Chapter 45, printing money is a top priority!

On the Yamato, the general flagship of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, in a heavily guarded cabin, a group of people were surrounding a machine with serious expressions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

I saw Wang Qiu carefully take out two brand-new yen banknotes from a small wooden box and stuff them into the [Chronological Vending Machine] in front of him, and then only heard a soft sound of "ding", and a large pile of Morinaga brand toffee in iron boxes fell out of the pick-up port of the vending machine.

“…… Yes! It's a success! Wang Qiu turned around and high-fived Ma Tong with a smile on his face, "...... Print money from now on! ”

Since discovering that yen banknotes can be used to buy materials through the [Era Vending Machine] in another world, in the following adventure process, in addition to some high-tech and cutting-edge equipment, the relevant departments of the door have tried their best to issue banknotes to Wang Qiu and let him solve the problem of material supply by himself - in this way, it is really refreshing to use the yen of the 21st century to buy things at the prices of the Showa era and even the Meiji era!

-- Each box of cigarettes costs only 1 yen, a box of toffee costs half a yen, and 10 yen can make a table of alcoholic beverages. Even a Type 38 rifle costs 80 yen, which is equivalent to the price of half a rice ball in the 21st century...... Although the [Era Vending Machine] only sells Japanese munitions, and does not provide too advanced goods, and can only be supplied to the Pacific War at the latest, it is enough in this World War II plane.

Therefore, before the Combined Fleet lifted anchor and headed north, Wang Qiu only took out a mere 100 million yen, leaving enough food and ammunition reserves for the Truk town guard - the modern Chinese government's backlog of expired materials was almost emptied at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there is not much inventory at present......

Even if you can use the 21st century yen to buy things at the prices of the early 20th century or even the end of the 19th century, it is already a great advantage. But man's greed is never satisfied. After all, the yen in the 21st century, no matter how worthless it is, is foreign exchange, and it can only be exchanged for real gold and silver. More importantly, not only did Wang Qiu and his small team need to use yen to purchase supplies and materials from the [Decade Vending Machine], but the relevant departments also need to spend Yen to purchase some things related to the national economy and people's livelihood from the [Decade Vending Machine] -- this is certainly not to save money and take advantage of it, and to buy Japanese rice in the Meiji era at a price of 1 yen and 10 kilograms, but to collect some things that cannot be bought with money.

Specifically, it is to purchase a rare precious metal in large quantities: palladium.

――Since Wang Qiu graduated from the Marvel world's Iron Man Tony. After Stark got the technology to produce a palladium fusion reactor (the shiny thing on the chest of Iron Man's suit), the domestic political and economic circles suddenly experienced a major earthquake. Everyone is intoxicated by this earth-shattering energy revolution! It must be known that the palm-sized mini palladium reactor on Iron Man's chest alone has a peak power generation of 3 billion joules per second, which is equivalent to one-third of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station! Just such a small thing can meet the daily power supply needs of a large city, and the cost of power generation can be reduced to almost zero: the user only needs to bear the daily maintenance costs of the power grid! For Chinese, who need to import huge amounts of fuel oil and natural gas every year after industrialization, such endless cheap energy is simply an irresistible temptation!

With such a clean, pollution-free, portable and miniaturized high-efficiency energy power, not only can China's manufacturing industry get rid of the bottleneck of energy shortage, but even rushing out of the earth and conquering the sea of stars seems to be no longer the dream of science fiction writers.

But the problem is that Iron Man's nuclear fusion reactor, although good and powerful, needs to consume a lot of metal palladium.

The Chinese government does not have much palladium in its hands, and it is difficult to get a large amount of palladium at an affordable price.

-- In nature, palladium generally rarely exists in dense solitary condition, but appears as an associated ore of gold ore, with scarce reserves, difficult smelting, and already expensive. When the technology of the palladium fusion reactor leaks out, the price will rise to the sky on a rocket, or even have a price!

What's worse is that the vast majority of the proven reserves of palladium on the planet are located in Russia, Canada and South Africa, which are places where China's influence is temporarily out of reach. In China, it seems that only Guangxi has a small palladium vein, and the reserves can only be said to be better than nothing.

Needless to say, Russia is simply the land of the US imperialists...... Think about the palladium fusion reactor technology that you have finally obtained and can usher in the dawn of a new era, but it turns out to be cheaper than the two competitors of the United States and Russia. The feeling of the relevant departments in China about this is like that of the Axis countries that were choked by the throat by the lack of oil during World War II, and it is really as disgusting as swallowing a mouse, as if the day is over, and it is indescribably uncomfortable.

The relevant departments that were forced by the shortage of palladium naturally had to find another way and take all kinds of crooked ways to collect palladium -- the few bottles of [synthetic minerals] that Wang Qiu obtained from the Doraemon plane were all used to manufacture and produce palladium ore veins, and then continued to use [chronological vending machines] to purchase.

However, using the Doraemon plane's [Chrono Vending Machine] to spend yen to acquire palladium will also encounter a very troublesome problem:

If it was set too early, then Japan at that time would not have been able to buy palladium; If the age is set relatively late and the yen has already depreciated, the price of palladium will be very expensive, and it will not take much advantage - the [Chrono Vending Machine] from the Doraemon plane can only sell goods made in Japan, and in principle, it is basically impossible to buy foreign imports. Whether it's European or American, this machine can't be delivered...... In Japan, where the level of industrial technology was backward in the early years, no matter how much money you put out, there was nowhere to buy palladium, an expensive and rare heavy metal......

Up to now, Wang Qiu has been entrusted by the central government to buy palladium metal from the [Chrono Vending Machine], with a total value of 10 billion yen, but the relevant departments still feel that it is far from enough: even if palladium is more durable than oil, there must be a strategic inventory of tens of thousands of tons! And it hurts to spend so much money -- how many vegetables, fruits, and textiles do we have to sell to the Japanese in order to get these yen back!

As a result, the relevant departments began to frantically make counterfeit yen banknotes -- with the technical reserves possessed by the government, the modern yen may be more troublesome to make, and the yen banknotes of the First and Second World War years should still not be difficult to produce. Unfortunately, the result was very disappointing: although the counterfeit banknotes imitated by the relevant departments were no different from the old yen banknotes of collectors and the yen banknotes collected in the plane of World War II, and even experts could not distinguish them, but the [chronological vending machine] was able to distinguish the difference between the two, and only recognized the real banknotes of the Second World War plane, not the counterfeit banknotes of the relevant departments.

However, in the face of the above-mentioned setbacks, the relevant departments were not discouraged, but further opened their brains and had a whim: since this [era vending machine] only takes money seriously, and it recognizes the real yen banknotes regardless of the plane, then if you can control a Japanese government in another world, and then frantically start the money printing machine, and print the yen reasonably and legally, isn't the next thing you want is what you want?

――What should I do if I have spent a lot of effort forging counterfeit banknotes, but I find that I can't use them? Then turn it into real money!

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Therefore, at the behest of Sophie, the head of the government of the "Oceania Management Committee" (Orb) and the first chairman of the Aubu, Horikichi Hori, at the beginning of his tenure, demanded that he be granted the right to issue yen banknotes without restrictions in wartime -- according to him, now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, the tonnage of the US Navy is five or six times that of our own, and the territory of Orb is isolated in the South Seas, and in the future it is bound to be isolated from the mainland for a long time, and it is impossible to guarantee that the transportation lines will always be unblocked, and if even banknotes cannot be issued independently, then there will inevitably be great trouble in the operation of the economy. It is difficult to support the huge attrition of modern warfare.

The army and civilian officials were naturally quite suspicious of this, after all, financial power was related to the safety of the regime, and what Orb wanted was not the right to issue local bills, but the right to issue national currency. However, the navy insisted on it, even threatening to overthrow the cabinet, and the Soviet representatives helped to cite the precedent of printing their own banknotes in the various base areas of the Chinese Red Army, so in the end this resolution was adopted. In wartime, in Japan, everything needed to be rationed was ticketed, and nothing could be bought with yen bills. As for after the end of the war...... Let's wait until after the war! In the event that Japan loses the war, Japan will directly lose the country, and the yen will become waste paper, and who will be able to control so much at that time?

Just in case, the navy not only obtained a decree written by the empress herself, but also forcibly wrote this article into the constitution, and finally even "respectfully" asked the empress to operate the machine herself and print the first banknotes...... With all this care, the banknote printing scheme finally succeeded.

To put it simply, it is out of some secret principle of the unexplained universe that the [Chrono Vending Machine] recognized this batch of "genuine banknotes".

Look at the toffee that fell out of the pick-up port of the [Chrono Vending Machine], and the canned food, rice, biscuits, snacks, pickles, lunch boxes, kettles, rifles, pistols, bicycles, mortars, and radio stations that kept coming out of the inside afterwards...... All of a sudden, whether it was Chairman Horikichi Yoshi, Commander Inoue Narumi, or Prime Minister Nosaka Sanzo, they were all stunned and their thinking stagnant. “…… This, this is not scientific...... It's so unscientific! Wait, is it really possible to buy anything from here? After opening his mouth for a long time, Prime Minister Nosaka asked suddenly.

“…… Yes, you can buy rice, sugar, ammunition, guns, fuel, planes, tanks, and even warships! ”

Ma Tong explained with a smile, "...... As long as there are enough banknotes, what do you want...... Are you confident of future victories now? ”

“…… Not only is there confidence, but there is no doubt that you will win! Obu's first chairman, Horikichi Hori, couldn't help but laugh - if the previous war between Japan and the United States was a judo match with a huge disparity in strength. Japan, with a poor and weak island country with a population of 70 million, has to fight against the United States, the world's industrial hegemon with a population of 120 million, and has to defeat the strong again and again in order to win a chance to breathe. Then from now on, all this is flattened. The Japanese army has more abundant resources and supplies than the American army, and can in turn explode all kinds of "seas" to flood the Yankees!

And Commander Inoue Narumi seems to have a bigger brain hole: "...... Wait, I remember that the cost of a Yamato is more than 100 million yen, and if we print more than 10 billion yen at full speed, won't we be able to save up 100 Yamato to play against the Yankees? ”

“…… Theoretically, it is possible, as long as you can find so many qualified sailors to fill the warship......" Wang Qiu glanced at him and said.

So Commander Inoue Narumi, who had just become excited, suddenly deflated again - today's Japan has long been exhausted of human resources, and even the cat's claws want to come in handy, where can so many skilled seafarers be gathered? If you have to get a head, it seems that you can only recruit the daughters of fishermen...... Belch? The idea seems to give it a try? Although it is unfortunate to let a woman on the ship, at least it is better than leaving a new warship without anyone driving it, right?

And Prime Minister Nosaka Sanzo frowned and thought of another question, "...... In this way, wouldn't our people be able to get everything they wanted, as long as they kept printing money, without working hard...... I am afraid that this is not in line with the laws of economics, and it will also bring about social problems......"

“…… Uncle, you're thinking too much! Ma Tong shrugged his shoulders and interjected, "...... Do you think that this machine can last forever for decades or hundreds of years?! How can there be such a good thing in the world? It will last two or three years at most, and it should be scrapped......"

“…… Nani? Only two or three years? Prime Minister Nosaka was shocked when he heard this, and suddenly fell into a new situation of gains and losses......

On the other side, Wang Qiu pursed his lips and made a decision to himself, "...... It's not a short time to have two to three years of unearned gains, and you can leave what you want to buy for the future, even if you want everything, it doesn't matter if you are a chopping party. Now our first priority is to print as many banknotes as possible as soon as possible, and the first batch will be 10 trillion yen......

“…… 100,000 trillion yen?! Inoue Narumi was suddenly shocked and gasped, "...... This...... I'm afraid there's not even enough pulp, right? ”

“…… It doesn't matter, the raw materials such as pulp and ink needed to print banknotes can also be bought from this machine......" Wang Qiu patted the shell of the [Chronological Vending Machine] nonchalantly, "...... In my opinion, how about the first batch of banknotes in exchange for the goods to buy food first, which will be used to help refugees and distribute to citizens? I want to let them get a little bit of joy at the new emperor's accession to the throne......"

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As a result, in the temporary station of the Army General Staff Headquarters at a temple on the outskirts of Hiroshima, Chief of Staff Okamura Ninji, who was distressed about how to solve the problem of logistical supplies for hundreds of thousands of troops and military dependents, suddenly received a batch of extra-large allotments of supplies, and immediately took the list and almost made him stupid:

“…… Nani? 200,000 tons of gasoline? 100,000 tons of rice and wheat? 20,000 tons of canned Yamato boiled beef and canned whale meat? A hundred tons of sulfonamide powder? 50,000 motorcycles? 30,000 trucks? 10,000 Zero fighters? Five thousand bean chariots? 10 million Type 38 rifles? 100 million sets of military uniforms each in winter and summer? 100 million grenades? 5 billion rounds of rifle bullets?!! This...... This...... Where did the Navy get so many things? ”

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ps: I am conceiving a new book, and there are currently three brain holes: 1, "Dreadnought Lady Aphrol", the Mao Zi Ship Niang, who is drunk all day long, is unwilling to lose the status of the red holy ship, and coerces the protagonist through the story of the Russo-Japanese War Battle of Tsushima; 2, "Xiangrui Invincible Snow Wind", the modern Taiwanese ship Danyang II, a black-bellied, shameless and malicious cute, insatiable, insatiable and serious violent middle two sick bear child, whose soul crossed into the Snow Prince Danyang I - Snow Wind, so that the entire Pacific Ocean was shrouded in her frenzied invincible decline, and by the way, she looked for the story of the imperialist powers who were desperate for support; 3, "The Girls of the Galaxy", the cosmic adventure story of the protagonist of the 21st century "primitive people" and the happy cute girls in the interstellar era...... Which do you think is better?