Invite Qian Wenhan to stay in Drake for a week to experience the life of being far away from the modern civilized city, without all kinds of lights, but in a noisy construction site, primitive wilderness and dilapidated town, and then Cao Mo accompanied Qian Wenhan to Dracula to discuss the injection of Cornello Energy.

This time they chose to travel overland, crossing Benin, passing through Catelo, the capital of Canemoyo state, where they stopped for a day.

After receiving a lavish reception from the family of Oyo Governor Blake, they drove out of downtown Catelo early the next morning and headed west along the gravel road on the north bank of the Ogun River.

"Is that the Catro Iron Works?" asked Qian Wenhan and Cao Mo, who were in the same off-road vehicle, pointing to the two blast furnaces in front of him that were billowing black smoke.

"Don't mention this sad thing - I ran back and forth for more than four months, and everything was negotiated, but it was disturbed by Han Shaorong's dog mongrel, and it became a meal on their plate, and I was so angry that my brain jumped suddenly for several days. The iron ore trade of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping Company has not been carried out substantially until now, and it is really a day dog!" Cao Mo is not a completely temperamentless person, and he is quite unhappy when he mentions this.

Of course, Cao Mo has too many things to do now, and he doesn't have the energy to entangle with Han Shaorong, Lu Jianchao, and Liang Yuan for the time being, so he can only keep this matter in mind for the time being.

On the dusty gravel road, you will soon bypass the old factory area of the Catro Iron and Steel Plant, and then there is a large hot construction site, which is the construction site of Han Shaorong, Xinganglian and Taihua in addition to the old factory of the Catro Iron and Steel Plant, with a new output of 300,000 tons of crude steel and a special iron and coal terminal on the Ogong River.

Along the road, you can see the Chinese and English slogans of China Metallurgical Group, Han Shaorong They will contract these projects to the national brand China Metallurgical Science and Industry Group to undertake, and it is expected that it will be completed and put into operation by this time next year, and the speed can also be said to be extremely fast.

From a distance, I saw a tall billboard erected on the side of the road, marked with the words "Catro Steel Industrial Park" and other words.

In addition to the production of crude steel, the Catelo Iron and Steel Plant, whether it is an old plant or a new plant under construction, also meets the production of a part of the steel rails required for the construction of the domestic railway in Kanem.

However, in order to meet the structural steel, tool steel, die steel, hard wire, etc., which are needed for the economic and industrial development and urban and rural construction of Kanem and West Africa, various professional steel processing plants are needed to implement.

Kanem, as well as the entire West African region, is extremely inadequate.

Han Shaorong and his team acquired the Caneiro Iron and Steel Plant and increased the capital to expand the new plant, and the billets produced could not be shipped back to China, and then imported to Canem after deep processing. They still need to gradually improve the industrial chain in Catero and finally produce steel products that can be directly put into use, so as to absorb the crude steel capacity of the Canero steel plant.

Naturally, the new steel union has relevant product lines and technologies, but they set up a steel industrial park to attract foreign investment, just like they did in Drake to attract investors to build copper smelting and processing, which is to reduce their investment pressure as much as possible.

At this time, two off-road vehicles turned into the construction site from in front of them, Cao Mo was talking to Qian Wenhan, and he didn't see who was sitting in the off-road vehicle, but looking at Zhou Han in the passenger seat, his eyes were a little gloomy, and he guessed that Liang Yuan should be in one of the off-road vehicles.

In their joint venture, Liang Yuan personally holds 20% of the shares - after the Lu family reconciled with Liang Yuan, Liang Yuan arrived in Kanem again, and he was accompanied by many bodyguards at all times, and his subordinates who had taken their money away from him also took him seriously.

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At present, it is more convenient to travel from Cattro to Lonta, via Draculamo.

The roads are all paved, and although they are gravel, they are very smooth, and tall palm trees and flowers are planted along the roadside.

As long as you don't go deep into the life of the local people, take the car all the way, and the scenery along the way is still quite good.

Entering the Conero Lake Industrial Park, the factory buildings in the park are also very simple, the exterior walls can not afford expensive decorative materials, most of them are painted with a layer of cement, and even plastered lime, and the ceiling is mostly lightweight color steel tiles, but in the landscaping, Yang Deshan has spent a lot of effort, and it is also the use of the characteristics of local labor and cheapness, and has hired a horticultural maintenance team of more than 100 people.

The roads and the inside of the factory are transplanted with large areas of palms, jacarandas and other flowers and trees, and the whole park is like a leisure farm.

The new town does not have the funds to build luxury high-rise buildings, and the main block is flanked by new four- and five-story buildings, while the Chinese and management staff community, mainly wood-framed villas, is also very distinctive, and the general staff dormitory has a capacity of 20,000 people.

Yang Deshan implemented quasi-military management of the park, strengthened the control of the entry and exit of the park, and Cao Mo will stop in the new town, which is already a little lively, but everything is in order.

At present, the entire park has been able to provide more than 2 million US dollars of financial revenue to the Longta area every month, which is not worth mentioning in China at all, but it is quite considerable for the Longta area, which was poor and ruined in the past.

As the international gold price continues to rise, the two mines on the north bank of the Ibogu River can also pay nearly US$3 million in special resource taxes and other taxes to the regional government and the Oyo state government every month.

Even if we don't mention the growing influence of the Sika, Felician and Blake families, Cao Mo is currently a big benefactor in the Oyo and Lonta regions in terms of tax contributions.

Of course, after two years of construction, the Taihua Industrial Park, the new Taihua Oil Refinery and the New Taihua Resort Hotel are now being completed and put into trial operation, and they are in the limelight.

Since the beginning of this year, international crude oil prices have continued to rise by leaps and bounds, and the New York crude oil futures index has risen to $120 per barrel after entering April.

Benefiting from the sharp rise in crude oil prices, Kanem's crude oil exports exceeded $10 billion per month in the first half of this year, which stimulated Kanem's domestic infrastructure investment, industrial products and fuel consumption to soar.

Before the first phase of the new Taihua refinery was completed and put into trial operation, Lu Jianchao was eager to join hands with Han Shaorong's Huamao Investment and the Furkov investment led by the Oppenheimer family to invest an additional $400 million to build a larger-scale fuel oil, polypropylene and ethylene project;

Politically dependent on Niz Oppenheimer, in addition to the listed Taihua Group, there is also a stronger Huamao investment.

After the Oppenheimer family-led Volkov Investment took over Western Union Oil, it successively spent $200 million on the business expansion of Western Union Petroleum and participated in the continuation of many projects such as the Lake Conero Port, demonstrating its extraordinary strength.

As a result, the south shore of Lake Conero has once again overshadowed the north shore.

Cao Mo has no intention of competing with anyone for the limelight, in terms of capital strength, Han Shaorong's Huamao investment alone is stronger than him, Qian Wenhan and Dongsheng combined, not to mention that Dongsheng's current attitude is still wavering.

They arrived at the Lake Conero Industrial Park, where Brahm and his father, Rupert, were already waiting.

In late April, it is the rainy season with abundant rainfall, and the weather is much cooler, and it is also a pleasant mood to sit in the coconut grove on the shore of Lake Conero, looking at the thousands of sparkling waves.

Dracula Power Supply Group is a huge amount of high debts that cannot be repaid in advance, and a considerable part of its annual revenue has to be filled into this bottomless pit, and it is simply unable to transform the existing power grid facilities on a large scale, so as to fall into a vicious circle that is getting deeper and deeper.

The model between Conero Energy and Sika Ide Grid is for the top management of Dracula Power Supply to see a glimmer of hope to get rid of the old stubborn disease, but it is hoped that Conero Energy and Sika Idet Power Grid are still too small to participate in the upgrading of Draculamore's power grid.

Cao Mo was in Drake for three or four months after New Year's Day, but entrusted Bram to communicate with all parties, thinking of merging Conero Energy with Sika Idet Power Grid, so that the power business could be truly expanded and transcend regional restrictions.

Only in this way does it make sense for Qian Wenhan to inject capital in.

On the side of Conero Energy, the major shareholder Dongsheng has temporarily reduced the importance of investment in Africa, and is currently counting on Cao Mo and Qian Wenhan to help the increasingly tight supply of funds; the other major shareholder, Dracula Power Supply Group, is an active promoter of the whole thing, hoping that Conero Energy will truly develop and become an important helper of Dracula Power Supply Group.

Sika Aidet Power Grid is also relatively simple, and even Niz Oppenheimer, who has become ambiguous, has not opposed the merger of the two companies because the Taihua Industrial Park needs a more reliable and stable power supply.

The valuation of the new Conero Energy Group has reached US$250 million, and Cao Mo will also rejoin Conero Energy with Ronta Natural Gas Company, Longxi Power Grid Company and 10 million US dollars in cash to obtain 20 million new shares - after the establishment of the new Conero Energy Group, the equity relationship is more balanced, and Cao Mo no longer needs to use Longta Natural Gas Company and Longxi Power Grid Company as a bargaining chip in his personal hands, and it is also the final bottleneck for the industrial development along the shores of Conero Lake and the expansion of Conero Energy itself.

Only in this way can we open up channels for external financing.

Otherwise, seeing that Conero Energy, whose asset valuation is so high, still has a small tail caught by Cao Mo in the other hand, even if Qian Wenhan, who has a good relationship, will not be able to invest 30 million US dollars in it quickly.

The new Cornello Energy Group also re-elected its board of directors, with Dongsheng Group, Dracula Power Group, Sika Family, Felician Family, Blake Family, Rupert Family, Oppenheimer Family and Yang Deshan all joining the board of directors, and Abacha as chairman of the board.

After Yang Deshan withdraws from Conero Energy, in addition to continuing to be responsible for the construction and development of Conero Lake Industrial Park, he will also serve as co-president of Conero Cement with Wendiscafe.

At the same time, Cao Mo converted his personal stake in Conero Lake Industrial Park into Conero Energy in exchange for 10 million new shares.

In this way, Cao Mo's asset system in West Africa has been completely straightened out, and his personal Tianyue Investment and offshore company Tianyue International will hold 60% of the shares of Conero Foods, 69% of Ibogu Mining, and 70% of Conero Lake Cement after the transaction with Qian Wenhan, 10% of Conero Energy, 35% of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Mining Company, and 70% of Tianyue Industries......