In addition to Cao Mo going home today, the main thing is to celebrate Mrs. Cao's recovery and discharge from the hospital.
There was absolutely no reason to kick the second child's family out without asking them to sit down. When Cao Xiong came out, he pretended to glare at Jiaying and told her to calm down.
A middle-aged man wearing a lead gray woolen short-sleeved coat walked out of the tea room. Cheng Xi happily pulled Cao Mo over and shouted, "Uncle, this is Cao Mo."
"I haven't seen you for several years. Cao Mo has grown so big. I heard that you have done a lot of business in Africa?"
The middle-aged man looked at Cao Mo and asked with a smile.
Cheng Xi's mother's hometown is also in Chonghai, in Dongzhou County below Chonghai. Cao Mo also met Cheng Xi's uncle Yang Jianguo a few times when he was a child, but after all, he was not a relative of his, so he didn't leave a deep impression on him.
Cheng Xi's father's side doesn't have many relatives, no uncles or aunts, but her mother has two uncles and one aunt.
However, Cheng Xi's mother is a very strong-willed person, and she has good contacts with relatives in her hometown. Only her uncle Yang Jianguo works in the Dongzhou County Government and has more opportunities to travel to Xinhai on business. With Cheng Xi's family
Contact should be closer.
Cao Mo smiled modestly.
Dinner was already prepared and they were waiting for Cao Mo to come back with Cheng Xi. Everyone chatted and laughed and walked to the newly renovated restaurant.
The new restaurant is the former back room of Courtyard No. 116.
After the pavilions and stoves between the two courtyards were demolished and connected with the two narrow back patios to form a back garden facing the river, the back room was transformed into a dining kitchen. It was still decorated in a Chinese style, but with floor-to-ceiling windows and courtyards.
Partitioned.
When it gets dark, a few floor lamps light up in the garden, complementing the illuminated light strips on both sides of the Qingtang River. Or a cruise ship passes by, whether you are sitting in the restaurant eating or drinking in the teahouse opposite.
Tea is an excellent enjoyment.
Cao Mo and his brother-in-law didn't get along with each other. When everyone was seated, he took the Maotai from the nanny's hand and poured wine for everyone one by one.
Cao Mo was still thinking about holding a video conference with Dracula Mo at night, so he covered the wine glass with his hand and said, "I have something else to do tonight. Let's drink some beer to accompany everyone..."
Cao Fangming would never disobey Cao Mo now. He was just about to jump over Cao Mo with Maotai and pour wine for Yang Jianguo, who was sitting on Cheng Xi's right hand. Cheng Zhengjie sat opposite and said, "No, I don't think this kid can do anything today."
It's pleasing to the eye, we must have him drink liquor with us - what's the point of drinking beer, and what kind of companionship is it?"
"Cao Mo is coming back from Africa. He must be exhausted after taking such a long flight. Next time, ask him to drink white wine to accompany Lao Cheng. You can drink well. Forget it today, let him go." Cao Fangming is now thinking about trying to please him.
Cao Mo said with a smile, helping Cao Mo to stop the wine.
"You don't have the ability to pour this wine, I'll pour it for him - not only did he have to drink liquor today, we elders sat here and waited for him for a long time before he came back. The food was cold, and we had to punish him with a full glass first.
That counts." Cheng Zhengjie came over and took Maotai from Cao Fangming's hand. He made a big move and knocked over a wine glass on the table, almost rolling it to the ground and smashing it, which shocked everyone.
Cao Fangming was in a daze. He didn't know what Cheng Zhengjie was causing, and he didn't know if he should continue to protect Cao Mo from drinking.
Yang Lifang stood up dissatisfied, stretched out her hand to pull Cheng Zhengjie back to his seat, and said: "Lao Cheng, if Cao Mo doesn't want to drink, just drink. You accompany my brother, Lao Cao can just have a couple of drinks - I haven't finished the wine yet."
But first he got drunk and went crazy. Why did Cao Mo fall in love with you and you don't like him?"
"Don't worry, I'll ask Cao Mo if he wants to drink the drink as a punishment." Cheng Zhengjie said.
"Uncle Cheng, I must drink this wine," Cao Mo stood up, took the Maotai from Cheng Zhengjie's hand with a smile, bent over and poured a full glass into the wine glass in front of the table, and whispered to Cheng Xi.
He said, "When I sleep with someone else's daughter, I have to get them to drink a glass of wine. I didn't expect that your dad is also a petty person..."
"..." Cheng Xi was already embarrassed enough thinking about being exposed by her father. When she heard Cao Mo teasing her about it, she raised her beautiful eyes and said, "My father asked you to drink, how dare you
Hey, drink it quickly!" Holding the bottom of the wine glass, he poured a small glass of white wine into Cao Mo's mouth.
"What are you talking about? Why are you sleeping with someone else's daughter..." Cao Jiaying sat aside and watched the excitement and asked innocently, pretending to be innocent.
"Jiaying!" Cheng Xi's face turned red and she glared at Cao Jiaying angrily.
"Sister Cheng Xi, it's no use glaring at me. I'm just curious about what my brother was mumbling just now." Cao Jiaying said with a playful smile.
Cao Mo drank a glass of white wine, reached out and knocked Jiaying on the head to stop her from messing around. He put the wine glass on the table and said to Cheng Xi's parents: "Cheng Xi and I are not very old, so we still want to
I want to play for two more years and have no plans to get married, but please don’t worry, Uncle Cheng and Aunt Yang, I will always be good to Cheng Xi in my life..."
"It's so gross, it almost kills me..." Jiaying laughed.
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After dinner, Cao Li knew that his parents were not welcome, so she asked them to leave first.
Cao Mo was stared at by the "resentful" Cheng Zhengjie. He drank almost a pound of Maotai at night. He couldn't do anything else and could only sit with him in the tea room and drink tea to relieve his hangover.
Shen Ji called and wanted to get him to call Xie Sipeng and sit down at a nearby bar.
Cao Mo was now afraid of going to the bar to drink again. He would probably be so drunk at night that he wouldn't know anyone else. It happened that Cheng Xi and her uncle also wanted to talk to them about something, so they called Shen Ji and Xie Sipeng directly to him for tea.
As the property market in Xinhai City booms, industrial land prices have also risen.
In order to make better use of land resources, free up more environmental capacity to develop high-tech industries, and also leave space for urban expansion, Xinhai City has begun to adjust its economic and industrial development model in recent years, intentionally reducing high energy consumption and low output density.
The development of heavy chemical industry.
The relocation of the production base of the Grain and Oils Department of Dongsheng Group from overseas in recent years is a typical case in this context.
As far as the country is concerned, the development of the heavy chemical industry has not yet reached its bottleneck.
Chonghai City just carried out the move of removing counties and merging districts at the end of last year. The former provincial county Dongzhou County canceled its administrative establishment and became the newly established Dongzhou District of Chonghai City.
In order to promote the industrial development of Dongzhou District, the Chonghai Municipal Government cooperated with Xinhai City this year to allocate more than 20 square kilometers of land between Dongzhou District and the original economic development zone to establish a Chongxin Joint Industrial Park.
, to take over the heavy chemical industry and other industries overflowing from Xinhai.
Cheng Xi and her uncle Yang Jianguo currently serve as the working committee of the United Industrial Park and deputy director of the management committee. They are considered to be the number one figures in the local area.
Cheng Xi and her uncle Yang Jianguo have reached the age of retiring from the second line and have become Buddhist-like in character. However, the leaders of Chonghai City attach great importance to investment promotion work. Both the principal and deputy leaders of Chongxin United Industrial Park share a large amount of investment promotion work.
Therefore, Cheng Xi and her uncle Yang Jianguo traveled to Xinhai every once in a while.
Although Dongsheng Real Estate was once hit by the debt crisis, it has always been the most important contractor in Chonghai New City and is responsible for the construction of the Ziying Lake core area.
After the successful backdoor listing of Dongsheng Real Estate, its cash flow became abundant. At the same time, as the real estate market became hot again, Dongsheng Real Estate also focused on accelerating the construction of a series of projects in Ziying Lake. In 2009, it directly invested in 56 projects in Chonghai.
With a construction capital of one billion, the status will naturally become more important.
The history of Cao Mo's success in Africa sounds like a miracle. Not to mention Yang Lifang, Cheng Zhengjie, even his father Cao Xiong can't figure out too many details.
At the same time, they are not overly flamboyant people who brag to everyone.
Therefore, Yang Jianguo could not recognize Tianyue's true identity hidden under the clouds, mountains and fog. However, Tianyue Investment, as the second largest shareholder of Dongsheng Real Estate, is actually an investment company controlled by the Cao family, and Dongsheng lives with Cao Xiong.
Chen Rong, the director of Sheng Group and Dongsheng Real Estate, holds 3% of the shares of Dongsheng Real Estate with a market value of nearly 2 billion. He is aware of this.
After all, Yang Lifang and Cheng Zhengjie would occasionally get together with him and talk about the marriage and love affairs of their juniors, more or less.
In fact, once wealth is accumulated to a certain extent, it becomes a number.
Yang Jianguo didn't know exactly what Cao Mo was doing in Africa, nor how much wealth the Cao family controlled, but the Cao family apparently controlled eight to nine billion in property, wasn't that enough to brag about?
Yang Jianguo also has a small status in the local area. At the age of retiring from the second line, he has no ambition in his career and will not forcefully join him. However, under the heavy pressure of the city government, he wants to complete the investment promotion task under his name, so he naturally
I want to bring my idea to the "Cao family".
Of course, this task is also easy to complete.
In order to develop any industrial park, in addition to attracting investment to build various factories, it is also inseparable from the construction of corresponding living supporting facilities. Now that the domestic real estate market is booming, local governments are even more willing to develop commercial real estate first and build living supporting areas first.
, in addition to providing higher supporting facilities for industrial parks, transferring land at a high price in the early stage can also hoard funds for large-scale infrastructure construction.
For Yang Jianguo, he hopes that the Cao family or Chen Rong can get in touch with each other to request Dongsheng Real Estate to get a piece of land within the Chongxin Industrial Park, and even send people to participate in the special land auction organized by the Chonghai Municipal Government for the Chongxin Industrial Park.
In the end, he didn't take pictures of the land, so he could be considered to have completed the tasks assigned before the end of the year.
"This is a simple matter. Who is in charge of Dongsheng Real Estate's Chonghai branch now? Let that person go over and support him..." Cao Mo asked Shen Ji to go directly to the person in charge of Dongsheng Real Estate's Chonghai branch to say hello.
If Sheng Real Estate wants to develop in Chonghai, it is indispensable to establish good relations with local officials. This kind of flattery work must have been done many times, but he is not really willing to buy land. Dongsheng Real Estate has its own internal judgment, and he is not a controlling shareholder.
Shareholders will not interfere without reason.
"At the end of the year, the work of flattering will be quite heavy. Dongsheng Real Estate has already received the invitation, and we can't shamelessly go to flatter Director Yang again." Shen Ji looked at Yang Jianguo and said, "However, Tianyue Industrial's domestic sales
The factory is currently in talks to be vacated, so it is necessary to find a new park near Xinhai to build a new factory - we have inspected several places now, and we are also paying attention to Chongxin Park, and the conditions are also the most favorable. Cao Mo's
When I returned to China for the first time, I wanted to drag him over to take a look."
"I remember that Director Zhang Zhao, who is in charge of investment promotion, is directly responsible for connecting Tianyue Industrial. I haven't figured out the relationship between Tianyue Industrial and you yet - was Tianyue Industrial formerly called Taihua Group?" Yang Jianguo was confused.
asked.
He has now reached the age of retiring from the second line. He has become a Buddhist and does not delve into business very much.
He had long seen that Tianyue Industrial was listed in the park's investment plan, but he thought that this was just someone else dragging it in to support him. He didn't bother to study Tianyue Industrial's materials, and he didn't even compare Tianyue Industrial to his sister.
, the brother-in-law said "Tian Yue" in his mouth.
Of course, the direct contact person of Tianyue Industrial is not him, but he has a closer relationship with Tianyue Industrial than the direct contact person, so he can explain it to him.
Even if the truth is revealed, if the city knows that the second largest shareholder of Dongsheng Real Estate is the family of his prospective nephew and son-in-law, the task of attracting investment will be fooled.
"Well, this listed company was formerly called Taihua Group. Last year, a financial crisis broke out. Tianyue Investment, Sun Hung Investment, and Dongsheng Control established an acquisition trust fund under Dongjiang Securities to undertake all the mortgages from the major shareholders of Taihua Group.
"Stocks of financial institutions," Cao Mo introduced the equity structure behind Tianyue Industrial to Yang Jianguo, "At that time, in order to use as little cash as possible, the trust fund acquired the shares of the listed company and at the same time financed the original creditors, tying up equity and debt.
Together. Therefore, according to the information disclosed to the public, the controlling party of Tianyue Industrial is very complicated, but through analysis, Tianyue Investment is considered the actual controller. Shen Ji now represents Tianyue Investment and serves as the chairman of Tianyue Industrial. Specifically
In charge of domestic affairs...Since things happen so coincidentally, I will find an opportunity to go to Chonghai with Cheng Xi to eat and drink in the next few days..."
Yang Jianguoqiang suppressed his emotion and said directly: "Don't worry, I will definitely arrange it. When I go back, I will see if any leader in the city can be free in the past few days. With Tianyue's level, I have to report it.
Ask the mayor and secretary if he is free."
"Don't do it. Cheng Xi and I really went to eat and drink, and quietly entered the village. We didn't want to shoot. For the formal negotiation work, Shen Ji and the others had to formally hand over the work to the park. I came back to China this time for a ferry trip.
I came here on holiday, I don’t want to work anymore.” Cao Mo begged for mercy.
He doesn't mind accompanying Cheng Xi to the cities near Xinhai, which can be regarded as a vacation and relaxing, but if he really wants to have it, countless staff will accompany him, and there will be local officials to receive him, and he won't listen to the tour.
Listening to various road shows is harder than normal work.
How could Cao Mo take on this hard job?
Let's talk about Tianyue Industrial's chemical pipeline production base. This time it was included in Xinhai City's industry vacation plan. The compensation plan has also been finalized. The amount of compensation is enough for Tianyue Industrial to purchase a piece of industrial land in a nearby city to build a new factory.
, but Cao Mo was thinking about whether to take advantage of this retreat to completely shut down this business and use the compensation funds received for other investments.
Tianyue Industrial's chemical pipeline business seems to also provide products for the construction of Fulkov Chemical Group, but the quantity is very limited.
Even if Fulkov Chemical Group starts construction of its new plant in Cotonou immediately, the demand for chemical pipelines and various chemical pump equipment is still too limited compared to the supply of domestic chemical pipeline production bases. The chemical pipeline business relies more on the supply of other customers.
purchase.
There are hundreds of similar chemical equipment manufacturers in China, and competition is fierce.
Tianyue Industrial's domestic business is relatively better this year. After experiencing the initial chaos, the chemical pipeline business may still contribute more than 100 million in profits this year.
This is mainly due to the fact that in order to combat the economic crisis in China, various regions have increased industrial investment, and the new production capacity in the chemical industry has been particularly fierce, driving a surge in demand for upstream chemical equipment.
However, Tianyue Industrial's chemical pipeline products are only second- and third-rate in China. The Lu brothers had previously neglected investment in production and scientific research, and it would be difficult to add more in the future.
This area is not Tianyue's main business at this time, so it is naturally impossible for Cao Mo to add much investment and energy.
In addition to Cao Mo's dislike of socializing, the future of Tianyue Industrial's business is uncertain, which is why Cao Mo doesn't like to be in such a hurry to meet the senior officials of Chonghai City.
"...Okay, I understand. When you arrive in Chonghai one day, I'll ask Xiao Xi's brother to accompany you to have some fun. I'll talk to Chairman Shen about the 'business'!"
Yang Jianguo didn't know what Cao Mo's plan was for Tianyue Industrial, but he was also tired of socializing now, and he understood the hard work of socializing.
Talking about "making out" with a group of unfamiliar strangers all day long. Even if you don't have to walk around the table to have a drink, people will keep coming over to toast you. Even if you sit there and frequently turn to the side to hold the wine glass, they will shout. People are exhausted.
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After drinking tea until ten o'clock, Yang Lifang and Cheng Zhengjie sent Yang Jianguo back to the hotel to rest.
At this point in time, it was obviously too early for Cheng Xi, who had only met Cao Mo after several months, so he stayed with Cao Mo and watched him discuss work matters with Shen Ji, Xie Sipeng, Chen Rong, and Cao Jiaying. .
Besides, she still holds the title of Vice President of Muxiang Capital and concurrently serves as a director of Xinhai United Bank.
Shen Ji was opposed to Cao Mo's intention to use this industrial retreat to give up Tianyue Industrial's chemical pipeline business:
"Tianyue Industrial holds a controlling stake in Cornero Energy, but this is an equity investment. Once the chemical pipeline business is completely shut down, Tianyue Industrial will become a company with no main business, a pure investment nature, and even the main investment will be overseas. Listed companies, even if they can barely pass the regulatory hurdles, but then you have to carry out private placement, and the funds after the placement and the compensation obtained from the vacation are mainly used overseas, so it is difficult to avoid the question of transferring assets..."
"What is more feasible is asset replacement. Maybe we can take this opportunity to put Cornero Foods into a listed company?" Xie Sipeng suggested uncertainly.
"The biggest problem is that domestic listed companies have very strict restrictions on foreign shareholdings - Tianyue Investment and private individuals such as Guo Donghu and I only hold 60% of the shares in Cornero Foods, leaving the remaining 100%. Forty percent of the external shareholding cannot be placed in the listed company and must be liquidated in order to meet the regulatory requirements for asset replacement. Otherwise, if only 60% of the equity of Cornero Foods is placed, it will essentially It is still equity investment and the main business will be lost - the current regulatory restrictions are not relaxed, and the possibility of approval is too low," Shen Ji said.
"What about putting domestic factories, raw material imports and sales operations into listed companies and divesting plantation assets?" Xie Sipeng asked.
"Although it is a domestic factory and imported raw materials, the scale of the cocoa butter and cocoa powder sales business is not very large, but the property rights and main business are clear, and it can be incorporated into the listed company through private placement - but if you want to use private placement, Tianyue will be incorporated into the listed company." The purpose of investing part of the funds into a listed company needs to be clearly defined. If you directly state that this part of the funds is used for investment in the overseas power and energy industry when applying for a fixed increase from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, you will most likely be questioned by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the plan is likely to fail. "Big," Shen Ji became the chairman of Tianyue Industrial. Although the domestic business is not very heavy, he has always thought about it and considered various plans. "Of course, considering that the chemical pipeline business will take advantage of this industry vacancy, If it is completely closed, Tianyue Industrial can recover at least 1.5 billion yuan in funds. In fact, when implementing this private placement, it can only consider issuing new shares and acquiring the domestic business and assets of Cornero Food, without involving capital injection. The problem will be relatively easy..."
At this point, Shen Ji pondered for a moment and then said: "...or we can change our thinking and consider injecting Cornero Food's domestic assets and part of the funds into the listed company during the private placement, but the injected funds will not involve Overseas investment is used to acquire Dongsheng Group’s domestic palm oil business and a small part of its overseas rough crushing business. This may be the only way to truly enrich Tianyue Industrial’s main domestic business. After completing this step, Dongsheng and Tianyue can integrate overseas plantation assets."
Shen Ji naturally had his own selfish motives for suggesting this: only in this way can he, as the chairman of Tianyue Industrial, live up to his name, and the businesses involved at home and abroad are all businesses he is familiar with.
However, Cao Mo pondered for a moment and had to say that this plan was more beneficial to Dongsheng. Tianyue integrated existing resources, improved efficiency, and streamlined costs, and told Shen Ji:
"This is a good plan. I'll invite your uncle to have a meal with me someday and talk about this plan."