Chapter 10 Printing Japanese Banknotes
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The 1903 Political Consultative Conference was of great significance to the Chinese. In this year, China recovered the land ceded by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became a large empire spanning the Pacific and Indian Oceans, covering more than 15 million square kilometers of territory including present-day Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Outer Mongolia, the Far East, Sakhalin, Ryukyu, and Diaoyu Islands, as well as colonies of Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The main topic of this session of the CPPCC is the new pattern of the world and how China will deal with the challenges of other countries in the world in the future.
The day before the meeting, Song Xiaofei invited Premier Sheng Xuanhuai, Army Chief Duan Qirui, Army Chief Feng Guozhang, Navy Chief Liu Buyun, Finance Minister Xi Jiadong, Senate Speaker Rong Hong, House President Zhang Zhidong, and Secretary General of the Presidential Office Li Jingfang to the Presidential Palace for a briefing. Song Xiaofei exchanged a few words of greeting with everyone, got to the point, and said: "I invited you here today, first, because there is amazing news to tell you, and second, everyone brainstormed to see how to deal with the new situation in the world in the future." Next, I would like to ask Feng Guozhang to tell you about the latest news in Japan. ”
Feng Guozhang surprised everyone with the news, and he said: "The Japanese government has now paid off the reparations of China and other countries in the world five years ahead of schedule, worth 200 million taels of silver. ”
Finance Minister Xi Jiadong asked: "After Japan's defeat in World War II, it will pay about 50 million taels of silver in compensation every year.
Feng Guozhang said: "I heard that the Japanese found the legendary 'Tokugawa Shogunate Hidden Gold'."
Song Xiaofei asked, "What is the hidden gold?" Let's be more detailed. ”
Lee Ching-fang, secretary general of the Presidential Office, said, "When I was in Japan, I also heard the legend of the 'Tokugawa Shogunate's gold,' which is said to have been in 1860, at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule, and the world's gold and silver exchange rate was 1:15. In Japan, however, it was only 1:3, which led to a large outflow of domestic gold, and in order to reserve gold for armaments, the supreme consul of the Tokugawa shogunate, Ii Naobu, used it as a reserve for military spending. Secretly devise a plan to bury the gold. Mt. Akagi, where the Tokugawa family lived for generations, was selected as one of the places where gold was hidden. After Ii was stabbed to death by a samurai of the Shogunate faction outside the Sakurada Gate in Tokyo, his subordinates Hayashi Daitou and Oguri Uenosuke continued to carry out the plan to bury the gold. ”
Feng Guozhang said: "That's true. ”
Song Xiaofei asked: "What is the total amount of gold buried for military expenses?"
Feng Guozhang said: "At that time, 8.6 million taels of gold may have been shipped from Edo; In his last words, Nakajima Tibeto, a servant of Kosu Uenosuke, said that hundreds of thousands of taels of gold had been shipped from the Imperial Gold Vault of Kofu, and that the total number of buried gold products was estimated to be about 10 million taels. ”
Xi Jiadong asked: "How did you find this batch of gold?" ”
Feng Guozhang said: "A Japanese named Tomoyoshi Mizuno found this batch of Tibetan gold! This Mizuno Tomoyoshi is the Yoshiko of Nakajima Kurato, a servant of Kosu Uenosuke, and Nakajima Tibetans told him on his deathbed that Mt. Akagi contained the gold of the Tokugawa shogunate, and that the treasure spot was related to an ancient well. Tomoyoshi Mizuno sold his property to raise 160,000 yen and began to investigate the inside story of the treasure. He learned that on January 14, 1866, 30 samurai hired seven or eight hundred people suddenly appeared in Tsukudawara. 220 extremely heavy oil bottles and 300 bales of heavy goods were transported. Stayed here for almost 1 year. They secretly divided their operations, and strangely enough, many of them were death row prisoners of the shogunate, and they were killed when they were done. Tomoyoshi Mizuno excavated a pure gold statue of the Tokugawa family from the ground 30 meters north of a well. Three gold plates of the burial site map were dug up under the foundation of a temple, and a feng shui family of the Jiuju sect in Japan helped them solve this mystery. After discovering the hidden gold, Mizuno Tomoyoshi was afraid that the news would be leaked and caused by death, so he did not dare to speak out, until the Japanese militarist government was defeated, the people's livelihood withered, and faced with the double crisis of huge reparations and overseas debts, Mizuno Tomoyoshi donated all the hidden gold to the country. Emperor Meiji of Japan was overjoyed when he learned about it, and personally named Tomoyoshi Mizuno as Japan's 'National Hero'. In addition, in the past five years, Japan has no defense burden and has concentrated on economic development, and the government has become rich, so it has repaid its debts five years ahead of schedule. ”
"So that's what happened!" Song Xiaofei was a little unhappy in his heart and thought secretly. "This little Japan, it's really a bit of shit luck, the Yuan Dynasty relied on the protection of the kamikaze to avoid 100,000 Mongolian iron horses, and now there is a shogunate to hide gold. No, the Japanese must not be allowed to slow down. Otherwise, the Chinese will have one more opponent in Asia. ”
Song Xiaofei pondered, what excuse to find something wrong with the Japanese, and then beat them up. He glanced around the people sitting around and asked, "Although Japan's industrialization has lost the Chinese market and lacks capital, the Japanese cannot be allowed to concentrate on the economy. What can you do to deal a blow to the economy of little Japan? ”
At this time, Sheng Xuanhuai stood up and said, "I have an idea, let's see how it goes." ”
Sheng Xuanhuai told Song Xiaofei about a "counterfeit banknote case" made by the Japanese, a Japanese came to HSBC to exchange cash, but the bank found that all the 4,000 yuan banknotes he was holding were counterfeit. Such a huge amount of money immediately attracted the attention of HSBC, and when the Japanese man left, HSBC sent someone to follow him, find out his address, and then report the situation to the patrol room. Soon after, the Chinese patrol police arrested the man. After interrogation, it was learned that the Japanese named Yoshinosuke Nakai, he believed that the Chinese did not understand what counterfeit money was, let alone have the technology to counterfeit, and had the idea of counterfeiting with several Japanese ronin. In a private house on the outskirts of Osaka, they secretly copied the banknotes of the China International Commercial Bank, which came in 10 yuan and 5 yuan, totaling 300,000 yuan. After the counterfeit banknotes were printed, they were smuggled from Kyushu, Japan, to Shanghai in batches and placed at Yoshinosuke Nakai's house. Yoshinosuke Nakai then entered the market through a Japanese trading company in Shanghai. At the request of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, the Japanese police stormed their counterfeiting site and arrested Nakai's accomplices one by one, destroying all the machines and counterfeit banknotes. The counterfeit banknote case made by the Japanese caused huge losses to the Bank of Commerce and Commerce of China, and also triggered a run on the banknotes, and in just a few days, all parties returned 300,000 yuan of counterfeit banknotes.
Song Xiaofei said, "Okay, then we'll retaliate with a tooth for a tooth!" But we don't print fake Japanese banknotes, we print real Japanese money! He said to Feng Guozhang: "You know what I mean! ”
Feng Guozhang laughed and said, "I understand! Just grab a few Japanese money printing machines. As soon as I go back to Japan, I'll do it right away! In this way, I don't have to worry about military expenses, and I can give my brothers a lot of money and buy a large number of geisha. ”
Xi Jiadong nodded, "I think this method will work, no matter how much gold the Japanese have, we can hollow out Japan!" ”