20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3521 Pei Pingjiang, Observing the Situation Quietly
Provincial compound.

As the night deepened, Xiao Zijie had already drawn the curtains on the wall of the chess and card room.

The location of the chess and card room in this small building is excellent. The chess and card room is on the second floor. Pushing open the glass door leads to a small balcony of a few square meters. Outside, several tall camphor trees with lush foliage surround the small building, blocking the view of distant high-rise buildings.

The group played mahjong, chatting and laughing as they talked about various things.

"Buzz~"

Shan Qiang's phone rang. She picked it up and saw it was her daughter calling. She answered and said, "You're at Aunt Xie's house. You can rest first."

"Snowing?"

Shan Qiang looked on in surprise.

The people in the card room were also surprised. Xiao Zijie stood up, walked to the glass curtain wall, and pulled open part of the curtain with a 'whoosh'.

Everyone looked towards the glass wall and saw fine, crystalline snowflakes falling haphazardly under the indoor lights, leaving the balcony glistening with moisture. This was because the temperature in the first-floor room was high, melting the snowflakes.

"It's really snowing."

Shan Qiang glanced outside and spoke, her voice carrying a hidden sigh and sadness.

Although the card room has two walls made entirely of glass, they are both double-layered insulated. The inner layer is made of specially made low-thermal-conductivity tempered glass, while the outer layer is made of ordinary glass.

The room is heated, and a heat pipe runs between the two panes of glass, so the outside glass doesn't condense moisture. The room doesn't feel cold at all; in fact, if you wear a little thicker clothing, it feels warm.

As Shan Cai spoke, Shan Qiang frowned slightly but didn't say anything, only saying, "I know, you should get some rest."

Just hung up the phone.

"My daughter is so good. She knows how to care for her mother. If it were my son, he wouldn't even call me if it were snowing or hailing outside." Xie Yuan praised Shan Cai with a smile, wishing she could marry Shan Cai tomorrow so that she could properly discipline her son.

"Girls are more sensitive, boys are more easygoing, that's how it is. If Xiao Jie is clingy to you every day, you'll get anxious and think he's petty."

Shan Qiang's words made Xie Yuan very happy, because she herself thought so too. The reason why the two sisters have maintained a good relationship for so many years is because their values ​​are very similar.

"That's the last game. It's snowing, so you can go home and back to your hotel soon."

Xiao Xuecheng concluded, "Let's put aside the joint venture and restructuring you mentioned for now. Currently, the entire Luyuan Group, except for the steel used by the Southern Branch, as well as the steel used by Luoyi Vehicle Factory and Shock Absorber Factory, is purchased from Muyi Steel. With sales from other sources, we can maintain our operations without any problems for the time being."

Pei Pingjiang nodded thoughtfully.

Makino Steel Works and Yamashiro Steel Works were roughly three to five in size, but Yamashiro Steel Works was consistently more profitable than Makino Steel Works.

Pei Pingjiang took it in stride and didn't care whether it was a merger or employee shareholding; he was fine with Tiedong Factory taking the lead in merging with Muye Factory.

The provincial industrial bureau, the direct supervisor of both companies, also expressed its approval, believing that it could be promoted as a pilot project.

However, the Tie Dong Factory, including Feng Jianfei, disagreed and instead wanted the Tie Dong Factory to merge with the Shancheng Smelting Plant. Meanwhile, Mu Ye had already completed the divestiture of the steel plant's various subsidiaries, schools, and factory-run hospitals in the past two years, and was now streamlined for restructuring.

Tie Dong Factory also had clear and firm principles in this regard: it was not allowed to divest its affiliated thermal power plant, school, factory hospital, steel component factory, TV station art team, ice cream and soda factory, and even the smelter to be merged.

Therefore, Pei Pingjiang has been troubled by this matter. The large enterprise has nearly two thousand employees and three or four hundred retired workers with illnesses who need to be supported. It is basically barely able to stay afloat. If it does not change and seek a way out, the future is predictable.

As the former provincial capital, Muye was an industrial city with a concentration of industries. In recent years, it has been particularly hard hit by economic shocks. Fortunately, a few struggling companies have been reborn and revitalized, including a refrigerator company that has gained national renown.

Moreover, this single company supports numerous upstream factories, especially since it sources its steel plates from Makino Steel Plant. Therefore, Pei Pingjiang urgently needs to support more companies like this to achieve economies of scale.

Now that Xiao Xuecheng is saying this, it's tantamount to implying that either his (Xiao Xuecheng's) position will change soon, or Feng Jianfei's position will be moved.

Then, recalling the two phone calls his brother-in-law made to him the day before yesterday afternoon and yesterday morning, one was from Zhao Chang'an, who contacted him to invite him to dinner, and the other was Zhao Chang'an's suggestion that when he felt the profit of the earthwork project in Moon Bay was getting low, he could set up a labor service company in Zhengzhou and sign a contract with Shancheng Vocational and Technical College to provide employee recruitment for the central province of Nantong.

The brother-in-law also said that there were rumors circulating in the mountain city that Feng Jianfei was going to be transferred.

Pei Pingjiang felt he understood.

Pei Pingjiang knew about Xiao Xuecheng and Shan Qiang, and his relationship with Zhao Chang'an, regardless of its depth, was not unfamiliar.

However, he could still sense that the two of them, including Xie Yuan's angry, unfinished sentence, "Isn't he dating a girl from the Tang family? How come he's still eyeing other women while eating what he already has? Really—", all contained this indescribable feeling.

His wife, Da Xiong, was also a fool. She always held a grudge against Zhao Chang'an and believed that Xia Wenzhuo should be her daughter-in-law. In Pei Pingjiang's opinion, his wife's idea was ridiculously unreasonable.

After Xia Wenyang fled, Xia Wenzhuo drove a BMW Z back to Shancheng in a high-profile manner. Feng Jianfei chose to remain silent, and Pei Pingjiang knew that Zhao Chang'an was protecting Xia Wenzhuo.

In other words, no matter how fiercely the adults fought each other, including the intense struggle between Zhao Chang'an and the Xia family, the childhood sweetheart relationship and affection between the two children remained strong.

Later, when Zhuozi merged into One Nano, Xia Wenzhuo took the opportunity to join One Nano as the general manager of Cretaceous. Pei Pingjiang then realized that the relationship between Xia Wenzhuo and Zhao Chang'an was far more than just childhood sweethearts.

More likely, they are a couple.

Given this situation, and considering that her son is equally outstanding, why must he find a girl who doesn't like her?

Moreover, to be honest, Xia Wenzhuo is, after all, Xia Wenyang's daughter. When the Wenyang Group collapsed, this huge pie allowed many companies and individuals to make a fortune. Zhao Chang'an marrying Xia Wenzhuo can be seen as Cao Cao specifically hunting down the women of his rival warlords to humiliate them.

But if their son were to marry Xia Wenzhuo, it would keep many people up at night.

Moreover, it doesn't sound good for one's own reputation; to put it bluntly, it shows a lack of awareness and an inability to distinguish oneself from such people.

Pei Pingjiang is only fifty years old this year and still has great ideals and hopes for the future. If his son marries this woman, he will be close to being relegated to a second-tier position and sidelined.

Of course, Pei Pingjiang couldn't say such things. If he did, it would make him seem too eager for power and fame. Besides, he had a good relationship with Xia Wenyang before, and people would easily say that he was ungrateful and looked down on others.

All we need to do is observe and wait for things to unfold.

(End of this chapter)