My client Li Yunlong

"From today."

"One hundred Jinan coins can be exchanged for eleven silver dollars."

"Limited to 200,000 silver dollars per day."

After the words fell, the crowd queuing outside burst into excitement.

Since May, the banks of the Eighth Route Army in Ze County have been exchanging silver dollars to stabilize the price of the new Hebei Nan coins.

However, it has always been exchanged at a fixed price of ten Hebei Nan coins for one silver dollar, that is, one hundred Hebei Nan coins can be exchanged for ten silver dollars, and the daily limit is 150,000 silver dollars.

Today it suddenly became one hundred Hebei Nan coins, which can be exchanged for eleven silver dollars.

Moreover, the daily limit has also been increased to 50,000 silver dollars.

What do you want to do?
Everyone was speculating in their minds, but it did not affect everyone's enthusiasm for the exchange at all.

A silver dollar is also money!

"No need to grab it."

"There will be more tomorrow."

Staff worked hard to maintain order.

···
"One hundred Jinan coins can be exchanged for eleven silver dollars!"

Ten minutes later.

In Landlord Jia's mansion, Old Man Jia looked gloomy after hearing the news.

"Silver dollar devalued?"

When the housekeeper heard the news, his expression changed.

In order to raise food prices, it can be said that the Jia family is now heavily in debt.

Not only have the five thousand acres of irrigated land been mortgaged long ago, but also a large part of the old house, the shop in Ze County, and even the grain in the warehouse have been mortgaged.

However, there are actually still circulating funds.

and about one hundred thousand silver dollars.

In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from devaluing the new Hebei Nan coins, they all hoarded a lot of silver dollars.

In fact, almost everyone in Ze County, whether they are landlords, businessmen, or even ordinary people, have hoarded large amounts of silver dollars.

Just because they are afraid of the depreciation of the new Hebei Nan dollar.

This is the legal currency, the Japanese joint currency, and the shadow left by the border tickets issued by the Eighth Route Army.

But Landlord Jia never expected that

Instead of devaluing the new Hebei Nan dollar, the Eighth Route Army devalued the silver dollar?
“Has the price of the grain they sell changed?”

Not long ago, he went out to sell a batch of silver coins. The second young master of the Jia family, who had just come back, asked quickly.

He sold silver coins to foreign businessmen and made a fortune in US dollars.
But even including this batch of US dollars, today's Jia Mansion is still insolvent as a whole.

Once the mortgage time limit expires, the Jia family will be liquidated, and they will have nothing.

Today's Jia Mansion has no retreat.

Either continue to fight against the Eighth Route Army and raise food prices until all the losses are made back, or go bankrupt and even take on debts that will never be repaid in a lifetime.

"No."

The reporter responded:

"Imported grain still costs one yuan per pound."

"Sorghum costs thirty cents per catty."

"Importing food?"

Old Man Jia's expression changed and he asked quickly:

"They started selling imported grain again?"

food prices,

Food prices.

The key is food prices.

As long as the price of food is high, the Jia family can survive and produce its own food to pay off its debts.

Although one thousand tons of sorghum per day has greatly reduced the demand for food in southern Hebei, with the expansion of the Eighth Route Army's territory, the population has increased, and the number of refugees pouring into southern Hebei has increased.

The Japanese, in particular, began to consciously drive refugees to the southern Hebei region.

Today, the population of southern Hebei has exceeded five million.

It is precisely for these reasons that

Even though the Eighth Route Army still puts a thousand tons of grain into the market every day, and even though the Eighth Route Army is victorious against the Japanese, grain prices have stabilized recently.

No more decline.

It even bounces back a little occasionally.

"Yes."

The servant who reported the report continued to answer:
"But each sales point only has 10,000 kilograms per day."

"Ten thousand pounds!"

Old Man Jia breathed a sigh of relief.

Ten thousand kilograms is five tons.

Twenty grain sales points, that’s one hundred tons per day.

This amount is not much.

Especially this kind of imported grain, which is suitable for long-term storage, is very popular in the market. One hundred tons will hardly cause any price change.

It is even very likely to stimulate the market, causing prices to rise.

This is good for him.

You know, the Jia family has 2,500 tons of imported grain that has not been opened.

"What do they want to do?"

Old Man Jia looked at his second son.

The eldest son used to serve as the captain of the garrison in Liao County. After the fall of Liao County, he is still serving as the captain of the garrison in Yangquan.

So the smartest one in the family is the second son.

"The Eighth Route Army is very smart. They not only use silver dollars to stabilize the value of the New Hebei Nan currency, but also use grain prices to help stabilize the value of the New Hebei Nan currency. Therefore, the market is now very receptive to the New Hebei Nan currency."

"Especially in the southern Hebei region, it's almost the same as a silver dollar."

"Now they are keeping grain prices unchanged, and the new Hebei Nan dollar has fallen against the silver dollar."

The second son of the Jia family looked gloomy:
"They are devaluing the silver dollar, causing the silver dollar in our hands to depreciate."

"Dad, our mortgage loan is in New Hebei Nan dollars."

"But now, all we have are silver dollars."

"but."

Having said this, the second young master of the Jia family sneered:
"Today, the price of silver dollars in the international market is much higher than that in China. Now the Eighth Route Army is devaluing the silver dollar, which will cause a large outflow of silver dollars." "Unless the price falls in the international market."

"Not to mention that the Eighth Route Army has not controlled the outflow of silver dollars at all, and it is impossible to control the outflow of silver dollars, unless they do not intend to develop business and give up the slogan of stabilizing the business environment."

"Even if they strictly prohibit it, they can't stop the flow of silver dollars to the base area."

"In fact, it is impossible for the silver dollar to depreciate."

"We don't need to worry."

"That's good."

Old Man Jia didn't quite understand, but he vaguely understood.

Silver dollars are needed outside.

And pay a high price.

Even if the Eighth Route Army lowers the price of silver coins in southern Hebei, it will not cause the silver coins in his hands to depreciate or make the money in his hands less.

This is enough.

"wait."

Old Man Jia suddenly became energetic:

"Wait until the Japanese drive more people in."

"Wait for the refugees from Yu to come."

"I want to see if the price of food will rise."

"I think so."

The second young master of the Jia family also sneered and said:

"The failure of the Japanese today is simply an act. They deliberately lost territory to the Eighth Route Army and increased their burden."

"Makes sense!"

Old Man Jia immediately nodded in agreement.

···
That afternoon.

Shimen.

Suzuki Fanji looked at the information he had just received. Regarding the information about the devaluation of silver dollars by the Eighth Route Army in the southern Hebei region, he couldn't help but express doubts:

"Devaluing the silver dollar?"

"What do they want?"

"What do these idiots want to do?"

Although I had a hunch in my heart that Tuba Road might have enough silver dollars in hand to defeat the United States' silver dollar bill.

But reason told him,

This is impossible.

As the world's most powerful economy.

The economic capacity of the United States can even overwhelm it. It covers more than 20 million square kilometers and controls the most populous colony of the British Empire in the world.

Change the world's most influential currency from the British pound to the U.S. dollar.

The British Empire was helpless.

Are there still forces in the world that are capable of provoking the United States economically?

However, I thought so in my heart, but this thought was always hovering in Suzuki Fanji's mind.

As for the reason, Suzuki Hoji believes that it is those incredible technologies, weapons and equipment that far surpass the empire, and even the United States.

"strangeness."

The knowledge from economics allowed Suzuki Fanji to know that the purpose of this series of operations of the Eighth Route Army was to promote the export of silver dollars.

It can be inferred that Tubalu has too many silver coins in his hand.

In the situation where the silver dollar was severely inverted with the international market, and one silver dollar in southern Hebei was even only about half the price of a silver dollar in the American market, policies were continued to be introduced to promote silver dollar exports.

This shows that the Eighth Route Army has not only a lot of silver dollars, but also more silver coins than he imagined.

But is this possible?
"Has their food quantity decreased?"

After thinking for a long time without any clue, Suzuki Banji shifted his thoughts to the next target.

It's already September.

The imperial military is actively forcing refugees into the southern Hebei region and into the Tubal Road base area. According to preliminary statistics, the number reaches six figures every month.

He can understand if Taiyue and Taihang can resist.

Not to mention the Taiyue Mountain Area, the Locust Army still doesn't know how they transported food, weapons and ammunition, and even military horses and mules.

Taihang is close to the Taiyue Mountains, and it is not surprising that the Eighth Route Army has opened up transportation channels.

But how does the southern Hebei base area solve transportation problems?
According to the intelligence collected by the Locust Army from the southern Hebei region, unlike the Taiyue base area, the Eighth Route Army's warehouses are transported by pallets or even trucks.

Since the transport team was attacked and the Zhizishan Bridge was bombed, the transport teams passing through the road are mainly night trucks.

But what kind of truck can transport more than 1,500 tons of grain every day on a dirt road that is nearly 300 kilometers long?

Suzuki Hoji is unimaginable.

Fifteen hundred tons of supplies, the Empire's strongest mobile corps, the Eleventh Army was still fighting fiercely during the battle, and the supplies it consumed every day could not reach this amount.

If the empire had such transportation capabilities, why was the war situation in the south so corrupt?

···
at the same time.

Yangcun.

“It’s really…”

"Scary truck!"

Xu Ping, commander of the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment and artillery instructor who had served in the Spanish Peninsula, was shocked when he looked at the huge truck being loaded in front of him.

Even though he has seen it hundreds of times, even driven it himself, and participated in repairs and maintenance.

After all, today's army artillery no longer needs people like them to fight on the front line, but more needs them to train new gunners and train new artillery officers.

As a result, Xu Ping often came to work as a truck driver.

But still shocking.

As a college student, I have studied mechanical technology.

He knew one thing, whether it was ultra-long-range mortars, transport aircraft, or other weapons, in terms of technological level, they were far inferior to the huge truck in front of him.

Not only the water-cooled diesel engine with a maximum power of 750 horsepower and high torque, but also the gearbox, transmission mechanism, and chassis...
Together they have created this monster with excellent mechanical performance and reliability, a maximum load of one hundred tons, and even the ability to carry sixty-five tons of cargo off-road.

"Today's transportation destination is Liang County."

When Xu Ping received the destination, he was suddenly surprised, and then overjoyed.

Liang County is only more than thirty kilometers away from Yan'an.

Has the army expanded here? ! (End of chapter)