[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 418: Defeated by a local tyrant (ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The chairman and the others didn't expect that any question could involve such a secret, and they were shocked after listening to Ma Zheng's words, and they naturally knew the dangers of counterfeit money with their knowledge.

As we all know, the price of commodities is determined by the supply of commodities and the circulation of capital in the market, if not imposed by the government. If the supply of goods is too large and the amount of capital in circulation is small, then the price will inevitably fall, so there is a saying that money is very durable and valuable, and vice versa.

Assuming that there are certain commodities in the market, then if the amount of money in circulation increases, it will inevitably cause the price of commodities to rise, and in serious cases, it will even evolve into inflation and even economic crisis. Therefore, the appearance of counterfeit money will inevitably cause economic instability in the country, like a bloodthirsty ghost, which specializes in interfering with and illegally encroaching on the wealth of the people, and even causing economic and social crises.

The Japanese wantonly printed counterfeit fiat currency in China, and not only did they purchase a large number of strategic materials, but also made the already extremely scarce materials even more scarce, affecting the overall situation of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Second, the influx of a large amount of counterfeit money into the Kuomintang will inevitably cause inflation and chaos in the economic order.

The most terrible thing is that if the Nationalist Government does not know, if something develops in the hills, then the consequences will be serious, and the Japanese can completely use the means of printing counterfeit money to support the front-line army, and even use fiat currency to pay the soldiers on the front, anyway, the money can be spent under certain circumstances.

After a long time, the chairman and others came back to their senses and asked, "Does the national government know about this matter?" ”

Ma Zheng shook his head and said: "We don't know much about this, there is no evidence that Wuhan already knows about this!" ”

Ma Zheng told the truth, although there are historical records that the Nationalist Government also responded after learning about the incident, and also asked the military departments to print a large number of holiday dollars or fake military coupons, and then circulated these counterfeit coins in the occupied areas through secret channels. But the problem is that these things happened after the outbreak of the Pacific War, and it is unknown whether the Nationalist Government knew about Ma Zheng before that.

"Enlai, you immediately send a report to Wuhan, report this matter to Lao Jiang, and let them pay attention to this matter, we can't let the wealth that the people have worked so hard to create be plundered by little devils!" The chairman took a puff of his cigarette and said.

"Well, I'll take care of this later!" Vice Chairman Zhou nodded and said.

At this time, the chairman looked at Ma Zheng and smiled, and then said: "You kid is not simple, the material reserve alone is undoubtedly in front of all the troops. ”

Vice Chairman Zhou also said with a smile: "Yes, the lack of government funds in our border region is notoriously lacking, especially for the military expenditure of the troops, the Party Central Committee is also powerless. Although when the Red Army was reorganized, the Nationalist Government had promised to allocate military funds to all units under the regular and reasonable establishment of the Eighth Route Army on a monthly basis, Lao Chiang was only three minutes hot, and there was little time for punctual allocation, and it usually dragged on for a few months, just like this year, it has been more than four months and has not allocated a penny, just like your military region has stored tens of millions of yuan in funds. ”

Mr. Zhu also patted Ma Zheng's shoulder and said with a smile: "It is said that your kid made a fortune, but I didn't expect to really become a landlord." Don't say that my old man beat you local tyrants, this time you took out some of it to help other troops, don't forget that for your last battle plan, all the troops have used all the strength to eat milk, especially the 120th Division and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, they are all fighting very hard, and the losses are extremely heavy. ”

"In the end, the losses were carried by others, but all the meat became yours, and the other troops couldn't even drink the soup. Then I, the commander-in-chief, don't seem to be explained, and in the end, I will be infamy, you say that I am not wronged! ”

Ma Zheng dared to let Wang Hansen truthfully report this point a long time ago, the Communist Party is fair, otherwise there would not be a policy of eating a big pot of rice in later generations, and besides, it has long been the practice of the Suicha Military Region to hand over part of the funds to the Party Central Committee, so it is not surprising that Commander-in-Chief Zhu commanded Ma Zheng to beat him.

"Commander-in-chief, I knew it would be such a thing, anyway, now we are also blood transfusion machines, and we have to get something by ourselves, hey!" Ma Zheng said deliberately helplessly.

The chairman still cared about Ma Zheng in the end, and he was really afraid that if he had any complaints in his heart, it would not be what the Party Central Committee was willing to see, so he said: "Ma Zheng, don't blame us for always hitting the attention of your military region. The Party Central Committee is also in difficulty now, because the military expenditure on the part of the Nationalist Government is intermittent and unreliable at all, and our main source of funds mainly depends on the industrial and commercial and agricultural taxes in various base areas, and of course, in addition to this, there are also confiscation and seizures to raise a little, but compared with the huge expenses of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, our income is not even a drop in the bucket. Therefore, we can only brazenly ask for some of the relatively wealthy military regions and base areas, and then support other more difficult base areas, and we are doing this for the sake of the development of the troops, and I hope you can understand. ”

Of course, Ma Zheng didn't really complain, otherwise he wouldn't have insisted on supporting the Eighth Route Army headquarters and other troops. Moreover, just as Mr. Zhu just said, in order to cooperate with the Suicha Military Region in the operation, all units also spared no effort, just like this attack on Zhangjiakou, if it were not for the fourth column to contain the two main divisions of the Japanese army in eastern Hebei, it would not be easy for Ma Zheng's department to defeat the 16th Division so quickly.

What's more, Ma Zheng also knew that what the chairman said was the truth, and now the main military funds raised by the border government are in several aspects, such as taxes, and the military funds that can be raised are extremely limited, so it is no wonder that these bigwigs of the party Central Committee are worried.

Thinking of this, Ma Zheng immediately said: "How can it, in fact, I just talk, in fact, the materials handed over to the Party Central Committee have been prepared." If he is really reluctant to take it out, he will not let Minister Wang report truthfully to the leaders. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "We did make a lot of money in this operation, and there were hundreds of trucks of materials transported from Chengde and Zhangjiakou cities, and the transportation department of the military region ran back and forth several times. Our military region also understands the difficulties of the central authorities, so after studying and deciding to hand over all the legal tender and gold seized this time to the party Central Committee, we have also deposited 5 million yen for the central authorities in Citibank, all of which are confiscated from the funds invested by Japanese foundations and corporations in China. ”

"In addition, there are twenty-seven cars of cultural relics and antiques handed over to the central government, I mean that the national treasure-level cultural relics are kept first, and they will not be sold if they can not be sold, after all, they are the cultural essence left by our Chinese nation, and I don't know if this shot can return to our China, as for those who are not too precious can make a quick move, it is best to barter in exchange for materials. At the same time, the military region handed over 30,000 pieces of cotton clothing, 10,000 sets of quilts, and 10,000 pairs of military boots to the party Central Committee. ”

Ma Zheng's voice was not high, but it gave everyone present a sonorous and deafening feeling.

Chairman Wen Yan laughed and said: "I know that Comrade Ma Zheng is a good comrade, this is very good, our Communist Party is a collective, whether it is the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan or the Eighth Route Army in North China or the freak of your military region, but after all, it is the people's army under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, and the purpose of the people's army for the people will not change." Of course, I am not criticizing you here, but I am saying that no matter how many problems exist in your military region, as long as you always keep the masses of the people in your heart and do everything worthy of the masses of the people, then you will be a real revolutionary. ”

Ma Zheng shook his head and said: "Chairman, we haven't done enough, just take this food crisis as an example, it was caused by my lack of foresight, so that the military region fell into passivity!" ”

Yun Jian on the side immediately said: "Chairman, this actually has little to do with the commander, the main reason is that our troops are developing too fast. In the autumn of last year, there were only 60,000 or 70,000 troops in our troops, and according to the standard of two catties of grain per person per day, we had a large amount of military rations in reserve, but in recent months, the size of the troops has continued to expand, and now there are 178,000 troops, more than three times that of last autumn, and the natural consumption of grain is very fast. ”

"Hehe, Comrade Ma Zheng, Comrade Yun Jian is right, it is right to have the courage to take responsibility, but not everything has to be taken care of by ourselves, fortunately, we have the bottom of our hearts in this matter." The chairman said with a smile. (To be continued.) )