Lin Yuan smiled: "Are you sure?" I'll tell you plainly, you don't even dare to hit us! ”

The envoy glared at Lin Yuan fiercely, turned around and left, and said fiercely before pushing open the door: "Lin Yuan, in an hour, we will land at Pier No. 1, and you will wait to be our prisoner." Then he slammed the door and left.

Everything that happened frightened Chen Qingyun on Lin Yuan's side, and he said in a panic: "Lin Shuai, what can I do about this?" We don't have a warship at Yingkou! ”

Lin Yuan smiled confidently: "Didn't I say that? They dare not beat us, so you will catch the captain and American crew of the Chinese trafficking ship I arrested before, as well as the Japanese devils who transported opium, to the dock, where they will wait for the Americans! ”

Lin Yuan took a company of soldiers and escorted the American captain and Iwamoto Shinji who had previously captured the Chinese trafficker to Pier No. 1, and the Americans made it clear that they wanted to land at Pier No. 1, indicating that they did not take Lin Yuan seriously at all.

Lin Yuan stood on the pier and looked, and soon saw a small boat coming in from the outside, the boat was an ordinary civilian boat, without the appearance of a gunboat, Lin Yuan felt strange, the small boat approached the dock, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that I am wrong, this ship is not an American ship at all." ”

At this moment, the boat set up a gangplank, and two blonde and blue-eyed people walked down from it, one of them was the messenger Lin Yuan had seen before, and the other was a middle-aged man, wearing a military uniform, with all kinds of colorful things hanging on it, Lin Yuan didn't understand the American military rank in this era, so he didn't know what to call Lu Dao.

Lin Yuan was hesitating, but the middle-aged man took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said with a smile: "I am the commander of the American task force this time, Arthur McCarthy." As he spoke, he pointed to the messenger beside him with his hand and said with a smile: "This is my messenger, he is a little young, so his attitude is very bad, I apologize to you on his behalf." ”

Lin Yuan was also stunned by their appearance, originally thought that the Americans would rush in violently, but who knew that they would be so polite. It turned out that McCarthy originally planned to rush to the dock in one go, and rescue his American compatriots, but the messenger came back and said "Lin Yuan is in the port" made him dispel this idea in an instant, he had also heard Lin Yuan's name and knew about his deeds, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and shook his hand, McCarthy smiled: "I am here to bring our people back, although they have violated your laws, but according to the "Wangxia Treaty" signed between our country and your country, our citizens have consular jurisdiction, so your government has no power to deal with them. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, you can take them all back." Saying that, Lin Yuan waved his hand behind him and said, "Bring them all up." ”

After the people behind left triumphantly, they lined up, and Lin Yuan said to McCarthy: "You can bring them back to China." ”

Walking in the front were the white-bearded captain and the American crew on the labor ship, and behind were the Japanese opium dealers who claimed to be Americans.

Lin Yuan looked at McCarthy and asked, "Are they also Americans?" ”

McCarthy nodded lightly, and Lin Yuan smiled: "There is no basis for what I say, I need to see the evidence!" Do you have their passport? The word "passport" was coined in 1845 as a document presented by the government to its citizens to prove their identity, and these Japanese people did not have this thing at all, and they used to say that they were Americans, and no one else would look at their passports.

McCarthy didn't have their passports in his hands, so Lin Yuan was dumbfounded when he asked like this, Lin Yuan looked at his appearance and said, "Well, since there is no evidence to prove that they are American citizens, then I have no choice but to detain them." ”

Saying that, Lin Yuan waved his hand at his subordinates and said, "Escort them back." "Shinji Iwamoto, Fujita Tsuyoshi and others were about to escape from the "demon cave", but they were arrested again, and their faces were immediately full of disappointment. McCarthy didn't care about the life or death of those Japanese, he was already very happy to see that the Americans were rescued, and when he came, he thought that Lin Yuan was such a difficult character to deal with, so he prepared several sets of rhetoric in his heart, but as soon as they met, he didn't expect that it would be so easy to ask people back, and he suddenly became contemptuous. So McCarthy smiled and said: "I will send someone to send the passports of these crew members, but the cargo on the ship belongs to our United States of America, and the ship has all kinds of documents, you can go and check it, so I hope you will return the cargo on the ship to us." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Those goods are all opium, they violate my ban on opium, so I must detain them, your consular jurisdiction only stipulates that our government has no right to take relevant sanctions against your citizens, but it does not say that we have no right to take relevant measures against your goods." ”

McCarthy argued: "Our goods, as a natural extension of man, ought to have the same rights as man." Lin Yuan couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and said, "Goods can be used as a natural extension of people? I don't know where you moved this fallacy from, do I deserve the same punishment for smashing your things as if I wounded you? ”

McCarthy was dumbfounded by Lin Yuan's words, he frowned, and said angrily: "If you don't return the goods to us, then don't blame me for being rude." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What do you want?" Are you going to send someone ashore to rob it? I tell you, if only your men dare to set foot on our land, I will judge your actions as aggression, and I will destroy all of you who come ashore. ”

McCarthy saw that Lin Yuan happily agreed to release him, and thought that Lin Yuan was as weak and incompetent as other officials of the Qing court, so he made intimidating words, but he didn't expect Lin Yuan to come back without humility or arrogance, he was also a fiery temper, and it was impossible to give in in front of so many people, so he said: "Well, at eleven o'clock tonight, our troops will land ashore, and we have the right to protect the property of our United States of America from loss." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for you at eleven o'clock in the evening." ”

As soon as McCarthy left, Chen Qingyun on the side said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, you really want to fight!" This fight is another war! ”

Lin Yuanha smiled and said, "Do you think McCarthy really dares to fight?" You don't know how far away they are from here, and if they start fighting, where will they go to get food and ammunition, so McCarthy is also happy, and I will give him a dose of fierce medicine in a while, so that he can eat a dumb loss! ”

Chen Qingyun knew that Lin Yuan had a plan again, and he knew that this plan must be a military secret, and he wouldn't say anything if he asked Lin Yuan, so he didn't ask more, Lin Yuan returned to the command headquarters, and then called Yu Ming and said to him: "The three gunboats of the Americans are parked at the position of leaving the port, you will work hard for a while, go and comfort them." ”