"Mr. Baha is a noble man who often forgets things. We have met before,"
Cao Mo was scolding her in his heart, but he greeted her with a gentle Yoruba expression and introduced Abacha.
"This is Mr. Abacha. Mr. Sika, who Mr. Baha may not know yet - the municipal councilor of the Lungta area. It was Mr. Abacha who led our Dongsheng to acquire the Tubman family's crushing plant. Therefore,
The Tubman family also gave Mr. Abacha a reward, but Mr. Abacha had a noble character and declined the reward. Later, Miss Starlie Tubman and Mr. Abacha gave the money to
Donated by the Chinese Consulate to build roads in the Lungta area..."
Cao Mo didn't want to be targeted by a very powerful and ruthless person like Baha, so he would have no choice but to deal with Abacha.
But, then again, Baha looked down on Abacha. After all, Abacha was Lonta's local boss, so he didn't need to pay too much attention to Baha's face.
Speaking of which, the criminal group of Draculamore was even bold enough to attack European and American companies and even consulates and embassies of European and American countries. In 2001, there was an international massacre in Draculamore that hijacked more than 60 employees of European and American oil companies and held them for ransom.
case, this is more or less related to the political atmosphere in Kanem that has long been opposed to colonial rule.
Criminal gangs will not be merciful when committing crimes against Chinese businessmen, but they are very scrupulous about the upper-class members of the ethnic group.
Even if Abacha breaks up with Baha, at worst he won't show up in Draculamore anymore, is he still afraid that Baha will bite Lonta?
Now the only one who wants to be stubborn is Cao Mo.
How could Abacha have imagined that in just a few seconds after entering the house, Cao Mo had already acted out so many dramas in his heart?
He also thought that Starlie's smile was directed at him.
Furthermore, Baha's arrogant attitude had already made him very dissatisfied. After hearing Cao Mo praise him so much, he first showed a charming smile to Stari, without looking at Baha, and then took out the
Checkbook, asked Yan Zhicheng: "How many chips do we need to be qualified to sit down and play two games?"
"Mr. Abacha, you can exchange chips up to 20,000 US dollars at a time; bets of 100 US dollars." Ah Dao walked in accompanied by him. At this time, he politely bent over and said to Abacha.
"Pah!" Abacha wrote a check and tore it to Ah Dao.
Now is the time of the Kanem Cement storm. The storm is not letting up day by day. He can take away seven to eight thousand US dollars in dividends from the cement factory every day, and he doesn't pay much attention to the US$20,000.
"Mr. Abacha, please lend me five thousand dollars first." Cao Mo said, looking at the checkbook on Abacha's desk eagerly.
The maximum number of chips that can be redeemed at a time is twenty thousand US dollars. As long as he does not bring two bets of chips to amuse everyone, Cao Mo's first exchange of five thousand US dollars in chips can only show that he is a bit petty.
Everyone has long been accustomed to this.
In the past, when playing a game worth two thousand dollars, Cao Mo would play for five to six hundred dollars.
Seeing the contempt for him in Baha's eyes and putting his vigilance on Abacha, Cao Mo breathed a sigh of relief and observed the situation at the card table.
It was time to exchange chips, and a new round of poker games would not be waiting for them. At this time, Yan Zhicheng had already given the signal to continue.
There are slightly more chips at the Baja table, but they are not unreasonably large.
Yan Zhicheng and Huang Hebin were obviously playing along, and they followed the bets in a leisurely manner, very Buddhist-like.
Xie Sipeng and Ma Bin played very conservatively. They didn't want to win much, but they didn't want to lose either.
Little Tubman and others still played very seriously, got good trump cards, and had no intention of giving in in front of Baja.
The situation on the gambling table is very interesting, but if you think about it carefully, it also has a lot to do with the changes in Kanem's political situation.
After Kanem ended colonial rule, the anti-colonial wave in the country did not stop during the military government's rule. Although under international pressure, the military government did not directly confiscate the property of the descendants of the colonists, but it also maintained high-pressure policies.
After the rule of the military government ended and Buhari was elected president, although he accepted the orders of the previous military government and did not carry out large-scale purges of the remaining forces of the military government, the political situation was stabilized and transitioned. However, in order to develop the domestic economy and improve relations with European and American countries,
relations, attracting a large amount of capital from Europe and the United States to flow back to Kanem. President Buhari has done a lot of work to restore the economic and political status of the descendants of colonizers in Kanem.
President Buhari even regards the descendants of colonizers as one of his base.
This has also allowed the descendants of colonists such as Tubman Jr. to quickly recover their status in Kanem, and have a tendency to regain control of Kanem's economic lifeline.
On the card table, even though Abacha is from an old family, he represents the emerging political and economic forces in Kanem; Baja represents the political and economic forces that have survived the previous military government and still have real power; Tubman Jr. and
Other investors in the Lana Del Rey Hotel represent a group of descendants of colonists with European and American backgrounds who are in the midst of a renaissance and control the economic lifeline of Kanem Country.
He, Xie Sipeng, Huang Hebin, and Ma Bin represent a group of Chinese businessmen who have just entered Canem and have not really gained attention yet - Yan Zhicheng is a special case.
Of course, the Tubman family was not doing well and was in a period of decline. Little Tubman was still weak in front of Baha. He should have known for a long time that Baha coveted Starlie.
After seeing this situation clearly, the next poker game will be easier.
Yan Zhicheng and Huang Hebin were accompanying them. Xie Sipeng and Ma Bin were not very willing to participate in the poker game, so Cao Mo actively participated in defeating them and took the chips.
However, even if Yan Zhicheng and the others had the mentality to play along, they would not be able to throw tens of thousands of dollars on the poker table without taking it seriously.
They were sniped by Cao Mo several times, and they couldn't seize the opportunity to counterattack Cao Mo, so they could only actively get some chips from other people; as long as they had good cards in their hands, even if Baha participated in the game, they would not dare to take it easy.
Give in so your chips won't be wiped out too quickly.
Cao Mo secretly sent the chips to the tables of the investors at the Lana Del Rey Hotel.
After playing for two hours, Baja, who seemed to have always been successful at the poker table, had already lost $60,000.
Cao Mo didn't let Abacha have a chance to show off, and they and little Tubman barely managed to keep the game without losing money. Yan Zhicheng's poker skills were also extremely good. After playing with him for a long time, he only had a few hundred dollars in chips at the table.
Huang Hebin, Xie Sipeng, and Ma Bin are not impulsive, but at such a poker table, not being impulsive and being patient means being passive, and they all lose between ten thousand and twenty thousand dollars.
More than $100,000 in chips were piled on the table of three other investors at the Lana Del Rey Hotel.
The rules of Texas Hold'em are that there is an upper limit on the number of chips when you go to the table, but after you sit down, you cannot win the table if the chips accumulate.
So everyone else had chips in front of them ranging from tens of thousands to twenty thousand dollars. The chips in front of the Baja table were cleared again, but the three investors in the Lana Del Rey Hotel all had chips in front of them ranging from forty to eighty thousand dollars. That was too much.
There is a contrast.
Seeing that Baha was already upset, Yan Zhicheng could only bite the bullet and persuade everyone to end it first and talk about it after dinner.
Baja was in a bad mood.
Even though 60,000 US dollars is nothing in his eyes, after Cao Mo, Abacha participated in the poker game, he has been losing money, and in front of Stari, who covets me, how can this make him suffer?
Come on?
Of course, Yan Zhicheng and Huang Hebin were the sponsors of the donation, and the new casino also had a member of his Giddam family. It was impossible for him to destroy the casino. In the end, he could only leave in anger, without staying to participate.
Dinner party mood.
In addition to the main building, the new casino also has four seaside villas.
Yan Zhicheng regarded one of them as his new residence, and the dinner party was also arranged in that seaside villa.
Baha lost the money and left in frustration. Although the atmosphere was a bit depressing when he first left with a dark face, after he left, everyone started talking happily again.
Lana Del Rey's three investors won money, and they were even more excited. They kept saying that they would fight again after dinner.
This kind of companionship game is very boring. Cao Mo has no interest in participating, and Yan Zhicheng and Xie Sipeng have no interest in continuing.
Lana Del Rey Beach Casino, in setting up such a big scene, would definitely have the idea of catching big fish and slaughtering fat sheep, but they would not put their thoughts on those people who are well-established in Draculamore.
After dinner, Yan Zhicheng still had to do various things. After all, it was the first day of the official opening of the new casino.
Little Tubman loved gambling, so he took three hotel investors to the casino to find a game he liked.
Xie Sipeng and Huang Hebin, who represented Taihua Group, acted as if they had nothing to do with the gambling table. They were not interested in indulging in the gambling table and were more interested in making money, so they dragged Ma Bin and Yang Deshan to accompany Cao Mo and Abacha.
Just sit on the terrace by the beach and chat.
Huang Hebin and Zhou Han also stayed. Now that Taihua Group has decided to officially set up a branch in Draculamore, participating in casino investment overtly or covertly is only the first step.
It will take until October for the Ronta-Daculamo road to be completely repaired, but now light cars and off-road vehicles can barely pass it, making commuting much more convenient.
Not to mention professional managers like Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan, and Huang Hebin, even Ma Bin could see that there were many investment opportunities in Longta outside of the gold mines.
On the way here, Cao Mo also communicated with Abacha and sat down to chat. Abacha generously asked everyone to provide suggestions for the future development of Longta.
We have been in contact for so long, not to mention that Dongsheng is vigorously entering Longta to acquire oil palm land. Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan have directly invested in gold mines in Longta. Ma Bin also invited people to look for minerals in Longta. What advantages does it have for Longta?
He understands his weaknesses very well, and his ideas are even more open-minded than Cao Mo's.
Take oil palm cultivation as an example. In addition to pressing palm oil, the fruit production of oil palm trees will decrease rapidly after thirty years of growth. At this time, old trees must be cut down and new trees planted.
The wood utilization rate of palm trees is not high, but it is also a more stable source of wood.
Based on the scale of oil palm cultivation in Lungta, which is 60,000 to 700,000 acres, the average number of palm trees that can be cut down and utilized every year is as high as 20,000 to 30,000 acres.
The brown clothes that grow from the trunk of oil palm trees are the raw materials for making brown ropes and brown silk mattresses.
In Indonesia and Malaysia, there are already many paper mills that use oil palm leaves and pressed oil palm fruit shells to produce high-quality pulp.
However, in Lonta, in addition to extracting oil from oil palm trees, the old trees, leaves, and palm leaves are either used as firewood or disposed of as garbage.
Since Dongsheng has decided to acquire oil palm land on a large scale, Yang Deshan is very clear about this.
Even if Dongsheng will not directly invest in a wood and brown silk processing plant in Longta, nor will it directly invest in a paper mill, as long as it hopes to fully develop and utilize the raw materials of oil palm trees, it will naturally strongly encourage and guide it.
Other investors came to Lonta to build related factories.
In addition to large-scale oil palm plantations, it goes without saying that Lungta’s gold mining resources are attracting a group of people. At this time, it is also rich in forest resources, including natural gas, lime, volcanic ash, coal, phosphorus and potassium and other mineral resources.
In addition to the rich hydropower resources that can be developed in the upper reaches of the Lukaku River, there is also a small fishing port at the mouth of the sea, where fishing boats can be invested to enter the Gulf of Guinea for fishing. Although Kanem has thousands of kilometers of coast, the development of the marine fishing industry lags behind.
Most of the aquatic products consumed domestically rely on imports.
The Shikakugawa River can even expand port construction and export Lonta's resources directly overseas or to other coastal cities in Kanem.
Even Dongsheng hopes that other Chinese businessmen can invest in crushing plants in Kanem, and Dongsheng will be responsible for purchasing the crude palm oil produced - this will further expand Dongsheng's palm oil acquisition scale in Kanem.