Chapter 244: A Piece of the Pie
Although Cao Mo mainly hoped that Zhou Han's accomplices in Akwa would send someone to pick them up at this time, Zhou Han was definitely unwilling to take the initiative to expose her connection with Western Union Petroleum, and he didn't want to suspect him after being bitten hard by Zhou Han and her accomplices in the Lu family, and some inducements had to be more concealed.
Seeing that Xie Sipeng and Lu Yan realized the severity of the situation, Cao Mo did not directly point to Western Union Petroleum, but asked Xie Sipeng first:
"What is the name of the senior executive of the Akwa Mining Company you have acquainted, can you help us?"
In front of Cao Mo, Lu Yan and others before, Xie Sipeng said how hard his relationship was in Akwa National Mining Group, and that was to encourage everyone to come to Akwa with him, but now that his life is at stake, he didn't dare to brag about anything anymore, smiled bitterly, and said honestly:
"I've eaten a few times and given some filial piety, but in this place of Akwa, people's hearts are much darker than in China, and there are many people who don't do anything when they collect money, and even bite back. If it's an ordinary thing, a phone call should still be able to get a friendship, but if it really involves the Waka military camp, it's really hard to say—why don't I contact him and give it a try?"
Cao Mo had long known that Xie Sipeng could not have any strong relations in Akwa, and when Xie Sipeng boasted about Akwa National Mining Group's senior Shabot Langming in Draculamo, he asked Xiao Jun, who was in charge of Akwa's business on behalf of Tianyue, to do some investigations, and he didn't expect Shabot Langming to really play any role at this time.
Seeing that Xie Sipeng was really going to try to ask Shabot Langming for help again, Cao Mo stopped him and said:
"Since you don't know Lang Ming very well, if you contact him, on the one hand, he won't pay attention to this matter, and on the other hand, he is unlikely to get involved in this big trouble - and even if he says he is willing to help, it is likely to help us urge the local police again. Not only is this useless, but it may also encourage the bandits to take risks. We stayed at the hostel and it was safe for the time being. ”
"Let's set off now and rush directly to Pemei Port, is it feasible?" Lu Yan asked, "We are only more than two hundred kilometers away from Pemei Port, and if you look at the map, if you can drive forty or fifty kilometers forward, we will be out of the scope of this gang's crime, as long as we move quickly, these people should not be able to react......
"It's very likely that we were being targeted when we crossed the border checkpoint, but we didn't think we would stay here because of the heavy rain. After that, they sent men to inquire twice, and now, in addition to the collusion of people in the hotel, I suspect that he and his wife have arranged for people to keep an eye on us outside the town - they are so many and so strong in fire, that if we leave the town and be intercepted by them in the wilderness, it will be really ineffective. Cao Mo denied Lu Yan's suggestion, he and Shen Ji and Abacha were specially modified, even if they were intercepted, they were very sure to rush out, but Xie Sipeng, Lu Yan and others were all ordinary off-road vehicles, and the robbers strafed them with a shuttle of bullets, so they were really desperate.
Xie Sipeng nodded, he didn't advocate rash action.
It would be far better for him to wait until tomorrow when another convoy arrives from the border checkpoint, and then converge and walk in the direction of the port of Pemei, the capital of Akwa, with a large number of people, than to act rashly at this time.
However, he pondered for a while, feeling that it would be unreliable to wait for other convoys to come from the border checkpoint tomorrow; after all, who knows what kind of water the other party is underwater, and will they face the robbers with them?
After all, it is impossible to count on tomorrow
There are fleets of Chinese companies passing by, right?
Xie Sipeng is also an old man, but he couldn't think of any proper strategy for a long time, so he asked Lu Yan:
"Western Union Petroleum, which has cooperation with Taihua, since it can do crude oil trading in Akwa, it should have a good relationship in Akwa - can you contact the people of Western Union Petroleum to see if they can find anyone, or hire another group of bodyguards directly from Pemei Port to pick us up?"
"Okay, I'll get in touch first. Lu Yan saw that the situation was serious, no matter whether Western Union Petroleum could help or not, he always had to try, at least the relationship between Taihua and Western Union Petroleum was much more reliable than Xie Sipeng and that Langming.
Watching Lu Yan use a satellite phone to contact the people of Western Union Petroleum, Cao Mo walked out of the window, saw that it was pitch black outside, and there were scattered raindrops drifting into the room, took out a cigarette and lit it in front of the window, and lowered his voice and said to Zhou Han, who was standing in front of the window sill and observing him:
"You can use this matter to win Lu Yan's trust, I will definitely not do much, but your reinforcements must arrive here tomorrow morning. ”
Cao Mo knew that even if he didn't interfere, Zhou Han and her behind-the-scenes accomplices might use this incident to show their energy in Akwa, but he was worried that in order to completely win Lu Yan's trust, they would most likely delay until the situation became worse and worse, and even some people were killed or injured.
Western Union Company will be able to find a good reason at that time, after all, no one is like them, who has nothing to do with raising a large group of bodyguards to watch and play at home, but this is definitely not what Cao Mo wants to see.
Zhou Han glanced at Cao Mo and didn't say anything.
After a while, Lu Yan called and said, "I just talked to Liang Yuan, the president of Western Union, on the phone, and they are willing to help and see if they can hire a group of people to rush over, but it may take time, so I suggest that we stay ......here for the time being."
Cao Mo guessed that this would be the result, but whether Western Union Petroleum can send reinforcements as soon as possible depends on how Zhou Han communicates with her accomplices.
"There are people in the hotel who collude with the robbers to pass on the news, and we can just know about it, so don't alarm the others......," Cao Mo said.
The news spread out that there would be no practical help except to make everyone panic, but if the Western Union oil reinforcements could not arrive by noon tomorrow, and they were still dragging their feet in the hotel and did not leave, others would definitely have to ask what happened.
"Let's go down first, and play tonight as late as possible. Xie Sipeng said.
After Lu Yan, Xie Sipeng and Zhou Han left, they didn't want to startle the snake, Cao Mo told Abacha and Shen Ji on the phone about the results of their exchange just now.
Of course, he will not completely pin his hopes on the people of Western Union Petroleum, so that Shen Ji and Abacha can continue to play cards in the restaurant patiently first, without worrying too much about anything.
Only the less they care, the more patient the robbers will be to wait for them to leave the town and hit the road, thus buying time for reinforcements to arrive.
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It turned out to be to prevent what Zhou Han and her accomplices would do on this trip, so Cao Mo brought Group Zero with him, but he didn't expect it to be used in this place, and of course, he was also amazed that the army of Akwa could degenerate to this point.
"Squeak!"
didn't knock on the door, but someone directly unscrewed the door lock and pushed the door open, Cao Mo subconsciously reached out and grabbed the pistol in the table hole, but saw Zhou Han dodge in.
Cao Mo put the gun in its place, looked at Zhou Han silently and said, "You contact your people and call for electricity."
Just say it to me, there's no need to come over, Lu Yan will be more or less unhappy when he sees it......"
Zhou Han stood at the door for a while, then locked the door, walked up to Cao Mo, pulled a chair and sat down.
She saw that there were still piles of materials on the table, put her snowy arm on the table, and said, "Since you know my relationship with Western Union, with your brain, you should be able to guess what our plan is, have you ever thought about coming in and getting a piece of the pie?"
Cao Mo stared at Zhou Han's excessively beautiful eyes, and he was sure at this time that Zhou Han did not tell her accomplices that the scam had been exposed by him.
In addition to intuition, the more important point is that Zhou Han really wanted to tell his accomplices that the scam was spied on by him, it was undoubtedly a depth charge, and it was impossible for them to secretly discuss reinforcements in such a short time.
Cao Mo was very strange about this: why didn't Zhou Han explain this to his accomplices first, but in turn he wanted to drag him into the water?
Cao Mo did not directly answer Zhou Han's words, and regardless of Zhou Han sitting in front of him, he took out a folder and opened it, which was some of the materials that the West African United Oil Trading Company could find out publicly, and it was impossible for Cao Mo to investigate more information in a short period of time.
However, Zhou Han and her accomplices are not dealing with the arrogant and flawed Lu Yan this time, they want to let Lu Jianchao and Huang Hebin and other old rivers and lakes enter the world, and it is impossible for UWC West Africa to be an empty shell, and even the oil trading business in Akwa is real.
Therefore, at this time, the senior management of UWC is likely to be the core person who designed this scam against the Lu family and Taihua.
Of course, UWCA is not without its flaws.
For example, although Western Union Petroleum is not a new company, in the early years it was a trading company registered by several partners to engage in oil trading between Akwa and the United Kingdom, but the scale has been small and unremarkable, two years ago Liang Yuan, a British-Chinese, bought a 40% stake in Western Union from the company's former partners, became a major shareholder, and became the company's CEO.
After Liang Yuan took control of Western Union Petroleum, Western Union Petroleum signed a crude oil supply agreement with the Conero refinery built by the Lu family, but it was not clear from the public information that Western Union had any business in Kanem.
The only possibility that Cao Mo could guess was that the oil tanker controlled by Western Union Petroleum received the smuggled crude oil from the Jidam family on the high seas, and won the trust of the Jidam family and Taihua.
With such a layout, it is logical that Western Union Petroleum will take over the Jidam family to participate in the construction of Lake Conero Port at this time.
From this series of information, it can also be seen that this Liang Yuan is definitely the core figure of Zhou Han's fraud gang, and may even be the real leader.
What is the relationship between Zhou Han and her so-called "mother" and this Liang Yuan?
With Zhou Han's superior conditions, why did he become a member of this fraud gang?
Why did they focus on Taihua and the Lu family, it was not enough to succeed at one time, but they also had to set up such a big situation, and they wanted to completely squeeze the surplus value of the Lu family?
Cao Mo saw Zhou Han's problems very early, but he didn't think of interfering before, so he always kept restraint and didn't go into the trouble to investigate the secrets behind Zhou Han and her accomplices.
At this time, forced by the situation, he had to expose their plot and force them to transfer people to come over to receive help, Cao Mo regretted that he did not conduct a more in-depth investigation in advance......