Lin Yuan said: "We have to go to reconnoiter first, and then we will do it when we have a clear understanding of their ship type." ”

The next day, Lin Yuan and Chen Fei came to the port, Chen Fei took Lin Yuan to find the ship of Swire & Co., Chen Fei pointed to a ship and said: "According to Zhou Sihua, the British plan to use it to transport minerals is that kind of ship. ”

Lin Yuan looked at the ship, the first feeling was that it was big, the ship was obviously bigger than the surrounding ships, Lin Yuan asked, "Did Sihua get on the boat that week?" ”

Chen Fei shook his head and said, "No, the British never let the Chinese get on board. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said: "This is not good, if we don't get on the ship, we can't see many things just by looking at the appearance, we must find a way to know the performance parameters of this ship, and then we can do it." ”

Chen Fei asked, "Doesn't the database on our Beijing ship have information about this ship?" ”

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "Few people will study a cargo ship like this for transportation, and we don't have any information about it on our ship. ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "I have a way, you come with me, don't talk when you get to the place, everything depends on my eyes." ”

Chen Fei asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Lin Yuan replied, "Let's go to Swire & Co." As he spoke, the two of them came to Swire & Co., and after entering, they directly found a person in charge, Lin Yuan said in English: "We are looking for your person in charge of shipping, is he there?" ”

The person in charge saw that Lin Yuan and Chen Fei were dressed extraordinarily, so he took two people to a room, Lin Yuan walked in to take a look, and saw a middle-aged Chris sitting at the table, and when he saw Lin Yuan coming in, he got up to greet him and said, "My name is Chris, do you have anything to do?" ”

Lin Yuan changed to Japanese and said, "We are Japanese businessmen. ”

The cris looked pale and said, "You are Japanese? So why do you want to dress up as Chinese? ”

Lin Yuan said: "We can't help it, and we have been very unhappy with China recently. ”

Chris asked, "Is there anything you guys came to me for?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "We have a batch of goods in our hands, and we want to rent a ship from Guiyang Bank to transport them back to China, I don't know how about your ship and price here?" ”

Chris asked, "What do you have?" ”

Lin Yuan replied: "Tung oil." "Tung oil is the main raw material for the manufacture of paints, and it is also one of the essential items in the military industry in this era.

Chris nodded, took out a book from the cabinet, and said, "We have several models of boats here, and the performance parameters and price of the ship are also marked on them, you can choose one at will." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself, "Just wait to see you this." Lin Yuan took the book with a smile, only to find that there were actually less than ten pages in it, all of which introduced the ship, from performance parameters to internal structure, but Lin Yuan turned it from beginning to end, and did not find the shadow of the ship found today.

Lin Yuan asked: "I saw a ship named 'Blackbird' in the port today, I think it is very big, if I use it, my cargo can be loaded on a ship, can I rent that ship?" ”

Without even thinking about it, Chris shook his head and said, "No, you can't rent that type of ship." ”

Lin Yuan looked surprised and asked, "What are you doing?" It's not like I can't afford to pay! ”

Chris said: "It's not about the money, you just can't rent that type of boat, as for the reason, I'm sorry, I don't have anything to say for now." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while, nodded, and came out of the house, Chen Fei said, "Why don't you let us use that ship for this foreign devil?" ”

Lin Yuan shook his head lightly and said, "I can't think of it either, could it be that there is some secret of that ship?" ”

Chen Fei said disdainfully: "Isn't it just a merchant ship?" What secrets can there be? And not a warship! ”

Lin Yuan said: "I have thought of a way, let's try it again tomorrow." ”

The next day, Lin Yuan took Chen Fei to find that Chris, who was shocked when he saw Lin Yuan and asked, "Why are you here again?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I actually came yesterday to see your management and service attitude, and I am very satisfied with the result, today, I can hand over my real goods to you for transportation!" ”

Chris looked at Lin Yuan in surprise and said, "What did you say?" Real cargo? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I have a batch of good tungsten sand in my hands, I want to ship them back to Japan, and I want to use your Blackbird merchant ship." ”

When Chris heard this, he quickly stood up and said, "You have tungsten sand in your hand?" Really? ”

Lin Yuan took out a stack of paper from the bag he was carrying, put it in front of Chris, and said: "We Japanese have always been meticulous, this is our technical analysis of this batch of tungsten sand. ”

Chris held the technical analysis and looked at it for a while, his hands trembled involuntarily, it turned out that Lin Yuan specially got a tungsten ore analysis report from Liu Jinqiu, and Lin Yuan put several key data, such as the proportion of tungsten trioxide, which is the most important indicator to determine whether tungsten ore has smelting value, and raised it a little, so Chris was very excited to see it.

Chris looked at it for a while and put down the technical analysis report, and then said, "Can you sell me this batch of tungsten sand?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "It's a pity that this batch of tungsten sand has already been ordered, and we can't be honest." ”

Chris said: "What is the liquidated damages, I pay double. ”

Lin Yuan pretended to think deeply, and Chris continued: "In today's Shanghai Port, the best merchant to transport ore is our Swire Ocean Company, our captains and sailors are experienced, and our cargo arrival rate is as high as 90%, if you don't choose to cooperate with us, and accidentally cooperate with other trading houses, in case of an accident with your goods, you will not get anything." ”

Lin Yuan nodded hesitantly and said, "Then show me the data of your ship first." ”

Chris quickly took out a picture album from the cabinet and said: "This is all the performance data of our Blackbird, there are fifteen ships of our class, each of which has a carrying capacity of about 10,000 tons, and the speed is very fast, the economic speed is as high as twenty knots, even the warships can't catch up with us." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "A 10,000-ton merchant ship with a speed of up to 20 knots seems to have applied steam turbine technology!" After I showed them in the Ryukyus, they learned so quickly that they were already starting to apply them to civilian ships, and in our time, the appearance of steam turbines was not until the early 20th century. ”

Lin Yuan wrote down the parameters and structure of the ship one by one, then stood up and said, "It's good, I remember, but our family has been in business for generations and is very honest, so I have to think about this matter carefully." ”

When Lin Yuan and Chen Fei returned to the station, Lin Yuan said, "It seems that our plan to sneak attack the enemy's merchant ships at sea cannot be implemented. ”

Chen Fei asked, "What are you for?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The reason is very simple, because their merchant ships are very fast, and we can't catch up at all. ”

Chen Fei smiled helplessly: "What can't catch up, our aircraft carrier has a speed of thirty knots per hour." ”

Lin Yuan said: "When the time comes, they will definitely not open up the competition with you, when we start to hijack the ship, they will definitely scatter and escape, and when the time comes, we will definitely take care of one or the other, I will never allow a fish to slip through the net, so we will deal with them in the port." ”