"I was born in Xinhai. My family was relatively wealthy when I was young. My family lived on Nanyang Road. My parents used the old house on Nanyang Road to do clothing wholesale and retail for a long time. They were among the first people in Xinhai to become wealthy. More than ten years ago, Nanyang Road
There was a fire, and a family of three were unfortunately burned to death, namely my parents and my grandmother. Although the investigation concluded that the wires were old and short-circuited, and the old house was used as a warehouse with too many flammable goods stacked up, so that once the fire broke out, it was impossible to extinguish it, and no one was alive.
Even though I couldn't escape, I couldn't find any traces of arson, but I knew that was not the case. My parents had a business rivalry with brothers Lu Jiancheng and Lu Jianchao for a long time. They had previously fought for a stall on Xiangshan Road.
There was a big fight, but my parents couldn't fight against the Lu brothers and were kicked out of the Xiangshan Road Wholesale Market. My dad was not someone who gave in easily. He knew that the Lu brothers were secretly smuggling clothes, so he secretly collected them.
I wanted to report them to give them some evidence, but I was also worried that the Lu brothers would use any means to retaliate. They sent me to the UK to live with a distant relative to study half a month before the fire, and even found connections to change my household registration.
You can say that there is no evidence for my suspicion. I have also thought that human nature will not be so evil. I just want to live my life well from the beginning. But, Shen Ji, do you still remember that at a gathering of international students?
, Lu Yan once boasted proudly about the Lu family's fight for a stall on Xiangshan Road? Of course, Lu Yan was not stupid enough to talk about arson at the time, but he said that Lu Jianchao had personally broken one of his competitors when he participated in a fight to fight for a stall.
Legs, yes, the person whose legs were broken was my mother. Not only did my mother have her legs broken, she also had a miscarriage. Lu Jianchao found someone to blame and was sentenced to one year... It was after that party that I was sure
The fire in my house was caused by the Lu brothers..."
With a sad look on his face, Zhou Han took out a small piece of folded newspaper from his wallet. When he unfolded it, it was a report about the Nanyang Road fire that year, with only a hundred words.
Cao Mo pouted, shrugged and stood leaning against the door frame without saying anything.
He had long since been able to truly feel the deep hatred in Zhou Han's heart, which was why he had been reluctant to uncover this layer of scars.
And even Xinhai, the most economically developed country in the country, was still at the end of a wild and barbaric economic wave in the mid-to-early 1990s.
The Xiangshan Road Small Commodity Market, which was only abolished by the municipal government the year before last, has become famous at home and abroad as a street of counterfeit goods. In the early years, due to competition for stalls and supply of goods, stall owners and different regions created gangs.
It was normal to have a fight with weapons for ten days and a half, and there was even a fight that resulted in death, and a group of participants drew lots to pay for the crime.
Cao Mo had heard about this before he went abroad.
There are quite a few wealthy people in Xinhai who did not rise in industry. Before the Lu family really made their fortune, they were just large-scale self-employed people in Xinhai.
Although Cao Mo didn't know much about the Lu family before, he also had people secretly collect information about the Lu family and the Taihua Group during this time. He had long known that the Lu family was trying to monopolize the Xiangshan Road stalls in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The best shops have extremely ruthless tactics and a reputation for evil. Xinhai has long heard that the Lu family brothers used these shops to sell smuggled goods across the country, thus earning first place in Xinhai.
Pot of gold.
This kind of crumbs from the past has become a rumor in Xinhai, but at this moment, because of Zhou Han's crumbs, people realize that the Lu family's methods are even more ruthless than the rumors say.
The rise of many wealthy people in Xinhai is due to original sin. Cao Mo saw that when Chen Rong was listening to Zhou Han's narration, there was a look on his face that he did not want to think about the past - although he did not know the details of Chen Rong and Han Shaorong's parting ways, but Han Shaorong
In the early 1990s, before he took advantage of the wave of listing and circulation of state-owned employee stocks and entered the securities market to really make a fortune, Cao Mo had a hard time accumulating capital in catering, transportation, etc.
, he also loves to save face and loyalty, and has done many "stupid things" like shielding others from knives...
"The main culprit of the entire fraud gang is actually Liang Yuan, the person standing next to Han Shaorong today. Zhou Han approached Liang Yuan and joined them with the purpose of directing Liang Yuan's target to the Lu family and dealing with the Lu family.
"
Cao Mo saw that Zhou Han's mood was not very stable, so he explained to Chen Rong,
"I had already seen through Zhou Han's identity in Kanem and ignored them at first. Later, in order to deal with the Guidam family, I used them to bring the Guidam family's smuggling fleet into the encirclement of the Benin military to attack them.
Speaking of the Jidam family, they actually secretly control a local gang in Kanem, smuggling crude oil, committing murder and kidnapping. But if I want to gain a foothold in Kanem, I don’t want to make all the achievements that I have made with great difficulty eventually come to naught.
But they must be defeated. Because neither I nor the Tubman family, the Felician family, or the Sika family have obstacles that cannot be overcome with them, and this obstacle also allows us to work together.
——Isn’t it a little complicated to explain things?”
Chen Rong opened her mouth slightly.
According to Shen Ji's previous report, Chen Rong knew that Cao Mo discovered the gold mine in Longta, and then participated in the mining of the gold mine to get the first pot of gold in his life, and then invested in cement plants and hydropower stations, and made a lot of money in a very short period of time.
to today's scale.
Of course Chen Rong could imagine that things couldn't be that simple, but she never imagined that the real story would be so complicated and dangerous.
There are some gang-like organizations in the country. They did evil for a while and became a local cancer, but they never became a phenomenon. However, Chen Rong still knew more or less what the concept of Kanem's underground gang organization was.
"...The situation we are facing in Kanem now is quite complicated," Cao Mo continued. "Niz Oppenheimer, who once severely defeated the Jidamu family with us, is still coveting the power of Taihua.
The interests of the refinery invested by Kanem, and the carving up of the Jidam family's rights and interests in the Conero Lake Port will inevitably lead to closer cooperation between them and the Lu family; even after the death of the Oppenheimer family, there are one or two
A stronger interest group participated in their cooperation. As for Liang Yuan, on the one hand he was not willing to be used by me and even thought that Zhou Han had betrayed him. On the other hand, he took away the 30 million that the entire gang had worked hard to defraud over the years.
US dollars, he was afraid that I would use his accomplices to chase him to the end of the world and not let him go - I don’t know when he will figure out the grudge between my family and Han Shaorong. I guess he will be there during the Spring Festival at the latest
He had been in contact with Han Shaorong before and after, but he was not able to fully win Han Shaorong's trust at that time. Later that year, he tried to sabotage our acquisition of the mining rights of the Wusang River copper and gold mine. Although he failed, he also obtained Han Shaorong's trust.
Trust. In the current situation, Han Shaorong should come forward as a guarantee to make Liang Yuan reconcile with the Lu family and deal with me together! Zhou Han is still just a pawn they want to use..."
Chen Rong understood why Cao Mo didn't let his father and Jiaying come directly.
Although she was with Cao Xiong, except for the hard work and complicated personnel matters, she would go to Cao Xiong to talk about her sufferings and seek comfort. In fact, she would not let Cao Xiong interfere with her affairs.
What Cao Mo faced in Africa was more complicated than imagined. Since it was impossible for his father to intervene, and there was no way to intervene, telling the truth would only increase the psychological burden on others; the key is that Cao Mo
He can already bear all this himself.
When things have reached this point, the Cao family will definitely need to be more vigilant and take precautions.
Apart from this, the most important thing for Cao Mo right now is how to face the situation in front of him.
"New Steel Union's acquisition of shares in the Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Mining Trading Company must have come to nothing. Is it possible for them to continue to acquire Catero Steel Plant?" Chen Rong asked with a frown.
"I don't know the inside story of New Steel Union's share-trading reform yet, but judging from today's situation, Han Shaorong needs an entry point to intervene in West Africa, and since Yu Jinjie has been led by Han Shaorong, I doubt Han Shaorong's involvement.
New Steel Union's share-trading reform, and then promote New Steel Union to continue to complete the acquisition of Catero Steel Plant - of course, the order of the two can also be reversed, and there will be no real impact. This should be their most effective
A possible choice," Cao Mo lowered his head and touched his forehead with his hand as he thought, "Kanem moved from the federal government to the local state government. After all, the electoral system is implemented, and Blake is not the only one in the state government -
We are on good terms with the Blake family, especially since we have been pushing forward the investment project of Catero Steel Plant in the early stage, so it is difficult for Governor Blake to suddenly change his position and put resistance to the project..."
Shen Ji frowned and said: "The Catero Steel Plant investment project itself is not bad, and after New Steel Union acquires it, it will be easy to bypass the Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Mining Company and trade with Akwa authorities or other ores.
They can even use investment in Mangba Iron Mine as bait to influence the Akwa authorities; this may be more troublesome..."
In any case, the Front for the Promotion of Democracy in Akwa, headed by Juan Mantar, is currently only a small-scale political party attached to the Sewi authorities; Juan Mantar himself is in the civilian government of the Sewi authorities
, and he only served as Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs.
The biggest impact of this incident on them was also the main purpose of Han Shaorong and Lu Jianchao deliberately choosing to show their fangs at Jinchen Golf Course, which was to cut off their possibility of receiving support from Xinhai City.
Apart from the overt or covert influence exerted by Han Shaorong and the Lu family, who would choose to cooperate with a company that has unclear involvement in a financial fraud case?
In addition to Ding Zhaoqiang's attitude in cooperating with Dongsheng, how will other investors and shareholders of Dongsheng view the scene that happened at the stadium today?
Especially Shen Ji will have to face his embarrassing identity next.
He is firmly on Cao Mo's side. Ibogu Gold Mining and Cornero Cement Group have huge development potential, and no matter how well his uncle treats him, he cannot give him three to five points of Dongsheng Group's shares for free.
However, he has always been Ding Zhaoqiang's nephew, and has always been the vice president in charge of the overall work of Dongsheng Group's overseas department. Their parents and other relatives and friends are inextricably linked to Dongsheng Group, and it is impossible to say that they have left the Ding family.
.
In comparison, Chen Rong's relationship with Dongsheng Group is simpler.
If the relationship turns sour, Chen Rong would have to resign from her position at Dongsheng and become a financial investor in the listed company Dongsheng Group. She could even cash out all the shares she held in Dongsheng Group from the securities market.
"They don't have anything to worry about if they want to intervene in Akwa's political situation." Seeing that not only Shen Ji, but also Chen Rong, Song Yuqing, and Chen Feng were worried, Cao Mo said with a smile, "We should thank the Steel Fist Brotherhood for forcing them to We are developing in an unusual way in West Africa. Otherwise, facing their fierceness, we might really have to surrender and beg for mercy. Now, if they want to knock me down, they may even go to Africa to run a business. It took three years to gain some confidence..."
Shen Ji knew that Cao Mo was talking about Cornero Security Company and Tubman Security Consulting Company, which was registered in Benin with the Tubman family.
After April, the situation they faced was very good, and at the same time, funds were so tight. Starlie insisted on using the proceeds from the sale of the Gray Crow River Hydropower Station to Cornero Energy and the proceeds from the Tubman family's sale of oil palm land to Dongsheng. Part of it, a total of nine million US dollars, was used to increase investment in Tubman Security Consulting Company. Shen Ji was still a little confused -
He studied and worked in China and the UK, and had no personal experience with the chaotic situation in Africa, so he had no sense of a particularly imminent crisis. Now it seems that Stari's persistence and Cao Mo's support for Stari were right.
This may be the most important move to ensure the safety of their investments in West Africa.
In a short period of time, Han Shaorong, Lu Jianchao and the others, even if they completely win over Nitz Oppenheimer, want to take advantage of their capital and suppress Cao Mo from the beginning in this land of West Africa, it is far from feasible. It can't be done.
At this time, Shen Ji's cell phone rang, and Chen Rong's cell phone rang almost at the same time. He took out his cell phone and saw that they were all the contact numbers of Dongsheng's president's office.
"It should be Ding Zhaoqiang who called us back to Dongsheng for a meeting..." Chen Rong said with some worry.
"You guys go to the meeting. I also need to find a place to rest. I thought I could sign the contract and have a good rest this time when I came back. I didn't even get a good sleep on the plane at night,"
Cao Mo didn't think anything particularly bad would happen to him if Ding Zhaoqiang sent Shen Ji and Chen Rong to Dongsheng, so he yawned and said,
"Han Shaorong, Lu Jianchao, and Lu Jiancheng were very dirty before, but they made enough money, especially after rough primitive accumulation, they became
The existing new game rules can help them make more money, and everyone has become accustomed to being a justice of the peace. Now they want to drag me into their chess game, but in fact, the means they can use are not as good as mine. There’s really no need to worry too much - I’m having a great time today anyway, and they can’t do anything to me, right?”
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After Cao Mo and the others left, Zhang Chaoyang also found an excuse to leave Jinchen Golf Club, sat in a black Audi and smoked a cigarette, flicked the cigarette butt to the ground, sighed softly, stepped on the accelerator and left.
His own position in the New Steel Union and his career prospects have determined that it is inconvenient for him to oppose Yu Jinjie in public, but it does not mean that he will get involved in everything Yu Jinjie does; and he does not like the feeling of being used.
Zhang Chaoyang's car was parked in the parking lot in front of the club hall. Watching his black Audi leave, Han Shaorong had a gloomy face and said nothing.
Although he has come into contact with all kinds of business managers over the years, after two thousand years, professional managers have become a new golden-collar class in China, especially in Xinhai City. Han Shaorong has also met many people who have ability, personality, and persistence. Even if they are not
If you flatter him or even disagree with him, he will laugh it off generously.
However, before the spit on his face was dry, Zhang Chaoyang just found an excuse to leave without even concealing his inner dissatisfaction after being used. This made Han Shaorong feel particularly restless and restless. He sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the hall.
, after smoking a cigarette, my mind slowly calmed down.
Not to mention Han Shaorong, even the Lu family brothers in Xinhai had few people who were willing to offend him. At this moment, everyone else dispersed one after another, and no one who hated them stayed in the hall to watch the fun.
Only the service staff and security guards inside and outside the lobby would inevitably glance here secretly.
Yu Jinjie sat silently opposite Han Shaorong. He was completely cooperating with Han Shaorong in the whole matter. He even knew very little about Cao Mo before this. Of course, he would not worry about anything at this level. He would encounter fierce competition in his life.
There are too many characters, and most of them just say a few harsh words.
And even if Cao Mo is a powerful character, it's the Lu brothers and Han Shaorong who take the lead, so why should he be anxious?
Lu Jianchao stood in the corner talking on the phone, while Chen Xiaoping's accompanying staff and bodyguards stood around. Liang Yuan also seemed to be sitting at the table with a calm face, playing with a gold-plated lighter in his hand as if nothing had happened.
After a while, seeing Lu Jianchao coming over the phone worriedly, Han Shaorong asked: "What's going on over there at Draculamore?"
"Lu Yan has been taken away by the Lonta police. Niss Oppenheimer said he can't do anything about the matter. It depends on the preliminary review of the case. Now he will help us contact the best lawyer - his slickness is clearly gone.
The rabbit doesn't let go of the eagle..." Lu Jianchao said with a gloomy expression.
"Don't worry about other things. We can take our time and think about it in the long term. The most important thing is to make sure Lu Yan is safe first."
Han Shaorong knew that Lu Jiancheng's only son, Lu Yan, was controlled by the Longta police and was equivalent to a hostage in the hands of Cao Mo. He had no reason to force the Lu brothers at this time, so he said slowly,
"We still underestimated the little brat of the Cao family. He is much stronger than his father, Cao Xiong. However, Liang Yuan's analysis is very reasonable. Wusang River cannot be just a medium-sized mine with reserves of only 100,000 or 200,000 tons of metal.
Otherwise, they would not be in such a hurry to raise funds. And Zhang Chaoyang went to the site and saw that the three new exploration points they drilled in April were far away from the mineralization area they reported to the Akwa authorities. If the three newly drilled points were
According to the estimation of exploration points, the reserve scale will increase by at least ten or twenty times..."
Lu Jianchao remained silent.
"You go to Ding Zhaoqiang and ask him to help resolve the matter at hand first. But we still have to get along well with Ding Zhaoqiang - of course, you can also tell Ding Zhaoqiang clearly that what this little brat of the Cao family did to us today is
Everything is probably not done for him to see,"
Han Shaorong continued to speak slowly,
"I also heard that the little brat of the Cao family beat up Yang Jiguo's son of Huayi Commercial right here, and it was also in front of Ding Zhaoqiang - Hexi Fund acquired part of the equity of Cornero Energy, it should be after that.
?I think this matter is worth exploring. Of course, we have learned a lesson today, and we can no longer rush for many things..."
"But we, the Lu family, can't take the lead in this matter. In the end, our Lu family will suffer the loss, right? There is no rationale in the world." Lu Jianchao also said slowly, glancing at Liang Yuan.
If we can follow the plan today, Cao Mo will be detained in the country to assist in the investigation, and then with the cooperation of the Oppenheimer family, we can quickly interrupt the capital chain of Ibogu Gold Mining Group and Cornero Cement Group. With that share of equity, they can
You can get a lot by pledging the agreement, so you don't need to pay attention to the gains and losses of 50 million.
However, now we have to think about it in the long term. If the Lu family still has to endure this loss, they may not be able to gain much from cooperating with Han Shaorong in the end.
"..." Liang Yuan remained silent and looked at Han Shaorong.
In the financial fraud case, he completely ignored the "evidence" submitted by Taihua Group to the police - under Cao Mo's threat, the Lu family either ignored Lu Yan's safety and carried it to the end, or found a way to withdraw the case;
Before the Lu family cooperated with Cao Mo, he no longer had to worry about being involved by the Lu family.
So he was not in a hurry and had no reason to spit out 50 million easily.
Han Shaorong closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened his eyes and said to Lu Jianchao: "How about taking one more point of the state-owned shares of New Steel Union from Taihua?"
Yu Jinjie sat aside and said nothing, Han Shaorong gave way.
"The price difference of one point is not that high, let's say two points!" Lu Jianchao said while bargaining.
"Before the suspension of New Steel Union, the market was worried that state-owned stocks would be significantly reduced, and the stock price was a bit low, with a market value of less than 30 billion. This is far from the value that New Steel Union should have - you have to trust my intuition.
, after the share reform plan is passed, the market value of New Steel United cannot be less than 50 billion!" Han Shaorong said, "I can give you a promise here. If it is the Lu family's turn to lift the stock ban, the market value of New Steel United will be
It’s less than 50 billion, and I, Han Shaorong, will supply the Lu family with the shortfall... If you don’t believe it, we can sign an agreement.”