In the next three days in Beijing, in addition to He, Dai and relevant officials of the Ministry of Railways, Shen Huai also made a special trip to Cui's house to meet Cui Yongping before leaving Beijing.

The old man Cui lives in the Navy Cadre Rest House in Xucheng all the year round, and ignores his son and daughter-in-law, but Cui Yongping, as a son, cannot ignore the old man in Xucheng. Cui Yongping and his wife couldn't spare time, and knew that Shen Huai was going back to Xucheng, so his lover called and asked him to help bring some clothes and some dry goods back to Xucheng.

Because of old grievances, the relationship between the Cui and Song families has always been sparse, and they don't greet each other much; Shen Huai visited Cui's house several times, and Cui Yongping was expressionless when he saw him.

When he arrived at Cui's house, Shen Huai took the big bag of things to be carried from Cui Yongping's lover and put them in the trunk of the car. There was a light on the side of the study, someone was talking inside, and Shen Huai had no intention of finding an opportunity to contact Cui Yongping at this time, so he said goodbye to Cui Yongping's lover and planned to leave.

However, when Shen Huai said goodbye and was about to leave, Cui Yongping came out of the study and asked about the Haiphong Highway.

"The old man called a few days ago and said that the local government was thinking about rebuilding the Huaihai Bay Haiphong Highway," Cui Yongping stood in front of the corridor and said that he wanted to send the materials, and I don't know if there was something wrong with the postal service, the materials have not been sent in the past two days, and you now have the relevant information in your hands......

Although Shen Huai mentioned the rebuilding of the Huaihai Bay Haiphong Highway to the old man Cui Xiangdong, less than 40 kilometers of the more than 260 kilometers of the Haiphong Highway are in Xiapu, and less than 100 kilometers are included in Xinjin County.

Shen Huai spread his hands and said, "I didn't think of reporting this matter to Uncle Cui when I came back this time, and I didn't bring relevant information with me." If Uncle Cui wants to know about the relevant information, I will probably remember some of it, and when I go back, I will send you a detailed ...... to Uncle Cui."

"Okay, then you come in and tell us about it. Cui Yongping opened the door of the study and asked Shen Huai to ask his study to speak.

The middle-aged man who had been chatting with Cui Yongping in the study just now poked his head over and said with a smile: "You are Shen Huai, I often hear Cheng Xi mention you to Xiao Wu, but I haven't had a chance to meet yet......

Shen Huai looked at the other party's medium stature, wide face, wearing major general epaulettes, and his face was a little similar to Ji Chengxi's.

Although the Ji Department has a great influence in the political circles, and three members of the zhongyāng team are from the Ji Department, the descendants and nephews of the Ji Department are mainly in the army, and it is not until Ji Chengxi's generation that there is a tendency to return to the political circles. Shen Huai also didn't guess which middle-aged man with the rank of general in front of him was the Ji family.

"I'm Ji Yanxin. Ji Yanxin knew that Shen Huai might not be able to recognize him, so he took the initiative to introduce himself and said, "Cheng Xi happened to be in Yanjing for the past two days, have you contacted him?"

"Uncle Ji is good," Shen Huai greeted, only to know that the other party was Ji Yanxin, the eldest of the Ji family and the same post as Cui Yongping, and said, "I don't know that Cheng Xi has returned to Yanjing in the past two days, and he hasn't been in touch yet." ”

When it comes to Ji Chengxi, Shen Huai is also ashamed, even if he knows that he will return to Beijing, Shen Huai will choose to hide and disappear.

In addition to the long-term stimulation of the local economy, the most direct effect of the Xudong Railway electrification transformation and double-track project is to greatly promote the large-scale export of Huai Coal through Xinpu Port, and the direct interests of the Song Department and Huai Neng Group will also be most concentrated in the four words "Huai Coal East Out".

In fact, there is a direct competition between the Huai Coal East Project through the Xudong Railway and Xinpu Port, and the Shanxi Coal East South Line Project actively promoted by Ji Jiazheng.

Moreover, Shen Huai returned to Beijing this time, and it would be impossible to hide the news about the Xudong Railway, and if Ji Chengxi was well-informed, maybe he would already know about it at this time.

Although Shen Huai believes that there should be legitimate and reasonable competition between localities and factions, who knows what others will think in their hearts, so Shen Huai is also a little afraid of seeing Ji Chengxi.

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"I just talked to Lao Cui about the Huaihai Bay Haiphong Highway, and your work in the local area is very good......" Ji Yanxin seemed to be completely unaware of the Xudong Railway, and stoggled to pull the topic to the Haiphong Highway.

"I am also at the right time, stepping on the shoulders of others to make some achievements, in fact, Huaihai Province is already in a great need for upward breakthrough development momentum, and it will be easy to make achievements if you change others," Shen Huai said, "Now the province should vigorously develop Xinpu into a comprehensive hub port, and the improvement of the peripheral road network is the core part of the infrastructure project." The rebuilding of the Haiphong Highway will provide a longitudinal traffic artery for Sinpu Port, which will greatly promote the closer connection between Sinpu Port and the cities and counties along the Huai Bay, and is very important for the economic development of coastal cities and counties......

The coastal defense highway has a very high value in national defense and war readiness, this does not need to be said in detail by Shen Huai, saying too much will seem ill-intentioned, he only needs to reveal the positive intentions of the locality,

"There are about 40 kilometers of the Haiphong Highway in Xiapu County, and several comrades of our county party committee have discussed it preliminarily, and they feel that we can fully fund the construction of the Haiphong Highway in our county, but the other sections of the Haiphong Highway of almost 220 kilometers still need to ......be coordinated by the city and the province."

Ji Yanxin and Cui Yongping looked at each other and smiled, their smiles were a little bitter.

There was no disrespect in Shen Huai's words, but it also broke the embarrassment and distress of the military at this time.

Military spending has not increased much for almost a decade, and inflation will more than double in the last decade, which means that military spending has actually shrunk significantly.

At present, national defense is mainly focused on developing nuclear weapons technology to ensure adequate deterrence, while spending on conventional equipment has always been seriously insufficient.

With less than 100 billion military expenditures, it is really difficult to maintain a national defense armament of 3 million troops.

Several major fleets of the Navy have to tighten their belts even to repair warships, and they really do not have the spare energy to fund the construction of coastal war-readiness roads, but some war-readiness roads cannot be repaired without repair, and they are more counting on local funds to be funded.

Even if the construction of some war-ready roads is advantageous, they will not easily give up the opportunity if they have the opportunity to get funds from the military. Ji Yanxin and Cui Yongping, who have worked in the logistics support department for a long time, have the best understanding of this.

It is really rare to be as cool as Shen Huai, and to undertake all the funds for the construction of the 40-kilometer coastal defense highway in the territory of the country.

"So it seems that the Haiphong Highway in Xiapu County is likely to start construction first?" asked Ji Yanxin.

"This depends on when the province communicates with Uncle Ji and Uncle Cui, as long as the planning and design plan can pass the approval of the military, the project in our county section can be launched at any time. Shen Huai said that now the peripheral road network of Xinpu Port lacks longitudinal trunk road support, and Shen Huai's anxious mood is no worse than that of Cui and Ji, but when it comes to national defense preparedness and the connection with other city and county sections, it is not useful for him to be anxious.

However, Shen Huai believes that it is impossible for the military to deliberately delay, and it may delay for a period of time because of inherent drawbacks.

"The General Logistics Department has a certain number of war-ready highway construction tasks every year, and the coastal defense highway on the Huaihai Bay side can be implemented in advance, and the General Logistics Department will naturally support it, otherwise it will not wait for the materials to be sent, so I will catch you and ask about the situation. We will also take the initiative to contact Huaihai Province in this matter," Cui Yongping said, "By the way, there is also a construction team in the General Logistics Department, and since the military and the people are jointly built, our side will also actively participate in ......."

Shen Huai glanced at Cui Yongping and thought: Huaihai Bay Haiphong Highway is built according to the standard of secondary roads, with a total investment of up to 400 million.

But think about it, it may be that the military budget is too tight, and the team to be raised cannot be reduced, so that Cui Yongping, who has never had much smile on him, even as a major general, has to find a way to scrape some flesh off the legs of each mosquito.

However, Shen Huai is strange, the engineering and construction department of the general logistics department is not under Cui Yongping's responsibility, what is he doing with his enthusiasm to meddle in this matter?

Shen Huai was puzzled, but he didn't stop in his mouth, and said: "Well, the quality of the engineering done by the general rear team can always be trusted. However, I am not familiar with the Engineering and Construction Department of the General Logistics Department, otherwise in addition to the Haiphong Highway and some port projects in Sinpo, I would also like to contact the engineering detachment under the Engineering and Construction Department......"

When Shen Huai said this, Ji Yanxin coughed in embarrassment.

Cui Yongping said with a smile: "It turns out that you don't know that Ji Yanxin is the deputy minister of the Engineering and Construction Department of the General Logistics Department......"

"Is it?" The system of the military and political circles is complicated, Shen Huai used to rarely dabble in the people and things of Yanjing, and some personnel relations are far less than Song Hongqi's they can figure out, and rashly contact Ji Yanxin, Shen Huai really didn't know that he was in charge of engineering construction affairs in the general rear, and then he realized that Cui Yongping suddenly came out of the study and called him to ask about the Haiphong Highway, and felt that this question was a bit abrupt, and then said, "That's really good, I really want to ask Uncle Ji to recommend a few excellent engineering teams." ”

However, Shen Huai hesitated in his heart, if Ji Yanxin knew about the Xudong Railway and knew that they were planning the Huai Coal Eastward Journey, would he still have a positive mind to get involved in the construction of Xinpu Port and the peripheral road network?

Shen Huai's worries didn't last long, Ji Yanxin took the initiative to mention the Xudong Railway as if to resolve the embarrassment, and said: "Cheng Xi came back this time to communicate with the Ministry of Railways about the Jinnan Railway, and I heard from the Ministry of Railways at noon that you have a plan to promote the electrification and double-track engineering transformation of the Xudong Railway, and your determination is very great......