Chapter 15 The Internal Meeting

Since Su Tianyu, Kong Zhenghui, and Bai Hongbo moved into Yu’s family villa, Su Tianbei, a straight-laced man of steel, also moved into this fencing dormitory because of his father’s constant harassment.

“Come on in, make yourselves at home.” Yu Mingyuan welcomed them immediately. “Put your luggage in the living room. We’ll pick rooms when we get back tonight. Let’s take care of business first.”

“What business are we taking care of?” Su Tianbei asked.

“Holding an internal meeting, chatting with everyone,” Yu Mingyuan replied with a smile.

Seeing Yu Mingyuan’s stable mood and gentle tone, which was completely different from the past few days, Su Tianbei's anxious heart calmed down. “The future of us brothers all rests on you, work hard, Xiao Yu!”

“Okay, big brother,” Yu Mingyuan replied obediently.

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In the evening, at 8:30, inside the Su family’s junkyard, many core members of the Tongji Association gathered in the halls and rest rooms on the first and second floors, with more than a hundred people inside and out.

In fact, many of these people had not received a notice to attend the meeting, but after hearing the news, they all showed up anyway. Because everyone wanted to see if the new head of the Yu family, now that Yu Jinrong was gone, was capable, what kind of explanation he could give everyone, and whether the many benefits promised before could still be realized.

Since Su Tianyu, Kong Zhenghui, Bai Hongbo and others had been busy recruiting members and designing the association's constitution and system, and the Yu family originally wanted to build a new courtyard as the association's headquarters, the Su family's junkyard was temporarily designated as the temporary office location. With so many people on the scene today, it seemed very crowded, and the corridors were full of sputum and white mist, looking extremely irregular, like a makeshift team.

When almost everyone had arrived, Yu Mingyuan saw that the conference room could not accommodate so many people at all, so he suggested that everyone hold an outdoor meeting in the courtyard and communicate with the leadership and union members face to face.

In this way, Su Tianbei, Bai Hongbo and others moved all the tables, chairs and benches from the conference room to the outside, and used Bluetooth to connect a microphone and set up a large loudspeaker as a conference broadcast system.

Outside, the crowd surged. The vast majority of the hundred or so members did not have their own chairs, so they could only squat down or find some bricks and iron plates in the field and lay them on the ground to sit on.

The sky was clear tonight, and the stars were bright. Yu Mingyuan sat behind the dilapidated desk, adjusted the dirty microphone, looked up at the dense crowd, and said with a grin: "Hehe, our association may have the most difficult start-up conditions. There is no tea, no snacks, and no chairs. If outsiders see this, they will probably think we are doing pyramid schemes!"

Everyone smiled knowingly and listened quietly.

"Many people here don't know me, let me introduce myself." Yu Mingyuan rested his elbows on the table, looking at everyone with a gentle expression and said, "My name is Yu Mingyuan, I am Yu Jinrong's eldest son. After graduating from a university in the First District, I came to Dragon City with my father and founded a trading company. My resume is very ordinary, and my social experience is also very shallow. If my family didn't have an accident, I should have followed my father for a few years before slowly taking over the management. But... unfortunately, my father passed away, so whether I want to or not, I have to take over this stall and try to do it well."

The scene was quiet, and Yu Mingyuan looked at the crowd and continued in a deep voice: "The reason why I continue to do this is very simple, because many people have put a lot of effort into this association. Including the Su, Bai, and Kong families, and those members who received the notice and ran away with us to the First District. If I withdraw now, I will be sorry to the investors and everyone. Although my ability is limited, I will do my best to fulfill the promises I made to everyone before! I will have Kong Zhenghui make the association's current accounts public in a while. I will tell everyone how much money we have left and how much funds can be used for the association's operation. If the investor's money is used up, I will take out a loan from the bank. If the bank can't lend money, I will sell my family property and inject capital into the association myself. In short, I will do everything possible to keep the association alive, fulfill the association's promises to every member, give everyone something to do, and realize the association's program."

In the courtyard, everyone listened to Yu Mingyuan's words and felt a little relieved, because after Yu Jinrong's death, many people guessed that Yu Mingyuan was going to run back to the First District, and the establishment of the association would definitely fall through. But unexpectedly, he came to hold a meeting for everyone less than two days after the funeral.

Yu Mingyuan sat in the first seat, first conveyed to everyone his determination to continue running the association, so that the people below had a bottom line in their hearts, and then let Kong Zhenghui announce the association's current funds, telling everyone that the Tongji Association currently had bullets in its finances, and it was not a problem to maintain its operation.

After cheering everyone up, Yu Mingyuan informed everyone in a very organized manner: "Our import channels for maritime trade are stable, and we have formed a certain cooperative model with the Zha Nan stevedore association. In the future, the Tongji Association's main industry will have its own hematopoietic function, and there is no shortage of profit models. Please give the management a certain amount of patience, and please unite and work together to do something big! Here, I promise one thing, as long as the people of the Tongji Association don't run away, I, Yu Mingyuan, will never leave Dragon City!"

The shouting voice floated, and after more than a hundred members were quiet for a long time, a strong man suddenly put his hands on his hips and shouted, "After saying so much, I just want to ask President Yu, when can we resume work? When can we let the brothers earn money and support their families?!"

"The environmental sanitation management committee's work will be fully resumed within a week at the latest; maritime trade will be restarted within three months at the latest." Yu Mingyuan stood up and shouted sonorously: "During the shutdown period, the association's subsidies will be issued normally. Even if I can't afford to eat, I will let everyone eat!"

"That's the truth," the strong man shouted with great satisfaction: "I believe you!"

"If we can support our families and make a living, we will work with you." An old man sitting in the front row shouted: "Chang Qing can fight from the First District to Dragon City and create an association of tens of thousands of people, so can we! We are all poor people at the bottom of society, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"We'll work with you!"

Yu Mingyuan's frank and straightforward meeting speech reunited the Tongji Association, which was about to fall apart. The demands of these compatriots at the bottom of society are very simple. They need to make money and support their families, and the association can bring them these stable things, so everyone definitely does not want to break up.

The meeting lasted until more than 11 o'clock in the evening before everyone dispersed contentedly.

After the main force left, Yu Mingyuan held an internal meeting. The meeting decided that Su Tianyu would serve as the vice president of the Tongji Association, Kong Zhenghui would serve as the director of the Tongji Association Office, and Bai Hongbo, Su Tiannan, and Su Tianbei would serve as the minister and deputy ministers of the Tongji Association's Certification Department, which in layman's terms is the top three leaders of the personnel department.

The Tongji Association has a council composed of core members of the association and heads of various districts, totaling twenty-eight people, who are mainly responsible for deliberation. When more than 60% of the council votes to reject the decision of the top leadership, the association must readjust its direction. Similarly, the top management also has the right to veto the suggestions made by the council.

The framework is not perfect, but a relatively simple constitution and system have been established. Now, all that is needed is to get money into the association, and other loopholes can be remedied during operation.

That night, after the meeting, the main leaders of the association all sat in front of the small building and took a group photo.

In the group photo, Yu Mingyuan, Kong Zhenghui, Bai Hongbo, Su Tianyu, Su Tiannan, Su Tianbei and others all showed bright smiles.

That night, Zhou Tonghui saw the group photo of everyone in the social software group, and immediately excitedly booked a plane ticket. He didn't care whether the Zhou family would send management to the association again, but at this moment, he wanted to be with those Dragon City freaks and do something together.