[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 417: The Japanese Army's "Cedar Work" (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

The meeting lasted until 9 o'clock in the evening, and after the meeting, Ma Zheng and others accompanied the chairman and other leaders to the canteen of the military region for dinner. In order to welcome the chairman and others, Ma Zheng asked the soldiers to set aside a special place in the easternmost part of the canteen to entertain the chairman and all the members of the central working group.

The dinner was very rich, in addition to the chairman's favorite braised pork, there were two dishes, one was stewed mutton, the other was mutton and potato stewed tofu, and the staple food was the steamed bun that the northern residents mainly ate.

Don't look at a dozen people but only three dishes, it seems a little shabby. But you must know that the current dishes are not served on plates, all of them are large enamel pots, which look very solid and happy.

Yes, happiness. In this era, it is not only a luxury to be able to afford such a sumptuous dinner, even the chairman himself can only eat a meal of braised pork in Yan'an for a month or two, so seeing that the canteen of the Suicha Military Region has made so many dishes, the chairman and others feel happy in addition to feeling a little luxurious.

Looking at such a table of good dishes, the chairman couldn't help asking: "Ma Zheng, is your military budget here still sufficient, can you eat so many dishes?" ”

"Chairman, you can eat it with confidence, a few meals of braised pork can't destroy our military region!" Ma Zheng said with a smile.

At this time, Mr. Zhu said: "I don't think so, the chairman has not been to your territory, so I don't know what you have obtained, but I have been here, and in comparison, I found that your current food standards seem to have dropped a lot." ”

"Oh, is there such a thing?" The chairman asked, frowning.

"As far as I know, the last time I inspected your unit, the daily food standard of your ordinary soldiers should be one catty of fine grain, half a catty of coarse grain, two taels of meat, and one tael of rice, which is higher than that of other troops. But in the morning, I found that the soldiers seemed to eat coarse noodles and steamed buns, and the rice in the porridge did not seem to be very thick! Mr. Zhu said.

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "The boss is as careful as a hair, you can see these details, that's right, our military region is indeed experiencing a food crisis now." But this has little to do with military spending, our military region has money, but there is no food! ”

"Oh, what's the matter with money but no food?" The Chairman immediately asked.

"Chairman, the logistics of our military region are in the hands of Comrade Wang Hansen, and the chairman can listen to his report on specific matters." Ma Zheng replied.

This is the second time in Wang Hansen's life that he has seen the chairman from afar, the first time was when he arrived in northern Shaanxi with a large army, and today is the second time. Therefore, Wang Hansen was a little excited, and when he heard Ma Zheng's name, he immediately got up with a red face and replied: "Report to the chairman, the military expenditure of our military region is quite sufficient, and a large amount of money and goods have been seized after several major wars, and now the military expenditure under the control of the logistics department of our military region is 13.66 million oceans, 53,000 taels of gold, 54 million yuan of legal currency, 8 million yen and 2.14 million US dollars, as well as a number of various military stamps issued by the Japanese army in North China."

"Stop, stop, stop" didn't wait for Wang Hansen to finish speaking, Vice Chairman Zhou stopped Wang Hansen from continuing.

Then Vice Chairman Zhou asked in surprise: "Comrade Wang Hansen, did you just say that you are wrong, your military region's military expenditure really has 13 million oceans and more than 50 million legal currency?" ”

Wang Hansen looked at Ma Zheng, then at Vice Chairman Zhou, and then said: "Report chief, that's right, our military region does have a lot of funds, and now this money is stored in a few military bases, and the vast majority of this money is in Guisui, if you don't believe it, you can go to our warehouse to have a look, and I guarantee that you will open your eyes!" ”

Ma Zheng also smiled and said: "Let me explain this matter, chiefs, in fact, most of these former ones were captured." In the past four months, our army has successively attacked the Japanese puppet army, successively capturing Suixi, Chanan, Chabei, and Renan, and there are four large cities with a population of more than 500,000 alone. ”

"After our army occupied these cities, the local Japanese puppet regime was banned, and all Japanese assets were confiscated. In Chengde alone, our army captured 8 million oceans and more than 6 million yen, as well as a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings. In addition, we also smashed a secret agency of the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, which was specially used by the Japanese army to print counterfeit fiat currency, and seized more than 30 million fiat currency from there. ”

"What, the Japanese still have an agency that specializes in printing fake fiat currency?" Vice Chairman Zhou was extremely shocked when he heard the news.

Ma Zheng immediately said: "I originally planned to report this matter to the leaders, but since I have talked about it today, I will talk about it together!" ”

"Let's talk, since we're talking about it, let's talk about it together!" The Chairman said.

"According to the documents we have captured, in order to plunder China's strategic materials and at the same time attack and disrupt China's economy, the Japanese army has set up a special agency for the manufacture of counterfeit money, and has also set up an agency for issuing and printing counterfeit money in the occupied areas. In December 1938, the Japanese Chief of Staff and Minister of War issued an order to formally implement the "Plan for the Implementation of Economic Strategies for China" for the counterfeiting of fiat currency, calling the secret activities of counterfeiting fiat currency "Sugi work", and the secret agency that carried out the counterfeiting of fiat currency in Shanghai was called the "Sugi Agency", and Yoshimasa Okada of the Eighth Section of the General Staff Headquarters was also the head of the department. Ma Zheng replied in a deep voice.

In fact, this incident was also discovered by chance, and the reason for the incident was that when the troops were attacking Chengde, the soldiers found some Chinese banknotes from the pockets of the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who died in the battle when they were cleaning up the battlefield, and the amount was quite considerable.

Could it be that the Japanese are also using fiat currency? It is logically unlikely, after all, the Japanese have already canceled the right to circulate fiat currency in the occupied territories and replaced it with yen and various military coupons issued by the puppet government. The most important point is that when the soldiers handed over the captured fiat currency to the higher authorities, they found a very serious problem, that is, the fiat currency actually had the exact same or similar number.

The method of using numbers to distinguish currencies is a common method in the world, as early as the beginning of the issuance of fiat currency, there are regulations that no two fiat currencies will appear with the same number, and this sudden appearance of so many fiat currencies with the same number can only show one problem, that is, these fiat currencies on the corpses of the Japanese army are fake.

In this way, the matter was serious, and the front-line troops reported the matter level by level and sent it to Ma Zheng's desk.

After receiving the report from the front, Ma Zheng suddenly remembered something. Later generations said in a documentary about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that the Japanese army had created a large number of fake fiat currencies during the invasion of China to undermine China's economic order.

According to the records, the task of counterfeiting fiat currency was undertaken by the Ninth Scientific Research Institute of the Japanese Army. Kenzo Yamamoto, director of the institute, went to East and Central China to inspect the circulation of fiat currency, wrote the "Work Plan for Legal Tender Strategy," and put forward the idea of counterfeiting fiat currency, which was approved by the Japanese General Staff Headquarters.

At first, Yamamoto and Inoue Gen selected 5 yuan of fiat currency as the object and printed hundreds of thousands of yuan of finished products. However, when the counterfeit money arrived in China, they were shocked by the news that the 5 yuan fiat currency had become obsolete in China. Later, they counterfeited a large number of low-denomination counterfeit money from the Peasant Bank of China and bought large quantities of supplies from China.

With the victory of the Japanese army on the battlefield, Yamamoto and Inoue Gen discovered the machine for making fiat currency. In Hong Kong, they seized a batch of 10 yuan banknotes and money printing machines issued by the Central Bank of China. According to incomplete statistics, from 1939 to 1945, Japan produced a total of 4 billion yuan of fake fiat currency.

After this understanding, Ma Zheng asked the intelligence department to secretly investigate the matter, and the effort paid off, and finally before the troops attacked Zhangjiakou, the intelligence department sent back a message that the Japanese army had a printing agency in Zhangjiakou, which was probably used to print counterfeit money.

Therefore, when the troops attacked Zhangjiakou, Ma Zheng specially told the troops on the front line to destroy this department and search for all useful information. As a result, the troops seized a large amount of counterfeit fiat currency after the division was destroyed. (To be continued.) )