money player

Chapter 23 Operation Andrew

Xian Yaowen waited for a long time, and finally an empty truck arrived at the right time.

At this time, there were no other vehicles within 500 meters of both ends of the road. Xian Yaowen walked to the middle of the road and waved at the truck heading towards him. When the truck driver saw him, he braked and stopped the truck two meters away.

Xian Yaowen walked to the driver's window, raised his head and greeted the truck driver with a smile.

"Bonjour."

"Bonjour, what do you want?"

"Hello sir, I'm going to the Citroën car factory in front of me. Can you give me a ride?"

The driver looked Xian Yaowen up and down, and seeing that he was polite and polite, he said, "Come on, I'll go to Reno and I can give him a ride."

"Thank you so much."

Xian Yaowen nodded slightly to the driver, and then walked to the door on the other side. On the way, he took out a gun from his waist, loaded the bullet and put it in his pocket.

He opened the car door, sat on the passenger seat, took out the gun without haste, turned on the safety, put it against the driver's waist, and said with a smile: "Sir, you are a good person."

The driver lowered his head and saw the pistol stuck on his waist. His body trembled and he subconsciously shrank to the left. Then he raised his hands and exclaimed: "Don't kill me."

Xian Yaowen still maintained a smile, "Sir, please don't worry. I told you that you are a good person. As long as you sit still and don't move, God will not allow me to pull the trigger. Next, I will ask you a few questions. Please Answer honestly."

The driver nodded sharply, with a very honest look on his face.

Xian Yaowen nodded again, "Thank you for your cooperation. First question, is this truck your own?"

"I am an employee of a transportation company, and the truck belongs to the company."

"Very well, second question, your name."

"Sylvie, Sylvie Maupy."

"Married?"

"Sir, please let me go, I have a wife and children." Sylvie begged.

Xian Yaowen said calmly: "Don't be nervous, you just need to answer the question. How many children do you have?"

"One."

"what is it call?"

"Benoit."

"How old?"

"Four years old."

"Are you planning to have other children?"

"I earn too little to support two children." Sylvie looked bitter.

Xian Yaowen took out a bottle from his pocket and comforted him: "Mr. Mopi, don't be discouraged. There will be bread and milk."

Putting the bottle on Sylvie's lap, Xian Yaowen continued: "There is ether in the bottle. Open the cap, put it in front of your nose and smell it. Just gently, not too heavy. If you inhale too much, wait until you wake up. Will vomit."

Sylvie glanced at the bottle and her cheeks suddenly turned white.

Xian Yaowen said before he could plead: "Relax, I don't want to kill you. After you smell it, you will only sleep for a few hours and then miss today's dinner. Your wife may complain. It's okay. Wait until you wake up." , touch the left pocket, I will leave you a sum of money, you can buy your wife a beautiful dress, and you can also buy a bottle of Lancôme magic perfume. I believe your wife's anger will be eliminated soon.

Ah, remember to buy Benoit a box of building blocks and a box of chocolates, and tell him that Santa Claus from Vietnam gave them to him. "

Xian Yaowen made an invitation gesture with his left hand, "Sylvie, my friend, I wish you a Merry Christmas in advance." "Friend?"

Sylvie found it very funny. Is it possible for a gun-toting gangster to call him a friend and leave a sum of money to himself? Thinking in his mind, his men were not slow in their movements. The other party had a gun in his hand. What else could he do except obediently follow his instructions.

After a while, he opened the bottle cap, put the bottle to his nose and smelled it. Soon, he felt the world was spinning, and he lost consciousness after two or three seconds.

Xian Yaowen took the bottle back before Sylvie fainted, capped the bottle, opened Sylvie's eyelids to observe, to confirm that he had indeed fainted, and then put his head out the window to breathe fresh air for a while.

After the smell in the car evaporated, Xian Yaowen gestured to Chanchanfei, who ran out of his hiding place and climbed into the car in one stride.

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Six hours later, Xian Yaowen and his party arrived in Normandy. As promised, Xian Yaowen left ten 10-yuan British pounds in Sylvie's pocket.

During the German occupation, more than 200 billion francs of French industrial products were plundered by the German army, three-quarters of industrial raw materials were looted, and 40% of agricultural products were plundered by the German army. The Vichy government also had to pay more than 6,000 francs to the German army. At the end of the war, France owed the United States and other countries a debt of 1.8 trillion francs.

After the end of World War II, France can be described as riddled with holes. Due to its surrender performance in World War II, its international reputation fell to a freezing point. Due to multiple factors, France experienced hyperinflation and the franc's exchange rate suffered a heavy blow. The current 100 pounds Can be exchanged for 10 francs.

However, the French Ministry of Finance played a very clever "CFA franc" trick in the African colonies, plundering the colonies to subsidize the French mainland. This resulted in the purchasing power of the franc in the mainland being not as bad as the exchange rate.

Although 10 francs is not a huge amount of money, it is more than enough to buy the things Xian Yaowen mentioned. The Sylvie family can maintain a high level of food for a long time.

In Normandy, Xian Yaowen and his party bought a direct ferry ticket to London and arrived in London before lunch the next day.

Just like what he did in Paris, he first found a cheap hotel to stay in. Xian Yaowen accompanied the third young master to visit London for a day, enjoying the beautiful scenery and delicious food. On the second day, he let others stay in the hotel while he bought some at the newsstand. I picked up the newspaper and found a cafe to drink coffee and read the newspaper.

There is a movie called "Operation Bernard", which mainly tells the story of a Jew named Solovitch who made counterfeit pound notes in a Nazi concentration camp. Most of the plot of the movie is fictional, but the prototype of the story is real.

During World War II, there was a fanatical Nazi in Germany, Alfred Naujokes. He came up with a plan to bring down the British economy by issuing a large number of counterfeit pound notes. After careful consideration, Naujokes submitted his plan to Haidri. Xi, the latter admired it very much after seeing it. He not only agreed to the plan, but also proposed that the U.S. dollar be included as a counterfeit target.

The plan was submitted to Hitler. Considering that the United States had not gone to war with Germany, he rejected the proposal to counterfeit dollars and only agreed to counterfeit pounds. After the plan was finalized, Heydrich was responsible for its execution.

Heydrich handed over the specific tasks to the Fourth Directorate of the Reich Central Security Service, which established a new department called "SHARP4" to oversee the matter.

In the summer of 1942, the SS opened a factory to print counterfeit banknotes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Major Bernard Kruger led the counterfeiting work. This is the origin of the name "Operation Bernard", but in fact the name was based on a rumor. , in German files, the plan name is "Operation Andrew", also known as "Operation No. ".

In order to implement the plan smoothly, the Nazis gathered the best engraving experts, papermaking technology experts and mathematics experts in Germany at the time, and also collected a group of Jews from the concentration camps who had been engaged in counterfeiting banknotes or documents. The hero of the movie Solovitch was among them. one.

In the beginning, the banknote printing workshop in Sachsenhausen could only print pounds of extremely poor quality. It was not until 1943 that special linen used by the Bank of England for banknotes was purchased from Turkey that the quality of counterfeit banknotes improved and reached a medium level.

Later, the world's top counterfeiter Smolyanov was brought in from the Amsterdam prison, and the banknote printing workshop printed "real" pounds that were almost the same as real banknotes. The only flaw was the serial number.

After all, the significance of cracking the serial number pattern is not very significant. How could the Bank of England not know which serial number segments it used? Fortunately, at this time, there was no technology to identify banknote serial numbers. As long as the serial numbers conformed to the pattern, "really "You can spend the pounds and deposit them in the bank openly."

In this way, the banknote printing workshop in Sachsenhausen continued to operate until the Soviet army approached in 1945, and then the equipment and personnel were transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp's subordinate camp at Lake Eben in Austria, where the printing work continued.

On May 5 of that year, the U.S. military entered Austria. The SS troops guarding the printing workshop loaded dozens of large boxes of "real" pounds into trucks, abandoned the prisoners, and hurriedly drove south to escape. Crowded refugees blocked the convoy. The panicked SS could only sink the banknotes in the car to the bottom of Lake Toplitz.

Obviously, in the real story, the successful counterfeiting of "real" pounds has nothing to do with the movie's actor Solovitch, nor does it have much to do with other Jews. The Jews only played the role of printers in Operation Andrew. character of.

But in the movie "Operation Bernard", the main credit for the success of "real" pounds was attributed to Solovitch, and the halo was given to all the Jews who participated in the operation. This has to be said about the whitewashing of the Jews. plan.

In the previous life, Xian Yaowen's mother was the elder of a Jewish foundation. The foundation was mainly engaged in commercial activities and rarely involved political activities. However, the foundation invested a large budget every year in the fields of literature, film and television dramas to support creative talents. Works that improve the image of the Jewish people in the world's minds.

After Xian Yaowen took over, he followed in his mother's footsteps and joined the foundation. His initial job at the foundation was to supervise the laundering of funds. It just so happened that "Operation Bernard" had investment from the foundation. It is no wonder that the film would focus on To glorify the Jews, it is not surprising that Xian Yaowen would be so familiar with this past event.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that Adolf Berg, the prototype character of Xian Yaowen and Solovitch and the author of the novel adapted from the film, met several times. The two had conversations about Operation Andrew and the adaptation of the film script, and also listened to The other party recounted an experience:
After the SS escaped that year, Borg followed closely and escaped from the concentration camp with 120 million "real" pounds, and then moved to London. At this time, he should be enjoying his wealthy life in London.

Xian Yaowen came to London to find Borg, an old friend. The two sides sat together and toasted and talked to each other. Xian Yaowen would tell the other party about his troubles of having no funds to start a business, and at the same time he was also willing to listen to the other party's thoughts on guarding a large sum of ill-gotten wealth. Trouble, he is willing to go out of his way to bear half of the other person's troubles.

Of course, a little more is okay. The whole world knows that he is a righteous person with a warm heart. You will never lose a penny if you keep your money with him.

(End of this chapter)