Author: Xi Peng
Statement: "Bing said" original manuscript, plagiarism will be investigated
In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, the two countries in the East fought fiercely on the battlefield. However, in addition to the confrontation on the battlefield, an undercurrent is also forming.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > (i) Japan's wolf ambitions</h1>
In 1938, just a year after the fall of Shanghai, a group of Japanese quietly moved in, they were the technical backbone of the Japanese private printing factory at that time. They did not have the uniforms of the Japanese Army, but they were under the direct command of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese Minister of War at the time.
Originally, Tojo knew that the Japanese army could not completely surrender Chinese on the battlefield, and could only stab the knife economically, so that China would lose too much blood without fighting itself. The main purpose of these key printing plants in coming to China this time was to make counterfeit banknotes of the main popular currencies in China at that time, and to spread them out, causing the collapse of China's economy. This group of people was code-named "Matsuki" within the Japanese army. The matsuki system was extremely secretive within the Japanese army, comparable to the Mantetsu Investigation Department, the most secretive spy agency in Japan at that time.
The Japanese army launched an invasion of China
At that time, the popular currency in Chongqing was legal tender, and the shame was due to backward technology, Chongqing did not have the technology to make legal tender, all the technology was derived from Europe and the United States. After the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the Japanese seized a large number of legal tender templates in Hong Kong—all tools entrusted by the British to print fiat money commissioned by the Nanjing side. When the pine organ got the treasure of this batch of templates, it immediately began to print counterfeit money tools. A large number of legal tenders with sun yat-sen's head printed on them, 5 yuan and 10 yuan, were made from Shanghai. Then the Japanese spread these counterfeit banknotes into the Kuomintang through gang organizations such as the Green Gang, Japanese control trading companies and Japanese puppet agents. Soon, the market in the national unification area was flooded with these counterfeit banknotes. According to incomplete statistics, the Japanese printed more than 4 billion counterfeit French banknotes through the Matsu organs, and stole a lot of wealth from China in the early stages of the war.
legal tender
In addition to Chongqing, Yan'an is also the target of the Song organs. In The Liberated Areas such as Hebei in Shandong Province, a large number of counterfeit Hebei coins, Beihai coupons, and border area coins have also appeared. In 1943, the Beihai Bank alone found more than a dozen kinds of counterfeit Beihai bills in the anti-Japanese base area of Shandong. Counterfeit banknotes have set off an invisible bloody storm throughout China.
The main currency of the base area at that time
However, the devil is one foot tall, and the road is one foot high. Both Chongqing and Yan'an have their own ways of dealing with counterfeit banknotes. The base areas in North China immediately changed their anti-counterfeiting plans and sent economic groups to strictly investigate counterfeit banknotes, destroying many channels of source counterfeit banknotes controlled by the Japanese. Moreover, at that time, the printing of banknotes in Yan'an was very simple, which led to the Japanese with high-tech skills being confused about it and losing the battle in this big showdown.
Chongqing's approach to counterfeiting is even simpler: create inflation for itself. At that time, various dignitaries and nobles in Chongqing monopolized the US aid channels to China, resulting in soaring prices in Sichuan, Dianqian and other areas. Coupled with Chongqing's own indiscriminate issuance of banknotes, it led to huge inflation of the legal tender. From 1937 to 1944, more than 1,000 times the amount of legal tender issued in the seven years, and the small five- and ten-yuan legal tenders printed in Japan soon became waste paper on the market. Seeing chongqing's massive inflation, Kenzo Yamamoto, the Japanese economist who was in charge of matsu's work at the time, lamented: "China is truly a formidable country." ”
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > (ii) China's counterattack</h1>
Come and go without being rude also. Since the Japanese dared to lead the use of counterfeit money to carry out economic warfare against China, don't blame the other side for fighting back. After the Nationalist zone cracked the Japanese counterfeit money war, the military command also quickly set up a group against Japan's counterfeit money war. The leader of the group was Deng Baoguang, a well-known economist and major general of the military command.
Deng Baoguang
Deng Baoguang is an out-and-out "Japan Pass". He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo in Japan and began studying the economic war against Japan in 1934, when China and Japan were not yet at war. Subsequently, he was taken into the pocket by Dai Kasa and became the head of the military economic group stationed in Hankou. This time, he will be fully responsible for the war against Japanese counterfeit banknotes.
Deng Baoguang also transferred a group of printing workers from the Printing Bureau, and used agents to collect all kinds of banknotes circulating in the Japanese-occupied areas, and began to print counterfeit banknotes in Chongqing. Subsequently, it was spread to the Japanese-occupied district through the Shanghai-based Pei Zuyi (the father of the famous architect I.M. Pei). Then, the agents of the various military command used these counterfeit banknotes to rob the purchase of funds and bribe the officers of the puppet army, hoping to use this to attack the Japanese and the Wang economy.
However, China's counterfeit banknote technology is not as superb as that of the Japanese, and many of the counterfeit banknotes produced have been recognized by the agents of the Loose Organs at a glance, resulting in the arrest of many military spy and defective puppet army officers. At this time, a double-sided spy came out to change this situation, and he was Lin Dingli.
Lin Dingli is a person on the opposite island, which has been occupied by Japan for 50 years, but Lin Dingli is very much identified with his Chinese identity. He was nominally the boss of the gang and the head of the Japanese secret service in China, but behind his back was a sharp knife buried in the heart of the Japanese. When Deng Baoguang had a headache because the counterfeit banknotes were repeatedly cracked, Lin Dingli walked up the door.
He could provide the first information on Japan's seizure of counterfeit banknotes, so that Deng Baoguang's economic group immediately changed its printing strategy and minimized the losses of the military command. Throughout the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the military command made a lot of profits through the Japanese and pseudo-economic wars, and Dai Kasa also raised a large number of informal armed forces, including the Loyal National Salvation Army, and Deng Baoguang and Lin Dingli made great contributions. Therefore, after the victory of the War of Resistance, Deng Baoguang was given the important task of accepting shanghai's enemy property, and Lin Dingli became the first station chief of the Secrecy Bureau after the restoration of Baodao.