Chapter 56: That's My Son

Zhao Ziming, who was on a mission on the outside line, received an order. Rushed to the Longyang base area, entered the barracks in a hurry, and a group of comrades-in-arms dragged him in to change into a brand-new military uniform, and came out in a cluster, only to see Ye Wei also pushed out by a group of female comrades like the moon, and his face turned red when he saw him.

A couple of newcomers were sent into the conference room, Chen Zikun and Secretary Su sat in it with a smile, expressing sincere blessings for their combination, Secretary Su sent a pen, and Political Commissar Ye sent a pair of enamel tea pots. Chen Zikun came in a hurry and didn't prepare a gift, so he gave his Zeiss telescope to Zhao Ziming, and took off his Wanguo brand flight watch and gave it to Ye Wei.

Zhao Ziming and Ye Weiwei bowed to Chen Zikun and Secretary Su, but Ye Xuefeng quietly left the venue.

"I must attend the wedding early." Chen Zikun said with a smile that he knew that Secretary Su was also doing this for the sake of **, and he would unify himself, and it would be difficult to attack the Eighth Route Army.

After a grand and lively party, Chen Zikun left Longyang and returned to the station, thought for a long time, and ordered people to go to Jiangnan to secretly investigate, Jiangdong Province was divided into two parts of the north and south by the Huaijiang River, Jiangbei was the territory of the Eighth Route Army, and Jiangnan was in charge of the New Fourth Army.

As expected, the three-three system was also widely implemented in the areas controlled by the New Fourth Army, and many gentry who were originally afraid of *** and hid in enemy-occupied areas came back one after another to participate in politics and discuss politics, and their enthusiasm was high.

A spark can start a prairie fire, *** This is to win the hearts of the people with the Kuomintang, no wonder Chongqing secretly attacked the Eighth Route Army, but the Japanese still occupy half of the country, in this case, to attack the anti-Japanese friendly forces, Chen Zikun can't do it, so he can only delay things.

He is more concerned about another thing, the issuance of currency behind the enemy line is an extremely important economic strategy, I think he had issued military tickets and Jiangdong Guandi tickets, financial experience is not much stronger than ***, the Eighth Route Army issued Jiangbei tickets, why not do you re-engage in Guandi tickets, when the time comes, as long as you start the printing press can collect money, isn't it beautiful.

Just do it, Chen Zikun transferred his old subordinate Gong Zijun from later to discuss the issue of currency, the lack of banknote printing paper and ink during the war, and did not want to issue *** kind of shoddy tickets because of the ugliness, Gong Zijun thought of a way, saying that the underground vault of the provincial capital ** East Industrial Bank has stored a batch of brand new Guandi tickets, which are not in time to put into the market after the issuance of legal tender, it is better to transport them to use, first see the market reaction, if the response is very good, it will be printed in Chongqing, anyway, the template is there.

Chen Zikun's underground power has penetrated the provincial capital, and these waste banknotes are not valuable things, they are being shipped out in the name of destruction, and they come out again after going around in the paper mill, and they are loaded and transported to the countryside of Jiangbei, and they are uniformly stamped with the stamp of "resisting Japan and saving the country", and the new Guandi ticket is released.

For the first time, one million yuan Guandi tickets were issued, with gold, silver and US dollars as reserves, and they could be exchanged at the Daqingshan National Army Advance Base.

The Guandi ticket was born, instantly suppressed the fiat currency and Huaxing coupons, and even in the provincial capital, it can be said to be extremely strong, and the Jiangbei ticket issued by the Eighth Route Army was also affected to a certain extent, and the scope of use was greatly reduced, and it was only welcomed in the base area.

At the same time, a new kind of paper money also entered the Jiangbei market, the newly established Central Reserve Bank of the Wang puppet government, issued the Central Reserve Bonds, in order to replace the legal tender, military bills, Huaxing bonds, Union Bank bonds, etc., Jiangdong Province set up a branch of the Central Reserve, Beitai also opened a branch, and even Nantai County also opened a Central Reserve Exchange Office, calling on the people to exchange fiat currency for the Central Reserve Bonds.

The president of the puppet Central Reserve Bank is concurrently held by Finance Minister Zhou Fohai, who is well aware of the power of finance; although the Chongqing government is in a safe corner, it still holds the right to issue national currency, the four major banks in the Shanghai concession are still operating normally, and the most popular currency in the enemy-occupied area is still legal tender; if the fiat currency can be expelled and the central reserve bonds can be implemented, the wealth of the rich provinces in the southeast can be snatched, and this will have an extremely far-reaching impact on the war situation and even the foundation of the Wang government.

Shanghai is the financial center of the whole country, and if we want to defeat the fiat currency, the only way to start is to start from Shanghai, and the struggle between the Chinese Reserve Bank and the fiat currency began as early as the beginning of the year, and the Wang puppet spies and the military command spies fought hard, and there was a tragic case in which the No. 76 spies shot the staff of the Peasant Bank en masse in the middle of the night, and of course the people of the Central Reserve Bank were also killed and wounded, and they did not dare to go out.

In contrast, the difficulty of issuing reserve bonds in provinces, cities and counties is much lower, but in Jiangbei, it is simply difficult to move an inch, and the biggest enemy is fiat currency and Guandi tickets.

Hong Tianba of the Beitai Detective Team undertook the heavy responsibility of implementing the Central Reserve Coupons, and after beating the King of the Imperial Ryu with an oolong last time, he was arrested by the gendarmerie and suffered a lot, and after coming out, he became even more arrogant, and the sentence that often hangs on his lips is: "I can't afford to provoke the Japanese, and I can't afford to provoke you!" ”

All shop owners who dare to refuse to accept the China Reserve Coupons must be invited to tea by the detective team, deduct a big hat that destroys the financial order, pay a large fine before releasing people, and wait to be sent to the gendarmerie to feed the wolf dogs if they can't pay the money.

One afternoon in the spring, Hong Tianba was sleeping on a recliner in the courtyard of the detective team for a nap, with his favorite tea set next to him, and a few dishonest hawkers in the cell, who would be sent directly to the gendarmerie if they did not pay in the evening.

Hong Tianba saw a person come in in a trance, burly and holding two guns, not like a guy from the detective team, and when he reacted, it was too late, and someone swept the detective team up and down with two twenty-shot box cannons, released the people in the cell, and walked away.

When Captain Hashimoto, the captain of the gendarmerie, arrived at the detective team, Hong Tianba died on the recliner covered in blood, looking at the sky with his eyes open.

Although Captain Hashimoto didn't like Hong Tianba, he was a dog raised by the Japanese after all, and he couldn't tolerate others to kill him, and just as he was calmly checking the traces left by the murderer, there was a loud noise in the distance, and the glass in the detective team's office was shattered.

The business department of the Beitai branch of the China Reserve Bank was bombed, the bank staff suffered heavy casualties, and a batch of China Reserve Bills was missing, fortunately, someone saw the murderer and recognized his identity.

That person's name is Zhao Ziming, who used to be a worker in the Beitai Railway Bureau, and later joined the Loyal Salvation Army as a commander, and now it is said that he is mixed with the Eighth Road, and there are many cases committed in the past two years, and the murder and kidnapping case of Nantai Mitsui Oil Company is said to have come from his handwriting.

Zhao Ziming! Captain Takayoshi Hashimoto silently wrote down the name.

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In June 1941, Germany tore up the Soviet-German non-aggression pact and dispatched a million-strong army to raid the Soviet Union, advancing 600 kilometers in ten days, annihilating hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and destroying thousands of aircraft.

The scope of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and the Soviet Union finally reaps the consequences of its own evil and is overshadowed by Hitler, but people of insight do not think so, the so-called Soviet-German non-aggression pact was signed in order to be torn up, and the century-old feud between Russia and Germany could not be restrained by a dead letter, but Hitler started before Stalin.

When the news reached China, several families were happy and a few were worried, Wang was celebrating with a false bullet, Chongqing was gloomy, Japan, Germany, and Italy formed an alliance, Germany's victory was naturally Japan's victory, the German army was invincible in the world, Hitler was a military strategist who was not born in the world, and Mussolini, the leader of Italy, was a first-class heroic figure, Italy was one of the great powers, although the Italian army's combat effectiveness was slightly inferior to that of the coquettish, but it was more than enough to give the Germans a start in Europe and Africa, and Japan was dominant in Asia, Britain and France were too busy to take care of themselves, and the United States was left aloneThe situation slowly became unfavorable.

The German army advanced in the Soviet Union, Minsk fell, Kiev was defeated, hundreds of Soviet divisions were completely annihilated, and the loss of troops was as high as more than two million! Everyone knows in their hearts that the Soviet Union will become a historical term in a few months.

The Japanese army was not idle, landing in southern Vietnam, cutting off China's southwestern international route, the Yunnan-Vietnam railway was interrupted, and the import of materials was terminated.

The world is in a state of disarray, the Jiangbei battlefield is still tepid, the Fourth Division follows the rules and leads a peaceful life in the occupied areas, and no matter how the guerrillas enter the city and turn the world upside down, it is the responsibility of the gendarmerie and has nothing to do with them.

Chen Zikun borrowed Zhao Ziming to carry out his own financial warfare, drove the Central Reserve Bonds out of Jiangbei, and sent Liang Maocai to the provincial capital to secretly crack down on the issuance of the Central Reserve Bonds, and cooperated with the overall action of Chongqing.

In mid-August, Chen Zikun received a telegram from Chongqing, asking him to go back to report on his work, thinking that he had not seen his family for a long time, he happily obeyed, specially took Liu Xiaoyong with him to escort, and came to Shanghai to meet with old friends first, now Mu Yichen's grain business is getting bigger and bigger, Li Yaoting is engaged in opium trading, monopolizing Jiangbei soil, and the business is also very prosperous, the concession is still singing night and night, drunk and dreaming of death, the wounds caused by the war can only be healed by opium and alcohol, and the whole Shanghai is in a strange atmosphere before the end comes.

Chan sensed this strange atmosphere, and only stayed for two days before flying to Hong Kong, and he also had an extra mind, originally booked a ferry ticket, but it was changed to a plane at the last minute.

After arriving in Hong Kong, he heard that the steamer had caught fire and sank on the high seas, Chen Zikun was shocked into a cold sweat, the Japanese agents were not so capable, presumably because they sabotaged the issuance of the Central Reserve Bonds by Zhou Fohai, and sent the people of No. 76 to poison him.

Fortunately, Hong Kong is the territory of the British, and the hand of Wang's puppet spy can't reach so far, but the power of the military commander here is very strong, Chen Zikun specially went to visit Du Yuesheng, who lived here, and unexpectedly met Wu Kaixian in Du's mansion.

This deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee was ordered to carry out underground work in Shanghai, and in just two years, his hair has turned a lot grayer, and he is full of complaints when he talks about his work.

"It's too difficult, the financial bloody war, the casualties, I came this time to ask Mr. Du to come forward to make peace, the staff of the four major banks are all national elites, and they can't die in vain on this kind of consumption." Wu Kaixian said.

Du Yuesheng naturally agreed, and set up a banquet to entertain the two high-ranking officials in Chongqing, and Wu Kaixian also wanted to return to Chongqing to report on his work, and he happened to go on the same plane as Chen Zikun.

"Last time we came to Hong Kong on the same plane, this time we went back to Chongqing together, it's really fate." Wu Kai said first.

Chen Zikun said: "I can rest assured that I will take a plane with Vice Chief Wu." ”

The plane, a special plane arranged by China Airlines, carried only Chan and Wu Kaixian and their entourage, from Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport to Chongqing.

The special plane flew in the clouds, the monotonous roar of the engine made people fall asleep, everyone was napping, only Chen Zikun was awake, he felt that there was something abnormal in the flight, so he went to the cockpit to ask, the expressions of the two pilots were very nervous.

"What's wrong?" Chan asked.

"Japanese fighters appear!" The co-pilot replied, his lips pursed incessantly, due to nervousness.

Two new Japanese fighters coated with red plaster emerged from the clouds and quickly swept in front of the special plane, and a string of machine-gun bullets flew past the cabin, and the enemy plane shook its wings and motioned for the passenger plane to follow him.

Chen Zikun's heart sank, and the secret was leaked, and the enemy dispatched fighter jets with the intention of capturing himself and Wu Kaixian.

"General, what should I do?" The pilot's voice trembled a little, the maneuverability of the special plane was far inferior to that of the Japanese plane, and it was impossible to run away, and this line had never been harassed by enemy planes in the past, but I did not expect to be unlucky today.

"Is there a parachute?" Chan asked.

"Yes, but it's enemy-occupied territory below, and jumping down is also the life of a prisoner." The pilot said.

At this time, the passengers also woke up, and they came to inquire one after another, and learned that the enemy plane was nearby, and their faces changed greatly, and the air was no better than the ground, and no matter how strong the fierce man was, he had to be deflated.

Wu Kaixian kept wiping the cold sweat and lit the classified documents in the cabin.

Chan is already carrying an umbrella, and he will not sit still.

Another string of bullets came over, chiseling a few holes in the cabin wall, and the Japanese machine came hard.

Chen Zikun opened the hatch, turned around and said, "I'll jump first, you follow closely, don't be afraid, close your eyes and jump out, pull the rope and ......." ”

Suddenly he paused, his gaze stopped in the distance, and a warhawk flew out of the dazzling sunlight, although the insignia could not be seen in the backlight, but it was certain that it was a fighter of the Chinese Air Force.

With a burst of machine gun sounds, the Japanese plane exploded in the air, and the other tried to fight back, but it was also quickly shot down, and there was a burst of cheers in the special plane, and Chen Zikun couldn't help but shout: "Good job!" ”

The plane came back in a circle, an American-made P40 fighter jet, and in the cockpit, a handsome young man in a leather flight cap held out his finger and made a V-shaped victory gesture to them.

Suddenly, Chen Zikun burst into tears and said loudly: "That's my son!" ”