Once these two projects are implemented, almost all the funds currently accumulated in overseas accounts will be used.

Cao Mo did not wait for the Spring Festival and returned to Africa early. In addition to promoting the second phase of the Cotonou power plant and the Cotonou oil refinery as soon as possible, he also pushed the Benin government to complete the Mamba-Cotonou railway as soon as possible.

Project establishment work.

The construction of this railway, promoted by the Benin government, will not only become a core bargaining chip with a profound impact on Akwa's domestic industrial economy in the future, but also directly connect Mamba's iron ore, Drake's copper and gold mine and Kruno's crude oil.

Ship it to major factories in Cotonou, eliminating the trouble of transiting through Pemme Port.

The longer-term plan is to expand the Port of Cotonou and build giant deep-water berths to make it a core channel for the export of West African iron ore, crude oil and other energy to overseas.

Of course, these ideas are not original to Cao Mo.

Although the level of national education in African countries is generally very low, there has long been a group of political and military elites who have gone abroad to receive advanced European and American education. Some countries have also sent personnel to study in China since the 1960s.

When the Economic Community of West African States was preparing to be established in the 1960s and 1970s, elites from various countries put forward many ideas for the economic development of the Gulf of Guinea coast, and even made detailed plans and implemented them in the early years.

The Bosso Iron Mine-Katero Steel Plant was the result of that time, but it was abandoned halfway.

Now Han Shaorong and others want to join forces with the Evans Foundation to start the construction of the Bosso-Catro Steel Industrial Complex as quickly as possible, which is also to inherit the achievements of the past.

Otherwise, it would be normal for such a large-scale industrial investment and preliminary planning and design to be discussed in Kanem for three to five years, let alone its final implementation.

The Mamba-Cotonou railway has long been included in the planning of the Gulf of Guinea Coastal Corridor, and detailed survey and design work was even carried out as early as the 1970s.

Unfortunately, after the late 1970s, fueled by some forces with ulterior motives, coups in West Africa became frequent, bloody, and wars continued, and many plans were abandoned halfway.

The Mamba-Cotonou railway never had a chance to come out of the drawing board and become a reality.

What the Benin government needs to do now is to dig out the dusty achievements of the late 1970s from the pile of old papers and conduct diplomatic consultations with the Akwa Sevi authorities.

During this process, it was inconvenient for Cao Mo and the senior officials of the Tianyue faction to show up directly, while Berdych, a senior member of the Kanem Congress, was entrusted by Cao Mo to become a public lobbyist.

During the economic crisis, the Bertici family almost went bankrupt, and it was Cao Mo who helped them tide over the crisis.

At this time, although the shares held by the Bertici family in the United West African Cement Group were reduced to 2%, in the barren and backward West African continent, the Bertici family still became a super wealthy family, enjoying top-notch luxury and huge wealth.

After more than a year of in-depth contact and cooperation, Bertich saw the magic and power of Cao Mo and the Tianyue family, and was naturally willing to have a deeper interest bundling with the Tianyue family.

To be honest, this is not how amazing Cao Mo really is.

It is true that European and American capital was too focused on plundering before.

They plunder billions or even tens of billions of dollars of wealth from this land every year, but they have never thought of leaving anything on this land.

As long as these European and American capitals are willing to spend some of their huge wealth, or if the countries along the Gulf of Guinea are able to levy more profits taxes, such as three to five billion US dollars or tens of billions of dollars per year, for the construction and development of basic industries, where can

It was Cao Mo's turn to create and integrate a cement giant with a valuation of tens of billions of dollars in just a few years. How could it be Cao Mo's turn to start building a cross-border power grid now?

And these are just the easiest to build, the lowest threshold and the least difficult in the industrial system.

Comparatively speaking, the development of Tianyue Industry in China is more difficult and complicated than building a cement plant or a power plant.

In two years' time, Tianyue Industry's investment in technology expansion and production base construction is expected to reach 6 billion yuan or more, but no one expects Tianyue Industry to achieve profitability in two years.

This is the huge difference between complex industries and basic industries.

It can only be said that Cao Mo had a very good opportunity to enter Africa. European and American capital had no intention of developing basic work. At that time, Chinese businessmen in West Africa were still mainly engaged in trade. The local industrial capital was weak and did not master the technology, so Cao Mo had

There is room for development, or even blank space is more appropriate.

The Mamba-Cotonou railway is part of Guinea's coastal corridor, and the most critical thing about the coastal corridor is that it runs through Draculamo and the river continent southwest of Canem. Bertich, as a senior member of Parliament of Canem

, naturally has enough position to lobby the Benin government.

The people Bertici contacted in the Benin authorities were mainly Speaker Baddeli, who worked closely with Tianyue, and Minister of Industry, Geology and Minerals Paboni and others - Baddeli and Paboni were of course willing to cooperate with Tianyue

There are too many stakeholders in Benin who are eager to start the construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway immediately.

However, whether they are facing the people at home or exerting stronger diplomatic pressure on Akwa, they need to change their name to a legitimate and legitimate name that can be widely recognized by the public.

After all, putting this aside, how could the Sevi family be so stupid as not to guess who would benefit the most from the completion of the Mamba-Cotonou railway? How could the Evans Foundation be so stupid as to sit back and watch the completion of the Mamba-Cotonou railway?

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However, now that Akwa has become a democratic country in form, it will only be possible for President Sewi to resolutely oppose using the existing legal procedures in Akwa to promote relevant work in the name of being widely recognized by the public.

This will make him even more unpopular with the people; thus giving the moderate forces of the Kant tribe and the opposition forces within the Akan tribe more excuses and support points to join forces to isolate, oppose and even encircle the Sevi family.

This is politics.

Han Shaorong and the others teamed up with the Evans Foundation to promote the construction of the Bosso-Katero Steel Industrial Complex in order to compete for influence in Oyo State. Cao Mo actually paid no attention to it after the establishment of the West African United Cement Group.
Chapter completed!