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After returning to the company for dinner, Yang Jing arranged for staff to move all the documents from the bank’s vault to his apartment on Fifth Avenue. Anyway, after Vivian’s illness was resolved, Yang Jing hasn't had any major events recently.

Everything in the company is proceeding in an orderly manner. Under Henry’s leadership, the two generals, David and Niam, are now becoming more and more glamorous. Even without Yang Jing and old Mike, this troika can carry KY investment funds are developing steadily and rapidly.

So Yang Jing didn't go to the company altogether, but researched the information at home.

"... The Bolshevik Party's activities in Petrograd are becoming more and more rampant. To be on the safe side, since September, His Majesty the Tsar has begun to arrange the transfer of the property of the Treasury and the Winter Palace. The Tsar is responsible for the transfer of wealth. The most trusted subordinates, the most famous spy in Britain, Sidney Raleigh, the British diplomat Robert Bruce Rockhart, and Rockhart’s mistress Baroness Mora Budberg, assisted them At least one thousand six hundred tons of gold in the treasury and many precious antique artworks in the Winter Palace were transferred to eastern Russia to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Bolshevik Red Army..." The earliest document in the timeline, Yang Jing put it first.

These materials were all written in Russian. In desperation, Yang Jing could only become an amateur translator again, with first-hand materials and English-Russian dictionary, translating word by word.

This was how Yang Jing did it when he was looking for his own treasure, but now he is still very comfortable doing it.

This information was obtained by Niam asking the officials of the Leningrad Archives to pay for it, and then found out from the archives' archives. It records some events before and after the Bolshevik Party launched the February Revolution. Among them were the contingency measures taken by the then Nicholas II in response to the rise of the Bolshevik Party.

This information, Yang Jing’s identification, was indeed from the confession of the guard leader of the Winter Palace. It was taken from the arrested guard of the Winter Palace by the Bolshevik Party on March 8, 1917, which is the February 23rd of the Russian calendar after the February Revolution. Confession received from the leader's mouth.

And these data can also be matched with some data of later generations. At that time, the Winter Palace was in a precarious state. The Bolshevik Party had already occupied a huge advantage in Petrograd, and even Nicholas II could not easily get out of the Winter Palace.

However, Nicholas II certainly did not want the huge wealth accumulated by the Romanov dynasty to fall into the hands of the Bolshevik Party, so he secretly arranged for his loyal men to secretly transport these wealth out of Petrograd.

At least what Yang Jing knew was that there were mountains of gold bricks in the underground vault of a bank in Kazan. The gold bricks are said to have been shipped from Petrograd.

Yang Jing once saw a black-and-white photo of gold piled up in an underground vault of a bank in Kazan.

"...In the last five months of 1916, the food delivered by the railway for the army could only meet a little more than half of the demand. Many front-line soldiers and even wounded soldiers could not receive food and gauze for a few days. Grain, Moscow and other industrial cities are short of food, but in Siberia, the Urals, the Caspian Sea, the Volga River and the Don River, there is a large amount of food, meat, and fish that rot. In this year alone, there are 150,000 carts of spoiled food. Shipping is not good. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea have long been blocked by Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The contact between our country and the allies is mainly through Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok..."

"...Among the belligerent countries, our country has the longest front. The war is fought on 50,000 square kilometers of our country. Three million refugees are homeless and lack food and clothing. Many people have lost their lives during the war. , Wounded and maimed, and died of the plague. As of March 30, 1917, our country had lost a total of 8.4 million people. Many soldiers had no one to support their families and their lives were very painful..."

"...After the outbreak of the war, our country’s agricultural production was severely affected. The number of people enlisted in the army with labor capacity reached 15 million, mainly from rural areas. During the war, our country was in 50 provinces in Europe and Russia. In China, the rural male labor force has been reduced by half, the arable land area has been reduced by 10 million Russian mu, the arable livestock has been reduced by a third, and the grain harvest has been reduced by a quarter. In particular, the difficulties in transportation have actually interrupted the connection between urban and rural areas. In the market, food, meat, sugar and other agricultural products were in short supply. By December 1916, Petrograd could only get 14% of the planned food supply, while landlords, rich peasants and merchants held a large number of daily necessities and hoarded them. Speculation. Food often disappears from shops, but it is sold at high prices on the black market. In the summer of 1916, the price of Petrograd food was three times higher than before the war. Meat and sugar were especially expensive. The people were on the line of hunger and complained. I had to fight. There were 684 peasant uprisings caused by starvation in Europe and Russia in 1915. In the first five months of 1916, there were 510 peasant uprisings..."

These data are the second data, formed in mid-April 1917. These two pieces of information alone do not seem to have much, but once they are linked, you can immediately understand why Nicholas II hid in Petrograd, that is, Leningrad, the gold of St. Petersburg and the Winter Palace. The hidden wealth is secretly transferred to other places.

During the Romanov dynasty, the capital of Russia was not Russia but Petrograd. Therefore, most of the wealth of the Romanov dynasty was concentrated in this city on the east coast of the Gulf of Finland. Later, with the outbreak of the First World War, the territory of Russia The situation is getting more and more difficult, and the mediocre Nicholas II is very good at suppressing the domestic people, so the long-prepared Bolshevik Party is finally ready to make trouble.

Nicholas II naturally saw this too. To be on the safe side, he began to transport a large amount of wealth concentrated in Petrograd out of the country, just worrying about being killed in one go.

As a result, Nicholas II himself probably never expected that he would be so clean when he stepped down. On the first day of the outbreak of the February Revolution, he was ousted from power and his family was imprisoned. And he didn’t expect that Mr. Vladimir would be so cruel. Their family was imprisoned for less than a year and a half before being guillotined in Yekaterinburg...

To explain in modern words, Nicholas II is a typical "money is not life to spend", "money is there, people are gone"...

But in any case, combining these two materials can directly prove that Nicholas II did indeed combine some of the precious antique works of the Winter Palace with the 1,600 tons in the Petrograd treasury. All the gold was smuggled out.

And at least the wealth arrived in Kazan!

In subsequent documents, Yang Jing also found the information that the Niamto people found from a very sensitive department in Moscow. These documents are all the information left by Cheka that year, and several of them are from 1918. The archives before and after the execution of Nicholas II's family also contained the confession of Nicholas II.

Cheka is a very well-known organization. After the October Revolution in Russia, under the direct instructions of Vladimir, "to use extraordinary means to fight against all counter-revolutionaries." Department-Cheka, the full name is the "All-Russian Committee for the Elimination of Counter-revolution and Sabotage", referred to as the All-Russian Committee for the Elimination of Counter-Revolutionaries. Cheka is a transliteration of Russian abbreviation.

The predecessor of the famous KGB was Cheka.

Cheka's information is naturally of a very high level of confidentiality, and it is not easy for Niam to obtain these information at the opportunity of the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

However, it is precisely because these data are from the files created just after Cheka was established, so the credibility of these data is still very high.

But even the confession of Nicholas II did not say where the treasures were shipped. In that confession, Nicholas II only stated that after the wealth was shipped out of Petrograd, the first destination was Kazan. According to what Nicholas II explained, if the situation improves, then the wealth will be transported back to Petrograd. Once the situation continues to deteriorate, the escorts will hand over the wealth to General Kolchak, who was in Omsk at the time, as agreed in advance.

Nicholas II also said in his confession, he did not expect the situation to deteriorate so much, so he only knew that the wealth was shipped to Kazan, but where it was shipped from Kazan, General Kolchak Even Nicholas II did not know whether he received the wealth or not.

Yang Jing, who searched for two days and one night in these materials, only stopped the clues here.

However, Yang Jing is very clear that the wealth must have fallen in the hands of Kolchak~www.readwn.com~ At least there is a guarantee that the precious antique artworks from the Winter Palace have fallen in Gao In the hands of Kolchak, after all, the treasures that Yang Jing obtained from Siberia were the head of the guards of General Kolchak, Kuvayevich. Antonov secretly transported them to Thailand according to Kolchak’s orders. On the Meyer Peninsula.

As for the 1,600 tons of gold, Yang Jing didn't know how much Kolchak got. But Yang Jing can also analyze the message in Antonov’s treasure map. At least Kolchak had obtained a batch of gold at the time, otherwise Antonov would not mention Kolcha in his message. Ke led the army, civilians and gold to continue to advance eastward.

In other words, at least part of the 1,600 tons of gold fell into Kolchak's hands. As for whether it was all of them, I don't know.

Looking at this pile of old materials, Yang Jing couldn't help but feel a headache.

In the end, he collected all these materials into the space in a single brain, and prepared to analyze these materials slowly when he had time.

Anyway, the gold has been lost for more than 70 years, and even 30 years later, this lot of gold has not been found. So Yang Jing didn't worry, he just parsed the information slowly.