Cao Mo pushed the car door open and went to the ground. Lucy, who was dedicated to communicating with Benin officials on behalf of Tianyue and was responsible for security affairs consultant and general logistics and financial work of the security company, ran over and talked about what Cao Mo was thinking about on the way.
"I have talked with Nago Kelante several times, but he still always emphasizes that it is just a simple road to connect Lonta. Even if the Benin side is approved, the Kanem side will not be taken seriously and no work will be done.
We know how long it will take before progress can be made.”
As the deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Benin and the chairman of the Movement for Democratic Renewal, the second largest party in Benin, Nago Kerente is one of the top ten political figures in the political arena of this small country.
Willie Kelant's cocoa plantation in Oguta was purchased by Cornero Foods with a large sum of money. The two parties also started a cooperative project to cultivate cocoa plantations on tens of thousands of acres of suitable forest land in the southwest of Oguta. The relationship has always been good.
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Cao Mo wanted to build a new transit road between Longta and Oguta, and he mainly lobbied institutions and officials in Benin through Willy Kelent.
However, such a transit road, which anyone with a discerning eye can see is beneficial to both countries, has not been built in the thirty or forty years since the two countries got rid of colonial rule. Naturally, they have their own national conditions.
This time, Cao Mo can easily obtain the support of Oyo State and Ogun State, the two key states in Kanem, mainly Conero Marina New City and Conero Lake Industry. The Lake Bay Industrial Park will be directly derived from this plan.
The transit roads have benefited a lot; and these two states have high hopes for the development of Conero Marina New City, Conai Lake Industrial Park and Lake Bay Processing Park. They need a more complete land road network to radiate to a wider area.
Go to West Africa.
At this time, Cao Mo was seeking to take over the construction of the new coastal city of Cornero, and this transit road was even more important to build.
Cao Mo didn't want to spend too much money at the moment, so he thought of building a simple road first to connect the winding mountain roads paved for the construction of hydropower stations on both sides, and first to open up the connection between the coastal areas of the two countries.
Benin and Oyo and Ogun states, which are most closely related to this transit road in Kanem, have their own plans.
They thought that since Tianyue's Yibogu Mining and Cornero Foods were direct beneficiaries of this transit road, and Cao Mo stepped forward to promote this matter and agreed to bear most of the construction funds, they
I just thought of asking Cao Mo to fund the construction of a high-grade highway.
This transit highway passes through the mountains in southeastern Benin. The terrain is nothing to the Chinese construction team, but in West Africa, which has a weak foundation, it can be said to be quite rugged; it passes through thousands of square miles of land along the way.
A tropical rainforest with dense streams and rivers makes construction difficult and requires high investments in bridges and tunnels.
Just to build a simple road connecting the two winding mountain roads, maybe 30 to 40 million yuan would be enough, and Cao Mo paid for it.
However, if we follow the high-grade highway standards proposed by Nago Kelant and others, investment will have to increase at least twenty to thirty times. Without an investment of 6.7 billion yuan, there will be no way to build a decent high-grade highway.
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Cao Mo subconsciously felt that there was no need to discuss this point. He only had so much liquidity in his hand. How many times could he consume so much money at once?
The bodyguards and accompanying staff took the large and small luggage to the high-end guest rooms in the camp. Cao Mo asked Xie Sipeng, Xiao Jun, Stari, Zhou Han, as well as Du Ganjie, Xiaokuski, Oulu and others who had arrived in advance.
Sit down and talk on the terrace in front of the cabin.
"If we follow Nago Kelant's suggestion, I have also discussed with Mr. Liang the funding issue for the construction of the transit highway." After Lucy sat down, she continued to introduce the situation. "If the Benin government comes forward, it can
Contracting the transit highway as a BT project to engineering contractors such as China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to advance funds for construction first, and then we can participate in the installment repayment of the project payment after it is completed. This will at least squeeze out Tianbao’s current cash flow!”
Cao Mo frowned slightly.
They have done some preparatory work in the early stage, but they were all surveyed and designed based on simple roads.
Now we need to overturn this point and directly build it according to the standards of high-grade highways. The routes need to be reselected.
Not to mention the marathon deliberation and approval process that the two countries could not handle in the early stage. It was just a matter of re-mapping, designing a final plan, and taking into account the impact on the ecological environment. It would take at least half a year of preparation. Waiting until the cooperation with China and Turkmenistan
The group contacts, an agreement is signed, and a large amount of engineering equipment is brought in to start construction. It may take another year and a half.
As a transit road connecting the core areas of the two countries, it is of great significance. Maybe some political figures want to come over for the groundbreaking ceremony. In order to accommodate their schedule, it may be delayed for a while; it is also not ruled out that there will be
Things will become more complicated when a group of ecological and environmentalists will come out to oppose the project.
Of course, funding is also an issue.
"From the beginning to the end, I just wanted to build a simple road that can barely pass through for heavy-duty trucks," Cao Mo said with a wry smile, slapping his forehead. "The next thing I want to think about is that after this transit road is built, more and more people will be able to pass through."
Vehicles can pass through this. When enterprises, merchants, towns and tribes on both sides of this transit road feel the benefits brought by this transit highway, there will inevitably be more capable and influential people.
, have enough motivation to stand up and promote the upgrading of this transit road. At that time, the central governments of the two countries and the regional governments where the highway passes should fund the construction of higher-level roads. I do not want to bear all the funding, and I have no such obligation.
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"You still have an idea that makes a big difference," Xie Sipeng held his chin and said with a smile, "Then if you want to make this happen, you need to make a careful calculation..."
The transit highway involves multiple departments from both countries, and if any link is stuck, it may end without a problem.
Cao Mo wanted to make things simple, and hoped to get through the bottleneck of the last few kilometers as soon as possible. It would definitely not work if he used normal methods and went through the normal procedures.
"Tell me, is there any way to use four ounces of force to remove a thousand kilograms of obstacles?" Cao Mo still felt that Xie Sipeng had many clever ideas and wanted to hear his opinion.
Although Xie Sipeng is the vice president of Yibogu Mining, he is mainly engaged in the Usan River copper and gold mine project. Together with Xiao Jun, he cooperates with Kabja to stay in Akwa and regards the Usan River project as the top priority of everything at present.
I'm not busy asking about other projects of Ibogu Mining for the time being, but I know a lot of things.
"We still need to promote the internal willingness of Benin and Canem to build this transit road, but this matter has been delayed for so many years and cannot be completed in one step," Xie Sipeng said.
From the designed route of the transit highway, large-scale smuggling of ivory, gold, gemstones and other goods, and cross-border illegal logging of forests, as long as it can push either side to set up anti-smuggling border checkpoints at the border point, the other side will be forced to set up the same on the opposite side of the border.
Post. At this time, both sides have the need to build a simple road from the post to the rear. Once this step is completed, it will be much easier to promote the border inspection interoperability between the two countries at this point, and it will be able to ensure the continuity.
It won’t waste any time…”
"This method is worth a try!" Cao Mo also felt suddenly enlightened. After all, Xie Sipeng was a man of the world and knew how to use various methods to simplify things and move things forward.
For now, this roundabout method may be necessary to promote the construction of the transit highway as soon as possible. Otherwise, even if they push hard, it may take three to five years for the two countries to reach an agreement.
It's not that Lei Xi is not smart enough. She couldn't think of this. The main reason is that China has accumulated thousands of years of civilization and culture, and this kind of meticulous work is not her specialty.
Xie Sipeng still couldn't escape from Akwa, so Cao Mo asked Xiao Jun to go to Benin for a while.
Even if Cao Mo had no intention of smuggling, it would be of great significance to open a simple road between Augusta and Longta. Of course, in order to forge traces of smuggling, the security company would have to send people directly to do this.
At that moment, Cao Mo, Xie Sipeng, Xiao Jun, and Zhou Han worked with each other to finalize the general details, and then asked Xiao Jun to further improve the plan and assist Lucy and Du Ganjie in implementing it...
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While sleeping at night, Cao Mo was still thinking about the cross-border highway. When he woke up early in the morning, Cao Mo thought of some details that needed attention, so he called Xiao Jun.
"You Chinese are so bad!"
Stari was half asleep when she heard Cao Mo finish the phone call. Her long black hair was spread out like a deep pool on one side. She put her arms on Cao Mo's bare chest and commented.
"It's not like you only know how bad I am today!" Cao Mo looked at Stari's pure and charming face. Her eyes were so deep and bright, her nose was straight, her lips were rosy and delicate, and her hard-working skin made her
Cao Mo was even more confused by her magically white and smooth body; her firm skin had the delicate texture of mutton-fat jade, as if just pinching it with your fingernails would bring out water.
Cao Mo liked to see Stali lying on the plain sheets, with only her lush hair covering her back. The black and white were clear, the color was warm, and her pert buttocks were like green hills covered with white snow, which was fascinating.
Thinking of the madness last night, although Cao Mo felt a little sore all over his body, he felt that he could still stand up and try again.
"..." Zhou Han knocked on the door and walked in. He saw that Stali had only pulled a towel to cover her body, and her long and round legs were still exposed. She had a beauty that made even women jealous.
Zhou Han's body proportions are particularly good, but in terms of absolute height, he is not as good as Song Yuqing, let alone Starlie. Especially Song Yuqing's legs are slender and plump. As a woman, she can't help but touch them.
"Your sister called just now. There was an abnormality in the stock market of Taihua Group at the end of the market. About five million yuan was bought into Taihua Group three minutes before the trading was stopped, which directly pushed Taihua Group to the daily limit...
"Zhou Han moved his eyes away from Stari's charming white shoulders and arms.
"What time is it now in China?" Cao Mo asked, feeling a little sleepy.
"The domestic stock market has just closed." Zhou Han showed no intention of avoiding the situation in front of Stari. He leaned against the door frame and watched Cao Mo get up and get dressed.
While Cao Mo was putting on his shirt, he bent down and took out his cell phone from under the bed. Sure enough, there were two missed calls from Jiaying.
Cao Mo walked to the living room outside, sat in front of his desk, and looked at the computer screen showing Taihua's stock price and the time-sharing trend chart of today's market, while answering Jiaying's call.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange Index fell below 2,000 points in the first two days of September, and has been falling continuously since then without any improvement. However, because Muxiang Capital needs to build a position in the short term, the trend of Taihua's stock price during this period has been slightly slower.
There is rebound, and the disk surface looks relatively better.
Today's market index is also lethargic. The trading willingness of small and medium-sized retail investors and institutions is extremely sluggish, and the trading volume has been low for several days in a row. Today's stock price trend of Taihua is basically in line with the market, and it is calm.
, two cents can last a whole day, but in the last three minutes of the closing, there was a loud thunder, and a buy order of 20,000 lots was pushed directly to the daily limit.
After that, there were many follow-up buy orders in a short period of time, and there were also many hastily sold sell orders. However, in just three minutes, the vast majority of investors failed to react, and the daily limit was maintained until the close.
The price of a single share of Taihua is very low. The total purchase price of 20,000 lots is only 5 million yuan. Even if it is
Although it was a surprise attack, it was able to pull Taihua to the daily limit in late trading and maintain it, which also shows how low the daily trading volume of Taihua is.
"Brother, did you see that Taihua was pushed up to the limit?" Jiaying answered the phone and asked impatiently.
"Well, I'm watching. What do you think?" Cao Mo asked.
Cao Mo looked at the time and saw that just twenty minutes had passed since the domestic stock market closed. He didn't know if Jiaying, Cheng Xin and the others had time to summon researchers to analyze Taihua's changes.
"We just held a small meeting and believe that neither Huamao nor the controlling shareholder Xintaihua Investment, regardless of whether they know each other's existence or not, should not engage in such operations," Jiaying said.
"How do you say it?" Cao Mo asked.
"Huamao knows about our existence and can even judge the amount of funds in our hands very accurately. Even if it intends to prevent us from collecting funds in this way, it should not wait for ten days before taking action. As the controlling shareholder, Xintaihua Investment
, We can get the abnormal data on the first day we enter the market. There is no need for Huamao to drag it out for ten days and pretend to be a good person." Jiaying said on the other end of the phone, "For the controlling shareholder, if the hand is
There are other good cards to play, and there are completely better ways to respond to us. However, if the daily limit is maintained until the end, it is unlikely to be an own goal..."
Cao Mo heard from Jiaying that Muxiang Capital's strategic analyst urgently analyzed the situation from the market, and asked: "According to your analysis, there is another company that suddenly broke in today?"
“According to our analysis, another company should have come in to disrupt the situation, but this approach is too barbaric and confusing, unless there is a manager who is completely irresponsible for the funds in its possession, which is not uncommon in China.
See you..." Jiaying said on the phone.
"Beep..." Cao Mo heard the notification sound of a new call on his cell phone. He took a look and saw that it was Nsangge who had just landed in China in the past two days.
He told Ensangge that after meeting with Han Shaorong, Lu Jianchao, and Lu Yan, he should avoid probing and inquiring, and should contact him as little as possible to avoid exposing unnecessary flaws unintentionally.
Nsange had only arrived in China for two days, and he called him urgently. What happened?
Cao Mo interrupted Jiaying and said, "I have an important call coming in. I'll call you later."
"..." After getting through the phone, Nsanga said on the phone in Yoruba in a rather surprised tone, "Mr. Cao, guess what surprising things I discovered when I first arrived in China?"
"What is it that makes you so fussy?" At this time, Cao Mo could of course guess that Nsange's discovery was related to the changes in Taihua's stock price, but he still cooperated to satisfy Nsange's show off mentality, pretending to be ignorant.
asked.
"You should really turn on your computer and look at the stock price of Taihua Group. Oh, it's morning in Kanem, and you might still be enjoying yourself in some beauty's bed. I won't care," Nsange said, "I
We had just accompanied Lu Yan and Guo Jian to secretly meet with a manager of a Chinese public fund to discuss cooperation. In order to show off his ability, this manager issued an order on his mobile phone in front of us just twenty minutes ago,
When the share price of Taihua Group was directly pushed to the limit price set by the Chinese stock market, I thought the securities market in Kanem was lawless enough, but I was really shocked!"
Cao Mo was a little stunned when he heard such a crucial piece of information from Nsangge.
Nsange was still with Lu Yan, Guo Jian and others, so he spoke to Cao Mo in Yoruba. There was no risk that something would be leaked inadvertently, but it was not appropriate to talk to Cao Mo too much on the phone.
"Is there such a bold investment manager in China?" Stali stood behind Cao Mo, hearing the conversation clearly, and asked in shock.
"It's not just China. As long as there is enough profit temptation, there are people who will commit murder and arson. But it's not so bold or blatant. It's just that we have insiders who happen to know the details," Cao Mo said, "Lu Yan pulled En Sang.
When Nsang went to see this institutional investor, he probably wanted to show Sturgeon and Nitz-Oppenheimer that they still have a lot of energy in the country. And this institutional investor should also be going to
Nsangge, like Guo Jian, is regarded as a direct descendant of the Lu family who can absolutely trust him, so he shows off his skills and power unscrupulously..."
Zhou Han couldn't understand Yoruba and asked: "What did Nsange say?"
What Cao Mo said on the phone to Nsangge was briefly repeated to Zhou Han, and he said: "Jiaying and the others' analysis is close to the truth. There is really a company that is completely irresponsible in managing the funds in their hands."
Fang is about to enter..."
"Are the Lu family looking for public funds from this company to prop up Taihua's stock price? However, it is a bit strange. Lu Jiancheng directly controls Taihua's domestic financial resources. What's more, after Lu Yan left the UK,
He spent most of his time in Kanem and was not familiar with Taihua's domestic business, especially since he had suffered losses from me and Liang Yuan before. How could Lu Jiancheng and Lu Jianchao leave such an important matter to him?
Lu Yan goes to talk?" Zhou Han pondered this news and felt that something was very wrong.
"What if this fund manager is said to have been fed by Han Shaorong to the Lu family?" Cao Mo frowned and asked Zhou Han, "Do you think this is possible?"
"It's not whether it's possible, it must be the case!" Zhou Han said decisively.
They have discovered that Han Shaorong is already lurking in Taihua's stock, and has even secretly destroyed Taihua's stock price once, forcing the Lu family to borrow high-interest loans from Atlantic Bank. They have also already done this in Sturgeon, Nitz
After getting confirmation from Oppenheimer and now that there are so many unusual things in this matter, we can certainly conclude that it was Han Shaorong who fed shit to the Lu family again...