It was not difficult for Cao Mo to guess that Guo Jian and the others had probably been in vain for the past two months.
The formation of gold deposits is extremely complex, and gold deposits and rock formations in different areas may be completely different.
Guo Jian and the others do not have sophisticated surveying tools or a professional prospecting team.
Xu Sheng may have rich experience in gold mining, but he also comes from a grassroots background and has not studied in any higher education institution. His theoretical understanding of geography and geology may not be as good as Cao Moqiang's.
He just ran around in the nearby jungle with his naked eyes, negotiated with the local tribes, and selected several locations to dig out soil and take samples. Not to mention a month or two, or even a year or two, Cao Mo didn't find anything.
Accident.
As for Guo Jian, his grandson, he had obviously visited the mine, but he didn't pay attention to the nearby rock formations at that time. When the end came, he ran back to beg him. He must have been scolded bloody by Yang Deshan, right?
Cao Mo felt very happy thinking about it.
He won't make things easier for these grandsons, but he can't blame the old chief Felician for being a villain. He hides here and doesn't come forward.
Leaving Kabuja to watch at the scene, he drove his motorcycle and asked Lily to hug him tightly from behind and rush back to the tribe.
Not only did Guo Jian take Xu Sheng, Xu Ling's uncle and nephew, Xie Sipeng took his secretary and accountant Zhang Min, driver, bodyguards, plus Song Yuqing, Lucy and two other local employees, there were eleven people in total.
Three cars arrived at Ibogu Village.
Although Cao Mo had said hello in advance, Felician had received two gifts from him before, so he had no choice but to drive him away without showing his kindness to the landlord.
In his wooden house, Felician specially ordered the cook to brew the Longjing tea sent by Cao Mo from China to entertain Guo Jian, Xie Sipeng and the others.
"Hey, you have really come to Africa to become a chief. Even if we want to take a step further into the woods to the north, people insist that we need your permission. Is this your gold mine or someone else's?
It’s the gold mine of the Lithian family, don’t you kid bluff me?”
Xie Enpeng saw the tall and strong Cao Mo, wearing hard-wearing jeans and boots, stained with a lot of oil, looking like a contractor, and joked,
"Except for the Longta Market, there is no mobile phone signal here. You can buy a satellite phone, but we can't contact you in advance even if we want to take a look?"
"Is that something I can afford? A one-dollar-a-minute call fee. Mr. Xie thinks I can afford it? That's how he thinks highly of me," Cao Mo said on a specially made local straw mat.
, sat down cross-legged and said with a smile, "Mr. Felician is sitting here. Does the gold mine belong to the Felician family or mine? How can I deceive you, Mr. Xie? That is, Mr. Felician. See
I really helped the mine a lot during this period, so he trusted me to manage the gold mine and help him lead the team. But in the end, I am still a wage earner. As for preventing accidental people from entering the mining area, this is true
It's what Felician and I have repeatedly emphasized - the criminal gangs in Lonta are also rampant, no matter how careful you are, you don't have to be careful?"
In more than two months, he sold less than three kilograms of gold from Xie Sipeng, worth 40,000 US dollars. Xie Sipeng did not deduct his fineness, and the handling fees were also discounted - he did not need to give Guo Jian face, Xie Sipeng
The love still needs to be accepted.
Looking at the tea table, the tea cups in front of everyone were shallow. He picked up the iron kettle that Felician had received as a treasure, filled the cups for Xie Sipeng and Felician, took another teacup, and gave
Pour it yourself and put the iron pot on the bamboo holder.
"You can't even take a look at it?" Xie Sipeng asked.
Cao Mo slowly said to Xie Sipeng:
"Mr. Xie, you come here in person today. I definitely can't turn you away. I have to ask Mr. Felician for convenience no matter what. But before that, I want to tell a story to Mr. Xie..."
Cao Mo spoke to Xie Sipeng in Chinese, and his intuition told him that the old chief Felician was very interested in their conversation, so he repeated it to the old chief in Yoruba.
Over the past two months, he has spent almost all of his time in Ibogu Village. His level of Yoruba language has improved by leaps and bounds. If he occasionally gets stuck in daily life, he just uses English instead, and he has no problem communicating with the locals.
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The old chief Felician smiled and nodded, indicating that everything would be decided by Cao Mo. Cao Mo then told Xie Sipeng about his grievances with Guo Jian:
"Mr. Xie still wants to take a look at the mine?"
"..." Xie Sipeng frowned.
Cao Mo left Guo Jian and even left Yang Deshan to go it alone. Xie Sipeng was always puzzled and knew that there must be some problems and contradictions that outsiders didn't know about.
He asked Guo Jian around the corner, but Guo Jian pretended to be stupid every time and avoided the topic. He didn't expect that the two of them were in such a bad relationship. Even if he wanted to make peace now, he couldn't say anything.
Seeing that Cao Mo had made his attitude clear and rejected Guo Jian and Xu Sheng, Xu Ling's uncle and nephew and others who were with Guo Jian to go see the mine, Xie Sipeng thought that if he really wanted to go into the jungle today, Cao Mo, who was not easy to offend, would definitely ask him to go with Guo Mo first.
Jian and Yang Deshan drew a clear line behind Guo Jian.
Xie Sipeng is a businessman, so naturally he doesn't want to offend anyone.
Besides, here in Yibo Ancient Village, no matter what Cao Mo said was true or false, he couldn't get involved. He really wanted to invest in gold mines, and he still hoped to follow Xu Sheng to make discoveries in nearby tribes.
"Haha, we just came here for a visit today, not necessarily to see the mine." Xie Sipeng said with a smooth smile.
Guo Jian's face turned red.
If it hadn't been for another month of running around with no results and Yang Deshan scolding him so badly, he would have walked away with his arm thrown down.
Xie Sipeng was a good person and had no intention of making Guo Jian uncomfortable. After drinking the cup of tea, he stood up and said goodbye: "It's getting really late, and we're still rushing back to Dracula Mo - when will Brother Cao go back to Dracula?"
Lamo, please give me a call and we can have a good get-together. It’s still hard to see you now!”
"Definitely, definitely..." Cao Mo stood up and sent Xie Sipeng and the others away.
Cao Mo didn't look at Song Yuqing much at first, but when she got on the car, he said: "Sister Yuqing will come here alone some time, I will show you the primitive jungle here - although the people are lonelier, the scenery is still good
Yes. I didn’t mean to ignore you, Sister Yuqing, today, I just don’t want to embarrass you, Sister Yuqing.”
Song Yuqing glanced at Cao Mo with an expression that she could understand, then lowered her head and got into the car, sitting with Xie Sipeng's secretary and accountant and Jian Nasha.
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Cao Mo thought he could calm down for a few days, but he didn't expect that Xie Sipeng didn't leave Longta at all that day. He rushed to Yibo Ancient Village the next day with his charming secretary, driver, and bodyguards.
"Originally we planned to go back to Draculamore yesterday. Xiao Zhang heard from somewhere that there is a waterfall in Longta and the scenery is very beautiful. So we decided to stay in Longta for two more days. Guo Jian and the others went back first."
Xie Sipeng stood outside the old chief Felician's wooden house. When he saw Cao Mo rushing back, he said with a smile,
"I just thought that since I'm staying in Longta, I have to come to Brother Cao for a meal first to make this trip worthwhile."
It didn't take any sharp intuition to guess that Xie Sipeng was lying. Cao Mo was curious about how Xie Sipeng could tell such a blatant lie without any psychological barriers.
Cao Mo thought to himself that he was too young to be ashamed and told lies.
Guo Jian, Xu Sheng and the others probably haven't returned to Dracula Mo yet, so they are staying in Longta to wait for news about Xie Sipeng, right?
However, Xie Sipeng shamelessly insists on taking a look at the rock formations near the gold mine in Yibo Village. What can he do?
Refuse to cooperate with Xie Sipeng in the future, and the gold ingots mined and smelted will no longer be sold to Xie Sipeng's gold shop, nor will they be exchanged for US dollars with him?
People tell too many lies to achieve various goals.
Cao Mo wouldn't fall out just because he saw through other people's lies.
Lies can sometimes be well-intentioned, and even if they have an ulterior motive, the purpose is not necessarily malicious or vicious.
It’s not that Cao Mo has never been beaten by society, and he’s not a straight-faced young man who can’t get a grain of sand out of his eyes.
"Just like Mr. Xie said, business is business. Mr. Xie, you came here specially today. I definitely can't refute your face; and Mr. Yang is still my boss, and I still need him to take care of me in Dongsheng. Mainly because of Guo Jian
I can't swallow that bad breath..." Cao Mo stopped making any detours and said calmly.
"In the new company, Yang Deshan asked Guo Jian to hold shares on his behalf. Brother Cao, you look down on me. If I want to cooperate with Yang Deshan, there is no way I can kick Guo Jian away."
Xie Sipeng was a businessman. When he saw that Cao Mo had pointed out that Guo Jian was the obstacle that he could not overcome, he stopped being secretive and said,
"Xu Sheng just wants to go in and take a look. How can we do it? You suggest it? I'll find a way to make it happen."
"Thanks to Mr. Xie for being so considerate, I am not qualified to ask Mr. Yang and others for any conditions,"
Cao Mo lowered his posture and said,
"Since Mr. Xie treats me as his brother, I won't be polite to Mr. Xie. Mr. Xie also knows that I rent gold mining equipment to the Felician family and earn some hard-earned money. This hard-earned money can be improved with the Ibogu Gold Mine.
The output is related to the profit. The funds I can use now are limited, so the hard-earned money is also very limited, and I almost don’t have enough to eat. If Mr. Xie trusts me, then lend him 200,000 US dollars to buy more.
These equipments are used in the mine, and the annual interest is one and a half cents. The loan will not delay you for too long. With the commission that the Felician family promised me, as long as the amount of gold mining is increased, I believe it will take less than two years.
, I can pay off Mr. Xie’s money. Apart from this, as long as Guo Jian doesn’t come, everyone else who comes will be a guest..."
"Okay, as long as I can make the decision on this matter, it's a happy decision." Xie Sipeng was very straightforward and agreed directly.
The Yibogu gold mine seems small in scale, but Cao Mo sends people to him every ten or eight days to sell about five or six hundred grams of pure gold, which at least shows that the output here is quite stable; adding new
After installing the equipment, the output will increase, and the commission that Cao Mo can get will also increase.
No matter how much commission Cao Mo can get from the Yibogu Gold Mine, as long as Cao Mo actually purchases equipment and invests it in the mine after borrowing the money, Xie Sipeng doesn't have to worry about Cao Mo disappearing.
Furthermore, even if you don't want him to lend the money, you can still ask Yang Deshan and Xu Sheng to share it, or just waste it in the Longta area.
Seeing Xie Sipeng go aside and take out the satellite phone to call Yang Deshan or Guo Jian and Xu Sheng to contact them, Cao Mo was also envious. The satellite phone was so convenient. He thought that after he got Xie Sipeng's loan, he would buy a satellite as soon as possible.
If you use the phone, you don't have to contact Lucy every time, and you have to make a special trip to Longta town to find a signal.
Seeing that Xie Sipeng was sincere in lending him money, and the conditions he proposed were not too harsh, Cao Mo didn't ask Xie Sipeng to leave any documents.
After waiting for half an hour, I saw Song Yuqing and two local employees, accompanying Xu Sheng and Xu Ling's uncle and nephew arriving in two Toyota cars.
Now Cao Mo only has three motorcycles in Yibogu Village, apart from a second-hand pickup truck.
On the east bank of the Lukaku River, there are still several large trees that three or four people can hug that have not been felled - mainly because they are too labor-intensive, so they are still there for the time being - and there is no way for pickup trucks and cars to drive directly to the mine.
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Fortunately, Xie Sipeng, Xu Sheng and others did not think about rushing in and out when they came this time. They all took the initiative to say that the tribe was not far from the gold mining site, so they walked over.