In the process of drinking, Liu Qingqiu has been observing Ye Ming, and saw that he was calm and free at the wine table, not only drinking a lot of wine, but also behaving appropriately and knowledgeable, indeed as Wang Hai commented, he is an extraordinary, erudite young talent.

Moreover, in the process of drinking, he was also surprised to find that Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying, two high-powered leaders, were very affectionate and respectful to Ye Ming, the secretary of the small county party committee, and sometimes even gave people the feeling of deliberately currying favor with Ye Ming.

From this, Liu Qingqiu came to a conclusion: Ye Ming's background is not trivial, either he is Secretary Lu's closest person, or he has an unfathomable backstage and backer in the central government. Otherwise, Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying, two members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, would not have had such an attitude towards him.

After figuring this out, Liu Qingqiu immediately made up his mind in his heart: if Ye Ming's purpose in coming to the provincial capital this time was to keep the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant, he must immediately handle this matter for him, and be sure to leave a good impression in his mind and lay a good foundation for him to be married to him in the future......

So, when he was halfway through drinking, he excused himself to go to the toilet and went to the secluded part of the hotel to make a phone call to the head of the environmental protection inspection team stationed in K City, and asked in a low voice: "Xiaolin, is there a solution to the pollution problem of the Xinleng County Iron and Steel Plant that you reported to me yesterday?" ”

As soon as the team leader surnamed Lin heard his words, he immediately reacted: Director Liu wanted to intercede for the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant, and immediately replied: "Director Liu, the main problem of this factory is that it has no investment in environmental protection, which leads to serious pollution. As long as they realize the seriousness of the problem, invest a lot of money in environmental protection transformation, and report the environmental protection transformation plan to the environmental protection department, and meet the environmental protection requirements after demonstration, they can not be shut down. ”

"Then you have a preliminary estimate of how much renovation money will be needed to meet the environmental protection requirements of the new cold steel plant?"

Team Leader Lin thought for a while and said: "According to my estimates, the new cold steel plant needs to invest at least 100 million yuan in environmental protection transformation funds to deal with the waste gas, waste water and waste residue problems in their factory, and even if 100 million yuan is invested, it can only sit until the initial standard is reached, and tens of millions of funds will be invested in the follow-up to ensure that the standard is fully met." ”

Liu Qingqiu said "um" and told him: "During this time, don't mention the issue of Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant for the time being, if the Xinleng County Government pleads with you and asks to keep Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant, you can reply flexibly, don't block the way, and give them a chance to rectify." ”

Team Leader Lin agreed repeatedly.

After returning to the box, Liu Qingqiu took the initiative to toast Ye Ming with a glass of wine, and then said with a smile: "Secretary Ye, regarding the closure of the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant, I have a little idea: if this factory can make a plan and promise the environmental protection department to invest funds in environmental protection standard transformation, it can not be closed for the time being——"

Li Zhi hurriedly asked: "May I ask Director Liu: If our factory wants to meet the standards, how much money do we need to invest in environmental protection?" You're an expert at this, so you should be able to estimate it. ”

Liu Qingqiu replied: "It should be easier for a steel plant of your size to meet environmental standards, but because your factory is located in the center of the county, the corresponding environmental standards will be raised." According to my experience, if your factory wants to meet environmental protection standards, it needs at least 100 million yuan of environmental protection transformation funds. Moreover, this 100 million yuan is still an early investment, and 50 or 60 million will be upgraded in the future. Therefore, if you want to keep this factory, you must prepare at least 150 million environmental protection funds. ”

Li Zhi heard that the environmental protection transformation required 150 million funds, and couldn't help but gasp, just wanted to talk about the difficulties, but Ye Ming preemptively responded: "Director Liu, as long as the factory can be saved, Mr. Li will find a way to raise funds for environmental protection transformation, please rest assured." Come, come, I'll toast you with another glass of wine. ”

Next, Ye Ming began to toast one by one, and did not talk about the issue of the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant.

After the banquet was dispersed, Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying said goodbye and went home first, Ye Ming sent them downstairs and chatted with them for more than ten minutes, leaving only Wang Hai and Li Zhi in the box.

Li Zhi said to Wang Hai a little anxiously: "Uncle Wang, it seems that the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant can't be saved. Just now, Director Liu said that if you want to keep this factory, you must immediately raise 100 million yuan of funds for environmental protection transformation, and you will need 5,000 yuan to upgrade it in the future. Our factory is now in debt, although the price of steel has risen now, but the money recovered has been repaying the debt. Moreover, because we have dishonest behavior in the past, upstream suppliers stipulate that we must take cash to buy raw materials, in a hurry, where can we get 100 million yuan to carry out transformation? ”

Wang Hai asked, "You can find a bank loan!" Now the steel market is very good, as long as you are in normal production, the prospects are very good, and the bank should lend you a loan! ”

Li Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Uncle Wang, you may not know: since my father's accident, the bank has stopped lending us money. After I was released from prison, I went to the bank leaders I was familiar with many times, but they either didn't see me, or found various excuses to excuse me, and I couldn't get a penny. ”

Wang Hai sneered and said, "Have you thought about the reason for this?" The reason why you can't get a loan is because the people in the bank don't believe you, think that you are not a business person, for fear that after lending you money, you will spend all your money indiscriminately, and they are also responsible for the loan - am I right? ”

Li Zhi's face turned red with shame all of a sudden, and he didn't dare to argue, so he had to nod and say, "Uncle Wang, you are right in your criticism, I was indeed a little out of tune before, and it is understandable that the people in the bank do not trust me." However, I have now changed my past mistakes and am ready to run the steel mill in a down-to-earth manner, and when my father is released from prison, I will also make him happy. ”

Wang Hai nodded and said, "If you have this idea, I can give you a suggestion: you can simply find Ye Ming again and ask him to go to Xinleng County for a spin." As far as I know, he has a very good relationship with the secretary of the county party committee of Xinleng County, and as long as the secretary of the county party committee of Xinleng comes forward to greet your steel plant, it is estimated that the bank will buy his account and give you a loan of one or two hundred million yuan, which should not be a big problem. ”

Li Zhi's eyes lit up and said, "Great." Now Xinleng's secretary of the county party committee is Tan Yijian, who has a high prestige in the county. If he can come forward to say hello to the bank, then it is really not a problem to take out a loan of one or two hundred million yuan, I will tell Secretary Ye later, and ask him to go to Xinleng with me for a spin. ”

Wang Hai nodded, and suddenly asked, "How is your father?" Have you ever been to see him since you got out of prison? ”

"I went to see him a few times, his health is much worse than before, he often has stone pain, and he also has stomach problems, I want to go through the procedures for medical parole for him, but the prison said that he has not met the conditions for medical parole, and even if he applies for medical treatment, he will not be approved, so I will not handle it for him for the time being."

Wang Hai was silent for a moment, and then asked, "What does he think of the turmoil four years ago now?" Do you still hate Ye Ming? ”