Chen Huai and Cheng Yi were going through the registration procedures at the guard office. After a while, Cui Xiangdong walked out with a smile and said, "Do you guys still remember me, the old guy?" Looking at the things Chen Huai was carrying, he said straightforwardly, "Take everything else for me except Yushan Old Tea..."

"There are nothing but two cans of tea. Cheng Yi and I took the bus and carried it around. It's so hard. You don't make things difficult for us anymore," Chen Huai smiled again, seeing Cui Xiangdong's head full of white hair, still energetic, carrying things and walking into the courtyard.

The name of the Navy Cadre Retirement House is affiliated to the Huaihai Fleet, but after decades of development, it has become the most important sanitation base for veteran party, government and military cadres in Huaihai Province. It is located in the Qishan Scenic Area, with a quiet environment, deep forests and dense trees. The temperature is at least three or four degrees lower than the foot of the mountain, which is extremely cool.

In addition to group activities and medical care, the main building of the office is all small red brick buildings in the Soviet style, which are also witnesses of early history. The landscaping in the courtyard is not very exquisite, but it is long and blends with the mountain scenery. The path is covered with pebbles, which makes it a bit uncomfortable when you walk up.

The small building where Cui Xiangdong and several old cadres live is a cliff outside the iron wall. Sitting in the backyard, listening to the mountain wind passing through the valleys and the pine waves, it is also refreshing and happy. Many worries can be eliminated at this moment.

Two old cadres helped Cui Xiangdong make tea and treat Chen Huai with pastries. Cheng Yi did not leave after sitting there. Cheng Yi was quite surprised. Chen Huai took out a few packs of cigarettes from his pocket and handed them over, saying, "Old Zhu, Mr. Sun, if you catch the staff, you can't betray me, otherwise I wouldn't want to send you cigarettes next time..."

"I know, I know," the two old cadres nodded after getting the cigarette, and said, "The control here is too strict. The little girl is fierce and she is scolded for a long time when she smokes a cigarette. It is even more painful than when she was put in the cattle shed..."

Cheng Yi smiled and saw Chen Huai buying several packs of cigarettes into his plastic pocket before taking the tour bus. She still felt strange. It turned out that she was helping these old cadres who were addicted to cigarettes to deliver private goods.

Cui Xiangdong took a cigarette from Chen Huai and lit it. He took a sip, and said, "It's really true that the restroom is now. Not only do we restrict smoking, but we also have to apply for a plan for eating meat. I don't think about how meaningful it is to live for a few more months, not to smoke, not drink alcohol, not eat meat..."

"You can't say that," Chen Huai smiled, "all of you are the party's valuable property. Please take care of your responsibilities; I will help you deliver cigarettes, so you can violate discipline..."

"Do you believe this nonsense?" Cui Xiangdong asked.

"Of course I believe it," Chen Huai smiled. "National construction is still in the stage of exploration, and all aspects are touching the stones across the river. With you old people watching, it is not easy to go the wrong way..."

"You guys are hiding words," Cui Xiangdong pointed at Chen Huai and said, "You are here for bad intentions this time."

"I'm not praising the value of your old cadres. Where can I have bad intentions?" Chen Huai asked.

"Since you say that we old guys are experienced and want to use this to lie to me, do you think I am so easy to lie to me," Cui Xiangdong asked Cheng Yi, "Cheng Yi, be honest, come and talk to me, is this bad guy Chen Huai coming here, is he bad intentions?"

Cheng Yi shook her head with a smile and said, "I don't know, Grandpa Cui, don't ask me..."

Cui Xiangdong blew the ashes and said to Chen Huai: "You little brat, I really think that we old guys are deaf when living in the mountains - some old cadres of the provincial party committee live in the east area, Tian Jiageng has conducted an inspection system in the province, came to consult opinions, and also came to me to sit down. His words meant that he didn't say it thoroughly, but it was not a top secret news that the first stop of the provincial party committee's inspection was chosen in Donghua. Although we were dizzy and deaf, we were not completely unable to hear any movement outside..."

"Donghua has developed rapidly in recent years, and its rapid development can easily induce some serious problems and contradictions. Secretary Tian Jiageng is preparing for the future and the first stop of inspection is in Donghua. He also hopes that Donghua's development and construction can be more stable," said Chen Huai. "I have not interpreted other meanings..."

Cui Xiangdong ignored Chen Huai and said to Cheng Yi: "Song Hua was an old fox back then, with his tail hidden deep. Chen Huai was a little fox. If you want to live with him in the future, you have to be more careful - what this brat is best at is selling you, and you still count the money for him ignorantly..."

Seeing Cui Xiangdong and Chen Huai bickering, Cheng Yi just smiled with her lips and said, "Grandpa Cui, I remember what you said. I promise not to ask Chen Huai to sell me and count the money for him..."

Cui Xiangdong nodded and said, "Among so many girls in Yanjing, you say you are good-minded, and it's hard for Chen Huai to abduct you - you are also an old fox, so you should let Chen Huai fight with him; I'm not convinced of my old age."

Cheng Yi looked at Chen Huai with a smile. I believe Cui Xiangdong has been paying attention to Mei Gang's development in recent years, and he should be able to guess what difficulties Mei Gang may be facing at present. He wants Chen Huai to contact her father directly.

Cui Xiangdong looked at Chen Huai with his eyes bulging for a while, and saw that he was still silent, he said, "If nothing really happened, you have already seen me here. I will still have a card game later, but I won't sit with you..."

Chen Huai touched his nose twice and said, "I heard that the Huaihai Fleet has a plan to build a new base, and it is still in the site selection stage. Have the fleet leaders consulted with your veteran cadres about these issues?"

"You kid hide the fox's tail and won't leak it out?" Cui Xiangdong said proudly, "It's true that you have any bad intentions, pour it out quickly..."

"What bad intentions can I have," Chen Huai smiled. "I just wanted to strive to build a new base in Xiapu, which would facilitate places to support national defense construction more effectively. Xiapu has port resources, and the shipbuilding industry is also developing rapidly. The coastal defense highway and the east extension of Xudong Railway are under construction, and the infrastructure is becoming increasingly perfect. These are all in line with the requirements of the navy to build a new base. If the fleet decides to build a base in Xiapu, Xiapu will not only draw a section of the shoreline out, but also help the fleet build a dock and a shipbuilding base together..."

"You boy, you're missing too much now," Cui Xiangdong said. "In theory, national defense construction land can be allocated directly from local governments for free, but I have never seen local governments take the initiative. If local governments want to scrape oil from national defense funds, they are also rare..."

"Now the national defense funding is difficult, and local governments have the obligation to support it," said Chen Huai. "The construction of coastal defense highways is not a big deal yet? Why didn't Mr. Cui suspect that I had bad intentions last time, and this time I always suspect that I had bad intentions?"

Cui Xiangdong ignored Chen Huai, looked at Cheng Yi, and asked, "Can I believe what this kid said?"

Although Cheng Yi has no intention of engaging in politics, she has been influenced by her since childhood and is still clear about the power structure and operation mode of the country. At this time, she understood Chen Huai’s intention:

Now some people are making a fuss about Xiapu’s illegal land acquisition. Although the Ministry of Agriculture did not directly send a working group to investigate, but transferred the materials to the provincial party committee for processing, this top-down pressure always exists. If the provincial party committee’s handling cannot satisfy some people, and if someone continues to stare at this matter, the incident may rise to a higher level and the problem will become more complicated and difficult.

Chen Huai's idea was that since these people were making a fuss about Xiapu's illegal land acquisition, he assigned part of the expropriated land to the Navy for base construction, so that the water would be muddy - and those who wanted to continue muddy water would be restrained because they could not understand the military's attitude.

Of course, when Xiapu has obviously become a whirlpool of struggles between forces in all aspects, even if the conditions given by Chen Huai are tempting, the possibility of the military taking the initiative to wade into muddy waters is not high. Whether the support of Cui Xiangdong and other elderly people has become particularly important.

Looking at Cui Xiangdong "forced" Cheng Yi, Chen Huai raised his hand and surrendered: "Oh, yes, I tell the truth to Mr. Cui, I didn't do anything wrong. If I don't say it, I don't know why Mr. Cui, you misunderstood me, bullying men and women in Xiapu..."

"Then you say," Cui Xiangdong said, "You kid can make the accounts very well every time. This time you put on a heavy bleeding posture. It is impossible for me to ask me not to doubt it. There must be some difficulties that I can't get over, so I came over to design and drag my old bones into muddy water..."

"I'm not as unbearable as Mr. Cui," Chen Huai said with a shy face. "I hope the Navy can build the base in Xiapu, and there are reservations for the shoreline planning. It's not that I'm just cramming - now I've taken the plan a little bit, and it's really a miss."

Chen Huai will tell Cui Xiangdong about the various problems caused by illegal land acquisition and said, "The county is a bit radical in land acquisition. The key is that the industrial zone needs to be spread along the coastline. The townships and villages involved are relatively scattered. The planning scope does exceed the requirements of provincial development zones, which has caused the county to retain a large amount of arable land. Although the county has been preparing to apply for a national development zone since last year, this matter has not yet been achieved. I can only admit it by grabbing the pigtails for others. Of course, although the county has walked a little fast in crossing the river by feeling the stones, some principles are still adhered to. The land used is managed by a wholly state-owned management company, and the bidding and auction procedures are also being improved. In addition to being used in infrastructure, the land income obtained is gradually increasing the resettlement subsidy for demolished people, at least there is no major conflict among the people. At present, when the domestic economic policies are relaxed, local governments are encouraged to be bolder, but when the economic policies are tightened, they will catch local governments and kill chickens to scare monkeys - I personally don't care, but if Xiapu is taken out this time, I will create a typical example, not to mention Donghua, I am worried that the whole province will be affected. I stayed in Xucheng these two days, and Secretary Tian Jiageng wanted to meet me after coming back from a meeting in Yanjing..."

"You kid are too brave and have a wild way," Cui Xiangdong sighed when he heard Chen Huai talk about the whole story, "I fell into trouble on this back then, but you kid obviously cannot learn from others' lessons. You show me the detailed materials. I am so old that I can't fool you into a bunch of lies..."

"I want to show you the materials you always have. I may have made up the materials you are old," Chen Huai smiled. "You always want to see the materials you reported to the Ministry of Agriculture, right?"
Chapter completed!