Global Treasure Hunting: From Penniless to Billionaire

Wang Bing and Wei Xiang also got off from another car, watching Zhao An hugging Li Zhiyuan, while Li Qiushui was alone, happily rolling down the hillside, startled by a group of wildebeest lying in the grass Run around.

After playing around for a while, the group of six continued on the road until they arrived at the edge of the Grumiti River. On a hillside with a wide view on the opposite bank, Victor and Aunt Anne and their group had already set up camp, waiting to watch the wildebeest The scene of the army crossing the river.

Li Zhiyuan laughed happily, waved to them from a distance, and waved to the other side.

When Zhao An and the others also drove up the hillside, Li Zhiyuan dragged Aunt Annie to chat non-stop after getting out of the car, sharing the amazing experiences along the way.

Annie is a good listener. While listening to Li Zhiyuan's incoherent narration, she smiled and nodded to Zhao An and the others.

Near noon, some sporadic wildebeests began to appear, and then more and more gathered to form a large-scale army.

But things didn't go so smoothly. The wildebeest didn't cross the river immediately, but wandered back and forth to the east and west for a while.

Facing Li Zhiyuan's puzzled gaze, Aunt Annie explained: "Many behaviors of wildebeest are puzzling. They live in groups, but they don't have a leader.

Many of their behaviors are due to one or a few being the pioneers, and then the wildebeest army behind will be driven and swarmed to follow. "

Just as he was talking, no, the wildebeest seemed to have gathered on the bank, ready to cross the river.

Everyone immediately picked up the camera, quietly waiting for the spectacular moment.

First two or three wildebeests waded into the river, then rushed forward in groups of three or five, and then rushed forward in a rush.

The wildebeests that had crossed the river gathered on the bank. They were lucky not to be preyed upon by predators.

Li Zhiyuan held a long camera in one hand, and greeted Zhao An with the other and screamed, "Look, the crocodile is coming."

A group of crocodiles with their bloody mouths wide open slowly approached the herd of wildebeest, and the herd of wildebeest still marched towards the opposite bank regardless.

A crocodile jumped into the herd of wildebeest, bit a wildebeest's thigh, and then swung violently from side to side, which is the famous death spin.

A wildebeest next to it was also affected, its leg was injured, and it was trapped in the river and could not move, crying out in despair.

At this time, Zhao An and the other onlookers could do nothing but watch quietly, and they couldn't help feeling a little bit in their hearts, feeling the ruthlessness of nature, but this happened to be the charm of the Serengeti.

It lasted for three or four hours, all the wildebeests in this herd crossed the river, and continued to gnaw on the weeds while migrating to the north where the water and grass are abundant.

The surprise and shock in Li Zhiyuan's eyes gradually dissipated, and he chatted with Aunt Annie again.

Zhao An asked Victor to leave his contact information, saying that when he returned to Dodoma, he would go to Victor's "Mechanical Pioneer United Mining Group" to observe and investigate.

At sunset, everyone cleaned up and set off to rush back.

Zhao An and the others returned to the hotel where they stayed last night to rest for the night, while Victor and the others drove back to Dodoma overnight.

That night, Li Zhiyuan and the others heard the roar of the lion outside the tent,

Even the sound of their footsteps when they passed by lasted for half an hour. Although they knew that they were absolutely safe in the room, they still fell asleep after a long time in anxiety.

Waking up early the next day was another sunny day, Zhao An and the others left the hotel and walked leisurely towards the gate.

On the way to the south, they didn't stop too much to look for animals, but just looked at the grassland outside the window stupidly, wanting to see more pictures through their eyes and remember more scenery...

After leaving the Serengeti National Park, Li Zhiyuan took everyone to go to Lake Manyara for a day.

Later, after 4 transfers, Zhao Haidong, who arrived in Dodoma from Jiangcheng, Zhao An's newly hired overseas manager, called Zhao An's mobile phone, saying that he was ready to start work at any time.

Zhao An doubled his salary and tips to Liu Changling, thanking him for his care and company all the way, and the group reluctantly went to Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania.

Chapter 60

Dodoma is located on the central plateau of Tanzania, close to the geometric center of the country.

Compared with Dar es Salaam, the economic center, Dodoma is smaller and less developed than Dar es Salaam.

Victor's 'Mechanical Pioneer Consolidated Mining Group' is located in the urban area of ​​Dodoma.

After meeting Zhao Haidong, Zhao An and others did not go there immediately, but stayed in a hotel in Dodoma first, preparing to collect some information first, and then went to investigate and discuss the acquisition.

Zhao Haidong is quite tall, with a slightly rough appearance. After meeting Zhao An, he briefly introduced himself.

Zhao An asked about other situations and hired him on the spot. In terms of remuneration, Zhao An said that the remuneration for Zhao Haidong was three times higher than when he was in a state-owned enterprise.

And if Zhao Haidong stays in Tanzania for a long time, all the industries here will be handed over to him, and he will have a dividend of 5.00% of the annual profit.

In a small meeting room of the hotel, Zhao Haidong briefly introduced the information he had collected to Zhao An and others.

He said: "According to my preliminary investigation, the 'Machine Pioneer United Mining Group' mentioned by Mr. Zhao has been established for more than 50 years and is one of the earliest enterprises to mine Tanzanite in Tanzania."

Zhao An asked: "How is their operation now?"

Zhao Haidong said: "According to public information, the company's operating conditions are not bad, but the performance has declined in recent months. From my experience,

The reason they are selling the business may not be because the owners are getting old.It is caused by the mining period being too long and the ore veins being close to exhaustion.

Only the gold ore mines are doing reasonably well. "

The mine veins were exhausted, Zhao An frowned slightly, thinking that this Victor was quite dark enough, the Tama Mine had been exhausted, so why would he buy it for himself.

Suddenly Zhao An said again: "Do you have the exact location of their mine?"

Zhao Haidong found a map of Tanzania, and gestured on the map: "Their sapphire mines and tanzanite mines are located in the Tamara District in the southwest, and the gold ore mines are located in the Arusha District."

Following Zhao Haidong's guidance, Zhao An found Victor's mine. The four real eyes were inserted into the centers of the four mines respectively. In an instant, his vision changed and he shifted to the underground veins of the mine.

Sure enough, in the field of vision of Zhao An's real eyes, the surface of the veins is densely covered with potholes, and the light spots of gemstones contained in them are also sparse. Zhao An looked at one of the light spots, and the introduction of the real eyes is as follows:

Raw sapphire, weighing 2.3 kg, containing medium blue sapphires, clarity grade VS, weight: 4 carats, uncut price estimate:

RMB.

Zhao An has learned before that the price range of sapphire is very large. According to its color, clarity, weight and cut, it has a lot to do with it. The first three are easy to understand, but the proportion of cut in the value of sapphire is only below color.

The cutting of sapphire is to retain most of the color, and the color is the most critical influence on the price, not for the precise shape of the sapphire.

Sapphires of this size and quality do not show much in the surface veins, at least in the real eye view, the flickering spots of light do seem to be so.

The same is true for Tanzanite mines. After more than 50 years of unbridled mining by capitalists, the surface veins are almost exhausted.

But Zhao An showed surprise on his face, because in the real eye's field of vision, the position below the surface mineral veins, more than 20 meters below, symbolizes value, and represents the light spots with high gem grades, which are densely flickering.

Zhao An looked at one of the brightest ones, and Zhenyan introduced it like this:

Sapphire raw ore, weighing 4.6 kg, contains bright blue sapphires, gem clarity is IF grade, weight 10 carats, estimated uncut price: 1 million yuan.

In this introduction, the word gem is added to the clarity of the gem. Obviously, under the understanding of the real eye, only a texture like this can be called a gem. The uncut value of this rough stone has reached an astonishing 1 million. Ten thousand.

Then if it is cut out, the price will double, and it is possible.

And there are quite a lot of sapphires of this level in the veins of the lower layer.

The same is true for the Tanzanite veins on the other side. After the surface veins have been extensively mined, there are very few valuable ores left, but in the lower veins, valuable, even high-value Tanzanite roughs abound.

Thinking about the reason, Zhao An had his own guess.

That is, Tanzania's domestic industrial foundation is weak, and it lacks high-precision geological exploration equipment.

However, the older generation of capitalists like Victor lacked enterprising spirit, blindly engaged in extensive and plundering mining, and after earning high profits, they were unwilling to further increase investment.

It might as well be more cost-effective to sell, of course, maybe old age and no one to inherit is also one of the reasons, what the capitalists say is half true, who knows.

So Zhao An opened his mouth and asked Zhao Haidong, "Then do you think it is necessary for us to buy?"

Zhao Haidong is a little puzzled, I've made it so obvious, you still think about the acquisition, do you just want to be a capitalist so much?

But the long-term professionalism still made him bite the bullet and said: "Mr. Zhao, as far as I know, there is no need to acquire this 'Mechanical Pioneer United Mining Group'."

A faint smile appeared on Zhao An's face, and he said, "That is to say, if we insist on purchasing, as long as we take proper measures, we can actually complete the entire purchase at a relatively low price, right?"

Zhao Haidong nodded ignorantly and said: "In principle, it is true, but Mr. Zhao, although I don't know your strength yet, I don't think it is really necessary. Even if it is a new mine, it may be invested and The return ratio of output is probably even higher."

Zhao An said with a smile: "Your suggestion is temporarily reserved here, I have my plan."

Then he said to Li Qiushui who was playing with his mobile phone: "Brother Shui, let me tell you about Victor's joint mining business."

Li Qiushui was teaming up with Li Zhiyuan to play Peace Elite, he was playing vigorously, he raised his head and said in a dazed voice: "What?" Then he lowered his head and went to play his chicken eating game.

Zhao An said: "According to the principles I discussed with you, you are also one of the shareholders anyway, so it is necessary to inform you."

Without raising his head, Li Qiu said, "I'm a small shareholder, and you get the most out of it. You decide. In the past, you and I couldn't move except for your wife. Now you can use whatever you want. "

Suddenly, there was a 'bang' blasting sound from his mobile phone.

Li Qiushui jumped up from the chair screaming, and yelled at Li Zhiyuan: "Officer Li, you are still a professional policeman, can you even throw grenades?"

Li Zhiyuan said with a stern face: "You are the one I am blowing up, explain to me, what do you mean you can use whatever you fancy? I want to ask you what you fancy, and how do you want to use it?"

Li Qiushui said with a flattering smile: "Oh, look at my stupid mouth, I accidentally said bald, don't be angry, don't be angry, pull me up quickly, I can continue to fight."

Zhao An didn't know whether to laugh or cry for these two treasures, coughed and said, "That's right, I've decided to buy Victor's 'Mechanical Pioneer United Mining Group', chaired by Zhao Haidong, with all my strength."

Li Qiushui's chicken-eating duo didn't raise their heads, Wang Bing and Wei Xiang were indifferent, and only Zhao Haidong looked bewildered.

Chapter 61 Acquisition of Machinery Pioneer Consolidated Mining Group

Zhao Anke didn't care about Zhao Haidong's emotions, and continued, "Zhao Haidong is responsible for all the investigation and negotiation work in the early stage. I will provide 200 million yuan as the fund for this negotiation. You can recruit people yourself, and you must achieve the goal."

What can Zhao Haidong do? The other party is his new boss, and he looks like a bird who is not short of money, so he can only choose to give in. Anyway, as the old saying goes, come and go.

Zhao An continued to ask: "What was their previous listing price?"

Zhao Haidong didn't even think about it, and said, "8000 million, a beautiful knife."

Zhao An nodded, and said: "Okay, let's do this, my bottom line is 6000 million US dollars, you can continue to bargain down the price, and I will pay you the 30.00% of the cut part.

But my requirement is that this acquisition must be successful and not allowed to fail.Is there a problem? "

Zhao Haidong said solemnly: "No problem, success guaranteed, never failed."

After speaking, he went out, ready to start his new job, as for how he would finish it, Zhao An didn't care, just waited for the result.

Ignoring Li Qiushui, who were fascinated by eating chicken, Zhao Antong Wang Bing and Wei Xiang said: "That's right, when Zhao Haidong buys Victor's mine, I need one of you to stay as the vice president of the company.

You are people I brought over from my hometown, no matter in terms of character or conduct, I can still trust you,

You don't need to manage the company if you stay here. Zhao Haidong is still in charge of the company's operations. You only need to supervise Zhao Haidong. "

Wang Bing and Wei Xiang looked at each other, is this the vice president?The two of them didn't do anything, just traveled around with the leader, and they were promoted to the vice president level like a rocket?

Seeing that the two of them hadn't spoken for a long time, Zhao An knew that they had scruples, so he explained: "After all, I can't stay here permanently, and Zhao Haidong is new here, we are not familiar with his character,

I am at ease with you two, so I ask you to keep one of you to supervise Zhao Haidong's work and the company's accounts for me, and leave everything else alone.

In addition, the remuneration for staying remains the same, but an overseas allowance will be added, which is similar to dividends, and it will be transferred back to China after a maximum of two years. How about you two, whoever stays will return to China . "

In fact, Zhao An has no choice, but there is really no one available, the best candidate is Li Qiushui, but Li Qiushui is determined to be a scumbag, here are all black ladies who do not meet his aesthetics, how could he stay to do this .

After the contact between Wei Xiang and Wei Xiang during this period of time, Zhao An felt that the character is still reliable, try to use it, if it doesn't work, then think of other ways, if it really doesn't work, it's okay to keep a real eye here.

In the end, Wei Xiang raised his hand and said, "Why don't I stay? Since the boss trusts us so much, I'm willing to stay and keep the boss safe, and never let the youngsters take advantage of it."

Hearing Wei Xiang's initiative, Wang Bing couldn't help feeling a little ashamed, and said shamelessly: "Old Cousin, you are still young and haven't asked for a wife yet, or I'll stay here, so I can't delay you."

Wei Xiang curled his lips, and said in the dialect of his hometown in Yunnan Province: "Old cousin, what are you talking about? I earn two years of money and go back, and the girl is also rich. The old man in your family is also old. Although the child is with the woman in front of you , but I still have to visit Sarah from time to time, so as not to grow up in the future and give birth.”

Seeing that Wang Bing wanted to say something, Zhao An quickly said in the official dialect of Yunnan Province: "Okay, let's make a decision. Wei Xiang stays and becomes the vice president of this company, and I will do my job well. When I get back, I'll tell you about my wife."

Wei Xiang, amused by his friendly local accent, laughed out loud. In fact, there was another reason why he was willing to stay: the feeling of long-distance airsickness was too uncomfortable.

In the next few days, Zhao An and others wandered around Dodoma at will, and sometimes stayed in the hotel to play games or something.

On the sixth day, Zhao Haidong returned to the hotel and reported the progress of the acquisition to Zhao An.

After a few days of busy work, Zhao Haidong has lost a lot of weight, but he is full of energy. Also, he used to work in a state-owned enterprise, and there were always many constraints.

On the other hand, Zhao An paid money directly, and ignored everything else, as long as there was a satisfactory result.

Zhao Haidong put a letter of intent in front of Zhao An, and said, "Mr. Zhao, the preliminary intention for the acquisition has been reached, and the price has basically been negotiated. This is the letter of intent. Please take a look."

Zhao An picked up the letter of intent and looked at it roughly, and said, "Is the price agreed?"

Zhao Haidong said: "The negotiation is settled, 5500 million US dollars."

Zhao An nodded and said, "Does the other party have any other requests?"

Zhao Haidong smiled and said: "There are no other requirements. Mr. Victor just expressed that he hopes to sign the acquisition contract as soon as possible and complete the handover. He wants to return to his hometown in England as soon as possible."

Zhao An also sneered, and said, "This Victor, old fox~! Okay, that's it. Since both parties want to hand over as soon as possible, let's arrange it tomorrow."

Zhao Haidong smiled and said, "Okay, Mr. Zhao."

Zhao An got up and patted Zhao Haidong on the shoulder and said, "After the handover is completed, you will be the general manager of this company and will be fully responsible for the mining work of the mining group. How about it? Are you confident? Mr. Zhao~!"

Zhao Haidong got up flattered and said: "Mr. Zhao, this, I'm new here, so it's not suitable."