Updated: 2012-08-29

After lunch, Chen Huai was about to leave. Sun Yalin didn't want to sit alone in the hotel on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and got into his car with a stern face: "I think we had such a happy conversation yesterday, you won't be cruel to throw me alone, right?"

"Aren't you afraid that I am a thief car?" Chen Huai asked.

"I'm with you, no one will rob anyone." Sun Yalin said disdainfully, making a Taekwondo gesture.

Chen Huai smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, seeing that you are so pitiful, I will barely take you in. But my car is too broken, so drive your car. I will also enjoy the car that is 2 million yuan..." He got into Sun Yalin's trident and drove directly to Hetang Town.

Meixi is by the river, and Hetang is by the river.

Cross the Meixi Bridge and walk south on a gravel road west of Meixi Iron and Steel Plant. Less than two kilometers away is the Zhu River. Drive on the Jiangdi Highway, there are tall poplar trees planted on both sides that have been planted for 20 or 30 years. At this time, the weather is cold and the water in the Zhu River is white.

"Meixi Town is so close to the riverside?" Sun Yalin had no idea about Donghua's geography. After arriving in Donghua, it was in the city, and walked on both sides of Meixi Town. It was the first time I saw the Zhujiang embankment in the Donghua section. I didn't expect that Meixi Town was so close to the riverside. "Why didn't Meixi Steel Plant build the Meixi Steel Plant to the riverside?"

Chen Huai smiled and said, "In the 1960s and 1970s, all villages and communities made iron and steel, and there was no concept of industrial layout. The steel factory in Meixi Town finally struggled to survive. When production was expanded in the late 1980s, local protectionism rose again. Meixi Town naturally did not want to share the meat in its bowl for others to eat, and did not have the courage to start a stove again. It also relied on the old factory to expand the new factory, so it caused the embarrassing situation of "neither relying on the river or the river". Whether it was raw materials entering the factory or steel leaving the factory, it could only rely on road transportation, but Meixi Town did not have a decent road..."

"In the long run, it is appropriate to build a steel mill on the riverside," Sun Yalin has been engaged in industrial finance for four years, and her understanding of industrial layout is above the standard. "Why, you took me to the river embankment today. When you were having a meal, you mentioned the dock. Are you considering the construction of the new factory in Hetang Town when you expanded production before?"

"You are here with a stern face, right?" Chen Huai smiled, turned around and looked north, and could clearly see the iron-making blast furnace produced by Meixi Iron and Steel Plant, and said, "Why can't the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant expand the Jiangdi area all the time?"

"Are you daydreaming?" Sun Yalin said contemptuously, "This land looks not far away, but if the factory area really needs to expand all the way, it will have at least five or six thousand acres of land. I have been to the best steel companies in China. The factory area of ​​five or six thousand acres can accommodate at least six to eight million tons of steel production capacity. How much of the total steel production in China last year? Is there a 70 million tons? Do you hope that Meixi Steel Plant can be the throne of the number one steel company in China?"

"Maybe I'm too optimistic, but you underestimate the potential of domestic development too much," Chen Huai smiled unconsciously at Sun Yalin's sneering, saying,

"When China and other countries have completed industrialization, the annual per capita steel consumption is about 0.7 to 1 ton. Based on this calculation, when China realizes industrialization, the peak of the annual steel consumption should be 850 million to 1.2 billion tons. When China has completed industrialization, the per capita steel storage is 20 tons. Based on this calculation, if China wants to achieve industrialization, the total domestic steel consumption must reach 24 billion tons. Now the annual domestic steel consumption is only 8,000 tons, and the cumulative consumption is only about 1 billion tons. Tell me, when China unswervingly moves towards the goal of industrialization and modernization, and becomes a first-class strong country and a big country, how much room does the steel industry have to develop?"

Sun Yalin calmed down and said that although they had reached a tacit understanding of cooperation last night, she found that she still knew too little about Chen Huai’s dream.

If she hadn't seen the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant miraculously rise in Shen Huai's hands, Chen Huai would have thought he was crazy. At this time, she saw Chen Huai standing there without any blow to Tan Qiping's alienation. She also gave advice on the country with great enthusiasm, and there were too many strange and novel feelings in her heart.

She was finally sure that the Chen Huai she had known and disliked before no longer existed. Although she didn't know what had happened in the three years since Chen Huai returned to China, she knew that there were too many amazing places in front of her and excavated...

"Xiong Wenbin was in charge of the city's steel plant in the mid-1980s and planned to make the annual output of the city's steel plant reach 2 million tons. Unfortunately, when the city's steel plant's production capacity reached 400,000 tons, Xiong Wenbin was able to transfer it from the city's steel plant. Almost six or seven years have passed, and the city's steel production has increased by less than 30%," said Chen Huai. "Xiong Wenbin had such ambition in the mid-1980s and was about to enter the 21st century. I think I can't be worse than him, right?"

"Is that so, Xiong Wenbin is really so powerful in economic development?" Sun Yalin didn't know much about Donghua's past. Yexin Bank had no business dealings with the Municipal Steel Plant, so she didn't know about Xiong Wenbin's early leadership of the Municipal Steel Plant. She said, "But when we acquire Tianheng Building, Xiong Wenbin is one of the members of the negotiation team. She is indeed more powerful than Liang Xiaolin and Gu Tong..."

Chen Huai smiled faintly: Tan Qiping despises him, and after all, Xiong Wenbin is still available.

In Tan Qiping's mind, he mostly believed that Xiong Wenbin's ability to engage in economics was stronger than him. Moreover, Xiong Wenbin's level was there. Even after Tan Qiping grasped the overall situation of Donghua, Xiong Wenbin could directly become the deputy mayor in the city's focus on industrial development, and unlike him who is naturally restricted by age and qualifications, he is too young after all.

"The road still needs to be walked step by step," said Chen Huai. "The steel mill will expand its capacity of power stations this year and increase its own power supply. It will also build a freight terminal and yard here so that the annual output of the steel mill can reach a 200,000 tons. At this time, the steel will be transported to a further regional market. Whether it is the transportation cost of steel or raw materials, it will be even more prudent..."

Don’t worry about Chen Huai’s unattainable dream, and seeing that Chen Huai has planned to build a dock and yard by the Hetang River this year, he also knows that his ambition is quite good. At present, Donghua only has one freight railway connecting with other cities and cities, but the end of the railway is in the north of the city, next to the city steel plant, and more than 20 kilometers away from Meixi steel plant.

Railway transportation is half cheaper than road transportation, and the transportation cost through Zhujiang shipping is only one-third of that of railways. Although it is very expensive to build a wharf in Hetang Town and then build a shortcut from the wharf to Meixi Iron and Steel Plant, it is undoubtedly a cost-effective way for Meixi Iron and Steel Plant to be called Meixi Iron and Steel Plant in the future.

Chen Huai didn't say it, but Sun Yalin believed that his first goal should be to suppress the city steel mill, so that Tan Qiping could not ignore his existence. Maybe by then, the Sun family and the Song family should pay attention to examining this unworthy child?

But Chen Huai will start building a dock and a yard this year, where can we raise tens of millions of funds? Sun Yalin suddenly felt like she was on a pirate ship. Could this kid treat Yexin Bank as his ATM?

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It took only two years since Hetang changed from a township to a township, and the scale was much smaller than Meixi Town. It was just one street, with town government, town small town junior high school, mechanics factory, silk factory, supply and marketing cooperative, credit cooperative, farmers' market and scattered shops distributed on this street.

During the Spring Festival in 1993, the New Year atmosphere was still very good. The streets were narrow, but firecrackers were everywhere on both sides of the road. Many children were running around with firecrackers and wearing brand new clothes. Although the supply and marketing cooperatives in the town center and surrounding shops were still open normally, the flow of people was slightly more common than before.

In Donghua, the Spring Festival is almost the only time when gambling is legal. People who are busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year have rarely relaxed. Three or five or more people are locked in the house to touch two cards to enjoy.

Chen Dan was thinking about the day before yesterday when he was separated from Chen Huai. Seeing that his face was very bad, he pulled Xiao Li again in the afternoon. Chen Tong walked to the town to call Chen Huai.

Chen Dan went to the door of a store to make a public phone call. Someone spread out a cloth on the side of the road to sell celebrity photos. Xiao Li squatted there to pick up Mao Ning, Yang Yuying and other popular celebrities, while Chen Tong was sitting on the motorcycle his sister bought for him before the New Year to smoke.

"Isn't this Chen Tong?" A young man with a scar on his face came over. He looked in his early twenties and saw Chen Tong smoking on a motorcycle. He was surprised to meet him. He walked over and patted him on the shoulder, touched the bright motorcycle's head bend, and said, "This motorcycle is so beautiful, it's a lot of money, right? I heard that your sister found another wild man in Meixi Town, and you are also well developed."

Chen Tong couldn't listen to others' arrangement of his sister, so he changed his brilliance and pushed the young man away: "What do you mean? Are you looking for a fucking fight."

"Chen Tong!" Chen Dan saw Chen Tong want to fight with someone else, but he didn't bother to call and hurried over to grab Chen Tong. She also knew the young man, who was the one who broke Chen Tong at school at that time, and they had resentment from each other. Her family had suffered enough for this matter. She didn't want Chen Tong to fight impulsively anymore.

Moreover, this person had three accomplices looking here on the roadside, which clearly came to provoke...

Before he could pick it up, the phone number that Chen Dan called yesterday flashed twice on his phone and then hung up. Chen Huai thought something was going on. When he drove over, Chen Huai saw Chen Tong and four young men eyeing each other. Chen Dan held Chen Tong and refused to let him take action.

"Your sister is looking for a wild man and raise you too. Your mother is so awesome, why are you trying to force me?"

The young man with scars on his face still remembers the current revenge of having a fractured bone for Chen Tong over the years. After that, Chen Tong joined the army and told him that he could not find a chance to seek revenge. This time he met in the town, and relied on the fact that he had a group of accomplices, which was naturally extremely insulting. He wanted to provoke Chen Tong to take action first...

"Bao!"

The scar-faced young man stood on the curb, not paying attention to a small car coming quietly, and suddenly honked the horn behind his ear twice. He subconsciously thought that a car was hitting from behind. In frightened, his body lost balance and knocked directly on the front of the car.

Before the scar-faced young man came to find Hui, Chen Huai pushed open the car door suddenly, grabbed the scar-faced young man's collar with a fierce look, and slapped him hard: "You don't have eyes, do you know how much my car costs? Do you know that my car will have to lose a piece of paint, how many years will your mother have to sell it before she can afford it?"

The scar-faced young man slapped Chen Huai twice, thinking that the two slaps were wronged, but his accomplices saw that Chen Huai was imposing and stylish, and the car was obviously more grand than the crown of the town. Knowing that such a person was not something they could mess with, they didn't dare to rush up to help, so they wanted to retreat...

The scarred young man touched his swollen face and looked at Chen Huai with a concealed look, not even daring to say anything harsh.

Chen Huai stared at the scar-faced young man and said, "Your mother is lucky. Next time I will see you don't have eyes, so I can't kill you..."

Sun Yalin got out of the car, and snatched the car door with interest and watched Chen Huai teach the gangsters a lesson, and smiled and said, "How did you know how to bully these gangsters? It's a terrible person."

Chen Huai ignored Chen Yalin and said to Chen Tong: "Are you going to work overtime in the factory today? Why are you fighting with this gangster for nothing..." He waved his hand and asked Chen Dan and Xiao Li to leave in his car.

The four gangsters then realized that a man and a woman who were driving knew Chen Tong and his brother, but they still didn't dare to rush up and attack, so they had to watch Chen Huai and the others drive away arrogantly.
Chapter completed!