone in Dongsheng? I heard my grandma say you were in high school.
I didn’t even get my diploma..." Tian Zhen asked curiously.
Hearing Jiaying behind him, he almost groaned. Cao Mo said with a smile: "It's just a small thing, I just helped to say hello - after all, handymen like us are needed everywhere."
Dongsheng Group just opened up overseas markets three or four years ago, and at that time it mainly sold aluminum profiles.
Even now, the group's aluminum profile sales in European and American countries are constantly expanding, the sales staff are well treated, and the working and living environment is superior to that in China.
In the marketing department at that time, most of the employees were rushing to go to offices in developed countries and regarded Kanem as a daunting prospect.
Three years later, it was impossible for Dongsheng, which started out in traditional industries, to set up factories in countries like Europe and the United States, where labor costs are extremely high.
The offices established in these places are still only small offices with three to five people.
Currently, in order to save costs, Shen Ji sees that local sales agents are relatively stable, and even wants to further reduce the number of overseas employees in these places, so that most of the communication and liaison work will be handled by domestic employees.
Instead, the West African branch took the lead in opening up the situation in Kanem.
At present, the group has invested 60 to 70 million US dollars in Kanem, and at least twice as much will be invested in the next two to three years.
The scale of investment has increased, and the level of the West African branch has increased. Not only have overseas employees increased, but the number of local employees will soon exceed 1,000. The supervisor has great power, and there are more opportunities to influence him overtly or covertly.
The West African branch has naturally become a hot spot. Many groups now want to compete for a piece of the pie, so they have become picky in selecting people.
Of course, Cao Mo laughed at Tian Zhen's sense of superiority, thinking that no one else could have Tian Zhen's superior family conditions, return from studying abroad, and be in front of someone who has not even finished high school.
, it’s hard to control your inner sense of superiority from inflating, right?
He can just think of himself as a handyman in the West African branch. Otherwise, what else can he do?
Tian Zhen initially thought that her grandma called her to come over for dinner and asked her to meet Cao Mo. Everyone sat at the dinner table and laughed and asked about Cao Mo's work in Kanem. But when the two worried old people
When the matter turned to the relationship between men and women, Tian Zhen's face suddenly darkened.
Even though Tian Zhen left without putting down the bowls and chopsticks, he didn't say another word after that, making the situation extremely awkward.