The characteristic of a banker is that oil must be squeezed out of the cracks of the stones, but this time, under the persuasion of Yang Rui, Zhang Kun had to bleed profusely. Of course, he is also very clear about the reason: although the American people have a lot of gold in their hands and the price they pay is high, they have to get their hands to get the money. Among them, the role of the Intelligence Bureau is definitely greater than that of the Navy, after all, the entire gold exchange net is the most painstaking.

After the sponsorship was discussed, the next thing was what the intelligence bureau did, and Zhang Shi, who got 25 million out of thin air, was quite excited, and he said: "Sir, after the promulgation of the prohibition order, the smuggling of alcohol in the United States is serious, and all states have dense smuggling networks. It's just that the starting point of the moonshine convoy is the Great Lakes adjacent to Canada, and if the gold is to be shipped out, the destination must be the coastline, preferably the western coastline, which will have to be replanned and another outbound route will be built......"

"Gold is important, but don't let gold delay your business, you can tell which is more important and which is more important." Yang Rui roughly agreed with Zhang Shi's idea, but he was still worried that he would use too much of the original resources of the Intelligence Bureau for gold smuggling.

"The students must be able to tell the difference." Zhang Shi nodded, "With these two and five million, I can recreate and build a temporary system, which will not overlap with the original intelligence system, and this system can also be used as a cover and auxiliary to the original system in the future." ”

"Who are you going to send?" Yang Rui suddenly asked a more detailed question.

"Students are ready to send ......" Zhang Shi understood that Yang Rui did not want him to use the overseas Chinese in the United States, that is, the Hongmen system - because of the concessionary attitude towards the overseas Chinese in the United States, the North American Hongmen has become increasingly dissatisfied with the Revival Association. Mr. Is it okay to send a spring breeze? He is now in charge of the British field, although he is not familiar with the United States. But we have a year or two to get him acquainted with the place......"

Dai Chunfeng is Dai Li, although the name has been changed. Yang Rui still let Zhang Shi find him more than ten years ago, but young people are always a little impatient, in order to sharpen his temperament, he only worked as a newspaper mailer in the bureau for the first ten years, and Yang Rui was sent to the UK when he went into the field.

Thinking that it was time for him to take on the big responsibility, Yang Rui agreed: "It's a donkey or a horse, and it's always going to slip away, so send Dai Chunfeng." You tell him, "Man is more expensive than gold, don't die at every turn." ”

Listen to Yang Rui's admonition. Zhang Shi couldn't help laughing, this subordinate is actually more suitable for assassination missions, and going to the United States to fish for gold really can't be carried out with the mind of 'if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent', he said: "Sir, don't worry, he is already a gentleman in the UK." ”

Hearing that Zhang Shi said that Dai Lia was a gentleman, Yang Rui smiled and didn't believe it at all, but he could only roughly talk about the style of the little minions, and the specific implementation was Zhang Shi's business. At this point, the two major financial matters have been discussed. After determining the action code and getting the note signed by Yang Rui, Zhang Shi and Zhang Kun quietly disappeared again, as if they had never been here.

The second day of the Lunar New Year, January 30, 1930 in the Jesus calendar. Nineteen days later than history, Japan's Ministry of Finance officially lifted the ban on gold exports, and returned the foreign exchange rate to the previous 100 yen to 49.85 US dollars. The timing was chosen here. There are two meanings, one is that it is the Chinese New Year. The Chinese government, the Bank of China, and the securities market are all on vacation, and the days before the lifting of the embargo are the most likely to cause trouble. The lifting of the ban during the Chinese New Year holiday can largely prevent Chinese speculators from taking advantage of this speculation;

Second, February is the Japanese general election, and although the Democratic Party of Hamaguchi and others can win a majority of seats in the Diet, it is not an overwhelming majority, and the lifting of the ban on gold is a measure that the Japanese people hope for (if the increase in hot money is not fully introduced into the stock market and the property market, it will eventually cause domestic prices to rise; In the eyes of factory owners, small business owners, and wage earners, the lifting of the gold ban will lead to a drop in prices and stimulate exports, and these people are the majority of votes), once implemented, it will help the Gerakan Party to elect.

Although the calculation is so, on the day when the ban on gold was lifted, Kodama Kanji, president of Yokohama Zhengjin Bank in Japan; The governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), Hisashi Hijikata, vice president Narihiro Ikeda, and even the Minister of Finance, Junnosuke Inoue, all fidgeted from 8 a.m., and it was only at noon that Hisashi Hisakata, who was waiting in the Ministry of Finance, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Stock prices, government bonds, and interest rates are all stable, so it seems that we don't have to worry anymore!" Also exhaling a long breath was Junnosuke Inoue, who had the best relationship with Hisashi Hijikata among those who went to England to study finance, so he spoke casually.

"Treasury Secretary Monroe (Mellon) said: 'As things stand, it is an extremely vicious pessimistic argument that the economic crisis will continue for several years, and those who promote it have ulterior motives.' Ford's in the automobile industry also said: "All things should be better than the situation in the first half of the year......" Although Hisashi Hijikata is the president of the Bank of Japan, the responsibility for lifting the ban lies entirely with Inoue, and since Inoue has chosen to lift the ban at risk, he has to say something to comfort his old friend, even if he knows that the 80 billion assets of the US stock market have evaporated more than 30 billion yuan in a month.

"The United States and China are always-for-tat." Junnosuke Inoue's mouth was a little bitter, and he thought of the naval delegation that was negotiating in London at this time, "It is very uncomfortable for Japan to be caught in the middle, but those people in the military department do not understand this at all. It is still Yang Jingcheng who is cunning, China has the money not to build warships, but chooses to invest heavily in infrastructure and industry, but allows the Japanese Navy, which is already burdened with more than 3 billion national debts, to build ships on a large scale, and still claims to trust Japan, and he wants to use Japan as a shield for China......

It is Japan's common practice to borrow domestic and foreign debts to stimulate industrial investment, but many of these treasury bonds are used for the military, especially the Japanese navy, which has many and old warships, and has been rebuilt and rebuilt, and the navy's military expenditure has been more than 250 million yen almost every year since the end of the European war. China, on the other hand, has built only a small and medium-sized fleet of six aircraft carriers, 12 heavy cruisers, and 38 light cruisers. Although the cost of an aircraft carrier is almost three times that of a battleship of the same tonnage, and it is said that the average cost of each aircraft is as high as 60 million Chinese dollars, the total cost of each aircraft carrier is only 700 million Chinese dollars, which is much less than the Japanese Navy's additional military filings of 200 million or 300 million yen each time.

Then there is the tonnage, the Chinese navy is newly expanded, and there are not as many veterans and active sailors as Japan. In addition, the salaries of officers and men are not as good as those of the Japanese Navy, and they have to be on a par with the British Royal Navy, and the annual military expenditure of 70 million Chinese dollars is enough. It's just too cheap. If the Japanese Navy only spends 70 million yuan a year, then Japan's finances will be greatly relieved. A country with a GDP three times that of Japan. It is no wonder that the chaebols and shopkeepers have tried their best to set up factories and shops in China, but the result is that all the taxes have gone to the China State Taxation Bureau, and the Japanese tax offices have collected less and less money.

With a grudge against China, Inoue Junnosuke exposed the red deer of the military department and the cunning Yang Jingcheng together, and Hisashi Hijikata echoed: "The military department, ......, they all want Japan to be knighted for military merits like China, and then become a big lord like Yang, and they really want to do this." Then the sacrifice of the Meiji martyrs was wasted. ”

Hijikata has long said that in terms of ideas, isn't the division of military supply a historical regression? The martyrs of the Ming system finally collected the power from the lords in various places to the Great Japanese Government under the leadership of the emperor, and now those red deer in the military department actually want to put down the power, which is simply heinous.

When Junnosuke Inoue nodded, the footsteps of the secretary outside suddenly came, and his heart tightened while he looked around, but he heard the secretary who came in and said: "Your Excellency, there is a run on the National City Bank of the United States...... The secretary glanced at his boss uneasily, and then said: "About one million yen of gold has been exchanged for ......"

"Ah...... Ah......h Hearing that it was only more than one million, the two laughed in unison. Hijikata said with a smile: "Don't worry, our gold in the United States is enough to deal with the run of 20 million yen, and the people who exchanged it on the first day should be those who have not exchanged it before." Don't worry. ”

"Hay." The secretary only reported as requested, after all, the amount had already exceeded 1 million yen.

In the midst of the false alarm, another secretary walked in quickly and said, "Your Excellency." Someone at Tokyo Shojin Bank exchanged 1 million yen, and after saying that, the person felt that he had not made it clear. He added, "Your Excellency. It is Wang Boyuan, the king of gold in China......"

With the meticulousness of the Japanese, every Chinese financial speculator has a record in the Ministry of Finance, not to mention the famous gold king Wang Boyuan. According to the information, this person is a native of Ningbo, but the strange thing is that he and Ningbo businessman Yu Qiaqing and others can not go together at all, before the European war, this person thought that China would definitely take advantage of this to change the silver standard to the gold standard, so speculation to buy silver coupons, but the war silver price soared and the gold price plummeted, and then the government said that it would not consider the gold standard, and he almost went bankrupt and jumped off the building, but a few years later, the household department really changed directly from the silver standard to the gold standard as he guessed, and then he came back to life and earned nearly 10 million.

After this battle, Wang Boyuan was called the King of Gold because of his eye poison and daring to gamble. He is now leading the run on gold, and perhaps all of China's speculators will be moved by it, which is a formidable force.

With such concern, Hisakata asked the secretary, "Is he in Tokyo himself?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, it's Wang Boyuan himself in Tokyo." The secretary nodded, he heard that it was Wang Boyuan at that time, so he specially asked about the situation. "Do you need to talk to him, Your Excellency?"

Hijikata asked if Wang Boyuan himself actually wanted to invite him to talk, but he was the president of the Bank of Japan after all, so he had some concerns. He immediately looked at Junnosuke Inoue and asked what he meant, but Junnosuke Inoue, who had made a false alarm just now, was not as nervous as Hisashi Hijikata, and he smiled lightly: "The Shanghai Stock Exchange will open in six days, and Wang Boyuan will return to Shanghai when he is very open." It is said that when this person was speculating in silver, Yu Shi, the mayor of Shanghai, persuaded him as a fellow villager, but it was to no avail, so let him go. As long as it is not for the Shanghai Zhang family, we don't have to worry too much. ”

"Hay." Junnosuke Inoue waved his hand, and the secretaries all went down. Inoue Junnosuke said again: "Wang Boyuan can only represent some retail investors, and I think his move is just to test whether the lifting of the ban on gold is really implemented, just to see our attitude." ”

Inoue Junnoyuki's brain can't make up for Wang Boyuan, who came to Tokyo to speculate in the New Year, and Wang Boyuan, who was in the VIP room of Yokohama Zhengjin Bank, looked at the gold bars stacked by the bank staff in front of him and smiled, but Qin Runqing, the partner he pulled, and the leader of the Shanghai money industry still complained: "If you don't want to bring me to Japan to exchange gold for the New Year, my brain is broken." ”

"Why is my brain broken, the Japanese will send us money for the Chinese New Year, how can I not come?" Wang Boyuan didn't care about Qin Runqing's complaints, let alone tell him the truth of the matter-Qin was the representative of the Shanghai Qianzhuang Industry who opposed the abolition of the two yuan reforms, and he hated those people in the Fuxing Association deeply-he just grinned and didn't take the complaints seriously.

"Is it good to wait for the eighth day of the first day of the new year to open in Shanghai? I had to come all the way to Japan. Qin Runqing muttered as he instructed his subordinates to collect the seventy-five kilograms of gold that had been counted and send them to the armored car outside. Will you go back tomorrow? ”

"If you don't go back tomorrow, you'll come back tomorrow to exchange for a million." Wang Boyuan still smiled, not caring about the surprise of the Japanese around him.

"When will you go back?" Qin Runqing looked at him and felt even more inexplicable, but he didn't want to ask a lot of words in the bank, so he just hurriedly got into the car, and then said, "Do you want to redeem it tomorrow?" ”

"Of course I'll redeem it tomorrow, we brought six million yen this time, how can we go back if we don't redeem it?" Wang Boyuan, who got into the back of the car, said.

"We're going to offend the Japanese......" Qin Runqing was a little old after all, and he couldn't help but have some worry in his eyes.

"Don't be afraid of offending the Japanese, just don't offend Zhang Tianwang." Wang Boyuan said lightly, almost causing Qin Runqing's head to hit the roof of the car. His expression changed several times, his eyes rolled and rolled, and finally he stepped forward and said, "Zhang Xingjian wants us to take the lead in destroying the yen?" ”

"Of course not, Zhang Tianwang just asked us to test the water and see how the Japanese react." Wang Boyuan avoided Qin Runqing, who was full of cigarette smells, and corrected: "Anyway, anyone can offend, but you can't offend Zhang Xingjian." ”

Wang Boyuan reported Zhang Kun's name, and Qin Runqing immediately stopped complaining, and he began to think about what Zhang Tianwang would do to Japan - before the Japanese Ministry of Finance announced the lifting of the gold embargo, all major Japanese newspapers published the news that the government had issued 100 million pounds of bonds in the British and French bond markets. I don't know who the Japanese bought through, and the annual interest rate of the 10-year bond is surprisingly low, only 4%, but even so, it was snapped up for more than 30 million pounds as soon as it was listed. With so many pounds guarding, it is obviously impossible to run on the yen. (To be continued.) )