"From today."

"One hundred southern Hebei coins, which can be exchanged for eleven silver dollars."

"Limited to 200,000 silver dollars per day."

The words fell, and the crowd queuing outside boiled.

Since May, the banks of the Eighth Route Army in Zexian County have been exchanging silver dollars to stabilize the price of the new Hebei currency.

However, it has been exchanged at a fixed price of ten southern Hebei coins for one silver dollar, that is, one hundred southern Hebei coins, which can be exchanged for ten silver dollars, and there is a limit of 150,000 silver dollars per day.

Today, it suddenly became a hundred southern Hebei coins, which can be exchanged for eleven silver dollars.

And the daily limit has also been increased by 50,000 silver dollars.

What do you want to do?

Everyone speculated in their hearts, but it did not affect everyone's enthusiasm for redemption at all.

A silver dollar is also money!

"No need to rob."

"Tomorrow."

The staff worked hard to maintain order.

···

"One hundred southern Hebei coins, which can be exchanged for eleven silver dollars!"

Ten minutes later.

In the mansion of the big landlord Jia, the old man Jia who heard the news had a gloomy face.

"The depreciation of the silver dollar?"

When the housekeeper heard the news, his face also changed.

In order to raise the price of food, it can be said that Jiafu is now in high debt.

Not only did the 5,000 acres of irrigated land have long been mortgaged, but even the old mansions, shops in Zexian County, and even the grain in the warehouses have been mortgaged out a large part.

However, there is actually still circulating capital.

There are also about 100,000 silver dollars.

In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from devaluing the New Hebei Southern Currency, they all hoarded a lot of silver dollars.

In fact, almost everyone in Ze County, whether it was a landlord, a businessman, or even an ordinary person, hoarded large amounts of silver dollars.

Just because of the fear of the depreciation of the new Hebei currency.

This is the fiat currency, as well as the joint currency of the devil, as well as the shadow left by the border ticket issued by the Eighth Route Army before.

But the big landlord of Jia never expected that

Instead of depreciating the New Hebei Southern Currency, the Eighth Route Army depreciated the silver dollar?

"Has the price of the food they sell changed?"

Not long ago, he went out to sell a batch of silver dollars, and the second young master of the Jia family, who had just come back not long ago, hurriedly asked.

He sold silver dollars to foreign merchants and made a fortune of dollars.

But even counting this batch of dollars, today's Jia Mansion is still insolvent as a whole.

Once the time limit for the mortgage is up, then, Jia Fu will be liquidated, and then they will have nothing.

Today's Jiafu has no way out.

Either continue to fight against the Eighth Route Army and raise the price of grain until all the losses are earned, or go bankrupt and even take on debts that will not be repaid for a lifetime.

"Nope."

The debriefer replied:

"It's still imported grain, a dollar a pound."

"Sorghum is three cents a pound."

"Imported grain?"

Old man Jia's face changed, and he hurriedly asked:

"They're selling imported grain again?"

food prices,

Food prices.

The key is food prices.

As long as the price of grain is high, Jia Fu will be able to survive and pay off its debts.

Although 1,000 tons of sorghum per day greatly reduced the demand for grain in southern Hebei, with the increase in the territory of the Eighth Route Army, the population increased, and the number of refugees pouring into the southern Hebei region increased.

The devils, in particular, began to consciously drive refugees to the southern Hebei region.

Today, the population of southern Hebei has exceeded 5 million.

And for these reasons,

Even if the Eighth Route Army still invests 1,000 tons of grain into the market every day, and even if the Eighth Route Army wins victories against the devils, grain prices have stabilized recently.

No more dropping.

It even bounces back a little once in a while.

"Yes."

The debriefing continued to answer:

"But each sales point is only 10,000 catties per day."

"Ten thousand catties!"

Old man Jia suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

10,000 catties is five tons.

Twenty grain sales points, that's a hundred tons per day.

That's not much.

In particular, this imported grain, which is suitable for long-term storage, is very popular on the market, a hundred tons, which hardly causes price changes.

It is even highly likely to stimulate the market, which will lead to a price increase.

It's good for him.

You must know that in the hands of Jiafu, there are 2,500 tons of imported grain that have not been opened.

"What are they trying to do?"

Old man Jia looked at his second son.

The eldest son was in Liao County before, serving as the captain of the garrison, and after the loss of Liao County, he is now in Yangquan and still serves as the captain of the garrison.

So the smartest in the family is the second son.

"The Eighth Route Army is very smart, they not only use silver dollars to stabilize the value of the New Hebei South Currency, but also use the price of grain to help stabilize the value of the New Hebei South Currency, so the market is now very accepting of the New Hebei South Currency."

"Especially in the southern Hebei region, it's almost the same as the silver dollar."

"Now they keep the price of grain unchanged, and the exchange of the new Hebei southern currency against the silver dollar has fallen."

The second son of Jiafu had a gloomy face:

"They're depreciating the silver dollar, causing the silver dollar in our hands to depreciate."

"Dad, we have a mortgage, and the loan is in the new Hebei South Dollar."

"But now, we have all silver dollars."

"Still."

Speaking of this, the second young master of Jiafu sneered in his tone:

"In the international market today, the price of silver dollars is much higher than that in China, and now the Eighth Route Army is also depreciating the silver dollar, which will cause a large outflow of silver dollars."

"Unless prices fall in the international market."

"Not to mention that the Eighth Route Army has not controlled the outflow of silver dollars at all, and it is impossible to control the outflow of silver dollars, unless they do not plan to develop business and give up the slogan of stabilizing the business environment."

"Even if they strictly prohibit it, they can't stop the flow of silver dollars to the base area."

"In fact, it is impossible for the silver dollar to depreciate."

"We don't need to worry."

"That's good."

Old man Jia didn't understand it very well, but he vaguely understood.

Silver dollars are needed outside.

And at a high price.

Even if the Eighth Route Army was in the southern Hebei region and lowered the price of the silver dollar, it would not cause the depreciation of the silver dollar in his hand, and it would not make the money in his hand less.

That's enough.

"Wait."

Old man Jia instantly became energetic:

"Wait for the Japanese to bring more people in."

"Wait for the refugees over there to come."

"I'm going to see if the price of this grain will go up."

"I do."

The second young master of Jiafu also sneered and said:

"Now the defeat of the Japanese is simply acting, deliberately losing territory to the Eighth Route Army and increasing their burden."

"Makes sense!"

Old man Jia immediately nodded in agreement.

···

In the afternoon of the same day.

Stone Gate.

Suzuki looked at the information that had just arrived, about the information about the depreciation of the silver dollar by the Eighth Route Army in the southern Hebei region, and couldn't help but show doubts:

"Depreciating the silver dollar?"

"What do they want to do?"

"What do you want to do with these dirt roads?"

Although there is a hunch in his heart, Tubalu may have the silver dollar in his hand, which is enough to make the silver dollar bill of the United States deflated.

But reason told him,

That's impossible.

As the world's most economically powerful country.

The economic capacity of the United States can even be suppressed, with more than 20 million square kilometers, controlling the most populous colony of the British Empire in the world.

Changing the world's most influential currency from the pound to the dollar.

And the British Empire had no choice.

Are there still forces in the world that have the ability to provoke the United States economically?

It's just that I thought so in my heart, but this thought was always hovering in Suzuki's mind.

As for the reason, Suzuki believes that it is those incredible technologies, far superior to the Empire, and even weapons and equipment that are far inferior to the United States.

"Strange."

The knowledge from economics let Suzuki know that this series of operations of the Eighth Route Army was aimed at promoting the export of silver dollars.

Inferred, that is to say, there are too many silver dollars in the hands of Tu Balu.

In the case that the silver dollar and the international market are seriously inverted, and the price of one silver dollar in southern Hebei is only about half of the price of the silver dollar in the American market, we will continue to introduce policies to promote the export of silver dollars.

It shows that the silver dollars in the hands of the Eighth Route Army are not only many, but also more than he imagined.

But is it possible?

"Has the amount of food they eaten?"

After thinking about it for a long time, Suzuki Fanji turned his mind to the next goal.

It's already September.

The imperial military took the initiative to force refugees into the southern Hebei region and into the Tubalu base area, and according to preliminary statistics, this number was as high as six figures every month.

Taiyue and Taihang can resist, and he can understand.

Not to mention the Taiyue Mountains, the locust army still does not know how they transported food, weapons and ammunition, and even military horses and mules.

It is not surprising that Taihang is close to the Taiyue Mountains, and the Eighth Route Army has opened up a transportation channel.

But how did the southern Hebei base area solve the transportation problem?

According to the information collected by the Locust Army from the southern Hebei region, unlike the Taiyue base area, the warehouses of the Eighth Route Army were all transported by board trucks and even trucks.

Since the convoy was attacked and the Zhizishan Bridge was bombed, the convoy of convoys passing by road, mainly night truck convoys.

But what kind of truck can transport more than 1,500 tons of grain a day on a dirt road that is nearly 300 kilometers long?

Suzuki is unimaginable.

Fifteen hundred tons of supplies, the strongest mobile corps in the empire, the Eleventh Army during the operation, was still fighting fiercely, and the amount of materials consumed every day could not reach this amount.

If the empire has such a transportation capacity, why is the war situation in the south so corrosive.

···

Meanwhile.

Yang Village.

"Really..."

"Terrible truck!"

Xu Ping, commander of the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment and an artillery instructor, who had served in the Spanish peninsula, looked at the huge truck being loaded in front of him and was shocked in his heart.

Even though he had seen it hundreds of times, even driven it himself, and participated in repairs and maintenance.

After all, today's army artillery no longer needs them, fighting on the front line, and more needs them to train new gunners and train new artillery officers.

As a result, Xu Ping often came to work as a truck driver.

But it's still shocking.

As a college student, a college student who has studied mechanical technology.

He knew one thing, whether it was an ultra-long-range mortar, a transport plane, or any other weapon, in terms of technology, it was far inferior to the huge truck in front of him.

Not only the water-cooled diesel engine that can reach a maximum of 750 horsepower and high torque, but also the gearbox, transmission mechanism, chassis...

Together, they have created a monster with excellent mechanical performance and reliability, with a maximum load of 100 tons and even 65 tons of cargo off-road.

"Today's shipping destination is Liang County."

When he received the destination, Xu Ping was shocked, followed by great joy.

Liang County is only more than 30 kilometers away from Yan'an.

The forces have expanded here?! (End of chapter)