Domestic cocoa butter manufacturers have ruined their goodwill over the years, and the business environment has become increasingly fierce. They are themselves to blame. However, international cocoa butter manufacturers with production location advantages have stable profits; in the commodity market that began at the end of last year, they are even more profitable. to achieve excess profits.
The development time of Cornero Food is very short. It only acquired a domestic refining factory in the middle of the year. A batch of funds were only invested in the past two or three months. However, Cao Mo took advantage of his own advantages and seized the key to seizing the commodity market. , the most core upstream chain end.
Based on Ding Zhaoqiang and Dong Chengpeng's 20 years of experience in this industry, they judge that the rise in commodity prices should continue for several years.
What's more, the economic development of China and other emerging countries is very rapid, and the demand for commodities will continue to be strong, and the entire market will not die out casually.
This is also their core logic for expanding investment in related fields.
Of course, they didn't expect Cao Mo to give up control of Cornero Food easily. Shen Ji called to report. Cao Mo's offer was really not high, and they didn't have any room to bargain. Apart from accepting, there was nothing else to say. ?
After receiving a clear answer from Ding Zhaoqiang, Cao Mo called Song Yuqing and asked her, Chen Feng, and Guo Donghu to contact Dong Chengpeng to discuss the relevant capital injection details.
Their core goal is to obtain Dongsheng's large customer resources and open up the downstream market. If not for this, there would be no need for cooperation at all, and he does not lack Dongsheng's eighteen million US dollars in funds.
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A week later, Shen Ji had almost settled the affairs in Kanem. He, Cao Mo, Abacha and others followed Xie Sipeng on his trip to Akwa.
Xie Sipeng can be regarded as a pioneer in the iron ore trade in Akwa, but with his personal capital strength, he cannot take a big piece of the cake. However, if more partners can be found to participate, as a pioneer, he will naturally be able to occupy more or more of the pie. Much cheaper.
Of course, Shen Ji and Cao Mo's attitude was still ambiguous and they didn't show much enthusiasm for this matter. Xie Sipeng couldn't pin all his hopes on them.
Cao Mo had long thought that Xie Sipeng would invite as many people as possible to Draculamore even if he was just showing off in front of the Akwa authorities. However, as time went by, he and Abacha took their bodyguards and picked up Shen. When Ji was waiting at the intersection of the Lonta-Daculamo Highway towards Kasiga, he was somewhat surprised to see Lu Yan, Chen Yao, Zhou Han, Guo Jian and others also in the convoy.
"Master Lu called suddenly today and decided to go to Akwa together. We were delayed for a while in Dracula Mo and I'm sorry to keep you waiting here for so long." Xie Sipeng got out of the car with a smile and came over to say hello. , and even slapped himself lightly as an apology for being a few minutes late.
Xie Sipeng didn't lie, but Cao Mo also knew that Xie Sipeng deliberately didn't call in advance to talk about the matter. He was mainly worried that he and Shen Ji suddenly couldn't talk anymore.
In the final analysis, Xie Sipeng's intention is to attract people from both sides in order to increase his status in the eyes of the Akwa authorities; if he can overwhelm the top management of the Akwa National Petroleum and Mining Group in terms of momentum, there will be no need for additional
Whatever you invest, you can get a long-term supply agreement, which makes it even more beautiful.
Xie Sipeng has always been a shrewd person, but the two parties have been cooperating for so long. Cao Mo wanted to give him some face, shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "Then don't delay, I don't know when we can arrive Arrive at Mamba!”
"Okay!" When Xie Sipeng saw Cao Mo, Shen Ji didn't raise any objection. He just sat back in his car and drove towards Kasijia with a convoy of eighteen off-road vehicles.
When Lu Yan and the others passed by in the car, Cao Mo glanced at Lu Yan with a gloomy face, smiled and said to Abacha and Shen Ji: "Young Master Lu has brought his bodyguards to Akwa. He is weaker than him. You guys think, how many more bodyguards should I call over now before Young Master Lu’s face becomes as ugly as shit?”
Akwa, Benin and Kanem all belong to the Economic Community of West African States. Cao Mo temporarily summoned more bodyguards to accompany the convoy. There was no need to go through any additional complicated procedures. He immediately said to Duganjie who was sitting in the passenger seat:
"Call Ibori and ask him to bring the men of Group Zero and all the equipment that can cross the border, and follow us to Akwa!"
Shen Ji's trip to Akwa was a private matter. He did not let Zhao Xinyu arrange for any staff to follow him. He and his assistant Yan Xinyi, who had followed Kanem from China, followed Cao Mo and Abacha to eat and drink while he met Cao Mo. He also arranged for more bodyguards to accompany him, thinking that he really wanted to fight with Lu Yan, so he joked: "He has a beautiful woman by his side. No matter how many bodyguards you bring, you can't suppress his momentum!"
"Is there something wrong?" Although Abacha didn't ask much about the security company, he knew that the zero team in charge of Ibori was the most elite team of the Cornero Security Company.
The so-called elites, in addition to being loyal enough to recruit from the Ibogu and Sika tribes, undergo extremely difficult and rigorous training, and the investment in equipment also far exceeds that of conventional security forces.
In addition to the security forces controlled by Stari in Benin, the establishment of a zero group within the security company is mainly to prevent the Jidam family from launching a crazy counterattack after learning about their relationship with Stari.
Under normal circumstances, Cao Mo would not bring the zero group, Abacha asked with some confusion.
"Be prepared," Cao Mo couldn't tell now and said with a smile, "I can't say I'm worried that Guo Jian might miswire his mind and cause trouble for me, right?"
"..." Abacha knew about Cao Mo's gunshot wound and also knew that he had used Xu Xin to cover up the gunshot wound. He shook his head and smiled.
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When the convoy arrived at the border checkpoints of Benin and Kanem in the northeast of Kasiga, Ibori came over with a zero team of people in two seven-seater off-road vehicles to meet them.
Even if you get a gun license from Benin, Akwa and other countries, not all firearms can be successfully passed through the border. The zero group carries the Glot 18 fully automatic pistol that can be used as a submachine gun when necessary, as well as a large-capacity Magazines still cause some trouble when crossing the border.
In order to solve these troubles, the convoy was delayed at the border inspection station for more than an hour before the relationship was cleared.
"We're not rushing over to fight, so who are we trying to scare with these guns? If something really happens, how can a few Grotts defeat an AK47?" Lu Yan complained at the border inspection station.
The delay was too long, and regardless of whether Cao Mo and Shen Ji, who were standing by, could not hear, they started sarcastically sarcastically in front of Zhou Han and Chen Yao.
"Originally, I brought so many people with me just to show off my authority, but some people are really bad-mouthed. When I asked him to say that, I felt a little worried," Cao Mo said to Xie Sipeng with a smile, "Mr. Xie
, if you really want to call that crow's mouth, we will encounter someone jumping out with an AK47 to rob us on the road, how unlucky it would be..."
"Bah, can we stop talking like crows?" Since Xie Sipeng had roped in the people on both sides, he was fully mentally prepared and stepped in to adjust the atmosphere no matter how harsh it was.
Lu Yan had suffered several losses, but his mental endurance was much stronger. He only looked at Cao Mo coldly, and he didn't feel too impatient.
Lu Jianchao met with Rumisu Guidam in person and mentioned that Western Union Petroleum would take over the Guidam family's involvement in the construction of the Conero Lake Port.
There were too many things to worry about during this period. In addition to being squeezed by many parties on Draculamore's territory, the Brotherhood of Steel Fist entered Rivers State to develop forces for illegal oil extraction. The local police teamed up with the oil dealers to hire
Under the attack of private armed forces, they frequently lost troops and generals, which was very embarrassing.
In any case, the Jidam family cannot allow the power of the Steel Fist Brotherhood to be completely driven out of Rivers State. Their energy and financial resources determine that they cannot take care of too much at this stage. Lumisu Jidam agreed to transfer Lake Cornero to
The share of the port was transferred to Western Union Petroleum.
To be honest, the cooperation between the Jidam family and Western Union Oil lasts longer.
The Steel Fist Brotherhood has extended its tentacles into Rivers State and has been illegally extracting and smuggling crude oil on a small scale for several years. However, it can usually only be transported to the high seas at very low prices and sold to crude oil traders who control large and medium-sized oil tankers for laundering.
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Western Union Petroleum contacted the Jidam family before the Taihua Industrial Park project was launched, and took over the crude oil illegally mined by the Steel Fist Brotherhood in Rivers State at a higher price, allowing the Jidam family to make a lot of money.
Later, in order to make the oil refining project on the south shore of Lake Cornero comply with Kanem's legal regulations, with the help of the Jidam family, the refinery signed a crude oil supply cooperation agreement with Western Union Petroleum and registered a joint venture for crude oil trading in Draculamo.
company.
Because the three parties have such a basis for cooperation, Lu Jianchao's proposal did not arouse Rumisu Jidam's suspicion. However, the contact between Taihua and Western Union Petroleum is still limited.
Since this time they introduced the construction of the Conero Lake Port as a strategic investor, Lu Jianchao felt that it was necessary for them to have deeper contact and understanding of Western Union Petroleum.
Lu Yan went to Akwa this time to inspect Xie Sipeng's iron ore trade in Akwa just by the way. His main purpose was to have more direct and in-depth contact with Western Union Petroleum.
With a heavy responsibility ahead of him, Lu Yan couldn't possibly get into a fight with Cao Mo as soon as he got on the road, but he didn't know that Cao Mo had already anticipated this when he saw them in the motorcade.
The crude oil trade is more attractive than the iron ore trade. Cao Mo believes that after they arrive in Akwa, Xie Sipeng and others will most likely want to accompany Lu Yan to contact and meet with Western Union Petroleum executives whose origins are unknown.
To prevent any uncontrollable accident from happening, he decided to bring more people with him...