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Lin Yuan first asked after listening: "Carnegie? Is it Andrew Carnegie?"

Thomas nodded, and Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I never expected to meet this person here!" Everyone knew about Carnegie's time in Lin Yuan's time. When he was a child, his family was poor, and he went from a child laborer to a A leader in the steel industry, his tough and treacherous methods made his opponents terrified.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "So that's the case? Then we'll buy a batch of steel products. I wonder if there are any people from their company in Beijing?"

Seeing that Lin Yuan had acted very tough before, and had no intention of giving in at all, Thomas couldn't help being stunned when he saw a sudden 180-degree change in his attitude today. Here, if you wish, I can arrange for you to meet."

Lin Yuan said: "Then arrange for us to meet, the sooner the better, after you arrange everything properly, send the news to my official residence."

Thomas nodded, got up and left, Lin Yuan rushed to Shen Wanqing's place, saw that the light was still on in the room, and couldn't help thinking: "It's so late, she hasn't slept yet."

Lin Yuan knocked on the door, and when the door opened, Shen Wanqing asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Lin Yuan said: "I want you to dress me up as another person. I have a big conspiracy. I may need to appear as this person many times. Can you make me a mask, and after wearing it, others will The kind you can’t see.”

Shen Wanqing took one out of the box and handed it to Lin Yuan. After putting it on, Lin Yuan looked in the mirror and found that there were no flaws, so he stretched out his thumb and said, "Very good, that's it. Already!"

Shen Wanqing heard Lin Yuan's words, looked at him for a while, then shook her head lightly, Lin Yuan quickly asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Shen Wanqing said: "Voice, your voice has not changed. If the person you are going to see has seen you before, he will definitely recognize your voice. I have a voice changer here." He took a necklace-like thing and said: "Wear it around your neck, it can compress the vocal cords, and your voice will change."

Lin Yuan nodded and took it, Shen Wanqing smiled, sat back on the edge of the table, then looked at something, Lin Yuan asked: "What are you doing?"

Shen Wanqing replied: "I'm deciphering information."

Lin Yuan asked: "Information? Still need to decipher? Where did you get the information? Where did you get the codebook?"

Shen Wanqing smiled and said: "Of course I got the information from the British embassy. I told the British reporter who seduced me that day that I had never seen what a diplomat looked like, so he went down the slope and invited me. When I went to the British embassy, ​​I found that their secrecy work was useless, so I planned to steal information."

"I found a work schedule in it, so I left the embassy with the British reporter before lunch, and I came back during lunch time, and told the guards at the gate that I had forgotten something inside. They knew me, so they let me in. After I went in, they all went to eat. To my surprise, there was no guard inside, so I stayed in the room alone and took a lot of photos. , and took pictures of the codebook, so come back and decipher their files now."

Lin Yuan asked: "Then how is your deciphering?"

Shen Wanqing said: "It's just the beginning, I'll send it to you when the deciphering is finished."

Only then did Lin Yuan go back, and the next day, Thomas sent someone to send a negotiating request from Carnegie Company, which said that negotiations could be done this afternoon. Lin Yuan told the messenger to go back and tell Thomas that he had something to do recently. , There is no way to negotiate in person, so I appointed a negotiator to negotiate on my behalf.

When it was time for negotiation in the afternoon, Lin Yuan put on a special mask and a voice changer around his neck, and came to the negotiation location, a western restaurant opened by an Englishman.

Lin Yuan knew that Americans didn’t have the habit of negotiating at the dinner table, so choosing to negotiate in a western restaurant might mean doing as the Romans do. Since Lin Yuan wore a mask and a voice changer around his neck, Thomas asked, “Are you the one appointed by Lin Yuan?” your negotiator?"

Lin Yuan took out an official document from his bag, handed it to Thomas, and said, "I am Lin Yuan's plenipotentiary negotiator. My name is Zhang Wenyuan. This is an official document signed by Lin Yuan himself. Please check it."

Thomas took the official letter, looked at the official seal of Lin Yuan's governor of the three eastern provinces, and thought: "There must be nothing wrong." So he nodded to the middle-aged white man next to him, and then introduced to Lin Yuan: "Zhang Sir, this is Carnegie Steel's negotiator, Mr. James Gopes."

Lin Yuan glanced at Thomas and said with a smile: "Can you let me have a private meeting with Mr. Gopes?"

Thomas got up and went out with a smile. Only Lin Yuan and Gopez were left in the room. Lin Yuan said, "To be honest, we plan to buy a large amount of steel. I wonder what price you will give us?"

Gopes said with a smile: "It depends on what kind of steel you need. If you want rolled steel rails, the price will definitely be higher, about [-] U.S. dollars per ton."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "This is too high."

Gopes said with a smile: "There is no other way. Our steel products have to be shipped from the United States across the vast Pacific Ocean. Tell me, is the shipping cost so low?"

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "I have no other choice, do you know how much Lin Yuan asked me to lower the price?"

Under Gopes' expectant gaze, Lin Yuan stretched out five fingers, waved in front of Gopes, and said, "Fifty dollars per ton!"

Gopes laughed loudly when he heard this, and said, "Then go back and tell Lin Yuan, stop dreaming, fifty dollars a ton, you can't even buy iron ore, and you still want to buy rolled steel rails, why? possible!"

Lin Yuan sighed, and said, "I have no choice. Lin Yuanfei wants me to make a deal at this price. If I can't negotiate, he will kill me!"

Gopes turned cold when he heard this, and said: "Mr. Zhang, I personally sympathize with your experience, but I can't do anything. I am negotiating on behalf of our company. If you insist on fifty dollars a ton, then we have nothing to do." We have to talk." After Gopes finished speaking, he packed up his things and got up to leave.

Lin Yuan quickly said: "Don't worry, I haven't finished yet." He pulled Gopes to the seat, sat down again, and then said: "You don't have any steel that can be sold for fifty dollars a piece. Ton?"

Gopes shook his head contemptuously without thinking, and Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Don't you have scrap steel?"

Gopes frowned and asked, "Scrap steel? What scrap steel?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "You must have scrapped steel ingots, billets and so on. Also, when you roll steel, the head and tail must be cut off. In short, it is all unusable steel. You might as well sell them to Let's do it."

Gopes thought for a while and asked in bewilderment: "What do you want these things for? There is no way to use these things!"

Gopes suddenly thought of something, stood up suddenly and shouted angrily: "You are trying to deceive Lin Yuan! Right? We are a formal company, and we will never participate in such fraudulent activities!"