Except for Guo Jian, no one has seen the appearance of the gold mining point in Yibo Ancient Village at the beginning, but Guo Jian can only stay in Longta this time, Cao Mo guessed that his heart is about to explode, right?

Xie Sipeng, Xu Sheng, Xu Ling and Song Yuqing are all visiting the gold mining point for the first time, and in their eyes, the gold mining point is still too simple.

After Xie Sipeng arrived in Kanem, he visited several mines in the gold-producing area, but those are all modern mines that European and American companies have operated in Kanem for decades or even centuries and are worth tens of millions of dollars with a set of rock gold mining equipment.

Looking at Xie Sipeng's amorous secretary and Xu Sheng's nephew Xu Ling's disgusted look, he was very dissatisfied with Cao Mo's previous concealment, looking at Cao Mo's eyes, it was like looking at a beggar who hid his steamed buns and was afraid of being stolen.

Cao Mo also knew that this place was too simple.

In order to accumulate capital, the main work of the gold mining team every day is rock gold mining and placer gold panning, and there are not many remaining manpower, and there is no construction machinery and equipment, so the infrastructure construction in the mining area can do too limited.

In addition to the sidewalks that have not been completely repaired, Cao Mo is mainly only in the original shed area, leveling out eight or nine acres and more than 5,000 square meters of vacant land for later construction.

There are eight or nine placer gold machines, small sand making machines, stone crushers, and chain saws, which are nominally leased to the mines, and they are all very simple and small, and they do not account for much of the scene; there was a rainstorm just last night, and the smoothed out scene still looks very muddy and messy.

Wood processing room, diesel generator room, material parts warehouse, are all grass sheds.

In order to prevent fire, Cao Mo smeared a thick layer of clay on the inside of the grass hut, and covered the roof with a layer of iron sheet.

Cao Mo lived and ate with Kabuja, Owema and others on the mine, and built three wooden houses as dormitories.

In the kitchen, there are only a few simple stoves made of large diesel barrels, which are set up under a straw shed, and there is no dining room for employees to eat before work and at noon.

Dozens of people eat in the open air on the grounds when the weather is fine, and when it rains, they crowd into the grass hut under the wood processing room to eat.

There were no excavators, and the blasted gravel and placer soil were transported to the infeed of the equipment by local trolleys – and of course, the workers were all dressed in tatters with no labor protection.

"Brother Cao, your conditions here are really a bit difficult!" Xie Sipeng patted Cao Mo's shoulder and smiled.

"If it weren't for that, would my little devices be eye-catching?" Cao Mo said with a smile.

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Cao Mo is determined to take root here, not because he doesn't want to further accelerate the infrastructure investment in the mining area.

He didn't have the idea of climbing to the sky in one step, and after sorting out the site, he thought about building a generator room and equipment storage room from the perspective of fire prevention in the early stage, but Cao Mo went to Longta Town a few days ago to start purchasing cement and other building materials, but he was severely ridiculed.

Kanem has no industrial production capacity, and infrastructure investment has increased year by year, resulting in the rise of Kanem's building materials in the past two years. The price of cement is ridiculously high, and one ton of ordinary cement costs 200 US dollars, which is almost three or four times that of China.

Longta also has a brick kiln, but the quality of the burned bricks is so poor that you can buckle the holes with your fingers.

Cao Mo seriously suspects that the performers on domestic TV who split bricks with their bare hands and smash bricks with their brains are bricks specially imported from Africa.

Another point is that near the ancient village of Yibo, there is no mature infrastructure contractor team.

Reluctantly found an infrastructure team from the south of Longta and talked to the manager, Cao Mo found that the professionalism of others was better than him downloading materials from the Internet to learn while groping for practice.

The cruel reality forced Cao Mo to give up his previous ideas, and he could only rethink how to use the existing resources to build a mining area from the existing poor conditions.

There was no serious architect, so Cao Mo decided to do it herself.

Who hasn't eaten pork before, who hasn't seen a pig run?

Fortunately, several flat-storey buildings to be built, such as generators and equipment and materials storage rooms, are very simple in structure; located in the depths of the jungle, the main consideration is fire and moisture prevention, not to consider the earthquake resistance, wind prevention factors, Cao Mo drummed out a design drawing, Internet to a domestic construction netizen to see, think it is not outrageous.

In Kanem, where reinforced concrete, gasoline, and diesel are several times the price of China, a modern factory building is something that Cao Mo will not consider at all at this time.

The single-storey equipment storage room and generator room do not have strict requirements for structural strength, and there is no complication.

The local brick-making technology is not up to par, but the stone is sufficient.

It is suitable to blast some more and use it to build a stone wall, and then set up wooden beams and a tin roof on the stone wall as a storage room for equipment, which is enough in the early stage.

Cement is too expensive, and Cao Mo found a clever way on the Internet, which is to mix local volcanic ash with lime, which can be used as a building adhesive.

Even if the volcanic ash passes through the sand making machine, the particle size is far from the standard of ordinary cement, two or three orders of magnitude, but it is still enough to build a stone wall three or four meters high.

Considering that there are often downpours in the local rainy season, Cao Mo only planned to ruthlessly buy a few tons of standard cement for laying the foundation.

In addition to building materials and other industrial products, the labor force in the Longta area is quite cheap, so Cao Mo decided to form a formal infrastructure team on his own.

Cao Mo sighed in front of Owema and Botu all day long, complaining that the labor cost of the mine was too high, and that the remaining profits of the gold mine were all eaten up.

When he was fine, he consulted with Owema about whether he should be ruthless in getting rid of the extra manpower and returning home.

Owema tended her cubs like an old hen, and of course did not want to dismiss any of the tribe's workers.

Cao Mo retreated and asked Owema to arrange some people who were cheating and slippery, or who were too old and could not keep up with their physical strength, as well as those who really couldn't read a single big word and couldn't do a little more complicated manual work, to the temporary work group and take about one-third of the salary of regular employees.

The vacated quota is to select young adults from the tribe who have received basic education or even primary education and are honest and willing to work hard.

Looking at it this way, the number of people hired by the tribe in the mining area has not decreased, but has increased by more than ten or twenty at once, and Owema is naturally happy.

He didn't expect that in addition to the gold mining team, Cao Mo specially organized an infrastructure team responsible for leveling the scene and widening the road, with more than 30 regular and temporary workers in early September.

Xie Sipeng and the others entered the mine, just after a burst of rain, the infrastructure team stopped working, and would not go to the gold mining operation area to help, lazy and lazy, the whole mining area seemed to have no labor discipline at all.

The infrastructure team is in place, the equipment storage room is also simply designed, and the land is leveled, but the problem is that Cao Mo has taken over the Yibogu gold mine for too short a time.

All these things have to be implemented, and it takes not only time, but also additional money.

Cao Mo used all the funds in his hand to the limit, and every profit generated by the gold mine was continuously invested, but in just two or three months of accumulation, the profit accumulation was very limited, and it was impossible to complete everything.

If you want to speed up infrastructure construction and quickly expand the scale of gold mining, Xie Sipeng's $200,000 is indispensable......

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After seeing the poor conditions of the mining area, Xie Sipeng also understood Cao Mo's eagerness to borrow money to add equipment, of course, the main purpose of their trip was to investigate the rock formations and landforms of the Yibogu gold mine, so as to narrow the survey scope of the surrounding area.

This is the most convenient way.

Otherwise, they would have to hire a professional survey team from China.

At that time, the cost will be extremely high, and it will also involve the issue of other countries' mineral exploration rights, and the degree of procedural complexity is far beyond what they can sustain with a mining investment of five or six million yuan.

Xu Sheng and Xie Sipeng proposed to walk around and take some pictures, and Cao Mo gave them convenience.

The labor discipline management on the mine is still not up to par, not only the infrastructure team has nothing to do at this time, but also the gold mining operation area sees outsiders coming in to visit, and many workers are giggling and stopping what they are doing to watch the excitement.

Well, Cao Mo didn't have to worry about Xie Sipeng at all, they could see the real output of the mine, but he still silently took out a small notebook, wrote down a few workers who were particularly happy, and asked Owema to transfer them to the temporary labor group another day.

Mother, want to steal the capitalist's salary?

Xie Sipeng and the others had close contact with the workers in the mine, and Cao Mo was not worried.

Anyway, everyone from Ovema to the cook knows that this is the territory of the Felician family's gold mining company, and they are still eager to serve the Felician family.

The cooperation agreement between him and the old chief is also clear about the details of Kabuja and Lucy.

He sat with Song Yuqing in front of the wooden house on the bank of the Lujiao River and chatted.

This wooden house is not large, the mining area is slightly inward, next to the bank of the Lujiao River, and you can see the intersection of the road into the mining area and the operation of the entire mining area from a high position.

There are three bedrooms, one for Cao Mo, one for Kabuja and Ovema, and one for employees who take turns guarding the mine at night.

In the primeval jungle north of the ancient village of Ibo, there is no shortage of wood.

The wooden house is the style of the domestic stilted building, with more than ten pillars, the whole house is raised to nearly two meters from the ground, which can not only prevent moisture, but also prevent snakes and insects.

The balcony in front of the eaves is also paved with a two-meter-wide wooden floor, which is simply scorched by fire for corrosion protection, polished and smooth, and sits on the ground, far and near the reckless forest and blue-black mountain ridge on the northwest edge of Kanem, which is the building with the best conditions and the most open view in the entire mining area.

"The conditions here are difficult enough, I didn't expect you to be able to survive at such a young age......" Song Yuqing looked at all this with emotion, thinking that there are too many things to worry about when entering here to start a business, thinking that ordinary young people of Cao Mo's age will not be able to bear the hardships here when they come to work, right?

In Kanem in late August, although it is still the rainy season, the day is still very hot.

Cao Mo was wearing jeans, boots, and a rainproof jacket over a long-sleeved shirt.

In addition to being once afraid of snakes and ten years of fear of well ropes, Cao Mo is more important to prevent mosquito bites.

Song Yuqing and the others came in to apply the anti-mosquito potion, but it was only useful for a short time.

And although Song Yuqing and Cao Mo both wear jeans, Cao Mo's jeans are seriously worn, stained with unwashed oil, and dirty, while Song Yuqing's jeans seem to be only used to set off the slender and strong legs, which complement the white running shoes - of course, Cao Mo still likes to see Song Yuqing's round buttocks wrapped in jeans.

"It's a human being who wants to get ahead, but there are no hundreds of millions of family assets waiting for me to inherit, what else can I do?" Cao Mo said with a smile.

"Your wooden house is very chic, and the scenery is beautiful when you sit here," Song Yuqing stretched her waist, took a breath of fresh air, and said with a smile, "I have always dreamed of having a wooden house in the primeval forest to look out at the sky, but I didn't expect you to easily realize this dream......"

"If Sister Yuqing likes it, you can also come over and build a wooden house, there is a shortage of everything here, there is no shortage of wood, and the labor is also very cheap!" Cao Mo said with a smile.

In addition to the fact that diesel engines are not cheap to generate electricity and chain saws, the jungle in the northern part of the village of Ibogu is full of towering trees.

Cao Mo wants to cut down a few trees to build a house, and the old chief Felician will collect extra money from him?

Cao Mo was very environmentally conscious when cutting wood and sawing planks, avoiding those old trees that grew for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and picking out some big trees that were twenty or thirty years old; he would never admit that this was mainly due to the poor tools of his hands, and even if he could cut down two or three people's big trees, he would not be able to drag them back for processing.

In addition to the casual felling of large trees, Kanem's labor is also unimaginably cheap.

Cao Mo paid the workers of the gold mining team, including two free meals, at a combined cost of only $50 per person per month.

And this is already a decent job in the Lunta area.

It's as if in China in the past four years, migrant workers in remote counties can earn tens of thousands of dollars a month.

"Really, how much does that cost, and does the land cost rent?" Song Yuqing asked very temptingly.

"If the area is not very large, just to watch the stars, a small wooden house, wood, labor costs, 2,000 yuan - 2,000 yuan is RMB, not US dollars. As for the land, it's just to build a house and live in it, and give me a rent of $10 a year, so that I can earn some ...... from it," Cao Mo said.

"I'm going to take it seriously!" Song Yuqing asked very seriously, "How can it be so cheap, the house prices and rents of Dracula are not too low compared to China!"

After Song Yuqing arrived in Draculamo, her mind was still on the company's business, and she was not interested in the economic and social development of Kanem, and at the same time, she was also worried about local security and did not have the mind to integrate into the local society.

Even though she has been in Kanem for half a year, she still doesn't know enough about many deep-seated things.

Of course, Cao Mo also learned more about the local area step by step after taking over the Ibogu gold mine, and before that, he mainly stayed at the level of learning Yoruba with Kabuja and Lucy.

Xu Sheng and Xie Sipeng wandered around the gold quarry, and they would not come back for a while, Cao Mo always had to find some topics to talk to Song Yuqing, so he patiently told him some deeper information.

Building materials are expensive, labor is cheap, wood is abundant, and as a by-product of rock gold mining, the sand and gravel in Cao Mo's hands are of course rich.

However, in addition to paving the road, sand and gravel cannot be used alone in construction - in Kanem, cement is really not needed.

And all the resources that Kanem can produce directly by manpower, or the abundant resources that nature has given them, are quite cheap.

In the Longta area, there is no shortage of river sand, and even if the fine stones are basically smashed by manpower, the labor is too cheap and the price is not expensive.

In addition to forests and sand and gravel resources, the Lunta area is also rich in pumice, limestone, volcanic ash and other raw materials for making cement, but there is not enough electricity supply, and it is a dream to engage in cement production.

The construction of large-scale power plants and power grids can only be implemented if the local and even federal governments are determined to invest.

As the old capital, Draculamo is the most economically developed and prosperous city in Kanem, and there is a new power plant under construction, but this has nothing to do with the ancient village of Lunta and Ibogu, which are sixty or seventy kilometers away.

Draculamo belongs to the state of Ogun, Lunta belongs to the state of Oyo, and Kanem is a federal state, both states have legislative powers, and the parliaments of the two states are dominated by very different parties.

It is much more difficult to get from Draculamo in Ogun to Lunta in Oyo than to cooperate between different regions of the country......

Listening to Cao Mo's eloquent talk, Song Yuqing looked at him in surprise: "How old are you, how do you know so much?" It seems that you can really manage this mine alone, I used to think you were dying......

In the past, it was a relatively close colleague relationship, living under the same roof, but in addition to work, I usually chatted about some things happening in China, even celebrity gossip, and parents.

Song Yuqing didn't realize how much the practice of undertaking the Ibogu gold mine in the past three months helped Cao Mo to further understand the local area, and thought that he had always had a very deep study of Kanem.