Chapter 85: The New Casino (2)
"Mr. Baha is a noble man who forgets things, we have met,"
Cao Mo scolded her mother in her heart, but she greeted Yoruba gently on her face, and helped Abacha to introduce her,
"This is Mr. Abacha Sika, Mr. Baha may not know him yet - the municipal councillor of the Lunta district, and it is Mr. Abacha who pulled the thread of our Dongsheng acquisition of the Tubman family's crushing plant. Therefore, the Tubman family gave Mr. Abacha a reward, but Mr. Abacha declined the reward with high moral character, and it was Miss Stari Tubman and Mr. Abacha who later transferred the money through the Chinese Consulate to the construction of roads in the Lunta area......"
Cao Mo didn't want to be targeted by a powerful and ruthless person like Baha, so he could only stand up to Abacha.
However, then again, Baha looks down on Abacha, and Abacha is also the head snake of Lonta, and he doesn't need to look too much at Bahá's face.
Speaking of which, Draculamo's criminal syndicate even had the audacity to attack European and American companies and even consulates and embassies of European and American countries, and in 01 Draculamo had an international major case of kidnapping more than 60 employees of European and American oil companies for ransom, which was more or less related to the long-standing political atmosphere of opposition to colonial rule in Kanem.
The criminal gangs will not be merciful when they commit crimes against Chinese businessmen, but they are very suspicious of the upper class people within the ethnic group.
Even if Abacha tears his face with Baha, it is a big deal that he will not show up in Draculamo in the future, is he still afraid that Bahar will bite Longta?
Now the only one who has to be reluctant is Cao Mo.
Where did Abacha think that in just a few seconds after entering the door, Cao Mo had already acted in so many scenes in his heart?
He also thought to himself that Starry's smile was directed at him.
Besides, Baha's arrogant attitude had already made him very dissatisfied, listening to Cao Mo praising him like this, he first showed a charming smile to Stari, his eyes also didn't look at Baha, and he didn't care about taking out the checkbook, and asked Yan Zhicheng: "How many chips do we need before we are qualified to sit down and play two?"
"Mr. Abacha, you can exchange up to $20,000 in chips at a time; Ah Dao walked in, and at this time he politely bent over and said to Abacha.
"Smack!" Abacha wrote a check and tore it to Knife.
It was now during the cement storm in Kanem, and the storm did not stop for a day, and he was able to take seven or eight thousand dollars a day from the cement factory, and he did not take $20,000 very seriously.
"Mr. Abacha, you lend me five thousand dollars first. Cao Mo looked at the checkbook in front of Abacha's desk and said.
You can exchange up to $20,000 in chips at a time, as long as you don't play with two bets of chips to amuse everyone, Cao Mo will exchange $5,000 in chips first, which can only show that he is a little petty.
We're used to this.
In the past, when he played a game of two thousand dollars, Cao Mo also played for five or six hundred dollars.
Seeing the contempt in Baha's eyes and putting his vigilance on Abacha, Cao Mo breathed a sigh of relief and observed the situation at the table.
The chip exchange needs to be up, and the new round of cards will not wait for them, and at this time, it has continued at Yan Zhicheng's signal.
The chips were slightly more than in front of the Baja table, but not unreasonably large.
Yan Zhicheng and Huang Hebin are obviously playing together, calling unhurriedly, very Buddhist.
Xie Sipeng and Ma Bin played very conservatively, not wanting to win much money, but also not wanting to lose.
Tubman Jr. and the others still played very seriously, drew good hole cards, and had no intention of backing down in front of Bahar.
The situation at the table is interesting, but when you think about it, it has a lot to do with the political changes in Kanem.
After the end of Kanem's colonial rule, the anti-colonial wave in the country did not stop during the rule of the military government. Although the junta did not directly confiscate the property of the descendants of the colonists under international pressure, it has maintained a high pressure on policy.
After the end of the military junta's rule and Buhari's election as president, although he accepted the plate of the previous military government and did not carry out a large-scale purge of the old forces of the military junta, the political situation was considered to be a stable transition, but in order to develop the domestic economy, improve relations with European and American countries, and attract a large amount of capital from Europe and the United States to return to Kanem, President Buhari did a lot of work to restore the economic and political status of the descendants of the colonizers in Kanem.
President Buhari even considered the descendants of the colonizers to be a fundamental part of himself.
This also led to a rapid recovery in the status of the descendants of colonists such as Tubman Jr. in Kanem, and there was a tendency to regain control of Kanem's economic lifeline.
At the poker table, Abacha, even though he came from an old family, represents the emerging political and economic forces in Kanem, Baja represents the political and economic forces that have survived the previous military junta and still hold real power, and Tubman Jr. and other investors in the Lanadre Hotel represent the descendants of colonists who are reviving and control the economic lifeblood of Kanem's country and have European and American backgrounds.
And he, Xie Sipeng, Huang Hebin, and Ma Bin represent the Chinese businessmen who have just entered Kanem and have not really won the attention of the local area - Yan Zhicheng is a special case.
Of course, the Tubman family is not doing well and is in a period of defeat, and the momentum of little Tubman is still weak in front of Bahar, and he should have known that Babman has coveted Starry.
Once you see the situation, the rest of the hand will be easy.
Yan Zhicheng and Huang Hebin were playing together, and Xie Sipeng and Ma Bin were not willing to participate in the game, so Cao Mo actively participated in the game of killing them and took the chips.
However, even if Yan Zhicheng and them have the mentality of playing together, it is impossible to throw tens of thousands of dollars on the table inappropriately.
They were sniped by Cao Mo a few times, and they couldn't seize the opportunity to fight back against Cao Mo, so they could only actively get back some chips from others; as long as they had good cards in their hands, even if Bahara participated in the game, they didn't dare to give in easily, lest the chips be quickly emptied.
Cao Mo secretly sent the chips to the tables of the investors at the Lana Dere Hotel.
After two hours of playing, Baja, who seemed to have always been invincible at the poker table, had lost $60,000.
Cao Mo didn't let Abacha have a chance to show too much, and they and Tubman Jr. barely managed to keep the game at bay, and Yan Zhicheng's poker skills were also extremely clever, and after playing with him for a long time, the chips at the table came and went for hundreds of dollars.
Huang Hebin, Xie Sipeng, and Ma Bin are not impulsive, but at such a poker table, if they are not impulsive and intentionally forbear, it means that they are passive, and they all lose tens of thousands of dollars or twenty thousand dollars.
More than $100,000 in chips were piled up in front of the other three investors at the Lana Dere Hotel.
According to the rules of Texas Hold'em, there is a limit to the number of chips you can put on the table, but once you sit down, you can't win the table when you accumulate chips.
So the others were all in front of them with tens of thousands of dollars in chips, and the chips in front of the Baja table were emptied again, while the three investors in front of the Lana Dere Hotel all had chips ranging from $40,000 to $80,000, which was too contrasting.
Seeing that Baha was already impetuous, Yan Zhicheng could only stubbornly persuade everyone to end the game first and talk about it after the meal.
Baha was in a bad mood.
Even if $60,000 is nothing in his eyes, after Cao Mo and Abacha participated in the game, he has always been losing, and in front of his coveted Starry, how can he stand it?
Of course, Yan Zhicheng and Huang Hebin are the owners of the offering, and the new casino also has a part of his Jidam family, so it is impossible for him to smash the casino field, and in the end he can only leave angrily, and he is not in the mood to stay to participate in the dinner.
In addition to the main building, the new casino has four seafront villas.
Yan Zhicheng used one of them as his new residence, and the dinner was also arranged in the seaside villa.
Baha lost his money and left in a bad mood, although the atmosphere was a little depressing when he just left with a black face, but after he left, everyone started talking happily again.
The three investors of Lana Dere won the money, and their emotions were even more high, and they all said that they would have a meal and fight again.
This kind of game is very boring, Cao Mo is not interested in participating, Yan Zhicheng and Xie Sipeng are not interested in continuing.
Lana Dere Beach Casino, for such a big scene, will not have the idea of catching big fish and slaughtering fat sheep, but they will not use their minds on these people who have a lot of roots in Draculamo.
After dinner, Yan Zhicheng still has to do all kinds of things, after all, it is the first day of the official opening of the new casino.
Little Tubman is a gambler, so he took three hotel investors and went into the casino to find a favorite game to participate.
Xie Sipeng and Huang Hebin, who represented Taihua Group, put on a look that they had nothing to do with the gambling table, and they were not interested in indulging in the poker table, but were more interested in making money, so they pulled Ma Bin and Yang Deshan, and accompanied Cao Mo and Abacha to sit on the terrace by the beach and chat.
Huang Hebin and Zhou Han also stayed - since Taihua Group has decided to officially set up a branch in Draculamo, it is only the first step to participate in casino investment openly and secretly.
The Lonta-Draculamo road will be completely completed until October, but now light cars and off-road vehicles can barely pass, and it is much easier to get around.
Not to mention professional managers like Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan and Huang Hebin, even Ma Bin can see that there are many investment opportunities in Longta outside the gold mine.
On the way over, Cao Mo also communicated with Abacha, sat down and chatted, and Abacha generously asked everyone to contribute to the future development of Longta.
Everyone has been in contact for so long, not to mention that Dongsheng is vigorously entering Longta to acquire oil palm land, Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan have directly invested in gold mines in Longta, and Ma Bin also invited people to Longta to look for mines, and they know very well what advantages and disadvantages Longta has, and their ideas are even much more open than Cao Mo.
In the case of oil palm planting, in addition to crushing palm oil, the fruit yield of oil palm trees will decrease rapidly after 30 years of growth, and at this time, old trees will be cut down and new trees will be planted.
Palm trees are not used as a lot of wood, but they are also a more stable source of wood.
In terms of the scale of oil palm planting of 6.7 million mu in Longta, the average annual palm tree can be cut down and utilized is as high as 20,000 or 30,000 mu.
The brown coat growing on the trunk of the oil palm tree is the raw material for making brown rope and brown silk mattresses.
In Indonesia and Malaysia, there are already a number of paper mills that produce high-quality pulp from oil palm leaves and crushed oil palm fruit residues.
However, in Lonta, in addition to extracting oil, the old trees, or leaves, and brown clothes, are either burned as firewood or disposed of as garbage.
Since Dongsheng has decided to buy oil palm fields on a large scale, Yang Deshan is well aware of this.
Even if Dongsheng will not directly invest in a wood palm silk processing plant or a paper mill in Longta, as long as it hopes to fully develop and utilize the raw material of oil palm trees, it will naturally strongly encourage and guide other investors to establish relevant factories in Longta.
In addition to the large-scale oil palm plantations, the gold resources are attracting a number of people, and there are also abundant forest resources, natural gas, lime, volcanic ash, coal, phosphorus and potassium and other mineral resources.
In addition to the abundant hydropower resources in the upper reaches of the Lujiaochuan River, there is also a small fishing port at the mouth of the sea, where you can invest in fishing boats and enter the Gulf of Guinea for fishing - although Kanem has thousands of kilometers of coast, the development of the marine fishing industry is lagging behind, and most of the aquatic products consumed in the country rely on imports.
The Antlers River could even expand the port to export Lonta's resources overseas or to other coastal cities in Kanem.
Even Dongsheng hopes that other Chinese businessmen will invest in a crushing plant in Kanem, and Dongsheng will be responsible for the purchase of the crude palm oil produced by Dongsheng - which will further expand the scale of Dongsheng's palm oil purchase in Kanem.