Oppenheimer's family estate, located in the northern suburbs of Draculamo, not far from the Tubman family estate.

Tubman Jr. sold all the oil palm plantations to Dongsheng, but the estate remained.

Cao Mo made an appointment with Stari to meet at Draculamo this time, so she went directly to the Tubman family manor and waited for her to return.

Although the suburbs of Draculamo are mostly gravel roads, the trees on both sides are lined with huge trees and neat plantations that stretch into the estate, surrounded by streams and rivers, and the jacaranda trees are in full bloom, shading the blue sky.

However, this is only a false appearance of Draculamo, just like the high-rise buildings and villas of Salt Lake Island and Victoria Island, which are far from representing the true face of this chaotic city.

The reality of Draculamo is that tens of millions of poor people are crammed into cramped, chaotic, filthy, drug-filled and violent slums, struggling to eat three meals a day;

"Is this Sturgeon trustworthy?" Zhou Han thought back on today's journey, it was unimaginably smooth, and she couldn't help but be a little worried, and asked Cao Mo, who was sitting on a wicker chair with a mobile phone and didn't know who to text.

'Sturgeon certainly can't be trusted, but he's smart enough. This time there should be nothing wrong with his cooperation, but it will be difficult to say in the future, let's do it and see," the sunset shone down from the gap in the canopy, and the mottled light spots fell on Zhou Han's bright and moving face, light and dark were intertwined, but it added a bit of seductive beauty, Cao Mo looked at her dark and bright intimidating eyes, delicate and slightly curled red cherry lips, couldn't help but grab her soft little hand, let her sit beside her, and said, "Don't worry about anything else now, just worry about money......"

"Dongsheng, you still don't want to sit idly by?" Zhou Han tilted his head and asked in confusion.

If it is just to compete for the controlling stake of Taihua Group, plus the necessary supplementary funds, Cao Mo's current cash in hand is enough, but in order to alleviate the debt crisis of Dongsheng, which is more burdened than Taihua, Cao Mo has more than 3 billion cash in his hand, and he is also unable to catch it.

Zhou Han felt that Cao Mo should concentrate on winning the battle of Taihua first, and then talk about the others.

"If you care, we don't have to eat all the shares of Taihua in the hands of the Lu family," Cao Mo said, "I have done it now, mainly to prevent the Lu family from going out, including the listed company Taihua Group, the new Taihua Refinery, Conero Binhai New City and a series of projects and enterprises have become a mess that no one can clean up." If after our intervention, the destructive power of the Lu family's exit is minimized, including the new Taihua refinery, all the benefits are reasonably distributed, and the listed company Taihua Group will not collapse, and there is even room and potential for continued development, then there will inevitably be someone willing to participate at a reasonable price - the funds directly used may only need between 10 and 2 billion. And no matter what, no matter what, I can't sit back and watch Dongsheng become a fish and meat on Han Shaorong's chopping board. ”

If it weren't for Han Shaorong's intervention, Cao Mo might not be so nosy, anyway, Ding Zhaoqiang and the top management of the group didn't have a few people who looked at him well, and he didn't need to force himself over, and Shen Ji's real net worth was in Tianyue, even if Dongsheng and the Ding family collapsed, it would not actually have much impact on Shen Ji.

However, since Dongsheng has become a fat prey in Han Shaorong's eyes, Cao Mo has to stir up a few more times, and he will not let Han Shaorong succeed easily.

Zhou Han pursed her red cherry lips and asked, "When will we return to China?"

In addition to cleaning up the mess in the later stage, she had to return to Kanem, and the main battlefield in the early stage was in China, since she had negotiated the terms of cooperation with Sturgeon and Niz Oppenheimer so smoothly, her heart flew back to China.

"Don't be impatient, Nsanger is tomorrow's flight, if we don't want Han Shaorong to suspect that this trip is specifically looking for Sturgeon and Niz Oppenheimer, why should we stay for a few more days," Cao Mo said, "Just take care of the affairs here and then ...... go."

"You're thinking about messing around with Starlido for a few days, right?" Zhou Han said.

"The economic situation is not good, people's hearts are the most impetuous, the employees of the Tubman family security consulting company and the Conero security company, although they have undergone strict selection and training, they are all human beings," Cao Mo said with a wry smile, "and the worse the economy, the more turbulent the law and order, especially in Africa, there will be more people who take risks, and internal and external defense is heavier than imagined, so I have to meet with Stari to rest assured." ”

"I'm just talking, you still explain so much, as if I'm jealous-" Zhou Han pouted and said, holding the rattan chair in his hand, ready to leave from Cao Mo's side.

Zhou Han's figure is slender and plump, and he owes his body to stand up, the twin peaks are pressed against the elastic fabric, making a perfect arc, and his crotch is also wrapped in a long skirt that is rich and attractive.

"Sit with me for a while!" Cao Mo pulled Zhou Han and moved her body out, letting her lie side by side, so that she could see her dazzlingly beautiful starry eyes and beauty more closely, and her hands were no longer honest, leaning against Zhou Han's slender legs and swimming towards her plump and full buttocks, "Do you want to be comfortable?"

"No, Stari is almost there!" Zhou Han grabbed Cao Mo's hand and twisted himself to get rid of his entanglement.

Zhou Han's sensitive parts of her body are relatively special, they seem to be concentrated on the upper body, or touching or kissing, they are very tolerant of being sent into the clouds of Cao Mo's soul, and then there is no need, so she can always restrain herself from happening to the uncontrollable things.

Zhou Han usually enjoys the feeling of being intimate with Cao Mo, but today Starry will rush back to the manor at any time, how can she be willing to let her gaffe fall into Starly's eyes?

Zhou Han grabbed Cao Mo's hand, took the initiative to kiss him for a while, and then got up to leave, and it didn't take long for Stari to come to the manor, so that Zhou Han was secretly lucky that he didn't relent to Cao Mo's stupid bait just now.

Song Yuqing has a soft temperament and has a very close relationship with Zhou Han and Starry, but Stari has a cold relationship with Zhou Han.

Starry's temperament is cold, and she thinks that Zhou Han stayed by Cao Mo's side with a specific intention from the beginning, and one day she will relapse into her old ways; her attitude towards Zhou Han has always been cold, of course, Zhou Han will not ignore Starry.

Stari didn't come this time to have a tryst with Cao Mo, but to go to Benin after meeting with Cao Mo, to attend a management meeting between Tubman Family Security Consultants and Conero Security in Augusta.

At that time, not only will Tessya, Big and Small Kusky, Ade, Oulu, Duganj and others rush over, but also the elite backbones of the two security companies who have received intermediate and senior security training and have been invited to join by Taiya, Big and Small Kusky, and Duganj in the past two years will gather in Augusta......

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After August, the companies under the Tianyue family also felt the cold snap brought about by the spread of the subprime mortgage crisis.

International crude oil prices plummeted, Kanem and other West African countries' rising enthusiasm for infrastructure was poured cold water on the head, and the prices of cement, steel and other building materials also fell.

Although Coneiro Cement still maintains extremely high profit margins, considering that Africa's economic system is more fragile, the blow will be heavier, and the recovery period will be slower, it cannot be ruled out that under the extreme scenario, the finished cement in the Kanem Coastal area may fall below $100 per tonne.

Even if Conero Cement should be able to maintain profitability when the price of finished cement in West Africa falls to the limit with a higher level of technology and a more efficient transportation and sales system, it is necessary to cut all unnecessary high-cost construction projects.

Qian Wenhan and Zhou Shenhe even suggested suspending the construction of the first mine of the Wusanghe copper-gold mine to hold more funds in their hands to withstand the impact of the crisis, but Cao Mo did not want to suspend the construction of the Wusanghe copper-gold mine.

Whether the first mine of Wusanhe copper-gold mine can be completed as scheduled involves whether Yibogu Mining can truly become one of the world's first-class mining enterprises.

Everyone will have obsessions, but Cao Mo does not want to slow down the pace of Yibogu Mining to become a world-class mining company.

If the global economy is dragged down by the subprime mortgage crisis, it is impossible to avoid weakening for several years, and the international copper metal futures price will also fall again and again due to the exhaustion of demand, but the international gold price will have a relatively firm performance.

As long as the gold price is firm, the international copper futures will theoretically plummet by two-thirds, and the Wusan River copper-gold mine will not be dragged into the mud pit of losses after it is completed.

The Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Mining Trading Company, after August, external orders began to decline sharply, Cao Mo at this time to ensure the scale of internal mining and production, will also give strong support to the Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Mining Trading Company.

As a basic necessity of life in Europe and the United States, cocoa futures also fell, but the performance is much better than other commodities that have been speculated by funds.

The Dracula Power Supply Group monopolizes the local power grid, while Conero Energy monopolizes the power grid in the Ronta area, and the excess electricity is also fed into the Dracula Transmission Grid, whose demand is far from being met, and the profit expectation will not be affected by the crisis.

Although Cao Mo has made plans for various companies to deal with the economic crisis, since so many companies have successively offered the stick of layoffs, he will naturally not be idle this time.

It is extremely necessary to take this opportunity to conduct a thorough combing of the team under the Tianyue system.

More important of these are the Tubman Family Security Consultants and Conero Security.

Even though these two companies mainly recruited employees from the descendants of the colonists for training in the later period, they were inevitably mixed.

The special nature of the two companies requires timely elimination of unstable factors, and it is even more necessary to regularly sort out and rectify their operation and management teams and elite backbones.

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Benin is probably the least existential country in the world, with a lagging economy, no particularly bright resources to export, and a population of only 5 million, which is not even as good as the world's slightly more well-known cities.

The Oguta gold mine, located in the southern region of Bovonov, the capital of Benin, is the single gold mine with the highest proven and prospective reserves of Igubo Mining except for the Usan copper-gold mine.

At a time when the price of gold was not so high, Ibogu Mining won the gold prospecting rights and mining in the Oguta area.

Until then, the gold deposits in the Oguta region had not gone unnoticed, but like the Ibogu gold mine, the veins were too deep and too expensive to mine.

After the acquisition of the Stru Gold Mining Company, the equipment was upgraded and upgraded, and it was not until last year that the gold price rose rapidly again to make considerable profits.

In more than two years, more than 40 million US dollars have been invested in the dense forests of Oguta, not only to build a quasi-modern mine - but also fortunate that the Oguta area is next to Bovonov, the capital of Benin, and the traffic situation is okay, otherwise this investment is not enough - more than 40,000 acres of cocoa forests have been cultivated and planted.

At the same time, Conero Cement also acquired the Conuto Cement Plant in Benin, invested funds for renovation and expansion, and after the completion of the first phase of the reconstruction, the annual production capacity successfully exceeded 600,000 tons. Although Benin imposes a strict price cap on domestic finished cement, which limits Conero Cement from reaping excess profits in Benin, it also restricts the entry of other competitors.

At the same time, in close proximity to the Oguta mine and plantation management area, the largest training base has been built for Tubman Security Consultants and Conero Security.

After arriving at Povonov, Cao Mo and his team drove to Oguta, where the gravel road had been crushed by trucks.

The refinery in Oguta has not yet been built, and the mined ore has been initially screened to extract coarse-grained gold, and each ton of ore contains almost one gram of gold, which must first be transported by land for more than 100 kilometers through the port of Cotonou to the refinery on the east bank of Lake Conero for secondary treatment.

The gold mine in the underground of Oguta is not low, but the industrial supporting capacity is too poor, which virtually increases a lot of costs.

In addition to the training personnel, instructors, and logistics support personnel in the base, the Oguta mining area and plantation employ thousands of workers in the local area, and its living quarters are mainly gathered nearby.

A medium-sized hydropower plant is under construction nearly 10 kilometres southeast of the town of Oguta.

The Aguta and the southern tower are located on the north and south flanks of the southwestern mountains of Benin, with the terrain on the southern flank being gentle from high to low, and the terrain on the northern flank being steeper.

As a result, there are many streams and rivers in the south flank that are located deep in the tropical rainforest and are fully developed, and there are more abundant hydropower resources to build a number of small and medium-sized hydropower stations.

The topography of the northern flank makes it impossible to build a large number of small hydropower stations, but as long as the investment cost is willing to be willing to build dams in the upper reaches of several rivers with large slopes, the power generation efficiency and scale of a single hydropower station will be higher.

It is only when the first hydropower plant is built that the town of Oguta will be able to get rid of the embarrassing situation of generating electricity from diesel units – and if it were not for the current international gold price fluctuating around US$800 per ounce, such high operating costs would not be bearable.

Only the construction of medium-sized hydropower plants in the jungle south of Aguta and the feeding of electricity into the regional transmission grid of Cotonou-Povonov will be able to obtain a cheap and stable supply of electricity from the Benin National Electricity Company under the agreement.

Xiao Jun rushed from Akwa to Benin, to meet Cao Mo, he also entered the Oguta training base for the first time, passing through the town to see that the people were almost three or four percent of the descendants of colonists, and asked Cao Mo in surprise: "Why are there so many white people?"

"They are all descendants of colonizers, but according to the so-called one-drop blood principle theory that is quite marketable in Europe and the United States, they are mixed with the blood of local people such as Akon, Yoruba, and Kanwa, so they all belong to the colored people, not white," Cao Mo said. At present, the descendants of colonizers make up more than 8% of Benin's total population, and in the economically developed towns of the Littoir-Marisky province such as Cotonou Povonov, the descendants of colonizers are more concentrated, so Benin is also known as the white country of black Africa......"

Oguta and Lonta are dependent on the north and south, and because of the stable political environment in Benin, the small number of people and the uncomplicated political factional struggle, it is easy to infiltrate and exert influence, and at the same time, the Cotonou-Povonov Capital Region accounts for up to 30% of the population of colonial descent, Cao Mo decided to build the logistics base of the security company in Oguta.

Tubman Security Consultants, who hired a large number of young people of colonial descent for training, moved their families to Oguta, making the percentage of "whites" here seem to be higher.

Cao Mo is currently pushing for a new border road between Aguta and Lunta, Benin and Kanem.

Due to the need for mining and the construction of hydropower stations, the gravel roads that extend into the jungle in Oguta and Longta are not finally repaired for the last few kilometers, but this involves principled issues such as border inspection between the two countries, and Cao Mo does not want to be bold enough to engage in smuggling, and of course it is impossible to forcibly open a new channel between the two countries.

Of course, if this border road can be built, even if it is a little rough, narrow, potholed, and muddy in the early stage, it is of great significance to the two countries, especially along the Gulf of Guinea, and it is even more extraordinary for Tianyue's layout in Guinea.

The most direct result of the new border road is to shorten the distance between the town of Oguta and the Lake Conero Industrial Park to less than 50 kilometers.

At that time, not only will the two mining areas of Ibogu Mining actually form a whole, but the gold-bearing sand and gravel mined from the Oguta mining area will be transported to the refinery on the east bank of Lake Conero, and there will no longer be a need to transfer it from the port of Cotonou, and the land transportation will be shortened by half, and Tianyue's industrial base and security force training base will also be more closely connected.

In addition to Han Shaorong, another very important reason is that Dongsheng's several factories in the Lake Conero Industrial Park and the entire oil palm plantation layout in Longta have a lot of influence.

If these can be included in the influence of the Tianyue system, then he can be said to have a certain pattern in the Gulf of Guinea.