(Thanks to Xinmeng Wild Boar Rider, Xiao Ke, and Dameng Night Blur, Drunkyong, and Sentaoyu for their support. Recently, the occupational disease in the shoulder and neck has been a bit severe. It is very hard to code, so I just ignored it and didn’t update it...)
"Your demands are really not low..."
Lu Jianchao took a sip of tea and stared at Cao Mo with a gloomy expression.
Lu Yan and Huang Hebin also drank tea slowly, looking calm and relaxed.
At this time, the waiter had just put six dishes of cold dishes on the table. He came over with a bottle of Moutai and asked Lu Jianchao if he wanted to open it.
Seeing Lu Jianchao looking over inquiringly, Cao Mo said: "It's Chinese New Year, so you don't need to drink and drive. If this can be done, please tell me, Mr. Lu, we've had a light meal, and we still have things to do in the afternoon."
"You and Shen Ji both know very well that I am not the one who can make the decision about Taihua. No matter how urgent it is, I can't give you an answer right now." Lu Jianchao said.
"Do you think you've got us, that Taihua has no other option but to cooperate with you?" Lu Yan, who had been silent for a long time, asked with an angry smile.
He didn't know how much benefit Cao Mo and Shen Ji could get from arranging the Xinhai Iron and Steel United Company to invest in the Catero Steel Plant. He didn't care about it. After all, the Lu family just came forward to help, and whether it succeeded or not, they wouldn't lose anything.
However, Cao Mo proposed to take over Beiku Cement Plant and Xintaihua Grinding Station first, and the payment would have to be delayed until two years later. This was not a condition they could accept.
The key is that after two years, it is still uncertain whether these grandchildren will pay honestly.
"Hey, aren't our conditions excessive?" Cao Mo asked pretending to be a fool.
Lu Jianchao signaled Lu Yan to calm down and said directly: "I still said what I just said, you want to acquire the Beku Cement Plant and Xintaihua Grinding Station, there is no problem, and even the price is easy to negotiate, but you take over After that, we have to delay payment for two years, which is unacceptable to Taihua."
Cao Mo said: "It is true that Taihua has no other options, but by bypassing us, it is estimated that it will be impossible to solve such a complex problem within two years. We are now coordinating and solving these problems to ensure that many investment projects on the south shore of Lake Conero can Will we buy you two years by resuming construction as quickly as possible and solving all your worries? Then we ask for two years of your funds. I think it should be a reasonable remuneration, right? Or Mr. Lu thinks that what Shen Ji and I are playing now is a delaying strategy, just to trick you into signing the agreement first, and then find a way to waste the money in two years?"
Of course Lu Jianchao was afraid of Cao Mo's delaying tactics, but he didn't expect that he would directly expose him.
However, apart from his deep distrust, he had no way to refute Cao Mo's remarks.
"It's really difficult to gain Mr. Lu's trust!" Cao Mo picked up the chopsticks and played with them in his hands, frowning and said, "Tianyue doesn't have many assets in the country, but after the year, it will go to Cornero Foods and Tianyue Trading's domestic subsidiaries have injected a total of 30 million US dollars in funds for the expansion of the food factory and the construction of a new motorcycle product development and testing laboratory. Mr. Lu is really worried, and we can only transfer the domestic subsidiaries held by Tianyue All shares are pledged to Taihua."
"Then we can wait until your domestic subsidiary completes the capital injection before discussing cooperation. We at Taihua can afford to wait three to five months," Lu Jianchao said.
"I don't hide it from Mr. Lu. Tianyue has already received an order from Akwa National Building Materials Company. Should Cornero Cement Plant immediately start the construction of the third phase of the project, or should it acquire Beku Cement Plant and New Taihua Grinding Station?"
A decision must be made within half a month to expand production capacity!" Cao Mo looked at Lu Jianchao and said calmly, "In other words, if Taihua cannot sign an agreement with us within half a month, even if I personally still can't
I really want to make you a friend, Mr. Lu, but there will be too many people stopping me!"
"What do you mean, if we can't be friends, we must be enemies?" Lu Yan held his hand on the table and stared at him eagerly.
"Young Master Lu, are you deceiving yourself a little by asking this?" Cao Mo's eyes sharpened and he said rudely, "I said today, 'If we can't be friends, we can still forget each other', Young Master Lu can
Do you believe it to be true? Zhou Han is here. You used to think about how you plotted against me. If I can forget the blame and sit down calmly to help Taihua solve the problem, what higher requirements does Mr. Lu have for me personally?
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Lu Yan held back his anger and stopped arguing with Cao Mo.
"Can Dongsheng endorse this cooperation?" Lu Jianchao looked at Shen Ji and asked.
"Mr. Lu is overthinking this. This is a cooperation between Taihua and Tianyue. What does it have to do with Dongsheng?" Shen Ji asked rhetorically.
"As far as we know, Tianyue International also holds 30% of the shares of Cornero Energy. If Taihua asks to use this part of the shares as collateral, will Dongsheng be willing to endorse it?" Lu Jianchao asked.
"I don't think things need to be so complicated," Cao Mo said straightforwardly. He still held 30% of Cornero Energy's shares, but he had already made plans for these shares and could not pledge them to Taihua.
"Whether Mr. Lu believes in our sincerity or not, you can think about it slowly when you go back. We will draft the agreement first and bring it to Mr. Lu in half a month. Whether it succeeds or not, Mr. Lu will just give us a clear answer then, okay?"
It is necessary to add superfluous remarks at this time and hurt each other's feelings."
Hearing Cao Mo's words, Huang Hebin was about to spit out blood.
Why don't you just give us a deadline of half a month if you are too aggressive and you won't hurt each other's bullshit feelings?
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Neither Cao Mo nor Shen Ji drank. They ate something hastily and took Zhou Han to leave.
Even if the two sides hold their noses and sit down to talk about cooperation, they can't change the nature of being disgusted with each other.
Cao Mo couldn't possibly make himself unhappy while eating just to disgust Lu Jianchao, Lu Yan and the others; he would rather leave early and find a place to eat later.
Shen Ji was busy with his duties, and the Spring Festival was approaching. He planned to drive directly to Jinchen after coming out of Xinhongyuan. Zhou Han could only take Cao Mo's motorcycle back to Dongsheng Building miserably.
"Sure enough, beauty is the best decoration," Shen Ji drove the Porsche over. When he saw Zhou Han holding Cao Mo's shoulders and sitting sideways on the back seat of the motorcycle, he praised her, "Zhou Han, sit on it.
The old car is shining brightly!"
"It's just that her sitting position is too dangerous. If she were to go a little faster, I would be afraid of throwing her off." Cao Mo said dissatisfied.
Zhou Han ignored Cao Mo.
Shen Ji laughed and talked to Cao Mo through the car window.
: "You just put forward the cooperation between New Steel Union and Catero Steel Plant as a condition, but you still want to do a big job in Mangba Iron Mine?"
"To get involved in iron ore investment, although the amount of funds required is extremely huge, we are still not qualified yet, but if a person does not have a little dream, what is the difference between him and a salted fish?" Cao Mo asked with a smile.
"That said, the Catero Steel Plant is still worth our efforts to promote it. During the Spring Festival, Xinhaizheng Business District will organize large and small card games privately. If you are interested in participating, I will see if you can Make an appointment with the senior management of New Steel United..." Shen Ji said.
"I won't participate in these high-end card games, but I still have to do it with all my strength..."
Even though Cao Mo didn't have as many worries as before, he still didn't want to get too close to Xinhai's political and business circles.
The Lu family suffered such a misfortune in Kanem this time and had to bow their heads in front of him to beg for help. But in Lu Jianchao's heart, he still felt that all this was caused by their own bad luck and misjudgment.
And Dong Chengpeng, who knew them well, thought that they just had bad luck in Kanem.
Cao Mo knew that he would not gain much respect if he forced himself into Xinhai's political and business circles.
Besides, he was not willing to be old-fashioned and gloomy all day long, "laughing and joking" and scheming with those so-called big shots.
That would be too tiring.
While he was in the country, he would rather hang out with Song Yuqing, Cheng Xi and the others with nothing to do, just to take a real vacation.
However, as Shen Ji said, the Catero Steel Plant matter is indeed worthy of their vigorous promotion, and they cannot place their hopes entirely on Lu Jianchao.
And he was so concerned about Catero Steel Works because he was not thinking about how he could make a fortune by selling an additional three and a half million yuan of iron ore to Catero Steel Stone every year.
Xie Sipeng paid attention to the Mangba Iron Mine in Akwa earlier than they did, as well as the huge domestic demand for overseas iron ore. Xinhai Iron and Steel United Company for ore has taken a small part of the purchase order.
Xinhai Iron and Steel United Company's annual demand for overseas iron ore in 2006 exceeded 10 million tons. Even though their iron ore at this time mainly came from Brazil and Australia, it does not mean that they have high-quality iron ore in West Africa. Shi has no idea.
The core problem is that West Africa has a long shipping route, an unstable political and economic situation, and a serious lag in infrastructure construction.
There are no giant ore ships of 20,000 to 30,000 tons, supporting deep-water ports, and railway lines connecting the mining areas. We want to transport millions or even tens of millions of tons of high-quality iron ore in the Mangba area every year at a relatively economical cost. It is unrealistic to transport it into the new seaport and send it into the furnace of Xinhai Iron and Steel United Company.
Domestic enterprises still have various concerns about the subsequent development and political trend of West Africa. At this time, they are counting on Xinhai Iron and Steel United Company to spend billions or even billions of dollars to invest in the backward infrastructure of the Akwa mining area and port. Transformation is also impossible.
The steps should be taken step by step, and the meals should be eaten bite by bite.
Catero Steel Plant was Cao Mo's first step in luring Xinhai Steel United Company to intervene in the development of iron ore resources in West Africa.
It has only been five or six years since the end of Kanem's military rule, and there are still a large number of state-owned and state-owned enterprises in the country.
The Catero Steel Plant is an asset of the Oyo State Government. Currently, there are various problems in its development and the efficiency is very poor. However, the demand for steel in Kanem and the entire West African region is growing day by day, and the potential profit margins in the market are considerable.
However, from the construction and development of the Cornero Cement Plant in the past two or three years, Cao Mo knew clearly that the problems of the Catero Steel Plant must be solved. It is also a large-scale systematic project.
It’s not that someone took over the Catero Steel Plant and changed the management at the steel plant, and everything will be fine.
Even though Catro Steel Plant's business is not big, he currently does not have much energy and resources to devote to it.
He now hopes to encourage Xinhai Steel United Company to take over Catero Steel Plant, and they will provide support to the best of their ability.
Only after this step is completed, if they want to participate in the large-scale development of iron ore resources in West Africa in the future, they will have a strategic partner in the true sense.
Xinganglian, formerly known as Xinhai Iron and Steel Group, is a large state-owned enterprise founded in the early 1950s and developed into a super-large industrial group by the end of the 1990s.
In the mid-to-early 1990s, New Steel Union expanded rapidly. In order to solve New Steel Union's growing debt problem, it tried to introduce a large amount of private capital. At that time, the Xinhai City Government gave up its controlling stake; and by the end of the 1990s, New Steel Union
With the overall listing of Steel Union, the state-owned equity of New Steel Union has been further diluted by the introduced social capital.
At present, although the Xinhai Municipal Government is still the largest shareholder of New Steel Union, it holds less than 20% of the shares. The other shares are scattered in the hands of many private and social capitals. New Steel Union is more like a public enterprise. Fortunately, the management
It is relatively stable, its ability to manage the company is trusted, and its development and efficiency have been good in recent years.
Dongsheng and Taihua are both shareholders of New Steel Alliance, and Lu Jiancheng and Ding Zhaoqiang are both board members. As long as it is reasonable, they have the right to make suggestions.
Since it was proposed to Lu Jianchao as a formal condition, Shen Ji could certainly guess what Cao Mo's ultimate ambition was, and said jokingly: "If one day we can really develop iron ore in West Africa with the New Steel Alliance, you will talk about it every day.
The ‘King of Minerals in West Africa’ that we boast about in the Internet has truly lived up to its name!”
"Then I need you to put in more effort," Cao Mo said. "If Dongsheng wants to participate, I can give up more of the equity in the Gulf of Guinea Mining Industry!"
Whether it is supplying iron ore and coal to the Catero Steel Plant at this time, or participating in the development of the Mamba mining area in the future, Cao Mo plans to use the Gulf of Guinea Mining Investment and Trading Company as the main body.
At present, the registered capital of the Gulf of Guinea Mining Investment and Trading Company is very low, only one million US dollars. The management of Gallon Targaryen and other descendants of the colonists holds 15% of the shares, and Brahm holds 10% of the shares.
, Tianyue Investment, a joint venture established by Cao Mo, Shen Ji, Abacha, Ochosan and others, holds 75% of the shares.
The Gulf of Guinea Mining Company, with a total registered capital of only one million US dollars in the early stage, was far from being able to fulfill the coal and iron supply agreement with the Mangba mining area. Or Cao Mo had to spend an additional US$30 million in the form of loans.
Solve the problem of insufficient working capital of mining companies in the Gulf of Guinea.
If he wants to use the funds elsewhere, the Gulf of Guinea Mining Company will have to introduce new strategic investments to solve the problem of insufficient funds.
However, the current circle of contact they have in China is too narrow.
Cao Mo could only let Shen Ji continue to do the work of his uncle and Dong Chengpeng.
Although Dongsheng's current funds are all tilted towards real estate projects, as long as New Steel Union can take over the Catero Steel Plant, Cao Mo believes that Ding Zhaoqiang and Dong Chengpeng will not mind investing in the Gulf of Guinea Mining Industry, which holds the Catero steel stone supply agreement; It can even be said that Cao Mo really wanted Ding Zhaoqiang to say a few words to them in the New Steel Alliance, and the Gulf of Guinea Mining Industry would have to open its investment window to Dongsheng.
These two aspects are actually mutually exclusive.
"Okay, I'll try to hook up with various parties first." Shen Ji agreed, waved his hand, started the Porsche and drove away...
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Back at Dongsheng Building, Cao Mo sat in Song Yuqing's office. Just as he was about to call Xu Bin over to tell him about Tianyue Trading's equity, Kabuga interrupted his rhythm with an urgent call.
"We have signed an exploration cooperation agreement with the Akwa National Petroleum and Mining Group on the Drake Gold Mine. In the past few days, we are bringing people into the site to start exploration work. In the afternoon, a miner came to me and claimed that he had been The engineers at the mine have a piece of material that they want to hand over to us. I just scanned and uploaded this material to your email, do you have time to take a look at it now..."
Cao Mo turned on his mobile phone, checked his mailbox, and listened to Kabuga's concise explanation of the cause of the matter.
Things are not complicated.
It is no secret that there are gold mines underground in the Drake area of Akwa. As early as the late 1980s, the British Strew Gold Exploration and Mining Company cooperated with the Ministry of Industry and Mines of Akwa at the time. Gold mineral exploration work is carried out in the Lake area.
Strew Gold Company drilled many exploration wells in the Drake area and confirmed that there is placer gold and a small amount of copper ore underground. However, the ore rock formation is too deep, the gold ore grade is not high, and the comprehensive mining cost is too high. There has been no Carry out actual mining work.
After the Saiwei authorities came to power through a coup, they nationalized all mineral resources such as gold, oil, coal and iron, and expelled foreign companies. Stru Gold Company also had no nostalgia and gave up the exploration and mining of the Drake Gold Mine. Right, exit Akwa.
Akwa National Mining Group once tried to develop the Deguk gold mine, but ultimately gave up because of the high cost and limited technology and capital strength.
This is Akwa's open secret.
The reason why Cao Mo set his main target on the Drake gold mine from the beginning was that the cost of mining deep underground placer gold in the Drake area was high. Calculated at the current international price, it is almost necessary to increase the comprehensive mining rate to more than 90%. Only in this way can they guarantee a certain level of profit, which excludes most of the powerful competitors. Only then can they successfully sign a cooperative exploration agreement with the Akwa authorities, without any complications.
The material passed from Kabuga in Akwa pointed out that the value of the gold exploration discovered by Stru Gold Company in Drake was not high, mainly because the early exploration was placed in an area that was generally believed to be easier to form minerals. Folded hilly area. Later, Stru's technicians discovered that the plain area in the Drake area was formed by the sedimentation of an ancient river that had long since changed its course, and the porphyry layer beneath it was also very prone to mineralization.
Before Sevi launched his coup, Stru Gold Company followed a new idea and dug two new exploration wells in the Drake Plain area. Finally, high-grade copper and gold deposits were discovered 100 meters underground.
possible.
However, the Saiwei authorities subsequently launched a coup, and the political situation in Akwa was in chaos. The latest exploration discoveries had no chance to be made public. Stru Gold Company was expelled from Akwa, so the sampling records of the last two exploration wells became
A dusty secret.
"The rich ore zone is 20 meters thick, with a copper grade of 4.69% and a gold grade of 4.52 grams per ton; the average copper grade in the non-rich ore zone reaches 1.5% and gold of 1.7 grams per ton..."
The material contains data on ore samples collected from two exploration wells at that time.
Perhaps the information that could be confirmed by the two exploration wells was still too little. The exploration depth at that time was also extremely limited. The two exploration wells were less than 200 meters deep, so it was impossible to confirm the extent of the underground copper and gold reserves.
However, the miner Amududi who found Kabuja at this time, as a descendant of British colonists, was a senior geological engineer of Stru Gold Company in his early years, and personally presided over the operation of these two exploration wells.
After the Sewi authorities launched a coup and the Stru Gold Company withdrew from Akwa, Almoududi was abandoned and failed to immigrate to the UK for asylum. He spent several years in prison in Perme and then returned to Draketown.
He made a living as a mining worker, but he did not give up his geological research on the Deguk copper-gold mine and the entire Deguk area.
Almoududi's research believes that the entire porphyry layer southwest of the Drake has been mineralized. This is fundamentally different from the research conducted when Stru Gold Company withdrew from Akwa. At that time, it was still inclined to believe that the Drake porphyry layer
Only a small area of mineralization occurs in the contact area, which will lead to a deviation of ten or even dozens of times in the judgment of the Drake underground copper and gold reserves.
"So, it is very possible that there is a super copper and gold mine under the Deleigu underground?" Song Yuqing was slightly short-sighted. She leaned over to look at the open email on the computer screen. She was so shocked that her plump chest pressed against Cao Mo's.
There was no intentional move on the shoulders.
Song Yuqing is responsible for the domestic cooperation between Cornero Cement Plant, Felician Gold Mining Company, including technology introduction, equipment procurement, and personnel training and hiring. She knows very well about this dusty material and Amu
What does Dudi's follow-up research mean?
Of course, Cao Mo also knew very well that if Amududi's research direction in the following ten years was correct, the meaning of the Drake copper and gold mine was copper ore with extremely rich reserves, and gold was an accompanying product.
Cao Mo thought he was calm enough, but at this moment he couldn't help but want to buy a plane ticket directly, fly back to Akwa, and interview Almoududi in person.
Of course, he knew that there was little point in rushing back to Akwa.
Almoududi's research is only theoretical. In the past few years, he has not been able to conduct exploration and verification of his theoretical research. What Kabuja has to do now is to adjust the direction of the exploration work that has already been carried out. Chapter 1
The first is to find the old wells dug by Stru Gold Company and verify the old materials. Then, based on Almoududi's theoretical research, confirm the scope of the Drake porphyry layer and select new areas to dig.
Exploration wells are sampled.
In order to ensure that Drake's exploration work can produce results as soon as possible, Cao Mo asked Kabuga to second the exploration teams and equipment from the two mining areas of Oguta and Ibogu to Drake, and allocated another 10 million US dollars to Kabuga.