The sale of the family pressing plant is a foregone conclusion, and selling the unfavorable pressing plant can also ensure a stable income for the family plantation. At this time, the young girl Starlie can reluctantly accept the reality.
Abacha was so generous that he donated his reward to the Lonta Municipal Department for road construction. The innocent and enthusiastic girl was shocked, but she was also very happy to participate, and even felt that she had wronged the "high moral character" Mr. Abacha.
, I feel very embarrassed about this.
Of course, in her eyes, Cao Mo was still a villain who betrayed his company's interests and ran errands for Mr. Abacha.
Sensitive intuition allowed Cao Mo to detect the subtle changes in Stari's emotions, so it was not difficult to guess what she was thinking. She was as aggrieved as a baby.
However, he couldn't just sit back and do nothing.
Starlie is so charming. The streets are full of Dracula with chocolate skin color and thick lips. Mixed-race beauties like Starlie with smooth and white skin like milk and beautiful facial features are really rare.
Even though people don't want to see him, his tall figure, deep amber eyes, vivid and three-dimensional facial features are so exquisite that no flaws can be found, and his delicate skin as white as jade is pleasing to the eye.
This is probably the so-called dog-licking mentality, right?
Of course, Cao Mo was mainly worried about the efficiency and ability of the Longta Municipal Department, which might not be able to make good use of the money quickly and well.
Besides, the road from Yibogu Village to the northern suburbs of Draculamo not only benefits from Yibogu Village, there are several plantations and crushing plants such as the Sika family along the way. Cao Mo also wants to push Aba to find these big families for alms.
, strive to slightly improve the quality and standards of newly built roads.
If this simple road can be built within a year, Cao Mo will definitely need to carefully consider a new issue, that is, it is necessary to consider building a small hydroelectric power station on the Lujiao River at this time.
Domestic low-dam small hydropower stations are very common, with tens of thousands of them. They have small investment, low construction difficulty and risks, and a very short construction period.
Cao Mo checked the relevant information and found that choosing a suitable tributary of the Lujiaochuan River was actually very suitable for building small hydropower stations, and even many of them could be built.
Especially during the rainy season in Kanem, heavy rains are short and rapid, and the water level changes greatly throughout the day, which has a great impact on placer gold mining operations.
If we can choose favorable terrain and build a low dam upstream of the placer gold mining operation area, we can greatly reduce this negative impact during the rainy season.
The biggest problem is that investing in a domestic small hydropower station with an annual power generation of about 5 to 6 million kilowatt-hours may not even require 2 million yuan. However, the cost of Kanem’s reinforced concrete and other building materials is too high, and all equipment needs to be imported.
Cao Mo has roughly estimated that a small hydropower station with the same annual power generation capacity may require an investment of at least US$800,000 in Kanem.
Another problem is that the dam was built at great cost. In addition to stabilizing the downstream mining operations, how will the electricity generated be digested?
The power grid construction in Lungta is too backward. The small hydropower stations invested and built will not be considered to be able to generate electricity and be connected to the grid in a short period of time, and the generated electricity will be sold to the local power company.
Can only be considered for personal use.
The Ibogu Gold Mine mainly uses diesel-powered equipment, gravel sand making machines and other electrical equipment as well as daily lighting. The electricity consumption can usually be guaranteed by three sets of small diesel generators, and the addition of new equipment in the future will be limited.
If we consider significantly increasing the scale of farming on farms and building small hydropower stations to mainly provide irrigation and electricity for farms, the cost recovery cycle will be too long—agriculture may end up being a low-profit industry.
Investing in an ultra-small cement manufacturing plant with an annual output of 30,000 to 40,000 tons can consume more than 3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. But including this, the investment will increase by another 4 to 50 million US dollars.
Cao Mo did not expect that he would have cheap financing channels in Kanem.
Should the output of the Ibogu gold mine be concentrated on continued investment in expanding the mining area, or should part of it be used to build small hydropower stations and small cement plants?
In the past, Cao Mo was not in a hurry to think about these problems. The main reason was that it was too inconvenient to produce cement and sell it to Dracula.
However, when the simple road connecting Yibogu Village to Draculamo was built, it was only used to facilitate the transportation of vegetables. For him, the efficiency was obviously seriously underutilized. Selling cement to Draculamo, where municipal construction was booming, was the only solution.
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After agreeing to go to Longta to handle the donation matters in two days, Abacha left the Tubman family's mansion on Aral Lake Island and returned directly to Longta, while Cao Mo returned to the dormitory.
Song Yuqing and the others were still busy in the branch office. He called Ochosan and hoped that Ochosan could recommend two or three engineering survey and design personnel for hydropower stations and cement plants to start the preliminary work first.
Kanem's scientific and technological strength is very weak, but whether it is a small hydropower station or a small cement factory, such projects are capable of being built at the beginning of the country's liberation. Cao Mo believes that suitable professionals can be found from Oyo State College.
Cao Mo's current investment is all about building up the place.
At the same time, the projects all occupy the land and various natural resources of the Felician family. In any project, the Felician family can hold a certain share even if it only invests in land and various natural resources.
Ochosan was naturally very happy to help.
In addition to recommending technical personnel to the mining area, Ojosan also early promoted the agronomy majors of Oyo State College to go to Kasiga to help African farms to learn traditional crops and vegetable planting techniques of Bekanem.
The teachers and students of Oyo State College are obviously much more receptive than the farmers in Ibogu; after two months of internship, two students who are about to graduate have directly applied to join the Ibogu farm as deputy technical supervisors.
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Ochosan, who was very enthusiastic about the whole thing, called just one day later to say that he had found the right person.
In the name of purchasing vegetables and meat, Cao Mo took Ade and Oru with him, drove the Mitsubishi Cross Country in the branch company, and rushed back to Ibogu Village to meet with two technicians from Oyo State College.
Of course, pulling Abacha out is indispensable.
If you want to build a small hydropower station, no matter how simple the procedure is, you still need to obtain permission from the Lonta municipal department.
Of course, Abacha is also willing to promote this matter.
After President Buhari came to power, he also tried his best to improve the extremely backward transportation and electricity situation in Kanem, and made many speeches on television to encourage local governments to build more small hydropower stations.
However, except for the slightly developed economy of Draculamo, the entire country of Kanem is quite backward in most areas. Even if the technology is simple and the investment is very limited in small hydropower station projects, the entire country of Kanem may only have a dozen or two at present.
Ten demonstration projects are under construction.
I won’t mention the main channel of the Lukaku River, but there are many tributaries along it. The topography of the river, the height difference, and the stability of the stream are quite suitable for the construction of small hydropower stations.
Members of the Longta Municipal Committee also want to promote the construction of small hydropower station demonstration projects, but the power grid construction is too backward, there is no industrial power consumption, and poor farmers simply cannot afford expensive civilian electricity, so they have been shelved.
The plantation owners of Longta, whose estates are relatively scattered and consume less electricity, usually use diesel generators to ensure the power supply for the limited family members.
If Cao Mo wants to build a small hydropower station on the Lujiaochuan tributary upstream of the mining area, he must also build supporting industrial projects to consume electricity, otherwise there will be no chance to recover the cost.
It is now delusional for Kanem to rely on its own technical strength to build a hydropower station of the level of the Three Gorges, but it is not that difficult to build a small hydropower station that is only tens of thousands of times the size of the Three Gorges.
There are even ready-made plans, and it only needs to be adjusted accordingly based on the actual topography and hydrological conditions of the tributary where the mining area is located.
For a low dam of this scale, there is no need to consider complex factors such as geological structure.
Two scholars from Oyo State College spent two days in the jungle in the northern part of the Ibogu tribe. After collecting some data, they returned directly to Catero to design a specific engineering plan.
The infrastructure team had the most manpower, so Cao Mo directly asked Overma to take the people and machinery to open a simple road from the mining area to the site of the hydropower station.
Local labor is cheap.
These preparations should be done first. Even if the site selection is changed, or the project cannot be launched in a short period of time, opening an additional access road deep into the jungle to the north of the Ibogu tribe will also be conducive to the development and utilization of resources.
"Are you very ambitious?"
Abacha has not yet officially mentioned the donation for road construction to the municipal committee members. Unexpectedly, Cao Mo has already rushed back to Yibogu to prepare for the hydropower plant and cement factory. Abacha is really a little bit efficient in this matter.
Can't make the trip.
He came here to hunt today. He was holding a shotgun and squatting by the roadside to watch Cao Mo assign the task of building a simple road.
"Do you know the history of Dongsheng Group?"
Cao Mo sat down on the stone and said to Abacha,
"Dongsheng Group was originally a small oil pressing plant with only a few workers. The rapeseed we produced there was pressed. After Dongsheng reached a certain scale, the domestic economy developed and there was a huge demand for building materials.
At this time, the West African branch mainly sold aluminum alloy profiles to Kanem. Dongsheng has been developing for more than 20 years, and the current annual output value of these two projects combined exceeds one billion US dollars. We
As for the big boss, his current net worth is estimated to be one billion US dollars. In our country, it is nothing. But in Kanem, the only ones who can compare with it are probably a few oil and mining giants in Kanem.
Right? Have you ever thought that one day the Sika family will become a real wealthy family with assets of one billion US dollars? "
"How can Kanem have a market as big as China!" Abacha said with emotion as he was not that easy to fool.
"Not to mention anything else, there are tens of millions of people in Dracula Mo, and this market is enough for us. Have you ever thought that growing vegetables can make so much money?" Cao Mo said seductively.
After all, he is a foreigner in Kanem. If he does not want to hire a large number of high-paying technical and managerial personnel from China and wants to grow in Lonta, he will soon face the problem of talent shortage.
And he is now doing things in the name of the Felician family, but the more projects he builds and invests in the Ibogu tribe and the scale gets bigger, he may not be able to survive even if he thinks about it.
By that time, there will be more and more forces and even criminal gangs targeting him in that place.
Abacha was born in the Sika family and was a rising political star in Oyo State. More importantly, he was still young enough. Of course, Cao Mo wanted to tie up his interests in a deeper way.
Of course, apart from feeling unhappy about showing off to Stari, Cao Mo could still trust Abacha's other qualities.
"Can this really work?" Abacha was pampered since he was a child. He received a higher college education and enthusiastically participated in the Patriotic Construction Front's struggle against the military rule. Then he was elected as a municipal councilor in the local election two years ago, but he was actually only 26 years old.
"The actual work experience is not as rich as Cao Mo's," some drummers asked.
"Come with me!"
Cao Mo directly asked Abacha to participate in the newly built stone warehouse.
In addition to using lime, volcanic ash and other mixtures as construction adhesives in the stone house warehouse, after preliminary crushing by the sand making machine, although it is far from meeting the particle size requirements of cement, the strength is definitely far from enough for watering the building structure.
But when used to paint walls and floors, the effect is still good.
"I have sent these materials back to China for testing by professional institutions. They are all very high-quality cement raw materials. Think about it for yourself, how much does Kanem sell for a ton of cement? Let's build a hydropower plant and then build a cement plant.
Is it like robbing money?" Cao Mo asked.
"That's true. Cement prices are already so high. The federal government and members of Congress are vigorously pushing for a new bill to break up the ban on cement imports. They say they want to encourage Kanem to build new cement plants in the country," Abacha said.
Hearing Abacha mention this matter, Cao Mo couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Do you think it's true?"
"After all, I am a senior member of the Patriotic Construction Front, how can this news be false?" Abacha asked dissatisfied.
"This is probably the 'benefits' of a democratic country!" Cao Mo couldn't help but sigh after being shocked.
"Why do you sound sarcastic to me?" Abacha asked.
"The price of cement and other building materials in Kanem is already high enough. Compared with China, it can even be said to be ridiculously high. This is enough to stimulate investors to overcome all difficulties and go to Kanem to engage in cement production. There is no need to ban imports.
One set - look at me, during this period, in addition to building mining areas, I was thinking about how to build a cement plant. Wasn't it stimulated by the price of cement in Kanem? The new bill can only be said to be superfluous, and there are
The congressmen want to push this bill because they are obviously instigated by Kanem’s domestic cement manufacturers, who are worried that larger imports in the future will reduce their huge profits," Cao Mo said, spreading his hands.
Cao Mo was also secretly glad that he had already made plans to recruit Abacha into his group.
Otherwise, it would be really uncomfortable for him to invest in building a cement factory in Lonta and be targeted by the forces behind Kanem who have the ability to push the federal parliament to consider a cement ban bill.
With the involvement of Abacha or the Sika family, no matter how powerful the forces behind it are, it is impossible to prevent local forces from taking a small bite of this rich cake.
A small cement plant with an annual production capacity of 30,000 to 40,000 tons or even larger cannot be called a township enterprise in China, but can only be called a rural enterprise. It is not difficult to build it in Kanem, and I believe it will not be called the force behind it.
Feeling too embarrassed.
After all, Kanem's annual cement import volume in the past two years has been around three to four million tons. This is what this force currently wants to intercept.
The annual cement production capacity of Kanem is only three to four million tons. If this bill is approved by the Federal Parliament, to what extent will the price of cement in Kanem increase?
Cao Mo suddenly felt that he should not only speed up the investment and construction of the cement plant at this time, but also stock up a batch of cement in advance. He could even consider using diesel generator sets to directly produce cement, waiting for the price of cement in Kanem to skyrocket again...