"Boss."

Headquarters.

The deputy general staff stopped the boss who had just finished attending the border district meeting and asked suspiciously:

"What's wrong?"

At this time, the boss directly wrote four big words on his face - in a bad mood.

It doesn't make sense.

The artillery reinforcement battalion supporting the independent regiment has returned to its unit, bringing back not only 80 new 82 mortars with a range of 3,500 meters, but also 160,000 rounds of 82 mortar shells.

In order to transport this batch of shells, the headquarters used the battalion directly under the cavalry, as well as the 770th regiment, which was originally going to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region.

So far, the artillery strength of the Taihang base area has increased greatly.

Moreover, with the second batch of 10,000 tons of grain put into the market, the grain prices in the base areas were also very stable in the spring, when grain prices were the most expensive, and the base areas also stabilized the declining border currency and slightly alleviated the financial crisis.

As for the blockade of the devil's cage, although it is still there, the countermeasures have already been decided, plus the artillery force has increased greatly, and it can be launched when the time is ripe!

Everything is moving in a good direction.

"Last month, we transported a batch of imported grain to the base area in southern Hebei."

The boss said.

The deputy general staff nodded and continued to listen carefully - the southern Hebei base area is located on the east side of the Taihang base area, and there is a transportation channel between the two places, and this matter was arranged by him.

The boss continued:

"They used this batch of grain to stabilize grain prices, and it worked very well at first, steadily promoting the newly issued southern Hebei currency, but recently a large number of businessmen have used fake southern Hebei currency to buy grain."

The face of the deputy general staff changed.

Needless to say, the destruction of the base area by a large amount of counterfeit money is equivalent to a direct large-scale robbery of materials, which is better than the bombing of the devils, and is second only to the large-scale sweep of the devils.

It's just that the Deputy General Staff didn't expect it,

Because the southern Hebei base area is in the plain area, a batch of printing equipment has been imported from abroad, and the quality of the border coins printed is the best, and it was successfully forged by the devils so quickly.

"The devils are still in enemy-occupied areas, guerrilla areas, and use these counterfeit money to exchange counterfeit money for counterfeit money and miscellaneous money."

The face of the deputy general staff became more and more gloomy.

The devil is using counterfeit money to push a large number of counterfeit coins and miscellaneous coins into the base area.

Once there is too much currency in circulation, it will seriously hinder the development of commerce due to the exchange problem between several currencies, resulting in the depreciation of property, the chaos of production, and the bankruptcy of farmers.

Seriously weaken the strength of the base areas.

It will also lead to a decrease in the financial revenues of the border areas, and the troops will not be able to concentrate the forces of the masses.

"The southern Hebei border region has organized technical personnel to tackle new printing technologies, and at the same time promoted the method of identifying counterfeit money in schools and theater troupes, set up cards to intercept businessmen who use counterfeit money, and traced back to the source."

"But this time the loss will not be small."

"The 2,000 tons of grain we transported over are all lost."

After the boss finished speaking, he sighed.

Such a good grain was all harmed by the devil with some counterfeit money, and even the loss was more than that, and the boss was very unwilling.

But in many cases, the losses of economic warfare and currency warfare are no worse than those of devils.

The deputy general staff's brows loosened a little.

Listening to the boss's detailed explanation, he also understood that it was not the counterfeit money forged by the devils that was enough to confuse the real thing, and there were still nuances, but the ordinary people and the local businessmen lacked the ability to distinguish them.

The situation was not as serious as he thought.

Paying some price can be solved,

But the form is still very grim.

A large amount of counterfeit money flowing into the base areas needs to be cleared, and miscellaneous and counterfeit money also needs to be eliminated.

"No way."

"Our economic foundation is too weak."

The Deputy General Staff shook his head.

Currency warfare is only a direct manifestation of economic warfare, and the essence behind it is a confrontation of military strength and industrial strength, and the latter two, base areas and troops, are far inferior to devils.

It's normal to suffer losses.

He continued:

"The southern Hebei base area has suffered a big loss this time, and our side, as well as the Taiyue Military Region and the Luliang Mountain District, must also be prepared."

"The little devil will definitely use this trick to wreak havoc."

The boss also said in a serious tone:

"I'm going to convene a meeting of the heads of the base areas right away."

At this time, the division commander, who didn't know when he came in, also said:

"We have to think of a way to completely eliminate all kinds of counterfeit money, miscellaneous currency, and even fiat currency in our base area, and even ban the circulation, otherwise we will suffer a big loss in the future."

The chaotic domestic environment has caused an extremely chaotic currency in the base market -- silver dollars, fiat currency, Chongqing currency, Japanese counterfeit bank bills, Wang counterfeit central reserve bonds, and various local miscellaneous bills

This is also one of the fundamental reasons why the southern Hebei border region suffered a big loss, and was held back by these counterfeit coins.

If the border currency is monopolized, the counterfeit currency can be spread out so easily and quickly, and it will be detected in the first place.

"You can only take your time."

The vice president shook his head:

"Unless you have enough principal, like the silver dollar, or the dollar as a hard currency, you have to take your time."

The devils drove a large number of local banknotes and counterfeit money into the base areas, resulting in the people in the base areas holding a large amount of counterfeit money in their hands, and if they want to remove them, they can either use the policy of gradual depreciation of counterfeit money to slowly squeeze them out.

Or directly declare a big depreciation of counterfeit money, or even invalid.

The former is slow to work and costly.

As for the latter, it is tantamount to making the common people bear the price of the currency war, which not only goes against the original intention of the establishment of the army, but also damages the mass base of the base areas, which is what the Japanese devils are happy to see.

"A lot of principal, if we have this..."

The boss shook his head, and before he finished speaking, he heard the brigade commander's loud voice:

"Boss, we're going to get rich!"

···

meanwhile

Beijing Review,

In the headquarters of the North China Front, a devil officer was reporting to the commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, and the chief of staff, Miyano Michiichi, and his tone was full of pride:

"In this special economic operation, a total of 1,000 tons of imported white flour, 57 tons of imported lard, 5,000 liters of tung oil, 1,000 catties of pig bristles, 1,300 heads of various livestock, and cloth were obtained, and the total income was about 1 million yen, excluding losses."

"Yo Si."

Hearing this report, Tada Jun was immediately overjoyed.

In other words, this time, under the command of the head of the Hebei Provincial Organ, Suzuki Fan Erdasa, a special economic operation that took one and a half months against the Tuba Road Base Area in southern Hebei, the Locust Army made a profit of 1 million yen in counterfeit currency costing less than 10,000 yen.

In the 40s, the yen fell to 3.5 to 1 against the dollar.

This amount is equivalent to two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Although compared with the military spending of the North China Front, it is a drop in the bucket, but it also means that the empire's plan to use North China as a military station has taken a big step forward.

Presumably, it was enough to make the voice of the base camp bias a little towards him.

"Suzuki-kun."

Tada commanded:

"You are responsible for extending this battle plan to Taiyue, Taihang, Wutai Mountain and other mountainous areas where Tubalu is entrenched."

"Hey!"

Suzuki Fanji is also a big joy.

He is currently a member of the military rank of Dazuo, the head of the Hebei Provincial Organ, and belongs to the secret service, whose main task is to cooperate with the military and provide guidance on the administrative affairs of the established pro-Japanese regime.

As long as this matter is done well, he can be expected to be a major general, and he can also be transferred to the post of brigade commander.

You can also avoid the troublesome matter of investigating this batch of imported white noodles and where the lard came from!

After two months of investigation without clues, Suzuki Fanji was keenly aware that this matter was very troublesome!

···

"The devil's large-scale use of counterfeit money in the southern Hebei base area this time has made a profit of nearly one million yen in one month."

"That's about $280,000."

"The loss of the base area this time is too great!"

It's a little earlier.

Beijing Review,

A relatively remote place name called Wulipu, an old-fashioned house, which was one of the temporary contact points of the unit's Beiping Intelligence Organization, and at this time, the three comrades joined here.

A comrade sighed deeply after reading the information he had just received about the counterfeit money operation launched by the devils in the southern Hebei base area.

After the success of the devil's counterfeit money war, the confidentiality of relevant information was reduced a lot, and in order to publicize, the Beijing Review intelligence team also successfully obtained the devil's report.

"So many?"

One comrade was a little unconvinced.

The little devil also often lets out his mouth.

"The credibility is high."

The first comrade shook his head:

"This is the report of the Devil's Ji Provincial Secret Service, it is for Tada Jun to see, not for propaganda, and there will not be much water."

"The little devil raised by the son of a bitch!"

Someone immediately started scolding.

This time, the devils used counterfeit money to loot $280,000 worth of supplies, which was equivalent to robbing more than two yuan in each person's hands.

And this is just looted by devils, and the actual loss of the common people and the base areas is even more, and it is estimated that there can be four or five hundred thousand US dollars.

"The task given to us by the superiors this time is to find the source of the devil's counterfeit money."

"According to the information provided by the superiors, it is the Devil Dongxing Company that is responsible for printing counterfeit money this time."

"Our task is to find the counterfeit money printing plant of the Devil Dongxing Company, and then find a way to blow it up."

The first comrade was clearly battle-hardened, and his tone remained calm until now.

"Yes!"

The three of them finished their work and left separately.

The first comrade walked to the permanent intelligence liaison station in the suburbs, where there was a radio station that could send information to the commanders of the border districts and to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

···

Headquarters.

"Someone bought the life of the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the First Army?"

"One and a half million silver dollars?"

"Or do you want to give ninety-fifty dollars in cash?"

The three bigwigs were all surprised.

Headquarters is naturally clear.

Because the silver bill in the United States raised the international price of silver, the market price of cash silver is very high, and if it is converted into US dollars, one million silver dollars can be exchanged for 300,000 US dollars or about 5,000 or 6,000 more, so in fact, 1.5 million oceans can be exchanged for 458,000 US dollars.

"Yes, someone paid for the life of the chief of staff of the First Army, including the deputy chief of staff."

The brigade commander emphasized:

"Not a million and a half million silver dollars, though."

"For every one killed, give 1.5 million silver dollars every month."

"Every time you kill one..."

After all, it was a group of bigwigs, and they quickly understood the meaning of this sentence:

"Isn't that, kill one, and it's $5.5 million a year?"

Deputy General Staff's eyes widened:

"This time the devil's counterfeit money was destroyed, and the total loss of the southern Hebei base area was only about 450,000 US dollars."

"Kill one, and you'll get back in a month."

"It doubled in two months."

In the conference room, the eyes of the crowd turned into the shape of a silver dollar.

"According to the information sent by Yangquan today, the First Army Chief of Staff Da Teng Kazunan and Deputy Chief of Staff He Tian Yuanji will go to Yangquan in the near future."

The Deputy General Staff immediately recalled the information he had seen in the morning.

"From now on, fully cooperate with the independent regiment."

"You must kill these two 1.5 million silver dollars, no, you must kill these two devils!"

The boss's words were distorted.

Because of the Silver Act, and the habits that people have developed for decades, the silver dollar is the absolute hard currency in the country, no matter where it is, stronger than any currency.

(End of chapter)