Zhao Xinyu was most worried that after arriving at Kanem, Yang Deshan would make him a stumbling block, and Wang Jianzhong and Li Qilu, two people with Shen Ji's backing, would also resist him. But after contacting him today, he felt half relieved.
However, he felt somewhat unwilling to do so.
If everything goes according to plan and the existing framework is not changed, then no matter how good the business development of the West Africa Branch is in the future, it will be the result of Shen Ji and Yang Deshan. Some people will even think that he picked the fruit of Yang Deshan, right?
Thinking of this, Zhao Xinyu felt quite depressed.
With Shen Ji in charge of the Overseas Department, it would be great if Zhao Xinyu could see the situation clearly and not cause trouble for them. Cao Mo is currently thinking about everyone cooperating to push all the work forward. That is the most important thing. Who will care about Zhao? What is Xinyu thinking?
During the meal, Cao Mo specially invited several Chinese businessmen who were currently living directly in the park.
At this time, Yang Deshan also directly announced that the industrial park would receive an additional investment of US$5 million from Tianyue International. During the meal, everyone discussed the areas in the park that urgently needed improvement.
Taking into account all the capital injection and the proceeds from the sale of industrial land in the early stage of the Conero Lake Industrial Park, the total investment is only US$6 million. There are too many areas that really need improvement.
In addition to the unstable single-circuit power supply, insufficient supply pressure from gas stations and water plants, the hasty construction of gravel roads and soft roadbeds, and the lack of logistics facilities, etc., the most intuitive thing that makes people feel more intuitive is that the living facilities are too Difference.
Currently, two staff dormitories have been built in the living area, which can accommodate more than 120 people in total, including Cornero Cement Plant management personnel, dispatched employees of various settled companies, investors themselves, and their families.
Apart from a simple collective canteen and a small supermarket that can only buy daily necessities, the living area has no other supporting living facilities.
Nowadays, even in the most remote mountain villages in China, there are still two billiard tables at the entrance of the village, right?
What is currently under construction in the living quarters and what is expected to be built are more staff dormitories.
The construction of the new market requires too much funds, and three melons and two dates are simply not enough. At present, it can only remain on the planning drawings.
After much discussion, the result was that five million US dollars was simply not enough, so we had to pick out the most important solutions first. In comparison, Taihua's investment on the south shore of Lake Conero was much larger.
The direct infrastructure investment in Taihua Industrial Park is not particularly high, only 20 million U.S. dollars. However, in addition to the combined investment of more than 80 million U.S. dollars in the refinery and Cornero Port, the Lu family will also invest in the living supporting area of Taihua Industrial Park. To directly build a comprehensive manor hotel, the first-phase investment will be as high as 30 million US dollars. At that time, the manor hotel will be directly equipped with a series of high-end living facilities such as eating, drinking, entertainment and so on.
Cao Mo is starting to build the Lakeside Hotel at the mouth of the Lujiao River. The first phase uses 20 acres of land and plans to build 30 wooden houses. The total investment is only one million US dollars.
Xu Xin has just arrived at Kanem. Next, she has to have further contact with Wang Jianzhong, Li Qilu, Wang Wen, Feng Rui and others. She also needs to have an in-depth understanding of pressing plants, plantations and aluminum profile distribution networks, but from now on From now on, it will not be Cao Mo and Yang Deshan's turn to take care of this matter.
After communicating about the follow-up construction of the Kenailuo Lake Industrial Park, Wang Wen, Feng Rui and others accompanied Xu Xin. Guo Jian and others first went to the staff dormitory to spend the night. Xie Sipeng and others also left first; Zhao Xinyu transferred the financial director Zhao Ling, Li Qilu, Wang Jianzhong and others stayed, and then they had to talk to Cao Mo, Abacha and Yang Deshan about Cornero Energy.
Although Hexi Fund promised not to directly interfere with the operations of Cornero Energy, the specific operations still have to be directly reported to the reorganized board of directors.
Responsible.
According to the agreed conditions, the current transmission and distribution facilities from the hydropower station group to the Conero Lake Industrial Park and the future power grid construction rights in the Longxi area will be divested. At the same time, the natural gas mines in the northern part of Longta will also be divested.
These two assets are not large, and they have kept the upstream and downstream power transmission and distribution prices and gas prices of Cornero Energy very low. They were divested mainly after the final control of Cornero Energy fell into the hands of Dongsheng. Cao Mo had no means of counterattack, but he didn't expect much profit.
Cao Mo will establish Tianyue Energy Co., Ltd. and invest these two assets. He only agrees that Hexi Fund will take away the 15% equity actually held by Shen Ji at a price of US$1.5 million - the transaction is also from The name of Tianyue International is completed - Cao Mo and others' shares in Tianyue Energy remain unchanged, and are temporarily managed under the framework of Cornero Energy.
The focus of Conero Energy's work this year is mainly on the expansion of the hydropower station group, mainly the Yeyangxia medium-sized hydropower station, and the upgrading of the Lonta natural gas power plant; as long as these tasks are completed, Conero Energy's installed capacity will reach 100,000 kilowatts, the annual power generation scale will reach 800 million kilowatt-hours.
In terms of installed capacity, Cornero Energy is already considered a large power generation company in Canem, but the biggest disadvantage is that the end-user market is mainly monopolized by the downstream Draculamo Power Supply Group.
The power supply agreement they signed is calculated in the local currency Naira. Once the economic and political situation in Kanem is unstable and the Naira depreciates sharply, Draculamo, which monopolizes the downstream user market, can offset it by raising the price of commercial electricity. There will be losses, but whether they will take the initiative to increase the upstream power purchase price, you can really understand with your toes.
Although in the gambling agreement signed by Cao Mo and Hexi Fund, the performance commitment insists on calculating the local currency naira, avoiding the possible trap of currency devaluation, Cao Mo has always been one of the major shareholders of Cornero Energy and cannot Talking about completing the superficial gambling agreement has nothing to do with him.
Promoting the development of the industrial park and the continuous expansion of electricity demand, as well as Cornero Energy's own improvement of operation and management level and reduction of operating costs, are still the top priorities for their next work.
Only by achieving these two points can Cornero Energy be considered invincible and there is no need to worry about being too restricted by downstream forces.
After March, with the further release of Kanem's domestic cement production capacity, the price of finished cement even fell directly below the level in the early stage of the cement storm, sliding to one hundred and seventy US dollars per ton. Several cement plants around Draculamo, Profits have been squeezed to almost nothing.
However, the technical transformation of the old Ibogu cement plant has been completed. The Cornero cement plant has directly adopted advanced technology in the first phase. The management of the operation and technical teams has also been continuously strengthened. The production has been stable and the yield rate has been greatly improved. The production of each ton of finished cement has Operating costs dropped to under eighty dollars.
Compared with domestic cement manufacturers, there is still a huge improvement, but currently it is the lowest production cost in West Africa.
Therefore, Cao Mo can continue to maintain unimaginably high profits in cement production.
Cao Mo's current thinking is also very clear. Kanem's domestic forces do not have specific production capabilities for products, such as motorcycles and many mechanical and electrical products. They directly compete fiercely with importers of all sizes, and there is no problem in fighting for the market.
However, in the areas where Kanem's domestic forces are directly involved, they still need to avoid direct participation in competition, and their work should focus on reducing internal costs and improving efficiency.
Zhao Xinyu recognized Cao Mo's ideas.
Of course, there is a more critical reason for this. When Zhao Xinyu arrived at Kanem, he hoped that many projects could maintain their status quo for the time being, so as to prevent him from being betrayed by Cao Mo and Yang Deshan before he had a clear understanding of the situation.
Lead the way by the nose.
After talking about the matter, Cao Mo
Abacha and his colleagues left the park.
After all, Guo Donghu was recruited as an executive, so it couldn't be said that he was thrown into the simple dormitory in the park on the first day. Cao Mo naturally took him back to Yibogu.
On the way, Cao Mo told Abacha that he might postpone the construction of the third phase of the Cornero Cement Plant in the future and invest in a cement plant in Benin first; Cao Mo could no longer deliberately hide the matter of industrial investment.
By Guo Donghu.
Abacha now has no doubts about any of Cao Mo's decisions. In addition to supporting him, he also made better suggestions for the time being.
After arriving at the fork in front of the Yibogu tribe, Abacha changed cars and returned to the Sika family's manor, while Cao Mo and Guo Donghu took the car to the north.
Guo Donghu, who participated in almost the entire meeting and conversation today, sorted out an outline of what Cao Mo had done in Kanem in the past two years. He couldn't help but sigh in the car: "Mr. Cao is so low-key, outsiders would definitely
I can’t imagine that Mr. Cao has run such a large-scale industry in Lonta in just two or three years. The last time I went to Dracula, I had some contact with Chinese businessmen here, and they all said that you have such a bad temper.
, all relying on the power of Felician and the Sika family, they probably don’t want to believe that Mr. Cao is doing far better than them at such a young age, right?”
When he heard that Guo Donghu had changed his name, Cao Mo just smiled and said there was no need to be so serious:
"Although you have been to Draculamore before, your stay was too short. If you know this country well enough, you will know that any degree of low-key is necessary. Besides, what does my little asset mean?
We were discussing the development of the industrial park during the meal just now. You also saw that I actually can’t spare much cash. Many things can only be done step by step..."
Cao Mo asked Guo Donghu about his visit to the cocoa processing factory in the afternoon, and said: "Chinese businessmen who enter Kanem have a big problem, that is, they want to make other people's money, but at the same time look down on them from the bottom of their hearts - if you
With such a mentality, it is impossible for me to hand over the management of Cornero Food's business in Africa to you, and it will be difficult for you to fundamentally solve the problem."
"How did you solve these problems?" Guo Donghu asked.
"The frequency of homicides in Kanem is much higher than that in China, but in a large group of people, there are still very few extremely vicious people - take Lonta as an example, what we have to guard against are the one or two hundred
Instead of treating the 500,000 people in Longta as extremely evil people and guarding against them," Cao Mo said, "The reverse is also true. The education level of Kanem as a whole lags far behind that of China.
It may not be possible to select a qualified manager, but what about selecting one from a thousand? There are 500,000 people in Lungta, and it shouldn’t be unimaginable to select 500 of them who are worthy of training, right?"
In the past, when mining gold mines, building cement plants and hydropower stations, he tried his best to use local people for the operation and management team. But at this stage, except for Cornero Energy, it is inevitable to hire some high-paying personnel from China to strengthen management, even if Cao Mo now intercepts
If Yang Deshan is not allowed to do it, Zhao Xinyu will also put forward opinions on behalf of Dongsheng, and the businesses of both sides of Cornero Food need to be integrated. The entrepreneurial management team of Zhongyue Trading is Xu Bin, Zhou Jianming and others, but they have to be hired by Canem.
A large number of employees will involve the most critical issue of harmonious coexistence between Chinese and Qatari employees.
Cao Mo knew very well the reason why he was able to do better than Yang Deshan and Xie Sipeng in Kanem. Naturally, he had to vaccinate Guo Donghu and Zhou Jianming now.
In fact, Guo Donghu was tactful enough and was able to talk to Yoruba girls without appearing particularly picky. However, the future focus of Cornero Food's business would still be in the country, so the problem would not be too big. Cao Mo was more worried about Xu Bin.
How will Zhou Jianming, Xu Lizheng and Xiao Jun lead and manage hundreds of local employees in Kanem.