Taihu Lake, Alcatraz Military Base, Area 51 of the Chinese Empire.

Inside the high-walled grid, there are more than a dozen huge all-steel houses, in which thousands of money printing machines are constantly running day and night, spitting out tons of banknotes, printed with the latest version of Queen Victoria's head, and even the watermarks and stamps are exactly the same as the British pound banknotes in circulation.

A group of staff members bundled the banknotes at random and threw them onto a truck, which was a special vehicle of S.H.I.E.L.D. to sell the banknotes.

"Lao Xu, you have made a fortune, you have tens of millions of pounds in your hands every day, and a little squeezed out of your fingernails is enough to spend a lifetime!"

Next to the truck, Zhang, the head of the banknote printing factory, was talking to Lao Xu, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., who had known each other for many years and had worked together for many years.

I only heard Lao Xu smile bitterly: "If you said that there were dividends before, the dividends have been getting less and less recently." ”

Lao Zhang frowned and said, "What's the matter, you guys have deducted your red envelopes?" ”

"Not really!" Lao Xu saw that Lao Zhang was not an outsider, and he also belonged to the Secret Bureau, so he didn't hide it from him: "You don't know, in the past, we had to recover 95 pounds if we sold 100 pounds, but this time it was more ruthless, and the price of 100 pounds was only 5 pounds, which was not enough for us to smuggle the British customs and police, and the bureau could not get sales dividends, so naturally there would be no red envelopes for us." ”

"What? A hundred pounds and you sell it for five pounds? Lao Zhang suddenly shouted, and said dissatisfiedly: ", do you know that it costs us at least six pounds to make a hundred pounds, and you only sell five pounds?" Not to mention that it's not enough for you to spend money on the road, I can't make money back here just by costing it! ”

Lao Xu said: "You are quiet, like a second goods, why are you so ignorant, what do you know?" This is the wise decision of His Majesty the Emperor! Do you dare to question His Majesty the Emperor, his old man? ”

"Forehead......" Lao Zhang was stunned when he heard this, he naturally didn't dare to question His Majesty the Emperor's wise decision, but he didn't quite understand: "What do you mean?" Don't bully me, Lao Zhang only has a primary school education, okay? ”

Lao Xu was immediately happy when he heard it. explained: "Forget it, I'll teach you a lesson today." Our wise and martial Emperor, His Majesty, said that it is the period of the Sino-British War, and the destruction of the British economy is the key. In the past, we were trying to make money and cash out, and by the way, we disrupted the British economy, but now we are dragging down the British economy, making British prices skyrocket, carrying a sack of pounds to buy matches, making the British people not believe in the British banks, and forcing the British banks to go bankrupt. Let Britain's finances collapse, so that the British government will not be able to collect taxes, even if it collects a million pounds in taxes, but prices are soaring, and you can only buy things that were worth 100,000 pounds or even 10,000 pounds before, and the British army will not be able to spend money on military expenses, and there will be no money to purchase weapons and equipment, or it will not be long before you will have no strength to fight with us. ”

"I see! Sure enough, His Majesty is still wise and powerful! Lao Zhang nodded vigorously.

Forbidden City, inside the Imperial Study. Li Weiguo walked back and forth, looking anxious.

A few days ago, a telegram came back from Australia, Chen Shaoyi seized the mud and looted it on a large scale. obtained a huge amount of wealth, which made Li Weiguo very happy.

However, with the return of the main fleet of the British Navy led by Matt, Chen Shaoyi went to the waters of the Solomon Islands to ambush the British Navy according to the scheduled battle plan. There was no news for several days, which made Li Weiguo and even the entire imperial high-level worried.

Chen Shaoyi commanded all the elite of the main Chinese Imperial Navy, 36 capital ships. Less than a hundred auxiliary warships. The British Navy alone has 162 capital ships and more than 200 auxiliary warships, and its huge numerical superiority in combat effectiveness in a specific environment cannot be ignored, so that the outcome of this naval battle is variable, and both sides are divided between five and a half.

"We have to develop a wireless telegraph as soon as possible, otherwise the fleet will lose contact as soon as it goes to sea, which is too worrying! I haven't rested well for several nights! ”

Li Weiguo said to himself, thinking of the tremendous role of the wireless telegraph, and decided to let the scientific research personnel develop this epoch-making thing as soon as possible.

At this time, the guards reported that Fu Xuexian, the secretary of the household department, asked to see him.

"What is he here for?"

What Li Weiguo wanted to know most at the moment was the news of the Ministry of War, but he still let Fu Xuexian meet him.

Soon, Li Weiguo learned that Fu Xuexian's intention was about Wei banknotes.

"Your Majesty, I just received news that Britain has stopped the direct exchange of paper money and gold, and the empire was losing money to make great banknotes before, and now it has achieved its goal, is it to stop printing pounds?"

In the face of the attack of the Chinese Empire, Britain has adopted the third version of the British pound to prevent counterfeiting, but it is still cracked by Li Weiguo. The Fifth Sino-British War broke out, and Li Weiguo once again ordered to attack Britain with great money.

This time the attack was very fierce, because Li Weiguo was no longer aiming to make money, but to destroy the British economy and financial system. A large number of fake pounds entered the UK through smuggling channels, topping up the streets of England and causing huge damage to the British economy.

In the three months since the start of the Sino-British war, the pound has depreciated tenfold, and in the last week, it has been almost one price per day. The sharp depreciation of the British pound caused a large number of British people to flock to the banks to exchange the pound for gold and silver coins, and as a result, the major British banks soon ran out of gold and silver. Without gold and silver, the British people began to exchange pounds for other foreign currencies to preserve their value, and soon the foreign exchange in the banks was also exchanged.

If it is just a simple exchange of pounds and foreign exchange, the major British banks can withstand it by gritting their teeth, and the key is that the simulation degree of the great banknotes made by Li Weiguo is almost 100%, to the point of being fake. A large number of bills flowed into the banks, and even the bank staff could not distinguish the authenticity of the sterling, unless they found the sterling sterlings with the same number, they could prove that one of them was fake, but the problem was that they found dozens or even hundreds of sterlings with the same number.

This Nima was pitted to death!

Some bank clerks were overflowing with sympathy, and they couldn't bear to see the British people who came to exchange money and wiped away their tears, and continued to exchange counterfeit money even though they found it, but a few days later, the bank inspected its vault and found that more than half of the currency was fake, and it closed down the next day.

The successive bank failures and closures have made the British people even more panicked, and with the soaring prices, potatoes in the morning are still one pound a pound, and in the afternoon they become two pounds and three pounds a pound in the afternoon.

This Nima can't even afford to eat potatoes, what's the point of the British still alive!

Riots soon broke out. A closed bank was smashed open and a supermarket looted and soon spread, causing turmoil across the UK.

Even the prices of strategic and military materials procured by the British Imperial Government are frantically rising, and the Bank of England will definitely over-issue currency during the war, but it is suddenly found that the speed at which he prints money is not as fast as the market price increase, which is obviously the fault of the great banknotes.

Benjamin's government, faced with tremendous political pressure and public opinion, had to end the exchange of pound notes and gold, and overnight, the pound stocks, which were no longer directly exchanged for gold, collapsed. The pound depreciated sharply, and the common people could only give up the pound sterling and trade in other countries' currencies, or even barter directly, and returned to the pre-liberation period overnight!

Benjamin was very depressed, why the Chinese Empire was able to make a new version of the British pound so quickly, this technology simply scared the British minters. Benjamin knew very well that the source of the great banknote was the Chinese Empire, but unfortunately there was no way to stop it, because the great banknote was too profitable. At the beginning, the Chinese Empire only gave a 95% discount, and countless British mafia societies participated. Now the Chinese Empire directly discounted 0.5 pounds, sold for 5 pounds for 100 pounds, and all the profits went to the British black societies involved in the sale of great money.

The British police have also cracked down on the big money again. But soon Benjamin's investigation found that more and more British consortia were also secretly involved in the transaction of the banknotes, and even some unscrupulous bank businessmen directly traded the banknotes to the British people through the bank window, anyway, the banknotes were made like real money. As long as the banks don't say that the code is fake, the British people will not find the problem at all.

In the end, it was the British people who suffered, and the Chinese Empire took advantage of the wealth psychology of these black-hearted British conglomerates. The successful large-scale import of great money into Britain caused the collapse of the British currency, the price of goods skyrocketed, and a large amount of wealth was controlled by these black-hearted conglomerates, who were the direct beneficiaries, but in the end it was the Chinese Empire that benefited from the successful destruction of the British monetary system and economic system.

The pound collapsed, the British people became victims, the anger was directed at the government, those black-hearted consortia sat on huge wealth, unaffected, and the enemy of the British Empire, the Chinese Empire, was laughing wildly to celebrate the victory of this dark war, because prices were soaring, the British military's purchase prices were getting higher and higher, and one pound could buy a box of bullets, but now it can only buy one bullet. And the British army on the battlefield will consume at least tens of millions of rounds of ammunition for a large-scale battle, and the British military cannot afford it at all.

An inconspicuous war of great money has already broken the vitality of the British Empire.

Back in the Forbidden City, Li Weiguo said to Fu Xuexian: "We must carry out the currency war to the end, and this time we will completely defeat the pound, and it will be the era when the RMB dominates the world currency in the future." ”

Fu Xuexian said: "But Your Majesty, we are losing money to make great money!" ”

Li Weiguo laughed and said: "It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery, not to sell the name of the overlord, the words of the great grandfather are classics, we can't give the enemy a chance to breathe." ”

Fu Xuexian was stunned, is there a grandfather in this dynasty? Could it be that His Majesty's father said this, he thought it was Li Weiguo's father, and immediately nodded, feeling that it made sense, sure enough, his son is a hero and a good man!

At this time, Wu Yong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, finally came, and Li Weiguo immediately called him in to inquire about the situation.

"Did you win?"

Wu Yong shook his head, and Li Weiguo suddenly became nervous,

"Is it a tie?"

"You can't lose!"

Nima, this is going to kill you!

"Your Majesty, there is no fight, Chen Shaoyi has already arrived in Guam!"

, can't you just finish it with a hearty finish?

Li Weiguo glared at Wu Yong, and he was startled.

"What's the situation?"

Wu Yong shook his head and said, "It's not clear for the time being, the intelligence officer in Australia said that they didn't fight, and the British main fleet returned to the mud." Chen deduced that Chen Shaoyi should have given up the ambush in the Solomon Islands because he found that the enemy fleet was too strong and had no chance to attack, and he should temporarily change to the tactics of attacking the east and the west to reinforce Guam. ”

Wu Yong also deduced, after all, Guam's telegraph line had been cut off, and he had no way of knowing the situation at sea.

Li Weiguo frowned and said: "So the main force of the British Navy is very strong, and Chen Shaoyi is not sure that he will win with one blow, so he gave up the ambush operation, anyway, the British main fleet returned to the mud, and our fleet went directly to reinforce Guam, this tactic is very good, Chen Shaoyi's improvisation ability is not bad." ”

Li Weiguo said this, but he was worried in his heart that Chen Shaoyi did not dare to act easily in the case of an ambush, which showed that the British fleet was too powerful.

Wu Yong nodded and said: "At least Chen Shaoyi's fleet arrives in Guam, Guam will be lifted soon, and strategically we will win a small victory." ”

Li Weiguo thought for a while and said, "We don't know the situation over there, let Chen Shaoyi play freely!" Now all we can do is prepare for the next step. ”

As soon as the war between China and Britain began, Li Weiguo realized that he could not blindly pursue the quality of warships, and the quantity must also reach a certain level, otherwise it would be too much of a loss to fight against the British Navy, so he ordered the major shipyards to work overtime to build warships, and those that were not completed should be completed as soon as possible, and those that did not start construction should start immediately. Li Weiguo prepared for the worst, and was ready to compete with the British Empire for industrial strength and industrial scale.

The Chinese Empire is the world's largest in steel production, and its shipbuilding capacity is also the world's first.

Two-thirds of Guam was occupied by the British, leaving only Fort Guam unconquered.

The British army attacked the fortress of Guam for three months, paying a huge price of more than 60,000 casualties, but only took the defensive positions on the perimeter of the fortress.

Because the Chinese Imperial Army built the fortress of Guam on the Pidi Mountain in the southwest, the fortifications made of reinforced concrete were very strong, and it was difficult for artillery to effectively destroy, and in addition, the defenders of Guam were well-equipped and had bloody heavy machine guns to suppress the formation, and the British army in this era did not have mortars and other heavy weapons for mountain warfare, and it was difficult to crack the heavy machine gun pillboxes and tunnel defense positions of the Guam defenders.

In the port of Apra, two British soldiers stood proudly on the watchtower of the former defenders of the Chinese Empire.

"It's been almost four days, and the Imperial Chinese Navy should be wiped out!" A British soldier asked.

"That's a must!" Another British soldier replied proudly: "This time, our Royal Navy of the British Empire has sent out more than 300 warships, and the ship has also killed the Imperial Chinese Navy!" ”

"Also, if we have lost three wars in a row, it is time for us to win it back once!"

At this moment, rows of black pillars of smoke appeared in the east of the sky.

"Look, our British Imperial Navy has returned triumphantly!"

"I didn't expect to wipe out the Chinese Imperial Navy so quickly!"

"That's it! How I wish I could be a soldier in the Royal Navy of the British Empire! ”

The next moment, there was a rumbling sound in the sky, like thunder.

"Did it thunder?"

The British soldier looked up at the sky, the sky was blue, it was not thunder at all, so what was rumbling in the sky?

The two British soldiers looked at each other, and they soon woke up.

"It's not thunder, it must be a cannonball!"

"it!"

The next moment, the cannonballs in the sky fell down. (To be continued.) )