Niukou Village.

There is a very historical old village in the Sanjin area, although the name is a little strange, but the village is a serious village.

Kong Jie led the last transfer troops of the Independent Regiment to the vicinity of Niukou Village on the second day.

After the Eighth Route Army was stationed in Niukou Village, the first announcement spread quickly:

The independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army recycled the copper plate at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the recycling price was quite generous, even ten times higher than the original face value of the copper plate.

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In fact, it is not only Kong Jie who is eyeing the copper yuan.

Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to grabbing gold and silver, the Japanese invaders were also very keen on the copper dollars circulating in the people, and it can be said that they racked their brains to use all kinds of means to loot and plunder the copper dollars in the people.

Since 36 years, the Japanese troops stationed in China have smuggled Chinese copper dollars to Japan on a large scale, and the total amount of smuggled copper dollars has reached more than 100 million yuan per year, even if the face value is extremely small.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army's smuggling of copper dollars was changed to Ming robbery, and on average, more than 7 million copper dollars flowed into Japan every month, and 4 million copper dollars were collected every month in Shanghai alone.

After the war, the Chinese copper dollar found in Japan was even as much as 11,000 tons, which shows the ruthlessness of the Japanese army.

In the situation of the Japanese army's wanton plundering of copper yuan, in fact, after June 39, that is, a year and a half after the fall of Shanghai, there was no longer even a circulation of copper yuan in the SH market.

The Japanese army was so keen on the looting and plundering of copper dollars for no more than two purposes.

One is the same as Kong Jie's original intention, the Japanese army collected these copper dollars, but also took a fancy to these raw copper materials, which can be used as military strategic materials.

On the other hand, the use of the Nationalist government's fiat currency was not allowed in the Japanese-occupied areas, but the Japanese army could not fully control the use of copper dollars by ordinary people in small transactions.

Therefore, the devil adopted the method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and simply took away the copper dollar, so that the Chinese people had no copper dollar to use, so as to achieve the goal of completely squeezing out the fiat currency.

At that time, copper dollars were used as small denominations, such as transactions for less than a dollar, or less than a dime.

To put it simply, the copper dollar is an auxiliary currency used by the people for change in their regular life transactions.

If such a coin, once a large amount of coins are lost, the situation will be very bad.

Ordinary people will soon find that after buying things in their daily lives, the shopkeeper cannot make change at all, and can even only take some small value goods such as needles and threads, matches, and candy as change.

But this is not a long-term solution, and it is far from enough to cope with the difficulties caused by the lack of coins.

Even the beggars who begged on the street were even implicated.

Why? Because there is no small change with a small denomination such as copper dollars, no one is willing to give away coins of too large denominations.

The beggars had to change their careers, or they would starve to death.

For businessmen, it is even more of a disaster.

The lack of coins raises the bar for doing business, and the value of your goods is too low for customers to trade in large denominations.

This has led to the closure of many businesses in the market that have no livelihood from small businesses, and the lives of the people have also been impacted, making it more and more difficult to sustain.

As for the side of the national military government, the auxiliary coins that were originally prepared to be minted for the circulation of fiat currency have not been in place because of the blockade of the Japanese army.

Therefore, in many areas, the loss of a large amount of copper dollars means a large loss of auxiliary coins.

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Fortunately, the devils have not been able to completely occupy Sanjin.

The central section of the western Jin Dynasty has always been active in the Jin Sui Army, the southern Jin Dynasty is the territory of the Central Army and the local miscellaneous army, and the northwest area of the Jin Dynasty is the guerrilla area of the Eighth Route Army, and the entire Sanjin Dynasty can be said to be a hodgepodge.

It was not so easy for the Japanese army to do something in Shanxi and completely cut off the circulation of copper dollars.

Another example is the area of Niukou Village, where the villagers actually have a lot of copper plates in their hands.

In addition, the reputation of the Eighth Route Army has always been good, and after the news of the independent regiment's recycling of copper plates spread, the people of Niukou Village, Xicun, Zhangjiazhuang and other villages immediately responded positively.

Kong Jie ordered the establishment of copper dollar recovery points in various villages.

Exchange copper dollars at ten times the original face value of copper dollars.

For example, if the face value of the copper dollar itself is one cent, then exchange a dime for a copper dollar, and if the face value of the copper dollar itself is a dime, it will be exchanged for a copper dollar.

For the people, this can be said to be a great thing for the pie in the sky, take the copper yuan at home, and in the blink of an eye, you can exchange it for ten times the ticket.

In addition, the Eighth Route Army is trustworthy and worthy of the people's trust, so no one has doubts.

The people were kind and simple, took copper dollars, exchanged tickets, and after receiving benefits from the independent regiment, they all praised the independent regiment.

For the arrival of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the people in the area of Niukou Village are also more and more full of expectations and sincerely accept it.

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That's it, only three days before and after.

Station.

The newly determined regimental headquarters is a courtyard rented from the people.

Dong San, the logistics person in charge of coordinating this matter, found Kong Jie and reported the latest copper dollar acquisition:

"Commander, you just didn't go, the scene was really hot, as soon as I heard that our independent group recycled copper plates, or recycled them at ten times the price, the villagers sent us all the copper plates accumulated at home with sacks."

"And guess what? In just three days, we have set up more than a dozen copper plate recycling points, and nearly 50,000 copper dollars have been recovered. This copper dollar represents a bullet, that is to say, we have 50,000 bullets of raw materials in reserve in three days. ”

Kong Jie nodded with satisfaction, the reaction effect of the recovery of the copper yuan was better than he expected.

As for these copper plates, even if Kong Jie doesn't collect them, sooner or later they will slowly be lost to the enemy-occupied counties and counties, and they will be looted by the little devils.

At the moment, a copper plate can be turned into a bullet, which can be used to destroy the little devil in the end, which is definitely worth the price.

Kong Jie was curious about another thing, "By the way, Dong San, when the villagers exchange copper plates, which currency do they prefer?" ”

Dong Sandao: "Everyone's favorite is naturally the silver dollar, then the day ticket, and finally the legal currency." ”

Kong Jie sighed with emotion: "Yes, the fiat currency issued by the military government of this country is not as popular as the devil's day ticket!" ”

Dong Sandao: "Regiment commander, there is no way, the fiat currency issued by the national army has depreciated too quickly, especially in recent years, the trend of depreciation has become more obvious, you may be able to buy ten catties of fiat currency a month ago, and after a month, you can't even buy half a catty of rice." In contrast, the tickets issued by the silver dollar and the devil are much more stable, and the people are all for life, so naturally which money ticket is more stable, they like which. ”

"How much did we spend on the purchase of nearly 50,000 copper plates?" Kong Jie asked again.

Dong San thought for a while, gave a relatively clear estimate, and said: "Commander, the total face value of 50,000 copper plates is almost 5,000 yuan, and we will recycle it at ten times the price, and it will cost about 70,000 yuan." ”

Kong Jie was stunned and said, "What kind of situation do you count?" ”

Dong San said with a smile: "Commander, that's the case, our silver dollar reserves are not enough, compared to the day ticket, the people prefer the silver dollar, but later I will follow what the head of the regiment said, if the people can accept the exchange of the day ticket, we can even exchange it at a price more than ten times, now the people are more inclined to exchange the day ticket, and we have saved a lot of silver dollars." ”

In front of the people, even Dong San, who has always been good at calculation, is also in line with the concept that suffering losses is blessings.

Kong Jie suddenly said with a smile: "Well done, just do it, as long as it's the devil's money, we don't have to feel sorry for it, in addition, don't stop buying copper plates for three or five days."

This is regarded as the welfare that our independent group brings to the people, and indirectly helps the villagers.

Tell the villagers that our independent group has been recycling copper plates for a long time, and when everyone has copper plates, they can exchange them. ”

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