Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 240 The printing industry has a bright future

It is now October 1902, and the global submarine race is in its early stages of development. Although North America is the younger brother within the eyes of the established traditional powers, the younger brother is like a jackal.

But their scientific research capabilities are not bad. As early as 1897, they successfully built the Holland VI submarine. It was driven by both a gasoline power unit and an electric motor. Its speed was only 7 knots, which was incomparable to large ships, let alone torpedo boats on the sea. Compared.

But the maximum underwater endurance is 1000 nautical miles! !

A submarine can carry a crew of five and is equipped with torpedo tubes and two cannons.

The torpedo tube can fire three torpedoes continuously.

Theoretically, three missiles are enough to sink a large ship, just like two Italian torpedo boats sank a 20,000-ton dreadnought in World War I.

At this moment, three Holland VI submarines are also deployed on a 10,000-ton cargo ship. The modified slipway can be launched backwards during navigation and dive for sniping.

Nine torpedoes are dispatched at one time, and only half of them can hit two large ships.

There are not many of these things, but they can perform miracles at critical moments. If they want to sink another Fuji-class or Shikishima-class, they are more confident than more than 200 torpedo boats on the sea charging in the heavy rain of artillery.

The submarine's stealth and sneak attack effects are too stable.

The most important thing is that from the time North America's Holland VI submarines were put into service, and then after France developed the Gustav Zied submarine and sank the Machenta battleship of Yalun.

"Are you two sure you want to watch the battle with me?"

Standing on the deck and looking at the orderly refitting fleet, Wang Shouliang exhaled smoke again and said with a smile, "Kevin, Joseph, the picric acid shells are very powerful. There is a full 360MM of armor steel outside my command tower. Even if it takes two hits, it may not be blown to pieces."

Picric acid is not a big secret. To put it simply, the major powers around the world are now using cotton gunpowder shells, which have an explosive power 2 to 3 times that of black gunpowder. Picric acid shells are more than 90 times more powerful than black powder.

European and American powers have realized that submarines can be a combat weapon with considerable deterrence and actual combat capabilities, but at this stage, the submarine competition among various countries has just begun.

The Japanese had already exploded a picric acid bomb once during the Sino-Japanese War, but the amount was not large.

Joseph frowned, "There are really a lot of picric acid shells on the other side? Have you really solved the problem of stability of this thing?"

But this thing is not easy to store and transport. It will self-destruct if it vibrates even slightly, which cannot solve this problem. In 1904, when the Battle of the Sea of ​​​​Mao began, the great powers such as Mao Xiong still used cotton gunpowder.

This time Wang Shouliang went crazy with picric acid shells, submarine assassins and more than 200 torpedo boat death squads, and the mine ambush area would also use deception tactics.

Why don't you say no to Kevin and Joseph? ?

He refused. The other party could also drive a large ship to the sea by himself and use a telescope to look at it from a long distance. Even if he roped in the two Kevins, Yalun and France, including Hans Cat and Mao Xiong, had they sent any ships to use them in the distant sea? Looking through the telescope to watch the battle? ?

"You still have time to consider standing on another ship flying the Yan Lun flag and watching the battle from the outside."

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 was originally a way for the European and American powers to dump arms, watch the battle of armored battleships, and then conduct experiments for the European War.

Joseph and Kevin looked at each other. A few minutes later, Kevin grabbed a Pearl River lighter and lit a cigarette. "How do you solve the problem of picric acid's tendency to self-explode?"

Until the outbreak of World War I, the total number of submarines of the world's major powers was only more than 260. It was not until 1914 that Hans Cat's submarine U-9 sank three Yanlun cruisers in one hour. This was the seriousness of submarine combat power. Glasnost is showing its ferocity on a global scale.

"Now, I don't know where the Japanese fleet is. I only know that it is near Xiaoliuqiu. It's hard to say when we will meet and start a war in the next few days."

It feels like it's an overestimation.

Wang Shouliang laughed and said, "I am just making a suggestion. If you are not afraid of death, then come with me."

Kevin raised his eyebrows a few times and nodded, "It's a pleasure to work with you. Give us half an hour to think about it before deciding whether to change ships."

Of course, the worst is the worst. The worst possible outcome is to use missiles and overturn the market against the wind!

It's just that there are always war observers like Kevin and Joseph following him. Wang Shouliang will not easily use epoch-making weapons unless it is absolutely necessary.

Before this, the entire island navy had never suffered from a submarine assassin!

Two years later, in the Oni-Bear War, the enemy's record was so bad that the Kuang Ba was written on their face. Their biggest losses were the Hatsuse and Yashima, which entered the minefield and were killed by mines...

Wang Shouliang laughed, "I can sell you a batch after the war."

He expected that half of his fleet would be exchanged for the Japanese half.

Wang Shouliang nodded and said no more.

After tricking Kevin and the two ghost guys into leaving, he can use another brand new giant weapon without using missiles.

That is Wang Shouliang, who personally serves as the artilleryman for four 305MM main guns!

Before the emergence of various fire control radar systems, artillerymen relied only on artillery experience and various mental arithmetic and oral arithmetic abilities to aim and fire? ?

Wang Shouliang can proudly say that he was the most amazing gunner in the world before World War II! none of them!

During World War II and the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, North America was able to easily defeat the weak and win again and again at sea. The key was not how many big ships or how many artillery shells there were, but the Mark 37 fire control system equipped with mechanical computers.

Mark 37 already includes calculations and deductions of physical and mathematical calculations such as deck inclination, wind speed and direction, drift caused by shell spin, parallax between the turret and the conning tower, etc.

This is simply not comparable to the experience and experience of a serious human brain and veteran artillerymen.

Once Wang Shouliang serves as the commander and works part-time as an artilleryman, he can control four main guns by himself and can provide fire coverage of 20 or even 40 guns.

Whether it can be higher or stronger depends entirely on the efficiency of other auxiliary gunners such as loading shells and clearing the barrel.

As for the Battle of Kume Island, why didn’t he personally take action when he saw nearly 800 people were lost? One is that there is no picric acid, so it is difficult to fire cannons at enemy ships.

Secondly, he can't just rely on himself to fight the war. After spending enough money, training an iron-blooded elite that has been tested by war is the only way.

………………

Just when Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort fleet was cruising in the ocean, looking for enemies and planning to build the best fighter plane, they went to Shanghai.

Hua Xia Imperial Bank!

A certain Shanda person who was at work, still happily planning how to buy back Daye shares from the Japanese overseas Chinese businessmen, heard an urgent knock on the door.

When Mr. Shanda shouted to come in, the two braided men quickly opened the door. The first one still had a stack of banknotes in his hand. When he entered, he knelt down to say hello, "Sir, something big happened. Someone discovered counterfeit banknotes!"

"After inspection by our professionals, it is indeed a counterfeit banknote!"

Shanda was confused and waited for dozens of seconds before staring at the banknotes in the opponent's pocket and saying, "Send it up."

The braided man stood up quickly, bent over and walked to the desk and handed over the counterfeit banknotes. Shanda people started to watch, observe and distinguish, and it was not difficult to confirm that these were indeed counterfeit five-yuan and ten-yuan banknotes from the Hua Xia Imperial Bank. .

In 1897, in order to cope with various reparations, the late Qing Dynasty had to borrow money from the banks of the great powers and had to establish the Huaxia Imperial Bank. This bank would be renamed Bank of Communications in the future during the Republic of China.

The structure is completely based on the management method of Yanlun HSBC Bank, and the banknotes are also printed by Yanlun.

A five-dollar note can be exchanged for five Mexican Eagle Oceans, Hong Kong Island Silver Dollars or North American Silver Dollars. At this stage, they are all silver-standard banknotes from various countries, and their purchasing power is really not bad.

Even in the Republic of China era, five yuan banknotes were exchanged for five Yuan Datou silver dollars.

After a few minutes of silence, Shanda people looked up and asked, "Are our banknotes the only ones with counterfeit banknotes? Are there any Japanese yen and US dollars?" Although the Hua Xia Imperial Bank only issues clear banknotes, if there are customers to store pounds, marks , or exchange pounds and marks for clear banknotes or silver dollars...

Of course we also accept these businesses.

The other man with braids then looked up with a wry smile, "We have checked ourselves and found unexpectedly that there are a batch of British pounds, Japanese yen, US dollars, including rubles with overlapping numbers..."

"If it weren't for the repeated numbers, it would be impossible to tell the authenticity from the fake ones!"

"Our bank's most senior experts are unable to find anything wrong beyond the coding. In comparison, the people who print our banknotes seem to have too rough skills and can easily tell that they are counterfeit banknotes."

Shanda people's eyes widened, they took a few deep breaths quickly, grabbed a lighter and lit a cigarette, "Do you know what you just said? Do you understand what it means?"

The braided man nodded decisively, nodding repeatedly.

The world's major powers, including those with counterfeit banknotes such as Daiqing, may have flooded the market with counterfeit banknotes of all kinds. If there had not been merchants holding counterfeit banknotes with Qingqing, and later discovered that something was wrong, they would come to the bank for consultation and help.

None of them thought that they would start investigating the banknotes of the great powers from this low-quality counterfeit banknote.

Isn't that a joke? The great powers are fighting around the world, fighting to the death for what? Isn’t it just money? You are joking!

The great powers were fighting life and death in order to make a fortune, but someone secretly started the printing press to cause trouble? It seems to have been particularly successful! ! This damn thing is more powerful than the cannons of giant ships.

Shanda's eyes widened and he took a few puffs of cigarette, then stood up with a confused look on his face.

Co-authored: When it comes to printing counterfeit banknotes, are you despised even with Qing Dynasty? High-end players don't even bother to print yours. Only rookies want to play? !

Should he be grateful or complain about this situation!

One thing is very important. For people who often change hands with various banknotes, as long as the quality of the money is not too bad and it is not too obvious that it is fake, ordinary and simple anti-counterfeiting identification technology will not support you in making the mistake that it may be a fake. judgment.

Then very few people will record the banknote numbers one by one...

Even if there are people who like to record and compare numbers, the chance of getting several completely duplicate numbers at one time is very low.

After smoking the third cigarette, Shanda turned around and said, "Immediately collect all the banknotes with the same number and number, no matter what currency they are."

"Leave the overlapping part in our bank, and hire people to exchange the other part for silver dollars in banks in London, France, North America and island countries."

………………

A few hours later.

After several secret turns, when a few elite confidants escorted a few accounting personnel and carried boxes of silver dollars back to the Huaxia Imperial Bank, boxes of silver dollars were placed in front of Shanda people.

He was a little numb, "So smooth? Didn't you encounter any difficulties?"

"Have you ever encountered anyone who strictly compares the codes of each banknote and records them strictly?"

Several of his subordinates shook their heads.

Again, ordinary banknote detection methods remind everyone of veteran banknote detection experts and experienced experts that when the banknotes they buy are okay, humans will become inertial and dependent.

It is difficult for someone to record one by one and compare the coding.

Even if you want to compare, how many banknotes does a bank receive every day and how many banknotes are sent out every day? Is it necessary to record the number for every banknote that goes in and out of a bank? ? Delete the number again? ?

This is difficult to do in reality and difficult to achieve!

Shanda was speechless for a while, patted his thigh and said, "Hurry and escort all the silver coins back to the warehouse. Remember to continue to exchange banknotes for silver coins tomorrow."

"Fuck, before today, there must be someone who has arranged to do these things like me, right?"

"Starting from tonight, we will conduct a thorough investigation. All people who have been exchanging banknotes for silver dollars will also be investigated. Those who don't like to receive banknotes will also be investigated. Let me tally the list."

Banknotes such as pounds, marks, francs, rubles, etc., are all likely to have counterfeit banknotes with different numbers. It’s just a matter of quantity and probability.

He was reminded by the fake Qing Dynasty banknotes that he discovered this mine. When he discovered it, he had already entered an era where hidden mines were everywhere? Just fuck.

What the hell kind of deity did this?

Lao Sheng suddenly discovered that the world's great powers were building guns, cannons, and ships without limit, and all kinds of arms races were reaching full swing.

Driving a team across continents and oceans, grabbing and grabbing, seems not as promising as the printing industry.

Even the pound sterling has been tricked. Could it be that the ghost guy Yalun is controlling everything? ?

After all, Dai Qing's banknotes were printed by Yin Lun Seal, and Dai Qing didn't have much skills in anti-counterfeiting, let alone printing them by himself.

Which company has the best and strongest technology in this area? If the sun never sets, who dares to claim the second place? Who dares to claim the first place? Hans Cat? France? North America? ?

What a sin!

Band Qing definitely does not have this technical ability.

Following Master Shanda's words, a group of his subordinates were still busy making promises. When the hall was silent for dozens of seconds, a man with braids asked for instructions, "Sir, what should we do with the batch of counterfeit banknotes from our Imperial Bank?"

"Who printed these people, who was doing the flowering? What should we do next?"

Shanda was speechless.

He just wanted to spend all the counterfeit money in his bank as soon as possible, exchange it for real money and send it back to the warehouse. What was the first pile of low-quality counterfeit money? ?

He waited until he took a sip of tea before speaking, "How many counterfeit bills do we have?"

The braided man said quickly, "During the day, several merchants received counterfeit money and asked for advice on whether it was genuine or not and how to solve the problem. This also included the counterfeit money they received yesterday and the day before yesterday, totaling more than 100 yuan."

"But it is confirmed that this is a fake, and there is a counterfeiting team working on it. Then some of it has probably been circulated in the area near the merchant who asked us for help."

"The amount may exceed a thousand yuan."

Shanda took a sip of tea and said, "When merchants come to exchange, give them real ones. Immediately notify the Shanghai Yamen and ask them to send patrols to help us solve the case and arrest people. Keep an eye on those merchants. Remember to keep a low profile and deal with it secretly."

The counterfeit banknote case created by the original islanders, Shanda people had no experience at all and did not know how to deal with it. It caused a sensation and triggered a crazy run on the Imperial Bank by all depositors.

What banks fear most is a run.

At this moment, he was still inexperienced, but he understood a simple truth: first spend all the fake U.S. knives, fake pounds, fake marks, and fake francs in Hua Xia Bank...

Let’s talk about other things!

(End of this chapter)