Coincidentally, as soon as Cao Mo and Lu Jianchao talked about Shen Ji, Shen Ji's call came in.
"Cao Mo, where am I now?" Shen Ji asked on the phone.
"By coincidence, Mr. Lu from Taihua and I are discussing on the fifth floor of Yinguang Plaza, Mr. Shen, what color underwear are you wearing today? What reminds you of me?" Cao Mo put earphones in his ears to talk to Shen Ji.
"What's the mess? Stop trying to hit my underwear. Xu Binzai and Xi almost got into a fight with the post-investment manager. I thought Xu Bin told you about this. Since you are talking to Lu Jianchao, I'll go first Find Xu Bin!" Shen Ji said on the phone.
Xu Bin is in China these days. In addition to maintaining normal working contact with Huachen Industry, he is also communicating with the people of Hexi Fund for the subsequent development direction of Tianyue Trading.
Although Zhao Xinyu serves as a director in Tianyue Trading on behalf of Hexi Fund, he actually only plays the role of liaison person, and it really involves the equity part of the equity held by Hexi Fund. There are different functions within Hexi Fund such as pre-investment and post-investment. Departments are tracked separately.
This is also the complexity of dealing with large private equity funds. Not all dealings with Zhao Xinyu can be done properly.
Hexi Fund is controlled by the Ding family, and the fund president Dong Chengpeng is a direct descendant of Ding Zhaoqiang. Hearing Shen Ji's call, Cao Mo was also startled. What kind of conflict would happen? Xu Bin and Hexi's post-investment manager could almost take action. ?
However, even if he did take action, Shen Ji could settle it by rushing over. Cao Mo hung up the phone and did not rush to Dongsheng Building to see what happened.
Lu Jianchao couldn't tell from the change in Cao Mo's face that Shen Ji was here for something, and he didn't think Cao Mo's joke was even remotely funny. He stood up and said, "Well, tomorrow I'll ask someone to bring the consultant agreement and a Annual consulting fees will be sent to Dongsheng Building?"
"Okay." Cao Mo didn't necessarily want to blackmail Lu Jianchao for more than ten or two hundred thousand. He needed to have a formal agreement between Taihua and show it to Nitz Oppenheimer. This would also be regarded as his official involvement in the Taihua Industrial Park. Entrance ticket to Luohu Port and other things.
"Then don't worry, I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation this time." Lu Jianchao stood up, took the waiter who had just brought a glass of fresh orange juice, and left with Lu Yan and others with a gloomy face, leaving behind a Misty Yang Lifang and others.
"What's going on?" Cheng Xite grabbed Cao Mo's collar and asked, "How do you know Taihua Lu Jianchao? He seems to be asking you for something?"
"Lu Jianchao didn't introduce himself when he sat down. How do you know that he is not Lu Jiancheng, the chairman of Taihua, but Lu Jianchao, the vice chairman?" Cao Mo asked strangely, "Taihua has two famous CEOs. ah!"
"Lu Jiancheng is the director of our bank. If he's not Lu Jiancheng, he is Lu Jianchao, the vice chairman of Taihua. I'm not stupid!" Cheng Xi glanced at Cao Mo and said, "You haven't answered my question yet. !”
Cao Mo had previously focused on Han Shaorong in China and was not very concerned about Taihua's domestic investments and business. After all, it would take considerable investment to thoroughly understand the industries and investments controlled by the listed company Taihua and the Lu family behind the scenes. energy.
He had no intention of asking Zhou Han to find out whether this was the case. After all, after this incident, he had no extravagant hope of completely overthrowing the Lu family. Only now did he learn from Cheng Xi’s introduction that the listed company Taihua holds 2% of Xinhai United Bank. Lu Jiancheng, on behalf of Taihua and several other small and medium-sized shareholders, obtained the right to nominate a director of Xinhai United Bank and was listed on the board of directors.
Yang Lifang came over with several glasses of drinks and couldn't help but ask: "Cao Mo, how do you know Mr. Lu?"
Although Yang Jiguo is the vice chairman of Shenjiang Commercial and has a higher status than Yang Lifang, the senior vice president, his status is still far from being comparable to Lu Jianchao.
On the one hand, the scale of Shenjiang Commercial is much smaller than that of Taihua. Secondly, Yang Jiguo only holds a small part of the equity in Shenjiang Commercial.
Lu Jianchao and Lu Jiancheng co-founded Taihua. There is not much difference between the two brothers' equity holdings in listed company Taihua and other industrial investments.
Therefore, in the Xinhai business community, Lu Jianchao's status is higher than that of Zhai Huajiang, the founder of Shenjiang Business, and cannot be compared to Yang Jiguo.
It was precisely because of this that Yang Lifang was particularly shocked when she saw the scene just now.
When Cao Mo and Ding Zhaoqiang met at the Jinchen Golf Course, although Yang Lifang was there at the time, and there was an unpleasant incident in which Cao Mo beat Yang Yongjun with a club, Yang Lifang didn't know what Cao Mo was talking about when he met Ding Zhaoqiang, and what happened?
I thought that Chen Rong specially brought him to the golf course to meet Ding Zhaoqiang in order to support Cao Mo.
This time it's different.
No matter how low the contract amount was, Lu Jianchao actually sat down in person and said that he wanted to hire Cao Mo as Taihua's consultant. Yang Lifang would not think it was a simple matter.
To be honest, Cao Mo didn't trust Yang Lifang, not to mention that people like Yang Jiguo also listened carefully and said with a smile: "Taihua's investment in Kanem has encountered some problems. If it is not handled well, the losses will be very serious."
The situation is so tragic. I happen to know one or two people in Kanem who can help Taihua in this regard."
"That Lily's father?" Yang Lifang asked doubtfully.
"Cheng Xi told Aunt Yang about Lily," Cao Mo continued smoothly, "Yes, Lily's father is a member of Parliament in Kanem, and the family is also very powerful in Kanem. Chinese companies invest in Kanem.
, It is difficult to trust each other with the local people. I have been working in Kanem for a long time, and by chance, I am familiar with Lily's family. In this way, if there is anything that is not convenient for the two parties to discuss directly, I will be there.
Let’s match it up!”
Yang Lifang didn't want to believe it, but she couldn't bear to question it.
After all, Cao Mo's words were the only explanation she could accept.
His daughter did not go back to China during the winter vacation from school, but she experienced the unique Chinese Spring Festival atmosphere at Cao Mo's house. How could he have done this if Cao Mo had not had a close relationship with the congressman in Kanem?
Of course, Yang Lifang had already known about this from Cheng Xi and her husband Cheng Zhengjie, but she subconsciously thought that in a country so poor that a member of Congress could not count as much.
She didn't expect that Lu Jianchao would ask Cao Mo to come forward to mediate the situation.
After so many years of domestic economic development, people like Yang Lifang and others have long been familiar with the white-glove relationship between politics and business.
Cao Mo now said that he was the white glove between Kanem, a congressman, and the Chinese businessmen, and Yang Lifang was convinced.
Otherwise, would she believe that Ochosan, the congressman, was obtained by Cao Mo through planning?
Yang Lifang left thoughtfully, or thoughtfully. Ding Xuerong's expression changed several times, and he struggled internally. Finally, he forced a smile to say hello to Cao Mo and Cheng Xi and left.
"You are so powerful now," Cheng Xi said with emotion, "So, I don't have to feel guilty if I kill you at noon?"
"I'm known as the Mine King of West Africa in Kanem. You think everyone else is blind. You just don't believe me!" Cao Mo joked.
"I just complimented you, please don't breathe!" Cheng Xi reached out and patted Cao Mo's cheek gently and said with a smile, "By the way, did you answer the phone just now? Did you have something to do? If not, why don't you go shopping with us in the afternoon?"
There was always a layer of separation between Cao Mo and Hexi Fund. Besides, Shen Ji's intervention was more effective than his intervention. He would rather ask in detail what happened after the conflict, and said: "It's the Chinese New Year. I'm just on vacation when I return to China." Yes, of course I am going shopping with you."
Cao Mo was worried that Yang Lifang would get close to Han Shaorong, so he had to make up some lies, but he still felt a little guilty about Cheng Xi and wanted to spend more time with Cheng Xi.
Yu Jing skipped work in the afternoon and of course she couldn't wander around Yinguang Plaza while shopping. After leaving Yinguang Plaza, they rushed directly to Huaihai Road. At almost five o'clock, they received a call from Chen Chang.
Chen Chang first complained on the phone about the pain of working overtime in the afternoon and regretted not skipping work like Yu Jing. Then he took the initiative to make an appointment for dinner without even thinking about it, knowing that Ding Xuerong was instigating it behind his back.
Cheng Xi previously said that Cao Mo could earn millions a year in Africa. On the one hand, Ding Xuerong suspected that Cheng Xi was bragging for Cao Mo. On the other hand, even if Cao Mo really earned so much money this year, Ding Xuerong thought it was just accidental. , it’s just bad luck, it’s better to get a stable senior white-collar job in Xinhai with an annual salary of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan.
Cao Mo's family runs a B&B. In Xinhai, where there are as many wealthy people as dogs, they can only be regarded as a prosperous family.
Well, even though it was stronger than his family, it was far from the point where he needed to curry favor.
During the meal, Yang Lifang made no secret of her strong dislike for Cao Mo and Cheng Xi being together.
Ding Xuerong considered that even if Chen Chang could not mess up his relationship with Cheng Xi, Cheng Xi and Yang Lifang were mother and daughter, and there was no overnight feud, but he still wanted to draw a clear line with Cao Mo, and even thought about how to help Yang Lifang Destroy the relationship between Cao Mo and Cheng Xi.
After seeing people like Lu Jianchao condescend to him in front of Cao Mo, Ding Xuerong had no doubts about Cao Mo's words.
Even though Cao Mo didn't seem to have a high income, and he and Taihua only dared to charge an annual consulting fee of 200,000 yuan, Ding Xuerong, who had worked hard in society for several years and climbed to the middle level within Yinguang Commercial Company, knew that At this time, the importance of the close relationship between Cao Mo and the political figures in Kanem was heavy.
From Yang Lifang's thoughtful or disappointed look, Ding Xuerong couldn't help but think that Yang Lifang had previously believed that Cao Mo, who had not graduated from high school, was unpromising and unworthy of Cheng Xi, and was firmly opposed to Cheng Xi and Cao Mo getting together. Will there be a big change in attitude?
Therefore, he felt that it was necessary for Chen Chang to come forward to save the situation.
Cao Mo had something to do in the evening. In addition to having dinner with Guo Donghu, Chen Feng and the others to bond, he couldn't just ignore Xu Bin's affairs. He said to Cheng Xi, "I won't have dinner with you guys. I may arrive in September." I won’t be able to escape until ten o’clock, and I’ll contact you then…”