nycdaug Chapter 397 Threat from the Central Bank
Chapter 397 Threat from the Central Bank
Chen Yang looked coldly at the two No. 76 bosses, and at this moment, both of them lowered their heads guiltily.
"What? Can't you two come up with an effective plan?" Chen Yang's tone began to become a little impatient.
Li Qun was silent for a while, then raised his head and said, "Commander Chen, I have a suggestion. In order to retaliate against the Military Control Commission, can we attack their bank in the concession?"
"Wan Tianmu was once the head of the Military Control Commission's Shanghai Station for a period of time. He had a number of accounts in his hands, which were internal accounts of the Ministry of Finance. They were all from the Central Bank and the Bank of Jiangsu."
“If we can transfer the money out of these accounts, it will definitely cause problems for the economy of the Republic of China government.”
Chen Yang's eyes lit up, and he looked at Li Qun and asked, "How much money is in these accounts?"
Li Qun hesitated and said, "It's hard to say, but it should be quite a lot. This is the account where the Ministry of Finance of the National Government pays salaries to various departments. We don't know the exact number."
"However, considering the influence of No. 76 in the concession, it may be difficult to move those accounts."
"Unless the Japanese are willing to intervene?" Chen Yang quickly understood what Li Qun meant, and said while stroking his chin, "I will communicate with the head of the Qingqi Agency to see if the Mei Agency can help."
As he spoke, Chen Yang picked up the phone and dialed the internal number. However, before he could finish his words, Qingqi Qingyin on the other end jumped up as if his butt was on fire.
"No, you absolutely cannot set your sights on the central bank and the Bank of Jiangsu." Qingqi Qingyin rushed into Chen Yang's office and rejected Chen Yang's proposal before he could catch his breath.
"Mr. Qingqi, is there something wrong here?" Chen Yang rarely saw Qingqi Qingyin lose his composure like this.
"What do you mean?" Qingqi Qingyin was silent for a while, then said in a deep voice: "Mr. Chen, wait for me."
After he finished speaking, Qingqi Qingyin hurried upstairs again, and his action left everyone present confused.
Soon, Qingqi Qingyin ran down again, this time with an extra file bag in his hand.
"You guys go out first." Qingqi Qingyin said to Dingcun and Li Qun, as if the contents of this file bag were extremely confidential and could not be known by them.
Ding Cun and Li Qun did not ask any more questions. They bowed slightly to Chen Yang and Qingqi Qingyin, then turned and walked out of the office.
"Mr. Qingqi, do you have to be so mysterious?" Chen Yang felt that Qingqi Qingyin was making a fuss out of nothing. After all, Li Qun and Ding Cun were the persons in charge of No. 76, and they were all in the same trench.
It seems a bit too much to be so wary of others.
Qingqi Qingyin handed the file bag to Chen Yang and said, "This thing is related to the stability of the empire's economy. The fewer people who know about it, the better."
"It's so serious," Chen Yang squeezed the file bag and found that there seemed to be something like paper inside, and the size was strange.
When I opened the file bag, a stack of Japanese yen fell out.
"Mr. Qingqi, what do you mean by this?" Chen Yang picked up the Japanese yen and was very confused. What secrets were there in these Japanese yen?
"Sure enough, even Mr. Chen can't tell the difference." Qingqi Qingyin sighed, but the worry between his brows became even more intense.
"Are you saying that these Japanese yen are counterfeit? No, they feel very real, the watermark, the embossing, the glossiness are all fine, and you're telling me they're fake?" Chen Yang is a professional middleman after all, how could he not be able to tell the difference between real money and fake money?
"That's the problem," Qingqi Qingyin looked around and leaned forward to whisper, "This money was printed by a professional state machine."
“Once it enters the market, it will be impossible to tell whether it is real or fake, but it will be a disaster for the empire.”
Chen Yang's face changed instantly, and he looked at Qingqi Qingyin and said, "Mr. Qingqi, what is going on? Where did all this money come from?"
Qingqi Qingyin smiled bitterly and said, "The money is kept in the safe of the Central Bank of the Concession. There are forty boxes in total."
"You know the Sugi Plan that was implemented in the mainland before..."
Qingqi Qingyin slowly recounted the whole story.
The Shan Plan was implemented in 1938. The original idea was to create counterfeit currency to impact the financial system of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and paralyze the southern economy.
Who would have thought that after the Nationalist government learned about this plan, they did not even think of stopping it, but instead resorted to the desperate measure and said, "You print money, right? Then we will print money too, and even more than you."
The legal tender printed by the Japanese had not yet become widespread, but the price of the legal tender had been lowered in the mountain city.
The most outrageous thing is that the counterfeit money printed by the Americans in Shancheng is of very high quality and can be used as real money.
Moreover, there were not only counterfeit French currency, but also forty boxes of holiday dollars and forty boxes of counterfeit pounds.
The person who originally found this information was that damn lieutenant colonel, Shinichi Nakajima from the Information Investigation Division.
After he reported this information, the director of the central bank, Huang Siwei, came to him personally and repeatedly assured that they would properly dispose of the money. However, they did not propose to destroy all the counterfeit currency. The purpose was to prevent the Japanese from retaliating against them.
Qingqi Qingyin also understood what the central bank and Jiangsu Bank meant...
If they dare to take action against these banks, counterfeit Japanese yen banknotes will flood in.
Tsk tsk tsk, if this money were to flow into the market, it would be a huge source of fun.
By then, Japan's economy will face an unprecedented crisis of confidence. Of course, they still have China as a place to diversify their risks.
It can kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 of its own. Most importantly, China is weak and its consumption level is extremely low. How much pressure can it share for them?
Although the Japanese yen can be circulated in the Chinese market, it is not just the Japanese yen that circulates in China.
Once the news of the holiday dollar breaks out, the Chinese can completely abandon the Japanese yen and use other currencies for settlement, or simply barter.
This kind of thing is nothing to the Chinese people, and many rural areas have been doing this until now.
Forcefully circulate the devalued Japanese yen?
sure....
But what is the difference between this and robbery? It will only make the Chinese more hostile to them and arouse the resistance of the entire nation.
Of course, even if they don't take action against those banks, the counterfeit money in their hands will definitely circulate outward. However, the Mei Agency can put pressure on the banks to slow down the circulation, or even seal the money in the central bank's safe.
The premise is that the two sides have not completely torn their relations apart. If they attack the central bank and Jiangsu Bank as Li Qun suggested, Qingqi Qingyin is really worried that the other party will destroy both himself and the bank.
When the time comes, everyone will be in chaos and no one will be able to think of anything good.
Chen Yang frowned. Qingqi Qingyin's words made sense. If the economy in the South got into chaos, the locals would definitely be very dissatisfied with them.
The two were silent for a while, and Qingqi Qingyin suddenly said, "Mr. Chen, why don't you hand over the arrest plan to Nantian Yunzi."