NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 276



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NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 276

Black Thursday (9)

“The Japanese Empire is lifting its ban on gold exports?”

“What? Is that an official announcement?”

“Oh, the Japanese government announced it about an hour ago.”

“Really? Other than that?”

“I heard that a company called Dongyang Mining is releasing gold that had been blocked from export into the market?”

“Gold? How much?”

“I don’t know about that?”

“okay?”

News that the Japanese Empire was lifting its ban on gold exports spread through the stock market.

Since this was advanced information that the general public had not yet accessed, the money-crazed incarnations of capitalism were wondering how to process this information.

“How much gold did the Empire of Japan produce?”

“I’m not sure about that, but I heard that a company called Dongyang Mining is going to release all the gold they’ve been accumulating for the past few years.”

The company of the great magnate was mentioned by many people in various companies on Wall Street.

“How much is that?”

“I heard it’s worth at least ten million dollars?”

In the office, conference rooms, break rooms, and even bathrooms, they were all talking about the Japanese Empire.

“What about ten million dollars? According to what I’ve been secretly informed of, it’s well over twenty million dollars.”

“What? Twenty million dollars? No! Fifty million dollars!”

“Fifty million dollars? I don’t think it’ll go that far. If I remember correctly, it’s five million dollars.”

A time when transportation and communication were still somewhat inconvenient.

A major incident is likely to occur soon, but information is limited, so Wall Street’s hotshots are all on edge.

“So when is this damn Japanese gold going to hit the market?”

“They said it would be at the end of this month at the earliest?”

“Use it.”

At the moment when the capitalist pigs of Wall Street, who were so sensitive to information that there was a saying that the one who gets the information first is the one who gets the money, were shaking their butts.

“New information has surfaced!!!”

“The Japanese Empire’s Oriental Mining Company has announced that it will put 50 tons of gold bullion on the market!”

“What?! 50 tons!”

Wall Streeters initially laughed at the outrageous figures.

“Then that’s right.”

“That’s why I said Asian kids are no good?”

“Are they really monkeys or something?”

“There are so many lies stuck in your mouth.”

But the news that followed was enough to turn their minds around.

“Breaking news! Of the 50 tons of gold bullion that Toyo Mining had planned to put on the market, excluding the gold transferred to the Japanese government, we are in the process of selling 10 tons!”

“what!?”

“Is that real!?!”

“And one more thing! This deal is only 10% of the gold held by the Dongyang Mine, and they say they will sell it in installments because they cannot sell all the gold they have accumulated over the years at once.”

“This is crazy!”

People on Wall Street rejoiced.

“Why did you show up only now!”

“Oh… … . My Messiah!”

“Prester John was right here!”

“Damn it! Oriental Mining! Where have these beauties been hiding and why are they only coming out now!”

“Okay, everyone shut your mouths and grab your dollars! We’re going to Japan now!”

The pigs on Wall Street, who had been soaked in the sweet rewards of capitalism, were smiling at the thought of making money through currency exchange.

“How can Wall Streeters profit from foreign exchange trading when Japan releases gold?”

“If the Japanese Empire declares a return to the gold standard, it will return to the previous fixed exchange rate, not the current floating exchange rate.”

“Oh, then it looks like the current exchange rate is much lower than the fixed exchange rate.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Seungman Lee and I were chatting over coffee in a bustling cafe in Manhattan, New York.

As expected from a cafe located in the middle of Wall Street, the area was filled with people dressed neatly in suits.

Among them, we were the only Asians sitting at the table, except for the people cleaning the streets and restrooms, so people glanced at us.

“Why are those people staring at us?”

“Maybe they think we’re Japanese, so they’re trying to get at least a little more information.”

At my words, the doctor snickered and spoke to me in broken Japanese.

“Isn’t it fun?”

I also laughed and danced along to the doctor’s mischievous pranks.

“There may be someone among you who understands Japanese, Doctor.”

“Even if I understand, it won’t be much beyond my level.”

“Maybe not.”

“What do you think? Those fools are already showing great interest.”

As the doctor said, when we started talking in Japanese, everyone looked over at us openly.

“Isn’t this a kind of discrimination?”

“If it was discrimination, I would have raised an issue, but now they are blinded by money.”

“okay.”

This time the doctor spoke to me in English, this time with a solemn expression.

“There’s that much gold hoarded in the Japanese Empire? Wow, this is… … It seems El Dorado wasn’t the New World, but Japan.”

I also sneaked a peek and followed the rhythm.

“Doctor, lower your voice. Who will hear you?”

“Hehehe, who is here? By the way, how big of a company is that Dongyang Mining company?”

The doctor asked me only the most specific questions that would make people on Wall Street go crazy.

“Oriental Mining… … I don’t know much about it, but it seems that Joseon, a colony of the Japanese Empire, is the place in Asia that produces the most gold.”

“Joseon? Is Dongyang Mining a company in Joseon?”

The doctor pretended not to know and kept asking me questions.

As his questions grew more and more frequent, the people at the other tables began to get closer.

Even though there were chairs available, everyone got up from their seats as if something was going on, sneaked over to me, and sat down nearby.

Of course, even though Dr. Lee and I knew all these facts, we pretended not to know and just chatted about them.

“… … So, when a large-scale bank run occurred in Japan, the president of Dongyang Mining came forward and declared that he would guarantee all deposits in commercial banks, so people felt relieved, right?”

“Huh… … Then, did that person compensate all the victims?”

“At least from what I heard, it was all compensated.”

“And yet you still say you’re the richest man in the Japanese Empire?”

“No. He is the richest man in Asia.”

“Huh… … . Just how much gold does that guy have?”

“that is…….”

I was about to speak when I saw a crowd of people crowding right up to my nose. I pretended to be flustered and asked them.

“What, what is it?”

At my question, everyone quickly scattered like cockroaches that had seen someone.

The doctor and I also got up from our seats and left the cafe.

In the empty space left by the two of us, the incarnations of capitalism each began to chatter about the information they had.

* * *

Summer 1928.

It was an unusually hot summer.

Wall Street is also starting to burn.

“Will General Motors go up today?”

“Rather than that, I think it would be worth keeping an eye on 3M, which has recently entered the market.”

“So what? They’ll all go up anyway.”

“That’s true.”

When you are happily pondering over today’s stock market predictions.

“The Japanese government’s ban on gold exports has been lifted!”

Big news broke.

In fact, there was no one on Wall Street who didn’t know this news.

The Japanese government kept it a secret and then made a surprise announcement, but for some reason, the news spread all over Wall Street.

“What?! Already!”

“Quickly exchange all the yen you have!”

“Hehehe, it’s gold! Gold!”

“It’s all mine!!!”

Not only on Wall Street, but also in the United States, people who had made some money began to exchange the yen they had exchanged for dollars.

This was such a large sum that within a few hours of the announcement, 300 million yen was converted into dollars.

Even though it is a fixed exchange rate system, with such a huge amount of money moving around, the exchange rate was destroyed in an instant.

When the Japanese government belatedly heard the news and tried to deal with it, the exchange rate had already collapsed and gold equivalent to about 15% of Japan’s annual budget had flowed out of the country.

If it had ended here, it would have remained as another episode of American businessmen devouring Japan to the core… … .

Naturally, things didn’t end there.

“huh?”

“what’s this……?”

“What? What is it?”

“No… … . That… … . The Japanese government announced that more than half of the dollars coming from the United States are counterfeit?”

“what?”

The Japanese government’s official announcement exposed the problem of counterfeit dollars in the United States.

* * *

“Is it really okay to proceed like this?”

A secret room deep within the Tokyo Imperial Palace.

Here, Yasuhito, who ruled the Japanese Empire on behalf of the nominal ruler of the Japanese Empire, Emperor Taisho, his confidant(?) Viscount Yun Deok-yeong, and Prime Minister Kato were having a secret meeting.

“You already knew that Americans would play with the exchange rate because of the gold ban.”

“Well, I knew that, but then it would be another matter to reveal that the US dollars were counterfeit.”

“Same problem, Your Majesty.”

“Same problem… … . Why?”

Yun Deok-yeong bowed his head in front of Yasuhito with a kind smile.

“This is not just an American problem. Western capitalists have been coming and going from Japan as if it were their own front yard, messing with the economy as they please, and then running away.”

“yes.”

“But this time, things are a little different. Didn’t they push the counterfeit money in first?”

“But isn’t that a fabrication on our part… ?”

“Huh, fabrication? There’s already a lot of evidence. Hasn’t it been revealed that a significant portion of the dollars currently sitting in Japanese banks are counterfeit?”

Yasuhito nodded at Yoon Deok-yeong’s words.

As he said, a significant portion of the dollars circulating in Japan right now are counterfeit.

“But Your Majesty, shouldn’t we first inform the U.S. government of this news? If we were to make a surprise announcement like this, I think the Japanese Empire’s views in the U.S. would worsen.”

“Hmm. I guess so.”

These days, even within the United States, public opinion of the Japanese Empire is worsening day by day.

If the Japanese government announced that counterfeit currency was circulating in the United States, it was obvious how the United States would react.

That is why Prime Minister Kato took the position that the U.S. government should be notified first before the government made an announcement.

“No! That shouldn’t be done.”

“?”

But there were some who raised opposing voices against this.

“Shin Yun Deok-yeong! I dare to say to Your Majesty, please do not bow down to those ignorant Westerners!”

“?”

Naturally, it was our great lord.

“Don’t bow your head… …? What does that mean?”

“It is true, Your Majesty! The one who has suffered now is the Japanese Empire, so why should we bow down to them?”

“Listen, Count Yun! International relations are not something that can be resolved through emotions. And you have nothing to do with this… .”

Prime Minister Kato sternly reprimanded Yoon Deok-yeong for his words, but to Yoon Deok-yeong, who had already had his life threatened countless times by people who were tens or hundreds of times more terrifying than him, it was just laughable.

“I too am a subject of the Empire of Japan below, and a loyal patriot who serves His Majesty the Emperor, the sun of the Empire of Japan above! If I, who am so inclined, wish to offer advice to Your Majesty, what do you intend to stop me with?”

“What? This guy… …!”

“stop.”

Yasuhito listened to Yun Deok-yeong’s words while restraining Prime Minister Kato.

“Tell me more, Count Yun.”

“Yes, Your Majesty! In the current situation, we are the ones who have suffered. But here, we are looking at the United States and considering their situation? This is humiliating diplomacy.”

“Um… … humiliating diplomacy.”

“Yes, this is humiliating diplomacy! If it were the Japan of the past, it would have had to accept this with tears in its eyes, but is the current Japanese Empire the Japan of the past? No! Our empire has fallen a bit, but it is rising day by day… … .”

Yasuhito listened to Yun Deok-yeong’s words.

“… … So I think we too need to learn to speak up now.”

“hmm.”

Prime Minister Kato opened his mouth to address Yasuhito’s concerns.

“Your Majesty… … The author’s words are all flashy and empty.”

“What do you mean by meaningless? Why is it meaningless to say that there is no need to bend excessively anymore?”

“stop.”

Yasuhito, who had been listening to the two, opened his mouth.

And this has concluded the matter.

“In this case, what Count Yun said is right.”

“majesty!”

And Yasuhito raised the hand of the Korean Yun Deok-yeong.