Chapter 48: Rhetoric
It was already eleven o'clock at night when Cao Mo rushed back to Draculamo, and Song Yuqing had not slept at this time.
The cook Sterna slept soundly, Song Yuqing ran downstairs to open the door for Cao Mo, and asked Cao Mo with some doubts and worries: "What happened?"
Because of public security problems, Cao Mo traveled back and forth between Longta and Draculamo, rarely rushing at night.
He didn't stay overnight in the Ibogu tribe so late now, but rushed back to the company dormitory with Ade and Oulu, and Song Yuqing wouldn't think it was normal.
At this time, Wang Wen was wearing a nightgown with his hands on his chest, looked out of the room, and asked, "Where did you go to play, and you came back so late?"
Wang Wen didn't wear underwear in his nightdress, but the key is that there is no scale, what kind of hug, the cotton nightdress hides two poached eggs, and he is afraid of people peeping at him? Cao Mo secretly complained.
Wang Wen has a big opinion of Cao Mo, who disappeared every three or five days and did not show up for a day or two.
Cao Mo is bent on living a life, especially in the corners of Draculamo, I don't know how many criminals are hidden, and it is never a good thing to be public.
And if you want to survive, there is probably no more low-key and unremarkable than a small and insignificant role in the office of the West African branch.
Regarding Wang Wen's little girl temperament, Cao Mo teased her when she was free, and ignored her when she was not free, and now she went upstairs directly with a perfunctory sentence.
When Song Yuqing said a few words to Wang Wen and came upstairs, Cao Mo beckoned her into the room to speak.
Song Yuqing didn't wear anything in her nightdress, although the nightdress was very conservative, she still habitually held her chest with her hands, next to the door, and asked Cao Mo in a low voice: "What happened?"
“...... It's too hard for me. ”
Cao Mo first complained bitterly.
"What's so difficult? Wang Wen said that you must have hooked up with a local girl, so you didn't go home all day and night, and you didn't know that the local girls were all dark, how did you get your mouth?" Song Yuqing saw that Cao Mo didn't look like something was wrong, so she covered her mouth and joked.
"Where did I offend her, she arranged me like this behind my back? I'm not blind, Sister Yuqing, I haven't hooked up yet!" Cao Mo said.
"Talk about things. Pull me again, and I'll go to sleep. Song Yuqing urged angrily.
"It's a bit complicated, you can sit and listen, so you don't have to be tired,"
Cao Mo pulled a chair for Song Yuqing, put his butt on the desk, and told Song Yuqing that little Tubman gave him $80,000 each to Abaman as the remuneration for the acquisition transaction.
"I definitely can't take this money, and I also persuade Abacha not to take this money, but I only found out about it two days ago, and Dongsheng's agreement with the Tubman family has been signed and the crushing plant has been handed over, so it is impossible to return this money to Dongsheng. I've been running around for the past two days, just to discuss with Abacha whether to use the money to build an improvised road between the Ibogu tribe and the northern outskirts of Draculamo......"
"......" Song Yuqing looked at Cao Mo in some surprise, "You really don't take this money?"
"How can I take this money?" Cao Mo straightened his chest and put on a posture of a good socialist youth, but since the lie had begun, he couldn't explain to Song Yuqing at this time that he could actually benefit more from this simple road, "I provide services to the Felician family, although the money is hard, but every penny is clean......"
In Song Yuqing, she wouldn't have taken the money, so she didn't feel that there was any flaw in Cao Mo's speech, and asked curiously: "On this matter, you can discuss it with Abacha, and you don't need to rush back to Draculamo at night at this point?"
"If I don't take this money, I have to convince Abacha not to donate this money together, do you think it will be easy to convince him?"
Although Song Yuqing still held her hands in front of her chest, she had a crowding out effect, and lowered the neckline of her nightdress a lot, Cao Mo was half-standing and half-sitting on the desk, just seeing the good scenery, she resisted the urge to swallow saliva, and told Song Yuqing about Abacha's situation in the Sika family,
"In order to convince him, I promised to do the whole thing in a glorious way, so that Abacha would have a chance to raise his eyebrows in the family, so that he would not actually lose the money, and when the road was repaired, I also planned to help them build a cement factory and a hydroelectric power station, so that they could get more affordable benefits from the road—I am now a senior advisor to the Sika and Felician families......"
"How do you want to be glorious?" Song Yuqing asked curiously.
"On the way back, I talked to Zhou Jianmin on the phone, thinking that the money would be donated by the Tubman family to the consulate, and then the consulate would donate it to the Lunta area to build roads and bridges – a process that Abacha would be able to coordinate and win him a huge reputation in the Lunta area. Zhou Jianmin agreed in principle, but what to do about this matter, he said that he wanted to ask for instructions. I'm rushing back, and I'm going to meet with Zhou Jianmin tomorrow morning," Cao Mo said, "I also greeted Yang Deshan about this matter—of course, in front of Yang Deshan and Zhou Jianmin, I would only say that all this money is Abacha's high ideological realm, and I won't mention my share...... Yang Deshan also had no opinion, they traveled from Draculamo to the Jonai gold mine, and they also suffered from the lack of such an easy road. He estimated that he would greet Zhou Jianmin privately, so as not to say something to the ground. ”
"......" Song Yuqing stood up and stretched, and said, "You must be worried that you didn't speak enough in front of Zhou Jianmin to pull Yang Deshan up, right?"
Cao Mo smiled and asked, "When did Sister Yuqing become so smart?"
"Have I ever been stupid?" Song Yuqing proudly raised her smooth chin, glanced at Cao Mo, and said, "I'll go to bed, and I'll have dark circles under my eyes when I get up tomorrow later......"
Song Yuqing returned to the room, and Cao Mo sorted out the matter again.
The reason why he greeted Yang Deshan was that in front of Zhou Jianmin, Yang Deshan was still better than him.
This is not to say that Yang Deshan participated in the investment in the Qiao Nai gold mine, but that Yang Deshan bragged more ruthlessly within the group.
After the successful acquisition of the Tubman family, Dongsheng officially proposed that it would invest $200 million in Kanem to build an oil palm planting and crushing base.
Even if this is just an intention, or an exaggeration, it is enough to attract the attention of all parties as the largest investment project that a Chinese-funded enterprise may land in Kanem so far.
The consulate attaches great importance to it, and the top person in charge of Dongsheng who can directly contact and dock in Draculamo is Yang Deshan.
The person in charge of the consulate was still smiling when he saw Yang Deshan at this time, and Zhou Jianmin would not snub Yang Deshan.
Of course, Cao Mo greeted Yang Deshan, mainly because he didn't want to ask Song Yuqing to come forward and ask Zhou Jianmin to facilitate this.
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Early the next morning, Zhou Jianmin's phone came and asked Cao Mo to meet at the China Business Center.
After Cao Mo arrived, Zhou Jianmin introduced Yang Xu, the counselor in charge, and Mo Wenjun, the general manager of the China Business Center, to Cao Mo.
"I was in Lonta, providing some technical advice to the Felician family's business, so I met Mr. Abacha, who was going to buy a crushing plant in Kanem, and I asked Mr. Abacha to recommend a suitable person, and eventually contacted the Tubman family and facilitated the exchange. Mr. Abacha came to me the other day and said that the Tubman family was going to pay him a sum of money for his matchmaking. Mr. Abacha was a virtuous official in Lunta, and he was reluctant to put the money into his own pocket, thinking that it would be used for the construction of roads in Lonta. However, if the money was donated directly to the place of Lonta by the Tubman family, and because someone in the place of Lunta knew about Mr. Abacha's deal, even if it was a good thing, it was inevitable that some people would question his reputation. Abacha hired me as his personal senior adviser and hoped that the money would be donated to the Lonta region in the name of the consulate......"
Cao Mo sat down and first repeated the statement he had made up yesterday to Yang Xu and Mo Wenjun.
Yang Xu and Mo Wenjun naturally heard Zhou Jianmin repeat these words a long time ago, but they didn't doubt Cao Mo's statement, they were really surprised by Abacha's decision.
They have been stationed in Draculamo for three or four years, and they know too well what the virtues of local officials are — even the semi-official structure of the China Business Center, which represents China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, is occasionally approached by Draculamo's law enforcement agencies.
There are local officials who are honest enough to donate this income, which can be said to be "legal" in Kanem?
Yang Xu and Mo Wenjun were not in a hurry to speak, and Zhou Jianmin introduced the views of the consulate on this matter.
After he received Cao Mo's call last night, he was also the first to make a report to Yang Xu, the leader in charge.
The working area and living area of the consulate are together, and the leaders and ordinary staff are stationed overseas for many years, and the special working and living environment makes them get along very well, not as hierarchical as domestic government agencies, and the deliberations are also casual and fast, not rigid.
The consulate had an internal discussion last night, and they felt that there was nothing wrong with getting involved in this matter, but for the specific handling, the consulate advocated that the Chinese business center, which has the power to operate and economy, directly liaise with the Oyo state government.
Even if Kanem is not a poor country, the consulate and the Chinese business center have any business contacts, mainly at the local state level or official institutions in heavyweight cities such as Draculamo.
Ronta is still too inconspicuous.
"Then I'll convey it to Mr. Abacha now, and see what he means?" Cao Mo said.
He is still worried that if he contacts the Oyo state government directly in this matter, he will be stripped of the skin by the state government, but even if he will be stripped of the skin, it is better than not being able to do it......