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Chapter 603 Ito’s second attempt at becoming a wealthy man

"Zhang Anping, do you still have organization in your eyes? Do you still have discipline?"

There is no doubt that the one who was so angry that he turned his feet and started cursing was no one else but Lao Cen.

Naturally, there was no one else except Zhang Anping who could make Lao Cen, a gentle and refined gentleman, so angry.

Zhang Anping, who dared to call Shanghai "one acre and three points of land", could only bring a glass of water to the furious Lao Cen.

"Old Cen, calm down and drink some water before you start cursing."

"If you're not satisfied, I'll curse for you."

Faced with such a Zhang Anping, Lao Cen was so "tricked" that he was speechless.

Of course he didn't drink the water. Forcing out his anger, he said, "Zhang Anping, do you know what you are doing? Don't you know who Zhou Fuhai is? Have you forgotten what Sister Qian told you?"

Zhang Anping nodded and agreed: "Zhang Anping is indeed too much, Lao Cen, don't give me face, scold me harshly, I support you."

"Don't give me a playful smile!"

"Yes Yes Yes."

Old Cen looked at Zhang Anping, who was pecking at rice like a chicken, and didn't know what to say. After taking a deep breath, he finally drank a sip of the water that Zhang Anping brought, and then said earnestly:

"Anping, I know you have the right ideas, and I also know you have no selfish motives, you are only public-spirited."

"But you are different from others!"

"The Japanese want to tear you into pieces. Zhou Fohai is one of the famous running dogs of the Japanese. If you go to see him so hastily, it will be too late to regret if something goes wrong!"

Zhang Anping said cautiously: "How about letting me finish?"

"You said."

"Well...I've seen him."

Old Cen was speechless for a moment - he was too excited. He had just heard Zhang Anping say:
"Old Cen, I have something to tell you - well, I personally instigated Zhou Fohai to rebel..."

Lao Cen was furious at that moment, and started firing before Zhang Anping could finish speaking.

result……

Old Cen took another deep breath, looked at Zhang Anping weakly, and was speechless for a long time.

Zhang Anping smiled awkwardly, "I didn't mean to do it first and ask for your permission later. Well, well..."

Lao Cen didn't want to pay any attention to Zhang Anping.

Zhang Anping once said that explanation is covering up, and covering up means it is true. You didn't do it on purpose and report it later. So, you did it on purpose, right?
Lao Cen had no choice but to accept this reality: "Tell me the details."

Zhang Anping told the story slowly and leisurely.

While listening to Zhang Anping's story, Lao Cen was distracted and couldn't help but reflect on himself.

He was originally a very determined person, but after teaming up with Zhang Anping, he reflected on himself a little too much.

After reflecting on himself and admitting that Zhang Anping saw further and thought more than he did, he thought:

Next time I encounter this kind of thing, I will probably explode again.

After making fun of himself, he began to listen attentively to Zhang Anping's story about how he instigated Zhou Fohai to rebel.

Although Zhou Fohai did not seem to have been directly instigated to defect, the fact that he made this bet with Zhang Anping had already proved his "determination" to have his cake and eat it too.

After Zhang Anping finished speaking, the "conservative" Lao Cen had already accepted Zhang Anping's unconventional operation with a strong psychological quality, but he still reminded Zhang Anping seriously:
"Anping, I hope you can communicate with me more about things like this in the future."

Zhang Anping assured solemnly: "No problem, absolutely no problem."

But the more Zhang Anping swore, the less Lao Cen believed him. He knew very well that in Zhang Anping's mind, he was a typical conservative.

But he is not a conservative at all. It's just that Zhang Anping always does things that subvert his cognition, which forces him to be conservative.

Just like inciting Zhou Fohai to rebel, even if he were beaten to death, Old Cen would never have thought that he could do such a thing!

If it was a case of inciting a rebellion when the situation was favorable, Lao Cen could accept it. But now the war was in a stalemate, and although Lao Cen firmly believed that the war of resistance would be won, he was in the enemy's position, and before he saw a clear and complete decline, it was really beyond imagination that a die-hard traitor, a top traitor, could be incited to rebel.

All I can say is that Zhang Anping has a very sharp vision.

Lao Cen said earnestly, "Anping, we must have organization, discipline and principles in doing things. In the future, even if I oppose this kind of thing, you should tell me first. Even if I don't understand, if you insist on doing it, I won't hold you back."

Zhang Anping knew that Lao Cen was doing this for his own good - this was also the reason why he reported this to Lao Cen immediately after he instigated Zhou Fohai to rebel.

"There won't be a next time. There really won't be a next time."

Old Cen looked at Zhang Anping’s smirk and said to himself: I hope so.

……

On the organization's side, he still had to report to Lao Cen according to the rules, but on the Military Intelligence Bureau's side, Zhang Anping didn't have so many concerns. He simply sent a telegram to the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters, in which he reported his battle results in a light-hearted manner using code words.

Old Dai almost choked on his saliva when he received Zhang Anping's telegram.

After translating the codewords in Zhang Anping's telegram again and again and finally confirming the facts, Old Dai had only one thought:
This bastard boy really dares to do anything!

It's not that he didn't have the idea of ​​inciting Zhou Fohai to defect, otherwise he wouldn't have asked the Military Control Commission members in the Hunan region to secretly "invite" Zhou Fohai's mother. But he always believed that the time was not ripe, so he did not make use of Zhou's "invited" mother to make trouble for the time being.

He planned to instigate Zhou to rebel after the Japanese army showed signs of decline on the battlefield, but he did not expect that his nephew would actually do it at this time, and not only did he do it, but he also succeeded!
Given Zhou Fohai’s position in the Wang Puppet regime, this means that the Wang Puppet regime will unilaterally be transparent to the Military Control Commission in the future!

"This brat really knows how to give people surprises!"

Dai Chunfeng was overjoyed and immediately went to the attendant's room excitedly to report the matter to the "Chief Attendant".

There is no doubt that the "Chief Aide" was also extremely surprised, and even a little flustered, he ordered Lao Dai:

"No matter what conditions he puts forward, you must agree to them!"

Dai Chunfeng accepted the order, but thought:
Principal, you are probably overthinking it. It would be harder than climbing to the sky for Zhou Fohai to get any benefits from Anping!

Facts have proved that Old Dai has a very clear understanding of Zhang Anping.

Zhou Fohai did show his sincerity afterwards. Through various means, he "stole" a 10-yuan banknote printing template without anyone noticing.

Of course, he did not do this for the sake of the war. After getting the banknote printing template, Zhou Fohai did not rush to hand it over to Zhang Anping. Instead, he secretly met with Zhang Anping and put forward conditions:

"I want the Chairman's written order, stating that I am an undercover agent."

Zhang Anping laughed and said, "Mr. Zhou, our bet is not over yet. You want this kind of handwritten order now. Do you think the Japanese are doomed to lose?"

"Also, you have to think carefully. If you really accept this decree, you will have no chance to regret it in the future."

"I, Zhou, have been working for this country from beginning to end. Why should I have the opportunity to regret?"

Zhou Fuhai’s words almost made Zhang Anping vomit. If it was really for the country, why would you defect with Mr. Wang?
Do you know the bad influence brought by Mr. Wang's defection? !
"Mr. Zhou is sincere. If that's the case, I won't be a villain in vain."

Zhang Anping resisted the urge to vomit and said, "Give me half a month and I'll get you the imperial edict."

Zhou Fohai frowned: "Why does it take so long?!"

Zhang Anping rolled his eyes. "I have to send someone to Chongqing. Mr. Zhou, you don't think I just need to send a telegram, do you? If the code is leaked and the Japanese translate the contents of the telegram, Mr. Zhou will know what the consequences will be, right?"

Zhou Fohai then looked relieved: "Commander Zhang is really flawless in his work."

How could he not know that the telegram had the risk of leaking secrets? He was just using this method to test whether Zhang Anping was using him once or sincerely wanted to use him for a long time.

He was very clear that the relationship between him and Zhang Shihao was one of mutual benefit. He worked for the National Government through Zhang Shihao to fight for a chance to survive, while Zhang Shihao used him to obtain various intelligence about the Nanjing government.

But short-term use and long-term use are different after all.

If he is only used for short-term purposes, he will be abandoned. This kind of cooperative relationship is not what he wants.

Judging from Zhang Shihao’s reaction, the other party should be planning to use him for a long time, so Zhou Fohai felt relieved.

Unfortunately, he underestimated Zhang Anping's hatred for the traitor group, and also underestimated Zhang Anping's grasp of the psychology of people like him. If it were someone else, in order to make the most of a traitor like Zhou Fohai, he would definitely agree to the "handwritten order".

But Zhang Anping would not be so stupid. If he really got the handwritten order from the attendant's room, it would definitely become Zhou Fohai's life-saving talisman in the future. What was one of his purposes in personally instigating Zhou Fohai to rebel?
Of course he must not be allowed to escape punishment—not by being pardoned and then imprisoned, but by being shot to uphold the law!

So after he agreed to Zhou Fohai's conditions, he turned around and secretly contacted Lao Dai, asking Lao Dai to let his father's [Counterfeit Money Team] solve the problem of the handwritten letter - a very secret mark must be left on the handwritten letter, and when necessary, this secret mark can be used to confirm that the handwritten letter is fake.

After receiving Zhang Anping's telegram, Old Dai felt numb all over.

He knew that Zhang Anping would definitely not give Zhou Fohai any great benefits, but he did not expect that his nephew was so sinister that he even wanted to forge the chairman's handwritten edict.

Even though they were thousands of miles apart, he could feel his nephew's malice towards these traitors.

However, this really satisfied Old Dai. Compared with Zhang Anping's "immature" methods, Old Dai was much more experienced. He immediately went to the attendant's room to report to the "chief attendant".

When reporting, Lao Dai said with great fear:
In ancient times, this was called forging an imperial edict, and the entire clan would be executed. As the captain's lackey, he absolutely could not do such a thing, so he had to report to the principal in advance and obtain the principal's consent.

The "Chief Aide-de-Camp" was delighted. He liked confidants who would not cause him trouble. Zhang Anping's original intention of doing this was to consider his reputation, so how could he not appreciate it?
However, he still said with a straight face that it was not so troublesome and he could just write a handwritten note. However, he was rejected by Old Dai. Hearing Old Dai's righteous words that the principal's reputation should not be tarnished, the "Chief Aide-de-Camp" felt very comfortable and thought that it would be great if all the pillars of the party and the country were like Chunfeng and his nephew!

After Lao Dai successfully increased his "loyalty", he handed the "Chief Aide-de-Camp"'s handwritten note to Zhang Guanfu, ordering Zhang Guanfu to imitate it and instructing him to leave a trivial but fatal flaw.

Zhang Guanfu's counterfeit money team was full of "experts" of all kinds. With their level of counterfeiting money, it was easy for them to forge a handwritten letter with flaws. They succeeded in less than two days.

Old Dai got the "handwritten order" forged by Zhang Guanfu's counterfeit money team. After studying it, he decided to let Zhang Guanfu's counterfeit money team to make dozens of more copies - if his nephew can incite Zhou Fohai to rebel today, he can incite Li Fohai, Wang Fohai, and Zhao Fohai to rebel tomorrow. These handwritten orders may be used at any time.

A few days later, Zhang Anping received a handwritten letter that was urgently sent to the Songhu Command Center. At that time, he did not know that his father's counterfeit money team had begun to mass-produce such letters. After carefully studying them and making sure there were no flaws, he personally brought them to Shanghai and contacted Zhou Fohai to conduct a transaction with him.

The two met in secret. Zhou Fohai took the handwritten note and studied it carefully. Zhang Anping saw this and mocked him:

"Mr. Zhou, do you think this thing is fake?"

Without waiting for the other party to answer, Zhang Anping continued: "In ancient times, counterfeiting such things was a serious crime punishable by the death of the entire clan. As a military agent, how could Zhang not know this taboo?"

Zhou Fohai laughed loudly: "Chief Zhang, you misunderstood. I haven't seen the chairman's handwriting for a long time. I just couldn't control myself for a while. Don't blame me, don't blame me."

Because of Zhang Anping's interruption, Zhou Fohai also finished his work of identifying the opponent's edict.

In fact, he was very familiar with the captain's handwriting. He was sure it was the "authentic" at the first sight. In addition, after hearing what Zhang Anping said, he was completely relieved. He then handed the prepared banknote printing template to Zhang Anping.

After the two separated, Zhou Fuhai immediately asked his wife to send the handwritten note from the "captain" to Hong Kong and store it in a bank safe, and repeatedly told his wife:

"This is something that will save my life in the future. You must keep it well. Don't ask anything else. Don't ask anything."

……

The counterfeit banknote template was sent to Chongqing by Zhang Anping.

With the arrival of the counterfeit banknote template, Zhang Guanfu's counterfeit banknote team immediately entered into the intensive and orderly imitation work.

After several rounds of counterfeiting, the Zhongchu notes produced by the counterfeit banknote team were no different from those issued by the Wang Puppet regime.

It can be said that the counterfeit banknote group led by Zhang Guanfu could be renamed the "Zhongchu Banknote Production Group" - with the technology, templates and letterpress printing machines, what they produced were not counterfeit banknotes at all, but real banknotes produced free of charge by the Chongqing National Government on behalf of the Wang Puppet Government!

The Zhongchu coupons were issued on New Year's Day this year, but before the issuance, the Wang Puppet regime put in a lot of effort. At the beginning, in order to ensure purchasing power, many measures were taken, and even the legal currency circulating in the occupied areas was exchanged at a ratio of 1:2.

The Zhongku coupons have only been in circulation for seven months so far, and have not yet been issued on a large scale. Even the denominations are moderate for the time being, with the highest being only ten yuan, supplemented by 1, 2, and 5 dimes and 1, 5 cents.

After seven months of brewing and maintaining purchasing power, the circulation volume in the occupied areas was almost on par with the legal currency - this was "thanks" to the traitor group's hard work in promoting it.

It can be said that this is the best opportunity for the Military Control Commission, which has just created the "Zhongchu Volume"!

After more than 20 days of hard stockpiling, the Military Control Commission had accumulated a sufficient number of Zhongchu coupons and began to "promote" the Zhongchu coupons through its energy tentacles in the district stations in the occupied areas.

In less than a month, countless 10-yuan Central Reserve Bank coupons were used by the Military Control Commission, and a large amount of supplies were looted. When the Japanese and the Wang Puppet Government reacted, they were completely stunned.

Even Zhou Fohai, who knew the situation and was prepared, was stunned.

You should know that in order to ensure the credibility of the Central Reserve Bank of China, when it was issued in January, the Wang Puppet Central Reserve Bank only issued 1370 million yuan, and also purchased equivalent gold and British and American currencies as a guarantee.

This is also the reason why the China Reserve Bank’s coupons have not caused large-scale boycotts since their issuance. After all, their purchasing power and credibility are temporarily trustworthy.

However, now, in just less than a month, the number of Zhongchu coupons circulating in the market is roughly estimated to exceed 20 million - the actual number may be even higher, perhaps directly doubled.

The rapid and "excessive issuance" of currency will inevitably lead to a soaring price of materials and a decline in the purchasing power and credibility of currency. The most crucial thing is that the over-issued currency was done by the Military Control Commission, and the way the Military Control Commission injected this currency into the market was "buy, buy, buy", which also led to a large amount of materials being swept away by the Military Control Commission.

When they paid attention to the market situation, the Military Control Commission had already "distributed" the Central Reserve Bank coupons in their hands and had completed the task of retreating safely, leaving only the mess in the market and the overturned Central Reserve Bank coupons.

The smooth issuance plan and rhythm of the China Reserve Bank's coupons were completely disrupted.

The Wang Puppet Government and the Japanese held meetings in succession to discuss countermeasures.

But their reaction was the same as that of the Nationalist government when faced with counterfeit money. They could only sigh in vain. It seemed that they had no choice but to crack down on it. But the shitty thing was that what the Military Control Commission "threw" over were not counterfeit money, but real money. They had no place to start even if they wanted to crack down on it.

“There are only two options now.

First, change the process and replace the new version!
Second, print more! "

Well, this is also the usual way for a makeshift team to deal with it.

In the battle of counterfeit money, the Military Control Commission took back a high score with "real money" and temporarily took the lead.

……

The sense of smell of a spy is often the most sensitive - when something unusual happened with the Zhongchu volume in the occupied area, Ito Masashi smelled something and had been paying close attention to it.

Well, this Ito is still the same Ito, it is Ito Masashi who survived Zhang Anping’s plan because the Shanghai head of Deyun Department blocked the knife.

After the unfortunate Otani took the blame for him, he became extremely low-key. Even the Ito Agency in Shanghai hid itself like a shrunken fist and remained silent.

But the fist is put away in order to be swung out again to hit someone, and the same is true for Ito Jigen.

It's just that after escaping death, Ito was extremely cautious and never deliberately provoked the Military Control Commission - but it was not because he was timid, but because he had other goals.

Smuggling network!
This is Ito's goal. He was able to make a comeback and serve as the head of the Ito Agency because he reached a deal with Doien, and the bargaining chip of the deal was that he must solve the smuggling network in Shanghai.

Before you can resist foreign aggression, you must first stabilize the internal situation.

However, this time, Ito had been enduring and silently "feeling" the situation of the Shanghai smuggling network, but he did not forget his job, so he also secretly watched the every move of the Military Control Commission.

When the number of Zhongchu coupons on the market suddenly increased, Ito began to investigate secretly. When he found that the extra Zhongchu coupons were no different from the Zhongchu notes issued by the Nanjing government, he immediately invited an expert in coin making.

“Why do fake coins and real coins have the same results?”

"There is only one possibility, that is, the other party not only mastered the production process, but also had the template for printing banknotes."

Faced with two identical Zhongku banknotes, the minting expert gave an explanation: "The Nanjing banknote printing template must have been obtained by the other party!"

He was not surprised that the Military Control Commission was able to obtain the printing templates of the Central Reserve Bank of China. That was Zhang Shihao. Was it difficult for him to do such a thing?

But what he cared about was why there was no report from Nanjing on the loss of the "banknote printing template"!

"There is only one explanation. The Military Control Commission has an extremely important insider in the Nanjing government, and he is also related to the financial sector."

After Ito came to this conclusion, his eyes flashed with ferocity.

Such a high-level insider must have a very important position in the Military Control Commission. If he is handled properly...

Ito, who has been defeated many times, has started to make plans again.

It was precisely because of his layout that the decision to replace the new version of the Central Reserve Bank of China's financial meeting was quietly pushed forward.

"Zhang Shihao, from now on, I will only try a little bit every time, let's see what you can do to me!"

Ito, who fought again and again despite repeated defeats, secretly challenged his unforgettable opponent to a fight.

Only this time, he will take revenge in a new way.

Repair the plank road in the open, march through Chencang in secret, and then...

Two-pronged!

(End of this chapter)