Chapter IV The United States Dollar
Two hours later, Scar was back with a dozen people...... Of course, only the fighters of the secret service company returned, as for the pirates...... It's not that I'm too ruthless, it's that the stakes are so high that I have to take some extreme measures against them.
But what surprised me was ...... Scar: They came back with three suitcases......
"What's that?" I asked.
"I don't know!" Scar replied, "While I'm about to get rid of my teeth...... He handed it to us, and I opened it...... It's all green paper. Can you trade this for his life?! ”
"Green paper?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this.
"yes!" Scar replied, "I wanted to throw them all away...... But on second thought, this Tyrant will trade this for his life...... Maybe it would be useful, so I brought them back! ”
With that, Scar handed me one of the suitcases......
I opened it and couldn't help but be stunned...... Stacks are full of dollars, and this box is hundreds of thousands!
"Really?!" I pulled out a dollar and looked at it...... Actually, I can't tell whether the dollar is real or fake, but I think it should be true that what is in the hands of the pirates, because it is likely to be a ransom from the robbed family or the money to ransom the ship.
"Battalion commander, what is this?" Seeing my expression, Scar couldn't help but ask with some curiosity.
"Money! What else could it be? I replied angrily.
"Money?" Scar touched his head: "How can there be such money?" ”
"Of course our country doesn't!" I said, "It's dollar ......"
"Dollars?" Scar still doesn't understand.
"It's the money that the Yankees use!"
"Oh!" Scar and the warriors suddenly realized.
Then there was silence for a long time, and then there was a "wow" and it was messed up......
"Battalion commander, that's so much money!"
"And it's Yankee's money!"
"Yankee's money...... Isn't it more valuable? ”
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I pulled out one of the hundred-dollar bills and raised it in front of the soldiers. said: "This one is worth 150 yuan......"
In this era, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the yuan was roughly 1 to 1.5...... This is something I heard by chance while listening to Voice of America.
"Wow!" ...... My words caused the soldiers to heist again......
"One is worth 150. What about this box...... How many are there? ”
"One hundred and fifteen...... Isn't that enough to buy a bicycle with one piece? How many bikes do you have to have? ”
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I am very gratified. Not a single fighter uttered "We are rich!" Or, "Battalion commander, let's divide the money!" "Such a voice.
The people of this era are pure in thought, perhaps because China has always practiced the collective system...... Therefore, when they see this money, their first idea is that it belongs to the state and the collective, not to their own.
"Instructor!" I said, "Look...... What to do with the money? ”
Let's be honest...... I really don't want to hand over the money like this, I'm afraid that the three boxes here are millions of dollars...... If it's all mine......
Alas! I knew I should have pretended not to care when I got the suitcase, saying, "What the hell is this...... Let me put it first! "Then you can take them for yourself when others don't notice.
But now...... The warriors were all looking at it, and I had to leave the question to the instructor.
"That's easy!" The instructor said: "The army has the discipline of the army, and anything we seize must be handed over. This dollar is certainly no exception! ”
"But, the instructor ......," I said, "we're on a mission to Afghanistan, should we go back?" ”
"Yes, Instructor!" Some fighters chimed in: "Besides, such a large sum of money...... It's not safe to let the captain take them back either! ”
"What if the pirates snatch it again?"
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"Hmm!" The instructor couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "Of course, it is impossible to give up the task, and it is not safe to bring it back to others...... So, contact your superiors and ask what to do! ”
"Well, that's all I can do!" I say.
In fact, I don't want to ...... If this is connected with the superiors, such a large amount of money seized may only be a passing eye.
"Second Company Commander!" Company Commander Luo smiled at Scar: "It's not bad! After going out like this, I came back with a mountain of gold! ”
"Alas!" Scar scratched his head: "Now that I think about it...... The fangs are also pitiful. Handed over such a large sum of money, and the result was still ......"
As he spoke, he made a gesture on his neck and made a head-killing motion...... It caused the soldiers to laugh again.
The contact with Commander Zhang was sent in the form of a password through the ship's communication equipment...... Although we have military radios that are carried. But the distance was far beyond the radio station's range, and we were at sea...... It is not even in China, and naturally there is no transit station in between, so the code can only be sent by the high-power radio on the freighter.
The message I sent was: "Defeat a group of pirates, leave no room alive for the sake of secrecy, seize a batch of dollars, please instruct your superiors!" ”
I admit that I still had selfish intentions when I sent this message...... Because I deliberately put the dollar thing with things like "piracy" and "secrecy...... Naturally, the matter of "dollars" is much smaller than these. And I didn't say the amount of "dollars", just the word "batch" in general terms.
If this is to let the higher authorities know that there are millions of dollars...... I'm afraid that no matter how difficult it is, someone will be sent to receive it, after all, we are still a poor country...... And this is the time when China is reforming and opening up to reserve a large amount of foreign exchange, so this million dollars is by no means a small amount.
As a result, my treacherous plan really succeeded, and the correspondent translated the telegram that Commander Zhang responded to, and I couldn't help but be ecstatic when I took it, which read: "Be careful, try not to fight until you reach the target, and use the dollars for your department to build a base!" ”
I casually handed the telegram to the instructor, who was stunned when he saw it......
"That's a lot of money!" The instructor said, "Superior...... How could it be so casual to give us domination? ”
"Maybe it's because the superiors think that we need money too!" I said, "What do you want...... We're building a base in Pakistan...... There will definitely be some places to use money, and if you want to send money from China, it will be troublesome...... Sometimes you need some emergency funds, and now it's not the right place to use it? ”
The instructor thought it was right, so he didn't say anything more.
It is true that there are many things that require money to work in Pakistan, as I have considered...... At this time, China is a poor country that has just started its reform and opening up, and it will naturally be relatively short of funds, so the amount of money for our base is very small...... Fortunately, a pirate sent us this huge sum of money, which allowed us to turn around our work.
After spending more than ten days at sea, I finally arrived at my destination...... Port of Karachi, Pakistan.
It's been a long journey...... I rarely take a boat, but I stayed on the boat for a month...... I heard the captain say that our ship is quite fast, and if we take another ship, an older cargo ship with insufficient power, I am afraid that it will not be able to arrive for a month and a half.
When I heard the number of days, I couldn't help but feel hairy...... I've never been on any kind of transportation for three days, and this time I spent thirty days! What should I do if I want to return to my home country in the future?!
Maybe it's because of that...... So the fighters will be more or less homesick when they are on the ship......
It would have been fine if we had been in Guangxi or Yunnan before, at least we hadn't gone abroad at that time...... Even if there is a war in Vietnam, it is not far from the border, and it is possible to be transported back if you are wounded or killed.
But now...... But it is veritable thousands of miles away, and it will take as long as a month to return to China...... Naturally, the warriors thought in their hearts...... There's a good chance you'll never be able to go back this time.
But fortunately, the instructor has a good set of skills in this area...... When he noticed this sign of the soldiers, he soon held a sit-down meeting, mobilizing each company, each row in their own containers, or a few fellow villagers to get together to discuss the beauty, characteristics, or interesting things of their hometown.
This puzzles me a bit...... These soldiers are homesick, so they should not be homesick, right? How did this instructor remind them of home!
After thinking about it, I think the instructor's method should be right...... Things like thoughts or emotions, it's like water, it can't be blocked by blocking and breaking the method, and it may even get worse and worse the more it is blocked, and the more haode method should be channeling......
Just like the instructors, let the soldiers reminisce about their hometown and the motherland...... And then what......
At the end, it is said: "Comrades! Each of us has loved ones who love us, a beautiful homeland, a great motherland, and although we have left them now, we keep them in our hearts and minds all the time...... At the same time, everything we do now is for our relatives to live well, for the hometown to be more beautiful, and for the motherland to be more prosperous! This requires us to put these emotions aside and devote ourselves to the upcoming battle......"
And then there was a whole bunch of "let's go...... Although it was wordy, it was quite effective for the fighters, so much so that after the symposium was over, the soldiers were all grinding their fists and eager to go to the battlefield immediately.
In this regard, the positions of instructors and instructors are still very necessary. (To be continued......)