The Ji'an family's manor is a typical Kanter farm with a very large area.
The external road is bumpy and very muddy, but after passing a wooden sign indicating the Ji'an family manor, and entering the manor, there is a quite neat gravel road, paved with neat fine sand, as if it had been taken early in the morning.
Combed with special tools.
Bananas, palms, cocoa and other cash crops are planted on both sides of the road, as well as fish ponds and livestock pens. There are many local tribal servants working in the forest or ponds - if it weren't for the workers' shiny black skin and two vehicles
The pickup truck parked on the roadside gives people the feeling of being in a traditional European manor in the Middle Ages, and you can even see a mill with a windmill.
"This is Senator Asamoah Gian..."
Feng Lei got out of the car first and led the way, leading Cao Mo, Sta Li, Zhou Han, Xie Sipeng and others to the wooden main building of the manor, and introduced the group of people who were already waiting in front of the wooden main building.
Feng Lei is from Hunan. He went to university in Xinhai. After graduation, he applied for Huachen Industrial. He worked as an ordinary after-sales technical engineer on the pickup line for several years. He had a boring personality and could not afford a house in Xinhai. He had several jobs.
My girlfriends all died without illness and I am currently single.
After Huachen Pickup was acquired by Tianyue Industry, a small number of employees applied to stay in Huachen, and Feng Lei, along with most of the other employees, were taken over by Tianyue Industry.
Although Cao Mo asked Xu Bin to continuously increase the salary of the accepting employees, he also gave a one-third elimination rate.
Xu Bin was the most dissatisfied with the original market and after-sales team of pickup trucks, and they were also the most ruthless in training. At the same time, in order to strengthen the after-sales capabilities in the African market, Xu Bin sent the entire team to Africa to work with the market.
Those who are unable to get a long-term assignment due to various reasons, those who are afraid of the harsh environment in Africa, those who cannot just leave when they receive an order, and those who cannot work hard to learn English, will all be included in the elimination list.
In less than three months, half of the original sales and after-sales team of Huachen Pickup took the initiative to resign. Half a year later, the entire team was reduced to a quarter of the original number. Even severance pay was saved, but the remaining staff
Only then can we truly integrate into Tianyue Industry.
After going through this process, some staff were able to return to China one after another to participate in the construction of the domestic market sales system; Feng Lei adapted to the difficult working environment in Africa and felt a passion that he could not experience at home, so he continued to work with other staff
Stay in Africa and work in the sales and maintenance centers set up by Tianyue Industry in countries along the Gulf of Guinea.
As a Chinese technical supervisor at the Akwa Sales and Maintenance Center, Feng Lei happens to be in charge of the market work in the area south of Akwa Pemei.
Cao Mo had always tried his best to avoid getting involved in the ethnic struggle in Akwa. It was naturally impossible for senior figures such as Xie Sipeng, Kabuga, Bram, Garon Targaryen and others to have any contact with the political leaders of the Kant tribe.
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Now he openly wants to "keep" a distance from Juan Mantar and the Front for the Promotion of Democracy, and even wants to keep a line with "resentment." And he can't just find an intermediary in Akwa to contact him. Cao Mo wants to contact Kanter
It was a bit confusing to establish contact with Asamo Anji in the field of ethnic moderates.
After some internal inquiries, it turned out that he was an ordinary sales and after-sales technical supervisor of Tianyue Industry in Akwa. He had had several contacts with the Anji family due to work reasons, so he urgently found Dahomeilai to take charge of liaison work.
Cao Mo no longer wanted to avoid Akwa's ethnic struggle to avoid appearing too weak, but at the same time he could not be too naked and arouse the general resentment of the Akwa people.
Therefore, this visit is a business visit, both in name and in fact.
It was because his companies such as Ibogu Mining and Cornero Foods would focus on investing in Dahomey in the future, so Cao Mo took advantage of this trip to Akwa to "drop in" to visit Dahomey's most important political family.
Although compared to other European and American giants entering the African market, the Tianyue Group is still a bit small. However, it was only after 2006 that political changes were implemented to reopen foreign capital into Akwa.
In less than three years, a total of US$500 million has been invested in Akwa, making it the number one overseas capital in Akwa.
Don’t think that any giant can surpass Tianyue in Akwa in the short term.
After all, even if European and American giants can win larger-scale oil and gas exploration projects in Akwa, they will still need to release capital bit by bit during construction.
After Sevi launched a coup, during the ten-year military dictatorship, although some ethnic conflicts were transferred to the descendants of the colonists, there was no less suppression of the Kant people.
Even in the era of democratic elections, in addition to the obviously low proportion of Kant people in Akwa from the central government to local government and the military, what is more serious is economic repression.
In recent years, the limited industrial and mining development in Akwa has focused on the construction of the Northern Province, where the Akan people dominate, except for the capital Pemme Port.
In the southeastern regions such as Dahomey, which also have high-quality ports and mineral resources, because the Kant people dominate, Akwa's limited central finance has barely tilted a dime in this direction.
When Cao Mo and the others entered Dahomey, they could hardly see a decent processing industry. The power supply completely relied on the Pemei Port Thermal Power Plant, which was only 40 kilometers away. However, the normal power supply to the town was only five or six hours.
Hour.
And these five or six hours of power supply are mostly concentrated in the middle of the night.
Road traffic is even worse.
Akwa has entered the era of democratic elections. Although the Kant people have regained their dominant position through local elections in Dahomey and other regions, they have also gained considerable local autonomy.
However, in addition to avoiding the factors of ethnic strife, what is more important is that the industrial supporting facilities such as power supply, traffic, water supply, and communications in Dahomey and other places are too weak. Even though the Dahomey region has tried hard to attract foreign capital in the past two years, it has failed
It has no effect.
Ibogu Mining, Cornero Cement, Tianyue Industry, Cornero Food and other well-known companies in Akwa, the largest investors behind the scenes visited Dahomey. Although it was the first time for the Anji family to contact them, they also gave
Hospitality of the highest standard.
The Kant people were supported by the colonial rulers in their early years, and all aspects of their culture were highly penetrated, and their living habits were closer to those of the descendants of the colonists.
Asamo Ji'an, who is over seventy years old, has three wives, but not all at the same time. The three sons and two daughters born to his three wives respectively are not very old, and as family members, they are also present.
for this meeting.
Asamo Ji'an is already old, and at this time he is mainly focused on nurturing the young son of his current wife in politics.
His eldest son was born to his first wife. Because his mother's family was relatively wealthy, he had gone out on his own and ran the largest local wood processing plant - the wood processing plant was also a pillar industry in Dahomey.
The second son, Mbach, was born to his second wife. He is not liked by Asamo's current wife. His mother does not have much influence. She is only responsible for managing a palm plantation, which is not even large in the local area.
It's rather boring to go up there.
In today's meeting, Mbach didn't speak much after he sat down. He was far less eloquent than Asamo's eldest son, youngest son and two daughters. He seemed to have long realized that he was a marginal figure in this meeting.
Compared to the eldest son of Asamo, who is more worldly and conservative at heart, and the youngest son of Asamo, who is bombastic and somewhat frivolous in temperament, Cao Mo noticed that Mbach, the second son of Asamo, seemed to be taciturn, but he had a rather calm confidence in his heart.
At the banquet prepared by the Ji'an family, Cao Mo also intentionally mentioned some topics related to ethnic struggle. It can also be seen that Asamo's other two sons are more or less radical, but Mbach agrees more with them.
Father Asamo’s moderate line. Of course, these topics are just scratching the surface.
Cao Mo mainly discussed with Asamo Ji'an the Gulf of Guinea Coastal Economic Corridor, and Cornero Energy's intention to build a power generation base and cross-border power grid along this economic corridor, and to discuss the development of palm, cocoa and other cash crop planting bases along the Coastal Economic Corridor.
As well as a series of investment plans such as the Cornero cement production base.
Cao Mo had such an investment plan in West Africa, and Dahomey was the most important node in his investment plan, so his visit to the Anji family seemed logical and without any surprises.
After nightfall, there was a power outage in Dahomey, and the diesel generator in the manor happened to break down. The very standard Western-style dinner had a different kind of warmth under the glow of the wax fire.
After the dinner, Cao Mo and the others said goodbye and left. When they returned to Tubman Security Consulting's temporary base in Dahomey, it was still early and everyone sat in the conference room to discuss follow-up work arrangements.
As the main liaison with the Anji family, Feng Lei was also brought over to participate in the discussion.
"You seem to be quite fond of Mbach?" Xie Sipeng sat down and asked curiously.
Although Asamo is the moderate leader of the Kanter people, he is old and not in good health. Therefore, if they really want to establish a closer relationship with the Anji family, they still have to rely on Asamo's three sons.
Pick the focus.
Although Xie Sipeng didn't see anything special about Mbach, he also noticed that Cao Mo took the initiative to talk about several topics at the dinner today. Asamo's eldest son and youngest son had relatively consistent reactions, but only Mbach seemed to react.
It's plain, but it can be seen that he doesn't really approve of his brothers.
Through simple elimination, Xie Sipeng could also see that Cao Mo was more interested in Mbach.
"...It is definitely not in Tianyue's interest to split Akwa or fall into civil war. In principle, we should not get entangled with radical elements or forces from the Kanter tribe or other camps, but moderates are too easy to be weak,"
Cao Mo sighed and said, "There are too few people like Juan Mantal who have a clear understanding of reality and are firm in their hearts. Perhaps in his own situation in the Anji family, Mbach has a more pragmatic spirit.
The character is also more tenacious - the next investment intention in Dahomey needs to be discussed in several directions. Among the three sons of Asamo, at least we cannot reveal too obvious preferences on the surface, but the plantation
Regarding investment matters, we can be more relaxed when negotiating and advance faster..."
Asaman Anji and the entire family place their hopes on their youngest son, and hope that he will inherit Asaman's political legacy in the future. Tianyue has just established contact with Asaman Anji and the Anji family. Of course, it is impossible to screw him up.
What to do based on other people's thoughts.
Therefore, Cao Moming still wanted Xie Sipeng, who had sufficient influence in the Tianyue family, to have more contact with Asaman's youngest son in Akwado.
Anyway, it’s just a joke, and it’s fun with everyone.
For real business contacts, you can focus on plantation investment in the early stage and maintain close contact with Mbach.
Of course, this is not enough.
Cao Mo designated Feng Lei to participate in the plantation cooperation investment negotiations in Dahomey. This does not require Feng Lei to be deeply involved in the investment and management of the plantation in Dahomey. Dongsheng Group and Cornero Food are directly responsible for this.
Feng Lei's position is not high, and his main job in Akwa is to be responsible for the sales and after-sales service of Tianyue Industry in the southern region of Akwa. He took the opportunity to participate in negotiations to maintain close contact with Mbach, without being too abrupt.
It can also bring Mbach just right into Tianyue's other investment and market affairs in Akwa, and quietly help Mbach get rid of the restrictions of family and personal affairs being limited to Dahomey...