Chapter 1762

Currency has a long history.

In the beginning, there was no currency, and when materials were scarce, there was no need for this at all. There were no extra items, or bartering was enough. Later, equivalents appeared, and general equivalents appeared.

Finally, currency appeared. The original currency had sufficient value, real gold and silver. At this time, counterfeit currency had no value, but later, paper money appeared.

The history of currency is not popular in East China. In short, after entering the era of paper money, it is convenient for the rulers, but it brings many problems, one of which is counterfeit currency.

Almost all currencies are issued by various countries. They circulate in their own countries. The amount issued needs to be based on the demand. Too much currency issuance will lead to the terrible devil of inflation.

Individuals can make counterfeit coins, but it is too difficult. Organizations can make them, and it is difficult to make fake coins into real ones. Only a country can use its own strength to make fake coins, so that it can truly be comparable to real coins.

For example, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States used the spirit of internationalism to help each other print dollars and rubles, resulting in counterfeit dollars and rubles on the market.

Koreans have also been printing renminbi and U.S. dollars to help with QE in both countries, Southeast Asian drug lords, Mexican drug lords, and Japanese gangsters, Italian gangsters, are also helping to print U.S. dollars for quantitative easing, one out of ten dollars is fake, these are great spirit of internationalism.

In World War II, it was not uncommon to print counterfeit banknotes. Among them, the biggest counterfeiter should be Germany.

Germany developed part of a huge plan to destroy the economies of its allies, known as "Operation Bernhard", the most famous of which was the printing of the British pound.

The design of British banknotes is extremely delicate, the image of the goddess Britannia was specially commissioned, and the watermarking process is the masterpiece of a masterful master. The dense, criss-crossed linen paper uses a unique multi-layer stacking process and a well thought-out digital coding system. In short, British banknotes are simply works of art, and almost no one can imitate them, but by 1945, 1/3 of the banknotes in circulation were counterfeit.

This terrible number is almost entirely due to Germany, which used Jewish laborers to print far more currency in printing houses near Berlin than in Britain's own printing houses in a few years.

These counterfeit coins have brought great convenience. They are the same as the real ones. Many times they take them seriously. For example, the bold action to rescue Mussolini and the subsequent action to rescue Italian Foreign Minister Ciano cost Bernhard's counterfeit money. All kinds of espionage operations are paid for with counterfeit banknotes. Buy gold and food on the black market. There are also some counterfeit coins that were exchanged into local currency by the German embassy in neutral countries...

These historical situations are not happening now, and Germany has not started the war on counterfeit banknotes.

Because Germany has quickly conquered Britain and Europe, although it is now in a war period, financial security is also very important. When the entire Europe uses the euro as a unified currency, it will be even more terrifying if counterfeit currency appears.

Reinhardt has always been concerned about the inflow of any counterfeit currency. At the same time, the printing of the euro is quite complicated. Drawing on the experience of later generations, the new euro has added a metal line in the middle, which is a first and also Increases the difficulty of counterfeiting.

Cyric did not use the printing of counterfeit money as a means of attacking the enemy's economy, currency will cause inflation, that's for sure, but when many items are rationed under military control, this effect will be got smaller.

But now, the islanders are so imaginative that they plan to print counterfeit U.S. dollar bills. Of course, Cyric must encourage the islanders to do this.

"It's a good plan," Cyric said. "These dollar bills flowing into the United States will bring huge financial panic. Well done."

Hearing Cyric's words, Gu Hefeng smiled wryly: "We faked it, but it's not easy to enter the U.S. market for circulation. We don't have a channel."

Islanders are very depressed.

As the war progressed, all trade between the island country and the United States was interrupted. In this way, the US dollar bills printed by the island country could not flow into the United States at all, and could not have an impact on the US economy.

Those of Japanese descent have been controlled by the Americans, and their movements have been restricted, let alone helping to circulate these dollars.

It cannot be circulated, it cannot flow into the United States, and it is useless to create it.

Historically, Germany had many channels, even through neutral countries, and the British were outraged to discover that many of the counterfeit banknotes even came from the Chilean embassy in London, the Portuguese consulate in Liverpool, and the Argentine embassy in London.

Moreover, the Germans can exchange and use them directly in their own occupied areas, which is a huge profit.

The German way cannot be replicated by the islanders.

Cyric nodded, the other party came here again with a request.

"We know that Germany and the United States still have secret trade relations, so we were wondering if we can spend this batch of dollars through your side..."

Hearing this, Cyric shook his head in an instant, what were these dwarfs of the island country thinking about?

It is not that Germany has contacts with the United States, but Europe and the United States have contacts. After all, it is impossible for the United States to cut off all trade. There are also some bold businessmen who have secret business with Europe.

It can be transited through places such as South America, and this is also the case in the history of later generations. Many businessmen only have interests, not countries.

If they want to use Germany to help them spend this money, the island country will definitely not spend it in vain. Maybe they will just use this batch of fake dollars to pay back the money owed by the island country before, even if it is five hundred fake dollars. One hundred real dollars to spend!

The benefits are all taken up by them, how is this possible! Of course Cyric would not agree.

"No, we German businessmen have always been honest, and we are still cooperating with the most honest businessmen. How could we use fake dollars to fool them. This method will not work." Cyric refused.

This time, Gu Hefeng's face became lost again. If Germany didn't help the flower, the dollars it made by itself would be useless.

"I have an idea," Cyric said. "I'll throw balloon bombs anyway. Wouldn't it be better to put the dollars on the balloon and hang the dollars you printed?"

Give it away for free, it fell from the sky, I don't believe that Americans don't pick it up!