Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 159

Devils have been producing counterfeit currency for some years. The person in charge of this matter is a major named Kenzo Yamamoto. He graduated from the Army Accounting School. After graduation, he was sent to China as a spy. Prepare.

Kenzo Yamamoto observed that the currency in circulation in China at this time was printed by three companies in the United Kingdom and the United States. The anti-counterfeiting measures were mainly watermarks and secret marks, and some American versions were added with red and blue silk threads for anti-counterfeiting.

He thought that it was not difficult to imitate these coins, so he called in Minato Inoue, an expert in currency making, and started to do it in December 38, with the code name "Shan Gong".

It took less than a year to produce counterfeit coins that can be confused with real ones. In 39, 500 million counterfeit coins were tried to be invested in the Shanghai Concession and a large number of materials were successfully purchased.

500 million may not be worth mentioning to a modern country, but it was not a small amount based on the value of the legal currency at that time. The annual salary of the Eighth Route Army was only more than 600 million. Discounts, such as replacing military pay with food, and requiring the Eighth Route Army to go to distant cities to collect it, etc.

After the forgery was successful, the devils were not in a hurry to do it.

This is mainly due to the lack of raw materials for making coins, resulting in a small output.

If the output is not large, the destructive power is not very strong. The devil hopes to strike a fatal blow at a critical moment.

Who would have thought that pig teammate Britain actually set up the banknote printing point in Hong Kong in order to save shipping costs. When the devils invaded Hong Kong in 41, they directly obtained a complete set of banknote printing equipment and raw materials, so they printed 20 billion in one go... these are not even possible It is said to be a counterfeit currency, because it is exactly the same as the real currency, and the amount even exceeds the total circulation of legal currency at that time.

This happened later, but at this time the devils were using their own counterfeit banknotes to throw into the base areas to attack the economy and production of the Eighth Route Army.

Okamura Ningji's intentions are extremely sinister.

He knew that the tens of millions of counterfeit banknotes in the hands of the Japanese army at this time would not be able to cause too much damage to Chongqing, but this was not the case for the Eighth Route Army, which was already in short supply.

In addition, this will further divide Chongqing and the Eighth Route Army and intensify their conflicts.Even the Chongqing side may see this opportunity to add insult to injury.

Isn't this another blockade of the Eighth Route Army?
On the chief's side, he was shocked when he heard Wang Xuexin's explanation.

Although he didn't know about currency wars or economics, he still knew what the consequences would be if he used fake money to buy food from the common people and then shipped it to the devils.

The chief didn't hesitate, and immediately called the Bai Zhantuan, and ordered: "Surround Chenjiacun, and I will detain anyone who buys grain at a high price, and he will never be allowed to take a grain of grain!"

Then the chief hurriedly walked up and down in the office.

The chief has a wealth of combat experience in battles. Using these battlefield experiences to think, he knows that the enemy cannot be so simple, and they cannot only do this in Chenjiacun.

Therefore, Chenjia Village is probably just a point where many fake money is used to buy food, and it was only discovered by Xiaodongbei who happened to hear about it.

At this time, the vast majority of soldiers and civilians in the border area had no idea about fake money. They thought that it was a good thing for someone to pay double the money to buy food, and it was a chance to make a fortune.

At that time, all the food in the border area will be replaced with a pile of useless waste paper, and it will be impossible to buy these food back!

Thinking of this, the chief issued several orders one after another:
"Order all the troops to immediately send inspection teams to search for traitors who buy food at high prices. Once found, the food, people and fake money must be withheld!"

"Order all troops to strengthen ideological education on the dangers of fake money. No troops shall participate in the use and dissemination of fake money. Once found, it will be dealt with seriously!"

"In addition, we must also publicize to the fellow villagers, and immediately report any suspicious persons and take measures immediately!"

The chief's orders can be said to be vigorous and resolute, but Wang Xuexin thinks that it is difficult to work.

"Chief!" Wang Xuexin reminded: "Those who buy grain at a high price...they may or may not be traitors!"

"How to say?" asked the Chief.

"For example..." Wang Xuexin analyzed: "Someone collected grain in Zhaojia Village at two cents a catty, and the people in Zhaojia Village went to Chenjia Village to collect grain at a cent for a catty in order to receive the grain as soon as possible. Surrounded them thinking they caught a traitor, but he might just be a fellow from Zhaojia Village who came to buy food..."

The Chief of Staff interjected: "That's right, when Chen Family Village hears that someone collects grain at [-] cents a catty, and after selling their own grain, they will go to other villages to collect grain at [-] cents a catty, isn't that also collecting grain at a high price? "

The chief was stunned when he heard it, and then hung up the phone immediately: "The one who collects the food may not be a traitor, don't mess around!"

After checking, it was indeed the case. The ones in Chenjia Village were only resold, and there were still three cents a catty of grain harvested above.

In fact, there are many ways to spend fake money, such as going to the market and buying all the food or horses in the market at a cheap price.

Another example is that you can use fake money to buy traitors. When the traitors spend the fake money, they are helping the devils in disguise.

There are also direct sales or exchange, one to ten sales, and someone will always buy it before the price difference.

At present, the auxiliary currency issued by the Eighth Route Army is Guanghua Coupon, which is 1:1 to the French currency. As long as it is exchanged, the fake money will be exchanged for real money.

Wang Xuexin poured out those who might be "blah blah", and the chief and chief of staff frowned and sighed.

"So..." the Chief of Staff asked, "What should we do?"

Wang Xuexin hesitated, and said, "The best way is to recognize fake money and teach the people to recognize it, so that fake money can't buy things, and of course it won't work."

The reason why Wang Xuexin hesitated was because he knew that even the Shanghai Concession did not recognize the fake money made by the devils, and it was even more difficult for the border area to recognize it.

What's more, there will be pig teammates sending complete sets of equipment to the enemy next year, so it will be even more difficult to distinguish fake money.

The chief is considering the low cultural level of the villagers. Many villagers can't even recognize the value of currency, let alone recognize counterfeit currency.

So the chief shook his head and said: "This road is too difficult, and it can't be done in a short while, think of other ways!"

"Stop the exchange of Guanghua coupons and fiat currency immediately!" Wang Xuexin said: "Throw all the fiat currency out to grab food, and then issue our own money!"

The chief of staff turned his attention to the chief, and said worriedly: "When we talked about cooperation, we agreed not to set up a bank or issue currency. If we do this..."

Chief has a headache.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army seemed to be in a deadlock:

If the general situation of cooperation and anti-Japanese war is not issued, it will face the devils who buy a large amount of supplies with fake money and be drawn blood all the time.

But if it issues its own currency, Chongqing will find another excuse.

There is also a possibility that the Chongqing side should be responsible for the issue of the currency, and they have the responsibility to send people to identify the authenticity and make corresponding adjustments.

But everyone knew they wouldn't do that.

It's fine if they don't make trouble!
(End of this chapter)