(Thank you to Xiao Er of the Golden Alliance, and thank you to the new alliance leader Dahai for your support. Add another chapter!)
To be honest, if it weren't for simple roads, cement plants, hydropower stations, etc., Abacha would have to step up and push forward. If Abacha hadn't been able to spend all his 80,000 US dollars, Cao Mo would have thought at this time.
Stand up and leave.
If he doesn't deal with these stubborn and arrogant idiots anymore, he's just like a baby turtle!
Damn it, the status and reputation of the Chinese in the international community are many times higher than those of the Yoruba natives of Kanem. How can I be more rubbish than you guys?
Cao Mo was also very angry.
He didn't want to embarrass Abacha at this time, but he wanted Abacha to perform better. However, Abacha only had an embarrassed smile on his face, as if he had no idea what Kenhardt was doing.
How does this work?
If Abacha continues like this, not to mention confronting his uncle Osika, Kenhardt will eat him to death.
Cao Mo then wanted to see Oshika's reaction, but his intuition told him that watching his actions at this time would appear to be weak. He immediately threw the coffee cup in his hand heavily on the table, and then questioned Oshika in Yoruba:
"The Yoruba king has just signed a cooperation agreement with a Chinese company. Not only will he develop coal and iron resources in the Kaba area, but he will also build a vegetable farm in Kaba. I wonder if the Yoruba king will appreciate this gentleman very much.
But please rest assured, Mr. Oshika, I will definitely convey this gentleman’s evaluation of the Chinese, especially the evaluation of the Chinese people’s help in building vegetable farms in Lonta area, to the Yoruba king.
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Dasika and Kenhardt both looked shocked. Of course, what shocked them first was not Cao Mo's attitude, but they were surprised that Cao Mo was proficient in Yoruba. Then they realized how severe the accusation in Cao Mo's words was.
Kanem can be said to be a semi-feudal and semi-democratic country. President Buhari has the most power, but under President Buhari, the next most powerful people are not the vice president or speaker of the federal government, but the Hausa and Yoru
The clan leader of the Ba clan is what Cao Mo calls the clan king, or the earth king.
As a traditional representative of the Lonta region, Dasika can serve as a municipal councilor without being elected. This position may even be inherited by his son Kenhardt in the future. This is determined by the traditional and backward ethnic political structure of Kanem.
As a Yoruba, we can point fingers, criticize and criticize President Buhari, but we dare not show the slightest disrespect to the patriarch of our clan.
Don't talk about others, the more stubborn and conservative Osika is, the more she needs to maintain respect and obedience to the clan leader on the surface.
After all, this is also the main source of his local power.
Furthermore, among the two to three hundred chiefs in the entire Lungta region, who wouldn’t want to serve as a municipal committee member as the acting representative, thereby seeking more and greater benefits for the family?
When faced with the police who came to extort money, Cao Mo dared to take out his gun and shoot it twice in the air. Even Da Xika, who has a tough personality, did not dare to think that Cao Mo's reprimand at this time was a bluff!
Abacha had previously boasted that Ibogu Farm was a project vigorously promoted by officials from the Chinese Consulate in Draculamo and linked to the United Nations Agency for African Aids. He did not know whether Cao Mo was really capable of counteracting Kenhardt's rudeness.
The words reached the ears of the king through intermediaries.
No matter how arrogant and rude Oshika is, he is only the chief of the more than 30,000 Yoruba people in the southwestern area of Lungta, and he does not dare to offend the authority of the clan chief of the 30 million Yoruba people.
Not to mention being directly offended, Cao Mo could only establish some relationship with the Yoruba clan leader, and he had to be patient and respectful.
Now that he had made his attitude clear, Cao Mo naturally stood up and left without hesitation, calling to Ade and Orlu who were standing by and acting as the driver's bodyguards and drove away.
Fortunately, he planned to come over for a meal before returning to Dracula Moor overnight, and asked Ade and Orlu to drive with him to the Sika family's manor, otherwise he wouldn't even have the temperament to show off.
At this time, Cao Mo understood the behavior of having several bodyguards rushing in and out at every turn, so it would be more impressive to walk away like this.
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At this juncture, Cao Mo naturally couldn't go back to Draculamore and left the matter to Abacha alone, who then took the car back to the mine.
Before Cao Mo could take a breath at the mine, he saw Abacha driving over in a Grand Cherokee and eagerly hurried over.
"How on earth did you flatter me in front of Da Sika?" Cao Mo asked, sitting on the wooden floor of the balcony, smoking a Cuban cigar that Abacha got from who knows where.
"I just said that your family is very powerful in China, and I didn't brag about it. You really scared Kenhardt just now. My uncle reprimanded him for a long time before letting him go," Abacha
Said, "You didn't see Ken Hart's appearance, which is really a relief - I really couldn't deal with him in the past!"
Although there are 4 to 50 million people in the Longta area, the vast majority are poor farmers.
The upper class, including the Sika family, is a very small circle in Lonta.
This decided that Abacha would serve as a municipal councilor, but he did not gain enough prestige and reputation in this small circle, and he could not suppress Kenhardt, the eldest son and heir of the Sikka family.
Of course, his fake threats just now scared Dasika and Kenhardt and his son, and even though they were somewhat relieved, they could not really solve their problems.
Cao Mo sat with his back against the wooden wall, watching the setting sun, which looked like the yolk of a duck's egg, falling from the mountains to the west into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Ibogu tribe is only twenty kilometers away from the Atlantic coast, but through the vast jungle, they cannot see the blue ocean.
"The US$160,000 will definitely be spent on road construction in Longta, but if we make some adjustments to the method, will Mr. Tubman Jr. be willing to cooperate with us?" Cao Mo asked Abacha.
"As long as he is not asked to pay more, what would he be unwilling to do?" Abacha said.
"What if the US$160,000 is donated to the Chinese Consulate in Draculamore in the name of the Tubman family, and then the consulate donates it to Lonta?" Cao Mo asked.
"This is no problem. Little Tubman is quite envious of China's development over the past two decades. When he heard that Dongsheng was willing to acquire the crushing plant, he not only agreed immediately, but was also willing to establish contact with Chinese officials.
, how could he not want such a good opportunity?" Abacha said, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, if everyone in Longta knew that this donation was obtained by you from the Chinese Consulate in Draculamore, would Mr. Onishika and that turtle son of Kenhardt have some attitude towards you?
Change?" Cao Mo said with a smile.
"..." Abacha became excited, but then he asked worriedly, "Will the big shots at the consulate cooperate with us?"
After Abacha got acquainted with Cao Mo, he realized that he was an ordinary expatriate employee of Dongsheng. Last time, Zhou Jianmin came to Yibogu Village to help contact the farm, mainly because of the help of friends and his own work.
needs; and Zhou Jianmin is just a relatively ordinary staff member at the consulate.
In any case, as China's official diplomatic institution in Kanem, what could he and Cao Mo do to promote the consulate?
"There is an old saying in China that everyone carries the sedan chair..." Cao Mo had contacted Zhou Jianmin several times and learned some of the work of the consulate from him, so he told Abacha.
The consulate in Draculamore is more like a diplomatic service and liaison agency. In recent years, the country has set up a China Business Center in Draculamore. Its core mission is to serve Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises going abroad and investing in Canem.
Such a sum of funds, directed through the consulate to the Lungta area for road construction, will not only make the consulate look good, but also strengthen substantive ties between the consulate and the Kanem area. Who wouldn't want to?
As for worries, Cao Mo was mainly worried that little Tubman was unruly and would not have the patience to help them perform this scene.
There are always some people in society who are not willing to help others carry sedan chairs, especially those from aristocratic families who regard themselves as aloof and rebellious, but officials are not among them.
"How do you engage in politics? You are better than me. How old are you?" Abacha asked in surprise after hearing Cao Mo's boast.
"I'm not looking down on you. If you go to China and find a high school student, you may know more about politics than the local officials in Kanem. If you don't believe it, I'll order a set of junior high school politics books from China by mail and give it to you. You'll know the difference.
Where is it..." Cao Mo said with a proud smile.
"Is it so magical?" Abacha shook his head in disbelief.
Regardless of whether Abacha believed it or not, Cao Mo urged him to contact Little Tubman first. Once Little Tubman was convinced, he rushed back to Draculamore to contact Zhou Jianmin to see how the whole thing would be implemented.
Now that he can show his prestige, he can only use the tiger skin from the consulate to completely shock Osika and Kenhart and his son.
Fortunately, Abacha had a lazy temper before and was a little afraid of Osika, so he didn't tell him about the donation. The US$160,000 could still be borrowed.
Otherwise, the subsequent series of things will be more difficult, at least they won't proceed at the speed that Cao Mo expected...