Chapter 148 Selling Himself

Inside the teahouse booth, Yu Mingyuan looked at You Yifan with some confusion. After hesitating for a long time, he still bit the bullet and asked, "Brother Fan, I don't quite understand. With your connections and circles in Tianhong Port, you can completely arrange for goods to enter and leave the port. So why do you have to involve the garrison? Also, the Sinaloa region also has ports. If you have connections, you can directly negotiate with the Mexican federal troops privately once the control order is issued! Landing the goods at their port would save a lot of intermediate steps and be more profitable."

You Yifan waved his hand, "I still say, money isn't something one person earns alone. I can ensure the goods enter the port safely, but there's still a long distance between The Dragon City and Sinaloa. And within that distance, there are private armed forces that rob for money, bandits, and various troops under the rebel army. If we have to grease their palms one by one, it's simply not profitable and too much trouble. Secondly, the same logic applies to landing goods in Sinaloa. It's too chaotic over there. If you transport goods five times and get robbed once, you might even lose money. So, it's better to... make the pie bigger."

"If you take care of the garrison, all the problems from above disappear," Su Tianyu summarized in one sentence.

"Exactly, that's the idea," You Yifan replied with a smile.

"Brother Fan, I understand what you're saying," Yu Mingyuan immediately interjected, "But I'm not so sure about the garrison's attitude."

"Hehe, contact them first, there's no rush," You Yifan replied with a smile. "If it works out, we'll give you a share."

"Alright, I'll give it a try!" Yu Mingyuan agreed immediately.

...

The two sides chatted in the teahouse for about an hour and a half before Su Tianyu and Yu Mingyuan said goodbye and left.

Once outside, Su Tianyu said directly to Yu Mingyuan, "Just listen to what You Yifan says. We can't touch this kind of business."

"I know," Yu Mingyuan nodded heavily.

At this moment, both of them were clear that the business You Yifan wanted to do was too big. With the Tongji Association's current strength, they simply couldn't get involved. Moreover, the former's offer to give them a share if it worked out was just a casual remark, not to be taken seriously. Those involved were the navy, the garrison, and possibly even the shadow of The Dragon City's top power echelons. Once small fries entered the game, they might die without even knowing how they died if something went wrong.

However, You Yifan's attitude was also clear. He could say a word for Wei Xiangzuo to help him get into power, but the prerequisite was that Yu Mingyuan had to be valuable and able to connect him with the garrison.

On the way back, Yu Mingyuan sat in the car and took a sip of mineral water, "Our thinking is like this. We can actively help You Yifan run errands. If my family's garrison connections can really cooperate with them, then that's definitely a good thing. At least our relationship with You Yifan will become very close! In the future, we can get a lot of favors in Tianhong Port."

Su Tianyu nodded slowly.

"But we'll only participate in the initial preparations for this deal. If this thing works out later, we must withdraw and not work with them," Yu Mingyuan added again, "You Yifan and his people are doing too big a thing. They have the capital and dare to play tricks under the table of government orders, but we can't. One wrong step and we'll be finished."

"That's right, we can't move too fast," Su Tianyu agreed with a nod, and then asked, "Do you think the garrison will agree?!"

"Sigh!"

Yu Mingyuan sighed deeply, "My dad used to maintain the garrison relationships. In the eyes of those elders, I'm just a kid. To be honest, I'm not sure at all right now."

"Be sure to be confident before you speak, otherwise, if you get rejected the first time, there will be no way to communicate later!"

"Sigh." Yu Mingyuan sighed again, staring at the scenery on the street and replied, "It's time for me to sell myself!"

"Huh?!" Su Tianyu was stunned.

...

Around eight o'clock in the evening, Yu Mingyuan dressed up very beautifully at home. He took a shower, changed into a white suit, wore a pair of British-style patchwork leather shoes, and even got a special hairstyle.

Bai Hongbo sat on the sofa, looked him up and down, and sincerely praised, "What a good seedling for prostitution!"

"Stop talking nonsense, take me to the restaurant," Yu Mingyuan walked over.

Su Tianyu and Da Bai had nothing to do, so they got up together and accompanied Yu Mingyuan to the outside, driving to a high-end western restaurant in the Longkou District.

Around nine o'clock, Yu Mingyuan arrived at the restaurant entrance as scheduled, carrying a delicate gift in his hand.

"Go on," Su Tianyu yawned and urged.

"No, no, let's see who he's meeting!" Da Bai said curiously, sitting in the car.

"Sick!" Su Tianyu lit a cigarette and waited with Da Bai.

After a while, a blue SUV stopped at the restaurant entrance. A girl with a height of more than 1.7 meters and a weight of about 140-150 pounds, wearing a pure cotton camouflage T-shirt, got out of the car.

At first, Da Bai didn't pay attention to this person, but as soon as she got out of the car, she yelled, "Mingyuan!!"

Yu Mingyuan turned around.

"Damn!" Da Bai looked at the girl and exclaimed, "This must be in the 80-kilogram weight class, right?!"

Su Tianyu was also a little confused, staring blankly at the girl.

"Hehe, have you been here for a long time?" The girl walked to Yu Mingyuan and said with a smile, "I was in a meeting just now. You called me so urgently that I didn't even have time to change my clothes...!"

"It's okay, I just arrived too," Yu Mingyuan looked at the girl's broad shoulders and slightly shyly raised his hand and said, "This is a gift for you!"

"What's the occasion today? You even prepared a gift for me!" Although the girl looked very brave, she unconsciously revealed the appearance of a little woman in front of Yu Mingyuan and happily accepted the gift.

Yu Mingyuan paused, and took the initiative to raise his left arm slightly, "Let's go, let's go eat!"

The girl was stunned for a moment, naturally reached out and took Yu Mingyuan's arm, and walked into the restaurant with him, her feet in leather boots.

In the car, Da Bai said in a daze, "What level of family is this?! Is it necessary for my brother to take this step?"

"I heard his dad is a senior colonel," Su Tianyu replied.

Da Bai held back for a long time: "...That's alright! Then let my brother advance amidst the gunfire!"

"...Our brother is working so hard, what reason do we have to slack off?!" Su Tianyu gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go back, I'll continue to send messages to pursue Qiqi!"

...

On the day the control order was issued, a large number of migrant workers in Sinaloa, Casallo, and other regions began to return to The Dragon City.

Inside the Chi Army base, a middle-aged man with a slight limp gave Zhao Weihu some pickled vegetables he had made, and said with a bright smile, "Brother, the control order has been issued, and I can't do this business anymore. I'm going back to The Dragon City...!"