Lost and Spy

Chapter 2617 Battle of Counterfeit Banknotes
The quality of counterfeit banknotes is actually higher than that of real banknotes. Who can imagine such a thing?

This is not finished.

Kenzo Yamamoto has brought the spirit of craftsmanship to the extreme!
He discovered early on that there were red and blue threads in the legal currency, but it was not accurate to say that it was red and blue threads, because it was actually an iridescent thread that changed color with light.

Counterfeit banknote factories can make paper, but not iridescent silk!
But mountains of gold and silver are right in front of you, how can you not want it?

Kenzo Yamamoto gritted his teeth and ordered 2 tons of ultra-fine silk thread from Japan Rayon Co., Ltd.

This kind of thread is much thinner than hair, and can almost be regarded as a "fiber", but no fiber can get rid of a fatal problem:
fade.

This can only be blamed on the backwardness of Japan's domestic printing technology. If printing ink is used, the color of these silk threads will fade in a short time.

The problem of banknote fading has always been a worldwide problem, and it will not be solved until 20 years later.

Kenzo Yamamoto took a different approach this time. He first used the dip-dyeing method to soak the silk thread in pre-mixed rainbow-colored ink for coloring, and then embedded it in the paper. Although the effect was not satisfactory, it was finally passable.

Then there is a more difficult level:
print.

This is a highly difficult professional manual work. It is necessary to engrave the patterns on the real French currency banknotes onto the steel printing plate bit by bit, and there must be no difference.

Kenzo Yamamoto, who was about to go crazy, had to rely on his relationship to invite a technician specialized in making yen from the Ministry of Finance, which is in charge of currency issuance.

Two years before and after!
This professionalism resulted in a consequence:
The manufacturing cost of counterfeit banknotes is actually more expensive than genuine banknotes!

Kenzo Yamamoto could only hand over this task to Japan's Inoue Company.

With the unremitting efforts of Inoue Company, the cost of counterfeit banknotes has been controlled to half of that of real banknotes.

By 1942, Inoue successfully printed counterfeit banknotes worth 500 million French currency.

Yamamoto Kenzo is ambitious and ready to do a big job.

Accident happened.

Just when Japan was printing counterfeit banknotes at full capacity, the Chinese Nationalist Government suddenly tightened its issuance policy and concentrated the issuance rights of the original six banks in the central bank.

This almost caused a devastating blow to Yamamoto Kenzo's insidious plan.But luckily, Yamamoto initially imitated the legal currency types including the central bank’s version.

The issue is?
The national government gave the Japanese a black humor!
According to the plan, Japan only needs to invest [-] billion in counterfeit French currency to completely destroy the national government's economy.

But the Japanese side encountered the national government that did not follow the routine.

The national government retreated to Chongqing in a remote location in the southwest, and the coastal cities were basically occupied by Japan. The banknotes printed by the British and American companies could no longer be reached by sea.

However, in order to offset war expenses and dilute government debts, the government ordered Kong Xiangxi to set up a banknote printing factory in an air-raid shelter in Chongqing.

It turns out that things are going badly.

Gradually, the national government's printing of legal currency has gone out of control, and the annual circulation of legal currency has soared by more than 1000 times, reaching an astonishing 1890 billion.

40 billion versus 1890 billion?
Not even a splash.

Facts once again proved that poor development has achieved unexpected results in some aspects.

Japan puts too much faith in its counterfeiting technology.

At the same time, they underestimated the bottom line of the national government!

Therefore, although the national government is worried about the large number of counterfeit banknotes, in Meng Shaoyuan's view, there is no need to worry at all.

"Actually, Director Dai has expected this a long time ago."

Meng Shaoyuan suddenly shifted the topic to Dai Li: "We discovered early on that the Japanese were printing counterfeit legal currency notes, and the Japanese were the first to print and tentatively used counterfeit five-yuan notes.

Director Dai suggested to the government to immediately suspend and recall the 5-yuan banknotes circulating in the market, and redesign the new banknotes.The national government adopted Director Dai's suggestion, announced the abolition of this banknote, and issued an order to exchange it within a limited time, and it will be invalidated after the expiration date.

The common people were worried that the money in their hands could not be used, so they went to the bank to exchange for new banknotes, and the banknotes were upgraded within a few days.

As a result, unknowingly, Ritt came to use the counterfeit five-yuan banknotes in our control area, and was recognized at a glance. We also captured a lot of Ritt without any effort! "

This time, it was Dai Li who showed a smile on his face.

This is also his proud work.

Dai Li is not only the king of agents, but also has shown surprising talent in economic warfare.

After the counterfeit banknotes appeared, Dai Li not only realized the sinister intentions of the Japanese.I also realized that the method of the Japanese is good, and we should give him a turnaround, and use his own way to exchange for his own body.

After obtaining the approval of the government, the military command established an "Economic War Room against the Enemy."

The person in charge is the head of the military economic group:
Deng Baoguang!
Kenzo Yamamoto is an expert on banknotes, but Deng Baoguang is a real economist with the rank of major general on his shoulders.

Soon the military command and the Americans cooperated to build a secret banknote printing factory in Geleshan, Chongqing, which specially printed currency in the Japanese-occupied area.

With genuine printing plates and American technology, Geleshan quickly printed authentic China Reserve coupons.

In view of the fact that it was too risky to directly release a large amount of counterfeit money by latent personnel of the military command, Dai Li put in counterfeit money through Bei Zuyi, the general manager of Wang Puppet Bank of China.

The Japanese never imagined that it was a real bank that put in the counterfeit money, so that they did not find out the source of the counterfeit money for a long time.

Later, Bei Zuyi was found here, and Bei Zuyi spread out two certificates in both hands to let the Japanese see for themselves which one is real and which one is fake?
I can't tell the difference at all, the military command is too real.There are so many people depositing money in the bank every day, who knows which one deposits counterfeit money?The Japanese can only stare blankly!
Just kidding, the military command is using real genuine printing to make counterfeit banknotes!
Only Dai Li could think of such a thing!
In this matter, anyway, Meng Shaoyuan was convinced of Dai Li.

However, many of these secrets cannot be revealed in front of everyone.

Di Jiahao's face did not look relaxed at all:

"The problem of counterfeit banknotes must be followed up, and we cannot relax a little because of that depreciation. In this matter, the military command, the police station, and the gendarmerie must join hands.

Besides, apart from counterfeit notes, you guys look at this. "

He took out a few silver dollars from his pocket: "Everyone, let's take a look."

Meng Shaoyuan picked up the silver dollar, looked at it for a while and said:
"This is a silver-plated copper block. Well, in terms of quality, it is much better than the silver-plated lead block we checked in Shanghai before."

"After the national government announced the national legal currency and banned the circulation of silver dollars and silver, the circulation of silver dollars has been very small."

Di Jiahao looked solemn:
"But the reduction does not mean a complete severance. In some places, silver dollars are still quietly used, and they are repeatedly banned!"

(End of this chapter)