Ishihara Wanji was pacing back and forth in his chief of staff's office, Prime Minister Itagaki Seishiro, Deputy Chief of Staff Doihara Kenji, Army Vice Minister Suzuki Teiichi frowned, and Commander of the Lanyin Front Army Ishikawa Koichi was recalled to the country to report on his duties, China
The commander of the dispatched army, the Hebei and Shandong Front Army, Okamura Neiji also looked worried.
Ishihara smiled and stopped, turned around, and looked at Doihara Kenji:
"Doihara-kun, why did Hideki Tojo launch such a large-scale operation, but there was no news from your staff department? This is not like the style of your Doihara agency! Does Doihara-kun also think that attacking China?
Will attacking the Far East be more conducive to the expansion of imperial power?"
Kenji Doihara hurriedly stood up and bowed to apologize: "I'm very sorry, Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the responsibility for this is mine! Half a month ago, General Nishio Shouzou, as the commander of China's dispatch army, ordered the headquarters of each army in China to dispatch personnel, especially
He is a staff and intelligence officer who went to Peking for half a month.
Although I immediately called to inquire about the military training, I was blocked by General Nishio Hiszo. At that time, I was discussing with Itagaki-kun and Suzuki-kun what kind of governance policy should be implemented when occupying the Far East, and I did not go to Peiping to see it in person.
Look, if you don’t want something to happen due to an oversight..."
Ishihara waved his hand and smiled slightly: "Doihara-kun, please sit down! We are all our own people here, so you don't need to be polite at all."
Having said this, Ishihara Wan'er returned to his seat and sat down. He glanced at all his confidants and sneered:
"Some people are still unwilling to let us rise to high positions, and always want to oppose us... During this time, Sugiyama Moto, Umezu Yoshijiro and other empire worms who were driven away by us are jumping up and down.
To cause trouble for us, Nanjiro gathered around them
, Koiso Kuniaki, Nishio Hiszo, Matsui Iwane and other short-sighted people, and Tojo Hideki, Muto Akira and others are their pawns. This time we will just let go and watch the joke, and let Tojo Hideki and the others
I'll have a bloody encounter in front of An Jiajun, so I can sober up."
Itagaki Seishiro was extremely confused: "Ishihara-kun, Tojo commanded an army of 500,000 people to go south this time, and their opponent, the Chinese army, only had a total number of 100,000. There is no reason why Tojo would lose this war, right? If Tojo
Tiao Zhen has invaded Shanxi. Has the 'Northward Advance' plan we worked so hard to develop been implemented yet?"
Suzuki Teiichi also said: "The current energy of the Anjia Army is restrained by Mongolia and Nanhua. In the entire Shanxi region, there are only five divisions of the Lu Yixuan Department, and as far as I know, these five divisions are all new divisions.
We have only replenished some of the backbones of the former Fifth Army, but the combat effectiveness is still unknown. Why is the commander so sure that Tojo will lose?"
Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Ishihara smiled: "I wonder if you have noticed that the intelligence system has reported in the past few days that the Anjia Army is continuously sending border guards to the Mongolian area? According to intelligence personnel
Observation shows that this army is extremely large in scale. It marches for hundreds of miles, covering the sky and earth with dust. Wherever it goes,
The local warlords in China all looked askance at this, scrambling to welcome the labor army, fearing that one would not do harm to them. It is reported that a mechanized army of the Soviet army stationed in the Hami area of *** has been put on alert, and at the same time, the Soviet Central Asian Military District and the Turkestan Military District
A large-scale mobilization was also carried out, fearing that this force would suddenly change direction and capture the ***.
"So far, this force is still marching in Shaanxi, but they can turn around and march eastward at any time. Even if they pass through Shaanxi, they can still use grassland areas such as Gansu, Ningxia, Suiyuan and Chahar, which are intertwined with our forces.
, implement a breakthrough to the east! According to the Anjia Army's integrated air-ground strike strategy, Tojo's retreat in serious cases
It is possible that it will be cut off, so how can we expect him to capture Shanxi or even Shaanxi? To take a step back, even if Tojo captures Shanxi, what about Shaanxi? Not to mention anything else, it is these rolling mountains and millions of square kilometers.
Land, how to allocate troops for garrison, and how to ensure that logistics supply lines are not harassed and cut off by the China guerrillas?
"Also, is the Anjia Army so easy to deal with? In Pingjin, Jidong, Songhu and eastern Zhejiang, among all the troops that fought against the Anjia Army, which one will not be disgraced? In a word, the closer to the Anjia Army
Lair, he
The faster we get supplies, the harder this battle will be. On the contrary, in areas like North China where our supplies are superior to theirs, our army can have a certain advantage! If we sacrifice our own strengths and attack the enemy's strengths, we will be undefeated.
It’s unreasonable!”
Okamura Neiji nodded and added: "Actually, even the Sui, Hebei, Henan, Re, Cha, Lu and other places we occupy are not peaceful. The Japanese guerrillas are like getting into the belly of Princess Iron Fan.
Sun Wukong here has established local political powers and guerrilla zones in mountainous and remote areas where our rule is weak.
If they let loose and mobilize the people, they will be like maggots on the tarsus, no matter how hard they are to expel them! Especially at the end of last year, after the New Fourth Army, composed of the Jiangnan Red Army troops, crossed the Yangtze River and entered the Shandong Peninsula to fight, this trend is infinitely increasing.
, the top priority now is actually not to capture the city, but how to consolidate our occupied area.
"Before this, it was winter in China. The indigenous people who had migrated from the tropical Lanyin Islands were assigned to many sparsely populated areas. They could not adapt to this climate for a while, and many people froze to death. In desperation, we had to slow down the speed of transportation.
.When the weather gets warmer,
Our relocation efforts will surely resume. Making full use of the natives who do not understand the language to contain the development of the Japanese army is a plan formulated by the General Staff in January. Tojo Hideki and the others are doing whatever they want, in addition to wasting the strength of the empire in vain.
It won’t do anything!”
Ishikawa Koichi deeply agreed: "What Mr. Okamura said makes sense. For the great cause of the empire, Tojo and the others will never be allowed to waste the empire's resources without limit. I think it is best for the commander-in-chief and Prime Minister Lu to make a few remarks.
Regardless of the effect of the order to stop it, the duty of the base camp should be fulfilled!"
Ishihara Wanji nodded: "The order will be given naturally... Let's clearly state the consequences of the risk first and let them consider whether it is worth the risk. Otherwise, the group of people will be more vulnerable in the future."
I don’t take military orders seriously! I have to issue a stern warning, otherwise if that man Nishio Hisao goes crazy, he will
All the North China troops surrendered to Shanxi, and even our troops that were prepared to launch a war in the Far East were thrown into the swamp of the war against China. Who should we complain to? This time, I must give some relief to those who disobeyed the orders of the base camp.
Look at your color, Private Tojo, you found it yourself this time, you can’t blame anyone else!"
After saying that, Ishihara smiled with a sinister smile on his face. When everyone saw this, their hearts shivered and they all lowered their heads.
...
Nanhua, Xinjing, Office of the Chief of General Staff.
An Yi looked at the desk in front of him with confusion, which was full of US dollars and francs in denominations of fifty and one hundred. He raised his head in confusion and looked at Du Yi, who was wearing a black lieutenant general's police uniform:
"You guy, you are so quiet, why did you come to me with so much money all of a sudden? As a dignified Minister of National Security, aren't you afraid that others will say that you openly bribed me?"
Du Yi had a smile on his face: "Chairman, touch it yourself and tell me your feelings and experience when you're done."
An Yi glanced at Du Yi, saw his mysterious look, shook his head, picked up a fifty-denomination U.S. dollar, groped slowly, felt the uneven touch of the tough face, and then faced it
He looked at the lights in the office and saw that the entire banknote had coordinated colors, full of three-dimensionality, soft and bright colors, and the security thread and watermark were clearly visible. He thought for a while and picked up several more US dollars with the same denomination, with different numbers and codes.
same.
"They are all real money! Is there any problem?"
An Yi frowned and saw that Du Yi was still looking inscrutable, so he thought about it and called Ou Chu'er, who was in Xinjing to prepare for the Nanhua Central Bank affairs.
Ten minutes later, Ou Chuer came to An Yi's office under the protection of a female guard. After listening to An Yi's explanation of the situation, she also picked up the dollars and francs and looked at them carefully.
Since a large amount of francs were seized from Credit Agricole Bank this time, Ou Chuer knew that these francs were real just by looking at the color without touching them, so she mainly looked at the U.S. dollars.
What is now on the table are brand new U.S. dollars issued in the 30 or 4 year edition. The main scene on the front is black and the building on the back is dark green. Ou Chuer looked at it carefully. These U.S. dollars are all made of extremely professional banknote paper, red.
, the basket of colored fiber filaments are randomly distributed throughout the banknote, evenly and harmoniously. The portraits, buildings, borders and denomination numbers on the front and back are all engraved and gravure printed, and the concave and convex feeling is extremely obvious after touching.
Then she observed other features that could be identified with bare hands. Ou Chuer was almost sure that this was a real banknote, but she didn't make a sound. She saw Du Yi calmly taking out a magnifying glass and a piece of white paper and handing it to her.
I couldn't help but ask strangely: "How do you know I need to use these?"
Du Yi smiled and said: "Madam, there are only so many anti-counterfeiting items for U.S. dollars, how could I not know what you need? Take it for testing quickly."
Ou Chu'er couldn't help but smile, took the magnifying glass, and observed carefully, she saw that the ink spread on the entire dollar sheet, the ink overflowed, and the lines were tooth-like. This was a natural phenomenon produced by the gravure plate under high pressure, and it was also a test.
An effective way to verify currency authenticity.
Ou Chu'er wiped the green emblem and green number on the right side of the front of the U.S. dollar on the white paper again, and found that clear "green marks" were left on the white paper. He couldn't help but let out a long breath and raised his head.
Looking at Du Yi, he asked strangely: "Lao Du, I thought your counterfeiting technology had reached a new breakthrough and asked me to authenticate it, but how could you authenticate it with real US dollars?"
Du Yi smiled proudly: "How about it? Didn't you see it? This is basically the U.S. dollar made by our underground currency factory. There is no difference at all from the real U.S. dollar. In other words, this is simply the real U.S. dollar. Before that, we have already
We sent people with 200,000 U.S. dollars to several American banks in Shanghai for transoceanic exchange, but no one noticed the flaw. Our next goal is to produce one percent of the current total currency issuance of U.S. dollars.
The chance of discovery is extremely slim."
An Yi looked serious: "Du Yi, can we really ensure that we will not be discovered? If someone discovers that our government organization has committed fraud, according to the U.S. Constitution, this would be an act of war equivalent to a direct declaration of war!"
Du Yi said very solemnly: "U.S. dollars are actually not difficult to counterfeit. You must know that various pounds and francs are covered with various complex paper patterns, and the entire page is covered with dense watermarks. The research and counterfeiting costs are extremely high.
The US dollar has a single color and is concave
We have long mastered the printing technology, and it is not difficult to imitate banknote paper mixed with red and blue colored fibers. Due to the rapid advancement of computer technology, our cryptography machines can easily deduce the number and code of the U.S. dollar, which is the same as that of real U.S. dollars.
choice
The numbering procedures are the same, and the used numbers will never appear again. Especially the magnetic material introduced in the 34-year version of the US dollar has been rumored to be magical by the Americans. In fact, it is nothing more than the use of fluorescent ink and magnetic ink. We have studied
The electromagnetic and optical technologies of the institute are at the world's advanced level. Director Ding (Mo Lan) just asked the researchers to do a few simple experiments and then gave me the final formula. If under this situation, it cannot be copied,
There really is a ghost!"
An Yi was greatly moved and turned to Ou Chu'er: "Chu'er, do you think it's okay? Is there anything that needs special attention?"
Ou Chu'er calculated it silently in his mind, and then said: "The current currency issuance of US dollars is around 20 billion, but most of these 20 billion are in the safes of various commercial banks around the world, in the form of books or bonds.
Yes, the actual circulating U.S. dollars are between 40 and 60 billion U.S. dollars. We issue 200 million U.S. dollars every year. The chance of discovery is indeed very small, but the possibility is not ruled out. Therefore, when spending these U.S. dollars, be sure to
Cleverly designed to clear away the relationship with our Nanhua government.
“There are now two major economic systems in the world. One is the Empire Most Favored System entity with the Commonwealth as the main body. This system includes the Netherlands, Denmark in Northern Europe, Western Europe, Argentina in South America and the entire Commonwealth of Nations. It is mainly based on the pound sterling.
The settlement currency between countries; the other is the reciprocal trade system dominated by the United States, including the United States and other countries except Argentina
All American countries, as well as Japan, which relies heavily on American industrial production, use the U.S. dollar as the main settlement currency. Due to the political turmoil and the rigid thinking of officials in France, the franc, which had been maintaining the gold standard, did not announce its devaluation until the year before last. The franc zone has shrunk in recent years.
It's not small, it's only limited to France and surrounding countries, and there are also French colonies.
"Due to the mutual constraints between the two major systems and strict trade barriers, it is difficult for British goods to enter the United States. Therefore, the chance of obtaining U.S. dollars as foreign exchange reserves by selling goods is greatly reduced. It can be said that in countries with the pound system, the amount of U.S. dollar reserves is very small.
Yes, U.S. dollars do not circulate at all in normal times. Therefore, unless we take advantage of this feature and increase the intensity of printing U.S. dollars, I think even if we throw 500 million U.S. dollars into the pound area every year, the chance of discovery is very small.
"We can create a large number of leather goods companies by registering equity interests in France, Britain, the Netherlands and other places, and use these really real US dollars to purchase goods from pound zone countries, and the goods are destined for dollar zone countries.
, and then through a series of commercial operations, it is converted into export commodities in the US dollar zone, shipped to China, and then flows into South China. After avoiding risks, I think the chance of being discovered is very low!"
Du Yi nodded repeatedly, obviously he gained a lot from Ou Chuer's explanation.
Hearing his wife who was proficient in financial knowledge say the same thing, An Yi finally felt relieved and his eyes fell on the franc on the table: "Then what's going on with this franc? Don't tell me that you also researched and forged it...
..."
Du Yi said with excitement: "It turns out that Credit Agricole is responsible for issuing currency and has a well-equipped banknote printing factory. They produce francs according to the printing quota stipulated by the French Central Bank, and then print francs according to the printing quota of the French central bank."
Amount, issue Annan coins.
"After we obtained a complete set of banknote printing equipment from Credit Agricole, we made almost no changes, immediately organized workers to start work, and soon printed out 100 million francs, which were distributed as wages to the prisoners of war and the French workers working in shipyards and various factories.
People. This money is actually real money, and the French people who get the money are very happy. In the next six months, with the rise of the Chinese dollar
For the issuance of francs, both francs and Annan dollars must be converted into Chinese dollars at a certain rate before they can be used in South China. In this way, the francs we print will be transferred back to our banks as foreign exchange reserves. In other words, we
In fact, no additional money was paid to the French. What they received was just a string of fictitious numbers.
"Also, after listening to Madam's explanation just now, I realized that the money must be spent in the right place. I think that in the future, the use of the franc can be imitated by the US dollar and invested in the pound zone and the US dollar zone. In this way, we will have more
A steady income.”
Seeing Ou Chuer nodding in agreement, An Yi was very happy: "Money is needed in all aspects now, so it is a good thing to expand financial resources! By the way, how much does it cost to print these coins?"
Du Yi said with some regret: "Because we pursue quality and strive for excellence in everything, the cost of a hundred-dollar banknote is controlled at one ocean. For a fifty-dollar denomination, it costs two oceans for every three printed sheets. Although the current exchange rate between the franc and the U.S. dollar
It remains at five to one, but because the European monetary system focuses on anti-counterfeiting measures such as watermarks, the cost of francs is higher than that of US dollars, which is really not worthwhile when you think about it.”
An Yi smiled: "Don't worry about that little money. Only high investment will lead to high output. No matter what, we will make the profit! Your national security department must handle this matter well and regard it as the top priority at the moment."
Come and catch us. Now the Far East and North China are in chaos, and our construction in South China also needs funds everywhere. If it can really succeed, I will give you credit!"
Du Yi chuckled: "Chairman, do you think this is okay? The beans on my shoulders are not as good as those of Old Ding. When we work, everyone wears police uniforms and we are all ministers. But when we walk together, we feel low. If something happens...
We've done it, help me get a piece of cake, then Guoan and *** will be even!"
An Yi did not hesitate: "I can make a decision on this matter now. As long as you can really get it done, everyone in your national security department will be promoted to the next level!"