In mid-November, the temperature in Yanjing in the evening was close to freezing, and it was dark early.

Song Hongjun took his parents and Cheng Yi's mother over and held a banquet here.

In recent years, the climate of běi jing is not good, the winter season is unusually dry, there is a strong wind at every turn, and you can constantly hear the sound of branches blowing and folding when you sit in the house.

At the dinner table, no longer talking about business, everyone's topic turned to the junior's marriage.

Smart people will hide and not show up, Song Tong stayed in Hong Kong this time, and did not come back with Song Hongjun; although Song Hongyi was in Yanjing, no one showed his face when the banquet began; Song Hongqi and Xie Zhi had already set a wedding date for next year, and now they are both living together, and Shen Huai and Song Hongjun are left in this house to become the catharsis point of everyone's firepower.

In this matter, Song Hongjun was very tasteless, and at the opening of the banquet, he directed everyone's firepower to Shen Huai: "Shen Huai is going to preside over the government work in Xiapu County this time, and there don't seem to be a few unmarried county magistrates and county party secretaries in China, right?"

Seeing that everyone's eyes looked over, Shen Huai almost threw away his chopsticks and fled with his head in his arms.

Shen Huai glanced at Cheng Yi, Cheng Yi looked very well-behaved, lowered her head and fiddled with the porcelain-inlaid chopsticks, did not look at the eyes of the elders, just crossed one foot slightly, and twisted the heel of the high heel directly on Shen Huai's instep.

Shen Huai begged for mercy in a low voice: "You want to step on it, step on Song Hongjun's muddy ball, this villain specializes in doing things that harm others and are not beneficial to himself......"

"Now young people, less than thirty years old, they haven't played enough, Hongjun is thirty-five, when to find someone to live has not yet been trusted, just thinking about bringing Shen Huai out and thinking that he will be fine, it is very immoral to do so," the old man put his hand on the table and said a fair word, making Shen Huai grateful, but then the old man's words turned sharply, so that Shen Huai's waist almost flashed, "Let Shen Huai and Cheng Yi get married now, it's still a little early, the two have been together for two years, why don't you get engaged first?"

The old man mentioned the conversation, and the sister-in-law Song Wenhui also hit the snake with the stick, and asked Cheng Yi directly: "Does Cheng Yi have any opinions?"

"The two of them are still making love at my house in the afternoon, and Cheng Yi has already set his job in Xucheng," Cheng Yi's mother fanned the flames next to her, saying, "After the year, I want to pick a time to get married first, so that the two of them are not afraid of what others will say when they are together." In short, getting engaged first will not interfere with your young people's careers......"

Shen Huai secretly said to himself, thinking that he and Cheng Yi hadn't had much contact for a year, and their affairs should be calm, but they didn't expect that the movement under the sea was bigger than they imagined, and the sister-in-law and Cheng Yi and her mother had already begun to plan their marriage.

Cheng Yi lowered her head and kept silent, she really couldn't ask questions, so she pushed the question to Shen Huai: "Shen Huai has to make up his mind about this matter...... but the heel never leaves Shen Huai's instep.

The meal was extremely difficult, and Hu Xiaojun called at eight o'clock, and Shen Huai used the excuse that he still had something to participate in the negotiation here, so he wanted to slip away first.

Song Hongjun insisted on being a driver for Shen Huai, and refused to stay and bombard everyone with marriages.

Cheng Yi was even more reluctant to stay as cannon fodder, in the eyes of everyone, he took Shen Huai's arm and walked out, and when he went out, he made a gesture to beat Song Hongjun: "If you talk nonsense next time, you will shake out the affairs of your little stars......"

"My situation is different from yours, if I don't sacrifice you today, my parents can't wait to tie me up and breed," Song Hongjun smiled cheekily, "I am also a person with status and status, so you can't bear to watch me pull me out for breeding?"

"Are you bad with breeding now?" Cheng Yi asked.

"If I don't discuss my problem, I estimate that it won't last long before I surrender, otherwise I may not be able to return home for the New Year," Song Hongjun said, "but let's talk about you, the two of you are together, it's not bad......

"Why isn't it bad? Shen Huai has a few women outside, I haven't figured it out yet!" Cheng Yi said.

Shen Huai threw the car keys to Song Hongjun and said, "You be your driver, don't ......lead the fire to me again" He knew that he was embarrassed by the forced marriage on the table just now, and if he wanted to annoy Cheng Yi again, the situation would be even worse.

Song Hongjun's mouth was not so easy to be idle, and after getting in the car, he squeezed his eyebrows at Shen Huai and said: "Cheng Yi's mother has spoken, and you are allowed to 'be together' when you are engaged......"

The domestic custom is like this: before the engagement, cohabitation is a violation of morals and customs, and the engagement can be "legal cohabitation".

However, Shen Huai didn't dare to think about living with Cheng Yi, seeing her holding her cheeks and looking at the car window, she seemed to be deaf to Song Hongjun's ridiculous words.

Shut down

After Shen Huai and Song Hongjun slipped away under the pretext, the topic of the Xudong Railway did not end here, and Song Wenhui introduced more details.

It was almost ten o'clock when Xie Zhicai and Hongqi also drove away.

Although Hongqi didn't speak much today, Xie Zhi knew that he was unhappy in his heart.

Once the plan is implemented, the group will set up a joint venture railway company with relevant parties, and will also form a large coal group.

All these mean that Huaineng Group will usher in explosive development in the next two to three years.

Although Shen Huai and sister-in-law Song Wenhui both emphasized that the final personnel composition of the Huaineng Group would follow the overall interests of the Song family, and they would not completely cover it in their hands, it was self-evident which side the entire Huaineng Group would tilt in the end.

Not to mention the partiality of sister-in-law Song Wenhui to Shen Huai, over the years, Huaineng Group has grown from scratch in Donghua, and its trajectory is inseparably linked with the development of Meigang.

Even if Hongqi and his father can send a large number of management personnel to Huaineng and dilute Shen Huai's influence within Huaineng to a certain extent, it is really difficult to predict how much effect it can have.

The electrification transformation of the Xudong Railway and the implementation of the double-track project, Huaineng Group will benefit a lot, but at the same time, it is not the biggest beneficiary.

First of all, other enterprises in the Meigang system will participate in the electrification transformation and double-track project of Xudong Railway.

According to Shen Huai's plan, the capital contribution of Meixi Development Group and other related enterprises may reach more than 20% of the joint venture railway group in the future.

After the Xudong railway upgrade, Xinpu Iron and Steel Plant can obtain Huaixi coking coal resources more stably and cheaply, and can greatly reduce costs, Meigang is likely to invest in Huaixi or Xinpu to set up a coking plant to control the upstream coking coal resources of the steelmaking industry.

These are still secondary.

Regardless of the improvement of the railway network, highway network and river and sea routes, it is the position of Xinpu hub port that will eventually be strengthened, and the supporting industrial development and regional economy will inevitably advance at a faster and higher speed.

Regardless of the rest, Shen Huai led and Zhou Zhibai presided over the stage, and the Xinpu Shipping Group, which was established on the basis of the reorganization of several scattered shipping enterprises, will surely become one of the main beneficiaries after the construction of Xudong Railway and Xinpu Port.

At this time, the deadweight tonnage of Xinpu Shipping Group, including chartered ships, was less than 200,000 tons, and its assets were only 450 million yuan.

After the Xudong Railway is upgraded, the shipping potential of Xinpu Port in the future will be at least 50 million tons; even if Xinpu Shipping Group takes away one-tenth of the market from it, its future scale will be at least 10 or 20 times that of the current one, and then another super-large enterprise with assets of billions or even tens of billions of yuan will take shape in the hands of Shen Huai.

Can other members of the Song family infiltrate influence on the Xinpu Shipping Group, and can they compete with Shen Huai for control of the Xinpu Shipping Group?

In terms of level, Hongqi was already a department-level official of the ministry as early as a year, and Shen Huai was only at the deputy department level at this time.

But when it comes to influence, after Shen Huai forced Tan Qiping away at the beginning of the year, the Song family recognized Shen Huai's position in Donghua to replace Tan Qiping; even the Song family's influence in Huaihai Province was mainly focused on Meigang and Huineng, and even her brother-in-law Song Bingsheng had a tendency to be marginalized.

Although the sister-in-law Song Wenhui is the host of the station, it will also greatly strengthen Shen Huai's status and influence in Huaihai Province.

A year ago, Hongqi was still the most promising junior political star in the Song family, but at this time, Shen Huai's light was completely obscured, Xie Zhi could understand that he would not be happy in his heart, but can he say no to the electrification and double-track project of Xudong Railway?

In order to change the conservative posture of the past and accelerate the move closer to the reformers, it is not enough to publish a few articles and speeches.

Promoting the upgrading of the Xudong Railway and the construction of the Haiphong Highway is not only a personal proof to the outside world that Hongqi's father has let go of his personal grievances with Tian Jiageng and the Cui family, but also a manifestation of his personal overall view of erecting the banner of reformers;

The rapid development of Huaineng Group, although it cannot abandon Shen Huai's influence in it, is also in line with the overall interests of the Song family.

I must say that there is any problem, and I can only hope that the Song family has focused on retreat all these years, and at this time he has changed and wants to grasp some real things, but he finds that the options he can have are too limited.

If we don't pile up resources on Huaineng, Meigang and other enterprises now, we will find that after a few years, we will find that the resources will be about to be divided among his factions.

Although the power system is where the strong influence of the Song system lies, the Daqin line of the Shanxi Coal East Exit North Line Project, which transports tens of millions of tons of thermal coal resources to thermal power plants in North China and East China every year, can the Song system have any influence in it?

The influence maintained by the Song Department in the south-line project of the east-out south line of Shanxi coal led by the Ji Department is actually the investment of Huaineng Group and Meixi Steel Enterprise in the coal conveying port of Jihe.

The relatively conservative stance of the Song faction has actually led to a large number of power plants and power grids in East and North China, which have been taken away by other factions and become the cake on the plates of other factions.

Shen Huai is too good at grasping people's hearts and needs, and the path he has laid out cannot be rejected at all.

Xie Zhi believes that Hongqi's father may not be willing in his heart, but to refuse, he must be able to find a better choice;

Looking at the night outside the car window, Xie Zhi fell into deep thought.