Abacha did not dare to neglect the construction of the Lonta-Daculamo simple road.
As Cao Mo predicted, by this time he had learned that several Chinese businessmen saw the business opportunity of renting land to grow vegetables on the outskirts of Draculamore City.
Half of these investors were even chefs and restaurant managers hired by Chinese restaurants from China, and they went directly to rent land on the outskirts of Draculamore.
In two months at the earliest, new vegetable suppliers will continue to contact the Chinese restaurants and supermarkets in Dracula Mo for supplies.
When Abacha learned about this situation, he couldn't help complaining that the Chinese were so good at taking advantage of loopholes.
The only good thing is that the land ownership of Draculamore is relatively clear.
Large-scale land holders who grow palm, cocoa and other cash crops are quite mature. Like the Tubman family, it is impossible to rent out the land in palm plantations at a low price.
Unlike tribes near the border such as Ibogu and Jonai, there is a large amount of undeveloped land that can be leased.
Therefore, those who have glimpsed the vegetable planting business opportunities can only plant some scattered vegetable plots in the suburbs at relatively high prices.
As for them hiring local farmers to farm the land, there is no way it could be as smooth as Cao Mo's. There was mutual distrust and language barriers. If they could get through the running-in period in three to five months, they would be considered to have considerable management skills.
Therefore, Draculamore's new small-scale vegetable planting land will not pose a particularly great threat to them for the time being.
At present, in addition to 600 acres of staple grain demonstration planting at Yibogu Farm, a total of 400 acres of vegetable land have been cultivated, and the daily vegetable output has reached as high as 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms.
The mining area and Lonta town can only digest 1,000 kilograms. The other five or six tons of vegetables are picked and loaded into trucks at dusk. Four workers then escort the trucks, which detour from Cardero, the capital of Oyo State, overnight and deliver them in the early morning.
Go to various restaurants and supermarkets in Draculamore.
It is also hot in Kanem at night, and a light truck does not have any fresh-keeping equipment. At most, it is sprinkled with water along the way. The quality of the vegetables will be affected to some extent, but fortunately no competitors appear, but they are not disliked.
Cao Mo appropriately lowered the prices of some vegetables, but he still had a daily turnover of 2,500 US dollars.
Cao Mo estimated that in about one month, he, Abacha, and Felicia would be able to recover all their initial investment.
Of course, if the Lonta-Daculamore simple road can be built in time, and if someone rents land to grow vegetables on a larger scale in Lonta or other areas close to Draculamore, they can still maintain quite good profits.
Optimistically, if the high level of profitability can be maintained until the rainy season arrives, Cao Mo will still be able to obtain an excess income of US$300,000 from the farm.
Of course, the most optimistic estimate is limited to this. The income will soon return to the normal level, and if the planting scale is slightly expanded, there may only be a dividend of 40,000 to 50,000 US dollars every year.
Cao Mo had nothing to be dissatisfied with. Could it be that he still expected to earn money from digging for gold by growing vegetables?
Is there any justice in that?
At first he wanted to grow vegetables, but Cao Mo mainly thought about better tapping the resource potential of the Ibogu tribe so that Lucy, who he originally planned to stay in Draculamore, could make full use of it.
Raising leisure talents is not a capitalist virtue.
Nearly four months have passed since we actually started working on this matter. Lucy did not stay in Draculamore, but came to the tribe to take full responsibility for the expanded farm management.
Cao Mo's plans for farm development have also undergone great changes.
In the later period, he was more willing to operate the farm as a demonstration base rather than eager to expand the scale.
He does not have that much energy, and Ibogu does not have that many managers to spread out from the mining areas and the cement plants and hydropower stations under construction.
Cao Mo now hopes to include the farm in agricultural aid projects to Africa, and continue to promote staple food and vegetable cultivation, freshwater fish and poultry and livestock breeding techniques to surrounding tribes.
In this way, he can continue to gain favor from surrounding tribes and villagers while maintaining daily working contact with the consulate.
And this amulet is more powerful than Abacha.
Of course, the consulate has its working principles. Generally speaking, it is for all Chinese businessmen in Draculamore and nearby areas. Chinese-owned enterprises provide consular services to overseas Chinese, and it is impossible to serve exclusively as a platform for a profitable enterprise.
Unless Cao Mo can persuade the Felician family and Abacha to give up all their rights and interests and turn it into a public welfare farm, the consulate will be able to communicate and formally include it in the United Nations aid project in Africa.
Of course, the farm's current profits are huge and will continue for some time. Don't convince Abacha, the Felician family, and Cao Mo himself to give away this profit for nothing. He thought it would be better to wait until there is an opportunity in the future.
Mention, he still has to focus on the purchase of cement production equipment such as stone crushers and ball mills.
Abacha will also rush to Draculamore today to meet with the managers of the two infrastructure teams.
Lonta has a population of four and a half million, and its engineering construction strength is still too weak. But to build two simple bridges, it is more reliable and faster to hire an infrastructure team from Draculamore.
In order to ensure the construction speed of the Longta-Daculamo highway, Cao Mo and Abacha suggested that two infrastructure construction teams be hired to start construction of two simple cement bridges at the same time.
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Arriving at Dracula Mo with Abacha, Cao Mo took the check Abacha gave him and collected enough money to find two equipment agents to pay for ball mills, medium-sized crushers and other cement production and packaging equipment.
After the payment was made, the agent was urged to immediately arrange to transport the relevant equipment to Longta.
Logically speaking, these equipment can be shipped and installed in time until the equipment foundation and the main body of the kiln tower are completed in two months.
However, Cao Mo is worried that once the proposal to ban cement imports is passed in the federal bill, not only the price of Kanem's cement will be exposed again, but also cement production equipment will immediately become a hot commodity for Kanem cement manufacturers.
Even if we have the money by then, it will be delayed for at least two or three months until the new cement production and packaging equipment is shipped from China.
Since the diesel engine was used for power supply in the early stage, it was more of a bet on the passage of the federal ban bill. Of course, Cao Mo did not neglect this most critical link.
In comparison, Draculamore equipment dealers have sufficient diesel generators in stock. In the early stage, it is better to find second-hand diesel generator sources as much as possible to reduce investment costs.
If the diesel generator can reduce the investment of US$200,000, the excess funds can be used to store thousands of tons of finished cement.
Of course, Cao Mo would not just hoard finished cement. What he was now hoarding was cement clinker that had been initially crushed and calcined.
Before the cement clinker is ground by the ball mill in the final step, the price in Kanem is much cheaper than that of finished cement - US$200,000 can only store one thousand tons of finished cement, but three or four thousand tons of cement clinker.
As long as the generator set of the cement plant and the ball mill and filling equipment in the back-end process are installed as quickly as possible, the cement clinker can be directly put into production and the finished cement required for project construction can be quickly made—cement prices will not skyrocket.
, he can also earn a processing fee.
The construction of the mining area has basically stalled. In addition to personnel wages and daily consumption of materials and spare parts, Cao Mo has intercepted the daily profits generated by the Yibogu Gold Mine, giving priority to ensuring the rapid construction of the cement plant and hoarding as much as possible
Cement clinker.
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After negotiating all matters with the equipment agent, the company responsible for the transportation and escort of the equipment was called Overmar. Lucy stared at it while Cao Mo took Ade and Orlu back to the branch's staff dormitory to take a breather.
"Where have you been this week and you can't contact your people?"
Seeing Cao Mo finally appear, Wang Wen caught him impatiently and complained.
Of course Song Yuqing knew about Cao Mo's satellite phone, but the private work done by Cao Mo and Yang Deshan was still a secret from Wang Wen and Wang Jianzhong. Of course, Wang Wen would not be asked to call Cao Mo's satellite phone directly if something happened.
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"I've been too tired from work during this period, so I found a quiet place to take a vacation. Mr. Yang and I have asked for leave - why are you so anxious to see me?" Cao Mo pretended to be confused.
"On vacation, you look unshaven and have a thin face. You are not fooling around with a few big black girls, right? You don't want to mess with other people's affairs with a small bamboo pole." Wang Wenya
He said sharply.
"Hey, hey, girls have to speak civilly. How do you know that she is just a little bamboo pole? When did you peek at me?" Cao Mo protested dissatisfied.
"Does this still require a peek?" Wang Wen was still fierce when facing Cao Mo, who was of the same age. He put his hands on his hips and stared at Cao Mo as if he had the guts to expose the small bamboo pole.
Cao Mo didn't want to play tricks on Wang Wen, so he asked Song Yuqing, who was standing aside and watching the fun: "What's the matter? You just got angry at me when we first met?"
"There is no space to build equipment rooms in the community, and the money you gave us has not been spent yet. The electricity here has been out for three consecutive days, and the water purifier cannot be used. We have not been able to take a shower for two days.
I don’t know if the route is broken somewhere - we are all going to stay in a hotel today." Song Yuqing also complained bitterly.
Although the community they live in is located in the West Bund District, just two streets away from the dense and chaotic slums, it is also a rare high-quality community. Wang Wen received Cao Mo's money and enthusiastically contacted the society to find a facility to build.
A small piece of open space was ruthlessly rejected.
Therefore, the plan to purchase a second-hand diesel generator for installation and power supply was shelved.
With the power outage for three consecutive days, not only was there no light at night, but the main water supply was also a problem.
As the most prosperous city in Canem, Dracula Mo has naturally had running water supply for a long time, but the water supply equipment in the West Bank District is outdated and backward.
In addition to insufficient water source treatment, a large number of water supply pipelines are severely corroded and even have cross-contamination problems with sewage pipelines.
It is not an exaggeration to say that if you rinse your mouth with tap water in Draculamore, you may get severe dysentery.
The water purifier installed by branch employees is pressurized and filtered and cannot be used if the power is cut off.
After three days of power outage, all the water that had been stored was used up.
You can usually buy purified water from the store for cooking and drinking, but if you don't take a shower for a day in Draculamo, it's really uncomfortable.
"Ah, I asked you why there is a sour smell when you enter the house. It turns out that you haven't showered for a long time - it really stinks, don't come near me." Cao Mo said with a smile.
"How could you possibly be so exaggerated?" Song Yuqing gave Cao Mo an angry look and said, "You came back just in time and drove us to the hotel..."
There are many cheap hotels in Draculamore, but the safety is not guaranteed. However, the high-end hotels with safety guarantee have more exaggerated charges than those in China, and there are no hourly rooms.
However, girls really can't stand the feeling of being dirty.
There is a Lana Del Rey Resort Hotel in the southwest corner of Kennett Tower, near the seaside. A room with an ordinary ocean view costs US$300 a night.
The journey was not far. When Song Yuqing and Wang Wen packed their clothes, Cao Mo didn't notify Ade and Oulu, he drove them there directly.