Chapter Ninety-Two: The Village of Kolo
"Send Miss Stari directly to the village of Colo," Lucy suggested.
The site for the second hydropower plant is currently located in the Kolo tribe to the west of the Ipba......
The second hydropower station was of course located on another tributary of the Antlers River, which is not inferior in size and water level difference to that of a tributary of the Ibogu River, called the Gray Crow River.
After the completion of this hydropower station, it will be able to generate 20 million kWh of electricity a year, and it is estimated that the construction investment will require 2.7 million US dollars.
The upper reaches of this tributary, close to Ibogu, are currently part of the Filician family's prospecting area, and land contracts with the Kolo tribe have been signed.
At present, Cao Mo mainly attracts and trains mature workers from the tribe in the factories, farms, mining areas and infrastructure construction teams in Ibogu, and as a condition for contracting the construction of hydropower stations and mining land, Cao Mo has even promised to build a smaller demonstration farm there.
However, this tributary, translated Chinese as the Gray Crow River, has a section of its upstream channel very close to the Ibogu River, separated by a low mountain, but the mouth of the main stream of the Lujiao River is seven kilometers west of the Ibogu tribe.
The mouth of the Grey Raven River that flows into the Antler River is only six or seven kilometers away from the coastline.
The flow of the Grey Crow River is not small, but it is too close to the mouth of the sea, and its water resources have not been well utilized.
At present, Cao Mo has opened a new road from the mining area to Kolo Village, directly over a mountain beam, less than two kilometers on foot, and another road is to go west along the Lujiaochuan River, go around to the mouth of the Gray Crow River and drive deep into the shallow valley to the north, about 11 or 2 kilometers of muddy dirt road, you can reach the forest in the north of Kolo Village.
Because it was determined that the second hydropower station would be built there, Cao Mo had already arranged for people to build a shed there, and the engineering team also had people stationed there to do hydrogeological survey work.
Settling the Stari directly there minimizes the risk of exposure.
Cao Mo also thought Lucy's idea was good.
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There were suspicious vehicles parked on the side of the road along the way, monitoring the passing traffic, and Ade and Oulu drove Mitsubishi off-road in front, and were even stopped twice.
However, the old liberation of the old liberation that Ibogu bought for the delivery of vegetables, and did not know from which way to transport them to Kanem, was really inconspicuous, and drove all the way out of Draculamo without hindrance, and no one came forward to intercept and search.
Entering the territory of Oyo State, Stari's tense nerves finally relaxed.
She first slept on Cao Mo's shoulder, she was too tired, and then she simply lay half of her body in Cao Mo's arms, and hugged Cao Mo's waist in her sleep.
Intuition tells Cao Mo that Stari, who is proud at heart, is actually an extremely insecure person.
When the morning sun rose and Cao Mo woke up, the car had already passed by the town of Longta, and was driving from east to west to Yibogu Village, and the morning sun shone into the carriage.
Lucy fell asleep in the corner of the carriage, and Stari was lying on his lap, her face so beautiful and charming.
Cao Mo couldn't help but take her fingers and gently rub her fingers on Stari's delicate face, feeling the soft elasticity and tenderness that made people's minds indulge.
Stari opened her eyes, looked at Cao Mo in a daze for two seconds, and then changed to a comfortable position and slept in Cao Mo's arms.
In order to avoid crowds, at nine o'clock in the morning, when the car arrived at the fork in the Ibogu tribe, Cao Mo took Stari and Lucy to ride the Mitsubishi off-road driven by Ade and Oulu, and rushed directly to the mouth of the Gray Raven River, and from there went around to the village of Kolo.
When the time comes, it will be enough to arrange two more reliable people from Ibogu to take care of her......
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The mouth of the Crow River is six or seven kilometers away from the Atlantic Ocean on the west side of the Lonta, which is the true estuary of the Staghorn River, but less than two kilometers east of the mouth of the Crow River is a lagoon called Lake Conero.
Lake Cornello is narrow from east to west and 112 kilometers long from north to south, separated from the Atlantic Ocean to the west by a long strip of shore beach – it can even be said that Lake Conero is part of the Atlantic Ocean's intrusion into the land.
There is no complete road from the Ibogu tribe to the true estuary of the Antlers River, and the so-called estuary fishing port of Lonta is actually a few rudimentary wharves scattered on the north side of Lake Conero.
Cao Mo parked her car at the mouth of the Raven River and could see a few sporadic fishing boats floating on the surface of Lake Conero.
Before coming to Kanem, it is really difficult to imagine that Kanem, which has thousands of kilometers of coastline, eats more than eighty percent of the marine fish imported from other countries every year, but it has been almost three years since he arrived in Kanem, and Cao Mo now understands that due to the influence of ocean currents in the Gulf of Guinea, the offshore waters of Kanem have not formed a particularly large and excellent fishing ground, and Kanem's fishing industry is too backward, and there is no ability to fish far away from the offshore and farther ocean fishing grounds.
The industrial park that Abacha is looking forward to building is the area south of the mouth of the Crow River and east of Lake Conero.
Lake Conero is connected to the Atlantic Ocean, and the limited amount of water fed by the Staghorn River makes the lake indistinguishable from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and the soil along the shore is saltwater-impregnated and unsuitable for growing oil palm trees or other plants, and overgrown with wild grasses.
This piece of land has no supporting facilities except for a fairly flat terrain, a mud road, and a few so-called fishing port wharves, and Cao Mo can hardly imagine how difficult it will be to build a modern industrial park here with Longta's existing finances.
Of course, if you really want to build a modern medium-to-large cement plant with a capacity of more than 500,000 tons per year, there is no better location than on the shores of Lake Conero.
The shores of Lake Conero are close to hydroelectric facilities.
On the shores of Lake Conero, the investment in building berths for large ships is too large, and even before a specific survey, it is not known whether there are corresponding waterway conditions, but the investment in berths of three or five thousand tons is still limited, and the navigation conditions should also be available.
By building a plant on the shores of Lake Coneiro, the cement produced will be transported along the coastline by the Ogun River to Draculamo, Catro and other coastal cities in Canem, and even to neighboring countries such as Benin.
This is a significant cost savings compared to road transport.
What's more, although the distance between Ronta and Draculamo is long, it is impossible to build a high-grade highway in just three to five years.
Of course, he didn't want to attract the attention of the Stanin and Atessa families now, and the new cement plant construction plan could only exist silently on paper at present, and he did not dare to implement it in earnest.
"What are you thinking?" The off-road vehicle drove through the estuary towards the Kolo tribe deep in the valley, and Stari saw that Cao Mo was still staring at the direction of the estuary behind him through the rearview mirror, and couldn't help but ask him curiously in Chinese.
"The night before yesterday, you kicked Baha, but Abacha pulled me in the hotel and asked if it was possible to learn from China and build an industrial park there, and I told him that it was too difficult......," Cao Mo said.
Stari studied language in China for a year and studied for another year as an undergraduate, and is now a half-China expert, and she still has some understanding of the development zones and industrial park models in China since the reform and opening up, and she has a better understanding of Kanem's industrial development.
At present, in addition to Draculamo, which concentrates more than 50% of Kanem's manufacturing industry, a considerable part is concentrated in Port Harcourt, a river state in the southeast, at the mouth of the Niger River.
And apart from Dracula and Port Harcourt, there is no decent manufacturing in the whole of Kanem or even in the new capital of Isedan.
The countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with the exception of South Africa, which have a fairly strong manufacturing base, are not faring slightly better than Kanem.
Although Kanem still has the world's fifth-largest crude oil and natural gas to export, and the overall economic scale is slightly inferior to that of South Africa, the quality of life of ordinary people in China is far lower than that of South Africa.
Thinking of this, Stari was also a little gloomy, and she did not have the joy of escaping from Dracula and temporarily escaping from danger.
For the construction of the second hydropower station and the larger-scale rock gold mining reserves, the Felician family mining and power company signed a land contract and mineral development agreement with the Anaim family of the Kolo tribe, agreeing to provide the Anaim family with a total cost of not less than 100,000 US dollars per year plus a 5% profit dividend, and to help the Anaim family build a 300-acre staple grain planting demonstration farm free of charge, and provide corresponding technical support.
This can be said to be a windfall for the Kolo tribe, which is even poorer than the Ibogu tribe.
As the head of operations for the Felician family's mining and power company, Cao Mo had several contacts with the chief of the Kolo tribe, Anem.
Most of the villagers of the Kolo tribe also believe in the Ibogu snake god, and when the chief Anem saw Cao Mo entering the tribe by car, he also welcomed him with a fluttering eyebrow.
Cao Mo was naturally in no mood to stay in Koluo Village as a guest, and lied that he wanted to take someone to inspect the leveling of the site of the hydropower station.
The mountain road is not rugged, but it is unusually bumpy, and it is also thanks to the fact that they drive an off-road vehicle, which can withstand such a toss.
The new hydropower station is located in a canyon, and only two wooden sheds have been built, but a two-kilometer-long mountain road has been opened up to the mining area for personnel to enter and exit, and the infrastructure team is currently organizing personnel to do further widening, so that follow-up engineering equipment can be transported directly from the mining area.
There were workers on duty before the site selection shed, but they were all transferred by Lucy in advance, and then Stari lived here, and arranged for two reliable people to take care of her, avoiding contact with the outside world as much as possible, and there should be no problem in the short term.
"......" Stari was also temporarily relieved, watching the Crow River meandering in the mountains and forests, and her mood was a little more relaxed.
Cao Mo tried her best to avoid any abnormalities that would be suspected in Draculamo, and she didn't prepare a long skirt or women's jeans for Stari to change into, Stari was still bare-legged and wearing Cao Mo's wide T-shirt, standing on the rocks on the riverbank, her slender back really like a deer that broke into the crowd......
Seeing this scene, even Lucy had to say jealously: "What a charming little goblin!"