Printing Legal Tenders?

Marcel stared at the banknotes in his hand, feeling that something was off about the money, and handed it to his wife beside him.

"Honey, look, isn't something wrong with this money?"

"I do feel something is off, but I don't know what it is."

Marcel and his wife have worked in banking for most of their lives. As French citizens, they are very familiar with the French currency, not to mention that Marcel is also the president of the Sino-French Bank.

"Thank you, Grandpa."

Hearing the shouts, Xiao Yao quickly ran over, politely thanked them, and was about to take the money and leave.

"Wait, kid, this is your money."

Marcel paused, a kind smile spreading across his face. He stuffed the French coin in his hand into his pocket, then took out another French coin from his pocket and handed it to Xiao Yao.

"Oh, thank you, Grandpa."

Xiao Yao didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After taking the money and thanking him, she returned to Lu Chen's side.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Chen stood up, took the legal tender from Xiao Yao, and glanced at the two elders who had just interacted with Xiao Yao.

"It's okay, I just dropped my money, and that grandpa picked it up for me."

Hearing Xiao Yao say that, Lu Chen didn't pay much attention. He glanced at the legal tender in his hand and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Let's go home."

Lu Chen and Shen Ruoqiu each took Xiao Yao's hand and left the zoo, heading towards home.

Just as Lu Chen had predicted, his younger sister Lu Xiulian had returned, constantly muttering about ice skating.

Upon seeing Shen Ruoqiu, he even invited her to stay for dinner, saying that his brother had finally brought a woman home.

In the end, Lu Chen declined, citing his busy work schedule. He couldn't understand why his sister was so concerned about his important life event.

"I'm sorry you had to see this."

On the way back to the military police headquarters, Lu Chen apologized to Shen Ruoqiu for his sister's earlier actions.

"It's alright, your sister is quite enthusiastic."

Shen Ruoqiu smiled faintly, not minding at all. She even thought Lu Chen was an extremely responsible man, still supporting his sister and niece in this situation.

"Where's the child's father? You're going through so much hardship now, doesn't he care?"

Lu Chen glanced at Shen Ruoqiu's protruding belly and asked.

Shen Ruoqiu stared at Lu Chen for several seconds before speaking, "The child's father isn't doing so well yet."

"have no idea?"

Lu Chen was surprised. How could he not know that his wife was pregnant? And now she was left homeless as a pregnant woman.

"Then your man is really a scoundrel."

These were Lu Chen's honest thoughts. Only after saying them did he realize that it might not be appropriate to say such things in front of someone else's wife.

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Shen Ruoqiu couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle, but she was also a little angry when she thought of what happened that night.

She's a virgin, and this guy got her.

"Yeah, he's a real scoundrel."

Shen Ruoqiu said this through gritted teeth.

"Go back to your room. I'll call you if I need anything."

Back at the military police headquarters, Lu Chen went back to his office alone, drew the curtains, and then reached out to take out Mouse One.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Chen frowned. On the way, Shu Yi had reminded him several times, but he didn't dare to respond because someone was following him. Only now did he dare to let him out.

"Squeak squeak".

The mouse raised its front paw and squeaked twice.

Lu Chen took out the banknote Xiao Yao had given him and looked at it.

"The taste is off? You mean this isn't the bill I originally gave Xiaoyao?"

"Squeak squeak".

Upon receiving confirmation from the rat, Lu Chen frowned and examined the legal tender in front of him.

"strangeness."

Normally, if you find money, you would just return it to the person who found it, and no one would bother to exchange it for another bill. But the Frenchman exchanged it for Xiaoyao.

After looking at it for a while without figuring it out, Lu Chen simply gave up. It was all money anyway, and besides, the amount of money was so small, what clues could it possibly leave?

He took out the bugging device and held it in his hand. Ever since he got the bugging device, Rat One had been reminding himself of it from time to time.

Lu Chen and Shu Yi agreed that they should call him whenever they heard a sound from the bug, so as not to miss any important information, since a rat is still a rat.

"Xiao Jie, get the car ready. We're going to the Paramount after dark."

Lu Chen first found Liu Jie and made arrangements for the evening before returning to his office.

I'll be meeting Zhang Rongshan tonight. I have the medal Kuroda gave me, so reaching an agreement shouldn't be difficult.

Zhang Rongshan is pro-Japanese, and Lu Chen wants to cooperate with him, after all, he is the biggest boss of the Green Gang in China and controls a lot of businesses.

Lu Chen wouldn't criticize the gray-area business, but he wanted to try his hand at other industries, making money while also expanding his influence.

"Sato, do you have enough legal tender?"

Just as Lu Chen was pondering, a voice suddenly came from the bug. Lu Chen recognized the voice; it was Kuroda's voice.

"Colonel, there's still plenty left, that's enough."

This time it's Yosho Sato's voice.

There are still quite a few?

Lu Chen lay back in his chair, clicking his tongue as he listened to the sounds coming from the bug. The Japanese really have money. As far as Lu Chen knew, Kuroda had taken out a lot of French currency, and there was still quite a bit left.

"Yes, print more, just in case. Give more to the puppet troops so they can fight harder."

"Hi."

After the last two sentences were spoken, no more sound came from the bug.

Lu Chen stood up. "Print more? Print what? Legal tender?"

He realized the seriousness of the situation, and considering that Kuroda had said to give more money to the puppet troops, it was highly likely that it was legal tender.

Is TGATT printing fiat currency?

Upon realizing this, Lu Chen quickly took out all the legal tender he had and the one the old man had exchanged.

Compare the fiat currencies side by side.

There is no difference...

Even so, Lu Chen was still worried. He knew that all the legal tender in the house was given to him by Kuroda; if it really was printed by them...

Moreover, they don't know how many of these counterfeit legal tenders they printed. If they all flowed out at once, even if Lu Chen was a terrible student, he would know how serious the situation was. By then, the legal tender would probably be worth less than waste paper!

"Damn it, I knew the Japanese wouldn't be so kind and generous!"

Lu Chen gritted his teeth and slammed his fist on the table, but he couldn't care less about that now; his immediate priority was the amount of currency he had.

I need to hurry to the bank to exchange them, otherwise I'll be penniless when they depreciate.

"Let's go tomorrow, it's too late today."

I pulled back the curtains and looked out; it was already dark, and the bank must have closed. Going there wouldn't have made a difference.

Composing himself, Lu Chen shoved the mouse back into his pocket, walked out of the office, and arrived at the entrance of the military police station.

Liu Jie was already waiting there in his car. Lu Chen got into the car, and Liu Jie didn't say anything. He started the car and drove towards the Paramount.

Lu Chen didn't bring a gun this time either. He was there to discuss business with Zhang Rongshan, not to fight.

Furthermore, by revealing his relationship with Kuroda, Lu Chen concluded that Zhang Rongshan wouldn't dare to touch him, so there was absolutely no need to bring him along.