The dinner also included dignitaries such as Mayor Margot Wirth of Drake and Vinny Ringham, Director of the Drake Office of Akwa National Petroleum and Mining Group.

As the son of one of Drake's tribal chiefs, Margot Voss received a good education at an early age, and was already a major commander in the Akwa Army before the age of thirty, and after participating in the military coup d'état held by the Saviyi organization ten years ago, he returned to Drake to serve as deputy mayor and mayor.

Compared with the pot-bellied Poop, Vinny Ringham, who was over sixty years old and still looked at Maye Mantal and Starry from time to time, and Margot Wirth, who was not yet forty years old at this time, could already be said to be a big man in Drake, tall and polite among the dark-skinned Akens.

In Drake, where the Akon ethnic group accounts for more than 60% of the total population, the Voss family has also risen over the years and has become the most wealthy family in the local area.

Margot Wirth was a direct beneficiary of the military coup a decade ago, but his loyalty to Seviyi was limited.

If Hove Bonia succeeds in a military coup, Cao Mo has no doubt that Voss will immediately become Hove Bonia's most loyal supporter, but he himself is openly supportive of political change.

Of course, there are considerable factors behind this, which are directly related to the interests of the Voss family itself.

Like Margot Wirth, there are quite a few middle and high-level figures in Akva, who are in favor of political change, but they mainly want to legitimize the wealth that the family has accumulated or plundered over the years, fearing that unpredictable political turmoil will fundamentally affect the wealth and power of their family at this time.

When Maye Mantar offered to return the property confiscated and misappropriated from the descendants of the colonists, Margot Wirth took a completely different attitude.

At the dinner, he not only ignored the beautiful and haggard Maye Mantal, but also had a cold attitude towards Juan Mantar and others, and did not recognize that Juan Mantal had become a member of the central government of the Saviyi authorities at this time.

When Cao Mo mentioned that the Ibogu Gold Mining Group had signed a stake in the Stru Gold Mining Company, Margot Worthton's face also changed, and his eyes became sharp and aggressive.

The assets left by Strum in Drake were nominally taken over by the National Petroleum and Mining Group, but the National Petroleum and Mining Group's office in Drake actually took over two abandoned gold mines and several exploration operations in Drake.

A large number of assets, such as supporting enterprises, office buildings, staff housing complexes, and the plantations operated by the Struk Gold Mining Company in Drake, were already divided among local forces through cheap transfers.

Half a month later, when Mey Mantal had just proposed to the local government to compensate for the property confiscated from the descendants of the colonists, Cao Mo said that the Ibogu Gold Mining Group had completed the acquisition of the Strum Gold Mining Company.

Cao Mo had no interest in playing dumb riddles with Margot Wirth, directly

Highlight Voss's concerns:

"With the economic transformation of Akwa imminent, Minister Mantar is also working on behalf of the Akwa authorities to draw up a new policy for foreign companies to open up their investments with a view to introducing new investments and technologies. As a result, not only foreign companies that withdrew from Akwa 10 years ago, but also new companies like ours that have only made great strides in recent years, are optimistic about Akwa's future development in the mining and energy industry. Of course, there are some bad voices now claiming that the Akwa authorities should pay back the assets that were expropriated 10 years ago, but that is not the case with the purpose of buying Strugold. As a long-established gold mining company, Stru has a long history of technology accumulation in gold mining and exploration, which is what the Ibogu Gold Mining Group currently lacks and needs to make up. Strugold Mining has been in Drake for decades and has a strong foundation in Drake, which helps us strengthen our cooperation with the Drake region. Of course, in order to avoid some unnecessary noise and worries that will affect our cooperation with the Drake area, after the Struke Gold Company has re-established a new board of directors, I hope to facilitate the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the Struke Gold Company and the Drake City Government as soon as possible, in which we hope to formally declare that we will waive the right of recourse to the assets expropriated in the Drake area......"

After the Saweiyi authorities launched a military coup, they mainly relied on the support of the Akon people to stabilize the political situation in Akwa, and based on Cao Mo's observation and reflection on West African society in recent years, he believes that whether the political reform in Akwa can be effectively promoted cannot get rid of the characteristics of ethnic politics.

This will also determine whether they can finally obtain the mining rights of the Usan River copper-gold mine and organize the mining smoothly, in addition to the opening of the door by the Akwa authorities, the local welcome will also be crucial.

In the face of the influx of foreign companies that are about to enter the country with the liberalization of the policy, in addition to the resistance formed by the anti-colonial ideology, the biggest concern for those pragmatic and profit-seeking interest groups is here.

Margot Wirth did not believe Cao Mo's words very much, and had many doubts in his heart, but he still verbally expressed his hope that he hoped to sign a memorandum of cooperation as soon as possible.

At the end of the dinner, Margot Wirth and other local dignitaries left one after another, and Cao Mo directly arranged for Juan Mantar and Brahm to stay-

Sitting down in the gazebo in the courtyard, Cao Mo invited Juan Mantal and Brahm to taste the black tea he had brought from China.

Seeing that Juan Mantal looked worried, and seemed to see through the distrust in Margot Voss's heart, worried that things might not go as smoothly as he believed, Cao Mo said with a smile:

"Voss actually doesn't believe that Strucke will give up on the recourse to the expropriated assets ten years ago, but when the memorandum is officially signed, his suspicions will be swept away - and now I have no basis for it, everything will have to wait for the Struce Gold Company to reshuffle its board of directors, and wait for the new company president to take office and rush to Drake on behalf of Strugold Mining Company, and things will soon be substantially progressive. ”

Juan Mantal nodded, he also felt that the price of $40 million to acquire a controlling stake in the Strugold Mining Company was quite expensive, but if $40 million was smashed, it would have a bit of a "quick knife to cut through the mess" effect.

And Margit

Voss did not seem to be a paranoid nationalist, and the key to solving the problem was to get to the point of interest that everyone cared about.

"In a short period of time, it is not realistic to create many new jobs in the copper and gold mines on the east bank of the Usan River, but Conero Foods has the production and sales of cocoa beans and cocoa butter," Cao Mo said to Juan Mantal, "Drake's fertile land is very suitable for planting cocoa trees, and the scale of Conero Foods is not very large, so at present, it can only come up with about 10 million US dollars at one time to support the development and construction of new cocoa plantations by the descendants of the colonists on the east bank of the Usan River, so as to create more jobs......

The $10 million direct assistance to the descendants of the colonists in acquiring mature cocoa plantations to operate, creating little new employment.

On the one hand, the acquisition cost of mature cocoa plantations is high, and the direct acquisition of 10 million US dollars may not be able to purchase 10,000 acres of plantations.

On the other hand, the management and maintenance of mature cocoa plantations, which have long been stable personnel, and the termination of existing employment agreements and the use of all descendants of colonists will only create more unnecessary antagonism in the local area.

With an investment of $10 million in the first year and $2 million in batches of $2 million a year in the next five years, about 30,000 acres of new plantations can be cultivated at the same time, and because of the limited agricultural machinery and equipment invested in the early stage, 3 to 4,000 new low-level jobs will be created.

This will be of direct and significant help in addressing the widespread unemployment of Drake's colonists.

It's not a good investment for Conero Foods.

On the one hand, it takes five to six years for such a large-scale investment to see profitable output, and the capital efficiency is too low for cutting-edge enterprises that still lack development capital, and on the other hand, Conero Foods has to bear the huge risk of the political situation in Akwa five to six years later.

Of course, this plan is much better than Cao Mo directly taking 20 million US dollars to fund the descendants of the colonists to build a white community.

Free lunches may not be cherished, and often even outweigh the losses.

Therefore, in addition to donating $2 million to the disaster relief emergency, Cao Mo has no intention of strengthening his friendship with the Front for Democracy through large-scale direct donations.

In the construction of the new plantation, Cao Mo also plans to select people with plantation management experience from the descendants of the colonists to cooperate, and fund them to purchase or lease wasteland on the east bank of the Wusang River in the form of initial investment and a part of low-interest loans, and cultivate 350 or 1200 small and medium-sized cocoa plantations.

In doing so, it is possible to circumvent the current restrictions in Akwa that prohibit foreign companies from investing directly in plantations, while at the same time minimizing the human resources invested in this area, and more importantly, to disperse the friendship with the FDD among these plantation owners, rather than on individual individuals such as the Juan-Mantar father and daughter......

Friendship is also an investment, and there will always be risks that are difficult to control when put in one basket.