Chapter 614 Restart the Currency War
"Your Majesty, the Red Revolution broke out in the German Empire, and a group of Germans who believed in Boulvikism were rioting, hoping to get the support of the empire."
Zhang Peilun, who had just been promoted to Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire, brought Tang Shaoyi, the same newly appointed Minister of the Lifan Academy, to meet with him.
"It's true that you want assistance!"
Li Weiguo glanced at the two of them and said softly, then continued to study the Nuwa's tears in his hands, frowned from time to time, trying to understand the mystery.
Zhang Peilun and Tang Shaoyi looked at each other and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Li Weiguo guessed that although these German revolutionaries knew that the Chinese Empire was the enemy of the German Empire, they were based on the principle that the enemy was friends. Now they had weak power and wanted to take the Chinese Empire as their backer. They knew that the Chinese Empire was rich and had strong military strength, so it became inevitable to ask for assistance.
"Your Majesty clearly understands that these German revolutionaries did make demands for economic and military aid to the Lefan Academy, but I think that as long as the German Empire can be disrupted, it is still possible to give them appropriate assistance."
Zhang Peilun took the lead in admitting and explained.
Li Weiguo put down the tears of Nuwa in his hand and said to the two: "You can give them some assistance, but this group of rebellious Germans may not be credible, and they must be strictly supervised."
"I obey the order!"
Zhang Peilun happily accepted the order, but at this time he heard Tang Shaoyi suddenly say.
"Your Majesty, I suggest that the money we aid will not be given directly to the RMB, but to them the German mark. At present, the German Empire has tried every means to earn RMB as foreign exchange to ensure the smooth progress of its overseas trade. If this rebellion was directed and performed by the Germans, the RMB we aid will be sent to the German Empire's Foreign Exchange Administration, which is helping them."
Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Your worries are reasonable. What do you think about Zhang Peilun?"
Zhang Peilun thought for a while, so he replied: "I think Lord Tang's worries make sense, but there are not many German marks in the empire!"
Li Weiguo looked at Tang Shaoyi again, and the latter suggested: "I think it can be replaced by counterfeit banknotes. I heard that the empire had an organization dedicated to printing counterfeit banknotes. The counterfeit banknotes made were enough to distort the real ones. If that is the case, why not make full use of them?"
After Tang Shaoyi finished speaking, Li Weiguo was immediately embarrassed.
Although fake-bills have long been a secret open to countries around the world, even if you know, telling them in person is another matter. Li Weiguo naturally would not admit that most of the fake-bills that are popular all over the world were done by him, especially in front of the people of the Chinese Empire, which was even more unrecognizable and would not be recognized even if he beaten to death.
Maybe Tang Shaoyi is a newcomer, so Li Weiguo did not blame him either.
However, Zhang Peilun said dissatisfied: "At present, countries are very careful in cracking down on counterfeit banknotes. In the past, counterfeit banknotes could be avoided if they had a 50% similarity, but now they are not more than 95% similarity, which is very difficult to pass. Especially in the German Empire, the German Mark's production was already very exquisite. The German Empire even warned the Germans to carefully identify every penny and crack down on them as long as they were found. Therefore, the cost of counterfeit banknotes made by the empire is getting higher and higher, and the channel fees for smuggling violation banknotes are getting higher and higher. Generally, it is a loss-making business. Therefore, unless necessary, such as a war breaks out, the counterfeit banknote plan will not be easily restarted."
Zhang Peilun is a fact that as the manufacturing process of printing banknotes in various countries becomes more and more advanced (forced by the counterfeit money of the Chinese Empire), its anti-counterfeit money will become stronger and stronger, and the cost of counterfeit money printed by the Chinese Empire will become higher and higher.
At the same time, once a counterfeit banknote enters a certain country, it will face a huge risk of being hit, and special channels are needed to sell counterfeit banknotes. This channel fee has become very expensive due to the crackdowns of various countries. The various costs add up, making the profit of counterfeit banknotes almost zero, or even lose money.
Unless a war breaks out, the counterfeit money plan will be launched in order to defeat the opponent as soon as possible. Even if you lose money, you will invest on a large scale. The purpose is to harm the opponent's money market, cause its prices to soar, and ultimately disrupt the enemy's rear economy and achieve the purpose of the war.
Therefore, in peacetime, the Chinese Empire would not start a fake-money plan. After all, the Chinese Empire is not short of money now, unlike Li Weiguo who just started his business, which required a lot of funds.
However, Tang Shaoyi’s meaning is not that. He explained: “I hope to use fake money directly as real money!”
Take fake-bills as real money?
Li Weiguo and Zhang Peilun were both stunned, with confusion on their faces.
"Tell me what you think!"
Tang Shaoyi explained: "I proposed to directly issue the German mark for the German Revolutionary Army. Since the empire could achieve a 99% simulation in counterfeiting the German Mark, it was only the only way to issue the currency codebook from the German Imperial Bank. Then, why not directly recognize the German Revolutionary Army as a legal government and then openly issue the German mark to them. I believe that the German Revolutionary Army will definitely get a real banknote codebook. Even if it cannot be done, it can re-engineer. By then, the counterfeit banknotes printed by the empire will no longer be counterfeit banknotes, but regular currency."
Zhang Peilun's eyes lit up and agreed and added: "This is indeed a problem! Once the German Revolutionary Army has its own currency, it will be legitimate to import fake money into Germany and even agree to trade with cities controlled by the revolutionary military government. If this is a trick written and directed by the German Empire, then they will have to withstand the impact of large-scale fake money entering the German market. If not, then the empire can support the German Revolutionary Army with confidence."
Li Weiguo understood what the two of them meant. He could not only provide direct assistance without RMB to prevent the German Empire from committing fraud, but also test the authenticity of the German Revolutionary Army.
Thinking of this, Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Yes, I will draw a decree to China SHIELD to handle and cooperate with your actions."
Tang Shaoyi said again: "Your Majesty, has the empire no longer provided support to them regarding the French Revolutionary Army?"
Li Weiguo nodded and said, "The intelligence department has received reliable information that the French Revolutionary Army has actually been completely controlled by the German military. It has been the bureau they set up since the beginning, with the purpose of obtaining a large amount of military equipment and economic assistance from the empire."
Tang Shaoyi had just taken office and didn't know the inside story. No wonder Li Weiguo was suspicious of the riots of the German Revolutionary Army this time. It turned out that there was a precedent. The French Revolutionary Army was planned by the German military from the beginning. Fortunately, the Chinese Empire discovered it in time. Otherwise, if the high-tech equipment was given to the French Revolutionary Army in the future, it would eventually be equivalent to arming the German Empire's team, and would not give them RMB assistance.
"Hitler may participate in the German Revolutionary Army. You must be careful not to let Hitler get any advantage in all the efforts of the empire."
Tang Shaoyi immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will be careful to keep an eye on them!"
After receiving the approval of Li Weiguo, Zhang Peilun and Tang Shaoyi quickly left and then held press conferences respectively.
As the Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire, Zhang Peilun personally released this public riot in the German Empire at the Imperial State Council, and he told reporters at home and abroad.
"Ladies and gentlemen, our Chinese Empire Cabinet has just held an emergency meeting and expressed concern about the public protests in major cities such as Frankfurt and Nuremberg in the German Empire. We hope that the German Empire's government will take this matter carefully. The German people, like the people of the world, enjoy the most basic human rights protection. The German Empire's government should not use violent means to suppress it, because the people of Frankfurt and Nuremberg are also victims. If the German Empire had not carried out endless large-scale and unnecessary military construction, this would not have happened."
The Chinese Empire's domestic cabinet's pure interference in the internal affairs of the German Empire made governments all over the world realize in an instant that it was obvious that the Chinese Empire was preparing to interfere in the internal affairs of the German Empire.
Such a brutal provocation will inevitably make the German Empire even more dissatisfied and intensify the degree of hostility between China and Germany.
All countries hope that the Chinese Empire and the German Empire will always be hostile like this, but they do not want the two countries to go to war in full swing. They really want the Chinese Empire to shut up and care about the German Empire's own affairs. However, the Chinese Empire uses human rights to make things happen, and even if countries want to oppose it, there is no reason.
When the Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire's cabinet interfered in Germany's internal affairs in person, William II, who was far away in Berlin, was so angry that he was glaring.
"Damn the Chinese Empire, they are trying to shit on the German Empire. They are simply intolerable and unforgivable!"
Faced with William II's shouting, the ministers of the German Empire also looked indignant, but there was helplessness in it.
In this world where the axiom is only within the range of cannons and its strength is justice, the Chinese Empire is a real world policeman and the world Supreme Court. It can not only maintain world justice, but also frame and frame, and even make a deer and horse, no country dares to raise objections.
"Your Majesty, please calm down! You are really unable to fight an international public opinion war with the Chinese Empire at present. Most countries in the world are unconditionally standing on the side of the Chinese Empire. Instead of wasting their saliva with them, it is better to do something practical."
"Yes, your Majesty, the riots in Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Prague must be suppressed immediately, otherwise it will lead to more serious disasters."
After hearing the ministers' persuasion, William II also knew that it was useless to shout here. It would be better to solve the problem as soon as possible so that the Chinese Empire could have nothing to say.
"Immediately order the military police to dispatch and suppress the riots!"
Just after William II finished speaking, Major General Drame, who was responsible for intelligence work in the German Empire and was the head of the German Empire's secret police (referred to as the Gestapo), immediately stood up.
"Your Majesty, the Gestapo's recent investigation found that the commanders involved in leading urban riots in Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Prague, etc., all had a background in Red Russia. Intelligence shows that they were educated in Boulvik's revolutionary theory before this."
Drim's words immediately aroused William II's vigilance.
"What do you want to say? Why is this related to Red Russia again?"
Faced with William II's questioning, Drim replied.
"Your Majesty, according to the Gestapo investigation, the Boulvik Revolution led by Lienin has begun to penetrate the German Empire. There are currently more than 10,000 Boulvik believers. Under the leadership of the Boulvik headquarters, they are making subtle changes to the empire. This time, several cities are rioting at the same time. If only the gendarmerie is dispatched, they may fail, because our intelligence shows that these Boulvik revolutionaries are weapons."
"What? How dare you be so bold!"
William II was immediately furious. The development of the Red Russian revolutionaries in the German Empire was something he had agreed to, in order to help Lienin overthrow the Tsarist rule, but he did not expect that Lienin, who had just seized the Russian regime, had already begun to plan to seize the German Empire.
This kind of irony of a farmer and a snake made William II very upset.
The Gestapo was a secret intelligence agency established by Hitra during his lifetime. With Hitra's unexpected "death", William II transferred his "love" for Hitra to Drem, because Drem was Hitra's most respected person.
Therefore, William II believed in Drum's words.
"Your Majesty, please send troops to suppress it! Never allow any Red and Russian elements to destroy the harmony of the German Empire!"
"After approval, dispatch troops immediately to completely clean up the riots in Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Prague! You Drem is responsible for supervising, and you must not be ruthless in dealing with the damned betrayers!"
William II said gritting his teeth, but Drem was filled with joy.
As Li Weiguo judged, this riot was planned by Hitler secretly, and Lienning had nothing to do with this matter, because Lienning was busy dealing with the Russian bourgeois aristocrats. Even if he was willing to scheme the German Empire, he would not have time now.
This incident was just Hitler deliberately framed the Red Russia, with the purpose of expanding the Gestapo's sphere of influence and influence, supporting Drem to the throne and gaining more rights.
The German people who suppressed the riots would leave their base. As a military supervisor, Drem could easily create charges for those disobedient German officers, and then replace them with Hitler's confidant officers and completely control the army.
Hitler did not intend to quickly suppress the riots, but instead took this opportunity to constantly ask for money from the German Emperor and the government to enrich Hitler's own wallet.
But the plan cannot keep up with the changes.
Hitler's plan was good, but the lives of the people of the German Empire were indeed difficult. After the riot, the German army sent troops to suppress it, but it was too late to suppress it, making the riots feel that rebellion was not so difficult and dangerous. So more ordinary people joined, making the riots quickly turn into rebels.
In order to facilitate control, Hitler established the * Armed Command. This growing team made Hitler happy on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was difficult to manage with too many people.
At the same time, Hitler originally planned to ask the Chinese Empire for equipment and money, but the Chinese Empire was smart and did not give RMB at all. He only provided German marks without numbers, allowing Hitler to find a way to get the codebook of the Deutsche Bank.
Although he did not get the RMB, he got the "fake-bill". Hitler easily obtained the codebook of the Deutsche Imperial Bank, so he stamped the "fake-bill" aided by the Chinese Empire and turned it into a real German Mark.
To some extent, this can achieve Hitler's goal. At least every time, tens of millions of German marks can allow Hitler to do more things, such as bribing officials and purchasing various materials needed for rebellion.
Hitler's strength continued to grow and snowball. At the same time, a large number of fake money made by the Chinese Empire soon legally flowed into the German Empire market, causing the German Empire's currency to continue to depreciate and prices to soar.
Normally, currency depreciation is beneficial to exports, but unfortunately, the Chinese Empire imposed an economic blockade on the German Empire. In this way, currency depreciation will not help the German Empire's economy at all, but will cause huge damage.
In just three months, wars were everywhere in the German Empire, and the opposition government was established in Nuremberg. Tang Shaoyi, the Minister of the Chinese Empire's Liberation Academy, quickly held a press conference to represent the Chinese Empire to take the lead in recognizing the legitimacy of the opposition regime and spread salt on the wounds of the German Empire.
When William II learned of the news, the anger accumulated from the news of the unfavorable suppression of the rebellion for several months erupted in an instant.
Ah puff!
Chapter completed!