The dinner that day also invited dignitaries such as Drake Mayor Margot Voss and Akwa National Petroleum and Mining Group Director of Drake Office Vinny Lingham.
As the son of a tribal chief in Drake, Margot Voss received a good education at an early age. He was already a major commander in the Akwa Army when he was less than thirty years old. He participated in the Sevi Army ten years ago.
After the military coup organized by the organization, he returned to Drake and served as deputy mayor, mayor and other important positions.
Compared with Vinnie Lingham, who is over sixty years old and still looks at May Mantal and Starry with a big belly, Margot Voss, who is not even forty years old at this time.
, at this time, it can be said that he is a big shot like Drake. He is tall and somewhat elegant among the dark-skinned Akan people.
In Drake, where the Akan people account for more than 60% of the total population, the Voss family has grown rapidly over the years and has become the leading wealthy family in the area.
Margot Voss was a direct beneficiary of the military coup ten years ago, but his loyalty to Sevi had limits.
If Ufo Bonya could successfully launch a military coup, Cao Mo had no doubt that Vos would immediately become Ufo Bonya's most loyal supporter, but he himself also openly supported political change.
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Of course, there are considerable factors behind this, which are directly related to the interests of the Voss family.
There are quite a number of middle- and high-level figures in Akwa who, like Margot Voss, support political changes, but they mainly want to legalize the property that the family has accumulated or plundered over the years through political changes.
They are worried that unpredictable political turmoil will fundamentally impact the wealth and power their family holds at this time.
But when May Mantal proposed to reclaim the property confiscated and misappropriated from the descendants of the colonists, Margot Voss had a completely different attitude.
At the dinner, he not only ignored the beautiful and haggard May Mantal, but also had a cold attitude towards Juan Mantal and others, and did not recognize that Juan Mantal had become one of the
The status of the central government of the Saivi authorities.
During the dinner, Cao Mo mentioned that Yibogu Gold Mining Group had signed a contract to acquire the shares of Stru Gold Mining Company. Margot Watson's face suddenly changed, and his eyes became sharp and aggressive.
At that time, the assets of Strew Gold Mining Company left in Drake were mainly taken over by the National Petroleum and Mining Group in name. However, the National Petroleum and Mining Group's office in Drake actually took over the assets of Strew Gold Mining Company in Drake.
Drake has two abandoned gold mines and several exploration operations.
A large number of assets such as the supporting enterprises serving gold mining, office buildings, employee residential areas, and the plantation operated by Strew Gold Mining Company in Drake were transferred to local forces through cheap transfers.
divided.
Half a month later, Mei Mantar had just asked the local government to compensate for the property confiscated from the descendants of the colonists. At this time, Cao Mo said that the Yibogu Gold Mining Group had completed the settlement of the Stru Gold Mining Company.
How could Margot Voss deal with the acquisition calmly and not create any associations that would make him feel extremely bad?
Cao Mo had no interest in playing riddles with Margot Voss.
State Voss’ concerns:
"Economic reforms are about to be implemented in Akwa, and Minister Mantar is also formulating a new policy for opening up investment to foreign companies on behalf of the Akwa government, with a view to introducing new investment and technology. This makes not only the withdrawal from Akwa ten years ago
Foreign companies, as well as new companies like ours that have made great progress in recent years, are very optimistic about Akwa's future development in mineral and energy development. Of course, there are some bad voices now, claiming that the Akwa authorities should
To repay the assets expropriated ten years ago, but this is not the purpose of our acquisition of Stru Gold Mining Company. As an old gold mining company, Stru has a long-term technological accumulation in gold mining and exploration. This is
Ibogu Gold Mining Group currently lacks something that needs to be made up for. Stru Gold Mining Company has been developing in Drake for decades and has a deep foundation in Drake, which will help us strengthen cooperation with the Drake area.
Of course, in order to avoid some unnecessary noise and worries that may affect our cooperation with the Drake region, after the reorganization of the new board of directors of Stru Gold Mining Company, I hope that we can facilitate Stru Gold Mining Company to cooperate with us as soon as possible.
The City of Drake has signed a memorandum of cooperation in which we hope to formally renounce our right of recourse to assets expropriated in the Drake area..."
After the Saiwei authorities launched a military coup, they mainly relied on the support of the Akan people to stabilize the political situation in Akwa. Based on Cao Mo's observations and thinking about West African society in the past few years, he believed that the political changes in Akwa
Whether it can be effectively promoted cannot escape the characteristics of ethnic politics.
This also determines whether they can finally successfully obtain the mining rights of the Usang River copper-gold mine and successfully organize mining. In addition to the Akwa authorities opening the door of convenience, whether the local government welcomes it or not will also be crucial.
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In the face of the influx of foreign companies that will soon follow the policy liberalization, in addition to the resistance formed by anti-colonialism in the local area, this is the biggest worry for those pragmatic and profit-seeking interest groups.
Margot Voss did not quite believe what Cao Mo said and had many doubts in his heart, but he still expressed his hope that the cooperation memorandum could be signed as soon as possible.
After the dinner, Margot Voss and other local dignitaries left one after another, and Cao Mo directly arranged for Juan Mantal, Brahm and others to stay——
Sitting down in the pavilion in the courtyard, Cao Mo invited Juan Mantal and Brahm to taste the black tea he brought from China.
Seeing the worry in Juan Mantar's expression, and seeming to see through the distrust in Margot Voss's heart, and worried that things might not progress as smoothly as he believed, Cao Mo said with a smile:
"Vos actually didn't believe that Stru Gold Mining Company would so simply give up on the pursuit of assets expropriated ten years ago, but once the memorandum was officially signed, his suspicions would be wiped away - and now I
It's all empty talk. Everything will have to wait for the Stru Gold Mining Company to reorganize the board of directors, wait for the new company president to take office, and rush to Drake on behalf of the Stru Gold Mining Company. Things will soon make substantial progress.
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Juan Mantal nodded. He also felt that the price of US$40 million was quite expensive to acquire the controlling stake of Stru Gold Mining Company.
"Effect.
And Maggot
Voss does not seem to be a paranoid nationalist. The key to solving the problem is to focus on the interests that everyone is concerned about.
"It is unrealistic to think how many new jobs can be created in the exploration and mining of copper and gold mines on the east bank of the Usan River in a short period of time, but Cornero Foods has the production and sales business of cocoa beans and cocoa butter," Cao Mo said.
Juan Mantal said, "Drake's land is fertile and very suitable for growing cocoa trees. Cornero Food is not very large. At present, it can only spend about 10 million US dollars at a time to support the descendants of colonists in Ukraine.
Develop and build new cocoa plantations on the east bank of the San River to create more jobs..."
Ten million US dollars directly helps the descendants of colonists acquire mature cocoa plantations for operation, and will not create many new job opportunities.
On the one hand, the acquisition cost of mature cocoa plantations is high. A direct acquisition of 10 million US dollars may not be able to acquire 10,000 acres of plantations. In addition, the operation is mature and does not require much labor at all.
On the other hand, the management and maintenance of mature cocoa plantations already have stable personnel. Lifting the existing employment agreements and replacing all employees with descendants of colonists will only create more unnecessary conflicts in the local area.
Descendants of the colonists can rent or buy new plantations on the east bank of the Usan River. If we invest US$10 million in the first year and US$2 million in batches each year for the next five years, we can almost cultivate them at the same time.
A new plantation of about 30,000 acres will create three to four thousand new low-level jobs due to limited initial investment in agricultural machinery and equipment.
This will directly and significantly help solve the current situation of widespread unemployment among the descendants of Drake's colonists.
This is not a good investment for Cornero Foods.
On the one hand, such a large-scale investment will take five to six years to see effective output, and the financial efficiency is too low for emerging enterprises that still lack development capital; on the other hand, Cornero Foods has to bear the burden
This poses a huge risk of political instability in Akwa in five to six years.
Of course, this plan is much better than Cao Mo directly using 20 million US dollars to fund the descendants of colonists to build white communities.
A free lunch may not be cherished, and it may even be worth the loss.
Therefore, in addition to his previous donation of two million US dollars for disaster relief, Cao Mo has no intention of consolidating his friendship with the Democratic Promotion Front through large-scale direct donations.
As for the construction of the new plantation this time, Cao Mo also planned to select people with experience in plantation management and management from among the descendants of the colonists to cooperate, and use the initial investment in starting a business plus a part of low-interest loans to fund their acquisitions or projects on the east bank of the Wusang River.
Leasing wasteland and cultivating 30 to 50 to 1 to 200 small and medium-sized cocoa plantations.
In doing so, it is on the one hand to bypass Akwa's current restrictions on foreign companies' direct investment in plantations, and at the same time, it can also reduce the investment of human resources in this area as much as possible. More importantly, it is to spread the friendship with the Democracy Promotion Front to
These plantation owners, rather than focusing on individuals such as Juan Mantar and his daughter...
Friendship is also an investment, and there will always be risks that are difficult to control when put in a basket.