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Lin Yuan sneered, "Okay, I'll just wait for him to come."

The first mate snorted coldly and turned away from looking at Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Believe it or not? The first thing your boss does after he arrives is to pay me."

The first mate said angrily: "Don't dream, when my boss comes, you just wait to apologize to him."

Lin Yuan said to the guards on the side: "Well, I have to go to other places to collect money later, you take him and let him follow me, I guess his boss will definitely come to me when he hears the news, wait When he finds me, I will let him see if his boss will pay me!"

Lin Yuan then asked people to take the chief mate to several other Swire Pacific ships. These ships all knew that the chief mate was not easy to mess with. Seeing that he had already been subdued by Lin Yuan, they knew that even if they resisted, it was useless. , So he had to get off the ship obediently, Lin Yuan seized the goods on more than a dozen ships, and several small ship owners paid the entry fee when they saw that the momentum was wrong.

The rest of the shipowners who have not paid the port dues are all looking at Taikoo Matheson, because Taikoo Matheson is the most powerful and only it can fight against Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan did not wait too long. At noon, the person in charge of Taikoo Matheson Chris came to look for Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan was drinking tea in the office at this time, and the first mate was sitting beside him in a panic. When the first mate saw Chris coming in, he immediately stood up and stepped forward to greet him. Just as he was about to tell his tragic experience, Chris waved his hand to signal He stopped talking, then walked up to Lin Yuan, and put a big box in front of Lin Yuan.

Chris opened the box and said, "This is the port entry fee, a total of 20 pounds, can you let it go?"

Lin Yuan waved his hand, and an attendant beside him came forward and began to count the money inside. After a while, the attendant nodded to Lin Yuan lightly, and Lin Yuan pointed to the door and said, "You can go."

Chris said angrily: "Classify ships to collect port entry fees. I have traded in so many countries, and I have never heard of such an unreasonable thing. You Chinese are really good at making names!"

Lin Yuan said calmly: "There is nothing we can do. We repair the waterway according to the shape of your ship. We will make the waterway as wide as your boat is. Your boat is wider than others. , we want to expand the waterway wider because of your ships, tell me, shouldn’t you pay the price difference?”

Chris didn't speak, he gave Lin Yuan a hard look, turned around and went out, the first mate next to him was stunned by this scene, he thought that Chris would have some powerful countermeasures after paying the money, but he didn't expect that he would After leaving in such a disheartened manner, he asked Lin Yuan in surprise: "How do you know that our boss will definitely come to pay the money?"

Lin Yuan said proudly: "Isn't this simple? Think about it, your cargo must be delivered to the destination on time and your shipowner can make a profit, so he is in a hurry to transport the cargo back, but I am different, I don't Don't worry, I can keep his goods here as long as I like, and I won't lose a penny, so he can't consume me at all."

"Even if he has a very strong relationship with the British ambassador, he can ask the British ambassador to put pressure on me, but I will not give in so easily. Besides, the British ambassador is now in Beijing with a lot of opportunities. Whether he can come to Yingkou is in between. It will take a lot of time to get to Yingkou, tell me, can he wait longer?"

The chief mate nodded helplessly, got up and went out, and soon the news that "the person in charge of Swire Pacific paid the entry fee" spread in the port, and all the shipowners succumbed to Lin Yuan when they saw Swire Pacific, and had no choice but to pay The entry fee, so the toll office was full of people.

Then Lin Yuan issued another order that all payers must pay a [-]% late payment fee as a punishment, which made all the foreign shipowners dare not speak up and deal with the port entry fee properly. Two patrol boats are waiting outside the port to execute the right of pilotage.

The right to pilot water is guaranteed by hard power. Lin Yuan led people to patrol the port, and soon a merchant ship entered Lin Yuan's field of vision. The name was written on the ship: Fengsu, both in length and width. It was one size larger than Lin Yuan's cruise ship, and the British flag was hoisted on it. Since Lin Yuan arrested an American labor-trafficking ship in Yingkou Port, no ship dared to enter the port without flying the flag.

Lin Yuan said to the helmsman in the cockpit, "Catch up and get close to that ship."

Relying on the diesel engine and water jet propulsion system, the patrol boat quickly approached the big ship, and then the loudspeaker on the ship was turned on, and the loud voice spread throughout the sea: "We are the China Ship Standardization Center, Feng Speed, reduce the speed immediately." Slow down, let's get on board and check."

The American captain on the ship was named Antoine. He heard the voice of the patrol ship and thought: "China Shipping Standardization Center? What kind of organization is this? Is the rumor true?" They once docked in Tianjin Port for a while It is rumored in Tianjin Port that Yingkou Port has now become a "hell". The Chinese high official named Lin Yuan established a Chinese ship standardization center in the port, and charged various fees under clever names.

Antoine didn't want to spend more money, so he ordered the crew to ignore the patrol ship's request and keep the course, so Lin Yuan asked someone to say: "Feng Speed, stop the ship immediately, we have to board the ship to exercise the right to pilot water! "

Antoine almost laughed out loud when he heard the word "water diversion right". He thought disdainfully: "Do the Chinese know what water diversion right is?" So he ordered: Speed ​​up and get rid of these ridiculous Chinese people .

Lin Yuan saw that the Fengsu had no tendency to slow down, but sped up instead, so he ordered: Prepare the automatic grenade launcher, and give them a few hits first. After receiving the order, Yu Ming immediately took out the grenade launcher and pointed it at the side of the Fengsu. A few bullets were fired at the position, and Antoine became serious. The boat was filled with sugar, and once he was shot, the consequences would be disastrous.

The wind speed slowed down, and Lin Yuan quickly boarded the ship, and immediately asked, "Which of you is the captain?"

Antoine stood up and replied, "I am, what can I do for you?"

Lin Yuan asked, "Is your ship owner there?"

Antoine replied: "I am the owner of the ship."

Lin Yuan ordered: "Very good, now you immediately hand over the structural data of the hull to me, and then prepare a channel toll of [-] pounds."

Antoine frowned and thought to himself: "One hundred thousand pounds, the total cargo on my ship is only 30 pounds. You charge this fee, how much will my goods have to sell to recover the cost." He then said : "What? One hundred thousand pounds? Why do you accept this money?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "You want to trade on Chinese land, shouldn't we charge money?"

Antoine said angrily: "Our government of the British Empire has signed a treaty with your Qing government. The treaty stipulates the amount of taxation. The total value of the goods on our ship is 37 pounds. According to the tax rate, we can charge up to several thousand pounds!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Our waterway tolls and cargo taxes are completely different, so you can't confuse the two."