When Master Li's affairs were arranged, Zhang Ziyu returned home, burned all the contracts of the nearby farmers, and allowed the farmers to relocate at will, and transferred the Zhang family's land to Lin Yuan. The nearby villagers had no worries and agreed to relocate.

After the relocation plan was completed, Lin Yuan sent someone to send a message to Zhang Hua, and Zhang Hua then sent an official letter to Jonas in the name of Zhang's Aluminum Company.

Two days later, Zhang Hua came to Lin Yuan and asked, "Jonas came to negotiate with me, do you want to come over?" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What did he come to talk to you about?" ”

Zhang Hua said: "He wants to negotiate with me about the revenue sharing, can you see if you can use this matter to get any benefits from the British?" ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "Okay, you let me be the chief negotiator, and I will personally go and discuss this matter with Jonas and them." The next day, it was the day of negotiation, Lin Yuan and Zhang Hua came to the conference hall with the negotiation mission, and after a while, someone came to report: "The British mission has arrived." ”

Lin Yuan then said the word "please", only to see Jonas walking in from outside, and there was no one behind him! Lin Yuan couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw it, and thought to himself, "Is he the only one in the negotiation mission?" ”

When Jonas saw Lin Yuan, his face was also full of surprise, he pointed to Zhang Hua and said to Lin Yuan, "Why are there so many people? ”

Zhang Hua said: "Negotiation, it should be like this, there will be a lot of recorders on the side, and there will be people preparing all kinds of materials, don't you say?" Jonas gave Lin Yuan a gentle look and said, "For our negotiation, only me and Lord Lin are enough, how can we need so many people?" Aren't you right? Lord Lin. After saying that, he laughed heartily.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "You Jonas, this is going to play tricks with me!" But it doesn't matter, no matter how much you jump, you can't escape the palm of my hand. So Lin Yuan said to everyone: "Ambassador Jonas is right, as long as the two of us are enough, you can go out first." ”

When everyone walked out, only Jonas and Lin Yuan were left in the council hall, Jonas smiled and said, "Lord Lin, the seeds you want will arrive at Yingkou Port tomorrow, you can find someone to receive them." Lin Yuan nodded, and Jonas lowered his voice and said, "Lord Lin, if you can agree to this contract, our British Empire is willing to give it three million pounds!" ”

Lin Yuan's heart moved when he heard the "three million pounds", so he smiled and said: "Okay, who doesn't like money, but I have to look at the contract first." ”

Jonas handed the contract to Lin Yuan's hand, Lin Yuan opened it, and began to read it word by word, and when he finished reading the last sentence, he couldn't help but get a layer of cold sweat on his back! Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If it weren't for my previous plan, if I signed this contract, it would be stinking for 10,000 years!" For example, the contract stipulates that the production of aluminum uses the alumina cryolite molten salt electrolysis method, and the electricity required is provided by the British side to build a new thermal power plant, and the thermal power plant uses coal produced in Benxi Lake, of which the procurement cost is borne by the Chinese side 80 percent, the British side bears 20 percent, and the transportation cost is all borne by the Chinese side.

Bauxite and cryolite are mined from the mountains outside Mukden, and all the mining costs are borne by the Chinese side, 90 percent of the transportation costs are borne by China, and 10 percent are borne by the British side; The Bayer method is used for the production of alumina from bauxite, in which the equipment and technology are responsible for the British side, the labor workers are provided by the Chinese side, and the wages are borne by the Chinese side; Skilled workers are provided by the British side, and the wages are borne by the Chinese side, and the wage standards are set by the British side.

The above stipulates that the British side is responsible for the sale of the products produced by the aluminum plant, and the British side will share 90% of the profits, and the Chinese side will share 10%. Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Is this clearly to bully people, but I have a clever plan first, and I will not lose anything by promising him at this time, but if I agree directly, this is too unreasonable, seeing such a contract and gladly agreeing, only a fool would do this, I have to pretend to pretend to prevaricate." Lin Yuan then smiled and said: "Mr. Ambassador, let China go wherever you spend money, and let you Britain make it if there are benefits, you are too bullying, right?" ”

Jonas smiled: "Lord Lin, look at what you said, how can this be a bully?" Such a contract is purely for the sake of your Qing Empire! ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Oh? So tell me, these costs are paid by us, how can we think about it? ”

Jonas said: "The equipment of the aluminum plant is the most advanced in our country, which is enough to see the sincerity of our cooperation with your country. These procurement costs are the real big head! ”

"And this equipment is still transported from our homeland thousands of miles away, our colonies don't have such equipment at all, if we hadn't found extremely high-grade bauxite and cryolite here, we wouldn't have bothered to come here to open aluminum!"

"The transportation cost of these equipment is extremely high, and we don't ask you for a penny, so isn't it for your sake to ask you to pay some transportation costs and production costs?" Jonas said this and smiled: "Not only did you not suffer, but you also took advantage of it!" ”

Lin Yuan looked at Jonas and sneered in his heart: "Okay, you Jonas, you are still selling here when you get cheap, I won't take the opportunity to kill you and kill anyone!" So Lin Yuan pretended to be embarrassed and said: "But I have to convince my subordinates and superiors, and I have to deal with it in many ways, I'm afraid the three million pounds you give is not enough!" ”

Jonas smiled: "Then I'll add another million to you, what do you think?" ”

Lin Yuan suddenly smiled and said, "No problem, deal!" ”

Jonas smiled: "Lord Lin, please rest assured, I also understand that although you have established an aluminum company, in essence, the government is still managing it, so if you are short of money, you can directly take it from the government. ”

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously, lightly pointed to his chest with his hand, and said with a smile: "This kind of thing, it's good to know the Tao in your heart, say it, but it's going to cause big trouble!" ”

Jonas also laughed, so Lin Yuan signed this contract, Jonas thought that he had taken a big advantage, but he didn't expect that he was already in Lin Yuan's calculations.

Early the next morning, Lin Yuan personally came to Yingkou Port to inoculate the seeds, and the Beijing ship sent a captain of the marine engineering department, named Xie Sichen, who studied agricultural science in college, and after entering the army, he worked in the marine engineering department for several years.

Lin Yuan took Xie Sichen and called a small steamer in Yingkou Port, and took a few guards to set off from the anti-private station and sail towards the port.