(Thanks to the new alliance leaders Zhu Xiaoxuan, Xuanxuanxuan, Dahai, and Sibai for their generous support. I still owe three updates...)
"How is your uncle doing now? He signed a supply agreement with Dongsheng. When the highway is completed, are you just waiting to count the money?" Cao Mo was concerned about the current situation of Daxika.
"It's not your bad idea. Kenhardt is making a lot of noise every day. He wants to demolish his home and sell part of the oil palm land directly to use the money to enjoy Draculamore. Alas, he is making a lot of noise all day long.
, in your Chinese terms, it’s like a chicken and a dog jumping around - oh, I was really upset when I saw it." Abacha patted his thigh and said.
"So, you also blame me? Then let me go and persuade Kenhardt that the ancestral family property should not be abandoned lightly." Cao Mo said with a smile.
"Go!" Abacha kicked his foot as if to kick Cao Mo.
As the saying goes, one thing will bring down another. Dashika looks majestic, never speaks harshly and smiles, and is stubborn and conservative in his thinking. Even at this time, Abacha is still somewhat afraid of Dashika mentally, but Dashika insists on taking his eldest son willingly.
Hart had no idea.
Now Kenhart is having a big fight with Dashika over the sale of oil palm land. Abaca has seen this and feels so sweet in his heart. How can he let Cao Mo go over and try to make peace?
"Come on, let me go and see the excitement! Let's have a meal at your Sika's house at noon, and then we'll go back to Dracula Mo!" Cao Mo said with a smile.
He ordered a bunch of tea and porcelain by mail from China. Anyway, he picked the ones with the cheapest prices and the most exquisite packaging.
At this time, he also picked two items to bring as door-to-door gifts, estimated to be worth a hundred yuan in RMB, and urged Abacha to accompany him to visit Dasika.
"What do you want to do?" Abacha asked warily.
"Don't you want to invest the dividends you received?" Cao Mo said, "Based on the conservative attitude of Da Sika and the Aide family, it is estimated that Sika Aide Electric Power Company will not be able to accept capital injection from a foreigner like me now.
, but you are a rookie in the Sika family, and also a rookie in the politics of Lonta and even Oyo State. If you propose to invest in Sika Adete Power Company, Mr. Osika will definitely support you, and the Adete family and other investors will also
You won’t be able to refuse..."
"Sika Adete Electric Power Company has no profitability. It can't sell even one-third of its electricity in a year!" Abacha exclaimed a little aggrieved, thinking what the hell idea are you giving?
"You have also seen that many Chinese businessmen have come to Longta to look for gold mines. Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhou Zhou are involved in the mining, transportation and equipment of cement raw materials in Longta. They will enter the site in the next two days," Cao Mo said,
"As more and more Chinese businessmen enter Longta, more and more workers will be employed in Longta and can earn higher incomes. The electricity demand of residents, businesses, etc. within the town will gradually increase.
.If you don’t take the opportunity to buy shares in Sika Aidet Power Company at a low price now, why don’t you wait until their profits increase and then buy shares at a higher price? And after you buy shares in Sika Aidet Power Company, you will attract Chinese businessmen to come to Lonta.
Wouldn’t it be more exciting to build factories, open mines, open restaurants and hotels?”
"Are you thinking that after I buy a stake in the Sika Adete Electric Power Company, when the Ibogu Hydropower Station wants to sell electricity to the towns, I will be able to help you speak?" The relationship is close, but Abacha is not that kind.
Are you stupid? You don't think that Cao Mo is just giving him advice without any benefit of your own?
"What you said is tarnishing our great friendship!" Cao Mo complained dissatisfied.
"As you Chinese people say, isn't friendship meant to be tarnished?" Abacha said with a smile.
"Hey, who taught you these nonsense things?" Cao Mo said, "In addition to tarnishing our great friendship, you also tarnished my vision. Who cares about the small amount of electricity consumption in the town? Sika Aidet Electric Power Company is great
The goal is to build a transmission grid connected to Draculamore, do you understand?"
As a foreigner, Cao Mo will continue to hide behind the Abacha and Felician families.
Besides, the power grid construction in the Lungta area has long been monopolized by Sika Aidet Electric Power Company.
It is unlikely that these old stubborns like Da Sika will directly sell Sika Aidet Electric Power Company, nor will they transfer the power grid construction rights. What Cao Mo can do now is to let the Abacha and Felician families infiltrate
Go in.
Of course, the investment scale for a 60-70 km high-voltage line with 10,000 volts is quite large. If the Abacha and Felician families are involved, the funds will be insufficient. But by then, even if they still stubbornly refuse foreign capital to enter, as long as they really
It's so profitable, but you still can't make enough money by going to Draculamore?
As long as this high-voltage line is completed and Cao Mo builds a hydropower station on the upper reaches of the Lujiaochuan River, the abundant electric energy will have a way out.
Although a new natural gas power plant is currently being built in Draculamore, the population in the urban area of Draculamore continues to expand. Even the population size of the entire Kanem country is increasing at the same rate as in the country in the 1950s and 1960s.
As the power grows, a new natural gas power plant will not be able to make up for Draculamore's electricity shortage.
The terrain in Lonta does not seem to be particularly high, but the virgin jungle at the border with Benin still has an altitude of more than three to four hundred meters and slowly drops to the south.
Various tributaries of the Lukaku River are distributed among them. Not to mention three to five small hydropower stations, it is more than enough to build thirty to fifty small hydropower stations.
When Cao Mo is currently preparing for the construction of a new hydropower station, he also commissions a geological survey of each tributary to try to obtain as many construction permits as possible in suitable locations. When the high-voltage transmission network is completed, he can sell the electricity.
At present, the electricity price in Draculamo is RMB 2.4 per kilowatt hour. Cao Mo does not expect a high price when selling it to the power grid company. Even if it is only sold for 60 cents, it will be twice as high as the domestic water and electricity grid price.
"So, the most valuable thing in the hands of Sika Aidet Electric Power Company is the right to build the power grid?" Abacha asked.
"If you can defraud the power grid construction rights, you will make a fortune," Cao Mo said. "Let me tell you this, the electricity in Draculamo is US$0.3 per kilowatt hour. If you can build the power grid, I will
Build a hydropower station and sell it to you for US$0.15. After deducting route losses, equipment depreciation, and operating costs, the cost of this electricity will increase to US$0.20 at most when it is transmitted to the main backbone of Dracula Moor.
Tell me how much net profit you make from one kilowatt hour of electricity? How much can you earn if I build a hydropower station on the Lukawa Kakuo River and sell all the electricity into the grid? How much can you make if I build ten hydropower stations on the Lukawa Kakuo River?"
"Ten million dollars a year?" Abacha opened his mouth.
He was still immersed in the joy of making half a million US dollars, and for a while he couldn't understand the concept of a net profit of 10 million US dollars. Could he start from the third wife and draft directly from European and American countries?
"This thing is not that easy to do, but in any case, it is the first step for you and Ochosan to invest in Sika Aidet Electric Power Company, and then find a way to spin off the power grid construction and establish a new company," Cao
Mo said, "But if you really want to connect to Draculamore's backbone network, you may need the promotion of a political figure like Governor Blake. So after it is actually completed, you can get two to three million US dollars a year, which is
It’s so overwhelming. Wipe your saliva first..."
Many things that are normal in China may completely change in Kanem.
Lungta and Draculamo belong to Oyo and Ogun states respectively. The high-voltage power grid in Lungta has been completed. Even if Draculamo is short of power, it may not agree to be connected to the main network.
At this time, people like Blake need to stand up and promote.
However, just like Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan found their next employer and transported the cement into Canem, only to have the fattest piece of meat eaten by their next employer. If they really want to invite people like Blake to come forward in the end, then their appetites will not be the same.
Most likely, it can be filled by spending hundreds of thousands or millions at a time.
Cao Mo was unwilling to directly participate in the construction of the power grid. In addition to various obstacles, with his shallow knowledge, he could already see that there would be no shortage of big shots rushing to grab food.
Cao Mo could only tell Abacha a general prospect now, but as to how to implement it step by step, he could only take the first step and then look at the situation.
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Cao Mo followed Abacha to the Sika Manor and saw Da Sika's fat and tall body standing in the back garden scolding the maid, while Kenhardt sat angrily on a wicker chair nearby.
Yes, I am angry about the sale of oil palm land again.
Yang Deshan was really masterful at stirring up dissension. I don’t know what rhetoric he used to secretly instigate Kenhardt to become stubborn like a blind man, but he was able to prevent Dasika from transferring his resentment to Dongsheng.
Come up.
After two beautiful donation activities, Governor Blake visited Lonta twice, and the Lonta-Daculamo highway was increasingly taking shape, Cao Mo was already in Dasika, and the Kenhardts firmly believed in their status as "big shots" in their hearts.
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Seeing Cao Mo coming over with Abacha as a guest, Osika immediately softened his expression; Kenhardt also had a confiding expression on his face, looking for Cao Mo to scold Osika for his stubbornness.
"As a representative of Dongsheng Company, I naturally hope that Onika can sell part of the oil palm land as an example, but I also fully understand Mr. Onika's mood. Even from Mr. Onika's standpoint, I feel that Onika's persistence
That's right. Many investments have risks. The plantation is the foundation and has helped the Sika family withstand so many storms over the years. How can we give it up so easily?"
Cao Mo still tried to find a way to get Kenhardt to talk, and then continued the conversation and went to persuade Da Xika and said,
"However, things are not impossible to change. If Mr. Kenhardt insists on selling part of the oil palm land, I don't think it is possible. But at the same time, he needs to purchase the same or even larger area of rough land in Lonta, plant oil palm saplings, and take good care of it.
In six to eight years, the Sika family's plantation will not suffer any losses, and it will also gain an additional operating income..."
Dongsheng wants to directly acquire mature plantations in their peak production period in Longta. In order to facilitate management, they especially hope that these plantations will eventually form a single unit. A more feasible way is to persuade plantation owners who are unwilling to give up traditional industries to replace them.
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The price of raw land in Longta is very low. Selling mature plantations in peak production period and purchasing raw land to cultivate new oil palm land is actually a new income for plantation owners who have maturely mastered oil palm cultivation technology. source, and even the profits are quite substantial.
The current purchase price approved by the group is US$800 per acre for oil palm land during the peak production period, with a contract period of 99 years; while the local land price for a 99-year contract period does not even cost US$100.
Calculated, this is equivalent to Dongsheng paying an oil palm tree cultivation fee of about US$100 per mu of oil palm land per year.
With local low labor costs, there is considerable profit margin.
The reason why Dongsheng did not acquire large-scale rough land to plant oil palm in the early stage was that it did not have a mature cultivation team and technology. Secondly, it invested US$200 million in low-interest loans in the hope of establishing a scale to transport palm oil to the country as soon as possible and forming a stable And the considerable income is reflected in the statements of listed companies.
Only after the annual transportation scale of 40,000 to 50,000 tons of palm oil has been established and stable profits of more than 10 million US dollars per year have been achieved, Dongsheng will consider raw land planting in the next step.
All of this was a strategy that Yang Deshan, Shen Ji and other senior executives from the overseas department discussed and applied for approval from the group for implementation, but in fact Cao Mo didn't really agree with it.
Cao Mo didn't think that this strategy was detrimental to Dongsheng. In fact, this approach was extremely detrimental to the poor farmers in Kanem.
The reason is simple.
A large amount of arable land is used to grow oil palm, and because oil palm is drought-resistant and not afraid of insect pests, forestland management is very simple, and large landowners can obtain stable and reliable income.
For the lower-level farmers, even if they can get a job from plantations or directly serve the manor of the chiefs, they will still lose the arable land that can grow sufficient staple food.
And the monthly salary of the jobs they can get is less than 100 yuan in RMB. The cassava grown in the corners is not enough to eat, so how much money can they get to buy high-priced imported grains?
Of course, since the company has made such a decision, Cao Mo, as an employee of Dongsheng, has the responsibility to implement it and will start by persuading the Sika family. But when he saw the maid serving the Sika family and bringing coffee, he also Skinny and malnourished, he felt deep in his heart that Lonta and other areas of Kanem were more urgent to develop staple food cultivation...