On February 1, the seventh day of the first lunar month, Li Shiqun took Ni Xin to Chongming Island for inspection. Before leaving, he said to Liu Zezhi: "You wait for me to come back in the office." ”

Liu Zezhi responded, opened the car door, and watched Li Shiqun's special car go away.

This was a whole day, and after work, Li Shiqun still didn't come back. Liu Zezhi was bored, there were only two single sofas in the outer office, he pulled the chair behind Ni Xin's desk and half lay on the single sofa, ready to take a nap. After lying down for a while, I felt a little cold again, so I pulled a Ni Xin coat to cover the feet.

A photo fell out of the hidden pocket on the inside of Ni Xin's coat. Liu Zezhi picked it up and saw that it was a group photo of two people, sitting was a young woman in a kimono, a little familiar, and I couldn't remember where I had seen it for a while. Standing was Ni Xin, who was wearing a stand-up collar shirt.

In the photo, both of them were smiling happily, and Ni Xin's hand was still on the woman's shoulder. I haven't heard that Ni Xin has had any close friends of the opposite sex in the past. And looking at the demeanor of the two in the photo, it is not just as simple as ordinary friends of the opposite sex. Looking at the wear and tear on the edges of the photo, it should have been taken a few years ago. Who is this woman? Is it Japanese? What is the relationship between Ni Xin and her? Ni Xin can't be Japanese too, right? It's impossible, it doesn't look like it. Besides, if he is really Japanese, Shanghai fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and Ni Xin is not like Tanaka Katsuei, who is lurking in the Kuomintang under a pseudonym, so why does he need to hide his Japanese identity?

Liu Zezhi remembered all kinds of puzzling things about this person since he met Ni Xin, and decided that there must be an unknown secret in Ni Xin. He carefully put the photo back in the hidden pocket of Ni Xin's clothes and hung it back in its original place.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, Li Shiqun finally returned. Liu Zezhi hurriedly stepped forward and dressed Li Shiqun: "Director, you have worked hard." Let me make you a cup of tea. ”

"No, I'm going to leave soon. Zezhi, you take a look at this first. Li Shiqun handed over a wad of ten-dollar bills. Then went to the bathroom.

Liu Zezhi picked up the banknotes and looked at them again, these banknotes are not brand new, and they are not serial numbers, what is Li Shiqun doing with these for him?

After a while, Li Shiqun, who had finished washing, returned to his desk and sat down, and handed him a wad of fiat currency. Liu Zezhi looked at it, it was still a half-old banknote, and it was not serialized. The difference is that there are various denominations. "Director, what are you giving me all this for?"

Li Shiqun smiled and said: "I'll give you a task, you and Zhao Jingdong will find some people who run the rivers and lakes, and exchange these banknotes in Shanghai within a week, or spend them." See how many people can identify. ”

Liu Zezhi immediately reacted: "So these banknotes are all fake? He picked up a few and looked at them carefully, then looked at the light for a long time, and said, "I can't see it anyway." Where did this come from? ”

"Don't ask what you shouldn't! Remember, you don't need to come forward yourself, just write down how successful the rate of redemption and spending is, and if it is discovered, what the reason is. Ni Xin - Give the contents of the box to Zezhi. ”

Ni Xin brought over two small canvas boxes. Li Shiqun said: "Don't tell Zhao Jingdong about the source of these currencies. ”

Liu Zezhi nodded and responded: "Yes, please rest assured director." I would like to ask you something: If something happens, do you need to come forward to get someone? ”

"Don't use my name to negotiate with the police if something happens."

"Understood."

On February 6, Liu Zezhi came to the laboratory department of Kangci Hospital for a stomach review, and after taking blood for testing, he sat in the hospital lobby and waited for the results. A doctor-looking man stopped him: "Mr. Liu, right?" Your test results are out, there is something wrong, come with me. ”

In the laboratory, Zhou Chengbin took off his mask and asked, "What's the matter with me in such a hurry?" ”

"Look at this." Liu Zezhi handed Zhou Chengbin a few banknotes.

"Is there something wrong with fiat currency and the dollar?"

Liu Zezhi replied: "This was given to me by Li Shiqun a few days ago. It's all counterfeit banknotes, and there are quite a few of them. Let me find someone to redeem huàn in the market, or spend it. Originally, I thought he didn't get it from somewhere, and he wanted to make a small fortune. After a few days, I realized that things are not so simple. ”

Zhou Chengbin looked at these banknotes carefully over and over again, but he was not an expert in this area, so he couldn't see any eyebrows, so he had to say, "What's wrong?" It's not uncommon for counterfeit banknotes to appear on the surface of Shanghai. Oh, and the dollar has strict anti-counterfeiting measures, and there are fewer counterfeit banknotes, and it has not been completely eliminated. ”

"Listen to me, Zhao Jingdong found more than a dozen thugs to take these fiat currencies and exchange them in the market, but none of them were found. One of them was bold, and he went to the silver building to buy gold and silver jewelry, and he actually succeeded. You know that although the legal tender of the Republic of China government has long been banned from circulating in the market, many businessmen need to do business with the national control area, and secretly there is still a certain market for fiat currency. ”

Zhou Chengbin still didn't understand: "Yes, so what's the matter?" ”

"Look at these fiat currencies, if they are secretly forged by private individuals, one person, even if it is a small organization of several people, has limited capabilities and resources, and will definitely not forge so many denominations of fiat currency, right?"

"Yes, with the same amount of time and energy, it is much easier to forge only one denomination. What do you mean is that this batch of fiat currencies is counterfeited on a large scale in an organized manner, ready to be used in the national control area and disrupt our financial markets. After the first batch of finished products were faked, they first tested the waters in the Shanghai market. ”

Liu Zezhi nodded and replied, "There is only this one answer." Li Shiqun said: If you can't get a thing for sure, or you can't find the truth, there is a simple way to eliminate all the impossible and illogical, and the rest is the truth. ”

Zhou Chengbin picked up the fake dollar bills with a face value of ten dollars and looked at them again and again, and said: "These dollars only have one face value, which should be limited by technical conditions." The anti-counterfeiting of other denominations cannot be cracked for the time being. Did the more than 100 skilled workers who disappeared last time, including printers and engravers, just get somewhere and counterfeit currency? Zezhi, do you think that the base built by the Japanese on Chongming Island is likely to be a factory for printing and manufacturing counterfeit banknotes? And the behind-the-scenes host of the whole incident is No. 76? ”

Liu Zezhi thought for a while and replied: "No, at least not exactly." You think, you once said that you learned from the top management of Nanjing Wang Puppet Group that the scale of that base is not small. Counterfeit banknotes don't use that much. Besides, Liu Wuzeng had been transporting Ni Xin and Yamamu Ryuzo to and from the dock every day for more than ten days. According to Liu Wu, the two of them went to Chongming Island with people from the city police station, the Japanese military headquarters, the special high school section, the military police regiment, the city government, and other agencies. Number 76 doesn't have that much power to mobilize these people. ”

Zhou Chengbin's eyebrows were tufted into a "Sichuan" character, and he said worriedly: "It is possible to counterfeit fiat currency, and counterfeit US dollars...... Financial warfare has always been part of warfare. Last time, you said that the Japanese set up this base on Chongming Island, which seems to be related to the Jews. Jews, there are not many people in this nation, but there are many smart people, and the last time we 'stole' from Heiichiro Ono, wasn't William Smith also a Jew? Did the Japanese find an expert in imitating the dollar from among them, so they created this counterfeit bill worth ten dollars? Especially this old technology, it's really seamless. When these dollars are exchanged against huàn and spent, have they been discovered? ”

Liu Zezhi replied: "Only once." There was a bold apprentice of the Green Gang, who actually went to HSBC to deposit these fake dollars, and the bank saw it and notified the city police station, or I bailed this person out. ”

"We must report to Chongqing immediately and send these counterfeit banknotes back to Chongqing for appraisal by financial experts."

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