Chapter 478: The Sofa

Cao Mo walked into the room and saw Zhou Han and Song Yuqing sitting on the sofa in the living room outside the bedroom talking, ignoring the look of the two women who wanted to get rid of him with disgust, he casually turned on the TV and tuned to the local channel of Draculamo.

At this time, the local station of Draculamo was broadcasting the local news.

Even in China, Cao Mo spends a certain amount of time every day browsing local news from the countries along the Gulf of Guinea, or logging on to some Internet forums that are only available in a few cities, such as Draculamo, Catero, Issedan, Cotonou, and Podonov, and are far less active than those in China.

This habit is convenient for him to keep abreast of some developments here.

He does not want to rely solely on a bottom-up reporting system for intelligence and access to information.

Cao Mo walked to the sofa confidently, stretched his waist, and said, "At this time, I still go back to the room to watch the news, and I can feel the wonderful breath of life!" As he spoke, he squeezed into the middle of the two women, and came to a standard Ge You lying on all fours, watching the news report on TV seriously.

Zhou Han's beautiful eyes glanced at Cao Mo, but he didn't move away, and straightened Cao Mo's arms so that his neck could be pillowed on his arms and he could lie there comfortably watching TV.

Song Yuqing was not used to being intimate with Cao Mo in front of Zhou Han, not to mention that she speculated that Cao Mo had very bad intentions at this time, so she sat up straight first vigilantly and considered whether to stay away from this guy.

Cao Mo patted his right hand and said, "This is for you." ”

Song Yuqing hesitated for a while, but Cao Mo reached out and pulled her, and she was like a gentle cat, curling up and snuggling over.

However, while she pillowed Cao Mo's arm, she also vigilantly grabbed Cao Mo's hand to prevent him from being difficult to control when he was alone;

"It's all blue!" Cao Mo complained, "It just misses its old friend, and it depends on whether the old friend is fat or thin, why are you pinching it?"

"Honestly watch TV. Zhou Han's beautiful eyes glanced at him.

In the past, the Evans Foundation had deep roots and influence in Africa, but the Evans Foundation itself was very low-key, usually engaged in economic activities such as trade and investment independently in various places by its major group companies, and the foundation was rarely exposed to the public.

Even if there are political and social activities, the Evans Foundation usually intervenes in the offices set up in various places, and the Evans Foundation's top management, that is, the members of the council, are not known to outsiders.

Of course, the members of the Evans Foundation's Board of Trustees are usually at the helm of the core company, but they are familiar to society as the company's president or chief executive.

The fact that the public is not aware of their identity at the Evans Foundation is even more significant.

The same is true, the Evans Foundation is like a giant beast quietly lurking under the surface of the sea, greedily devouring the information and wealth of this continent.

However, today's two news stories are related to the Evans Foundation:

One is Ryan Foster, vice president of the Evans Foundation's office in Draculamore, who participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Mayflower Charitable Foundation, a non-governmental non-profit organization organized by the descendants of the colonists, and donated one million dollars on behalf of the Evans Foundation.

There is also a news story about Dracula More's first visit to Dracula Port Group as a member of the Evans Foundation's Board of Trustees.

"The Evans Foundation has changed its low profile and recently made frequent high-profile appearances, except for the current countries in Africa that are mainly exporters of energy and minerals, the economic situation is deteriorating, and the public is increasingly angry about overseas oil companies that should be making greater contributions to the local economy, but are actually reluctant to do more, we have also made a little contribution."

Zhou Han's bun tied into a ball-like bun rubbed on Cao Mo's arm, raised his head and said,

"Tianyue's factories on the shores of Lake Conero, as well as its planned industrial investments in Benin and Akva in the future, and more technical and managerial hires from groups of descendants of the colonizers, should have caught the attention of the Evans Foundation, the newly established Mayflower Charity Foundation, which is relatively simple in the news, but I have learned that the main purpose of it is to select good and poor young people from the descendants of the colonizers to be funded. In addition, the Evans Foundation has held a number of events in Draculamo, inviting the heads of European and American companies in Draculamo to participate in advocating for better treatment of employees of colonial descent – very targeted. ”

"Then we will moderately raise the salary of grassroots technology and management," Cao Mo pouted and said disapprehantly, "If we increase it by three or four percent, it will barely reach the level of ordinary private enterprise employees in China ten years ago, and I don't plan to save this expense." However, the problem is that we still need to strengthen the selection and training of local indigenous technical and management talents, so as to avoid the descendants of colonists who have become all in the middle management of the company. This is definitely a challenge to the nerves of the local indigenous community in Benin, where ethnic relations are relatively gentle. As for the Evans Foundation's competition for technical and management backbones, it is up to them to compete. There are tens of millions of descendants of colonists in the Gulf of Guinea, nearly half of whom have secondary education, and even if there are only three and a half million people who have reached the primary technical and management level, it is far from being digested by Tianyue and the Evans Foundation!"

Cao Mo doesn't mind the Evans Foundation's involvement in the competition for technical, managerial, and skilled industrial workers among the colonists.

The proportion of descendants of the colonizers is very low, but the absolute number is not low, and they are mainly concentrated in the coastal cities along the Gulf of Guinea and in the main industrial and mining areas.

There are thousands of large and small companies in West Africa, but they are mainly small and medium-sized crude oil trading enterprises, such as the original Atlantic United Oil Trading Company, which is extremely limited in scale and cannot absorb all the descendants of colonizers.

The enterprises founded by the locals, mainly in the light processing industry, were more or less exclusive to the descendants of the colonizers, and the local indigenous people were mainly employed by the local indigenous people.

Therefore, Cao Mo is not worried about the Evans Foundation competing for people at all.

As a result, the living conditions of the descendants of the colonizers have been improved, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of Cao Mo's promise to Juan Mantar's father and daughter.

On the contrary, Cao Mo continued to recruit grassroots technical and managerial personnel from the descendants of the colonizers, and also increased funding for outstanding young people from indigenous ethnic groups, hoping to continuously increase the proportion of indigenous technical and managerial personnel in the future.

Cao Mo's strategy is, in the final analysis, to use more descendants of colonizers, and to avoid the ethnic contradictions between the descendants of colonizers and the indigenous people from becoming acute in all aspects.

Cao Mo touched Song Yuqing's smooth fragrant shoulder with her fingers, and told Zhou Han about going to the casino to see Yan Zhicheng before dusk: "Now there are many signs that Liang Yuan wants to find a way out for himself from the Evans Foundation, and Guo Jian should also be involved......"

"Liang Yuan can't wait to invest in the Evans Foundation at this time, or do you hope that the Evans Foundation can spare no effort to work with Xihai Iron and Steel to build the Boso-Catelo Steel Industrial Complex first, and then he will help the Evans Foundation seize control of Boso-Catro Steel?" Song Yuqing raised her head and asked, "This is the most secure for Liang Yuan personally!"

Among the women, Song Yuqing is the most casual.

If she could, she would rather stay at home to do hygiene, practice yoga, or sit at the window and read the latest book.

Although when Cao Mo was not in China, Tianyue Investment, Tianyue Industry, and Tianyue Industrial's business had to report to Song Yuqing, but Song Yuqing only regarded this as a daily habit to keep in touch with Cao Mo.

Song Yuqing mainly sorted out the context and rarely expressed her opinions.

She's also a little lazy to be a strong woman.

If you want to talk about her work ability and the depth of her vision, Song Yuqing is definitely inferior to Zhou Han, or even inferior to Cheng Xi, but when she heard Cao Mo talk to Zhou Han about this matter, her face was full of joy, and she immediately thought of the core of this matter.

"Yes, the other party hasn't officially started cooperation, so they have their own ghosts, there is really no better harmony than this, the only thing I don't know now, why does Liang Yuan ask the Evans Foundation to believe him?" Zhou Han stretched his waist and looked at Cao Mo and asked.

"I'm not an immortal, and I can't guess everything," Cao Mo stretched his waist, took the opportunity to hug the second daughter tighter, and said, "You can leave it alone for the time being." Without the investment of 1.4 billion US dollars, the Boso-Catro system would not work, and even if they completely hired a domestic contractor to build it this time, it would take two or three years - let's wait and see!"

"It stands to reason that it is best to wait for them to smash the funds into it, and then let them finally break out," Zhou Han still felt a little unpleasant and said, "However, if Liang Yuan really helps the Evans Foundation to seize control of the Bosso-Catelo Iron and Steel Plant at that time, Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie will not lose a lot of money, not to mention that they have already isolated the risk in Qiming Technology - this time they can't be hit hard, just seeing them turn against each other seems to be a little bit less meaningful......"

"The risk is not so easy to isolate," Cao Mo shook his head and said, "Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie want to control the dominance of the entire steel complex through the intermediate listed company, and before they realize Liang Yuan's defection, they need to admit at least half of the capital supply." With Qiming Technology, which only had a market value of more than 20 million yuan before the news leaked, can they really easily complete such a large-scale financing? Yes, with their clever mouth and influence, they can make the stone bloom, and they may finally successfully complete the financing plan in Hong Kong, but those who dare to call with such a large-scale capital may not be able to beat their teeth and swallow their stomachs!"

The Hong Kong securities market at the beginning of the decade was very different from the mainland securities market.

In the mainland stock market, the participation of small and medium-sized retail investors is very high.

Controllers of listed companies in the mainland issue new shares to specific institutions to raise huge sums of money, and pack the packaged assets into the listed company in the form of acquisitions, and only need to cooperate with the stock price speculation within a specific period of time, so as to attract a large number of small and medium-sized retail investors to enter the market, so that the institutions participating in the private placement can smoothly cash out and withdraw.

At this time, even if the packaged assets are finally exposed, the main losses are those small and medium-sized retail investors who can't afford to waste.

In Hong Kong stocks, the main thing is to attract international investment participation, and the scale of small and medium-sized retail investors is much smaller.

Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie want to package the assets of Xihai Iron and Steel into Qiming Technology, and at the same time raise enough capital for the construction of the Boso-Catelo Iron and Steel Industrial Complex, so they can only cooperate with many large investment institutions.

However, there are not too many small and medium-sized retail investors participating in Hong Kong stocks, and those investment institutions that participate in the investment institutions want to benefit in the end, and they can only hope that the Bosso-Catro steel industrial complex can operate stably and hold the stock price steadily, so as to win a longer exit period.

During this time, the cooperation between Han Shaorong, Yu Jinjie and the Evans Foundation collapsed, causing the stock prices of Hong Kong stock companies to plummet.

"We still have to let out more wind to cooperate with them, and try our best to help them find a few strong partners with extraordinary backgrounds when they raise funds in Hong Kong," Cao Mo said with a wicked smile, "Only in this way can the future drama be more exciting!"