Song Yuqing opened her mouth to speak, but Cao Mo babbled toward the door, reminding her that the walls had ears.
Song Yuqing also sat on the bedside, next to Cao Mo, and asked in a low voice: "She has succeeded and exonerated herself, so why did she really stay in Taihua and join the company? Is it possible that she really still wants to work in Jinsheng?"
Bite a bigger piece of fat on your body?”
"How do I know?" Cao Mo's throat was a little tight and he couldn't control his voice. He spoke a little too loudly. Song Yuqing was so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth. Cao Mo turned to Song Yuqing's ear and said, "This
I specially observed Zhou Han in the past few days, and I felt that this person was a bit complicated, and I couldn’t figure it out for a while..."
Song Yuqing felt a little itchy as the hot air from Cao Mo's breath hit her ears. She moved her cheeks and brushed against Cao Mo's lips. Both of them were dumbfounded and stared at each other for two seconds.
The soft and fragrant touch was like a stone falling into the lake of his heart, causing a slight ripple. Looking at Song Yuqing's bright and deep eyes, Cao Mo couldn't help but hugged Song Yuqing's waist, wanting to be in the delicate red
Kiss on the lips.
Song Yuqing reached out to cover Cao Mo's mouth and pushed him away. Her chest heaved and her breathing became rapid for a while, then she said softly: "I've already made things up with you. You can't bully me any more."
"What do you mean by bullying you?" Cao Mo lied down shamelessly and rested his head on Song Yuqing's cool thighs.
"I can at most help you wash your clothes." Song Yuqing said, reaching out and scratching Cao Mo's half-length hair.
"You are so kind to me?" Cao Mo asked.
"Seeing you washing clothes, soaking them in water and then taking them out, I felt so sad in my heart that I wanted to help you wash them for a long time - how can you wash clothes like this?" Song Yuqing said with disdain, and then removed Cao Mo from the job.
Push away...
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Although Lu Jianchao's trip had nothing to do with Cao Mo, he accompanied him and delayed him for several days. As soon as the affairs here were over, Cao Mo hurried back to Yibogu.
The construction of the simple cement bridge was very fast, mainly because of the early fundraising and the long preparation time for the project, but the materials were all transported to the construction site. The Lonta-Daculamo road is the largest, and it is also the one that directly runs through the Tubman family plantation.
The planned construction period for the cement bridge is only three months.
The formal construction is even faster. In mid-May, a crane was used to erect the prefabricated cement bridge onto the bridge.
The main body of the three-span main bridge will be completed before June.
On the other two-span bridge, guardrails have already been installed.
There are also five single-span bridges and culverts with a length of only six to eight meters. In the early years, there were wooden bridges with stone piers or cement bridges. This time after Dongsheng donated an additional US$50,000 in funds, this time it was simply
Carry out reinforcement.
The slowest one is the intermittent through-road, which is about eight kilometers long. It lacks sufficient road construction machinery and equipment, and it was not until mid-May that the land along the route was leveled.
There are no large sand and gravel trucks, so we mainly rely on a dozen or so slightly modified tractors and other agricultural vehicles with a load capacity of more than three tons to transport gravel and other roadbed paving materials. Don't even think about how efficient it can be.
The Ronta-Daculamo highway will not be officially opened to traffic until October, but once the two main bridges are completed, off-road vehicles, pickup trucks and cars that are not afraid of torment can all pass through.
Nowadays, all aspects are rushing to complete the project. June is the rainy season in Kanem. Heavy downpours come every once in a while, which has a great impact on road construction.
The construction of the hydropower station barrage is also in full swing. Fortunately, it is contracted by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and there are sufficient construction equipment on site. There is no problem in completing the main body of the dam before the rainy season. The next step is the construction of the station building, equipment installation, and line erection.
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The hydropower station needs to supply power to cement plants and mining areas, as well as provide lighting and electricity to the Ibogu tribe. It involves the investment and construction of power distribution facilities, which takes a relatively long period. It is expected that it will not be able to actually supply power until October.
Although the cement plant has been officially built and has even added mechanical loading and unloading equipment, and its daily production capacity has reached the designed 300 tons, it is not without its problems.
When initially designing, the consideration was to reduce investment and construction time as much as possible. There were no basic dust removal and flue gas treatment devices, and the filling area to the storage area still relied on manual movement, and no conveyor belts were installed.
Kanem, especially Lonta, does not have a particularly strong awareness of environmental protection, but the key is that there are no dust removal facilities, and the working environment is too harsh.
Cao Mo felt that as a capitalist, he should also pay attention to his conscience.
Dust removal, flue gas treatment equipment and finished product bagged cement conveyor belts should be added later.
It is more complicated to install the flue gas device in the calcining shaft kiln, and the equipment needs to be stopped for modification when it comes to the site; this can be delayed for five to six months, or even longer until the equipment inspection.
The dust removal facilities in the workshop and the installation of conveyor belts from the filling area to the warehousing and loading area will not conflict much with normal production, and can be done directly in the next step.
In addition to these, the entire cement plant has been in actual operation for more than half a month, and a large number of problems have been exposed.
The team leaders and workers are not skilled in operation, and the technical skills are not strong. These can be gradually improved, but the equipment is crude, especially in the clinker kiln section, which uses traditional vertical kilns to save investment, which makes the quality of the finished cement produced final.
If it is not stable enough, it will be difficult to overcome.
It is impossible to dismantle the vertical kiln and rebuild a rotary kiln now, right?
Now Cao Mo is recruiting the short-term staff from the farm, focusing on strengthening the building materials company. In addition to Wendy Scarf and the technical and production supervisors, Lucy and Parry have already been transferred to the building materials company as full-time financial officers.
Supervisor, warehousing market manager, but professional standards are still lacking.
All these contradictions have been temporarily covered up by the ongoing cement storm in the land of Kanem, but if the problem is not resolved, it will always be exposed.
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For the next ten days or so, Cao Mo kept an eye on Ibogu, but there were so many problems that he could not solve just like an eraser.
Sometimes Cao Mo was so upset that he wanted to overthrow the cement factory and rebuild it, so as to form a new team.
That day Abacha came to see him again. Cao Mo was sitting in front of the wooden house, staring at the black smoke rising from the vertical kiln and worrying.
Abacha squatted beside Cao Mo and smoked his cigar happily.
In the early stage, the hoarded clinker was used to produce finished cement. After the payment was made, a large amount of funds were withdrawn by Cao Mo to pay for the construction of hydropower stations and rock gold mining equipment. When the funds were settled, he naturally distributed the equity in Abacha's name as dividends.
Gave it to him directly.
Abacha invested US$120,000 in the cement plant, including the US$80,000 deduction he righteously took out of his pocket to build the Lonta-Draculamo Company, including the US$20,000 he folded into the Ibogu Farm in the early stage.
The total investment in agricultural equipment was only US$220,000, but Cao Mo had given him nearly US$500,000 in dividends so far.
Now when he saw Cao Mo, he wanted to hug him and give him a kiss.
Before that, he had a rich family and lived a luxurious life. However, family dividends, public service funds and some scattered investments added up to a total actual income of only 70,000 to 80,000 US dollars a year.
Of course, Abacha was not a person who was extravagant and lustful.
He saw that Cao Mo continued to invest almost all the funds recovered from the cement plant into the construction of hydropower stations and the purchase of new mining equipment for gold mines. He did not think about using the dividends in his hands to buy a mansion in Dracula Mo.
Or marry another wife, or acquire hundreds or thousands of acres of oil palm land to realize his dream of being a plantation owner.
"By the way, many Chinese people have come to Longta to look for gold mines these days," Abacha asked Cao Mo, blowing smoke rings that were not yet formed, "Do you think I should also invest in a gold mine?"
The mine owner’s addiction?”
Lu Jianchao came over this time, and the news that he, Yang Deshan, Xie Sipeng and others discovered gold mines in Longta spread almost immediately in the Chinese business district of Draculamore.
As the core transit station in West Africa, Draculamore is where many Chinese businessmen heading to Ghana and Cameroon for gold mining basically transfer through Draculamore.
These people are like hounds with a keen sense of smell. I talked to Song Yuqing on the phone the day before yesterday, and she said that several groups of people had already smelled it and contacted Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan directly.
When Abacha said that some people had bypassed Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan and went directly to Longta to look for gold mines, Cao Mo didn't find it strange at all.
However, Abacha wanted to join the ranks of prospecting. Even though Abacha had the advantage of being a local leader, he did not agree and said:
"In order to select the site for the second hydropower station, Sam has led the surveyors to conduct a general survey along the tributaries of the Lukakuchuan River for more than two months. There may be placer gold deposits in some riverbed valleys, but the amount is not large and it is not
It is worth investing too much expectation and enthusiasm. Rock gold mining requires an investment of almost two million US dollars to start, and sufficient geological exploration is required in the early stage. You may not have the patience to form a new gold mining team..."
The gold mine potential in Longta is still worth exploring. Cao Mo himself has been strengthening the exploration of gold mineral reserves in the upper reaches of the Lujiaochuan River, and even expanded the scope of the exploration license by 200 square kilometers.
With such little funds, Abacha is not yet qualified to apply for an area. He needs to survey first and then engage in rock gold mining.
When it comes to the most simple and crude placer gold mining, those barbaric gold prospectors from China are so flexible and capable of enduring hardships. Cao Mo didn't think Abacha could endure such hardships.
"Then you have to let me participate in the construction of the second hydropower station on the Lujiaochuan River!" Abacha still listened to Cao Mo's advice and said eagerly at this time.
Seeing that the main body of the Ibogu No. 1 Hydropower Station dam was about to be irrigated, the next step was the station construction and equipment installation. He didn't know when the No. 2 Hydropower Station would be launched, but he knew that Cao Mo had no shortage of funds.
Do it whenever you want.
I used to think that opening a gold mine was like robbing money, but I never thought that building a cement plant would be an even bigger robbing thing.
He didn't want to be left behind this time, so he kept an eye on Cao Mo more closely.
"What kind of friendship do I have with you? How could you be missing from the construction of the second hydropower station? Are you doubting our friendship?" Cao Mo asked angrily, but he was even angrier in his heart: selling electricity after the hydropower station is completed is like robbery.
Yes, if everything didn't depend on you, a local coward, then no one would think of giving up their investment share!
Of course, planning to build a new hydropower station requires new industrial capacity to consume electricity. But if they rush to build the second phase of the cement plant now, will it alarm the local interest groups in Kanem and trigger a crazy counterattack?
Cao Mo was not sure.
Cao Mo and others have actually figured out who the interest group is that can win over the majority of members of the Federal Parliament, ignore President Buhari's obstruction, and force the cement import ban.
This interest group is inextricably linked to the sixth military government. Before the end of the military rule in Kanem and democratic elections, the Stanning and Atsa families took over the two major state-owned cement plants in Kanem respectively.
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The Stanning family currently controls Kanem's domestic cement production capacity of approximately 1.5 million tons, and a new cement plant with an annual output of 500,000 tons is under construction; Atessa currently controls Kanem's domestic cement production capacity of approximately 1.5 million tons.
It has a cement production capacity of 1.2 million tons and a new plant of 300,000 tons is under construction.
By the end of the year, Kanem's domestic cement production capacity will increase to 5 million tons, and the two families of Stanning and Atsa will account for almost 70% of it.
It is impossible for the two families of Stanning and Atessa to eat up all the fat on the plate. They are still resisting the crazy attacks from the Kanem cement importers and subpackers. Cao Mo pulls Ah
Bacha, Felician took a small bite of fat, Stanning, and the Atessa family certainly had no time to care, otherwise they would have offended the public.
However, if Cao Mo had rashly built a 300,000-ton or even 500,000-ton cement plant in Yibogu, he would be in trouble.
If we want to build a new factory, we have to wait until these two families are defeated by the opposition forces in Kanem. Cao Mo thinks that the Stanning and Atsa families will retreat a little at some point, compromise, and impose a ban.
It is also possible that it will be canceled at some point, but the situation will obviously remain deadlocked for some time.
However, having said that, the construction of a new cement plant must not be rushed and preparations must be made secretly, but the construction of new hydropower stations must be prepared before the next dry season.
How to digest the electricity generated by the new hydropower station is the difficulty facing Cao Mo...