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Chapter 165: Amazing wealth (new book, please watch)
The meeting lasted until late at night. After the meeting, Li Guoyao did not rest. Instead, Xu Hu, Ma Desheng and Wang Zhanhai stayed behind.
When the others left, only Li Guoyao, two deputy brigade commanders and a chief of staff were left in the huge conference room!
Li Guoyao looked at Xu Hu and others, and then said: "Has everything been transported to Quanjiao?"
Xu Hu immediately said: "Yes, all the gold has been moved to the mountainous area northwest of Quanjiao. The silver coins and French currency are still left in the urban area of ??Quanjiao. There are also a large number of cultural relics, calligraphy, paintings and other antiques that we are trying to get rid of!"
"Have you calculated the quantity?"
¡°The statistics are out, here is the list!¡± Xu Hu took out a document from the folder and handed it to Li Guoyao!
After taking the list handed over by Xu Hu and looking at it, Li Guoyao couldn't help but frown!
After a long time, Li Guoyao put the list on the table, and then asked in a deep voice: "Is there only ninety tons of gold?"
"Well, you can't be wrong. 40 tons of them were found from the underground vault of the Central Bank and the safe they kept on their behalf. Another 30 tons were found from the underground vault of the Bank of Communications. The rest were all from Hitachi and Tiancheng. Wait for it to be found on the territory controlled by the Japanese! And all the gold was escorted by me personally, and absolutely no one dares to stretch out a claw!" Ma Desheng replied.
Li Guoyao nodded and said: "Don't be too worried, Old Ma. I still trust you, otherwise I wouldn't be able to leave this matter to you! But the news I got in advance is that there are three branches of the Central Bank and the Bank of Communications. More than a hundred tons of gold were not transported away, but I didn¡¯t expect that less than one-third was actually taken away, so I was a little surprised!¡±
"Brigade, after all, Nanjing city is in chaos, and it is possible that the intelligence may have errors. What's more, there must be many people who know that gold is stored in these places, such as people inside the bank, and even the Japanese we killed. We also know that when we went there they were discussing how to rob this batch of gold." Ma Desheng said.
Li Guoyao nodded immediately to express his understanding. After all, his information only came from the declassified documents of later generations. As for how accurate it was, Li Guoyao himself had no idea!
"What a pity!" Li Guoyao said lightly.
"Sir, you don't have to worry about this. Gold sounds good, but in fact it is not very useful. It is far less beneficial than the current ocean, French currency, and Japanese yen!" Xu Hu said.
"Oh, how do you say this?" Li Guoyao asked puzzledly.
"In addition to the 90 tons of gold, the batch of valuables we transported from Nanjing this time also included about 13 million cash, 30 million French currency, 4 million yen, 300,000 pounds and a small amount of US dollars. I think now we The only ones that can really be used are the legal currency and the current ocean. Gold and other foreign currencies are actually of little use, not to mention those antiques. They are of no use at all until they are sold!"
Li Guoyao frowned and said: "I understand that foreign currency is not practical. After all, there are not many places where foreign currency is used, but why is the gold useless?"
"Traveler, gold is not useless, but it is of no use to us now, because gold is rarely circulated in the market, especially large quantities of gold, which can easily attract the attention of interested people! Once the other party finds out that this batch of gold is It comes from our independent brigade, and we come from Nanjing City, so the source of the gold is naturally no secret!"
Then Xu Hu continued: "This is just one of them. The second is that we mainly use money to pay pensions to our brothers and purchase various supplies. The other is to pay military salaries. We usually use French currency and ocean the most, and rarely use gold. , otherwise there wouldn¡¯t be so many people depositing gold in banks!¡±
"Can this batch of gold be exchanged for cash?" Li Guoyao asked again.
"It's very difficult, because we now have 90 tons of gold, worth more than 12 million oceans. Except for a few state-owned banks, I am afraid that few people can eat such a large amount of gold."
Li Guoyao nodded and said: "Then hide it first, it will be used later!"
"Master, how do you plan to use such a large sum of money?" Wang Zhanhai also asked.
¡°All of it will be used for troop building!¡± Li Guoyao said in astonishing words.
"All of them?"
"Well, let's first distribute the pensions to the brothers who died in battle. According to the standards I mentioned at the meeting, those who were killed will be given two hundred oceans, and those who were seriously injured and disabled will be given one hundred oceans. This way we have to eliminate??6 million. The remaining brothers will be given one hundred each to the brothers who evacuated from Nanjing City. The officers can give a little more, just think of it as a reward. It will not be easy for the brothers to win this battle. "
Li Guoyao then continued: "For the rest, immediately order people to go to Wuhan, Chengdu and other places to purchase supplies, especially the batch of French currency, which must be turned into practical things as soon as possible!"
"My dear, are you worried that the French currency will depreciate?" Xu Hu asked in a deep voice.
"It's not that I'm worried, but the French currency has been depreciating. Before the July 7th Incident, we could buy two cows with one hundred French currency. Now if I give you one hundred French currency, can you buy two cows?" Li Guoyao asked.
"If you can't buy one, you can buy a big cow and a calf at most!" Xu Hu said.
At this time, Wang Zhanhai said: "That was the price a month ago. Now I can buy at most one big cow!"
Li Guoyao then said: "It's okay now, but believe it or not, in a few years you won't even be able to buy a chicken with 100 French coins!"
"No way, the higher ups won't let this happen, right?" Xu Hu said with a surprised look on his face.
"Haha, of course the higher-ups don't want to see this happen, but judging from the current situation, there's probably nothing they can do. If Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the prosperous coastal areas are lost, the government will lose important tax sources, and fiscal revenue will inevitably decline. And now the whole country There are wars going on everywhere, and military expenditures and various expenditures will inevitably increase significantly, so where will the money come from?¡±
Seeing the confused looks on Xu Hu and others' faces, Li Guoyao said again: "There is only one way for the government to keep operating, and that is to print money at full capacity!"
"Printing money?"
"Yes, banknotes are printed and distributed to soldiers on the front line, and then circulated in the market. If there is more money circulating in the market, it will naturally become less valuable. If money is not valuable, it will depreciate. The usual manifestation is a decrease in purchasing power, so we The tens of millions of yuan seized must be spent before the legal currency depreciates on a large scale!" Li Guoyao said.
Seeing the surprised expressions on the faces of Xu Hu and others, Li Guoyao was speechless for a while. This scared you. If you knew that 100 yuan of French currency could only buy 4 grains of rice in a few years, you wouldn't have fainted!
I¡¯m afraid everyone in future generations will know something about the depreciation of legal tender. You must know that 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. However, in order to destroy China¡¯s rear economy, Japan forcibly used Japanese-issued currency to collect currency in Japanese-occupied areas. Exchange them for legal currency, plus use smuggled materials to obtain legal currency, and then send them to Shanghai to exchange them for foreign exchange from the National Government.
??The National Government received loans of more than 10 million pounds and 50 million US dollars from the United Kingdom and the United States respectively, but they were still insufficient to support the legal currency exchange rate. Beginning in 1940, unlimited foreign exchange trading was abolished, and the value of legal tender began to decline.
By the eve of Japan¡¯s surrender, the amount of legal tender issued had reached 500 billion yuan. By April 1947, the issuance amount had increased to more than 16 trillion yuan. In 1948, the issuance of legal tender reached more than 660 trillion yuan, which was equal to 470,000 times that before the Anti-Japanese War. Prices rose 34.92 million times, and legal tender completely collapsed.
In terms of purchasing power, legal currency has also been declining. The "Dazhong Evening News" on July 30, 1947 published the changes in the purchasing power of 100 legal currency in different years. The same 100 legal currency can buy two cows in 1937 and a big bull in 1938. Cows and a calf. In 1939, you could buy a big cow. In 1940, you could buy a calf. In 1941, you could buy a pig. In 1942, you could buy a ham. In 1943, you could buy an old hen. In 1944, you could buy a pullet, in 1945, you could buy a fish, in 1946, you could buy an egg, in 1947, you could buy a briquette, and in 1948, you could only buy 4 grains of rice.
Due to the rapid depreciation of legal currency, by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, few people in the country were willing to accept legal currency, and barter was prevalent.
So in order to ensure the purchasing power of the legal currency in your hand, you must spend it in the shortest possible time!
"Brigadier, we have tens of millions of yuan in hand. How can we spend it in a short time?" Wang Zhanhai asked with a frown.
"Of course we need to find someone special to do this. Let's do this. In a few days, we will find a trustworthy person to go to the rear to spend money for us. Gradually, we will spend all the legal currency and gold as a basis for the future of our independent brigade. Military expenses." Li Guoyao said.
At this time, Wang Zhanhai suddenly said: "Brigadier Commander, I have a candidate, I don't know if my fellow brigade members agree!"
"Who?" Li Guoyao asked immediately.
"Madam!"
"Madam? That madam?" Li Guoyao asked with a frown.
"That's your wife, Lisa Yun, the eldest lady of the Yun family in Shaanxi!" Wang Zhanhai said in a surprising tone.
Li Guoyao was completely confused when he heard this name. This was not the first time that he knew that he had a wife. Lu Fengying had said it before, but he didn't care at the time. Now that Wang Zhanhai said it, he knew it immediately. It must be clarified.
Li Guoyao immediately asked: "Old Wang, we will discuss how to spend this money later. Now tell me about this Yun Lisa. You know, I was shot in Songjiang City and my brain is not very good." , I don¡¯t remember many things, I really didn¡¯t know I had a wife, can you tell me?¡±
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Li Guoyao immediately asked: "Old Wang, we will discuss how to spend this money later. Now tell me about this Yun Lisa. You know, I was shot in Songjiang City and my brain is not very good." , I don¡¯t remember many things, I really didn¡¯t know I had a wife, can you tell me?¡±
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