The main international currency is still the pound, but the pound is now facing strong challenges from the rand and the US dollar.
Specifically, in the Americas, the U.S. dollar is more popular than both the pound sterling and the rand.
Brazil has become a breakthrough for the rand, exchanging printed paper for other countries’ precious natural resources. This kind of thing sounds very interesting.
Roque spared no effort in promoting the rand. During the economic crisis, both the pound and the US dollar were successively untied from gold, and the rand became one of the strongest currencies.
In order to better promote the rand, Rock even linked the oil in the Persian Gulf to the rand, either the rand or gold. Oil companies large and small in the Persian Gulf now only accept these two payment methods.
With the help of the southern African federal government, Brazil’s new government is actually rebuilding its currency system.
At this time, people were surprised to find that Brazil did not even have the ability to print currency and had to rely on the help of southern African companies.
This is normal. Brazil is millions of square kilometers across, so there must be printing plants. It’s okay to print a newspaper or something, but printing currency still requires a certain amount of technology.
Mainly due to various cutting-edge anti-counterfeiting technologies, the rands issued in Southern Africa have many watermarks, counter-prints, and gravures, making them extremely difficult to imitate.
If this was printed by Brazil itself, it might be difficult to print it, and it would fade in a short time.
To put it bluntly, Brazil cannot even make the banknote paper needed to print banknotes.
In this area of technology, Southern Africa is too powerful.
So powerful that some printing houses can easily print banknotes from other countries.
This will start from the beginning of this year.
About two months ago, the Ministry of Justice of Southern Africa received a co-investigation report from Scotland Yard, which claimed that a large amount of British pounds of unknown origin was found in the UK. It is hoped that the Ministry of Justice of Southern Africa can cooperate with Scotland Yard in the investigation.
Scotland Yard is synonymous with the Metropolitan Police. This is not because the London police are all Scottish, but because the street where the Metropolitan Police was originally located was called "Great Scotland Yard", so "Scotland Yard" has become synonymous with the Metropolitan Police.
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Speaking of counterfeit coins, this aspect also has a long history. As early as the age of metal currency, some people mixed gold coins with cheap metals such as copper and lead to make money. When the metal itself as currency is more valuable than the value specified by the money, some people will
The money is melted and made into metal utensils and sold for profit.
After the French Revolution, the French government issued bonds with confiscated church properties as collateral as substitute paper currency.
The United Kingdom once counterfeited this kind of banknotes on a large scale.
This may be the earliest economic war.
Now that the situation has changed, counterfeit pound notes have appeared in the UK. Scotland Yard's first suspect is not the French or the Germans, but southern Africans.
This is unacceptable to the federal government of Southern Africa.
There is something even more ridiculous.
The reason why Scotland Yard does not suspect the French or the Germans is that the counterfeit currency appearing in the UK has very high printing quality and equally high technical content. It is more authentic than the genuine currency issued by the British government and can be found all over the world.
There are only a few countries with this technology, and Southern Africa is the leader among them.
Scotland Yard is not unreasonably suspicious and has provided considerable evidence.
All evidence points to a paper mill in Lourenço Marquez.
"Based on all our evidence analysis, there is indeed something wrong with this paper mill called Nicholls. The owner of the paper mill is named MacMillan. He is a southern African British man with half German ancestry. He graduated from the University of Paris -" The investigation is being reported
Pretoria Police Senior Inspector Tony Fast had a subtle expression at the result.
This guy has a really complicated background.
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Deputy Attorney General Rhodes Frank tapped the table.
Tony Fast understood and read the result directly.
“——This factory not only copies pounds sterling, but also francs, dollars, marks, and yen.”
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It is understandable to imitate the British pound, the US dollar, and even the Japanese yen. After all, the currency value of the Japanese yen is still relatively strong now.
But what happened to the imitation mark?
At the rate of depreciation of the mark, it is likely that even the printing costs will not be recovered.
"What are you waiting for? Let's take action immediately and completely destroy this factory." Senior Inspector Owen Huggins from Scotland Yard couldn't wait. This is a great achievement.
“Don’t be anxious yet, we still need further investigation.” The Pretoria director of Bullard’s office is very cautious, and Hudgens has no final say on when to act.
The British police have no law enforcement powers in Southern Africa. When Owen Huggins comes to Southern Africa, he is not even allowed to carry weapons. Whether or when to act is the final decision of the Southern African police. Huggins can be present.
Forget about supervising and dictating.
Because this case involves the UK, Bullard's office will also be involved.
“Since the evidence is conclusive, what are we waiting for?” Owen Huggins is eager to make a contribution.
"It's not that simple. If we want to take action, we need the cooperation of the Lourenço Marquez police." Rhodes Frank didn't know why, but he had an inexplicable fondness for the guy named McMillan.
The reason is very simple. The counterfeit currency produced by Macmillan includes British pounds and U.S. dollars, as well as Japanese yen, francs, and marks, but no rand——
The key is that this guy is very skilled. When he was studying at the University of Paris, he studied chemistry, and he has a very precise grasp of the ratio of raw materials.
The investigation results of Bullard's office showed that McMillan originally worked at Rand Bank. His father was a gambler and was set up to lose the factory overnight. McMillan was forced to resign and go home to take over the family business.
It took only two years to redeem the Nichols Paper Mill.
The Nichols Paper Mill is doing very well. The Times newspaper published in Lourenço Marquez is printed by the Nichols Paper Mill.
“There are still doubts about this case and further investigation is needed.” Gao Ming’s attitude was firm. No matter how detailed the investigation results of the Pretoria Police Department were, Bullard’s office would not do it if it said no.
Owen Huggins was angry, but to no avail.
Rhodes Frank just showed his hands, the power of Bullard's office is indeed very great.
Leaving the Pretoria Police Station, Owen Huggins' mood immediately improved.
It was only March, and London was still filled with fog, but southern Africa was sunny and warm as spring. The air was so clean that the high-rise buildings in front of us, the green belts on the roadsides, the billboards in front of the shops, everything
Everything is as clear, bright and vivid as if washed with water.
All expenses incurred by Owen Huggins during his stay in Southern Africa were borne by the Pretoria Police.
However, Owen Huggins never forgot to ask for an invoice when making purchases.
These invoices are reimbursable after returning to Scotland Yard.
So this trip to southern Africa is a publicly funded tour for Owen Huggins.
There are still a lot of cultural and entertainment facilities in Pretoria. Owen Huggins is simply happy. Yesterday, Owen Huggins just watched a football match between De Beers Diamonds and Rand Gold. So Owen Huggins
Si has become a fan of the De Beers Diamonds.
Diamond Team!
Gold Team!
Such a strong nouveau riche gold style, at first glance, it is Stoudemire’s handiwork.
That's right, the football team under Stoudemire's name is not just Rhodesia United, De Beers Diamonds is a team of De Beers Unified Mining Company, and Rand Gold is a team organized by Rand Mining Alliance.
Both teams are at the top of the Southern African Second Division.
As mentioned earlier, there are many football teams in southern Africa. In Los Angeles alone, there are seven clubs that are qualified to participate in the professional league.
There are a total of 25 teams in the First Division. In principle, there is one team for each state. In fact, the distribution is uneven. For example, Los Angeles has three First Division teams.
What about other teams?
For example, De Beers Diamonds and Rand Gold, these clubs are not without strength, but because the top teams such as Nyasaland Eagles and Rhodesia United are too strong, De Beers Diamond and Rand Gold have no strength.
Qualified to participate in the First Division League.
So the Second Division came into being.
As the second-tier league in southern Africa, the Second Division also has 25 teams.
Then there are the continental leagues across southern Africa.
Take Nyasaland as an example again. In addition to the top teams, there are nearly a hundred football clubs in Nyasaland, large and small. These clubs hold competitions on a county basis. This level is the fifth level in southern Africa.
The top three teams in each fifth division are eligible to participate in the fourth division, the D-League, held in Nyasaland in the second year.
Only the first place in the D-League will be eligible to participate in the C-League in Southern Africa. The top three in the C-League will be promoted to the B-League the following year.
This competition system is certainly unfair to a state like Nyasaland, which has relatively developed football.
However, there has never been an absolutely fair system. Among the three places promoted to the C-League every year, there must be a team belonging to Nyasaland. If this continues, it will not take a few years. Really capable teams can still stand out.
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However, in states with relatively strong football capabilities, competition will be very fierce.
This league system is simply paradise for football-loving Owen Huggins.
It was after watching a second division league game that Owen Huggins finally understood why so many Europeans were willing to immigrate to southern Africa.
This is only a second-tier match, with less than 20,000 spectators, and the atmosphere is already extremely lively.
If this were replaced by the First Division, or even a national derby between Nyasaland Eagles and Rhodesia United, how heated would the atmosphere be?
Owen Huggins couldn't even imagine it.
ps: The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, I wish all the readers and lovers will get married together - there were guests at home yesterday, Yutou died heroically, and I will try to make up for it today - but don't expect too much, because there may be guests today - no
