During the next three days in Beijing, in addition to He, Dai and relevant officials from the Ministry of Railways, before Chen Huai left Beijing, he also went to Cui's house and met Cui Yongping.

Mr. Cui lives in the naval retreat in Xucheng for many years and ignores his son and daughter-in-law. However, as a son, Cui Yongping cannot ignore the old man in Xucheng. Cui Yongping and his wife cannot get time. Knowing that Chen Huai is going back to Xucheng, his lover called him and asked him to help bring some clothes and some dry goods back to Xucheng.

Because of old grudges, the relationship between Cui and Song families has always been distant and he would not say hello when they meet. Chen Huai visited Cui family several times, and Cui Yongping was expressionless when he saw him.

When he arrived at the Cui family, Chen Huai took the big bag of things he wanted to bring from Cui Yongping's lover and put them in the trunk of the car. The lights were on in the study and someone was talking inside. Chen Huai had no intention of finding an opportunity to contact Cui Yongping at this time, so he said goodbye to Cui Yongping's lover and planned to leave.

However, when Chen Huai said goodbye and was about to leave, Cui Yongping walked out of the study and asked about the coastal defense road.

"The old man called here a few days ago and said that the local government was thinking about rebuilding the Huaihai Bay Sea Defense Highway." Cui Yongping stood in front of the corridor and made a magnetic film. "The old man said he wanted to send the materials. I don't know if there was any problem with the postal service. The materials have not been sent for the past two days. You have the relevant information in your hand now..."

Although the reconstruction of the Huaihai Bay coastal defense road was mentioned by Mr. Chen Huai and Mr. Cui Xiangdong, the coastal defense road of more than 260 kilometers is less than 40 kilometers in Xiapu. Including the mileage in Xinjin County, it is less than 100 kilometers. Therefore, it is officially necessary to jointly build the coastal defense road. Xiapu County proposed that it is OK. In the end, the province will take the lead. Even if the military responds positively, it will provide feedback to the province.

Chen Huai spread his hands and said, "I didn't expect to report this time to Uncle Cui, and I didn't have any relevant information on it. If Uncle Cui, you want to know the relevant information, I probably remember some of it. After I go back, I will send you a detailed copy of Uncle Cui..."

"Okay, then come in and talk to us." Cui Yongping opened the door of the study and asked Chen Huai to speak in his study.

The middle-aged man who had been chatting with Cui Yongping in the study just now leaned over and said with a smile: "You are Chen Huai. I often hear Cheng Xi and Xiao Wu mention you, but I have never had the chance to meet you..."

Chen Huai looked at the other party's medium figure, wide face, wearing a major general's ejaculation, and his face looked a bit similar to Ji Chengxi.

Although the Ji Group has a great influence in politics and three members of the central team came from the Ji Group, the direct sons and nephews of the Ji Group mainly developed in the army. Only in Ji Chengxi's generation did they have the tendency to return to politics. Chen Huai couldn't guess who was the middle-aged man with the title at least in front of him.

"I am Ji Yanxin." Ji Yanxin knew that Chen Huai might not be able to recognize him. He owed his body and took the initiative to introduce himself, saying, "Cheng Xi happened to be in Yanjing these two days. Have you contacted him?"

"Hello Uncle Ji," Chen Huai greeted him, and then he realized that the other party was the old and youngest of the Ji family. Ji Yanxin, who served as the General Secretary with Cui Yongping, said, "I don't know that Cheng Xi has returned to Yanjing these two days and has not contacted him yet."

When it comes to Ji Chengxi, Chen Huai is also ashamed of his heart. Even if he knows that he returns to Beijing, Chen Huai will choose to hide.

In addition to the longer-term stimulation effect of Xudong Railway's electrification transformation and duplexing projects, the most direct effect is that they can greatly promote the large-scale export of Huai Coal through Xinpu Port. The direct interests of the Song Group and Huai Neng Group will also be reflected in the four words "Huai Coal Output East".

In fact, there is a direct competitive relationship between the Huai Coal East Exit Project through Xudong Railway and Xinpu Port and the Jin Coal East Exit South Exit Project that the Ji family is actively promoting.

Moreover, when Chen Huai returned to Beijing this time, it would be impossible for him to hide the news about the Xudong Railway. If Ji Chengxi was well-informed, he might have known about this at this time.

Although Chen Huai believes that there should be legitimate and reasonable competition between the localities and factions, who knows what others will think, so Chen Huai is also a little afraid of seeing Ji Chengxi.

"I just talked to Lao Cui about the Huaihai Bay coastal defense road. Your local work has been excellent..." Ji Yanxin seemed to have no idea about the Xudong Railway, and he raised his feet to pull the topic on the coastal defense road.

"I was also a coincidence and made some achievements on the shoulders of others. In fact, Huaihai Province is currently in a momentum that needs to be made in a great way. If others change it, it will be easy to achieve results," said Chen Huai. "Now the province should vigorously develop Xinpu into a comprehensive hub port. The improvement of the peripheral road network is the core part of the infrastructure project. Rebuilding the coastal defense highway will provide Xinpu Port with a vertical main transportation road, which will greatly promote the closer connection between Xinpu Port and the cities and counties along the Huaihai Bay, and is very important for the economic development of coastal cities and counties. Therefore, not only Xiapu County, but also the municipal and provincial governments attach great importance to this project..."

The coastal defense highway has extremely high value in national defense combat preparations. If you don’t need to say this in detail, it will seem ulterior motives. He only needs to reveal the positive intentions of the local area.

"The coastal defense road is about 40 kilometers in Xiapu County. Several comrades of our county party committee have discussed it initially and think that we can invest in the construction of all the coastal defense roads in our county, but other sections of the coastal defense road that are almost 220 kilometers long have to coordinate with the city and the province..."

Ji Yanxin and Cui Yongping looked at each other, and their smiles were a little bitter.

There was no disrespect in Chen Huai's words, but it also pointed out the embarrassment and difficulties of the military at this time.

Military expenditure has not increased much for almost ten years, and in the past decade, inflation will more than double, which means that military expenditure has actually shrunk significantly.

At present, national defense is mainly committed to developing nuclear weapons technology to ensure sufficient deterrence, and expenditures on conventional equipment have always been seriously insufficient.

With less than 100 billion military spending, it is really hard to maintain national defense and armament with three million troops.

Several large naval fleets even had to tighten their belts for repairing warships. They really didn't have enough time to invest in the construction of coastal combat readiness roads, but some combat readiness roads would not work without repairing them, and they were more likely to rely on local governments to contribute.

Not all honest people are there in the local area. Even if the construction of some combat readiness roads is beneficial, if you have the opportunity to extort funds from the military, you will not give up the opportunity easily. Cui Yongping, who has worked in the logistics support department for a long time, has the most experience of this.

It is rare to find a place as pleasant as Chen Huai, where the construction funds for the 40-kilometer coastal defense highway in the territory are under management.

"It seems that the coastal defense highway in Xiapu County may start construction first?" Ji Yanxin asked.

"This depends on when the province communicates with Uncle Ji, Uncle Cui. As long as the planning and design plan can be approved by the military, our county section projects can be launched at any time." Chen Huai said that the outer road network of Xinpu Port lacks vertical road support. Chen Huai's anxious mood is no less than Cui and Ji, but it is not useful for him to be anxious about national defense preparations and connections with other municipal and county sections.

However, Chen Huai believes that the military cannot deliberately delay it. It may delay it for a while due to its inherent disadvantages. If we can start directly from Cui Yongping and Ji Yanxin, things will indeed be much faster.

"The General Manager has a certain combat readiness road construction task every year. The coastal defense road in Huaihai Bay can be implemented in advance. The General Manager naturally supports it. Otherwise, he would not be able to wait for the materials to be sent, so he will catch you and ask about the situation. We will also take the initiative to contact Huaihai Province in this matter," Cui Yongping said, "By the General Manager also has a construction team. Since the military and civilian construction is jointly built, we will also actively participate..."

Chen Huai glanced at Cui Yongping and thought to himself: Huaihai Bay Sea Defense Highway is built with the standard of a second-class highway. The total number is at most 400 million yuan. It would be fine if the general manager didn't pay, but he still wanted to take certain projects. As for it?

But thinking about it, it may be that the military expenditure is too tight, and the team to be raised cannot be reduced, so that Cui Yongping, who has never had much smile on him, even as a major general, had to scrape some meat off the legs of each mosquito.

However, Chen Huai was also surprised that Cui Yongping was not responsible for the engineering and construction department of the General Secretary. Why did he intervene in this matter?

Chen Huai was confused, but he didn't stop and said, "Well, the quality of the project made by the General Consultant's team is always trustworthy. However, I am not familiar with the General Consultant's Engineering Construction Department. Otherwise, in addition to the Haifang Highway, some port projects in Xinpu, I would also like to contact the engineering detachment under the Engineering Construction Department..."

Chen Huai said this, and Ji Yanxin coughed awkwardly.

Cui Yongping smiled and said, "So you didn't know that Ji Yanxin is the deputy director of the General Office of Engineering and Construction..."

"Is that?" The military and political system was complex. Chen Huai had rarely been involved in Yanjing's people and affairs before. Some personnel and affairs were far less clear than Song Hongqi and the others. He rashly contacted Ji Yanxin. Chen Huai really didn't know that he was in charge of engineering construction affairs in the General Secretary. Only then did he realize that Cui Yongping suddenly walked out of the study and called him to ask about the Haiping Highway. He felt that this question was a bit abrupt, and then said, "That's great. I really want to ask Uncle Ji to recommend several excellent engineering teams."

However, Chen Huai was hesitant again. If Ji Yanxin knew about the Xudong Railway and knew that they were planning the matter of Huaimei East, would he still have the active intention to get involved in the construction of Xinpu Port and the peripheral road network?
Chapter completed!