Two pictures arrived in quick succession.
Song He stared at them in disbelief. They were designs for two North African banknotes.
One was a 5,000-denomination note. The back prominently featured the farmland of Chenghuang Oasis Company, with agricultural machinery and dark, curly-haired local farmers hard at work.
The other was a 500-denomination note. Its design seemed to show a corner of a wall from wartime, with various guns and artillery piled together. But the weapons were merely the background. In the most conspicuous spot at the front was an opened crate of Cheng Huang Artificial Blood. It even bore the logo of Chenghuang Company.
Song He was stunned.
Many countries around the world printed designs related to foreign countries on their banknotes, so this was not particularly unusual.
He could recall plenty of foreign banknote designs related to China alone, such as Gwadar Port, the Putlam Coal-Fired Power Station, Algeria's Alcomsat-1 communications satellite, the Merowe Dam, and Lusail Stadium. They were basically landmark buildings constructed by domestic architectural companies, which were eventually printed as designs on certain banknotes.
But those designs could at least be understood as buildings owned by the local countries. The Chinese construction teams had merely gone there to build them; they did not control or own them.
The Desert-to-Soil Conversion farmland of Chenghuang Oasis Company, however, was not local property at all. It was an industry controlled by Chenghuang Oasis Company.
Cheng Huang Artificial Blood went without saying. There was not even a factory for it locally; it was purely a product sold there.
And that could actually be chosen as a banknote design?
Even more outrageously, the words and logo of Interstellar Bank had already been included in the banknote designs. The words appeared in three languages, one of which was unmistakably Chinese characters... There