The independent group base must establish a bank by itself. Kong Jie thought that it was very necessary to issue the border tickets belonging to the base.

As for the existing financial system in the base area, it is actually quite chaotic in terms of currency. Some border tickets were minted by the Hebei Central Military Region, as well as fiat currencies from the national army, and even some daily tickets, silver dollars, copper dollars, etc., all of which are circulated.

Therefore, a unified monetary system is needed.

Kong Jie has been making preparations in this regard. In addition, Kong Jie also sent a team to ask the Jinzhong Military Region for a coin template.

Used to continue printing and casting the corresponding border ticket.

As for other equipment needed for coin minting, the Independent Group had already prepared some coin molds that they had snatched from some county towns and from the Japanese mints.

"So after our own bank was established in our base, my subsequent idea of ​​the base was to be able to use the border area tickets we issued uniformly to recover all the various money tickets in the hands of the villagers, such as fiat currency, silver dollars, and copper dollars."

"When you exchange it specifically, you can exchange it according to the amount of grain you can buy, the equivalent, or even increase some prices. In short, the people cannot suffer losses. The villagers should be willing to exchange border tickets and use border tickets that support us."

“Why do you need to do this?

If the currency of our base can be unified, it will be of great benefit to the financial stability of our base.

We can implement policies that only border tickets are allowed to be used in major villages and markets around our base areas.”

"This can prevent the wealth of our base from being exchanged for money without actual value by the Japanese and national troops."

"You must know that in the Kuomintang-controlled area, in addition to fiat currency, silver dollar, and copper dollar, other currencies are not allowed to circulate. The same is true in counties occupied by the Japanese."

After discussing with Finance Minister Xu Qingnian to establish a bank, Kong Jie said this based on the establishment of the local financial system.

Xu Qingnian raised a question and said: "The regiment commander, the legal currency of the National Army, was abolished and changed to the dollar, and used silver dollars as the base currency, while the Japanese yen issued by the Japanese was based on gold."

"Whether it is silver dollars or gold, this is a high-value goods in the eyes of the people, so it can be used as a benchmark currency."

"So what will be used as the basic currency after our border tickets are issued so that the people can use them completely with confidence?"

"We basically have no reserves on hand, whether it is silver dollars or gold."

Kong Jie thought about it and replied: "During the war period, special circumstances are handled. Besides, what we want to maintain is a relatively small financial system in a smaller region, which is naturally much less difficult than the overall country."

"Old Xu, I ask you, what is the most important thing for them in this era of war, especially the people behind enemy lines?"

Xu Qingnian thought for a moment and replied, "Captain, I think it's food."

Kong Jie said: "Yes, it's food, not gold, nor silver dollars. When you really go hungry, only food can keep the people alive."

"If we think about it from this perspective, the Japanese use gold as the standard and the French currency uses silver dollars as the standard. Why can't we use food as the standard?"

"Press up the credit of our Eighth Route Army in the hearts of the villagers. If we make a flexible approach, let’s talk about grain plus the credit of our Eighth Route Army. This is the basic currency of the border tickets we issued."

Xu Qingnian was a little confused when he heard this. Although the group leader said everything was reasonable, for him, a talented man who graduated from finance, it was really difficult to change his ideas for a while.

Kong Jie became more and more excited as he spoke. He thought about the US dollar and how hateful the US dollar was.

"Old Xu, I'll give you some more ideas. You might as well imagine it boldly. This material currency may not necessarily be a currency with high value, or a rare metal or the like.

Food can be, reputation can be, and even the currency itself can be."

Xu Qingnian said in confusion: "Currency itself is OK?"

Kong Jie said: "If one day, the villagers in our homeland only recognize border tickets as the only benchmark currency, and whether it is the people in the occupied areas or the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, they only recognize the border tickets of our Eighth Route Army as the benchmark currency, then at this time, our border tickets can be used as legal currency and the Japanese yen's basic currency."

"And once the Japanese and the National Army recognize our border area ticket system, what a great impact will it have? Lao Xu, you are a finance student, so you should have more experience than me, right?"

Xu Qingnian said in a daze: "Captain, at that time, the role of the border tickets can play will be quite terrifying, both in military and economic terms."

"We can even use small border tickets to carry out disguised economic plunder in areas controlled by the Japanese and National Army."

Kong Jie said: "When it comes to that time, in a word, the border area ticket is the wealth of our Eighth Route Army, but it is the problem of our opponents."

"We can even borrow a series of means from border tickets to sanction our opponents."

"This is the horror of the currency standard, this is the horror of the currency war."

"Of course," Kong Jie smiled and patted Xu Qingnian on the shoulder and said, "It is basically a fantasy to achieve that level in the overall situation. I don't need much, but in the surrounding areas of our base area, it's enough to do this."

After a while, it was said that on the day Xu Qingnian left the regiment headquarters, he felt like he had lost his soul.

The next day, when Xu Qingnian appeared in the regiment headquarters, he was glorious, as if he had found some unswerving goal and path, and he was full of energy.

...

...

And just as Kong Jie was thinking about the future financial development of the base area.

On the other side, Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese Army in Shanxi.

Since returning from a disastrous defeat in the spring sweep, the Independent Regiment has officially risen to the thorn in the eyes of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi, and is thorn in the flesh.

At this moment, the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, was discussing the next plan to deal with the Independent Regiment with the Japanese Colonel Yamamoto Ichiki.

It sounds a bit funny. The commander of the First Japanese Army and the Japanese Colonel were actually conspiring to deal with a regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

But the actual situation is that the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi has long raised the threat of the independent regiment to the level of the Central Military Division of the National Army.

The spring sweep was eventually defeated by the Independent Corps, which made Yoshio Shinozuka feel even more resentful, believing that this was a great shame for the First Army.

If you don’t avenge your previous shame, you will be unable to sleep or eat.

Yamamoto Ichiki took the lead in speaking, mainly targeting the points, and placed them on the sniper platoon that the Independent Regiment had appeared in the anti-sweeping raid.

"General, according to preliminary investigation, the number of sniper platoon composed of the Independent Regiment is about forty people, and the members of the members have very powerful shooting skills, and they are definitely not inferior to that of the Imperial veterans."

"In addition, their sniper tactics are quite flexible. According to the information obtained from the reconnaissance during the operation, these snipers of the Independent Regiment not only have powerful gunshots, but also have very flexible movements. They often evacuate immediately after firing a shot, continue to find the next ambush location, hide themselves, and then sneak attack again."

"Not only that, each of their snipers also seems to be equipped with a detective with a rangefinder, a team of two people, tactical cooperation."

"In this combination, finding targets and sniper targets can be coordinated and completed in one go, and can often exert efficient sniper combat power in the battlefield. The mutual cooperation between the two can better improve each other's chances of survival on the battlefield."

"At the last meeting, the general said that the Commander-in-Chief had proposed to let us put aside our posture and learn the practices and tactics of the Eighth Route Army."

"I think the sniper tactics used by this independent regiment in front of me are exactly what our army's shooters need to learn."

Speaking of this, Yamamoto Ichiki seemed to feel sorry for:

"General, Shu Yamamoto said bluntly that the special shooter of our imperial troops, even some veterans of the empire, is no less than the so-called snipers of this independent regiment in terms of shooting skills.

However, they did not play a corresponding role on the battlefield, especially in this spring sweep, the special shooters who fought with the troops often fought rigidly. Even if they had superb marksmanship, they only shot in one place, and some even tied themselves to the trunk until the jade was broken. This was simply stupid."

"Now, the existence of the sniper platoon on the Independent Regiment has posed a serious threat to the regional security and stability of the Imperial Forces. I think our army's special shooters can also form similar sniper combat teams, change their original tactics, and flexibly adjust their applications to deal with the sniper platoon of the Independent Regiment."

"Yaxi!" Shinozuka Yoshio nodded and agreed with Yamamoto's view.

"Yamamoto, it turns out that the traditional special shooter tactics of the Imperial Army's army are no longer suitable for combat."

"Now it seems that it is necessary to learn sniper tactics from the Eighth Route Army."

"In this way, I will order to immediately select special shooters from all units to form a sniper team to fight with the army, and also be equipped with a new Type 99 sniper rifle, equipped with a four-fold optical scope, to replace the original Diplomatic Type 97 sniper rifle."

"In addition to snipers, the sniper team of the Independent Group is also equipped with corresponding observers, and we are also equipped with observers."

"The newly formed sniper team will first focus on the guerrilla area where the independent regiment base is located."

"Our army's special shooters are far more than the independent regiment. After changing combat tactics, we will definitely be able to suppress the independent regiment's sniper tactics."

"Hi!" Yamamoto said.

Yoshio Shinozuka thought for a while and added: "The failure of this spring sweep has made the imperial troops unprecedentedly humiliated, but now is not the time to retaliate against the Eighth Route Army."

"The Commander-in-Chief has made a subsequent battle plan to march to southern Shanxi. At present, all departments are preparing. What we need to do is to ensure that the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area does not cause any chaos."

"The Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang area are the most troublesome of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment. This time, the Eighth Route Army's living space will be further reduced, and the focus will be on the Independent Regiment."

"Yamamoto, based on your understanding of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, how do you think our army should deal with this independent regiment?"

Yamamoto Ichiki seemed to have thought about this issue for a long time and immediately replied:

"General, I think the following are enough to deal with it and even severely damage the independent group."

"Oh? Tell me!"

"Hi, considering the particularity of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, they have thousands of troops, excellent equipment, abundant ammunition, and even a considerable number of attacking artillery."

"First, the strongholds stationed in the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment base and surrounding the guerrilla area must be dispatched accordingly."

"Second, as the general said, we must send a sufficient number of sniper teams to the Independent Regiment based on the surrounding areas to deal with the Independent Regiment's sniping tactics."

"Third, the fortifications in the major strongholds built by the Independent Regiment on the periphery of the land were not enough to deal with the artillery in the hands of the Independent Regiment.

I think we need to rebuild the reinforced concrete artillery tower and bunker to deal with the firepower of the Independent Regiment and treat it in particular.”

"Fourth, according to the commander-in-chief, three parts of military and seven parts of politics, gradually erode the independent regiment's major villages around the area, and further compress the living space of the independent regiment."

"Fifth, the advance team and plainclothes team have been prepared. Next, the focus will be on infiltration into the area where the independent regiment base is located, and its command centers or important military facilities will be attacked and destroyed within the independent regiment."

"Sixth, General, this has actually always been a problem in our army's response to the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army.

Sometimes the ammunition our troops carry is much larger than the ammunition used in actual combat. Once raided by the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army can often seize a considerable amount of ammunition, and in turn continue to strengthen the team and deal with the imperial troops.

The Eighth Route Army often likes to fight guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare, and ambush warfare. Unlike the national army, there will be no positional warfare in which both sides enter fierce battles and compete for ammunition consumption.

So, I think that in the next local sweep and combat, we should reduce the amount of ammunition carried by each soldier except in the necessary circumstances."

Yamamoto said six points in one breath, and Yoshio Shinozuka nodded frequently.

In order to deal with the independent group, these two old Japanese who spared no effort wanted to go together...
Chapter completed!