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Back in Meixi, Shen Huai and Sun Yalin each drove their own cars.

In the car, Shen Huai called Chen Dan. Chen Dan knew that Sun Yalin was also going over for dinner, so he didn't make any preparations, and simply let them all go to Shangxi Garden.

Shen Huai and Sun Yalin parked their cars on the edge of the leisure green space on the east side of the Zhuyuan Garden, passed through the old stone archway at the east end of the old street, and walked along the street, under the street lamps of the cast iron sink, they watched several beautifully decorated Japanese food restaurants open to the public;

Shen Huai came out of the county late, it was already past seven o'clock, and most of the diners had already entered the restaurant, and the few pedestrians were either young tourists or residents of the town who had come out to hang out after dinner.

Meixi Town has sufficient financial resources, and after Shen Huai stayed in Tangzha, it also continued to increase its investment in Meixi Old Street.

Because the industrial park in Meixi New District, Hexi New Town and other construction sites should be planned as a whole, some valuable, but not up to the protection of cultural relics at the municipal level of the old construction, but also at the expense of huge sums of money to move over, to the north to expand the scope of the old street, the southwest corner of the Meilin circle, the formation of an area of nearly 100 acres of amusement park, so that Meixi Old Street, the old river wharf, the river road commercial street, Xuetang Street radius of nearly one square kilometer of the old town, truly integrated into a whole, but also become the most popular scenic spot within the Meixi New District.

Walking into Shangxi Garden, there were also a few middle-aged people waiting in the front hall, talking in a Japanese whisper.

"Meixi has been ......occupied by devils again in the past two years," Sun Yalin looked at the Japanese everywhere and couldn't help muttering in a low voice.

Until the mid-to-early 90s, after the economic rise, Japan's capital export and industrial transfer direction in Asia were mainly in Southeast Asia. Since the Asian financial crisis, Japanese factories and other Asia-Pacific investors, including Chinese businessmen, have mainly turned their attention to China:

The country's population of 1.2 billion is somewhat overwhelming, but for investors, it means an abundance of cheap labor resources and a potentially vast market.

After seeing that the sustained and strong growth of China's economy has not diminished, some overseas economists have long put forward the famous "100 million people" theory for the Chinese market: they believe that as long as China's 1.2 billion population is produced, even if only 100 million wealthy people are produced after the sustained economic growth, the market size will be close to that of Japan, the second economy today.

Behind the abundant and cheap labor resources, China has a perfect education system and has been striving for industrial development for 50 years, so that almost all of China's young generation of workers have extremely high industrial quality and the ability to adapt to the industrialized society.

Among the investors, those who have thoroughly studied China's economic development are mainly Chinese businessmen from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, as well as manufacturers from Taiwan.

In the past, investors in the Taiwan region have always been limited in their investment in the mainland due to the impact of cross-strait tensions, but after being devastated by the Asia-Pacific financial turmoil, Taiwan's local authorities have also been forced to relax restrictions on investment in the mainland, and the amount of investment has also begun to surge since last year.

Shen Huai, Xiong Wenbin and others, as early as the early stage of the Asia-Pacific financial turmoil, recognized the problem of the secondary transfer of Asia-Pacific industries, and took the initiative to go out in the work of attracting investment.

By the time of '98, the infrastructure of many industrial parks in Meixi New Area was basically mature, and the peripheral airports, railways, ports, and highways had also formed large supporting facilities.

In 98, Meixi New Area alone introduced nearly 100 large and small Japanese and Korean enterprises and Taiwanese businessmen who had transferred from Southeast Asia - Taiwan was deeply influenced by Japanese culture - which has led to the scene of restaurants everywhere in Meixi Town today and Japanese people crawling all over the ground.

Fuji Steel also has the credit behind this.

As a member of Japan's six major chaebols, Fuji Steel is a large heavy industry manufacturer and has a great influence in Japan.

Over the years, Meixi International Metallurgical Industrial Park has become the largest electric furnace steel industry base in China, forming an annual steelmaking capacity of up to 3.2 million tons, of which Fuji Steel's joint venture with Provincial Steel and Evergreen Group accounts for most of it.

The construction of a steel mill led by Rongxin and Provincial Steel in Xinjin is planned to be completed and put into operation before the autumn of this year, mainly using Fuji Steel's blast furnace technology, in which Fuji Steel also holds a 15% stake; at the beginning, in order to raise funds for the construction of Xinpu Refining & Chemical, Sun Yalin transferred about 10% of the shares of Meixi Industries, a listed company under the name of Zhongxin Investment, to Fuji Steel.

In terms of industrial influence, Donghua Fuji Steel is not as good as Meigang, but it is not slightly weaker than Provincial Steel.

Over the years, Fuji Steel has been directly affected by Fuji Steel, mainly supporting Fuji Steel, and nearly 20 Japanese-funded enterprises have invested and built factories in Donghua; In addition, more Japanese-funded enterprises investing in Donghua are mainly in the textile, light industry and chemical industry.

The fiscal and tax revenues of Tangzha District and Meixi New District were equaled by Xiapu last year, but the growth rate will not slow down in the next few years. The biggest problem is that the subsequent development of Meixi New Area will be mainly limited by the lack of industrial land.

When Meixi New Area was established, although Meixi, Zhushe, Huangqiao and other towns were merged, in fact, from Zhuxi Avenue to the north, it was all urban construction land, and only part of the two towns of Meixi and Zhushe was planned as an industrial zone, and the area of factories available for construction was less than 60 square kilometers after deducting transportation, hydropower and other supporting construction.

Although there are still 20 or 30 square kilometers of industrial land available, in terms of long-term development, the subsequent development potential of Meixi New Area is far from sufficient.

In addition, the area of the industrial zone built at this time in the Xinpu Port Industrial Park is even slightly smaller than that of the Meixi New District, and the area that has officially entered the planning is not very large, but in addition to the wider hinterland to the south of Meipu Avenue that can be planned as industrial construction land, there are two or three hundred square kilometers of shoals to the east that can be reclaimed; if the Huaihai Fleet berth port goes north to Xinjin Port, the area of tidal flats and shoals that can be filled for industrial development along the 40 or 50 kilometers of coastline is even greater.

If he can concurrently serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Donghua City CPC Committee, Shen Huai plans to work with Chen Bing to further promote the readjustment of administrative regions and the new industrial and urban construction layout plan in the whole city of Donghua, so that Donghua's development resources in all aspects can be more balanced, so that the momentum of Donghua's economic take-off in these years will not fall behind in the next 10 years.

It's just that this plan seems to be falling through at the moment.

Of course, even if Donghua's growth rate in the future is no longer as rapid as in the previous two years, the foundation has been laid, and the results are brilliant enough.

In '94, Donghua City's GDP was only a little over 30 billion yuan, and this year's goal is to break through 100 billion yuan, tie Xucheng, and tie for Xucheng to become the number one economically strong city in Huaihai Province.

After the real economy rises, the first to benefit from the tertiary industry is always catering.

After several years of careful management, Shangxi Garden, as the most high-end catering enterprise in Donghua, has made a name for itself together with the official cuisine of the Sun family.

However, Chen Dan does not have much ambition, Shangxiyuan has so far only two stores in Meixi Old Street and Xucheng Yiyuan Road, with limited operating area, and the head office on this side of Laojie cannot undertake large-scale banquets, and there are less than 30 boxes.

Perhaps it is the factor of hunger marketing, the main store of Shangxiyuan only accepts reservations at the moment, and it also needs to be booked three or four days in advance, and the annual turnover will exceed 20 million.

Shangxi Garden is small in scale, can have such a high revenue, and the profit margin of the catering industry is also high, in Sun Yalin's words, it is simply a cash cow.

No matter how tense the dining box is, Shen Huai and Sun Yalin come to eat, and they always don't worry about the place.

As soon as Shen Huai and the others arrived, Chen Dan came down from the office and said to Sun Yalin: "If Shen Huai hadn't called, I wouldn't have known that you would also go back to Donghua." ”

Sun Yalin has been abroad for more than a year, and at the beginning of the year, the grandchildren returned to Donghua to visit relatives, and Chen Dan did not have the opportunity to meet Sun Yalin.

Sun Yalin said to Chen Dan: "You won't think I'm in the way of eating with me, right?"

"Just now, the dead face was going to come over for dinner, why are you polite now?" Shen Huai asked Sun Yalin strangely.

Sun Yalin didn't say anything, but Chen Dan glanced at Shen Huai with disgust, and said to Sun Yalin: "Don't listen to his nonsense......" and Shen Huai and Sun Yalin walked to the west garden.

Kou Xuan slammed out of the moon gate of the courtyard, saw Shen Huai and Chen Dan together, was a little surprised, and asked in surprise: "Why did you come here to eat? When did Sister Yalin return to Donghua?"

Shen Huai and Chen Dan usually meet in the old house, and cook by themselves when they have time, and Chen Dan brings the food directly from the hotel if they don't have time - Kou Xuan's tourism school, the school system is two years, and she went to Shangxi Garden with several classmates to intern after the year, but she has never seen Shen Huai once in Shangxi Garden, and she is naturally surprised to see it at this time.

"Strange, why can't I come?" Shen Huai asked with a smile.

Kou Xuan is as old as Xiao Li, she will be twenty-one years old after the year, wearing the fuchsia uniform worn by the hotel intern manager, slim and elegant, like a capable urban white-collar worker, with long hair tied behind her head with a coffee-colored hairband, and her bright and bright face is still immature and pure.

Of course, according to what Kou Xuan has experienced over the years, the immaturity and innocence of her face are just a unique temperament of her seductiveness;

When Kou Xuan followed Yang Lili, she lived with Sun Yalin for a period of time, and the relationship was naturally close. Seeing Kou Xuan recklessly break out, Sun Yalin asked, "Who is following you behind, running out like your butt is on fire?" ”

Kou Xuan said angrily: "Baohe's people are eating in the garden in the west, shouting and screaming, like nouveau riche, and they are eager to drive them away......

Sun Yalin smiled, and also knew that Yu Wei bought a house in Zhuyuan and moved in, the so-called Baohe people in Kou Xuan's mouth probably referred to Yu Wei, they stood in front of the moon gate, and they didn't hear anyone shouting inside.

At this time, a middle-aged woman chased out from inside, she didn't recognize Shen Huai and Chen Dan, and when she saw Kou Xuan there, she called out to her: "Xiaoxuan, it's your birthday today, and your mother invited us over for dinner, and it took a lot of thought." She gives you a gift, and if you don't want to accept it, you can't just drop it on the ground and leave......"

"No one is rare for her to do this, and she doesn't have to pay attention to me," Kou Xuanqiao's face tensed, and a chill overflowed, and she said to the middle-aged woman, "Aunt, you don't care about me." ”

Only then did Shen Huai remember that this middle-aged woman was also from Meixi Town and Kou Xuan's aunt, but she had never met him and couldn't recognize him. Kou Xuan's relationship with her aunt is also very ordinary, which has something to do with Kou's father's lack of money for medical treatment and his death from illness - Shen Huai didn't expect Yu Wei to see that she couldn't restore a normal relationship with Kou Xuan, but thought of taking a roundabout route.

Shen Huai didn't want to get involved in the matter between Yu Wei and Kou Xuan's mother and daughter, so he took the lead and walked into the middle road, leaving Kou Xuan there to entangle with her aunt, and they went to the pavilion near the water to eat, but they didn't expect Kou Xuan to follow from behind and said, "Today is really my birthday......

Shen Huai took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair, seeing that Kou Xuan had a little grievance in her eyes, and her tone of voice was very resentful, knowing that she was somewhat emotional after her mother tossed it so much, she said with a smile: "When we eat later, we really haven't prepared any gifts for you except to ask the kitchen to give you a bowl of noodles." ”

Chen Dan put his hand on Kou Xuan's shoulder, asked her to sit down to eat, and said: "Xiao Li didn't want to prepare for the exam, he was going back, the gifts were all left in the office, and I will give them to you later, and I specially asked me to prepare a cake, but I didn't ......let you know" Chen Dan knew that Kou Xuan was birthday today, but she didn't care about the daily operation of Shangxi Garden now, and she didn't know that Yu Wei invited her relatives and friends in Donghua to come over today to celebrate Kou Xuan's birthday.

"So, we came over for dinner today, and it was just in time. Shen Huai smiled and sat down.

Kou Xuan sat down, and she wouldn't be able to settle down here, sure enough, after a while, she saw Yu Wei coming over in high heels, and from her smiling beauty, she really couldn't tell that she had just had an argument with Kou Xuan.

"Listening to Kou Xuan and her aunt, I guessed that Secretary Shen came over for dinner, I didn't think that Miss Sun was also there......" Yu Wei pushed the door and walked in, smiling enthusiastically and coming over to say hello.

Yu Wei experienced her first marriage when she was a girl, and she was only eighteen years old when she gave birth to Kou Xuan, and she was not yet forty at this time. Although she is a middle-aged woman, her delicate and fair face is as smooth as a freshly boiled egg, and her eyebrows are graceful, like a beautiful woman in her early thirties.

After the drunken incident last year, although Yu Wei's old story of abandoning her husband and daughter did not spread widely, it was no longer a secret in the Gu family, but it did not make any waves.

Behind this, in addition to Mei Gang and Hongji cooperating with Yu Wei to strengthen their control over Baohe Shipbuilding, it is related to Gu Zhengyuan, who is still hanging on his life in the hospital, believing in Yu Wei - this woman really has the ability to confuse old men.

Shen Huai used to think that among women like Mei Shu, He Yuelian had done the best, but he didn't expect Yu Wei to be even better.

Everyone is now in a cooperative relationship, watching Yu Wei come in, Kou Xuan put on a cold pretty face, not looking at her mother, Shen Huai couldn't hold a big shelf anymore, sat motionless, stood up and asked with a smile: "Mr. Yu is also eating here today, but it's a coincidence." ”

Yu Wei abandoned Hu Lin and chose to wander between Meigang and the Department of Planning and Economics, and received sufficient financial support in the autumn of last year.

Baohe's shipbuilding base in Xipizha has been delayed for nearly two years due to lack of construction funds, and as soon as there is a capital injection, the construction will start immediately, and some business adjustments will be carried out, and now it has begun to receive orders and prepare for production.

Baohe Shipbuilding has been destroyed by the Asian financial turmoil, giving up the previous expansion strategy, and the current shipyard in Xipi Gate will be the largest production base of Baohe Shipbuilding, which is a move that Yu Wei has completely gained a firm foothold in Baohe Shipbuilding and cannot afford to lose, and Yu Wei will stay in Donghua more time after the year - this is also an important reason for her to buy shopping in Zhuyuan.

However, this also brought new troubles to Kou Xuan, and Yu Wei had more time to come over and pester her, and after she stabbed it, she was not afraid that the Gu family would force her old things again.

Yu Wei saw that her daughter's face was wrong, and she also knew that if she didn't leave, she was afraid that the atmosphere here would be stiffened, and after saying hello, she wouldn't be entangled here, and said goodbye and left.

But when she walked out of the box, Yu Wei couldn't help but look back, and saw Chen Dan and Shen Huai talking to Kou Xuan in the pavilion, as if they were persuading her to do something.

Over the years, some things have been unknown to outsiders - even Qi Jingyao can only roughly guess that Shen Huai used Yang Lili to bring down the UK, but he does not know the key role played by Kou Xuan in it. Kou Xuan used a pseudonym in the Emperor, and later did not meet Dai Yi, Gao Xiaohu and others, so some things were hidden and became secrets.

Yu Wei inquired in every possible way, but there was no way to put together all the pictures over the years, and there were some things that even Kou Xuan's aunt in Meixi didn't know.

She only knew that after Kou Daddy's death, Kou Xuan didn't study well, and mixed in the occasions of the three religions and nine streams, seeing that she had a close relationship with Shen Huai, only when her body had already been occupied by Shen Huai, at first she thought that Kou Xuan was one of Shen Huai's many lovers, but now there is no way to rule out this speculation, otherwise what qualifications does Kou Xuan have, and sit at the same table with Shen Huai and Sun Yalin to eat?

It's just that in the past two years, Kou Xuan has re-entered the school to study, and after the year, she went to Shangxi Garden for an internship, and she also started at the grassroots level, and she couldn't see that she was pampered into a canary in a cage, which made Yu Wei have doubts in her heart.

Yu Wei hid her doubts and walked out.

In addition to the main building of the spinning mill warehouse, Shangxi Garden is surrounded by seven or eight small courtyards. Without the guidance of the waiter, Yu Wei was preoccupied again, took two more steps, and then took a fork in the road, went around twice, and went around to the front hall.

When I got to the front hall, I remembered that Yu Wei went to the garden to the west from the side door, and there was a young figure standing under an old elm tree built in the courtyard wall, who was talking to someone on the phone behind her back:

"I've already arrived at Shangxi Garden, and I think I still have to talk to Shen Huai about some things......

Yu Wei didn't know who this young woman was, and what she had to provoke to tell Shen Huai.

Probably hearing footsteps and feeling someone walking in, Xie Zhi turned around and saw Yu Wei stunned, and only thought of saying hello to Yu Wei for a while.

Yu Wei didn't think that it would be Xie Haicheng's daughter and Song Hongqi's wife Xie Zhi.

Regarding the contradictions within the Song family, Yu Wei has also heard a lot.

Some of them are faster than horses with four legs.

In just two or three days, Song Bingsheng said that Shen Huai was young and inexperienced, and it was no secret that he refused to promote Shen Huai to be a member of the Standing Committee of the Donghua Municipal Party Committee by refusing to be promoted by the secretary of the provincial party committee to be a member of the Standing Committee of the Donghua Municipal Party Committee.

At the same time, during this period of time, there were rumors that Shen Huai might be transferred to the province, and Yu Wei also vaguely felt that Shen Huai might indeed leave Donghua this time.

Yu Wei thought to herself, what does Xie Zhi have to provoke Shen Huai to say, could it be related to this?

"Miss Xie is here to find Secretary Shen, he is eating in the pavilion by the water in front......" Yu Wei pointed and said to Xie Zhi with a smile, as if she was really not interested in what Xie Zhi was talking to others on the phone just now.

Xie Zhi drove by Zhu Garden and saw Sun Yalin and Shen Huai's car parked together, so she guessed that Shen Huai was in Shangxi Garden, but she didn't go to see him, even if she walked into Shangxi Garden, she was still a little hesitant.

inadvertently called Yu Wei to bump into her, and Xie Zhi couldn't retreat, so she greeted Yu Wei as usual: "Mr. Yu is also eating here?"

"Yes, invite some relatives back home to dinner. Yu Wei didn't know that Xie Zhiqing didn't know that she and Kou Xuan were mother-daughter relationships, but thinking that this relationship was exposed to everyone, it made her very embarrassed, and walked into the courtyard where she dined after greeting, not caring whether Xie Zhi was looking for Shen Huai or not.