The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 386 Temple Treasure
Night is as dark as ink, the best night for killing.

One by one, figures quietly walked around the villagers and moved towards the temple.

The Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple at night was tall and mysterious, and a figure in dark clothes quietly approached the temple.

These are special forces and they are all very skilled.

A yawning monk guarding the temple was patrolling the temple with a lamp in his hand. As a Brahmin temple, there must be donations from many believers, and in order to prevent malicious peeping, necessary guarding power is also necessary.

However, these civilian guards are no match for the special forces.

The first thing they did was to cut off the telephone lines and guard important transportation hubs.

Everyone's gun is equipped with a silencer.

The patrolling monk was knocked out silently and taken under control.

Soon, everyone in the temple was knocked unconscious and controlled.

Each person received an injection, enough to keep them asleep until the next morning.

Then one person was left to guard it.

The Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple is not small and has several unconnected buildings.

In front of a somewhat dilapidated building, Liu Tao put on a gas mask and chemical protective suit, and the other special forces soldiers did the same.

No one knows whether there is any danger inside.

The special forces led the way and entered the building. They saw densely packed carvings of gods inside, with the Hindu god Burning Heaven statue in the middle.

"dong dong dong~~"

Liu Tao and his companions were knocking carefully around the gun when they suddenly heard a hollow sound.

Then he opened it, and after prying open the wall tiles, he found a different world inside.

Everyone entered, and as soon as they entered the cave, they were stunned.

A large number of gold ornaments were piled up like a mountain, the most conspicuous of which was a golden elephant that was as tall as a person.

On the other side, there are a large number of boxes piled up here.

Everyone was mesmerized by the gold color, with fascinated expressions on their faces.

The impact of such a large amount of gold is too shocking.

After a while, Liu Tao was the first to wake up. He picked up a saber and pried open a box, which was full of various gold coins.

"Everyone start to move everything away!" Liu Tao said in a deep voice.

He didn't know how many gold coins or gold there were, and he didn't have time to count them.

The most urgent thing was to move the things away and rush to the dock.

It is best to get things done before dawn, which is the safest.

Boxes of treasure were carried outside, loaded onto trucks, and then transported away.

Those that were scattered were also cleaned up by the soldiers in keeping with their glorious tradition.

Before daybreak, all the treasure had been taken away.

Before leaving, the soldiers had time to restore the wall that had been pried open to its original state, clean the floor, and even sent the monks who had been knocked unconscious and injected with sleeping pills back to their original positions, and then gave them an injection of cleaning agent, and they would wake up in about twenty minutes.

Even the cut telephone lines were reconnected by the soldiers.

When Liu Tao and others retreated, it was just dawn.

No one knows what incredible things happened here at night.

When Liu Tao and his companions arrived at the dock, everything had been prepared. They got directly out of the car and boarded the boat. The boat set sail for Guangzhou.

In a warehouse in Yangcheng Port, all the items have been moved to this large warehouse.

At this time, dozens of people were counting.

Finally, the inventory is completed. The harvest has finally been counted.

73.8 tons of gold and ornaments, 42.6 tons of silver coins and ornaments.

The most eye-catching one is a life-size golden Buddha statue, which is lying on the body of a snake. It took them a lot of effort to move it into the car.

There are also a large number of diamonds and gems, which also reach 5.2 tons and are worth about tens of billions of dollars.

The current international gold price has reached US$683.9 per ounce due to the turmoil in the Middle East, the unstable world situation, and the depreciation of the US dollar.

This means that gold and jewelry alone, even calculated at the price of gold, can be sold for US$16.23 billion.

Of course, there are a lot of gold jewelry here, which can definitely be sold for more.

And the silver and jewelry are also worth a lot of money.

If you sell it according to the price of gold or silver, you will definitely suffer a huge loss.

Therefore, Liu Tao planned to sell these as antiques as much as possible, or to make them into jewelry with gold and silver and sell them, so as to maximize the profit.

However, he has to report such a big matter to his superiors.

Before setting off for the capital, Liu Tao commended the soldiers who participated in the operation.

"Comrades, you have successfully completed this task. On behalf of the Party and the country, I thank you for your efforts and contributions!" Liu Tao said loudly: "Everyone who participated in this event will be awarded a first-class merit and 20,000 RMB each. Today's celebration banquet is specially for you. After this mission is over, each of you will have a month's vacation!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers couldn't help but applaud excitedly.

Although they have fought in the frontline wars and carried out missions in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and other places, each of them has not lacked honors. However, first-class merit is still very rare, because only a small number of special forces have first-class merit.

As for material rewards, for the soldiers, they are not as important as a one-month vacation.

Because they have almost no money to spend in the army, they send almost all of their monthly salary back home.

There are a total of 200 special forces participating in this mission, and each of them will receive a reward of 20,000 RMB, which is 4 million RMB in total.

But this amount of money is nothing compared to the wealth they brought back to their country.

That night, everyone ate and drank to their heart's content.

Because there is a special forces garrisoned here, they are safe.

They all have great trust in their comrades.

Maybe they come from different special teams or special squadrons, but they often cooperate in carrying out tasks and they trust them immensely.

If you don't trust your comrades, you won't survive long on the battlefield.

Liu Tao was completely relaxed at this moment. Leaving his motherland made him feel insecure, especially drifting on the sea and sitting on the boat, which always made him feel uneasy.

And now, I feel extremely at ease and relaxed.

Liu Tao drank with the soldiers to celebrate. As for the first-class medal of honor, it would be awarded later, and a grand medal awarding ceremony would be held.

Every time a first-class merit, second-class merit, or third-class merit is awarded, a grand medal awarding ceremony will be held to give the soldiers great honor and take photos as a souvenir. At the same time, a leader will personally deliver the first-class meritorious plaque to the soldiers' homes and hang the plaque up in person.

For the soldiers, the plaque of "First Class Meritorious Service" is a great honor and can bring honor to their family.

Liu Tao drank quite a bit of wine, so this time the mission could be described as fast, accurate and ruthless!

The temple treasure was obtained in a very short time.

Although it seems to only take one day to execute, a lot of preliminary work has been done.

(End of this chapter)