Shen Huai invited Yu Wei, Gao Yang, Qi Jingyao and others to sit down in the living room.

Yu Wei said that she would hold a banquet at the State Guest House in the evening, and Xiong Wenbin would accompany Secretary Zhong of the Provincial Party Committee with Jiang Hua and others in the evening, and she insisted on inviting Xiong Wenbin's family Bai Sumei, Xiong Daini, and Xiong Dailing sisters to attend at night.

Now that Gu Zexiong has rushed back to Hong Kong, everyone will no longer dwell on his rudeness just now, and the topic will still focus on the issue of port investment.

In addition to establishing a joint venture with the Municipal Port Investment Group and Tianyi Group, and participating in the investment of ports, industrial parks, office buildings and other projects in Xipi Gate, Baohe Shipyard also independently invested in Baohe Xicheng Shipyard, which can be said to be the largest shipbuilding base in Huaihai Province at that time.

The first phase of Xicheng Shipyard plans to build two large docks with a total annual shipbuilding capacity of 200,000 tons.

Before the outbreak of the Southeast Asian financial crisis, shipping in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia declined, and the construction progress of Xicheng Shipyard was about halfway through the early stage, but it also came to a standstill due to lack of capital and uncertain market prospects.

Although after all kinds of efforts, by the end of July this year, the first shipbuilding platform of Xicheng Shipyard was completed with difficulty, but this did not allow Yu Wei to get rid of the blame within the Gu family and Baohe shipbuilding.

Shen Huai also knew that if he pretended to be advanced and played with the means of wanting to capture at this time, he would only make Yu Wei sway under the influence of Qi Jingyao and others.

If he wanted not to ask Hu Lin, Chen Baoqi and others to make a mess of this matter behind their backs, he asked Yu Wei, Gao Xinyan and others to sit down, and went straight to the point:

"Mr. Yu told me in Beishan Pengyue that day that he was interested in investing in Xinpu Port, although I couldn't find time to talk to Mr. Yu about this issue, but I also exchanged views with Hongjun, Zeng Zhirong of Hengyang and Zhou Zhibai of shipping. When we talk about cooperation, the main purpose is to better solve the problems we are currently facing. For Xiapu County, the current construction of Xinpu Port to develop into a comprehensive hub port with cross-regional connections can only be said to have laid a little foundation, and more resources will be needed to invest and participate in the future. The capital for the construction of the port, excellent and experienced port enterprises and talents, and more abundant business channels, etc., are all within the scope of this resource, as long as they can promote the port in these aspects, Xiapu County is welcome. At present, the enterprises that have participated in the construction of Xinpu Port also need to form a scale of logistics transit through Xinpu Port as soon as possible, and more partners need to participate. Specific to the Xinpu Shipping Group with Xinpu Port as the main port for development, the current capital strength is still very weak, the fleet capacity is not large, the main development direction for a long time in the future, the need to be more concentrated in the Zhujiang River and along the Huai Bay area of the port development of various shipping business, ocean will mainly focus on iron ore, coal and other relatively narrow areas. I put the main problems faced by Xiapu County and the enterprises that have participated in the construction of Xinpu Port, including Xinpu Shipping Group, in front of Mr. Yu and Manager Gao, and I also want to know what the problems are currently facing Baohe Shipbuilding. Whether the cooperation between the two sides can be beneficial to solving each other's problems is the most important basis for cooperation......"

Local officials will show sincerity and enthusiasm in the face of investors, Qi Jingyao and Gao Yang did not feel that there was anything surprising about Shen Huai's opening remarks to Yu Wei, but Yu Wei, Gao Xinyan and others were shocked in their hearts.

Yu Wei is not a very pragmatic person, and her scheming is deeper, but Shen Huai directly cuts into the core of the current urgent problems faced by Baohe Shipbuilding from the height of solving problems, how can Yu Wei not understand?

For Gao Xinyan and other managers who have grasped the specific operation of the treasure ship industry from a practical level, it is clearer that Shen Huai has actually pointed out a cooperation path that will help solve the problems of both sides and let them choose.

In the past ten years, Baohe Shipbuilding has mainly developed the offshore transportation business from the mainland to Hong Kong and to and from Southeast Asia, and the investment business related to shipbuilding equipment such as ports, shipbuilding, shipping and even containers and other ship supporting equipment has been concentrated in this field.

In recent years, Yu Wei has gradually grasped the power of Baohe Shipbuilding, and she has also inherited this business philosophy and implemented it in the investment in Xipi Gate Port.

The Asia-Pacific financial turmoil, in terms of ports, shipping, and shipbuilding related industries alone, is the offshore shipping sector in Southeast Asia and mainland China, which has been hit the hardest, and it is not yet known when it will recover.

At the same time, with the increasing liberalization of domestic economic policies, direct trade ties with overseas are getting closer and closer, and more and more direct trade channels with overseas are being opened. Even if Hong Kong's transit trade volume will continue to increase in the future, it will mainly be procedural and financial processes transiting through Hong Kong, and the scale of physical processes involving transportation, warehousing and bonded processing through Hong Kong will shrink.

As an international shipping company, Baohe Shipbuilding will not participate too much in the inland river and near-port connection transportation business in the mainland, and the investment and business structure urgently need to be adjusted in the direction of ocean business.

In this case, the investment stall spread out by Baohe Shipbuilding in Xipizha Port is a bit too big. Moreover, if the investment project in Xipi Gate Port is to continue to be completed, it will also need to invest 1.4 billion Hong Kong dollars, which will also cause great pressure on Baohe Shipbuilding.

For Yu Wei, the ideal way is to take Baohe Shipbuilding's rights and interests in Xipi Gate Port and replace Meigang's rights and interests in Xinpu Port.

The replacement of part of the rights and interests, Baohe Shipbuilding can increase its ocean-going business without the need for new capital investment, and at the same time let Meigang participate in the investment project of Xipi Gate Port, and use the financing ability of Meigang Department in the mainland to solve part of the funds required for the follow-up construction of the Xipi Port project, so as to avoid falling into an unfinished project, and will also have better market prospects.

If the cooperation can achieve these three effects, Baohe's projects in Xipi Port will be able to solve the current problems faster and better, and several projects in Xipi Port will account for a large proportion of Baohe's shipbuilding industry at present, and solving the problems will naturally help the whole group get out of the trough.

Shen Huai also made it clear that Baohe Shipbuilding does not need to invest much money immediately to participate in the construction of Xinpu Port, and it will be beneficial to Xinpu Port in terms of business channels, management system construction and input of excellent management talents, and the two sides will have a basis for cooperation.

At the same time, Shen Huai also frankly admitted that Xinpu Shipping Group, as one of the core enterprises of Meigang system, is currently focusing on the miscellaneous freight business along the Huaihai Bay and Zhujiang ports, avoiding direct competition with the shipping business of Baohe Shipbuilding, and has strong complementarity, which also strengthens the foundation of cooperation between the two sides.

In other words, when Gao Yang and Qi Jingyao thought that Shen Huai was saying kind words, Shen Huai had actually directly pointed out the basis of the cooperation between the two sides to Yu Wei, Gao Xinyan and others.

Yu Wei can also understand at this time that Shen Huaida knew from the beginning what kind of cooperation she and Baohe Shipbuilding needed most with Xiapu, and also knew that Gu Zexiong and the Gu family behind him were the biggest obstacles to the cooperation between the two sides, so just now, she did not hesitate to use the topic to play and kicked Gu Zexiong to the ground, so that she could drive Gu Zexiong back to Hong Kong directly, so as not to stay here and get in the way.

Looking at Gao Yang and Qi Jingyao at this time, they were still smiling perfunctorily, although Yu Wei would not completely change her bad feelings towards Shen Huai just because of this matter alone, but she could also understand that Gao Yang and Qi Jingyao were really inferior to Shen Huai in terms of ability, vision and persuasiveness that pointed directly to people's hearts.

The matter of her daughter Kou Xuan, although Yu Wei was suspicious, also understood that if she wanted to not be swept away by the Gu family after a year and a half, temporarily choosing to cooperate with Shen Huai was the only path she could take at the moment.

Qi Jingyao and Gao Yang didn't follow up the rhythm at first, but when they listened to Yu Wei, Gao Xinyan and others quickly talk directly about some specific problems that Baohe Shipbuilding is currently encountering, they realized that the situation was even worse than they expected.

In addition to the Xicheng Shipbuilding Base, many of Baohe Shipbuilding's investments in Xipi Port are mostly joint ventures with the Municipal Port Investment Group and Tianyi Group, so there is no way to bypass Hu Lin and Chen Baoqi's side in the cooperation and equity exchange of some specific projects.

Shen Huai's opinion is very clear: Meigang will not intervene in projects in which Tianyi Group participates, and even if the Municipal Port Investment Group is considered a branch of the Zhao family at this time, it is always a municipal state-owned asset, so Shen Huai does not have the energy to involve more specific negotiations on specific cooperation.

However, being able to negotiate like this today has far exceeded Yu Wei's expectations. With such a foundation, she will be able to get more support from the board of directors and push the whole thing forward, without fear that the Gu family will be making trouble behind her back at this time.

But seeing Yu Wei and Shen Huai suddenly get close, Qi Jingyao and Gao Yang were naturally anxious, although Baohe Shipbuilding was nothing in the Gu family's huge assets, the proportion of investment in the Huaihai Bay area should not be underestimated, Yu Wei and Baohe Shipbuilding colluded with Meigang, which was definitely not good news for them.

Qi Jingyao was the deputy secretary, and Shen Huai was eyeing her, she couldn't get out for a while, so Gao Yang found an excuse, and when Shen Huai, Song Hongjun and Yu Wei were chatting happily, she went out and called Chen Baoqi to report the matter.

After a long time, Qi Jingyao received a text message from Hu Lin on her mobile phone: "I have arrived in Xucheng, and I will soon arrive in Yicheng to greet Mr....... Yu for me."

Qi Jingyao knew that Hu Lin had always been disdainful of Shen Huai, and if she could rush to Yicheng in person at this time, she probably officially regarded Shen Huai as a fierce rival, and thought that only Hu Lin could directly put pressure on Yu Wei to dispel her idea of cooperating with Shen Huai.

Qi Jingyao leaned over and attached it to Yu Wei's ear and said, "Hu Lin will also come to Yicheng in the evening, let me greet you on his behalf......"

Yu Wei's heart trembled, she could still tell which of the Hu family and the Song family was more important in China.

In addition, as a state-owned enterprise with assets of tens of millions, Jinshi Rongxin has been controlled by the Hu family and has been working in Hong Kong and Guangzhou and Shenzhen for more than ten years. As a listed company in Hong Kong, Baohe Shipbuilding currently has the largest shipbuilding base in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and Jinshi Rongxin and the Hu family have great influence on the other members of the board of directors of Baohe Shipbuilding and the Hong Kong and mainland shareholders and investors who stand behind these directors.

What should Hu Lin do if she had to stop her from cooperating with Shen Huai?

Everyone could hear what Qi Jingyao said to Yu Wei, and Shen Huai could see the helplessness and panic in Yu Wei's eyes, and smiled faintly in his heart.