Now that Mrs. Cao came over with Xiao Jun and his parents, Cao Mo also wanted to strike while the iron was hot and get rid of the last bit of awkwardness in Xiao Jun's mother's heart.

After everything was ready here, he asked everyone to go to Tianzifang's house for dinner.

When Cao Mo returned home, he was in a hurry. Every day he was not sure whether he would eat at home or who he would accompany him to eat. However, his family would always prepare enough food for emergencies.

Tianzifang's cultural tourism is very successful.

When the lanterns first came on, the main street was already bustling with activity. Through the glass windows, you could see that every store on the street was already overcrowded.

However, when we walked through the main street, which was full of the smell of fireworks, and reached the end of the street, it became quiet again.

In addition to a few high-end restaurants and private clubs hidden away, most of the residents here like the living atmosphere here.

The courtyard gates No. 116-118 are also quite simple and unpretentious, not too luxurious, but when you open the courtyard door and walk into the front patio, you will find an extraordinary elegance.

The courtyard wall is made of a whole piece of marble, and the fish-mouth-shaped stone carvings have water jets spitting out and falling into the ring-shaped water tank. Dozens of koi fish swim happily; the water in the pool passes under the wooden corridors of the living room and wing room, and there is only a narrow channel.

One side is exposed.

The front courtyard is still too narrow, and there are no plants for decoration. Several bottles of copper cranes stand in the fish tank, making it look very quiet.

After passing through the front hall and seeing the self-contained backyard facing the river, as well as the teahouses and restaurants on both sides of the courtyard, Zhao Qianyun finally understood why Cao Mo looked down upon the two oversized apartments in Hemingyuan.

Cao Mo's time in the country was uncertain, and he didn't know if something might happen in Africa at any time, so he would try his best to stay ahead of anything at home, and even temporarily invited Guo Donghu and Chen Shu over at night.

Chen Shu is the father of Lu Yan’s ex-fiancée Chen Yao and one of the major shareholders of the original Taihua Group.

After Cao Mo teamed up with Qian Wenhan, Ding Zhaoqiang and others to take over Taihua Group, he retained Chen Shu to stay in the listed company as senior vice president, responsible for the original chemical pipeline and pump equipment manufacturing business.

Cao Mo is now thinking of taking advantage of the city's industrial divestment plan to spin off the chemical pipeline and pump equipment manufacturing business from the listed company. He must listen to the opinions of Chen Shu, the person in charge of this business.

Chen Shu was somewhat shocked when he heard Cao Mo's plan in the study.

Guo Donghu was very excited when he heard that after the chemical pipeline and pump equipment manufacturing business was divested, he would also start integrating related businesses such as Cornero Foods and Dongsheng Palm Oil into listed companies.

Guo Donghu opposed the integration of Cornero Food into Dongsheng Group from the beginning, because he hoped that this business for which he was highly responsible could one day be integrated into a listed company that Tianyue truly directly controlled.

In this way, he has nothing to argue with Shen Ji, Yang Deshan, Xie Sipeng, Chen Feng, Xu Bin and others, but he will always be Tianyue's direct lineage veteran and important minister. He does not have to worry about being marginalized after merging into Dongsheng.

Of course, Chen Shu personally still holds 3% of the shares of Tianyue Industrial. Tianyue Industrial is about to implement a series of industrial development plans. The market value has increased significantly, which will definitely do more harm than good to him personally.

What he is worried about is how to arrange personnel related to the chemical pipeline and pump equipment manufacturing business. These are all old people he knows.

Cao Mo's plan is to use the government's industrial withdrawal plan to directly shut down these industries that are not very competitive. Most of the employees will be retired after being given appropriate compensation. These people need to find their own way out.

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For ordinary employees, it is the same wherever they work. After all, the domestic economy is in a period of rapid development and employment is quite abundant. However, for middle and senior management and technical personnel in the chemical industry, if they want to find suitable high-paying jobs in Xinhai immediately, they will not

It's easier.

However, on the one hand, no chemical equipment manufacturing company is willing to acquire manufacturing assets in Xinhai, where costs are high in all aspects. On the other hand, in order to complete the industry withdrawal faster, the municipal government will not support Tianyue Industrial to sell this business and its production base to other companies.

enterprise.

"Can the Furkov Petrochemical Group accept some of its personnel? Or can it invest in building a new factory for chemical pipelines and pump equipment on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea? The scale can be smaller and it can provide supporting services to the Furkov Petrochemical Group."

Okay..." Chen Shu asked.

"If someone is willing to work in Africa, you can help them connect with Huang Hebin. As for building a factory, I don't rule out the possibility in principle, but the key is to see how many people are willing to go to Africa." Cao Mo said.

Xinhai's production base will be vacated, and after deducting employee compensation, the listed company will still receive about 1.2 billion in compensation from the city.

In addition to the Furkov Petrochemical Group's demand for various chemical pipelines and pump equipment, the coastal areas of the Gulf of Guinea, where the development of the chemical industry lags behind, have a significant scale of crude oil extraction and transportation, which has extremely high demand for various pump equipment.

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In fact, it is necessary to build a chemical pump and other equipment manufacturing plant in Cotonou or Draculamo, Benin. The investment is very limited. Even after the old factory here is closed, the production equipment will be exported to Coto, Benin.

If you work hard, you can also save a considerable amount of construction costs.

Cao Mo would not have been willing to do this before. After all, after all, there is not much difference in the final operating costs between building a factory in the Gulf of Guinea and building a factory in China. Why should he bother with all this trouble?

However, since we want to build a new and influential industrial cluster in Cotonou, Benin, it would be good to invest in one more factory. But the key depends on how many technical managers from old factories Chen Shu can convince to go to Africa to start the construction of new factories.

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Cao Mo was working non-stop in China, looking for Chen Shu and Guo Donghu to discuss matters, and during the meal he received a call from Xu Bin.

Cao Moqing proposed to significantly increase the annual and future R&D budget of the carmaker. Gu Fan hoped to invite Zheng Chunyuan to join the carmaker in order to strengthen the depth and breadth of the carmaker's research and development in electronics, electrical and new energy, and successfully increase the future development budget.

Spend your budget efficiently.

After Cao Mo agreed, Xu Bin, Gu Fan, and Huang Yijiang also went to find Zheng Yuyuan to do work non-stop in order to complete the matter while Cao Mo was in the country.

At this time Zheng Jinyuan proposed to meet Cao Mo.

There was already a mess here. Out of respect for Zheng Chunyuan, Cao Mo immediately put down his bowls and chopsticks, took Xiao Jun and rushed to Jinhonghui to meet Xu Bin, Gu Fan, Huang Yijiang and Zheng Chunyuan.

After 2008, the domestic automobile market entered the channel of ultra-high-speed development, and a considerable number of private capitals set off the impulse to build cars; before 2008, in addition to the establishment of a large number of joint venture brands, there were also many state-owned enterprises and private enterprises.

Car companies have persisted in developing with stumbling steps until today.

There is no shortage of domestic automobile industry foundation.

Zheng Jinyuan has been in contact with a large number of domestic car companies in the past few years since he returned to China. There are also enterprising private car companies that offer high salaries and invite him to join them.

The conditions Cao Mo offered him in the past were not very high; Tianyue Industry was definitely not conspicuous among the many private car companies.

However, compared with the vast majority of private car companies, which are thinking of entering the market with low-end products, Tianyue Industrial would rather give up its two existing models, the "Gray Bird" pickup truck and the "Lingyu" off-road vehicle, in the early stage in China.

Although there may be sales performance, we must also insist on directly opening the domestic market with a mid-to-high-end model with truly reliable performance and excellent performance in the future.

To put it bluntly, at present, the pure domestic passenger car brands of state-owned and private car companies are all concentrated in the low-end market competition, and the fighting is a mess. There are not many Duo Tianyue family, and there are many Shao Tianyue family. Even if they end up fighting, they will not

How much space can be created?

However, Tianyue is not just aiming high. The "Gray Bird" pickup truck and "Lingyu" off-road vehicle are non-stop conquering the West African region where Tianyue has a market advantage - this will not only help Tianyue in terms of production and manufacturing.

In addition to accumulating experience and accumulating more application data for vehicle research and development, more importantly, once Tianyue can capture a considerable share in the regional market, it will also help brand building.

The domestic mid- to low-end market can capture 23% of the market share, and its sales scale may be comparable to the 20-30% market share in the West African market, but the influence of the brand is completely different.

After all, Tianyue's pickup trucks and off-road vehicles are in direct competition with mid- to low-end models of Toyota, Ford and other international brands in the Gulf of Guinea, and they sound much better in terms of publicity.

Tianyue has the conditions to participate in direct competition in the Gulf of Guinea, but not in China.

The domestic joint venture plants of international car companies have very obvious advantages in all aspects of strength, and the market's current high recognition of joint venture brands cannot be broken by purely domestically produced cars for the time being.

Not only Cao Mo, but also Xu Bin had a clear understanding of this.

While Tianyue Industrial's productive assets are less than one billion, Cao Mo hopes that Gu Fan and Xu Bin can invest no less than one billion in vehicle technology development every year, and directly track the latest technology, mid-to-high-end

The entry of vehicle models into the development of complete vehicle technology is also completely different from other private car companies, and is also unimaginable by other private car companies.

The domestic economy has developed in recent years and the accumulation of original capital has almost been completed. However, if he wants to achieve a breakthrough in the field of car manufacturing, Zheng Minprin agrees more with Tianyue's new development thinking.

Zheng Chunyuan has seen Tianyue Industrial's development in the past two or three years and its attempts to break through in the technical field after including carmakers.

Tianyue Investment can provide a firm capital backing, which is enough to ensure that Cao Mo's hope that the carmaker can achieve a breakthrough in the field of new technologies and new energy is by no means an impulsive short-term behavior.

Therefore, when Gu Fan and Xu Bin came to visit, Zheng Jinyuan was already interested, but he insisted on seeing Cao Mo again. This was mainly because of his efforts in developing mid-to-high-end new energy models and integrating vehicle technology with the latest electronic, electrical and communication technologies.

In other aspects, he had more complete ideas and plans than Gu Fan and Xu Bin. He needed Cao Mo to accept his ideas, and he would be responsible for promoting this aspect of work after joining the Wheelsmith Alliance.

Zheng Chunyuan has been doing pioneering work at the forefront of technology for a long time, and his depth and breadth in the field of technological development is naturally much greater than that of Xu Bin and Gu Fan.

However, it is also true that Cao Mo's significantly increased annual budget for the carmaker is not enough in Zheng Chunyuan's opinion. He hopes that the carmaker's budget for 2010 can be directly increased to 1.2 billion to 1.5 billion.

In this way, several high-end research projects that Zheng Jinyuan was engaged in can be directly transferred to the carmaker to continue, and even further increase the intensity.

Of course, the steps involved in Zheng Chunyuan's joining are quite complicated.

On the one hand, it is the injection of patented technology held by Zheng Jinyuan. On the other hand, it is how the research work directed by Zheng Jinyuan at Xinhai University is transferred to the carmaker. On the other hand, Zheng Jinyuan will also lead a group of technical research and development backbones to join in. These are not just Zheng Jinyuan.

What humans can decide.

"...I agree with your technology development route - although I still need to discuss with Sun Hung Investment and Dongjiang Securities how to inject the additional budget, but please rest assured that Tianyue Investment will

The last resort is to ensure the adequate supply of funds. Therefore, I can now clearly invite Mr. Zheng to join the carmaker, and authorize Mr. Zheng, Xu Bin, and Gu Fan to negotiate all cooperation agreements with relevant parties with the greatest sincerity.

"Cao Mo went to Jinhonghui to listen to Zheng Chunyuan's explanation of the technological development route. It was late at night before he knew it, and he said, "Mr. Zheng said that there will be great restrictions on the development of carmakers in Xinhai. I agree with this. Chonghai's

Education and human resources have great potential to be tapped; when the high-speed rail is completed, the commuting time between Chonghai and Xinhai will be shortened to less than half an hour. I think new laboratories and testing centers can be built in Chonghai. I have said

I have to go to Chonghai in two days, but the inspection of the new site is still focused on you, and how to fully tap the research potential of Chonghai University, you come up with a plan..."

The construction of the second mine of the Usan River copper and gold mine, which is planned to cost billions of dollars, has been delayed indefinitely. Only the subsequent investment in the industrial cluster in Cotonou, Benin, cannot effectively digest the overseas investment of Tianyue.

The account plus the US$1.2 billion in cash currently held by Ibogu Mining.

Cao Mo didn't want to sleep on a pile of U.S. dollars all day long. How to spend these funds effectively was his biggest headache now.

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After leaving Jinhonghui, Cao Mo and Xiao Jun returned directly to Hemingyuan.

Before going to Jinhonghui, Cao Mo also agreed with Cheng Xi that they would stay together at Hemingyuan at night, but he didn't expect that they would end up so late after talking.

Cheng Xi was probably already asleep, so Cao Mo didn't make a call. He tiptoed through the door and walked into the bedroom. The night light was on and the light was dim. Cao Mo was startled when he saw both of their heads and faces covered by thick hair under the quilt.

, If the color of the duvet cover had not been hand-selected in the afternoon, I would have suspected that I was not familiar with my new home and had gone to someone else's house by mistake. How could there be two women lying on the bed?
To be continued...