It is said that on December 26, 1941, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong. When counting the booty, the Japanese army was happy: the printing press, currency code, bottom book in the Hong Kong Mint of the National Government, a full set of treasures sparkling!
At this moment, the Japanese thought of the beginning, but did not expect the end - it turned out that the ability to collect the people was inferior to Minister Jiang, and he directly prejudged the Japanese.
At this time, the background is: the War of Resistance has entered a stalemate stage, and Japan has begun to implement the "100-meter ban" that each adult only issues 330 grams of rice per day, and polished rice and brown rice must be eaten together!
Japan's domestic industry is deformed, agriculture is withering, war is like a huge pumping machine, Japan has gone to the brink of collapse, the national treasury is empty and hungry, foreign exchange has been replaced by a large number of weapons, hundreds of industries are withering, the government has no taxes to collect, and the people have no products that can export foreign exchange.
In 1937, as many as 7,000 people died of various forms of overwork.
In 1938, nearly 5,000 peasant revolts broke out in Japan!
In January 1939, 3,000 Japanese troops mutinied from Shanghai to Tianjin by boat.
This is the real Japan, the domestic economy is close to collapse, the people are constantly resisting, the soldiers are war-weary, the treasury is empty, the foreign exchange is tight, and it is impossible to replenish war resources!
Despite being trapped like a wild dog, Japan continued to push the wheels of war forward.
What does a printing press mean?
It means printing money casually, snapping up Chinese supplies, replenishing military supplies and even domestic, and even ...
Dreaming of ending the war of aggression against China in 3 months (1938), more and more Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians fought, and the Japanese army had fallen into the ocean of people's war.
When it is difficult to achieve results in fighting all day long, is it not a brilliant trick to mess up the economic war of the National Government through crazy printing of money, and to let the military and civilians trapped in the rear of China be in the water and fire?
At this time, Minister Jiang's inner monologue should be like this: Printing money does not need to be done by the imperial army.
The Japanese army entrusted this burden to Yamamoto Kenzo Shōsa.
Yamamoto walked into his new office with great pride. He thought: The anti-counterfeiting technology of legal tender is actually very general,
Ordinary Chinese people are not highly educated, and most of them are farmers, who will notice that the new money is fake?
This is the National Government's own mint, and apart from the new points, who can say that the money printed is fake?
At that time, the Japanese estimated that China's production and circulation currency was about three billion. India 4 billion, inflation doubled! Just disrupt the economy, don't starve people, cause displacement, displaced people everywhere, and it is not easy to manage!
Facts have proved that even if the old United States comes to engage in inflation, it will not be able to do Minister Jiang, and Japan will print billions of dollars? Look down on whom!
Until the end, Yamamoto Shosa did not think about how the Japanese judged how broken this judgment was. So Yamamoto was devoted from beginning to end.
Soon, Yamamoto produced a batch of 5 yuan in french currency (issued by the Bank of China at that time), and these newly released legal tenders were shipped to China at the fastest speed, and the packaging must have been hot at this time.
But when it was transported to the locality, it was found that this set of money was no longer circulating in China!
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Yamamoto is busy! But he wasn't discouraged!
Immediately after the development of the 1 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan denomination of the legal tender (issued by the China Farmers Bank at that time) there is always a suitable for you!
These counterfeit bills are bright and bright, the sheets are structured, the collapsed horses are too new, this stuff is all folk grocery shopping, taking the subway, playing mahjong, how can it be so good-looking?
This collapsed horse is too easy to make people suspicious, in short, did not dare to use too much, use more no one wants, give people red envelopes are too shaky eyes.
The indomitable Yamamoto Shosa once again threw himself into the business of counterfeiting with enthusiasm...
Finally, the sky has eyes, and Yamamoto Shosa has made up fake bills that are really fake!
The plates of the printed coins are all high-level carving masters hired by heavy money, who do not eat or sleep, meticulously carve out with a magnifying glass, and even the hair of Mr. Sun's head on the banknote is exactly the same, and it takes a lot of effort to do old treatment...
Just then, Japan's fiercest teammate on earth, the German, gave a big gift!
The German submarine intercepted an American merchant ship, which was loaded with huge sums of money — fiat currency commissioned by the Nationalist government to print in the United States (legal tender is forcibly pegged to the us dollar, financial constraints are with the United States, and more is tears).
Since the Germans allied with Japan, Chiang has always been mindful of the German ordnance forces. But the two sides really broke up completely, rare earths can not be bought, there is no way to talk about any resources, money and ships to Japan!
This Yamamoto Shosa was like a god, full of horsepower, printing money day and night, and by the end of the war, a total of 4 billion yuan of counterfeit French currency had been produced.
People are not as good as heavenly calculations, never expected ah, Yamamoto Shosa eventually lost to production capacity:
The National Government built a bigger printing factory in Chongqing, because it could not make ends meet all year round, it could only print money like crazy, and issued more than 180 billion yuan in less than three years!
Minister Jiang said: I have inflation more than five hundred times. Four billion wipes of ass is too little!
Yamamoto Shosa's heart broke down: I am a person who has come to make trouble on purpose than you can toss yourself?
The 4 billion counterfeit banknotes that Spit Yamamoto vomited blood are simply mud cattle into the sea, silent.
Currency wars are not new: Chinese have been teachers of the Japanese since ancient times: does the Nationalist government need a bottom line for printing counterfeit money?
Husbands are indisputable, and the ancient world cannot compete with them
Thus, in 1942, the Nationalist government also began to print Japanese counterfeit currencies.
The military command opened the "Sino-US Cooperation Institute," introduced the most advanced technology, equipment, and paper from the United States, and used full horsepower to manufacture the China Reserve Bonds issued by Japan and Japan.
Due to the secret cooperation between Zhou Fohai (Wang Fei's finance minister) and the military command, the military command effortlessly obtained the layout of the Central Reserve Coupon.
Wang Jingwei looked at the fake banknotes of the military command and the real money he had painstakingly printed, and his brain buzzed, and he said with tears: In the future, Yamamoto will be sent to the Pacific Battlefield, will it be good? The Yamamoto of the Chinese battlefield was either unable to print counterfeit money or defend the county seat of Ping'an.
He painfully declared: The old currency is invalid, and the new is exchanged for the old.
Minister Jiang's monologue is like this: In terms of printing money, I am not aiming at anyone, and I have not lost in this regard.
The heart of the military commander is not an ordinary wild: why not print a few ships of yen to test the waters?
After all, because the Japanese country is too small, the yen is only issued exclusively by the Bank of Japan, and it cannot be broken for a while.
In addition, the yen is well-made, and the material is very special - the paper fiber comes from the unique Japanese three-tree tree, if the war had not ended too quickly, it is estimated that some people would have planted this kind of fortune tree! The military command eventually spared Japan.
The Japanese originally wanted to stab the Nationalist government, but they did not expect the Kuomintang to directly scratch their necks: a miracle in the history of human economy has happened: the cost of paper money exceeds the denomination of paper money, and the National Government has eliminated the possibility of using counterfeit money!
I suddenly remembered the sentence: As long as I have no morality, I am not afraid of moral kidnapping: these huge currencies have made the common people very unlucky, and they have been ruined by the Japanese and the Wang puppets and the Kuomintang government.
By the way, let's talk about how the currency of the Liberated Areas stands out
Forced by technical conditions, from the Soviet area to the base area to the liberated area in various periods, we have not had good equipment, such as the I-word silver dollar issued in the Soviet area only on the basis of Yingyang more than one I-word,
The materials used for mimeographing had to be transported back by the underground party in various ways. The printing machines of Dabie Mountain are even lithographic... Although the conditions are limited, he has become a defensive master, and the counterfeit currency has been expelled from the base area.
There is also the ability to "make a big one" before the abolition of the national government and counterfeit currency coins.
Under the magical defense of the Soviet zone, Neither Ri Fei nor Jiang took advantage of anything, but instead played themselves down first
The memoirs of a ghostly officer (who was engaged in market management and the like) wrote: He managed the chaos, there was the currency of the devil, the currency of the Republic of China, and the currency of the border area.
This guy was surprised to find that the credit and purchasing power of the border area currency was the strongest.
Then, each time he received his military salary, it was converted into border currency.
This speculator was very satisfied with the exchange price, so he stayed for a few years and returned to Japan with a huge amount of money.
In the book, he was very emotional about the distribution and production methods of the border area, he did not expect the border area bank to be so powerful, but he never said it.