Supernatural treasure hunter

Chapter 32 National Treasure? !
Bill walked forward with Quinn, and he heard James yelling frantically and Li Shang standing there.

"Li Shang, what happened to James?" Bill Gates looked at the crazy James and said worriedly.

Li Shang looked at James, who was laughing wildly, and smiled wryly at Bill Gates, "It's okay, I'm just too excited."

This is a fact, after all, as long as ordinary people see these mountains of gold, they will fall into madness.

Bill Gates picked up a gold brick at hand, his hand sank suddenly, almost fell to the ground, it was too heavy.

"This is it!" Seeing the logo on the gold brick, Bill Gates raised his head suddenly, looked at Li Shang in shock and said.

Li Shang nodded and didn't say much, but both of them knew in their hearts what they were going to say.

"Yes sir, you guessed it right!" James said to the two in a hoarse voice after going crazy.

Bill Gates said in surprise, "James, how are you?!"

James smiled, and at the same time felt a little embarrassed, and said, "Sir, I'm fine. After all, this place is so charming that it makes me a little crazy."

Li Shang asked James, "James, do you know the origin of this ghost village? And why is there so much gold underground?"

Although the sweat was on his cheeks after going crazy, James opened his wise eyes and said, "Although there is no actual evidence, it should have something to do with World War II!"

It turned out that in order to maintain the operation of Hitler's war weapons during World War II, the Communist Party robbed the gold and silver bullion of the European Central Bank.

Halma Horace Grele Schacht was Adolf Hitler's economic backer, and it was he who formulated the dictator's economic plan during those crucial six years.

At that time, Schachter was Germany's most prestigious financier, because he broke the worst inflation in the history of the country in 1923.Schacht used his huge reputation and financial means to support Hitler in 1932, and then became the chairman and finance minister of the ** Central Bank.

Schacht got his distinctive middle name from his father, who immigrated to the United States long ago with the hope of creating a new life, became a citizen in 1872, but was ultimately determined to return to Germany .

One of Schachter's father's heroes was New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who famously urged his readers, "Go West, young man, and grow up with that country." Schachter He was conceived in the United States, but in 1877, shortly after he was born, his parents returned to Germany.

At the center of Schacht's economic policy for Hitler was autarky, complete self-satisfaction.During World War I, the British blockade starved the German people and defeated Germany as a result.

Nearly half of the million Germans died of famine.This prompted Berlin to resume submarine warfare in 1917 in the hope of defeating the Entente before the United States joined the fray.The strategy failed.The experience of the blockade strengthened the decision of the German people not to depend on other countries for important imports after the war.

But there's just one problem.Naturally, all the vital products needed to bless Germany with the country's fighting machine were not available.Without them, the Army would be nothing more than toy soldiers.While Germany had plenty of low-quality iron ore to make weapons, it lacked high-quality steel to mass-build tanks and bombers.

Although low-quality iron ore can be converted into higher-quality products through the metal tungsten, this metal can only be purchased from Spain or Portugal.

Germany also lacked the oil needed for tanks and bombers.So Germany started a successful emergency program to make synthetic oil, but they still couldn't produce the high quality oil they needed.

They purchased a large amount of high-quality oil from Romania as fuel for military tanks, so they invaded the former Soviet Union in June 1941.Chromium, another natural resource that Germany lacked for the war, was purchased from Turkey.Sweden also supplied Germany with ball bearings—another important raw material.

The five probably neutral countries would not accept Deutschmark as payment for war supplies, but they would accept gold.A portion of the world's gold is in private hands, but the vast majority is held in central banks.Willy Sutton robbed banks because they had money, and ** robbed central banks because they had gold.

Swiss bankers played a crucial role as financial middlemen in the deal.

In the spring of 1938, Austria was the first victim of German aggression.Thanks to Schacht's involvement in the founding of the Bank of International Settlements and his close relationship with it, he knew that the Austrian Central Bank had almost 100 tons of gold.

That was almost four times the amount of gold held by Germany at the time.As the Nazis marched into WYN on the morning of Saturday, March 3, a businessman and early Hitler supporter, Wilhelm Kopler, and two armed German commandos arrived at the Austrian Central Bank and brought Austrian gold to the Berlin.

Germany forced the Austrian Central Bank to ship an additional 5.7 tons of gold to London for safekeeping.

** Also demanded that WYN's large and wealthy Jewish community hand over 14.3 tons of private gold to Berlin.Schacht immediately left WYN to lead the government to seize the Austrian Central Bank.In a festive celebration at headquarters, he brought before Hitler the soldiers who had taken the oath of allegiance, asking them to join in "Long live the triple victory of our great leader."

The windfall came to ** at an important time.In 1938, Berlin was almost out of foreign currency and gold coins, largely due to the rearmament program, and Berlin was forced to reduce the war accumulation.

On October 1938, 10, Emil Puhe, soon to be vice-president of the Reichsbank, wrote in a memo: "Only through the use of limited gold, the foreign exchange left by the former empire, the rapid recovery of Austrian gold, A stockpile of foreign raw materials and valuable securities allows for the rapid implementation of rearmament programs."

When Germany successively invaded other European countries, one of their first stops was always the local central bank.Quickly learning of what happened to Austria, foreign central bankers scrambled to try and get gold out of the country.

Usually the gold is sent across the sea to Canada and the United States, where it is held temporarily at the New York Fed in lower Manhattan but eventually goes to Fort Knox, a reserve in Kentucky, USA.Even the Vatican secretly shipped almost 8 tons of gold to New York.

During the darkest days of the London Raid, the Bank of England hauled 2000 tons of gold across the Atlantic in U-boats in droves.Among them are not only British gold but also a large amount of gold from other countries.Amazingly, not a single ship was sunk.The British people dubbed the secret cargo margarine.

Speaking of this, James raised his head and said excitedly, "The gold must have been left behind at that time!"

Then speculated that "Schacht has the identity of an American citizen, he must have hidden the gold here secretly, it must have been decades, and Schacht died unexpectedly, so these golden roads are now gone People know!"

James exclaimed excitedly, "It must be so, it must be so!"

Bill Gates looked at James, who was getting excited again, and stepped forward to persuade him, "James, don't get excited, don't get excited!" Then he turned to Li Shang and said, "Now this place is full of media, the news must not be kept secret for long, why don't we just announce it directly?" Go out, if there is a lawsuit, you will definitely win!"

Bill Gates' words hit Li Shang's arms, and he nodded in agreement, but he still said, "Announcement is an announcement, but not now, let's wait for a suitable opportunity to talk about it!"

Bill Gates also nodded, and said, "Alright, the timing is really not right now!"

Bill was more thoughtful. He looked at James, who was sweating with excitement and his face was pale, and said, "Let's go out now. It's been a long time down here. I don't know what's going on up here. Let's go up first and then talk about it!"

Li Shang nodded and helped James walk outside.

(End of this chapter)