Different from the past when countless things rushed into his face on the first day he returned to China, Cao Mo's return this time was much more leisurely.
After coming out of the airport, Cao Mo and Cheng Xi returned to Tianzifang. Mrs. Cao, Jiaying, his father, and Chen Rong were at home ready to wait for them to arrive early.
Several months have passed since the attack on Lake Norquay Manor. Cheng Xi even flew to Dracula twice this year to meet with Cao Mo. Now everyone is more concerned about Han Shuyun's situation in Paris.
"Shuyun now accepts Tianyue's employment. I have also arranged some jobs for her that will allow her to gain recognition. She should be able to be stable for a while," Cao Mo said about his dealings with Han Shuyun in Paris these days. "Next year I may
To upgrade the Paris office to the European headquarters, whether it is dispatching employees or recruiting employees from the local area, the number of employees will increase significantly. With so many people, Shuyun should be able to better adapt to life in Paris..."
Cao Mo was not a spiritual mentor, but he didn't think it was a good idea for Chen Rong to forcefully interfere with Han Shuyun's decision and life at this time.
In addition to the situation between Chen Rong and Han Shaorong these years, another key reason why Han Shuyun is so troubled now is that she has been highly praised over the years, but deep down she has no sense of identity with herself.
"Okay, as long as there is no problem with her personal safety, it's okay to let her stay in Paris for a while," Chen Rong said. She didn't want to act like an old mother, nagging endlessly about Shuyun, and was more concerned about Europe.
Regarding the establishment of the headquarters, he asked, "Why did you decide to establish the European headquarters so quickly?"
"Xu Bin intends to acquire the French Puccioya Motorcycle Manufacturing Company. In addition to strengthening Tianyue's motorcycle technology reserves, he also hopes to open a channel for Tianyue to enter the heavy-duty motorcycle manufacturing field by directly operating the Puccioia brand. I am here this time
Paris has also contacted Puccio's management, and this matter is still worthy of vigorous advancement. After two rounds of negotiations in the early stage, Puccio hopes that in addition to operating the brand independently, it also hopes to retain the French factory. Although the French factory is retained,
The operating costs are much higher than those in China, but Tianyue Industrial cannot expect any profit from Puccio. The key lies in Puccio's direct control of the engine and other technologies and its entry into high-end motorcycle manufacturing and production through Puccio.
In the sales field, we will then use Puccio as the basis to carry out more extensive technical cooperation in the field of passenger car manufacturing with car companies in France and other European countries. In addition, Tianyue Industrial has offices in the UK and Spain, which are also relatively scattered.
Coupled with this cooperation with Lang Petrochemical, I am thinking of simply placing the European headquarters directly in Paris..."
In fact, in addition to Tianyue Industrial's acquisition of the Puccioya motorcycle brand and French factory, after Tianyue Industrial completed its asset restructuring, the focus of cocoa butter-related business expansion into new markets also shifted to Europe.
As the world's largest consumer market for chocolate and related candies, Europe also consumes nearly half of the world's cocoa butter and cocoa powder. The overall scale is ten times that of China. In comparison, palm oil still has a large market share in the domestic market.
Open up space.
In addition to increasing its shareholding in Cornero Energy to 70%, the listed company Tianyue Industrial currently operates mainly in the import and export trade, production, and sales of palm oil and cocoa butter.
Tianyue Industrial must make greater efforts to open up the European market in order to achieve greater performance improvement in the future.
Tianyue Investment is currently building a large-scale factory in Benin to smelt steel, pure copper, and produce chemical pipelines and pump equipment. It is not ruled out that it will continue to expand its production scale in the future. The products it produces are mainly supplied to countries along the Gulf of Guinea, but it will definitely be considered.
Enter some industrial products into the European market.
In addition to considering that the shipping distance from the Gulf of Guinea to Western Europe is much shorter than that from the country to Western European countries, or from the Gulf of Guinea to the country, and the shipping cost can be greatly reduced, there is another main reason for this, which is that Kanem, Bay
Ningbo and Akwa are both extremely underdeveloped countries. Industrial products produced in these countries are shipped to developed countries such as Europe and the United States, and can receive greater tariff preferences.
On the contrary, the domestic economic strength is getting stronger and stronger, especially the rapid development of manufacturing industry. In the past two years, European and American countries have frequently launched anti-dumping investigations on the output of domestic industrial products, restricting the export of these industrial products to Europe and the United States.
The combination of several factors led Tianyue to set up a headquarters in Europe to coordinate the work of various business lines.
Of course, there is another factor that Cao Mo will not mention to Chen Rong and his family, that is, Song Yuqing is unwilling to stay in Xinhai as the president of Tianyue Investment. She wants to stay abroad.
"Listening to what you said, there is really a need to establish a European headquarters. I also heard that the construction of the factory in Cotonou is going very smoothly, faster than expected. Thanks to your youth and energy, several major businesses can be promoted quickly at the same time.
That makes Tianyue's face change every day." Chen Rong said with emotion.
Cao Mo smiled.
Mainly West African United Cement, Ibogu Mining's profit scale continues to expand. With the backing of these two cash cows, sufficient supply of funds is ensured, and multiple tasks can be advanced at the same time.
Especially for factory construction, in West Africa, unlike in China, the supply cycle of most equipment and raw materials is very long. Once the connection is not connected, the project will be delayed for a long time.
Cao Mo provided sufficient funds at the beginning of the project construction, and even had a considerable proportion of overflow. Orders for various equipment, raw materials, and corresponding deposits, commercial bills, and letters of credit were issued to the suppliers immediately.
Ensure that equipment and raw materials can arrive in advance of the corresponding process, and no time is wasted waiting
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The Cornero Engineering Construction Group was built by Cao Mo over the past few years. He mainly selected hard-working workers from the local area to form a construction team.
Although Cornero Engineering Construction Group has insufficient technical reserves in the construction of complex, high-level projects and has no experience in undertaking complex large-scale projects, it can cooperate with general contractors like China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to provide them with sufficient skilled personnel.
For construction workers, the running-in period can be reduced by at least three to five months, rather than recruiting local workers for training after the general contractor takes over the project.
Not to mention that the workers provided by Cornero Engineering Construction Group, in addition to being hard-working, have been receiving education to strengthen basic labor skills, mechanical equipment operation, safety regulations and other aspects over the years. They are almost the same as skilled workers from China.
However, recruiting a skilled construction worker from China, including wages, round-trip air tickets, annual leave, etc., costs at least 200,000 yuan per year. Most projects in Africa cannot afford such high labor costs.
From hiring local people with little knowledge and culture, to teaching and guiding the newbies with veterans, it will take a long time to get started in the early stage, and the efficiency in the later stage will not be ideal.
When Cornero Engineering and Construction Group participated, the average labor cost per worker seemed to be more than two thousand US dollars, but due to the improvement in efficiency, it was actually much lower than hiring local novices for training and running-in.
Sufficient capital supply and a stable and large-scale construction team are the key factors for Tianyue's rapid development along the Gulf of Guinea in recent years.
The construction cycle of a project is only one-half or even one-third that of similar projects in Africa. In addition to effectively reducing construction costs, it can be put into production earlier, and the products can fill the market with tight demand along the Gulf of Guinea and enter the market earlier.
The profit period is of greater significance.
In addition to Tianyue's own project construction, central enterprises such as China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and other central enterprises also like to cooperate with Cornero Engineering Construction Group for any large and medium-sized infrastructure projects in the Gulf of Guinea.
In addition to grassroots construction workers with more stable quality, Cornero Engineering Construction Group currently also has a large number of construction facilities and equipment, which can reduce China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation's construction costs along the Gulf of Guinea in all aspects.
Cornero Engineering Construction Group's annual profits of US$40 to 50 million may be nothing compared to Ibogu Mining and United West African Cement Group, but it is already a well-known contractor in West Africa.
To be honest, the industrial system that Tianyue has established along the Gulf of Guinea over the years can be said to be very powerful. Each major matter has its own dedicated person in charge. Cao Mo could have put more energy and time at home, but because
The existence of a powerful enemy like the Evans Foundation made Cao Mo dare not be careless.
Now that it has finally come to an end and back home, Cao Mo is not in a hurry to deal with work matters.
Cao Mo originally wanted to stay with Cheng Xi in the Tianzifang mansion in the morning, but he didn't expect that his brother-in-law would get wind of it from somewhere and come to the door before nine o'clock. Xu Bin just arranged for someone to take care of him.
A test car was delivered, so he took Cheng Xi to Hemingyuan on the pretext of a test drive.
When I rushed to Hemingyuan, I never thought that the gate of the community near Zhonghai Road would be blocked by a blue Ferrari.
The main entrance of the underground garage is on the inside of the gate. Although most vehicles go around through other entrances and exits, there are still a few cars blocked on both sides of the gate. Cao Mo looked over and saw that no one was in the blue Ferrari.
, it’s not like the car broke down and just broke down at the gate.
"Ah, Yu Jing told me about this on the phone yesterday, I forgot about it,"
Cheng Xi saw the rolling traffic on Zhonghai Road behind him and wanted to go back. It was quite difficult to enter the underground garage from another entrance of the community. He patted his shiny forehead and said,
"The property management has strengthened the management of vehicles in the community some time ago. Owners who do not have parking spaces in the community are no longer allowed to park their vehicles in the community - some owners who do not have parking spaces are not happy and often conflict with the guards and security guards, which is quite extreme.
Yes, you just throw the car directly at the door of the community, and people drive away. Sometimes it even affects the traffic on nearby roads - this Ferrari should have been thrown at the door yesterday afternoon. Yu Jing told me on the phone yesterday that it was here.
I forgot about it."
Cao Mo smiled bitterly and shook his head. He didn't want to worry about such nonsense when he returned to the country. With the attitude of doing more things than doing less, he slowly backed the car back to Zhonghai Road, then went around to Xingzhong Road, preparing to leave the community.
The side door leads into the underground garage.
However, Cao Mo didn't want him to drive outside the gate of the community on Xingzhong Road and saw that there was also a Land Rover blocking the area.
There are more cars blocked here. In front of the guard booth at the gate, there is a young man wearing a hip-hop style sweatshirt. He is arguing with several property security guards angrily. He almost pokes a middle-aged security guard in the face with his finger.
Go up.
Cao Mo pressed down the car window and drove slowly through the gap to the inside. He heard the young man pointing at the middle-aged security guard and scolding him:
"...That's not nice to say. You security guards are the watchdogs hired by our owners. There is no reason in the world for watchdogs to block their owners from the door. Isn't it lawless? What's wrong with me not having a parking space? Where in China?
There is a law that stipulates that owners cannot drive their cars back to the community if they don’t have a parking space? What are your intentions when you come up with such a regulation? Everyone knows very well, aren’t you just forcing others to buy parking spaces in the community at a high price? A broken ground
The parking space is still a small property, but such a big place can be sold for 300,000 yuan, why don't you grab it?"
Cao Mo saw
The car owners who were blocked at the door were still dissatisfied with the young man who blocked both doors of the community, but no one stood up to speak for the security guard, let alone made any accusations.
They just sat in the car and watched how the property management company would solve the problem. The most they could do was press the horn twice to express their dissatisfaction.
Perhaps the young man in front of him has a strong backstage background and is famous for being unreasonable and unreasonable in Hemingyuan? Of course, there were some pedestrians watching at the gate, and Cao Mo saw that some of them were even the same as the young man.
Damn, he probably deliberately encouraged the young men to stir up trouble.
Several security guards stood in front of the guard booth and refused to retaliate, especially the middle-aged security guard who just lowered his head and explained that all this was the company's policy and that they were just following the regulations. No management from the property company showed up; there was also a young man
The collar of the security guard's shirt was torn open. It may have been a tugging just now. At this time, he was pulled to the guard box to avoid escalating the situation.
The scene in front of him made Cao Mo guess that the property management company's current strategy might be to waste money like this first.
Since the property management company decided to spend the money first, there was no need for Cao Mo to get involved, but he encountered such a mess just after returning home, especially since he was fully looking forward to returning to Hemingyuan to have a warm relationship with Cheng Xi first.
Being disrupted, he felt unhappy. He pressed the horn a few times to express his dissatisfaction, and then prepared to reverse the car and leave.
The young man originally wanted to block the door and talk to the guards and security guards to argue, threaten, and encourage other owners to fight against the property management company, but he didn't expect that most of the owners were unwilling to come forward, and these security guards were indifferent to him. He himself
But the more he spoke, the more excited he became.
Other car owners who were blocked in and out honked their horns to express their dissatisfaction. He didn't think anything was wrong, but no one paid attention to him for a long time. Even a manager from the property company didn't show up. At this time, he saw Cao Mo driving a broken pickup truck and pressing the horn there.
He thought it was the property management company who wanted to tow his car. He was like a cat that had its tail stepped on. He pointed at Cao Mo in the car and started yelling:
"You're fucking like a mad dog and honking the horn. If you have the guts, you're going to tow my car away and see how I deal with you, you little loser?"
Cao Mo was so angry that he didn't even lose his temper, but the grandson actually pointed at him and started yelling at him.
Of course, he didn't want to get out of the car and get to know the grandson. He just pressed the horn a few more times to see how bad-tempered the grandson could be.
"Your mother is still strong, aren't you?" The young man took out a baseball bat from the driver's seat of the Land Rover at the gate, pointed at it and cursed, "You try pressing the speaker again, look at Xinhai
Are you the best or am I the best?"
Cao Mo saw in the rearview mirror that the bodyguard behind him had gotten out of the car and came over. He helped Cheng Xi unbuckle her seat belt and asked her to turn sideways so that he could protect her head and face at any time, and then continued to press the horn.
Provoke these idiots.
"boom!"
The young man was like an angry ram. He rushed over with a baseball bat and smashed it directly on the car window. Among the onlookers, there was a middle-aged man in a Chinese tunic suit who couldn't stop him even if he tried to stop him. He saw him on the front side of the driver's seat of the pickup truck.
The car window glass cracked like a spider web.
Cao Mo looked at his grandson coldly. Before he could hit him with a baseball bat a second time, a strong bodyguard hugged him from behind and threw him to the ground, then slapped his face tightly.
Pressed down on the cold ground.
"Who are you, and why are you beating people?" The middle-aged man in Chinese tunic suit stepped forward and tried to pull the young man up from the ground, but a female bodyguard stepped forward and put her hands on her neck and pushed him away violently.
To prevent him from getting close to Cao Mo.
Cao Mo then opened the car door, got out of the car with Cheng Xi, stared coldly at the young man who was pinned to the ground, and said:
"First, the property management company serves all the owners of the community, and they are paid for their labor. They are not watchdogs that you call around. We cannot insult other people's personalities casually. Secondly, do you have any responsibility for the management of the property management company?
If you have any dissatisfaction, you can go to the property management company to negotiate, instead of blocking the door and hindering the travel of other owners; thirdly, you blocked our door and prohibited entry and exit. You didn’t feel guilty at all. I was blocked from the door.
"Hey, you are like a mad dog that pounces on people and bites people. Do you have any tutoring? Another thing, others are honking and you don't say anything. Do you think I drive a bad car and am easy to bully?"
"Who are you? Why are you beating people? Call the police!" the man in Mao suit yelled.
Cao Mo glanced at the man and didn't know who he was. He looked similar to a young man. He might be father and son or uncle and nephew. They must have agreed to come over to trouble the property company, but he didn't expect to meet him.
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"Mr. Cao, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your car just now!" A man who looked like a manager of a property company, wearing a uniform-style suit, came out of nowhere and hurriedly ran to Cao Mo to explain.
"As long as you know me - it's nothing. I don't care what disputes you have, and it has nothing to do with me. But my car was smashed for no reason today. The surveillance at the gate should have recorded the scene just now."
?You help me call the police directly, and what was smashed was a test car of Tianyue Industry. Before the personnel of Tianyue Industry and the police arrive, you must make sure not to let outsiders approach the test car..."
Cao Mo would not waste time on such a trivial matter. He left a bodyguard to guard the test car. If anything happened in the future, he would ask Xu Bin to send someone to the property company to follow up and deal with it.
He glanced at the young man who was still pinned to the ground and the man in Chinese tunic suit. Neither of them was interested in asking for specific details, so he and Cheng Xi walked into the community from the pedestrian walkway.