Cao Mo opened the small handbag and saw two boxes of cigars inside. He thought about whether he should take down one box. Tian Zhen stared at Cheng Xi in amazement as he walked away in the car. He shrugged and said:
With a bitter look as if he was tired of women, he walked towards Dongsheng Building.
Returning to his temporary work station in the overseas department, he quickly sent a text message back to Cheng Xi: "There was a misunderstanding, and I was framed..."
"I also don't think you are so charming. What blind girl would squeeze into the women's restroom with you? You won't find a lady, right?" Cheng Xi quickly texted back.
"You are also slandering!"
"I'm flattering you today, tell me, just for this, how many meals do you owe me?"
"You can eat as many meals as you want. You turned around and left because you were so proud. You didn't see how dumbfounded those grandsons were." Cao Mo replied.
After a while, Cheng Xi replied with a text message: "I won't bullshit you anymore. I was scolded by my manager just now!"
Cao Mo was searching the Internet for information about entrepreneurship in colleges and universities, when a strange call came in, and the answer was Stari's voice:
"In the morning, I talked to people from the International Student Affairs Office of the school and talked about the formation of the Kanem International High School Students Entrepreneurship Association. They were very interested and met with the instructor of the school student union in the morning. What they meant was that the Kanem International High School Students
The number of students at Xinhai University is still too small. Even if all Kanem international high school students in Xinhai universities are gathered together, there are not many students. They want to expand the scale to include all African international students in Xinhai.
Come. Not only can the International Student Affairs Office assign teachers to provide guidance, provide activity venues, and actually implement and incubate projects, you can also apply for free office space from the Xinhuo Entrepreneurship Park affiliated to Xinhai University, and even apply for certain financial subsidies...
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Worried that the Jidamu family would ask the Lu family to keep an eye on Stali, last night Cao Mo specifically ordered Stali to discard the mobile phone card he had contacted with, buy a new real-name card for regular use, and buy another one that would not be used.
The name card is specially used to contact him and Song Yuqing.
Cao Mo did not save Starlie's new mobile phone number directly, but kept it in his mind to prevent an incident like Zhou Han's snooping on his computer from happening again.
He didn't know much about the situation of entrepreneurship among college students, but after hearing what Stali said, he felt that the country was really providing strong support in this area.
Stali herself is not willing to do anything that is too tedious. The International Student Affairs Office of Xinhai University can directly assign teachers to participate in the guidance, and it also has a free office. In the future, there will be free landing sites for project implementation, which is really great.
However, Cao Mo has been in Africa for several years and has long known that the complexity of the entire African continent is beyond imagination. Domestic college teachers are enthusiastic, but they may oversimplify the problem.
Some African countries have been fighting bloody wars for several years, and they have not stopped even now; some African countries, even if they have not broken out, are secretly supporting the opposing forces in each other's countries to engage in armed resistance.
All in all, it's a mess.
The national antagonism between high school students from different African countries is very acute.
Cao Mo was worried that if all the African high school students in Xinhai were forced to be combined together, the problems would become complicated and complicated, and Starly was not able or willing to deal with them.
"I think the scope can be expanded, but it is best to focus on high school students from West African Community countries, and it can be expanded to the central African region south of Kanem and South Africa at most..." Cao Mo thought about it and said to Stari
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He still wants to simplify the problem as much as possible.
Central and western Africa and the southernmost Republic of South Africa on the African continent are bordered by the Gulf of Guinea and other Atlantic coasts. Dracula Moor is not only geographically located in the center of this region, but is also the most important transit hub in this region.
At the same time, the relationship between these countries is relatively harmonious, and there are not so many blood feuds waiting to retaliate.
Especially in West Africa, the Economic Community of West African States, headed by Kanem and other countries, was established in 1975. Since its development, its economic, political and cultural ties have been very close.
Gather international high school students from these countries in Xinhai to form an entrepreneurial organization. The entrepreneurial base can currently be placed in Xinhai, and the business and market can be centered on Draculamore and radiate to the surrounding areas.
In this case, it will be most beneficial to their plan.
Last night, Cao Mo thought about these questions.
If the entrepreneurial project can be implemented well and develop to a certain scale, it may be possible to move to the Conero Lake Industrial Park in the future.
This can be considered as a real contribution to Kanem and the development of West Africa.
Cao Mo told her some of his thoughts, and then made an appointment to collect 500,000 in cash and give it to Stari to spend first.
Cao Mo couldn't directly intervene in Stari's affairs, nor could he help much. He still had to deal with the affairs of the domestic trading company.
Even if he signed a full entrustment agreement with Chen Feng's Baocheng Accounting Firm, Cao Mo was embarrassed to blame Chen Feng for everything.
And the more important point is that Chen Feng gets his 200,000 hard-earned money every year. After all, he is not his employee.
He didn't follow him personally or establish direct business contact with Xinhai's food manufacturers. He really pushed everything to Chen Feng. When Chen Feng matured a whole set of business and wanted to find supply sources from Africa, he could do it alone.
Complaining that Chen Feng is not authentic?
Business is business.
Even if he, as a Dongsheng employee, has no psychological burden in doing private work in Kanem, Chen Feng will have the opportunity to engage in cocoa export trade alone in the future. At most, he will not directly steal previous customers, but he can look for new sources of supply in Africa.
Find new customers in Xinhai and domestic areas and get involved in this industry.
Chen Feng quit his job that was quite good before he was thirty years old, and took his newlywed wife to start a business. He is obviously an ambitious person with his own ideas.
A very important reason why he is willing to give 200,000 yuan to Baocheng Accounting Firm every year is that the trading company he registered in China is purely an empty shell. After binding the business entrustment with Baocheng Accounting Firm, after a certain period,
To a greater extent, it is easier to win the trust of the food manufacturers you will contact.
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After chatting with Stari on the phone, Cao Mo searched online for information on food manufacturers in Xinhai that used cocoa butter and cocoa powder as raw materials. He saw a new email coming in. When he opened it, he saw that it was the longta that Lucy had collected in the past two days.
Local cocoa tree planting and local cocoa butter and cocoa powder production materials are sent over.
There are a small amount of cocoa trees planted in Ibogu, which mature and bear fruit in about three to four years.
It takes about six months for the cocoa tree to bloom and bear fruit. The ripe cocoa fruits are picked locally and the white seed sacs are peeled off. After three to five days of natural fermentation, and then dried in the hot sun, the burnt brown cocoa beans can be obtained.
Local people are used to frying cocoa beans and eating them.
Of course, the cocoa butter used internationally to produce cocoa is obtained by filtering the slurry after grinding cooked cocoa beans, and the remaining bean dregs and bean cakes are the raw materials for cocoa powder.
Cao Mo searched for the supply of domestic cocoa powder and saw that the price on the Internet varied greatly depending on the quality.
The best quality cocoa powder costs as much as two thousand dollars per ton, while the lower quality cocoa powder costs less than two hundred dollars per ton.
Based on the price of high-quality cocoa powder and cocoa butter, the acquisition of cocoa beans produced in the Conero Lake Industrial Park will have considerable profits, but based on the price of low-quality cocoa powder, it will not be profitable at all.
Of course, there must be a reason behind the huge price difference for the same cocoa powder. Cao Mo just couldn't find relevant information on the Internet for the time being. He has not officially set foot in this industry, so he can't guess the reason yet.
The difference would be so huge.
In order to be worthy of Cao Mo's annual agency fee of 200,000 yuan, Chen Feng not only negotiated the acquisition of the old house in Tianzifang, but also directly contacted a manufacturer located in Qingshan District Industrial Park to purchase cocoa beans as raw materials to produce cocoa powder, and roped in Cao Mo.
Mo went over to meet together.
Chen Feng is also a very active person. It is difficult to figure out the secrets of this industry by simply searching for information. Only by visiting people's homes, establishing contacts, and having several more contacts can you get a first glimpse of the industry.
Cao Mo liked Chen Feng's behavior very much.
After all, Chen Feng is considered a car owner.
Although it was just a Santana, driving to visit Cao Mo, who did not have a driver's license in China, would always attract more attention from the other party.
Of course Cao Mo wants to build a cocoa butter and cocoa powder processing plant directly in the Conero Lake Industrial Park, but this will take time.
For now, his initial idea is to purchase cocoa beans from Lonta and nearby areas and export them to the country.
This is the most direct and quick way for him to establish this business chain and transfer funds.
A deputy general manager named Guo Donghu of Xinxuan Food Company, an industrialist company located in Qingshan District, received them.
To establish business cooperation with others, you must first gain their trust.
Cao Mo did not shy away from the fact that he was an overseas employee of Dongsheng Group. He also printed out the information Lucy had just sent him in the afternoon and showed it to Guo Donghu, deputy general manager of Xinxuan Food Company, and others.
After talking for a while in Guo Donghu's office, Cao Mo offered to participate in the production workshop of Xinxuan Food Company, and the other party was proud and did not refuse.
The production of cocoa butter and cocoa powder is not a high-tech technology. Even the cocoa butter refining equipment used by Xinxuan Food Company is produced by the food machinery and equipment company of Dongsheng Group Cereals and Oils Corporation.
However, Dongsheng Group's oil production and sales are mainly concentrated in the field of edible vegetable oils, and are not involved in the production of cocoa butter and cocoa powder, nor in the field of cocoa food processing using cocoa butter and cocoa powder as raw materials.
As a first-tier city in the country, the factories in the industrial park are much more impressive than Dracula Mo, and the production management is also strict. Even though it is not a high-tech industry, it has the style of a modern food company, and all positions on the assembly line are well organized.
Cao Mo secretly felt that if the management team of the planned new cement plant could reach this level, he could basically be the boss without having to worry about every detail.
Xinxuan Food Company does not mind purchasing cocoa beans from West Africa, but before signing a formal supply contract, Cao Mo still needs to provide local cocoa bean samples, and they will wait until the tests meet their requirements.
Cao Mo had a general tour of the production process of cocoa butter and cocoa powder, and left at dusk. During his first visit, the other party also declined the banquet.
However, when leaving the office, Xinxuan's deputy general manager Guo Donghu asked: "West Africa is the main producing area of cocoa. It should be convenient to purchase cocoa shells and peels from there, right?"
Cao Mo was stunned for a moment and vaguely guessed why some cocoa powder on the market was so cheap.
Use the discarded cocoa shells and peel residues to grind them into powder and sell them as cocoa powder to other food manufacturers?
"It should be very convenient. I'll consult with Mr. Guo and then give you an answer..." Cao Mo responded perfunctorily.
"Manager Cao wants to help us organize this supply of goods at Kanem. The price is negotiable." Guo Donghu narrowed his eyes and smiled.
"Haha, easy to discuss!"
When Cao Mo and Chen Feng walked out of the gate of Xinxuan Food Company, they threw Guo Donghu's business card into the trash can and said with a smile to Chen Feng: "Xinxuan's factory is really modern enough, but it's a pity that it's still ruined..."