Chapter 59 Electricity Use
After breakfast from the restaurant and back to the room, Wang Wen also came back from the beach and was taking a bath in the bathroom.
Cao Mo didn't sleep for two hours at night, so she directly pulled a quilt to make up for sleep, slept in a daze for a while, and woke up to hear Song Yuqing and Wang Wen sitting in the room chatting.
β...... Hurry up, it's twelve o'clock, it's time for us to check out. Seeing Cao Mo wake up, Wang Wen urged him.
"I just want to sleep back, why do you sleep for so long?" Cao Mo got up and went into the bathroom to wash, and when he heard Wang Wen slandering him behind his back, he disappeared for a week, and it must have been too hard for the bamboo pole to stir up the Atlantic.
Waiting for Song Yuqing and Wang Wen to pack up their clothes, the three of them went to the hotel lobby to check out, and when they met foreign friends in the aisle with envious and appreciative eyes, Cao Mo wanted to replace Wang Wen with Stari, and his heart was even more beautiful.
Getting in the car, Wang Wen wanted to calculate the shared expenses to Cao Mo, Cao Mo waved his hand, continued to put Yang Deshan and Guo Jian in front, and said to Wang Wen: "There are some things you don't want to talk nonsense in front of others, I will ask Mr. Yang and Manager Guo privately for reimbursement of this little money." β
Wang Wen happily stuffed the money back into his bag and asked curiously, "What are you doing outside?" I said no wonder you all leave Draculamo every now and then, and you can't see your figure at the crushing plant. β
"I just take on some private work, from the domestic equipment to Dracula Mo to sell, Kanem some manufacturers are too poor to afford equipment, so we will rent them ......" Cao Mo said nonsense.
Rushing back to the dormitory, the electricity had not yet been supplied, Wang Wen couldn't help but wail: "What about the Pearl of West Africa and Sahara Paris, the electricity has been cut off for four consecutive days, how can people live?"
As he spoke, Wang Wen picked up the car keys on the table and went to blow the air conditioner in the car; anyway, Cao Mo didn't care about the company's oil.
February is the hot dry season in Kanem, and the rainy season is cooler after June. There is no air conditioning and no electric fan, Wang Wen, who grew up in the city, is really uncomfortable.
Song Yuqing was also helpless, they had communicated with the community several times, but they did not agree with them to find a small vacant land in the community to build an equipment room.
"The solution is that someone will come up with it, I will find someone to drag a container back, put it on the lawn behind it as an equipment room, stuff a little money in the community, if there are still people who have opinions, we will tow the container away......" Cao Mo can't stand the days of power outages, it doesn't matter if there is no air conditioning and electric fan, turn on the computer, he can't do a lot of things in Draculamo.
As the largest seaport in West Africa, Draculamo is concentrated in Draculamo, not only Kanem, but also nearly forty percent of the maritime transportation of the sixteen countries in West Africa.
In Draculamo, waste containers are plentiful and cheap.
Cao Mo didn't need him to run, he directly ordered an old diesel generator for the equipment vendor he contacted daily, and asked the other party to help drag an old container over.
In the afternoon, Cao Mo took Ade and Oulu to install the diesel generator, connected the wires and meters to the villa where they lived, plus some cables, meters and other accessories, and spent a total of 6,000 US dollars.
When they installed the diesel generators and wiring the wiring, there were many tenants in the community who came to watch.
Cao Mo's heart is not dark, whoever wants to wiring the wire, the installation fee of 1,000 US dollars, the electricity bill is calculated according to the meter, and he signed a letter of commitment prohibiting the use of high-power electrical appliances.
Cao Mo had already received a $6,000 installation fee before the electricity was supplied at night, and he was busy until the middle of the night to connect the wires and meters of the six tenants.
It's not that there aren't more tenants who want to connect to electricity, but the 20-kilowatt old diesel generator can also meet the electricity demand is quite limited, and it has to be agreed in advance that each household can only use one air conditioner.
The West Africa branch rented three villas as dormitories, this time Cao Mo paid out of his own pocket to buy diesel generators to connect to electricity, naturally he would not give electricity to the other two buildings, or wait for Yang Deshan and Guo Jian to rush back from other places, saying that the branch would pay 3,000 US dollars for the installation fee, and Cao Mo would also connect the other two dormitories.
With Ade and Oulu, Cao Mo was busy until the middle of the night before arriving at the dormitory, and saw Wang Wenmei blowing the air conditioner in Song Yuqing's room.
"Your money is too easy to make, just work hard for a day, 3,000 US dollars will be in hand, and you can still earn money by charging such a high electricity bill in the later stage?" Wang Wen said with emotion.
"Draculamo's electricity once cost 0.3 US dollars, I now use diesel-electric power to generate electricity, and I have to hire a part-time electrician to maintain it, and the electricity per kilowatt-hour seems to be a little higher, but when there is a mains power supply, my diesel-electric motor has to rest, and it can be sold during peak periods, and the cost may not be even-" Cao Mo said bitterly, "If you think there is a profit, then now this generator is transferred to you to take over, and the electricity bill must be able to make money, and it will all belong to you?"
"Is there such a good thing?" Wang Wen asked suspiciously.
"If you don't take it over, forget itβwhy don't you think about it and figure it out?" Cao Mo threw the money he received on Song Yuqing's dresser and said,
"If we do this, there will definitely be people who will follow suit, and the front and back of the building will be full of containers, and the community will have opinions, and these containers will be cleared out at that time - you quickly take this money and find someone to buy a small piece ......of land near Central Street in the north of the community, and then you can move the containers over."
Central Avenue is a newly built avenue near the strait in the West Bank District, and unlike the commercial land in Xinhai City, which often costs tens of millions or even tens of millions of yuan, the commercial land price of Dracula is still quite cheap, and you can even break up and buy some small pieces of residential land.
Although it is not so cheap that the annual rent of hundreds of acres of farmland in the Longta area does not need to be 100 US dollars, 8 or 9,000 US dollars should be enough to buy a residential land of 2 to 300 square meters on the central street in the north of the community.
This price, compared to China, can be said to be extremely cheap, the only restriction is that Draculamo currently only encourages locals to buy residential land to build houses on Central Street.
The land investment of foreigners or foreign companies in the urban area of Draculamo is very restricted, and the land price is not too high, but the total investment in building construction cannot be less than a certain scale.
Considering the high price of local building materials, the risk of foreign-funded enterprises really investing in building a high-rise building on Central Street is not low, and there is nothing cheap to take advantage of.
Of course, Song Yuqing and the others went to buy a small piece of homestead land in the name of Lucy or Skaya, and they didn't have extra money to build a small villa, anyway, they could just move the container over if necessary.
Seeing that Cao Mo even considered this detail, Wang Wen was a little tempted and asked, "I took over with Sister Yuqing, and the electricity bill really belongs to the two of us?"
"Can I still deal with you?" Cao Mo pouted, he had been busy all day this time, and he had already made a net profit of three thousand dollars, and it was really not uncommon for him to have three melons and two dates left.
Besides, where does he have so much energy to distract himself from these little things?
In addition to finding an electrician for maintenance, he also had to collect electricity bills door-to-door, hand them over to Wang Wen, and hand over this kind of small money to her to earn, and by the way, he sealed her mouth.
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In the next few days, Xie Sipeng also wanted to invite Cao Mo to Jinyuan Casino to play two games, but Cao Mo shirked it.
Cao Mo was busy with the infrastructure of the cement plant and the installation of equipment on site, where did he have time to mix with their affairs? Besides, Xie Sipeng had bad intentions in pulling him to the casino.
Cement calcining shaft kiln is the most difficult and largest "big project" in the construction process of cement plant, and it is expected to take two months at the earliest, plus the installation of electrical equipment, etc., the cycle will be longer.
Cao Mo thought about installing the generator set, step-up electrical equipment and grinding and packaging equipment in the second half first.
In this way, the cement clinker he hoarded in the early stage can directly produce bagged finished cement, which can further reduce the construction cost of the cement plant and ask the construction of the hydropower station to start ahead of schedule.
In China, this practice is extremely non-standardized, but in Kanem, where is there so much attention to the fact that most civilians do not have a new pair of pants?
Of course, Cao Mo and Wendy Scarf, the director of the cement plant, took several electrical and mechanical assistant engineers who had just graduated from Oyo State College and had no practical work experience, staring at the site day and night, learning while building and installing.
Half a month later, the Kanem Federal Assembly officially deliberated on the cement ban bill, and Cao Mo also made a special trip back to Draculamo.
Cao Mo contacted Xie Sipeng after arriving at Draculamo, and Xie Sipeng immediately asked everyone to have a dinner together.
Now everyone is a little rich, and more high-end restaurants are reluctant to visit, Lana Dere's open-air seafood buffet restaurant, there is not much scenery, so many people at a meal, three or four hundred dollars is still within the range of bearing.
Anyway, if Cao Mo didn't have to pay for it, he wouldn't feel expensive, and he specially brought Abachara, who was running for the construction of the simple cement bridge these days, over to eat.
At this time, Cao Mo learned that the Lana Dere Hotel had investment from the Tubman family.
Xu Sheng, Xu Ling's uncle and nephew are currently the main persons in charge of the Qiao Nai Gold Mine, and they are not so easy to get out, so they did not appear this time.
After all, Guo Jian is the manager of the personnel administration department of the West Africa branch, and with Dongsheng's intention to further invest in the palm plantation and crushing project in Kanem after the completion of the initial renovation and expansion of the Tubman crushing plant, his main focus has to be transferred back to Draculamo with Yang Deshan.
The West Africa branch not only acquired the Tubman family's crushing plant and the oil palm fruit from the Tubman family's plantation, but also needed to purchase part of the construction land from the Tubman family for the construction of the second phase of the crushing plant.
Next, Dongsheng will also consider buying a large-scale palm plantation directly from Draculamo to ensure the supply of raw materials with an annual production capacity of 20,000 tons after the completion of the second phase of the crushing plant.
They went to the Lana Dere Hotel and waited for a while, and Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan went to the lobby to greet little Tubman.
I didn't see Stari this time, but I saw Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan and Little Tubman and his wife talking happily, Cao Mo knew that Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan had no less contact with Little Tubman in the past half a month, and I don't know how they secretly dealt with the little Tubman family?
Of course, if the Tubman family's family business is destined to be defeated little by little Tubman, Yan Zhicheng, Xie Sipeng and even Yang Deshan want to take a bite from him, Cao Mo of course has no opinion, but he doesn't want to get involved.