“...... Mr. Liang, do you think Cao Mo played a role in the whole thing?"

The unexpected turn for the worse in Akwa forced them to suspend their plans for the copper-gold mines in the Usan River, and Ryan Fortis had a gut feeling that Cao Mo was behind all this, but he couldn't find enough obvious clues to convince the senior members of the council to believe this.

Although Ryan Fortis looked down on Liang Yuan who came from the wrong way and was full of thoughts of harming his compatriots, in order to find more clues from the whole thing, he still took the initiative to find Liang Yuan after returning to Kanem.

“......”

Liang Yuan received Ryan Fortis on a private estate in Catelo, the capital of the state of Oyo.

The weather is sweltering, but under the shade of the trees, there is a Yoruba maid holding a big fan to fan the wind, but it is freehand.

Hosseini, the second son of President Akwa Seviyi, ordered the suppression of demonstrations in Tellero, provoking protests by the Kantes one after another, and frequent bloody violence, which is the hottest news on the Gulf of Guinea coast in recent times.

As a member of the Economic Community of West African States, Kanem President Buhari and other dignitaries have also sent letters to President Akwa Saiweiyi to express their concern over the matter.

Liang Yuan has naturally been concerned about the situation in Akwa and the progress of the Evans Foundation and the Saveyi family's plot against the Usan River copper-gold mine, but he is not an insider, and has no direct relationship with the Saveyi family and the Evans Foundation.

And Liang Yuan has limited sources of information on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.

In addition to public media reports, how could he possibly know the details of the Tellero crackdown?

At this time, he learned many details of the Tellero suppression incident and a series of subsequent chain reactions from Ryan Fortis's mouth, and Liang Yuan couldn't help but gasp.

I didn't expect such a serious crisis to let Cao Mo's grandson escape temporarily?

"Although you haven't been able to find any clues to prove that Cao Mo was involved in it for the time being, I can pat my chest and tell you that Cao Mo will definitely not be clean," Liang Yuan said, "Even if Tianyue didn't start a series of collaborations in Dahomey at this time, everything is so similar to the collapse of the Gidam family and the Brotherhood of Steel, and the smell is too familiar......"

“...... How is it similar?"

Ryan Fortis asked, confused.

The collapse of the Gidam family and the Brotherhood of Steel was a great event in Draculamo, but the Gidam family made too many enemies in Draculamo, and the gunfight they had at the beginning was far more than the Tubman family.

The truth has long been drowned in rumors and speculation.

After Jidam himself fell to his death, Tianyue did not directly participate in the division of the wealth of the Jidam family, and the Oppenheimer family was the biggest beneficiary.

Of course, there are some basic facts that Ryan Fortis befriended Avena and intended to encourage Avena to join forces with Niz Oppenheimer to wrest control of Falco's investment from Sturgeon.

He knew that Liang Yuan had cooperated with the Jidam family through the Atlantic United Oil Trading Company, and then the Atlantic United Oil Trading Company was invested and acquired by Sturgeon's Volkov.

But that's not all.

Ryan Fortis even wondered if there was any secret deal between Liang Yuan and Sturgeon and Niz Oppenheimer because of this, and he was even more indifferent to Liang Yuan, who had just been pasted with a hot face.

He has never delved deeper into the collapse of the Jidam family and what role Cao Mo played in it.

Liang Yuan hesitated for a moment, then looked at Ryan Fortis and asked, "The woman named Zhou Han next to Cao Mo, presumably Mr. Fortis won't have any deep impressions, right?"

"As far as I know, she used to be a woman next to Lu Yan, the young master of Cao Mo's old rival Taihua Group, but for some reason she switched to Cao Mo's arms, could it be that there is an untold story behind this woman?" asked Ryan Fortis suspiciously.

"You plotted against the Wusan River copper and gold mine, but you never really took Cao Mo as a terrible opponent, no wonder you lost so badly!" Liang Yuan was also resentful of Ryan Fortis's indifferent attitude in the past, and he couldn't help but ridicule him at this time.

"It's true that we underestimated this opponent too much before!" Ryan Fortis put aside his arrogant posture and didn't care at all in the face of Liang Yuan's sneering attitude.

Liang Yuan knew that in order for Ryan Fortis to realize his role, he had to say some details that were not known to outsiders, and muttered: "Zhou Han has never been a member of the Lu family or the Taihua Group, and it can even be said that she has approached the Lu family with a specific purpose from beginning to end and infiltrated the ......."

"Mr. Liang, why are you so sure?" Ryan Fortis asked solemnly, staring into Liang Yuan's eyes.

"Because I was Zhou Han's partner at the beginning, and Zhou Han's last betrayal was not the Lu family, but me!" Liang Yuan remembered all the things in the past, his face couldn't help twitching slightly, and he took a deep breath before suppressing the hatred in his heart.

"......" Ryan Fortis knew that he had come to the right place this time, but he also waited quietly for Liang Yuan to continue.

"In the early days of China's rapid development, social security was also bad, and some people in business operations were accustomed to making a fortune by all kinds of unseemly means - the rise of the Lu family was naturally not very glorious, and in the process, Zhou Han's family was very seriously hurt," Liang Yuan said, "Zhou Han grew up in the UK, but she has always been obsessed with this matter, and after she finished studying, she found me as a partner to take revenge on the Lu family- We bought the Atlantic United Oil Trading Company, approached the Taihua Group, and persuaded them to cooperate with the Jidam family to build an oil refinery on the south bank of Lake Conero Lake, and other projects, from beginning to end, Zhou Han laid a trap for the Lu family, the purpose of which was to make the wealth plundered by the Lu family over the years fall into Africa, and finally become penniless - it is obvious that she thinks that Cao Mo is more conducive to achieving this purpose, so she did not hesitate to take refuge in the past, and became a beautiful dog under Cao Mo. Speaking of which, Mr. Fortis still thinks that the fall of the Jidam family has nothing to do with Cao Mo? If Mr. Fortis is not sure, I will reveal another detail to Mr. Fortis, that is, Baha Giddam was killed in a clash with the Beninese Navy in the waters south of Cotonou, when Baha Giddam was secretly leading a small fleet preparing to smuggle oil to Akwa, and the whereabouts of Baha Gidam at that time, Zhou Han, a woman who did not know the most accurate information, could roughly estimate it. Because at that time the Atlantic Union Oil Trading Company was a collaborator of the Gidam family, and I did not expect this woman to betray me. Therefore, I have no doubt that Baha Jidammu actually died at the hands of Cao Mo, and that Mr. Fortis must have heard a lot about the grievances between the Tubman family, which is currently one of the five pillars of the Tianyue family in the Gulf of Guinea, and the Jidammu family."

Ryan Fortis wanted to slap himself.

The sheer scale of the construction of Ibogu Mining in Drake, the amount of machinery and equipment imported from Akwa Customs, the amount of money remitted through the Akwa Central Bank and converted into local currency, and the large-scale procurement of materials organized from the local area have a clear impact on the economy of Drake, the Northern Province and the entire Akwa – not to mention that it is impossible for the Akwa state sector not to monitor the economic operations of the country as long as it is not paralyzed.

Therefore, it is not for Cao Mo to keep a low profile, the copper and gold mines of the Wusang River can be hidden deep under the surface of the water and not be noticed by the world.

According to the laws and regulations of Akwa, many things need to be reported or applied to the government for the exploration, construction and mining of the copper and gold mines in the Usan River.

The railway capacity from Kruno and Drake to Pemei is so tight that Yibogu Mining was able to sign a transportation agreement with Akwa Railway Company for 300,000 tons of copper concentrate Chinese New Year's Eve after submitting an application and receiving the support of the Ministry of Transport.

Therefore, it is impossible for Cao Mo to completely conceal the true reserves of the Wusan River copper-gold mine.

The first time Ibogu Mining reported the scale of 4 million tons of C2 reserves to the Akwa authorities, it shocked all the miners who had taken root in this land, not to mention the rapid increase in the scale of subsequent reserves to 10 million tons.

When Ryan Fortis saw this public information, he thought of his old classmate Badill Jr., who was enjoying the freedom and luxury of the West in the United States, and saw an opportunity to really make it happen.

This led to the sale of the trading company by the Fortis family to the Evans Foundation, his appointment to the Evans Foundation, and the return of Badill Savui Jr. to Akwa to work with him to promote the cooperation between the Evans Foundation and the Seviyi family.

He boasted that during this period of time, he had studied the Ibogu Mining and the Chinese capital hidden behind the Ibogu Mining very thoroughly, and even thought of instigating Avina to seize control of Vrkov's investment from Sturgeon, and unite with the Oguheimer family to create big trouble for Tianyue in Kanem, causing it to advance and retreat, and finally had to let him handle it!

Who would have thought that he would despise this man named Cao Mo from beginning to end!

He couldn't even reveal it to the top members of the council!

That would only show that he was arrogant and stupid, and maybe he would lose the trust of the Council!

No, that's not what he wants to see!

"Mr. Liang, based on your understanding of Cao Mo, what do you think was the one who did something in the Trero incident?" asked Ryan Fortis as he stared at Liang Yuan's eyes seriously.

"I've been exhausted by the Boesso Iron Mine incident recently, how can I have the energy to think about what Cao Mo did in the Tellero incident?"

Useful information in this world is always priceless.

Even if Tianyue's development in the Gulf of Guinea is getting better and better, making him more and more uncomfortable, Liang Yuan doesn't feel obligated to tell so many secrets to Ryan Fortis, who once despised him from the bottom of his heart!

"You haven't been able to solve such a small problem as Bothor's iron ore?" asked Ryan Fortis with his chest crossed.

Liang Yuan wanted to spray Ryan Fortis in his face.

He had known that Yang Xiaofeng was hiding behind his back and instigating the miners of the Boesso Iron Mine to go to the Catelo Iron Works and the Iron and Coal Dock to make trouble, but the three most powerful families in Oyo State, Blake, Felician, and Sika, were all on Cao Mo's side, and it was too late to see the excitement here, so they could be expected to suppress the riots of the Boeso miners?

And the matter has already been provoked, even if he can deal with Yang Xiaofeng now, he can't solve the problem of the Bosso miners.

Truth be told, if it weren't for the Boso miners' trouble, which had kept the expanded Catro steel plant out of operation, he wouldn't have waited for Ryan Fortis to come to the door and find out that these idiots were being played by Cao Mo in Akwa.

Before the financial crisis of Taihua broke out completely, Liang Yuan personally took over a small part of the shares.

Xihai Iron & Steel Investment Co., Ltd., which currently wholly owns the Catelo Iron and Steel Plant, has increased Liang Yuan's personal shareholding to 22%.

He and Huamao Capital's combined shareholding in Xihai Iron and Steel is more than 51%, and Han Shaorong has no intention of transferring people directly from Huamao Capital to Kanem, and he can't find a suitable candidate, so the current operation of Katero Iron and Steel Plant is responsible for the team sent by Xinganglian, and Liang Yuan participates as vice chairman, executive director, and co-president, which also represents Huamao Capital's shareholding to a certain extent.

Liang Yuan, most of his energy, is still involved in the Catelo Iron and Steel Plant.

And all his savings and net worth are betting on the Catelo Iron Works, and he can't afford to be sloppy.

To be honest, he definitely didn't want to see Cao Mo feel better, but he was still afraid that Cao Mo would tear his face and directly use the power of Oyo Governor Blake to strike at the Catro Steel Plant.

Ryan Fortis came to him for advice, if there wasn't enough good, would he dare to wade into this troubled water at this time?

"Mr. Fortis, you think that the Boso iron ore is a minor problem, but I have to tell Mr. Fortis that all the things that Cao Mo interferes in will not be easy. Liang Yuan deliberately pushed the matter of the Bosso miners on Cao Mo's head, wanting to see what Ryan Fortis had to say.

"If I'm not mistaken, the state of Oyo borrowed $60 million from Draculamo Bank when it first developed the Boceau Iron Ore Mine, and today the Boso Iron Mine with interest should be more than 200 million U.S. dollars owed to Draculamo Bank," ......said Ryan Fortes. I may be introduced to Mr. Moberly, who is responsible for contacting the Dracula Bank!"

As the most prosperous city in the Gulf of Guinea and the heart of black Africa, Draculamo is naturally the core base of the Evans Foundation in this land.

Liang Yuan has long been aware of Draculamo's loan to the Boso iron ore mine and the fact that the Evans Foundation actually controls Draculamo Bank, the largest financial institution in the Gulf of Guinea, behind the scenes.

It was also when he was investigating whether the Evans Foundation was involved in the Boesau miners, and noticed the special relationship between Ryan Fortis and Bardinay Smaller.

Of course, if Ryan Fortis were willing to intervene, there would be no way out of the way for the Boso miners.

Located in the easternmost part of Oyo State, the Boiso Iron Mine was originally built in parallel with the Catelo Iron Works, when Kanem's military junta wanted to build Africa's largest steel base in eastern Oyo State, but the first phase of the project was only stumbled up.

The Boso Iron Ore Concentrator was not invested, and the railway between the mine and the Catro Iron and Steel Plant was not invested, but relied on rugged mountain roads to transport iron ore from 200 kilometers directly into the steel plant's furnaces, which could not achieve economies of scale at all.

The Catelo Steel Plant has been operating until now.

Huamao, together with Xinganglian, Liang Yuan and the then Taihua Group, invested a total of 100 million US dollars to establish Xihai Iron and Steel in Draculamo, wholly acquired the Catelo Iron and Steel Plant, and borrowed 80 million US dollars from the Export-Import Bank to renovate and expand the Catelo Iron and Steel Plant.

At that time, the Oyo state government promised to shut down the Boso iron ore mine and that West Sea Steel would purchase high-quality iron concentrate directly from the Mangba region of Akwa and send it to the smelting furnaces, and to build a coal and iron terminal in the middle of the Ogun River.

The Oyo state government has promised to live up to its promises, but with hundreds of Bousso miners organizing to make trouble, and Governor Blake standing by, who will be willing, or who will have the power to forcefully disperse the troublesome miners on their behalf?

Of course, it is not impossible to accept the supply of Boesau iron ore, but the construction of a concentrator plant in Boso and the construction of a railway between Boso and Catro will make it possible to ensure that the Catro steel plant has a good future profit prospects.

Whether it is Xinganglian or Huamao, it is not that they are unwilling to make additional investment.

Bosuo Iron Mine's creditor's rights and equity are complex, if this problem is not solved, whether it is Xinganglian or Huamao, even if the money in their hands is blown by the wind, it is impossible to blindly throw two or three hundred million dollars more in!

Ryan Fortis was willing to come forward, and Liang Yuan saw that there was an opportunity to solve this matter, and he suddenly became excited, and happily patted Ryan Fortis's hand and said: "Mr. Fortis, you have to believe that you are definitely not the only one who does not want to see Cao Mo get better! You should look for allies from China......