The West African continent enters the rainy season in May, with a torrential rain almost every day, but each rain does not last long, and the weather becomes cooler as a result, which has little impact on the construction of the shores of Lake Conero.

Taihua eventually handed over the project on the south shore of Lake Conero to Xinhai Construction Engineering Group.

Xinhai Construction Engineering Group is a state-owned enterprise of Xinhai City, which was established in five or three years, and was listed as a whole in the mid-nineties.

Many projects on the south bank of Conero Lake were forced to suspend work for more than three months, but even if Lu Jianchao, Lu Yan and others fled back to China in embarrassment, and even after the turmoil around the factory subsided, most of the Taihua dispatched employees also withdrew to China, Cao Mo still asked Ade and Oulu to arrange manpower to protect the construction sites on the south bank of Conero Lake.

Even if Cao Mo didn't like the Lu family in his heart, he didn't want the locals to develop the habit of robbing the construction sites of Chinese manufacturers at will, and of course, he also asked Lu Jianjia to pay an extra $300,000 in security premiums.

After the collapse of the Brotherhood of Steel, the construction workers who had been part of the Gidam family engineering and construction company were evacuated like scattered sand, and the construction site was completely preserved and undamaged.

After Xinhai Construction Engineering Group entered the site, after more than a month of combing, entering May, Conero Lake Port, New Taihua Hotel, New Taihua Refinery and Taihua Industrial Park and other projects have also been on the right track of reconstruction.

The Chinese businessman who was new to Kanem heard the old man talk about the personal grievances between Cao Mo and Lu Yan, and then looked at the scene in front of him, which was somewhat unbelievable.

During this time, Cao Mo mainly traveled between Longta and Drake, rarely going to Draculamore, and it is not clear how many aftermaths of the events of the previous year are still reverberating within the Chinese business community.

At the end of March, the agreement was formally signed with Xintaihua Investment Group, and Cao Mo instructed Wendiscafe to directly take over the Beku Cement Plant and Xintaihua Grinding Station, and the continuation of the construction after being handed over to China Civil Engineering was faster.

In terms of engineering construction, China's construction engineering companies have a speed that is beyond the reach of their global counterparts, but there is no trick that is not enough for outsiders to say, it is nothing more than that Chinese can endure hardships and are willing to endure hardships.

Project managers and foremen keep an eye on the site during the day, and either work on drawings or hold meetings at night to ensure that all aspects of the project can be connected at full load in an orderly manner.

Under the management of Liang Siqian, it is difficult for Conero Construction and Engineering Company to do this, mainly because there are too few Chinese management personnel, and the engineering and technical management personnel hired from the local area are mainly Yoruba, but they do not have so much hard-working spirit, and even more remuneration is not tempting.

For them, being able to commute on time and not be late and leave early is already a very qualified worker in the local area.

This is still the case near Draculamo, West Africa's most prosperous metropolis, where the population has been more or less modernized, and much more loosely populated in Kanem and the wider interior of the rest of West Africa.

After April, when Akwa officially lifted restrictions on the descendants of the colonizers to work abroad, Cao Mo recruited skilled technicians and middle- and low-level managers from the descendants of the colonists in Druk and other places, and filled the construction teams of various factories, mining areas and Conero Construction and Engineering Company.

It's no wonder that European and American companies in Draculamo prefer to hire people of colonial descent, except for the higher level of education

In addition to the local indigenous people and cultural kinship similarities, the key is that they are good quality and affordable.

It's a pity that even during the period of military rule, Kanem's resistance to European and American companies was extremely mild, and the descendants of Draculamo's colonists not only entered a large number of European and American companies, but also founded a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Draculamo to hire domestic employees, and Cao Mo was not given the opportunity to pick and choose before.

This time, in cooperation with the Akwa Democratic Promotion Front, Cao Mo had the opportunity to come into contact with this group of colonizers who had been severely oppressed by the Akwa authorities for ten years, desperate for a new way out, and had some technical and management experience.

Shen Ji was very envious of this.

Localized management is the most headache faced by Chinese enterprises that entered Africa in the early stage of development.

Compared with the scale of its investment in Kanem, the number of dispatched employees is still small, but for less than 50 dispatched employees, it will spend nearly 30 million more human resources costs a year.

In mid-May, in addition to Zhang Chaoyang, the new steel union formally sent negotiators to Kanem to formally negotiate with the Oyo state government about the acquisition of the Katero steel plant, and the negotiations for the new steel union to inject capital into the Gulf of Guinea shipping and mining investment and trading company also started at the same time.

The Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Gulf of Guinea Mining Investment and Trading Company, as an enterprise whose assets have just been thoroughly sorted out and newly registered, the negotiation process is simple.

The company hopes that the two companies will merge so that they can focus on the trade and transportation of bulk mineral commodities such as coal, iron and finished cement in West Africa in the future, which is what the company values most in the two companies.

For Cao Mo, there is no essential difference between the Gulf of Guinea Mining Investment and Trade and the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company as two companies or a merger into one company, and the operational teams of the two companies overlap, and Galleon Targaryen is responsible for the specific operations.

It is only related to the product transportation affairs downstream of Conero Cement and the layout of the Conero Cement industry chain along the Gulf of Guinea, but Cao Mo needs to hold the controlling stake in his hands to ensure that the management team headed by Garon Targaryen is stable and there is no change.

A few years ago, Cao Mo not only joined forces with Shen Ji, Abacha, Ojosan, the Rupert family, the Blake family, and the Oppenheimer family, but also injected nearly $40 million in funds and related assets into the two companies, and also borrowed an additional $30 million for turnover.

In addition to taking over the transportation business of Conero Cement, it has also opened up the freight routes between Akwa and Kanem, and mastered the million-ton coal and iron supply contract in Akwa, which can be said to have greatly improved its value.

However, in order to facilitate this equity acquisition and promote Xinganglian's determination to take over the Catelo Steel Plant, Cao Mo also gave a valuation of $50 million after the merger of the two companies.

As a super-large steel enterprise, Xinganglian itself has the background of a state-owned enterprise in Xinhai City, whether it is the acquisition of the Catelo Iron and Steel Plant, but also the injection of capital into the Gulf of Guinea shipping and mining companies, it can get foreign exchange loans from the State Export-Import Bank, and is unwilling to use its own very tight foreign exchange resources.

After several studies, Xinganglian finally asked Cao Mo to register a company in China and transfer part of the equity of the New Guinea shipping and mining company to the domestic company, but the new Ganglian directly acquired the full equity in China.

After holding shares in the New Inner Asia shipping and mining company, the new steel union plans to apply for a loan from the Export-Import Bank of China to supplement working capital – which naturally requires Cao Mo to further reduce the price of the equity transaction.

negotiation and equity transfer, etc

It took more than a month to completely negotiate the agreement at the end of June, and Xinganglian invited Cao Mo to go home to sign the equity transfer agreement......

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At the end of June, it was already summer, but the weather was much cooler than in West Africa at the end of the rainy season.

After a torrential rain, the water in the pond was muddy, and the dense lawn on the green of Jinchen Golf Course was like a green carpet covering the undulating ground.

Playing golf is really a manual job, Ding Zhaoqiang hit the ball into a pond, and Lu Jianchao ran over with the large army, all a little out of breath.

Seeing Lu Jianchao stop, standing by the pond with a club and looking at the greens in the distance, the assistant with a strong eye lost no time in unscrewing a bottle of mineral water and handed it over.

Lu Jianchao took two sips of mineral water, saw Ding Zhaoqiang waiting for someone to pick the ball ashore so that he could continue to serve, and said with a smile: "Old Ding, your skills have regressed now, you haven't practiced for a while, right?"

"Technology is still on the one hand, but the main thing is that the physical strength is a little unable to keep up - after the Spring Festival, I didn't move my muscles and bones much, and it felt like rust," Ding Zhaoqiang waved his club twice, looked at Cao Mo, Shen Ji and others who were striding over from behind, and said with a loud laugh, "You guys also come to swing two strokes?"

As soon as Cao Mo and Zhou Han got off the plane, they were pulled to the court by Shen Ji, and in the face of the club handed over by Ding Zhaoqiang, they thanked Bumin, waved Ding Zhaoqiang and let them take care of themselves, turned their heads sideways and joked with Shen Ji: "The first time I held a golf club in my life, it was to greet someone's face, and I really don't want such an unpleasant thing to happen again today......

"Hello Mr. Cao, this is the ...... vice chairman and president of our new steel union" Waiting for Cao Mo and Shen Ji to walk over, Zhang Chaoyang introduced a semi-bald middle-aged man standing next to Ding Zhaoqiang and Lu Jianchao to Cao Mo.

"Yu Jinjie, I didn't expect Mr. Cao to be younger than I imagined, I really couldn't believe it when I heard Chaoyang introduce you to Mr. Ding and Mr. Lu!" The half-bald middle-aged man stretched out his broad palm, squinted his eyes slightly, and said with a smile.

Lu Jianchao currently has to swallow his anger and temporarily cooperate with them in Kanem, but he has resentment in his heart, and his eyes give him a sharp sense of pins and needles, which is normal in Cao Mo's opinion.

However, today is the first time he has met Yu Jinjie, and the two parties have also agreed that he will directly sign the equity transfer agreement of the Gulf of Guinea shipping and mining company after he returns to China.

Xinganglian insisted that he return to China to sign a contract, is it to hold a Hongmen banquet?

Shen Jizheng waited for Cao Mo to formally shake hands with Yu Jinjie, and then introduced the other characters present today to him, but he didn't want Cao Mo to not only reach out to respond to Yu Jinjie's active greeting, but his eyes suddenly became extremely sharp staring at the faces of Yu Jinjie, Lu Jianchao and others.

Shen Ji was slightly stunned, and was about to ask Cao Mo what was wrong, but saw Cao Mo suddenly take out his mobile phone and signal that there was an emergency call to be made now, so he saw Cao Mo walk aside first.

Shen Ji didn't know what was going on at all, and he couldn't understand Cao Mo on the phone in Yoruba, but except for Lu Jianchao and Yu Jinjie, he saw that his uncle Ding Zhaoqiang's face changed slightly at this moment, and he suddenly realized that the so-called invitation of Xinganglian to Cao Mo to return to China to sign the equity transfer agreement was a trap at all.

"......" Cao Mo put away his mobile phone, walked back and stared at Lu Jianchao and said, "I finished the call, inform Mr. Lu, before I return to Kanem, even if you have the help of the Oppenheimer family, it is impossible for Lu Yan to leave Kanem safely, don't say that I didn't warn you beforehand......"