Inside the restaurant.
Su Tianyu observed Yu Mingyuan's expression and felt a little anxious, because he knew his boss too well and he absolutely could not accept the amount of compensation given by the other party.
"Mr. Xu, you guys chat, I'm going to the bathroom first." Su Tianyu stood up and greeted him.
"Okay, okay!" Xu Jinbo nodded.
Su Tianyu turned and left. Xu Jinbo continued to say to Yu Mingyuan: "Three hundred and fifty thousand is not a small amount. Just think about it, how many years do those miners have to push coal to earn this much money?!"
"Mr. Xu, can't the amount of compensation be negotiated?" Yu Mingyuan asked with no expression on his face.
In the stairwell outside the box, Su Tianyu took out his cell phone and called Yu Mingyuan, but after the call rang twice, he immediately pressed the hang-up button.
Inside the room, Yu Mingyuan picked up his mobile phone and was stunned after glancing at the screen.
“Ding ding!”
Immediately afterwards, Gou Liuzi's text message came. Yu Mingyuan glanced at the content and said nothing.
"If you are busy, just call first." Xu Jinbo said with a smile.
"It's okay. A financial officer from the association asked me something. I'll get back to you later." Yu Mingyuan looked at the other party and asked again, "Mr. Xu, to be honest, the amount of compensation is a bit different from what we expected."
Xu Jinbo paused for a moment, then slowly took out a cigar box from his pocket, and then he lowered his head to light one. "Xiao Yu, you may have started working in the industry relatively late, and there are many things you haven't fully understood. Let me put it this way, if you insist on being serious about the compensation, then you and the workers will definitely suffer in the end."
Yu Mingyuan remained silent. Su Tiannan looked at him with his fists clenched.
"You can't afford to delay the lawsuit. Let's not even talk about not getting paid for three or two years, what will you do? Let me ask you, even if you are asked to wait for half a year, can you hold on? The workers signed the contract with you, and you are the primary responsible party. If they want to make trouble, they will first make trouble with you, right? You sue us, but what about the workers? As long as we give them a little benefit, the workers will sue you, do you believe it?" Xu Jinbo's smile disappeared, and he said in a hoarse voice: "If the union cannot guarantee the interests of the workers, what will be the end? It must be a collapse! But for Baolong Group, there are at least dozens of lawsuits about economic disputes every year. To put it bluntly, one more and one less will not make much difference."
When Yu Mingyuan heard this, he picked up the wine glass and took a big gulp.
"Do you think that a few companies can force the group to compromise by banding together? That's too naive." Xu Jinbo sneered and continued, "Lu Feng was shot, right? He went to jail, right? You think he's fine now, but have you ever thought about it? Any general manager of our company can get a heads-up from the regulator and find out what Lu Feng did ten years ago. He's a low-level person with a lot of evidence against him. How can he fight a business group? Once Changqing Company leaves, you Tongji Association won't have the confidence to sue them, right?"
Xu Jinbo took a deep puff of his cigar, pointed at the huge dining table and said, "Xiao Yu! Have you ever seen how high and wide 100 million cash is when piled together?! Haha, I have seen it. It is so piled up that it can't even fit on this big table. This amount of money, if it were in southern Mexico, would be enough to raise an armed force of several thousand people, and might even cause a war. Do you think it's easy to get it?"
Xu Jinbo's words in the first half were very polite, but in the second half they were full of threats, hinting to Yu Mingyuan all the time that for the Baolong Group to crush an organization like the Tongji Society would be as easy as crushing an ant.
In the eyes of the Baolong Group, the compensation of 350,000 per person is not compensation for the miners who have not yet dug out the gold. Instead, it is disaster relief money given out of desperation, full of charity and helplessness.
"That's 350,000. It can't go up a cent, right?"
"I can only say that the fluctuation is not big." Xu Jinbo replied with a smile: "But if we can reach an agreement, I will also apply to the group to give your association a big red envelope of 200 to 300 million, which can be regarded as getting rid of bad luck."
"Okay, I understand what our Baolong Group means, but you have to let me discuss this matter with the people below. After all, the association also has procedures, and we have to call those foremen together and ask for their opinions."
"Okay, I'll give you three days, is that enough?" Xu Jinbo's words were polite, but there was some aggression in them.
"Okay, just three days!" Yu Mingyuan responded.
"That's great! I told you, the person that Old Wen likes, how could he not understand reason?" Xu Jinbo picked up the wine glass again: "Old Yang is too business-like in his work, not very humane. Don't be like him, or I'll scold him later."
“Haha, okay!”
"Come on, drink!"
After saying that, everyone raised their glasses, except Su Tiannan who looked at Xu Jinbo without any reaction.
"What's wrong, brother? You don't look well?" Xu Jinbo looked at him and said, "Come on, have a drink!"
Su Tiannan looked at him and still didn't move.
"What's wrong?!" Xu Jinbo stared at him and asked.
Seeing this, Yu Mingyuan immediately kicked Tiannan under the table and said with a smile, "Come on, have a drink with Mr. Xu!"
Su Tiannan gritted his teeth, almost clutching the white wine glass, and stood up.
…
Half an hour later, in the car.
"You asked me to pretend to agree to him. Do you have other ideas?" Yu Mingyuan asked.
"There's no point in arguing with him over the wine table." Su Tianyu frowned and replied, "Let him think we agreed. I can do something in private."
"what to do?"
"I met Li Yuan today..." Su Tianyu began to express his thoughts.
"Ding Ling Ling!"
At this moment, the phone rang. Su Tiannan took out his phone and answered, "What's wrong?"
"Old Wang called me just now and said that the former mayor of Zhannan District brought some gifts and people from Baolong Company to visit the families of the workers who died." The third sister's voice sounded: "They tentatively discussed the issue of compensation and claimed that if they resolve the issue through legal means, they will not get any money for at least three years. They also said that if the families of the workers are willing to bypass the union and sign a settlement and compensation agreement, they will add another 50,000 yuan per person."
"F*ck!" Su Tiannan gritted his teeth and cursed: "They are playing too dirty!!"
"This is cutting off the source of the trouble and sowing discord." The third sister said worriedly, "Some workers' families are really in great difficulty. We can't be sure who will take the lead in signing the settlement agreement. If some sign and some don't, it will be fatal to us. The workers' families will definitely make a fuss!"
"Okay, I understand."
The two ended the call, and Su Tiannan looked at his brother: "Baolong Company directly contacted the workers' families."
Su Tianyu pondered for a while and said, "Don't panic, let's go meet the workers' families. Also, notify Ermao from Changqing Company to come over immediately. I have something to discuss with him."
"Three days is too short. Will we have enough time to make it work?" Yu Mingyuan asked.
"In less than two days, I will overturn the table!" Su Tianyu replied with a frown.
At around ten o'clock in the evening, Lao Hei received a text message from Su Tianyu, informing him to get ready for work.
After reading it, Lao Hei cursed: "Fuck, I haven't even had a week's rest yet, and now he's doing something again! What's the point of joining the club? Isn't it just taking advantage of me for free?!"