Chapter 128: Cocoa
Cao Mo opened the small handbag, saw that there were two boxes of cigars inside, and thought about whether to be greedy for ink and a box of ink, seeing that he was slanting and Tian Zhen was still stunned to look at Cheng Xiyang's long coupe, shrugged his shoulders, and walked towards Dongsheng Mansion with a poignant look of being tired by a woman.
Returning to his temporary work outside the sea, he hurriedly sent a text message back to Cheng Xi: "There is a misunderstanding in the matter, I am the ...... who was framed"
"I also don't think you will have such a great charm, what girl is blind and will squeeze the women's toilet with you? You won't be looking for a young lady, will you?" Cheng Xi quickly texted back.
"You're slandering too!"
"I'm going to give you a face today, tell me about it, how many meals do you have to owe me?"
"You say a few meals, you turn your head proudly and leave, you don't see what those grandsons have become dumbfounded. Cao Mo replied.
After a long while, Cheng Xi replied with a text message: "Don't talk nonsense with you, I was disciplined by my manager just now!"
Cao Mo was searching for information on college entrepreneurship on the Internet, and a strange call came in, answering Starly's voice:
"I went to the International Student Office in the morning and talked about the establishment of the Kanem Middle School Students' Entrepreneurship Association. It was difficult for them to be interested, so they met with the instructor of the school's student council in the morning. What they mean is that the number of Kanem middle school students at Annei University is still too small. Even if the students of Kanem Middle School in various colleges and universities in Xinhai are concentrated, there are not many students. They want to expand the scale and include African students in Xinhai to include this range. Not only can the International Student Affairs Office assign teachers to provide guidance and activity venues, but also apply for free office space from the Torch Pioneer Park under Xinhai University, and even apply for a certain amount of financial subsidies......"
Worried that the Jidam family would ask the Lu family to target Stari, Cao Mo specially instructed Stari to discard the mobile phone card that he had contacted him last night, buy a new real-name card to use, and buy a bearer card specifically to contact him and Song Yuqing.
Starry's new mobile phone number, Cao Mo did not save it directly, but memorized it in his mind to prevent incidents like Zhou Han's peeping on his computer from happening again.
He didn't know much about the entrepreneurship of college students, but when he heard Stari say this, he felt that China was really vigorously supporting this area.
Starly herself is not happy to do too tedious things, and it is great that the International Student Affairs Office of Xinhai University can directly assign teachers to participate in the guidance, and there can also be a free office, and there will be a free landing place for the project in the future.
However, Cao Mo has been in Africa for a few years, and he has long known that the complexity of the entire African continent is beyond imagination, and the teachers in domestic colleges and universities are enthusiastic, but it is possible to think about the problem simply.
Some African countries have been fighting bloody wars for many years and have not stopped even now, while some African countries are secretly supporting the opposition forces in each other's homes to carry out armed struggles, even if they have not torn their faces.
In short, a mess.
The feelings of ethnic antagonism among middle school students in different African countries are very sharp.
Cao Mo is worried that if all the middle school students in Xinhai are forced to be screwed together, the problem will also be complicated, and it is not something that Stari can do, or she is not willing to deal with.
"I think the scope can be expanded, but preferably mainly secondary school students from ECOWAS countries, and at most it can be expanded to Central Africa and South Africa, south of Kanem......" Cao Mo thought about it for a moment and told Stari.
He still wants to keep things as simple as possible.
West and Central Africa and the southernmost part of the African continent, the Republic of South Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea and other Atlantic coasts, Draculamo is not only geographically at the center of the region, but also the most important transit hub in the region.
At the same time, the relations between these countries are relatively harmonious, and there are not so many blood feuds waiting to be reciprocated.
In particular, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) headed by Kanem and other countries was established in West Africa in 75 years, and its economic, political, and cultural ties have been very close to this day.
The middle school students from these countries in Xinhai will be gathered together to form an entrepreneurial organization, and the entrepreneurial base can be placed in Xinhai at present, and the business and market can be centered on Draculamo and radiate to the surrounding areas.
In this case, it is best for their plans.
Last night, Cao Mo thought about these questions.
If the entrepreneurial project can have a good landing and develop to a certain scale, it will not be impossible to transfer and land in the previous Conero Lake Industrial Park in the future.
This can be regarded as a real contribution to Kanem and the development of West Africa.
Cao Mo told her some of the ideas he had in mind, and then made an appointment to withdraw 500,000 cash and give it to Stari to spend first.
Cao Mo can't directly intervene in the affairs of Starry, and he can't help too much, he still has to be busy with the affairs of the domestic trading company.
Even if he signed a full entrustment agreement with Chen Feng's Baocheng Accounting Firm, Cao Mo was embarrassed to really push everything on Chen Feng's head.
And more importantly, Chen Feng takes his hard-earned money of 200,000 yuan every year, after all, he is not an employee under him.
He doesn't follow personally, doesn't establish direct business contacts with Xinhai's food manufacturers, and really pushes everything to Chen Feng, and when Chen Feng is familiar with a whole set of business, and wants to find a source of goods from Africa to do it alone, can he complain that Chen Feng is not authentic?
Business is business.
Even if he is an employee of Dongsheng and has no psychological burden to do private work in Kanem, Chen Feng will have the opportunity to engage in cocoa export trade alone in the future, at most he will not directly snatch away his previous customers, but he can find new sources of goods in Africa, find new customers in Xinhai and domestic regions, and intervene in this industry.
Chen Feng was less than 30 years old, so he quit his previous good job and pulled his newlywed wife out to start a business, obviously a person with ambition and his own ideas.
A very important reason why he is willing to pay 200,000 yuan a year to Baocheng Certified Public Accountants is that the trading company he registered in China is purely an empty shell, and after bundling the business with Baocheng Accounting Firm, it is easier to win the trust of the food manufacturers who will be contacted to a certain extent.
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After chatting with Stari on the phone, Cao Mo searched the Internet for the information of Xinhai's food manufacturers using cocoa butter and cocoa powder as raw materials, and saw that a new email came in, and when she opened it, she saw that it was Lucy who had collected the local cocoa tree planting and local cocoa butter and cocoa powder production materials in Longta in the past two days and sent them.
A small number of cacao trees are planted in Ibogu and mature in about three to four years.
It takes about six months for the cacao tree to blossom and bear fruit, and the ripe cacao fruit is picked locally to peel off the white seed sacs, which are naturally fermented for three to five days and then dried in the scorching sun to obtain a charred brown cocoa bean.
Locals are accustomed to roasting cocoa beans and eating them cooked.
Of course, the cocoa butter used to produce acrylic is obtained by filtering the slurry after grinding and crushing cooked cocoa beans, and the bean dregs and bean cakes left by filtration are the raw materials of cocoa powder.
Cao Mo searched for the supply of cocoa powder in China and saw that the price of cocoa powder on the Internet varies greatly with the difference in quality.
The best quality cocoa powder is as high as $2,000 per ton, while the inferior cocoa powder is even less than $200 per ton.
Accounting at the price of high-quality cocoa powder and cocoa butter, the purchase of cocoa bean production in the Conero Lake Industrial Park has a considerable profit, but it is not profitable at all at the price of inferior cocoa powder.
Of course, there must be a reason behind the price difference of the same cocoa powder, Cao Mo just failed to search for relevant information from the Internet for the time being, and he has not officially set foot in this industry, so he can't guess why the difference will be so big for the time being.
In order to be worthy of Cao Mo's annual agency fee of 200,000 yuan, Chen Feng not only negotiated the acquisition of the old house in Tianzifang, but also directly contacted a manufacturer located in the Qingshan District Industrial Park to purchase cocoa beans as raw materials and produce cocoa powder, and pulled Cao Mo over to meet with him.
Chen Feng is also a person with strong action, it is difficult to find out the trick of this industry purely by searching for information, only by visiting the door, establishing contact, and contacting a few more times, it is possible to get a first glimpse of the door.
Cao Mo likes Chen Feng's style very much.
Chen Feng is a car owner.
Although it is only a Santana, driving Cao Mo, who does not have a driver's license in China, to visit the door, can always attract the attention of the other party.
Of course, Cao Mo wants to build a cocoa butter and cocoa powder processing plant directly in the Conero Lake Industrial Park, but this will take time.
For now, his initial idea is to buy cocoa beans from Lunta and nearby areas for export.
This is the most direct and fast way for him to establish this business chain and transfer funds.
Xinxuan Food Company, located in an industrialist in Qingshan District, received them with a deputy general manager named Guo Donghu.
To establish business cooperation with others, you must first gain the trust of the other party.
Cao Mo did not shy away from the fact that he was an employee of Dongsheng Group's overseas department, and also printed out the information that Lucy had just sent him in the afternoon and showed it to Guo Donghu, deputy general manager of Xinxuan Food Company, and others.
After talking in Guo Donghu's office for a while, Cao Mo offered to participate in the production workshop of Xinxuan Food Company, and the other party was also very proud that he did not refuse.
The production of cocoa butter and cocoa powder is not a high-precision technology, and even the cocoa butter refining equipment used by Xinxuan Food Company is produced by the food machinery and equipment company under the grain and oil headquarters of Dongsheng Group.
However, Dongsheng Group's oil production and sales are mainly concentrated in the category of edible vegetable oil, and it is not involved in the production of cocoa butter and cocoa powder, nor is it involved in the processing of cocoa food using cocoa butter and cocoa powder as raw materials.
As a first-tier city in China, the factories in the industrial park are much more magnificent than Draculamore, and the production management is also strict, even if it is not a high-tech industry, but it has the style of a modern food company, and all positions on the assembly line are also in order.
Cao Mo secretly felt that if the management team could reach this level of the planned new cement plant, he would basically be able to be the shopkeeper and no longer need to worry about everything.
Xinxuan Foods doesn't mind sourcing cocoa beans from West Africa, but before signing a formal supply contract, Cao Mo needs to provide local cocoa bean samples and test them to meet their requirements.
Cao Mo visited the production process of cocoa butter and cocoa powder on the spot, and left at dusk.
However, when he left the office, Guo Donghu, the deputy general manager of Xinxuan, asked: "West Africa is the main producer of cocoa, so it should be convenient to buy cocoa husks and peels from there, right?"
Cao Mo was stunned for a moment, vaguely guessing why some cocoa powders on the market were so cheap.
Grinding and grinding cocoa shells and peel residue as garbage into powder, and selling it as cocoa powder to other food manufacturers?
"It should be very convenient, I'll consult and then give Mr. Guo a reply......" Cao Mo responded perfunctorily.
"Manager Cao wants to help us organize this supply in Kanem, and the price is negotiable. Guo Donghu narrowed his eyes and smiled.
"Haha, it's negotiable!"
When Cao Mo and Chen Feng walked out of the gate of Xinxuan Food Company, they threw Guo Donghu's business card into the garbage bin on the side, and said with a smile to Chen Feng: "Xinxuan's factory is really modern enough, but it's a pity that it's still ruined......