Wei Jie
Chapter 438 Hierarchy
Su Tianyu looked suspiciously toward the stairwell and walked over, asking, "Was this staircase installed later?"
"Yes, yes," a staff member immediately followed, "It was modified later to make it easier for the sailors to come down. There's nothing in here, haha."
As Su Tianyu walked forward, the bulldog bared its teeth, wagging its tail menacingly.
"Get out of the way." The staff member lightly kicked the bulldog, immediately standing next to Su Tianyu and saying, "Officer, do you want to take a look? There's nothing in here."
Su Tianyu examined the stairwell and found nothing unusual, but just as he was about to go over for a closer look, a colleague came down from upstairs, "Tianyu, all done, let's go!"
Su Tianyu looked up at him, "I haven't finished checking below."
"No need to check." The colleague walked over, pulled Su Tianyu and winked at him.
Every place has its own rules. Su Tianyu was new and needed to adapt and learn, and since he hadn't seen anything unusual in the stairwell, he followed his colleague.
On the deck of the cargo ship, the team leader had finished communicating with the person in charge of the cargo ship. Seeing Su Tianyu and the others come out, he took everyone back to the marine patrol boat.
Apart from this small episode, the inspection went smoothly tonight.
After one o'clock in the morning, the drizzle had turned into a downpour, and the typhoon would soon make landfall, so The Dragon City Rises began to implement a port closure, and no ships, large or small, could leave the shore.
The mission ended, and all the patrol personnel returned to the unit. Su Tianyu rested for a while and went to the dormitory to take a hot shower.
After warming up and changing into new clothes, Su Tianyu took a cup of hot coffee to the office area and saw many people gathered around the team leader, chatting and laughing.
The team leader of the first team was called Fang Zheng. He was thirty-nine years old this year. He usually treated people with courtesy and was very polite to Su Tianyu, so the two got along well.
"Stop arguing, there's enough for everyone." Fang Zheng shouted from his chair.
Su Tianyu walked over curiously and asked with a smile, "What's going on?"
"Good thing." A young man next to him grinned.
"What good thing?" Su Tianyu also looked at Fang Zheng.
Fang Zheng took out more than twenty envelopes from the drawer and distributed them to everyone present, "The amount is the same, take it and go, don't crowd around here."
Everyone took the envelopes and immediately smiled, returning to their respective positions.
Su Tianyu noticed that some people revealed the cash inside when they opened the envelopes.
"Come on, brother, sit down." Fang Zheng greeted with a smile.
"What's up?" Su Tianyu sat next to Fang Zheng with his coffee cup.
Fang Zheng took out an envelope from the second drawer, which was obviously much thicker than the ones before, and threw it to Su Tianyu, "Yours."
Su Tianyu was stunned, "What is this money? A bonus?"
"Hehe. Is there such a thick bonus? Drink up, brother!" Fang Zheng grinned.
Su Tianyu put down his coffee cup and immediately opened it for a quick glance, seeing that there was about one thousand five hundred yuan inside, which was almost equivalent to two months' salary.
"Didn't you ask me why some ships are exempt from inspection? That's the reason." Fang Zheng pointed to the envelope and said, "With this, they can be exempt."
Su Tianyu was speechless.
"Of course, we know what those ships are doing. It's not a big deal if we let them pass. They're just transporting some popular materials, contraband." Fang Zheng said in a low voice, "The crew members are people too, they have to live. If they do some small things in private, we can turn a blind eye, common prosperity."
"...But it shouldn't be this much, right?" Su Tianyu glanced at the envelope and replied.
"Brother, this is because of the typhoon. Many cargo ships have changed their routes and have to dock in The Dragon City Rises, so today's bonus is more than usual. Normally, an ordinary team member would only get one or two hundred. Otherwise, who would want to be a patrol officer just relying on a fixed salary." Fang Zheng said with a smile, "You're different from others, we get the same amount."
"This isn't very good, what if others find out...?"
"It's nothing bad. With your connections, you can even take my share, haha." Fang Zheng said half seriously and half jokingly, "That's how it is in our unit. Those with connections get more, those without connections get less, but they won't get nothing at all."
What kind of person was Gou Liuzi? He was a social expert who could worm his way into any situation and charm people like Li Mingsheng and Li Yuan, so he naturally knew how to get along with the leaders and colleagues in the unit.
"I'm a little embarrassed to take so much the first time." Su Tianyu immediately said, "Why don't I treat everyone? Spend all this money, and everyone can get to know each other."
"You're not short of money, huh? Haha!" Fang Zheng teased with a smile.
"It's not that I'm not short of money, it's that I have to be grateful. You, Brother Fang, have taught me so much, I have to thank you." Su Tianyu immediately flattered, "It's settled then, I'll take everyone out for drinks later, and find some girls!"
"That's why you're so popular, you know how to handle things." Fang Zheng didn't refuse and immediately got up and shouted, "Tianyu is treating later, let's go to the inner harbor to chat with the little sisters."
"Yeah!"
"Awesome, buddy!"
"Brother Tianyu is quite likable!"
"…!"
The people in the room cheered happily.
After chatting for a while, Fang Zheng handed Su Tianyu a stack of new change, "For the temporary workers."
"This... how do I distribute it?" Su Tianyu was a little surprised looking at the change.
"Thirty each." Fang Zheng replied indifferently, "Go distribute it, I'll go upstairs for a while."
"They only get thirty?"
"It's good enough that they get anything, they're all external staff, that's good enough." Fang Zheng replied and took out three very thick envelopes from the drawer, got up and said, "I'm going to the leader's duty room upstairs, I'll be down in a while, then we'll go."
"Okay!" Su Tianyu nodded.
…
Five minutes later, in the small temporary worker's rest room, Su Tianyu walked in with a smile and said, "Distributing some subsidies to everyone."
Everyone stood up happily when they heard this, and each received thirty yuan. Some looked very satisfied, while others were filled with numbness.
Su Tianyu looked at these people and suddenly said, "I'm treating everyone later, let's go out to eat together!"
"Okay!"
"Going for drinks?"
"Thank you, Boss Su!"
"…!"
Everyone in the room was quite happy to see Su Tianyu taking the initiative to invite them.
Hou Guoyu said faintly from the bedside, "I'm not going, I'm going home after work."
"Together?!" Su Tianyu asked.
"There's nothing to talk about, I'm not going." Hou Guoyu politely refused, "Thank you!"
…
At the shore, inside the unloading port.
A middle-aged man stood on the cargo ship with the dog and whispered to the people below, "Don't rush to leave, there are too many people watching right now, wait a while. At five or six in the morning, use cargo containers to send the things from the hidden compartment out."
"Okay!"