Chapter 45: Printing money is a top priority On the Yamato, the flagship of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, in a heavily guarded cabin, a group of people were surrounding a machine with serious expressions.
I saw Wang Qiu carefully taking out two brand-new Japanese yen banknotes from a small wooden box, stuffing them into the chronological vending machine in front of him, and then only heard a soft "ding" sound, and took them out of the vending machine's pickup port.
A large amount of Morinaga toffee dropped out of a tin box.
"Yeah, it worked."
Wang Qiu turned around and gave Ma Tong a high-five with a smile on his face, "Let's print money as hard as we can from now on."
Since discovering that you can use Japanese yen banknotes to purchase supplies through chronological vending machines in another world, during the subsequent adventure, in addition to some high-tech and cutting-edge equipment, the stingy relevant departments have tried their best to issue banknotes to Wang Qiu, allowing him to It feels so good to solve the material supply problem by using the 21st century yen to buy things at the prices of the Showa era or even the Meiji era.
Each box of cigarettes only costs one yen, and a box of toffee only costs half a yen.
Ten yen can provide a table of food and drinks.
Even a Type 38 rifle only costs 80 yen, which is only equivalent to the price of half a rice ball in the 21st century.
Although the vending machines of the era only sell Japanese arms and do not provide too advanced goods, in the end It can only be provided until the Pacific War period, but it is enough in this World War II dimension.
Therefore, before the combined fleet weighed anchor and sailed north, Wang Qiu only spent a mere 100 million yen, leaving enough grain and ammunition for the Truk garrison to reserve the modern Chinese government's backlog of expired supplies.
In the late Ming Dynasty, It's almost been emptied out, and there's not much inventory left at the moment.
Although being able to use the yen of the 21st century to buy things at prices at the beginning of the 20th century or even the end of the 19th century is already a huge advantage.
But human greed is never satisfied.
After all, the Japanese yen in the 21st century is still a foreign currency no matter how valuable it is, and it can only be exchanged for it by paying real money.
More importantly, not only does Wang Qiu and his small team need to use yen to purchase supplies and materials from the chronological vending machines, but the relevant departments also need to spend yen to purchase some things related to the national economy and people's livelihood from the chronological vending machines.
Of course, It's not to save money and take advantage of buying Japanese rice from the Meiji era for ten kilograms per yen, but to collect some things that can't be bought with money.
Specifically, it means purchasing large quantities of a rare precious metal: palladium.
Since Wang Qiu obtained the technology to produce palladium fusion reactors from Iron Man Tony Stark in the Marvel world, which is the shiny thing on the chest of Iron Man's suit, the domestic political and economic circles have suddenly experienced a revolution.
Big earthquake.
Everyone is fascinated by this earth-shattering energy revolution.
Note that the palm-sized mini palladium reactor on Iron Man's chest alone has a peak power generation of 3 billion joules per second, which is equivalent to one-third of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station.
A small thing can satisfy the daily needs of a big city The demand for power supply is constant, but the cost of power generation can be reduced to almost zero: users only need to bear the daily maintenance costs of the power grid.
For the Chinese who need to import huge amounts of fuel and natural gas every year after realizing industrialization, such endless Cheap energy is an irresistible temptation With such clean, pollution-free, portable and compact high-efficiency energy power, not only can China's manufacturing industry get rid of the bottleneck of energy shortage, but even rushing out of the earth and conquering the stars and the sea no longer seems to be the dream of science fiction novelists. .
But the problem is that although Iron Man's nuclear fusion reactor is very good and powerful, it consumes a lot of metal palladium.
However, the Chinese government does not have much palladium in its hands, and it is difficult to obtain a large amount of palladium at an affordable price.
In nature, palladium rarely exists alone in dense concentrations.
Instead, it appears as an associated ore of gold mines.
Its reserves are scarce, smelting is difficult, and it is already expensive.
When the technology of the palladium fusion reactor was leaked out, the price rocketed to the sky.
There was even a price but no market.
What’s even more terrible is that most of the proven reserves of palladium on earth are located in Russia, Canada and South Africa, places that are temporarily beyond the reach of China’s influence.
Within China, only Guangxi seems to have some small veins of palladium, and the reserves can only be said to be better than nothing.
Of course, there is no need to mention Russia.
Canada is basically the exclusive preserve of the US empire.
Think about it, we finally obtained the palladium fusion reactor technology that can usher in the dawn of a new era, but the result is that it is cheaper than its two competitors, the United States and Russia.
Relevant domestic departments feel about this, just like the Axis powers whose throats were choked by oil shortages during World War II.
It is as disgusting as if they had swallowed a mouse, as if they had eaten a dog, and they are indescribably uncomfortable.
Relevant departments, forced by the shortage of palladium, naturally found other ways to collect palladium through various crooked ways.
The few bottles of synthetic ore minerals Wang Qiu obtained from the Doraemon plane were all used to produce palladium veins. , and then continued to use period vending machines for acquisitions.
However, using the chronological vending machine in Doraemon's plane and spending Japanese yen to purchase palladium will also encounter a very troublesome problem: If the era is set too early, then palladium will not be available in Japan at that era; if the era is set later, the yen has depreciated, and the price of palladium will be very expensive, and it will not account for much The period-era vending machines from Doraemon's plane can only sell products made in Japan.
In principle, it is basically impossible to buy imported goods from abroad.
Whether it is European or American goods, this machine cannot provide it.
In Japan, which had a backward industrial technology in the early years, no matter how much money you spent, there was nowhere to buy expensive and rare heavy metals like palladium.
So far, Wang Qiu has been entrusted by the central government to purchase metal palladium from chronological vending machines.
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The total value has reached 10 billion yen, but the relevant departments still feel that it is far from enough: Even if palladium is more durable than oil, why We must have tens of thousands of tons of strategic inventory, and it feels quite painful to spend so much money.
In order to exchange for these yen, how many vegetables, fruits and textiles do we have to sell to the Japanese?
As a result, the relevant departments began to frantically make counterfeit Japanese yen banknotes using the government's technical reserves.
Making modern Japanese yen may be more troublesome, but Japanese yen banknotes from the First and Second World War era should not be difficult to produce.
Unfortunately, the results were very disappointing: although the counterfeit banknotes produced by the relevant departments were no different from the old Japanese yen banknotes collected by collectors and the Japanese yen banknotes collected in the World War II dimension, even experts could not tell the difference.
But the period vending machine is able to tell the difference between the two.
It only recognizes genuine banknotes from the World War II plane and does not recognize counterfeit banknotes from the relevant departments.
However, in the face of the above setbacks, the relevant departments were not discouraged.
Instead, they further opened their minds and suddenly came up with a whim: Since the vending machines of this era only accept banknotes, and they accept genuine Japanese yen banknotes regardless of the dimension, then If you could control a Japanese government in another world, and then start the money printing machine like crazy and print Japanese yen reasonably and legally, wouldn't it be possible to get whatever you want?
What should I do if I spend a lot of effort to forge the counterfeit money and find that I can’t use it?
I’ll just turn it into real money.
Therefore, under the instruction of Ship Girl Sophie, the government leader of the "Oceania Management Committee" Orb and the first chairman of Orb Horitsukichi requested unrestricted yen issuance rights at the beginning of his taking office.
According to him, now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, the tonnage of the U.S.
Navy It is five or six times that of our own side.
The Orb territory is isolated in the Southeast Asia.
It will be isolated from the mainland for a long time in the future.
It is impossible to ensure that the transportation lines are always smooth.
If banknotes cannot be issued independently, then the economic operation will inevitably be in great trouble and it will be difficult to support it.
The huge consumption of modern warfare.
The army and civilian officials were naturally quite suspicious of this.
After all, financial power was related to the security of the regime, and what Aub wanted was not the right to issue local bills, but the right to issue national currency, which was simply too much support.
However, the navy persisted and even threatened to overthrow the government.
The Soviet representatives also supported the decision and cited the precedent of each base area of the Chinese Red Army printing their own banknotes.
Therefore, in the end, the resolution was passed.
Anyway, in wartime Japan, all daily necessities depended on ration vouchers, and you couldn't buy anything with just yen banknotes.
As for the end of the war, let's wait until after the war.
If we lose the war and Japan is directly subjugated, the Japanese yen will become useless paper.
Who will be able to take care of so many things by then?
Just in case, the Navy not only obtained an imperial edict written by the Empress, but also forcibly wrote this clause into the constitution.
Finally, they even "respectfully requested" the Empress to operate the machine in person and took every possible care to print the first batch of banknotes.
As a result, the money printing plan finally succeeded.
To put it simply, due to some unexplainable secret principle of the universe, the chronological vending machine recognized this batch of "genuine banknotes".
Watching the toffee falling out of the vending machine's opening, and the cans, rice, biscuits, snacks, pickles, lunch boxes, kettles, rifles, pistols, bicycles, and mortars that were taken out from it. , the radio station.
For a moment, whether it was Chairman Horikichi, Commander Narumi Inoue, or Prime Minister Nosaka Sanzo, they were stunned and their thinking was stagnant.
"This, this is unscientific, it's so unscientific, wait, you can really buy anything from here."
After being speechless for a long time, Prime Minister Nosaka Sanzo suddenly asked.
"Yes, you can use this to buy rice, sugar, ammunition, guns, fuel, airplanes, tanks, and even warships."
Ma Tong explained with a smile, "As long as you have enough money, you can do whatever you want.
Are you confident about future victory now?"
"More than just confidence, victory is certain."
Horikichi, the first chairman of the Orb Committee, couldn't help laughing.
If we say that the previous war between Japan and the United States was a judo match with a huge disparity in strength.
Japan, a poor and weak island country with a population of 70 million, faced off against the world's industrial hegemon, the United States, with a population of 120 million.
It had to defeat the weak and the strong again and again before it could win a chance to breathe.
So from now on, it's all evened out.
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The Japanese army has more abundant resources and supplies than the US military, and can in turn flood the Yankees with all kinds of "sea" Commander Narumi Inoue seemed to have a bigger imagination: "Wait a minute, I remember that the cost of building a Yamato is more than 100 million yen.
If we print more than 10 billion yen at full power, then how can it be done?
Aren’t we going to be able to build up a hundred Yamatos right away and fight with the Yankees?”
"Theoretically, it's possible, as long as you can find so many qualified sailors to fill the warships," Wang Qiu glanced at him and said.
So Commander Narumi Inoue, who had just become excited, suddenly became deflated again.
Nowadays, Japan has long been depleted of human resources.
Even cats’ claws are wanted to be used.
Where can they find so many skilled sailors?
They must gather their heads.
If so, it seems that we can only recruit fishermen's daughters.
Well, this idea seems to be a try.
Although it is unfavorable to let women board the ship, it is at least better than leaving the new warship unmanned.
Prime Minister Nosaka Sanzo frowned and thought of another question, "In this case, wouldn't our people be able to get something for nothing from now on?
As long as they continue to print money, they can get everything they want.
I'm afraid this is not in line with the laws of economics.
It will also cause social problems.”
"Uncle, you think too much," Ma Tong shrugged and interrupted, "Don't you think that this machine can be used forever for decades or hundreds of years?
How can there be such a good thing in the world?
It will be scrapped after two or three years at most.”
"Nani is only two or three years old."
Prime Minister Nosaka Senzo was shocked when he heard this, and immediately fell into a new worry about gains and losses.
On the other side, Wang Qiu curled his lips and made a decision to himself, "Two to three years is not a short period of time to get something for nothing.
The specific things you want to buy can be left to the future."
Think about it, even if you want everything, it doesn’t matter if you are a hand-picker.
Our first priority now is to print as many banknotes as possible as soon as possible, and the first batch will be 100 trillion yen.”
"One hundred trillion yen" Inoue Narumi was so horrified that she took a breath, "I'm afraid it's not even enough for paper pulp."
"It doesn't matter.
The raw materials such as paper pulp and ink required for printing banknotes can also be purchased from this machine."
Wang Qiu patted the outer shell of the chronological vending machine nonchalantly.
"I see, the materials exchanged for the first batch of banknotes , just buy all the food first, use it to relieve refugees and distribute it to the citizens, so that they can feel a little bit happy about the new emperor's enthronement."
So, at the temporary base of the Army Staff Headquarters in a temple outside Hiroshima, Chief of Staff Neiji Okamura, who was worried about how to solve the logistical supply problem for hundreds of thousands of troops and military dependents, suddenly received a large batch of allocated supplies.
He immediately I was almost scared to death when I took the list: "Nani gasoline, two hundred thousand tons of rice and wheat, one hundred thousand tons of Yamato canned beef and whale meat, twenty thousand tons of sulfa powder, one hundred tons of motorcycles, fifty thousand trucks, thirty thousand Zero fighter planes, ten thousand bean tanks, five thousand 10 million Type 38 rifles, 100 million sets of winter and summer military uniforms, 100 million sets of hand grenades, 100 million rifle bullets, and 5 billion rounds.
Where did the Navy get so much stuff?"
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Dreadnought Ship Girl Avrol, a story about Maozi Ship Girl who was drunk all day long and was unwilling to lose her status as the red holy ship, and took the protagonist through the Russo-Japanese War and the Battle of Tsushima; 2.
The Auspicious Invincible Xuefeng, the modern Taiwanese warship Danyang II, a shady, malicious, cute, insatiable, greedy, chubby boy with serious violent tendencies The story of her son, whose soul traveled through time and became the Snow Prince Danyang I Snow Wind, shrouding the entire Pacific Ocean under her insane and invincible fate, and looking for the militaristic imperialist powers to support her; 3.
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