Cui Yongping and Ji Yanxin are both powerful young people with high status and power, and they are bigger than Chen Huai in terms of seniority.

Even in the construction of the coastal defense highway and participating in the construction of Xinpu Port, Ji Yanxin had a request here, and Chen Huai did not expect Cui. Ji and the others could smear themselves on their faces to socialize with him.

Seeing that the matter was almost over, Chen Huai said goodbye and left. Then he called Wang Weicheng and asked him to sort out two detailed materials about the Haifang Highway and Xinpu Port, and sent them to Cui Yongping and Ji Yanxin respectively.

Chen Huai was taking a train at 9 o'clock in the night to return to Xucheng. Chen Bing asked the staff of the Beijing Office to book the train ticket for him. When he saw the train number, he remembered the conductor named Chen Meihong. I wonder if she was still working on this train.

Before getting on the train, he had to return Cheng Yi's scarf to him. After Chen Huai drove to Song Hongjun, he rushed to the municipal party committee's family compound and took Cheng Yi out for dinner.

Before getting on the car, Chen Huai handed Cheng Yi a newly bought scarf he took time to the mall and said, "I took it out for Gu Ziqiang and the others to eat hot pot yesterday. The smell of hot pot and cigarettes on my body were ruined. I couldn't afford it. I will accept this one, right?"

Cheng Yi took the scarf and the scarf, magenta with the light brown coat she wore, and it also set off her delicate skin, and said, "You have a good vision. Have you ever asked a girl to help you become a counselor?"

"I know more about the means of pleasing girls than you think. Who else should I be a counselor?" Chen Huai said with a smile.

The phone rang, and it was Ji Chengxi's call. Chen Huai covered the microphone and asked Cheng Yi: "Ji Chengxi wants to invite us to dinner, what should I do? I also want to send Hongjun away. We are better off with our two."

Cheng Yi's nose wrinkles slightly to show disdain; Song Hongjun picked up a cigarette box from the dashboard and threw it at Chen Huai, saying, "I will drive you to the train later. I can't even get a meal. Where can your conscience go?"

"Then I will call Tan Jun, otherwise I will be bored if I am the only girl who has dinner with you." Cheng Yi picked up her cell phone and wanted to call Tan Jun.

"Listen to the sound, Ji Chengxi seems to be in Xiaowu's father's bookstore. We can just drive over..." Chen Huai said.

When Cui Yongping's family met Ji Yanxin, Chen Huai told Song Hongjun in the car that Ji Chengxi should have asked Ji Yanxin to meet again after receiving a call from him. Even if they would talk about the Xudong Railway after meeting, there shouldn't be too much embarrassment between them.

Song Hongjun also had a high opinion of Ji Yanxin. When he saw Ji Chengxi taking the initiative to have dinner, he knew that at least the uncle and nephew of the Ji family would not be resentful to him because the Song family planned the matter of Huaimeidong. Naturally, he was willing to meet Ji Chengxi. If he had the opportunity to cooperate in the future, he would naturally be willing to continue to cooperate.

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There is a private restaurant with a very good reputation in the corner of Xisi Lane. Ji Chengxi originally planned to invite his uncle Tan Shiwei and Tan Jun to have dinner. When he received a call from his uncle Ji Yanxin, he learned that his uncle Ji Yanxin had met Chen Huai and talked about the Xudong Railway. He made an appointment with Chen Huai to meet him temporarily.

After Chen Huai and Song Hongjun and Cheng Yi came, they did not choose another place to have dinner. After Tan Shiwei retired, he did not even publish articles and interacted with juniors casually, not as restrictive as Ji Yanxin and Cui Yongping.

After Chen Huai got off the train, he greeted Ji Chengxi and Tan Shiwei: "I have to catch the train to Xucheng at nine o'clock. Today, I can't drink with Teacher Tan. Brother Ji is happy..."

Tan Jun asked Cheng Yi: "Today your mother came to our compound and said that you have settled your work in Xucheng. You will leave in the next two days. You won't leave today, right?"

Chen Huai scratched his forehead, but he didn't expect that Cheng Yi's mother was quite good at using methods. She wanted to form an overwhelming public opinion advantage on the outside before forcing Cheng Yi to surrender. She glanced at Cheng Yi, wondering how she wanted to deal with Tan Jun to solve her actual lack of willingness to work in Xucheng.

Cheng Yi glanced at Chen Huai and said to Tan Jun: "I have to play for two more days before going to the People's Government to report..."

Tan Shiwei and Ji Chengxi both laughed and asked Chen Huai: "Do you have any plans to get married?"

"Oh, I went to work in Xucheng and had nothing to do with Chen Huai," Cheng Yi wished she could immediately leave her relationship with Chen Huai and explained cleverly, "I didn't think I would marry myself so anxiously. Besides, I really want to get married, so I don't look for someone like Chen Huai..."

"You feel so wronged, tell me what's wrong with me?" Chen Huai said.

Ji Chengxi and Tan Shiwei both laughed, just thinking that the relationship between Chen Huai and Cheng Yi had been confirmed, but Cheng Yi was embarrassed to admit it.

Ji Chengxi, Tan Shiwei and Song Hongjun walked into the box first, and Chen Huai deliberately fell behind and asked Cheng Yi: "Didn't you say you don't want to go to Xucheng? Why did you change your mind again?"

"I thought about what you said, and it makes sense. Unless one day I found the right person and got my marriage certificate and came back to scare my mother from a heart attack. Before that, in order to avoid my mother from forcing me out of heart attack, I have to lend you as a cheap boyfriend for two years," Cheng Yi said with her eyes down, "But now I have agreed with you that no matter whether I find the right person in two years or not, I will break up with you. Don't think about anything."

"Brother-in-law?" Chen Huai said with a frown, "Why is this so awkward to hear this word?"

Cheng Yi sneered and ignored Chen Huai.

"You still have to continue acting. I heard your mother say that in the afternoon, I thought you were really doing the fake drama?" Tan Jun came over and asked.

Cheng Yi has not many close friends who can speak in Yanjing, and her relationship with Chen Huai was not hidden from Tan Jun. Sometimes, Tan Jun would have to cooperate and deceive her family.

"You really have a fake act with him? You won't have to kill him," Cheng Yi glanced at Chen Huai and asked Tan Jun again, "Would you really have a fake act with this stupid one?"

Tan Jun tilted his head and looked at Chen Huai for a while, then shook his head seriously and said, "Chen Huai seems to have grown crooked in the past two years. He doesn't look like the same as before. His beard is much more pleasing to him."

Ignoring Chen Huai's grinning, Tan Jun pulled Cheng Yi and hid in the private room with a smile.

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Ji Chengxi made an appointment with Chen Huai for dinner, so naturally he would not care about the love between Chen Huai and Cheng Yi.

Chen Huai was going to catch the nine o'clock train, so he didn't go around any circles and directly pointed the topic to the Xudong Railway and said, "I visited Minister Liu of the Ministry of Railways in the morning. I was really shocked to know about the Xudong Railway. You didn't say a lot, and the actions were really big..."

"It's just an idea now. It's mainly because he saw Vice Minister Liu take office and support the railway department and local governments to jointly invest in railway construction. He had such an idea. However, in the end, the Ministry of Railways will not support the transformation of the Xudong Railway Line. There is no accurate figure for the provincial support," said Chen Huai. "Another, even if the approval document is obtained, the construction of tens of billions of dollars will not be raised in a short time. Thanks for the project to be launched within three years and can be completed within seven years."

"Uncle, do you think Chen Huai is still using a delaying strategy to us?" Ji Chengxi asked Tan Shiwei with a smile.

Tan Shiwei smiled and said, "The industrial layout of Hebei Province has traditionally focused on the north and down to the south, and there are two major municipalities directly under the central government. In terms of resources, southern Hebei is not as good as northern Hebei and Beijing and Tianjin, so it is impossible for the southern Hebei region to be divided into too many industrial resources. This makes the Jihe River have a natural disadvantage in developing port industry, and it is difficult to gather external capital in the southern line project. In this regard, Xinpu is much superior to the Jihe River. Huaihai Province and Huaineng Group really have to make up their minds to renovate the Xudong Railway and finally be completed, which may not be later than the Jin coal southern line project..."

Although Tan Shiwei no longer published articles publicly since he retired from Yanda, he was definitely first-class in his understanding of the domestic economic situation. He could see the advantages and disadvantages of the Xu East Line and the South Shanxi Line much more clearly than ordinary people.

Chen Huai didn't think he could fool Ji Chengxi or Tan Shiwei and others. He just used to say nothing but said nothing.

Of course, Ji Chengxi and Tan Shiwei can see through better, so that they can realize that although there will be certain competition between the Xu East Line and the Jinnan Line, this competition will not be vicious.

Even if there is competition, the direct competitors of the southern Shanxi Line are in Hebei Province, with a transportation capacity of nearly 100 million tons and interest groups such as the North China Railway Bureau, North China Electric Power, Qinhuang Port, etc. surrounding the Daqin Line.

Even after the southern line project is completed, it is beneficial to the large output of coal resources through the Hebei River Port, and it is beneficial to the output of coal resources in southern Shanxi Province, and it has little to do with Hebei Province. Therefore, after Ji Chengxi took up his post in Ji River, he promoted the southern line project to go east of Shanxi coal, and the resistance within Hebei Province is even greater than the driving force.

Donghua's industrial foundation may not be much better than Qinghe, but the development conditions are much better.

The one that can have a direct geographical competition with Donghua is Pingjiang City on the other side of Zhujiang River.

Pingjiang City belongs to Jiangdong Province, which destined that Donghua has no direct competitors to develop coastal industries in Huaihai Province. At the same time, after the upgrade of Xudong Railway, even if it is mainly used for the output of coal resources, it is also the output of coal in the western part of Huaihai Province. Therefore, in the upgrade of Xudong Railway, Huaihai Province has an absolutely strong driving force.

In addition, the prospect of railways and ports driving industrial development is also involved in the enthusiasm of peripheral capital to participate in railways and port construction.

The direct purpose of building the southern Shanxi Line is to ensure the coal resources in southern Shanxi Province and export through the Jihe Port; this is not much different from Huaineng Group's promotion of the upgrade of Xudong Line and the promotion of Huaineng coal export through Xinpu Port.

The biggest difference lies in the enthusiasm of peripheral capital to participate in railway and port construction, which also means who can get more construction funds from the South Jin-South Line or the East Xu-South Line?

In terms of industrial development, Qinghe, not to mention competing with Beijing and Tianjin, which are also part of the Bohai Bay, is far from the development conditions and foundations of northern Hebei. This makes it possible that in addition to coal-fired power-related industries, the southern Shanxi Line also needs to develop other coastal industries, which has natural disadvantages and is difficult to gather more peripheral industrial capital.

The Ji Group's coal industry and other entities controlled by the Jinnan coal industry at this time have to bear the heavy responsibility of construction in all aspects, from coal development, railways, port construction, thermal power plant layout and even shipping. The construction funds used may reach 20 to 30 billion yuan, and all must be solved internally by Ji Group.

In comparison, the conditions on Xu East Line are much better.

First of all, local governments in Huaihai Province will not give up their interests on the Xudong Line, and will mobilize funds as much as possible to participate in the construction of the Xudong Line.

Secondly, at the end of the Xudong Line, Meigang, Huailian Heavy Industry, Fuji Iron Manufacturing, Baohe Group, Changqing Group and the coastal industrial entities such as Shenggang, in order to reduce their own production costs and facilitate the development of hinterland markets in Huai, Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces along the railway line, there is also great motivation to participate in the construction and improvement of Xudong Line and Xinpu ports.

As long as the possible resistance of the railway department can be overcome, Tan Shiwei judged that the Huai Coal East Exit Project may eventually be completed before the Jin Coal East Exit South Line Project, which is indeed very likely.

Of course, Ji Chengxi was willing to sit down and communicate with everyone after seeing this thoroughly, and Chen Huai's previous concerns were completely overwhelmed.

Perhaps other people in the Ji Group would have opinions on the Song Group's involvement in Huai Coal East at this time, but what else? Because the Ji Group is in great influence, the Song Group will be afraid of the move.

After all, in the Xinpu Steel Plant project, Chen Huai always felt that he owed others a favor when he took advantage of Ji Chengxi and the Jinnan Line, so he was worried that Ji Chengxi would take the competition between Xu Dong Line and the Jinnan Line too seriously, which made the two of them turn against each other in the future.

Unexpectedly, Ji Yanxin, Ji Chengxi and Tan Shiwei were more open-minded than they thought. In comparison, the Song family members who were determined to make profits during Meigang's backdoor listing period seemed much more dirty.

Next, we talked about some port construction.

Currently, there are eight major ports with a coastal throughput of over 100 million tons in the country. However, these eight major ports have a long history of development, stubborn interests and have formed a stable sphere of influence. It is difficult for others to intervene.

In comparison, Donghua Port, including Xinpu and Meixi, has a throughput of only 20 million tons this year, which can only be regarded as a small coastal port, but its development potential and prospects are undoubtedly huge.

At present, the total amount of national defense and military expenditure is low, and there are few military and combat readiness projects that can be started in recent years. However, the engineering teams under the General Engineering Construction Department, which are responsible for Ji Yanxin, must be maintained, trained and strengthened, and naturally they can only participate in local or overseas engineering construction.

The overall investment of the Jinnan Line in the next three to five years will not be less than 20 to 30 billion yuan, and the construction scale of Xudong Line and Xinpu and other ports will only be larger than this.

The Ji Group faces competition and actively participates in the construction of Xu East Line and Xinpu Port, and is undoubtedly much more positive.
Chapter completed!