As soon as these words came out, not only all the reporters, but even Lin Yuan was extremely surprised, Lin Yuan thought, "Not dead? What happened to the corpses in the warehouse? So Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Mr. Dong, can you make it clearer?" Our reporters have seen dead bodies taken out of the warehouse."

Charlton said: "The people who burned to death were not female workers, but Klein's men, and the number was not forty-four, but seventeen, and you didn't find the death toll in the fire, right?" The previous explanation was that the corpses were burned to ashes, but was the cotton fire so powerful? It can burn nearly thirty corpses to ashes. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I found out that the number of corpses was wrong at that time, but I credulously believed the explanation of the catcher, now that I think about it, there are indeed some things wrong in the fire, such as the corpse that grabbed the window, his skeleton structure seems to be larger than that of ordinary girls, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, and now I think about it, it turns out that the people who died were not those girls." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a moment: "What is Charlton doing here to say these things?" Did he want to deny the fact that their factory used young girl contract laborers? So Lin Yuan asked, "Mr. Charlton, I don't know what you mean by these words?" Are you trying to say that the person living in the warehouse is Klein's men, and there has never been a slave-like girl? ”

Charlton said sincerely, "No, no, no, I didn't mean that, that warehouse did live in some women who were even more miserable than slaves, but that night, Crane's men secretly transferred the women workers, and their people moved in!" As for the reason why they moved in, Klein expected that Mr. Lin Yuan would come with reporters the next day, and by then he could say that the warehouse was occupied by their own people! ”

"This matter is extremely secret, no Chinese know about it, and Leyson happened to have something going out that night, so Leyson didn't know about it!" The guards of the warehouse were still the same as before, and at night they locked the door of the warehouse, not knowing that the people in the corridor were no longer the same. ”

"As for how the fire burned, we will never know, maybe it was the people of Klein who thought it was too stuffy, smoked in it at night, and lit the cotton."

Charlton said this, looked at the reporters, and said: "Actually, I have a more important purpose for coming today. He bowed deeply to the reporters present, and then said: "I apologize for our cruel and inhumane way of employing people, and promise that I will never do it again in the future, and welcome friends from the press to supervise us!" Not only that......"

Speaking of this, Charlton deliberately paused for a moment, making people feel that his following words were more important: "We are willing to unconditionally compensate the government of the Qing Empire represented by Mr. Lin Yuan for all the profits of the yarn mill since its establishment more than two years ago, and provide detailed accounts for Mr. Lin Yuan to verify!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded silently and said, "What about those Chinese girls?" Where are they? ”

Charlton smiled: "Our carriage is too small, we only brought one person today, and we will send the others over soon." Charlton said, and gave a few orders to one of his subordinates, and his subordinates went out to bring in a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, Lin Yuan saw that it was the girl who kicked people, her hair and face were clean, her clothes were neat, and she was still a good-looking girl.

The girl threw herself into Lin Yuan's arms and cried, seeing that they were fine, Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "Wanqing will be very happy to know that she is in trouble!" ”

Charlton smiled: "We will hand over the people to you, we will leave first, and I will send someone to send the others." After finishing speaking, he walked out of the house, and all the reporters dispersed, Qiu Jin walked up to Lin Yuan and said happily: "Brother-in-law, great!" Let's make the foreigners apologize for the compensation, and our girls are still fine! ”

Lin Yuan smiled reluctantly, and Qiu Jin asked in surprise, "Brother-in-law, why do you look unhappy?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "No, it may be that I've been too tired recently." Saying that, he handed the girl to Qiu Jin and said, "You take her back to the club first, and I'll go to your sister Wanqing." ”

Lin Yuan left without looking back after speaking, leaving Qiu Jin looking at his back in confusion, Lin Yuan found Shen Wanqing and told her about it, Shen Wanqing was excited for a while, but soon frowned, and said to Lin Yuan: "In this way, your plan cannot be implemented!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "That's right, I want to freeze the silver deposits of HSBC Bank in the name of checking the accounts of Klein Yarn Mill, but now they have handed over all the silver obtained by the yarn factory to me, and also provided me with detailed accounts, so what reason do I have to freeze the deposit of HSBC Bank!" I can also say that the accounts are false and forcibly freeze the deposits, but then I have to come up with evidence, how can I have evidence! If we forcibly freeze bank deposits, it will be unreasonable and will lose the support of the people! ”

Shen Wanqing sighed and said, "They made a move to abandon the pawn to protect the car!" At this moment, a subordinate came in and said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, the Forbidden City is in an emergency." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Read! ”

The subordinate opened the telegram and said: "Forward Lin Yuan Aiqing to personally enlighten: I knew that the female worker was dead, very sad, now I know that the female worker is alive, very comforted, the foreigner apologizes for the compensation, Da Yue, the old saying goes: Forgive people and spare people, since foreigners have come here, it is not appropriate to force them very tightly, the first offender Klein should be dealt with lightly, if he has been arrested, he will be released, and if he is not arrested, he will not be prosecuted." ”

Shen Wanqing asked: "Emperor Guangxu wants us to let Klein go, can we let go?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "The foreigners have already retreated to this step of the field, and I can't be unrelenting, besides, it's useless for me to keep Klein." Lin Yuan said to his subordinates: "If a foreigner comes to ask for someone, let him go." ”

As soon as his men left, Lin Yuan sighed: "The foreigner's movements are fast enough, I just learned the news here, and the urgent call from the imperial court came!" ”

Shen Wanqing sighed: "They must have arranged people in Beijing, otherwise it wouldn't be so fast!" ”

Lin Yuan frowned, and said: "Bringing down the HSBC Bank is part of my efforts to make the Qing court lose trust in foreign banks, and now that the HSBC Bank is not down, my plan behind me will not be able to be implemented, which is directly related to the fate of the People's Bank of Northeast China, and directly related to our plan to dominate the world!" ”

Shen Wanqing sighed and asked, "What should we do?" ”

Lin Yuan frowned and pondered, and suddenly said, "Do you remember what happened that day?" ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "What day did it happen?" ”

Lin Yuan said anxiously: "That's the day I pressed you on the table." ”

Shen Wanqing thought to herself: "You pressed me on the table twice, which time?" But how embarrassed was she to ask, when she heard Lin Yuan say, "I'll press you on the table", her cheeks were already crimson with shame, but fortunately Lin Yuan didn't care, and remembered that day he was going to untie his belt, and his face was like fire.

Lin Yuan continued: "We got half of it that day, didn't Chen Fei come?" Didn't he tell me that he had found traces of opium? Opium is a breakthrough, and the amount of opium is hundreds of times that of the yarn mills, isn't it more effective for us to get their banks through opium? ”