The Ji'an family's manor house is a typical Kante farmstead with a very large area.

The external road is potholed and very muddy, but after a wooden sign that marks the Ji'an family manor, it is quite a neat gravel road after entering the manor, and the road surface is paved with neat fine sand, as if it has been combed with special tools in the morning.

Cash crops such as bananas, palms, and cocoa are planted on both sides of the road, as well as fish ponds and cattle pens, and there are many local tribal servants working by the woodland or ponds – if it weren't for the shiny dark skin of the laborers and the two pickup trucks parked on the side of the road, it would have felt like a traditional European manor house from the Middle Ages, and even a mill with a windmill.

"This is Senator Asamo Gian......"

Feng Lei got out of the car first, led the way in front, and introduced the group of people who were already standing in front of the wooden main building of the manor, including Cao Mo, Starry, Zhou Han, Xie Sipeng and others.

Feng Lei is a native of Hunan, went to Xinhai to study in college, and after graduation, he applied for employment in Huachen Industry, and has been an ordinary after-sales technical engineer on the pickup line for several years, with a boring personality, he can't afford to buy a house in Xinhai, and he has made several girlfriends who have died without a problem, and he is currently single.

After Huachen Pickup was acquired by Tianyue Industry, a small number of employees applied to stay in Huachen, and Feng Lei and most of the other employees were taken over by Tianyue Industry.

Although Cao Mo asked Xu Bin to continuously increase the salary of the receiving employees, he also gave a one-third elimination rate.

Xu Bin is the most dissatisfied with the original market and after-sales team of pickup trucks, and the most ruthless practice, and at the same time, in order to strengthen the after-sales capabilities of the African market, Xu Bin kicked the entire team to Africa to follow the market.

Those who can't go on a long trip for various reasons, who are afraid of the harsh environment in Africa, who can't just leave when they are given an order, and who can't work hard to learn English, are all included in the elimination list.

In less than three months, half of the original sales and after-sales team of Huachen pickup truck voluntarily resigned, and half a year later, the number of the entire team was left with a quarter of the initial number, and even the severance pay was saved, but the remaining personnel were truly integrated into Tianyue industry.

In the process of going through this process, some of the personnel were able to return to China one after another to participate in the construction of the domestic market sales system; Feng Lei adapted to the difficult working environment in Africa, but felt a passion that could not be experienced in China, so he and the other part of the personnel continued to stay in Africa, working in the sales and maintenance centers set up by Tianyue Industry in the countries bordering the Gulf of Guinea.

Feng Lei, as a Chinese technical supervisor at Akwa's sales and maintenance center, happens to be in charge of the market in the south of Akwapeme.

Cao Mo had tried his best to avoid getting involved in the ethnic struggle in Akwa, and it was naturally impossible for high-ranking figures such as Xie Sipeng, Kabuja, Brahm, and Garon Targaryen to have any contact with the Kanter dignitaries.

Now that he wants to "keep" his distance from Juan Mantar and the Front pour la démocratie (FDD), and even to maintain a line of "resentment", and that he cannot find a random intermediary in Akva, Cao Mo is a bit blind to establish contact with Asamo Anji, the moderate Kanter faction.

After some internal inquiry, it was an ordinary sales and after-sales technical supervisor of Tianyue Industry in Akwa, who had several contacts with the Anji family because of his work, so he urgently found Dahomei and was responsible for the liaison work.

Cao Mo didn't want to circumvent Akwa's ethnic struggle so as not to appear too weak, but at the same time, he couldn't be too naked and provoke the general resentment of the Akon people.

So this visit, both nominally and in reality, was a business visit.

It is because its companies such as Ibogu Mining and Conero Foods will focus on investing in Dahomey in the future, so Cao Mo took this trip to Akwa to visit the first dignitary family of Dahomey "by the way".

Although compared with other European and American giants that have entered the African market, the volume of Tianyue is still a bit small, but it was not until 06 years later that the implementation of political changes and the reopening of foreign capital into the domestic Akwa country, Tianyue has invested 500 million US dollars in Akwa in less than three years, and it is the first overseas capital of Akwa.

Don't think about any giant who can surpass Tianyue in Akwa in the short term.

After all, even if European and American giants can win a larger oil and gas exploration project in Akwa, they will need to be under construction to release the capital little by little.

After the coup d'état, during the decade-long military dictatorship, although some ethnic conflicts were transferred to the descendants of the colonizers, the Kanter people were not less suppressed.

Even in the era of popular elections, in addition to the obvious low proportion of Kanter people from the central government to the local government and the military, the economic repression is more serious.

In recent years, the limited industrial and mining development in Akwa has focused on the construction of the northern province dominated by the Akan people, except for the capital port of Pemei.

In the southeastern region of Dahomey, which also has high-quality ports and mineral resources, because of the dominance of the Kanter people, Akwa's limited central finance has hardly tilted a dime in this direction.

When Cao Mo and his family entered Dahomey, they could hardly see a decent processing industry, and the power supply was completely dependent on the Pemei Port Thermal Power Plant, which was only 40 kilometers away, but the normal power supply time of the town was only five or six hours.

And these five or six hours of power supply are mostly concentrated in the middle of the night.

Road traffic is even worse.

Akwa entered the era of popular elections, and the Kanter people regained their dominance through local elections in areas such as Dahomey, and local autonomy was also granted.

However, in addition to the factor of avoiding ethnic struggles, what is more important is that the industrial facilities such as power supply, transportation, water supply, and communications in Dahomey and other places are too weak, and even if the Dahomey area has tried to attract foreign capital in the past two years, it has not been effective.

Ibogu Mining, Conero Cement, Tianyue Industries, Conero Foods and other well-known enterprises in Akwa, the largest investors behind the scenes visited Dahomey, and the Anji family also gave the highest level of reception even though it was the first contact.

The Kanter people were supported by the colonial rulers in their early years, and all aspects of their culture were highly infiltrated, and their living habits were closer to those of the colonizers.

Asamo Gian, who is over 70 years old, has three wives, but none of them have them at the same time. His three sons and two daughters, all of whom were not very old, were members of the family and were also present at the meeting.

Asamo Gian is an old man who is politically responsible for raising the young son born to his current wife.

His eldest son was born to his first wife, and because of his mother's larger family, he had become independent and ran the largest lumber mill in the region, which was also the backbone of Dahomey's industry.

The second son, Mbach, was born to his second wife, and was not liked by Asamo's current wife, and his mother's side had little power, only responsible for taking care of a palm plantation that was not much of a local scale, and his personality seemed rather dull.

At today's meeting, Mbach sat down and did not speak much, far less eloquent than Asamo's eldest and youngest sons, as well as his two daughters, and seemed to recognize that he was on the fringes of the meeting.

Compared with Asamo's eldest son, who is more sophisticated and conservative in his heart, and Asamo's youngest son, who is boastful and a little frivolous, Cao Mo noticed that Asamo's second son, Mbach, seems to be taciturn, but he has quite indifferent self-confidence in his heart.

At the reception banquet prepared by the Ji'an family, Cao Mo also deliberately mentioned some topics related to ethnic struggles, and it can be seen that Asamo's other two sons are more or less radical, but Mbach is more in favor of his father Asamo's moderate line. Of course, these topics are superficial.

Cao Mo mainly discussed with Asamo Gian the Gulf of Guinea Coastal Economic Corridor, as well as Conero Energy's intention to build a power generation base and cross-border power grid along this economic corridor, and negotiated a series of investment plans along the Coastal Economic Corridor to develop palm and cocoa and other cash crop planting bases and Conero cement production base.

Cao Mo has such an investment plan in West Africa, and Dahomey is the most important node in his investment plan, so his visit to the Anji family is logical and unobtrusive.

After dark, the power went out in Dahomey, and the diesel generator in the manor happened to fail, and the very standard Western-style dinner party was reflected in the wax fire, but there was also a different kind of warmth.

After the dinner, Cao Mo and the others said goodbye and left, and when they returned to the temporary base of Tubman Security Consultants in Dahomey, it was still early, and everyone still sat in the conference room to discuss the follow-up work arrangements.

As the main liaison with the Anji family, Feng Lei was also pulled over to participate in the discussion.

"You seem to be quite fond of Mbach?" Xie Sipeng asked curiously, sitting down.

Although Asamo is the moderate leader of the Kante people, he is old and not in good health, so if they really want to forge a closer relationship with the Anji family, they still have to choose between Asamo's three sons.

Although Xie Sipeng didn't see anything special about Mbach, he also noticed that Cao Mo took the initiative to talk about several topics at the dinner today, Asamo's eldest son and younger son reacted more consistently, only Mbach seemed to have a flat reaction, but it could be seen that he did not approve of his brother.

Through the simple elimination method, Xie Sipeng can also see that Cao Mo is more interested in Mbach.

“...... In principle, we should not be entangled with radicals or forces from the Kanter or other camps, but moderates are too easy to weaken," Cao Mo sighed and said, "There are too few people like Juan Mantar who have a clear understanding of reality and a firm heart. Perhaps his own situation in the Anji family, Mbach has a more pragmatic spirit and a more tenacious personality - the next investment intention in Dahomey, we have to talk about several directions, among Asamo's three sons, at least we can't show too obvious preferences on the surface, but the investment in the plantation, we can be more relaxed when negotiating, we can move forward faster......"

Asaman Anji and the whole family put their hopes on their youngest son, and even more hope that he can inherit Assaman's political legacy in the future.

Therefore, Cao Moming still has to have enough weight in the Tianyue Department Xie Sipeng, and have more contact with Assaman's young son in Akvado.

Anyway, it's a virtual game, and it's playing with anyone.

Genuine transactional contacts can be done by focusing on plantation investments in the early stages and maintaining close ties with Mbach.

Of course, this is not enough.

Cao Mo designated Feng Lei to participate in the plantation cooperation investment negotiations in Dahomey, not that Feng Lei was deeply involved in the investment and operation of the plantation in Dahomey, which was directly responsible for Dongsheng Group and Conero Foods.

Feng Lei's position is not high, and his main job in Akwa is still responsible for the sales and after-sales service of Tianyue Industry in the southern region of Akwa, he took the opportunity to participate in the negotiations, maintained close contact with Mbach, and was not too abrupt, and at the same time, he could bring Mbach into other investment and market affairs of Tianyue in Akwa, and quietly help Mbach get rid of the restrictions of family and personal affairs limited to Dahomey......