Chapter 817 Something happened

The banquet was held at the Meiyuan Hotel, the provincial government hospitality hotel. Both sides were government officials from both places. Zhang Ke rushed to the Meiyuan Hotel almost until the banquet ended.

Meiyuan was a building in the early days of the Republic of China. It was once a private residence of Kuomintang officials. After liberation, it has been an entertainment hotel for the Donghai Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government.

The plum blossom mountain is surrounded by the plum blossom mountain. Although the plum blossom mountain in Jianye is not as good as the ten-mile fragrant snow sea in Huishan, it is also a good place to enjoy the plum blossoms. At this time, the Meishan flowers have nowhere to see except for the sparse and slanted branches. Instead, the peach blossoms all over the mountains and hills are very beautiful. Zhang Ke, Zhai Danqing and Zhou You met and waited for a while in the hall converted into the side room of the Meiyuan Garden. Tao Jin did not attend the evening banquet. Li Yuanhu, Liang Weifa, Luo Jun, Zhao Youlun, Lu Wenfu and others left the banquet there and rushed here.

Zhang Ke, Liang Weifa and Zhao Youlun met for the second time, but there was nothing unfamiliar with each other and began to talk about many topics of regional economic cooperation.

The lower reaches of the small river, which is in an inverted shape, gathers five of the most important cities in the two provinces, Jianye, Huishan, Haizhou, Jinshan and Changting in the south of the Yangtze River. These five cities are very early. Changting and Jianye are the farthest apart, but only 260 kilometers apart. The development potential of regional joint promotion is far greater than that of each other, and each other is much stronger than that of each other.

Jinhu has taken one step at a time to today, from the original corner of Haizhou to the most important Jianye and Huishan cities, the two cities in Donghai Province, have been industrially deployed. Now they have begun to invest in radial technology investment in major cities in China. It is not ruled out that they will invest in the construction of manufacturing bases in other regions. However, Zhang Ke always regarded the Xiaojiang River Basin as the foundation of Jinhu - neither limited to Haizhou nor the East China Sea, but the entire Xiaojiang River Basin. Perhaps the previous investment was concentrated in Jianye, Huishan, and Jianye, but Jinhu will also consider making appropriate investments in Jinshan, Changting and even Zhangzhou in the future.

Of course, if the two provinces are still limited to narrow regional economic competition, and Jinhu is unable to extricate themselves from large-scale industrial investment in Jinshan or Changting, even if Li Yuanhu, Luo Jun and others do not express any dissatisfaction, they will most likely feel resentful. At this time, they can consider the problem from the perspective of regional economic cooperation, and of course, it will be easier to accept Jinhu's industrial layout.

Zhang Ke also officially told Li Yuanhu that Luo Jun mentioned that Jinhu was planning to use huge funds to acquire Jinshan Chenxi Paper Group, which will use the acquisition of Chenxi Paper as a wedge to develop its industrial layout in Jiangnan Province.

Li Yuanhu and Luo Jun knew in their hearts how much resistance a private institution could face in acquiring large state-owned enterprises at present, and also knew that Kumho had lofty ambitions and could not ask Kumho to tie his hands and feet to only limit his development in the East China Sea. In front of Liang Weifa and Zhao Youlun, of course, he expressed support for Kumho's intention to acquire.

The preliminary preparations for the acquisition of Chenxi Paper were carried out under the name of joint venture negotiations between Yunyuan Paper, a subsidiary of the Guo Yunyuan Group in Malaysia, and Chenxi Paper. It has been nearly a month. The management of Chenxi Paper is not clear about the truth of the matter, and even the contacts in the name of joint ventures are in a relatively strict state of confidentiality. Only a few people in Jiangnan Province know that behind it is Jinhu who is interested in Chenxi Paper. Doing so also hopes to reduce the resistance that may be encountered in the early preparations.

The preliminary preparations were to have a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding of Chenxi Paper's financial and operating conditions, so as to facilitate the quotation of Jinhu for the wholly-owned acquisition. At this time, Zhou You came with Zhang Ke to represent Xinguang Paper to officially submit an offer to acquire Chenxi Paper to Liang Weifa.

The quotation of 2.2 billion is not lower than Liang Weifa’s own valuation of Chenxi Paper, and is even much higher than Liang Weifa’s expectations.

Although Chenxi Paper has quite good profits, its profits are completely obtained at the expense of the surrounding ecological environment. After deducting the ecological environment costs, Chenxi Paper will also cause considerable losses. Jinhu used this offer to acquire Chenxi Paper, and also promised to close the severely polluted straw pulp production line in response to national policies. It will also invest huge amounts of money to carry out comprehensive technical transformation and upgrading of the production line and industrial wastewater treatment facilities to ensure that Chenxi Paper's pollution problems are completely solved, and there is no additional tax requirement to avoid reducing local fiscal revenue.

Once Chenxi Paper, the main source of pollution in the Yinma River Basin, is completely solved, and the living environment of residents will be improved. In addition, the agricultural, forestry, fishery, shipping and tourism industries in the basin will recover, and Liang Weifa will calculate the economic accounts. However, at this time, he still had other concerns and said: "This is probably the largest private enterprise acquisition of state-owned assets in China so far, and the resistance should not be underestimated..."

Li Yuanhu and Luo Jun also agree with Liang Weifa's concerns. Domestic private enterprises acquire local state-owned assets frequently, but the scale and amount are extremely limited, which can be regarded as a pilot for local state-owned enterprise system reform. Such a large-scale private enterprises acquire state-owned assets may cause great controversy. Either Liang Weifa becomes a pioneer in promoting the reform of the state-owned system and prompts the acquisition case to be passed; or the acquisition case is rejected, the impact on Liang Weifa's political career will not be ignored. On the contrary, Jinhu has been greatly affected by politics.

"If this plan has too much resistance, Xinguang Paper has another plan," Zhang Ke fully considered Liang Weifa's concerns and said with a smile, "Xinguang Paper can jointly establish an overseas company with Malaysia's Yunyuan Paper, and then an overseas company will inject 1.8 billion into Chenxi Paper in exchange for 51% of its shares. Other relevant conditions will only make detailed adjustments and no major changes..."

In the joint venture, Chenxi Paper's assets are only estimated to be less than 1.8 billion yuan, but the wholly acquisition is as high as 2.2 billion yuan. The difference of 400 million yuan is the premium paid by Kumho for the wholly acquisition.

Liang Weifa took another joint venture offer delivered by Zhou You. Looking through, he weighed the differences in interests and resistance between the acquisition and the joint venture. Obviously, the resistance encountered by joint ventures in the name of overseas companies is much smaller, but the current thirst for the Jiangnan Provincial Government for funds has not been alleviated. Because if the joint venture is jointly issued, the 1.8 billion cash invested will be intercepted within Chenxi Paper for the development of the company itself, and the Jiangnan Provincial Government will not get a penny; if it is fully acquired by Jinhu, it means that the province will sell all the assets of Chenxi Paper to Jinhu for 2.2 billion, and the province will never interfere with Chenxi Paper's affairs after receiving cash.

Looking at Liang Weifa's eyes flowing with hesitant thoughts, Zhang Ke turned his words gently and said, "Governor Liang can only bring a plan back today. I wonder what choice you will make, Governor Liang?"

"I can only bring one back?" Liang Weifa looked at Zhang Ke in surprise. He thought about bringing the two plans back carefully to weigh the pros and cons, and even took the two plans to the provincial government office meeting or the provincial standing committee meeting for discussion. Unexpectedly, Jinhu was only willing to provide one plan for decision-making in Jiangnan Province. In other words, except for the main leaders of the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government, the other people could only see one plan he made here to choose. He couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

"We don't want to spend too long on Chenxi Paper. Once Chenxi Paper cannot go through this path, we also hope to choose other paths as soon as possible to accelerate the development of Xinguang Paper." Zhang Ke explained.

Indeed, providing two plans will cause the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government to waste too much time on weighing the pros and cons of the two plans. If the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government require the two plans to start negotiations at the same time, and the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government will eventually make a decision, Zhang Ke probably even had the intention to cry. Such negotiations will definitely not be discussed without a year or two. Just like when the joint venture negotiations between Samsung and Xiang Xuehai were held for one and a half years, Kumho finally had to make things worse.

However, Liang Weifa asked to make a decision at this time to choose one of the two, and Zhang Ke's attitude was tough enough. Luo Jun thought so in his heart, and looked at him with the change of eyes with Li Yuanhu. Seeing that there was no grudge on Li Yuanhu's face, he thought to himself: The conflict between Zhang Ke's question of whether to rush to invest in a pulp factory and Li Yuanhu may have faded away with time.

Li Yuanhu is quite strong-willed, and others appear in front of him in a strong manner, which is prone to conflict; Liang Weifa is a lenient person, and although he is a little surprised by Zhang Ke's request, he will not be disgusted. Of course, it is also related to the increasingly important position of Jinhu.

Zhao Youlun’s incident in Chenxi Paper Industry was unable to help Liang Weifa make any decisions. He even cooperated with Jinhu’s acquisition of Chenxi, but he would not reveal it in front of Liang Weifa.

Of course, this time, Zhang Ke rushed over to join in the fun, not just for Chenxi Paper. He said: "With Governor Li and Governor Liang are here, there is a situation to inform you..."

Liang Weifa was still having a headache and it was difficult to make decisions between the two plans submitted by Jinhu. At this time, he heard Zhang Ke solemnly say that he would inform other situations. He was a little more energetic and asked: "What do you say carefully is always a matter of my own concern..."

Li Yuanhu smiled slightly and asked, "What can I do?"

"It's not a serious matter. I just think this situation is necessary for the two governors to know about it," said Zhang Ke with a smile. "Zhou Jinxi, a professor at Donghai University, was commissioned by the State Council Rare Earth Office to conduct macroeconomic investigations and postgraduate entrance examinations on the adjustment of rare earths and other rare metal industry policies. Reliable news has confirmed that Zhou Jinxi has had close contacts with senior management of Kingsoft Huaxi and Sanjing Special Metals during this period. Perhaps Governor Liang is not very clear that Kingsoft Huaxi is the main channel for Zhangzhou to steal rare earth mineral resources to flow to the market..."

There are almost no minerals in the East China Sea, but Zhangzhou, Jiangnan, regards mining as its main pillar industry. As one of the two most important rare earth mineral resources in the country, Jiangnan Province has considerable voice in the issue of adjusting the rare earth industry policy.

From the perspective of local economy, the rare earth industry policy is adjusted from Zhou Jinxi's point of view, allowing private and foreign capital to enter, which can strengthen the scale of Zhangzhou's mining industry and is more beneficial to the development of Jiangnan and Zhangzhou's local economic development; of course, this benefit is limited to a period of four or five years, and is limited to the rapid growth of simple GDP economic growth.

Liang Weifa knew that simply pursuing rapid economic growth was not the most responsible attitude to the people of the province. Just like Chenxi Paper’s acquisition case, supporting Jinhu’s wholly-owned acquisition of Chenxi Paper is the most appropriate way, but this involves certain conflicts with the old economy and political system, which will make it difficult to move forward...

At first, Zhai Danqing was a little confused about Zhang Ke's choice of rare earth problem and raised it to Liang Weifa. Seeing that Liang Weifa was in deep thought, he realized that Zhang Ke was a dangerous move. Either Liang Weifa chose to retreat and be conservative, or he showed a politician spirit to deeply govern the economic system of Jiangnan Province with a more responsible and daring attitude.

Seeing the current situation, Li Yuanhu knew that Jinhu had a deep study of Liang Weifa, so he raised two difficult questions in this situation. In addition, Zhang Ke didn't seem to mind that others thought he would avenge his personal grudges and involve the grudges between Jinhu and the Zhou family.

Zhao Youlun’s problems in the rare earth industry are not able to help Liang Weifa make any decisions, but if Kingsoft Huaxi is the main channel for Zhangzhou to steal mining resources into the market, the Kingsoft Municipal Government still has jurisdiction over Kingsoft Huaxi.

Zhou Jinxi is Zhou Jinyu's brother. He was commissioned by the State Council Rare Earth Office but had close contacts with the senior management of Mitsui Rare Metals and Jinshan Rare. Zhao Youlun was quite excited when he heard the news. If the news was about to spread, it would also be a severe blow to Zhou Jinyu?

"Is there any evidence?" Liang Weifa of course knew that the complex involvement involved was not explained clearly for a day or two.

"Tang Yingpei, the president of Kingsoft Huaxi, arrested the public security organs when he instructed his subordinates to injure a student from Dongda University for half a month. He was not out of the detention center until today... In the transcripts made by Tang Yingpei for the public security organs, he explained his itinerary after arriving in Jianye on April 12th and 13th." Zhang Ke said.

All the communication, greetings, and pleasing were blocked by the Public Security Department of the Jianye High-tech Zone Public Security Bureau. Tang Yingpei forced himself to be detained in the detention center for half a month before he was released. He suffered a lot and his face became thin and slender.

The Donghua Detention Center of Jianye City detained Tang Yingpei for fifteen days, and it was not bad every minute and a second. He was forced to leave the gate of the detention center until nine o'clock on the night of the 28th.

No matter how stupid Tang Yingpei was, he knew that someone was slandering him behind his back, but he was confused. He couldn't think of who had offended Jianye who had asked him to punish him like this. He didn't expect that the transcript he made at the Malian Street Police Station to explain the itinerary. After the identity of the characters that appeared during his itinerary was confirmed one by one, it would be a powerful tool for assassinating Zhou Jinxi. He even thought that Zhang Ke was just a student of Dong University who did not respect Zhou Jinxi enough in the lecture hall and had a burr.

Of course, there were two of his subordinates released with Tang Yingpei. Tang Yingpei walked out of the iron gate of the detention center and saw his elder brother Tang Yingyu and his nephew Tang Zhong standing outside the door of the detention center accompanied by the entourage. He asked in surprise: "Brother, why are you here? Have you taken out my car?"

"Get on the car first..." Tang Yingyu had a gloomy face and called Tang Yingpei to get on the car, asking his son Tang Zhong and his entourage to take the car behind.

"Who have you offended in Jianye?" After getting into Mercedes-Benz 600, Tang Yingyu put down the soundproofing board, but subconsciously asked Tang Yingpei in his throat.

"How could I know? I was locked in for half a month and my head was scratched. I didn't expect where the mistake was? No one would have deliberately been unable to get along with us, right?" Tang Yingpei said viciously, "If I knew who deliberately mocked me in the detention center for fifteen days, I would not be as good as him..."

"I didn't plan to come and pick you up, but something happened in Zhangzhou," Tang Yingyu locked his eyebrows deeply. "Xiao Shao saw three people in Xitang this morning and found out about the situation on the mine, so he detained these three people. Do you know what these three people are?"

"The reporter or the top investigator?" Tang Yingpei asked.

"It's a reporter..."

"Put the money to fill their mouths," Tang Yingpei spat despicablely. He has also suffered a lot of anger in the detention center these days. "These reporters are so hateful. Every time they come, they have to come to get some wild food, thinking that our miners can open banks."

"Things are not that simple. Those three people didn't ask for money and were very arrogant. At that time, they wanted to grab the camera and film from Xiao Shao. Xiao Shao taught them a lesson and searched the three people. They were reporters from Xinhua News Agency and Jiangnan Branch. I rushed over. Xiao Shao had already beaten them up and could agree to any conditions. But these three people were just threatening and temptation. It's not useful to let them go now, and it's not impossible to lock them up..." Tang Yingyu's brows locked, "Those three people came to Zhangzhou on the fourth day after you were imprisoned. I think it's still related to your being imprisoned, so I rushed over and wanted to discuss with you where the mistake was made."

"Are you going to find Zhou Jinxi?" Tang Yingpei also knew that the matter was a bit serious.

"I don't have much contact with Zhou Jinxi, but I also know that he is an old fox. If he knows this, how much money will we have to take to pull him into the same trench?" Tang Yingyu even more suspected that Zhou Jinxi would sell them first, "And it's a bit strange to your connection in Jianye."

"Has anyone seen Xiao Shao arrested someone?" Tang Yingpei suddenly asked with a fierce face.

Cui Yuman was a little restless. Her brother Cui Yuheng went deep into Zhangzhou to interview the current situation of rare earth mining resources for stolen mining every night and had to contact her every night to report safety. She also knew that this kind of undercover investigation was a certain danger. After all, the announcement of the interview results would seriously damage the interests of the stolen mining. It was past nine o'clock today, and she had not received a call from her brother yet, so she was a little worried.
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