Even though the proximity to the equator makes the weather in the western part of Kanem hotter at the end of the rainy season in May, the deep jungles of northern Ibogu are a great place to escape the heat.

Qian Wenhan is willing to cooperate, mainly not to say that it is okay, there is no need for him to stay in Kanem all the time, and the specific details of the discussion and implementation, Xinhong Investment and Xinhai Gold have set up branches and offices in Akwa and Kanem.

Qian Wenhan returned to China at the end of April, but Cao Mo was bound to stay and act in this play, so he and Zhou Han lived directly in the tribe as a vacation.

Cao Mo swam back and forth in the narrow mountain lake, and when he saw four off-road vehicles coming, he took the rope thrown by Ade, climbed into the dinghy, took a towel to dry the water stains on his body, and drove to the shore.

Abacha and Yang Deshan got out of the car and walked over, standing at the lake embankment pier and waiting for the dinghy to pass.

"Today is the first time that you have made formal contact with the officials of the Draculamo Port Group and the City Hall about the Huwan Industrial New City, and it will be over so soon? It seems that the atmosphere of the meeting is not very friendly!" Cao Mo said with a smile to Yang Deshan and Abacha.

"The officials of the Draculamo Port Group and the Draculamo City Hall used to look down on each other, but today they are all unanimous," Abacha, Yang Deshan and Cao Mo strode towards the lakeside wooden house, and told Cao Mo about the meeting in the morning, "They didn't talk much, although there were various arguments, but their unanimous opposition to our Huwan Industrial New City was certain, and in the final analysis, they were still worried that the Huwan Industrial New City would really be done and would weaken their influence!"

On the side of the lakeside wooden house, Zhou Han was working with the cook to help the old chief put out the barbecue grill.

Yang Deshan saw that there was a small iron pot next to the barbecue grill, and the old chief dug a large piece of snow-white mutton fat into the hot iron pot, and asked curiously: "What are you doing with this iron pot to boil mutton fat when you eat barbecue at noon?"

"I have come up with a new method of grilling with the old chief," said Cao Mo, "the mutton is pre-roasted in charcoal for a minute or two, fried in hot mutton fat for a while, and then sprinkled with seasoning to make the surface crispy, not only does the seasoning adhere more evenly, but the mutton is also tender and juicy, and the mouth is wonderful—you will know when you taste it later." If I hadn't worried about the affairs of Huwan Industrial New Town, I would have wanted to go to Draculamo to find a place to set up a barbecue......"

Cao Mo asked Yang Deshan and Abacha to wait outside for a while, and he went in first to change out of his wet swimming trunks, put on beach pants and T-shirts, and then listened to Abacha and Yang Deshan talk about the details of today's meeting with Draculamo's relevant officials.

Before Zhou Han made all kinds of inducements through Yan Zhicheng, it was not that no one thought of completely carving out the Taihua Industrial Park and the area south of it from Longta and developing it as the Binhai New Area and Binhai New Town on the northwest side of Draculamo.

The Urban Planning Commission under the Dracula Municipal Council, after the launch of projects such as the Taihua Industrial Park and the Conero Lake Port, has also made a long-term development plan, which is similar in concept to the Binhai New Area and the New Town.

However, the city planning committee has to formulate a lot of similar development plans every year, but if it can achieve 12/12, the scale of Draculamo's urban construction and industrial economic development can catch up with the megacities of Europe and the United States.

At the end of the day, there is still a lack of money.

The Dracula City Council has benefited from the good crude oil export economy in recent years, and its fiscal revenue and expenditure have doubled compared with 05, but the funds that can be used for infrastructure construction such as road transportation in the 08 budget are only 200 million US dollars.

As the most economically developed and wealthy megacity in West Africa, the financial funds that can be spent on infrastructure construction in a year are so small, and the officials of Draculamo City Hall and the members of the municipal council have no ambition and are not able to carry it out.

However, without the democratic elections in Kanem, there would have been no regional and political turmoil, and in fact the situation was worse than imagined.

Cao Mo threw out the plan for the construction of the new industrial city in the name of Lake Conero Industrial Park, and the response received in Kanem was not all positive and welcoming, but from Draculamo and Ogun Prefecture, the federal government, and the parliamentary councillors and officials from Draculamo and Ogun Ogun immediately raised extremely sharp questions and criticisms.

In the final analysis, the new industrial city will be weakened to a certain extent, if not fundamentally threatening the status of Draculamo Port and Draculamo City.

This is all what Cao Mo and them expected, and now they are waiting for when they will throw a new plan to take the lead.

"There's a plenary session of the Ogun State Assembly next week, and if they want to stop President Buhari from mentioning the Huwan New City plan when he meets with the chairman of the Central People's Republic of China, they have to come up with a complete alternative plan before that and get it approved by the Ogun State Assembly. Yang Deshan judged.

"That's all it takes for the past two days......," Cao Mo said.

Abacha and Yang Deshan now have a lot of affairs in their hands, and they quit and left after Chinese food.

Cao Mo was energetic and did not have the habit of taking a nap, he raised a few horses in the mountains, and after the work was handled, accompanied by Ade and others, he and Zhou Han rode to the mine not far away to see the operation.

"Han Shaorong went to Draculamo the day before yesterday, I heard that your uncle also came over to join in the fun, don't you look for a chance to contact them?" Zhou Han was wearing a slim little jacket and tight breeches, his figure was even more uneven, and he asked Cao Mo with a horsewhip.

Although the whole thing was originally proposed by Zhou Han, and the intention was also to hope that the Lu family would eventually be trapped in Kanem and unable to get out, it was also unexpected to set off such a big reaction in Kanem in less than ten days.

"Han Shaorong is not so easy to deceive, we are looking for an opportunity at this time to pretend that we have no intention of bumping into them, it will only appear that we are weak-hearted," Cao Mo reined in his horse, looked at Zhou Han, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter, you are weak now, worried that they will not bite the hook, and in the end, we will be self-defeating and difficult to ride a tiger?"

Zhou Han does have worries in this regard, if the other party doesn't bite the hook, they will be forced to implement the plan of the Huwan Industrial New City, which will have a direct and fundamental impact on the future development direction of Tianyue; she doesn't see that Cao Mo is too worried, and she doesn't know what he thinks in the past few days.

"You're too far away, you can't speak, you sit down. Cao Mo patted the saddle bridge in front of him and said.

Zhou Han glanced at Cao Mo, but obediently handed over the horse to the bodyguard who followed behind, she turned over and got on the horse and sat in front of Cao Mo.

The saddle on the horse's back is not wide, and the two are squeezed by the front and rear saddle bridges, and the front abdomen and rear hips are tightly together.

Zhou Han felt like he was being held up by a fire hydrant, glanced back at Cao Mo, and asked, "Aren't you uncomfortable?"

"It's not uncomfortable, if you wear a skirt, it's not only not uncomfortable, it's very comfortable. Cao Mo grabbed the reins with both hands and hugged Zhou Han's side.

Zhou Han leaned on Cao Mo's arms relaxed and asked, "If they don't bite the hook, do you really want to build Huwan Industrial New City?"

"Tianyue has developed to this point, very fast, in the whole process, I mainly want to do faster, do better in the details, the result should not be too bad, I must say that there are any big ideas, mainly to imitate Dongsheng, these are also familiar to me," Cao Mo said, "and when it comes to the future direction of Tianyue, I haven't really thought about it, or I don't think deeply enough, I want mining companies, cement companies, and food companies to go on step by step and do their respective businesses well." You just said that if they don't bite the hook, we will finally have a hard time riding the tiger, I have actually considered it, the big deal is to start with the copper smelter, no one can say that the new city of Huwan Industry will be built overnight......"

As far as Africa as a whole is concerned, Kanem is also the country with the most political stability and development potential, and it is beneficial to concentrate the industry in Kanem and Longta from the perspective of Tianyue's future development direction.

This is also the key to Cao Mo's fear of self-defeating.

Transporting copper concentrate back to China for smelting, as well as smelting blister copper locally in West Africa and then shipping it back to China for sale, can save about $300 to $400 per ton of blister copper produced.

The establishment of a copper smelter in Kanem or Akwa in the future is a matter of necessity.

The copper smelter is located in Kanem or in Akwa, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, but considering the future development direction of Tianyue, it is beneficial to concentrate the industry end in Kanem.

In other words, if it is really self-defeating, Cao Mo will take advantage of the situation to build a large-scale copper smelter on the east shore of Lake Conero.

Supporting the mining scale of the Wusang River in the next two to three years, the investment in the first phase of the copper smelter will reach about 200 million to 250 million US dollars - at present, the mining and cement companies have a hematopoietic capacity of 25 million to 30 million US dollars per month, even if Xinhai Gold and Qian Wenhan have no intention of participating in this project, Cao Mo can support it alone.

This is placed in China, a copper factory of more than ten or two billion yuan, naturally it is not qualified to support the start of a new industrial city, but considering the current situation of Kanem, a little bit of bragging, few people are qualified to come and poke it.

At that time, Conero Lake will indeed be the largest cement production base, aluminum profile processing base, motor vehicle assembly base and copper smelting base in Kanem and even the whole of West Africa.

In addition, if President Buhari can really personally promote the construction of the new industrial city in Huwan, it will inevitably make it difficult for this side to ride the tiger, but at the same time, it also means that this side can obtain political and economic resources that it did not have in the past.

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Cao Li and Zhang Jin set foot on African soil for the first time, and unlike the backward and barbaric Africa in their impressions, they did not expect that Chinese businessmen would have laid a foundation in Kanem, which is more than 20,000 kilometers away from their homeland.

They had made very poor psychological expectations before coming, so they were overjoyed to see the splendid new Taihua Hotel & Casino, and they were not at all desolate when they saw the splendid new Taihua Hotel & Casino, and they got on a yacht and entered the wide waters of Lake Conero, sailed from the mouth of the water into the Atlantic Ocean, and saw that the factories along the shore were quite large, and it was not at all as desolate as they imagined.

Cao Li's attention was not completely attracted by the scenery of the Atlantic Ocean, and she also leaned over curiously when she saw her father, Han Shaorong, and Lu Jianchao, the vice president of Taihua, and others all sitting down on the back deck to talk about things.

Lu Yan invited their family to Kanem to inspect the investment very early, but they never had the opportunity to make the trip, this time Han Shaorong personally came forward to invite her, and she was quite interested in Africa, so she followed her father Cao Fangming with Zhang Jin.

Cao Li heard from her grandmother that Cao Mo also worked in Kanem and developed quite well, but in the past two days, she saw many Chinese faces, but not only did she not see Cao Mo, but she didn't even hear anyone mention Cao Mo.

Of course, the last time there was almost another conflict in Tianlan Bar, Cao Li could see that Lu Yan and Cao Mo had a deep contradiction, and it was impossible to open their mouths to inquire casually, and at this time, I heard Han Shaorong chattering with a cigar and saying to the people sitting around him:

"Since the Draculamo Municipal Council and the Ogun State Government fully support it, let's do it!"

Cao Li didn't hear what they were talking about before, but she could think that Kanem, a country with full support from the state and local governments, and that a person like Han Shaorong came over in person, it must be a very big investment project, but Han Shaorong said it lightly.

Han Shaorong is a legendary figure in Xinhai, but because she has known each other since she was a child, she even walked around with Han Shaorong in the early days, so in Cao Li's eyes, Han Shaorong did not have too much mystery, but seemed more approachable.

"Plop!"

Listening to the sound of the splashing waves, Cao Li turned her head and saw Han Shuyun throwing the bath towel on the deck, wearing a sky-blue one-piece swimsuit, jumping into the clear sea water like a mermaid, swimming vigorously on all fours, not afraid of the turbulence of the waves - but Zhang Jin glanced at the sea from time to time with a thiefy look, and Cao Li couldn't help but be irritable in her eyes.

"Cao Li, aren't you a showman?" Han Shaorong saw Cao Li standing on the side deck, her fair skin directly exposed to the blazing sun, beckoned her to sit over as if he was concerned about her junior, and looked at the people present absently, and asked, "In a few days, Buhari will meet with the board of directors of the Middle Earth Group, and our plan needs to be reviewed by the Ogun State Council first, and before that, there will be a wave of propaganda to weaken the influence of the other side, and there is no time for us to discuss slowly- Of course, the final decision is up to Taihua, Taihua decides to do it, and Huamao can follow up with 100 million US dollars first!"

Han Shaorong has always made good use of leverage, once again cutting off the project prepared by Cao Mo and them, and launching a similar new industrial city construction plan on the south bank of Conero Lake, Huamao Investment does not need to take out too much money, and even less of his personal funds.

So he didn't hesitate to make a decision, Lu Jianchao found him, he directly asked Taihua to draw up a plan first, and he also got out as soon as possible and rushed to Kanem in person.

Whether it is to integrate with the country's increasingly important African strategy, or to suppress Cao Mo's rapid rise and prevent him from taking the opportunity to establish direct contact with the country's top brass, they need to cut off Hu again.

If you want to talk about the risks of this project, there are naturally there.

However, even if there is no factor of Cao Mo, even if he is regarded as an idle chess player, taking one or two hundred million dollars to fall in the most important city in West Africa is nothing.

Under Han Shaorong's gaze, Lu Jianchao had a headache.

Han Shaorong is willing to come up with less funds than he imagined, and the financial pressure they are under is correspondingly greater.

As for the risks, he has no intention of discussing them.

Investing in Africa, no matter how reliable the project, means that there are all kinds of unpredictable risks, but the problem is that Cao Mo is such a small man, he can ignore the risks and fly wildly in this land for three or four years, from obscurity to everyone here at this time has to look at each other, he talks about risks at this time, unless he continues to slow down his pace and be ridiculed, what is the other meaning?

Lu Jianchao pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "We'll see Niz Oppenheimer at night!"

"Africa is probably the last undeveloped fertile land on the earth," Han Shaorong saw that Lu Jianchao had made up his mind, and Cao Fangming, who was sitting beside him, laughed, "China is gradually coming out of the stage of barbaric growth, Fang Ming, if you want to go to the next level, you can only bet your chips here......"

"Since you have such high expectations for the investment here, of course I will follow you - as long as you don't dislike me and have too little money. Cao Fangming said very happily.

Cao Fangming does not know what the root cause of Han Shaorong's trip to Africa is, he only knows that Taihua has invested heavily in building casinos, hotels, oil refineries and 10,000-ton crude oil and bulk cargo terminals on this land, and now it is Taihua who invites Han Shaorong to take more land on the basis of the projects that have been completed and are being built, and start building a new coastal city.

In addition to Lu Jianchao convincing Haineng Group to agree to extend the deadline for their performance, Han Shaorong also helped find a solar energy engineering company with orders from Europe and the United States to digest the modules of the Taineng Yang Power Station that signed a supply agreement with Haineng Group, so that they not only lost 30 million deposits, avoided the bad luck of bankruptcy and liquidation, and even made millions of profits from small and medium-sized enterprises.

With this level of friendship, Han Shaorong's identity specially invited him to participate in investment projects in Africa, how could Cao Fangming frown?

Liang Yuan, who was standing aside with his hands in front of him, looked at Cao Fangming and Cao Li's father and daughter with great interest, thinking that if their father and daughter knew that Han Shaorong and Lu Jianchao were making such a big move, just to deal with Cao Mo, would they still participate without hesitation?