Naturally, it was Yang Deshan and Wang Jianzhong who took the lead in the acquisition of the Tubman family crushing plant.
The four employees brought by Wang Jianzhong were all professional management and technical personnel. As an ordinary stationed employee, Cao Mo was even more marginalized. The tasks assigned to him were responsible for logistics and accompanying work.
As long as it was signed before Wang Jianzhong arrived, and there were no problems with the project itself, Yang Deshan made it clear at this time, stating his intention to sign the agreement urgently, in order to take credit for this contribution in his own name, and he was not afraid of anyone being able to blame him.
Wang Jianzhong can only evaluate the project itself and look for possible errors and omissions in the preliminary work.
Of course, Wang Jianzhong, who has more relevant management and professional experience, has a greater say in the final acquisition valuation of the crushing plant.
Dongsheng Group made its fortune in grain, oil and construction profiles. At present, the annual domestic sales of edible oil alone has reached 400,000 tons.
Even though palm oil is still a new species in China, when it comes to crushing equipment and cost accounting, Wang Jianzhong and the people he brought here are definitely much more professional than Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.
Wang Jianzhong must have felt that the acquisition price of two million US dollars was too high, and it would be his credit to how much he could lower the price in subsequent negotiations.
In the following days of contact, in addition to lowering the purchase price to US$1.6 million, they also requested that an additional ten acres of construction land be allocated from the Tubman family plantation to meet the subsequent needs for the reconstruction and expansion of the crushing plant.
The annual sales volume of Dongsheng edible oil reaches 400,000 tons. A pressing plant with an annual output of 2,000 tons is obviously not enough for Dongsheng. Even the initial goal is to acquire the Tubman family's pressing plant and make additional investments to improve it.
Expansion will increase the annual production capacity to more than 5,000 tons as quickly as possible.
Even so, after the initial reconstruction and expansion of the pressing plant is completed, the annual output value will only be two to three million US dollars, and the profits it can generate may not cover the initial cost of dispatching employees.
However, throughout Kanem, tens of millions of tons of palm oil are exported every year, amounting to three to four billion US dollars.
Since Dongsheng Group has decided to make West Africa the focus of expanding its overseas investment business, the acquisition of the Tubman crushing plant for reconstruction and expansion is just a small move by the group to further adapt to the Kanem market.
It was only after the arrival of Wang Jianzhong and others that Cao Mo learned that the group had established an overseas investment division, and he criticized Yang Deshan for his inaction in Kanem in the past two years.
In order to keep his position, Yang Deshan took a market research report that Cao Mo had done for his early work and blew it to the group. He advocated investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Kanem to build a large-scale palm oil crushing plant, and even directly
Contract land to plant oil palm trees, etc.
The use of palm oil as edible oil has long been recognized internationally, but it is currently rarely introduced domestically. It is also a development direction that Dongsheng's grain and oil department is focusing on in the near future.
Yang Deshan has been unable to return to Dracula Mo for a long time, mainly because after he proposed this plan, the group also advocated looking for cooperation projects in Malaysia and Indonesia, which are also rich in oil palm and are close to China.
In terms of geographical distance, Kanem is obviously quite far away from the country. The sea transportation distance is more than twice as far as that of Malaysia and Indonesia.
Yang Deshan's proposal to build a crushing plant in Kanem was immediately rejected by the business department.
Yang Deshan was as panicked as a dog.
In the past two or three months, he has accompanied the management of the Overseas Investment Division to inspect projects in Malaysia and Indonesia.
However, the palm oil production in these two countries has been divided up by several large international grain and oil merchants.
The target sales market for these international grain and oil companies in the later period is mainland China, and there is fierce competition with Dongsheng.
There are still many small and medium-sized projects left in these two countries, but they are no longer in line with Dongsheng Group's long-term plan in the field of grain and oil production.
In the end, Kanem became the business unit’s only choice for developing overseas grain and oil production capacity.
Yang Deshan then hurried back to Dracula Mo to prepare.
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The early investment in the acquisition of the Tubman family crushing plant was not a big deal in the eyes of Dongsheng Group, which had 5,000 to 6,000 employees. After the project investment letter and third-party due diligence report were submitted, the business department directly
The investment was approved and the funds were transferred to the West African Branch's account.
It only took a month. After New Year's Day in 2005, the West African branch officially signed the relevant supply and acquisition agreement with Tubman, and Wang Jianzhong led his team to take over the crushing plant.
Shen Ji was preoccupied with something, and in the end he did not rush to Draculamore to inspect before the acquisition agreement. Yang Deshan was completely relieved.
In the West African branch, he is the general manager and Wang Jianzhong is the deputy general manager. He also has the advantage of being deeply rooted and familiar with the local area. Of course, he can lead Wang Jianzhong by the nose.
If Shen Ji personally came to intervene in the acquisition negotiations, it's hard to say whether things would change.
Now Wang Jianzhong leads the team and only takes over the production and operation of the crushing plant. The power of the entire West African branch is still in Yang Deshan's hands.
In addition to the production and operation of the pressing plant, the financial, equipment and material procurement, personnel and other rights are still under the direct control of the West Africa Branch.
In Kanem, oil palm trees produce fruit all year round.
After taking over the crushing plant, the old production line can be continued directly, and the new production line will be carried out on the newly allocated construction land; the large barrels of palm oil produced by the crushing will be directly transported back to the country for further processing and packaging for sale.
In addition to employee salaries, fund accounting and allocation for material procurement, inspection, customs declaration, and shipping entrustment, Song Yuqing and Wang Wen were responsible for the process. It was really busy. Two newly recruited local employees - Cao Moze were responsible for
Drivers and bodyguards help them.
Cao Mo was promoted to a higher level in the West Africa branch. The title of "Deputy Manager of the Personnel Administration Department" was officially printed on his business card, and his salary and overseas allowances were increased accordingly.
He is still nominally under Guo Jian's direct supervision, but whether Guo Jian can dispatch him is another matter.
Wang Jianzhong led four employees to live in the staff dormitory of the crushing plant. In the name of purchasing and supplying vegetables and meat for the crushing plant, Cao Mo monopolized a Mitsubishi off-road vehicle of the branch and took Ade and Oulu with him every two days.
It takes three days to make a round trip between Ibogu and Draculamore.
In this way, things on both sides will not be delayed.
This can be regarded as his reward for helping Yang Deshan accomplish this.
Wang Jianzhong raised opinions several times, but Yang Deshan blocked them all.
Wang Jianzhong, the new employees, and even Wang Wen all thought that Cao Mo was Yang Deshan's true direct descendant.
When Wang Wen encountered something, he thought of sending Cao Mo, but how could Cao Mo have time to run errands for her?
Cao Mo ignored him several times, and Wang Wen became very angry, thinking that Cao Mo had nothing to do with Yang Deshan. Apart from being handsome, they were just idle, slippery and lazy idiots.
Wang Wen's enthusiastic attitude towards Cao Mo gradually became colder, and he was no longer as enthusiastic as he was at the beginning.
The investment in equipment for subsequent rock gold mining was too high. Before New Year's Day, Cao Mo decided to focus the next work of the Yibogu Gold Mine on placer gold panning.
During this period, Cao Mo still had no extra funds, but an excavator was added to the mine, and the daily gold mining volume was steadily increasing.
The operation area has also undergone new adjustments and improvements. The tailings overflow dam has been strengthened. A 2,000-square-meter stone warehouse has been built on the south side of the operation area in preparation for obtaining a logging permit and expanding wood processing.
During this period, Yang Deshan, Xie Sipeng, and Xu Sheng were still struggling with the issue of increasing capital for millions of dollars in new rock gold mining equipment.
As Cao Mo expected, in rock gold mining, as the working surface goes deeper into the gold-bearing rock formations, the difficulty of the operation and the investment in equipment will continue to increase.
Yang Deshan and the others only scraped together an investment of 400,000 US dollars in the early stage. After more than three months of rock gold mining, the output could only support them in the early construction of the mining area, but they could not invest in new equipment.
If we continue to mine with the same manpower and equipment, the efficiency will drop significantly.
Their current daily output can only cover daily staff salaries and material procurement expenses.
This problem also exists in the Ibogu Gold Mine, but the Ibogu Gold Mine has placer gold that can be mined.
The Ibogu Gold Mine now has a total of three excavators used for riverbed placer gold mining, and the gold mining volume is steadily increasing.
During this period, Cao Mo also submitted a formal application for exploration rights to Oyo State through the Felician Family Gold Mining Company, thinking of hiring a professional surveying company to investigate the rock gold reserves of the Ibogu Gold Mine.
If there were abundant rock gold reserves, he would grit his teeth and accumulate capital bit by bit, and then significantly increase investment in rock gold mining equipment; if it were not for Ibogu, there would not be much rock gold reserves at all, then he would just mine placer gold honestly.
Although the reserves of placer gold are limited, mining is simple and does not require much additional equipment investment in the future. You can start harvesting profits now, and then think of ways to do other things, such as running a farm.
The construction of Ibogu Farm is also proceeding in an orderly manner...
There are a large number of vegetable varieties, and the growing period, from planting to harvest, takes less than two months.
After November, Kanem enters the dry season, so wells are dug for irrigation in time, and the growing period of vegetables is shorter.
The two hundred acres of gardens cultivated in the early stage were officially supplied to several Chinese supermarkets and restaurants in the Dracula West Coast area in mid-to-late January.
The initial vegetable production was limited, so Cao Mo purchased several second-hand motorcycles and arranged for the riders to transport the first batch of 500 to 600 kilograms of harvested vegetables from Ibogu to Draculamo every day for supply.
The supply of vegetables in Dracula Mo is too scarce. The daily supply of five to six hundred kilograms of vegetables cannot meet the needs of several Chinese restaurants. Therefore, the prices of all kinds of vegetables are quite high. It takes three to go there every day.
Four hundred dollars in income.
When the vegetables from the 200 acres of vegetable fields are put on the market, the daily income is expected to exceed two to three thousand US dollars.
The premise is that no one else joins the competition, but once the savvy Chinese businessmen realize this and rent land to grow vegetables on the outskirts of Draculamore, the golden time of Ibogu Farm will come to an abrupt end.
Cao Mo didn't care about this, he wanted to live the good days first.
And even after three to five months, the farm's profits dropped significantly to a reasonable level. With a farm of thousands of acres, don't think you can make a fortune, but the potential of the Ibogu gold mine is really limited. He will continue to increase
Large farm investment, renting land to expand to 10,000 acres or even higher, is also a pretty good investment.
In fact, he invested a total of less than 30,000 US dollars in the early stage of Yibogu Farm, and hired less than 200 farm workers from Yibogu and nearby tribes. As the income from selling vegetables hit new highs every day, in the later period, 800 acres
The development of staple food planting land does not require him to invest anything...