On Thursday, May 3, this day, Xu Guangsong, who had already figured it out, took the initiative to come to the Ministry of Industry Bureau to meet the management of the Financial Supervisory Commission.

After more than two hours of discussions, the two sides reached a series of agreements on fiat currency, mainly the following points:

1. In the operation of exchanging and recovering legal tender in the concession, the Silian General Office did not participate;

2. The Concession Financial Supervisory Commission shall exchange the recovered fiat currency, and the Silian General Office shall promise to collect all the original price, and the insufficient part of the US dollar shall be paid in other ways, including but not limited to precious metals;

3. After the fiat currency in the concession ceases to circulate, the Silian General Office can still operate fiat currency business outside the concession;

4. Starting from June 1, the business outlets under the jurisdiction of the Silian General Office will accept the circulation of US dollar coupons issued by the Ministry of Industry Bureau......

In this way, it is tantamount to the government recognizing the decision of the FSC and the fact that the fiat currency has been withdrawn from the leasing industry in disguise. It is believed that this is also the result of Xu Guangsong's discussion with the headquarters after he returned last night, otherwise he would not have dared or had no right to sign these agreements.

Although these agreements were not announced to the public, in the afternoon of the same day, all the ten outlets under the jurisdiction of the Silian General Office were unsealed. When the staff of the Silian General Office returned to these outlets, they found that there was no change in them, and they also sighed that the current police officers were really not the same as before!

However, before the opening, the Silian General Office still specially made a poster, stating that the bank does not undertake legal tender exchange business, please understand that this is not to cause new trouble. The Concession Police Department has also specially assigned four police officers to each outlet to prevent people from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

The occurrence of this scene has aroused many people's speculation, and the mainstream speculation is that the US side has accepted Chongqing's request and demand. In this regard, neither the FSC nor the Silian General Office came forward to explain.

After three days of exchange, the current process has been familiar to the public, and the order of the exchange points of the banks is generally very orderly, but there have also been several incidents of "unknown persons" making trouble during the period, but they were quickly quelled, and dozens of people were taken away by the police and joint defense team members in uniform at the first time, without causing a substantial impact.

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At this time, Li Junhao's focus has shifted to the European battlefield, and he knows that the key battle is about to start! In order to keep abreast of the situation in Europe, he specially contacted the Far East Division of the Naval Intelligence Agency in Hawaii and asked to receive the latest European war reports at any time, and in his current capacity, this request would of course be met.

Every six hours, the Naval Intelligence Bureau would send a battle report to the Far East, and Li Junhao arranged for the communications office of the headquarters to contact him directly, receive the report, and then deliver it to his office in a timely manner.

At this time, Chief of Staff Yang Shixiong's other work was basically completed, and he had ample time to discuss the war situation with him. The General Staff Office now has six full-fledged staff officers, two of whom are responsible for the coordination of various units in Shanghai and the Strait, and the other four have also joined in the discussions, and Xie Jinyuan and others have also often come to participate.

The headquarters specially set aside a large room to make a war situation analysis room, and arranged a European sand table in it, on which the battlefield situation is updated every few hours, so that everyone can do it at a glance.

It can be clearly seen on the sand table that the German offensive is rapid, the Anglo-French army and the Norwegian army are retreating one after another, and the whole territory of Norway is about to fall.

The staff officers were puzzled, and even Yang Shixiong asked suspiciously: "Commander, why didn't the British and French forces directly attack the German mainland?" ”

"Because they're still having illusions." "Although they declared war on Germany, they did not want the scale of the war to expand, and imagined that the German offensive would stay within the 'acceptable' limit." ”

"What are the boundaries of love?" Everyone is a little confused.

"Just like the previous German-Polish war, Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland, but the border between the two countries was directly opposite...... The fundamental reason why Britain and France did not really intervene was that they expected Germany to turn its offensive to the Soviet Union. Li Junhao explained, "In this battle of Norway, Britain and France hope to limit the battlefield to Norway and no longer involve other countries, which shows that they are still trying to avoid the expansion of the war......

Yang Shixiong said while thinking: "There is some truth in this idea of Britain and France, but the premise is that the British and French forces can defeat the German army on the battlefield in Norway, so as to stop the pace of Germany's offensive...... However, looking at the current battlefield situation, they can't do it at all! ”

"yes!" Li Junhao scoffed, "They overestimated themselves and underestimated their opponents. ”

When everyone heard this, they were stunned at first, and then they all nodded and agreed with this statement.

After being silent for a while, Yang Shixiong spoke: "The overall situation of the war in Norway has been decided, and it seems that it will end in a few days, commander, what do you think the German army will do next?" ”

Li Junhao pointed to the western border of Germany and said, "To the west, attack the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France!" ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and a young staff officer said with some uncertainty: "Is it difficult for the moral army to continue the attack without resting?" ”

"Yes, in a few days!" Li Junhao said, "The Germans don't need to rest, their desire for revenge already makes them impatient!" ”

This...... Everyone was speechless! Is that a reason?

Well, even if it's a reason, but the army is not able to fight mentally alone, the state of the troops, logistical support, and the deployment of troops take time, can the German army fight in both the north and west directions at the same time?

Seeing everyone's thoughts, Li Junhao smiled and said, "Don't worry! Germany was better prepared than all the other countries, but they had been looking forward to this war for too long! ”

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On May 6, news came from the Naval Intelligence Bureau, because the previous government adhered to the policy of appeasement and connived at Germany to quickly arm itself, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Denmark and other countries were successively annexed or occupied by it, and now they are advancing in the Norwegian campaign, while the British army continues to perform badly, so that the whole of Europe is shrouded in the clouds of war, and the members of the British House of Commons officially put forward a motion of no confidence in the Chamberlain government!

On the 7th, the Anglo-French forces that landed in central and central Norway suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of German planes, and had no choice but to withdraw from Norway, leaving only part of the army in Narvik in northern Norway to persist in fighting with the support of the navy and air force. But the overall picture is clear – the fall of Norway is inevitable.

On the 8th, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain formally submitted his resignation to King George VI and suggested that Winston Churchill, Secretary of the Admiralty, form a cabinet. George VI accepted his resignation, but did not immediately decide who would succeed him.

(End of chapter)