Chapter 355.
“Can you look up the source?”
“I’ll try?” Xu Qinghe considered for a moment and nodded.
“Try your best, with your own safety in mind.” Cheng Mo also knew that it must be very dangerous to look into something like this, and for those who dared to make counterfeit banknotes and make them so realistic, the power and energy behind it was by no means ordinary.
Sometimes, not to mention the inspectors, even the Ministry of Public Works Bureau might not be able to arm wrestle with others.
“I know.”
“Old Xu, the brethren have worked hard during this period of time, pay an extra month’s allowance.” Cheng Mo commanded.
“I thank the chief for the brethren.”
“No need to thank, the brethren follow me, if they can’t even eat a full meal, then I’m incompetent as a leader.” Cheng Mo said.
After Xu Qinghe left, Cheng Mo stared at the table for a long time at a few small amounts of counterfeit French banknotes.
The struggle in the financial field was complex and brutal, and its destructiveness and influence was far more far-reaching than on the direct battlefield.
“How much?”
“Two million small banknotes, shipped from Hong Kong, will arrive in Shanghai in a few days.” Xu Baichuan said solemnly.
“The Japanese know, right?”
“Such a large sum of money, certainly can not be hidden, go or sea transportation.”
“If the Japanese intercept it with warships at sea, wouldn’t that be a meat bag?” Cheng Mo was shocked, this money was transported to Shanghai, obviously used to solve the money shortage, there are also in the tenant community and the Huaxing coupons issued by the Restoration Government to compete for the circulation rate, if the people in the tenant community are using the banknotes issued by the pseudo-government, then the orthodoxy of the fiat currency will be gone.
“I don’t know exactly how it will be transported, but anyway, when it arrives in Shanghai, the Concession will need to step in to protect it.” Xu Baichuan said.
“So, let me step in to talk to the British about this?” Cheng Mo understood.
“Yes. Although we also have other communication channels, this one of yours is the most effective.” Xu Baichuan said.
“I’ll try, but I can’t guarantee that it will work.” Cheng Mo said.
“Well, the attitude of the British in this matter is crucial.”
When he returned to the Old Gates Capture Room from Xu Baichuan, Cheng Mo made a call to Tony Kai Ziwei and said that he invited him to have fun at the Xian Luos Cabaret.
Tony Kai Ziwei was surprised, Cheng Mo was a person who didn’t really like going to entertainment places like cabarets, and suddenly said he was invited to have fun.
There was bound to be a reason for this, and it was also chosen to be at the Senlos Cabaret.
He immediately agreed.
Senlos Ballroom is a stronghold of the British Intelligence Service in Shanghai, in any other place, Tony Kai Ziwei, as an intelligence officer, may not dare to go there.
Cheng Mo’s appointment is at the Pachinko parlor.
Pool is a popular game among the rich people in Shanghai Bund.
Of course, billiards in the latter days, that is, ordinary people can afford to play, and there are even special tournaments, world-class.
This was one of the few games that Cheng Mo could play when he came to the cabaret.
The level was still okay.
Although he hadn’t purposely practiced, at least with his eyesight and power control, it was no problem to easily win over Tony Kai Ziwei’s Vice President Director who considered himself an expert.
Only, playing with the top boss, how can you win easily, you have to lose and win, but also let the other side win happy.
Although Cheng Mo couldn’t talk about social cattle, he still understood the rules and human nature on socializing. “Cheng, why did you suddenly think of inviting me to come and play ball at Xianles?” Tony Kai Ziwei asked with a very dashing hole-in-one.
“Haven’t played for a long time, wanted to try to see if I’ve regressed.”
“You, you are just too strict, you have to know how to relax and enjoy, the work is never done, and the money is never earned.”
“My country is being invaded, I always have to do more for it.” Cheng Mo said.
“I knew it, you didn’t just come to play ball with me today, tell me, what is it that you need my help with?” Tony Kai Ziwei asked.
“It’s not to help me, it’s to help my country.”
“You’ve got a British Empire passport, you’re one of us Brits.”
“But my wife and family and friends are not.”
“Your wife, she could have easily applied for a British passport, you could have tried.” Tony Kai said with a shrug of his shoulders.
“I’ll have to respect her wishes on that one.”
“Of course.”
“The Chongqing side entrusted me to ask Mr. Tony for help, and promised ten gold bars as a reward after the matter is accomplished!” Cheng Mo knew that Tony Kai Ziwei is also a guy who is not interested in profit, there are benefits, naturally everything is good to do, things that are not beneficial, we have to look at whether it is favorable to ourselves or Britain.
“Oh, tell me about it?” Tony Kai Ziwei heard that there are “ten gold bars” pay, naturally came to be interested.
Gold at any time, that is the value preservation.
“A batch of fiat currency printed by the British Mint will enter Shanghai through Hong Kong, but this batch of fiat currency will definitely be blocked by the Japanese, and will even be seized.” Cheng Mo said.
“This is not a small matter, it is about the financial order in the Concession, such a large batch of fiat currency coming in, what is it used for, is there a charter?”
“To exchange the old currency in circulation in the market.”
“Is it so simple?”
“This batch of fiat currency is in small denominations, mainly to make up for the current shortfall in circulation within the Concession, and to facilitate the stabilization of the market order within the Concession.” Cheng Mo explained.
“This money is here to fight against the Huaxing Coupons, right?” Tony Kai Ziwei said, “I got the news that the Huaxing Commercial Bank intends to put in a batch of Huaxing Coupons with a value of roughly three million dollars, and at this time, there is a sum of fiat money coming in, its purpose is self-evident.”
“This Mr. Tony, I really don’t know, I usually don’t pay much attention to this aspect.” Cheng Mo gave a slight surprised cry, this type of confidentiality, he really wasn’t clear about it.
“The circulation of Huaxing coupons is insufficient, everyone doesn’t recognize them, the market is still mainly dominated by Union Bank coupons as well as Guanjin coupons and fiat currencies.”
Huaxing coupon market does not recognize, or because it does not have an anchor, there is no credit endorsement, this new government may one day fall, then, hold the Huaxing coupon that is equivalent to a pile of waste paper, of course, Huaxing coupon circulation in North China is okay, but in the area of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, that is really not many people recognize.
Even some people would rather use the Japanese military ticket, do not use the Huaxing coupon.
“Mr. Tony, this is not a bad thing for us, at least it can solve the problem of money shortage.” Cheng Mo said.
“Cheng, you don’t know much about finance, it’s not something that can be explained clearly in a sentence or two, the rented world is not a battlefield for them to kill each other, you know what I mean, right?”
“I understand, but Mr. Tony, even if we don’t allow them to fight, will they listen?” Cheng Mo said, “We have an old Chinese saying, it’s called sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, if one side has the absolute advantage, then what else do we need to do?”
“Cheng, do you think that if Mr. Wang comes to power to form a stop government, there will be a chance to reach peace?” Tony Kai Ziwei suddenly threw out a question.
“Maybe, at least now it seems to have made a good start.” Cheng Mo said against his will.
“Cheng, you’re very cunning, but you’re right, what does the fight between them have to do with us?” Tony Kai Ziwei said, “You can tell the people from the Blue Coat Society that as long as they can transport the banknotes into the rented area, we can make sure that these banknotes go where they should.”
“Understood, thanks.”