After a while, when he was no longer so panicked, Cao Mo opened the door and walked in. There was no light on in the room, but the moonlight came in, and he could vaguely see an outline.
Song Yuqing and Wang Wen had already hid in bed. Wang Wen looked over with a wary look on his face and kicked his feet.
Cao Mo smiled and said, "Am I that stingy? Look at your virtues..."
"The money has been hidden here. If you dare to come and rob it, I will call for the gangsters to be arrested!" Wang Wen said, patting his chest.
Alas, Cao Mo sighed softly, the little girl really has never seen a gangster.
"You think I'm stupid, you're clearly trying to lure me into being a gangster." Cao Mo sighed, deliberately irritating Wang Wendao, but he lay down on his back next to Song Yuqing who was curled up on the bedside.
"Stop it……"
Song Yuqing was afraid that Wang Wen would notice the abnormality just now and spread some bad news, so she stretched out her hand to push Cao Mo away, and said while Wang Wen was not paying attention, making gestures with her mouth.
"What are you whispering about?"
The light in the room was dim, but Wang Wen's eyes were sharp. He saw Song Yuqing moving towards Cao Mo's lips, grabbed Song Yuqing and asked her what they were whispering to Cao Mo.
"I won't fight for your money anymore. It's too hot. I'll be out of breath after such a crazy day, so I'll let you lie down here and rest for a while." Cao Mo said shamelessly.
He looked up and saw Song Yuqing curled up on the bedside in a serious manner, her chest rising and falling uneasily, the base of her vaguely visible ears were also red, and the air she breathed out was hot.
"How young are you? If you run away for a while, you won't be able to bear it. But no girl would like you." Wang Wen said jokingly to Cao Mocha.
"If you don't like it, just don't like it." Cao Mo stretched out his hand to lie down more comfortably, but as soon as he put his arm on Song Yuqing's thigh, Song Yuqing pushed him away in disgust.
Cao Mo lay on Song Yuqing's bed, and the three of them chatted about finding land to build equipment rooms. It wasn't until the lights flickered and the power supply was restored in the community that they went back to their rooms to rest...
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Abacha is responsible for contacting the Oyo State government to arrange the donation. Although Cao Mo now publicizes that he is a senior personal adviser to Abacha and the Felician family, he can avoid showing his face as much as possible.
At this time, he focused his energy on preparations for cement plants and hydropower stations.
Cao Mo thought that the calcining of indigenous cement was very simple. After all, when the village commune brigades built their own cement plants in the early years in China, they did not see anyone with higher technical capabilities than him. However, he really communicated with the professionals from Oyo State College on the specifics.
When designing and planning the project construction, I discovered that he wanted to keep things simple in many places.
For example, the voltage that a diesel generator set can provide is far from meeting the needs of large and medium-sized ore crushing, heating, and grinding equipment.
A set of booster electrical equipment needs to be added in the middle. The investment in this piece of equipment alone will suddenly increase a lot.
Cement plants and hydropower stations are small in scale, and their construction and subsequent operations are not complicated.
Cao Mo can currently find people from Oyo State College to carry out engineering design, but there are not many engineering and construction operation and management personnel in Oyo State. They are all well-known and have their own jobs, and it is impossible to move easily.
Ochosan was also unable to help Cao Mo find mature professional managers, but Cao Mo really wanted to recruit cement factory directors or hydropower station construction and operation managers from China. Without an annual salary of more than 500,000 yuan, he could not expect to recruit real talents.
If Kanem's bill to restrict the import of cement and other building materials is not passed, after investing in a set of booster electrical equipment, the cement plant will rely on diesel generators for power supply in the early stage, and it will be impossible to make a profit.
At this time, if we continue to spend such a high price to recruit professionals from China, we will definitely suffer losses for a long time.
What's more, if he doesn't go back to China to look for operations and management personnel from China now, who can he entrust to do this?
If he returns to China in person, where should he start, and how much time will it take?
In that case, it would be better to suspend this project and build a hydropower station first.
After careful consideration, Cao Mo directly offered a monthly salary of US$600 and hired Wendy Scarfe, an electrical engineering lecturer at Oyo State College, as the cement factory supervisor. He asked him to go to Ibogu Village to be responsible for engineering design while groping.
Lead the infrastructure workers to carry out construction; wait for the cement plant to be completed and put into operation, and then start the construction of the hydropower station.
Cao Mo didn't believe that after the liberation of the country, the cement factory built by the village commune brigade, and the electrical engineering lecturer at Kanem Oyo State College were really that good.
Of course, employee training also needs to be carried out simultaneously.
Most of the tribal villagers in the Longta area are not accustomed to high-intensity and long-term work, and many people can only accept three to five hours of working time a day.
Fortunately, the number of employees in the Yibogu gold mine, farm, and infrastructure construction team has reached 300 people, and preliminary screening of local villagers has been carried out.
The construction of cement plants and hydropower stations can not only be directly carried out by infrastructure teams, but also the workers needed for subsequent operations can be selected from mining areas and farms and trained first.
This is much easier than directly hiring workers from tribal villagers who don't even know how to abide by basic labor disciplines...
In order to save the construction period of the cement plant and put it into operation as quickly as possible, Cao Mo transferred the more than 2,000 square meters of stone warehouses that had been built on the south side of the mining area to the cement plant first.
This is to solve the needs of preliminary equipment, warehousing and office buildings in the cement plant, but additional large and medium-sized equipment foundations and kiln towers need to be built, which have high structural strength requirements and must be made of reinforced concrete, especially the frame part of the calcining kiln.
We can no longer just mix lime with volcanic ash and build a few stone walls.
Of course it can be saved, and Cao Mo tried to save as much as possible.
Using a sand making machine to crush a mixture of lime and volcanic ash, the particle size is two orders of magnitude different from that of real cement. However, the stone mill used by the tribe to mine rock gold can further grind the mixture calcined by indigenous methods.
Although the efficiency is a little lower, if you work hard, you can still produce two to three tons of cement materials every day, but the labor in Ibogu Village is cheap.
These types of cement materials are used on floors that do not require high structural strength, and can save much money than using ordinary cement.
Even though such a floor may become rough after one or two years of use, the initial funds are so tight that if you can save an investment of 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars, you must do everything you can to get it.
The subsequent development of the mining area will also require new stone warehouses, and new woodland can be opened to the north for expansion.
This is probably the biggest benefit of his exclusive use of the northern jungle of Ibobe for development at this time.
As long as the terrain permits, the felled trees can be used to replenish building materials, and the cleared land can be used for construction, and all of this can be planned and adjusted according to his wishes.
The Felician Family Gold Mining Company also formally applied for a gold exploration license from the Oyo State government covering hundreds of square kilometers in the northern part of the Ibogu tribe, which is the so-called prospecting right.
The exploration of gold reserves in sedimentary rocks is relatively complex. Even if you hire a professional team, it is not possible to figure out exactly how many reserves and enrichment levels there are in the underground sedimentary rocks of the Ibogu gold mine in a day or two. However, in Kanem, the law stipulates that the mining of gold deposits requires the establishment of
On the basis of exploration rights.
Now that we have decided to promote the Felician family gold mining company to develop in a formal direction, we must also avoid the legal risks that may arise in the future.
Not only did Cao Mo want to get the exploration rights to the northern forest land belonging to the Ibogu tribe, Cao Mo also asked Owema to communicate with the surrounding tribes to try to get the exploration rights to most of the areas upstream of the Lujiao River that may have gold reserves.
Say it again.
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After a busy period of time, which only took five days, Wendy Scarfe and Cao Mo discussed and fumbled, came up with a set of drafts, and officially started the construction of the cement plant.
The cement plant was also officially registered as the Sika and Felician Family Building Materials Company, with a total investment of US$800,000. It was nominally a company owned by the Sika and Felician families, but Cao Mo also leased the equipment for an indefinite period.
, a cooperation agreement for technical support and full entrustment of operation and management, accounting for 80% of the revenue of the building materials company.
Abacha invested US$120,000, accounting for 15% of the income; the Felician family contributed construction land and a small amount of investment, accounting for 5% of the income.
The Felician Family Electric Power Company, which was registered and established, plans to start the construction of hydropower stations in three months. Cao Mo will actually bear all the investment, and will occupy 90% of the income through a similar cooperation agreement for the construction and leasing of facilities and equipment; the Felician Family
Take 10% of the profits.
"Are you sure there's no problem?"
Aba looked wealthy, but the $120,000 he promised to contribute was almost his entire net worth. When he handed the check to Cao Mo, he still asked worriedly.
"..."
Cao Mo glanced at Abacha with disdain, wondering if he was planning to tie up with the Sika family in Longta. Would I cede 15% of the actual income of the cement factory to you at such a cheap price?
Cao Mo thought that after the hydropower station was completed, he would not be merciful when calculating the price of industrial electricity, but he said with a smile on his face,
"Aren't you still relieved that I will take care of everything for the Sika family and the Felician family?"
"You just used our Sika family and Felician family as amulets,"
Abacha ruthlessly thrust the check into Cao Mo's hand, but he was not stupid and said,
"After Governor Blake accompanied Counselor Yang to the donation ceremony, I will represent the municipal committee as the chairman of the newly established Lonta-Daculamo Road Preparatory and Construction Committee. My uncle very generously signed a three million naira
At present, in addition to donating $20,000 to the foundation in Mrs. Blake’s name, we have also raised $200,000 for the construction of the Ronta-Draculamo highway.”
It is not difficult to understand that the Oyo State government will peel off a layer of skin, but the building materials in Kanem are so expensive. For two hundred thousand dollars, there is no need to even think about building a real high-grade road connecting Draculamore.
What they have to do now is to build two simple cement bridges as quickly as possible on the two larger streams that cut off the connection between Lonta and the northern suburbs of Draculamore.
Then use the existing gravel roads in Sika, Tubman and other family plantations, requisition a part of the land, and connect the disconnected parts of less than six or seven kilometers with simple gravel roads, which can almost make
A light truck of about ten tons drove directly from the Ibogu tribe into the urban area of Draculamore.
In this way, their goal will be accomplished.
This time Dasika not only agreed to allocate more than ten acres of forest land from the family plantation to facilitate the simple road to the south, but also donated an additional US$10,000 in road construction funds. It seems that they used the name of the consulate and business center to negotiate with Oyo
After getting in touch with the state government, they made targeted donations, and the results were very good...