The Tubman family's palm plantation is located just north of the outskirts of Draculamore.
The plantation is very large, about eight or nine square kilometers, with tall oil palm trees everywhere you look, and a gravel road extending into the depths of the plantation.
Cao Mo had walked this road before, thinking that he could enter Longta from this road to the north, but he didn't expect that the gravel road was eventually cut off by a small river running east-west, and there was not even a small wooden bridge to the north; he and Kabu
When Jia Yuandao returned, he encountered the security guards of the plantation and received a lot of reprimands.
Unexpectedly, this gravel sidewalk turned out to be a private road inside the Tubman family palm plantation.
The Tubman family built a private estate on the edge of the plantation, covering an area of thirty or forty acres. Under the same tall and neat palm trees, there was a smooth lawn, and several gardeners were busy.
There is a natural curved creek that separates the manor from the surrounding oil palm plantations. As we drove along the riverside path, we saw dozens of white-feathered waterfowl cruising in the creek.
Entering from the entrance of the manor, there are tall jacaranda trees growing on both sides of the sidewalk.
It was the jacaranda flower season at this time. I stopped the car on the side of the road and looked up at the sky, as if a complicated and gorgeous blue-purple canopy covered my head.
"Let's go, don't look stupid!" Cao Mo smiled and pushed Song Yuqing, who was looking up, reminding Yang Deshan that they had already gone to the front.
"Looking at this situation, the Tubman family has a profound background. How could they think of selling off their business at this time?" Song Yuqing asked, "What on earth did you hear yesterday?"
"Little Tubman quarreled with his sister. It seemed that the Tubman family was in crisis and if they didn't sell the crushing plant, they would be forced to sell other assets that were even less for sale. So they coaxed the little pepper away, but specifically
I don’t know what kind of crisis we are encountering." Cao Mo said to Song Yuqing.
"Didn't Abacha say that the Tubman family has no other assets besides plantations and crushing plants?" Song Yuqing asked doubtfully.
"I believed Abacha's words at first, but after seeing the two houses of the Tubman family, the family's heritage should be more than this - Abacha himself doesn't know it," Cao Mo said.
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The main building of the Tubman family's manor looks older than the mansion on Ikoyi Island yesterday, but it covers a larger area. The construction area of a main building may be three to four thousand square meters.
The car was parked in the small square with a fountain in front of the main building, and you walked up a curved staircase to the vestibule of the main building. There were still housekeepers and maids standing at the gate; bodyguards with guns were of course also indispensable.
It was relatively early, so everyone first went to the small garden behind the main building to have breakfast and afternoon tea, and then went to the pressing plant one kilometer away to see the actual situation.
The pressing plant is small in area, covering a total of more than 30 acres, and is located in the southeast corner of the plantation.
Cao Mo and the others drove to the crushing plant. There was a black Dodge parked in front of the plant.
He noticed that little Tubman's brows were slightly frowned, and then he saw the girl who knocked over his coffee cup yesterday, walking out of the pressing plant with a dull expression. She glanced at everyone coldly, and then walked towards the car parked on the roadside.
The Dodge drove away.
"This girl is so beautiful!" Song Yuqing and Cao Mo were just ordinary members of the entourage today, so they followed behind and chatted casually.
The girl's clothes are very simple, a white T-shirt, overalls and muddy boots. Her thick brown hair is simply tied behind her shoulders with a colorful hair tie. She may have Yoruba blood in her body, and her fair complexion is closer to the East.
The gentle and jade-like feeling of women.
Of course, when the girl opened the car door and stepped into the car, her slender figure reminded Cao Mo of Cheng Xi's ponytailed figure.
Cao Mo patted his head. Since he took the initiative to distance himself from contact with Cheng Xi and maintained an ordinary relationship as a classmate or friend, he shouldn't think that he was rich and just think about random things.
Even if Jiaying said it, Cheng Xi has been in college for three years, and there are countless boys around her pursuing her. She should have fallen in love in school long ago, right?
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"Cao Mo, come here." Yang Deshan waved to Cao Mo, and Song Yuqing went to the front.
The equipment in the pressing plant is relatively old, but it is well maintained. The cooking and drying of oil palm fruits use the pressing residue as fuel as much as possible.
In addition to the outdated pressing machines, the large-scale cultivation of cash crops in Kanem was managed by the colonists for two to three hundred years in the early days. It is probably the only industry that is ahead of China - even if the oil palm fruit is picked in the plantation and the forest is
Interval nursing has also achieved a certain degree of mechanization, which is orderly and very efficient.
The managers of the pressing plant speak very fluent English when communicating and are also quite familiar with production management.
Of course, the vast majority of hired workers are local farmers with very low education levels.
If Yang Deshan wants to communicate with these local employees, he needs the managers of the crushing plant to translate.
Yang Deshan pretended to inadvertently call over Cao Mo and Song Yuqing, who were lagging behind, because he did not want the managers of the crushing plant to deliberately avoid some sensitive content in the words of the local employees when translating.
The conditions of the on-site inspection of the crushing plant were pretty good. When riding back to the Tubman family estate, Tubman Jr. mentioned the purchase price of two million US dollars.
Yang Deshan is now thinking of signing an agreement of intent and conducting a preliminary investigation of the assets of the crushing plant.
The final purchase price and whether the transaction has been confirmed, hiring a third party to conduct audits, credit review, etc. will have to wait until Wang Jianzhong leads the new staff to come over to discuss together, and then submit it to the business department for approval.
We conducted an on-site inspection in the morning, had a meal at the Tubman family manor at noon, and checked the qualification documents and asset ledger of the crushing plant in the afternoon.
As a long-established colonial enterprise in Kanem, the management level of the Tubman family's crushing plant is no worse than that of emerging domestic enterprises, and the company's management ledger information is very complete.
That night, after a sumptuous dinner prepared by the Tubman family, both parties happily signed the acquisition agreement.
With this agreement of intent and the crushing plant information provided by the Tubman family, Yang Deshan can finally relax.
Abacha returned directly from the Tubman Family Manor to Lonta that night. More than ten kilometers east of the Tubman Family Manor, there is a wooden bridge connecting the rural dirt roads on both sides. There is also a section of wasteland with no access, but
A powerful four-wheel drive off-road vehicle like the Grand Cherokee could barely pass.
This made Cao Mo even more determined to buy a second-hand off-road vehicle when the mining funds were sufficient.
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There is no direct flight from Xinhai to Draculamore. It was the first time for Cao Mo and the others to transfer from Italy. There was no delay and the entire flight took more than thirty hours.
The next morning, Yang Deshan hurriedly completed the two off-road vehicles and did not rush to complete any transfer procedures. At about dusk in the afternoon, he picked up Cao Mo, Guo Jian and the driver and drove three vehicles to Dracula Motors.
The desolate international airport welcomes newly dispatched employees.
Cao Mo didn't recognize any of the newly assigned employees, including Wang Jianzhong, the deputy general manager of the branch.
Seeing the shocked and pale expressions on their faces when each of them walked out of the airport reception hall carrying two or three suitcases, Cao Mo thought of the situation when he first arrived at Draculamore two years ago.
The most prosperous city in West Africa is far from what they expected.
This is Draculamore, a city with a population of 12 million, full of poverty, violence and fierce social conflicts - the most developed in Africa, with its economy ranking among the top 100 cities in the world. South Africa's legislative capital has begun
Cape Town has a population of less than four million.
Wang Jianzhong is about forty years old, about the same age as Yang Deshan. He has a medium build, wears rimless eyeglasses, and looks elegant. When he sees Yang Deshan, he greets him affectionately: "We haven't seen each other for a few days, and the top of your head is thin again?"
Cao Mo thought that if Yang Deshan could fully vent his inner emotions, he would not pretend to be affectionate and laugh away, and walk over to help Wang Jianzhong carry his luggage, but would greet him with a slap in the face.
The other five employees are four men and one woman. The four men are all about the same age as Guo Jian; the girl is about the same age as Cao Mo. She is petite but has a pretty face. There is no disappointment in her eyes. More
I am curious about the city of Draculamore.
Cao Mo had seen their information a long time ago. The four male employees were from factories affiliated to the former Ministry of Grain and Oils. They were brought here by Wang Jianzhong to negotiate for the acquisition of the crushing plant and the management and technical personnel responsible for subsequent specific operations. Sending them here directly showed that
I made up my mind to leave the group.
The girl's name is Wang Wen. She is a new financial staff member of the group and works as an assistant to Song Yuqing.
She had met Song Yuqing in the financial department of the group before, and her personality was quite cheerful and generous. As soon as she got in the car, she asked Song Yuqing why she didn't pick them up at the airport.
With so many newly dispatched employees here, even if Yang Deshan wished that their plane crashed, the first meal to welcome the newcomers should be sumptuous and warm.
Song Yuqing accompanied Stena to purchase ingredients and prepare dinner in the afternoon, while Oru was responsible for helping them to ensure their safety.
Although the desolation along the outskirts of the city and the chaos in the city were a bit beyond the imagination of the new employees, their mood became slightly brighter when they drove into the community where the employee dormitories were located.
After all, the living conditions were pretty good and it didn't scare them.
Guo Jianze kept introducing the situation of Draculamore to the new employees and what they must pay attention to after settling in. From time to time, he mentioned some cases of local employees colluding with criminal gangs to rob Chinese businessmen, and asked everyone to treat local employees appropriately.
He was extremely vigilant, and if there was any need to dispatch local employees from the branch, he or Cao Mo must go through it.
Cao Mo just acted as his ordinary staff and helped out.
Anyway, he can claim to be Yang Deshan's "person" and just ignore Wang Jianzhong's instructions.
The check-in arrangement is that girls Wang Wen and Stena will live in Cao Mo and Song Yuqing's house; the four newly recruited drivers and bodyguards will share a room in the villa where Wang Jianzhong and Guo Jian live as a dormitory;
Together with four employees from the former Ministry of Grain and Oil, the last villa was used as a dormitory.
If the acquisition agreement is finally negotiated, these four employees of the former Grain and Oils Department will follow Wang Jianzhong to take over the crushing plant.
The dinner was quite sumptuous. Everyone was sitting around the dining table. As they were introducing each other, there was a "pop" sound and the lights went out first.
When Cao Mo stood up to help Stena light the candle, a crisp gunshot was heard from the nearby street outside the community.
Cao Mo, who had long been accustomed to it, carefully placed the candlestick among the dishes on the dining table. He saw that the new employees were at a loss and smiled inwardly. They were more frightened than when they were frightened by Draculamore on the first day they arrived.