Chapter 49 New Proposals
Li Shiqun's appearance in the French Concession was an accident in itself, and since he became the target of assassination by the military commanders and the central commanders, Li Shiqun rarely left the Japanese-controlled areas. After Lu Yuan shot Wu Sibao and a large number of plainclothes spies of No. 76 on the street, Li Shiqun was even more panicked all day long, and even when he went in and out of No. 76 and the gendarmerie headquarters, he would bring a few personal bodyguards to protect himself. He appeared in the French Concession today because a member of the underground CCP who had been chasing by No. 76 appeared, and one of his teams even almost caught the other party.
The target person was not caught, but Li Shiqun's men were arrested by the French Concession patrols bought by No. 76, and these streets have been blocked, and if enough people search carefully, they will definitely be able to find the target person. The French Concession is different from the Anglo-American-dominated public Concession, with the help of the Green Gang forces in the French Concession, the people of No. 76 can carry weapons in and out freely, if it were not for the French Concession, Li Shiqun would not have come here on a whim to personally supervise the battle.
Assassinating Li Shiqun, this is definitely not an easy matter, since he took refuge in the Japanese, Li Shiqun has attached great importance to his own safety, and now there is such a good opportunity, how can Lu Yuan not be tempted. From Lu Yuan's side, the distance from Li Shiqun's coffee shop is at most 100 meters, not to mention Lu Yuan's sniper rifle, even if it is a homemade explosive crossbow arrow, it has a range of 100 meters, but before that, Lu Yuan still needs to find a suitable place to shoot. The decision was made, Lu Yuan categorically would not change it easily, and took out a banknote at random and threw it to the shoe-shiner, and Lu Yuan hurriedly left the street.
Lu Yuan still follows his previous habits, first to find a high point, and then condescendingly, whether it is an ordinary sniper rifle or a heavy sniper rifle, it is easy to kill Li Shiqun. It's just that Lu Yuan, who left the street, looked for several places in a row, but he couldn't avoid the attention of the people around him, and after he went up to the roof of a building with a hard face, he found that Li Shiqun outside the coffee shop had already disappeared.
"Damn, damn it." Lu Yuan was very annoyed, so he had to take back the sniper rifle and get down from the roof, and when he returned to the street, the people of No. 76 had already withdrawn with all the corpses, Lu Yuan had no choice but to return to his residence and wait for Xu Huanshan to call. "I almost killed Li Shiqun today, but it's a pity that the guy's legs and feet were too fast, and they didn't give me a chance to shoot." Lu Yuan released his anger at Xu Huanshan on the phone, and Xu Huanshan on the other end of the phone also had a look of regret, if Lu Yuan killed Li Shiqun today, it would definitely be a great blow and shock to the Japanese puppet spy agency in Shanghai.
After chatting with Xu Huanshan on the phone for a while, Lu Yuan's mood was much better, but he just put down the phone, and Hans came. When Hans sat down opposite him, Lu Yuan suddenly remembered that it was Hans who he had invited. "Didn't you say you had something to discuss with me and asked me to come to you in the afternoon?" Seeing that Lu Yuan seemed to be in a daze, Hans knew that Lu Yuan must have forgotten what he said in the bar, so he couldn't help but remind Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan took Hans to his study, and after asking the cook to bring coffee, Lu Yuan personally plugged in the door of the study from the inside. "What I'll tell you in a moment is very important, and you can't be heard, and if this matter gets out, I won't have a good life." Lu Yuan not only inserted the door, but also closed the curtains, Hans was very puzzled by this, and the explanation given by Lu Yuan was also very general.
After closing the door and closing the curtains, Lu Yuan turned around and took out an envelope from the drawer and handed it to Hans, Hans, who looked inquiring, took the envelope, and opened the envelope according to Lu Yuan's instructions, and took out a few dollar bills from the envelope. Seeing that Hans just randomly put those dollar bills on the table and studied his envelope instead, Lu Yuan couldn't help but grin. "Old man, I think you are an occupational disease again, what can an empty envelope be curious about, you look carefully at these dollar bills."
Hans, who was reminded by Lu Yuan, put down the empty envelope in his hand, and picked up the dollar bills on the table instead, just looked at them a few times, and then rubbed the bills with his hand for a while, and Hans asserted that these dollar bills were counterfeit. "That's right, these dollar bills are indeed counterfeit bills, which I got from foreign banks in Shanghai through some channels." As he spoke, Lu Yuan took out a few more envelopes from the drawer, and poured out a dozen pounds, francs, and Deutsche marks from the envelopes. "Look, these are all counterfeit bills." Lu Yuan pushed all the counterfeit bills on the table to Hans. "These counterfeit notes are identified by banks, but if they are in circulation, they are rarely recognized as counterfeit money."
Hans's other identity is a black market merchant, and there is no shortage of people who exchange foreign currency privately in the black market in Shanghai, and Hans has long known that counterfeit money is rampant in the black market. Just after seeing these counterfeit coins that Lu Yuan took out, Hans was also amazed in his heart, he had never seen a counterfeit currency of this quality in the black market. "What does this have to do with what you're going to tell me? Could it be—" Hans looked up at Lu Yuan with a shocked expression.
Seeing that Hans had roughly guessed the answer, Lu Yuanbian nodded and said, "That's right, that's what I meant." During the day, you told me that you didn't want to be drawn into the war, but you couldn't abandon the country and become a deserter. As I said, you are no longer at your age to go back to the army, but you must know that there are other ways to do your best for the country. Maybe it's another way to raise supplies for Germany, and if you can get a lot of supplies for Germany, maybe Hitler will award you an Iron Cross. ”
Lu Yuan smiled and took out a document and handed it to Hans, "Take a closer look, your great head of state has made a lot of arrangements for the Jews, I don't mean to say good things for the Jews, but I think it's too much of a waste of resources to just put them in a concentration camp." Knowing that Jews are not only good at business, but they are also good at painting and creativity, and I don't believe that there are few Jews in Germany who are willing to serve Germany. ”
Hans, who had read that document, couldn't hear what Lu Yuan was saying to him at the moment, he was already completely immersed in that document, if this plan was feasible, then it would definitely be a great thing for the Empire. "Hans, think about it, with your German industrial technology and the Jewish creativity in painting, are you afraid that you will not be able to complete this plan?" Lu Yuan's voice sounded in Hans's ears, and this pulled Hans back to reality from his blindness.
Printing counterfeit banknotes and then smuggling them to Britain and France to buy scarce supplies in Germany was the idea that Lu Yuan gave Hans, and Hans himself felt that this plan had the possibility of success. When Hans asked where to print counterfeit banknotes, Lu Yuan gave a bolder suggestion, "Of course, it is better to go to the United States, once Germany is launched, Britain and France may become a war zone, and the United States, which claims to be neutral to the outside world, is the safest place, and the United States has a lot of resources, so it is just right to buy materials on the spot and send them back to Germany." ”
"How do you control those Jews? It's too simple, first separate the selected Jews from the rest of the Jews, let them see the hope of life, and then detain their families, and I don't believe that the Jews would abandon their families. Lu Yuan's suggestion made Hans stunned, and turned his head to look at Lu Yuan who was excited, Hans felt that Lu Yuan was a treacherous villain who was desperate at the moment, which was completely opposite to the Lu Yuan in his memory.
"What do you think I'm doing? I'm giving you an idea, and the idea has already been given to you anyway, and whether you believe it or not depends entirely on you. The strangeness in Hans's eyes was really seen by Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan didn't mind it, just laughed at it. Dizzy, Hans couldn't even remember how he had left Lu Yuan's residence, but as soon as he returned to the bar, he called the Shanghai consulate and asked the consulate to send someone to meet him at the bar immediately.
Lu Yuan didn't expect Hans's actions to be so fast, just one night, the idea he gave Hans had already been placed on Hitler's desk in the form of a telegraph. In the next few days, Lu Yuan stayed at home honestly, and at most in his spare time, he chatted with Xu Huanshan on the phone, and everything seemed to be calm until Hans came to visit again. "Lu, I have an invitation here, which was personally issued by the Führer, and he invited you to come back to Berlin with me." Hans explained his intentions, but Lu Yuan was shocked.
"No, I'm going to be very busy lately, I haven't been out for the past few days, I'm just waiting for intelligence gathering. If I had gone to Berlin with you, my plans would have been interrupted, and my previous efforts would have been in vain. Lu Yuan's first reaction was to shake his head and refuse, the idea he gave Hans was actually not a good idea, and besides, Germany was about to start a war, Lu Yuan didn't want to rush to send himself to the * barrel in Europe.
"It's simple, open more convenience stores or movie theaters, you can digest counterfeit money by reporting fake accounts, anyway, it's only the banks and Americans who will suffer in the end." Even if the Americans are aware of it, they will not be able to find you because you are also the victim of counterfeit money. Perhaps he had expected Lu Yuan to refuse before he came, but Hans was not very annoyed by Lu Yuan's refusal, but just pulled Lu Yuan to chat about the counterfeit money plan for a while.
It wasn't until Lu Yuan said that he would open convenience stores and movie theaters in the United States, where a large amount of cash appeared, and quickly digest counterfeit banknotes by exchanging zeros, that Hans could be regarded as temporarily letting Lu Yuan go. Hans returned satisfied, and Lu Yuan, who saw Hans leave, was also secretly full of pride, saying that Europe that had been plundered from China would have a good show now, but he didn't know what Hans could toss Europe into with counterfeit money.