Seeing Song Biao, everyone immediately stood up and saluted.

Song Biao returned the greeting coldly and said: "First of all, let me tell you some good news. The main garrison of the Japanese Manchurian Army in Liaoyang has been basically eradicated. The only ones left now are the few thousand people left in the county."

Zhang Yahu suddenly became excited and said: "Master, let me deal with those people?"

Song Biao hummed noncommittally, but then asked him: "Why are you excited about the Russians' war?"

Zhang Yahu chuckled and said: "Kill little Japan."

Song Biao still made a strange sound and said, "It's not good to kill too many people!"

Zhang Yahu thought for a moment, but didn't understand.

Cai E, who was counting the ruble notes, sighed and said: "Master, you are really right!"

Cai E's ideological education work has not been done yet, and Song Biao is not in a hurry. The days are long anyway, and he is not afraid that this person will run away. In fact, even if he runs away, it doesn't matter much.

Cai E stood up again and said: "Master, we have done some counting here. The specific amount is still unclear, but we can already estimate the ruble notes. The amount is really quite a lot. It is almost six million rubles. In exchange for

It’s 125,000 taels worth of gold, which is a huge fortune.”

Song Biao didn't care too much and said: "Russia has six to seven hundred tons of gold reserves. 125,000 taels of gold is only 4.5 tons of gold. What a huge wealth. Of course, we are still relatively weak now. Can we steal from the Japanese?"

It’s not easy to get this money.”

Cai E looked particularly shocked when he heard this. He really didn't know how high Song Biao's ambition was. He didn't even take 4.5 tons of gold seriously.

He really didn't understand Song Biao's heart.

When Song Biao said this, he had already begun to discuss the issue of Russia's more than 600 tons of gold reserves. The gold reserves of the Tsarist Russian Empire that were transferred to the Far East in the late October Revolution were indeed taken advantage of by the Japanese Army.

Robbery, but Japan has always claimed that there is no such thing.

It was a strange incident, but Song Biao would probably never leave such a good thing to the Japanese army again.

Song Biao had never thought that the income from the raid on Liaoyang could be so great before. He estimated that he could have a basic payment of 20 million yen, and the extra 10 million rubles were purely ill-gotten gains. In other words, this ruble amount was originally

It was given to the Japanese army by the Russians in vain during the Liaoyang defeat. The amount may be even larger, but now it has been divided up a lot by the famous Japanese generals.

As for the amount of ammunition hoarded by the Japanese army in Liaoyang, it must be quite large. At least the batch of arms and supplies left behind by the Russian army's defeat at that time was a very astonishing amount. Coupled with the Japanese army's own reserves, the total should be astonishing.

?

Unfortunately, it was dark, so there was no way to do a detailed count. The only things that we had to count clearly were real money and banknotes.

Although there are still very important things to do, the work of counting money is also very important.

Song Biao didn't go anywhere. He closed the door and counted the specific amounts with his brothers in the yard. There were Japanese silver dollars and Japanese yen in the Japanese army's warehouse. These are two concepts of currency. The former is a silver standard and the latter is a gold standard.

During this period, Japan adopted a monetary standard policy of mixed gold and silver. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, with the support of the Qing government's huge indemnity, Japan briefly adopted a pure gold standard, but it soon fell into disrepair due to Coolidge's

Prosperity (loose money supply and prosperity) led to the country's economic crisis, and it was forced to re-mint silver coins on a large scale in Meiji 34.

Japan's shrewdness and cunning was to adopt a fake gold standard in response to the weakness of its national power. It used the gold standard for foreign countries and European and American powers, and the silver standard for domestic and Asian countries. It was not until the end of World War I that Japan became a creditor nation.

A true gold standard.

Japan continues to use Japanese silver yuan domestically, and its yen banknotes are Japanese gold yuan notes, which correspond to gold. Each Japanese gold yuan note is equivalent to 0.75 grams of gold, which is approximately 1/10 of a pound, or 1/2 of a U.S. dollar.

Therefore, half of the "wartime allowance" in the military pay reserve in the Japanese Manchuria Army General Affairs Depot is Japanese silver dollars, and half is Japanese yen, which makes the liquidation work even more arduous.

Because they were allocated by the Japanese Army Headquarters, they were a whole batch of Japanese thirty-six-year-old small silver coins. The printing and casting process was very sophisticated. Each coin weighed 26.96 grams, contained 90% silver, and was extremely uniform in color.

This small version of the silver dollar is called the Japanese Long Yang, or the Oriental Dayang. It is difficult to calculate in China. The foreign dollars and silver dollars we usually talk about in China are Mexican silver dollars. This silver dollar is exactly equivalent to 0.75 taels of Qing government treasury silver, three

A Ying Yang was exchanged for 2 taels of Kuping silver, while the Japanese small version of Long Yang was worth about 0.65 taels of Qing government Kuping silver.

One yen per day is equivalent to approximately 1.4286 taels of Qing government Kuping silver.

Cai E has lived in Japan, and he is very familiar with the exchange between Japanese yen and Japanese silver dollars. Generally, in Japan, 2.2 silver dollars are exchanged for a Japanese gold dollar coupon. However, Japanese gold dollar coupons are of very little use in Japan.

, almost invisible.

More than 60 people were counted here, and it took a full two hours to finally calculate the specific number. The total portion of the Japanese army's military pay reserves that had been seized was about 21.58 million yen, and the Japanese army's more than 20 million small-plate Meiji III coins.

Although the sixteen-year-old silver coins are beautifully printed, they are still far less valuable than the gold coins.

After counting, Song Biao asked Li Dayun to collect all the ruble notes and Japanese gold yuan coupons first. The remaining Japanese silver yuan remained in the warehouse, and Zhang Yahu's Nandian company was still responsible for guarding it.

This money must be too important to Song Biao. He knew that if he could defeat the Japanese counterattack and finally defeat the Japanese army here, his future would no longer be a small Jilin left wing of the Qing government.

Battalion commander is so simple.

To put it bluntly, even whether he is willing to take a job in the Qing government depends on how high the price the government can afford. If the price is lower, he will lead a large army of 60,000 to 70,000 men to dominate the Northeast.

I don’t know where the Qing Dynasty will put its last bit of dignity.!~!
Chapter completed!