Moreover, it is not necessarily a good thing that copper coins play a similar role as banknotes in alleviating and delaying the problem! If a problem does not break out quickly, it may spread to a larger area, and then accumulate a greater undercurrent under the small ups and downs.
Take Liwang Money Shop as an example. It used to be a money store that exchanged copper coins for silver. However, as soon as the trend came, it immediately transformed into a coin wholesaler. The business spread to nearly ten provinces. If it continues to develop, it will probably become an underground central bank.
Another reason! I just don’t trust those at the top of the government. Once the impact doesn’t show up quickly, these guys may just muddle along, dragging their feet and not moving, eventually causing the consequences of steaming frogs in warm water.
Fortunately, these guys have put their hands into the import and export trade. Whether it is copper coins similar to paper currency or a large outflow of silver, the impact on this business will be huge, so Lin Mo is not so worried.
However, if copper coins want to play a paper-like role well, they also need conditions. They cannot be less or more. If they are less, they will not be enough to support the rapid increase in transactions. If the demand for buying and selling exceeds the supply, it will increase in value, which will lead to price chaos and affect copper coins.
To play its role, it is estimated that without Liwangqian spreading a large number of copper coins, problems may have arisen. Looking at it this way, its behavior has a positive effect.
But too much is not enough. If supply exceeds demand, it means depreciation. If silver coins rise and copper coins fall, the currency situation will inevitably become more chaotic. Not to mention playing a positive role, it may even drag the economy into a deeper abyss.
However, this problem has not yet been discovered, not even in Shanghai and surrounding areas with large shipments. There is a silver-copper gap between various regions in the country, and there will naturally be various speculative and reselling dealers to balance it.
Even if the operation is profit-oriented, there won't be any big problems in the long run. After all, copper coins also have costs, and even if they are counterfeited, they still have to make a profit, but Liwang Money Shop has a special background. Their profits are not just money.
It may be in order to disrupt the economic and financial order of the government and cause losses and cause trouble.
Moreover, copper coins were also exchanged for silver. It would never be a good thing for a large amount of silver coins to be gathered in the hands of the Japanese, so it was necessary and inevitable to cross the river and burn the bridge.
Anyway, they have already made a plan. Without the butcher Zhang, how can they still eat pigs with hair on them? Official formality and private forgery will quickly fill these vacancies.
After thinking for a while, Lin Mo asked: "Senior, I remember that the territory should be under the jurisdiction of the national government? Are you just letting the other party run their business there without anyone taking care of it?"
Su Hongjie heard this and explained: "Although it is our territory, it is not far from the East District of the Public Concession and Zhabei. The Japanese have one or two thousand serious soldiers in Shanghai. Those people are worried that the Japanese will find an excuse to pick on the enemy."
There's something going on!
I haven't contacted any of those people if there is any problem. I have learned the relevant information. Shanghai Station has long been busy with itself. When I learned about the situation, the other party had developed to a certain extent. It arranged guards and protected many people.
There’s nothing I can do about it now.”
Lin Mo nodded and continued to ask: "Can you give a rough estimate of the number of copper coins they released? A rough number is enough. The unit of measurement is yuan, and there can be an error of... a hundred thousand orders of magnitude..."
Su Hongjie frowned and thought for a while, then said with a wry smile: "This is really hard to calculate. I only know that the other party rented a large yard. Nowadays, there are multiple rooms in the side room filled with copper coins at any time. Recently, they have been strengthening the rooms to store them in exchange for copper coins.
A preliminary estimate is that at least three or five rooms worth of money have been saved.”
Hearing this, Lin Mo frowned and asked, "Aren't they short of money? Why are they still storing money in a specially fortified room there? According to common sense, shouldn't it be transported back to their site for storage?"
"One reason should be as capital. As far as I know, every time a copper coin is transported by ship, except for a small amount of silver brought back with the ship, which may be used for management and purchase, the other money is retained with interest.
Down.
According to what I learned, the group of spies didn't have much capital. When they first started to exchange money, they just played it by themselves. They didn't even have enough copper coins. It was probably profitable later, so someone supplied them with a large amount of old copper coins to produce them.
New copper coins are used for exchange transactions.
When others provide copper coins, there must be costs and profits, so this group of spies also earn hard-earned money. Those who provide copper coins, their superiors and superiors who agree to the need for management, etc. all have to share the profits, and the proportion of profits that fall into their pockets is not the same.
will be too high.
Therefore, in order to make more money, we can only win by quantity as much as possible and expand the scale of operations. Therefore, we retain a large amount of other people's capital profits and use them as capital. At the same time, we can also coerce all parties to continue to supply a large amount of copper coins.
The most important thing is that if you don't control other people's capital and profits, all parties may kick them out on their own. They may not even have the choice of partners, and they have no unique advantages over others.
And if they really transport the money back to themselves, it is estimated that all parties involved will not be able to rest assured, and it will be difficult to continue the business, so putting it in the money shop should be the result of a compromise between all parties.
Another reason! They also transported money back to the Japanese sphere of influence at first, but the previous banknote incident was closely related to it. In addition, Shanghai and other Japanese forces that they did not deal with afterwards put all kinds of blame on them.
Buttoned on his head.
Therefore, they became the main culprits of the banknote incident, especially that night, many Japanese people who had suffered huge losses and even incurred a lot of debt were targeting them.
Somehow, these people knew about the money he brought back. There were also rumors that the money was the black money he robbed from them in the banknote manipulation incident, so a large number of people who had lost money gathered to surround them.
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I speculate that they do not place business in their territory. In addition to avoiding other forces within them and facilitating transactions, there are probably also reasons for these people. After the incident, they were obviously well prepared and paid some price to do so.
Solved the matter.
However, I no longer transport the money back, for fear of being organized and robbed by my own people in their own territory. It’s not like they have the final say here. If this happens, it will be extremely difficult to deal with it.”
After hearing this, Lin Mo nodded, smiled, and said, "Senior, you know these things in too much detail, don't you? Have you set your sights on them? If you can't bring back the money, I guess it contains your handiwork, right?"
"...I can't hide it from you..." Su Hongjie smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "I did do some tricks in it, but it was just a slight push and guidance, and I didn't jump up and down and do too much.
What traces are there?
There is a Japanese expatriate over there in Zhabei. He is probably a lazy scoundrel doing nothing in Japan. He couldn't make it in the country and came here. He still refuses to change his ways. He relies on his Japanese identity to eat and drink in Chinese shops in Zhabei.
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As a result, in the previous banknote incident, this guy first made a fortune by flipping banknotes, and then made a huge sum of money by speculating on banknotes and exchange rates. However, he refused to stop and was completely deceived before dawn.
This guy felt unbalanced. He made trouble with others and was punished again, so he formed a quarrel with those Japanese spies. However, this guy didn't have the guts to jump up and down in public. He even dared to curse and be confused after being drunk.
Muttered something.
As a result, I was drunk one time and happened to be overheard by the person below me at the table. After some investigation, I felt that this person was suitable, so I made some articles about this person.
Of course, I didn't take advantage of it directly. A fair-weather friend he hung out with happened to live near the place where the money was stored. I arranged for someone to find an opportunity and said a few words next to the car carrying the money when it passed by.
'Isn't the person in the car just now the police officer who beat us when Tesco asked for money? What was he driving secretly for?' In this way, the two brothers dressed as overseas Chinese casually chatted a few words for him to hear.
He spoke and left directly in the car without even meeting in person.
At that time, the money shop was supposed to be counting every day, and after a day or two, the money would be transported back to the city in the evening. It was so regular that I suspected that they wanted to fish out the person who made the idea. Anyway, the goods transported in each trip at that time were not counted.
many.
However, I didn't go deeper into the investigation. It was just a guess. Instead, I asked my fair-weather friend to roughly know the whereabouts of this car. As expected, he couldn't help but be curious and went to investigate, and then he found out about the money.
This guy also lost some money in the previous incident, but the amount was not large and he admitted it. However, when he discovered this situation, he still informed the target.
After hearing this, the target did not have the courage to stir up trouble, but as we inferred, this guy was also very bad, and quietly spread the news to those who had suffered heavy losses, or were punished and hated the other party, and finally had the courage to do so.
People gathered people to cause trouble again.”
Lin Mo nodded and said with a smile: "You don't like small money, so you directly plot all your property. Senior, your money is very tight. Are you short of money?"
"...Sigh..." Su Hongjie waved his hand and said with some embarrassment: "I was a little greedy at first, but ended up taking action too early. Who would have thought that his business would be so big now, and the principal and interest money earned in a day or two would be enough to make me smile.
You're setting yourself up for trouble.
I can't say I'm short of money. The main reason is that living, buying a house, running a business, etc. in Shanghai are very expensive. Living in Shanghai is not a big problem. I have been specially approved for a lot of funds to ensure that the brothers below have no problem in their normal lives.
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If we want to buy a property, the office has also approved some funds, but it is a drop in the bucket! The land prices, housing prices, rents and other costs of buying a property in Shanghai are not low, but it has been determined that we have to carry out the task of lurking for a long time.
It is difficult to access some things, which is not conducive to tasks and hiding oneself in lurking.
As for business, I haven't thought about making a lot of money, which can offset the expenses incurred by buying a house, so that the potential tasks will not be unsustainable. However, operating some industries also requires considerable funds to start.
So I currently have a huge funding gap, and the office can at best support our normal development and expenses required for normal operations. If we want to go further, we can only rely on ourselves."
