005 Simple and crude financial warfare
Mutaguchi Renya committed suicide again but still couldn't succeed, although his knife pierced into the stomach this time, but it missed all the internal organs perfectly, so after being rescued by the doctor, he came back to life. 、
This incident was once a joke in Japanese military circles, and many people jokingly said, "Muta-kun should go to be a surgeon, his superb knife skills are rare in the world." ”
This kind of joke naturally adds some talking points, but for the Japanese people and ordinary people, jokes have always been unable to make up for the anxiety brought by reality, and the Japanese have recently discovered that they are not only at a disadvantage on the battlefield, but also the daily necessities in life are also rising.
This is already climbing faster than usual, and the Japanese Ministry of Finance has found that there is a large number of counterfeit coins circulating in the Japanese market.
This incident is shocking enough, the Japanese currency has always been known for its low exchange rate, and the Japanese currency is also made of Japanese specialty Micha tree pulp paper, they never thought that anyone would specifically counterfeit Japanese currency, let alone that this time the counterfeiting would be so large-scale.
In his report to the Cabinet Minister, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, the Minister of Finance analyzed that the other side did not counterfeit a large amount of Japanese currency for the purpose of grabbing money, because the production cost of these Japanese dollars is not low, and the profit margin is small. And the other side did not hesitate to create so much Japanese currency for only one purpose, and that was to undermine Japan's economic order.
After hearing this, Hideki Tojo couldn't help but hold the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back: "Can you confirm the number of counterfeit coins now?" ”
The Minister of Finance shook his head, "At present, we have only received feedback from various banks and private financial institutions, and we have not yet been able to determine the amount of this money, but judging from the current situation of soaring prices in the market, it is at least 10 billion yen." Most of the counterfeit banknotes are denominations of large denominations, but there are also many small denominations. ”
Listening to the description of the Minister of Finance, Hideki Tojo frowned, this matter is not so simple, it seems that the other party has used financial warfare against them, and this is actually more deadly than throwing *, because once the financial order collapses, it means that they will not be able to stabilize the situation, and the terrible impact will be incalculable.
"Such a lot of trouble must have been done by the ghost animals of the United States, and the people of China lack national strength, so they will not go to great lengths to do these useless work. Strictly investigate the channels flowing from the United States. Hideki Tojo had his own preliminary judgment, and he immediately picked up the phone in front of him and said, "Notify the heads of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Intelligence Section of the General Staff Headquarters to come to me, yes!" I'm going to get here now. ”
More than twenty minutes later, the intelligence chiefs of the Metropolitan Police Department and the General Staff Headquarters rushed over, and the three of them sat at Hideki Tojo's desk and listened to his analysis.
The three of them unanimously agreed that the counterfeit money incident must be a ghost played by the Americans. The commander of the Metropolitan Police Department lifted the brim of his hat and seriously analyzed it from the perspective of his professional investigation: "Only the United States, with so much financial resources, can print such counterfeit money. ”
All three nodded to each other, and Hideki Tojo motioned for him to continue.
The Metropolitan Police Department representative continued: "There are two main parts of the counterfeit coins, one is the printing source, and we can follow the map to find the source of the three-tree pulp paper and see where there will be leaks. In order to put so many counterfeit coins in circulation in the market, it must be within the Ministry of Finance that they have their own strategies. ”
As soon as these words came out, the Minister of Finance stood up and defended himself when he heard that he was going to put the basin on his head: "Before the matter is investigated, you draw conclusions in vain? Is that how Your Excellency handled the case? ”
"I'm just saying a professional analysis, and I don't necessarily make a decision. Your Excellency, don't be so excited. The chief of the Metropolitan Police Department also argued with him, and when the two sides were about to quarrel, it was the commander of the military department who stopped the confrontation between the two.
The chief of the intelligence department analyzed: "Your Excellency has just analyzed some truths, we cannot miss a suspicious point, and at the same time, we cannot think that this must have flowed in from abroad. Is it possible that they printed in Japan, after all, it is very difficult for anyone to build such a large number of coins. ”
The three of them had different opinions, and each of them elaborated on the possible situation of their analysis from their own perspectives. After listening to these analyses, Hideki Tojo felt that there was some truth in them, and he finally concluded his argument and asked each of the three departments to send capable personnel to form a special task force to be responsible for the investigation of the counterfeit currency incident.
At the same time, the Ministry of Finance disseminated the knowledge of counterfeit currency identification to the private sector and confiscated all kinds of counterfeit money. Eventually, the burden of these counterfeit coins was shifted to the heads of ordinary people, and those who exchanged large quantities of counterfeit money from the banks gathered to storm the banks.
For a time, a large number of people were blocked in front of major banks in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and other important cities in Japan, protesting against the counterfeit money withdrawn from the banks.
However, the Japanese government announced that storming the bank during the special period was tantamount to treason, and before the police of the Metropolitan Police Department were dispatched, a group of fanatical militarist patriots had already rushed into the streets to confront these people blocking the bank gates, and the two sides eventually led to a large-scale conflict.
Bloody street events were staged in major cities in Japan all day long, and this counterfeit currency scandal brought not only economic destruction to Japan, but also tears apart the contradictions between fanatical militarists and ordinary people.
The two groups are not absolutely opposed, they intersect with each other, and sometimes there are even two opposing groups within a family.
The Japanese Metropolitan Police Department, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance jointly investigated the counterfeit currency, and although they did not find out the specific source, they intensified their crackdown on the counterfeit currency, and at the same time paid attention to checking the source of the counterfeit currency, which directly affected the release of counterfeit Japanese currency in Nanjing.
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Nanjing, Fenglin Road, Huang Mansion, responsible for the delivery of counterfeit money, Yang Yibing is reporting to Huang Ke on his recent work.
"Judging from the feedback from all sides, the counterfeit currency we put into the Japanese market in the early stage has achieved the expected purpose, and now Japan has caused serious inflation because of the counterfeit currency, and the collection of counterfeit currency has also stimulated a lot of social contradictions. However, now that various departments in Japan have stepped up their efforts to track down and control counterfeit money, our delivery channels cannot be activated for the time being. Speaking of this, Yang Yibing lowered his head slightly, looking a little ashamed.
Huang Ke didn't mean to blame him, but just smiled lightly: "This is expected." Japan is a constitutional monarchy, the government is very enforceable, and with the help of a group of militarist fanatics, the release of counterfeit currency will naturally be greatly affected. You don't have to blame yourself. ”
"Yes, thank you Commander, for your understanding. It's just that now the minting team has imitated a lot of counterfeit coins with the remaining three-tree pulp paper, how to deal with the rest of the delivery? Yang Yibing asked tentatively.
Huang Ke glanced at Yang Yibing, this person is thoughtful enough, and he is very satisfying, every time he asks a question, he has basically thought of several disposal plans for Huang Ke to choose, and this time I am afraid it will be no exception.
"What do you think? Let's talk about it. ”
Yang Yibing pursed his lips and said: "We used to send counterfeit money to the Japanese mainland through the Southeast Asian line, but now this line is temporarily suspended, so we can send it to the Japanese-occupied area." In terms of channels, it can be carried out through some traitors who plotted rebellion in the Japanese-occupied areas. ”
Huang Ke nodded, "It's a way." Of course, the Japanese currency that was printed with such a large amount of effort cannot be wasted. However, it can't all be put in the Japanese-occupied areas, after all, they are all Chinese people, and they are the ones who will suffer in the end. In this case, a small amount of the part will be put into the Japanese-occupied areas, and the rest of the places will still be placed in the Japanese mainland. ”
As soon as Huang Ke's words fell, Yang Yibing was ruthless in his heart, if Huang Ke insisted on his own opinion, then he had to do it hard, but the consequence of this would be that the intelligence network of the reserve cadres in Japan and even the entire Southeast Asia for many years would be destroyed.
He had to try to refuse.
"If we continue to deploy to Japan, the current situation may lead to the exposure of the intelligence stations there, and then it will affect most of the Japanese......-occupied areas in Southeast Asia and other areas," Yang Yibing's voice was not loud, but his tone was firm.
Huang Ke's eyelids raised, this was one of the few decisions that Yang Yibing opposed to himself in his impression, which was a bit beneficial, at least he was not blindly loyal.
"You don't have to worry about this, you will use new channels to put it in Japan." Huang Ke smiled slightly.
"New channels?" Yang Yibing was a little confused, could it be that there were other intelligence agencies? This is impossible, he is still relatively confident in his intelligence work, whether it is the Chen brothers, or Wang Maocai on Wang Puppet's side, and even the four major institutions of the Japanese Meilan Zhuju.
Huang Ke slowly stood up, pointed to a model of a bomber in front of his desk and said, "The new channel is this!" ”
"You mean, by airdrop?" Yang Yibing understood.
"Yes, now that the Japanese have tightened their control over counterfeit money, it is clear that the conventional delivery method is no longer available. Just give them a dose of drastic medicine. I have listened to the opinions of the minting team, and they have seen some Japanese anti-counterfeiting signs in the newspapers, and we have also printed new counterfeit coins at full speed, printed all the paper, loaded them all on bombers, and airdropped them to Japan. ”
"When the time comes, it will depend on the Japanese people who pick it up and don't hand it in. If one out of ten people is unwilling to turn it in, we have achieved our goal. As he spoke, Huang Ke had a confident smile on his face.
Yang Yibing let out a sigh of relief and laughed as well.