After drinking, it was already dark. Ji Chengxi accompanied Chen Huai to drink tea and drink wine at the county guesthouse to discuss things. Tan Jun couldn't interfere with anything, and could not stay in the guesthouse and not leave. He could only go to Ji Chengxi's home not far from the county guesthouse to sleep first.

However, Tan Jun was not sleepy either, so he sat with her sister-in-law Chai Li in the living room and talked.

Ji Chengxi walked back from the guesthouse until one o'clock in the morning. When he went into the house and took off his shoes, he saw Tan Jun still sitting in the living room and asked, "Why haven't you been sleeping yet?"

"I have rarely seen my sister-in-law once for half a year now, so I naturally have endless things to say when I meet." Tan Jun said with a snorkeling.

Ji Chengxi smiled, took off her coat and hung it on the clothes rack, pushed the door to the small bedroom, saw her son curled up in the quilt and was sleeping soundly, so she retreated to the living room, took a cushion, sat down on the floor, rubbing the Sun Hall.

Seeing her husband's tired look, Chai Li asked, "Didn't she say she's so tired when drinking tea and quenching wine?"

"Before, everyone said that among the juniors of the Song family, Song Hongqi was a bit like a climax. Now it seems that everyone still underestimates the potential of the Song family," Ji Chengxi sighed, "Chen Huai is a truly cunning fox. How can you not struggle if you say something to such a little fox for such a long time?"

"You are just talking and hiding things, and you can tell them clearly, but you just go around in three circles?" Tan Jun commented bluntly, "You are going around, don't talk about you anymore. I'm sitting next to you and listening, and I feel tired."

Ji Chengxi smiled. No matter how many comrades the other party is with you, politics is first of all to serve interests. Before you have certain certainty, who dares to express your bottom line first? Otherwise, if you sell it, yin it, and laugh it out loud, that would be a tragedy.

Chai Li knew that her husband was tired and excited, and it was difficult to fall asleep, so she did not rush to urge him to go to bed. She said, "You racked your brains to build the Jinhe Line, and I also wanted everyone to give up prejudices and do things together. Your thoughts can be understood by the people around you, but Chen Huai has a big heart. You have also said that it is dangerous to cooperate with people who are too big..."

"Some people have a big heart, but they don't have the corresponding strength, so they can only play conspiracies and harm others for their own benefit," said Ji Chengxi. "I believe that Chen Huai's gaze will not be so short-sighted. His actions during this period may be a flick of a shot, but as long as they find a place where interests are consistent, there may not be no possibility of cooperation."

Tan Jun stared at Ji Chengxi curiously. Although there were occasionally people in Yanjing mentioned Chen Huai in conversation now, she did not expect Cheng Xi to think about Chen Huai so deeply. She really wanted to know what kind of cunning Chen Huai was in Cheng Xi's eyes. After hearing this, she was even more interested and reluctant to go back to the room to sleep. She interrupted and asked, "I'm in Yanjing. Some people said that Chen Huai might not be able to survive in Huaihai. Brother, why did you say that he was a fake shot?"

"If you can find out what he did in the UK this time and who he met with, you will know if he was a fake shot." Ji Chengxi smiled.

Tan Jun pouted and said, "I want to lie to Sister Cheng Yi to help you find out the news, so I am not that easy to lie."

Ji Chengxi smiled and said, "Even Cheng Yi may not know anything; if Cheng Yi could know the details, Chen Huai would not have to be so complicated."

Tan Jun thought for a while before he realized what Ji Chengxi said. He rubbed his head and shouted, "I won't talk to you anymore. It's too brain-consuming. I don't want to aging before I get old."

Chai Li laughed. She also knew that she could not find any useful news from Cheng Yi. After all, the current relationship between Cheng Yi and Chen Huai was also forced to be connected due to the requirements of the Song Dynasty. Otherwise, if she was so close that she would talk about marriage, Chen Huai would be able to get Cheng Wenguang's direct support. Some things would not be so passive, and she would need to hide her true intentions at all times.

Chai Li knew that her husband still had an appreciation for Chen Huai. She held Tan Jun's hand and said with a smile: "Chen Huai is smart, but unfortunately she is not very good, otherwise you can go on a blind date with him."

closure

"Why are you getting involved with me again?" Tan Jun said unyieldingly, "It's terrible to think about political marriage. It's rare that you have such a good relationship after marriage with my brother. I would rather not get married in this life than follow the mercy of my family to have a blind date."

"What do you think about in your mind? It's just a blind date. Can you tie up who you are to marry? You should try to make you satisfied?" Ji Chengxi said, looking at the wall clock on the wall, and said, "It's so late, go to bed quickly and let your sister-in-law take you to have fun in Qinghe for two days, so that you can't say bad things about us when you go back."

"I won't say bad things about you, either, I will say bad things about my sister-in-law," Tan Jun stood up silly, ran to the bathroom to wash, and went back to the guest room to go to bed first.

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Ji Chengxi took a hot bath, changed into pajamas, and returned to the bedroom. Before she could sleep, she leaned against the head of the bed to think about things. Chai Li hugged her husband's generous back from behind and said, "Chen Huai likes to go against the sword. It would be fine if Tan Qiping doesn't allow him, but he doesn't like him either. If you really cooperate with him, I'm really worried."

"Have you noticed that Chen Huai turned against Tan Qiping in Donghua last time, which made the Song family have to call him back to Yanjing to teach him a lesson. In fact, the Song family's attitude was vague, so that the attitudes of He Dai and the others were also ambiguous?" Ji Chengxi asked his wife.

"There are some of this tendencies," Chai Li said, "but Song Bingsheng, Su Weijun, and Tan Qiping are a relatively stable iron triangle in Huaihai Province. Song Bingsheng is responsible for contacting the province and Song factions in Huaihai Province. Su Weijun can contact the free forces in Huaihai Province. Tan Qiping is gradually strengthening his strength and naturally tends to local powerhouses of the Song factions. The Song faction has such a structure in Huaihai Province. On the surface, it cannot compete with Tian Jiageng and Zhao Qiuhua, but it is still not to be overlooked. If Chen Huai can become bigger and stronger under such a structure, it will be very beneficial to the Song faction's fundamentals, but it is too difficult to control. If he had a quarrel with Tan Qiping, he would have to give up his solid foundation in Donghua. I can't imagine that anyone within the Song faction would be satisfied with his behavior..."

"In the future, it is unrealistic to control who we want to control. More importantly, we have to consider who we can influence. Chen Huai seems to have cut a large piece of his solid territory in Donghua, but if he secretly made a move in the UK this time, he could make up for the losses and even have wealth in other parts of the Song Dynasty, then what would the Song Dynasty attitude towards him?" Ji Chengxi asked.

"Are you planning to let Meigang and Huaineng participate deeply in the construction of the Jinhe Line and the Jihe River Port?" Chai Li asked.

Ji Chengxi did not directly answer his wife's question and said, "The most important thing about Chen Huai is that it is often easy to ignore. It is not that he can bring in a lot of capital. On the contrary, a large amount of capital is willing to follow him, mainly because he can make capital take root at the fastest speed in the local area and reconcile the interests between foreign capital and local factions. At the same time, he is good at industrial layout and construction. Things that others cannot do or have to work hard to accomplish can become easy in his hands - this ability is often easily overlooked by others - he has this kind of He was naturally unwilling to let down his abilities. Tan Qiping thought that he would go to the control and not have conflicts. I used to be in the State Council and didn’t think that this ability was amazing, but after I got to the local area, I deeply felt that this ability was valuable. I really hope that he could not survive in Donghua. It would be easier to find him to cooperate with him like this. Even if he was asked to preside over the construction of the Jinhe Line, there was no problem. However, the situation is becoming more and more obvious now. Chen Huai should have other intentions behind his actions during this period."

"..." Chai Li looked up at her husband.

"Mei Gang, Huaineng seems to be making big strides now, but on the other hand, it is not just a matter of retracting his arm and pinching it into a tighter fist," said Ji Chengxi. "This time he went to the UK, his whereabouts were strange, and he should have met some capital parties in private. Of course, I cannot bring the focus of his planning behind the scenes to Jihe, but I may not be able to cooperate with him."

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In the guest room, Chen Huai was not sleepy at all, so he asked Chu Qiang to find a map of southern Hebei and sit under the lamp to study.

He can't find more materials about the east-to-south route of Shanxi Coal now, so he can only guess some clues from geographical form.

"Ji Chengxi really wants Lahuai to participate in the construction of Jihe Port with Meigang," Chu Qiang is the only few people who know the plan of Shenhuai to open a comprehensive plan. He sighed with regret, "It's a pity that Jin coal goes east, which is not in line with the interests of Huaihai Province, otherwise he can really cooperate."

The East China region is not without coal resources. Although the coal reserves in western Huaihai are not as rich as those in the four northwest provinces, the total reserves are also as huge as tens of billions of tons.

However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the industrial focus of the entire country was in North China and Northeast China, making the geography close to North China. Jin coal in Northeast China was more fully developed, and relatively complete railway lines and ports could export coal outwards.

The southeast coastal economy only truly rose after reform and opening up, but at the beginning it was still dominated by light industry and emerging industries. Heavy industry is not as large as North China and Northeast China.

This industrial pattern formed over the past few decades has strong inertia. In addition, Huaihai Province's own economic development lags behind, so the development of coal resources in the province is doubled. There is no construction of railways, highways, and river ports around the coal area, and neither can produce quantities nor transport them.

The Shanxi Coal East-to-South Line Channel has been planned for nearly ten years, but the construction has not yet started yet; the large-scale development of Huai Coal is naturally nowhere to be seen, and it depends entirely on the accumulation and investment of local provinces and cities, and the growth rate is extremely slow.

But after all, if Huaineng and Meigang take root in Huaihai and fully participate in the use and development of Huaihai Province's resources, it will be more in line with their own interests.
Chapter completed!