Although Cao Mo handles a batch of work emails every day when she is in China, and even contacts more important arrangements by phone or video conferences, Cao Mo has long been accustomed to face-to-face discussions in order to more accurately grasp the dynamics of the increasingly large number of management members and departments.

I met a group of people in the morning, took time to accompany Cheng Xi and them to eat Chinese food at noon, and met Huang Hebin in the lakeside Yashe in the afternoon.

Cao Mo would not have disappeared from Huang Hebin because he was worried about Han Shaorong or Niz Oppenheimer's suspicions.

On the one hand, he indirectly holds the shares of Cornello Newport City and Volkov Investment Petrochemical Group, and it is impossible for him not to pay close attention to the operation and management team and maintain contact, and on the other hand, he wants to avoid Huang Hebin being completely co-opted by Han Shaorong or Sturgeon and Niz Oppenheimer, even if it is to plug the nail between Huang Hebin and Han Shaorong and Sturgeon and Niz Oppenheimer, he must show a look of wooing Huang Hebin.

If he really kept his distance from Huang Hebin, he would seem to be a thief.

As for Huang Hebin, although Han Shaorong suggested and invited him to form a team to take over the operation of Conero Newport City and Volkov Petrochemical Group, on the one hand, he was not employed by Han Shaorong or Huamao Capital, and on the other hand, Han Shaorong and Huamao Capital were not the largest shareholders of Conero Newport City and Volkov Petrochemical Group - Volkov Investment and Tianyue Investment held more shares than Huamao Capital in both projects- From the perspective of his own interests, he does not need to be tied to Han Shaorong, and there is no need to keep a distance from Cao Mo.

Of course, whether it is through email or phone call, as long as there will be traces, Huang Hebin will also avoid contacting Cao Mo too often in private, so as not to be self-defeating.

“...... It's been half a year since I returned to Draculamo, how do you feel?" Cao Mo sat on the terrace by the lake, the sea blowing in his face, blowing away the heat of the afternoon, and asked Huang Hebin how he felt in the past six months since he returned to Kanem.

At this time, Huang Hebin did not have the depressed, haggard, and tired family when he was driven back to Xinhai, nor did he have the gloomy scheming when Kanem was in a-for-tat confrontation before, and his bearing was more calm, and there were more gray hairs on his temples, which showed that even if he could rebuild the team and return to Draculamo, he did not feel at ease, but walked on thin ice.

"Although most of the team is elderly, it is not easy to subversively adjust the work ideas, almost all of them have to reshape their ideas, and some people can't adapt to it, so it is not easy to send them back with their own hands and add professionals from the local area as much as possible. Huang Hebin said.

Before returning to Draculamo, Cao Mo met with Huang Hebin in private and talked about his thoughts on investing in Cornello Newport City and Volkov, mainly to fundamentally abandon Taihua's previous ideas and practices of quick success.

Huang Hebin has also experienced a lot of winds and waves over the years, and he is very adaptable, but sometimes it is easier said than done.

In order to make a profit as soon as possible, the first phase of the new refinery was not only poor in technology, but also seriously lacked safety facilities, sewage and air pollution measures, and there was also a serious conflict with the planning of Xingang City.

In addition to inflating the production cost of the first phase of the refinery, this poses a threat to the environment and safety of Newport City.

Huang Hebin took office and formed a new team, not rushing to resume construction and production, but to reflect on the existing project planning and design, the adjustment of the adjustment, the change of the change, the change of the strengthening, and the addition of the supplement.

Of course, Huang Hebin, as the head of the operation team, was originally to implement the established operational policy under the leadership of the board of directors, and any action that deviated from the established policy needed to be authorized by the board of directors, let alone make such a thorough adjustment.

Fortunately, even Niz Oppenheimer also had considerable expectations for the future development of Volkov Petrochemical Industry and Newport City, so he quickly reached an agreement that Newport City carried out new planning adjustments, with the refinery as the core, planned the petrochemical and storage area for development, and moved the residential planning area that was originally close to the east and southeast to the east, leaving enough safety distance, and filling in the light industrial zone in the middle.

The first phase of the Volkov petrochemical project was completely shut down, and funds were invested in technological transformation, and stricter safety and fire-fighting facilities were added to the first and second phases of the project, and stricter safety and fire-fighting systems were formulated.

After the readjustment, the refinery will have to be postponed until after March next year, and this is still the most rushed schedule, and there can be no other forks in the schedule.

However, this is only preliminary for the south shore of Conero.

It is difficult to say when the container terminals, ro-ro terminals, commercial trade zones, industrial parks, and towns in Xingang City, in addition to the crude oil terminals, will start large-scale reconstruction, and when they will be completed.

On the north shore, the supporting towns are not large, but in addition to the first and second factories of Conero Cement, in addition to the gold refinery of Yibogu Mining and the palm oil processing plant, aluminum profile processing park, Tianyue Industrial Vehicle Factory and other large-scale factories invested by Dongsheng, more than 200 Chinese-funded small and medium-sized enterprises have been introduced in a down-to-earth manner, which has begun to form a scale at this time.

Under the auspices of Yang Deshan, the investment in the construction of Conero Lake Industrial Park is not high, but with the full cooperation of the Longta locality, the planning and construction are very orderly, and now it is very good.

After a year of high-speed construction, the Huwan Processing Park, which was led by the Longta Municipal Government and entrusted to the Conero Lake Industrial Park and launched simultaneously with the Conero Coastal New Town, has also introduced nearly 200 local processing enterprises from the suburbs of Draculamo after a year of high-speed construction.

On the contrary, on the south bank, in addition to the big and inappropriate planning, at first the pie was drawn too big, the standards were set too high, and the most important local small and medium-sized processing enterprises were rejected, and after Taihua fell into a debt crisis, all construction and investment promotion work was completely stopped, so that it is now lifeless.

At the beginning of returning to Draculamo, seeing the prosperity of East Lake and the north shore, while the south shore was barren and overgrown with weeds, Huang Hebin wanted to cry.

Cao Mo listened to Huang Hebin's heart and said so much, and said: "At present, the industrial park must continue to do a good job in industrial support, and do everything to minimize the cost of supporting facilities. Most of Kanem's manufacturing industry is still at the primary processing level, shoddy and indiscriminate, which has a lot to do with immature support, and is very sensitive to cost - no matter what Vovkov investment and Huamao have in mind, I can give you more time, and even ten years without direct profits, it is not unacceptable. Conero New City Port currently covers an area of 200 square kilometers, in the future I still think that the east and north shores of Conero Lake are included, the first ten years can be developed forty or fifty square kilometers, it is quite good, but such a large area compared to the planning of the entire New Port City, can only be said to be start-up, can only be said to be the early cultivation - and the better the start-up area is cultivated, the later it is possible to bring more huge benefits. Of course, everyone understands the truth, and what I say today is also repeating other people's words, after all, how many people do not know the benefits of laying a foundation? The key is determination, or whether we can calm down, or whether we have the confidence to do ten years without making a profit -- I can only tell you that I have. In addition to the oil refinery, I think there are two other things that should be vigorously done. The first is that Xie Sipeng's Hua Mall on Central Street is too small, and because of the serious smuggling phenomenon, it has been repeatedly cracked down by the authorities, so that a larger, more formal Hua Mall can be built on the south bank to develop into a distribution center for Chinese goods in the whole of West Africa. The second is that the existing container terminal of Draculamo Port has been seriously saturated, and in addition to the crude oil terminal, the new port city should give priority to ensuring the continuation of the construction of the ultra-large container terminal, which is also a loss to the Hua Mall - the follow-up Conero Lake Industrial Park and the Lake Bay Processing Park will give priority to the development of the south coast......"

Both of these things are being promoted, but Conero New Port City, Huwan Processing Industrial Park, and Conero Lake Industrial Park have their own plans, and there are many projects to be done, but resources are limited.

Which projects to prioritize, which projects to pile up resources as much as possible in the short term, not to mention that there are disagreements among major investors, there are also disputes within the operation team in charge of Huang Hebin.

The resources in the early stage were limited, so Cao Mo thought that the current focus of Conero Newport City should be clarified first, and some things should be done first.

And Cao Mo said that the east and north coasts will give priority to cooperation as much as possible, but it is not a cheap word.

Although this does not mean that the development of the Conero Lake Industrial Park and the Huwan Processing Park will stop, it is also significant to focus on the southern end of the infrastructure from now on, which will promote the new port city.

Huwan Processing Park is adjacent to Xinchengang, and priority is given to the construction of roads in the south of Huwan Industrial Park, which is also to speed up the construction of Xingangcheng's road network and strengthen its external radiation capacity; strengthen the construction of communications, water supply, power supply and sewage treatment in the southern part of Huwan Industrial Park, and naturally share the pressure of investment in the early stage of supporting construction of Xingang City.

Although Yang Deshan is responsible for the specific work and participates in the discussion, Cao Mo personally told Huang Hebin about this, which means that this is his final decision, and his confidence in Huang Hebin is not a concept.

Putting aside these transactional topics, Cao Mo said: "Sturgeon accompanied his half-sister Avenna Foster to visit the refinery and docks in the morning - you have been in contact with Avenna in the morning, what is your impression of her?"

"Avenna has a good personality and a good level, which should be related to her previous work as an investigative reporter in financial news," Huang Hebin only met Avenna for the first time in the morning, although he also guessed that something must have happened within the Foster family that was unknown to outsiders, but his sources of information were limited, and he couldn't guess too many details, so he just asked suspiciously, "Maye Mantar is the chief secretary of the Akwa Front for the Promotion of Democracy, it seems that she has nothing to do with the Foster family before?"

"Maye Mantar also worked in a French media for a few years in her early years, and she can only be regarded as acquainted with Avena - Avena lived in Port Peme for a few days before coming to Draculamo, but she has known Badinah Saviyi, the second son of President Akwa Saviyi, for a longer time, and only after talking to Saviyi Jr. that she invited Maye Mantal to Draculamo for a few days," Cao Mo said, "I returned to Draculamo yesterday, and this woman specially went to Yan Zhicheng's casino to meet me and said some inexplicable things!"

"Wusan River Copper and Gold Mine?" Since it involves members of the Akwa President Saweiyi family, Huang Hebin's first thought is also related to the Wusan River copper and gold mine.

At present, the resources of the Wusan River copper-gold mine are more than 9 million tons of metal copper reserves and more than 20 million ounces of gold, and the potential value of the gold reserves of the Wusan River copper-gold mine alone is more than 20 billion US dollars based on the current international gold price.

How can this not be annoying?

It's just that Cao Mo took the Wusan River copper-gold mine, and he also put a lot of thought into it, and the moat was dug quite wide, but no matter how wide the moat was dug, could it prevent the hand of President Akwa's family from reaching over?

Although Akwa is a poor country in West Africa, it is also an independent country.

Saweiyi, on the other hand, is a democratically elected president who came to power after ten years of Akwa's dictatorship, and has much more power than a democratically elected president in the ordinary sense.

Before the global economy was improving, the rights of West African countries depended on the existing energy and mineral output, so they made a lot of money, and the appearance was not so ugly, but now the economic situation is turbulent, the global economy is bleak, crude oil, iron ore and other futures have fallen in a mess, and Akwa has been seriously injured, and it can really be said that the landlords have no surplus food.

How can these powerful dignitaries still have much patience to continue to learn to be gentlemen and maintain good appearance?

At this time, the international gold price is unusually strong, and there are even signs of breaking through the previous high, and the metal copper futures are also stopping falling and rebounding, which highlights the beauty of the Wusang River copper and gold mine!

The first mine of the Wusan River copper-gold mine has been completed, even if there is no subsequent investment, it is also a large mine with an annual output of 300,000 tons of copper concentrate and an output value of six or seven billion US dollars - and Akwa's ultra-low tax rate and low labor supply are destined to directly convert nearly half of the annual output value of such a large scale of the first mine into net profits into Cao Mo's bag.

It's really eye-catching to think about.

Don't talk about others, what is it strange that the Akwa President Saviyi family has a heart for the copper-gold mines of the Usan River at this time?

It's not surprising at all.

Huang Hebin even thinks that the Saweiyi family should be patient compared to other dignitaries in Africa who are more ugly, greedy, and brutal.

Of course, it may have been at this time that the Saiweiyi family got to know Cao Mo's bottom in detail, and they may have been more or less worried that Cao Mo had an official Chinese background!

"Yes, this woman is a trouble, and the Bardinah Severie who came into contact with her is a big trouble," Cao Mo said without mince words, "but Avenna is the daughter of the fourth wife of old Mr. Foster, and I have heard that something happened to old Mr. Foss's mother, so that Avenna's mother moved back to the Foster family estate and was reunited with old Mr. Foster— Our old friend Sturgeon, he's not in a small trouble, but he's too cautious to give up resistance, to have another chance to survive under this woman, and that's not what I want to see......"

Huang Hebin knew that Cao Mo was asking for a reward for helping him return to Kanem, so he groaned for a moment and asked, "Is there anything I can do?"

"You don't need to go overboard, just let Sturgeon know that Avena has the intention of wooing you - of course, Sturgeon may not be so easy to be fooled, so Avena knows that Sturgeon is secretly targeting and guarding against her!" Cao Mo said. Our old friend Sturgeon is an ambitious figure, he joined the Bank of the Atlantic on behalf of the Foster family, he showed keen observation and excellent business acumen, from the Atlantic Union oil trade to the Lake Conero Port crude oil terminal to the new Taihua refinery, it is his biggest and last attempt to try to rise independently outside the Foster family in these years, but unfortunately our old friend Sturgeon is too weak at this juncture, we have the responsibility to help him!"

Huang Hebin didn't know why Cao Mo could say that Sturgeon was so dignified, but he could only complain silently in his heart, and said: "Avenna showed a lot of interest in the refinery in the morning, Sturgeon is quite vigilant, and now it is just a fire that is just right......"

The special situation of the Foster family makes Sturgeon's options very limited, and it may only take a small counter-plot to make Sturgeon have no choice, but if it is the Akwa President Saviyi family who is really greedy for the Uzan copper-gold mine, then even if he breaks with the Foster family and may be removed from the Bank of the Atlantino, Sturgeon is forced to choose to cooperate with Cao Mo, what can be reversed?

Of course, Cao Mo was able to make the Jidam family disappear unknowingly, and there were a lot of forces secretly deployed, and in the past two or three years, Tianyue has gradually become a climate in the Gulf of Guinea, and the power is stronger than when he secretly wrestled with the Jidam family, Huang Hebin guessed that he should have other deployments, but this is not convenient for him to ask.

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Sturgeon does not like to show his face, or even to contact people, he is a senior executive vice president at Banco Nacional Ultramarino, in charge of international business, and rarely socializes, often sitting alone in the office for a day, and leaving the work that needs to deal with customers to his subordinates, and the management of the department is also entrusted to the deputy, as if he is a puppet.

Volkov Petrochemical Group, too important for him.

After so much hard work, to ensure that 60% of the equity is in the hands of Volkov Investment, Sturgeon is also forced to overcome the discomfort in his heart, personally served as the chairman of the Volkov Petrochemical Group, set up the office in the new Thai Hua Casino Hotel renamed Vorkov International Building, and always pay attention to the construction and operation of the refinery and supporting projects.

Huang Hebin went to see Cao Mo in the afternoon, and Sturgeon knew it immediately, which made him somewhat absent-minded when he accompanied Avenna to afternoon tea in the restaurant on the top floor of the Vulkov International Building in the afternoon.

At dusk, Huang Hebin took the car back to the Verkov International Building, and Sturgeon immediately found him.

"What did our mutual friend talk to you about?" asked Sturgeon straight to the point.

"It's mainly about the development of Cornello Newport City, and it's really a headache to deal with two bosses. Huang Hebin said.

Refining & Chemical Group and Newport City are the same operating team, but Refining & Chemical Group is absolutely controlled by Volkov Investment (60%), so Sturgeon is his boss in Refining & Chemical Group. However, although there is no absolute controlling company in Newport City, Conailuo Lake Industrial Park holds the largest number of shares (35%), and Yang Deshan is the chairman at the same time, so it can be said that Tianyue is the behind-the-scenes boss of Newport City.

Whether he met Cao Mo publicly or privately, Huang Hebin was not afraid of being known.

"Aside from that, Mr. Cao should have instructed you to ruin my relationship with Avenna, right?" Sturgeon said.

"What kind of 'instructions' do you say, is this too heavy?" Huang Hebin was shocked, but he smiled without moving, "Also, why do you want to destroy your relationship with Miss Avenna?"

"I'm not that stupid," Sturgeon shook her head and said, "Last year Mr. Cao Mo approached me about cooperation, saying that he would not sit back and watch the South Bank become a mess - I believed him at the time, and I did believe him, do you think I will believe that you returned to Kanem, it was purely Mr. Han who found you first, not Cao's instructions?