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Thomas got up to leave, but Lin Yuan didn't hold back. Looking at the back of Thomas leaving, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "You have fallen into my trap again. I don't know what's the matter with Jonas?"

After a while, Jonas came in from the outside, and said anxiously to Lin Yuan as soon as he entered the door: "Master Lin, you are in big trouble!"

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I don't know what tricks this Jonas and the British government have, why don't I pretend to be scared and see what tricks they have." So Lin Yuan raised his hand and pretended to wipe his forehead In a cold sweat, he said, "What's the matter with me?"

Jonas looked at Lin Yuan very proudly, took out a stack of newspapers from his bag, and said, "You imprisoned Asko, Director of the Taxation Department of Yingkou Port, this incident caused a great commotion in our country. All the comments on this matter, the comments said that the Chinese government is getting more and more arrogant, it is time to start a war."

When Jonas said this, he put on an anxious face, as if he was an old friend of the Chinese people. He said to Lin Yuan earnestly, "Do you know? Our domestic arms dealers have been looking forward to war for a long time. This matter It just happened to give them an excuse, don't you remember the Yarrow incident?"

Of course, Lin Yuan remembered the "Yaro Ship Incident". It is impossible for every bloody Chinese to forget this incident. This incident was the fuse of the second Opium War. On October 1856, 10, the Guangdong Navy arrested two Chinese pirates on the ship.

This was originally China's internal affairs, but the British consul in Guangzhou at that time insisted that the ship was a British ship, saying that China had insulted Britain, and rejected the apology from the Qing court, and then provoked the second Opium War. During this war, the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, burned down the Old Summer Palace, and looted a large number of cultural relics. Today, these cultural relics are still living overseas.

When Lin Yuan heard Jonas mentioning these things, he was sure that Jonas must have a conspiracy to come to him, because the newspaper office was always monitoring the movements of foreign media, and Shen Wanqing even used reporters to get information from them at any time. Newspapers and news in the UK, so Lin Yuan knew that his detainment of Asko did not attract much attention in the UK, and several mainstream newspapers did not even report it.

However, Lin Yuan still pretended to be panicked, and said, "Is the UK going to use this incident as a reason to attack us?"

Jonas said helplessly: "Actually, I don't want to see a war between the two countries, so I have been actively mediating this matter. Now I have some clues. At least I can convince the British government that this is just an ordinary diplomacy." friction, so you don't have to worry about it."

Lin Yuan nodded, but thought in his heart: "Could it be that Jonas came here just to tell me that there is nothing wrong? Would he be so kind?"

Jonas said: "I am here this time, and there is a more personal matter, which is related to the aluminum plant."

Lin Yuan asked, "What? Is there something wrong with the aluminum plant?"

Jonas said: "Our companies in the UK are different from yours in China. Your big companies in China are all run by government-supervised merchants, and many of them are basically government-run, while our companies are completely run by businessmen. This The largest shareholder of the aluminum factory happens to be my good friend. After he heard that a war might break out, he asked my relationship to sell the aluminum factory. After thinking about it, only you, Lin Shuai, have the ability to take over. "

Lin Yuan understood everything now: "Jonas' plan is this: after so many days of refining, they must have discovered that bauxite cannot be successfully refined into alumina with their technology, so the entire aluminum The factory will not be able to start work, and their investment will be completely in vain.”

"It is impossible for them to suffer such a big loss willingly, so they have to transfer all the shares of the factory to me, which is equivalent to selling the equipment to me, so that they will not suffer losses, when Jonas came in Saying that war is about to break out is actually threatening me, if I don’t agree to buy the equity, he won’t mediate for me anymore, and war will break out!”

Lin Yuan saw through Jonas' trick, so he smiled and said, "Aren't you mediating? The war won't break out, so why are your friends so scared?"

Jonas said: "People are different. My friend is unwilling to take this risk, so he wants to transfer all his shares and the complete set of equipment of the factory for 800 million pounds."

Lin Yuan put on a embarrassed look and said, "I want to buy it too, but the price of 800 million yuan is too high. You can discuss it with that friend. Let's lower it, 400 million yuan?"

Lin Yuan directly cut the price in half. He thought that Jonas would oppose it with all his strength, and then continued to raise the price. In fact, the negotiation is like this. He asks for the price and pays the money back. Without a few rounds of confrontation, there will be no results. But Lin Yuan Unexpectedly, Jonas nodded happily and said, "Okay, deal!"

After Jonas finished speaking, he took out a document from his briefcase and said, "Look, this is the equity and equipment transfer contract I drafted for both parties. You can take a look at it. If there is no problem, we will sign it now." .”

Lin Yuan was a little puzzled by Jonas, thinking: "Why is he signing with me so soon? Does he have some tricks? Could it be that there is something wrong with the equipment? Impossible! Their equipment When it was shipped, I organized experts on the Beijing ship to inspect it, and the experts said that although the equipment is primitive, it can completely smelt aluminum."

Lin Yuan took the contract and looked at it. It was very short, with only a few dozen words. After thinking about it, Lin Yuan took out a pen from his pocket, signed his name on the contract, and said, "I'll finish it in a while." Have someone transfer the money to your account through the bank."

Jonas also signed his name on the contract, and then, as if he was afraid that Lin Yuan would go back on his word, he put his contract in his bag and said, "What our embassy means is: first of all, you have to release our tax department. The director, Asko, then publicly apologized and promised not to interfere in the affairs of the tax department."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Your trick is really ruthless! It's nothing to release the director, but a public apology shows that we have softened. The tax office, which means they can dump all kinds of goods into the country at will, including opium."

Lin Yuan changed his mind, and said, "I can agree to everything except for the public apology."

Jonas didn't say much, so he said: "Well, let's issue a joint statement publicly, saying that the seizure was caused by a misunderstanding caused by poor communication. We will try our best to avoid these things from happening in the future. In the statement, we don't mention words like apology, do you think it's okay?"

Lin Yuan nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, no problem, we can hold a press conference in two days to explain the detention."