Ochosan wouldn't stay in Longta for too long, and Abacha didn't make any gestures. He happily ran to the mine to meet Cao Mo again the next day.
Abacha even changed his previous gloomy and cold image, becoming so enthusiastic that he even hugged Cao Mo.
The contrast between Abacha and Abacha was so great that even though Cao Mo had a keen intuition, he was shocked. However, through Ochosan, he knew a lot about Abacha's situation.
Abacha was born into the Sika family in the Lonta area. The Sika family operates a palm plantation with an area of more than 10,000 acres in the south of Lonta, eight or nine kilometers away from Ibogu Village.
Including other industries, the Sika family's annual income may be millions of dollars. This is nothing in China, but it is considered a wealthy family in the Lonta region and even in the entire Oyo State.
Abacha is less than thirty years old. In the past few years, he was a passionate young man in the region who firmly opposed the rule of the former military government. He was considered a rebellious outlier in his family.
After the end of the military government in Kanem, the democratically elected government came to power. As the main representative member of the ruling party Patriotic Construction Front in the Lonta region, Abacha changed his rebellious and bad image and was elected as a municipal councilor.
The Sika family has a deep-rooted position in Lonta, and Abacha's uncle Sika is a traditional representative of the Lonta region and is also a municipal councilor.
The number of traditional representatives in a region is fixed and they do not need to be elected. They can be said to be representatives of local ethnic groups. In fact, their power is greater and more stable than elected representatives.
Abacha still wants to get rid of the shadow of his family. His restless heart has greater political ambitions. He is not limited to wanting to develop in the Lonta area, but if he wants to become an Oyo State parliamentarian, he needs to accumulate more resources in all aspects.
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In Abacha's eyes, even if Cao Mo was willing to establish a closer relationship with the Patriotic Construction Front, he could only be considered a small donor, but he liked Cao Mo's ideas so much.
Of course, in Cao Mo's eyes, Abacha was much more active in thinking than the locals he had come into contact with before, and he felt more or less like him.
Abacha said that Cao Mo had the magic power of "seeing directly into people's hearts", so he spoke more relaxedly and did not hide his intentions.
Currently, the United Nations has many aid projects in Kanem (China Kasiga's aid to African farms is also included in the United Nations' total aid projects in Africa), but there are only a few of them divided by the thirty-seven federal states of Kanem.
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Needless to say, the prestige and influence gained in the local area by being able to win aid projects.
In the eyes of Kanem officials, what is more critical is that the aid project is an important channel that connects the federal government and state governments.
At present, Kanem is in great need of foreign aid. With so many aid projects in Africa, President Buhari of the federal government is not only extremely concerned about the progress, but also personally visits several sites every year.
Establishing close relationships with United Nations officials is an important way for Kanem's domestic officials to gain political prestige.
Abacha does not expect to be able to directly apply for United Nations aid projects in the Lonta area by virtue of his personal abilities. In fact, his family does not like his out-of-the-way character - the Sika family even believes that the democratically elected government and the ruling party
The Patriotic Construction Front is a retrogression and will bring greater instability and uncertainty to Kanem.
Abacha still doesn't have much support from his family. He thinks that the vegetable farm to be built in Ibogu Village will at least be connected with the United Nations.
In Abacha's eyes, as long as this thing is promoted in his name, it is of greater significance than the 3% of the profits of the Igubo gold mine that are handed over to the Lonta region every year.
When Abacha came this time, his attitude in front of Cao Mo was much more relaxed than the first time. He even offered to reduce the taxes and fees paid by the Yibogu Gold Mine to the Longta area.
Paying a 3% profit tax is not high, and Cao Mo will not bargain on the smallest details, but he hopes that Abacha can promote the taxes and fees paid by the Yibogu Gold Mine in the municipal committee, which will mainly be used to pay taxes to Yibogu Village.
Road repairs between the Sika family's palm plantations.
Although there is no suburban road leading to Draculamo from the Sika family's palm plantation, there is a section of gravel road that is often repaired. It can also be seen that this should be dedicated to the Sika family and several nearby palm plantations.
Plantation service.
Cao Mo thought that if the Longta Municipal Committee could build a gravel road from there to Ibogu Village, and then invest in building two cement blocks on the two streams south of the Sika family's palm plantation, cars and light trucks would be able to use them.
It has direct access to Draculamore, which will greatly improve the transportation convenience between Iboko Village and Draculamore.
In fact, even if the price of steel and cement in Kanem is several times higher than that in China, the investment in two small cement bridges and a simple gravel road is not that scary. However, in the past few years, no one in the local area has thought about raising funds to go to Degu.
When Lamo's passage opened, Cao Mo was quite speechless.
Of course, Cao Mo would not think that the Patriotic Construction Front was incompetent. After all, this country only ended its military rule two years ago, and a lot of chaos had not yet been sorted out. Otherwise, social security would not be so chaotic; the same goes for the Patriotic Construction Front.
A young political party without much experience in governance.
Abacha agreed wholeheartedly, but Cao Mo felt that he was perfunctory. His mind was still on the agricultural project in Yibogu Village, and he felt that his personality was even more irritable than his own.
However, Cao Mo wouldn't point it out, and he didn't even think there was anything wrong with it.
There are twenty-four or five members of the Lonta Municipal Council. Abacha's status is not prominent and he does not yet have the power and prestige to make a final decision.
On the contrary, if the Ibogu Village agricultural project is completed in the name of Abacha, Abacha's influence and status in Longta will increase, and it will be much easier to promote related matters at that time.
Cao Mo was still in the planning stage for the Yibo Ancient Vegetable Farm. He wanted to communicate with Professor Zeng Xianzhi a few more times before finalizing a relatively complete plan before executing it. He didn't want to rush into it, but Aba
At this time, Zha could not wait to push Cao Mo forward.
With Ochosan present, Abacha couldn't wait for Cao Mo to determine the investment scale of the farm immediately.
Cao Mo initially thought of starting with a farm of about 100 acres.
In addition to considering the gradual development of the Chinese restaurant in Dracula Mo as a customer, a considerable part of the vegetable cultivation in the early stage was also considered to be supplied to the mine first.
At present, Cao Mo has planted four to five acres of vegetable gardens at the mine. The vegetables are growing too thin and they can only be used for a limited number of people including him, Kabuga, Overma, and the old chief Felician.
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The dietary standard for more than 80 miners was mainly cassava flour and beans and rice, which were provided free of charge in the past. Each meal was one yuan, and couldn't be more - vegetables and meat? Overthinking.
Cao Mo thought that if the sales of the vegetable farm developed in the early stage were not good, he could improve the food for the mine workers. It also showed that he, the Chinese boss, was so conscientious and there would be no waste or loss.
The weather in Kanem is hot, so there is no need to build a vegetable greenhouse, and the investment in a hundred acres of vegetable land will be quite limited.
Abacha was obviously dissatisfied with the initial planting scale of only 100 acres. According to his idea, it would have to start from 1,000 acres; he even wished it would start from 1,000 acres, so it would be 6,000 acres.
The Sika family operates two thousand acres of palm plantations. Although they are not good at growing vegetables, they have all the agricultural and irrigation equipment. Not only can they rent some agricultural machinery to Cao Mo, but they also have relatively reliable purchasing channels, and even
Transfer some of the mechanical technicians they hired to Cao Mo.
"How about Mr. Abacha, would you also join in the investment?" Seeing Abacha's eagerness, Cao Mo said along the pole.
Agriculture requires a large enough area to make big profits.
Vegetables are currently scarce in Draculamore. If one thousand acres of land can be successfully sold, the profit will be considerable, but this model is too easy to imitate.
In particular, the owners of Chinese restaurants were able to come to Draculamore from China at the beginning of the century. All of them were smart people, and none of them were fuel-efficient. They rented land on the outskirts of Draculamore.
There are no obstacles. In the end, this business will still become a matter of quantity.
Song Yuqing analyzed this point for Cao Mo last night.
Cao Mo wanted to do this mainly because it would be beneficial to Yibogu and the surrounding tribal villagers, and also help him truly integrate into the local area. He didn't expect to make much money, but since Abacha couldn't wait to expand,
He just wanted to drag Abacha directly into the water.
When Abacha got involved, he became really enthusiastic about building a road between Ibogu village and the Sika family palm plantation.
Abacha pondered for a moment and then agreed very simply, so much so that Cao Mo couldn't help but wonder if Abacha wanted to fool him into taking the bait first.
Fortunately, Cao Mo's intuition told him that Abacha was serious.
Cao Mo could only think that it had only been two years since the military rule of Kanem ended, and the newly recruited young officials in the region like Abacha were more like passionate young people who were full of energy and didn't think much about the consequences. In fact, they didn't have much.
In terms of political experience, we cannot expect him to be as cunning as the domestic officials who have been promoted in government agencies for decades.