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After Baja ate the lamb chops, drank the wine in his glass, he excused himself from having something to do and left the Lana Del Rey Hotel with others.
Yan Ming was attached to the Jidamu family and did not want to show how close he was to Lu Yan and Huang Hebin in front of Baha. He also left the Lana Del Rey Hotel and returned to the beach casino next door to take care of the situation.
In a corner of the beach open-air buffet, only Lu Yan, Huang Hebin, Zhou Han and the girl in red dress Chen Yao were left.
"Baha doesn't seem to believe that Shen Ji is sponsoring Stari behind the scenes!" Lu Yan poured himself a glass of cold beer and said with a frown, "Otherwise, he shouldn't have reacted like this just now..."
Huang Hebin nodded and said: "The Jidam family will never like others to ignore their majesty, but if the other party's power in Kanem is strong enough and there is no conflict of fundamental interests between the two parties, the Jidam family will obviously not Making enemies everywhere for no reason..."
Although Baha's previous actions were intended to test Cao Mo, they were limited to this.
Even though many of the inside stories are still unclear, no matter from any angle, it can be confirmed that Cao Mo is the key figure in the final collusion between Dongsheng, the Felician family, the Sika family and other Kanem forces.
The Oyo State Assemblyman from Abacha was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Lonta Municipal Council, Ojosan was elected as the Federal Representative, and his relationship with the Blake family, the Oppenheimer family, and the Lubo family became increasingly close. The scale of Naim's investment is growing day by day. It is undeniable that the combined forces of these parties have already surpassed the Jidam family in terms of influence on the political situation of Kanem.
Without a conflict of fundamental interests, how could Baha, whose temper has become more gloomy, take the initiative to provoke such a powerful enemy on behalf of the Jidam family?
"Aren't Taihua and Dongsheng always on the same page, so their relationship is okay on the surface? Since the other person is from Shen Ji, why don't you just ignore him, or should you say that this person has offended you before and pried away your woman? "Chen Yao, the girl in red skirt, asked curiously.
"It's not something that can't be offended. You don't understand this. Don't always involve women." Lu Yan said impatiently.
Although Chen Yao came to Kanem to fall in love with Lu Yan, Chen Yao's father Chen Qihua is a very important investor in Taihua. Taihua Industrial Park is invested by a listed company, but projects such as casinos, hotels, and oil refineries , then the Lu family joins investment from Chen Qihua and others.
Although Chen Qihua's investment share was very small, he hoped that Chen Qihua could increase investment in the future. Huang Hebin still patiently explained the tortuous relationship behind it to Chen Yao.
Although Lu Yan initially had a fight with Cao Mo and caused a lot of trouble, Shen Ji stood up and publicly stopped Taihua from taking the lead in setting up the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Draculamore. Huang Hebin knew the position of Taihua and Dongsheng in Kanem very well. There have been fundamental changes.
In China, Taihua takes responsibility for everything he does. As long as Dongsheng is not involved, no matter what happens in the end, Dongsheng will not be involved.
However, in Kanem, the Chinese businessmen are still an extremely narrow and closed group. To a certain extent, it can be said that both prosper and lose.
If an individual or individual group does something with a particularly bad impact in Kanem, the entire Chinese business community will easily be targeted by local forces and the public.
This kind of thing happens in many countries and regions, not just once or twice.
In the past, Dongsheng’s investment in Kanem was not very large. If Taihua wanted to do something, Dongsheng would just stay out of it and not get involved because of its reputation.
However, with
The scale of Dongsheng's investment in Kanem is getting larger and larger, and it currently regards the investment in Kanem as an extremely important strategic layout. Huang Hebin suspects that one day, Ding Zhaoqiang may directly intervene in their investment on the south bank of Lake Cornero.
Cooperation with the Jidam family.
The previous incident with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce can be said to be a sign.
The power supply of Taihua Industrial Park is still in the hands of Cornero Energy, which is secretly controlled by Dongsheng.
It is impossible for Huang Hebin and Dong Sheng to fight and kill each other in Kanem, but Dong Sheng must have some scruples. Unfortunately, Baha and the Jidam family do not seem to want to get involved in their grudges with Dong Sheng.
And in Kanem, without relying on the power of the Jidam family, the methods they can use are really limited.
It's too simple to sow discord. How can the Jidam family have a fundamental conflict of interest with the Dongsheng, Felician and Sika families?
"It's so complicated! You have to tell my dad these things. I understand now, but I'm probably confused when I turn around." The girl in the red dress said with a headache after hearing Huang Hebin explain these things.
Huang Hebin smiled, looked at Zhou Han and asked: "Manager Zhou, you have always been very thoughtful. What do you think of this matter?"
Zhou Han glanced at Chen Yao, who was still holding Lu Yan's arm and acting coquettishly, shook his head and said, "Baha now gives people the impression that the city is much deeper, and he doesn't fully trust us. Listening to Yan Ming, he even
I think the purpose of setting up the Chinese Chamber of Commerce before was to check and balance the Jidam family, and we still can’t do many things too obviously..."
"In addition to oil palm cultivation, crushing, hydropower development, aluminum production and motorcycle assembly and sales, Dongsheng, the Felician family and the Sika family in Longta are mainly engaged in cement production," Lu Yan
He frowned and said, "Now that the price of finished cement in Draculamo has dropped again and again, Baha also complained that cement smuggling is getting harder and harder, and there is no profit anymore. Is it possible to start from this?"
The Jidam family's cement smuggling business started when they took over Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan's cement shipment after the cement crisis.
At the peak of the cement storm, the price of Draculamo's finished cement soared to more than four million US dollars per ton. The Jidam family's profit from smuggling cement was extremely terrifying, but by the end of the year it was basically unprofitable.
Do this deal again.
However, Huang Hebin had a relatively thorough understanding of the various businesses controlled by the Jidam family. He knew very well that the price of Draculamo's finished cement had dropped below two hundred dollars per ton, and that the Jidam family's cement smuggling business was unprofitable.
There are many reasons, the main reason is that the downstream digestion channels are limited.
There is no digestion channel downstream, and it can only be supplied to the black market at a price much lower than the market price. Under strict supervision, the scale of transactions is restricted, and the transportation and warehousing conditions are poor and affect the quality of cement. How can it be possible to make a lot of money?
The Jidam family used to illegally extract crude oil from Hezhou, and their profits were limited. That is, the illegally extracted crude oil would only be picked up by smugglers downstream if the price was low.
At this time, they were building a refinery on the south bank of Lake Cornero. To put it bluntly, it was to facilitate the crude oil stolen by the Jidam family from Hezhou and others. After being laundered in the refinery, it could be openly entered into Kanem and other West African countries.
Oil supply market.
Huang Hebin also understood what Lu Yan was thinking at this time.
Convincing the Jidam family to take over a cement production company will not only improve transportation conditions, but more importantly open up downstream sales channels. Only then will their cement smuggling business be able to grow in size and continue to maintain high profits.
And as long as the Jidam family officially intervenes in the cement market, the conflict of interest between them and the Felician and Sika families, who have an annual cement production capacity of millions of tons in Lonta, will naturally become increasingly acute...
"The Jidam family does not have the ability to run a production company, and the amount of funds they have is limited. Without our help, they should not be able to make acquisitions at this stage.
Cement manufacturer?" Zhou Han said hesitantly.
Near Draculamo, in addition to the two cement plants in Lonta controlled by Felician and Sika, there are several other cement plants. After a year of capacity expansion, the smallest one has an annual production capacity of
More than 300,000 tons.
Regardless of whether they are making money or not, the acquisition capital is unlikely to be less than US$15 million.
Even if the Jidam family can raise the funds, it will still have to maintain normal operations after the acquisition, and then mix the smuggled cement with it for sale in order to make high profits.
For the Jidam family at this time, the entire operation was still slightly more difficult.
Huang Hebin was also a little hesitant. Could it be that Taihua would also be involved in the production of finished cement in Kanem?
It's just that the industrial layout of the existing cement plants in Draculamo is too poor. Unless the entire factory is relocated to the south shore of Lake Conero after the acquisition, it is possible to truly reduce production costs.
In that case, in addition to the acquisition funds, the cost of overall relocation and reconstruction will cost another four to five million US dollars...
“My mother invested in a cement clinker factory in Spain,” Zhou Han said. “I once wanted to persuade my mother to invest in a cement factory in Kanem, but my mother felt that the economic and political environment in Kanem and even West Africa was too harsh.
Unstable. And my relationship with my mother is a bit bad. She always thinks that I am not mature enough and that my ideas are too natural..."
"Really?" Huang Hebin asked quite unexpectedly.
He knew that Zhou Han's family was well off, his father died of illness very early, and his mother did some investment business in Europe, but he had not had much contact with it. Lu Yan had the opportunity to meet Zhou Han when he was studying in the UK.
Mother's face.
Huang Hebin knew that Zhou Han also had a very rebellious and independent character and had a very average relationship with his mother, so he would rather stay in Draculamore than return to help her mother.
If Zhou Han's mother had invested in a cement clinker factory in Italy, many problems would become simpler.
For example, they only need to invest in a grinding station on the south shore of Lake Cornero to get the whole thing up and running.
To put it bluntly, cement production consists of three major steps: "two grinding and one burning". The first process includes the crushing and burning of raw clinker. The second process is to add some additives to the homogenized clinker and further grind it to a standard particle size.
Finished cement.
Nowadays, international cement companies engage in cross-regional cement production, and many of them separate the two stages of investment for investment. One is to build an aggregate plant in the raw material production area to produce cement clinker, and then build a grinding station in the market demand area to transport the clinker.
The subsequent processing can minimize the impact of long-distance transportation on cement quality.
If they simply build a grinding station on the south bank of Lake Conero, not only will the cost of building the plant be much lower, but more importantly, they will not need to consider the more complicated upstream mining, transportation, crushing, firing, and operation management difficulties. The difficulty will also be greatly reduced.
, just focus on considering downstream sales channels in the future...
The most critical point is that Kanem currently prohibits the import of finished cement, but does not restrict the import of clinker. They built a grinding station on the south bank of Lake Conero, which can actually make full use of the transportation and storage capacity of the port terminal.
Spain is located in the southwest corner of Europe, and the cost of shipping cement clinker from there to the Gulf of Guinea is not high.
"How big is the clinker factory your mother invested in?" Huang Hebin asked.
"I'm not very sure. It seems that I only invested six to seven million US dollars. The scale is not very large. It mainly supplies supplies to some small cement manufacturers in Spain and Egypt," Zhou Han said. "If Mr. Huang thinks it is feasible,
We can go to Spain for a field trip in a few days, and then we will report to the General Manager of Jianchao..."
Huang Hebin nodded. No matter what, he still had to take a look at it. He was 70 to 80 percent sure before reporting it to Lu Jianchao.