The Tubman family's palm plantation is located north of the suburbs from Draculamo.

The plantation is very large, about eight or nine square kilometres, and is full of tall oil palm trees as far as the eye can see, with a gravel road that extends deep into the plantation.

Cao Mo had walked this road before, thinking that he would be able to enter Longta from this road to the north, but he did not expect that the gravel road was eventually cut off by a small river running east-west, and there was not even a small wooden bridge to the north.

Unexpectedly, this gravel path turned out to be a private road inside the Tubman family's palm plantation.

The Tubman family has a private estate on the edge of the plantation, covering thirty or forty acres, and under the same tall and neat palm trees is a smooth lawn, where several gardeners are busy.

The estate is separated from the surrounding oil palm plantations by a natural curving stream, and the car drives along the riverbank to see more than a dozen white-feathered waterfowl swimming in the stream.

Entering from the entrance of the manor, there are tall jacarandas growing on both sides of the road.

It's the jacaranda season, so stop your car on the side of the road and look up at the sky as if a gorgeous blue-purple canopy is overhead.

"Let's go, don't look stupid!" Cao Mo smiled and pushed Song Yuqing, who looked up at the dazzled eyes, and reminded Yang Deshan that they had all gone to the front.

"Looking at this situation, the Tubman family has a very deep background, how could they think of selling their business at this time?" Song Yuqing asked, "What did you hear yesterday?"

Little Tubman quarreled with his sister, as if to say that the Tubman family was in crisis, and if they didn't sell the crushing plant for emergency, they would be forced to sell other assets that could not be sold, which coaxed the little pepper away, but it is not clear what kind of crisis it encountered. Cao Mo said to Song Yuqing.

"Didn't Abacha say that the Tubman family had no other assets other than a plantation and a crushing plant?" Song Yuqing asked suspiciously.

"I also believed Abacha's words at first, but when I saw the two houses of the Tubman family, there should be more to this family than that—Abacha himself didn't know it. Cao Mo said.

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The main building of the Tubman family's manor house is older than yesterday's mansion on the island of Ikoi, but it covers a larger area, and the floor area of one main building may be three or four thousand square meters.

The car is parked in the small square with a fountain in front of the main building, and a curved step is the vestibule of the main building, where there are still butlers and maids standing at the gate, and bodyguards with guns are of course also indispensable.

It was relatively early, and everyone went to the small garden behind the main building to have morning and afternoon tea, and then went to the crushing plant one kilometer away to see the actual situation.

The area of the crushing plant is not large, with a total of more than 30 acres, located in the southeast corner of the plantation.

Cao Mo and the others drove to the crushing plant, where a black Dodge was parked in front of the factory.

He noticed little Tubman's brow frowning slightly, and then he saw the girl who had knocked over his coffee cup yesterday coming out of the press with a gloomy expression, and his eyes swept over everyone, and he walked towards the Dodge parked on the side of the road.

"This girl is so beautiful!" Song Yuqing and Cao Mo were ordinary entourages today, so they chatted casually behind them.

The girl's clothes are very simple, white T-shirts, cargo pants and muddy boots, and her long brown hair is simply tied behind her shoulders with colored headbands.

Of course, the girl opened the car door, even though she stepped into the car, the slender back made Cao Mo think of Cheng Xiza's ponytail back at this moment.

Cao Mo patted his head, since he took the initiative to alienate himself from Cheng Xi and maintained an ordinary classmate or friend relationship, he shouldn't think that he was developed and think about something.

Even if Jiaying said that Cheng Xi has been in college for three years, and she doesn't know how many boys are pursuing her around her, she should have fallen in love in school a long time ago, right?

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"Cao Mo, come here. Yang Deshan beckoned Cao Mo and Song Yuqing to the front.

The equipment of the crushing plant is old, but the maintenance is good, and the cooking and drying of oil palm fruit also uses the crushing residue as fuel as much as possible.

Aside from the fact that the pressing machines are somewhat old, the large-scale cultivation of cash crops in Kanem is probably the only industry that can lead China in the early two or three hundred years of operation - even the harvesting of oil palm fruit in the plantations and the care of the forest are also mechanized, orderly and efficient.

The management of the crushing plant is very fluent in English and is quite familiar with production management.

Of course, the vast majority of the workers are still local farmers with a very low level of education.

In order for Yang Deshan to communicate with these local employees, he needs the management of the crushing plant to translate in the middle.

Yang Deshan pretended to inadvertently call Cao Mo and Song Yuqing, who were left behind, because he didn't want the management of the squeezing factory to deliberately avoid some sensitive content in the words of local employees when translating.

The site trip to the mill went pretty well, and on the drive back to the Tubman family estate, Tubman Jr. mentioned a $2 million purchase offer.

Yang Deshan is now thinking about signing an agreement of intent first to conduct a preliminary investigation of the assets of the crushing plant.

The final purchase price and whether to confirm the transaction, hire a third party to conduct audits, credit review, etc., should wait for Wang Jianzhong to lead the new personnel to come over to discuss together, and then submit to the business department for approval.

In the morning, we will visit the site, dine at the Tubman family estate at noon, and check the qualification documents and asset ledger of the crushing plant in the afternoon.

As a veteran colonial enterprise in Kanem, the management level of the Tubman family's crushing plant is not slightly worse than that of the emerging enterprises in China, and the management ledger of the enterprise is very complete.

In the evening, after a sumptuous dinner prepared by the Tubman family, the two parties happily signed the agreement of intent to acquire.

With this agreement of intent and the information provided by the Tubman family about the crushing plant, Yang Deshan was relieved.

Abacha returned directly to Lunta from the Tubman family estate that night, a wooden bridge connected the rustic dirt roads on both sides of the Tubman family estate, and a section of wasteland that was inaccessible but barely accessible by a powerful 4x4 vehicle like the Grand Cherokee.

This is even more determined, Cao Mo and other minerals have sufficient funds to buy a second-hand off-road first.

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There was no direct flight from Xinhai to Draculamo, and Cao Mo and his family came to transfer from Italy for the first time, and there were no delays, and the whole flight took more than 30 hours.

The next morning, Yang Deshan rushed to complete the two off-road vehicles, and did not rush to do anything about the transfer procedures, and when it was nearly dusk in the afternoon, he took Cao Mo, Guo Jian and the driver to drive three cars to the desolate international airport in Draculamo to greet the newly assigned employees.

The newly dispatched employees, including Wang Jianzhong, deputy general manager of the branch, Cao Mo did not know any of them.

Seeing the shocked and discoloured look on their faces as they each walked out of the reception hall with two or three suitcases, Cao Mo thought of the situation when she first arrived in Draculamo two years ago.

The most prosperous city in West Africa is also far from what they imagined.

This is Draculamo, a city of 12 million people, full of poverty, violence and social tension – while Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, the most developed city in Africa and one of the top 100 cities in the world, has a population of less than four million.

Wang Jianzhong is about forty years old, the same age as Yang Deshan, medium build, wearing rimless eyes, looking polite, and greeted Yang Deshan affectionately: "I haven't seen you for a few days, and the top of your head is sparse again?"

Cao Mo thought that if Yang Deshan could completely vent the emotions in his heart, he would not pretend to be affectionate and laugh over, and walked over to help Wang Jianzhong carry his luggage, but slapped him over.

The other five employees are four men and one woman, all four of whom are the same age as Guo Jian, and the girls are the same age as Cao Mo, petite in stature, but their faces are also beautiful, and there is no disappointment in her eyes, but more curiosity about the city of Draculamo.

Cao Mo had already seen their information, and the four male employees were from the factories under the former Ministry of Grain and Oil, and Wang Jianzhong brought them over to contact the management and technical personnel who were responsible for the acquisition of the crushing plant and the follow-up specific operations.

The girl's name is Wang Wen, and she is a new financial staff member of the group who works as an assistant to Song Yuqing.

She knew Song Yuqing in the group's finance department before, and her personality was quite cheerful and generous, so she asked Song Yuqing why she didn't come to the airport to pick them up when she got in the car.

With so many newly dispatched employees, even if Yang Deshan is eager for their plane crash, the first meal to welcome the newcomers will be more hearty and enthusiastic.

Song Yuqing accompanied Sterna in the afternoon to buy ingredients and prepare dinner, and Oulu was responsible for helping them to ensure their safety.

Although the desolation along the outskirts of the city and the squalor of the urban area are somewhat beyond the imagination of new employees, when they drive into the community where the staff dormitory is located, their mood is slightly brighter.

After all, the living conditions are okay, and they are not scared.

Guo Jian kept introducing the situation of Dracula to the new employees and the matters they must pay attention to after they settled in, and from time to time interjected some cases of local employees colluding with criminal gangs to rob Chinese businessmen, asking everyone to maintain a high degree of vigilance against local employees, and if there is any need to send local employees of the branch, they must go through him or Cao Mo.

Cao Mo played the role of his ordinary clerk, just help out.

Anyway, he can claim to be Yang Deshan's "person", and Wang Jianzhong can ignore any instructions.

The move-in arrangement was for Wang Wen and Sterna, who were girls, to live in Cao Mo and Song Yuqing's other buildings; the four newly recruited drivers and bodyguards shared a room as a dormitory in the villa where Wang Jianzhong and Guo Jian lived; and Wang Jianzhong and the four employees of the former grain and oil department shared the last villa as a dormitory.

If the purchase agreement is really to be finally negotiated, these four employees of the former grain and oil department will follow Wang Jianzhong to take over the crushing plant.

The dinner was more sumptuous, everyone sat around the table, and when they were introducing each other, the electric light of the "popping tower" went out first.

As Cao Mo stood up to help Sterna light a candle, a crisp gunshot rang out from a nearby street outside the community.

Cao Mo, who had long been accustomed to it, carefully placed the candlesticks between the tables and dishes, and looked at the new employees who were at a loss, and smiled in his heart, they were much less frightened than being robbed at gunpoint on the first day they arrived in Draculamo.