Chapter 13 Preparations
(Thanks to the Dameng of the drunken people in the border wilderness for the reward...... )
"Mr. Yang, they just left, and agreed that we should take a vacation first?"
Kabuja watched in amazement as Yang Deshan and the others started the car, kicked the dust away, and soon disappeared into the night.
"This land, for many people, is itself an untapped gold mine, and there are many opportunities, big and small, and since Yang Deshan has moved his mind to do private work, why is it necessary to get along with us?" Cao Mo speculated on the reason why Yang Deshan left calmly, and said to Kabuja with a smile, thinking in his heart, Yang Deshan should have known that if he wants to get rich, he must first hold on to his anger, which is worth learning from him.
"Then why didn't Mr. Yang react when you just proposed that they also participate? Kabuja asked.
Kabuja also thought that the reason why the old chief Felician agreed to cooperate with them and refused Yang Deshan and Guo Jian was mainly because they still lacked the necessary trust in Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.
However, Kabuja is worried that when Yang Deshan and Guo Jian really get involved, spend many times more money than Cao Mo, buy complete sets of gold mining equipment, and work hard in the area allocated to them, mining more than more than ten times more placer gold every day, the situation may not change.
Seeing Yang Deshan finally leave without any reaction, Kabuja breathed a sigh of relief.
"Generally, the veins are distributed in a belt, and in the Longta area, it seems that only the ancient village of Ibo produces gold, but it is more likely that other tribal territories have not been discovered for the time being due to insufficient exploration, and it is not that there are no gold deposits,"
Chinese have always had the ambition of "rather being a chicken head than a phoenix tail", and sometimes face is more important than anything else, Cao Mo will not be able to solve the subtle difference with Kabuja for a while, just lightly show off the gold mine knowledge he has only learned, said,
"They may be thinking in their hearts that if they stay in Ibogu Village and be angry with me, they might as well talk to a nearby tribe about gold mining cooperation. Besides, the terms we negotiated with the old chief will not be shouted to the outside, they really want to take over a piece of land, the contract period, the dividend ratio and even the proportion of the management fee I have to charge, I don't have the final say, can I let them come in comfortably and get a piece of the pie?"
“...... Oh" Kabuja then understood why Yang Deshan simply walked away, and he clearly realized that Cao Mo had bad intentions.
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The night was dark, and the old chieftain Felician was not energetic, so he went back to rest after falling asleep, while the young girls and young men of the tribe sang and danced around the campfire.
Cao Mo really didn't have a sense of music and rhythm to dance with the snakes, so that Kabuja continued to stay in the square and make a lot of noise, getting acquainted with the villagers, and he went back to the grass hut where he was recuperating before.
No matter what Yang Deshan and Guo Jian's plans are in the future, even if they can maintain peaceful coexistence for the time being, it will be beneficial to him.
However, the old chief Felician successfully reached an agreement on cooperation, but it does not mean that things can go smoothly.
In the past year, Cao Mo has been in Draculamo for more than a year, and has also contacted many Chinese businessmen who are engaged in engineering equipment trade, and knows that it is not difficult to purchase crushing, grinding and other equipment in Draculamo.
In Kanem and the surrounding West African countries, although the industrial base is extremely weak, there are also some industries such as cement, steel and bauxite smelting.
These equipment are used in cement, iron ore crushing, etc.
However, the crushing and grinding equipment used in these industries are often large and medium-sized equipment that can process hundreds of tons or hundreds of tons of ore per hour, and the price is high, which he is not able to purchase at this time.
In the entire Lunta area, the power supply is extremely tight, and there is no grid connection to the village of Ibogu.
Without power supply, how much power diesel generator sets do you need to rely on to drive these large-scale equipment crushing equipment?
At present, the equipment he can purchase is mainly small vibratory crushers and sand making machines, suitable for small-scale gold mining teams, and the ability to process ore is initially ideally maintained at about 20 or 30 tons per day.
This may not be found in Draculamo.
However, if the equipment is only 10,000 US dollars or 20,000 US dollars, if you directly contact the domestic machinery manufacturers for delivery, will it not be handled because the customs and shipping procedures are too complicated?
I'm afraid that this is still a trick and a deception, under the pretense of buying samples and selling equipment in Kanem, to buy goods from domestic manufacturers?
Through the faint light of the candle, Cao Mo recorded these thoughts in the workbook, thinking that she would wait for Lucy to get to know Draculamore's equipment dealer before considering it further.
The registration of agent trading companies by foreigners in Kanem is relatively relaxed, but when it comes to the mining of special metal deposits, almost any country will have extremely strict restrictions.
Kanem's economy was backward and chaotic, but at the same time it had a strict legal system inherited from the colonial period.
At present, the old chief Felician has handed over the gold mine to him to invest in mining, and there will be no trouble for the time being, and the output of the gold mine in the ancient village of Ipo is too small to even be called a gold mine.
However, as a foreigner, his local connections only involved a very limited number of people such as the old chief Felician and Kabuja and Lucy, and when the gold mine in the ancient village of Ibogu continued to develop, it was really like a piece of fat, and there were some big people in the Longta area and even Oyo Prefecture who came to him for trouble, how could he escape?
In Draculamo, in addition to the chaos of law and order, the degree of corruption and blackness of officials is also jaw-dropping.
At this time, if you leave a handle and be targeted by local officials in the future, you will wait to be extorted by the National People's Congress!
Wandering alone in a chaotic country where you are unfamiliar with life, Gou is the last word!
Thinking of Yang Deshan's calm mind when he left, Cao Mo wrote a big "Gou" in the workbook to remind himself.
Taking over the gold mining team is even more of a matter of consideration.
He has worked in the workshop of Dongsheng Group for nearly two years, and has been in contact with more common equipment, and there are no major problems in operation and maintenance, but his current understanding of gold mining is still superficial, limited to some information that can be searched on the Internet.
Even if the use of small-scale gold mining equipment and even a complete set of simple gold mining processes do not seem to be technically insurmountable, he has not been able to operate them.
He still needs to be familiar with the whole process and how to divide the labor of the entire gold mining team next, so as to have a good idea.
This time, he had to hire all the gold mining teams from the original Ibogu Village, but these villagers had never even touched the simplest electrical machinery and equipment, and how to train them to use and maintain these simple machinery and equipment was also a headache.
Gold mining from Owema down, whether they will be obedient, how to make them obedient, and gold mining is particularly easy to trap smuggling, how to prevent theft, are all problems.
The gold miners were all villagers of the village of Ibogu, and they might not dare to steal the belongings of the chieftain Felician, but it would be wishful thinking for him to believe that the villagers were simple.
I was idle before, thinking that I had never eaten pork and had seen pigs run, but when I really wanted to do it, I found that it was difficult to even learn to run pigs.
After Kabuja finished tossing and turning, he went into the grass shed to rest, Cao Mo was not sleepy, he sat on the straw mat to sort out his thoughts, and the record book unconsciously wrote forty or fifty pages, and waited until the two candles were burned out, and the sky was blue.
Cao Mo took out her mobile phone to check the time, it was more than four o'clock in the morning.
Fortunately, he didn't buy the color screen mobile phone that is becoming popular in China, the kind of mobile phone consumes power too fast, and he can't find a battery to charge in Yibo Ancient Village, and the old Nokia can last for five or six days without charging.
There is also no signal in the ancient village of Ibo, except to look at the time, it can be turned off at ordinary times.
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Cao Mo slept for two hours, and when she woke up, she was not tired at all.
He grabbed Kabuja and wanted to rush to the town of Lonta first to find a cell phone signal to contact Lucy.
In addition to telling Lucy about the progress on his side, he also needs to find out about Lucy's contact with the equipment dealer yesterday.
If Dracula is unable to purchase these small devices, he needs to contact the domestic manufacturer immediately.
The girl Lily happily ran over to follow them to the town, and when she went out, she saw two trail motorcycles parked in the chief's compound, surrounded by many children and villagers, and two people were eager to ride on the motorcycle, but unfortunately there were no car keys to drive away.
Seeing Cao Mo and Kabuja going out early in the morning, the onlookers dispersed in a hurry.
Cassava, the staple food of the locals, is drought-tolerant, has high starch yields, and simple field management, with villagers working in the fields for an hour or two at most, and doing nothing at all.
A little new people and things in the tribe are especially easy to attract onlookers, and Cao Mo has long been accustomed to it, and the same is true in other places in Kanem.
Cao Mo made it clear to Ovema yesterday that the gold mining team would continue to mine according to the traditional method until the new equipment was brought in, but at this time, he saw that several of the onlookers were workers of the gold mining team.
He didn't see Owema's figure, and he didn't know if Owema didn't take his words to his heart at all, and with resistance, he started to release the wild horses today.
"Come here!"
Cao Mo pointed to a young man not far away and shouted.
Yesterday afternoon, the old chieftain Felician and Owema introduced him to the workers of the gold mining team, and in the evening they drank together and watched them dance, and Cao Mo had some impressions of this young man.
Yesterday, the vast majority of the gold mining team was quite restrained in front of him.
Under normal circumstances, it would take a considerable amount of time for Cao Mo to gain a deeper understanding of these workers and make distinctions.
However, his keen instinct told him that the young man had a strong curiosity and positive expectations for him to take over the gold mining team yesterday.
Now seeing his nervous appearance, with the intention of coming forward to say hello, Cao Mo directly called him over and asked, "What's your name, you can drive a motorcycle?"
"My name is Botu......" The young man walked over and shook his head with envy at the smooth and rugged body of the trail.
"It's easy, you go to the town with us first, and then come back and ask Kabuja to teach you. ”
Cao Mo next has to think about how to take over the management of the gold mining team, and Owema is still resistant, so he has to select three or five people from the gold mining team as a typical attraction and training, and slowly change the attitude of the local villagers and other people in the gold mining team towards him.
After a brief chat, Cao Mo found that Botu's English was not bad, and he had studied in the town before, and had received a primary education, and even Botu had long felt that the current production methods of the gold mining team were too simple, and suggested to Owema, thinking that the old chief could add some small equipment, but he was not answered by Owema.
Most of the gold mining team still thought it was incredible for Cao Mo, a foreigner, to take over the gold mine, but Botu had some expectations, and Owema didn't notify him to work in the morning, so he ran around, wanting to contact Cao Mo, and was very apprehensive.
Some of the ideas have not been straightened out yet, and Cao Mo will not go to Owema for the time being, so he will let Botu go directly to the town with them......