Great time travel

Chapter 45. Printing money is the top priority!
On the Yamato, the flagship of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, in a heavily guarded cabin, a group of people were surrounding a machine with serious expressions.

I saw Wang Qiu carefully took out two brand-new Japanese yen banknotes from a small wooden box, and stuffed them into the [chronological vending machine] in front of him, and then only heard a light "ding" sound, and took the money from the vending machine. A large pile of Morinaga toffee in an iron box fell out of the mouth.

"...Yeah! It's a success!" Wang Qiu turned around with a smile on his face and gave Ma Tong a high-five, "...let's print money as hard as possible from now on!"

Ever since it was discovered that Japanese yen banknotes can be used to purchase supplies through [chronological vending machines] in a different world, in the course of the next adventure, except for some high-tech and cutting-edge equipment, the stingy relevant departments tried their best to issue banknotes to Wang Qiu, so that He solves the supply problem by himself - in this way, it feels so cool to use the Japanese yen of the 21st century to buy things at the prices of the Showa era or even the Meiji era!

——Each pack of cigarettes costs only one yen, a box of toffee only costs half a yen, and ten yen can provide a table of food and drink.Even a 21-style rifle only costs [-] yen, which in the [-]st century is only equivalent to the price of half a rice ball... Although [period vending machines] only sell Japanese arms, and do not provide too advanced goods , it can only be provided during the Pacific War at the latest, but it is enough for this World War II plane.

Therefore, before the United Fleet set anchor and headed north, Wang Qiu only took out a mere [-] million yen, leaving enough food and ammunition reserves for the Truk tutelary mansion—the backlog of expired materials of the modern Chinese government. The plane has almost been emptied, and there is not much stock available right now...

Although being able to use the yen of the 21st century to buy things at the prices of the early 21th century or even the end of the [-]th century is already a great advantage.But people's greed is always insatiable.After all, no matter how worthless the yen in the [-]st century is, it is still foreign exchange, and it can only be obtained by paying real money.More importantly, not only Wang Qiu and his small team need to use Japanese yen to purchase supplies and materials from the [chronological vending machine], but the relevant departments also need to spend Japanese yen to purchase some items related to the national economy and the people's livelihood from the [chronological vending machine]. Of course, this is not to save money and take advantage of it, buying Japanese rice from the Meiji era at a price of one yen and ten kilograms, but to collect certain things that cannot be bought with money.

Specifically, large quantities of a rare precious metal: palladium.

——Since Wang Qiu got the technology to produce the palladium fusion reactor (that shiny thing on the chest of Iron Man's suit) from Iron Man Tony Stark in the Marvel world, the domestic political and economic circles suddenly There was a big earthquake.Everyone is intoxicated by this earth-shattering energy revolution!It should be noted that the palm-sized palladium reactor on Iron Man's chest alone has a peak power generation of 30 billion joules per second, which is equivalent to one-third of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station!Just such a small thing can meet the daily power supply needs of a big city, but the cost of power generation can be reduced to almost zero: users only need to bear the daily maintenance costs of the power grid!For the Chinese who need to import huge amounts of fuel oil and natural gas every year after realizing industrialization, such endless and cheap energy is simply an irresistible temptation!
With such clean, non-polluting, portable and miniaturized high-efficiency energy power, not only can China’s manufacturing industry get rid of the bottleneck of energy scarcity, but even rushing out of the earth and conquering the stars and the sea is no longer a science fiction writer’s dream. up.

But the problem is that Iron Man's nuclear fusion reactor is very good and powerful, but it needs to consume a lot of metal palladium.

However, the Chinese government does not have much palladium in its hands, and it is difficult to obtain a large amount of palladium at an affordable price.

——In nature, palladium seldom exists densely alone, but appears as an associated ore of gold mines. The reserves are scarce and smelting is difficult, and the price is already expensive.When the technology of the palladium fusion reactor was revealed, the price skyrocketed to the sky, and there was even a price without a market!

What's more terrible is that the vast majority of the proven reserves of palladium on the earth are located in Russia, Canada and South Africa, all of which are temporarily out of reach of China's influence.In China, there seems to be only a small vein of palladium in Guangxi, and the reserves can only be said to be better than nothing.

Of course, there is no need to mention Russia. Canada is basically the private land of the U.S. imperialists... Think about how hard it is to get the palladium fusion reactor technology that can open the dawn of a new era, but it turns out to be cheaper for the two competitors in the United States and Russia.The feeling of the relevant domestic departments is just like the Axis powers who were choked by the oil shortage during World War II. It is really disgusting as if swallowing a mouse, as if it was a dog, and it is indescribably uncomfortable.

The relevant departments, driven by the shortage of palladium, naturally have to find another way to collect palladium through various crooked ways. The only few bottles of [Synthetic Mineral Element] that Wang Qiu obtained from the plane of Doraemon are used to make Palladium ore veins were produced, and then continued to be purchased with [chronological vending machines].

However, if you use the [chronological vending machine] in the Doraemon plane to spend Japanese yen to buy palladium, you will also encounter a very troublesome problem:
If the date is set too early, then palladium could not be bought in Japan at that time; if the date is set later, the yen has already depreciated, and the price of palladium will be very expensive, which will not account for much. Cheap——The [period vending machine] from Doraemon plane can only sell products made in Japan, and it is basically impossible to buy foreign imported goods in principle.No matter if it is European or American, this machine cannot provide it... And in Japan, where the industrial technology level was backward in the early days, no matter how much money you spend, there is no place to buy expensive and rare palladium. heavy metal...

So far, Wang Qiu has been entrusted by the central government to purchase metal palladium successively from [chronological vending machines]. There must be a strategic inventory of tens of thousands of tons!And it hurts to spend so much money - how many vegetables, fruits and textiles we have to sell to the Japanese in exchange for these yen!

As a result, the relevant departments began to frantically make counterfeit Japanese yen banknotes. With the technical reserves owned by the government, it may be more troublesome to make modern Japanese yen. It should not be difficult to produce Japanese yen banknotes from World War I and World War II.It is a pity that the result is very disappointing: although the counterfeit banknotes imitated by the relevant departments are the same as the old Japanese yen banknotes collected by collectors and the Japanese yen banknotes collected in World War II, even experts cannot tell them apart. But the [Ceramic Vending Machine] is able to distinguish the difference between the two, only recognizes the real banknotes from the World War II plane, and does not recognize the counterfeit banknotes from the relevant departments.

However, in the face of the above-mentioned setbacks, instead of being discouraged, the relevant departments further opened their minds and had a whim: since this [chronological vending machine] only accepts banknotes, and it accepts real Japanese yen banknotes no matter which plane , then if you can control a Japanese government in a different world, and then frantically start the money printing machine, and print yen reasonably and legally, then won’t you be able to get what you want?
——What should I do if I find out that I can’t use the counterfeit banknotes that I spent a lot of effort to forge?Then turn it into real money!
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Therefore, under the instigation of Sophie, the ship's mother, the head of the government of the "Oceania Management Committee" (Orb) and the first chairman of Orb, Hori Tikichi, requested unlimited Japanese yen issuance during wartime. Banknote power - According to him, the enemy is strong and we are weak now, the tonnage of the U.S. Navy is five or six times that of our own. If they cannot be issued independently, then the economic operation will inevitably have great troubles, and it will be difficult to support the huge consumption of modern warfare.

The army and civil servants naturally have doubts about this. After all, financial power is related to the safety of the regime, and what Aubu wants is not the right to issue local bills, but the right to issue national currency.However, the navy insisted strongly, even threatening to overthrow the cabinet, and the Soviet representative also assisted, and also cited the precedent of the Chinese Red Army bases printing their own banknotes, so the resolution was passed in the end.Anyway, in Japan during the war, all daily necessities depended on rationing tickets, and you couldn't buy anything with just Japanese yen banknotes.As for after the war is over...let's talk about it after the war!In case of defeat, Japan will die directly, and the yen will become useless paper. Who will be able to control so much at that time?
Just in case, the navy not only asked for the imperial decree written by the empress, but also forcibly wrote this clause into the constitution, and finally "respectfully invited" the empress to operate the machine and print the first batch of banknotes... so With every care, the money printing plan finally succeeded.

To put it simply, because of some unexplainable secret principle of the big universe, the [chronological vending machine] approved this batch of "real money".

Looking at the toffee that fell out of the pick-up port of the [chronological vending machine], as well as the cans, rice, biscuits, snacks, pickles, lunch boxes, kettles, rifles, pistols, bicycles, forced out of it, Shock cannons, radio stations... All of a sudden, whether it was Chairman Horityoshi, Commander Inoue Narumi, or the three Prime Ministers Nosaka Sen, they were dumbfounded and their thinking was stagnant. "...This, this is unscientific... It's really unscientific! Wait, can you really buy everything from here?" After being tongue-tied for a long time, the third Prime Minister Nosaka San asked suddenly.

"...Yes, you can use this to buy rice, sugar, ammunition, guns, fuel, aircraft, tanks, and even warships!"

Ma Tong explained with a smile, "...As long as you have enough money, you can get whatever you want... Do you have confidence in your future victory now?"

"...It's not just confidence, it's a sure victory!" Hori Tikichi, the first chairman of Orb, couldn't help laughing—if we say that the previous war between Japan and the United States was a judo competition with great disparity in strength.Japan, a poor and weak island country with a population of 7000 million, was confronting the United States, the world's industrial hegemony with a population of 2000 million, and had to defeat the strong with the weak again and again in order to gain a chance to breathe.So from now on, it's all leveled out.The Japanese army has more abundant resources and supplies than the US military, and can in turn burst out all kinds of "seas" to submerge the Yankees!

And Commander Narumi Inoue seemed to have a bigger idea: "...Wait, I remember that the cost of a Yamato is just over 1 million yen. If we print out more than 100 billion yen at full capacity, then Wouldn't it be possible to save a hundred Yamato ships to play against the Yankees right away?"

"...Theoretically, it is possible, as long as you can find so many qualified sailors to fill the warship..." Wang Qiu glanced at him and said.

So Commander Narumi Inoue, who had just gotten excited, suddenly became deflated again—Japan's human resources have long been exhausted, and even the cat's claws want to come in handy. How can there be so many skilled sailors?If you must get the head, it seems that you can only recruit the daughter of a fisherman's family... eh?Seems like an idea to try?Although it is unfavorable to let a woman board a ship, at least it is better than leaving a new warship with no one to drive it, right?

The third prime minister, Nosaka San, frowned and thought of another question, "... In this way, wouldn't the people of our country get something for nothing? As long as they keep printing money, they can get everything they want... I'm afraid this is not in line with The laws of economics will also bring about social problems..."

"... Uncle, you think too much!" Ma Tong shrugged his shoulders and interjected, "...you don't think that this machine can be used forever for decades or hundreds of years?! How can there be such a good thing in the world? It will be scrapped after two or three years at most..."

"... Nani? It's only been two or three years?" The three prime ministers, Nosaka San, were startled when they heard the words, and immediately fell into a new worry about gains and losses...

On the other side, Wang Qiu curled his lips, and made a decision in a self-contained manner, "...It is not too short to have two to three years to get something for nothing. What you want to buy can be left in the future. Think about it slowly, even if you want everything, it doesn’t matter if you are a handchopper. Now our first priority is to print as many banknotes as possible as soon as possible. The first batch should be printed one hundred thousand trillion yen. ..."

"...One hundred thousand trillion yen?!" Narumi Inoue gasped in shock, "...this... maybe there is not enough pulp, right?"

"...It doesn't matter, the paper pulp, ink and other raw materials needed to print banknotes can also be bought from this machine..." Wang Qiu patted the shell of the [chronological vending machine] nonchalantly, "...I see How about buying food for the first batch of banknotes and distributing them to the citizens? How about letting them feel a little happy about the new emperor's enthronement..."

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Therefore, in the temporary headquarters of the Army Staff Headquarters in a temple on the outskirts of Hiroshima, Chief of Staff Neiji Okamura, who was troubled by how to solve the problem of logistics supplies for hundreds of thousands of troops and military dependents, suddenly received a large batch of allocated materials. When I took the list, I was almost scared to death:
"... Nani? 20 tons of gasoline? 1000 tons of rice and wheat? 50 tons of canned Yamato beef and whale meat? [-] tons of sulfa powder? [-] motorcycles? [-] trucks? [-]? [-] bean chariots? [-] million [-]-style rifles? [-] million sets of winter and summer military uniforms? [-] million grenades? [-] billion rounds of rifle bullets?!! Where did you get all those things?"

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PS: A new book is being conceived, and there are currently three ideas: 1. "Dreadnought Mother Aurora", the Maozi ship girl who is drunk all day long is unwilling to lose her status as a red holy ship, and coerces the protagonist to travel through the Russo-Japanese War. Story; 2. "Auspicious Invincible Snow Wind", the second daughter of the modern Taiwanese ship girl Danyang, a black-bellied, shameless, malicious, greedy, greedy and violent middle-school child, her soul traveled through to become the Snow Prince Danyang I-Xue The wind blows the entire Pacific Ocean under her insane and invincible bad luck, and she looks for the story of the militaristic imperialist powers asking for support; 3. "Girls of the Galaxy", the protagonist of the "primitives" in the 21st century and the interstellar era. The cosmic adventure stories of cute girls... Which one do you think is better?