Chapter 117 Turmoil

That evening, Kong Zhengui, Liu Laoer, and Bai Hongbo stayed at the Su residence until after 11 PM, thoroughly discussing all the follow-up matters before leaving together.

Early the next morning, workers from the Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong families all went on strike. The streets were not cleaned at dawn, and the nightly garbage was not collected as scheduled. The entire sanitation system of Zha Nan district was nearly paralyzed. Except for the workers from Changqing Company and a few tiny companies, more than sixty-five percent of the workers were on "vacation."

The sanitation system being paralyzed for only one day would not attract the public's attention, much less connect it to internal strife among the dirty gangs. But for the management committee responsible for this matter, it was a major event that could not be ignored. So, the cadres of the management committee responsible for Zha Nan district held an emergency meeting early in the morning.

The infighting and verbal battles between the higher-ups are not worth mentioning. Let's just talk about how much the Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong families paid to orchestrate this strike.

First of all, the wages of the workers during the strike period must be paid by the company. And the worker leaders who instigated the strike below must also receive tangible benefits, so handing out money was unavoidable.

Secondly, a strike is a double-edged sword, because once you do it, you are not only fighting against Changqing Company, but also the police department, the upper echelons of the management committee, and even the district government. Because the four families incited workers to make trouble and create collective incidents, it meant adding a lot of trouble to the higher-ups, so the risks for these four families were greatly increased. In other words, if the strike doesn't produce a beneficial result, then a series of hidden dangers in the future will be fatal.

To put it simply, the Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong families, unable to get out of their predicament, chose to go all-in, and the person who promoted this matter was Su Tianyu, who had just come to Dragon City.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, the core members of the Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong families led three or four hundred people to sit-in at the headquarters of the Zha Nan District Sanitation Management Committee. The slogan was that Changqing Company was engaged in illegal monopolies and was not giving the bottom-level workers a way out.

By doing this, the four families were putting Changqing Company on the fire to roast, because this was not a place with a stable situation and a healthy political structure. The political and social environment of Dragon City was extremely complex and distorted. More than twenty years ago, when the end-of-the-world mini ice age had not completely ended, there were nine major living areas in the world, and the Chinese, because of their strong infrastructure capabilities, were the first to adapt to the end-of-the-world environment, so they exclusively occupied the three major living areas of the Asian Alliance.

After the disaster was gradually adapted to, an even more terrible man-made disaster came. Many capable and ambitious people took advantage of the advent of the end of the world to rise up, integrate resources, and control the political system and government, becoming contemporary warlords and people who controlled huge amounts of resources.

Where there is division, there is unification. After decades of development, the three major Chinese regions were the first to complete unification. The defeated warlord parties, because they had colluded with overseas forces and attempted to make a comeback, took away millions of people, including troops, military dependents, the elite class, and civilians, when they fled to overseas Region One. These people fled overseas, attached themselves to the political system of the European Union's Region One, and gradually settled down, thus forming the current Dragon City, which is dominated by overseas Chinese.

When Dragon City was first built, the government of the European Union's Region One wanted to directly manage it, but after years of exploration, they found that they could not effectively manage this group of overseas Chinese. Because these people had a very low sense of belonging to the Region One government, and some government orders were criticized as discrimination, division, and human rights issues before they were even implemented, and all of them would be brought out into the open for discussion, which was very troublesome.

The results were not ideal after all, so the European Union's Region One cleverly chose to let overseas Chinese manage overseas Chinese. So, the current political system of Dragon City is that the Chinese hold the core power, but they are under the supervision of the Region One government. In other words, I don't care how you usually do things, but when something big happens, the upper echelons of the EU Region One government must nod their heads.

This method is convenient and effective. The fact also proves that Dragon City has developed very rapidly in recent years. Many Chinese from all over the world are flocking here, feeling that there is gold everywhere and opportunities to make a name for themselves. But in this political environment, most overseas Chinese civil servants also feel that they are working for foreigners, so corruption is rampant, public security is chaotic, violent organizations are breeding, and various political parties are also seizing power. The situation is very similar to a certain port city in the 1950s and 1960s that has not yet returned home.

Therefore, as long as this internal strife incident does not escalate on a large scale, the upper echelons of the management committee and the government departments are too lazy to care. But if a mass incident with great influence is created, and the upper-level regulatory departments notice it, there will still be some trouble.

That's why Changqing Company is also very uncomfortable with the four families going on strike. If it were a stable era, who would dare to take the lead in doing this? They would definitely be dealt with severely. But now the distribution of power in Dragon City is very complicated, and there are many factions within the management committee. Once things get out of hand, how will they be resolved?

...

One o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Hongze, the boss of Changqing Company, took his luxury car to an upscale apartment in Longkou District. In a mansion of over four hundred square meters, he met Zheng Fuan, the person in charge of the Sanitation Management Committee of Zha Nan District.

In the restaurant, Zheng Fuan ate a lunch mainly consisting of green vegetables and said softly, "Lao Li, a one-day strike is nothing, a week is nothing, but if there is no end time, then there will be trouble."

Li Hongze crossed his legs and frowned, "The four families are making a scene together, it's true that the commotion is a bit big."

"I just came up, and something happened in Zha Nan. This is easy to cause gossip." Zheng Fuan drank his rice porridge: "I have two suggestions for you: First, if you can't suppress this matter, then release the leaders of the four families and discuss this matter from a long-term perspective; Second, if you have a quick and effective solution, then solve the problem as soon as possible."

"The board is set, the price we paid to set up this game is not small, let's try it." Li Hongze replied.

"Then deal with it as soon as possible." Zheng Fuan nodded.

Half an hour later, Li Hongze left Zheng Fuan's home and returned to his company.

In the conference room, a dozen men in suits, but with unkind expressions, were talking to each other.

"What do you guys think?" Li Hongze asked while smoking.

Lu Feng, who was on a drip, replied concisely, "Strike, huh? Then whoever takes the lead, I'll beat them. I don't believe it, these three or four thousand workers, they can all be willing to risk their lives for these four families. Cripple a few, knock down a few, and see who dares to shout?!"

"The demands of the police department and the police division are that making a scene is okay, but don't make things difficult for them." Li Hongze summed it up in one sentence.

"Don't worry, there won't be any loose ends." Lu Feng replied faintly.

...

Zha Nan District, Su Family Courtyard.

Since returning to Dragon City, Su Tianyu has been involved in family matters and has hardly had any rest. But fortunately, he has been able to see the internal strife of the sanitation workers in Zha Nan District clearly from an outsider's perspective, and he doesn't think this matter is too complicated. If you don't consider Su Tiannan's more righteous and steady character, and the Su family's concern for their reputation, then if they were to do things a little more ruthlessly and coldly, perhaps the Su family would have already gotten out of their predicament.

Of course, these are just Su Tianyu's personal thoughts. He just returned to Dragon City, and his plan is not focused on the family, so he won't say some things explicitly, and his style of doing things won't completely follow his own wishes.

In the evening, Su Miaomiao, the third sister who doted on her younger brother, prepared a table of good dishes to formally welcome Su Tianyu. Dozens of people in the family gathered together to eat and chat, full of a warm atmosphere of life.

In fact, even if Su Tianyu didn't come back, the Su family would still eat like this. There are many people, many children, and the whole family is happy to be together. It's just that today, everyone can eat something good because of Su Tianyu.

"Xiaoyu, today the family is officially welcoming you back." Su Tiannan said with a smile while holding a wine glass, "It just so happens that you have graduated too. No matter what you do in the future, our generation of brothers must stick together, unbreakable, unyielding, and help each other to do something."

"That's a must." Su Tianyu replied with a smile in his hometown dialect.

At the head of the table, Aunt Er looked at Su Tianyu and said softly, "Our old Su family has always been united. The people of your previous generation have all been on the battlefield together. As the old saying goes, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. No matter how long you stay outside, when you come back, you're home, understand what I mean?"

"Understood, Aunt Er!" Su Tianyu grinned and replied, "I'll also toast you a glass, don't worry about Uncle Er, we will do things for the best."

Aunt Er was also very forthright: "I'm not worried about him, there are risks in this business itself. If he's executed, I'll bury him; if he's sentenced to life imprisonment, I'll wait for him."

"Aunt Er is indeed a heroine!" Su Tianyu was in awe of Aunt Er's words.

The people of the previous generation of the Su family had all gone through that very turbulent era, and their psychological quality was not ordinary, they could withstand anything.

After Su Tianyu toasted Aunt Er, he turned his head and saw Su Miaomiao wearing a short skirt and black stockings, carrying dishes over with a hot figure. "Here, this is the carp I made for you. I know you like this, so I ran to four farmers' markets to buy it."

Su Tianyu said with a smile, "Third sister, your ripped stockings are really good. You have to find a third brother-in-law with a lot of strength in the future."

"Making fun of me, I'll beat you to death!" Su Miaomiao pinched her younger brother's ear.

Su Tiannan was older than the other brothers, while Tianyu, Tianbei, Su Miaomiao and others were close in age and hung out together every day when they were young.

While the family was talking and chatting, Bai Hongbo, the intellectual, walked in with his two younger brothers. He held a flip phone, symbolizing his status, in his left hand, walked with a splayed gait, and came with a bandage wrapped around his head: "Hehe, eating?"

"Hehe, Brother Bai is here!" Su Tiannan stood up: "The family is eating together, come on, sit down."

"I'm here to talk about the follow-up." Bai Hongbo turned his head and saw Su Miaomiao wearing a black silk short skirt, and his eyes lit up: "Miaomiao, the socks are so beautiful!"

Su Miaomiao and Bai Hongbo had known each other for a long time. She was annoyed by this pretentious person, and immediately curled her lips and replied, "Brother Bai, the white headband on your head is also very unique."

"Damn it, I get angry when I mention this." Bai Hongbo cursed: "I'll kill Lu Feng sooner or later! If I can't kill him, I'll go to the nursing home to kill his mother, I'm definitely going to kill him anyway."

"Things have been laid out, so don't be angry." Su Tiannan politely invited Bai Hongbo to sit down and said with a smile, "Xiao Zhan, go get Brother Bai a bowl and chopsticks."

Bai Hongbo turned to look at Su Tianyu and unconsciously touched the wound on his head: "Xiao Su, Xiao Su, you kid are doing things unfairly! This knife of yours directly tied our three families together. When we were in the courtyard, Lu Feng was chasing you, and you were running in front of me, you were running so fast that you were a blur, you're so wicked! I just want to ask, where did Brother Bai offend you...?"

...

In a villa in Longkou District of Dragon City, a handsome middle-aged man in a white shirt was sitting in a chair, reading a book.

"There's a strike in Zha Nan District." A man on the sofa said softly.

"Let's wait and see first. If any of those four families come to me in the next few days, don't receive them, just turn them away." The middle-aged man replied faintly.

Downstairs, two young and beautiful girls walked into the villa hall. One of them was the owner of the red car, that big-eyed beauty.