Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 784 Gold at the Bottom of Lake Baikal

Then Stalin sighed: "If we lose this gold, we will have a sad life in the future!"

Mikoyan immediately said: "I will immediately mobilize people to investigate this matter with all my strength, and I must investigate clearly!"

"No!" Stalin shook his head and said, "You don't have enough manpower to investigate. Right now, I can only send a few of the most loyal people to investigate with you."

"Why?" Mikoyan was full of doubts and incomprehension.

Stalin shook his head and sighed: "Do you know the real function of the treasury gold? Others get this gold, it is just the pure gold value, and the gold lost by our Soviet Union is the savings of the entire Soviet Union for hundreds of years. Without this gold , we can no longer print rubles, and even rubles become waste paper overnight."

Mikoyan was shocked: "Then our country will collapse?"

"If no one knows, maybe we still have a way to save it, but I always think that there is an invisible black hand behind this incident. Although I don't know who this person is, I know he must be a Slav. "Stalin now has no choice but to procrastinate, and live on day by day.He also understands that once the investigation is carried out with great fanfare, and the citizens know that the treasury gold is gone, why not go crazy and exchange gold, silver and other hard currencies in banks around the country?Once this situation occurs, the monetary system of the Soviet Union will collapse immediately, and the ruble will be waste paper!After the collapse of the economy, what was left of the Soviet Union?barter?Return to the Paleolithic overnight?Countless factories will go bankrupt, and society will be in serious turmoil!

The consequences are really unimaginable!

In fact, even after Stalin discovered that the gold from the treasury was missing, many people in the Bolshevik party had already learned the news.Smart people immediately went to the bank to exchange gold, and the result was quickly spread, and the whole Leningrad was full of rumors.The next day, it had already spread throughout the western region centered on Leningrad, and there was a frenzied wave of people exchanging gold throughout the Soviet Union.The gates of major banks were crowded with crowds.Leningrad's gold is gone!Silver is gone!In the end even the coins were snatched!

All the banks in Leningrad went bankrupt overnight, and of course it also affected many foreign banks.They didn't know that the ruble had become waste paper, and they exchanged foreign currency for many Soviet people. They thought they would buy rubles at a low price and sell them at a high price, but they were dumbfounded the next day. The gold in the Soviet treasury was gone, and the ruble became waste paper.Banks of various countries sold the ruble one after another, and as a result, no one cared about it, and suffered heavy losses.

During the period, Chinese multinational banks stationed abroad refused to accept rubles. This was the case when China's major banks refused to accept the currencies of belligerent countries when World War I broke out.It's just that the control was looser in the past, and many banks secretly speculated on currencies, buying at low prices and selling at high prices.However, this time the major banks have more or less learned about some things through their respective senior management. The main reason is that the Imperial Bank of China issued an emergency notice in the bank, saying that the ruble may depreciate sharply, so the major banks are required to stop any contact with the ruble. linked transactions.Therefore, China's multinational banks in the Soviet Union did not charge any rubles.

The people pointed their finger at Stalin, and the opposition claimed that the greedy Stalin embezzled gold, which resulted in a huge passiveness of the Bolshevik Party.

"This batch of treasures was seized from me by the Bolsheviks. At that time, this batch of gold was hidden in the underground vault of the Winter Palace. It was the safest and safest vault in the world. If there is no key, no one can open the door of the vault. At first, as rumored to the outside world, the Red Army always thought that there were two keys to the treasury. They seized the keys from my Minister of the Interior and my younger brother respectively. But they don’t know that there is actually a third key to the treasury, which has always been in my hands, and that’s why we were able to successfully retrieve the treasures.” In the most famous Old Summer Palace in the world, Ni Gula II told His Majesty the Emperor of China the reason for this incident.

Guan Xuqing listened with great interest. It seems that history is always made up of a series of coincidences. If it weren't for the news that the Red Army didn't have the three keys, or if it wasn't for the imperial agents who were ordered to pull the Soviet executioner into the water and rescue Ni Gula II, if he hadn't made a generous promise to Nicholas II, if Stalin hadn't been trapped in domestic political struggles and neglected to guard the treasury, perhaps, all of this would have become a secret forever and buried in history in the smoke.The [-] tons of gold that has already arrived in Beijing is said to be war collateral, but since it has fallen into the hands of China, it is absolutely impossible to get it back.Moreover, Guan Xuqing was not satisfied with the [-] tons of gold, because he also possessed an extremely important piece of information whose value was even three times that of [-] tons of gold!
Guan Xuqing said with a smile: "We are old enemies and old friends. There is a saying in China that goes, 'If you don't fight, you won't know each other'. The previous Sino-Russian war tied our fate tightly together. We were enemies before, but now we fight for common cause. We have become friends because of the interests of the Soviet Union. China is neutral about your restoration war. We will not send troops to the Soviet Union, at least not yet, but if you are generous enough, the empire can consider sending planes, tanks Wait for some cutting-edge weapons to be sold to you."

Nicholas II rolled his eyes and said, "My friend, His Majesty the Great Emperor, can't six hundred tons of gold show my generosity?"

Guan Xuqing shook his head with a smile and said: "It is far from the treasure of the Romanov Dynasty, which is far more than the six hundred tons of gold. As long as you are willing to pay, the empire is willing to provide more cutting-edge weapons. With these super-class guys, your restoration will be successful." hope will be greater.”

Nicholas II trembled in his heart, peeking at the other person's expression, it didn't seem like he was joking, listening to the other person's words seemed to mean something else, did he already know the secret? "Your Majesty, I don't quite understand what you mean. How much do you think the treasures of the Romanov dynasty will be?"

Guan Xuqing stretched out a finger with a smile, then made an "eight" gesture, and said: "[-] tons, and excluding the [-] tons of gold, the treasures of the Romanov Dynasty have a total of [-] tons of gold." , am I right?"

Nicholas II was taken aback immediately, with a confused look on his face. Seeing the other party's panicked look, Guan Xuqing couldn't help laughing on his back, and took out a piece of paper full of words from his sleeve, and handed it to Nicholas II. Ra II said, "Look, here is the list of weapons provided by the empire. If you are satisfied, we can talk about it later."

100 Tiger tanks, 150 Bear tanks, 130 Lion tanks, 300 Leopard tanks, 3 Fenglei 300 fighters, 2 Saker 170 reconnaissance aircraft, 200 Lanxiang dive bombers, Fengyun 4 140 transport aircraft.

Nicholas II's eyes widened immediately, excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and he couldn't stop saying: "Okay, okay, okay, that's great!"

Guan Xuqing looked at the other party's expression and said, "So you are quite satisfied with this list?"

"Very satisfied, very satisfied, Your Majesty, I am very grateful for your generosity." Nicholas II said happily.

"Well, now can we talk about the treasures at the bottom of Lake Baikal?" Guan Xuqing suddenly withdrew his smile and said seriously.

Nicholas II's smile suddenly froze on his face, "How do you know?"

Guan Xuqing laughed loudly: "You don't have to ask me how I know, we're talking about business, it's best to focus on business."

Nicholas II thought about it for a while, and beads of sweat were evident on his forehead, before he said, "Well, I am willing to tell everything, and I am willing to contribute those treasures as a war pledge."

"Okay!" Guan Xuqing clapped his hands and said, "This is a friend. The most important thing between friends is mutual trust."

Nicholas II nodded and said: "After the October Revolution, I was imprisoned by the Red Army. Before that, I saw that the Tsarist regime was in danger, so I ordered the commander of the White Army, Alexander Kolchak, to secretly steal the treasury. The 1903 tons of gold in the palace were transported out of the Winter Palace in batches. Kolchak led the remnants of the White Army and the Soviet Red Army fought several times, but he was still arrested by the Red Army and executed in January 1 .However, the whereabouts of the [-] tons of gold that Kolchak removed from the vault was unknown. Until later, Lenin was very concerned about the whereabouts of the treasure and personally instructed the KGB to investigate the gold. According to local legend , I learned that before Kolchak was arrested, the gold was loaded on a train by him and White Army soldiers to Lake Baikal, and [-] tons of gold had fallen into Lake Baikal hundreds of meters deep together with the train carriages , sank to the dark bottom of the silted lake."

Guan Xuqing raised his eyebrows and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, this legend is not true. Would you be willing to sink so much gold into the bottom of Lake Baikal? There are other reasons."

Nicholas II said: "You really know everything. You are right. In fact, those treasures did not sink to the bottom of the lake at all, but were transferred by Kolchak to a secret cave on the shore of Lake Baikal. The drawings are in my In the middle layer of the jacket, Kolchak is really a loyal subordinate to me, and he never revealed any secrets about the treasure until he died." After speaking, his face showed a somewhat sad look.

Guan Xuqing patted the other party on the shoulder and comforted him: "In this crazy world, only loyal subordinates are the monarch's greatest wealth."

Nicholas II sighed and said: "If Kolchak can be resurrected, I am willing to give up [-] tons of gold, but everything has passed."

(End of this chapter)