Gilles looked at Lin Yuan hesitantly, as if he felt that he was not the same as the officials he had come into contact with, and Lin Yuan continued: "No matter what, I want to thank you for thinking about the people, but you can rest assured that we are definitely capable of building these places into the best places and making the people live a good life." ”

"Also, if you want to give me a low-interest loan, I don't need it, as for the railway technical assistance, it is even more unnecessary, I believe you have also heard of our railway construction design, one is from Beijing to Yunnan, the other is from Beijing to Shanghai, these two are the main railways, and there are more branch railway lines around them."

"These two railway lines, one through the plateau and mountains of western China, the other through the southeast plain and water network of China, the construction difficulty can be called the world's most difficult in the world, think about it, since I have the confidence to give these two railways a project, you should know what our technical level is like?"

Gilles listened to Lin Yuan's words, didn't speak for a long time, and said in a snort: "Is this thing true?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "How can such a big thing be fake? ”

Gilles shook his head lightly and said: "I got information that the density of your rails is as high as seventy-five kilograms per cubic meter, and that the rails are welded to form a seamless railway, and I specially consulted the railway experts in our country, and they all said that this is simply impossible, so I didn't believe it." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Then let me tell you, these are true." After Lin Yuan said this, he saw the disappointment on Gilles' face, and Lin Yuan thought to himself, "Why didn't he bribe me?" Like in the past, when Ilya came to me, she should have given me money! Maybe they found out that they had been deceived, so they stopped giving me money. ”

Gilles smiled and said: "Then I will leave first, we have a meeting in a while, the envoy of the Mongolian Zhebuzun Danba wants to see me, you don't know the way, I am very interested in the culture of the East." ”

After Gilles finished speaking, he glanced at Lin Yuan meaningfully, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly stopped, turned back to Lin Yuan and said, "Actually, we can make a deal." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What deal are you going to make?" ”

Gilles smiled: "Do you know about Lu Daozhe's disrespect for Danba? ”

Lin Yuan had heard Lu Wansu say, so he knew that the Mongolian high-level leaders led by Zhebuzun Danba wanted to be independent, but Lin Yuan did not pick it out, but deliberately asked: "Zhe does not respect Danba?" What's the matter with him? ”

Gilles smiled: "The Mongolian princes have always wanted to stand on their own, but with their own strength, they can't do it at all!" They sent an envoy to me this time to discuss these matters. ”

Lin Yuan sneered: "You want to split our country!" ”

Gilles smiled: "There is no justice in this world, only power, you have also dealt with foreign countries a lot, you will not be ignorant of this truth, we can make a deal, if you agree with my proposal for international condominium in those three places, then we will no longer support Mongolia to seek independence, what do you think?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Just like you said, there is only power in this world, there is no justice, and I don't want to talk about this matter anymore, if you think you have the strength to split Mongolia from our country, then please!" See you on the battlefield. ”

Giles smiled and said, "Very well, you are really a respectable opponent, and I look forward to formal negotiations with you." ”

As soon as Giles left, news came from outside that Chinese businessmen in Russia held a banquet for Lin Yuan and others, hoping that Lin Yuan would lead the delegation to participate.

Lin Yuan gladly agreed, so he took the delegation to the banquet venue - Shanxi Restaurant, in the Qing Dynasty, most of the Shanxi merchants who traded between China and Russia, that is, the famous Jin merchants in Chinese history, they opened a Shanxi restaurant in Russia, and most of the people who came were Chinese.

When Lin Yuan arrived, Lu Wansu and many Chinese businessmen had been waiting at the door for a long time, and as soon as Lin Yuan arrived, Lu Wansu introduced Lin Yuan to the people who came this time, they were all the shopkeepers of famous big businesses in Chinese history.

After the banquet began, as soon as Lin Yuan finished his speech to everyone, Lu Wansu stepped forward and said, "Lin Shuai, can we go inside and talk." ”

Lin Yuan saw Lu Wansu's solemn face, and knew that he must have something important to discuss with him, so he came to a separate room with him, Lu Wansu let the follower go out, then closed the door tightly, knelt down in front of Lin Yuan, and said, "Please Lin Shuai save us!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly helped him up and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Lu Wansu looked embarrassed, and thought for a long time before saying: "This matter is a long story, let me tell you slowly, our Da Shengkui and other merchants, such as the Fan family's Xinglongkui, the Qiao family's compound number, the largest trade in Russia is tea, the original time, only our Shanxi merchants sold tea from China to Russia, but in the past 30 years, Russian merchants have also begun to sell tea, as soon as they came, they suppressed our sales. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "How is it possible?" Can they have an advantage over you when they first arrive? ”

Lu Wansu said: "Of course, we do not produce tea in the north of the Qing Dynasty, and the places where tea is produced are in the south, and the process of selling tea is like this: buy tea from the south, return to Shanxi by land, and then go to Zhangjiakou in the east to enter the Inner Mongolia trade, or from the west to kill the tiger's mouth, and trade in the area of Guihua City." ”

"But the Russians are different, after they buy tea, they go directly from Hankou to Shanghai by Yangtze River, then by sea to Tianjin, and then from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou for trade, so that their freight is much lower than ours."

"Freight is one thing, the second is the cost of making tea bricks, bulk tea is not easy to transport, so when we transport the tea leaves, they are pressed into blocks, shaped like bricks, so we call this kind of thing tea bricks, our workshops are all manual, and the Russians use large machines, and here we save a lot of silver."

Lin Yuan asked, "So that's the case, then can't you also take the waterway?" Can't you build a mechanized plant? ”

Lu Wansu sighed and said: "We also want to, but the Russians don't need taxes at all to transport goods by water, if we take the waterway, we have to draw layers of points, and the cost is much higher than that by land. If you want to build a factory, you don't have the skills to do it, and you don't have the skills to exploit it, so you tried it several times and failed. ”

Lu Wansu continued: "Our tea freight is higher than that of the Russians, so the price is also higher than that of the Russians, and the big tea merchants in Russia do not buy our goods, so we can only sell the tea to the small tea merchants, but these small tea merchants have a small profit, so we allow them to take the goods first, and then pay after selling the goods, but these small tea merchants are crowded out by the big tea merchants everywhere, and many of them can't pay at all when they settle the bill. ”

"In fact, this kind of thing has happened more than once, we have asked the court for orders before, hoping that the court can come forward to help recover it, but no one has paid attention to it, and this year is the case, this matter is not known to people outside, if they know the way, it must be a big chaos!"