Jihe County is located in the northeast of Qinghe City, and it is fifty or sixty kilometers away from the city.

Shen Huai didn't eat anything on the train, they were already hungry at this time, but fortunately, Ji Chengxi had already asked people to prepare a banquet at the county guest house.

On the Jihe County side, in addition to a deputy county magistrate, accompanied by the director of the county party committee office and Ji Chengxi's secretary, Yu Wenfei, the boss of Jingrui Group, who met in Yanjing last year, also rushed over from the city.

Last time I flew back to China with Cheng Yi, I had a very unpleasant quarrel with Liu Fulong, but Shen Huai also had some understanding of the background of Qinghe City. He knew that Yu Wenfei was the deputy secretary of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee and mayor Liu Chuandong, and because of this relationship, Yu Wenli and Liu Chuandong's son Liu Fulong maintained a lover relationship, and the smuggling case that Ji Chengxi wanted to investigate in Jihe was likely to involve Liu Chuandong and Jingrui Group.

What kind of struggle has taken place in the officialdom of Qinghe City in the past year, Shen Huai, as an outsider, naturally doesn't know very well, but he didn't expect that Yu Wenfei and Ji Chengxi had such a close relationship, and thought to himself: This is probably a direct factor for Yu Wenli to break up with Liu Fulong, right?

Guest houses in many places in the country almost have a characteristic, that is, the appearance does not look very luxurious, but when you park down, you will see the deep forest inside, the halls and pavilions are elegant, whether it is food or accommodation, the environment can be said to be extremely superior.

Yu Wenfei and the others almost rushed over after that, Shen Huai looked at the middle-aged man who he had seen in a hurry last year, but he was not too impressed, and thought that he was driving the boat and turning around quickly, thinking that there were not too many handles for Liu Chuandong to pinch in his hands, he should be a smart person.

Shen Huai shook hands with Yu Wenfei and greeted him, he didn't have a good impression of Yu, but he also knew that Ji Chengxi wanted to do something in the local area, and he would inevitably compromise with local forces to a certain extent, and choose from them to win over and divide, just like he did in Meixi to win over the Zhou family and support Chu Yiliang, Zhu Li, and Yang Haipeng.

Everything must be done by a group of people, and no one can really say that everyone else is trampled under their feet.

Qinghe drinks more boldly, Ji Chengxi is afraid that Shen Huai will work in the south for a long time and will not be able to adapt to the drinking atmosphere in Ji Province, so the waiter brought the wine list over, and he asked Shen Huai to decide: "The host is free to drink, you decide what wine to drink and how to drink." ”

"When we go to the place, we will drink local wine, we will drink Qinghe Daqu today, and drinking more is also to support local enterprises," Shen Huai said, "But I know that drinking here is more fierce, I have to retreat first, we will limit three glasses of liquor, and if anyone can drink it again, we will change the beer ......."

Wine is a poison that pierces the intestines, but wine is also a catalyst for officialdom to let down too much guard.

Tan Jun looked at the glass in front of him, but Ji Chengxi knew that they wanted to open the conversation box, and they had to eat these three or four glasses of liquor, so they asked the waiter to nod and take Qinghe Daqu up.

Yu Wenfei stood up to help open the bottle and pour the wine, and also looked at Shen Huai secretly.

The last time they met in Yanjing, he and Ji Chengxi did not have a harmonious relationship, and Shen Huai and Song Hongjun ignored him at that time, and had a very short meal, and they did not have the opportunity to have more in-depth contact.

For Shen Huai, Yu Wenfei only knew that he was the quasi-son-in-law of Cheng Wenguang, deputy secretary of the Yanjing Municipal Party Committee, after the political tycoon Song Jia, but he didn't know more information. It was only later that he got closer to Ji Chengxi, and saw that Ji Chengxi had been paying attention to Meixi's industrial development model, so he could be regarded as having some understanding of Shen Huai, a young son from a famous family.

After three or four taels of liquor, the atmosphere on the wine table is harmonious, but it is lively, but there are many people at the wine table, and they are shouting and persuading them to drink and greet, and they can't talk about anything.

After drinking, Ji Chengxi asked the other accompanying officials to leave first, leaving Yu Wenfei to accompany him to drink tea and relieve his hangover, before turning the topic to regional economic development.

The economy of Jihe County is average, with a certain salt chemical industry base, general mineral resources, good port resources suitable for building a seaport, and geographically close to the coal-producing Jinnan area.

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As early as the 80s, the state considered building a large seaport in Jihe County, using the railway to communicate the Jihe seaport with the southern Jinnan region, and forming a southern channel for Shanxi coal to go east outside the Daqin line.

Ji Chengxi jumped from the General Office of the State Council to Jihe to serve as the secretary of the county party committee, which is to see this background. In addition to being easy to make political achievements, the formation of the east-south passage around Shanxi Coal will inevitably gather forces from various sides and form a strong cohesive power cluster, which will inevitably strengthen the basic plate of the discipline system.

After Ji Chengxi arrived in Jihe County, in addition to adjusting local relations, one of the main things he did was to promote the eastern and southern passage of Shanxi coal to make a prototype as soon as possible, but many things were more difficult than imagined.

The mode of the east-south passage of Shanxi coal is very simple to say, that is, a railway and a seaport.

The relevant planning, surveying and design work had been done almost before Ji Chengxi took office, but it was not until after Ji Chengxi took office that the internal environment seemed to be slightly mature.

Of course, it is one thing to have an idea, and to really implement it, in addition to the maturity of the internal and external environment, it is also necessary for all parties to have a strong impetus and action to push the whole thing forward, otherwise, even with the forces of the discipline system, there is no way to go against the trend.

In order to initially form a coal output capacity of 20 million tons, the investment in the construction of railways and seaports will require 35 billion yuan, to say the least, and the construction funds required to finally build a coal output capacity of 100 million tons or even more will be staggering.

At present, the construction funds directly allocated by the state ministries and commissions are quite limited, and they are faced with a situation in which there are many monks and everyone is rushing to scramble; even if Ji Chengxi has the aura of the Ji family, so far, the allocation that can be directly drawn from the state ministries and commissions is only 200 million.

Such funds are already huge compared to the county finances, and it can also be seen that Ji Chengxi has great ability as the secretary of the county party committee, but compared with the big plate of the entire Jinhe line, the gap is huge, and Ji Chengxi can only do everything possible to attract forces from all walks of life to participate in the construction of the Jinhe line, the southern route.

Although the domestic economy has continued to grow rapidly in recent years, the power supply along the southeast coast has been very tight, and thermal power plants are constantly under construction, but the coal used for thermal power in East China and South China has long relied on the coal resources exported from the Daqin Line from the northern Shanxi region.

This long-term pattern itself has produced a strong xenophobic cohesion: First, within Jin Province, the northern coal suppresses the development of the southern coal; within the railway system, the Northern Railway Bureau suppresses the Central Plains Railway Bureau and grabs resources to build the heavy-haul train project of the Daqin line; although the coal consumption of thermal power plants in East China and South China is tight, the interests are also more tied to the Daqin line, and they do not want to make extraneous branches until they cannot see greater interests.

Under this pattern of interests, from ministries and commissions to relevant coal-fired power companies, they have no intention of participating in the construction of the east-south route of Shanxi-Shanxi coal.

As far as the local area is concerned, the coal enterprises in the southern part of Jinnan are naturally eager to build the southern channel, but the coal price has been suppressed in China for a long time, and the coal enterprises in southern Jinnan are mostly scattered and belong to the local government, and the power is scattered.

And this coal channel, in addition to the construction of a port in Jihe County, as the largest benefit of coal resource output points, has little effect on the economic pull of other regions in southern Hebei, and there is not much motivation to build the southern channel in Hebei Province, and specifically to Qinghe City, in order to prevent Ji Chengxi from gaining too much power, and even openly and secretly pulling Ji's hind legs.

For more than a year, Ji Chengxi has been doing everything he can to promote the construction of the east-south route of Shanxi Coal as soon as possible, but he has also encountered too many difficulties.

Drinking tea to relieve hangover, Ji Chengxi told Shen Huaihe about the current preparations for the Jinhe line and Jihe Port of the southern route of Shanxi Coal East, and said with a smile: "I was in the State Council, and I didn't think about how difficult it would be to promote this matter, thinking that the whole thing was beneficial to the country and the locality, and it should be a matter of course, but when I actually went to the local area and specifically contacted local affairs, I knew that it was complicated and complicated." At this time, I especially feel that the achievements you have made in Donghua are really not easy. This time, I will intercept you from the middle of the road and invite you to the Jihe River, that is, I want to ask you to give advice for the construction of the southern route......"

Shen Huai shook his head and smiled, and said, "What can I do for you, you are targeting Huai Neng, right?"

Ji Chengxi laughed, Ming people don't talk about dark things, everyone is a smart person, talk about things and show their tails, it is impossible to cover up other intentions.

Seeing that Ji Chengxi did not deny it, Shen Huai sighed lightly: "The southern route of Shanxi Coal East is a good thing that the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages for the country as a whole, but it is a pity that the power in all aspects is insufficient now." Huaineng is still very weak, because to invest in the development of Yuanshan hydropower, it has to open the second phase of the Meixi power plant and introduce other funds to participate in the construction. ”

Traditional coal-fired power enterprises, the interests of the Daqin line are more tightly tied, Huaineng has just been formed, the strength is still very weak, but because Huaineng has just been formed, and the Daqin line has not been directly entangled interests, and it is most likely to jump out and participate in the construction of the southern channel of the Jihe Port and Jinhe line.

In addition to this, Ji Chengxi is also sensitive to realize that Huaineng is likely to be the basic plate of the Song system's key construction in the future, and it seems that the strength is still very weak, but as long as the Song system is determined to strengthen Huaineng, with the foundation of the Song system in the Ministry of Electric Power, it can make Huaineng grow rapidly, and at the same time, it can also make the attitude of the Ministry of Electric Power towards the Jinhe line change.

However, Shen Huai's restrained attitude, Ji Chengxi had already expected.

Generally speaking, the passage of the southern line of Shanxi coal east is the basic plate that the Ji system will grasp in the future, and it is impossible for the Song system to give priority to participating in the construction of Jihe Port, which is also the reason why Ji Chengxi has not been in contact with Huaineng before.

It was also Mei Gang and Huai Neng who accidentally let go of their interests in Meixi after the New Year, and Shen Huai mysteriously lived in the UK for such a long time during the Spring Festival, so Ji Chengxi realized that there were probably some changes that he did not expect, and after Shen Huai returned to China, he urgently asked Tan Jun to rush to the train station to intercept Shen Huai.