Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 111 Informed
The good news is that he escaped, but the bad news is that he was too eager to complete the mission and wanted to exchange the remaining military notes for gold and US dollars to bring back to Chongqing, so he went to an underground businessman to exchange money again, but the underground businessman was also Zhang Xiaolin's man.

This time they were ambushed, and two of the three people were caught. Only the one who was keeping watch outside with the cash box from yesterday escaped during the chaos.

The man was brought before Sassoon.

The people from the Military Control Commission thought they were going to die, but they found out that the person standing in front of them was actually a foreigner, not someone from the secret service headquarters.

Sassoon asked them very politely, "How much of this kind of money do you have left? I want as much as you can get."

"Gone."

"No more? Then you must still be able to produce. I really admire your technology. We can cooperate. I'll take as much as you have."

The two men from the Military Control Commission understood the foreigners' needs, but they were just temporary workers in Shanghai and had no idea about counterfeit money making techniques.

"We won't know until we go back and report."

"Of course, you can leave at any time. I just want to know, where are you from?"

One of the two men said, "Let us go, and I can tell you."

"No problem." Sassoon had no interest in arresting them in the first place. He politely invited them downstairs and said, facing the concession, "This is the concession. You are safe and can leave at any time."

Seeing that he kept his promise, one of them said, "Chongqing."

Sassoon said "oh" and there was a pause of one or two seconds. It was an unexpected but reasonable answer.

"Military Control?"

"What do you think?"

Sassoon smiled, thought for a moment, and said, "Can you contact your person in charge and let me talk to him? I have a big deal."

"Well..." The two men looked at each other and felt that at least Sassoon was not making things difficult for them, so they said, "I need a radio."

"I have it here."

Gu Yansheng learned the news the next day.

"What? Sassoon took the initiative to contact Director Dai and asked to buy counterfeit money?"

"Yes," Liu San reported. "Yesterday, a group of people were caught by Sassoon's men while shipping goods. Sassoon asked them to contact Chongqing and try to buy counterfeit money from us. Director Dai asked me to ask you if it's okay to trade with Sassoon."

".It's OK."

Gu Yansheng wanted to laugh when he heard this. How did this matter end up with Sassoon? Several links in the circulation process were missing.

However, as long as Sassoon could cause trouble for the Japanese, it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to make money, not to mention that Gu Yansheng also had a share of the money.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Then sell them all to him."

"Ok."

The transaction lasted two days.

On the third day, after the staff of the Economic Department had finished exchanging money for foreign merchants, someone casually said, "Foreigners have very little confidence in military notes. There have been a lot of foreigners and foreign companies exchanging money in the past two days. I just asked the warehouse, and the money is almost all exchanged."

Someone nearby casually replied, "If I were a foreign businessman, I wouldn't be so easily convinced. It's just that the Japanese are actually willing to exchange with foreigners, so there's no risk for them. They just don't believe it. It's the Japanese themselves who have problems with their credibility, etc. What did you say? The money is almost exchanged?"

His brain short-circuited for a moment, and he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out for a moment.

"Yes, I just heard from the treasury that the foreign currency is basically gone. There are only some foreign currency coins left, and the amount is not much."

"That's not right. How could there be so many exchanges?" The person who felt something was wrong thought about it, frowned and said to himself: "Logically speaking, we issue military notes in batches. As more and more people use them on the market, the demand for military notes will also increase."

As he spoke, he looked at the other party and said, "The more military notes we give out, the more foreign currency we should get back. How can it be possible that they will all be exchanged?"

After he said this, the people around him also reacted and asked in confusion: "Yes, how could it be possible that all the money has been exchanged?"

"Report it immediately!"

The official in charge of daily affairs did not dare to conceal it at all and reported it directly to Director Su Xiwen.

Su Xiwen didn't understand for a moment, "What's going on? What went wrong?"

The official wanted to explain the economic principles to him, but after thinking it over, he decided to be more straightforward. "Director Su, we have received counterfeit banknotes, a large amount of counterfeit banknotes."

Su Xiwen understood this time, and her expression changed drastically. "How could there be counterfeit money? And in your hands? Didn't you check it when you exchanged it?"

"This..." The manager really found it difficult to explain. If they really had to hold someone responsible, they would be blameless. "Because the quality of this batch of counterfeit banknotes is very good, and our staff has only been in contact with military banknotes for a short time and lacks experience, so..."

"You're going to kill me!"

Su Xiwen didn't want to listen anymore and strode out, "Let's go to the warehouse!"

In the warehouse, there were piles of banknotes. When the manager took out the counterfeit banknotes and showed them to Su Xiwen, Su Xiwen's face turned pale and he smashed a handful of counterfeit banknotes to the ground.

With a fierce expression, he thought for a moment and said, “According to what you said, you can’t really tell the difference. Is it possible to exchange all this money?
You should understand that as long as the money is not in our hands, everything will be fine. However, if something happens to this much money in our hands, I may not be in trouble, but you can just wait to be held accountable by the Japanese!

The manager was terrified, sweating profusely. He thought urgently and said, "There is a way. We can send this money to the Finance Bureau below and let them exchange it with the citizens. However, the money can only be returned to us after they have exchanged it. We can wait, but..."

"but what!"

"But what if someone else comes to exchange money? The people downstairs said that the people who come to exchange money are all foreigners. This counterfeit money must be made by foreigners."

"That's a good time to catch him!"

"Wasn't the news of his arrest still leaked out?"

Seeing the steward's cautious expression, Su Xiwen remained silent.

".Let me think about it, first shut everyone up."

"Yes."

The next day, the manager didn't see Su Xiwen, so he had to bite the bullet and make the exchange for the foreigners who came to exchange the currency.

On the third day, the manager still hadn't seen Su Xiwen. He couldn't get through on the phone, and there was no one at home. All the foreign currency in the vault had been exchanged. This time, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he gritted his teeth and reported it to Fu Xiaoan.

The city government meeting came unexpectedly.

Gu Yansheng was called to a meeting.

Fu Xiaoan entered the meeting room with an almost ashen face.

Just when all the directors were wondering why Fu Xiaoan was angry, Fu Xiaoan said coldly: "The Economic Department has made a major mistake. They accepted a lot of counterfeit money. It's not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but tens of millions!"

Wow, the director below widened his eyes and cheered.

"How can this be?"

"Can't they detect counterfeit money?"

"Tens of millions, no way? How much would that be?"

"Where's Vice Mayor Su?"

"You hit the nail on the head!" Fu Xiaoan's face twitched with hatred. "Su Xiwen knew he couldn't escape his guilt, so he ran away yesterday!"

"What ran away?"

There were even louder cries of surprise, and everyone simply couldn't believe what they heard.

"No, it was the staff's negligence. Even if he was responsible, why would he run away?"

"Yes." "Have you forgotten what happened to Sheng Wenyi?" Fu Xiaoan glared at him and blurted out.

"hiss"

Now everyone felt that Su Xiwen should have run away, and she ran away so decisively.

"So what should we do now?"

"What else can we do? Just wait to be scolded!" Fu Xiaoan said and then fell silent.

All the directors discussed it in a low voice.

Not long after, a group of military police with long guns rushed in, and Iwasa Taro arrived in a menacing manner.

The look he gave to everyone, including Gu Yansheng, was filled with disgust and ferocity.

If he wanted to kill everyone now, Gu Yansheng would not doubt it.

Taro Iwasa has already been blamed by Nanjing for the drug incident, and now there is a problem with the only two military notes issued. Shanghai's economy cannot improve, and this man will definitely be blamed.

Iwasa Taro slammed his hand on the table, his fierce eyes sweeping across everyone's faces. "You guys are complete losers! You guys messed up such a perfect plan like this, and you still call yourselves the elite of Shanghai, the best of the best. But the combined brains of you all are not as good as a wild boar in the mountains.

waste!

Think! Think of a way! How can we solve this problem? "

Iwasa Taro suddenly pulled out his pistol and slammed it on the table, "I can't believe it. No one is getting out of this door today! Soldier!"

With a click, the bolt behind him was pulled, and he could see that the Japanese soldier opposite had aimed at everyone's chest.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became tense, and everyone's face was tense. They had never expected that the situation would develop to such a serious level.

Everyone knew that it was Su Xiwen's incompetence and rage that caused his escape, but no one dared to blame Su Xiwen at this time.

"How about we just pretend we don't know and exchange them for the citizens?" The Finance Bureau Director said in a deep voice, "As long as they are in the hands of ordinary people, we can exchange them for dollars and legal tender. At least our losses will be resolved. After that, we can deal with the counterfeit bills and collect them all and burn them."

"You still have some ideas." Iwasa Taro looked at him coldly, waved his hand at the soldier behind him, and then the next one: "You!"

The next one was the director of the Construction Bureau. He was so scared when he saw this scene. If he had known that they would come one by one, he would have told them this method in advance.

He racked his brains desperately, and an idea suddenly struck him: "We should also look for the person who made the counterfeit money. They will definitely come back to exchange it. As long as they come to exchange, we can arrest them and interrogate them to find the person behind it. From him, we can get back the money we lost!"

"You!" Iwasa Taro looked at the next one.

The Construction Director breathed a sigh of relief, but the Tax Director was almost scared to death.

I tried hard to think, but the harder I tried, the harder it was to figure it out. I was so anxious that I was sweating all over. In my panic, my eyes widened and my body started to stiffen and twitch!
"Pharaoh!"

"Pharaoh!"

Iwasa Taro's gaze shifted to the next person, "You!"

The director of the Social Affairs Bureau had an idea. "I think we should hunt down Su Xiwen. As the director, he has the most power. Is he absconding out of fear of punishment, or was he the one who planned this? Who can say for sure? Maybe he's the mastermind behind this whole thing. If we find him, we'll find the money too."

"you!"

Gu Yansheng was called.

He said, "I think the most important thing right now isn't what the directors just mentioned. What we've seen is that our military notes have been counterfeited. So we should replace this version, curb the source, and create a new one. That way, even if the other party has counterfeit notes again, we won't have to worry."

"you."

Ling Xianwen was called upon, and like Gu Yansheng, he remained calm. "I agree with what Director Gu and the Finance Bureau said just now. I'll put the money together and exchange it. But I don't think it's a good idea to have it in Shanghai.

First, if we release it, we will have to take it back or resolve it, which will always be troublesome. It is better to leave this matter in Suzhou.

Find this money and transport it all to Suzhou. With the cooperation of the local military and police, use this counterfeit money to promote military notes and forcibly exchange them for the silver and legal tender in the hands of ordinary people.

Then, according to Director Gu's suggestion, if the new military notes are introduced, then these old notes will not need to be recalled and will all be invalidated, saving time and effort, and Shanghai's economy can still remain relatively stable."

"you."

Even Fu Xiaoan couldn't escape being named.

Fu Xiaoan frowned and said, "The solution is almost complete. Commander Iwasa, I will supervise its implementation."

Iwasa picked up the gun on the table and fired a shot into the air. "I'll take care of the revision, and you guys handle the shipping to Suzhou. Don't let any more problems arise, and take care of yourselves!"

After the brigade's military police left, everyone could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Someone immediately showed concern for the tax bureau director who was smoking, but it turned out that he was just pretending, which was a waste of their feelings.

"Alas, I finally understand what the ancients said: Serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. It's so scary."

"Do you think the Japanese will kill us if we can't answer?"

"If we put it on Mr. Hase, that won't happen. But if we put it on the military police, that's hard to say."

"Damn it, we worked so hard for the Japanese, and yet they treat us like this."

"Okay, stop complaining and get back to work. Clean up Su Xiwen's mess, you bastard!"

After the meeting, Gu Yansheng returned to the office and called Liu San, asking him to come over.

"What do you mean?" Liu San came in and asked.

"How many counterfeit banknotes do you have now?"

"Not much, just a few million."

"You guys are so busy changing them that you don't even leave me any extra."

"Well, Boss Dai, hehe, we can print more." Liu San could only smile awkwardly.

Gu Yansheng nodded. Boss Dai was a bit greedy, but Liu San couldn't be blamed. He said, "Two things. First, we'll print the last batch of money today. Print as many as we can. Once we're done, we won't print any more. We'll dispose of all the tools, abandon the factory, and save the remaining money somewhere. I'll need it later.

Second, find a few newspapers and report the large number of counterfeit military notes. It is also important to emphasize that the foreign currency in the hands of the municipal government has almost been exchanged, and it will be too late if it is not exchanged.

The municipal government also plans to exchange these counterfeit banknotes back into the hands of citizens, using fake banknotes to cheat citizens of their hard-earned money.

If you say it today, it will be in the newspaper tomorrow.

The Japanese want to transport their money to Suzhou, so we can’t let them make another fortune there.”

"Okay, I understand." Liu San nodded, thought for a moment and asked, "Should I notify Sassoon?"

"No, just let his men be arrested. Dog bites dog, that's a good show to watch. The British came to exchange, don't you want to see the Japanese arrest the British?"

Liu San smiled: "I want to see it, I really want to see it."

Gendarmerie Headquarters.

After Iwasa Taro returned, he held an internal meeting.

Instead of trusting the city government bureaucrats, he might as well trust his own staff.

After discussing the matter, the Special High Section suggested that the investigation should be handed over to the Special Agent Headquarters, as they would be faster and more professional.

The statement was recognized.

"Notify the secret service headquarters. Make sure to investigate this matter thoroughly and recover all funds!"

(End of this chapter)