Chapter 288: Internal Meeting

The next day around 6 PM, at the Yu family villa, Su Tianyu, Su Tiannan, Bai Hongbo, Yu Mingyuan, Su Miaomiao and others had already assembled.

In the courtyard, Dabai looked sideways at Su Miaomiao asking: "Oh, Baby San-san, you're going too?"

"Can you make your way of addressing me any less nauseating?" Su Miaomiao replied helplessly.

"...Would you dare to love me one more time?" Dabai shamelessly asked back.

"Love your mother." Su Miaomiao rolled her eyes, turning to walk toward the courtyard exit.

Dabai followed behind Miaomiao's backside, asking again: "Are you going this time because of Gui Mengjun? I've heard many rumors now, saying that at the banquet before..."

"Yes, right, that's exactly it. He wants to pursue me, I agreed," Third Sister replied candidly. "Anything else you want to ask?"

"Vulgar, loose!" Dabai cursed sourly with an agitated face: "What happened to childhood sweethearts, matching families?"

Actually Su Miaomiao's going to the exhibition wasn't just because Gui Mengjun had invited her - she hadn't traveled for a very long time. Last time at the banquet, Gui Mengjun said the island hosting the exhibition had many unique geological landscapes, so she wanted to go along to see and play for a few days.

Last time going to Old Triangle, Su Tianbei and Zhou Tonghui had participated, so this time they gave up their spots, perfect for letting Tiannan and Third Sister go along to broaden their horizons.

As for Kong Zhenghui, he had almost no time to go out now, because since Su Tianyu had connected with Li Mingsheng and Yu Mingyuan had started cooperation with You Yifan, no one was creating obstacles for the Tongji Association anymore. Recently taking advantage of the laborer "returning home" trend, they began frantically absorbing members, so he needed to stay in Dragon City to watch over and control the association's direction.

While Third Sister and Bai Hongbo were arguing, Yu Mingyuan and others had also finished packing, then said goodbye to Zhou Tonghui and Su Tianbei, taking an SUV directly to the airport.

......

For this trip, Young Master Fan covered all expenses, and all flight seats were first class.

When Su Tianyu and others arrived at the airport, You Yifan's group had just arrived too - about a dozen people, all looking refined and cultured - presumably either from You Yifan's family company or his backing investors.

Besides these two teams, Wen Zhanbo's garrison also sent three people. But their role this time wasn't big, because the channel merchants were only You Yifan's responsibility, so they were just going along to join the crowd, waiting for the exhibition's final results.

The group assembled and entered the airport together, then waited less than half an hour in the VIP lounge before boarding together.

After 8 PM, the plane took off, heading straight for the Old Triangle capital Hanoi.

In the cabin.

Yu Mingyuan wore slippers, looking at the exhibition bid prices You Chengcheng gave him with furrowed brows, replying softly: "With Old Wang kidnapped, our final bid price may have leaked - when we get to the island, find a chance to meet Gui Mengjun privately, probe his attitude, see if we can find out other competitors' bid prices."

"Good." You Chengcheng nodded.

"Whew!" Yu Mingyuan let out a long breath, turning to look at the scene outside the cabin: "After working so long, hope everything goes smoothly!"

......

Outside Old Triangle's waters was an island of extremely high military strategic value called: Salt Island.

As the main island, Salt Island was surrounded by seven or eight subsidiary islands, among them a small island focused on tourism and vacation industry called Little Double Cattle Island.

This island was the final location for holding the "trade exhibition." During preparation, Old Triangle's Pu system Political Assistance had separately cordoned off this area, marked out the exhibition location, having the island's functional departments cooperate with the Gui family and other channel merchants to handle this event well.

Around 5 PM, in the five-star Cabin Seaside Hotel, Gui Mengjun led four people into the executive conference room.

Inside, over twenty middle-aged men and women were already seated on both sides of the conference table - these people were all channel merchants participating in this exhibition - in plain terms, they were wealthy families producing military supplies.

Here it's necessary to explain - though the Gui family system had built up very large industries in Old Triangle, they hadn't formed an industry monopoly, but rather worked together with other suppliers over several years to expand this industry's overall scale.

Military supplies production was impossible without upper level Political Assistance's tacit approval and secret support. And if the upper level Political Assistance wanted to do it, they couldn't possibly find just one white glove to operate. Because such a big cake couldn't be eaten by just one family - Old Triangle's local wealthy families with connections naturally also wanted a piece of the pie, thus forming the current situation.

The Gui family was one of the leading families - they controlled the general direction of the entire industry chain, but small channels surviving around them and other leading families also had some say.

With the exhibition about to begin, Gui Mengjun wanted to warm up internally in advance, thus today's closed-door meeting.

After entering the conference room, Gui Mengjun bent to sit in the first chair, saying with a smile: "The exhibition is about to begin - let's discuss internally to confirm basic policies and distributor quotas for each region."

Hearing this, everyone quieted down, looking at Gui Mengjun with crossed hands.

"Let's talk about quotas first - we discussed this before," Gui Mengjun lowered his head opening his work notebook, reading from the list: "South Magnesium region, tentatively set five distributor quotas; Xinaluo and Kasalo regions, tentatively one quota; and Asian Alliance..."

"Wait, Chairman Gui!" Just then, a man in his thirties suddenly interrupted asking: "Old Mo's northern Xinaluo and Kasalo regions get only one distributor quota?"

Gui Mengjun looked up at him: "Right, tentatively one quota."

"...This isn't reasonable, is it?" the other asked puzzled: "Zone One and Dragon City just issued border closure orders to the Old Mo region - their official army, rebel army, and private armed forces can't get any supplies now - such a huge market, we're giving to just one distributor to handle? This makes no sense to me...!"

Gui Mengjun looked at him replying: "I went to Dragon City a few days ago to understand the local situation. I personally feel that precisely because Zone One issued Order No. 1, making the political situation there more complex, we need to be cautious in finding distribution partners - temporarily establish connections first, try it out, then decide whether to increase quotas."

"If it's trying, then adding several more quotas shouldn't matter?" the young man continued: "...Many people came from Xinaluo and Kasalo regions for this exhibition! In the end giving just one quota seems somewhat... like playing people."

Gui Mengjun looked at him, lightly tapping the table replying: "We are suppliers, we are leaders! We have the right to decide who to cooperate with and how many to cooperate with - no need to consider too much. Moreover as I said, the political situation there is complex - we'd better not be rash, this is also the meaning from the Pu system and Western Pacification King's mansion."

Hearing mention of the Pu system and Western Pacification King's mansion, everyone fell silent, including the young man who had just questioned.

"If there are objections, we can also resolve through anonymous voting," Gui Mengjun said smiling. "That would be fairer."

......

An hour later.

The plane carrying Su Tianyu and others arrived at Old Triangle's capital, Hanoi Airport.