As for the construction of the Lonta-Draculamo improvised road, Abacha did not dare to neglect it in the slightest.

As Cao Mo had predicted, he had already learned that several Chinese businessmen saw an opportunity to grow vegetables on a rented land on the outskirts of Draculamo.

These investors, even half of them are chefs and restaurant managers hired by Chinese restaurants from China, have gone directly to the outskirts of Draculamo to rent land.

As soon as two months later, there will be new suppliers of sparse vegetables, and Chinese restaurants and supermarkets in Draculamo will be approached to supply them.

When Abacha learned about this situation, he couldn't help but complain that the Chinese were too special to take advantage of loopholes.

The only thing that is fortunate is that Draculamo's land ownership is relatively clear.

Large landholders are quite mature in planting palm, cocoa and other cash crops, and it is impossible for the Tubman family to rent out the land on palm plantations cheaply.

Unlike tribes close to the border, such as Ibogu and Jonai, there are large amounts of undeveloped land that can be leased.

Therefore, those who have a glimpse of the business opportunities of vegetable planting can only plant some fragmented vegetable plots on the outskirts of the city at a relatively high price.

And they hired local farmers to farm, how could it not be as smooth as Cao Mo, mutual distrust, language barriers, can survive the run-in period in three or five months, even if they have a considerable level of management.

Therefore, the new small-scale vegetable planting land in Dracula will not pose a great threat to them for the time being.

At present, in addition to 600 acres of staple grain demonstration planting, a total of 400 acres of vegetable land has been reclaimed, and the daily output of sparse vegetables has been as high as 6 or 7,000 kilograms.

Only 1,000 kilograms can be digested in the mining area and the town of Lonta, and the other five or six tons of vegetables are picked at dusk and loaded into trucks, which are then escorted by four workers from Cadero, the capital of Oyo state, overnight to Draculamo's restaurants and supermarkets in the early morning.

Kanem was also hot at night, and a light truck had no fresh-keeping equipment, at most some water along the way, and the quality of the vegetables would be somewhat affected, but fortunately, there were no competitors, and they were not disliked.

Cao Mo appropriately lowered the price of some vegetables, but still had a turnover of $2,500 a day.

Cao Mo estimated that in about a month, all the contributions he made with Abacha and Felician in the early stage would be recovered.

Of course, if the Lonta-Draculamo improvised road is built in time, they can still make a decent profit if there are people renting land to grow vegetables on a larger scale in Lonta or other areas close to Draculamo.

Optimistically, if the high level of profitability can be maintained until the rainy season comes, Cao Mo will still be able to earn $300,000 in excess returns from the farm.

Of course, the most optimistic estimate is limited to this, and then it will soon return to normal income levels, and if you expand the scale of cultivation a little, there may be a dividend of 40,000 or 50,000 US dollars a year.

Cao Mo is not dissatisfied, is it possible to expect to grow vegetables to earn money for digging gold?

Is there still a reason for that?

At first, he wanted to grow vegetables, but Cao Mo mainly thought about better tapping the resource potential of the Ibogu tribe, so as to make full use of Lucy, who he originally planned to stay in Draculamo.

It is not the virtue of capitalists to keep their leisure talents.

It had been almost four months since Lucy actually started doing this, and Lucy did not stay at Draculamo, but came to the tribe to take full charge of the expanded farm.

Cao Mo's plan for the development of the farm has also undergone great changes.

Later on, he was more willing to run the farm as a demonstration base than to rush to expand it.

He didn't have that much energy, and Ibogu didn't have as many managers to get out of the mines, the cement factories and hydropower plants that were under construction.

Cao Mo now hopes that the farm will be included in the agricultural aid project in Africa, and continue to promote the cultivation of staple grains and vegetables, freshwater fish and poultry to the surrounding tribes.

In this way, he was able to gain the goodwill of the surrounding tribes and villagers, while maintaining daily contact with the consulate.

And this talisman must be stronger than Abacha.

Of course, the consulate has its own working principles, and generally speaking, all Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises in Draculamo and the surrounding areas are overseas Chinese to provide consular services, and it is impossible to stand exclusively for a profit-making enterprise.

Unless Cao Mo can convince the Felician family and Abacha to give up all their rights and turn it into a public welfare aid farm, the consulate will be able to communicate and officially include it in the United Nations aid program for Africa.

Of course, the current farm income is very large, and it will continue for a period of time, don't convince the Abacha and Felician families, Cao Mo himself is reluctant to give away this piece of interest in vain, thinking that this matter will be mentioned again when he has the opportunity to mention it later, and he still has to focus on the purchase of cement production equipment such as stone crushers and ball mills.

Abacha is also rushing to Draculamo today to meet with the managers of the two infrastructure teams.

Longta has a population of four or five hundred thousand, and the construction force is still too weak, but to build two simple bridges, it is more reliable and faster to find an infrastructure team from Draculamo.

In order to ensure the speed of construction of the Lunta-Draculamo highway, Cao Mo and Abacha suggested that two infrastructure teams should be found and two simple cement bridges should be started at the same time.

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When he rushed to Draculamo with Abacha, Cao Mo took the check given to him by Abacha, scraped together enough money to find two equipment agents to pay for cement production, packaging and other equipment such as ball mills and medium-sized stone crushers, and urged the agents to immediately arrange for the relevant equipment to be transported to Longta.

Logically speaking, these equipment will wait until two months after the equipment foundation and the main body of the kiln tower are completed, and then it will be delivered and installed.

However, Cao Mo is worried that once the proposal to ban cement imports is passed in the federal bill, not only will the price of cement in Kanem be exposed again, but also the cement production equipment will immediately become a hot commodity for Kanem cement producers.

Even if there is money at that time, when the new cement production and packaging equipment is shipped from China, it will be delayed for two or three months.

Since diesel engines were used for power supply in the early stage, it was more about betting on the passage of the federal ban bill, and Cao Mo certainly did not neglect this most critical link.

In contrast, the diesel generators in the hands of Dracula equipment manufacturers are well stocked, and they still try to find second-hand diesel generators in the early stage to reduce investment costs.

If diesel generators could cut investment by $200,000, the extra money could be hoarded with thousands of tons of finished cement.

Of course, Cao Mo is not stupid enough to directly hoard finished cement, and he is now hoarding cement clinker that has been preliminarily crushed and calcined.

The price of cement clinker in Kanem is much cheaper than finished cement in Kanem before the final step is ground by a ball mill – $200,000 can only be used to store 1,000 tons of finished cement, but 3,000 to 4,000 tons of cement clinker.

As long as the generator set of the cement plant and the ball mill and filling equipment in the back-end process are installed in place as soon as possible, the cement clinker can be directly put into production, and the finished cement required for the construction of the project can be quickly made - the price of cement does not skyrocket, and he can also earn a processing fee.

In addition to the wages of personnel and the daily consumption of materials and spare parts, the profits generated by the Yibogu gold mine every day were intercepted by Cao Mo, and the priority was given to ensuring the rapid construction of the cement plant, and hoarding as much cement clinker as possible.

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Negotiate everything with the equipment agent, the equipment transportation and escort company, ask Ovema and Lucy to star, and Cao Mo takes Ade and Oulu back to the staff dormitory of the branch to take a breath.

"Where have you been this week, and you can't get in touch with your people?"

Seeing that Cao Mo finally appeared, Wang Wen caught him irritable and complained.

Of course, Song Yuqing knew about Cao Mo's satellite phone, but Cao Mo and Yang Deshan were doing private work, and they still kept a secret from Wang Wen, Wang Jianzhong and others, so of course they wouldn't ask Wang Wen to call Cao Mo's satellite phone directly.

"I was too tired from work during this time, so I found a quiet place to take a vacation, and I asked Mr. Yang for leave - why are you in a hurry to find me?" Cao Mo pretended to be confused.

"On vacation, look at your scumbag beard, your face is thin twice, you can't be fooling around with a few big black girls, right? You don't want to be a little bamboo pole yourself, how can you mess with other people's Atlantic. Wang Wen said sharply.

"Hey, hey, girls should speak civilly, how do you know that people are little bamboo poles? When did you peek at me?" Cao Mo protested dissatisfiedly.

"Does this still need to be peeked?" Wang Wen was still spicy in the face of Cao Mo of the same age, with his hands crossed on his waist, staring at Cao Mo with a posture that you would expose the small bamboo pole if you had the courage.

Cao Mo didn't have the heart to play hooligan on Wang Wen, and asked Song Yuqing, who was standing on the side and watching the excitement: "What's the matter, you just met and threw fire at me?"

"There is no land in the community to build equipment houses, and the money you gave has not been spent. The electricity was out for three days in a row, the water purifier didn't work, we couldn't take a shower for two days, and I don't know if the route was broken - we were all going to stay in the hotel today. Song Yuqing also complained bitterly.

Their community, located in the West Bank, just two blocks away from the dense and chaotic slums, is a rare high-quality community. Wang Wen got Cao Mo's money, contacted the society with great interest, and found a small piece of vacant land to build an equipment room, but was ruthlessly refused.

As a result, the plan to purchase a second-hand diesel generator to install power supply was put on hold.

The power went out for three days in a row, and not only was there no lighting at night, but the main water supply was also a problem.

As the most prosperous city in Kanem, Draculamo naturally has long had a running water supply, but the water supply equipment in the West Bank District is outdated and backward.

In addition to the incomplete treatment of water sources, a large number of water supply pipelines are seriously corroded, and even have the problem of cross-contamination with sewage pipelines.

It is not an exaggeration to say that rinsing your mouth with tap water directly in Draculamo can cause severe dysentery.

The water purifier installed by the employees of the branch is pressurized and filtered, and there is no way to use it when the power is off.

The electricity was cut off for three days, and the water that had been stored before was used up.

You can cook and drink and buy purified water at the store, but it is really uncomfortable to not take a bath in Draculamo for a day.

"Ah, I said why there is a sour smell when I enter the house, it turns out that you haven't taken a shower for a long time - it really stinks, don't come near me. Cao Mo said with a smile.

"How can you say that you are so exaggerated?" Song Yuqing glanced at Cao Mo with disgust and said, "You came back just in time, drive us to the hotel......"

Dracula is a lot of cheap hotels, safety is not guaranteed, and the safety and security of high-end hotels, the charges are more exaggerated than in China, there are no hours of room.

However, girls really can't stand the feeling of being dirty.

In the southwest corner of the Kennett Building, near the sea, there is a Lana Dere resort, which costs $300 a night in a regular ocean view room.

The distance was not far, and when Song Yuqing and Wang Wen packed their clothes, Cao Mo did not inform Ade and Oulu, he drove them over directly.