Those who pay attention to the back of Cao Mo's departure are not only Lu Jianchao and Han Shaorong and others who have not yet left Africa and returned to China.

"Many people think that in this poor and backward land, the people are so ignorant and lazy, and they can no longer dig up any valuable wealth except for oil, gold and diamonds, but they did not expect that a Chinese boy with an unassuming appearance could make such a big move on the shore of Lake Conero......

A tall and handsome young man of Anglo-Saxon descent, with bright blond hair, but wearing a crumpled white shirt, jeans, and two pair of angle-brushed Martin boots, with a bulky long-lens camera hanging in front of him, looked like a media reporter invited by the event, standing in the corner of the hall at this time, commenting on the back of Cao Mo with another young man next to him.

"In the past few years, we have also come into contact with many Chinese investors, most of whom are vulgar, greedy and have no vision, but this Chinese kid is terrifyingly cautious. Stephen has been investigating the gold placer mining of Chinese businessmen in the Disukin River Valley for some time, and this time the hillside collapsed and blocked the river and broke the river, causing so many deaths and injuries, which was definitely a godsend opportunity to detonate public opinion, but he didn't want him to get the news, and the reporter of the Associated Press rushed to Mamba, but he didn't expect that Mamba was a short-sighted fool up and down, and he was actually bought by this Chinese boy with so much money, and the really valuable news materials were also washed away by the flood. Stephen and the others published a few newsletters afterwards, but now that the world is paying attention to the earthquake in China, a few newsletters that have no strength are silently drowned out by the countless waves of information pouring out every day. The young man next to him had short brown hair, although he was also dressed as a media reporter, but he had a cynical look on his face, looking at the people in the hall who "you sang and I will appear".

"Don't think that Chinese investors are greedy and rude, and they are contemptuous, this is precisely a manifestation of the unimaginable vitality that China has exploded in the past few years -- if you think about it, when we first arrived in Kanem six or seven years ago, could you imagine that even far away West Africa was full of Chinese businessmen? It's a pity that the vast majority of fools are unaware of the coming crisis, thinking that everything will be fine if the oil in this land is controlled, and everything else is trivial. Yes, the scale of Chinese businessmen's investment in this land is still very limited, and it is still a bit small compared to billions of dollars of oil investment, and its social and political penetration is still very shallow, but have they ever thought that the wealth in other fields other than oil will one day not be able to satisfy the appetite of Chinese businessmen? Control, in the eyes of many people, is a big drawback, but when expanding externally, it shows strong action and execution, which we should not ignore. ”

During this period, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Swiss Bank, the British Bank of Canada, etc. have all cut interest rates, released reserves, and injected a large amount of money into their respective domestic banking industries, and the U.S. Congress has also approved a $300 billion housing market assistance package, but it does not seem to be able to reverse the current credit crunch and economic stagnation. We also need to be careful, it seems that as you said, there is a more serious crisis to come...... "The brown-haired young man said.

"Looking at the crude oil futures that have been soaring in the past two months, you can see that so many speculators and brightly dressed financiers and bankers around the world are short-sighted, not only do they not realize that even if the abyssal crisis comes, even the crisis will explode more violently because of these short-sighted fools......

The blonde youth said disdainfully,

"The construction of the new Cornello Marina is officially launched, and you go to Niz Oppenheimer in the evening and say that the Banco Nacional Ultramarino can provide all the necessary funds for the construction of the Cornello Marina New Town, but the Taihua Group needs to take the shares of the refinery and the port of Lake Conero......"

"Okay!"

The two young men talked in the corner for a while, and when no one was paying attention, they walked out of the hall and got into a Mitsubishi SUV and headed for downtown Draculamo.

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Draculamo, home to one-tenth of the country's population, is probably the most impressive and incomprehensible of the poor traffic conditions and the fact that Cao Mo has never seen a traffic light since he arrived in Africa.

"You've been to Africa for so many years, have you ever seen Draculamo's street traffic lights on?" Xiao Jun was also very confused by this phenomenon, sat in the passenger seat, turned his head and asked Cao Mo.

"On the streets of Draculamo, any street has to be blocked for hours every day, and it doesn't make a difference whether there are traffic lights or not; Cao Mo was not surprised, and said indifferently.

At this time, although it was the rainy season in Kanem, the air was slightly rippling with the salty smell from the Atlantic, but the high humidity of 367 degrees Celsius under the scorching sun made them feel tormented in the old pickup trucks with no effect on air conditioning.

Fortunately, there are people everywhere on the streets carrying large bags of iced mineral water and ice cubes for sale.

Seeing the blonde youth and the short brown-haired youth parking the Mitsubishi SUV in front of a European-style building with a sense of age, Cao Mo asked Oulu to park the car on the side of the road, rolled down the window, called a vendor selling ice water on the side of the road, took out the change and bought a few bags of chilled mineral water, and handed them to Xiao Jun and Oulu.

It is said to be mineral water, but in fact it is only pure water encapsulated in plastic bags.

There are several such small factories in the Conero Lake Industrial Park, and there is no water filtration and purification equipment, which is directly packaged with tap water supplied by the park's water plant.

A small bag is equivalent to five cents when it is pure, and it is equivalent to two yuan when it is sold on the street after it is chilled, which is considered a luxury for ordinary local people.

However, in such a hot weather, and the worrying quality of local tap water, this kind of purified water in small packages is still extremely popular - the small pure water plants in the Conero Lake Industrial Park are very moisturizing, which is simply unreasonable in China.

"Ade, you follow up and see if they just happened to go to the Bank of the Atlantino to do something......" Seeing the blonde youth and the brown-haired youth walking into the building under the scorching sun, Cao Mo looked at the English words "Bank of the Atlantic" in front of the building suspiciously, and asked Ade, who was in another car, to follow him to the building through the walkie-talkie.

After a while, Ade walked out of the building, and Cao Mo motioned for Oulu to drive the car into a small alley next to him and pick him up.

"After those two young people entered the building, they went directly into the work area, and they are indeed not ordinary media reporters!" said Ade, "I have left their video data, and I will collect their information as soon as possible!"

"Don't forget, the point is to investigate the background of Banco Nacional Ultramarino!" Cao Mo said with a frown.

"How can you tell that there is something wrong with these two kids?" Xiao Jun couldn't help but ask curiously.

Coming out of the new Taihua Resort Hotel, Cao Mo suddenly transferred an old pickup truck, sat in the car and guarded the outside of the parking lot of the New Taihua Resort Hotel, and then followed the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle all the way into the city of Draculamo.

This shows that in Cao Mo's eyes, these two reporters are definitely not just simple problems. Otherwise, Cao Mo can just send two people to investigate their situation, where do you need to change an old broken car to run in person?

"I also accidentally saw the short brown-haired man have eye contact with Ensanger, so I was a little suspicious, and when we just walked out of the new Taihua Resort, these two people kept looking at me in the corner - I can be sure I haven't seen the two of them before - I am so low-key today, I don't have the heart to find trouble with Lu Jianchao and Han Shaorong, I don't think they look like normal reporters," Cao Mo couldn't explain some things about his mental intuition, and said in a few words on the details of the problem, " Where exactly the money for Volkov's investment came from has bothered me for too long, maybe this Atlantic bank is the key, you have to investigate their information. ”

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As the financial and trade center of West Africa, Draculamo has hundreds of large and small banks and insurance companies, including branches set up by European and American banks in Kanem.

However, with a clear goal, it is not too difficult to investigate the basic information of a bank, which is far from being developed on the Internet.

Three days later, information about Banco Nacional Ultramarino was on Cao Mo's desk.

Banco Nacional Ultramarino is not a branch of European and American financial institutions directly established in Kanem, it was once a state-owned bank under the direct control of the central government of Kanem, and after the end of the military government, the democratically elected government promoted the privatization process, and the control of Banco Nacional Ultramarino completely fell into the hands of private capital from the federal government.

“...... After the privatization of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the controlling stake fell into the hands of foreign capital, and according to public information, the top three shareholders are all from the United Kingdom, but whether the three shareholders in the United Kingdom are related to each other cannot be investigated for the time being - I don't want to surprise the snake, and I don't recommend hiring a third-party commercial company to investigate now. The capital scale of Banco Nacional Ultramarino is not large, and the information that can be publicly inquired shows that the first-tier capital is less than one billion US dollars, and the branches are only distributed in major cities along the coast of Guinea......

Zhou Han showed Cao Mo the information he had initially collected in the past three days.

Cao Mo opened the thick stack of materials and saw that there was still information about the blonde young man in it, so he took out his materials separately with great interest and looked at them carefully.

Teskin Foster, who is only 30 years old this year, was only 24 years old when he became executive vice president of Banco Nacional Nacional (NAP) after the privatization of Banco Nacional six years ago.

Cao Mo's development in West Africa in recent years is jaw-dropping enough, but he himself feels that he lacks knowledge and experience in many aspects.

Banking and finance are even more complex than cement production and gold mining.

At the age of 24, Teskin Foster joined Banco Nacional Ultramarino on behalf of the largest investor, Test & Co., and even mastered the most core international business department, which shows that his skills were already highly trusted by the company or his family.

The data also shows that Banco Nacional Ultramarino's fastest-growing international business unit is the international business unit, which was worth nearly $8 billion last year.

In the whole of West Africa, the scale of international settlement business is very limited in a year, and the little-known Banco Nacional Ultramarino, whose strength and trust are far lower than those of major international banks and without the endorsement of local governments, can develop to such a large scale in international settlement business, and the only thing Cao Mo can think of is that they provide a channel for many shady funds, such as crime, corruption, bribery, tax evasion, smuggling and other illegal income.

The data also shows that at the beginning of the privatization of Banco Nacional Nacional, the scale of Tier 1 capital was smaller, only 200 million US dollars, and it was precisely the international business that Teskin was responsible for, which brought a lot of profits to Banco Nacional Nacional in recent years, so that its core capital expanded fivefold in just five or six years, and gained a firm foothold in the field of international settlement business in West Africa.

"If the behind-the-scenes controller of Volkov's investment is really this Sturgeon Foster, it is not difficult to explain why he must hide behind the scenes and not show his face," Zhou Han said with some excitement, "On the one hand, the gray funds used by Fulkov Investment this time are shady, and on the other hand, Sturgeon Foster's means of using these funds from the Bank of the Red Atlantino are also in......visible."

As a bank with the nature of businessmen's investment (similar to domestic trust companies and securities companies), Banco Nacional Ultramarino could have set up a trust fund in an open and honest manner, or directly used its own capital to invest in equity and other aspects of the corresponding industry.

Sturgeon Forster, however, did everything possible to hide behind the scenes, taking risks and misappropriating funds by shady means, which meant that he had high expectations for the southern shore of Conero Lake, and what he sought was by no means normal commercial profits.

As Sturgeon Foster, he hid his identity two days ago, pretended to be a reporter, and entered the signing event of Conero Marina New City, which seems ill-intentioned no matter how you look at it.

This is where Zhou Han is excited.

She thought that Han Shaorong was the ill-intentioned existence around the Lu family, but she didn't expect that there was a more greedy blood basin hidden behind Volkov's investment, especially Sturgeon's control of the Bank of the Atlantic and the Atlantic Union Oil Trading Company, which could set a deeper and more hidden trap for the Lu family from both ends:

For example, Western Union Petroleum has provided a longer account period for the new Taihua refinery, and the short-term debt of the new Taihua refinery and the Taihua Group has been raised......

Cao Mo put a stack of materials on the corner of the table, and wanted to forget about it for the time being, Zhou Han walked behind him, put his arms around his neck from the back of the building, patted his forehead, and said, "Can you not take advantage of me when you ask me?"

"Then I'll tell you in a straight way, will you agree?" Zhou Han walked up to Cao Mo and leaned against his desk and said.

Zhou Han was wearing a white silk shirt and black slim trousers, which were simply dressed, but she was slender and slender, Cao Mo still couldn't help but hug her waist and said, "Tell me what bad ideas you have come up with." ”

"Can you use some of the funds now to secretly absorb the shares of Taihua Group in China?" Zhou Han asked.

She has confirmed that an important means for the Lu family to prepare funds is to pledge the shares of the listed company Taihua Group held by them and borrow a large amount of construction funds from major financial institutions.

There is a scope for financial institutions to accept shares pledged by shareholders of listed companies for loans.

If the stock price falls above the lower limit of the pledge ratio, the financial institution has the right to require the lender to replenish the new pledged assets or margin, or to repay the loan directly.

If the shareholders of the listed company have no money to repay and cannot replenish the new pledged assets, the financial institution has the right to sell the pledged shares to offset the corresponding creditor's rights with liquidation.

They are now secretly absorbing the shares of Taihua Group, in order to break through the lower limit of the pledge rate of the Lu family borrowing from financial institutions with the shares of listed companies at some point in the future, triggering a larger-scale liquidation and selling.

After the domestic stock market broke through the historic peak of 6,300 points in mid-October last year, it ushered in a long adjustment period of up to seven months, and now it has retraced to about 3,500 points to oscillate.

The market value of Taihua Group rushed to 20 billion at its peak, and it also fell back to about 10 billion at this time.

At present, there is no mature short-selling mechanism in China, and they want to have direct means to suppress Taihua's stock price at some point in the future, so they can only secretly absorb Taihua's shares now.

Cao Mo held his chin and thought for a moment, and said to Zhou Han: "You sent a text message to Ge Jun and asked him if he had time to make a video call at this time?"

"You're going to tell Ge Jun all this key information?" Zhou Han asked.

"Taihua Group still has a market value of 10 billion yuan, and if it wants to absorb stocks that can hit its stock price enough to hit its stock price at some point in the future, no matter how little it is, it will be enough to have 3.5 billion funds, right?" Cao Mo said, "I don't care about the possible losses, but the problem is that I really want to use Tianyue's account to absorb Taihua's stocks, how can Lu Jianchao and Lu Jiancheng not notice it? If Lu Jiancheng has no other choice, will he directly cede the control of Taihua to Han Shaorong? We don't want the Lu family to have a good time, but we also want to prevent Han Shaorong from taking advantage of the fisherman......

Zhou Han nodded, seeing that the time was around ten o'clock at night, and he didn't know if Ge Jun would be able to find time to discuss this issue with them now, so he sent a text message first.

Ge Jun was socializing outside at this time, but quickly found a quiet place and connected with Cao Mo on the phone.

Cao Mo told Ge Jun some information about Sturgeon West and Banco Nacional Ultramarino, and mentioned that Zhou Han had just talked about the idea of buying stocks first and then hitting the stock price of Taihua in a certain period of time, doubling the blow.

"I suggest not to make any moves for the time being," Ge Jun said after a long period of silence, "The domestic stock market has adjusted so deeply, and many people have judged that there will be a considerable rebound next, but the crisis caused by subprime credit in the United States has not yet seen signs of easing, but is becoming more and more intense, and now the major domestic financial outlets are quietly shrinking——"

Cao Mo glanced at Zhou Han.

As a professional, Ge Jun judged that the domestic stock market may fall further, which also means that they really want to secretly absorb the stock price of Taihua Group, and they should not be in a hurry.

Zhou Han has been waiting for all these years, and of course he will not be in a hurry.

"I just wanted to talk to you about futures hedging...... Mr. Ge said on the other end of the phone.

In order to maintain the stability of the operation, and at the same time, it is also such a large-scale, and the long-term cooperation with the gold import and export trading company is based on the average futures price of the month for spot trading.

However, the price of international gold futures, even if it tends to rise in the long cycle in the future, will fluctuate up and down in a short period of time. Theoretically, there is a certain arbitrage space in the futures market when it is combined with cash trading.

Of course, Song Yuqing and Chen Feng do not have such in-depth research on the international economic situation, precious metals and futures trading - Jiaying is far from being able to do this, although Yibogu Mining has cash production, which can offset the biggest risks, but it cannot accurately capture the trading time, and it is not much meaning.

Therefore, Cao Mo thought about handing over part of the funds to the professional team of Dongjiang Securities, and carried out the corresponding futures operations according to the actual operation of Yibogu Mining......