In his sleep, Cao Mo felt his nose was itchy. After scratching it for a few times, it was still itchy. He reluctantly opened his eyes and saw Jiaying scratching his nose with a leaf stalk that she picked from somewhere.
"Why did you get up so early in the morning?" Cao Mo said.
"It's already past eight o'clock, and Sister Cheng Xi has already left home; Aunt Rong also called just now, saying that Han Shuyun agreed to accompany me to visit the 4S store today, and he would drive her over soon," Jiaying said, "
Brother, why should we fight in front of Han Shuyun today?"
"Why are you arguing with Han Shuyun when you have nothing to do? She is just a bad girl now!" Cao Mo pulled up the quilt, covered his head and prepared to continue sleeping.
"If she lives with us, would you like to see her look bad all day long, as if we were plotting against Aunt Rong's family property from the beginning to the end?" Jiaying asked.
"Have our father and Aunt Rong come this far?" Cao Mo asked.
"You don't know if you're not in the country. Several times during meals and outings, Aunt Rong pulled Han Shuyun over who was reluctant in every possible way. Didn't she just want to see if she could get along with us? Can we beat her arrogance?
If this goes on, Aunt Rong might even start to challenge her!" Jiaying said earnestly, "You said that our father and Aunt Rong are both middle-aged men and women, so we definitely can't have the urge to risk everything for love. There are too many things to consider.
, it is easy to be discouraged, and now Han Shuyun is the biggest obstacle. Think about it, there are so many prestigious foreign schools, Han Shuyun chooses with closed eyes, why Han Shaorong must send his daughter back to Xinhai, there must be an intention behind this, right? Otherwise,
Do you think I really want to trick you into buying a nice car?"
"If your expression could be more serious, I would really believe you." Cao Mo said with a smile.
"Brother, I hate it, I'm telling you something serious!" Jiaying yelled coquettishly.
"Don't think about suppressing anyone's arrogance. If you can solve it with a car, Han Shuyun won't be a problem at all."
Han Shuyun objected to her mother and his father getting together, and Cao Mo could understand it, but Han Shuyun was awarded to Han Shaorong when Chen Rong and Han Shaorong divorced, and Han Shaorong has been mainly watching over these years.
Moreover, Han Shuyun is eighteen years old this year and is studying at Xinhai University. Cao Mo doesn’t know how much involvement Chen Rong and his father will have with Han Shuyun if they get together. Let Jiaying stop fussing with these things and said,
"Have you finished the paper I asked you to write this month? If you finish it, you will have 400,000 car-buying funds!"
"I'm just in my first semester of college, you can't exploit me like this," Jiaying cried bitterly, "You are just a cute and beautiful sister, are you really willing to exploit me like this?"
"If I don't exploit you, who will I exploit?" Cao Mo said, knocking Jiaying on the head.
Cao Mo has not forgotten to study in the past few years, seizing the free time he can squeeze out to improve himself, but what he is good at is still related to his almost telepathic ability to understand people's hearts.
This ability allows him to accurately analyze people's hearts and sort out various intricate situations. However, when it comes to specific industrial development and a higher perspective to understand macro-political and economic development, he is actually still
It is very lacking in systematic study and research.
By cooperating with Yang Deshan and Shen Ji, Cao Mo could make up for it to a certain extent, but Yang Deshan had his life and career experience, Shen Ji had his educational background, and Cao Mo couldn't completely get along with them.
Sometimes he wants to analyze some problems in a deeper level. His own energy is limited, so he throws these problems to Jiaying and asks her to write a review paper every month. He also promises to reward her for every paper she writes.
One hundred thousand yuan.
His father mortgaged the family's old house and increased the registered capital of Muxiang B&B to five million. It is currently running smoothly and is developing steadily. However, both in terms of scale and development speed, compared to what he was doing in West Africa at this time.
What we have done is already a very small thing.
However, Cao Mo didn't want to get involved anymore. After all, it was his father's own business.
Cao Mo also didn't want Jiaying to get too involved in the management of Muxiang B&B, nor did he want her to start a business too early.
To put it bluntly, there are not many people in China who can successfully start a business and develop a considerable scale of industry from scratch.
Even in the field of homestays and short-term rental apartments, the threshold seems to be very low, but it is precisely because the threshold is not high and there are many competitors to enter. If you really want to develop quickly and scale up, you cannot do without the support of capital.
Cao Mo himself wanted to extend the industrial chain to the country. The original intention of establishing Cornero Foods was to facilitate transfers and reserve funds. However, even with relatively sufficient capital and stable upstream capital, he really wanted to become bigger in a short time.
Due to the size of the domestic market, Dongsheng had to be introduced as a shareholder.
However, Cornero Food also has bottlenecks.
On the one hand, Europe and the United States are the largest cocoa butter and cocoa powder consumption markets today, with per capita consumption perhaps fifty or sixty times that of China. The consumer market for cocoa butter and cocoa powder has long been occupied by international food giants. Cornero Foods cannot squeeze in for the time being. At the same time, the domestic market is expanding day by day.
In the consumer market, Cornero Foods has to face competition from international food giants.
At present, it seems that Cornero Food's profit in the first month after introducing Dongsheng as a shareholder is very impressive, but this is directly related to the turbulent commodity market in recent years.
The market prices of cocoa butter and cocoa powder have more than doubled in the past two years. Cornero Foods has opened up the upstream and downstream of the industry chain. It is abnormal to not have such a high profit return.
However, commodity prices are cyclical. When market prices fall, Cornero Food's profit margins will inevitably be suppressed. By then, the scale will not increase, and it will only be able to earn a few hard-earned money.
As its main business, the market for finished cement is limited to West Africa. Even benefiting from the protection of long distances, Cornero Cement can avoid direct competition from domestic and foreign cement giants.
Gold mining is also limited to West Africa. Without West Africa, there is no possibility of obtaining minerals for the time being.
Cao Mo himself didn't have a good idea on how to expand domestic industrial investment in the future. Fortunately, he didn't need to think about it for the time being, but for the future, he hoped that Jiaying could learn outside the system.
Jiaying must take over the business side of things. The Jidam family is about to collapse. Those entrepreneurial projects that Stari had previously carried out in the name of the Central and West African Entrepreneurship Association can be asked to take over the Xinhai part by Jiaying.
Anyway, most of them are water-testing projects. The slightly valuable Palm e-commerce website is currently only in the initial stage, but I am not afraid that these projects will be used to pay Jiaying's tuition; even if they all fail, they can be used to gain experience points.
OK.
Of course, when he came back this time, Cao Mo also wanted to have a good chat with Jiaying to see what she thought.
In comparison, Lily was not very interested in business matters. Last night when she was drinking, she talked enthusiastically about enrolling in Xinhai University to study literature after the one-year language barrier was over.
Ocho Sang is very open-minded and does not interfere with Lily's choice. Cao Mo can't dictate what to say.
"You should honestly buy a scooter now," Cao Mo said, rubbing Jiaying's head. "Now I buy you a supercar. Where will you park it? Park it on the street every night, so you won't be afraid of being caught.
Smashed?"
His house has patios at the front and back, making it very comfortable to live in. However, there is no garage, so neighbors can only grab temporary parking spaces on the street every day.
The front entrance of No. 118 Tianzifang faces the main street where vehicles are prohibited from entering and exiting. The back patio leads to the Qingtang River, and there is not even a temporary parking place.
Cao Mo's plan was to buy an ordinary scooter for Jiaying. When he parked it on the street at night, he didn't have to worry about being scratched by some angry young man who hated the rich. He bought one in China and could park it directly on the patio.
A motorcycle in the yard would be fine.
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"Beep!" A horn sounded from downstairs. Jiaying stood up happily and said, "Sister Cheng Xi must have arrived. You've been dawdling so much and haven't even gotten up yet!"
Cao Mo put on his clothes and opened the window to see Cheng Xi driving out the red Mercedes-Benz sedan confiscated by her mother and parking it at the entrance of his courtyard.
When he saw Cheng Xi entering the yard, he asked curiously: "Didn't your mother say you won't be allowed to touch this car?"
"Ha, I went home yesterday and said that you were bragging at the wine table that you make millions a year in Africa, and today you want to take me with you to choose a good car for Jiaying. My mother is probably afraid that I am too naive and ignorant, and may be cheated.
You lied, so you drove this car to me again!" Cheng Xi raised his bright face and turned the car key in his hand triumphantly.
"Why are you all trying to take advantage of me?" Cao Mo shouted.
"Using waste!" Cheng Xi chuckled, "You should be happy, otherwise what can you use it for?"
"Where is your Corolla? Is it empty?" Cao Mo said.
"Let my dad drive it. My dad's work unit has reformed and his deputy director no longer has a special car," Cheng Xi said, "You don't want to use my Corolla to fool Jiaying, do you?"