Chapter 43: The New Year

The acquisition of the Tubman family crushing plant was naturally led by Yang Deshan and Wang Jianzhong.

The four employees brought by Wang Jianzhong are all professional management and technical personnel, and Cao Mo, as an ordinary resident staff, is even more marginalized, and the tasks assigned to him are responsible for ensuring logistics and accompanying work.

As long as it was signed before Wang Jianzhong's arrival, and there was no problem with the project itself, Yang Deshan made his attitude clear at this time, and made it clear that the intention to sign the agreement urgently was to take this credit to his personal name, and he was not afraid that anyone could blame him.

Wang Jianzhong can only evaluate the project itself and find possible errors and omissions in the preliminary work.

Of course, the final acquisition valuation of the crushing plant is also more relevant management and professional experience Wang Jianzhong, who has more say.

Dongsheng Group made a fortune in grain, oil and building profiles, and the annual sales scale of edible oil alone in China has reached 400,000 tons.

Even if palm oil is still a new variety in China, when it comes to crushing equipment and cost accounting, Wang Jianzhong and the people he brought over must be much more professional than Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.

Wang Jianzhong must have felt that the $2 million acquisition offer was too high, and how much the next negotiation could lower was his credit.

In the next few days, in addition to lowering the purchase price to $1.6 million, they also asked for an additional 10 acres of construction land from the Tubman family plantation to meet the next demand for the renovation and expansion of the crushing plant.

Dongsheng's annual sales of edible oil has reached 400,000 tons, and a crushing plant with an annual output of 2,000 tons is obviously not enough for Dongsheng, and even the initial goal is to invest in the reconstruction and expansion on the basis of the acquisition of the Tubman family crushing plant, so as to increase the annual production capacity to more than 5,000 tons at the fastest speed.

Even so, after the completion of the early reconstruction and expansion of the crushing plant, the annual output value is only two or three million US dollars, and the profits generated may not be able to cover the cost of the employees stationed in the early stage.

However, the whole of Kanem exports tens of millions of tons of palm oil every year, up to three or four billion US dollars.

Since Dongsheng Group has decided to focus on West Africa to expand its overseas investment business, the acquisition of the Tubman crushing plant for renovation and expansion is just a small move for the group to further adapt to the Kanem market.

It was also after Wang Jianzhong and their arrival that Cao Mo knew that the group had established an overseas investment division, and he had a lot of complaints about Yang Deshan's inaction in Kanem in the past two years.

In order to keep his position, Yang Deshan took a market research report made by Cao Mo to deal with errands in the early days, and he boasted in the group, advocating investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Kanem to build a large-scale palm oil crushing plant, and even directly contracting land to plant oil palm trees.

The use of palm oil as edible oil has long been recognized in the world, but there are few domestic introductions at present, and it is also a development direction that Dongsheng's grain and oil department has focused on in the near future.

Yang Deshan has been unable to return to Draculamo for a long time, mainly because he proposed this plan, and the group has advocated finding cooperation projects in Malaysia and Indonesia, which are also rich in oil palm and closer to China.

In terms of geographical distance, Kanem is obviously still a little far away from China, and the sea distance is more than twice that of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Yang Deshan's proposal to build a crushing plant in Kanem was rejected by the business department at the first time.

Yang Deshan panicked like a dog.

In the past two or three months, he has accompanied the management of the Overseas Investment Division to inspect projects in Malaysia and Indonesia.

However, palm oil production in these two countries has been divided between several large international grain and oil producers.

The target sales market for these international grain and oil merchants in the later stage is Chinese mainland, and there is fierce competition with Dongsheng.

There are still many small and medium-sized projects to be done in these two countries, but they are no longer in line with Dongsheng Group's long-term plan in the field of grain and oil production.

In the end, Kanem became the only choice for the business unit to develop overseas grain and oil production capacity.

Yang Deshan rushed back to Draculamo to prepare.

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The initial investment in the acquisition of the Tubman family crushing plant was not much of a deal in the eyes of Dongsheng Group, which has five or six thousand employees, and the business department directly approved the investment after the project investment letter and third-party due diligence report were submitted, and the funds were transferred to the account of the West African branch.

It took only a month, and after New Year's Day in 05, the West Africa branch officially signed the relevant supply and acquisition agreement with Tubman, and Wang Jianzhong led the team to take over the crushing plant.

Shen Ji was riddled with trouble, and finally did not rush to Draculamo to inspect before the acquisition agreement, and Yang Deshan was completely relieved.

In the West Africa Branch, he is the general manager, Wang Jianzhong is the deputy general manager, he also has the advantage of taking root in the early stage and being familiar with the place, of course, he can lead Wang Jianzhong's nose.

If Shen Ji came over to intervene in the acquisition negotiations in person, it is difficult to say whether things will change.

Now Wang Jianzhong is leading the team, only taking over the production and operation of the crushing plant, and the power of the entire West African branch is still in the hands of Yang Deshan.

In addition to the production and operation of the mill, the financial, equipment and material procurement, personnel and other rights of the mill remain under the direct control of the West African branch.

In Kanem, oil palm trees produce fruit all year round.

After taking over the crushing plant, the old production line can be continued, and the new production line will be carried out on the newly allocated construction site, and the vats of palm oil produced by crushing will be shipped directly back to China for further processing and sub-packaging.

In addition to employee salaries, fund accounting and allocation of material procurement, inspection, customs declaration and entrusted shipping procedures, Song Yuqing took Wang Wen in charge, which was really busy, and the two newly recruited local employees - Cao Mo took the driver and bodyguard to help them.

Cao Mo was promoted to the first level in the West Africa branch, and the title of "Deputy Manager of the Personnel Administration Department" was officially printed on the business card, and the salary and overseas allowances were increased accordingly.

He still nominally accepts Guo Jian's direct supervisor, but whether Guo Jian can send him is another matter.

Wang Jianzhong led four employees to live in the staff dormitory of the crushing plant, and Cao Mo openly and openly used the name of purchasing and supplying vegetables and meat to the crushing plant, monopolizing a Mitsubishi off-road vehicle of the branch, and taking Ade and Oulu back and forth between Ibogu and Draculamo every two or three days.

In this way, there will be no delay on both sides.

This can also be regarded as his reward for helping Yang Deshan do this.

Wang Jianzhong put forward his opinions several times, but Yang Deshan blocked them back.

Wang Jianzhong, the new employees, and even Wang Wen thought that Cao Mo was Yang Deshan's real descendant.

Wang Wen began to encounter something, so he thought about sending Cao Mo, but where did Cao Mo have time to run errands for her?

Cao Mo ignored it several times, and Wang Wen was very angry, thinking that Cao Mo had anything to do with Yang Deshan, in addition to being handsome, he was really an idle, slippery and lazy straw bag.

Wang Wen's eager attitude towards Cao Mo gradually cooled down, and he was not as eager as he was at the beginning.

The follow-up investment in equipment for rock gold mining was too high, and Cao Mo decided to focus on the next work of Yibogu Gold Mine before New Year's Day.

During this period, Cao Mo still had no extra funds in his hands, but an excavator was added to the mine, and the daily gold mining volume was steadily increasing.

New adjustments and improvements have also been made to the operation area, the tailings overflow dam has been reinforced, and a new 2,000-square-meter stone house warehouse has been built on the south side of the operation area, preparing to obtain a logging permit and expand timber processing.

During this period, Yang Deshan, Xie Sipeng, and Xu Sheng were still having a headache over the increase in capital of millions of dollars of rock gold mining equipment.

As Cao Mo expected, the difficulty of operation and equipment investment will continue to increase as the operation face penetrates deep into the interior of the gold-bearing rock formation.

Yang Deshan and they only scraped together an investment of 400,000 US dollars in the early stage, and the output of more than three months of rock gold mining could only support them to carry out the early construction of the mining area, but could not invest in new equipment.

Their current daily output is only enough to cover the cost of daily staff salaries and material procurement.

This problem also exists in the Ibogu gold mine, but there is placer gold in the Ibogu gold mine that can be mined.

A total of three excavators are now used in the Ibogu gold mine for riverbed placer gold mining, and gold mining has steadily increased.

During this time, Cao Mo also submitted a formal application for prospecting rights to the state of Oyo through the Fellician family gold mining company, thinking of hiring a professional survey company to survey the rock gold reserves of the Ibogu gold mine.

If there were abundant rock gold reserves, he would have gritted his teeth and accumulated capital little by little, and then greatly increased the investment in rock gold mining equipment, or if there were not many rock gold reserves in Ibogu, then he would have honestly mined placer gold.

Although the reserves of placer gold are limited, it is easy to mine, and there is no need to add too much equipment investment in the future, so it is quite possible to start reaping profits now, and then find a way to do something else, such as running a farm.

The construction of the Ibogu Farm is also progressing in an orderly manner......

There are a large number of vegetable varieties, and the growth period is from planting to harvesting, which takes less than two months.

After November, Kanem entered the dry season, and the wells were drilled for irrigation in time, and the growing period of vegetables was shorter.

The 200 acres of orchards reclaimed in the early stage were officially supplied to several Chinese supermarkets and restaurants in the West Bank District of Dracula Moxi in mid-to-late January.

In the early days, the production of vegetables was limited, so Cao Mo bought several second-hand motorcycles and arranged for the riders to transport the first batch of vegetables from Ibogu to Draculamo every day for five to six hundred kilograms to be harvested.

The supply of vegetables in Draculamo is too scarce, and the daily supply of five or six hundred kilograms of vegetables is not enough to meet the needs of a few Chinese restaurants, so the prices of all kinds of vegetables are much higher, and one trip a day is an income of three or four hundred dollars.

When the vegetables of the 200 acres of vegetable land can be marketed one after another, the daily income is estimated to exceed two or three thousand US dollars.

The premise was that no one else was in the competition, but when the shrewd Chinese merchants realized this and rented land on the outskirts of Draculamo to grow vegetables, the golden time for Ibogu Farm came to an abrupt end.

Cao Mo doesn't care about these, the good days come first.

And even if after three or five months, the profit of the farm has been greatly reduced to a reasonable level, with a farm of thousands of acres, do not think that you can make any big money, but if the potential of the Ibogu gold mine is really limited, he will increase the investment in the farm in the future, and expand the scale of leased land to 10,000 mu or even higher, which is also a very good investment.

In fact, he invested less than $30,000 in the early stage of the Ibogu farm, and hired less than 200 farm workers from Ibogu and nearby tribes......