Lost and Spy

Chapter 363 Dirty Project (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)

(I wish all brothers, sisters, and readers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy family reunion!)

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Meng Shaoyuan, who was under the gun, was not afraid at all, not even the slightest panic:
"Mr. Beckett, in Shanghai, there are only two types of people who dare to point a gun at me. One is my boss, and the other is the Japanese. You? Not worthy!"

You are not worthy!
Hawes was enraged: "I'm here to kill you, no one knows, no one!"

"You are also a member of the Knights of the Hospital anyway, why don't you use your brain?" Meng Shaoyuan pointed to his head: "I dare to come here alone, do you think I'm as crazy as you?"

Hoyston hesitated for a moment.

Yes, why did Meng Shaoyuan dare to come here alone?

"As long as you dare to shoot, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sinclair Joe Solteras, will personally arrest you. I can design a follow-up plot for you."

Meng Shaoyuan actually took another sip of wine: "You are a foreigner, Mr. Solteras will not do anything to you, he will receive a large sum of money, and then temporarily detain you, please assist in the investigation. You were arrested In the detention place, two or three Chinese people will come in, ah, don’t worry, it’s just that the detention room is full, and they will be locked up with you temporarily.

At night, those Chinese people will suddenly get up and smash your knees and hands first, so that you can't resist. You will ask, where are the guards?Can't the guard hear anything?Of course they couldn't hear it, because they were counting the lot of money they just got, of course you know, that money was given to them by my people, right?

You will be tortured for a whole night. The next day, the guards will only find your body. You committed suicide. Believe me, the prisoners with you will prove that you committed suicide.The guards will prove that you have committed suicide, and Mr. Solteras will believe that you have committed suicide. Your body will be cremated quickly. "

When Meng Shaoyuan said this, he still didn't forget to add: "I remembered that one of the few Chinese suspects doesn't like women, but only men. Although you are a bit older, you are still in good shape."

Hawes felt sick, really sick.His hand holding the gun also began to tremble.

"You are not a gun player, Mr. Beckett." Meng Shaoyuan said calmly: "I don't know if your bullet can hit me, but what I can be sure of is that as soon as the gun goes off, you, and this No one in the factory is going to leave safely. Put down your guns, Mr. Beckett."

Hawes hesitated, hesitated, and finally put the gun away.

Meng Shaoyuan laughed. People like Hawes would use other people's hands to kill people, but they seldom have the courage to do it themselves.

He didn't even want to do things like take the box himself, and would rather delegate it to a Chinese, because he was worried about any damage to his reputation.

After all, he was going to run for that so-called "Grand Knight of Honor".

The Knights Hospitaller would not allow a scandalous man to be part of their holy order.

"You are really a scum of the Knights of the Hospital." After Meng Shaoyuan said this sentence, he continued: "However, I like to cooperate with a scum like you."

What's the meaning?cooperate?

"As I said, we belong to the Shanghai Public Mutual Aid Association. We are allies. Allies should help each other instead of hurting each other. Although what you did just now made me very sad."

On Meng Shaoyuan's face, there was no trace of sadness, but only treachery and insidiousness: "In Shanghai, if you want to commit a crime and do it perfectly, you can't do without my help. Are you making counterfeit money? Mr Beckett?"

Hawes didn't answer right away.

Meng Shaoyuan decided to add fuel to the fire: "I'm an agent, not a policeman, not a police officer in the concession. Are you worried that I will arrest you or report you? No, I'm here to cooperate with you."

"Yes, I was making counterfeit bills," Hawes finally admitted.

"Yen? Fiat currency?"

"Yen! I won't do fiat currency because I foresee its depreciation!"

"Smart!" Meng Shaoyuan gave a thumbs up.

Counterfeiting the yen is really a particularly clever idea.

The Japanese also forged a large number of legal currency in an attempt to use this method to attack the national government's economy.But at the beginning, the counterfeit banknotes they made were not well-crafted, and even ordinary merchants refused to accept them.

After continuous improvement, especially after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army seized a batch of semi-finished legal currency in Hong Kong, and also seized the central bank's money printing machine.

So far, Japan has acquired all the core technologies for printing legal currency.

The problem is, the Japanese didn't think of another problem at all:
inflation!

Money is worthless.

You are printing counterfeit banknotes, but the national government's banknote printing machines are running at full power, printing real banknotes like crazy!
On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the total amount of legal currency issued was only more than 14 billion yuan, but in the following years, the total amount of legal currency issued reached 5 billion yuan.

As a result of the excessive printing of banknotes, prices in the Kuomintang-controlled areas have risen more than 8 times in eight years. In 100, 1937 French currency could still buy a cow. A few years later, 100 French currency could not even buy a box of matches.

The Japanese printed a total of 40 billion counterfeit French currency, but the money was like a small stone thrown into the sea, without any splash.

Kenzo Yamamoto, the person in charge of Japan's counterfeit banknote war, couldn't believe this fact at all. For the 40 billion counterfeit French currency, Japan even pawned its pants. Want to recover the printing cost?It will appear in the dream.

It is said... It is said that Kenzo Yamamoto once said this about the fiasco of fake legal currency:

"China is really a daunting country!"

This is not the most frightening thing. The most frightening thing is that when Japan was printing fake legal currency, the Chinese Nationalist Government was also doing its best to print fake military bills and counterfeit yen banknotes, and successfully purchased a large amount of gold, cotton yarn, Short-supply materials such as cloth further exacerbated the inflation in the Japanese and puppet ruled areas.

Meng Shaoyuan knew the course of history, whoever printed counterfeit legal currency was ill.But Hawes predicted the sharp depreciation of the legal currency.

So in this sense, this guy is still very capable.

"This is our new yen." This time, what Hawes took out of the drawer was not a weapon, but a few counterfeit Japanese yen bills.

Meng Shaoyuan got up to take it, and after only a few glances, he shook his head and said, "It's too fake, it's impossible to get away with it."

"That's right." Hayes admitted this frankly: "Especially in the paper and ink technology, there are big problems. That's why I sent a batch of supplies from the United States this time..."

"Paper and ink dye?"

"That's right, that box is in your hand?"

"Yes." Meng Shaoyuan nodded: "At first, I didn't understand what these things are for. When I thought that you bought a bankrupt gauze factory, I suddenly realized. The machines in the gauze factory , is your best camouflage, the money printing machine you brought in can completely find an excuse, it is a new type of gauze machine."

Meng Shaoyuan did not tell the whole truth.

Why Hawes inexplicably went to buy a bankrupt gauze factory is indeed a loophole, but more importantly, it is the batch of paper.

Who would send a batch of paper from the United States to China when they are full and have nothing to do?

When he saw this batch of papers, the movies and TV shows he had watched appeared in his mind.

What can paper be used for?
Books, newspapers.

But the texture of this batch of paper is too wasteful to print newspapers.

Unless it's... banknotes that require special paper!

Making counterfeit banknotes is hugely profitable. For hundreds of years, countless people have taken risks for it.

During World War II, the Japanese made fake French currency, the Chinese made fake yuan, the Germans made fake pounds, and the British made fake marks.

Everyone becomes a counterfeiter!
As long as it is not a mass production, one or two people can make a batch of counterfeit banknotes.

What's more, didn't Qin Fuyu say that Hawes specially recruited a few "professional technicians".

These technicians are not here to produce gauze.

They are here to make counterfeit money.

"I can return that box to you." After confirming this, Meng Shaoyuan said, "I can find any special materials you need, but the premise is that I want to become your partner!"

"Partner?" Hawes hesitated.

"Mr. Beckett, don't forget your identity. Once such dirty things are leaked, it will cause a great blow to your reputation." Meng Shaoyuan didn't mean to mock at all: "I can provide you with protection, guarantee No one can bother you anymore. You are only in charge of technology and making counterfeit notes as perfect as possible.

I can help you find the materials you need.I'm an agent and I have special access for this.The counterfeit banknotes you printed need someone to spend them, and I can also help.Also, you must digest the large amount of supplies purchased with counterfeit banknotes. Do you rely on Angus alone?No, I am a shareholder of Angus, and I also have my own smuggling channels.

If you think about it, if you use counterfeit banknotes to buy the in-demand supplies, and then sell these supplies through smuggling, you can get several times more profits.You also thought of this, so you are going to cooperate with Angus Matheson and Joey.Add me now, and I can give you double insurance, dear Mr. Beckett. "

Without any hesitation, Hawes stood up, walked up to Meng Shaoyuan, and stretched out his hand: "Welcome to join this project."

"It's a dirty project, but it's also a profitable project." Meng Shaoyuan also stood up and shook hands with him: "I believe that in the United States, you also have such a counterfeit banknote production line, but the risk is too high in the United States, so you I have taken a fancy to China in the war. It is much safer here. Mr. Beckett, in addition to holiday yuan, we can also focus on fake military tickets. In the Northeast, Japanese military tickets have been in circulation for many years. This It's much easier to counterfeit."

"Of course, my dear partner, the cooperation between us will be very pleasant."

The premise is that the counterfeit yen banknotes that are as perfect as possible and can fool most people must be created!

(End of this chapter)