After lunch, Shen Huai was about to leave, Sun Yalin didn't want to sit alone in the hotel on the first day of the new year, and got into his car with a dead face: "I think we talked so happily yesterday, you won't be ruthless to leave me alone, right?"

"Aren't you afraid that I'm a thief?" asked Shen Huai.

"I'm with you, and whoever robs is not certain. Sun Yalin said disdainfully, making a taekwondo gesture.

Shen Huai smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, seeing that you are so pitiful, I will reluctantly take you in." But my car is too broken, drive yours. The car is two million smaller, and I have also been addicted to it...... "I got into Sun Yalin's trident and drove directly to Hetang Town."

Meixi is near the river, and Hetang is near the river.

Cross the Meixi Bridge, take a gravel road west of the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant to the south, less than two kilometers is the Zhu River. Driving on the embankment road, there are tall poplar trees planted on both sides for twenty or thirty years, and the weather is freezing at this time, and the water of the Zhu River is also cold and white.

"Meixi Town is so close to the river?" Sun Yalin She has no concept of the geography of Donghua, after arriving in Donghua, she walked on both sides of the city and Meixi Town, and saw the Zhujiang River embankment in the Donghua section for the first time, and she didn't expect Meixi Town to be so close to the riverside, "Then why didn't Meixi Iron and Steel Plant build it to the riverside?"

Shen Huai smiled and said: "In the sixties and seventies, villages and communities all made iron and steel, and there was no concept of industrial layout at all. The steel mill in Meixi Town struggled to survive, and when the production was expanded in the late eighties, local protectionism rose again, and Meixi Town was naturally unwilling to share the meat in its bowl with others, and did not have the courage to start the stove again, and relied on the old factory to expand the new factory, so it caused today's embarrassing situation of 'neither by the river nor by the river', whether it is raw materials entering the factory, or steel leaving the factory, can only rely on road transportation, but Meixi Town does not have a decent highway ......"

"In the long run, it is appropriate for the steel mill to be built by the river," Sun Yalin has been engaged in industrial finance for four years, and her understanding of industrial layout is also above the level, "Why, you have nothing to do today to take me to the river embankment, and you mentioned the wharf during dinner, are you considering building a new factory in Hetang Town when you expanded production in the past?"

"You came with a dead face, right?" Shen Huai smiled, turned to look north, and could clearly see the iron-making blast furnace produced by Meixi Iron and Steel Plant, and said, "Why can't the factory area of Meixi Iron and Steel Plant keep expanding the river embankment?"

"Are you daydreaming?" Sun Yalin said contemptuously, "This piece of land looks not far away, but the factory is really going to expand all the way, not to mention five or six thousand acres of land." I have been to several of the best steel companies in China, and the factory area of five or six thousand acres of land can accommodate at least six million to eight million tons of steel production capacity. How much was China's total steel output last year, and did it exceed 70 million tons? Do you expect the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant to sit on the throne of the country's No. 1 steel enterprise?"

"Maybe I'm too optimistic, but you also underestimate the potential of domestic development," Shen Huai smiled unmindably at Sun Yalin's sneer, and said,

"In Europe and the United States, when industrialization is completed, the per capita annual consumption of steel is about 0.7 to 1 ton. Based on this calculation, when China industrializes, the peak annual steel consumption should be 850 million to 1.2 billion tons. When Europe and the United States and other countries completed industrialization, the per capita steel stock was 20 tons, so to calculate, China's total domestic steel consumption will reach 24 billion tons in order to achieve industrialization. At present, the annual consumption of steel in China is only 8,000 tons, and the cumulative consumption is only about one billion tons. Tell me, when China unswervingly moves towards the goal of industrialization and modernization, and becomes a first-class power and a big country, how much space is there for the development of the steel industry?"

Sun Yalin raised her voice, although she had reached a tacit understanding of cooperation with each other last night, but at this time, she found that she still knew too little about Shen Huai's dream.

If it weren't for the miraculous rise of Meixi Iron and Steel Plant in the hands of Shen Huai, Shen Huai would have been standing by the river and saying such things at this time, she would have thought he was insane. At this time, seeing Shen Huai standing there, he didn't look like he was hit by Tan Qiping's alienation, and he was still pointing out the country with high spirits, and there were too many strange and novel feelings in his heart.

She was finally sure that the Shen Huai she was familiar with and hated before did not exist, although she didn't know what had happened to Shen Huai in the three years since he returned to China, but she knew that the man in front of her had too many surprising and digging places......

Xiong Wenbin was in charge of the city's steel plant in the mid-80s, and he planned to produce two million tons a year. It is a pity that when the production capacity of the city steel plant reaches 400,000 tons, Xiong Wenbin can be transferred out of the city steel plant. After almost six or seven years, the annual output of the city's steel has only increased by less than 30 percent," Shen Huai said, "Xiong Wenbin had such ambitions in the mid-80s, and he was about to go to the 21st century, I don't think I can be worse than him, right?"

"Is it, Xiong Wenbin is really so good at doing the economy?" Sun Yalin didn't know much about Donghua's past, and Yexin Bank had no business dealings with the city steel mill, so he didn't know about Xiong Wenbin's early management of the city steel mill, and said, "But we acquired Tianheng Building, Xiong Wenbin is one of the members of the negotiation team, and he is indeed better than Liang Xiaolin and Gu Tong......"

Shen Huai smiled faintly: Tan Qiping despised him, in the final analysis, there is still Xiong Wenbin available.

In Tan Qiping's heart, most of them also think that Xiong Wenbin's ability to engage in the economy is stronger than him. And Xiong Wenbin's level is there, and even after Tan Qiping grasps the overall situation of Donghua, Xiong Wenbin can directly become the deputy mayor of the city who focuses on industrial development, unlike him, who is naturally limited by age and seniority, he is too young after all.

"The road still has to be taken step by step," Shen Huai said, "the steel mill will expand its power station this year, increase its own power supply, and build a freight terminal and yard here, so that the annual output of the steel mill can reach 200,000 tons." At this point, the steel will have to be transported to regional markets farther away. Whether it is the transportation cost of steel or raw materials, it is even more necessary to pay for baht......"

Ignoring Shen Huai's unattainable dream, seeing that Shen Huai planned to build a wharf and yard by the Hetang River this year, he also knew that his ambition was not small. At present, there is only one freight railway in Donghua that connects with other cities, but the end point of the railway is in the north of the city, next to the city steel mill, and there are more than 20 kilometers away from the Meixi steel plant.

Railway transportation is half cheaper than road transportation, and the transportation cost of shipping through the Zhujiang River is only one-third of that of railway. Although the cost of building a wharf in Hetang Town and building a sidewalk from the wharf to Meixi Iron and Steel Plant is very high, it can undoubtedly make Meixi Iron and Steel Plant have more cost advantages in the future.

Shen Huai didn't say it, but Sun Yalin believed that his first goal should be to suppress the city steel mill, so that Tan Qiping could not ignore his existence, maybe at that time, the Sun family and the Song family should pay attention to this unscrupulous child, right?

It's just that Shen Huai is going to start building a wharf and a yard this year, where will the tens of millions of funds be raised? Sun Yalin suddenly had a feeling that he was on a thief ship, this kid shouldn't use Yexin Bank as his ATM, right?

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It has only been two years since Hetang was transformed from a township to a town, and the scale is much smaller than that of Meixi Town, with a street of town government, town school, town junior high school, machine repair factory, silk factory, supply and marketing cooperative, credit cooperative, farmer's market and scattered shops.

In the Spring Festival of 93, the flavor of the New Year is still very full, the streets are narrow, but there are firecracker crumbs everywhere on both sides of the road. There are many children scurrying around the streets with firecrackers, dressed in brand new clothes, and although the supply and marketing cooperatives and surrounding shops in the town center are still open, there are slightly more people than before.

In Donghua, the Spring Festival is almost the only time of the year when gambling is legal, and people who are busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year are also rare to relax, and three or five or more people are locked in the house and touch two cards for fun.

Chen Dan remembered that when he was separated from Shen Huai the day before yesterday, he saw that his face was very bad, and in the afternoon, he took Xiao Li and Chen Tong to the town to call Shen Huai.

Chen Dan went to the door of a store to make a pay phone, someone spread out a piece of cloth on the side of the road to sell celebrity photos, Xiao Li squatted there to pick up Mao Ning, Yang Yuying and other popular stars, and Chen Tong sat on the motorcycle that his sister bought for him a few years ago and smoked.

"Isn't this Chen Tong?" A young man with a scar on his face walked over, he was in his early twenties, and saw Chen Tong sitting on a motorcycle smoking, with a surprise as if he had met at first sight, walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and touched the boring motorcycle faucet bend, and said, "This motorcycle is so beautiful, but it cost a lot of money, right? I heard that your sister has found another wild man in Meixi Town, and even you are developed." ”

Chen Tong couldn't listen to others arranging his sister, so he changed color and pushed the young man away violently: "What do you mean? ”

"Chen Tong!" Chen Dan saw that Chen Tong was about to fight with others, and he didn't care about the phone call, so he hurriedly walked over and grabbed Chen Tong. She also knew that young man, the person who broke Chen Tong's bones at school at that time, and they had resentment against each other, and her family had suffered enough for this, and she didn't want Chen Tong to fight impulsively again.

Moreover, this man had three accomplices looking this way from the side of the road, and it was clear that he had come to provoke him......

Before he could pick it up, the phone number that Chen Dan called yesterday flashed twice on his mobile phone and hung up, Shen Huai thought something was going on. Driving over, Shen Huai saw Chen Tong and the four young men staring at each other, and Chen Dan dragged Chen Tong to prevent him from doing anything.

"Your sister is looking for a wild man and raising you too, what are you fucking bullshit!"

The young man with a scar on his face still remembers the current revenge for Chen Tong to break the bone, and then Chen Tong joined the army, so that he could not find a chance to seek revenge......

"Horn!"

The scar-faced young man stood on the curb of the road, didn't notice that a small car drove quietly over, and suddenly honked the horn twice behind his ear, subconsciously thinking that a car was coming from behind, and under the fright, his body lost his balance, and he fell directly on the front of the car.

Without waiting for the scar-faced young man to come over to teach him, Shen Huai violently pushed the car door, grabbed the collar of the scar-faced young man violently, and slapped him with two slaps: "You don't have fucking eyes, do you know how much my car costs, you know that my car has to lose a piece of paint, and your mother will have to sell it for a few years before she can afford it?"

The scar-faced young man slapped Shen Huai twice, thinking that the two slaps would be wronged, but his accomplices saw that Shen Huai was imposing and powerful, and this car obviously looked more imposing than the crown of Niu Wan in the town, knowing that this kind of character was not something they could provoke, he didn't dare to rush up to help, so he thought about retreating......

The scar-faced young man touched his swollen face, looked at Shen Huai with a blank face, and didn't even dare to say a cruel word.

Shen Huai glared at the scar-faced young man and said, "Count your mother lucky, next time I will let me see that you don't have long eyes, and you can't be killed......"

Sun Yalin got out of the car, leaned on the car door with great interest and watched Shen Huai teach the gangsters there, and said with a smile: "How do you know how to bully these gangsters? ”

Shen Huai ignored Chen Yalin and said to Chen Tong: "Are you going to work overtime in the factory today, why don't you have any chance to fight with this little gangster...... and waved Chen Dan and Xiao Li to take his car.

Only then did the four gangsters know that a man and a woman who came by car knew Chen Tong's sister and brother, but they still didn't dare to rush up and make a move, so they had to watch Shen Huai and them drive away arrogantly.