Today, in addition to Cao Mo's homecoming, the main thing is to celebrate Mrs. Cao's recovery and discharge from the hospital.

There was no reason to drive out the second child's family and not call them to the table, Cao Xiong also pretended to glare at Jiaying when he came out, telling her to restrain herself.

A middle-aged man wearing a lead-gray tweed short-swing coat walked out of the tea room, and Cheng Xi happily pulled Cao Mo over and shouted, "Uncle, this is Cao Mo." ”

"I haven't seen you for several years, Cao Mo has grown so big, I heard that you have done a lot in Africa?"

The middle-aged man looked at Cao Mo and asked with a smile.

Cheng Xi's mother's hometown is also in Chonghai, which is Dongzhou County under Chonghai, Cao Mo also saw Cheng Xi's uncle Yang Jianguo a few times when he was a child, but after all, he was not his own relative, so he didn't leave a deep impression.

Cheng Xi's father doesn't have many relatives here, and he doesn't have any uncles and aunts, but her mother has two uncles and an aunt.

However, Cheng Xi's mother is a person with a very strong personality, and it is good to interact with relatives in her hometown, only this eldest uncle Yang Jianguo, who works in the Dongzhou County Government, has more opportunities to travel to Xinhai, and has closer contacts with Cheng Xi's family.

Cao Mo smiled modestly.

Dinner was ready, just waiting for Cao Mo to come back with Cheng Xi, and everyone talked and laughed and walked to the newly renovated restaurant.

The new dining room is the former rear wing of Courtyard 116.

After the pavilion and stove room of the two courtyards were demolished and connected to the two narrow back patio courtyards to form a back garden facing the river, the back wing room was transformed into a kitchen, which was still decorated in Chinese style, but with floor-to-ceiling windows to make a partition with the courtyard.

At the end of the day, a few floor lights are lit up in the garden, which reflect the light strips lit on both sides of the Qingtang River, or the cruise ship passes by, whether you sit in the restaurant to eat or sit in the tea room opposite to drink tea, it is an excellent enjoyment.

Cao Mo's uncle didn't have a point, and when everyone was seated, he took Moutai from the nanny and poured wine for everyone one by one.

Cao Mo also thought about holding a video conference with Draculamo at night, covered the wine glass with his hand, and said, "I have something to do at night, drink some beer to accompany everyone......"

Cao Fangming will not disobey Cao Mo now, just took Moutai to skip Cao Mo, and poured wine for Yang Jianguo, who was sitting on Cheng Xi's right hand, Cheng Zhengjie sat opposite and said: "No, I don't like this kid today, I must accompany us to drink liquor - what's the meaning of drinking beer, what can it be considered a companion?"

"Cao Mo came back from Africa, he must be tired and panicked after taking the plane for so long, next time I will ask him to drink liquor and accompany you to drink well, forget it today, let him go. Cao Fangming was now thinking about currying favor with Cao Mo, and said with a smile to help Cao Mo block the wine.

"You don't have the ability to pour this wine, I'll pour him wine - not only do you want him to drink white wine today, our elders sit here and wait for him to come back for a long time, the food is cold, and he must be punished with a full glass before it counts. Cheng Zhengjie came over and snatched Moutai from Cao Fangming's hand, he moved a little bigger, knocked down a wine glass on the table, and almost rolled to the ground and smashed it, startling everyone.

Cao Fangming was a little stunned, he didn't know what Cheng Zhengjie was doing, and he didn't know if he wanted to continue to block the wine for Cao Mo.

Yang Lifang stood up dissatisfied, stretched out her hand to pull Cheng Zhengjie back to his seat, and said: "Lao Cheng, Cao Mo doesn't drink if he doesn't want to drink, you can accompany my brother and Lao Cao to drink two glasses - this wine hasn't been drunk yet, but he went crazy first, what's wrong with Cao Mo, you don't like him?"

"Don't worry about it, I'll ask Cao Mo if he wants to punish this glass of wine. Cheng Zhengjie said.

"Uncle Cheng's wine, I must drink it," Cao Mo stood up, took Moutai from Cheng Zhengjie's hand with a smile, bent over and poured a full glass of wine in front of the table, and muttered to Cheng Xi in a low voice, "If you sleep with someone else's girl in someone else's house, you have to let someone pour a glass of wine, I didn't expect your father to be a careful ......."

"......" Cheng Xi thought that it was embarrassing enough to be broken by her father, and at this time, when she heard Cao Mo still teasing her about this, her beautiful eyes were horizontal, and she said, "My dad told you to drink, you still dare to be verbose, drink it quickly!" Holding the bottom of the wine glass, he poured a small glass of white wine into Cao Mo's mouth.

"What are you talking about, what kind of sleeping girl......" Cao Jiaying sat aside and watched the excitement, not thinking it was a big deal, and asked with an innocent face.

"Jiaying!" Cheng Xiqiao's face turned red, and she glared at Cao Jiaying angrily.

"Sister Cheng Xi, it's useless for you to stare at me, I'm curious about what my brother was muttering just now. Cao Jiaying said with a hippie smile.

Cao Mo drank a glass of liquor, reached out and knocked Jiaying's head, didn't ask her to mess around, put the wine glass on the table, and said to Cheng Xi and her parents: "Cheng Xi and I are not very old, and we are still thinking about playing for two more years for the time being, and we have no plans to get married, but please rest assured that Uncle Cheng and Aunt Yang will always be good to Cheng Xi in my life......"

"It's so numb, it's almost souring me......" Jia Yingqi laughed.

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After dinner, Cao Li knew that his parents were not welcomed, so she pulled them away first.

Cao Mo was stared at by Cheng Zhengjie with "resentment", and drank almost a pound of Moutai at night, and couldn't do anything else, so he could only sit in the tea room and drink tea to relieve hangover.

Shen Ji called over and wanted to pull him to call Xie Sipeng, so he found a nearby bar to sit down.

Cao Mo is afraid of going to the bar to drink again, and most of the time he will be drunk at night, and it just so happens that Cheng Xi's uncle also has something to talk to them, so he called Shen Ji and Xie Sipeng directly to him for tea.

With the boiling of the property market in Xinhai City, industrial land prices have also risen.

In order to make better use of land resources, free up more environmental capacity for the development of high-tech industries, and at the same time leave room for urban expansion, Xinhai City has begun to adjust its economic and industrial development model in recent years, deliberately reducing the development of heavy chemical industries with high energy consumption and low output value density.

The relocation of the production base of Dongsheng Group's grain and oil department from Singapore overseas in recent years is a typical case in this context.

As far as China is concerned, the development of heavy chemical industry has not yet reached a bottleneck.

At the end of last year, Chonghai City had just carried out the action of withdrawing counties and merging districts, and Dongzhou County, the former county under the jurisdiction of the province, abolished its administrative establishment and became the newly established Dongzhou District of Chonghai City.

In order to promote the industrial development of Dongzhou District, the Chonghai Municipal Government cooperated with Xinhai City this year to set aside more than 20 square kilometers of land between Dongzhou District and the former Economic Development Zone to establish a Chongxin Joint Industrial Park to undertake heavy chemical and other industries overflowing from Xinhai.

Cheng Xi's uncle Yang Jianguo is currently serving as the deputy of the Working Committee and Management Committee of the United Industrial Park, and he is also the No. 1 person in the local area.

Cheng Xi's uncle Yang Jianguo has reached the age of retiring from the second line, and his personality has become Buddhist, but the leaders of Chonghai City attach great importance to the work of attracting investment, and the principal and deputy leaders of Chongxin United Industrial Park have shared a lot of investment promotion work.

Therefore, Cheng Xi and her uncle Yang Jianguo ran to Xinhai every once in a while.

Although Dongsheng Real Estate was once hit by the debt crisis, it has always been the most heavyweight contractor of Chonghai New Town, undertaking the construction of the core area of Ziying Lake.

At the same time, with the property market heating up again, Dongsheng Real Estate is also focusing on accelerating the construction of a series of projects in Ziying Lake, and directly invested five or six billion yuan in Chonghai in 09 years, and its position is naturally more important.

Cao Mo's history in Africa sounds like a miracle, not to mention Yang Lifang and Cheng Zhengjie, his father Cao Xiong can't figure out too many details.

At the same time, they are not people who are too flamboyant and boast about everyone.

Therefore, Yang Jianguo can't recognize the true face of Tianyue hidden under the sea of clouds, mountains and fog, but Tianyue Investment, as the second largest shareholder of Dongsheng Real Estate, is actually an investment company controlled by the Cao family, as well as Chen Rong, director of Dongsheng Group and Dongsheng Real Estate who lives with Cao Xiong, holds 3% of Dongsheng Real Estate shares with a market value of nearly 2 billion, and he knows it.

After all, Yang Lifang and Cheng Zhengjie occasionally got together with him and talked about the marriage and love of the juniors, and they talked about it more or less.

In fact, when wealth accumulates to a certain extent, it becomes a number.

Yang Jianguo doesn't know exactly what Cao Mo is doing in Africa, and he doesn't know how much wealth the Cao family controls, but the Cao family controls eight or nine billion assets on the surface, which is not enough to brag?

Yang Jianguo also has a small status in the local area, and when he reaches the age of retiring to the second line, he has no self-motivation in his career, so he will not stubbornly stutter over, but under the pressure of the municipal government, he wants to complete the task of attracting investment under his name, so he naturally wants to hit the "Cao family" with the idea.

Of course, this task is also very easy to accomplish.

Any industrial park to develop, in addition to attracting investment to build a variety of factories, but also inseparable from the construction of the corresponding living facilities - now the domestic property market is hot, the local government is even more willing to carry out commercial real estate development first, the living facilities area first built, in addition to providing higher supporting facilities for the industrial park, the early transfer of land at a high price, but also for large-scale infrastructure hoarding funds.

For Yang Jianguo, he hoped that the Cao family or Chen Rong would pull the strings, so as to request Dongsheng to take a piece of land within the scope of Chongxin Industrial Park, and even send someone to participate in the land auction organized by the Chonghai Municipal Government for Chongxin Industrial Park.

"This thing is simple, who is in charge of Dongsheng Real Estate's branch in Chonghai now, let that person go over to have a show......" Cao Mo asked Shen Ji to directly find the person in charge of the real estate branch in Chonghai to say hello, Dongsheng Real Estate wants to develop in Chonghai, it is indispensable to have a good relationship with local officials, this kind of work must have been done, but it is not really willing to buy land, Dongsheng Real Estate has its own internal judgment, and he is not a controlling shareholder, and he will not interfere unreasonably.

"By the end of the year, the work is also more heavy, Dongsheng Real Estate has already received an invitation, and I can't be cheeky to support Director Yang's field again," Shen Ji looked at Yang Jianguo and said, "However, Tianyue Industry's factory in China is also talking about vacating, and it is inevitable to find a new park near Xinhai to build a new factory - we have now inspected several places, Chongxin Park we also have attention, and the conditions given are also the most favorable, Cao Mo returned to China this time, I was trying to pull him over to take a look." ”

"I remember that Tianyue Industry is directly responsible for docking and contacting Director Zhang Zhao, who is in charge of investment promotion, and I still haven't figured out the relationship between Tianyue Industry and you - was Tianyue Industry called Taihua Group before?" Yang Jianguo asked suspiciously.

He is now at the age of retiring from the second line, and he has become a Buddhist, so he doesn't delve into business much.

He had already seen Tianyue Industry listed in the investment arrangement plan of the park, but he thought that this was also someone else's pull over to make up the numbers, and he didn't bother to study the materials of Tianyue Industry, and he didn't even associate Tianyue Industry with the "Tianyue" in the mouths of his sister and brother-in-law.

Of course, the direct contact of Tianyue Industry is not him, but he has a closer relationship with Tianyue Industry than the direct contact, so he can also explain the past.

Even if the city knew that the second largest shareholder of Dongsheng Real Estate was his quasi-nephew and son-in-law, the task of attracting investment would be fooled.

"Well, this listed company was previously called Taihua Group, and last year when the financial crisis broke out, Tianyue Investment, together with Xinhong Investment and Dongsheng Control, set up an acquisition trust fund under Dongjiang Securities to undertake all the shares pledged by the major shareholders of Taihua Group to financial institutions," Cao Mo introduced the equity structure behind Tianyue Industry to Yang Jianguo, saying, "At that time, in order to use as little cash as possible, the trust fund acquired the shares of listed companies at the same time, and also financed the original creditors, and the equity and debt were bundled together." Therefore, in the public information, the controlling party of Tianyue Industrial is very complicated, but after penetration, Tianyue Investment is the actual controller. Shen Ji now represents Tianyue Investment as the chairman of Tianyue Industrial, specifically in charge of domestic affairs...... Since things are so coincidental, I'll find an opportunity to go to Chonghai with Cheng Xi to eat and drink in the past few days......"

Yang Jianguoqiang suppressed no emotion, and said directly: "Don't worry about this, I will arrange it, and I will go back to see which leader in the city can vacate the schedule in the next few days - at the level of Tianyue, I have to report up and ask the mayor secretary if he is free." ”

"Don't, Cheng Xi and I really went to eat and drink, quietly entered the village, don't shoot - formal negotiation work, and it has to be Shen Ji and they officially hand over to the park - I came back to China this time for vacation, but I don't want to work anymore." Cao Mo begged for mercy.

He doesn't mind accompanying Cheng Xi to visit the cities near Xinhai, which can be regarded as a vacation and relaxation, but it is really harder than normal work to get to be greeted by countless staff members, and to be received by local officials, and not to listen to visits and listen to various roadshows.

How could Cao Mo take on this drudgery?

In addition, Tianyue Industry's chemical pipeline production base was included in the Xinhai City Industrial Vacancy Plan this time, and the compensation plan was also negotiated, and the amount of compensation was enough for Tianyue Industry to buy an industrial land in a nearby city to build a new plant, but Cao Mo was thinking about whether to take advantage of this vacancy to completely shut down this business, and the compensation funds obtained in hand would be used for investment in other aspects.

Tianyue Industrial's chemical pipeline business also seems to provide products for the construction of the Volkov Chemical Group, but the volume is very limited.

However, even if the construction of the new plant in Cotonou is immediately started by Volkov Chemical Group, the demand for chemical pipelines and various chemical pump equipment is still too limited compared with the supply of domestic chemical pipeline production bases, and the chemical pipeline business is more dependent on the procurement of other customers.

There are hundreds of similar chemical equipment manufacturers in China, and the competition is very fierce.

This year, Tianyue Industrial's domestic business is relatively better, and after the initial chaos, the chemical pipeline business is likely to contribute more than 100 million profits this year.

This is mainly due to the fact that in order to combat the economic crisis, all parts of the country have increased industrial investment, and the new production capacity of the chemical industry is particularly fierce, which has driven a surge in demand for upstream chemical equipment.

However, Tianyue Industry's chemical pipeline products are only in the second and third rate in China, and the Lu brothers have neglected production and scientific research investment before, and it is difficult to add them in the future.

This is not Tianyue's main business at this time, and Cao Mo naturally can't add much investment and energy.

In addition to Cao Mo's dislike of socializing, the future of Tianyue Industry's business is uncertain, which is why Cao Mo doesn't like to be in such a hurry to meet the senior management of Chonghai City.

“...... Okay, I know, when you go to Chonghai one day, I'll let Brother Xiaoxi accompany you to have a good time, and I'll talk to Chairman Shen about 'business'!"

Yang Jianguo didn't know Cao Mo's plan for Tianyue Industry in his heart, but he was also annoyed with entertainment now, and he also understood the hard work of entertainment.

Talking to a group of unfamiliar strangers all day long, even if you don't have to walk around the table all the time, people keep running over to toast, even if you sit there and frequently hold a wine glass, it will make people tired.

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After drinking tea until ten o'clock, Yang Lifang and Cheng Zhengjie sent Yang Jianguo back to the hotel to rest.

At this point in time, it was obviously too early for Cheng Xi, who had only seen Cao Mo a few months apart, so he stayed by Cao Mo's side to watch him talk to Shen Ji, Xie Sipeng, Chen Rong, and Cao Jiaying about work.

Besides, she still holds the title of vice president of Wood Elephant Capital and is also a director of Xinhai United Bank.

Regarding Cao Mo's intention to take advantage of this industrial retreat and give up the chemical pipeline business of Tianyue Industry, Shen Ji is opposed:

"Tianyue Industrial is a controlling shareholder of Conero Energy, but this is an equity investment, once the chemical pipeline business is completely shut down, Tianyue Industrial will become a listed company without main business, pure investment nature and even major investments are overseas, even if the supervision can barely pass, but then you have to engage in private placement, the additional funds and the compensation obtained from the vacancy are mainly used overseas, it is difficult to avoid the question of transferring assets......

"It is more feasible to replace assets, maybe we can take this opportunity to put Conero Foods into a listed company?" Xie Sipeng suggested uncertainly.

"The biggest problem is still the domestic listed companies, the restrictions on foreign shareholding are very strict - Tianyue Investment and I and Guo Donghu and other private individuals, the total shareholding of Conero Foods is only 60%, and the remaining 40% of the external holdings cannot be placed in the listed company, and all of them need to be cleared in order to meet the regulatory requirements of asset replacement. Otherwise, only 60% of the equity of Conero Foods will be an equity investment and the loss of the main business - the current regulatory restrictions are not relaxed, and the possibility of approval is too low. Shen Ji said.

"What about putting domestic factories, raw material imports and sales into listed companies and divesting the plantations?" Xie Sipeng asked.

"Although the scale of sales affairs for domestic factories and raw material imports, cocoa butter and cocoa powder is not very large, but the property rights and main business are clear, and they can be incorporated into listed companies through private placement - however, if you want to inject part of Tianyue Investment funds into listed companies through private placement, it is necessary to clarify the purpose, if you apply to the securities regulatory department for private placement, directly state that this part of the funds is used for overseas power and energy industry investment, most of them will be questioned by the securities regulatory department, and the plan is likely to die," Shen Ji is the chairman of Tianyue Industry, although the domestic business is not very heavy, but he has been thinking, and various plans have also been considered, "Of course, considering that the chemical pipeline business is completely closed by this industrial retreat, Tianyue Industry can at least return 1.5 billion yuan of funds, in fact, when implementing this private placement, you can only consider issuing new shares, and merge and acquire the business and assets of Conero Foods in China, without involving capital injection, it will be relatively easy......

Speaking of this, Shen Ji groaned for a while, and then said, "...... Or we can think differently and consider injecting the assets and part of the funds of Conero Foods into the listed company in China, but the injected funds do not involve overseas investment, but are used to acquire the domestic palm oil business of Dongsheng Group and a small part of the overseas rough pressing business, which may be able to truly enrich the main business of Tianyue Industry in China. After completing this step, Dongsheng and Tianyue can integrate overseas plantation assets. ”

Shen Ji's suggestion is naturally selfish: only in this way can he, the chairman of Tianyue Industry, live up to his name, and what he is involved in at home and abroad is the business he is familiar with.

However, Cao Mo groaned a little, and had to say that this plan is more conducive to Dongsheng and Tianyue to integrate existing resources, improve efficiency, and streamline costs, and said to Shen Ji:

"This plan is good, when I have time to ask your uncle to have a meal with you, let's talk about this plan. ”