After returning to the company for dinner, Yang Jing arranged for someone to move all the materials from the bank's vault to his apartment on Fifth Avenue overnight.Everything in the company is proceeding in an orderly manner, under the leadership of Henry, David and Niam, the two generals, are now getting more and more highlights, even if there is no Yang Jing and Old Mike, these troika can also carry the KY investment fund to develop steadily and rapidly.So Yang Jing simply didn't go to the company, but studied the information at home."
The activity of the Bolshevik Party in Petrograd became more and more rampant, and for the sake of insurance, from September His Majesty the Tsar began to arrange the transfer of the treasury and the property of the Winter Palace.And the most trusted subordinates of His Majesty the Tsar, Sidneyelli, the most famous British spy, Robert Bruce Rockhardt, and Baroness Morabudberg, Rochhardt's mistress, were in charge of translating the wealth, and with their assistance, at least 1,600 tons of gold in the treasury and many precious antiques and works of art in the Winter Palace were transferred to the east of Russia to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Bolshevik Red Army.These materials were all written in Russian, and in desperation, Yang Jing could only become an amateur translator again, translating word by word with one hand and the English-Russian dictionary in the other.That's what Yang Jing did when he was looking for his treasure, and now he is still handy.This document, which Niam had paid off officials of the Leningrad Archives and then recovered from the archives at the bottom of the box, records events before and after the February Revolution of the Bolshevik Party.Among them was the response of Nicholas II to the rise of the Bolshevik Party.This information has been verified by Yang Jing and is indeed from the confession of the head of the Hermitage guard, which was obtained by the Bolshevik Party from the arrested head of the Hermitage guard on March 8, 1917, that is, after the February Revolution was launched on February 23 of the Russian calendar.And these materials can also be matched with some later sources.The Winter Palace at that time was in turmoil, the Bolshevik Party had already gained a huge advantage in Petrograd, and even Nicholas II could not easily get out of the Winter Palace.However, Nicholas II did not want the vast wealth of the Romanov dynasty to fall into the hands of the Bolsheviks, so he secretly arranged for loyal men to secretly transport it out of Petrograd.At least what Yang Jing knew, there were mountains of gold bricks piled up in the underground vault of a bank in Kazan.The gold bricks are said to have been shipped from Petrograd.Mr.
Yang had also seen a black-and-white photograph of gold piled up in the underground vault of a bank in Kazan."
In the last five months of 1916, the food transported by rail to the army could only meet a little more than half of the needs, and many soldiers on the front line, even wounded, did not receive food and gauze for several days.In Petrograd, Moscow and other industrial cities there was a shortage of grain, but in Siberia, the Urals, the Caspian Sea, the Volga and the Don rivers a large amount of grain, meat and fish rotted, and in this year alone, 150,000 wagons of spoiled grain were stored.The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea have long been blocked by Germany and the Ottoman Empire.Our contacts with the allies are mainly through Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok" "Among the belligerents, our country has the longest front.The war was fought on 50,000 square kilometers of our territory.Three million refugees were left homeless, without food and clothing, and many were killed, wounded, maimed and dyed from the plague during the war.By March 30, 1917, our country had lost 8.4 million people.Many soldiers' families have no one to support them, and their lives are very miserable" "After the outbreak of the Great War, agricultural production in our country was seriously affected.Fifteen million people who are able to work are conscripted into the armed forces, mainly from rural areas.During the war, in China's 50 provinces in Europe and Russia, the number of male rural laborers was reduced by half, the area of cultivated land was reduced by 10 million Russian acres, the number of cultivated animals was reduced by one-third, and the amount of grain harvested was reduced by one-quarter.In particular, transportation difficulties have effectively cut off links between urban and rural areas, and there is a growing shortage of grain, meat, sugar and other agricultural products in the market.By December 1916, Petrograd had only 14 percent of the planned supply of grain, while the landlords, kulaks, and merchants had in their hands a large amount of the necessities of life, hoarding and speculating.Food often disappears from the store, only to be sold at high prices on the black market.In the summer of 1916, the price of grain in Petrograd was 1 or three times higher than before the war, and meat and sugar were especially expensive.The broad masses of the people are on the starvation line, complaining and having to rise up and fight.In 1915 there were 684 peasant uprisings caused by hunger in Europe and Russia.In the first five months of 1916, there were 510 peasant uprisings" These are the second sources, formed in mid-April 1917.These two documents do not seem to be much on their own, but once they are connected, it is immediately clear why Nicholas II secretly transferred the gold and wealth hidden in the Winter Palace in Petrograd, that is, Leningrad and St.
Petersburg.During the Romanov Dynasty, the capital of Russia was not Russia but Petrograd, so most of the wealth of the Romanov Dynasty was concentrated in the city on the east coast of the Gulf of Finland.Nicholas II naturally saw this, and for the sake of insurance, he began to export a large amount of wealth concentrated in Petrograd, just for fear of being wiped out.As a result, Nicholas II himself probably didn't expect that he would be so clean and neat when he stepped down, on the first day of the February Revolution, he was ousted from power in ashes, and his family was imprisoned, and he probably didn't expect that Mr.
Vladimir would be so cruel, their family was imprisoned for less than a year and a half, and was guillotined in Yekaterinburg In modern terms, Nicholas II is a typical "money has no life to spend", "money is there, people are gone" but anyway, Taken together, it is clear that Nicholas II smuggled out some of the precious antiques and works of art from the Winter Palace, along with 1,600 tons of gold from the Petrograd treasury.And at least this wealth arrived in Kazan!
In the subsequent documents, Yang Jing also found the information that the Nyamto people had found from a very sensitive department in Moscow, which were all materials left by the Cheka of that year, including several files from before and after the execution of Nicholas II's family in 1918, as well as Nicholas II's confession.Cheka is a very famous organization, after the October Revolution in Russia, under the direct instruction of Vladimir to "fight against all counter-revolutionaries by extraordinary means", Dzerzhinsky, a white Russian nobleman of Polish origin, established a special department - Cheka, the full name is the "All-Russian Extraordinary Committee for the Elimination of Counter-Revolution and Sabotage", referred to as the All-Russian Committee for the Suppression of Counter-Revolutionaries, Cheka is the abbreviated transliteration of Russian.The predecessor of the famous KGB in later generations was the Cheka.Naturally, the information on the Cheka is classified at a very high level, and it is not easy for Niam to take advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to obtain these materials.However, it is precisely because these materials are from the archives that were established after the Cheka was just established, so the credibility of these materials is still very high.However, even the confession of Nicholas II did not say where the treasure went.In that confession, Nicholas II simply said that after the wealth was shipped out of Petrograd, the first destination was Kazan.According to Nicholas II, if the situation had improved, the wealth would have been shipped back to Petrograd.And if the situation continues to deteriorate, then the escorts will hand over the wealth to General Kolchak, who was then in Omsk, as agreed in advance.Nicholas II also said in his confession that he did not expect the situation to deteriorate so much, so he only knew that the wealth was transported to Kazan, but where it was transported from Kazan, and whether General Kolchak received it or not, even Nicholas II himself did not know.Yang Jing, who has been looking for two days and one night in these materials, only stopped the clues here.However, Yang Jing knew very well that the wealth must have fallen into the hands of Kolchak, at least one thing can be guaranteed, those precious antique works of art from the Winter Palace fell into the hands of Kolchak, after all, the batch of treasures that Yang Jing seized from Siberia was secretly transported to the Taimyr Peninsula by Kuvaevich Antonov, the head of General Kolchak's guards, in accordance with Kolchak's orders.As for the batch of 1,600 tons of gold, how much Kolchak got it, Yang Jing didn't know.But Yang Jing can also analyze from the message in Antonov's treasure map, at least Kolchak got a batch of gold at that time, otherwise Antonov's message would not mention that Kolchak led the army and the people and gold to continue to advance eastward.In other words, at least part of the 1,600 tons of gold fell into the hands of Kolchak, and as for whether it was all of it, it is not known.Looking at this stack of old materials, Yang Jing couldn't help but have a headache.Eventually, he put all the information into the space, ready to slowly analyze it when he had time.The gold had been lost for more than 70 years, and even 30 years later, it had not been found.So Yang Jing is not in a hurry, just slowly analyze these materials.