Chapter 206: Assassination and Fiat Currency

On November 1, 1935, Jinling, the weather was fine.

On the morning of this day, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Qingbai Party opened, and many officials gathered in front of the first conference hall to take pictures.

Mr. Qing saw that the venue was very chaotic, and did not participate under the pretext of being unwell, and David Wang stood in the middle to take pictures.

As soon as the spotlight flashed, a young man suddenly rushed out of the group of reporters, pulled out a pistol, and shot at Wang Lianlian, who fell to the ground with three bullets.

After the gunshot, Mr. Qing and Wang David's wife rushed out of the auditorium one after another, Mr. Qing helped Wang David from the pool of blood, Wang's wife Chen Biyu saw that Mr. Qing was not present when the photo was taken, and suspected that this matter was planned by him, and immediately cried: "Mr. Qing, if you don't ask David to do it, just make it clear, why do you want to do this?"

Mr. Qing was speechless and very embarrassed.

The assassination of David Wang was carefully planned by Wang Yaqiao, the assassination king of the Demon Capital.

Wang Yaqiao was entrusted by Li Jishen and Chen Mingshu to prepare to assassinate Mr. Qing during the meeting. In the first 10 days of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Qingbai Party Central Committee, the assassination was deployed, and Sun Fengming volunteered to carry out the mission. The night before the charity act, everyone served wine and candied for Sun Fengming in the small attic of the Chenguang News Agency.

On November 1, Sun Fengming strode into the venue with a press card on his chest, and when he saw that Mr. Qing did not appear, he rushed out and shot Wang David according to the second plan.

At the same time, he was seriously wounded by the guards and was on the verge of death when he was taken to the hospital.

The person in charge was anxious to chase down the main messenger behind the scenes from his mouth, and asked, "Why did you assassinate President Wang?"

Sun Fengming replied: "Please look at the map, is the entire Northeast and North China still ours?"

Then he asked, "Why are you assassinating now?"

Sun replied: "After the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, we will sign, and if we don't fight again, we will lose the country and become a slave of the country." ”

David Wang is a powerful and powerful figure in modern Chinese history. He was born on May 4, 1883, and his ancestral home was Wuyuan, Anhui Province (now part of Jiangxi).

David Wang was born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes when he was young, and he was smart and clever, and was known as one of the "beautiful men" of the Republic of China. He was admitted to the spring examination in 1902, and in 1904, he was admitted to Japan on official scholarship to study in Japan. In Japan, he began to devote himself to the revolution and became Mr. Sun's most effective assistant.

When he spoke, he was articulate, coherent, and subdued, and became the idol of many young people for a while. When giving a speech in Nanyang, there was a daughter of an overseas Chinese rich named Chen Biyu, who actually put aside her studies to chase David Wang's itinerary and listen to Wang's wonderful speech. The two got married in 1908, when David Wang was 26 years old and Chen Biyu was only 17 years old.

In the spring of 1932, when David Wang came to power as president of the "Executive Yuan," he put forward the policy of "resisting on the one hand and negotiating on the other" toward Japan, advocating that in the event of a conflict between China and Japan, China should "try its best to endure and make concessions, indicating that we have no intention of provoking." Under the guidance of this ideology, in the following years, China's sovereignty was betrayed on a large scale.

It is for this reason that this assassination took place. He was then taken to the hospital and escaped death, but a bullet remained in his body, which often became inflamed, causing him to die years later.

In fact, if he had died at that time, it would have been a good thing.

After this incident, Qin Di wrote a letter to Wang Yaqiao, vague and implicit: "In the next year, you will have a disaster in the south, why don't you go to the north to take refuge?"

In another year, Wang Yaqiao will be killed in Guangxi by his sworn brother Dai Li, because the two have different ideas, Wang Yaqiao wants to kill Mr. Qing, and Dai Li is determined to protect Mr. Qing.

If Wang Yaqiao leaves the south and throws himself into Pagoda Mountain, he may be able to create a new world.

Although Wang Yaqiao, as the "assassination king", adopted methods that were incompatible with Pagoda Mountain, his thoughts and anti-Japanese concepts were very similar. Moreover, he privately funded the underground party-run newspaper, and also sent his right-hand men to the northwest to make contact. Because of this, after his death, he closed the coffin and said: "There is merit in resisting Japan, killing the enemy is not guilty, the small sections are not inspected, and the major things are not confused." ”

After Wang Yaqiao received the letterhead, he read it and burned it.

He was a little arrogant, and he didn't take Qin Dashao's reminder to heart.

He is a shrewd person, he has traveled south and north for many years, and he has been rounded up many times, but he has cleverly avoided it, and then assassinated many big people, so he is a little arrogant in his heart. Moreover, he is not willing to give up the powerful Axe Gang.

At this time, the Axe Gang has become an "iron-blooded hoe gang", and the scale of the organization is very large.

Moreover, Wang Yaqiao has received the support of Li Jishen, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and others, and it is not to the point of exhaustion. He just didn't expect to fall into Dai Li's trap.

Qin Di didn't wake him up directly. As an assassination king, even if the motive is not in line with the way of heaven, it is normal for him to be killed in the end.

A few days later, the government of the Republic of China announced a blockbuster policy: abolishing the silver dollar and adopting legal tender! The central government, China, and the three banks of communications will buy and sell foreign exchange without restrictions.

The move caused an uproar in the economic sphere.

Prior to this, China had long adopted the silver standard, and before the "abolition of the two yuan and the change of yuan" in 1933, it was actually the use of silver taels and silver dollars.

The United States abandoned the gold standard in April 1933, and the silver purchase bill was subsequently passed.

The silver policy of the United States dealt a fatal blow to China, causing China, which had suffered from the excessively low price of silver, to fall into the disaster of high silver prices, silver outflows, and deflation. All this eventually led to the collapse of the national economy, the reduction of state tax revenues, the emptiness of the treasury, the difficulty of spending, the financial panic, the deepening of the social crisis, and thus the basis of the rule of the national government.

When China's economy was on the verge of collapse, the government decided to abandon the silver standard and implement a fiat currency policy, but due to the shortage of monetary reserves and foreign exchange, it had to win the support of British and American imperialism in order for the currency reform to proceed smoothly.

China initially pinned its hopes on the Americans, but the United States, in order to avoid conflict with Japan, adopted a negative attitude of "non-cooperation" towards China's currency reform.

Britain is an old Western capitalist country that first invaded China, and it has its own special economic interests in China, and its attitude is much more proactive than that of the United States.

In September 1935, the British government sent its chief economic adviser, Li Ziros, to visit China. After many secret talks between Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen and other dignitaries of the Nationalist Government and Li Ziluo, the Nationalist Government finally officially announced the implementation of the currency reform on November 3, 1935.

On 5 November, the Central Bank announced the fiat currency against the pound: 1 fiat currency = 1 shilling 2.5 pence. This provision signifies the National Government's entry into the Sterling bloc.

The United States was greatly dissatisfied with this, and through external pressure, forced the Nationalist Government to sign the "Sino-US Silver Agreement". According to the agreement, the U.S. government buys 50 million ounces of silver from China at a price of 50 cents per ounce, and the fiat currency is pegged to the U.S. dollar, with 100 fiat = 30 U.S. dollars.

To be honest, China's purpose in introducing currency reform was good, but the timing was very bad, just in time for the Japanese invasion of China, the loss of large swathes of China's territory, and the complete collapse of the economy, resulting in the failure of fiat currency.

The Blue and White government adopted an inflationary policy, which caused the fiat currency to depreciate sharply.

In 1937, 100 fiat money could buy 2 cows, in 1939 you could buy a pig, in 1941 you could buy a bag of flour, in 1943 you could buy a chicken, in 1945 you could buy 2 eggs, and in 1949 you could only buy a piece of paper. This shows how ridiculous it is!

The effect of the implementation of fiat currency is that the government banks have plundered the wealth of the people, so that the people's savings have been wiped out.

Although Qin Di knew the trend of fiat currency, he would not take the opportunity to make a fortune for the country, because the failure of fiat currency was the sorrow of the country and the nation, and even if the four major families plundered the wealth of the people, wouldn't their final outcome be doomed? How much wealth could they take with them when they fled to the island? Only gold and silver could be taken away, and paper money could not be taken away. Land, factories, houses, these things are always left on the mainland.

In the vast China, what is really valuable is more than 9.6 million square kilometers of land, and 40,000,000 hard-working and creative people.