While Brahm, Gallon and Targaryen stayed in Pemme Port, while taking over the ore ship, they contacted Juan Mantar and others. Their main task was to ask them to open up the coal and iron supply upstream as soon as possible; in this
In the process, a closer and more trusting cooperative relationship was established with Juan Mantar and other descendants of Akwa’s colonists.
The descendants of colonists once occupied an absolutely dominant position in the limited industrial fields of Akwa. In the early years, most of the managers in the Port of Pemi, the Mangba Iron Mine, and the more famous gold mining areas in Ouma were descendants of colonists.
Although the descendants of colonists have long been eliminated from the management of industrial sectors such as ports and mining areas after the Sewiy government came to power, grassroots engineers, technicians and skilled craftsmen are still dominated by descendants of colonists.
Although the management in the industrial field was later dominated by the local Akan people, they had to rely on the descendants of the colonists who had mastered the technology and management instructions to maintain the production and operation of the mining areas and ports.
This also allows the hidden influence of the descendants of the colonists in the economic field of Akwa to always exist.
In recent years, in order to ease relations with Western society, the Saiwei authorities have promised political changes on the one hand, and on the other hand they have relaxed political and economic suppression of the descendants of colonists.
Otherwise, Juan Mantar and others would not have been able to openly form an independent political party in Akwa.
Of course, the political high pressure has just been relaxed. Juan Mantar and other founders and senior officials of the Democratic Promotion Front, even though their families are prestigious and well-established leaders among the descendants of the Akwa colonists, their economic status is
Everyone is quite embarrassed.
Although they are closer to Western society in terms of blood, culture, language, religious beliefs, etc., the Democracy Promotion Front they formed has been ignored and abandoned by the Western financial groups who are eager for quick success and instant gains - Western financial groups are also worried about directly funding democracy.
The Promotion Front will arouse a new wave of anti-colonialism in Akwa and the resentment of Saiwei and other establishment figures.
Brahm, Garon Targaryen came to the door, which was a timely help to Juan Mantar and others.
No matter how bad the operating conditions of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are, it is impossible for outsiders to know its debt situation. Garon Targaryen has always been a legendary figure in the minds of the descendants of the colonists of Akwa.
Many young people who are descendants of colonists still regard him as their idol, hoping that one day they can be like him and get rid of the bad situation in Akwa and settle and work in Kanem or other West African countries.
The Brahm and Rupert families, as descendants of British colonists, are even more famous.
Even when Juan Mantar formed the Front for the Promotion of Democracy, he approached the Rupert family for funding. However, at that time, the Rupert family had just participated in the establishment of the Sika Aidet Power Grid Company and had not yet intervened in the political situation of Akwa.
At the same time, they do not think that the Democratic Promotion Front, which has an extremely weak popular base, can really accomplish anything in Akwa.
At that time, the Rupert family rejected Juan Mantal's request, but that did not mean that they would be rejected in turn if they came to help in times of need again.
Akwa currently has extremely strict restrictions on the entry of foreign capital. Even if a sales and trading company is registered and established with a single business, local people need to hold a certain proportion of shares in it.
Xie Sipeng and others previously mainly sought cooperation with local people, paid a certain amount of remuneration, and held a certain proportion of shares on their behalf to bypass Akwa's legal restrictions.
Small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have much substantial investment in Akwa can definitely do this, as long as
Keep your finances under control so that even if something changes, you won't suffer major losses.
However, large enterprises not only need to take advantage of legal loopholes, but also need to guard against being exploited by others. The main thing is to directly seek cooperation with powerful local investors and register and establish joint ventures in a formal manner.
Cao Mo is currently setting up a new company in Peimei in the name of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company to be responsible for the coal and iron trade and transportation in Akwa. It does not involve large-scale investment in Akwa for the time being, and the finances are relatively easy to control.
But this is just the starting point for his investment layout in Akwa.
When the situation in Akwa is completely stabilized, and if they can really benefit from the changes in Akwa, they will operate under the leadership of this new company. Many aspects need to be carefully considered.
The new company will focus on trade agency business for the time being, and the direct capital injection in the early stage will not be too high. Abacha advocates simply donating the corresponding shares to Juan Mantar and other senior leaders of the Democratic Promotion Front, completely binding them to the same company.
A chariot came up.
Shen Ji felt that this was too simple and crude, and would tie the new company too closely to the Democratic Promotion Front, while the Democratic Promotion Front was destined to be a minority in Akwa - in the future, the new company would really carry out large-scale operations in Akwa.
Investment will also be subject to fierce public criticism from local people.
And lunches that are too cheap are often not cherished.
Of course, they will not find new collaborators outside the Democracy Promotion Front for the time being.
Cao Mo finally asked Brahm and Garon Targaryen to obtain the list of members of the Democratic Promotion Front who had held management and technical positions in Pepeme Port Group and Akwa Petroleum and Mining Group, and selected them from them.
Eight people with certain qualifications in the Democratic Promotion Front, but not particularly senior ones, were invited to take up management positions in the new company, including Brahm, the chairman of the new company, and Garon Targaryen, the executive president.
, as a start-up team, 15% of the shares are directly given to meet the regulatory requirements of Akwa’s current laws.
"As the representative of Tianyue Investment, you have contacted these people once or twice, without even talking to them for a few words, and you really decided to directly grant them so much equity? Are you sure that these people put it together in a mess?
Together, can we help you smooth out the myriad of business issues instead of ruining things?" Zhou Han couldn't help but feel confused when he saw Cao Mo pick up the pen and finally sign the drafted equity agreement.
asked.
She has been almost inseparable from Cao Mo for the past month, and has helped share a lot of work. She knows Cao Mo's intentions, and mainly wants to use Garon Targaryen and these eight people to promote democracy in the future.
The front internally seizes the basics and maintains strong influence and penetration. When the time is right, they can quickly use their previous service background to expand into Akwa's port transportation, gold and coal mining and other fields.
The coal and iron trade that was urgently launched at this time could even be said to be an advance preparation for what was to come.
However, people's hearts are divided. Now these eight people have received certain benefits and obeyed everything they said. But when Akwa's political changes come, the Democratic Promotion Front and the descendants of the colonists are completely transformed in Akwa, who can guarantee that these people will not
Being lured over by the higher bidder, who can guarantee that they don't have bigger and greedier ambitions?
By then, as long as one person is unreliable, this newly incorporated Gulf of Guinea Mining Investment and Trading Company, which has no foundation in Akwa, will surely fall into an extremely complicated equity dispute, and insiders will inevitably be panicked.
Although these eight people are all descendants of colonists, they are also members of the Democratic Promotion Front
They are elite members in the line, but their family and professional backgrounds are different, and they do not have a very close relationship with each other.
Leaving aside the future, who can guarantee that if they are forced into a team now, they will be able to work well together immediately, instead of having nothing done but causing an uproar due to internal conflicts?
Of all the Chinese-funded enterprises that invest overseas, which one is like Cao Mo? A new company does not send any close relatives, from the CEO to the entire management team, but directly implements localized management that can no longer be thorough?
Cao Mo glanced at Zhou Han, without explaining anything, signed the document, handed it to Garon Targaryen who was sitting next to him, and said to him in English: "Can the Cornero Cement Plant be built in the shortest possible time?"
Within a certain period of time, getting the coal supply from Akwa depends entirely on your efforts..."
In order to win the transportation business of Cornero Cement Plant, Garontanglian met with Cao Mo several times, but they never had the opportunity to discuss it in depth. At that time, he even thought that Abacha and Federal Representative Ojosan Fei
Li Xi'an was the controller of Cornero Cement Factory, and Cao Mo didn't talk much when they met.
For more than a month, Garon Targaryen stayed in Peimei with Bram and met with Cao Mo almost every day. However, such frequent meetings did not make him feel that he truly understood the mystery before him.
of Eastern investors.
He held the equity agreement in his hand. Even if Cao Mo handed over the management of the entire team to him, he felt that it was too hasty.
Garon Targaryen even felt very uneasy in his heart, worried that the many actions he took in Akwa were really insignificant in Cao Mo's eyes.
Garon Targaryen was worried that even if the matter ultimately failed, the new company and the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company would not be able to operate. The losses incurred would be negligible to Cao Mo, but could he bear the failure?
Cao Mo could intuitively feel Garon Targaryen's hesitation and uneasiness when he accepted the agreement, and asked with a smile: "Why, Mr. Targaryen, you hesitated, are you afraid that you can't bear my trust in you? Or are you saying that?
Do you think I trust people too casually, and it's disturbingly cheap?"
"..." Garon Targaryen's inner thoughts were revealed. He could only smile awkwardly and said, "Mr. Cao Mo is so different from the investors I have contacted. I'm just worried about myself."
If I don’t do something right, I will betray your trust.”
Cao Mo said:
"Mr. Targaryen, you have to believe that not everyone can gain trust from me. I entered the Ibogu tribe alone, and almost all my companions abandoned me. They didn't think I was a single person.
I can cooperate so well with the Felician family and so many local people in the tribe that they have long thought that the reason why I can live in harmony with such local people is that I am doing some work for Felician with a pitifully small commission.
Xi'an family service. I have contacted you several times before, Mr. Targaryen. Although we didn't talk much at the time and there was no cooperation, the lack of cooperation at that time does not mean that you are not trustworthy, Mr. Targaryen. There is really no good
Opportunities for cooperation. On the contrary, the first few times I met you, Mr. Targaryen, I felt that you were a trustworthy person. So when the opportunity for cooperation came, I did not hesitate to invite Abacha and Xiaolu.
Mr. Bert came to find you and discussed the acquisition of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company, eliminating all seemingly necessary procedures such as financial audits and background checks. Currently, due to work, the accounts of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are being thoroughly sorted out.
Facts have also proved that my original intuition was right, so why don’t I dare to take another step to give you more trust, Mr. Targaryen?"