Domestic cocoa butter manufacturers have smashed their goodwill in recent years, and the increasingly fierce business competition environment is also to blame, but the profits of international cocoa butter manufacturers with the advantage of origin are very stable, and in the commodity market that began at the end of last year, they have grabbed excess profits.

The development time of Conero food is very short, and it was only in the middle of the year that the refinery was acquired in China, and a batch of funds were only invested in the last two or three months, but Cao Mo took advantage of his own advantages to seize the most critical and core upstream chain end of the commodity market.

Based on the experience of Ding Zhaoqiang and Dong Chengpeng in this industry for 20 years, it is judged that the rise in commodity prices should continue for several years.

Moreover, China and other emerging countries are experiencing rapid economic growth, and the demand for commodities will continue to be strong, and the whole market will not just die down.

This is also the core logic of their expansion of investment in related fields.

Of course, they didn't expect Cao Mo to easily give up control of Conero Food, Shen Ji called to report, Cao Mo's offer was really not high, and they didn't give them room to bargain, what else could they say except to accept?

After receiving Ding Zhaoqiang's clear reply, Cao Mo called Song Yuqing and asked her to contact Dong Chengpeng with Chen Feng and Guo Donghu to discuss the details of the capital injection.

Their core goal is to get Dongsheng's major customer resources and open up the downstream market, if not, there is no need for cooperation, and he does not lack Dongsheng's $18 million in funds.

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A week later, Shen Ji had almost taken care of the affairs in Kanem, and he, Cao Mo, Abacha and others embarked on a trip to Akwa with Xie Sipeng.

Xie Sipeng is a pioneer in the iron ore trade in Akwa, but he can't eat much of a cake with his personal capital strength, but if he can find more collaborators to participate, he will naturally be able to take advantage of more or less as a pioneer.

Of course, Shen Ji and Cao Mo's attitudes were still ambiguous, and they didn't show much enthusiasm for this matter, and Xie Sipeng couldn't pin his hopes on them.

Cao Mo had long thought that even if Xie Sipeng was pretending in front of the Akwa authorities, he would invite as many people as possible to accompany him in Draculamo, but according to the time, he and Abacha took their bodyguards and picked up Shen Ji to wait at the intersection of the Longta-Draculamo highway turning towards Cassiga, and saw that Lu Yan, Chen Yao, Zhou Han, Guo Jian and others were also in the convoy, which was somewhat surprising.

"Lu Shao suddenly called today and decided to go to Akwa together, we delayed in Draculamo for a while, and let you wait here for a long time, I'm really sorry. Xie Sipeng got out of the car with a smile and walked over to say hello, and slapped himself lightly, which was an apology for being a few minutes late.

Xie Sipeng didn't lie, but Cao Mo also knew that Xie Sipeng deliberately didn't call in advance to talk about it, mainly because he was worried that he wouldn't be able to talk to Shen Ji about it.

Xie Sipeng's mind, in the final analysis, is to pull people on both sides over, so as to increase his status in the eyes of the Akwa authorities, if he can shake the top management of the Akwa National Oil and Mining Group in momentum, no additional is needed

Whatever you put in, you can get a long-term supply agreement, and he will be even more beautiful.

Xie Sipeng has always been an overly shrewd person, but the two sides have also cooperated for so long, Cao Mo more or less wants to give him a little face, shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "Then don't delay, I don't know what time I can get to Mangba!"

"Okay!" Xie Sipeng saw that Cao Mo and Shen Ji did not raise any objections, so he sat back in his car, and drove in the direction of Cassiga with a convoy of eighteen off-road vehicles.

When Lu Yan and the others passed by in the car, Cao Mo glanced at Lu Yan, who had a gloomy face, and said to Abacha and Shen Ji with a smile: "Lu Dashao has brought his bodyguards to Akva, we can't be weaker than him in momentum-you say, how many bodyguards do I have to call over now, so that Lu Dashao's face becomes as ugly as shit?"

Akwa, Benin and Kanem all belong to the Economic Community of West African States, Cao Mo temporarily summoned more bodyguards to accompany the convoy, and there was no need to go through any additional complicated procedures, and immediately said to Duganj, who was sitting in the passenger seat:

"Call Ibori and ask him to bring the men of Group Zero and all the equipment that can cross the border, and follow us to Akva!"

Shen Ji's trip to Akwa was a private act, and he didn't let Zhao Xinyu arrange for the staff to follow, just himself and Yan Xinyi, the assistant who followed Kanem from China, followed Cao Mo and Abacha to eat and drink - he saw that Cao Mo had to arrange more bodyguards to accompany him, thinking that he really wanted to fight with Lu Yan, and jokingly said: "People are accompanied by beauties, no matter how many bodyguards you bring, you can't suppress his momentum!"

"Is there something wrong?" Although Abacha didn't ask much about the security company, he knew that the zero team in charge of Ibori was the most elite team of the Conero security company.

The so-called elite, in addition to the loyal enough recruited personnel from the Ibogu and Sika tribes, and also undergo extremely difficult and rigorous training, the investment in equipment is far greater than that of conventional security forces.

In addition to the security forces that Stari has in Benin, the establishment of a zero team within the security company is mainly to prevent the Jidam family from launching a frantic counterattack after learning of their relationship with Stari.

Under normal circumstances, Cao Mo would not bring the zero group, Abacha asked with some confusion.

"Be prepared with it," Cao Mo couldn't say it now, and said with a smile, "I can't say that I'm worried that Guo Jian might make trouble with me with the wrong brain, right?"

"......" Abacha knew about Cao Mo's gunshot wound, and also knew that he had used Xu Xin to cover up the gunshot wound, so he shook his head and smiled.

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When the convoy arrived at the border checkpoints in Benin and Kanem, northeast of Cassiga, Ibori arrived with a zero group of men in two seven-seater SUVs.

Even if they have obtained gun licenses from Benin, Akwa and other countries, not all firearms can be successfully handed over for inspection and transit, and the zero group carries the Glott 18 automatic pistol and large-capacity magazines that can be used as submachine guns when necessary, which still causes some trouble when crossing the border.

In order to solve these troubles, the convoy was delayed at the border checkpoint for more than an hour before the relationship was cleared.

"Isn't it rushing over to fight, who are you scaring with these guns? What is going to happen, how many unconventional Lottes can still fight AK47?" Lu Yan complained at the border checkpoint

The delay was too long, and it didn't matter whether Cao Mo and Shen Ji, who were standing on the side, would hear it or not, they sneered in front of Zhou Han and Chen Yao.

"Originally, I brought so many people, and I put on a prestige, but some people are really crow's mouths, and when I ask him to say this, my heart is a little hanging," Cao Mo said to Xie Sipeng with a smile, "Mr. Xie, you really want to call that crow's mouth right, we met someone on the road who jumped out with AK47 to rob, how unlucky it must be......"

"Bah, can we all stop crow's mouths?" Since Xie Sipeng pulled the people on both sides, he was also fully mentally prepared, and no matter how blunt he was, he would insert in to adjust the atmosphere.

Lu Yan has suffered a few losses, but his psychological tolerance is much stronger, but he just glanced at Cao Mo coldly, and he didn't have too much impetuousness.

Lu Jianchao personally met with Rumisu Gidam and mentioned that Western Union Petroleum would succeed the Gidam family in the construction of the Lake Conero Port.

In addition to being squeezed in Draculamo's territory, the Brotherhood of Steel entered the Rivers State, the forces developed for oil theft in Rivers State, under the crackdown of the local police and the private forces hired by the oil merchants, they frequently lost their troops and lost their troops, which was very embarrassing.

In any case, the Giddam family could not allow the Brotherhood of Steel to be completely driven out of the River State, and their energy and financial resources determined that they could not take care of too much at this stage, and Rumisu Gidam agreed to transfer the share of Lake Conero Port to Western Union Petroleum to take over.

Truth be told, the Gidam family has been working with Western Union for a longer period of time.

The Brotherhood of Steel has been reaching into the Rivers State for several years to steal crude oil on a small scale, but it is usually only shipped to the high seas at very low prices and sold to crude traders who own medium and large tankers for launder.

Before the launch of the Taihua Industrial Park project, Western Union Petroleum approached the Jidam family and took over the crude oil stolen by the Brotherhood of Steel Fist in River State at a higher price, which made the Jidam family make a lot of money.

Later, in order to make the refinery project on the south shore of Lake Conero comply with Kanem's laws, the refinery signed a crude oil supply cooperation agreement with Western Union Petroleum with the help of the Jidam family, and registered a crude oil trading company in Draculamore.

Because the three parties have such a basis for cooperation, Lu Jianchao's proposal did not arouse the suspicion of Rumisu Gidam, but Taihua's contact with Western Union Petroleum is still limited.

Since the construction of Lake Conero Port was introduced as a strategic investor, Lu Jianchao felt that it was necessary for them to have a deeper contact and understanding of Western Union Petroleum.

Lu Yan's visit to Akwa this time to inspect Xie Sipeng's iron ore trade in Akwa was only incidental, and he mainly had more direct and in-depth contact with Western Union Petroleum.

With a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, it was impossible for Lu Yan to engage in any battle of will with Cao Mo as soon as he hit the road, but he didn't know that Cao Mo had already expected this when he saw them in the convoy.

The crude oil trade is more tempting than the iron ore trade, and Cao Mo believes that after they arrive in Akwa, Xie Sipeng and the others will most likely want to accompany Lu Yan to contact and meet with the unknown Western Union oil executives......