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Chapter 363 Dirty Project
Meng Shaoyuan, who was under the gunpoint, was not afraid at all, not even the slightest bit of panic:
"Mr. Beckett, in Shanghai, there are only two kinds of people who dare to point a gun at me. One is my boss, and the other is the Japanese. You? You are not worthy!"
You are not worthy!
Hawes was enraged: "I'll kill you here and no one will know, no one!"
"You are also a member of the Knights Hospitaller after all, why don't you use your brain?" Meng Shaoyuan pointed to his head: "I dare to come here alone, do you think I am as crazy as you?"
Hawes hesitated for a moment.
Yes, why did Meng Shaoyuan dare to come here alone?
"As long as you dare to shoot, Police Commissioner Mr. Sinclair Joe Saltras will arrest you personally, and I can design a follow-up plot for you."
Meng Shaoyuan actually took another sip of wine: "You are a foreigner. Mr. Saltras will not do anything to you. He will receive a large sum of money and then temporarily detain you and ask you to assist in the investigation. You are being arrested There will be two or three Chinese people coming in to the detention place. Oh, don’t worry, it’s just that the detention room is full and they will be locked up with you for the time being.
At night, those Chinese people will suddenly get up and break your knees and hands first, making you unable to resist. You will ask, where are the guards? Couldn't the guard hear the noise? Of course they couldn't hear it, because they were counting the lots and lots of money they had just received. Of course you know, that money was given to them by my people, right?
You will be tortured all night, and the next day, the guards will only find your body. You committed suicide. Believe me, the prisoners who were locked up with you will prove that you committed suicide. The guards will prove that you committed suicide, Mr. Saltras will believe that you committed suicide, and your body will be quickly cremated. "
When Meng Shaoyuan said this, he did not forget to add: "I remembered that one of those Chinese suspects does not like women, but only likes men. Although you are a little older, your figure is still well maintained."
Hawes wanted to vomit, really wanted to vomit. His hand holding the gun began to tremble.
"You are not a person who plays with guns, 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 gunshot rings, you and this No one in the factory can escape safely. Put down the gun, Mr. Beckett."
Hawes hesitated, hesitated, and finally put the gun away.
Meng Shaoyuan smiled. People like Hawes would kill with the help of others, but rarely had the courage to kill with their own hands.
He was unwilling to even take care of the box himself, preferring to delegate it to a Chinese because he was worried about any damage to his reputation.
After all, he was going to run for that "Grand Knight of Honor".
The Knights Hospitaller will not allow a scandalous person to stay in their sacred order.
"You are really the scum of the Knights Hospitallers." After Meng Shaoyuan said this, he added: "However, I like to cooperate with scum like you."
What's the meaning? cooperate?
"I said, we are from the Shanghai Public Mutual Aid Association. We are allies. Allies should help each other instead of hurting each other. Although what you just did made me very sad."
There was no trace of sadness on Meng Shaoyuan's face. Instead, there was only a sense of treachery and insidiousness: "In Shanghai, if you want to commit a crime and do it flawlessly, you can't do without my help. Are you making counterfeit money?" Mr. Beckett?"
Hawes didn't answer immediately.
Meng Shaoyuan decided to add fuel to the fire: "I am an agent, not a policeman, not a patrolman in the public concession. Are you worried that I will arrest you or report you? No, I am here to cooperate with you."
"Yes, I was making counterfeit money." Hawes finally admitted.
"Yen? Legal currency?"
"Japanese yen! I won't do it with fiat currency because I foresee its devaluation!"
"Smart!" Meng Shaoyuan gave a thumbs up.
Counterfeiting Japanese yen is a really smart idea.
The Japanese also counterfeited a large number of legal tenders in an attempt to use this method to attack the National Government's economy. But at first, the counterfeit banknotes they created were not up to standard and even ordinary merchants refused to accept them.
Later, 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 press.
At this point, Japan has obtained all the core technologies for printing legal currency.
The problem is that the Japanese did not think of another problem at all:
inflation!
Money is worthless.
You are printing counterfeit banknotes, but the National Government's money printing machine is at full capacity, printing real money like crazy!
On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the total amount of legal tender issued was only more than 1.4 billion yuan. In the following years, the total amount of legal tender issued has reached 500 billion yuan.
As a result of the excessive printing of money, prices in the Kuomintang-controlled areas increased more than 100 times in eight years. In 1937, 100 French currency could buy a cow. A few years later, 100 French currency could not even buy a box of matches.
The Japanese printed a total of 4 billion in counterfeit legal currency, but the money was like a small stone thrown into the sea, without any splash at all.
Yamamoto Kenzo, the person in charge of Japan's counterfeit banknote war, simply cannot believe this fact. Japan has lost so much money that it has to pawn its pants for these 4 billion counterfeit legal tender. Does it want to recover the printing costs? It only appears in dreams.
It is said...it is said that Yamamoto Kenzane once said this about the fiasco of counterfeit 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 going all out to print fake military stamps and counterfeit Japanese yen banknotes, and successfully purchased large amounts of gold, cotton yarn, Cloth and other supplies were in short supply, further exacerbating inflation in the Japanese and puppet-controlled areas.
Meng Shaoyuan knew the process of history, and whoever printed counterfeit legal tender would be sick. But Hawes predicted the sharp depreciation of legal currency.
So in this sense, this guy is still very capable.
"This is our new Japanese yen." This time, what Hawes took out of the drawer was not a weapon, but several counterfeit Japanese yen bills.
Meng Shaoyuan stood up and took it. He only looked at it for a few times before shaking his head and saying, "It's too fake. It can't be fooled at all."
"That's right." Hoy admitted this frankly: "Especially in the technology of using paper and ink, there are big problems. That's why I shipped a batch of supplies from the United States this time..."
"Paper and ink dye?"
"That's right. Is that box in your hand?"
"Yes." Meng Shaoyuan nodded: "At first, I didn't understand what these things were used for. When I thought about you buying a bankrupt gauze factory, it suddenly dawned on me. The machines in the gauze factory , is your best disguise, the money printing machine you shipped in can be completely excused, it is a new gauze machine."
Meng Shaoyuan did not tell the complete truth.
Why Hawes inexplicably wanted to buy a bankrupt gauze factory was indeed a flaw, but what was more important was the batch of paper.
Who would transport a batch of paper from the United States to China all the way when they are full and have nothing to do?
When he saw this batch of papers, the movies and TV shows he had watched popped into his mind.
What can paper be used for?
Books, newspapers.
But the quality of this batch of paper makes it too wasteful to print newspapers.
Unless it’s... banknotes that require special paper materials!
Making counterfeit banknotes is extremely profitable, and for hundreds of years, countless people have taken desperate risks.
During World War II, the Japanese made counterfeit legal tender, the Chinese made fake dollars, the Germans made counterfeit pounds, and the British made counterfeit marks.
Everyone becomes a counterfeit money dealer!
As long as it is not mass production, one or two people can make a batch of counterfeit banknotes.
What's more, Qin Fuyu said that Hawes specially hired several "professional technicians".
These technicians are not here to produce gauze.
They are here to make counterfeit money.
"I can return that box to you." Meng Shaoyuan confirmed this and 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 huge blow to your reputation." Meng Shaoyuan didn't mean to be sarcastic at all: "I can provide you with protection, guarantee No one can bother you anymore. You are responsible for the technology and creating the most perfect counterfeit money possible.
I can help you find the materials you need. I'm an agent and I have special access to this. The counterfeit money you printed needs someone to spend it, and I can help too. Also, you definitely need to digest the large amount of supplies purchased with counterfeit money, do you just rely on Angus? No, I am a shareholder of Angus, and I also have my own smuggling channels.
If you think about it, if you buy in-demand supplies with counterfeit money and then sell them through smuggling, you can get several times more profit. You also thought of this, so you prepared to cooperate with Angus Matheson and Joey. Now that you have me, I can give you double insurance, dear Mr. Beckett. "
Hawes didn't hesitate any longer. He stood up, walked to Meng Shaoyuan, and extended his hand: "Welcome to this project."
"A dirty project, but it is 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 great in the United States, so you I have taken a fancy to China during the war. It is much safer here. Mr. Beckett, in addition to holiday dollars, we can also focus on fake military stamps. In the Northeast, Japanese military stamps have been circulating for many years. This Growing something is easier to fake.”
"Of course, my dear partner, the cooperation between us will be very pleasant."
The premise is that we must create counterfeit Japanese yen notes that are as perfect as possible and can deceive most people!
