From Liang Yuan's frequent activities during this time, it can be seen that the cooperation between Han Shaorong, Yu Jinjie and the Evans Foundation is destined to be a chicken feather.

Cao Mo can also think of many ways to make them sharper and more violent when the conflict erupts.

However, adhering to the concept that being strong is fundamental, Cao Mo doesn't want to waste too much time on things that harm others and benefit himself.

Therefore, Cao Mo just spread some rumors casually:

For example, the Boso-Catro steel-industrial complex project has unimaginable prospects;

For example, Tianyue felt the threat posed by the project itself, so it hurriedly launched a confrontation in the steel project in Cotonou, Benin;

For example, Tianyue's steel project has many hidden dangers......

In addition, Cao Mo is not willing to waste too much time, and the more important thing is to do their own thing.

Fortunately, Tianyue Industrial's additional issuance and merger plan was officially implemented after being approved by the securities regulatory department on the eve of the Spring Festival.

After the implementation of the new M&A plan, the domestic processing plants, refineries, import and export trade and market trade of the palm oil business of Conero Foods and Dongsheng Group were placed in the listed company Tianyue Industrial, and Cao Mo also placed 1.2 billion yuan in the name of Tianyue Investment into the listed company Tianyue Industrial.

Prior to this, it signed an agreement with the Xinhai Municipal Government on the compensation for the industrial withdrawal of chemical pipelines and pump equipment factories, and the compensation will be received after the year, and the listed company will have a total of 2.7 billion yuan in cash in its account.

The funds will be used to increase the capital of Cornello Energy, launch the Cotonou steel plant project and build a new smaller chemical pipeline and pumping plant in Cotonou.

With the recovery of stock prices and the injection of new assets and new funds, the market value of Tianyue Industrial has finally reached 8 billion.

Of course, Tianyue Industrial's net worth is also around 8 billion yuan.

From here, it can also be seen that the capital market is still not optimistic about the future development of Tianyue Industry.

After the implementation of this additional issuance and merger, Tianyue Investment's direct or indirect shareholding in the listed company Tianyue Industrial has increased to 45%.

Dongsheng Holdings' shareholding in listed companies has also increased to 12%.

Sun Hung Investment and the industrial investment fund under TK Securities did not inject new assets into it, and the indirect shareholding was diluted to 8%.

Shen Ji, Song Yuqing, Guo Donghu, Chen Feng and others' previous holdings in Conero Foods have also been replaced by listed companies this time.

Shen Ji personally holds 3% of the shares of the listed company, Chen Shu's shareholding is diluted to 2%, and Song Yuqing, Guo Donghu, Chen Feng, Yang Deshan and others also hold about 1% of the shares of the listed company.

The Jeddaman family wants to take a stake in a listed company on the mainland, and the procedure will be very complicated, and in order to simplify the procedure, their shareholding in Conero Foods will be transferred to the newly established West African Agricultural Group.

The net assets of the newly established West African Agricultural Group have also accumulated to 400 million US dollars, with Tianyue Investment holding 35% of the shares, the Jidam family holding 15%, and Dongsheng Holdings holding 30%.

Another 20% of the shares are scattered among partners such as the Fellithian family, the Sika family, the Blake family, and the Rupert family.

Before returning to Africa this time, Cao Mo decided to abandon the plan of three or four years to put Tianyue Industry into a listed company through asset mergers and acquisitions and restructuring after many discussions with Ding Zhaoqiang, Qian Wenhan and Dongjiang Securities (Ge Jun).

In this way, Tianyue Industry does not need to deliberately maintain profitability in the next five years, and the merger and development of Tianyue Industry and Chejiang will naturally be more conducive to the full integration and utilization of resources.

This time, Cao Mo transferred a total of nearly 4 billion yuan back to China, in addition to 300 million yuan of funds transferred to Muxiang Capital and 1.2 billion yuan of funds into the listed company Tianyue Industrial, the other 2.5 billion yuan of huge funds were transferred to the merged Tianyue Industry at one time; Xinhong Investment, Dongsheng Holdings, and the industrial investment fund under Dongjiang Securities jointly injected 1.5 billion yuan.

This also means that Tianyue Industry has obtained an excess capital increase of 4 billion yuan in one fell swoop, which will ensure that the current state of rapid technology and production expansion will be maintained in the next two years, and will not be interrupted due to a shortage of funds.

Tianyue Investment's shareholding in Tianyue Industry was reduced to 60%, and no new capital was injected into the management. Under Cao Mo's lobbying, Qian Wenhan, Ding Zhaoqiang and TK Securities agreed that the management's shareholding should be reduced to only 10%.

Sun Hung Investment, Dongsheng Holdings, and Dongjiang Securities have added large-scale capital injections this time, and their total shareholding has also increased to 30%.

However, even if Cao Mo transferred up to 4 billion yuan of funds back to China, the capital reserves of overseas accounts remained at a high level of one billion US dollars due to the continuous accumulation of profits.

During this period, the international gold price remained at a high level of about $1,100 per ounce, which made the monthly net profit of Yibogu Mining, which has continued to rise in the scale of gold mining, maintain 50 million US dollars.

After the West African United Cement Group now formed a de facto monopoly on the building materials market in the coastal region of the Gulf of Guinea, the cost cement price rebounded to US$120 per tonne ahead of the industrial economic situation.

Dracula Power Supply Group, Conero Energy and West Africa United Cement Group finally reached a transmission grid leasing agreement.

Dracula Power Group agreed with Conero Energy to upgrade the transmission network between Dracula and Ne Won, and that Conero Energy would guarantee the power supply to West African Cement Group's production base in Ne Won, and Dracula Power Supply Group would charge $5 million per year as a transmission network lease fee.

Although in addition to paying an additional $5 million per year for the lease and more than $40 million for a line renovation, the energy cost of UEC can be reduced by half during the lease period.

Of course, more important is the stable power supply, which is the prerequisite for maintaining stable production.

Only in this way can the production cost of the Ne Win base of the West African United Cement Group be infinitely close to the base on the east shore of Lake Conero.

The West African Cement Group, which has an annual production capacity of more than 13 million tons of finished cement, can guarantee more than US$60 million in excess profits from the market every month.

This result made the Stanning family, which had previously resisted the merger and handover of the West African Cement Group, smile.

After all, the Stanning family still retains a 20% stake in the West Africa United Cement Group, which is enough for Stanning to maintain its outstanding status as a super wealthy family in the Gulf of Guinea region, and completely get rid of the shadow of decline and decline.

Of course, the Felician family, the Sika family, the Blake family, the Rupert family, as well as Sturgeon, Yang Deshan, Wendy Scarf and others, as the collaborators and managers of Tianyue, held 22.5% of the shares after the merger of West Africa United Cement Group, which was also a big winner.

Due to the restrictions of Kanem's securities regulations, West Africa United Cement Group wants to list in Draculamo and wants to increase its market share in Kanem, and there are restrictions on the proportion of overseas capital holdings.

However, while Cao Mo reduces the shareholding of Tianyue Investment, of course, he will increase the shareholding ratio of close collaborators as much as possible.

With its current profitability, the West Africa United Cement Group could easily exceed $10 billion in market capitalization if it successfully listed on Draculamo.

The Stanning family is likely to become the richest family in Kanem and all of West Africa, while the Felicians, Sikas, Blakes, Rupert and Sturgeon will all have a huge increase in their net worth of $3.5 billion.

Yang Deshan, Wendy Scart, etc., as a management shareholding, is slightly less, but the wealth cashed out in the future will definitely not be lower than that of individuals.

This is a leap that was unimaginable before.

It will certainly be very difficult for such a large enterprise to be publicly listed and traded on the extremely immature and limited Draculamo stock market.

However, the investors who hold the last 27.5% of the shares of West Africa United Cement, and the Stanning family, will find ways to deal with this matter, and Cao Mo does not need to worry about it for the time being.

Not to mention the Stanin family, the investors led by Berdyci have a more extensive and in-depth influence in Kanem.

At first, it was they who forced the stubborn heads of the Stanning family to accept the merger.

The Evans Foundation wanted to get in the way and undermine the possibility of Dracula Power Group's leasing of the power grid, and in the end, it was Bertic and other investors who intervened, which made the Evans Foundation's efforts come to naught.

Cao Mo was not at all afraid of the deep-rooted and powerful Evans Foundation at Kanem at this time.

In the final analysis, if the Evans Foundation really ruthlessly shattered the dream of Bertich and other investors to carve up a huge wealth of nearly $3 billion, they will definitely use all means to retaliate against the Evans Foundation.

Cao Mo is not particularly concerned about whether West Africa United Cement can be listed on the stock market, after all, with the capital market situation of Kanem, he has to wait until the part of the shares he holds can be freely reduced, and I don't know what year and month it will take.

If it cannot be listed, Bertich and other investors and their family future and destiny will always be closely tied to Tianyue, including the Stanning family.

And even if they can't go public, these investors can still receive at least a total of more than $100 million in dividends from West Africa United Cement Group every year, so what is there to be disappointed about?

More importantly, after the integration and internal adjustment of the merger period, the next stage will usher in a new expansion period.

Even if only half of the profits are used for acquisitions and new plant expansion, the annual production capacity of West Africa United Cement Group will maintain a high growth rate of 20-30% until the next bottleneck arrives.

Especially with the strong growth of China's economy, the global economy finally saw hope of getting out of the shadow of the crisis by the beginning of the century.

International crude oil trade has also begun to recover in terms of size and price, which has made the faces of West African countries, whose economies are heavily dependent on crude oil exports, also happy.

This also indicates that West Africa will launch a new round of infrastructure and urban construction at any time after a certain amount of financial resources, stimulating the demand for cement and other building materials.

In the foreseeable future, many people can see that West Africa United Cement will continue to expand.

At this time, Cao Mo planned to invest in the construction of a series of projects in Cotonou, Benin, such as a steel plant, a copper smelter, an oil refinery, and the second phase of the Cotonou power plant.

After all, the cement production base of West Africa United Cement in Cotonou will exceed 4 million tons in the middle of this year, how can they not expect Benin's factory and infrastructure construction to reach a new level?

Even if it is expected that a new round of infrastructure construction will be launched in West Africa, if the new round of infrastructure construction is directly presided over by Tianyue, is there anything better than this?

Tianyue does not master the smelting technology of copper concentrate, and the cooperation framework negotiated by Cao Mo, Zhou Shenhe and Qian Wenhan is that Tianyue Investment and Xinhai Gold will both invest US$150 million in the copper smelter, and Xinhai Gold will send a technical management team.

However, this needs to be approved by the major shareholders of the state-owned shares of Xinhai Gold and the shareholders' meeting, and the whole process is more complicated - although the corresponding planning and design work is being carried out in an orderly manner, but by the time the procedures of Xinhai Gold are completed, it will be after April at the earliest.

The refinery project in Cotonou, in which the Volkov Petrochemical Group invested US$400 million, and the second phase of the Cotonou power plant, which will be able to start construction directly after the Spring Festival, will be up to US$500 million.

In order to further dilute the holdings of the Oppenheimer family and Huamao, the funds needed for the Cotonou refinery project were first injected directly by Tianyue Investment and Sturgeon into Volkov Investment, and then by Volkov Investment into the Volkov Petrochemical Group.

The first level of capital injection reduces the Oppenheimer family's stake in Volkov to 5%.

The second level of capital injection will increase Volkov Investment's stake in the petrochemical group to 90% and dilute Huamao's shareholding in the petrochemical group to 10%.

At the same time, Cao Mo also directly issued a takeover offer to Huamao.

As long as Han Shaorong nods, he can pay $120 million to buy Huamao's 10% stake in the Volkov Petrochemical Group.

Of course, Han Shaorong will not agree to sell Huamao's shares so cheaply, then he can only endure that the Volkov Petrochemical Group will maintain the current state of high capital expansion in the next five or six years, and do not expect the Volkov Petrochemical Group to have the possibility of dividends in five or six years.

This is also Cao Mo's power as a controlling major shareholder, and he can even transfer part of the profits of the Volkov Stone Group through affiliated enterprises in the future.

For the construction of the new power plant, the listed company Tianyue Industrial will also apply for a loan from the Banco Nacional Ultramarino, but the capital that the Banco Nacional can use at present is limited, and in fact, Cao Mo will lend the funds in the overseas accounts of Yibogu Mining and Tianyue Investment to the listed company Tianyue Industrial through the bridge of the Banco Ultramarino. The new power plant in Cotonou will also be wholly owned by Tianyue Industrial, but the operation will be integrated into the Conero energy system.

With the implementation of these two projects, almost all the funds accumulated in the current overseas accounts will be utilized.

In addition to promoting the second phase of the Cotonou power plant and the Cotonou refinery to land as soon as possible, the main thing is to promote the Benin government to complete the project of the Mamba-Cotonou railway as soon as possible.

The railway, which was built by the Beninese government, will not only become a core bargaining chip for the country's industrial economy in Akva, but will also directly transport the iron ore mines of Mamba, the copper-gold mines of Drake and the crude oil of Kruno to the major factories in Cotonou, saving the hassle of transiting from the port of Peme.

The longer-term plan is to expand the port of Cotonou and build a giant deep-water berth, making it a core channel for the export of iron ore, crude oil and other energy resources from West Africa overseas.

Of course, these ideas are not original to Cao Mo.

Although the level of education of the people of African countries is generally extremely low, a number of political and military elites who have gone abroad to receive advanced education in Europe and the United States have existed very early, and some countries have sent personnel to study in China since the 60s of the last century.

When the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established in the sixties and seventies, the elites of various countries put forward many ideas for the economic development of the Gulf of Guinea, and even made detailed plans and implemented them in the early years.

The Boesau-Catro Iron Works was the result of that time, but it was abandoned halfway.

Now, Han Shaorong and the others want to join forces with the Evans Foundation to start the construction of the Boseau-Catelo steel industrial complex as soon as possible, which is also inheriting the achievements of the past.

Otherwise, such a large-scale industrial investment and early planning and design would be a normal thing to discuss in Kanem for three or five years, let alone finally be implemented.

The Mamba-Cotonou railway has long been included in the planning plan for the coastal corridor of the Gulf of Guinea, and detailed survey and design work has even been carried out as early as the seventies.

Unfortunately, after the end of the 70s, fueled by the ill-intentioned intentions of some forces, coups d'état in West Africa became frequent, bloody, and war-torn continued, and many plans were abandoned halfway.

The Mamba-Cotonou railway has never had a chance to come out of the blueprints and become a reality.

What the Government of Benin now has to do is to dig the dusty achievements of the late seventies out of the pile of old papers and bring them to the authorities in Akwasaviyi for diplomatic consultations.

In this process, it was inconvenient for Cao Mo and the senior management of the Tianyue department to appear directly, and Bertich, a senior member of the Kanem Congress, was entrusted by Cao Mo to become a public lobbyist.

During the economic crisis, the Bertić family almost went bankrupt, and it was Cao Mo who helped through the crisis.

At this time, although the Bertic family's stake in the West African United Cement Group was reduced to 2%, in the barren and backward West African continent, the Bertić family still made the Bertić family a super wealthy family and enjoyed the top luxury and huge wealth.

After more than a year of in-depth contact and cooperation, Berdyci saw the magic and strength of Cao Mo and the Tianyue system, and was naturally willing to carry out a deeper interest binding with the Tianyue system.

To be honest, it's not that Cao Mo is really amazing.

It is really that European and American capital was too focused on plundering before.

They plunder billions or even tens of billions of dollars of wealth from this land every year, but they never think about leaving anything behind in this land.

And as long as these European and American capitals are willing to take some out of the huge wealth, or if the countries along the Gulf of Guinea have the ability to levy some more profits taxes, such as three or five billion dollars or tens of billions of dollars a year, for the construction and development of basic industries, where will it be Cao Mo's turn to create and integrate a cement giant with a valuation of tens of billions of dollars in just a few years, and where will Cao Mo now start to build a cross-border power grid?

And these are just the easiest to build, the lowest threshold and the least difficult in the industrial system.

Comparatively speaking, the development of Tianyue Industry in China is much more difficult and complicated than building a cement plant and a power plant.

Two years later, Tianyue Industry is expected to invest 6 billion yuan or more in technology expansion and production base construction, but no one expects Tianyue Industry to be profitable in two years.

This is the huge difference between complex industry and basic industry.

Only Cao Mo's opportunity to enter Africa is very good, European and American capital has no idea of developing basic work, and Chinese businessmen in West Africa at that time are still mainly trade, the local industrial capital strength is weak, and do not master technology, so there is room for Cao Mo's development, and even blank is more appropriate.

As part of Guinea's coastal corridor, and the most critical part of the coastal corridor is to connect with Draculamo and the river continent southwest of Kanem, Bertic, as a senior MP in Kanem, naturally has enough positions to lobby the Benin government.

The people contacted by Bertic in the Beninese authorities are mainly Speaker Baddeli, who works closely with Tianyue, and Minister of Industry, Geology and Mineral Resources Paboni and others - Baddeli and Paboni are of course willing to cooperate with Tianyue to do their work, and even too many stakeholders in Benin are eager to start the construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway immediately.

But whether it is facing the people at home or exerting stronger diplomatic pressure on Akwa, they need to change their names and justify them that are widely accepted by the public.

After all, that aside, how could the Saviyi family be so stupid as to guess who would benefit the most from the completion of the Mamba-Cotonou railway, and how could the Evans Foundation be stupid enough to sit back and watch the Mamba-Cotonou railway be completed?

However, since Akwa has formally become a democratic state, President Saiweiyi's resolute opposition to promoting relevant work from the existing legal procedures in Akwa in the name of being widely recognized by the public will only make him more unpopular, and thus give the moderate Kanter and the opposition forces in Akwa more excuses and support points to isolate, oppose and even encircle the Saweiyi family.

That's politics.

Han Shaorong and the Evans Foundation jointly promoted the construction of the Boso-Catero steel industrial complex in order to compete for influence in the Oyo state, and Cao Mo actually did not care about it after the establishment of the West Africa United Cement Group.

Not to mention in Oyo State, in the whole of Kanem, Cao Mo may be very sure that the potential influence of Tianyue has surpassed that of the Evans Foundation.