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"I have selfish motives for this whole thing, but when Cao Mo took me to Yibo Ancient Village, he never thought of you at all..."
Cao Mo walked up the stairs and saw Guo Jian holding Song Yuqing standing in front of the window sill opposite the staircase on the second floor talking. When he saw Cao Mo coming up, Guo Jian's face immediately darkened.
Cao Mo snapped his fingers and walked into his room nonchalantly.
Guo Jian sowed discord and roped in Song Yuqing to isolate him. Cao Mo was not surprised. He had indeed deliberately avoided Song Yuqing when he dragged Guo Jian to Yibo Ancient Village.
She didn't even say anything about this kind of thing, and Song Yuqing couldn't help her at all, so why did he drag her along?
Of course, Guo Jian was only interested in playing tricks like this to sow discord at this time. Cao Mo felt relieved. This turtle boy looked like he had worked a few years earlier than him, but he was very energetic in book business and boasted of graduating from a prestigious university. Maybe he himself
You all think you’re better at conspiracy, right?
cut!
Thinking of this, Cao Mo wanted to go out and ask Guo Jian if he had washed his wet pants? It would be best if he could piss him off to death.
He had been downstairs for too long, and the lamp in the room was connected to a battery. The light had dimmed by now. This was because he had been away from Draculamore for the past few days and forgot to charge the battery.
Cao Mo took out a candle and lighter from the drawer, and was about to light it when the incandescent lamp above his head flickered and lit up.
After the peak period of electricity consumption, the power supply was restored in the West Bank District. Cao Mo took out his mobile phone and looked at the time. It was almost twelve o'clock.
Turning on the fan, a cool breeze blew in. It wasn't that stuffy. Cao Mo didn't feel sleepy either. He turned on the computer and started calling QQ as usual. He saw Jiaying's dimmed profile picture beating constantly.
"exist?"
"Why don't you reply to my message? Are you brave enough? I'm going to complain to grandma?"
A series of angry expressions.
"What's wrong, you've been ignoring me for six hours? I didn't offend you, did I? I said Sister Cheng Xi was being chased by a boy, and you were unhappy? But you ignored her first."
"Please, talk to me! I slept too late yesterday. Grandma said girls should sleep more, so she didn't wake me up. As a result, I was late for school. I almost got scolded by the head teacher for having a cerebral hemorrhage..."
"Sister Cheng Xi came to my school again today. Don't worry, she is alone. There are no other boys around her."
"What's wrong with you? Why can't you call your cell phone? Did I remember it wrong? I was confused. I shouldn't have saved money and not called your cell phone first..."
"You scared me. You are scaring such a beautiful and lovely sister. Where is your conscience?"
"Why haven't you replied to my message?"
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After he arrived at Draculamore, Jiaying, who usually lived frugally, bought a second-hand computer and chatted with Jiaying on QQ for a while at night, which was almost his habit for more than a year.
He drove to Yibo Ancient Village to watch local people mining gold mines. He didn't tell Jiaying and suddenly had no news for several days, which really frightened Jiaying.
Just as Cao Mo was about to leave a message to Jiaying, Cheng Xi's still-lit avatar suddenly jumped:
"Cao Mo?"
"it's me."
"I'm scared to death. Jiaying just called me and said she couldn't contact you for several days. She even cried on the phone. I don't know what happened to you, or whether she made you angry by talking nonsense."
"Oh, I was suddenly sent by the company on a business trip to an area near Dracula Mo a few days ago. I stayed there for a few days. The conditions were so bad, there was no electricity, no signal on the mobile phone, let alone the Internet on the mobile phone - I will follow you soon.
Contact Jiaying!”
Just as Cao Mo was thinking about what to say to Jiaying, Jiaying's profile picture flashed, first with a series of crazy and angry expressions:
"You idiot, idiot, bastard, you are going to piss your beautiful and cute little sister off to death!"
"You are on a business trip for such a long time, why don't you tell your beautiful and cute little sister in advance!"
Before Cao Mo could reply, the voice chat came in:
"Brother?" came Jiaying's timid voice, as if she was worried that it was not her brother Cao Mo on the other end of the screen, but someone else pretending to be her brother to comfort her.
"It's me." Cao Mo said.
"You idiot, bastard, why didn't you tell me when you were on a business trip? Do you know that I am going to be mad at you? Your current attitude is too problematic. I haven't woken you up for a long time..." It's definitely Cao.
Mo was sitting at the other end of the screen, and Jiaying's voice suddenly became aggressive again, and she scolded him for several minutes without repeating anything.
It's a pity that Draculamore's network quality is so poor, Jiaying's voice is intermittent, and her angry voice doesn't sound powerful at all.
"The leader decided to go on a business trip at the last minute, and then decided to stay at the last minute. I have no choice - the Internet speed here is very poor, please speak slowly, otherwise I can't hear what you are saying - I can't even hear you, you are scolding
There's no point getting up, right?" Cao Mo rested his head on his hands and said slowly.
Jiaying found out on the Internet that the security situation in Kanem was very chaotic. In order to avoid worrying her, Cao Mo always reported good news but not bad news.
I didn’t dare to mention the fact that I was robbed at gunpoint by the driver in a taxi just after arriving at Draculamore, and I didn’t even dare to mention the narrow escape from death in Iboko Village this time.
"The company has a project in a suburban county near Draculamore and may have to stay there for a long time. There is no mobile phone signal or network there, so it may not be convenient for me to contact you. If you need anything, please send me an email
He said, I will reply to your email when I get back to Draculamore..." Cao Mo said as a precaution.
"I have something to tell you. I'm still angry," Jiaying said. "I will introduce a boyfriend to sister Cheng Xi tomorrow and I'll make you mad."
Cao Mo smiled bitterly.
He and Cheng Xi have been classmates since childhood and have a very close relationship. Before the college entrance examination, they were still thinking about applying to the same university.
To be honest, if I didn’t have some ideas at that time, I was deceiving myself.
A few times when we were traveling together, he even secretly wanted to hold someone's hand, but he was too timid at the time, and now that he thinks about it, he wants to slap himself twice.
Later, so many things happened at home that he did not repeat his studies and went straight to work as a mechanic in Dongsheng Workshop. It was he who took the initiative to cut off contact with Cheng Xi.
The network quality was really poor, so Cao Mo cut off the voice, chatted with Jiaying for a few words, and then urged her to go to bed. He was too pressed for time and needed to check and download data overnight.
Xinhai City has popularized fiber optic broadband three or four years ago, but the Internet speed in Draculamore City is still stuck in the era of dial-up Internet access, and it is still very expensive.
The only good thing is that Dongsheng's dispatched employees are in Draculamore, and all normal expenses including food and accommodation are borne by the company.
In addition to salary and subsidies, Cao Mo and the others also receive an additional 30,000 local currency (100 US dollars) in pocket money every month. The treatment is quite good - if Guo Jian hadn't wanted to completely ride on him, he wouldn't have been able to avoid it.
There was a conflict between Kai and Guo Jian, both of whom wanted to hang on for another year or two until they had more savings and no longer had to worry about Jiaying and grandma's living expenses.
Now, he has to at least take back some of the initiative.
Cao Mo's thoughts were a little confused and he was also uncontrollably excited.
He could no longer hear Guo Jian and Song Yuqing talking outside, and he didn't know if they had gone back to their rooms, or if Song Yuqing was tempted by Guo Jian's words, and the two of them avoided him and hid elsewhere to discuss matters.
Cao Mo didn't care about this and opened the webpage to search for information on simple mining of rock gold and placer gold, especially some of the equipment involved.
The Internet is really a good thing.
It does not involve large-scale stratigraphic rock gold mining, mining of shallow or open-pit rock gold mines and riverbed placer gold, and the process is not complicated.
At least for Cao Mo, who dropped out of high school, there were no technical obstacles that he couldn't overcome, and there were ready-made materials online.
There are many articles on the Internet that introduce the situation of domestic gold prospectors mining placer gold in Xinjiang, Northeast and other places in recent years.
Domestic mining of rock gold is basically monopolized by large and medium-sized state-owned gold mining companies; while mining of river bed placer gold causes too much damage to the environment, and the country is currently cracking down hard and banning it.
Many individual gold prospectors and small-scale gold mining teams have either disbanded in the past two years and started other businesses, or have turned their sights abroad.
Neighboring countries such as North Korea and Myanmar have now become the first choice for domestic gold diggers to shift their horizons. There are currently no reports on the Internet of Chinese people entering Africa to mine gold.
However, sub-Saharan Africa has always been famous for its gold deposits. European and American gold mining companies have been cultivating this land since the colonial period, and there are still no signs of gold mineral resources being exhausted.
Cao Mo suspected that as more and more Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises entered Africa, gold mining teams of all sizes would also enter the continent.
After checking the information for a night, Cao Mo became more certain that Guo Jian had not cared about his life or death at all when he returned to Draculamore City.
Yes, a small-scale gold mining team does require millions of yuan in investment in the most basic equipment - Guo Jianneng accurately reported this data, indicating that he had carefully searched the Internet and studied relevant information before.
The investment of millions of RMB does not include operating costs such as diesel required for the daily operation of generators, excavators and other equipment.
In addition, one or two vehicles need to be prepared to transport diesel and other supplies from nearby towns into Iboko Village.
The funds he could use were too limited, so Cao Mo studied for a whole night and found that it was not impossible to make do with simplicity and reduce investment.
Normally speaking, rock drilling equipment is indispensable for the most basic process of mining open-pit rock gold by a gold mining team, and for riverbed sand mining, excavators are indispensable.
These two are big guys, each domestic purchase costs hundreds of thousands.
Kanem's industry is extremely backward. Not to mention engineering equipment, most daily necessities must be imported from abroad. If you import a rock drill or excavator, even if it is second-hand, the cost will be very high, which is not what he is doing now.
Tolerable.
If we do not consider the mining of river bed placer gold in the early stage, there is nothing wrong with just continuing to use traditional methods at the existing gold mining sites in Yibo Ancient Village, drilling holes and placing explosives to break the rock.
It is extremely troublesome to manually use a steel drill to dig a hole one or two meters deep in the rock wall, but the amount of stones obtained in one blast is quite large. The key point that affects the efficiency in the early stage is the subsequent gravel, sand and gold sand
Panning, smelting and other processes.
The follow-up process involves a small gravel, sand making and oxygen lance smelting equipment, and the cost is much lower. In addition to a small-power diesel engine, consider purchasing a second-hand one, and you should be able to get it for a total of 20,000 US dollars.
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Even if you don’t have enough money to buy a pickup truck, there is no shame in finding a donkey to transport diesel and other supplies to Ibogu.
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The sky turned white, and Cao Mo printed out all the materials he needed. There was a thick stack, and he emptied all the ink cartridges before he felt sleepy.
Hearing the sound of cars downstairs, Cao Mo woke up after not sleeping long, opened the window and saw that Kabujia had just parked the car in front of the building; Lucy got up very early, walked out of the villa at this time, and stood in front of the lawn with Kabujia.
Jia spoke.
Cao Mo rubbed his face and walked upstairs with the materials he had printed out at dawn, not in a hurry to wash up.
There was no one else in the living room or dining room, and I didn't know if Guo Jian and Song Yuqing were still in the room, or if they had already gotten up and left.
"Mr. Cao, you're up..." Kabuga and Lucy walked in and greeted.
"You can just call me Amo from now on." Cao Mo first handed the materials printed last night to Kabuga and Lucy.
Kabuja and Lucy haven't studied Chinese for long, so they may not all be able to understand it. However, in one night, Cao Mo didn't have time to translate all the materials into English, so he thought of letting them read it first while he washed up.
Let's talk to them in detail.
When Kabuga took the materials, there was a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
Cao Mo turned back and glanced upstairs, feeling that the hesitation in Kabuga's eyes was more obvious at this time.
"Why, Guo Jian is talking to you?" Cao Mo asked.
Kabuja didn't know how Cao Mo had guessed this. He hesitated for a moment and then said truthfully: "I just drove here and Manager Guo was standing at the intersection. He must have made a special trip to wait for me and stopped me to say
Some words.”
Cao Mo thought that with Guo Jian's temperament and his wariness of local employees, after what happened last night, he would just find a way to expel Kabuga and Lucy from the branch, but he didn't expect that he still underestimated Guo Jian.
Or maybe Guo Jianjiang told Zhao Deshan exactly what happened last night over the phone, and it was all Zhao Deshan's idea?
"Lucy, did Guo Jian say anything to you this morning?" Cao Mo looked at Lucy and asked.
"Guo Jian didn't say anything to me. I felt strange when I saw Manager Guo walking out early in the morning." Lucy shook her head and said with some confusion.
"Mr. Guo stopped me and said that he and Mr. Yang would register a new company in Draculamo in their own names. They wanted to use me as the manager of the new company and go to the old chief Felician to contract the gold of Ibogu Village.
Mine. At the same time, he also said that he would help me retain my position in Dongsheng West Africa Branch, and even promoted me to be the director of the branch. But if I didn’t agree, he would fire me. I didn’t agree to him, but I also
I didn't reject him immediately, I..." Kabuga felt ashamed for not rejecting Guo Jian decisively.
To be honest, the most difficult thing between people is trust.
Especially when the security environment in Draculamore is so chaotic, and dispatched employees and local employees are so incompatible, wary of each other, and indifferent to each other, it is extremely difficult to gain the trust of others, or to trust others with confidence.
thing.
More often than not, the trust built up over many years of hard work is often betrayed by temptation, or collapsed in an instant due to unintentional disagreements or misunderstandings.
If in the past, Lucy said that Guo Jian did not look for her in the morning, but stopped Kabuja at the intersection with threats and inducements, Cao Mo would have doubts in his heart.
He would wonder if Lucy had other thoughts and didn't tell him the truth.
According to normal logic, there is absolutely no reason for Guo Jian to only win over Kabuga and leave out Lucy.
Both he and Guo Jian knew that Lucy was not a simple cook. Her academic qualifications were not much lower than those of Kabuja. She even had management experience in a local company. She had previously switched jobs with a "high salary" from the Tuxi Africa branch.
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When Lucy is responsible for purchasing food and daily necessities, she occasionally does some cleaning.
No matter how you look at it, if Kabuga is worthy of threats and win overs, then Lucy is an even more worthy target and seems to be more vulnerable to threats and win overs.
Under normal circumstances, he would even doubt whether Kabuga's words were entirely untrue.
He may even wonder whether Kabuga and Lucy have already been won over by Guo Jian, and this drama is just to stabilize him first, or whether Guo Jian intends to use Kabuga as a spy for him.
By his side, watching his every move.
In this way, Guo Jian and Yang Deshan can be the first to negotiate a gold mine contract with the old chief Felician.
However, his intuition told him that neither Lucy nor Kabuga was lying.
Guo Jian, or Yang Deshan behind Guo Jian, is really not simple.
If he didn't have such keen intuition, he might have fallen into their trap.