By the end of December, the chaotic situation in Donghua City caused by the city's steel blasting accident gradually became clear.

The plan to solve the crisis of the city steel has gradually reached a consensus on all sides.

Provincial steel has the support of Governor Zhao Qiuhua, and Yu Chengzhen, Minister of Organization of the Municipal Party Committee in Donghua, and others to help, but if they want not to take out the price at all, they want to take the Municipal Steel Group in vain in the way of state-owned assets, not to mention that Tan Qiping and Gao Tianhe are unwilling, and others in Donghua City will not be willing.

Although Shigang is a mess, there are a few pieces of good meat on it, why should it be given to Provincial Steel for nothing?

SITC and Evergreen Group will undertake the equity of the joint venture steel mill and the debt of 120 million yuan incurred by the city steel for the initial capital contribution, and compensate the city steel with an additional 30 million yuan in cash. This plan can not only make Tan Qiping look good, but also make it more acceptable to other people in the municipal party committee and the city steel.

At the end of the '95 period, 30 million yuan was already a huge enough amount.

After reducing the debt of 120 million yuan, and obtaining a supplement of 30 million yuan of funds, at least it will allow the city steel to get through this year.

Donghua City breathed a sigh of relief on the issue of municipal steel, and even if the provincial steel had the support of Zhao Qiuhua, there was no way to be too aggressive.

Even in the plan of merger and reorganization of the city steel, the provincial steel was forced to make greater concessions to Donghua City. In addition to the overall plate of the city steel, the commitment to inject funds to rectify production and asset quality, it is also necessary to set up a subsidiary in Donghua City with the status of a duli legal person to ensure that the tax source of the city steel part remains in Donghua City, and will not be given to Xucheng City.

With such a rapid development of Meigang, the pressure on steel saving is actually very great.

If Meigang is surpassed in terms of production capacity, the province will not only face the problem of losing face, but also mean that they have monopolized industrial policy, finance and other resources before, and will have to give Meigang a considerable share.

Even if it is known that after Donghua Steel's equity in the joint venture steel mill is cut off, there is more rotten meat left, and Provincial Steel will eat these rotten meat.

Even if the joint venture steel mill is cut out, after the merger of Donghua Steel, the production capacity of provincial steel will be able to exceed the threshold of 2 million tons in one fell swoop.

Provincial steel not only in the production capacity of the scale of the ranking of the top ten in the industry, but also in the production capacity scale, Meigang will be further behind, to ensure that its position in the province of the leader, not from the threat of Meigang, which is also good for the future competition in the steel market in the province.

Larger-scale production and larger-scale market control mean that Meigang's products can be more effectively suppressed in the regional market in the future.

Fuji Steel is more concerned about the interests and layout of the entire industrial chain, and at the same time must consider controlling the risk of investment in China, and has no intention of touching the entire mess of the joint venture steel plant, nor does it intend to eat the whole joint venture steel mill, so it does not refuse to transfer 35% of the equity of the joint venture steel mill from the hands of the city steel to SITC and Changqing Group, as long as the manpower transferred to the joint venture steel mill is not withdrawn.

Fuji Steel is not worried about this, the joint venture steel mill to the management and front-line work, the annual salary is much higher than that of the city, and the same as Meigang, in this case, almost no one wants to go back to the city.

Shen Huai's resignation from Meigang was also a foregone conclusion, and the chairman of Meigang Group was served by Wang Kangsheng, the old factory director.

Wang Kangsheng laid the foundation for Meigang's early development, and at this time he was also approaching retirement age. Wang Kangsheng will replace Shen Huai as chairman of Meigang Group, which is acceptable to all parties - the biggest significance of this move may be that the appointment of the chairman of Meigang Group is produced within the group's board of directors and is no longer directly controlled by the local government.

Seeing that the situation was under control, Tan Qiping also discussed the appointment of Shen Huai to be transferred to Yushan County to serve as a member of the county party committee, a member of the Standing Committee, and an executive deputy county magistrate at the Standing Committee meeting in late December.

Two days after New Year's Day in '96, the temperature in Donghua dropped to around zero degrees Celsius, and it was slightly warmer at noon. There are still 20 days to go before the Chinese New Year, and the Wenshan shopping mall is getting busier and busier, so that people can see the atmosphere of the Spring Festival getting stronger and stronger.

Because of the proximity to her workplace, Xiong Daini basically walks home to eat at noon, and can help her mother with a hand, so that her mother will not be too hard to take care of the children and do housework.

Xiong Daini took the key to open the door, saw Shen Huai sitting at the dining table with her father playing chess, and asked unexpectedly, "Hey, why are you at my house?"

"Oh, I'm going to report to Yuanshan in two days, and I'll come over to say goodbye to Director Xiong," Shen Huai said, "By the way, I'll have another meal with Teacher Bai." ”

Xiong Daini still doesn't understand, why did Shen Huai give up Mei Gang's position and go to the poor mountains and rivers of Yushan County to be the executive deputy county magistrate?

Xiong Dani went to the bedroom and saw that her daughter was sleeping, so she rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen to give her mother a hand.

The meals were almost ready, and after Shen Huai finished playing this game of chess with her father, Xiong Daini came over to clean up the table. Shen Huai wanted to accompany Xiong Wenbin for a drink, and Xiong Daini asked him, "Will you leave and drive by yourself later?"

"I don't have a driver to follow, I don't drive by myself, can you help me drive?" Shen Huai said.

"Then you don't want to drink," Xiong Daini took away the wine glass in front of Shen Huai, only poured wine for her father, and said, "You officials, always have one thing on the surface, say what you drink and drive, know the law and break the law, and behind your back." ”

Shen Huai smiled bitterly, he could only watch Xiong Daini help him to serve the meal, took the bowl, and said self-deprecatingly: "Don't drink, you can taste Teacher Bai's craftsmanship more carefully." ”

Bai Sumei glared at her eldest daughter, blaming her for taking care of Shen Huai's affairs, but to put it bluntly, she really couldn't give Shen Huai a drink, otherwise she would really watch him drink and drive.

Shen Huai picked up vegetables and asked Xiong Wenbin: "Old Xiong, are you really going to sit on the cold bench now, do you complain in your heart that I prevented you from returning to Shigang?"

"Alas," Xiong Wenbin sighed lightly and said, "What can I do if I go back to Shigang, others can't give me two or three years to clean up the mess of Shigang." The people who can do things in the city have almost been dug up by Meigang and the joint venture steel mills. I went to Shigang, and there was no one to clean up this mess with determination. ”

"Not necessarily, I think many people will still listen to your words and go back to Shigang," Xiong Daini said beside her, "They left Shigang, but Shigang disappointed them too much." ”

"How is it possible?" Xiong Wenbin said with a smile, "Now the front-line workers can get 1,450 a month's salary in Meigang, including overtime pay, and the joint venture steel mill will not be lower than this number. Who isn't making a living now? Prices have risen so much that it is very difficult for a salary of four or five hundred yuan a month to support a family. Now the provincial steel has taken over the city of steel, on the one hand, they rectify the production of the city steel, cut the three production companies, clean up debts, solve financial problems, there are not so many scruples and involvement; more importantly, the province of steel has a large number of technical forces to supplement, can help the city steel quickly resume production, without this, no one can call the city steel back to life. Moreover, the capital in the hands of the provincial steel is relatively abundant, in addition to its own coal and iron ore, the control of the market is also better. Moreover, dragging SITC and Evergreen Group deeper into it can also make some contributions to the development of Donghua......"

Speaking of this, Xiong Wenbin paused, looked at Shen Huai, and said, "You told me at the beginning that I would not return to Shigang, but could give Shigang a ray of vitality, it seems that your judgment is correct." ”

"In terms of the development trend of the province's steel industry, integration is far more beneficial than disadvantageous," Shen Huai said, "Meigang does not want to clean up the mess of the city's steel, so it is in line with the overall interests of the province to come." ”

"In this way, the total production capacity of steel in the province will exceed the threshold of two million tons, and the control of the provincial market will be stronger, and there will be unfavorable aspects for Meigang." Xiong Wenbin said.

"Whether to drag the hands and feet of competitors, or focus on development, run faster, and leave competitors behind, this is the direction of Meigang's future development," Shen Huai said, "If Meigang chooses the former, Meigang's pattern will be too low." I can say that Provincial Steel has never been a goal for Meigang to surpass. ”

Xiong Wenbin shook his head and smiled, Shen Huai said this two years ago, it can be said that he was too arrogant, and now that Shen Huai said this, even the provincial steel may not be able to stand up and refute it.

Provincial Iron and Steel took over the mess of municipal steel to absorb and digest it, and was eager to expand the scale of production capacity, in the final analysis, it was still forced by the pressure of Meigang; Governor Zhao Qiuhua was eager to extend his hand to Donghua, which was only one reason.

Meigang Plant No. 1 and Plant No. 2 have been completed, Meixi Power Plant and Meixi Port Wharf are preparing for the construction of the second phase of the project, and the entire industrial pattern has been completed.

Meigang only needs to go through two to three years of digestion and stabilization, and then to launch a new project, it must be 500,000 tons of production capacity, and it is not impossible to directly reach a million-ton super-large project. In the face of such a strong rise of Meigang, how can the provincial steel in the same province have no pressure?

"By the way, do you really want to work in Yuanshan for a few years?" Xiong Wenbin asked again, "The environment in Yuanshan is too harsh, and there are no resources, which is not conducive to your performance......"

"When I first came to Donghua, Donghua was a pool of stagnant water, and no one else had to stir up this pool of stagnant water, so I had to come," Shen Huai said, "Now the water in Donghua looks very muddy, at least it is much better than the previous pool of stagnant water, and even if it is stirred, I can't always nest in Meixi." Donghua has a population of 7 million and a per capita income of less than 2,000 in urban and rural areas. No matter how good Meixi's development is, it is also limited by the pattern, how many people can be driven to make a fortune, and to what extent can it change the overall situation of backward poverty in Donghua City? Yushan is not my destination, but Meixi will not be my place to stay for a long time. ”

"Oh......" Xiong Wenbin didn't know where Shen Huai's real destination was next, and looked at him suspiciously.

Shen Huai took the chopsticks and tea and wrote two words on the table, and when Xiong Daini came over to look at it, those two words had already asked Shen Huai to wipe them off first-she pouted dissatisfied, but seeing that her father had a smile in his eyes, she wanted to know more and more what those two words were, just looking at Shen Huai's frame with her father, it seemed that she had no intention of leaking it to others.

Shen Huai looked at his watch and said, "Sun Qiyi came to Donghua today to conduct a thorough investigation of the construction of the joint venture steel plant. If there are no surprises, the entire solution to the city's steel problem will be determined in these two days. However, they thought that if they drove me to Yuanshan, I would not be able to disturb the situation for them, then they would be very wrong. I won't drink with you, Lao Xiong, and I'll rush over to stir up the situation and make them uncomfortable. ”

Xiong Wenbin laughed.