My client Li Yunlong

“Intensify fund collection efforts?”

Shimen.

Major General Suzuki Toji's office.

A telegram from the base camp arrived directly at his office.

"It seems that the empire will need a lot of funds in the near future."

Suzuki Fanji fell into deep thought.

Although the empire has always been facing the problem of insufficient military expenditure, so much so that for that little military expenditure, the navy and the army fought fiercely, and the top officials added fuel to the fire.

This created the most bizarre conflict between land and sea in history - the kind that could be fought directly.

But a sudden telegram came from the base camp, asking him to strengthen the collection of funds.

Suzuki Fanji speculated,

The empire should have channels to solve the problem of insufficient resources, but it will require a lot of money.

“How do you collect large amounts of money?”

Suzuki Fanji fell into deep thought.

The capital the empire needs is not yen.

But dollars!

It’s foreign exchange funds!
But where did he get all those dollars?
Although a large amount of silver dollars can be obtained every month, the growth rate of silver dollars is limited. Even recently, Tuba Road has squeezed itself out and increased its investment in silver dollars in the market.

The Machinery Department even organized the transportation of machinery and equipment. What he collected every month was only more than 20 million silver dollars.

···
“The speed of collecting machine tools and equipment is still not enough!”

Taihang base area.

Ministry of Industry and Construction.

In the office, the new minister, Zhang Wanhe, frowned as he looked at the statistical list in his hand.

According to the goals of the meeting held by Shangxin, sufficient machinery and equipment should be collected in the base area before the Japanese conduct a large-scale raid by spring next year at the earliest and summer next year at the latest.

Then with the help of the independent group, the initial construction of the complete industrial zone was carried out.

Build a super-large industrial zone with an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel and the ability to independently manufacture aircraft, artillery, automobiles, and industrial machine tools.

to this end,

The scale of industrial equipment required is about US$80 million to initially build a prototype of an industrial zone, or in other words, a model of an industrial zone that can barely operate.

Eighty million US dollars, this price is the American market price.

In fact, in order to attract businessmen, even Japanese businessmen, to make profits, machines and equipment were transported into the base area, and the base area paid more than 20 times the price.

In other words, the superiors planned to use funds actually equal to 1.6 billion U.S. dollars to import machinery and equipment.

And currently,
The base area can receive 70 million silver dollars per month. At the market price, considering that the price of silver will inevitably fall in the future, the actual conversion into US dollars is equivalent to 35 million US dollars per month.

Where did the $1.6 billion come from?

And, there isn’t much time.

The time given to the base will definitely not exceed one year.

Zhang Wanhe didn't understand.

But he still strictly followed the plans of his superiors, and with the help of technical experts, he planned and laid out the future industrial zone, and even found ways to expand the scale.

···
"Good guy."

Yangcun.

Looking at the plan Zhang Wanhe took out, even Li Yunlong couldn't help but click his tongue.

According to Zhang Wanhe’s industrial zone plan.

According to Lu's calculation of ten times the reimbursement, after the reimbursement comes out, the base will directly own a steel factory with an annual output of one million tons of steel, as well as more than 500 various factories.

Directly enable the base to have a complete industrial system including the production of aircraft, cannons, automobiles, ships, machinery and equipment.

"This guy is a talented guy."

Zhao Gang also nodded and clicked his tongue.

He could not produce such a detailed industrial establishment table in just one month, covering almost all sub-projects, without relying on any outside sources.

···
“How to raise funds?”

"How to collect huge machinery and equipment?"

Headquarters,

Staff.

The deputy general staff said with a warm tone and a smile:
"It's very simple."

"More than 70 million silver dollars per month, equivalent to 35 million U.S. dollars. The current price of silver in the international market is still rising, which is actually equivalent to 40 million U.S. dollars, and will continue to increase in the future. However, it is expected that silver will plummet in the future. "

Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department suddenly purchased silver from the market on a large scale, causing the price of silver in the international market to skyrocket.

That's seventy cents an ounce.

There is even a tendency to climb towards seventy-five or even eighty.

For this reason, the Jinan base area even accelerated the supply of silver dollars to the market.

However, this is only temporary.

It won't be long before the Americans who suffer a loss will steadily decline.

"One ton of gold is worth US$1.25 million. Starting from this month, we will have 25 tons of gold, which is more than US$30 million."

Hearing this, some staff members were confused.

"Twenty-five tons of gold?"

"Isn't it twenty tons?"

The latest cooperation of the Independent Group is an announcement published on the front page of the latest Xinhua News Agency - after Shun Tada is killed, the Independent Group can obtain twenty tons of gold every month.

"Oh."

The deputy general staff said with a smile:

"The latest chief of staff of the Japanese North China Front, Major General Yamada, has arrived in Beiping."

"Li Yunlong is ready to kill him easily."

"This devil is worth five tons of gold per month."

"this··"

The staff officer's expression was not surprised, but strange.

Gold actually doesn't matter to the base.

Consultants who have read economic books all know that gold and silver are essentially just metals and do not have much actual value. Because they are rare, they are used as valuable goods to give them monetary value. What can really give monetary value are commodities, industrial products, and agricultural products.

Productivity determines monetary value.

Because money is essentially a medium of transaction.

But in foreign countries with developed financial industries, the situation is different.

Gold, for a long time, served as the anchor of currency. As much gold as a country had, it would issue as much currency of equal value.

Even after the economic crisis, the major powers devalued their currencies significantly and no longer used gold as an absolute currency anchor. However, gold is still the currency with the best overall settlement in the world.

Countries are also sparing no effort to store gold to stabilize domestic finances.

And now...

The man behind Li Yunlong seemed to be preparing to provide gold to the base area like crazy.

Killing a Japanese commander would cost 20 tons per month or 240 tons per year. Killing a Japanese front army staff officer would cost 5 tons per month or 60 tons per year.

As for whether that person has it or not, there is no doubt at all.

It can be expected.

When the base area accumulates thousands of tons or even nearly 10,000 tons of gold every month.

European and American currencies...

Thinking of this, the staff officer couldn't help but curl up his mouth - he couldn't wait to see this day.

As for whether the European and American powers will be wary of silver, absolutely not.

Silver is silver.

Just a commodity.

But gold is a hard currency and can even be called a real international currency.

"Plus the revenue from selling the drugs."

The Deputy General Staff continued:

“It’s expected that even this month, we’ll get $100 million in revenue.”

"What's more, as more drugs are put into the market, especially high-purity insulin, revolutionary antidepressant drugs, and high blood pressure drugs, it can be further improved."

"It is expected to reach US$150 million to US$200 million per month."

"Twenty million dollars a month!"

A staff officer muttered to himself, and then smiled.

Although there will be a huge loss of this money, this loss is also in the plan, but I am embarrassed to put it directly on the surface.

In fact, these losses will eventually occur.

we can even say,
The more losses there are, the better it will be for the base area, the Eighth Route Army, and the entire Republic of China.

after all,

Dog bites dog!

Give a thin dog more food and then fight it to better consume the other dog.

···
"Made successfully."

"Although there is still a gap between it and the original version."

"But you have to look very carefully to tell the difference."

at the same time.

The director of a mint located somewhere, who was also the technical director, handed a stack of currency to the manager.

"Can't it be exactly the same?"

The manager frowned.

This is big business.

The expected profit is as high as three million U.S. dollars, and may even reach more than seven million U.S. dollars. You must know that the mint's profit is actually only more than three million U.S. dollars per year.

Of course, the premise is to satisfy buyers from across the Pacific and ship in large quantities.

but,

What the manager expected was that even their banknote printing factory, the most technologically advanced, well-equipped and powerful banknote printing factory in the United States, could not completely imitate it.

"It's hard."

"Their paper is very special."

"We can't imitate 100%, and the printing process, they are more precise than us."

"In order to be as identical as possible, the printing speed is very slow, the cost is high, and the printing speed is very slow, so the first batch only has a face value of 200 million."

The technician's answer made the manager frown even deeper.

There are actually money printing factories in the world that are more technologically advanced than theirs.

"Delivery one batch first."

“If the customer is happy, keep delivering at scale.”

the manager said.

···
Shimen.

“The new Hebei Nan currency has depreciated?”

"Yoshi!"

Suzuki Fanji heard a rare piece of good news.

The New Hebei Nan currency, which the Eighth Route Army had been working hard to maintain, even at any cost, finally began to depreciate.

Does this mean the decline of New Hebei Nan Coin?
Does this mean that the Eighth Route Army's silver is depleted?
Thinking of this, Suzuki Fanji suddenly felt unhappy.

He wanted to take back what he just said about Yosi.

Once the Tubal Road silver and U.S. dollars dry up, then he will have no credit to gain.

The position of lieutenant general is almost impossible.

Unfortunately, the increase in the price of silver in the international market comes from the power of the U.S. Treasury Department - according to the latest news, the U.S. Treasury Department will spend US$500 million to purchase silver from the market within six months.

As soon as the news came out,

The price of silver jumped almost twenty-five percent.

Affected by this, the outflow of silver in southern Hebei has greatly accelerated, and silver exchange points such as Ze County have once again been in short supply.

The difference between the new Hebei Nan dollar and the silver dollar appeared again in the market.

This is also the root cause of the devaluation of the new Hebei Nan currency. (End of chapter)