Xiong Daini also has close ties with the Municipal Steel Factory. She lived with her family in the Municipal Steel Factory’s family district when she was a girl. She studied in the Municipal Steel Factory’s children’s middle school in the high school. She even liked and later got married and had daughters. She was a young man from the Municipal Steel Factory.

After knowing that such a heavy blowout accident occurred in the city steel mill, Xiong Daini felt uncomfortable; after the list of dead workers came out, she even knew several people; but she knew her father felt even worse.

Although her father was transferred from the city steel mill for many years and rarely mentioned the city steel mill at home, Xiong Daini knew that her father had been concerned about the fate of the city steel mill in recent years.

Tan Qiping went to Donghua to serve as the secretary of the municipal party committee, and also asked her father to usher in a peak in his career, but she saw that her father usually studied some research reports on the steel industry at home and abroad.

After all, her father did not expect to get promoted and make a fortune, and he was more willing to return to the city steel mill to do a career.

However, Tan Qiping did not trust local officials from the bottom of his heart. Then her father was transferred to the position of director of the Political Research Office and returned to the city steel factory to preside over the work again.

Xiong Daini didn't know why Shen Huai was anxious to see her father today, so she was so mysterious and shameful. At this time, she subconsciously thought:

Gu Tong was removed from his post due to concealing the accident and the explosion accident. Executive Vice Mayor Liang Xiaolin and Deputy Director of the Municipal Planning Commission Han Shouchun also served as chairman and general manager of the Municipal Steel Group. This is just a temporary arrangement in the city. The city will eventually send a suitable candidate to clean up the mess of the Municipal Steel; and this suitable candidate is most likely her father.

Xiong Daini thought that when she arrived in Nanyuan just now, her father was looking for the municipal party secretary Tan Qiping to talk to her. Has Tan Qiping already talked to her father about the new personnel appointment of the Municipal Steel Group?

Although Xiong Daini didn't want her father to return to Shigang again, she couldn't say anything, so she just sat quietly aside and watched her father talk to Shen Huai.

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It was only at night that Xiao Jian received a call from his son-in-law Zhao Dong, saying that Shen Huai wanted to invite Xiong Wenbin to dinner at his house and asked him to help prepare some casually.

When Xiao Jian learned that Shen Huai was going to meet Xiong Wenbin with his family, he became sensitively aware that it was related to the 12.9 explosion accident in the Municipal Steel Group. He did not ask any more questions to his son-in-law on the phone, so he pushed down the evening social event and rushed home to prepare.

There were no delicacies prepared, there were home-cooked dishes on the table, and there were two bottles of Jian Nanchun.

Xiao Jian didn't interfere anything, but just sat next to him to help pour wine and hand over cigarettes. When he heard Shen Huai's dissuasion of Xiong Wenbin to interfere in Shigang, he was shocked and thought to himself, did Mei Gang want to take this opportunity to merge with Shigang Group?

If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible. After the new factory is completed, Meigang will have an annual production capacity of more than 800,000 tons. Even if this accident occurs in the Municipal Steel Corporation, its annual production capacity will be about 600,000 tons.

If Shigang cannot withstand the blowout accident on 12.9, it would be better than imagined that Meigang will merge and reorganize Shigang.

Although the municipal party secretary Tan Qiping may not be willing to see such a situation, things are not always under the control of Tan Qiping.

In addition to its main steelmaking business and dozens of tertiary companies, Shigang also involves the rise and fall of dozens of affiliated enterprises - Shigang Group. In addition to the livelihoods of tens of thousands of employees, it also involves the safety of hundreds of millions of financial loans from many financial institutions in provinces and cities. No matter who is the secretary of the municipal party committee or mayor, he dare not let Shigang be the stall in his own hands.

If the city had all the ways to save Shigang, Chen Huai was attacked in advance, maybe in the end, the city would take the initiative to ask Chen Huai to come forward to clean up the mess of Shigang.

Chen Huai's intention to meet Xiong Wenbin with his family today was this? Xiao Jian was secretly speculating in his heart, and the more he speculated, the more shocked he became.

"Even if the Shigang collapses, you can't defeat Tan Qiping..." Xiong Wenbin sat down and took out half of the cigarette. He knew that Chen Huai and Tan Qiping were incompatible, and there was something about him. However, he still didn't want Shigang to become a tool for Chen Huai and Tan Qiping to fight fiercely.

Xiong Wenbin knew that he owed Chen Huai a great favor, and maybe he would not pay it back in his life, but the rise and fall of Shigang involves the livelihoods of tens of thousands of employees' families, and he was unwilling to see Shigang collapse.

Xiong Wenbin's words also made Xiao Jian even more frightened. He looked at Chen Huai in surprise and thought to himself: Is Chen Huai's purpose not to merge with Shigang, but to make Shigang collapse and take the opportunity to overthrow Tan Qiping?

But Chen Huai looked calm and told Xiao Jian that he could not see any abnormality.

Chen Huai twisted the cigarette butt into the ashtray and said, "I know Lao Xiong, you have feelings for Shigang, but Zhao Dong, Pan Cheng, Xu Wendao, and Xu Xiting, who have no feelings for Shigang? Lao Xiong, do you think they will agree to me to destroy Shigang?"

"..." Xiong Wenbin said, "There are too many problems accumulated in the past few years. I am not very clear now. If you lift up the shell of Shigang, what kind of assets can be left behind. I don't know. In addition to owing nearly 600 million yuan in loans from various banks, how many hidden debts do not surface. But it is obvious that if no one stands up for Shigang at this time, Shigang will find it difficult to overcome this hurdle. Meigang is a hot potato, this mess, and Meigang is unwilling to take over. Of course, I don't think I have the ability to save Shigang's fate, but I can't bear to stand by and watch Shigang collapse in front of me."

"Old Xiong, you are concerned about it," Chen Huai could understand Xiong Wenbin's feelings for Shigang, so today, after knowing that the report on the Shigang accident was released, he borrowed the Xiao Jian family to urgently meet Xiong Wenbin to stop him from going to this muddy water. "Some things, I can't tell you too clearly, but I have a different judgment on Shigang. If I tell you, you don't care about Shigang's life or death, but you can give Shigang a glimmer of hope. Will you reject Tan Qiping's request to take over Shigang?"

After hearing Chen Huai's words, Xiong Wenbin realized something. After a long time of silence, he sighed long, as if he had grown a lot of years at this moment, and said, "I think I know what you mean. I have been away from Shigang for so many years. It is indeed not something I can do to save Shigang. I should have this self-knowledge," Looking at the table full of wine and food, Xiong Wenbin couldn't have an appetite. He held the table with his hands and said, "At the end of the year, there are still a lot of materials to organize people to write. I will go back first and will not drink with you, Zhao Dong and Director Xiao."

"Director Xiong, look at what you said, who am I the director?" Xiao Jian said with an embarrassing smile. Although he is the deputy director of the District Investment and Merchants Bureau, he knows that he is valued by others in the district at this time, more because he has Zhao Dong, the son-in-law. He still has this self-knowledge. No matter how unhappy Xiong Wenbin is, he is still many times stronger than Xiao Jian.

Chen Huai knew that it would be painful for Xiong Wenbin to stand by and watch Shigang at this time. Seeing that he was unwilling to stay and drink, he did not force him to keep him. He stood up with Zhao Dong and said to him: "I officially resigned from the position of chairman at the board of directors of Meigang Group today. Two days later, the Meigang Association will hold a board meeting to re-elect a new chairman. Lao Xiong, are you willing to retire from the city now and lead the development of Meigang?"

Hearing Chen Huai's words, Xiong Daini was stunned for a moment and looked at Chen Huai in surprise. She didn't understand why Chen Huai resigned from Mei Gang, nor why Chen Huai suddenly invited her father to lead Mei Gang, or even if he was joking.

However, when Xiong Wenbin heard Chen Huai's invitation, he did not hesitate. He shook his head and refused Chen Huai's invitation and said, "I can't do anything to the city steel, so what qualifications do I have to lead Mei Gang?"

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Xiong Daini opened her umbrella and blocked the raindrops above her father's head. She looked at her father's eyes scattered at the road in front of her feet, and there was an indescribable loneliness in her eyes.

Xiong Daini didn't know why Chen Huai wanted to stop her father from taking over the Municipal Gang Group, nor why Chen Huai resigned from Mei Gang's position, nor why Chen Huai invited her father to lead Mei Gang, nor did she understand why her father refused Chen Huai's invitation without hesitation.

When he walked to the door of Nanyuan, Xiong Wenbin looked up at the sky. The rain was getting lighter. He said to his eldest daughter Daini, "Okay, are you going back?"

"Does Tan Qiping really want you to go to Shigang?" Xiong Daini couldn't help but ask in curiosity.

"I didn't say it clearly," Xiong Wenbin said, "but he asked me to talk to you this afternoon, so he should have this meaning..."

Xiong Daini didn't ask why Chen Huai stopped her father from going to Shigang. Although she also had feelings for Shigang, Shigang had also caused her family to suffer for so many years. Moreover, Shigang is obviously a mess at the moment. She doesn't want to see her father's final life beating in Shigang's mud pit.

She asked, "Dad, since you promised Chen Huai not to go to Shigang, why don't you go to Meigang? Are you worried about Tan Qiping's opinion?"

"It doesn't matter what Tan Qiping thinks," Xiong Wenbin smiled bitterly and said, "But since I don't go back to Shigang, what's the point of leaving the city to Meigang at this time?"

Xiong Daini stood by the roadside and watched her father walk into Nanyuan before turning around and walking towards the bus stop.

When she walked to the bus stop, Xiong Daini suddenly didn't want to rush back, but held an umbrella and walked slowly in the rain. She silently thought about her family and her entanglement with Shigang over the years, and walked to the tower cemetery without realizing it.

Looking at the pagoda piercing into the dark misty rain in the tower cemetery, Xiong Daini hesitated for a while, nodded to the gatekeeper and walked towards the tower cemetery.

She didn't think Zhou Ming had any thoughts before, and she had never been to the Ta Cemetery once. Looking back on the past, it was two and a half years ago that Haiwen had passed away unexpectedly. She couldn't help but ask: If Haiwen was still alive, how would he think about the current situation in Shigang?

Xiong Daini asked the staff about the seat where Sun Haiwen was placed, and walked towards the tower cemetery. When she climbed the East Tower, she saw Chen Huai standing in front of Sun Haiwen's ashes smoking with his back to the door, and was stupid there.

She didn't understand why Chen Huai ran to her again, and was still standing in front of Sun Haiwen's tablet to smoke...
Chapter completed!