Yunosuke Yamashita is the first unlucky guy to fall into the scam designed by Xiao Siming, and the second unlucky guy is Otomo Fujii, the owner of the largest Japanese-funded pharmacy in Taiyuan City!

Fujii Otomo received a deposit for Xiao Siming's two gold bars yesterday, and he was busy stocking up all day today. At this time, it was getting late, and Fujii Otomo also prepared the goods, waiting for Xiao Siming to come to inspect the goods and pay the money.

When Xiao Siming left yesterday, he agreed with Fujii Otomo that Fujii Otomo would be responsible for sending the medicine to Yangquan and handing it over to the field hospital where the 109th Division operated with the 118th Brigade. Now there is no need, Xiao Siming took three Japanese military vehicles, in addition to transporting those machines and equipment, he could completely transport these medicines and medical equipment!

At this time, Fujii Otomo, holding a pen and paper, was settling accounts one by one, imagining how much profit this business could bring him!

This is the Anti-Japanese War years, the price of drugs and medical equipment is outrageously high, Fujii Otomo spent 1 yen on the medicine, he thought about selling it for 10 yen, and he felt that he would lose money!

That's it, it's still sold to the Japanese. If Fujii Otomo knew that Xiao Siming was the commander of the independent battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, even if Xiao Siming offered 1 yen of medicine for 20 yen to buy, Fujii Otomo would not have sold it to him. Unless, unless 1 yen of medicine, Xiao Siming took 100 yen to buy it, Fujii Otomo could take a risk and sell it to him secretly.

Merchants are all profit-seeking!

Fujii Otomo calculated, calculated, and calculated the sky-high price of 50 small yellow croaker gold bars worth of this batch of medicines and medical equipment!

During the Republic of China, one catty was equal to 16 taels.

Xiao Siming used two small yellow croaker gold bars for Fujii Dayou to make a deposit, both weighing about 31 grams, that is, two gold bars in one city.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government was influenced by the silver policy of the United States, and according to the reality of the international financial war, it abandoned the gold standard, and announced on November 3, 1935 that it would implement the legal tender system nationwide, issue legal tender, prohibit the circulation of silver dollars, and use the foreign exchange reserves obtained from the sale of gold and silver as the guarantee for the value of legal tender. One fiat dollar is worth as much as one silver dollar.

After the introduction of fiat currency, it played a role in stabilizing the financial order and balancing the balance of payments.

At that time, a small yellow croaker gold bar was sold for about 90 yuan. In big cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Guangzhou, and Wuhan, the monthly salary of ordinary workers is 20 yuan, and the monthly salary of skilled workers is about 30 yuan, and they can buy one or two gold in a few months. In some well-known middle schools, teachers earn about 80 yuan a month and can buy one tael of gold a month. Those dignitaries, celebrities and scholars with a monthly salary of up to 200 yuan or 300 yuan can buy two or three taels of gold every month. At that time, the prices in big cities were generally stable, a pound of rice was only a few cents, and a pound of pork was only more than two cents.

It's just that at that time, China was still in turmoil, the local powerful factions supported their own troops, the country did not really achieve unification, and the currency circulating in the market was varied. The silver dollar is also forbidden but not stopped, and it is stronger than the fiat currency issued by the national government in the private sector.

At this time, the purchasing power of the fiat currency is basically the same as that of the yen.

If there is no full-scale war of aggression against China by Japan, China's economy will gradually improve in time.

It is a pity that all this was interrupted by the war of aggression launched by little Japan.

After the full-scale invasion of China by the Japanese army, North China fell into chaos. Before the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, the banks in Taiyuan needed to discount 30 to 40 percent of the money remitted to Tianjin, and Tianjin was still unwilling to accept the exchange.

The situation gradually deteriorated, due to the unfavorable war, the Chinese army lost division and ground one after another, the depreciation of fiat currency and Jin banknotes became more and more serious, and the price of gold and silver dollars rose sharply. Two gold in one market, that is, a small yellow croaker gold bar, the price at this time is already frighteningly high. On the black market, a small yellow croaker gold bar has risen more than 10 times, and it continues to rise. It rose until 1945, when the official price of the national government, a tael of gold was sold for 20,000 legal dollars and 35,000 legal currency!

The 50 small yellow croaker gold bars calculated by Fujii Otomo add up to more than 1,550 grams and 1.55 kilograms of gold.

With such an expensive price, whether Xiao Siming can afford to pay it is a very critical question.

Fujii Otomo is not worried, because Xiao Siming can take out two small yellow croakers as a deposit, which means that he has made a fortune in China, made a fortune, and is not short of money! In addition, Xiao Siming said that his father was a professor at Sendai Medical College, and his brother was a very famous surgeon, and the family should be very wealthy. Otherwise, he wouldn't be idle, and he would have paid for the wounded soldiers of the 118 Brigade to buy medicine!

Fujii Otomo thought that as long as he got 50 small yellow croaker gold bars, he would go to the black market to sell them, exchange them for fiat currency, and then use fiat currency to exchange them for foreign exchange in Shanghai. This comes and goes, and he earns a lot more!

Fujii Otomo knew that the price of gold against fiat currency on the black market had risen to the sky, and in order to stabilize the exchange rate, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government instructed the Shanghai exchange to maintain the pre-war foreign exchange rate, and 100 yuan of fiat currency could still be purchased for 30 US dollars. That is to say, before the war, a small yellow croaker gold bar, in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, can only buy more than 20 US dollars, now he through the black market to exchange the small yellow croaker gold bar into fiat currency, can be sold for at least 1,000 yuan of fiat currency, and then take it to the Shanghai Exchange, you can buy at least 300 US dollars! 50 small yellow croaker gold bars can be exchanged for 15,000 US dollars!

$15,000, how much can you do?

Fujii Otomo didn't know that if in a few years, the 50 gold bars he might get could be exchanged for 1 million, 1.5 million, or even 2 million fiat currency!

Thinking of the smugness, Fujii Daitomo, who was settling accounts, saliva involuntarily flowed from the corners of his mouth, and the paper was wet. I don't even know it!

It was Xiao Siming who woke up Fujii Otomo from his dream!

After Xiao Siming hurried to Fujii Otomo's pharmacy with the devil detachment, he found the medicine that had been neatly packaged and waiting for inspection in the backyard of the pharmacy, and without saying a word, he ordered the Japanese soldiers to search the pharmacy, and pulled out the pharmacy owner Fujii Otomo who was settling accounts in the manager's room, and confiscated the business money of the pharmacy, the money locked in the drawer and cabinet of Fujii Otomo by the way, including the deposit handed over by Xiao Siming, and the two small yellow croaker gold bars were also searched out, and the goods were returned to their original owners!

Those pharmacy clerks who had not yet gotten off work according to the instructions of the boss Fujii Otomo and were waiting for Xiao Siming to come to inspect, pay, and load the car were also arrested, and under the threat of the Japanese army's bayonets, they obediently squatted in the corner of the backyard, not even daring to fart!

When Fujii Otomo saw Xiao Siming and the heavily armed army soldiers, he immediately understood that he had been fooled, and he must have been fooled by the army, he must have offended someone who he had offended because he had not given the 20th Division or the Gudi organ, and they dug a pit to let themselves jump in, and I don't know what charges these guys will weave for themselves!

Sure enough, Xiao Siming, no, should be Lieutenant Kono Kenzo of the Gudi Agency, and he didn't allow Fujii Daitomo to distinguish, so he accused him of secretly selling valuable medicines and medical equipment to the Shina army to help the Shina army fight against the Imperial Japanese Army!

Fujii Otomo opened his mouth and just wanted to say that Lieutenant Kono himself came to pay a deposit to buy goods, saying that it was donated to the 118 Brigade, but he didn't expect that as soon as his mouth opened, he didn't make a sound, Kono Keyzo instigated the slap at noon, and scolded Fujii Otomo loudly while inciting Fujii Otomo's conscience is greatly broken, he is a great disloyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, a great disloyalty to the Japanese Empire, a despicable and shameful traitor, a cheap thief, and a shameful dissident!

After a few slaps, Fujii Otomo's face has been deformed, and the person has fallen to the ground!

Needless to say, Fujii Otomo has already taken the suspension of medicines and medical equipment packaging, so much, it is certainly not sold to ordinary patients, and it is impossible to sell it to those Chinese pharmacies in Taiyuan City, the 20th Division has four field hospitals, medicines and equipment are sufficient, there is no need to buy medicine and medical equipment from Fujii Otomo's pharmacy, there is only one conclusion, that is, Fujii Otomo is ready to secretly sell these medicines and equipment to those who lack medical treatment and medicine, but they are sneaking around attacking the imperial army!

This time, without waiting for Xiao Siming's order, the leader of the devil detachment who led the team directly asked the soldiers to beat several Japanese clerks squatting at the base of the wall with the butts of their guns, and after a while, he got the information he wanted. These Japanese clerks confessed that the medicines were indeed prepared to be completed tonight and loaded and shipped out of Taiyuan City overnight. As for who the other party of the transaction is and where it is shipped, they don't know, so they have to ask the boss Fujii-kun!

Maybe it was to steal merit for the 20th Wing of the Heavy Soldiers, or it was afraid that His Excellency the Wing Commander would be anxious to wait at the Wing Headquarters, anyway, the Devil Detachment Captain directly sent a soldier back to the Wing Headquarters to report, capture the owner of the pharmacy Fujii Otomo who resold drugs to the Chinese army, and seized a large number of medicines and medical equipment that had been packaged, placed in the yard, and ready to be loaded and smuggled overnight!

These medicines and medical equipment were originally prepared for Xiao Siming, but at this time, the soldiers under the command of the devil detachment were all loaded into the car!

So, like the dead dog, Fujii Otomo and Yunosuke Yamashita were tied up, put in the car, and followed Xiao Siming and they rushed to the Great South Gate in a hurry.

There are a total of 13 people in this devil detachment, and two little devils have been sent back to the wing headquarters twice to report the news, and now there are only 11 little devils left, except for rifles, carrying a Type 96 light machine gun.

The captain of the devil detachment was stimulated by the results of the battle at this time, and his mind was full of meritorious promotions, and he was ordered by His Excellency the Captain to carry out the task, and he did not have the slightest doubt about Xiao Siming's identity and plan. On the contrary, he also reported to Xiao Siming that he sat on the first motorcycle that Xiao Siming was riding on, and volunteered to be a pioneer.

Time kept slipping, and by the time Xiao Siming and the others left Fujii Otomo's pharmacy, the night had quietly shrouded Taiyuan City, and the sentinels guarding the city gate had already closed the city gate. It's just that at this time, the main force of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army is launching an offensive operation on the front line, and the city gates of Yingzemen, Da Nanmen and other cities that must pass through the Japanese military vehicles must be opened at any time!

When he arrived at Yingze Gate, Xiao Siming sat on the tricycle and didn't get off, and the captain of the devil detachment quickly jumped off the motorcycle, ran to contact the Japanese soldiers guarding the city gate, and soon opened the city gate.

When the captain of the devil squad sat back on the motorcycle, the devil motorcyclist on the first motorcycle, twisted the accelerator, the motorcycle screamed, and shot out of the city gate like an arrow!

At this moment, Xiao Siming heard it clearly, when the captain of the devil detachment sat on the motorcycle and saluted the Japanese sentry who opened the city gate, he shouted loudly: "Shayanara!" ”

There was an irrepressible sense of joy and excitement in that shout! (To be continued.) )