Li Wei took a ten-dollar bill made by the Republican Army and handed it to a craftsman surnamed Li.

"Can you make this kind of banknote?" Li Dao asked the other party, he found the largest printing workshop in Luoyang. I met with the most skilled craftsmen and asked about it.

"Back. I can't return to adult. The craftsman replied nervously. Because they are surrounded by fierce soldiers, they don't blink an eye. A lot of things they will see. He wanted to say, yes, but he really wouldn't, and there were people who also thought of making counterfeit money to make a fortune.

After all, the IRA's banknotes are currencies that have the same value. Plus, it's even lighter. Even a store of value.

But alas, the technical difficulties are definitely not something they can overcome.

"Oh. Why? Li Wei looked at the other party and asked.

"Lord Hui, this Republican Army's banknotes are made of special mulberry paper, and there is a certain amount of flax in this paper, and we don't know what the proportion is, and they also use a special bleaching technique, which can't be imitated at all, unless we directly buy their original paper." So said the craftsman.

"The most difficult thing to make is that there are banknotes and mercury, how they did this, we don't know yet, even with paper, the ink problem is very big. The colors of the ink used by the IRA are colors that we can't get, and we don't know how they mix colors. It's very difficult for us. And then there's printing, and they're printing to a very high degree. Every one is the same, I don't know how they did it, but judging from the current capacity of the entire bookstore, we simply can't reach such a level. The craftsman said embarrassedly.

The Republican Army's banknotes have a very high degree of anti-counterfeiting, of course, this high is relative, for example, he has an anti-counterfeiting watermark, which is made of two pieces of paper rolled together, and the ink is also mixed with a lot of chemical ink, and the ingredient ratio of the ink will not exceed five people know. It is very difficult to manufacture the direction because they have to have the relevant paper, ink, and equipment.

The bookstore in Luoyang, they use engraving printing, and one of their craftsmen has also tried to invent copper plate movable type printing, but the difficulty is too great, and the cost of one cost remains high. And the wear and tear of the woodcut characters is very bad. However, Luoyang craftsmen also have some inventions of their own, for example, they added paraffin wax to the printing process. This operation is very important for some printing processes. Here's how they do it.

However, the printing difficulty of this period was still not very high, and it was difficult to operate. The overall level is very large. The IRA used cylinder printing, which was of a very high standard.

Luoyang, on the other hand, still uses flat printing, which is very inefficient and completely relies on manual operation. Therefore, the gap in printing level is still very large.

"I don't want you to print your own banknotes, I just want to print your own banknotes according to your own ideas." Li Dao said.

The craftsman does not seem to understand at all. He didn't know what it was going to do with printing it.

Soon, the craftsmen understood what they were going to do.

They were all sealed off, no one was allowed to enter or leave, and their families were soon gathered together, and then, under the utmost vigilance, they were to print their own banknotes, and the deadlines given were not very long. Half a month. Hearing the news, many people were depressed. But I had to brace myself to do it.

Because the soldiers with weapons don't know what they're going to do.

Li Dao is also desperate. He asked Guo Yan to constantly search for the craftsmen he needed in Luoyang City, how to do it. He had to leave it to the craftsmen to do it themselves. All he wanted was to be able to print his own banknotes at once. As for how to do it exactly. He didn't care.

Li Jiazhuang, War Department.

"According to some information we have gathered, it seems that Dong Zhuo is insisting on issuing his own banknotes. It is said that Li Dao led his men to surround several bookstores in Luoyang. The craftsmen inside were also taken away. Based on our speculation, they are going to print their own banknotes. Jia Xu said.

"It seems that we can't stop each other at all." Shang Wu said.

"This is also an extremely helpless thing, and they have encountered a big problem in military spending. Luoyang side report. Dong Zhuojun used spontaneous robbery to complete their military salary raising, and if you think about it, how bad it would be. Jia Xu said.

Shang Wu nodded, immediately understanding what was going on.

Quite simply, the purpose of issuing banknotes is to solve financial difficulties. Luoyang, on the other hand, relied on traditional agricultural taxation. But the various localities had long since become independent, and some of them had cut off the provision of taxes to the central dynasty. Some are just symbolically offered some. And these could not meet Dong Zhuo's military needs at all, and the military expenditure continued to increase, but there were no more financial funds to meet his requirements.

In addition, agricultural taxation is very slow, and he is very rhythmic and periodically submits various taxes. But now, this cycle can no longer meet Dong Zhuojun's needs. He needed a faster way to amass his wealth and meet his military needs.

The urgent need directly allows them to issue new banknotes.

"I can imagine that the banknotes issued will definitely be inflationary." Shang Wu said. They are overwhelmed by military spending. The only way to get more money in the short term is to print more banknotes and rob people of their wealth without restraint.

"I think we can talk to each other about it so that our reporters can get in earlier and report on what they're seeing." Shang Wu said.

"I think so." Jia Xu said. At some point. Journalists are treated as spies because they have a great acumen for information, and this acumen allows them to notice a lot of new things that they have never noticed before, and these situations make things so much smoother.

Jia Xu directly saw reporters as a kind of disguise for the Republican army's spies.

Outside Yanmen Pass, many Allied soldiers gathered together, learning about their new weapons. Hand**.

The IRA uses two kinds of hands**, one is the oval hand**, which is the latest hand developed by the IRA, and because of its small size, it is distributed to the combat units of the IRA. As for the other one, it is a wooden handle**. This kind of hand ** has a longer wooden handle, of course, the Republican Army has also made certain improvements, reducing the wooden handle, so that it can be carried more.

At present, this kind of hand ** is equipped with Confederate soldiers. This is a bold innovation by Zhang Liao.

Bows and arrows were redistributed, and many soldiers threw away their firearms, they didn't like this weapon, it was too much of a threat to them.

Bows and arrows are their favorite weapons. In Zhou Cang's view, this practice of replacing bows and arrows is backward, barbaric, and regressive. However, Zhang Liao knew that if they were given too advanced weapons, it would be detrimental to them, because they did not know how to deal with such situations. They will face a lot of situations that they have never encountered before, which is a disadvantage.

On the contrary, if using a bow and arrow, familiarity is the most critical factor for them. Of course. As another supplement to firearms, the hand ** is of great use.

Firearms are a favorable weapon for the army in the Central Plains to confront the other side, and in the eyes of the Republican Army, it is advanced. But in the steppe. The bow and arrow are the advantageous, reliable weapons. Moreover, the object of the battle is also their own familiar opponent. The hand ** is just a melee weapon, and in close combat, the hand ** can provide them with a certain amount of firepower support.

This is a result of taking into account the last time they were used to melee combat. Zhang Liao's special revisions. Hands can increase their offensive power in close combat. In this way, in the event of a large-scale melee, their advantage will become extremely obvious, and everyone will have an advantage. Just imagine, it is also extremely advantageous to open the rear of the opponent in a surprise attack. This can quickly open up the situation or end the battle.

Of course, Zhang Liao specifically strengthened it, for example, among the allied forces, he specially strengthened a unit that used hand **, and they were called grenadiers. Their assault ability is not too strong, but they have a lot of arm strength and can throw far hands**, they are surprise soldiers. It can disrupt the opponent's formation and attack the formation. This can provide them with more favorable offensive value.

Zhang Liao was thinking about the problem in a comprehensive light on the specific situation of the allied forces.

In Zhou Cang's report, however, confidence in the alliance was not very sufficient, and they believed that only the Republican Army could send troops and provide the most powerful fire support to deal with the next attack, otherwise, they would not have such a chance to deal with such a thing at all.

The reality is clear. The discipline of the other side is very low, they are not the most ideal state in the standards of the Republican Army, and the most important thing is that the cavalry is still in the hands of a few, and the cavalry armament has become their personal armed force and private property. This is absolutely detrimental to the Republican Army. The Allied forces have a lot of problems, and they also consider logistics and supplies, as well as a sound operating model. Only in this way can we completely break away from the jurisdiction of the Republican Army and rely heavily on logistics. These are all things that Zhou Cang thinks. It may be more comprehensive, but it is more difficult to solve.