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Cairo after the end of the battle of El-Alamein has been completely different from the previous one. />

The fiasco of the Allies. Let the entire Cairo people feel guilty, the Egyptians, and the Frenchman living in Cairo, Brittish, everyone is worried that the Germans will attack Cairo.

Fortunately, such fears did not happen, and the Germans seem to have lost interest in Cairo for the time being.

However, God knows when the Germans will appear in Egypt.

There was some rumor, and Farouk I and Brittish seemed to be very unhappy, about war, and finally Farouk I had to succumb to Brittish’s intimidation.

However, this has caused dissatisfaction with the Egyptian military.

Caelum, the chief of staff of the Egyptian army, who has great powers in his hands, has always been a hard-line, and believes that Egypt should be more autonomous, rather than completely obeying Brittish’s orders.

At this point, he and the Egyptian Defense Minister Aiman ​​have the opposite opinion.

Aiman ​​believes that with the power of Egypt, it is absolutely impossible to resist the German attack alone. It is necessary to adopt a one-sided approach in policy and use the power of Brittish to resist aggression from Germany.

Caelum retorted that Aiman ​​completely forgot the glory that Egypt had once had, only knowing that he was bowing to foreigners.

Caelum’s attitude is very annoying to Brittish, but they have no way to the Egyptian realist character. Caelum has strong and profound influence both in the civil and in the military. It is said that Queen Farida is his distant relative. He received universal support from the middle and lower classes in Egypt.

Once he shakes his position, it will inevitably cause great opposition from the Egyptians. Even in the army, there may be a military change…

What Aiman ​​represents is the interest of the privileged class in Egypt. He also has a wide range. But it has deep roots in support. For example, Farouk I is his staunch supporter.

Of course, this time Brittish did it too much, not only for the Egyptian army to participate directly in the war, but also for Egypt to assume the main supply task of the Allies in North Africa.

Such a request, even if Farouk I, who usually does not manage politics, has a great dislike…

Everything was caused by the failure of the “Second El-Alamein Campaign.”

It is said that the Allied forces lost more than 80% of supplies in North Africa in this battle, and the entire army’s supply has the most serious problems.

Now, for a long time, the Allies must rely on the Egyptians…

On several occasions, Caelum met with the British Ambassador to Cairo Stoley, General Alexander General of the Middle East, and General Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief of the British 8 Group. They expressed their strong dissatisfaction to them and demanded that the Allies must find their own solutions to the problem of replenishment instead of throwing this heavy burden to Egypt.

But whether it was Stoley, Alexander or Montgomery, they strongly rejected Caelum’s request and told the Egyptian chief of staff. It is totally illegal for him to meet with them privately without the permission of His Majesty the King and the Egyptian government…

This is the case with Brittish, especially the temperament of Alexander and Montgomery, who are more prone to temper. They even dared to reject the orders of British Prime Minister Churchill, not to mention an Egyptian chief of staff.

Caelum, who loves his face, left Brittish with anger, and he thought he had suffered a great humiliation in Brittish.

In Cairo, and throughout Egypt, Caelum and his family have always been widely respected. But now it seems that Brittish has not expressed his respect for him.

This is the case. Usually, some contradictions are not easy to be detected there, but once they encounter major events, such as the fiasco in the war. Such contradictions will completely erupt.

The fiasco of the “Second El-Alamein Campaign” is the fuse of the eruption between the United Kingdom and Britain…

Not only that, but the things that made the Egyptians more annoyed went on without any warning: in Egypt, there were a lot of Egyptian pounds and the auxiliary coins Piast and Milim!

Lots of!

This is by no means a good phenomenon… just a few days. With the emergence of these currencies, the Egyptian currency plummeted. Prices are skyrocketing.

Originally, with the progress of the war, the price of Egypt has reached a very high level. Now, Jane has reached the point where ordinary people cannot survive…

These things happen very strangely.

When Egypt fell into chaos, “Baron Andrew” Toksen – Wang Weizhen, and Mrs. Toksen – Elena re-entered the historic city of Cairo…

“Barbecue, thank you. How much? 1250 Piast? God, so expensive…”

Wang Weizhen shook his head and took the Egyptian-style barbecue and handed it to Elena: “God, the things here are really expensive. It’s just too much to eat…”

“A person who made these things, but actually said such a thing, is simply too funny.” Elena ate a barbecue, said with a smile.

“Elena, you may not know, a million pounds is enough to make a country coup. Ah, I am not referring to the high-ranking officials in the army, but the spontaneously organized mutiny.” Wang Weizhen apparently looks to the barbecue Very satisfied, very enthusiastic: “For example, the Portuguese Alves Dos Rees, he succeeded in using fake banknotes to make a terrible coup in Portugal… Ah, I think it is not appropriate to call him a counterfeit banknote maker. He uses But the authentic Portuguese currency…”

Alves Dos Rees, the legendary counterfeit banknote maker. He made the authentic Portuguese Escudo banknotes, and he forged only a letter from the Central Bank of Portugal to commission the printing bank to print the banknotes.

How much money did he illegally inject into the market? As of 1925, a total of 1 Eskodo notes, totaling 100 tens of thousands of pounds, equivalent to 0.88% of Portugal’s total gdp. Rees, who had become rich overnight, had a bank, bought a house, bought a farm… mixed with the wind and water, bringing a surface prosperity to the Portuguese economy. However, these huge amounts of money illegally injected into the market eventually led to the depreciation of the Portuguese currency and the decline in the credibility of the government, which indirectly promoted the coup of the military in the following year.

Rex was sentenced to 1930 years in 20.

He alone, spanning a government with a million pounds…

“Isn’t he a great person?” Wang Weizhen finished his barbecue with satisfaction: “Things are lost, you may feel a little uncomfortable, you can do the same, but the first dare to use the forged Portuguese Central Bank. The official letter, used to commission the printing bank to print the banknotes, is really a great genius. The key, he also succeeded.”

Elena nodded in agreement.

“他用伪造的葡萄牙中央银行的公函的制造钞票，美国还有一个家伙也在制造伪钞，不过到现在他还没有被人发觉。”Wang Weizhen 兴致勃勃地说道：“这个叫艾默里奇于特纳的家伙，从澳洲移民到美国纽约，年轻时做大楼管理员，退休后捡破烂为生，生活难以为继。无奈之下于特纳开始运用他儿时学过的照相蚀刻术来造假币。于特纳并不贪心，他只造1美元的纸币，用以维持基本生活所需。不过他的技术可不怎么好，用的是廉价的铜版纸，数字和字母模糊扭曲，华盛顿的头像也明显失真，后来有的假钞上连‘’也错拼成‘’。造假技术不高，所以，于特纳花这些假钱时十分谨慎，只在高峰期时的地铁、报摊、酒吧、杂货铺等人来人往的场所消费，通常这时的商家无暇细心查验一元纸币的真假，方能使他蒙混过关。买一张5美分的车票，就能赚95美分的利润，于特纳利用这些蝇头小利来应付房租等其他日常开支。但积少成多，从1938开始，于特纳制造了多达55千美元的假币，尽管特勤局老早就注意到了这些假币，却始终束手无策XCHARXXCHARX”

Elena listened to God: “Isn’t you able to catch him?”

“一直都抓不到。直到1947年末于特纳的公寓失火，才让他在1948年落网。可能大伙儿同情这个可怜的、不贪心的、小心翼翼的老头，他仅被判1年零1天，以及1美元的罚款，4个月后他就出狱和女儿住到一起。”Wang Weizhen 叹了口气：“你能说这人不是个了不起的家伙吗？”

After that, he glanced at Cairo’s street: “So, we are also a group of counterfeit banknote makers, but they are more sophisticated than them. Elena, now Egypt is very chaotic, the Allied supplies are in short supply, Cairo supplies are in short supply, and prices are again Soaring, if this time, Cairo has a lot of high-fidelity counterfeit banknotes, which can completely collapse the Egyptian economy in the shortest possible time.”

“At that time, the same mutiny as Portugal is very likely to happen in Cairo…” Elena quickly read the meaning of Wang Weizhen: “The Egyptian military is now full of sharp contradictions with the Allied Command. They want If you want to be successful, you must get support from a powerful force, and their only choice is Germany.”

Wang Weizhen smiled and said: “This is the case. If I can use the economy to fight a country, I would prefer this way. The chaos in Egypt provides us with the best opportunity. Now, we are a group of counterfeit banknote makers. “”

Of course, these two counterfeit banknote makers can use real money in Cairo!