In mid-November, the temperature in Yanjing was approaching zero in the evening and it was dark early.

Song Hongjun took his parents and Cheng Yi's mother over and started the meal here.

The climate in Beijing has been bad in recent years. It is extremely dry in winter. It is always strong winds. Sitting in the house, you can constantly hear the sound of branches blowing.

When I went to the dinner table, I stopped talking about business, and everyone's topic turned to the junior's marriage.

Smart people will hide from each other. Song Tong stayed in Hong Kong this time and did not come back with Song Hongjun. Although Song Hongyi was in Yanjing, he did not show his face when the banquet started. Song Hongqi and Xie Zhi had already set a wedding date for next year, and now they have lived together. Only Shen Huai and Song Hongjun in the room have become the catharsis points for everyone's firepower.

In this matter, Song Hongjun was very useless. He led everyone's firepower to Chen Huai at the beginning of the meal: "Chen Huai is going to preside over the government work in Xiapu County this time. It seems that there are not many unmarried county magistrates and county party secretary in China, right?"

Looking at everyone's eyes, Chen Huai almost threw away his chopsticks and ran away with his head.

Chen Huai glanced at Cheng Yi. Cheng Yi looked very well-behaved. She lowered her head and fiddled with the porcelain-embedded chopsticks. She didn't look at the elders' eyes, but just gave one foot slightly and twisted the heels of the high heels directly on Shen Huai's instep.

Chen Huai whispered mercy: "You have to step on it, step on Song Hongjun's foul, this villain is just doing things that harm others and are not good for oneself..."

"Now, young people are less than thirty years old, and they haven't had enough fun. Hongjun is thirty-five, and they have not had a clear letter to find someone to live. Just thinking about bringing Chen Huai out and thinking he's fine. It's unethical to do this," the old man put his hand on the table and said something fair, which made Chen Huai cry, but then the old man changed his subject and almost flashed. "It's too early to let Chen Huai and Cheng Yi get married now. The two have been together for two years, so why don't they get engaged first?"

The old man raised the topic, and his sister-in-law Song Wenhui beat the snake and followed the stick to ask Cheng Yi directly: "Do you have any objection?"

"The two were still intimate at my house in the afternoon, and Cheng Yi has already set her work in Xucheng," Cheng Yi's mother said, "After the New Year, we have to choose a time to get married first, so that we don't worry about what others will say when we are together. In short, getting engaged first will not interfere with your young people's career..."

Chen Huai was secretly talking, thinking that he had not had much contact with Cheng Yi for a year, and their affairs should be calm. Unexpectedly, the movement under the sea was bigger than they thought. My sister-in-law and Cheng Yi's mother had already started planning their marriage.

Cheng Yi lowered her head and said nothing. She couldn't ask, so she pushed the question to Chen Huai: "Chen Huai has to make an idea about this..." But the heels were always on the back of Chen Huai's feet.

It was extremely difficult to eat a meal. Hu Chujun called at 8 o'clock. Chen Huai used the excuse of Beijing Treasury and had something to participate in the negotiations, so he wanted to slip away first.

Song Hongjun insisted on being a driver for Chen Huai, but refused to stay and bombard everyone with the marriage.

Cheng Yi was even more unwilling to stay as cannon fodder. In the eyes of everyone, she walked out with Chen Huai's arm. When she went out, she made a gesture to beat Song Hongjun: "If you talk nonsense next time, you will tell the story of your little stars..."

"My situation is different from you. If you don't sacrifice you today, my parents would like to tie me up and breed me for breeding," Song Hongjun smiled with a shameless smile, "I am also a person with status and status. Do you have the heart to watch me pull it out for breeding?"

"Are you different from your breeding now?" Cheng Yi asked.

"If I don't discuss my issue, I guess I will not be able to surrender for a long time, otherwise I may not be able to return home during the Chinese New Year," Song Hongjun said, "But I'm talking about you, you two are not bad..."

"Why isn't it bad? Chen Huai has a few women outside, but I haven't figured it out yet!" Cheng Yi said.

Chen Huai threw the car key to Song Hongjun and said, "Be your driver, don't lure the fire on me anymore..." He knew that it was embarrassing to force a marriage on the table just now, and if he would annoy Cheng Yi, the situation would be even worse.

Song Hongjun was not idle so easily. After getting in the car, he winked at Chen Huai and said, "Cheng Yi's mother has spoken, so if you get engaged, you will be allowed to be together..."

The domestic customs are like this: before engagement, living together is a bad habit, and getting engaged can "living together legally".

However, Chen Huai didn't dare to think about living with Cheng Yi. Seeing her holding her cheeks and looking at the car window, she seemed to turn a deaf ear to Song Hongjun's jokes.

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After Chen Huai and Song Hongjun slipped away on the pretext, the topic of Xudong Railway here did not end, and Song Wenhui introduced more details.

It was almost ten o'clock when Xie Zhicai and Hongqi drove away.

Although Hongqi didn't say much today, Xie Zhi knew that he was unhappy.

Huaineng Group leads the electrification transformation and duplexing projects of Xudong Railway. Once the plan is implemented, Huaineng Group will form a joint venture railway company with relevant parties, and will also form a large coal industry group.

All these mean that Huaineng Group will usher in explosive development in the next two to three years.

Although Chen Huai and his younger sister-in-law Song Wenhui both emphasized that the final personnel structure of Huaineng Group will comply with the overall interests of the Song Group and will not be completely held in their hands, it is self-evident where the entire Huaineng Group will lean towards in the end.

Not to mention the biasedness of my younger sister-in-law Song Wenhui towards Chen Huai, the Huai Neng Group has grown from scratch in Donghua in recent years. Its trajectory is inseparable from the development of Meigang. At this time, the core figures of Huai Neng's management are almost all the hardcore Meigang system.

Even if Hongqi's father and others can send a large number of management personnel to Huaineng and dilute the influence of Shen Huaineng to a certain extent, it is difficult to predict how much effect it can have.

Huaineng Group will benefit a lot from the electrification transformation and the double-track project of Xudong Railway, but at the same time it is not the biggest beneficiary.

First of all, other companies in the Meigang Group will participate in the electrification transformation and duplex project of Xudong Railway.

According to Chen Huai's plan, the investment amount of Meixi Development Group and other related companies may hold more than 20% of the joint venture railway group in the future.

After the Xudong Railway is upgraded, Xinpu Steel Plant can be more stable and obtain Huaixi coking coal resources at a low price, which can significantly reduce costs. Meigang is likely to invest in the Huaixi area or in Xinpu to establish a coking plant in Xinpu to control the coking coal resources upstream of the steelmaking industry.

All these are second.

Regardless of the improvement of the railway network, highway network and river-sea routes, the ultimate strengthening of the status of Xinpu hub port, and the industrial development and regional economy that are supporting this will inevitably advance at a faster and higher speed.

Regardless of the others, the Xinpu Shipping Group, led by Chen Huai and Zhou Zhibai Station, was established on the basis of the restructuring of several dispersed aviation companies, will surely become one of the most important beneficiaries after the construction of Xudong Railway and Xinpu Port.

Xinpu Shipping Group's denominated tonnes, including leased ships, at this time, were less than 200,000 tons, and its assets were only 400,000 tonnes.

After the Xudong Railway is upgraded, the shipping potential of Xinpu Port in the future will be at least 50 million tons; even if Xinpu Shipping Group shares one-tenth of the market, its future scale will be at least ten times or twenty times that of the current one, and then another super-large enterprise with assets of billions or even hundreds of billions will be formed in the hands of Shen Huai.

Can other people in the Song Dynasty penetrate the influence of Xinpu Shipping Group? Can they compete with Chen Huai for control of Xinpu Shipping Group?

In terms of level, Hongqi was already a department-level official in the ministry and commission a year ago, and Chen Huai was strictly speaking at this time.

But when it comes to influence, after Chen Huai forced Tan Qiping away at the beginning of the year, the Song Dynasty recognized Chen Huai's position in Donghua to replace Tan Qiping. Even the focus of the Song Dynasty's influence in Huaihai Province was mainly focused on the two companies, Meigang and Huaineng. Even her uncle Song Bingsheng also tended to be marginalized.

The Song Dynasty participated in the electrification transformation and duplex project of Xudong Railway this time. Although her younger sister-in-law Song Wenhui was the host who stood in front of the stage, it will also greatly strengthen the status and influence of Shen Huaihe in Huaihai Province.

A year ago, Hongqi was the most optimistic junior political star in the Song Dynasty, but at this time it completely blocked the light of Chen Huai. Xie Zhi could understand that he would not feel happy, but could he say no to the electrification transformation and duplex project of Xudong Railway?

The Song faction needs to change its previous conservative posture and accelerate its approach to the reformists, not just publishing a few articles and speeches.

Promoting the upgrading of Xudong Railway and the construction of the coastal defense highway is not only a personal demonstration of Hongqi's father personally, but he has put down his personal grudges with Tian Jiageng and Cui Jia, which is a manifestation of his overall situation of raising the banner of reformists; it is also a statement from the Song Dynasty with practical actions that the Song Dynasty has already promoted the reform of the power system with a more positive attitude.

Although the rapid development of Huaineng Group cannot abandon the influence of Shen Huai in it, it is also in line with the overall interests of the Song Dynasty.

I must say that there is any problem, and I can only hope that the Song Dynasty will focus on pursuing the past few years. At this time, I changed my mind to grasp something real, but found that the choices I could have were too limited.

Now if you don’t put resources into Huaineng or Meigang and other companies, you will find that the resources will be almost divided into other factions after a few years.

Although the power system is the strong influence of the Song Dynasty, the Daqin Line, which transports tens of millions of tons of coal resources to the thermal power plants in North China and East China every year, can the Song Dynasty have any influence in it?

The Jin coal eastward exit south line project led by the Ji Group, and the little influence maintained by the Song Group was actually the investment of Huaineng Group and Meixi Steel Enterprise in the Ji River coal-pit port.

The relatively conservative attitude of the Song faction has actually led to the large number of power plants and power grids in East China and North China being stripped away from other factions and becoming the cakes in other factions. Now, in the coastal areas, Huaihai Bay may be one of the few territories that the Song faction can compete for.

Chen Huai Tai knows how to capture people's hearts and needs, and the path he has put forward is not to be rejected at all.

Xie Zhi believes that Hongqi's father may not be willing to do it, but to refuse, he must find a better choice; for the Song Dynasty at this time, is there any better choice?

Looking at the night outside the car window, Xie Zhi fell into deep thought.
Chapter completed!