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As he was talking, the sound of an approaching car's horn came from the yard again. Cao Mo looked towards the small square outside the door and saw Song Yuqing getting out of a seven-seater business car.
He was surprised.
During the phone call the day before yesterday, Song Yuqing found out that he had already secretly applied for a gun license and bought the gun, but his tone suddenly softened. Why didn't he say a word and came to the tribe again?
Then I saw Lucy, Zhou Jianmin and a middle-aged man with gray hair getting out of the car.
Cao Mo had met Zhou Jianmin several times before, and he knew him; he looked like a middle-aged man in his late fifties who looked Chinese, but he had never seen him before.
In any case, Zhou Jianmin was a staff member of the consulate, and many things would trouble him in the future. Cao Mo did not dare to neglect him, but before he got up and went out to greet him, he did not forget to talk to the old chief, Lili's father Xiaofei first
Li Xi'an and Abacha introduced Zhou Jianmin's identity.
The attitude of the old chief and Lily's father, Ochosan Felici, may have been quite calm. After all, they were not government officials, but Cao Mo keenly noticed that Aba's eyes were much more serious when he looked at him.
Obviously, Song Yuqing was able to bring Zhou Jianmin here at this time, which directly increased the weight of the Yibogu Gold Mine and him in Abacha's eyes.
Zhou Jianmin is the third secretary in the consulate, not a very important figure, but at any rate he is a national official assigned to Kanem by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Abacha is the true local leader of the Lonta region, but the Lonta region is comparable to the counties in China, and its economic development is far behind. No matter how arrogant Abacha is, he cannot be more powerful than Kanem in a country.
How do you pose in front of the official diplomatic staff of a major country that is dozens of times larger?
This indeed directly increased the weight that Cao Mo had in his mind as the co-developer of the Yibo Ancient Gold Mine.
Standing shabby in the small square, Zhou Jianmin introduced the identity of the middle-aged man accompanying him as Zeng Xianzhi, a professor at Fujian Agricultural University and a Chinese expert on Kaxi's non-agricultural aid project.
Song Yuqing knew that Cao Mo might not dare to leave the mine in the past two days. It was not easy to contact Zeng Xianzhi, who was in Kaxi to aid the African farm. She learned that the staff of the consulate would regularly visit various aid agencies in Ogun and nearby states and cities.
Non-project sites were tracking the progress of the project, and specifically asked Zhou Jianmin to accompany Lucy to visit the African aid farm.
Song Yuqing's intention was, of course, to help Cao Mo contact Yibogu Village about the agricultural cooperation project, but things were not right when she set out, and she did not talk to Cao Mo on the phone in advance.
After arriving at the Kasiga aid farm, everyone naturally talked about the situation in Yibogu Village.
Zeng Xianzhi, as an agricultural expert in aiding Africa, is currently stationed at the aid farm, mainly providing guidance and training to local farmers, and is not particularly busy. Zhou Jianmin and the others went to the Kasijia aid farm at noon and were warmly entertained and had lunch.
There was nothing special to do in the afternoon, so they simply drove directly to Ibogu Village.
After helping Zhou Jianmin, Abacha and the others introduced each other, Cao Mo invited everyone into the room to talk. When he entered the room, he looked back at Song Yuqing who was following behind, and lowered his voice and said, "Thank you."
"..." Song Yuqing's bright and beautiful eyes blinked, and a proud smile appeared on the corner of her mouth to help accomplish something.
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Since everyone was here, it was impossible not to visit the mine. Cao Mo asked Ed, who had become his full-time assistant recently, to help the old chief's cook prepare a sumptuous dinner, and then drove everyone to the mine.
superior.
The mine is still very crude, but two months have passed since Song Yuqing came back.
In the past two months, Cao Mo not only invested the 200,000 US dollars borrowed from Xie Sipeng, but also used the profits of more than 100,000 US dollars to purchase equipment and speed up the construction of equipment storage buildings.
At present, the moderately decent medium-sized equipment in the mine includes two excavators, a rock drill, a second-hand dump truck, a medium-sized sand making machine, and the number of diesel generator sets has increased to three, and one has even been built in the placer operation area.
A conveyor belt for quick feeding.
The equipment didn't seem to be enough. The main reason was that after Cao Mo gave up the idea of just grabbing a handful and leaving, he invested a considerable part of the funds and almost more than half of the workers in the infrastructure of the mining area.
At present, in addition to the diesel generator room, equipment and materials warehouse, gravel stone making operation area, employee dining, training and other stone houses, the mining area has also been specially added to the wood processing area - reinforced concrete is too expensive, and the quality of the bricks is not good.
Guan, Yibo Ancient Village has sufficient log resources, and the construction of buildings with less strict fire protection requirements, such as canteens, training areas, employee dormitories, and wooden houses is low-cost, fast, and quite comfortable to live in.
We don't have the energy to build a wall around the working area at the moment, but we use an excavator to dig a drainage ditch to isolate it from the surrounding forest.
No matter what, with nearly half a million US dollars invested, the Yibogu Gold Mine looks more or less like a small mining company; after further optimization and adjustment, the operation area is no longer like when Song Yuqing came to visit.
Messy.
The gravel road from the tribe to the mining area, after continuous widening and repair, is no worse than the township road from Longta Town to Yibogu Village.
Even though the investment in the Yibogu Gold Mine was only 4 million yuan, which is nothing in the country, there are only a few decent industrial and mining companies in the Lungta area, and the Yibogu Gold Mine is considered a key enterprise.
However, enterprises like the Ibogu Gold Mine have little contribution to local finances. We can only hope that local officials in Lonta will pay much attention to it, and they can only rely on private entanglements of interests.
Abacha must have come here with a certain purpose today, but after Zhou Jianmin and the others arrived, Cao Mo still directly felt the subtle changes in Abacha's mood and attitude. Seeing him occasionally talking to Lily's father, Felician Ojo, Jr.
Sang whispered, guessing that some of his requests might not be made directly, but would be conveyed tactfully through Lily's father.
"I thought that deceiving Zhou Jianmin here would help you a lot, but I didn't expect that you had already made friends with the powerful people in the Shanglongta area and solved the problem by yourself..."
After visiting the mining area, everyone went to a wooden house that served as a staff reading room to rest. Cao Mo took a box of treasured tea to the kitchen and handed it to the cook. Song Yuqing followed him and said with emotion.
"Whether Zhou Jianmin comes or not, it's still different." Cao Mo told Song Yuqing his observation.
"How can you see so many things at such a young age? I don't think they have any intentions at all? Besides, it's for the sake of the Felician family that they come forward..." Song Yuqing asked doubtfully.
road.
"..." Cao Mo couldn't bear to continue to lie to Song Yuqing, but he still decided to continue to sign the indefinite cooperation contract and continue to conceal the fact that he actually held 80% of the equity of the Yibogu Gold Mine forever.
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Zeng Xianzhi came over to take a general look at the topography, soil and water conditions of the Ibogu tribe. It was not enough to help make suggestions. Anyway, Kasiga's aid project to Africa is a semi-open public welfare project, and China naturally needs people who can
The higher the positive benefits generated, the better. Yibogu Village sent farmers there to study and receive training, and Zeng Xianzhi welcomed them all.
As for the next step for Yibo Ancient Village, how large a scale of vegetable farm and subsequent cultivation of staple crops should be built, Cao Mo didn't know what to do, and he couldn't even talk about it for a while.
After the bonfire dinner, Zhou Jianmin took the driver to take Zeng Xianzhi back to the Kaxijia Africa Aid Farm. They were very familiar with Zeng Xianzhi and would stay there for one night before rushing to the next aid project site in Abacha.
He also took the driver and bodyguard with him and left first.
Lily and her father naturally lived in the tribe, while Song Yuqing wanted to take a break from the difficult life in the mining area, so she lived in the mine with Lucy.
It was already the end of the Kanem rainy season, it was no longer so humid, it was located on the edge of the forest, and the nights were not particularly hot.
The diesel generator sets have been moved into a dedicated stone house, so the noise is not that bright. At night, there is only a small generator that is used for lighting and charging many working battery packs. The night is much quieter, and you can vaguely hear the sounds deep in the forest.
The buzzing of insects and the roar of wild animals.
"There won't be any lions or tigers running out of the forest, right?" Song Yuqing sat under the lamp and asked Cao Mo worriedly.
"In addition to the many snakes and mosquitoes in the forest, the most common things I see are monkeys, lions, and tigers. I don't know if there are any." Cao Mo said.
"Don't mention the snake, it's even scarier!" Song Yuqing covered her chest, as if something would get through the crack in the corner of the door the next moment.
"Look at your wooden house. How about building it like this?"
Song Yuqing came back last time and said that she would build a holiday cabin here.
Now a lot of things have to be dealt with one by one. Cao Mo has never thought of allocating manpower to build a holiday cabin for Song Yuqing alone. Fortunately, Cao Mo lives in the mine and there is no entertainment at night.
, he also hired teachers from Longta Market for employee vocational training. In his spare time, he drew a sketch of Song Yuqing's holiday cabin.
Cao Mo was secretly glad at this time, otherwise there would be nothing to please Song Yuqing now.
"That's really good! You are good at everything now..."
It is said that it is modeled after the sketch of a stilted wooden building in western Hunan, but the structure and size data have been marked. If it is handed over to the infrastructure team, it can be constructed according to the drawing. Not to mention other things, at least Cao Mo put his thought into this sketch.
Yuqing screamed happily like an innocent little girl.
"If you have to bite the bullet and accomplish something, you can barely scratch the surface of everything," Cao Mo said, "Sister Yu, you just arrived in Kanem, so you probably didn't think you could persevere, right?"
Song Yuqing nodded. Apart from the frustration that she was ashamed to express, there was really nothing else she felt uncomfortable with. However, on second thought, she suspected that Cao Mo had some ulterior motives when he said this, so she gave him a sideways glance and said nothing to him...