In addition to bringing more than 200 motorcycle riders from the Sanchez Blue Star Taxi Company to gather just in case, the police were finally notified to intervene and use wreckers to push aside the two trucks blocking the street to disperse the members of the Dirt Rats Gang who had gathered and surrounded them, so that everyone could rush to the Lana Dere Beach Resort without danger.

"How do you feel now that you see Draculamo's true face?"

Cao Mo went to the hotel and was not angry with Jiaying, untied her tie, sat on the sofa and said,

"The city has a strict division of forces, and generally business convoys have relatively safe routes into the city, while the city has a closer eye on the Salt Lake Island, Victoria Island and Ikeyi Island districts, and the gang forces will not easily cause trouble. The hotel we are staying in, although it is located in a predominantly slum-rich West Bank area, but the area of Central Avenue near the Strait side has become increasingly prosperous in recent years, and the gangs that control the area have also secretly reached an agreement not to fight, so it is relatively safe. However, except for these areas, the police will avoid them, and ordinary citizens may not be able to pass through, after all, there is no oil and water to fish, but our convoy is too dazzling. We are not easy to provoke, but when we drive into other people's territory, they may not have the intention of seeking money and killing people, and they are more likely to regard our behavior as a provocation, thus triggering conflicts! In addition to the intertwined gang forces underground, the economy is in a downturn, and the extremist forces have also become active during this period -- although Kanem is currently only in the northeastern hinterland villages are frequently attacked by extremist forces, no one knows whether they will go to Draculamo to create greater international influence, wealth, power, and power, sometimes it will be useless. During your stay in West Africa, if you have any ideas, don't leave the bodyguard's field of vision, and don't advocate changing the travel plan arranged by the bodyguard......"

"Well, I see!" Cao Jiaying said with a pout.

"Okay, Jiaying is too curious. Cheng Xi said softly to Cao Mo.

"You go to the casino with Ade first, I have an important phone call to make, and I'll come back to you later." Cao Mo said to Cheng Xi.

After Cheng Xi and the others left, Cao Mo, accompanied by Xiao Kusky, walked to the office area of the hotel, pushed open the door of an office, and saw Stari reprimanding Tesa inside:

“...... Don't you explain anything to me, Cao Jiaying doesn't know the danger of Draculamo's slums, and wants to change the route to see a more real scene in Draculamo, don't you understand anything? You didn't ask Mr. Cao for instructions, you just changed the route, who believes that you didn't mean to do this, didn't mean to give them a disadvantage? Do you think Ms. Cheng can't see through your little tricks?"

Although the beach casino was partially split and the property is currently in the hands of Vovkov Investments, in the past two years, Stari and her brother Tubman Jr. have acquired a number of shares in the Lana Dere Resort from other investors, and are now the hotel's largest shareholder, taking over the operation of the hotel.

At present, Lana Dere Resort & Spa is in addition to normal operations, and has also become a branch of Tubman Security Consultants in Draculamo.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with letting Jiaying know in advance about Draculamo's danger, at least I'm here today. If I can't get out of my body one day, what strange ideas do they have, but they may encounter real danger," Cao Mo motioned for Tya to go out first, sat down and asked Stari, "Will we go to the casino later?"

"I'm not happy with what Tess is doing, but I don't like to pretend that others don't have anything to do with you. Stari said.

Cao Mo knew that too many women would cause trouble, and Taiya must also know Starry's thoughts, so he played a little harmless trick, and he couldn't reprimand Taiya for anything.

Seeing that Stari looked ready to go, he pulled her to him and asked, "Cheng Xi and they will probably only stay in Kanem for a week, and after this week, I don't need to accompany them - are you leaving Dracula soon?"

"I don't have time to fight for you, otherwise I would have caught Zhou Han's vixen and chopped it up a long time ago," Stari held Cao Mo's face and stared into his eyes and said, "Don't lie to me, the Lu family is finished, she gets her wish, and she will definitely take advantage of you before she leaves your side......"

"I'm also forced to be helpless!" Cao Mo said.

"I'll see if you're forced to be helpless now!" Stari sat on Cao Mo's lap, kissed him on the lips, hugged him for a while, and said, "Don't toss you, I really have something to hurry away." There are two oil field companies in Hendon State, and they have been bombed one after another in the past two days, and although there is no loss of personnel, the situation is already very serious, and the production of nearby oil fields and mines has been seriously affected. The government army is too incompetent to control the situation, and several oil companies have given up illusions about the government army and have decided to strengthen the security forces of the oil fields on their own, and I have made an appointment to visit Saho in the next two days, and I should be able to receive some orders......"

Extracting oil in Kanem is a lucrative business.

Although the FOB price of crude oil from Kanem has fallen to less than $50 per barrel, a barrel of oil extracted in Kanem is only a little over $20 when the costs of extraction, transportation and taxes are taken into account from extraction to transportation to the crude oil terminals in Rivers State.

The sharp drop in oil prices has seriously affected the profits that Kanem's large and small oil companies can grab, but it is far from restricting oil companies from spending large amounts of cash to hire stronger security forces to guard against attacks by local gangs or extremist forces.

When the economic crisis hit, all industries were in decline, but Tubman's security consulting company's business was very hot, and the quotation was much higher than before.

"Aren't you going to punish Tya, the affairs of the Holden State sent her to take charge of it, and make her suffer a little," Cao Mo said, "but you still stay in Draculamo, and you have something else to take care of......

"What's the matter?"

"The piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is rampant again—" Cao Mo said with a sigh.

Metropolises like Draculamo have been plagued by a raging crisis, setbacks in economic activity, increased unemployment among the poor, especially among the middle and lower classes in the cities, restlessness, and poor law and order.

Not only are there many desperate bandits gathering in the wilderness around Draculamo, but the pirates in the Gulf of Guinea region are also reactive.

But it's not that countries like Kanem, Benin, or Akwa have worse navies than those pirates.

In fact, the equipment of most pirate forces is very rudimentary, with a dozen or twenty AK47s and a few speedboats, they can already be regarded as climatic forces, and it is impossible to compare with the naval forces of countries with large and medium-sized warships.

However, the countries along the Gulf of Guinea are not interested in combating piracy.

In other words, the navies of the countries along the Gulf of Guinea are even more troublesome than the national army, and there have even been recent incidents of regular warships being repelled by a few pirate speedboats, which is extremely humiliating, but the ships of the Gulf of Guinea shipping company are not very afraid of being harassed by pirate forces.

It seems that in any region and at any time, the political and economic environment is chaotic, and the combat effectiveness of private armed forces is more guaranteed.

Cao Mo was also quite speechless when he saw such a report.

"The ships of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are big and fast, and those pirates also know that the ships of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are difficult to bite, no one has come to find trouble, and now no matter how rampant the piracy force is, it only makes other ships dare not go to sea, which can maintain the shipping price in the Gulf of Guinea, what's wrong with this?" Stari asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you still have to pay privately to fight piracy forces for Kanem, Akwa and other countries?"

The security forces of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company are all in charge of Tubman Security Consultants, and Stari knows better than anyone else about the security situation in the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south of Kanem and Akwa.

It is precisely the rampant piracy that has made many shipping companies afraid to set foot in the business, and other companies have also raised the price of sea freight.

The Gulf of Guinea shipping company suffered a brief loss due to the sharp drop in shipping prices last year, but it was able to quickly turn a profit after the year, mainly due to the rampant piracy that caused the shipping prices in the Gulf of Guinea to rebound sharply.

Cao Mo is thinking about the problem now, of course, it is impossible to just stay at the narrow position of raising Kou to make the Guinean shipping company enrich itself, and said:

"China is affected by economic stimulus policies, at this time it can be clearly said that it has come out of the shadow of the economic crisis, and in addition to the inertia of economic growth, most of the large-scale infrastructure projects implemented by China to stimulate the economy have just laid a foundation, and the next two or three years will really usher in a strong explosion of demand for various raw materials. Ge Jun judged that in two or three years, China is destined to rise to become the world's most important and strongest raw material demander, thereby driving global raw material prices and supply and demand back to the track before the economic crisis. Now the top level of the Chinese government should be very clear enough to realize this, and has sent additional warships to the coast of East Africa, where piracy is more rampant, to escort commercial activities - in addition to the longer distances, West Africa has always been a military reserve of Europe and the United States, and China has no logistics supply base on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, so it should not be possible to directly send warships into the Gulf of Guinea, and some things can only be secretly promoted by ourselves......

After more than two years of construction, the first mine with a total investment of more than 400 million US dollars has been completed, but the new copper concentrate production of the first mine every year has already used up the narrow-gauge railway capacity from Kruno and Drake to Port Pemei.

The copper concentrate from the Usan River is currently transferred to Draculamo Port through medium-sized ore ships, and then transferred to large ore ships at Draculamo Port, so that it can be sent to the smelting furnace of domestic copper smelters at lower transportation costs.

However, after the completion of the first mine, the annual production capacity of the metal copper is only 60,000 tons and the gold is only 250,000 ounces, but in order to truly give full play to the copper and gold reserve potential of the Wusan River copper-gold mine, the economic value of the Wusan River copper-gold mine will be excavated to the maximum extent within the 30-year mining right license period, and the total production capacity of the second and third mines will be almost six to eight times that of the first mine.

This is far more than the existing industrial and transport capacity in the northern region of Akwa.

Cao Mo has nearly $600 million in cash in his hand, and the pool of funds is even accumulating at a rate of $50 or 60 million a month, but if he wants to independently undertake the follow-up construction of the Wusan River copper-gold mine, and at the same time improve the industrial and transportation supporting capacity of the northern region of Akwa, his money is far from enough.

Regardless of external disturbance forces, the second and third mines on the Usan River, as well as the industrial capacity of the Drake area, and the construction of a new high-speed freight railway in Drake and Pemei Harbor, and a new deep-water terminal with an annual loading and handling capacity of more than one million tons in Pemei Harbor, will require at least $3 billion in funding.

With the rapid recovery and growth of the domestic economy, which in turn will drive the strong demand for global raw materials, there should be more capital at home and abroad to embark on the pace of global prospecting again.

Whether the Usan River copper-gold mine can attract the corresponding investors to participate in the construction at the first time will have a direct relationship with whether the country of Akwa and the entire Gulf of Guinea can be calm.

The Gulf of Guinea shipping company, relying on Tianyue's internal copper concentrate, cement and coal in Akwa, Kanem and other countries, has already eaten enough, and can even take out a part of the cash to subsidize the ocean shipping business, without fear of the impact of the economic downturn.

However, in the whole region, the Gulf of Guinea shipping company is too strong, and even if the competitors do not act in secret, after the piracy is becoming more and more rampant, and the other shipping companies that can provide them with fishing and hunting are increasingly running out of meat to eat, who can guarantee that the pirates will not unite and extend their evil tentacles to the Gulf of Guinea shipping company?

Most of the pirates who dare to go to sea with a few guns and a few speedboats are outlaws.

Cao Mo didn't think that with the armed escort of the Gulf of Guinea shipping company by Tubman Security Consultants, he could really completely deter the pirates.

These pirate forces are not now looking for the ships of the Gulf of Guinea shipping company because there are other soft persimmons that can be pinched with greater benefits, costs and risks.

Of course, Cao Mo didn't think about asking Tubman Security Consulting Company to directly send someone to send a ship to the sea to find the pirate forces to kill each other with open swords and guns.

How to move forward with this matter in the future is what he needs to urgently bring everyone together for discussion when he returns to Africa this time.

When discussing this issue, of course, Stari needs to be directly involved, not just someone who can replace her.

"Okay, I'll arrange for Tya to go to Hedon Prefecture to take charge of the affairs there, and I'll stay here for the time being. However, for such a complicated matter, Kusky may not be able to help with any ideas, you let Zhou Han's vixen listen to my instructions in the future. I'm going to keep an eye on her in the future, so that she doesn't have the opportunity to force you to do something you don't like in the future, and you won't have to be so aggrieved in the future!" Stari said.

"Okay......"

Tubman Security Consultants, the Kusky Brothers, Tesya, Duganj and others led the tactical team to charge into battle, completing specific security tasks one by one, no problem, but when it came to analyzing the complex situation, even Stari was a little blind.

On the entire African continent, there are few people who are good at dissecting layouts.

After Zhou Han returned to Africa, he mainly assisted Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan in dealing with local political leaders, and now let her enter Tubman Security Consulting Company to assist Stari, and the most serious consequence may be that he has much fewer opportunities to steal food......

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Cao Mo, accompanied by Little Kuski, walked into the reopened beach casino.

Even if Yan Zhicheng and Yan Ming's uncle and nephew received the support of the Oppenheimer family to restart the Lana Dere Beach Casino, Niz O'Habenmer and Nsanger did not have the courage of the Lu brothers after all, and Sturgeon Foster was not too keen on the casino business, so the resumption of operation of the Lana Dere Beach Casino was much bleaker than at its peak.

Even now, even if there are many dusty women who come to Draculamo to beg for a living, the few who run to the casino are quite unsatisfactory, far less attractive than those tall brown-skinned mixed-race girls with beautiful faces.

Of course, it is said that their business is not bad, after all, some Chinese businessmen and Chinese employees who are much lonely, and they still need some verbal communication when they see that the people in their hometown are still cordial.

In recent years, although Draculamo has also had several entertainment centers run by Chinese businessmen, some of the excitement is a trembling thing, far less exciting and addictive than the casino.

Draculamo's casino license is very strictly controlled, and Chinese businessmen operate underground casinos, but it is difficult to ensure public security, and it is difficult to become a climate, and in the past two years, more and more Chinese businessmen and Chinese employees have poured into West Africa, so the Lana Dere Beach casino has reopened, even if it is not as magnificent as before, but it is also overcrowded.

If it weren't for the black dealers and those exotic girls, looking at the faces with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin in the hall, they would have thought that they were in a casino in Macau.

The hall is dominated by bacilla, slot machines, blackjack and other gameplay, Cao Mo walked into the hall and saw Jiaying pulling Cheng Xin to squeeze in front of a bacillary card table, Cheng Xin frowned, and carefully calculated something, Jiaying was purely relaxed, and did not take the chips in his hand seriously.

"Miss Cheng, let's sit inside!" Seeing Cao Mo coming over, a bodyguard came over to say hello.

Cao Mo saw Wu Ruifang and Cheng Xi sitting in front of a shuttle card table in the corner of the east hall playing cards, while Yu Jing was standing behind Cheng Xi with a flushed face, and she could see that she was more excited and nervous than Cheng Xi who went into battle in person.

At the same table, Cao Mo actually saw Liang Yuan and Guo Jian, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and he walked over quietly.

"You're done talking? Cheng Xi turned around and wanted to stand up and change Cao Mo to sit at the table.

"I'm going to serve at the table, it's just too much of a bully - you keep playing, I'll be your staff officer. Cao Mo glanced at Liang Yuan and Guo Jian, pressed Cheng Xixiang's slippery shoulder, and let her continue to sit at the table and play cards.

"I still don't play anymore, I'm about to lose all Yu Jing's chips!" Cheng Xi held his chin and said pitifully, "Twenty thousand dollars, I haven't played for half an hour until now - alas, this is going to let my mother know, and I will be disciplined again......"

"The two of them sat at the table, especially for Cheng Xi, otherwise Cheng Xi would not have lost so much, and he won more than two thousand at the beginning!" Yu Jing stared at Liang Yuan and Guo Jian opposite him unhappily, and complained to Cao Mo.

Cao Mo glanced at the chips in front of Liang Yuan, there were about 1670,000 US dollars, with such a chip advantage, and with his card skills and ability to observe words and colors, there was no problem in eating the whole game at this table.

He didn't have a lot of chips in front of Wu Ruifang, he had seen Wu Ruifang play cards, her mentality was very stable, and her calculation ability was also strong, but she didn't seem to have the power to resist in front of Liang Yuan.

Seeing Liang Yuan sitting there seemingly as steady as Mount Tai, pretending to be calm and gently knocking on the table with a chip, Cao Mo knew that he was really going to play, and this grandson was determined to leave immediately, and said with a smile:

"It's useless for you to complain to me, I really can't bully people......"

"Mr. Cao, do you want to move to the VIP room?" Yan Ming asked with a smile on his face.

Not to talk about the relationship behind the scenes, there are not many Chinese businessmen present who will not greet Cao Mo with a smile when they see Cao Mo.

Yan Zhicheng and Yan Ming re-operated the casino in Drelamore, mainly doing business as Chinese businessmen, and they wanted to maintain a neutral posture and greet everyone with a smile, but he had more respect for Cao Mo, whose status and identity were different from the past, and his service was more meticulous, and no one suspected that there was anything greasy in it.

After all, Cao Mo is more qualified than anyone else.

"It's good here," Cao Mo said with a smile, "You can help me get $400,000 in chips and distribute them to Miss Wu and Cheng Xi, we don't bully others in chips, and we can't let others use chips to pressure us......"

"You don't want me to sit and play, do you?" Cheng Xi was startled and asked in a low voice.

"You have to start learning to be a loser now, otherwise how can I spend the money I earn?" Cao Mo asked Yu Jing again, "Do you want to play with 200,000 chips?"

"I don't want to, I just played for a while, and my back is sweating!" Yu Jing stuck out her tongue and shook her head hurriedly.

If Cao Mo sat down, Liang Yuanda could pull Guo Jian and leave directly, no one would think that he was embarrassed, but Cao Mo didn't go to the table, but gave two women 200,000 US dollars each, especially one of them sat down at the table and asked others the rules of the shuttle, and then he had to get up and leave, wouldn't it become a big laughing stock?

However, in fact, even if Cao Mo is not on the table, it is impossible for Liang Yuan to ignore Cao Mo's existence.

He still dared to continue to use psychological fraud to set traps or speculate under Cao Mo's nose? Not to mention what kind of bargaining advantage he was talking about in Cao Mo, who was rich and wealthy!

"Mr. Cao, I heard that you have returned to Kanem, and you are still causing some trouble on Independence Street—I guess something will not bother you, you should be here at this time!"

Liang Yuan was in a dilemma when he heard someone shouting to Cao Mo in the hallway, and when he looked up, he saw Nsanger walking over with Sturgeon Foster.

Cao Mo turned around, except for Nsanger and Sturgeon, he didn't expect Maye Mantal, who had been unable to contact these two people for eight lifetimes, to walk in together, and he didn't know that Maye Mantal was in Draculamo at this time.

Cao Mo turned around, shook hands with Sturgeon, Maye Mantal, and Nsangel, and glanced at the blonde woman who deliberately walked behind Maye after entering the hall, and saw that she was tall, but her face was a little similar to Sturgeon, and she didn't know what kind of person she was in the Foster family.

"I heard that Mr. Cao's card skills are very good, how can he stand aside empty-handed?" The blonde woman saw that she had attracted Cao Mo's attention, so she stepped forward and asked in very fluent Chinese.

Cao Mo could feel the blonde woman's aggressive hostility, smiled indifferently, and said, "No one here is my opponent at the card table, why should I bully these children?"