Chapter 66: Isabel
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The car stopped in front of the Miami restaurant, and Ovani got out of the car, and sure enough, it was a burly black bear. Chen Mo's height is one meter seven or eight, which is not short, but compared to the other party, he is nearly a head shorter.
According to Chen Mo's visual measurement, the other party's height should be two meters. Even more striking than his height was his fat size, and seeing him was like seeing a large O'Neill, who was much bigger than a big shark, and I wondered how that Mercedes had stuffed him in.
The two of them exchanged greetings again at the door, Chen Mo kept leaning his body slightly, and his head was also tilted slightly, but his eyes were looking directly at each other. This is a posture that I learned from Lisboa, and when facing people who are taller than me, it is indeed very useful, and it will not weaken my momentum.
Two seductive black beauties opened the door, and a young woman in a printed blouse with a strong African style and a short skirt underneath saw them and greeted them from inside.
Like the two girls who greeted her, she had coffee-colored skin and a rare beauty among black people. Although she was not very tall, and her appearance was no more beautiful than that of the two young girls who opened the door, the two deep dimples on her face added an indescribable beauty to her.
She looks two or three years older than Chen Mo, her big eyes are full of childlike innocence, and the dimples on her face add a touch of playfulness and cuteness to her, but she exudes a charming style.
In short, this is a very attractive black beauty, and this contradictory temperament on her body makes Chen Mo, who has never had much feeling for black beauties, a little confused.
Chen Mo just glanced at it, and felt that this woman should be the master here, the eldest princess of this country, Isabel dos Santos.
"Good afternoon. Uncle Ovanne. She said hello to Ovani and set her eyes on Chen Mo's body, with a sweet smile on her face, which also made the dimples on her face appear deeper. Welcome, Mr. Chen, although I know you are young. But seeing you still makes me feel like I'm dealing with a miracle child. ”
She speaks English very fluently and doesn't behave like a closed African woman. Chen Mo had read her information, but he didn't pay much attention to it. According to the information, she grew up in Lisbon, Portugal, studied at King's College London, and should have received a complete European-style education.
"Miss dos Santos, I'm just a young man with a little luck, and I really don't dare to take the praise of the Miracle Child. On the contrary, it was your amazing beauty that made me think that I was facing a peerless pearl. "And it's a black pearl. Chen Mo muttered in his heart.
Her smile became even sweeter, and she shook hands with Chen Mo and said, "When I was your age, I didn't know what I should do, so I finally opened such a restaurant and spent my days in vain. I hope to take the opportunity of Mr. Chen's visit to Luanda this time to learn more from you. ”
"Learn from each other......" Chen Mo pinched her little hand, feeling that the texture of her hand was delicate and the flesh and bone stopped, and his heart trembled for a while. I was a little distracted. "Just call me Evan, that's what my friends call me."
Except for Roujia. Chen Mo's later dating of Li Shan and Amal are both 1.8 meters tall, and their skeletons are not small. Li Shan's hands were chubby, and Amal's hands were a little thin, like the models he had come into contact with.
But Isabel's hand made Chen Mo suddenly recall the feeling of pinching Roujia's hands, they were all so small and exquisite. And Roujia also has a playful smile, and her smile is so innocent and warm.
But Chen Mo only walked a little and came to his senses. After all, the two people in front of her are too far apart, and Isabel is not only black, but also a few years older than herself.
"Okay, Evan." She let go of Chen Mo's hand and asked the manager to arrange for Zhang Jun and several of their bodyguards to rest on the first floor. He took Chen Mo and them up to the second floor.
At noon today, her restaurant seemed to be closed to the public in order to welcome Chen Mo's arrival. There was no one in the hall on the first floor and the small garden on the second floor. But the lights were on everywhere, and soothing music was playing in the hall.
Although this kind of welcome banquet specially prepared for Chen Mo is only in such an ordinary restaurant, because of her identity as the president's daughter, it seems to be of a very high grade.
Pushing open the door of a box, Chen Mo heard a burst of warm applause from inside before Chen Mo entered.
There were a total of ten men, women and children in the room, plus Isabel and Ovani, as well as Xu Yunteng and Chen Mo, and the fourteen shareholders of Zhong'an Petroleum Company gathered together for the first time.
Chen Mo and Xu Yunteng occupied 56 percent of the shares, and the 12 people present, who did not pay a penny, also occupied 44 percent of the shares of this oil company with an investment of 50 million US dollars.
Among them, most of them have two or three percent of the shares, and the one who occupies the most shares is not Ovani, but the Isabel with an innocent smile next to Chen Mo, who alone occupies 15% of the shares.
Ovani introduced everyone present to Chen Mo one by one, they were either the sons of General XX or the daughters of Chairman XX, and everyone had a strong backstage.
Of course, the biggest backstage in this is the uncle and nephew next to him.
In the information of CNPC and the unit, Chen Mo carefully checked the current political and economic situation in Angola. The country's income is similar to that of the rest of the country, but the war in recent years has greatly reduced their quality of life.
However, because of its abundant oil and minerals, including vast coffee plantations, the country's overall economy is still good.
In this country, it is very expensive to enjoy a high quality of life, but if you do not pursue a quality of life, the cost is very low.
This polarization between rich and poor has become a common occurrence in their country, because since the Portuguese occupation of the city four hundred years ago, Europeans have lived a life of superiority, and the people here have become accustomed to this state of existence.
Since Angola's independence in 1976, dos Santos, who has been in power for 21 years, became president in 1979 at the age of 37. And in Lang Yufu's memory, it was not until fifteen years later. The president of this country is still dos Santos.
The civilian president has a high reputation in this country, and no one can storm his presidency, even if the West has propped up many opposition parties and even started wars, but all of this has not played any role, and the country is still firmly in his hands.
So. Although the company was nearly a quarter of the company's equity by Isabel and Ovani, Chen Mo did not give up. There has never been a monopoly in the oil business, and only giving up can be gained.
Being able to use less than a quarter of the equity to win over the Dos Santos family, Chen Mo is already very satisfied, as long as he can win the bid here, this money can be earned back ten times and a hundred times.
Although it was a shareholder meeting, the meeting was not enthusiastic, mainly because of the language barrier between the two parties, except for one or two of them who knew a little English. Most of them speak only the local language and Portuguese.
However, everyone is still very enthusiastic about the arrival of Chen Mo, the God of Wealth, after all, Chen Mo brought them green dollars.
Chen Mo reiterated the concept of win-win cooperation, just wait for the end of the bidding, this investment will be a lot, and only to develop the oil field, there will be a larger amount of capital invested.
Hearing hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars, come out of Chen Mo's mouth and say it inappropriately, he also aroused everyone's interest. Everyone's eyes looked at Chen Mo with great eagerness.
Chen Mo actually knows Spanish, and many of the pronunciations and meanings of Spanish and Portuguese are the same. But their Portuguese here has gone through a variant. This has resulted in a situation where the two sides cannot communicate without an interpreter.
Although today's meeting was a meeting, the dealings between them could not be spread casually, so there was no translator to come over, so the situation was a little dull.
Everyone made some ideas for the future development of the company together, and everyone was familiar with each other. Isabel arranged to start serving.
Angola has been colonized by Portugal for hundreds of years, and the food is full of strong Portuguese style, plus they are across the sea from Brazil, and they are also greatly influenced by Brazilian style, so many meals are very similar to Brazilian style.
Chen Mo is not picky about eating. As long as the taste is pure, any taste is acceptable. Therefore, when the service staff of the hotel served dozens of various delicacies like a buffet, Chen Medeng's appetite was great.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old mixed-race black chick took the trouble to introduce each food, and took a bite of all these foods for Chen Mo to taste first.
Seeing that Chen Mo liked that, he helped Chen Mo come over a little, Chen Mo ate a meal, and she was tired and panting.
Isabel said with a smile: "In my country, there are not many people who know English. Hana has lived with me in the UK for two years, so she knows a little English, so let her be there for you while you're in Angola. ”
Chen Mo was not polite, nodded and said: "Thank you very much for your kindness, although I have not been in Angola for a long time, I have already liked this place." ”
During the meal, Chen Mo saw that almost all the men in the middle were carrying guns, this group of second ancestors was much more rampant than those second generations in China. Seeing those guns, Chen Mo's heart was also full of excitement, except for military training, he touched the gun only a handful of times, and how many men were not interested in guns?
However, because it was the first time they met, and Angola was still in the civil war at this time, the inland area was still relatively dangerous, so Chen Mo did not ask to touch the gun.
However, he is also planning in his heart to find a safe place to go to the gun addiction after a while.
The language barrier was incomprehensible, and everyone dispersed after lunch, and when everyone was sent away, Chen Mo realized that he had forgotten something. I came to this place as the God of Wealth, but I forgot to bring them gifts, this negligence is really a bit undeserved.
After communicating with Xu Yunteng, he dialed Liu Gang, who was far away in Switzerland. "You immediately go and buy thirty high-end gold watches today, and you want a big brand, and the more gold and diamonds, the better. Then they were sent to Angola. ”
"Do you have any requirements for the price?"
"Between $30,000 and $50,000, plus two more expensive watches, the men's ones don't have too many requirements, and they ask to be low-key. The style of the lady should be elegant and chic. ”
"It's easier to go out of customs here in Switzerland, but I'm afraid you need to pay a lot of tariffs on the Angolan customs side."
Chen Mo laughed: "The bigger the sensation, the greater our sincerity." ”
Although no other programs were arranged in the afternoon in order to reverse the jet lag, Chen Mo still decided to return to the villa arranged by Ovani to rest.
After today, I will face a rich social life in Angola, and at this time, I should get acquainted with the interpersonal relationships here as soon as possible.
Hana, that is, the little black girl, carefully followed Chen Mo into the Mercedes-Benz, she huddled tightly in the corner by the door, for fear of touching Chen Mo's body.
Seeing that she was so nervous, Chen Mo didn't mean to tease her, but discussed the future arrangements with Xu Yunteng. "Now that we have decided to invest heavily in Angola, we are still in too weak a position. Today's team, we still use Ovani's team, which really doesn't show our strength. Therefore, tomorrow I will arrange for Zhang Jun and them to buy a Mercedes-Benz 600, and then buy a few Land Rovers to facilitate the travel of our employees. In addition, our team should not be in the arrangement to stay in the hotel anymore, should rent a sea view villa as soon as possible, not too remote, as our office. If the bid goes through, we may be able to build our own office building in the future. ”
Xu Yunteng has worked in a state-owned enterprise all his life, although he pays attention to style, but he didn't expect that after Chen Mo came, he didn't know about the business, but first talked about pomp, and it would cost a lot of money to do it according to his wishes.
He nodded and said: "The bidding is not a big problem, this time in the offshore waters of Cabinda, a total of eighteen exploration plates are divided, and there are seven on land. Our company can get a minimum of three plots independently, two can be obtained by cooperating with Shell, and there is also an intention to cooperate with Mobil. Then there are Eni Petroleum and Statoil, all of which are interested in our free way of working together and are interested in cooperating. And the company that cooperates with Ovanne, they have identified the No. 4 sector with the best prospects at present, and this sector alone can make us a lot of money. ”
Chen Mo thought for a while and said: "This is exactly what I want to emphasize to you this time, we should not take too many plates independently, otherwise, there will only be a total of twenty-five bidding projects, and we will participate in one-third, which is too conspicuous and hateful." We should develop in the direction of less and better. (To be continued.) )