Two months ago, Zhou Yu heard Shen Hui say that he wanted to reduce the procurement of scrap steel for Peng Yue's project. At that time, he couldn't guess Shen Hui's intention, but now it is certain that Shen Hui wants to thoroughly sabotage Peng Yue's dock project.

  Peng Yue has lost the initiative at this time. Although Mei Xi Steel Plant reduced its procurement of Peng Yue's furnace materials to less than 30 million from March, Peng Yue still does not dare to give up the business with Mei Xi Steel Plant despite being attacked on both sides.

  Although Zhou Yu had some good feelings towards Shen Huai, and although she also said that she didn't care about the Zhou family's business, Shen Huai was so ruthless in her attack on the Zhou family that she still felt somewhat indignant.

  Two months ago, Shen Hua jokingly told her something that seemed to have room for maneuvering. However, at this moment, Zhou Yu couldn't distinguish which of Shen Hua's words were true and which were false. She wanted to call Shen Hua to ask what was going on, but found herself without the standing to make such a call. After hesitating for a while, she put down the phone, only to be startled by the sudden ringing of the telephone bell.

  "Pick up the phone, and Wu Haifeng's voice came from the other end of the line: 'I'm on this side of the stadium, Zhi Bai just told me what happened, you come over too...'"

  Zhou Yufei put down the phone and was stunned for a while, knowing that this matter was not trivial.

  Donghua needs to use scrap steel as fuel for electric furnace steel project, mainly concentrated in City Steel Plant and Meixi Steel Plant.

  Peng Yue's rapid development in recent years is closely related to the business of Municipal Steel Plant and Meixi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. If Meixi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. and Municipal Steel Plant simultaneously suspend their business cooperation with Peng Yue, it means that Peng Yue's main business will be completely abandoned.

  If it were that simple, Zhou Yu knew that his second uncle was more afraid of other conspiracies against the Zhou family hidden behind this matter.

  Zhou Yu didn't let the driver follow her. She took a car from the driver's class and drove directly to Pengyue Golf Driving Range on South Outer Ring Road.

  As she got off the car from the parking lot, Zhou Yu looked up at the high netting around the stadium and couldn't help but let out a light sigh. She knew that her younger brother was just pretending to be humble on the surface.

  Mei Xi Steel Factory is such an important customer, and it's likely to catch up with the city steel factory's electric furnace steel production scale this year. As for the importance of Pengyue, it goes without saying. Even if Shen Hua tries to avoid meeting him, someone else will definitely create opportunities to meet him, and only by meeting him can we know what Shen Hua is thinking in his heart.

  However, his younger brother was very arrogant and couldn't bear the existence of someone more arrogant than him. He said that he wanted to meet him all along, but two months had passed since the New Year, and Zhi Bai still hadn't met Shen Huai, leaving Zhou Yu speechless.

  As for this golf practice field, Zhou Yu also didn't know how to criticize his younger brother.

  Although golf is touted as a sport for the elite, how many of Donghua's truly affluent individuals can appreciate and afford to play golf? In the end, Zhi Bai built this golf practice facility out of personal interest, but it has occupied a large amount of Pengyue's precious funds.

  Zhou Yu pushed open the door and walked into her brother's office at the stadium, saw her dad and second uncle standing by the floor-to-ceiling window talking, and was startled: "Dad, how are you here? When did you return to Donghua?"

  "As soon as I got off the plane, I didn't even have a chance to catch my breath," Zhou Yanbin turned around and said: "I think I retired too early, living alone in Kunming is also boring, so I decided to come back to Donghua to see you two siblings. I didn't expect that as soon as I came back, Pengyue would happen like this, you two are really making me worry..."

  "Pengyue is in charge of Zhi Bai, what does it have to do with me?" Zhou Yu glanced at her dejected younger brother and thought he had probably been scolded already. She tossed the car keys on the table and stood aside with her cousin Wu Xia, asking, "Why did they call you over too?"

  "Our Zhou family has the most contact with you and Shen Hui," Wu Haifeng turned back and said, "Tell me, what is Shen Hui's intention this time?"

  "I have no contact with Shen Huan," Zhou Yu defended nervously, "I really can't figure out what he's thinking."

  Wu Haifeng didn't ask any further questions, and instead said to his older brother Zhou Yanbin: "Gao Tianhe has taken the interests of the municipal steel factory in exchange for the political support of Provincial Committee Organization Department Head Dai Lesheng. With Provincial Committee Secretary Tao Guoquan stepping down, Tan Qiping is facing reality, and it's likely that he will take a step back with Gao Tianhe and secretly compromise. The situation is unfavorable to us..."

  Zhou Yu knew what her second uncle and her father were worried about:

  At the same time as the local political landscape is being redrawn, local economic interests are also often being re-divided.

  Gao Tianhe probably didn't have the ambition to drive Tan Qiping out of Donghua, but rather wanted to keep the benefits in his bowl from being divided by others. As the municipal party secretary, Tan Qiping couldn't just be a figurehead without real power; if he were to secretly compromise with Gao Tianhe, it would more likely be to grab food from Wu Haifeng and Zhou's bowls...

  If Shen Hua's series of actions were backed by a secret compromise between Tan Qiping and Gao Tianhe, the situation facing the Zhou family would be even more severe.

  "Shen Hua should have distanced himself from Tan Qiping by then. Even if Shen Hua had a mind to contend for favor, he wouldn't have willingly become Tan Qiping's pawn to strike at our Zhou family... yet on New Year's Day that year, he shouldn't have gone to Second Uncle's house to pay his respects," said Zhou Zhi Bai.

  "You have the nerve to say that," Zhou Yanbin cut off his son's words, saying with a tone of discontent, "Everyone knows that they ran to your second uncle's house for New Year's greetings. It's been two months now, have you ever seen Shen Hui's face?" And then said to his daughter Zhou Yu, "You'll find an opportunity to go to Mei Creek Town in the next two days, I want to see what kind of person Shen Hui is..."

  "What kind of goods is Shen Hua, after all? He's not even a small insect under Tan Qiping's feet. If you go to see him in person, aren't you just giving him the opportunity to step on your face?" Zhou Zhibai couldn't bear the thought of his dad going to see Shen Hua personally and opposed it.

  "Your face is important, I have no way to compare with you," Zhou Yanbin said with a smile. "In the past when we were running the village enterprise, in order to save money, I spent two cents to squeeze onto a crowded bus with thirty or forty people, and was suffocated by the stench of sweat and feet. But I didn't feel ashamed. In those days, if I could earn an extra twenty yuan per day, I would ride my broken tricycle from door to door collecting scrap metal, and if I could pick up a discarded toothpaste tube on the road, I would be happy for half a day. And I didn't feel ashamed either. Now when we go see the big client who can decide Pengyue's life or death, why should I feel ashamed? If I don't show my face, do you want your uncle to show his?"

  "It can't be that serious, right?" Zhou Yu jumped in fright.

  "Isn't your brother being too arrogant?" Zhou Yanbin said, "This broken stadium invested 300 million in it, not a single penny has been returned, and every year we have to pay hundreds of millions more. The land in the south of the city, the dock project hasn't even been approved yet, but he's already invested 200 million yuan for 300 mu of land. Now Pengyue still has nearly 300 million yuan in available funds, but the bank loan is as much as 400 million, you say it's not serious..."

  Peng Yue's dock project was attacked, and the development of the 300-acre land had to be suspended. Except for the golf practice field, Peng Yue's other projects were not very profitable, and the core business was still the furnace material trade that had been providing high profits for Peng Yue in recent years.

  Even if Gao Tianhe and Tan Qiping do not maliciously instruct the bank to recall the loan to Pengyue in advance, the main business is still struggling, and Pengyue will have a hard time.

  After swallowing a large sum of money in the Gao Fu ball training field, Zhou Zhi Bai still borrowed money to build a dock project, expecting that this year's furnace material business will have a significant increase.

  If this year's trade volume reaches 200 million as scheduled, the loan of 400 million can be easily digested.

  It's just a matter of time before the tide turns; who would have thought that both Shanghai Steel and Meishan Steel would simultaneously squeeze Pengyue's business.

  Zhou Yu looked at his deeply traumatized brother and didn't know what to say.

  Peng Yue is the foundation laid by her father Zhou Yanbin. In his early years, when he was still in a social enterprise team, her father used a tricycle to collect waste along the streets and alleys to start a business. It wasn't until her second uncle Wu Haifeng returned to Donghua as deputy secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission that her father formally started his own business at the Tangzhai District Materials Station, creating Peng Yue.

  By the mid-1980s, Peng Yue purchased a rolling mill, specializing in recycling scrap steel to sell to municipal steel mills as furnace materials. By the time her second uncle became the municipal party secretary, her family had accumulated hundreds of millions in assets, becoming one of Donghua's most famous "junk kings" before the 1990s.

  His brother Zhou Zhi Bai was one of the earliest batches of people to study abroad in China. After returning home, he indeed developed Pengyue's furnace material business on the right track, opening up channels for importing furnace materials from overseas, making Pengyue's business volume rise several levels in just four years.

  Her father originally thought that his younger brother Zhou Zhi Bai could take over, and also because of the hardships in his early years, he had a chronic illness, so he handed over the company to his younger brother and went to Nan Guang for recuperation.

  Although his younger brother had a rich professional background, he didn't understand the national situation well enough. In the early days, due to the shelter of Second Uncle Wu Haifeng, everyone in Donghua City gave him some face, even if they were not familiar with worldly affairs and human feelings, it did not affect his professional level of play, creating an illusion that he was good at running a business.

  However, after her second uncle retreated to the second line, when those open and secret attacks came one after another, her brother appeared to be inexperienced. Most importantly, Zhou Zhibai had no idea about the current situation, and even thought that Pengyue's furnace material business would not have competitors in Donghua, and only accelerated the development of the company with a single heart, but did not know that the municipal steel plant and Meixi Steel Plant would simultaneously bypass Pengyue and contact material companies outside Donghua.

  Zhou Yu thought for a moment and felt that it was indeed inappropriate for her father to show up in person, so she said to him: "I'll go see Shen Hui with Zhi Bai instead. I'll call him now, I think Shen Hui won't refuse to meet us..."

  Zhou Yanbin looked at his younger brother Wu Haifeng, who nodded and said: "It's still better to let Zhou Yu and Zhi Bai get in touch with Shen Huai..."

  Zhou Yu didn't know how his younger brother would react when he saw Shen Huan, and he knew he couldn't avoid it. He picked up the phone and called Shen Huan directly: "Secretary Shen, I'm Zhou Yu. Do you have any free time tonight? What, you're at Ying Huang International?" Zhou Yu glanced at his younger brother, and although he didn't want to go to such a messy place in his heart, this social engagement was something he couldn't escape from at the moment. "Okay, I'll be right there. I'd like to introduce someone to you..."