Chapter 9: The Future
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Cao Mo washed, picked up Lucy's steamed steamed buns, and gnawed on the old godmother, seeing that Lucy and Kabuja read Chinese materials, it was really difficult, so he quickly and simply explained to them the simple process of gold mining and some small and medium-sized equipment that may be involved.
With a strong intuition, Cao Mo could tell that Lucy and Kabuja were still on his side, but the trust was always mutual.
He can trust Lucy and Kabuja now, but Lucy and Kabuja's trust in him is limited, not unreserved.
This is also normal.
Lucy and Kabuja are both smart people.
They should know very well in their hearts that Guo Jian has always rejected and wary of them as local employees from the bottom of his heart, even if they accept Guo Jian's threats for a while, co-opt, and isolate Cao Mo, they will inevitably be swept away by Guo Jian in the end.
In contrast, in the past year or so, Cao Mo has been helping them.
For Lucy and Kabuja, even if they offend Guo Jian and are swept away, it is nothing more than losing a job that looks decent, and it is not the sky falling.
Therefore, there is no need for them to accept Guo Jian's threats and false co-optation.
However, Cao Mo wanted them to completely give up everything and help him complete the whole thing even after being expelled from the branch by Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.
This is equivalent to asking the two of them to pin their fate on him Cao Mo for a period of time in the future.
That's not something that ordinary trust can do.
What is Cao Mo?
Cao Mo's West Africa branch is just an ordinary dispatch employee sent by Yang Deshan and Guo Jian, why should Lucy and Kabuja believe that he is vying to negotiate cooperation with the old chief Felician before Yang Deshan and Guo Jian?
"Guo Jian will sow discord and will definitely find an excuse to fire you, but you don't have to worry about anything - if things can't be done, after you find a new job, I will compensate you for all the losses and ensure that your family will not be affected by this-you also know that it is not difficult for me to lose this job and find a new job in Draculamo, and even bring both of you with me......" Cao Mo made a promise first, calming the hearts of the two of them.
Over the past year, more Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises have entered Draculamo to develop and develop.
Cao Mo does not have as beautiful education and work experience as Guo Jian, but he is fluent in English, and it took him several months of hard work, so he knows the local Yoruba language and is familiar with the local situation.
It is precisely the estrangement between the Chinese and the local employees that makes Chinese employees like him more popular with Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises in Draculamo.
Cao Mo is not worried about not finding a new job at Draculamo, he did not change jobs before, because he felt that he was not ready.
Moreover, the most difficult stage of the family has passed, and he is not particularly short of money, he is only in his early twenties, why is he in a hurry?
He originally thought that Yang Deshan or Guo Jian would not survive in Draculamo, and that he would be able to directly obtain a supervisory position within Dongsheng's West Africa branch.
This is better than jumping directly to other Chinese-funded enterprises.
Now the situation has changed, but in order to win the trust of Lucy and Kabuja, Cao Mo not only explained to them the process of simplifying rock gold mining and the equipment needed, but also told them about the funds he has at his disposal and the plan to arrange these funds.
"I don't know how far this can be done, but as long as you help me, in the first three months, your monthly salary will directly increase to $200, and after three months, as long as there is even a little profit, I will give priority to ensuring that your monthly salary will be raised to $400, and after six months, I will give priority to ensuring that your monthly salary will rise to $600," Cao Mo said, "In addition to the $20,000 in the account at this time, I will also raise $20,000 from relatives and friends in China in the future." If the $40,000 is over and you haven't seen any improvement, I will help you get new job opportunities in other Chinese companies......"
$40,000 in 04 years is nothing in China, and in Zuohai City, where the housing price in the city center is close to 30,000, it is only enough to buy a bathroom, but in Draculamo, who has a monthly salary of 100 US dollars, even if it is a decent and high salary, it is a "huge amount of money", and it is possible to save it by needing Kabuja or Lucy to work all his life without eating or drinking.
On the one hand, Cao Mo has a determination to "take a gamble", which can usually boost the morale of others, and on the other hand, after doing so, there is the temptation of a salary increase of more than six times.
Kabuja and Lucy were thrilled to weigh the risks they had to take and the opportunities they faced.
What is even more rare is Cao Mo's trust and dependence on them, which they cannot encounter in other Chinese-funded enterprises and Japanese, South Korean, European and American companies.
The more entrenched companies in Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, dominated by energy and resource-based companies such as oil and mining — Kanem is Africa's largest oil exporter — are more inclined to hire and trust the mixed-race descendants left behind by the colonizers.
The descendants of these mixed-race colonists, who also constitute the upper class of Draculamo, live in the island of Ikoi, which is a very different world from the West Bank.
"I went back yesterday and asked someone to inquire, and there is a small road from the city of Draculamo to the north to ride a motorcycle to Lonta - if Manager Guo and Mr. Yang drive to Ibogu Village today, we can still meet the old chief Felician in front of them. Kabuja said.
Seeing that after Kabuja went back, he had already pondered about it, and it coincided with him, Cao Mo snapped his fingers, and was so happy that he couldn't help laughing, he liked to work with smart people.
If someone like Guo Jian is too smart, he can't.
Although the impression of the Chinese people at this time is that the people of Kanem and other countries in West Africa are poorly educated, lazy, and uncivilized, even the Yoruba and Hausa, the purest indigenous groups in West Africa, there is absolutely no shortage of elites among them, but the number is relatively small.
Just as in the old days when the literacy rate in China was only 20% and the Chinese people were still regarded as the sick men of East Asia, the proportion of people with secondary and specialized education in the population was unimaginably low.
Kabuja and Lucy had the opportunity to receive a better education, and they were not without the conviction and ambition to seek opportunities and become high-class, but like some people in the country in the eighties, they were confined to poverty, lacking the necessary capital, more advanced technology, equipment and experience, and did not have the opportunity to show their ambitions.
However, they have a future and a time......
Cao Mo considered that he might be kicked out of the West African branch by Yang Deshan and Guo Jian, but he did not consider returning to China after that.
This is mainly due to the fact that after more than 20 years of rapid development in China, there are not many opportunities for barbaric development.
In the case of gold mining, domestic small-scale gold mining teams and solo gold diggers have been severely banned.
Even if they have not been hit, the domestic gold mining teams and gold diggers have been engaged in this industry for more than ten or twenty years, and almost all the mineral sources have been trampled on and occupied by their predecessors.
They don't lack technology, they don't lack the necessary capital, and they don't even lack the means to be barbaric and crowd out competition, Cao Mo has nothing, why should he squeeze into this industry again?
The situation is similar in other traditional industries.
The domestic development of high-tech emerging industries is changing with each passing day, and the threshold is higher.
He is a high school dropout, so he wouldn't have the luxury of starting an Internet business, right?
Africa is backward, but for someone like him, it also means that it is a virgin land full of opportunities.
Staying in Draculamo, Cao Mo can have the same end and time as Kabuja and Lucy......
Seeing that Lucy and Kabuja had no intention of retreating, Cao Mo also secretly warned herself to hold on, so that she was not excited.
To be honest, Kanem and other African countries that have just come out of war have economic development and people's livelihood conditions similar to the situation before the fifties, and there is almost no industrial system.
This unexplored virgin land is full of risks and opportunities for adventurers with modest beginnings, and the gold mines of Ibogu Village are just one of them.
Cao Mo has been studying and observing silently for more than a year, but his starting point is low, and he is weak, as a Chinese, it is difficult to integrate into the local society, and he really needs to do something with a start-up capital of 20,000 US dollars, and he is indispensable for local assistants like Kabuja and Lucy.
Yang Deshan and Guo Jian rejected and guarded against local employees, while Cao Mo saw it as an opportunity.
Song Yuqing first arrived, and he had the intention of kicking Lucy away, he did not hesitate to tease Song Yuqing, but also wanted to keep Lucy, and his intention was also here.
As long as Lucy and Kabuja hop on his thief ship, even if the gold mine cooperation in Ibogu Village cannot be negotiated, Draculamo will not worry that there will be no other opportunities to seize......