"Are you crazy about using diesel generators to produce cement?"

Abacha's business thinking was still sluggish, and he looked at Cao Mo in confusion.

Cao Mo has been more leisurely recently, and has a better understanding of the cement market in China and Kanem, and has also collected a stack of information in his hand, and directly pulled Aba to his residence and showed him these materials.

"What kind of monster are you?" Abba shouted after checking the information prepared by Cao Mo.

"Whether a thing can be done or not is nothing more than a trade-off between cost and profit, and whether it is legal or not. And the profits are high enough, and there are many people who kill people and cut off their heads, isn't Kanem's criminal gang rampant enough?"

Cao Mo complained slightly,

"My accounts here are very clear, I now mine three diesel generators, each kilowatt-hour of electricity consumption 0.3 liters of diesel, if purely with this diesel unit for power, to produce a ton of cement, diesel consumption is 30 liters, of course, this also takes into account the investment and depreciation of diesel generator sets, the combined energy cost is 30-40% higher than Draculamo's industrial electricity. I have calculated that a cement plant with a daily production capacity of 300 tons consumes almost 30,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day, and it needs to be supplied with four medium-sized diesel generator sets. This is the price of new imported diesel generator sets and ball mills and other equipment, with the simplest soil device, all unnecessary ancillary equipment are deducted, the total investment is about 800,000 US dollars, of which the generator set accounts for half. If Kanem were to sell it at the current price of $200 a ton of ordinary cement in Kanem, there would be only a small profit margin for producing cement from diesel power generation, taking into account the high depreciation of equipment, diesel consumption and various operating costs. Once the import volume or the scale of Kanem's domestic cement production increases significantly, this profit margin will soon be squeezed out and fall into a loss, so this matter is not worth doing, and it is a bit risky. What if this bill can really be passed, which will stimulate the price of cement in Kanem's country to soar?"

"Whether the bill can be passed or not, no one can say whether it will be impossible - according to your analysis, if the bill cannot be passed, won't this matter be feasible?" Abacha asked.

"It is still worth combining the cement plant with the construction of the hydropower station," Cao Mo said, "the simple cement plant will be put into operation very quickly, the bill cannot be passed, the cement produced can be used for the construction of the hydropower station, with the current cement price accounting, in fact, there will be no loss, but also save a certain amount of transportation costs." After the hydropower station is built, the diesel generator can be replaced by cheap hydroelectric power, which greatly reduces the production cost, and the extra second-hand diesel generator can also be sold to recover part of the investment in the early stage...... At this time, even if there will be some losses, it will be very limited - this is the case of the bill not passing, but what if the bill passes?"

"......" Abacha looked at Cao Mo with a serious look and collected a bunch of English materials.

"How about Mr. Abacha, can I give you 10-20% of the equity in the cement factory?" Cao Mo asked.

Instead of pursuing high-quality modern cement production technology, the production of soil cement is very simple, and many villages in China have the ability to build small cement factories after liberation.

Ordinary cement production, divided into raw meal preparation, clinker calcination and cement three processes, can be simply summarized as "two grinding and one burning", from the perspective of simplifying technology and reducing investment, raw meal grinding can be used dry method, and clinker calcination, you can use the ordinary vertical kiln that does not rotate, with manual feeding, unloading, the early stage does not pay attention to the mechanized operation with high investment; to the fine grinding of cooked powder to make cement, do not even need to consider dust removal, flue gas disposal and finished product conveyor belt and other equipment.

During this time, Cao Mo has touched the construction and production process of the small cement factory.

The mine could not afford to buy equipment such as ball mills, and the quality of cement produced by the soil method was too poor before, but it also produced a batch of mixed materials for painting, bricklaying and flooring for the construction of the mine.

Regardless of medium-sized diesel generator sets, ball mills and other equipment, because the demand for Kanem is relatively large, Draculamo's equipment agents have cash goods.

Even if it has to be imported from China, the construction process of a small soil cement plant is too simple, and it may not take three months to complete and put into operation if you start building it now.

"If I could find a second-hand diesel generator, wouldn't the investment be lower?" Abacha asked, with some emotion.

"If you can have a second-hand diesel generator, you can reduce the investment by $200,000, and reduce the investment in the simplest cement plant to $600,000 — you just need to find a second-hand diesel generator, and I can leave you a full 20% stake." Cao Mo said.

The power supply in Kanem is too bad, the supply of diesel generators is very abundant, and there are many second-hand goods, but mainly for small households, and there are very few medium-sized generator sets used in factories and large commercial or hotels, restaurants and inns.

His previous core was to calculate the cost of a brand-new diesel generator set, and if he could buy a second-hand diesel generator, the investment in this piece could be reduced by half.

Next, the land was provided by the Ibogu tribe, and Cao Mo considered leaving 5-10% of the interest to the old chieftain's Filician family, and the Abacha or Sika families contributed 20% of the interest, and he only needed to contribute more than 400,000 US dollars.

In the next three months of construction, his share of the profits from the Ibogu gold mine will be able to cover this investment, and there is no need to think about additional financing or delaying the construction period.

Of course, there is also a premise for all this, that is, the road from the ancient village of Ipo to Draculamo should be connected.

Unlike the annual cement consumption of ordinary towns in China, which can be more than 100,200,000 tons, the Yibogu Cement Plant has been completed and put into operation, and the daily production capacity of 300 tons is difficult to digest in the entire Longta area.

It is best to invest directly in the Draculamo market, which is extremely in demand and has a large gap.

As the old capital and commercial capital of Kanem, Draculamo consumes about one-third of Kanem's total domestic production and imports of cement.

In particular, Dracula Construction is the most dependent on imported cement, as high as 890 percent.

Once the bill is passed, Draculamo will no longer be able to directly import cement, and it is really difficult to say how far the price will skyrocket.

From Ibogu to the northern outskirts of Draculamo, the road can be slowed down, but the two concrete bridges must be built as quickly as possible.

Cao Mo even thought of the name and trademark of the cement factory, and called it "Sika and Felician Family Cement Factory", yes, this time he will carry the name of the Sika family, and he can continue to stay behind the scenes safely.

"Fuck, I've got $100,000 in my hand, and I'm still a little close, I'm going to find a way to raise it, and I'm going to do it quickly," Abacha said, "Although President Buhari is strongly opposed to this bill, what I've heard says it's a bit unoptimistic!"

Cao Mo glanced at the driver and bodyguard standing aside from Abacha, it was hard to imagine that this grandson was so magnificent, with only $100,000 in cash in his hand, but it was not strange to think about it.

The bodyguards around him, who claim to have been trained by Israeli secret service officers for half a year, each have a monthly salary of 200 US dollars, and with his current income in Dongsheng, he can hire ten travelers.

Cao Mo imagined in his heart that he would hire 800 black-clothed bodyguards in Kanem in the future, and open his mouth to slip his white teeth......

"What are you laughing at?" Abba asked suspiciously, as he saw Cao Mo smirk.

"I think after the cement plant is built, it will be faster to make money than to grab money. Cao Mo said.

Abacha also smirked, urging Cao Mo to stand up and invite him back to the Sika family's manor, some things need his uncle's support to move as quickly as possible.

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The Sika family mainly operates a palm plantation with an area of tens of thousands of acres in Lunta, but the Sika family manor is not small, but it is much less luxurious and age than the Tubman family.

This also shows that the Tubman family has a deeper heritage.

It's a pity that Cao Mo's contact with little Tubman is too limited, and he doesn't know what the Tubman family has in Kanem or overseas.

He didn't ask Abacha because his instincts told him that Abacha knew very little.

Parking into the manor, Cao Mo sat in a garden with Abacha to rest, and a cook in a maid's dress brought fruit and coffee - that is, the local cook's skillful skin did not match the snow-white maid outfit, if Stari could wear this maid outfit, Cao Mo felt that she could even drink the coffee she usually hated the most.

Abacha made a phone call, and then saw a very athletic middle-aged Yoruba man walking up in a local robe.

Abacha introduced the middle-aged man as his uncle.

As the head of the Sika family, Dasika is the chief of the Yoru tribe in the southwestern part of Lonta, and he is qualified to serve as the traditional representative of the Lonta region and serve as the municipal councilor of Lonta.

Da Sika is in his early fifties, with a muscular build, thick lips, and is a pure Yoruba, not like Abacha with mixed Italian descent and more like a South African brown person.

As a Chinese, Cao Mo served the Felician family, was in charge of the operation of the Ibogu gold mine, and last time he shot away the police who were blackmailing the Felician family, which is no secret in the upper echelons of the Lonta area.

Abacha took out a batch of agricultural machinery from the family plantation and invested it in the Ibogu farm, which is on the side of the United Nations aid project in Africa, with the consent of Da Sika.

Even if Abacha's mouth is not so big, Da Sika does not know that Cao Mo is the actual controller of the Ibogu farm, but he also knows that the cooperation with the United Nations experts in Africa is the thread and bridge that Cao Mo pulls.

As a member of the regional municipal council, Da Sika came over, first expressed a warm welcome to Cao Mo as a guest at the manor, sat down to chat, and quickly commented on Cao Mo's participation in the construction of the Longta place.

Cao Mo just politely said that it was his duty to provide a little help to the development of the Felician family's business.

If you were an ordinary person, you would have been fooled by the illusion of Da Sika, but her intuition told Cao Mo that Da Sika was a conservative, stubborn and authoritarian person, and he did not like foreigners entering the Lung Tower.

The same was true of the old chieftain Felician about the Great Sika.

Schet!

It's no wonder that Abacha is not treated well by the family.

The Sika family is controlled by such a stubborn and conservative guy, how can Abacha be treated with such an outrageous character?

The ancient village of Ibo wants to build a simple road to connect directly to the northern suburbs of Draculamo City, and does not want to detour more than ten or twenty kilometers from the Longta market, one of which needs to be connected to the private road of the Sika family, and even needs to requisition more than ten acres of land from the Sika family plantation to open up the private road of the Sika family to the bank of the Yinga River, and then build a bridge to extend it to the south.

Da Sika can't pass this level, not to mention other things, even the construction of simple roads will have twists and turns.

Looking at Abacha's expression, Cao Mo intuitively felt that it had been two or three days, and Abacha had not mentioned the Tubman family's donation and the construction of the simple road to Da Sika - Abacha was still psychologically afraid of his uncle Da Sika, and he should be worried that Da Sika would not be able to pass this level.

However, if Da Sika is really stubborn and conservative, why should he behave so politely and warmly?

Even if he didn't want to be rude, he couldn't have come out to respond.

Or is it that Abacha is in the family, and he blows it as a big man, so that Da Sika misunderstands that he is a person with energy?

Cao Mo secretly pondered the subtlety of this, and at this time, a tall Yoruba young man walked in, glanced at Cao Mo, and loudly accused Abacha in Yoruba:

"Abacha, this is the Chinese garbage friend you made? You are the municipal councilor of Lonta, but you were tricked into planting vegetables by a garbage Chinese, and we Sika family have become a laughing stock in Lunta......

Needless to say, this young man was Kenhart Sika, the eldest son of the Great Sika.

As the heir to the Sika family, Kenhardt has always resented the fact that a member of the Lonta City Council was taken by his cousin Abacha, and often bites each other when they meet in public.

It's an open secret in the Lunta region.

With a big family, there are many complicated things, let alone a tribal family like Kanem with a very traditional inheritance and autocratic customs?

As the heir of the Sika family, Kenhardt may have decided that the resources of the entire family will be his in the future since he was a child, and Abacha, who he has never looked down on and has a rebellious personality, suddenly became the real power figure of Longta, and his status in the family has also skyrocketed, how can he accept it calmly?

And because Kenhardt often sneered at Abacha in public, which made Abacha very unprestigious, which also made Abacha very distressed.

How can this arrogant grandson fight with Abacha, Cao Mo can't care about it, but he actually attacks him personally?