The Lujiaochuan River is too close to the Atlantic Ocean, and after the primeval forest, the main river meanders twenty or thirty kilometers into the Atlantic Ocean.

However, in the upper reaches of the Antler River, many tributary streams and rivers meander through the primeval mountain forests on the border between Kanem and Benin, and are very well developed. Even in the dry season, the flow of the tributaries and rivers is considerable, and in the past they all flowed into the Atlantic Ocean in vain.

Coming from the mountainous areas of southern Benin, there is a maximum drop of four to five hundred meters in the terrain, and the rainfall is abundant, and the hydropower resources that can be developed are very abundant.

Even if it does not involve the domestic part of Benin, the hydropower resources of the Lujiao River in the Lunta area alone may not be fully developed with an investment of two or three hundred million US dollars.

As the most populous and prosperous city in West Africa, Draculamo's hydropower resources in the upper reaches of the Antler River are fully developed, and it is far from being able to fill its electricity gap.

Cao Mo refused Taihua's intervention before, not because he was greedy and wanted to eat all the fat in his stomach, and he couldn't finish it in a short time.

The new transmission grid is about to be completed, and in order to improve the profit margins of the new transmission grid, the three major families of Blake, Oppenheimer and Rupert will directly or indirectly demand the development of upstream hydropower resources in the future.

Cao Mo did some work in the early stage, similar to the application for prospecting rights and land contracting, he had almost monopolized the development of hydropower resources in the upper reaches of the Lujiaochuan River on the surface, but he really wanted to refuse others to enter, in fact, he didn't know how to get along with the interests of the three major families in this area, and destroyed the interests that were finally screwed together before.

On the contrary, Cao Mo wanted to fight for and win over more funds related to him that could promote the formation of Chinese businessmen in Kanem and participate in the development.

He avoided Taihua and didn't want to have more intersections, but now, not to mention Xie Sipeng, they may only be able to raise two or three million US dollars at present, and build one or two hydropower stations in the upper reaches of the Ibogu River, even if they raise three or five million US dollars, Cao Mo will only welcome them, but will not refuse.

And this is also the first thing he will do when he returns to Draculamo this time.

At that time, not only will the new transmission grid built by the Felician family, Abacha and the three major families be able to obtain higher profits from it, but the Ibogu Cement Plant will also be able to sell more finished cement nearby!

The three families control the new transmission grid, and as long as the upstream can continue to develop and build new hydropower plants, they will only welcome it, but will not interfere.

Speaking of which, the new transmission grid is really a good business, almost no additional investment is required, and the larger the scale of the hydropower station group built upstream, their profit margins will rise.

Even though Cao Mo knew very well in his heart that he had to cede the interests of this piece, he couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart.

Who hates a lot of money!

Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan arranged for Cao Mo and Li Qixi to wash the dust at the Lana Dere Hotel today, but the team rushed to the staff dormitory first and put down the luggage first.

It's still early, Song Yuqing and Li Qixi's lover Guo Fang, the two women didn't have a chance to take a shower all the way to the plane, and said that they had to go back to the room to pack their luggage and wash up first, but Cao Mo and Li Qixi didn't pay so much attention to it, so everyone went to Building 1 to sit down and drink tea and chat.

Listening to Xie Sipeng say that there was no opportunity to participate in the investment in the refinery, but Cao Mo would help them win the opportunity to invest in the construction of a small hydropower station in Longta, Yang Deshan was also very interested.

The construction cost of the small hydropower station in Kanem is high, but the price of grid connection is twice as high as that in China.

In the case of the Grey Crow River Ladder Hydropower Station, for example, the net income is as low as 30% per year, and the key is to account for the depreciation of the facilities.

That is to say, within five years, not only can the input cost be fully recovered, but the net income within five years can also be guaranteed to be 30 percent; and after all the investment in facilities and equipment is converted and recovered, the net profit rate of the hydropower station will climb to a big step.

This investment could not be worse than their participation in the acquisition of the East Banquet Building facility at the Lana Dere Rey Hotel.

"Mr. Li, are you interested in participating?" Cao Mo looked at Li Qixi and asked.

For the development of hydropower in the upper reaches of the Lujiaochuan River, Cao Mo now hopes that more will be better.

Since he brought Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan, he wouldn't mind bringing more Li Qiwei at all, and even Cao Mo wanted to bring Li Qiwei even more in order to implement his next plan.

The investment in hydropower will not take up much of their personal energy, and there is no conflict with Dongsheng's interests in Kanem, it is only equivalent to personal financial investment, and Dongsheng will not interfere.

"Okay, but the funds I can take out are not comparable to you, so don't dislike them. Li Qishu smiled.

As a Malaysian Chinese, Lee has only been involved in the work for eight or nine years.

Even though he had worked as a professional manager in an oil palm plantation in Malaysia for more than four years, his salary was quite limited, and after he joined Dongsheng, Shen Ji gave him an annual salary plus overseas allowance of 400,000 yuan, and his income only increased significantly.

He can get $100,000 right now.

Of course, he personally is more than happy to participate.

Li Qixi joined Dongsheng for a short time, and it was only half a year before Kanem presided over the acquisition and management of oil palm land, and he was not very clear about Cao Mo's previous grievances with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.

In his opinion, Cao Mo can do these things in Kanem, and his status is hidden above Yang Deshan, obviously because he has the support of Chen Rong, the director of the group.

With this, Li Qixi is also willing to bundle interests with Cao Mo.

Of course, even if this is a personal financial investment, Li Qixi also said that he would communicate with Shen Ji first.

At present, Li Qixi's only backer in Dongsheng is Shen Ji, and he doesn't want Shen Ji to be dissatisfied with him.

Li Qixi's reaction was not unexpected by Cao Mo, he said: "Before I went back to Kanem, Mr. Shen happened to go to Europe, and I couldn't meet him, and in two days, I will also call him to communicate about these things......

Yang Deshan and Xie Sipeng both glanced at Cao Mo suspiciously, thinking that Cao Mo was extremely low-key, and some things were pushed to others as much as possible, but they didn't know if he had any extra things to communicate with Shen Ji.

After Song Yuqing and Li Qixi's lover Guo Fang took a bath, everyone moved to the beach barbecue restaurant of Lana Dere Hotel.

Sitting on the beach at sunset, Cao Mo pulled Abacha and introduced more hydropower resources in the upper reaches of the Lujiaochuan River to Yang Deshan and Xie Sipeng.

The Conero Lake Industrial Park project is officially launched, and there are eight factories under construction at the same time, but all of them are processing plants with limited investment.

In addition to the two color steel tile and brown silk processing and the cocoa butter processing factory invested by Cao Mo, the other five are shoes, hats and clothing processing factories, which can be said to be a standard light industrial park.

The total area of the eight factories is only 120 acres, and the total investment is less than 4 million US dollars.

The construction of the steel structure workshops and office buildings of these processing plants was also entrusted to China Soil Group.

Although Cao Mo and his family's initial expectations for the Conero Lake Industrial Park were all that, the investment potential of the Chinese businessmen in Draculamo is obviously far from being fully developed.

In addition to inviting Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan to participate personally, Cao Mo hopes to continue to tap the investment potential of Chinese businessmen.

Of course, this does not mean that if he gives up the right to develop upstream hydropower resources, he will have no profit at all.

The permit he had obtained from the Lunta area was the basis for the construction of the hydropower station, and if someone wanted to build the dam, he would need to buy the permit from him, and he would earn another commission for subcontracting the land for the construction.

More importantly, when a Chinese businessman invested in a hydropower plant in Lonta, no one could recruit operations and technical personnel from China to keep this loneliness, and he now has the ability to set up an operation and technology outsourcing team to provide managed services.

"Hydropower development should attract a lot of investment. Xie Sipeng figured out Cao Mo's train of thought and couldn't help but sigh.

At present, most of the Chinese businessmen who have entered Draculamo are small and medium-sized traders, and they may have millions or even tens of millions of yuan in their hands, so they are asked to invest in Kanem to build factories, which is risky on the one hand, and on the other hand, their own management and technical level are also difficult to keep up.

However, they accumulate a certain amount of capital, and they are also willing to participate in investment, so that they can make a profit and continue to expand their capital—and the vast majority of the trade they themselves engage in is still bottlenecked, and when their business grows to a certain scale, it will stagnate because of the limits of the market size.

An investment project with clear property rights, stable investment returns and in line with expectations is naturally more likely to attract attention.

On the one hand, the hydropower station is built and the management is simple, but the cost of additional investment required for operation is very low, and the personnel are limited, and the political situation is turbulent, and the loss may only be the profit that should be obtained during this time.

When the political situation calms down, they can come back and take over the hydropower station, and it is impossible to tear down the dam, the most important asset of the hydropower station, at the local level, right?

What's more, the investment in these fixed facilities can be insured.

It is difficult to say how to invest in a factory, and you can buy insurance for fixed facilities, but once the political situation in Kanem is unstable, the factory is shut down, and the orders for downstream supply are stopped, should you compensate?

Will there be losses due to the accumulation of large quantities of raw materials in the warehouses of the factory?

Should the salary and benefits of employees be paid at a certain level during the shutdown period?

These calculations make the loss great.

Xie Sipeng and his team developed the Qiao Nai gold mine, and they were eager to buy profits when they invested to a certain extent, but on the contrary, they were more actively involved in the investment in projects such as the acquisition of facilities in the China Mall and Lana Dere Hotel, and now they are more willing to participate in the investment and construction of hydropower stations.

Seeing that Xie Sipeng was very confident that he would attract more investment, Cao Mo said with a smile: "Abacha is here, he personally holds almost 15% of the shares in Sika Idet Power Grid Company, he hopes that the larger the scale of the upstream hydropower station group, the better, so that they can easily make money through the transmission grid - in addition to the Felician family, the other three major shareholders of the new transmission grid are the Blake family, the Oppenheimer family, and the Rupert family. I think that the closer integration of interests in the hydropower station cluster and the transmission grid will be of great help to improve the situation of Chinese businessmen in Draculamo and other parts of Kanem. ”