Cairo after the Battle of Alamein is completely different from the previous ones.

The Allied defeat caused panic among Cairo, the Egyptians, the French and British who lived in Cairo, everyone was worried that the Germans would attack Cairo.

Fortunately, such a worry didn't happen at all, and the Germans seemed to have temporarily lost interest in Cairo.

But God knows when those Germans will appear in Egypt.

Some rumor came faintly, and Farouk I and the British seemed very unhappy, probably for the sake of war, but in the end Farouk I had to surrender to the British's coercion.

However, this caused dissatisfaction among the Egyptian military.

As the chief of staff of the Egyptian army, Kanlemu, who holds great power, has always been a hardliner, and believes that Egypt should be more independent than obey the orders of the British.

At this point, he and Egyptian Defense Minister Emne had a completely opposite view.

Emne believes that with the power of Egypt, it is absolutely impossible to resist the attack of the Germans alone. In terms of policy, one-sided approach must be adopted and the power of the British can resist the invasion from Germany.

Kanlemu retorted, believing that Emen completely forgot the glory that Egypt once had and only knew how to bow to foreigners.

Kanlemu's attitude annoyed the British, but they had no choice but to do with this powerful figure in Egypt. Kanlemu has strong and profound power in both the people and the military, and it is said that Queen Farida is his distant relative. He received widespread support from the middle and lower classes in Egypt.

Once his position is shaken, it will inevitably arouse great opposition from the Egyptians, and even mutiny may occur in the army...

Emhn represents the interests of the Egyptian privileged class, and he also has support that is not broad but has deep foundations. For example, Farouk I was his staunch supporter.

Of course, this time the British did too much. Not only did they ask the Egyptian army to directly participate in the war, but they also asked Egypt to take on the main supply tasks of the Allied forces in North Africa.

Such a request even made Farouk I, who was not very responsible for political affairs, feel extremely disgusted...

Everything was caused by the failure of the "Second Battle of Alama".

It is said that the Allies lost more than 80% of the supplies in North Africa during this battle, and the supply of the entire army suddenly had the most serious problems.

Now, for a long time, the Allied forces had to rely on the Egyptians...

Several times, without informing Farouk I, Kanlemu met with British Ambassador to Cairo Story, General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in the Middle East, and General Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief of the 8th Army of the United Kingdom. He also expressed his strong dissatisfaction to them, demanding that the Allies must find ways to solve the supply problem themselves, rather than throwing this heavy burden to Egypt.

But neither Story, Alexander or Montgomery, they both strongly rejected Kanlemu's request and told the Egyptian chief of staff that it was completely illegal to meet them without the permission of His Majesty the King and the Egyptian government...

This is the case with the British, especially Alexander and Montgomery, who are prone to being impatient, get together. They even dare to reject the orders of British Prime Minister Churchill, not to mention an Egyptian chief of staff.

Kanlemu, who was proud of himself, left the British angrily, and he believed that he had suffered great humiliation from the British.

In Cairo, and throughout Egypt, Kanlemu and his family have been widely respected. But now it seems that the British have not expressed their due respect to him.

This is how it is. Some contradictions accumulate there in normal times and are not easily noticed, but once a major event occurs, such as a crushing defeat in the war, such contradictions will completely break out.

The disastrous defeat of the Allied forces in the "Second Battle of Alma" was the fuse for the outbreak of the conflict between Egypt and Britain...

Not only that, things that made the Egyptians even more upset then happened without warning: in Egypt, a large number of Egyptian pounds and auxiliary coins Piast and Milim appeared!

A lot!

This is by no means a good phenomenon... In just a few days, with the emergence of these currencies, Egyptian currencies plummeted and prices soared.

As the war progressed, Egypt's prices had reached a very high level. Now, it was almost impossible for ordinary people to survive...

These things happen very strangely.

When Egypt was in chaos, "Baron Andrew" Toxen - Wang Weiyi, and Mrs. Toxen - Elina re-entered the historical city of Cairo...

"Barbecue, thank you. How much is it? 1250 Piast? God, it's so expensive..."

Wang Weiyi shook his head and took the Egyptian barbecue and handed a skewer to Elina: "God, the things here are so expensive. They are simply unbearable..."

"It's so funny that a person who did these things said such things." Elina said with a smile with a bite of barbecue.

"Elena, you may not know that one million pounds is enough to make a coup in a country. Ah, I am not referring to a spontaneous mutiny, but a spontaneous mutiny." Wang Weiyi was obviously very satisfied with the barbecue and said enthusiastically: "For example, Alves Dos Rees, the Portuguese, successfully used counterfeit banknotes to cause a terrible coup in Portugal... Ah, I think it is not suitable to call him a counterfeit banknote maker, he used real Portuguese currency..."

Alves Dos Rees, the legendary counterfeit banknote maker. He made the real Portuguese Escudo banknotes. All he forged was a letter from the Portuguese Central Bank, which was used to entrust the banknote printing factory to print banknotes.

How much did he illegally inject money into the market? As of 1925, a total of about 100 million Escudo banknotes, totaling more than 1 million pounds, equivalent to 0.88% of Portugal's total GDP. Ries, who became rich overnight, started a bank, bought a house, and bought a farm... and was in a prosperous state, which brought a superficial prosperity to the Portuguese economy at that time. However, these huge currencies that were illegally injected into the market eventually led to the depreciation of the Portuguese currency and the decline of the government's credibility, which indirectly promoted the occurrence of the military coup the following year.

In 1930, Rees was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

He alone spent a million pounds to cross a government...

"Isn't he a great person?" Wang Weiyi finished the barbecue with satisfaction: "If the matter is exposed, you may not be surprised at all, and you can do it too, but the first guy who dares to use the forged official letter from the Central Bank of Portugal to entrust the banknote printing factory to print paper money is really an amazing genius. The key is that he succeeds."

Elina nodded in agreement.

"He used the forged official letter from the Portuguese Central Bank to make banknotes. There was another guy in the United States who was also making counterfeit banknotes, but he has not been discovered yet." Wang Weiyi said enthusiastically: "This guy named Emmerich Yu Turner immigrated from Australia to New York, USA. He worked as a building administrator when he was young. After retirement, he picked up rags to make a living. Life was unsustainable. In desperation, Yu Turner began to use the photography etching technique he learned in childhood to make counterfeit coins. Yu Turner was not greedy. He only made $1 banknotes to maintain basic needs. However, his skills were not very good. He used cheap coated paper, with numbers and letters blurred and distorted, and Washington's avatar also made it clear.

It was distorted, and later some fake banknotes were even mis-sorted as ‘’. The counterfeiting technology was not high, so Yu Turner was very cautious when spending these fake money. He only spent it in the subway, newsstand, bar, grocery store and other places where people came and went. Usually, merchants had no time to carefully check the authenticity of the one-yuan banknotes to make him get through. Buy a 5-cent ticket and earn a profit of 95 cents. Yu Turner used these small profits to deal with other daily expenses such as rent. But the accumulation was too small. Since 1938, Yu Turner made as many as 55,000 US dollars in counterfeit coins. Although the Secret Service had long noticed these counterfeit coins, he was always helpless..."

Elina was fascinated by the sound of hearing: "Can't you catch him?"

"It's never been caught. It was not until the fire broke out in Turner's apartment in late 1947 that he was arrested in 1948. Maybe everyone sympathized with this poor, non-greedy, cautious old man. He was sentenced to only one year and one day and a fine of $1. Four months later, he was released from prison and lived with his daughter." Wang Weiyi sighed: "Can you say that this person is not an amazing guy?"

After saying that, he glanced at the streets of Cairo: "So, we are also a group of counterfeit banknote makers, but we are doing more cleverer than them. Elena, Egypt is very chaotic now, with the Allied forces shortages, Cairo has shortages of supplies, and prices are soaring again. If a large number of high-impact counterfeit banknotes appear in Cairo at this time, it can completely collapse the Egyptian economy in the shortest time."

"At that time, a mutiny like Portugal is very likely to happen in Cairo..." Elena quickly understood what Wang Weiyi said: "The Egyptian military is now full of sharp contradictions between the Allied Command. If they want the mutiny to succeed, they must be supported by a powerful force, and their only choice is Germany."

Wang Weiyi smiled: "It's like this. If we can defeat a country with the economy, I would rather choose this method. The chaos in Egypt has provided us with the best opportunity. Now, we are a group of counterfeit banknote makers."

Of course, these two counterfeit banknote makers can use real currencies in Cairo!
Chapter completed!