Chapter 327: Thoughts
(In the field these days, we will keep it updated as normal as possible...... )
Cao Mo looked at his uncle Cao Fangming with a hippie smile.
To be honest, if his father had just been released from prison, his uncle came over and said that he had not mentioned the past, Cao Mo might not have mentioned it again.
However, in the eyes of his uncle, he thought that the big tree of Chen Rong was only flourishing next to his house, and he felt that his family was now valuable to him, so he ran over several times to reconcile, and Cao Mo ridiculed him a few times at this time.
Over the years, Cao Mo has seen too many philistines, realities, and too many cold people, but they have all been embodied in his uncle's family to the extreme, and he is really a dog.
Cao Fangming stood at the door of the box with a sneering face, neither entering nor retreating, it was impossible for him to tell his nephew about the unhappiness during this period of time as a joke, right?
After a few seconds of stalemate, seeing that the laughter on Cao Mo's face gradually turned into indifferent ridicule, no matter how thick Cao Fangming's old face was, he could only leave abruptly.
"Cao Mo is just cautious, whoever wants to offend him, he can remember it for a lifetime. Cheng Xi saw that Yu Jing and Chen Chang were quite shocked to look over, and she didn't understand why Cao Mo had such an attitude towards her uncle, the cause and effect were too complicated to explain, and she also knew that Cao Mo didn't like to bring up the old things again, so she casually covered up the past.
Cao Mo picked up the menu and was about to order, when he heard a slight noise behind him, he thought that his uncle pushed the door in again, and said, "You are really good...... "You are really good" turned his head and saw Mrs. Cao staring at him, and asked him: "How can I be cheeky?"
"I want to say how smooth your old man's skin is, what kind of elixir has you eaten?" Cao Mo said with a shy face.
"I think you're itchy on the cheeks. Mrs. Cao made a gesture and reached out to pinch Cao Mo's face.
Cao Mo stood up, moved a seat with Cheng Xi, and asked Mrs. Cao: "Grandma, you always sit outside and don't like it, you want to come and eat with us?"
Mrs. Cao glared at Cao Mo, picked up the cigarette and lighter on the table, lit a cigarette and smoked it.
"My grandma smokes, why don't you care?" Cao Mo complained to Cheng Xi, he wanted to smoke just now, but was stopped by several girls.
"Because I dare not take care of it, I dare to take care of you. Cheng Xi said angrily.
"You brothers and sisters really don't go out to eat?" asked Mrs. Cao, taking two puffs of her cigarette.
"Grandma, don't you just be a representative, how can Jiaying and I be qualified to rub their family's food?" Cao Mo said, "If you don't let Shuyun be a representative again, she can barely be regarded as the granddaughter of the Cao family now." ”
Han Shuyun turned her face away, thinking that she would lose if she looked at Cao Mo more.
"It's up to you whether you like to listen to it or not, but don't get in the way of the old woman's nagging," Mrs. Cao said while smoking a cigarette, "Your uncle met a friend last year, saying that Kenya is still a big country in Africa, and that the market demand for solar power in Africa is very large......"
Although Mrs. Cao said that she felt obviously old in the past two years, her mind was still very clear, and after listening to her babble, Cao Mo understood where his uncle folded this time.
In 05, Wuxi Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. was successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States, which made Shi Zhengrong, who only returned to China from Australia in 01 year to start a business, become a billionaire, and at the same time set off a boom in the development of the solar energy industry in China.
His uncle is still a speculator at heart, basically jumping on it when the business is hot, but he has also saved tens of millions of net worth over the years, and he can barely be regarded as a successful person in Xinhai, and he insists that this is the right way for him to make a fortune.
This time, he pounced on the hot topic of solar energy, and unintentionally contacted businessmen doing business in Kenya at a wine party, and learned that Africa's solar thermal resources are very rich, and the solar thermal resources per unit time are almost more than twice that of the northern hemisphere, which is currently the hottest area for solar (photovoltaic) power generation.
At the same time, electricity is extremely scarce in Africa, and the price of municipal electricity in major cities is as high as 0.3 or even 0.4 US dollars per kilowatt-hour, which is far more than the current domestic subsidy price for solar power plants.
His uncle went to Africa and felt that the solar power plant would definitely open up the market in Africa, and he believed that the Chinese businessman in Kenya he contacted could get through the local relationship and get a huge order contract.
Therefore, it registered and established a photovoltaic power station engineering company non-stop, and placed orders with domestic manufacturers, preparing to export domestic solar cells and photovoltaic assembly to Africa and build solar power stations for African countries.
It wasn't until this Kenyan Chinese businessman took 5 million yuan from his uncle in a row to dredge up the relationship, but never asked him to go to Kenya to sign a formal engineering contract, that he realized that the situation was wrong.
His uncle flew to Kenya to find this Chinese businessman, and the building was already empty, but he had already paid more than 30 million yuan for the domestic order.
Domestic manufacturers don't care whether he is deceived or not, either pay the remaining payment on time to receive the goods, or have to lose the more than 30 million deposits that have been handed over.
I don't want to mention that I have been cheated out of more than 5 million, but I don't want to lose more than 30 million deposits, and the money to build a photovoltaic engineering company doesn't want to be wasted.
Although Cao Mo is currently transferring all of his shares in Conero Energy to Dracula Power Group, he has not given up his concern for the development of the energy industry.
The development of the domestic solar (photovoltaic) industry is probably one of the few areas that Cao Mo pays close attention to.
The domestic photovoltaic industry has been able to have such a hot development in the past two or three years, and the industrial parks in many cities are actively introducing related projects, mainly rooted in the developed countries of Europe and the United States, led by Germany, which are not hesitating to come up with huge financial subsidies to support new energy power generation based on solar energy.
Domestic solar energy enterprises mainly produce solar cells and related components, which are sold to developed countries in Europe and the United States to build solar power stations.
At present, the cost of photovoltaic power generation is still too high, and only a few regions in China have allocated a certain amount of financial funds to build demonstration solar power stations, and the scale is very limited.
Africa is extremely rich in solar thermal resources, only from the earth's land area, Africa is about half of the world's solar energy resources, and the solar thermal efficiency per unit time is indeed about twice that of the domestic development of solar power, the data is extremely impressive.
On the other hand, major cities in Africa, such as Draculamo in Kanem, Podonov in Benin, and Peme in Akwa, have extremely high utility prices.
However, the logic behind Africa's development of solar power is completely wrong.
Draculamo's high mains electricity prices and power shortages are one thing, but more importantly, the poor power grid and outdated power generation technology, equipment and management are driving up costs.
As far as Dracula Power is concerned, the surrounding hydropower, natural gas and coal power generation, purely in terms of power generation costs, is still far lower than photovoltaic power generation, and the power grid to which Draculamo Power Group belongs will accept photovoltaic power stations to connect to the grid.
Let African countries come up with financial funds to subsidize photovoltaic power plants?
It is not necessary to say that Africa is not suitable for the development of solar power plants.
Africa does not have a large-scale centralized power grid.
The cost of building a centralized power grid is too high, and even Kanem, the most powerful country in West Africa, cannot afford to build a nationwide power grid in a short period of time.
Kanem does not have a nationwide power grid, and most areas can only use local resources to build power stations and develop regional power grids.
In some areas, there is no coal, no natural gas, and there are no abundant hydropower resources, and there is no power grid to transmit electricity from the outside.
However, in Africa, where there is neither cheap power generation nor grid coverage, there is simply no money to develop high-cost solar power plants.
It's literally an endless loop.
"Finished?" Cao Mo spread his hands and asked Mrs. Cao, "I'm a little confused when I hear it, do you want to let the person concerned come over and talk about it again, I'm very curious how stupid I have to be to fall for this?"
"......" Mrs. Cao glared at Cao Mo.
"Grandma, it's useless for you to stare at me, what can I do but gloat?" Cao Mo asked innocently.
"Xiaoyun, can her mother help think of a way?" asked Mrs. Cao.
"What can Aunt Rong do to help, can you help him buy solar panels?" Cao Mo pouted.
"Your uncle said that the company he placed the order for was in Chonghai, and Xiaoyun's mother's company has a big project in Chonghai and has a good relationship with the local government...... Mrs. Cao said.
Cao Mo knew what his uncle had in mind.
It is nothing more than to ask the officials of the Chonghai Municipal Government to come forward and persuade the manufacturer to terminate the contract and get back the more than 30 million deposits he has paid.
In this way, even if there is still a loss, it will not hurt the muscles and bones.
Without waiting for Cao Mo to rack her brains to play tricks, Mrs. Cao stood up and said, "If you don't care, I'll talk to Xiaoyun's mother tomorrow......"
"Aunt Rong is not the daughter-in-law of our Cao family, why are you involved in this matter," Cao Mo dissuaded, "Shuyun is here, you ask her, her mother will be willing to meddle in this kind of thing?"
Han Shuyun stared at Cao Mo suspiciously for a while, but he didn't understand his intentions, so he simply ignored this question.
"Alas!" Mrs. Cao also hesitated a little, sighed and walked out.
Cao Mo simply ordered a few dishes, he didn't ask for wine, and soon after eating, he walked out of the restaurant to find a bar to sit in and drink......
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Even if his uncle really went bankrupt, Cao Mo would be indifferent, so he listened to these things as a vignette about returning to China.
Two days later, Shen Ji finished the work at hand and rushed to Chonghai with Cao Mo.
Chonghai and Xinhai face each other across the river, and it is a prefecture-level city with relatively developed and wealthy economic development around Xinhai.
In the past, Xinhai and Chonghai mainly relied on ferries to pass, but in the past three years, the local investment of tens of billions of yuan to build a dual-purpose cross-river bridge for highways and railways has been closed, and it is expected that it will be officially opened to traffic in another year.
This is also a key factor in Dongsheng's heavy bet on Chonghai.
Ding Zhaoqiang and Dongsheng's senior management believe that after Chonghai breaks through the traffic bottleneck with Xinhai, the economy will be further developed, and the urban pattern will also be tilted to the south due to the need to integrate into Xinhai, and the Jinying Lake project will have the opportunity to become a new urban center of Chonghai, an emerging city.
Xinhai people, especially those who rarely have the opportunity to go out of Xinhai, have a stubborn concept in their hearts, that is, all of China except Xinhai is from the countryside.
The cross-river bridge has not yet been completed, and Cao Mo and his family can only cross the river by steam this time, but after crossing the river, there is the Chonghai coastal industrial park, the renovated factories and many ports and wharves distributed along the river, which are no different from the riverside industrial park in Xinhai.
There is also a golf course in Chonghai, which is not as large as the standard courses in Xinhai, but this golf course is built by the river, and there is a natural stone embankment on the edge of the course that stretches into the river, and the scenery is excellent.
The Penghua Resort Hotel, arranged by the Chonghai Branch of Dongsheng Real Estate, is a supporting hotel for this golf course, consisting of more than 30 Oufa villas, and the accommodation conditions are also excellent.
One after the other, the three cars drove into the gate of the Penghua Resort Hotel, shuttled through the chic and lush gardens, and finally stopped in front of a six-storey main building.
Cao Mo got out of the car, looked up at the main building of the luxury hotel with the façade all dry hanging stone decorations, took the cigarette handed over by Shen Ji, and said, "If you really want me to consider this project in Dongsheng, we shouldn't live in this hotel——"
"......" Shen Ji knew what Cao Mo meant.
Cao Mo joined Dongsheng for less than two years after dropping out of high school, and has been staying in Africa since then, and his most intuitive impression of China comes from Xinhai.
As the financial capital of the country, Xinhai is the most economically developed super-large modern city with a permanent population of more than 20 million, and its urban and industrial development level is far from representing the average level in China.
Chonghai, which is more economically developed, also has a pole with Xinhai
Big gaps.
The property price in Chonghai is currently fluctuating at around 6,000, while the property price in Xinhai has increased strongly for several consecutive years, with an average unit price of 189,000.
They live here, and then visit the construction site of the Jinying Lake project and several important attractions in Chonghai, and eat a few meals with Chonghai's special characteristics, Cao Mo is likely not to be impressed by the city at all.
Then this trip could really be a vacation.
The prospect of real estate projects is completely linked to the development potential of the city, and no matter how much spare money Cao Mo has, it is impossible for him to bet five or six billion yuan on an urban real estate project that he has no impression.
"This is Dongsheng's designated hotel in Chonghai, but I didn't let the people here arrange a reception, so that we can come and go freely-" Shen Ji said, "Otherwise, we will put all the luggage in the car, it's all at this point, let's have a meal here first, and then go to the Jinying Lake Project Department to take a walk, which can be regarded as completing the task first-let's see if we can get together here for the night in the afternoon, or go directly to the city!"
Shen Ji did not notify this side in advance, he himself did not even regard this trip to Chonghai as work, and did not bring a secretary and driver, so he drove a newly bought Ferrari with his fiancée Wu Yunling for a ride.
And Cao Mo is not in China, and Tianyue headquarters has not purchased any luxury cars, because Song Yuqing plans to take Zhou Han to live directly with her aunt, and she, Zhou Han and Cao Mo drive an Audi A6 and a Passat respectively.
In the main building, not only the front desk of the hotel, but also the dining and other entertainment facilities and conference halls are concentrated here, and the accommodation part is in more than 30 villas scattered in the garden.
Since they decided not to stay for the time being, they parked their cars directly in the parking lot in front of the main building, and then took the elevator directly to the restaurant on the top floor.
Although the main building is not high, it is flat all around, and when you walk into the restaurant on the top floor, you can overlook the river surface of two or three hundred meters - it is a pity that the hotel is not mainly catering, or it is not because of the weekend, the stadium and the hotel have not brought the catering here to the prosperity, and there are no people in the empty restaurant.
In addition to the main hall, there are several private rooms in the restaurant, which seem to have a wider view of the river.
Cao Mo originally thought that his uncle's matter was regarded as a small interlude after returning to China, and after hearing about it, there was nothing to do with him.
They walked into the restaurant, found the waiter, and was asking if there was a box suitable for the five of them to dine, and the vision could be particularly broad, at this time a box door on their right hand side opened, and a waitress came out with an empty tray, it seemed that she had just finished serving a new dish to the guests inside, Cao Mo heard a familiar voice coming from inside:
"Tian Zhen and my family Cao Li were friends when they were young, and later we moved to Xinhua Road to live, Tian Zhen also went abroad to study, and the two of them had less contact......, right?
Cao Mo glanced into the box, but unfortunately the door of the box opened very small, and he didn't see his uncle's swaggering face, but Tian Zhen, who was sitting on the side to accompany the wine, inadvertently glanced at the hall, and collided with his eyes, and was startled.
If it was just Cao Mo, Tian Zhen might have turned his face away, but Shen Ji was standing beside Cao Mo, and he was also looking into the box curiously, wondering who Tian Zhen was eating with in the box.
Tian Zhen's strange expression of wanting to stand up attracted the attention of the other guests in the box.
A middle-aged man looked over from the side and saw that Shen Ji was stunned for a moment, then stood up excitedly and happily, opened the box door and eagerly greeted him: "Mr. Shen, why did you come to Chonghai today, why didn't you tell me in advance?"
Shen Ji is not responsible for the affairs of the real estate department, and even has very little contact with him at work, but Shen Ji is Ding Zhaoqiang's nephew, and few of the low-level employees in Dongsheng may not know him, but how many of the middle and senior executives can not know him?
"Haha, I'm just busy, pull Yunling and a few friends to come to Chonghai to play, I don't want to worry about you, Mr. Chen, so I didn't say a word, I didn't expect to bump into you here, I really can't avoid you!" Shen Ji greeted the middle-aged man with a smile.
"You're not interesting enough, I'm half a landlord in Chonghai, you come here, how can you not let me make arrangements?" the middle-aged man "blamed".
Considering that Cao Mo might not be interested in the Jinyinghu project at all, even if it was to take care of his uncle Ding Zhaoqiang's face, it was impossible for Shen Ji to tell the project department here in advance about their itinerary and the purpose of their trip.
And Xu Zhi, who was specifically responsible for the construction of the Jinying Lake project and already knew a lot of inside information at this time, deliberately stayed in Xinhai and was unwilling to meet Cao Mo.
"This is Chen Fan, the vice president in charge of marketing of Chonghai Branch!" Shen Ji introduced the middle-aged man to Cao Mo, "Cao Mo and Song Yuqing used to be employees of our Dongsheng, and now they have gone out to open their own company......"
Cao Mo shook hands with Chen Fan, and after the box door was fully opened, he saw his uncle, Cao Li, Zhang Jin, and a middle-aged man who looked a little similar to Zhang Jin, sitting on the side of the east wall of the box, and at this time he was like a thief and was caught.
In addition to Tian Zhen on Dongsheng's side, there is also a young man about thirty years old and Song Yuqing's aunt Su Xiu!
Cao Mo was also stunned.
If it weren't for Song Yuqing's aunt Su Xiu to be present, he could have dragged Shen Ji to sit in another box, completely ignored the matter here, and waited for two days to talk to Chen Rong and expose the fact that his uncle ran to Chonghai in her name to deceive......
Su Xiu hadn't seen Shen Ji, but she knew that there was such a person in Dongsheng, and when she saw Cao Mo standing with Shen Ji, she hesitated to go out to say a few words, but when she got up, she saw Zhou Han and Song Yuqing, who was subconsciously going to the restaurant, and asked with a surprised face: "Xiaoqing, why did you come to Chonghai and don't tell me?"
"Ah," Song Yuqing said in shock, "I still want to rub Mr. Shen's meal first, and then pull Zhou Han to find your aunt......"
Only then did Cao Mo know that Song Yuqing hadn't told her aunt in advance that she was going to come to Chonghai, and she looked like she was caught and raped in bed.