(Thank you to the new leader yunt0 for your generous support, I still owe you an update today...)...
The tribes in Longta and nearby areas are always extremely enthusiastic when facing strange guests, especially when accompanied by regional officials like Abacha.
This can be regarded as Shen Ji. Lu Yan thoroughly experienced the customs of the mysterious African continent.
Although the Kanem border area is backward and the security is poor, there are 20 armed bodyguards for personal protection and eight off-road vehicles for logistical support. The hunting trip is a pleasure.
It took six days for everyone to return to Draculamore.
At this time, Yang Deshan and Wang Jianzhong took the lead and formally signed an oil palm fruit supply agreement with a total area of 20,000 acres with five plantations including the Sika family - which was considered a successful conclusion to Shen Ji's trip.
Cao Mo couldn't help but sigh, the prince is so good, he comes out to have fun, and his men work hard, and they rush to help him complete his achievements before he returns home.
Although there is still a long way to go before the goal of 100,000 acres, the second phase of construction of the crushing plant is started at this time. When new oil palm fruit supply is really needed, it will still take half a year.
Such a long time is enough for the subsequent supply agreement negotiations, leaving ample buffer space.
Directly acquiring plantations or contracting land to plant oil palm trees is more complicated, but as long as the business department allocates funds, the branch has the confidence to promote it step by step.
Xie Sipeng has been serving him comfortably these days, and after in-depth communication, Lu Yan finally let down his guard and signed an asset acquisition intention agreement with Lana Del Rey Hotel.
They are now waiting for a third-party accounting firm to conduct due diligence before signing a formal acquisition agreement, and then rent the acquired banquet building and ancillary buildings to Yan Zhicheng for use in operating the casino.
Cao Mo was not involved in this matter and did not know the specific details. After the hunting, he made an excuse to stay in Longta to continue contacting clients and rushed back to Yibogu to deal with the matters accumulated over the past week or so.
The construction of the hydropower station has begun. More than 30 workers are practicing tying steel bars on the construction site, and they are already quite smooth and skillful.
The construction of the front-end process of the cement plant is progressing steadily, and using the cement clinker accumulated in the early stage, the daily output of finished cement in the back-end process has reached more than 3,000 bags and 1,560 tons.
Now there are as many as thirty or forty trucks parked at the entrance of the cement factory every day, all waiting in line to sell cement with cash; some trucks have to wait in line for two days to buy cement.
Although the price of finished cement in the Draculamore building materials market has not soared further, this is also the result of a large number of projects under construction being forced to halt. However, some projects face huge fines and compensation for delay, and they want to stop but dare not.
After Kabuga's negotiation, equipment dealer Cao Tianqiang finally agreed to sign a supply agreement.
Cao Mo used the 19 kilogram gold nugget worth 300,000 U.S. dollars as collateral for advance payment. Cao Tianqiang helped them order complete sets of mining equipment from China, but Cao Tianqiang emphasized that after the equipment entered Kanem , Cao Mo still needs to pay 80% of the payment before it can be delivered to your door for installation and debugging.
That will happen in about a month to a month and a half. By then, Cao Mo should have ample funds.
Yang Deshan promised to send two engineers to the Yibogu Gold Mine for technical guidance, and it has been four days since Kabuga picked them up at the mine.
Two engineers, one named Guo Changlin and one named Liu Hongwu, are both young and about the same age as Guo Jian, Shen Ji, Lu Yan and others. After graduating from university, they both worked in the front line of regular domestic gold mining companies for five to six years. work experience.
Cao Mo hurried back to the mine, mainly to meet Guo Changlin and Liu Hongwu.
Cao Mo himself was only halfway through his career. Whether it was rock gold mining or placer gold mining in Yibogu Gold Mine, he collected information online, pondered and practiced.
Although the current mining scale of Yibogu Gold Mine is acceptable and the profit potential is large, Cao Mo has no idea what level it is at in terms of management and actual mining operations, and how many loopholes there are that can be filled.
Kabuga, Potu, and Pari are even more out of reach.
Cao Mo urgently needs professionals with actual front-line work experience to come and check his pulse and strengthen training and guidance for employees.
Before a complete set of mining equipment comes into the field, it is difficult to achieve any results in rock gold mining, but the rock gold mining in Qiao Nai Gold Mine also faces the same trouble.
Both Guo Changlin and Liu Hongwu had thought and thought about how to mine rock gold with the existing crude equipment, and put forward many pertinent opinions, which made Cao Mo feel that the six thousand US dollars was worth it.
Cao Mo stayed at the mine for two days. Guo Changlin and Liu Hongwu both came to him privately and expressed their wish to stay here. However, Cao Mo could not pay anyone an annual salary of 300,000 yuan, nor could he ask them to reduce their annual salary.
Cao Mo could only wait until their conflicts with Xu Sheng and Xu Ling's uncle and nephew intensified and they were no longer able to gain a foothold in the Qiao Nai Gold Mine, and then see if it was possible to accept them with a lower salary, such as 100,000 or 150,000 yuan per year.
When the time comes, Cao Mo bites the bullet and raises the annual salaries of Kabuga, Lucy, Wendy Skaff, and Overema to between 100,000 and 150,000 yuan, which is still acceptable.
However, if their annual salary was raised to 300,000 yuan, Cao Mo himself would have to lift the table.
Will the capitalists have a surplus of food?
The central and western region of Kanem itself is rich in gold, which is monopolized by large European and American gold mining companies. There is no shortage of experienced mining engineers in the country.
Cao Mo had interviewed several engineers before, but he intuitively felt that when he came into contact with these people, they either came to him with ulterior motives, or their skills were very low and they were fired from the original company.
Until now, Cao Mo still hasn't found a suitable candidate in Kanem.
Of course, after Cao Mo reflected on it, another key reason was that the monthly salary he offered to Kabuga, Wendy Skaff and the others was still slightly lower.
In Kanem's gold mining company, experienced engineers are paid fairly well; if he can only offer a monthly salary of three to four hundred US dollars, it will be difficult to attract people.
Cao Mo learned from the painful experience and felt that every piece of flesh on his body was about to be torn off. He summoned Kabuga, Lucy, Wendy Scarf, and Overema, and announced that in view of their outstanding performance, their supervisor-level monthly salaries would be reduced from The current salary of US$600 will be increased to US$800. He also said that when cement plants and hydropower stations are built one after another, their wages will be further increased.
"Mr.cao, you are so generous!" Lei Xi enthusiastically wanted to give her a warm hug like "I'll give you a monkey". Cao Mo hurriedly pushed her to Kabuga and let them hug and celebrate...
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"You are always too soft-hearted and take all the problems on your own..."
Three days later, Lu Yan left Draculamore, and Cao Mo also rushed to the airport to see him off.
In the past few days, they had been together day and night during hunting. Shen Ji and Lu Yan had also put down their arrogance, but if his damn intuition hadn't told Cao Mo that the superiority and arrogance in their bones were still so strong, he would have thought he had won their friendship. Woolen cloth.
In any case, since everyone seemed to be united and friendly, Cao Mo had to rush to the airport to say goodbye.
When they saw Shen Ji, Lu Yan and their entourage entering the simple security gate, Cao Mo and the others returned to the parking lot and prepared to drive back.
Cao Mo hummed a little tune, feeling sad that this time the salary increase for employees would be large-scale, and it was calculated that the monthly expenses would increase by nearly 6,000 US dollars.
"Who hurt your heart? Why did you keep humming this song when you came back this time? Are you trying to seduce Miss Zhou, but you were ignored?"
Returning to the city of Draculamore from the airport, with a wide view, Cao Mo was happy to drive by himself. Wang Wen jumped in front of Song Yuqing and sat in the passenger seat. He didn't see the disgust on Cao Mo's face and started gossiping curiously. .
Jeans Zhou Han did not leave directly with Lu Yan this time.
Cao Mo felt very strange when he saw her getting into Xie Sipeng's car and preparing to return to the city.
He didn't want to get involved in such a thing. He didn't want to force himself to pay attention to the details of their negotiations before, and now he didn't want to ask why Zhou Han stayed in Draculamore this time, lest Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan and the others might get the wrong idea.
Returning to the branch dormitory, Cao Mo saw Guo Jian, who had lost weight twice, and Yang De, who looked relieved. Cao Mo guessed that they had finally gotten rid of their ship of cement.
Although the crazy cement storm that Kanem is causing has nothing to do with them, at least more than 20 million yuan of funds were successfully collected.
This is always something to celebrate.
Guo Jian didn't know that there were so many things happening in Dracula Mo these days, and he didn't even know that Yang Deshan wanted to kick him away. He was more or less regretting that he couldn't have close contact with the senior management of the business department this time.
Guo Jian disappeared for several days and did not show up. Yang Deshan gave him an excuse to go to Isetan, the new capital of Kanem, to contact customers. Wang Jianzhong didn't have anything to say. Everyone held a small meeting and assigned the next work of the branch. , Wang Jianzhong took his people and rushed back to the crushing factory.
"It's really hard for me to go hunting with you. I'm going to have a good rest for a few days." Cao Mo stretched and prepared to go back to his room in the second dormitory building to take an afternoon nap.
Yang Deshan, who was answering the phone, called out to Cao Mo: "Miss Zhou wants to stay in our staff dormitory temporarily. Mr. Xie will drive her over in a moment - Miss Zhou is a girl, and Mr. Lu specially asked us to take good care of her before leaving, right... …”
No matter how nice the scenery at the Lana Del Rey Hotel is or how luxurious the rooms are, if you stay there alone and don’t dare to walk into Draculamore City, you will become bored after three or five days.
Zhou Han thought about living in their staff dormitory and spending time with Song Yuqing, Wang Wen and the others. Cao Mo could understand this feeling, but Yang Deshan wanted him to give up his room, so he refused and pretended to be vague. : "If Miss Zhou likes Steya's room, I'll tell Steya and ask her to move to the No. 3 dormitory. If Miss Zhou wants to live alone in the No. 3 dormitory, that's fine. Anyway, Mr. Wang They have staff dormitories in the crushing plant, and no one lives there permanently..."
"Okay, I'll ask Miss Zhou for her opinion when she comes over," Yang Deshan said.
Now Cao Mo can earn one million a year doing private work, and he also has a backer in Dongsheng, group director Chen Rong. Although Cao Mo's superficial relationship with Chen Rong, Shen Ji, Lu Yan and others don't take it seriously at all, but Yang Deshan and Wang Jianzhong still have to pay attention.
What's more, when the branch subsequently negotiates oil palm supply and purchase agreements in Longta, it will also have to rely on the close personal relationship between Cao Mo and Abacha.
Guo Jian, who didn't know the details, was surprised how Yang Deshan became so weak in front of Cao Mo.