Chapter 209: Calculation
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After eating the lamb chops, Baha drank the wine in his glass, excused himself and left the Lana Dere Hotel with the people first.
Yan Ming was attached to the Jidam family, and he didn't want to show how close he was to Lu Yan and Huang Hebin in front of Baha, so he also left the Lana Dere Hotel at the same time and returned to the beach casino next door to take care of the scene.
In the corner of the open-air cafeteria on the beach, Lu Yan, Huang Hebin, Zhou Han and Chen Yao, a girl in a red dress, are left.
"Baha doesn't seem to believe that Shen Ji is behind the scenes, it's Stari!" Lu Yan poured himself a glass of cold beer and said with a frown, "Otherwise, he shouldn't have reacted like this just now......"
Huang Hebin nodded and said: "The Jidam family will definitely not like others to ignore their majesty, but if the other party's power in Kanem is strong enough, and there is no fundamental conflict of interests between the two sides, the Jidam family will obviously not go around making enemies for no reason......
Baha's previous actions, although they also had the intention of testing Cao Mo, were limited to that.
Even if a lot of the inside information is still unclear, no matter from which angle, it can be confirmed that Cao Mo is the key person in the final collusion between Dongsheng and the Felician family and the Sika family and other Kanem forces.
From Abacha's election to the Oyo State Councillor to the vice chairman of the Lonta City Council, Ochosan's election to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the growing relationship with the Blake family, the Oppenheimer family, and the Ruberwu family, Dongsheng's investment in Kanem is becoming more and more large, and it is undeniable that the power of these parties has been overtaken by the Jiddam family in terms of influence in the political situation of Kanem alone.
Without a fundamental conflict of interests, how could Baha, who had become more gloomy in temperament, take the initiative to provoke such a strong enemy on behalf of the Jidam family?
"Isn't Taihua and Dongsheng always good water and river water, and the superficial relationship is still acceptable? Since the other party is Shen Ji's person, just don't care about it, or does this person offend you before and pry away your woman?" asked Chen Yao, the woman in the red dress, curiously.
"It's not a matter of not being offended, you don't understand this, don't always get involved in women's affairs. Lu Yan said impatiently.
Although Chen Yao came to Kanem to fall in love with Lu Yan, Chen Yao's father Chen Qihua is a very important investor in Taihua - Taihua Industrial Park is invested by listed companies, but projects such as casinos, hotels and oil refineries are invested by the Lu family and Chen Qihua and others.
Although Chen Qihua's investment share is very small, he hopes that Chen Qihua can increase his investment in the future, but Huang Hebin is still patient and explains the twists and turns behind it to Chen Yao.
Although Lu Yan was angry with Cao Mo at the beginning and caused a lot of right and wrong, Shen Ji stood up and publicly prevented Taihua from taking the lead in Draculamo to set up the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and Huang Hebin knew very well in his heart that Taihua and Dongsheng's position in Kanem had fundamentally changed.
In China, Taihua is responsible for everything he does, and as long as Dongsheng is not involved, no matter what happens in the end, Dongsheng's head will not be involved.
However, in Kanem, Chinese businessmen are still an extremely narrow and closed group, and to a certain extent, it can be said that they both prosper and lose.
If someone else or a single gang did something particularly bad in Kanem, the entire Chinese business community would easily attract local forces and people to attack them.
In many countries and regions, this kind of thing happens not once or twice.
In the past, Dongsheng's investment in Kanem was not very large, and what Taihua wanted to do, Dongsheng took care of face, at most he stayed out of the matter and did not get involved.
However, with
Dongsheng's investment in Kanem is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has regarded Kanem's investment as an extremely important strategic layout, and Huang Hebin suspects that one day, Ding Zhaoqiang may directly interfere with their cooperation with the Jidam family on the south bank of Conero Lake.
The previous incident of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce can be said to be a sign.
The power supply of Taihua Industrial Park is still stuck in the hands of Conero Energy, which is secretly controlled by Dongsheng.
It is impossible for Huang Hebin to shout and kill with Dongsheng in Kanem, but how can Dongsheng have scruples, but it is a pity that Baha and the Jidam family do not seem to want to be involved in their grievances with Dongsheng.
And without the help of the power of the Jidam family, the means they can use are really too limited.
If it is too simple to sow discord and it will not work, how can the Jidam family have a fundamental conflict of interest with Dongsheng and the Fellician and Sika families?
"It's complicated! You have to tell my dad these things, I understand it now, and I'm probably confused when I turn my head. The woman in the red dress listened to Huang Hebin's explanation of this, and she had a headache.
Huang Hebin smiled, looked at Zhou Han and asked, "Manager Zhou, you have always had a lot of ideas, what do you think about this?"
Zhou Han glanced at Chen Yao, who was still holding Lu Yan's arm and was coquettish, shook his head and said, "Baha now gives people the feeling that the city is much deeper, and he doesn't fully trust us. Listening to Yan Ming's meaning, he even thought that the purpose of our previous Chinese Chamber of Commerce was to check and balance the Jidam family, and we still couldn't do many things too obviously......"
"Dongsheng, together with the Fellithian family and the Sika family, in addition to oil palm planting, crushing, hydropower development, aluminum production and motorcycle assembly and sales in Longta, are mainly engaged in cement production," Lu Yan said with a frown, "Now that the price of Draculamo's finished cement has dropped again and again, Bach has also complained that cement smuggling is getting more and more difficult to do, and there is no profit, can you start from this?"
The Jidam family engaged in cement smuggling, or after the cement storm, they started from taking over Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan's shipload of cement.
At the peak of the cement storm, the price of Draculamo's finished cement soared to more than $4 million per ton, and the Jidam family smuggled cement to make a terrifying profit, but after the year, it was basically unprofitable, and basically stopped doing this business.
However, Huang Hebin has a thorough understanding of the various businesses controlled by the Jidam family, and knows very well that the price of Draculamo's finished cement has dropped to less than $200 per ton, and the Jidam family's cement smuggling business is unprofitable due to many reasons, mainly due to the limited downstream digestion channels.
There is no digestion channel downstream, and the black market can only be supplied at a price much lower than the market price, under strict supervision, the scale of transactions is restricted, and the poor transportation and storage conditions affect the quality of cement, how can it make a lot of money?
The Jidam family used to steal crude oil from Hezhou, and the profit was also limited, that is, the crude oil stolen only at a low price would be picked up by downstream smugglers.
At this time, they built an oil refinery on the south bank of Lake Conero, which was to facilitate the crude oil stolen by the Jidam family from Hezhou and others, and after the refinery was laundered, they could openly enter the oil supply market of Kanem and other West African countries.
Huang Hebin also understood what Lu Yan's thinking was at this time.
Convincing the Jeddham family to take over a cement production company will not only improve transportation conditions, but more importantly, open up downstream sales channels, so that their cement smuggling business can grow and continue to maintain high profits.
As long as the Jidam family officially intervenes in the cement market, the conflict of interest between them and the Fellisian and Sika families, which have an annual production capacity of millions of tons of cement in Longta, will naturally become increasingly acute......
"The Jidam family does not have the ability to run a production enterprise, and the scale of funds in their hands is limited, and without our help, they should not be able to acquire at this stage
Cement manufacturers, right?" Zhou Han said hesitantly.
In the vicinity of Draculamo, in addition to the two cement plants in Ronta, which are controlled by Felician and Sika, the other cement plants, after a year of capacity expansion, are the smallest with an annual production capacity of more than 300,000 tons.
Regardless of whether people are making money now, it is unlikely that the acquisition capital will be less than 15 million dollars.
Even if the Jidam family can scrape together the funds, they will have to maintain normal operations after the acquisition, and then mix the smuggled cement into the sale, so that they can make high profits.
This is still slightly more difficult for the Jidam family at this time.
Huang Hebin was also a little hesitant, could it be that Taihua still wanted to get involved in the production of finished cement in Kanem?
It's just that the existing cement plants in Draculamo have a poor industrial layout, and unless the entire plant is relocated to the south bank of Conero Lake after the acquisition, it is possible to really reduce the production cost.
In that case, in addition to the acquisition funds, the overall relocation and reconstruction cost will be four to five million dollars more......
"My mother invested in a cement clinker plant in Spain," Zhou said, "and I wanted to persuade my mother to invest in a cement plant in Kanem, but my mother felt that the economic and political environment in Kanem and in West Africa as a whole was too unstable." And I had a bit of a bad relationship with my mother, she always thought I wasn't mature enough and took my ideas too seriously......"
"Really?" asked Huang Hebin in surprise.
He knew that Zhou Han's family was well-off, his father died of illness very early, and his mother did some investment business in Europe, but he had not had much contact with what it was, and Lu Yan had the opportunity to meet Zhou Han's mother a few times when he was studying in the UK before.
Huang Hebin knew that Zhou Han was also very rebellious and independent, and his relationship with his mother was very ordinary, so he would rather stay in Draculamo than return to help her mother.
If Zhou's mother had invested in a cement clinker plant in Italy, many problems would have become simpler.
For example, they only need to invest in a grinding station on the south shore of Lake Conero to get the whole thing up and running.
To put it bluntly, cement production is the three major links of "two grinding and one burning", the front process includes the crushing and firing of raw clinker, and the latter process is to add some additives to the homogenized clinker, and further grind to the standard particle size, and then the finished cement will be obtained.
One is to build an aggregate plant in the raw material producing area to produce cement clinker, but to build a grinding station in the market demand place to transport the clinker for the processing of the later process - this can minimize the impact of long-distance transportation on cement quality.
They simply built a grinding station on the south bank of Conero Lake, not only the cost of building the plant is much lower, but more importantly, they do not need to consider the more complex upstream raw ore mining, transportation, crushing, and firing, and the difficulty of operation and management will be greatly reduced, and the downstream sales channels can be considered in the follow-up......
The most critical point is that Kanem currently prohibits the import of finished cement, but does not restrict the import of clinker. They built a grinding station on the south bank of Lake Conero, which in fact could give full play to the transportation and storage capacity of the port terminal.
Spain is located in the southwestern corner of Europe, from where cement clinker is transported to the Gulf of Guinea and the cost of sea freight is also not high.
"How big is the clinker plant that your mother has invested in?" asked Huang.
"I don't know very well, it seems that we have invested six or seven million US dollars, and the scale is not very large, mainly to supply to some small cement producers in Spain and Egypt," Zhou Han said, "If Mr. Huang thinks it is feasible, we can go to Spain in a few days, and then report to Mr. Jianchao......
Huang Hebin nodded, no matter what, he still has to take a look at the spot, and he is indeed seventy or eighty percent sure, so it is better to report to Lu Jianchao.