"Strengthening the collection of funds?"

Stone Gate.

The office of Major General Fanji Suzuki.

A telegram from the base camp arrived directly at his office.

"It seems that the empire needs a lot of money in the near future."

Suzuki Fanji fell into deep thought.

Although the empire has always faced the problem of insufficient military spending, so that, for that military spending, the naval and land armies fought fiercely, coupled with the high-level promotion.

has created the most bizarre contradiction between sea and land throughout the ages - the kind that can be fought directly.

But a telegram suddenly came from the base camp, asking him to strengthen the collection of funds.

Suzuki speculated,

The empire should have channels to solve the problem of insufficient resources, but it needs a lot of money.

"How do you collect a lot of money?"

Suzuki Fanji fell into deep thought.

The money that the empire needs, not the yen.

It's the dollar!

It's forex funds!

But where did he get so many dollars?

Although a large amount of silver dollars can be obtained every month, the growth rate of silver dollars is limited, even if recently, Tubalu has squeezed itself dry and increased its investment in the market.

The department even organized the transportation of machinery and equipment, and the amount he collected every month was only more than 20 million silver dollars.

···

"The speed of machine tools and equipment collection is still not enough!"

Taihang base.

Ministry of Industrial Construction.

In the office, the new minister, Zhang Wanhe, looked at the statistical list in his hand and frowned.

According to the goal of the new meeting, the base area should collect enough machinery and equipment before the large-scale sweep of the devils arrives as early as next spring, and at the latest next summer.

And then with the help of the Separate Regiment, the preliminary construction of a full-fledged industrial zone.

Build a super-large industrial zone with an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel and independent manufacturing of aircraft, artillery, automobiles, and industrial machine tools.

To this end,

The scale of industrial equipment required is about 80 million US dollars to initially build a prototype of an industrial zone, or a model of an industrial zone that can barely function.

$80 million, which is the market price in the United States.

In fact, in order to attract merchants, and even devil merchants, to transport machinery and equipment into the base area for profit, the base area paid more than 20 times the price.

In other words, the higher authorities intend to come up with a real amount of money equal to 1.6 billion dollars to import machinery and equipment.

And at the moment,

The base area can receive 70 million silver dollars per month, which is equivalent to 35 million US dollars per month at the market price, taking into account the inevitable decline in the price of silver in the future.

Where did the $1.6 billion come from?

Moreover, time is running out.

The time given to the base area will definitely not exceed one year.

Zhang Wanhe didn't understand.

But he still strictly followed the plan of his superiors, and with the help of those technical experts, he planned and laid out the future industrial zone, and even thought of ways to expand the scale.

···

"Good fellows."

Yang Village.

Looking at the plan that Zhang Wanhe took out, even Li Yunlong couldn't help but smack his tongue.

According to Zhang Wanhe's industrial park plan.

According to the calculation of ten times the reimbursement of Brother Lu, after the reimbursement is issued, the base will directly have a steel mill with an annual output of one million tons of steel, as well as more than 500 factories of various kinds.

Directly let the base area, useful production of aircraft, artillery, automobiles, ships, machinery and equipment, including a complete set of industrial system.

"This kid is a human talent."

Zhao Gang also nodded and smacked his tongue.

He couldn't come up with such a detailed industrial compilation table in just one month, covering almost all the sub-projects, without relying on any outsiders.

···

"How do I raise money?"

"How do you collect a huge amount of machinery?"

headquarters

Staff.

The deputy general staff said in a warm tone and with a smile:

"It's simple."

"More than 70 million silver dollars per month, equivalent to 35 million US dollars, and the current price of silver in the international market is still rising, in fact, it is equivalent to 40 million US dollars, and it will continue to increase in the future, but silver is expected to plummet in the later period."

Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department suddenly purchased silver on a large scale in the market, which led to a sharp increase in the price of silver in the international market.

Reached seventy cents per ounce.

There is even a tendency to climb to seventy-five or even eighty.

For this reason, the base areas in southern Hebei have even accelerated the supply of silver dollars to the market.

This is only temporary, though.

It won't be long before the Americans who suffer will honestly lower.

"One ton of gold is worth $1.25 million, and from this month onwards, we're going to have twenty-five tons of gold, that's more than $30 million."

Hearing this, some staff officers were puzzled.

"Twenty-five tons of gold?"

"Isn't it twenty tons?"

The latest cooperation of the Independent Regiment was the announcement on the front page of the latest Xinhua News - the killing of Tada Jun, after which the Independent Regiment could receive 20 tons of gold every month.

"Oh."

The deputy general counsellor said with a smile:

"The latest chief of staff of the Devil's North China Front, Major General Yamada, has arrived in the Northern Review."

"Li Yunlong is ready to kill him."

"This devil is worth five tons of gold every month."

"This..."

The expression of the staff officer was not surprised, but strange.

Gold, in fact, does not matter to the base area.

Counselors who have read economic books know that gold and silver, in essence, are just metals and do not have much practical value, because they are rare, and they are used as valuable goods to give monetary value.

And what can really give monetary value is commodities, industrial products, and agricultural products.

Productivity, which determines the value of money.

Because, by its very nature, money is a medium of exchange.

But in foreign countries where the financial industry is developed, it is different.

For a long time, gold was used as the anchor of the currency, and a country issued as much currency of equal value as there was gold.

Even if, after the economic crisis, the great powers depreciated their currencies sharply and no longer used gold as an absolute monetary anchor, gold is still the best currency for international settlements.

Countries are also sparing no effort to store gold to stabilize their domestic finances.

And now...

The person behind Li Yunlong seemed to be preparing to frantically provide gold to the base area.

Killing a devil commander is 20 tons per month, 240 tons a year, and killing a devil front army staff officer is 5 tons per month and 60 tons a year.

As for whether there is one, there is no doubt about it.

Expected.

When the base area accumulates to thousands of tons of gold per month, or even nearly 10,000 tons.

The currency of Europe and the United States···

Thinking of this, the corners of the staff officer's mouth couldn't help but hook up - he couldn't wait to see this day.

As for whether the European and American powers will be wary because of silver, absolutely not.

Silver is silver.

Just a commodity.

But gold, a hard currency, can even be called a real international currency.

"Add to that the income from the sale of medicines."

The Deputy General Staff continued:

"We expect to earn $100 million even this month."

"What's more, with the increase in the number of drugs put into the market, especially high-purity insulin, revolutionary antidepressants, and high blood pressure drugs, it can be further improved."

"It is expected to reach 1500 million to 200 million US dollars per month."

"$200 million a month!"

A staff officer muttered to himself, and then smiled.

Although there will be a great loss of this money, it is ····· This loss is also in the plan, but it is embarrassing to put it directly on the surface.

In fact, these losses will eventually exist.

It can even be said that

The more losses, the more beneficial it will be to the base areas, to the Eighth Route Army, and to the entire Republic of China.

After all

Dog eats dog!

Give a skinny dog, eat more, and then fight, in order to better consume the other dog.

···

"Made successful."

"Although there is still a gap from the original."

"But you have to look very carefully to tell the difference."

Meanwhile.

At a mint located somewhere, the director, who also served as the technical director, handed over a stack of coins to the manager.

"Can't it be the same?"

The manager frowned.

It's big business.

The expected profit is as high as three million dollars, and may even reach more than seven million dollars, you know, the mint's profit is actually only more than three million dollars a year.

Of course, the premise is to satisfy buyers from across the Pacific and ship in large quantities.

But

As the manager expected, even their most technologically advanced, well-equipped and powerful banknote printing plant in the United States could not be completely imitated.

"It's hard."

"Their paper is special."

"We can't copy 100 percent, and the printing process, they're more accurate than us."

"In order to be as similar as possible, the printing speed is very slow, the cost is high, and the printing speed is very slow, so the first batch is only 200 million face value."

The technician's answer made the manager's brow furrow deeper.

In the world, there are still banknote printing factories with more advanced technology than them.

"Deliver one batch first."

"If the customer is satisfied, we continue to deliver at scale."

The manager said.

···

Stone Gate.

"Has the New Hebei Southern Currency depreciated?"

"Yo Xi!"

Fanji Suzuki heard a rare piece of good news.

The Eighth Route Army has been working hard to maintain, even at any cost, the New Hebei Southern Currency, has finally begun to depreciate.

Does this mean that the decline of the new Hebei currency?

Meaning, the depletion of silver in the Eighth Route Army?

Thinking of this, Suzuki was suddenly a little unhappy.

He wanted to take back what he had just said.

Once the silver of Tubalu is dried up and the dollar is dried up, then he will have no credit to make.

The position of lieutenant general, it is almost impossible.

It's a pity that the increase in the price of silver in the international market is due to the strength of the U.S. Treasury Department - according to the latest news, the U.S. Treasury Department will spend $500 million to buy silver from the market within half a year.

As soon as the news came out,

The price of silver skyrocketed by almost 25 percent.

Affected by this, the outflow of silver from southern Hebei has been greatly accelerated, and silver exchange points such as Zexian have once again been in short supply.

In the market, the difference between the new Hebei currency and the silver dollar has once again appeared.

This is also the root cause of the depreciation of the new Hebei currency. (End of chapter)