Chapter 475: Heart of Steel

"There are a large number of small listed companies in Hong Kong, the stock price has been depressed for a long time, and the market value ranges from a few million or 10 million Hong Kong dollars to 20 million Hong Kong dollars - if you have the heart, it is not complicated to get a controlling stake in a small city company like Hong Kong, Huamao should use a third-party company that has no direct financial connections, and it also has a lot of shell resources in Hong Kong. This time, they plan to load Xihai Ganglian and Catro Steel into the Hong Kong-listed company Qiming Technology, which produced light bulbs in the early years, has been sluggish for many years, and its shares have fluctuated around two Hong Kong dollars for a long time, with a market value of less than 20 million. This time, Xihai Iron and Steel has not yet been loaded into Qiming Technology, and the news has been released, and the market value has exploded nearly 20 times in an instant, which can be regarded as attracting enough eyeballs......"

During this time, Chen Feng promoted the work of private placement and the establishment of a steel division in China, while Shen Ji and Xie Sipeng accompanied Zhang Chaoyang to Africa.

In addition to directly setting up a preparatory office for the steel plant in Cotonou, Benin, and promoting related matters in Benin, they also contacted the operation and management team in charge of the Catro steel plant sent by the new steel federation to persuade them to join the Tianyue steel business team as much as possible.

Yu Jinjie finally decided to cooperate with Han Shaorong to the end.

In the face of Zhang Chaoyang's departure and the fact that all the operation team of Catro Steel Plant can be pulled away at any time, they also adjusted their coping strategies very decisively.

In addition to appointing a new vice president, Chen Ruhao, who is in charge of the affairs of the Catro Steel Plant and accepting the work report of the operation team, Yu Jinjie himself also personally accompanied Chen Ruhao and Liang Yuan to Kanem to appease the members of the Catro Steel Plant's operation team.

In these years, no one is worthy of anyone and who is sorry for anyone, and the vast majority of people are striving for personal well-off and financial freedom.

Tianyue Industrial to the management team of the steel division, in addition to comparing the existing salary and overseas subsidies of the new steel union, does not directly give a share award of 10 million shares of the three-year listed company with a market value of 60 million at this time, Yu Jinjie and Han Shaorong have a low price, why do they expect to stay?

Yu Jinjie and Han Shaorong's follow-up conditions did make many people tempted, but because of the relationship for many years, even if some people don't plan to follow Zhang Chaoyang, they want to continue to stay in Catro Iron and Steel Plant and wait for Yu Jinjie and Han Shaorong to fulfill their seemingly more impressive promises, and they will also be honest with Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie in private.

“...... Yu Jinjie and Han Shaorong still want to isolate the risks of the Bosso-Catelo steel industrial complex from Huamao and Xinganglian, so the conditions for retaining the old team, in addition to direct salary increases, increased overseas allowances and vacations, are mainly cashed out with Qiming Technology's shares. Their current plan is to issue 300 million, 300 million, 150 million and 50 million new shares to Xinganglian, Huamao, Liang Yuan and the management and technical team respectively in the name of Qiming Technology, and put Xihai Iron and Steel and Catro Iron and Steel Plant into it......"

"Qiming Technology's shares have been pulled to 3 Hong Kong dollars, and they are generous enough to grant 50 million new shares to the operation and management team," Cao Mo was in his own courtyard in Tianzifang, listening to Zhang Chaoyang, who had just returned to China non-stop, talking about Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie's conditions for winning over the management team members of Catro Iron and Steel Plant, and said with a smile, "When you hear this condition, you have to regret it, right?"

"I regret it and I can't help it, they didn't look for me

"However, after they offered this price, a considerable number of people decided to stay there, and I didn't force anything, I can only say that I wish them better development - but the existing steel division team, will it be weaker?"

Zhang Chaoyang is in his forties, where can he covet the conditions opened by Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie?

First of all, if he didn't leave, without Tianyue intervening in the competition, Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie would only force him to suppress the operation team of Catro Iron and Steel Plant, and they would never give such lucrative conditions.

Secondly, with Tianyue officially opening a factory in Benin, and the Boso-Catro steel industrial complex on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea facing new competitors, it is difficult to say whether the market environment is still as optimistic as it was at the beginning.

Moreover, the hidden dangers of the cooperation between Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie and the Evans Foundation have not been resolved, and it is really too early to make a decision on whether Qiming Technology (Xihai Steel) can be completed.

Putting aside other difficulties, purely from the level of doing business, Zhang Chaoyang feels that Tianyue's steel project in Cotonou has a much greater probability of success.

Of course, Zhang Chaoyang is still worried that there are too few technical management personnel and the strength is a little weak.

"Now that you have fourteen people in the steel division, it's not a weak book," Cao Mo said, "At the beginning of Dongsheng West Africa Branch, wasn't it me, Yang Deshan, Guo Jian, and Yuqing who sang the whole scene to the end? Wang Wen, Feng Rui, Wang Jianzhong, and Li Qi thought that they would be added later, but even if they were all included, there were no fourteen dispatched employees in the West Africa Branch at that time-in fact, I still counted on Yu Jinjie, Han Shaorong and they keep people, so that you can share more shares, and the company can save some ...... in the salary cost."

As the most prosperous city in West Africa, Draculamo has a relatively large number of qualified industrial workers, while in Cotonou, Benin, and the capital, Podonov, the conditions are much worse.

However, one of the core goals of Cao Mo's development of industrial clusters in Benin is to promote the gathering of descendants of the colonizers in Benin, a sparsely populated and harmonious country, and to form a force that can form the national government of Benin, in order to fulfill his promise to Juan Mantar and his daughter.

Therefore, whether it is the construction of steel plants, oil refineries or copper smelters, it will be possible to absorb engineering management technicians and industrial workers with basic education from the entire Gulf of Guinea region from the groups of colonists who are descended from the colonizers as much as possible.

In the entire Gulf of Guinea region, there are nearly 400 million people, and there are only about 10 million descendants of colonizers, a very low proportion of the population.

Although they were far less educated than white Europeans, they were much higher than the indigenous inhabitants of the Gulf of Guinea.

After the rise of anti-colonial ideology on the African continent, the descendants of these colonizers who could not afford to move out suffered a lot.

Once they have good job opportunities, the enthusiasm and dedication they have erupted will really throw off the white people of Europe and the United States for several streets, and they can be comparable to the Chinese.

And offering them a monthly salary of $200 to $500 for grassroots technical and managerial personnel is already an absolutely tempting high salary.

Isn't this much more fragrant than paying a monthly salary of three to five thousand dollars from China to hire grassroots management and technical personnel to be stationed in Africa?

The only trouble was that Cao Mo had to personally participate in the recruitment of technical and managerial personnel for the descendants of the colonists.

This would prevent the Evans Foundation from using them to colonize colonizers in Africa

Descendants of years of influence, stuffed some time bombs over.

And Zhang Chaoyang poached thirteen members from the old management team of the Catro Iron and Steel Plant this time, one of them was problematic, but Cao Mo had no evidence, and he couldn't directly say that he was a commercial spy arranged by Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie, so he could only find an opportunity to kick them out in the future.

As for the fact that this person will report the situation here at any time during the construction of the factory, there is nothing to worry about.

The steel plant itself has to invest in the construction of the early stage, mainly for the production of crude steel and construction materials, there are no technical barriers in front of the new steel union, and the commercial information is basically open and transparent, there is no information that needs to be deliberately explored.

Zhang Chaoyang flew back to China urgently with the new members of the steel division team, in addition to letting them spend a short-term vacation to reunite with their families, but also to help them resign and join the company, and to reapply for a work visa to Benin.

Cao Mo has handed over the planning and design of the Cotonou Iron and Steel Plant to the Xinhai Zhijin Planning and Design Institute, and Zhang Chaoyang has to follow up the planning and design of the steel plant when he returns, and the work of project contracting and equipment procurement must also be carried out non-stop.

Since the steel plant completely uses its own funds (Tianyue Industrial borrowed 200 million US dollars from Ibogu Mining), Benin has a green light all the way, and it has been approved by the parliament for more than half a month.

The construction of a $200 million steel plant in Cotonou is definitely a big deal for Benin that needs to be considered by Parliament.

Last year, the parliament deliberated and approved a series of cooperation agreements such as the technical expansion of the Cotonou power plant controlled by Conero Energy, the joint venture with the Benin State Power Group to build the Cotonou-Dahomey, Cotonou-Lonta cross-border backbone transmission grid, and the resolution proposal for the investment and construction of the Cotonou refinery by the Volkov Petrochemical Group was just reviewed and approved in November.

However, for Cotonou, a port city with the most developed industry in Benin but only some light industry base, Tianyue's investment actions can be implemented to the letter, which is a major industrial upgrade for Cotonou and even the whole of Benin.

In addition to doubling the tax revenue of Benin's national treasury, Benin's major political leaders and magnates own a large amount of land and other industries in Cotonou Podonov, and with the intensive inflow of people, they will also be encouraged to obtain great benefits.

Cao Mo wants to spend the Spring Festival in China, and then return to Kanem or Benin after the merger and reorganization of Tianyue Industry and the new round of expansion of Tianyue Industry and Chewright are initially implemented, but Benin, because Cao Mo has always been in China during this time, is worried that several large projects are foolish - after all, only the Cotonou power plant transformation and cross-border power grid have been implemented, and the preparation work for other project planning and design has taken a long time and has not yet been officially implemented.

The upper class of Benin is still very active in developing domestic industries, and the degree of secularization is also high, but the country lacks resources conducive to plunder, and the level of economic development lags behind that of Akwa and Kanem.

In particular, the interests involved are relatively large, or the upper echelons of the family industry can directly benefit from the new investments in Tianyue, all hope to meet Cao Mo and hope to determine that the performance is higher.