Zhou Zhibai and Song Tong returned to Donghua first, but after knowing that Shen Huai would stay in Xucheng for the next two days, especially after knowing that someone had reported such a major incident as Xiapu's land acquisition violation to the Ministry of Agriculture, Song Hongjun also flew over from Hong Kong in the afternoon to meet Shen Huai.

When Shen Huai came back from the retreat, everyone sat in the living room to talk about things - Cheng Yi didn't go back to the unit today, and he had to stay for dinner in the evening.

Even though he knew that Cui Xiangdong was willing to run around for the location of the Huaihai Fleet's stationing base, Song Hongjun was still a little worried, and said: "Old man Cui is a warm-hearted person, but this old man Cui may not be able to make a strong ......."

The Huaihai Fleet, including its home port, currently has two military-level support bases and three division-level berthing bases. As far as the current domestic investment in the building of national defense forces is concerned, the Huaihai Fleet will build a new support base, which will be a division-level stationing base at the top of the sky.

However, even Song Hongjun, who did not care much about national defense, knew that the location and construction of a naval division-level base was not a matter that could be decided within the Huaihai Fleet at all, and even the Navy Command ultimately had to listen to the opinions of the Central Military Commission on this issue.

Cui Xiangdong, as one of the early founding generals of the Huaihai Fleet, would consult with these veteran cadres on the issue of selecting a location for a new anchorage base for the Huaihai Fleet and the Navy Command, but whether Cui Xiangdong could directly affect the decision-making level of this matter, Song Hongjun was not confident.

"Cui Yongping may be transferred to the Huaihai Fleet as deputy commander in the near future," Song Wenhui knocked on his forehead and asked Shen Huai, "You said you were going to Yanjing, did you want to find Cui Yongping?"

"Is there still this play?" Song Hongjun was stunned when he heard his sister-in-law Song Wenhui say this, and asked Shen Huai, "Did you kid already count this out?"

Cheng Yi sat on the side, and also looked at Shen Huai in surprise - this matter made Cui Xiangdong, who had retired from the army for nearly 20 years, push it to the east, which was a little difficult, but if Cui Yongping really wanted to go to the Huaihai Fleet as the deputy commander, then it would be completely different for Cui Yongping to promote this matter.

In the final analysis, the most important thing is how to make Cui Yongping willing to wade into this troubled water?

Perhaps other active Navy top brass will not pay special attention to Cui Xiangdong's opinion, and Cui Yongping is Cui Xiangdong's son, so he may not be able to ignore Cui Xiangdong's opinion.

Cheng Yi only understood at this time, why she and Shen Huai left from the retreat, Cui Xiangdong said vigorously that he fell into the pit dug by Shen Huai, it turned out that Cui Xiangdong knew that Shen Huai hoped that he could feedback the relevant suggestions to his son Cui Yongping...... "......" Shen Huai smiled bitterly, "Where is it long ago, I only recently learned that Cui Yongping may be transferred to the Huaihai Fleet, and I didn't think that the things on the two sides could be combined at first." ”

Seeing that Song Hongjun didn't believe it, Shen Huai said in more detail: "Xiapu is now jointly engaged in coastal defense highway construction with the navy, in addition to this, the navy also has two infrastructure teams, which are directly involved in the infrastructure construction project of Xinpu Port, so the information on the navy's side, I am relatively more familiar than Hongjun." In fact, even if there is no such thing, I hope that the Huaihai Fleet can build a new anchorage base in Xiapu, but the local government will not give so many preferential conditions, but will in turn count on the construction of the garrison base and barracks, which can further promote the improvement of the infrastructure in the northern coastal area of Xiapu. In addition to military ports and barracks, after all, there is a lot of infrastructure that can be shared by the military and civilians. The navy has also carried out repeated surveys along the Huai Bay coast for a long time, and as far as I know, Xinpu Beipian is clearly listed as one of the three main candidate sites, and there have been many discussions within the fleet. However, in terms of the current domestic investment in naval construction, even if ......the Huaihai Fleet decides to set up a new base in Xinpu, it is likely that it will take several years to wait for the Central Military Commission to allocate funds to start construction.

Song Hongjun could understand Shen Huai's overall plan at this time:

Some people are behind the scenes to encourage the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the problem of illegal land acquisition in Xiapu, and if the Huaihai Fleet of the Navy now uses the land requisitioned by Xiapu County to build a garrison base, and the Ministry of Agriculture still wants to investigate the problem of Xiapu, then the Huaihai Fleet will also be dragged directly in - this is obviously not a risk that officials from the Ministry of Agriculture or other Zhongyāng ministries and commissions are willing to take.

If we don't push it forward, if we wait until the Ministry of Agriculture or other Zhongyāng ministries and commissions have punished the Xiapu problem, the Navy decides to build a base in Xinpo and start construction, which will not help solve the current problem.

If we want to muddy the water so that people can't talk about the land acquisition in Xiapu, we have to put these two things together.

Song Hongjun patted his thigh and said: "I think this can be done, the navy is poor now!"

Shen Huai nodded, in the final analysis, in addition to Cui Xiangdong's upright temperament and ability to help them speak, the main thing is that the navy is poor at the moment.

It is not only the navy or the Huaihai Fleet that is poor, but the entire army is poor.

It is unlikely that ordinary county and department-level cadres will know the details of the national defense expenditure budget, but it is not a secret to people like Shen Huai who have information sources above.

In '97, national defense expenditures were only 80 billion yuan, and after deducting the daily living, training, and maintenance expenses of more than 3 million officers and men of the whole army, the funds that could really be used for the construction of new equipment and new bases were extremely limited. Moreover, after this part of the funds has to be apportioned among the navy, land, and air forces, it will continue to be apportioned to the four major fleets -- and it may be less than four or five hundred million yuan left over to the head of the Huaihai Fleet.

As one of the four main fleets of the Republic Navy, the Huaihai Fleet spends less than four or five billion yuan a year on the equipment of new ships and the construction of new infrastructure, and the embarrassment of military spending can be imagined.

The idea of the Huaihai Fleet building a new anchorage base in the Huaihai Bay region has been going on for many years. Including the construction of the Huaihai Bay coastal defense highway, it was already in the plan of the Navy's logistics support department.

It was only due to the shortage of military spending that the construction of the Haiphong Highway was started in sections by the local authorities with major funds and active promotion.

The construction of the new berthing base, in addition to the berthing wharf, also involves the construction of a series of supporting facilities including camps, living areas, hospitals, schools, repair factories and other supporting facilities, which requires a larger amount of investment.

Although land can be allocated from local areas for national defense construction free of charge, the resettlement and compensation of the people who have been demolished and relocated must also be paid out of national defense funds, and this is another expenditure that the Huaihai Fleet must take out before starting the construction of the new base.

So the Navy Department has ideas about many things, but in the end, because there is no money, nothing can be pushed.

Now not to mention other preferential conditions, Xiapu County has directly given several thousand acres of land that has been leveled to the navy to build a new anchorage base, and for the military, tens of millions of dollars for demolition and resettlement will be directly saved -- this will naturally not be a small temptation for the Huaihai Fleet, which even has buttons on its uniform.

Of course, in addition to the free supply of land needed for the construction of the garrison base, there are also many facilities shared by the military and the people, and the local government can also contribute to the construction, which can further save money for the military.

Song Wenhui nodded and said: "Opportunities are always reserved for those who do things, and the construction of the coastal defense highway in the early stage can be regarded as laying a good foundation." Although Cui Yongping's face is cold, he is not completely rejecting people thousands of miles away, and this thing may be able to be achieved - if this idea can be supported by Tian Jiageng, it will be even better......"

Shen Huai nodded and said, "Tian Jiageng will only come back from Yanjing tomorrow, I will mention this to him......"

Coming out of his sister-in-law's house, Shen Huai drove Cheng Yi back to the dormitory, and it was very late at night, so Shen Huai separated from Cheng Yi downstairs in the dormitory.

Cheng Yi walked into the hall, turned around again, Shen Huai turned off the car, pressed the window and asked, "What's the matter, you won't invite me upstairs at such a late hour, right?"

"Go, you're so beautiful," Cheng Yi glared at Shen Huai with disgust, thinking that letting Shen Huai go upstairs and sit for a while at this time wouldn't it be tantamount to implying that he could stay for the night?

Hearing Cheng Yi ask, Shen Huai was also stunned.

He has not had contact with Cheng Yi and her father a few times, even if there are not many contacts, it is someone else present, Cheng Yi and her father are elders, he is a junior, and there is no opportunity for equal dialogue, so it is difficult for him to have a direct understanding of Cheng Yi and her father Cheng Wenguang - although in the maintenance of his relationship with Cheng Yi in the near future, Cheng Yi and her father's attitude is extremely vague, but according to the sister-in-law's judgment of Cheng Yi and her father's forbearance, Shen Huai still can't figure out what Cheng Yi and her father think in their hearts.

Shen Huai also didn't know whether Cheng Yi and her father were worth asking for help, or if they rescued Cheng Yi and her father, and even leaked key information in advance, causing things to become more and more out of control.

Or maybe Cheng Yi simply hopes that her father can be a help here, or Cheng Yi knows her father's true thoughts better - Shen Huai pondered for a moment and said: "I don't know if you want to tell your father about this, you decide; anyway, my son-in-law hasn't made any gains so far, if he really loses it, it is estimated that his heart will hurt for a while......"

"What kind of bargain do you want to get?" Cheng Yi listened to Shen Huai's upside down, and asked coquettishly, feeling that this was a little warm, she pursed her lips embarrassedly, and said, "Then I'll decide for myself whether or not to call my dad and how to call - but if I mess things up, don't blame me." ”

"I don't blame you," Shen Huai said with a smile, "Anyway, I'm mentally prepared for the worst at any time, it's a big deal to throw away the picks, hide and live freely on my own, really enjoy the life of bullying men and women, and no longer mix with these things......"