Cao Mo took a shower, got dressed, came out, said hello to Zhou Han, sat on the sofa, took out his cell phone and made a call.
"Shen Ji, why are you looking for me? Zhou Han and I have just arrived in Xinhai. Song Yuqing drove over to pick us up just now. The signal on the elevated road may be poor and the call was disconnected. Well, we are in the city now and we were just about to put the suitcases away. Come down. Okay, we will rush to the company to meet you in a moment."
Only then did Zhou Han realize that if Shen Ji hadn't called her just now and disturbed Cao Mo and Song Yuqing, they would probably have had a needle puncture when she came back. She couldn't help but look at Cao Mo curiously. The time is too short each time, or the energy is too high, and there is no rest in between?
"What's on my face?" Cao Mo touched his face and asked doubtfully.
"I'll go in and tidy up, and we'll go to the office together later." Song Yuqing said, but when she stood up, she felt that her feet were weak. She stumbled and grabbed the door frame before she could stand. Her face was so hot that she didn't have the courage to look back. Zhou Han held on to the door frame and went into the room to wash up.
Zhou Han glanced at Cao Mo, who looked up at the ceiling.
After Song Yuqing had finished washing up and came out, Zhou Han took the car keys over and said, "In case you don't even have the energy to step on the accelerator, I'll drive the car. You guys can be responsible for showing the way. I'm destined to be a maid!"
Song Yuqing really made Cao Mo weak from all the torment. He lowered his head with a red face and was too embarrassed to look at Zhou Han.
"The maid from a wealthy family is responsible for pushing the buttocks." Cao Mo put his arm around Song Yuqing's shoulders and whispered in her ear.
Zhou Han didn't hear what Cao Mo said clearly, but when he saw Song Yuqing reaching out to pinch his arm with a coquettish and shy look on her face, he knew that he couldn't say anything good.
The camel coat that Song Yuqing was wearing before was roughly stripped off by Cao Mo and thrown to the ground to get dusty. She changed into a long black down jacket and was dragged to the back seat by Cao Mo. She was embarrassed to follow him in front of Zhou Han. Cao Mo was gentle in the back seat of the car. After getting in the car, he curled up and bared his teeth and claws to prevent Cao Mo from getting close to him, like a deer letting loose.
Cao Mo looked at her face, which was set off by the black down jacket, and became whiter and tenderer. Her big and bright eyes were full of seductive water. He felt more and more that Zhou Han was getting in the way, and he wanted to find an excuse to send Zhou Han to see Shen Ji, Guo Donghu, and Chen Feng. They, he and Song Yuqing went back home.
Zhou Han looked in the rearview mirror at Cao Mo and Song Yuqing, who were playing like boys and girls, and felt indescribable envy in his heart.
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The Xinxuan factory is located in the industrial park of Qingshan District, where it is mainly responsible for production. The headquarters of Cornero Food is still located in Dongsheng Building. It rented several offices next to the original Baocheng Accounting Firm and renovated them after opening them up. Once again, I feel somewhat wealthy.
The finance and marketing departments are located in Dongsheng Building, and more than 20 additional employees have been recruited to bolster the head office of the food company.
Song Yuqing was responsible for renting the office building and decorating it in China. The style was quite simple. Cao Mo and the two women took the elevator to the corresponding floor and saw that the front desk was much narrower than that of Dongsheng Overseas Investment Division.
More importantly, the eldest sister standing next to the front desk looked quite upright, but no matter how you looked at her, she was somewhere between forty-five and sixty-six. Cao Mo was very calm and did not frown.
"This is the company's single accountant," Song Yuqing knew Cao Mo's little thoughts and said with a sideways glance, "I hired a front desk girl before, but she just switched jobs to another company a few days ago, and no new person has been hired yet—
—I was thinking that you would have to go back to China during the Spring Festival, so I would like to let you choose this in person, so as not to complain about our lack of dedication to our work..."
"How dare I? I don't have any position. How can I be in charge of such an important personnel recruitment? Is it right to leave this matter to Guo Donghu? Just leave it to him. There is nothing wrong." Cao Mo said.
Walking into the small conference room, I saw that Shen Jidu had already come over and was sitting there chatting with Guo Donghu, Chen Feng and Chen Feng's lover Zhang Li.
Hexi Fund and Shen Ji personally invested a total of US$8 million and took away the equity of Cornero Food 20. The transaction was completed a month and a half ago.
At present, Cornello Food has also officially established a new board of directors. Song Yuqing serves as the chairman on behalf of Cao Mo. Shen Ji, like Chen Feng and Guo Donghu, also serves as a director of Cornero Lake Food.
Dongsheng has been deeply involved in the grain and oil industry in China for more than 20 years and has accumulated a large number of customer resources, many of which are similar to Cornero Food.
Xinxuan Food could only operate at less than one-third of its production capacity before, but after Dongsheng became a shareholder and endorsed by Dongsheng, all orders for the first quarter of 2007 were fully booked, and its net profit surged last month. to $2 million
The next step for Cornero Foods is to expand domestic cocoa butter production capacity.
Unlike in Kanem, where you need to rack your brains to develop ideas and the amount is extremely limited, financing in China is much easier.
What's more, Cornero Food's own capital reserves and the expected profit scale before the end of the year can also support the capital needs for the next step of production capacity expansion, and Cao Mo does not need to raise additional funds from other places.
On the one hand, Cao Mo can monopolize more cocoa bean trade in West Africa. On the other hand, with the economic development in China, people's living standards have steadily improved, and the demand for high-quality cocoa butter is destined to continue to increase for some years. They are still stuck at the bottleneck of production capacity. On, restrictions on Cornero food are further expanded.
Sitting in the small conference room, talking about the next development of Cornero Food for more than an hour, Cao Mo said to Chen Feng, Guo Donghu, "I just arrived in Xinhai today, and I haven't even returned home. My suitcases are all in Yuqing." In the trunk of the car, I will definitely not treat you to a treat today, we will have a dinner date tomorrow..."
Shen Ji stood up and said, "Go back to the overseas department and sit down?"
He couldn't wait to see Cao Mo, and naturally he still had something to say, but the topic at this time did not require Chen Feng, Guo Donghu and the others to participate in it, so Shen Ji thought of moving to save Chen Feng and Guo Donghu from feeling uncomfortable.
"Okay, let's go to your territory and make you proud!" Cao Mo said with a smile.
Shen Ji shook his head and smiled, and took the elevator upstairs with Cao Mo, Song Yuqing, and Zhou Han.
Shen Ji's office is much more spacious, with a small conference table and panoramic floor-to-ceiling glass windows, allowing him to overlook the tall buildings on the left and right.
Shen Ji personally made tea for the three of them. Cao Mo pulled up a chair and sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window. He looked down at the vehicles and pedestrians on the ground and complained, "The best view on this floor is taken by you alone." ah……"
"You want me to arrange an office for you here? You can now appoint a department vice president in Dongsheng." Shen Ji asked.
"Forget it, I still get Dongsheng's salary of more than 20,000 yuan a month for nothing, and I feel very guilty!" Cao Mo said.
As soon as Cao Mo finished speaking, he saw a girl wearing a professional skirt knocking on the door and walking in. After greeting Shen Ji and Song Yuqing, she looked at Zhou Han with confusion, and finally stared at Cao Mo's face and said
He said, "Manager Cao, your air ticket back this time is a bit overpriced. According to the company's regulations, the excess amount needs to be borne by you personally..."
"Look, this is Dongsheng's style. Employees have to pay for their own business trips and flights," Cao Mo said, spreading his hands to Shen Ji.
"How much more?" Shen Ji curiously asked the finance department for materials.
"The air ticket was booked by the West African branch, and the finance department over there sent the data over. The receipt has not arrived yet. According to the price difference between the economy class and first class seats on the flight that Manager Cao took, the price difference between the economy class and first class is..." Finance handed over the printed materials. Shen Ji looks at it.
"I'm not even qualified to take Dongsheng's money to fly first class when I'm on a business trip. You didn't save money for Dongsheng, so you just cheated Dongsheng of this little money? I almost really believe that you feel guilty for taking Dongsheng's salary for nothing. Alas, I am still too naive," Shen Ji shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said to the financial officer, "I understand, I will explain to the group financial officer then..."
After sending away the treasurer, Shen Ji handed the tea to Cao Mo and the others, sat down and said, "Lu Jianchao and the others have visited me twice since they returned home. When do you plan to see them?"
"Did they mention they wanted to see me?" Cao Mo asked.
"They didn't say it explicitly, but they definitely want to see you. They spent more than one billion on Kanem, and no one can ignore it. Lu Jianchao was actually very anxious, and his hair suddenly turned a lot whiter. It can be seen that they are returning to China. It’s been a difficult month!” Shen Ji said.
As a listed company, Taihua's market value fluctuates around 10 billion. As the largest shareholder and actual controller of Taihua, the Lu family only holds more than 30% of Taihua's shares, plus other assets. The family wealth is estimated to be around 5 billion.
Five billion is almost the net worth owned by the Lu family at this time, not cash.
Currently, the share of their investment in Kanem as a listed company is extremely low, and more than one billion of the real money is self-raised by the Lu family from elsewhere.
If the problem of the project on the south shore of Lake Cornero cannot be solved well, it will be equivalent to digging a big bloody hole in the Lu family, and the key points may not be able to be filled.
Cao Mo glanced at Zhou Han's slender little hands placed under the table, clenched them into fists at this moment, and asked Shen Ji, "If the Lu family can't settle things this time, will it be over for good?"
"This is unlikely," Shen Ji knew that Cao Mo didn't like the Lu family, so he shook his head and said, "Now the country is paying more and more attention to the strategic position of Africa. Whether it is Dongsheng or Taihua, they are all here. Against this background, the prices of bulk commodities, including oil, natural gas, iron ore, etc., which were chosen to invest in Kanem, have been soaring in recent years. Central-level meetings have repeatedly mentioned the importance of paying attention to Africa's energy development. Regardless of the mainland's ambitions What is it? After all, there is no real evidence. On the surface, there are no major problems with the projects they are building. If the Lu family is really incapable of solving this problem, the Xinhai Municipal Government and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation may come forward to coordinate. They will not sit back and watch Taihua fail. Halberd Kanem’s…”
Cao Mo asked, "If the Xinhai City Government steps in to coordinate, the matter will probably fall on Dong Sheng's head again, right?"
"Not necessarily," Shen Ji said, "Several state-owned enterprises such as China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation have taken root in Kanem for some years. I heard that the Lu family is also operating in this direction. I am responsible for telling them the news of your return to China. , it’s up to them to decide whether they want to see you or not..."
"Then it's up to them. I can't tell them if they're wrong. It seems like I have bad intentions." Cao Mo curled his lips and said...