NCCnovel Chapter 431 Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
Chapter 431 Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
Li Yunlong took it and looked at it, and it turned out to be a border area ticket.
Picking up the border area ticket, Li Yunlong seemed to have nothing unusual at first glance, but when he looked closely, he found something vaguely wrong.
"Mengzi, is there something wrong with the ticket for this area?"
"Mr. Li, you have good eyesight. There is indeed a problem with the district ticket here, but do you know what the problem is?"
Li Yunlong rubbed the border area ticket and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. He took out a border area ticket from his pocket and compared it with the other ticket. Only then did he find the clue.
"Mengzi, this border ticket is so beautiful. The border ticket in our pocket is as wrinkled as the old lady's face, and the words on it are not clear. But look at yours, it's so beautiful!"
I will never understand until I die that being too beautiful is also a fault!
"Old Li, you are right, this is a counterfeit bill!"
The history of border area tickets can be traced back to more than ten years ago.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese troops launched a large-scale invasion of various parts of China. Their policy toward China was to carry out military attacks and economic plunder simultaneously, attempting to "fight to support the war."
Wherever the Japanese went, they burned, killed and looted crazily, and tried every means to plunder and extract supplies, from coal mines to chickens, ducks and fish in ordinary people's homes, in order to replenish the consumption of the invasion and maintain the war of aggression.
Moreover, the Japanese invaders at that time indiscriminately issued military notes in the occupied areas and forced them into circulation. They used these "waste papers" that were printed casually and without any reserves to force transactions and plunder the Chinese people's property.
They also manipulated the traitorous puppet regime to set up banks in the occupied areas to issue counterfeit currency, siphon off supplies, and carry out economic plunder.
In May 1939, the Japanese puppet regime established the fake Huaxing Commercial Bank in Shanghai and issued fake Huaxing notes, which were forcibly implemented in the occupied areas of Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai. However, due to the resistance of the masses, the issuance could not be expanded and it failed soon.
In January 1941, the Wang Jingwei puppet government established a fake Central Reserve Bank in Nanjing, issued fake "Central Reserve Notes", and then forcibly promoted its use in major occupied areas. It used the so-called "legal currency" to redeem legal tender, used legal tender to obtain foreign exchange, and concentrated a large amount of legal tender to the anti-Japanese base areas to obtain supplies.
The Japanese devils got something for nothing and used the obtained legal tender to purchase large quantities of food and other supplies in the base area, causing huge losses to the local people.
To smash the enemy's economic plunder conspiracy, get rid of the harm of hyperinflation of legal currency, and safeguard the interests of the people in the base area.
Based on the actual situation, various anti-Japanese war bases launched monetary struggles in the financial and monetary fields, adhered to independent monetary policies, and established banks and printing factories.
Issue resistance currency in the base area;
Resolutely reject Japanese counterfeit currency;
The struggle against legal tender is to both restrict and utilize it.
Continuously expand the influence of multiple currency issuances.
The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government issued border region tickets.
Because border area tickets were based on grain, as many border area tickets were issued as there was grain, the purchasing power was very strong.
Moreover, production in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region developed very well, and 70% of materials were self-sufficient.
At the same time, the border region also prohibited the use of counterfeit currency and restricted the use of legal currency, so the border region notes were also designated by Li Yunlong as the legal currency in the area controlled by the independent column.
Because counterfeit banknotes were banned, the Japanese found it difficult to use randomly printed banknotes to purchase supplies in the border areas, which made them extremely angry.
Especially when Pingshun's economy was developing better and better, the Japanese devils were even more salivating when looking at the goods on the shelves.
Therefore, the Japanese set up a large number of counterfeit money manufacturing dens on the outskirts of the area controlled by the Independent Column, produced a large number of fake border area tickets, and purchased them in large quantities in the territory of the Independent Column.
Usually the form they take is relatively simple.
First, they purchased grain at high prices in the markets around the base and the area controlled by the independent column, and mixed three or four hundred counterfeit bills with more than one thousand yuan in banknotes.
The second is to use traitors to find connections, spend counterfeit banknotes in the grain and cloth markets in the base areas, take advantage of the fact that farmers do not recognize counterfeit banknotes and prefer new banknotes, and sell them vigorously to buy up strategic materials such as grain, mountain products, cloth, local specialties, and medicinal materials in the base areas;
Third, they took advantage of the rules that restricted the circulation of legal tender and went to the countryside with counterfeit bills to buy the legal tender in the hands of ordinary people. This not only pushed these counterfeit bills to ordinary people, but also allowed them to use the legal tender they exchanged to buy supplies in the base.
Fourth, we use spies to pretend to be our staff and pretend to ban counterfeit banknotes in the market. Of course, the spies are not so kind, but they seize the real currency and promote counterfeit currency to confuse the real with the fake.
The fifth method was even more inhumane. The Japanese captured a large number of civilians in the border areas to build fortifications and artillery towers, and distributed counterfeit currency to the civilians under the pretext that "the imperial army does not use people for nothing".
Even if these ordinary people later find out that the money in their hands is counterfeit, they will still find ways to spend it in order to reduce losses.
However, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government and its independent column were able to counter each move.
First, multiple colors were used for printing, which increased the difficulty of printing, and at the same time the anti-counterfeiting technology became more sophisticated.
At the same time, hand-carved intaglio printing technology is used.
Hand-carved intaglio is made by a carver using a chisel to carve the surface of the printing cylinder according to the original image and text. The printing material can be a copper plate or a steel plate.
The hand-carved intaglio has clear lines and a strong sense of layering on the banknotes, making them difficult to forge. Hand-carved intaglio printing is easy to implement secret anti-counterfeiting techniques when making the plate. The depth of the carved pits determines the light and dark levels of the banknote's images and texts, making it difficult for counterfeiters to imitate the same light and dark levels.
There were also secret marks on the border area tickets, such as the five-cent banknote with a purple cruise ship picture issued by the Northwest Bank in 1940. There were trees, boats, rivers, and stones on the left side, and the word "Northwest" in the water ripples.
The most important thing is that even with the technologies mentioned above, the Japanese may still be counterfeited with their more advanced technology.
Therefore, each base also started with materials and used local paper to print banknotes.
Local paper money can only be used for about half a year, which is a disadvantage, but it is also an advantage in preventing counterfeiting.
Because people will automatically exchange banknotes for new ones when they become worn out, after half a year, the old bills will automatically flow back and new bills will be exchanged out. In this way, as long as the ink color (the engraving plate can be changed or not) is changed when preparing to print new banknotes, after half a year, the popular anti-currency on the market will become another one.
This indirectly consumed and distracted the time and energy of the Japanese and puppet secret service agencies in their research, because the enemy and puppet agencies had to spend time imitating local paper and also had to spend time stamping and numbering in order to counterfeit our anti-Japanese currency.
By the time the counterfeit banknotes were secretly brought to the base, it would probably have been more than half a year. Of course, it didn't know what color and style the new banknotes would be after half a year of anti-currency warfare.
Therefore, as soon as the counterfeit currency entered the base area, the people knew it was fake, because the old anti-Japanese currency had been recalled, and the new border area currency was a different kind.
Originally these strategies could eliminate most counterfeit money, but why did this counterfeit money incident become such a big deal?
"Commander, the enemy has made new moves! According to my analysis, they now have dedicated researchers!"