In addition to more than 200 motorcycle riders mobilized from the Sanchez Blue Star Rental Company to gather as a precaution, the police were finally notified to intervene. They used tow trucks to push aside the two trucks blocking the street and remove the debris that had gathered to block the street.
The members of the Rat Gang dispersed, and everyone arrived at the Lana Del Rey Beach Resort Hotel without any danger.
"How do you feel now that you have seen clearly the true face of Draculamore?"
When Cao Mo arrived at the hotel, he scolded Jiaying angrily, took off his tie, sat on the sofa and said,
"This city has a strict division of power. Generally, business convoys have relatively safe routes into the city. However, the Aral Lake Island District, Victoria Island District and Ikoyi Island District in the city have received closer attention from the police. Gang forces
We are not likely to stir up trouble easily. Although the hotel we are staying in is located in the West Bank district, which is dominated by poor people, the Central Avenue area close to the side of the strait has become increasingly prosperous in recent years, and several gangs that control this area have also
We have secretly reached an agreement not to exchange fire, so it is relatively safe. However, except for these areas, the police will stay away. It may not be a big deal for ordinary citizens to pass by. After all, there is no money to be made, but our convoy is too conspicuous. We are not
It’s easy to mess with, but when we drive into someone else’s territory, they may not necessarily have the intention to seek wealth or death. It is more likely that they will regard our behavior as a provocation, thus triggering conflicts! In addition to the intricate underground gang forces, the economy is declining and extreme
The forces have also become active during this time. Although currently only the villages in the northeastern hinterland of Kanem are frequently attacked by extremist forces, no one knows whether they will go to Draculamore to create greater international influence and wealth.
Power and influence will sometimes be useless. While you are in West Africa, if you have any ideas, please do not leave the bodyguard’s sight, and do not advocate changing the travel plan arranged by the bodyguard..."
"Well, I know!" Cao Jiaying said with a pout.
"Okay, Jiaying is too curious." Cheng Xi said to Cao Mo softly.
"You guys go to the casino with Ade first. I have a more important phone call to make. I'll come over to see you later." Cao Mo said to Cheng Xi.
After Cheng Xi and the others left, Cao Mo, accompanied by Little Kuski, walked to the hotel office area. When he opened the door of an office, he saw Stari scolding Taya inside:
"...Don't explain anything to me. Cao Jiaying doesn't know the dangers of the slums of Draculamore. She wants to change the route to see a more realistic scene of Draculamore. Don't you understand anything? You didn't talk to Mr. Cao.
If you ask for instructions, just change the route directly. Who believes that you didn't do this on purpose or to give them power? Do you think Ms. can't see through your little tricks?"
Although part of the Beach Casino has been split off and the property rights are currently in the hands of Foffoff Investment Company, Starry and her brother Tubman Jr. have successively acquired a lot of Lana Del Rey Resort Hotels from other investors in the past two years.
shares, is currently the largest shareholder of the hotel and has taken over the operating rights of the hotel.
At present, in addition to normal operations, Lana Del Rey Resort Hotel has also become the branch base of Tubman Security Consultants in Draculamore.
"Okay, there's nothing wrong with letting Jiaying know the dangers of Draculamore in advance; at least I'm here today. If one day I can't get away, they may have some weird ideas, but they may encounter
It's really dangerous." Cao Mo motioned for Taya to go out first, sat down and asked Stari, "Would you like to go to the casino together later?"
"I'm not happy with what Taya did, but I also don't like pretending to others that I have nothing to do with you," Starlie said.
Cao Mo knew that having too many women would cause trouble. Taya must also know what Stari was thinking, so he played a little harmless trick. There was nothing he could do to reprimand Taya.
Seeing that Stali was ready to go, he pulled her forward and asked: "Chengxi and the others will only stay in Kanem for a week. After this week, I don't have to accompany them specially. You are like this."
, are you leaving Draculamore soon?"
"I don't have time to fight for you, otherwise I would have caught that vixen Zhou Han and chopped it into pieces." Stari held Cao Mo's face and stared into his eyes and said, "Don't lie.
Lie to me, the Lu family is finished, she got her wish, she will definitely take advantage of you before she leaves your side..."
"I am also forced to have no choice!" Cao Mo said.
"Let me see if you are helpless now!" Stari sat on Cao Mo's lap, kissed him on the lips, hugged him for a while, and said, "I won't bother you anymore, I really have something to do."
We have to leave in a hurry. Two oilfield companies in Holden State have been attacked by bombs in succession in the past two days. Although there have been no casualties, the situation has become very serious. The production of nearby oil fields and mines has been seriously affected. Government troops
They are too incompetent to control the situation. Several oil companies have given up their illusions about the government forces and have decided to strengthen the security forces in the oil fields on their own. I have made an appointment to go to Shah Hozhou in the next two days. I should be able to receive some
Order……"
Oil extraction in Kanem is a lucrative business.
Although the FOB price of crude oil from Kanem has dropped to less than fifty US dollars per barrel, the cost of extracting a barrel of oil from Kanem, from extraction to transportation to the crude oil terminal in Rivers State, is the cost of extraction, transportation and taxation.
Including everything, it was just a little over twenty dollars.
The sharp drop in oil prices has seriously affected the profits that can be obtained by oil companies of all sizes in Kanem, but it is far from being able to restrict oil companies from spending large sums of cash to hire stronger security forces for prevention and attack.
Harassment by local gangs or extremist forces.
The economic crisis hit and all industries declined, but the business of Tubman Security Consulting Company was very prosperous, and the quotation was much higher than before.
"Don't you want to punish Taya? Put her in charge of the affairs of Hedeng Province and let her suffer a little," Cao Mo said. "However, you still stay in Draculamore. There are other things that I have to take care of."
…”
"whats the matter?"
"Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is rampant again," Cao Mo said with a sigh.
The crisis is raging, economic activities have been frustrated, the unemployment rate of poor people, especially the middle and lower class people in cities, has been greatly increased, people are restless, and poor public security has made metropolises like Draculamore suffer from stubborn diseases in recent times.
Not only are there many desperate gangsters gathering in the wilderness around Draculamore, but the pirate forces in the Gulf of Guinea have also become active again.
But it's not that the naval power of countries such as Kanem, Benin or Akwa is really worse than those of pirates.
In fact, the equipment of most pirate forces is very crude. A dozen or twenty AK47s and a few speedboats can be considered a powerful force. They cannot be compared with the naval power of countries with large and medium-sized warships.
However, the countries along the Gulf of Guinea are really not interested in combating piracy.
In other words, the navies of various countries along the Gulf of Guinea are even more troublesome than the national army. Recently, regular warships have even been repelled by a few pirate speedboats. It is extremely embarrassing. On the contrary, the ships of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are not so afraid.
Will be disturbed by pirate forces.
It seems that in any region and at any time, the political and economic environment is chaotic, and the combat effectiveness of private armed forces is more secure.
Cao Mo was quite speechless when he saw such a report.
"The ships of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are big and fast, and the pirates all know that the ships of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are difficult to attack. No one comes to look for trouble. No matter how rampant the pirates are now, it will only make other ships afraid to go to sea. This will actually help
What's wrong with maintaining shipping prices within the Gulf of Guinea?" Stari asked doubtfully, "Is it possible that you still want to spend money privately to fight against piracy for countries such as Kanem and Akwa?
"
Tubman Security Consultants is responsible for the security force of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company. Starlie knows better than anyone else the security situation in the Atlantic waters west and south of Kanem and Akwa.
It is precisely because of rampant piracy that many shipping companies are afraid to get involved in business here, and other companies have also raised shipping prices.
The Gulf of Guinea shipping company was once frustrated by the sharp drop in shipping prices and suffered a temporary loss. However, it was able to quickly turn a profit after the year, mainly due to the rampant piracy, which caused a sharp rebound in shipping prices in the Gulf of Guinea.
When Cao Mo was thinking about the problem now, of course he couldn't just stop at the narrow position of raising bandits to make the Guinea Shipping Company prosperous, and said:
"China has been affected by the economic stimulus policy. At this time, it can be clearly said that it has emerged from the shadow of the economic crisis. In addition to the inertia of economic growth, most of the large-scale infrastructure projects implemented by China to stimulate the economy have just laid a foundation. In the future
It will take two or three years to truly usher in a strong explosion in demand for various raw materials. Ge Jun and others judge that in two or three years, China is destined to emerge as the most important and strongest demander of raw materials in the world, thereby driving global raw material prices and supply and demand relations.
Back on the track before the economic crisis broke out. Now the top brass of the Chinese government should be very aware of this and have sent more warships to the coast of East Africa where piracy is more rampant to escort commercial activities. In addition to the longer distance to West Africa,
It has always been a military reserve for countries such as Europe and the United States. China does not have a logistics supply base along the Gulf of Guinea. It should be impossible to directly send warships into the Gulf of Guinea. There are some things that we can only secretly promote ourselves..."
After more than two years of construction at the Wusang River Copper and Gold Mine, the first mine with a total investment of more than 400 million US dollars has been fully completed. However, the annual increase in copper concentrate output from the first mine will already exceed
Runo, Drake's narrow-gauge railway to Pemme Port has full capacity.
There are no super-large deep-water berths in Peimei Port to accommodate large ore ships of more than 100,000 tons. The copper concentrate from the Wusang River is currently transferred to Draculamo Port through medium-sized ore ships, and then transferred to Draculamo Port.
Only by converting large ore ships into Lamo Port can it be sent to the furnaces of domestic copper smelters at a lower transportation cost.
However, after the completion of the first mine, the annual production capacity is only 60,000 tons of metallic copper and only 250,000 ounces of gold. However, if we want to truly unleash the copper and gold reserve potential of the Wusang River Copper-Gold Mine, we need to develop the third mine.
Within the ten-year mining rights license period, the economic value of the Wusang River copper-gold mine will be maximized. The construction of the second and third mines will have a total production capacity of approximately six to eight times that of the first mine.
Times are enough.
This far exceeds the existing industrial and transportation supporting capacity in the northern Akwa region.
Cao Mo holds nearly 600 million US dollars in cash, and the capital pool is even rapidly accumulating at a rate of 50 to 60 million US dollars every month. But if he wants to independently undertake the subsequent construction of the Wusang River Copper and Gold Mine, at the same time
His money is far from enough to improve the industrial and transportation supporting capabilities of the northern Akwa region accordingly.
Regardless of external interfering forces, the second and third mines of the Usan River and the industrial capabilities of the Drake area will also build a new high-speed freight railway between Drake and Pemei Port.
Building a deep-water terminal with an annual loading and unloading capacity of over one million tons will require at least US$3 billion.
With the rapid recovery and growth of the domestic economy, which in turn will drive strong demand for global raw materials, there should be more capital at home and abroad to once again embark on the pace of global mineral prospecting.
Whether the Usan River copper-gold mine can attract appropriate investors to participate in its construction as soon as possible will be directly related to whether the country of Akwa and the entire Gulf of Guinea can be calm.
The Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company, relying on Tianyue's internal copper concentrate, cement and coal's huge transportation business in Akwa, Kanem and other countries, is already full, and can even use part of the cash to subsidize the ocean transportation business
, not afraid of the impact of economic downturn.
However, in the entire region, the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company is too unique. Even if competitors do not secretly interfere, as piracy becomes more and more rampant, other shipping companies that can provide fishing and hunting will have less and less meat to eat.
Now, who can guarantee that pirates will not unite and extend their evil tentacles to the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company?
Most of the pirates who dare to go to sea with a few guns and a few speedboats are desperadoes.
Cao Mo didn't think that the pirates could be completely deterred by Tubman Security Consultants' armed escort of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company.
These pirate forces are not targeting the ships of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company because there are other soft persimmons that can be exploited with greater returns and lower costs and risks.
Of course, Cao Mo never thought about asking Tubman Security Consulting Company to directly send people and ships to the sea to find the pirate forces and fight them with open swords and guns.
How to proceed with this matter is what he needs to urgently bring everyone together for discussion when he returns to Africa this time.
Of course, Starlie needs to be directly involved when discussing this issue, and not just anyone can take her place.
"Okay, I will arrange for Taya to go to Hedeng Province to take charge of the affairs there. I will stay here for the time being. However, Kuski may not be able to help with such a complicated matter. You ask Zhou Han to
The vixen will listen to my instructions from now on. I will keep an eye on her from now on and not let her force you to do things you don’t want to do again, so you won’t have to be so wronged again in the future!" Starlie said.
"All right……"
Tubman Security Consultants, the Kuski brothers, Taya and Du Ganjie and others led the tactical team to charge into the battle. They were not able to complete each specific security task with ease. What was the problem? But when it came to analyzing the complex situation, even Star
Li, she was a little confused.
In the entire African continent, there are few people who are good at analyzing layouts.
After Zhou Han returned to Africa, he mainly assisted Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan in handling relations with local politicians. Now
The most serious consequence of letting her enter Tubman Security Consulting Company to assist Starry is that he will have much fewer opportunities to steal food...
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Accompanied by Little Kuski, Cao Mo walked into the reopened beach casino.
Even if Yan Zhicheng and Yan Ming's uncles and nephews obtained the support of the Oppenheimer family to reopen the Lana Del Rey Beach Casino, Nitz Oppenheimer and Nsange were not as courageous as the Lu brothers after all, and Sturgeon.
Foster is not too keen on the casino business, so the reopened Lana Del Rey Beach Casino is much bleaker than it was at its peak.
Nowadays, even though there are many prostitutes who come to Draculamore to make a living, the few who come to the casino are quite unsatisfactory in appearance, far less attractive than those tall, brown-skinned mixed-race girls with beautiful faces.
Of course, it is said that their business is not bad. After all, some Chinese businessmen and Chinese employees are much lonely. They are still friendly to people in their hometown and need some verbal communication.
Although there have been several entertainment centers run by Chinese businessmen in Dracula Moor in recent years, some excitement is just a matter of shuddering. There is no casino that can stimulate people's hearts for a long time and make people indulge in it.
The casino license control in Draculamore is very strict. Some Chinese businessmen operate underground casinos, but it is difficult to ensure public security, which makes it difficult to achieve success. In the past two years, the Chinese businessmen who have poured into West Africa have more and more Chinese employees, so Lana
The Delray Beach Casino reopened, and even though it wasn't as grand as before, it was still overcrowded.
If it weren't for the black dealers, those exotic girls, looking at the faces with black hair, dark eyes and yellow skin in the hall, they would have thought they were in a casino in Macau.
The hall mainly features baccarat, slot machines, blackjack and other games. Cao Mo walked into the hall and saw Jiaying and Cheng Xin crowded in front of a baccarat table. Cheng Xin frowned and cautiously
Jiaying was just doing the calculations to relax and didn't take the chips in her hand seriously.
"Miss Cheng and the others are sitting inside!" When they saw Cao Mo approaching, a bodyguard came over to say hello.
Cao Mo then saw Wu Ruifang and Cheng Xi sitting at a stud card table in the corner of the east hall, playing cards. Yu Jing stood behind Cheng Xi with a pink face. He could tell that she was more powerful than Cheng Xi who was fighting in person.
Excited, nervous.
At the same card table, Cao Mo unexpectedly saw Liang Yuan and Guo Jian, whom he had not seen for a long time. He walked over calmly.
"Have you finished talking about things? Come and play." Cheng Xi turned around and stood up to replace Cao Mo at the card table.
"I want to go to the table, but I'm too bullying. You keep playing, and I'll be your adviser." Cao Mo glanced at Liang Yuan and Guo Jian, pressed Cheng Xixiang's shoulders, and asked her to continue sitting at the gambling table.
Card.
"I still don't want to play anymore. I've almost lost all of Yu Jing's chips!" Cheng Xi held his chin and said pitifully, "It's 20,000 US dollars, and I haven't even played for half an hour yet.
If my mother finds out about this, I will be scolded again..."
"The two of them sat at the table and specifically targeted Cheng Xi. Otherwise Cheng Xi wouldn't have lost so much and won more than two thousand at the beginning!" Yu Jing stared at Liang Yuan and Guo Jian opposite her unhappily.
Complain to Cao Mo.
Cao Mo glanced at the chips in front of Liang Yuan. They were about 160,000 to 70,000 U.S. dollars. With such a chip advantage, coupled with his poker skills and ability to observe people's emotions, there was no way he could win all the money at this poker table.
question.
When he looked at Wu Ruifang, the chips in front of him were not very large. He had seen Wu Ruifang play cards. She had a very stable mentality and strong calculation skills, but she seemed to have no power to resist Liang Yuan.
Seeing Liang Yuan sitting there seemingly as stable as a rock, pretending to be calm and tapping the table with a chip, Cao Mo knew that he was really going to play. The grandson was determined to leave immediately and said with a smile:
"It's useless for you to complain to me. I really can't bully others..."
"Mr. Cao, do you want to move to the VIP room?" Yan Ming came over and asked with a smile.
Leaving aside the secret relationship, there were not many Chinese businessmen present who would not greet Cao Mo with a smile.
Yan Zhicheng and Yan Ming reopened the casino in Delelamo, mainly doing business for Chinese businessmen. They also wanted to maintain a neutral attitude and greet everyone with a smile. However, he respected Cao Mo, whose status and identity had long been different, and served him more.
It's even more meticulous, and no one suspects there's anything fishy inside.
After all, Cao Mo is more qualified than anyone else.
"It's nice here," Cao Mo said with a smile, "Bring me another four hundred thousand dollars in chips and give them to Miss Wu and Cheng Xi. We won't bully others with our chips, and we won't let others use their chips to pressure us..."
"You don't want me to sit and play, do you?" Cheng Xi was startled and asked in a low voice.
"You have to start learning how to spend money now, otherwise how can I spend the money I earn?" Cao Mo asked Yu Jing again, "Do you want to play with 200,000 chips?"
"I can't. I just played for a while and my back is sweating!" Yu Jing stuck out her tongue and shook her head hurriedly.
If Cao Mo sat down, Liang Yuanda could take Guo Jian and leave directly, and no one would think he was embarrassed. But Cao Mo didn't even come to the table, and instead gave the two women two hundred thousand dollars in chips each.
Especially when one of them sits down at the table and has to ask others about the rules of stud before he gets up and leaves, wouldn't he become a huge laughing stock?
However, in fact, even if Cao Mo didn't come to the table, Liang Yuan couldn't ignore Cao Mo's existence.
How dare he continue to use psychological deception to set up traps or speculate under Cao Mo's nose? Not to mention how he has a bargaining chip advantage over the wealthy Cao Mo!
"Mr. Cao, I heard that you returned to Kanem and caused some trouble on Independence Street. Let me guess what trouble will not trouble you. You should be here at this time!"
When Liang Yuan was in a dilemma, he heard someone calling out to Cao Mo loudly in the corridor of the hall. He looked up and saw Nsanger walking over accompanied by Sturgeon Foster.
Cao Mo turned around. Apart from Nsange and Sturgeon, he didn't expect that Mei Mantar, who had never been in contact with these two people for eight lifetimes, actually walked in together. He didn't even know that Mei Mantar.
Tarr was in Draculamore at this time.
Cao Mo turned around and shook hands with Sturgeon, May Mantal, and Nsangge. He glanced at the face of the blond woman who intentionally walked behind May after entering the hall and saw that she was tall.
, but her face looks somewhat similar to Sturgeon’s. I don’t know who she is in the Foster family.
"I heard that Mr. Cao is very good at poker, why are you standing here empty-handed?" Seeing that she had attracted Cao Mo's attention, the blond woman stepped forward and asked in fluent Chinese.
Cao Mo could feel the aggressive hostility of the blond woman, so he smiled calmly and said: "No one here is my opponent at the card table, why should I go out and bully these children?"