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On the weekend, Fang Sheng drove to the provincial capital alone and took an evening flight to Kyoto to attend the old man Yu’s birthday dinner.

According to the style of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries, Mr. Yu has always opposed organizing birthday parties, not to mention that it is not the traditional meaning of "Five and Tenth" birthdays.

It’s your birthday, just eat a bowl of noodles at home, there is no need to disturb the child. Mr. Yu said so.

But Yu Yunfu insisted on doing it but had deep considerations.

The key point is of course Fang Sheng. For more than half a year, he rarely came to the Yu family compound due to the special political environment in Kyoto. Yu Yunfu really wanted to talk to Fang Sheng about Yinxia, ​​Wu Yuming, and the future development direction. After decades of struggling in the officialdom, Yu Yunfu knew that Fang Sheng was a kind of official who was difficult to control. He must always pay attention to his ideological trends and cleverly handed over the burden of the Yu family to his shoulders.

Secondly, for Yu Daoming, everyone in the Yu family knew that Yu Daoming wanted to be the governor. Mr. Yu took a ignorant attitude towards this, but Yu Yunfu actually didn't agree with it from the bottom of his heart.

Without it, it is a major event to devote the family's efforts to win the position of governor. It will inevitably consume a lot of political resources. In many aspects, you have to give in and make promises in order to win the recognition of all forces.

Judging from the overall layout of the Yu family, it is enough to have Yu Yunfu's golden signboard of the Zhengzhi Bureau. It is not important whether Yu Daoming is the governor or the executive vice governor.

There is even a saying in private that Yu Daoming is not eye-catching as the executive vice governor, and it will be troublesome if he becomes the governor. Whether he is insinuated or overseas, he will make a fool of himself and say "brothers support" or other gossip, which is not good for Yunfu.

But for Daoming himself, this step is a world of difference. Although the executive vice governor is in power and has a great honor, he is only a deputy provincial cadre. Once he becomes the governor, he will be among the few dozen officials in China, and his weight is incomparable.

This time, Yu Yunfuxiang had a heart-to-heart talk with his younger brother. If Yu Daoming insisted on fighting, he would at least have to discuss a compromise.

And after Yu Tieya made great efforts - of course, Yu Qiudi also made a lot of efforts behind the scenes, and was finally appointed as the executive deputy director of the District Development Zone Management Committee and enjoyed the treatment of regular officials. Although it is not like Fang Sheng, who has already reached the level of a department and is in charge of the work of a prefecture-level city, he finally returned to the starting point of his trip to Huanghai. He is also a real-time cadre, so Mr. Yu seems to be worthy of congratulations.

Success or not is not important. What is important is whether you dare to face failure and bravely invest in new challenges. The older generation who have passed through their military careers pays the most attention to fighting and attacking ability.

Without this resilience and perseverance, the Red Army had already fallen in front of several blockade lines and fell on the grass and snow-capped mountains. How could there be a magnificent counterattack later?

Finally, the theme of the dinner was also related to Zhao Yaoyao. Perhaps, Mr. Yu finally agreed to hold this birthday party just for Zhao Yaoyao.

This is a bit of a damaging Fang Sheng's self-esteem, but in a sense it is indeed the case.

This matter involves the economic layout of the traditional Kyoto family, and it is also a battle between the Yu family and the Zhan family on another battlefield!

Throughout history - it can be traced back to thirty years ago, the Zhan family firmly controlled the business of ocean shipping, especially the freight field. From the Ocean Bureau to the Customs, from the Ocean Corporation to the container terminal, the Zhan family's children and their peripheral forces are distributed, which can be said that they cannot penetrate the needle and cannot be spilled into the water.

Mr. Yu values ​​politics and neglects business, and does not like to interfere in the economy. He only lets his eldest son Yu Qiudi get the title of deputy general manager in the resource company, mainly because of his high income and low risk, and he can enjoy a happy life and not compete with Yu Yunfu for limited political resources.

But the Wu family, Song family and other families have their own territory, such as the Wu family exclusively owns the export rights of rare earths, the Song family's children control the senior management of the Silk Corporation, and holds the pricing power of the global silk market, etc.

The families have been fighting hard in the officialdom, but they have maintained a tacit understanding in the economic field. If you don’t ask me for trouble, I won’t expose your shortcomings and make a fortune in silence. After all, everyone needs money, and the economic foundation determines the upper foundation.

In the past two years, under the leadership of Wu Xi, the State Council has launched a westward strategy and cooperated with the expansion of high-speed rail business. It plans to "shot three arrows at the same time" to build three high-speed rails from Russia and Eastern Europe respectively, connecting with the British and French submarine tunnels, and completely opening up the main artery of Eurasian transportation!

Needless to say, this strategy has also caused controversy and doubts at home.

The most mainstream statement was proposed by the Americans, who cited the "Yellow Peril" war examples conquered by Genghis Khan to scare the Europeans, saying that the biggest hidden danger of the Mongolian cavalry back then was logistical support, and they had to conquer a country on the spot to collect supplies, which greatly delayed the speed of the march and allowed a large number of refugees to escape. Now that the high-speed rail is coming, it can be said that it is coming day and night. If a blitzkrieg is launched, it will be destroyed in the war without even a blink of an eye!

There are also national security issues. As we all know, Europe generally adopts wide rail standards, while Asia is narrow rails. In terms of security strategies, there are slight differences in the width of rails in each country. This will prevent the enemy from using train speed to launch raids. The construction of high-speed rails uses a standard from Asia to Europe, and is undertook, maintained and managed by China, which has made the military scientists who have not yet escaped from the Cold War mentality.

Opposing the strategy of moving westward is organized, premeditated and divided.

On the one hand, the West, especially the United States, used mainstream media to criticize the westward strategy and raised various sensational possibilities, as if the sky was about to collapse after implementation; on the other hand, through various organizations, civil groups, and even senior officials of the official palace went barely to lobby the opposition in the country along the way, and the parliament prevented the high-speed rail from passing through its own territory.

The Zhan family is also among the opposition camps.

The Zhan family is considering their vital interests. Once the "three arrows are launched at once" strategy is implemented, transportation between Eurasia will largely get rid of its dependence on ocean shipping, faster, safer, and faster - more than a little faster!

Light industrial products sent from Dalian to Liverpool, through the Taiwan Strait and the Malacca Strait, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope and reaching the UK, will take 30 to 40 days. If you reach the port along the way, you will take longer to load and unload goods. After the high-speed rail is started, each country will stay for at most ten days!

This means that except for resource commodities such as coal, oil, and iron ore, which have relatively loose delivery time, most goods can be transported by railway freight.

It is a catastrophe for the Zhan family!

Because from a long perspective, the "three arrows are launched at once" will not only affect freight between Asia and Europe, but also goods from East Asia to the United States, South America and other places can be transferred from coastal ports in Britain and France, saving more than half of the time and cost!

The Zhan family used Kyoto's strength to lobby the Government and relevant departments of the National People's Congress, and tried their best to exaggerate its negative impact, trying to stop or delay the "three arrows are launched at the same time" strategy; at the same time, the Zhan family brazenly launched an economic war, threatening the vital interests of traditional families such as the Wu family and the Song family!

The Zhan family's approach is: whenever the areas involving traditional family operations in Kyoto are involved, they find various reasons to deliberately delay and suppress goods when exporting to the outside world. The customs inspections are repeatedly conducted and the sampling rate is clearly higher than that of peers. They deliberately make things difficult for customs declaration procedures, and endlessly demand reimbursement, improvement, etc. As a result, other goods are continuously out of customs clearance and out of the port, and the goods of several major traditional families in Kyoto are piled up in the port.

Wu Xi and others were extremely angry, but they couldn't get into trouble again.

Traditional families control large state-owned enterprises to make profits from it is shameful, so how dare they put it on the table? They can’t even make a secret loss.

How to solve the urgent problem? The goods must not leave the port, but it is impossible to bow to the Zhan family for this matter and give up the "three arrows" that are related to the country's century-old plan!

Several families joined forces to find the sea outlet, but they were firmly controlled by the Zhan family from north to south. What's terrible is that not only customs, ports, ocean shipping and other administrative departments are all named "Zhan", but even related mid- and downstream industries such as customs declaration agents, transportation, docks, etc. are under the control of the Zhan family.

Even if Wu Xi uses his power to replace a series of officials such as the Customs Commissioner, he cannot change the situation of being intricate.

After thinking about it, they turned their attention to the only gap: Hong Kong!

As we all know, Hong Kong ports have always been monopolized by super rich people. There is a famous joke: More than 20 years ago, mainland tourists went to Hong Kong for a trip. They saw dense containers by the port and asked which area belongs to Li Ka-shing's territory. The tour guide said that from the moment on, the calculation was calculated and the other ten minutes of driving was all from Li Ka-shing.

Some of them are similar to the great lords on the prairie. The calculation territory usually runs a horse, and sometimes they cannot finish it from morning to night.

The super rich not only control the economic field, but also extend their hands to politics. They have their own spokespersons in the Legislative Council, Parliament, and the SAR government, and safeguard their vital interests at any time.

Even overseas parliamentary circles and politicians, including major European and American powers, have their own people, and they have a subtle influence on formulating economic, taxation, import and export policies and regulations.

In response to the complex situation in China, the super rich have adopted the "three no policies": do not intervene, do not take sides, and do not offend.

When the liaison officers sent by traditional families such as the Wu family and Song family arrived in Hong Kong, the Zhan family had already reached a gentleman agreement with the super rich: they agreed to resolve the export of some goods, but they must abide by the quota management system and do not violate the relevant laws and regulations on Hong Kong's import and export.

To put it simply, I can do business with you. Since it is a business, I must abide by the rules and I will not do anything that violates the law or discipline.

If the quota management principle is based on the principle of "equality of rain and dew", it will not accommodate the huge export volume of several central enterprises, because quota management is treated equally regardless of the size of the enterprise and the amount of goods. If you wait in line like this, you will not be able to process a whole batch of goods in half a year.

It cannot be said that people are wrong when doing this. Hong Kong is indeed a rigorous society ruled by law. The prerequisite for making a bigger and stronger company is to abide by the rules and not give competitors a handle.

Just when the Wu family and the Song family were at a loss, they unexpectedly received a message:
Chapter completed!