There is a lot of evidence in history that Nicholas II did smuggle a large amount of gold out of the Petrograd treasury before he was imprisoned, and Yang Jing also saw relevant hints in the treasure map left by Kuvajevich Antonov.Therefore, the Romanov Dynasty has accumulated three hundred years of wealth, part of which has fallen into Yang Jing's hands, but Yang Jing has not obtained the huge amount of gold in that huge wealth.After the death of Nicholas II and Kolchak, the whereabouts of that huge amount of gold became a mystery, and for a century, countless people toiled for this legendary gold, no matter who wanted it.There are even many specialized archaeologists who have joined in, and some people have summed up six places where it is possible to hide that batch of gold, some say that the gold was buried in an underground fortification somewhere in Kazan, some say that the gold was sunk to Lake Baikal by Kolchak, and some say that the gold was buried under the ground in a village near Krasnoyarsk, anyway, Yang Jing saw it and disdained it.In fact, from the historical timeline, we can roughly analyze where the gold should go.Before the February Revolution broke out in March 1917 and Nicholas II was imprisoned, 1,600 tons of gold and numerous Hermitage treasures had been smuggled out of Petrograd.Because everyone knows that Kolchak is a diehard loyalist of Nicholas II, the ultimate successor of this huge wealth should be Kolchak.Since the treasures of the Winter Palace have fallen into the hands of Yang Jing, it is obvious that the treasures of the Winter Palace must have passed through Kolchak's hands, so the batch of gold amounting to 1,600 tons should also fall into Kolchak's hands.To be sure, the gold arrived in Kazan, as evidenced by the black-and-white photographs of the vaults of the Kazan Bank.And Kazan was liberated in August 1918.That is, before that, the gold had already been transported to Omsk.It was impossible for the White Army to give this batch of gold to the Bolshevik Party.Omsk was the headquarters of the White Army at that time, and Kolchak led a million White troops who were finally the Tsar to defend Omsk.If Nicholas II had been alive, perhaps it would have been really difficult for the Red Army to take Omsk.Unfortunately, Nicholas II was secretly executed in July 1918.The Tsar died, and both Kolchak and the White Army lost their allegiance, which was obviously a great blow, and it is estimated that it was precisely for this reason that the combat effectiveness of the White Army fell sharply, and Omsk was successfully defeated by the Red Army.In November 1919, when Omsk was occupied by the Red Army, Kolchak decided to lead his troops across more than 6,000 kilometers of Siberia and flee to the Pacific coast, where he sought the support of his own people in order to make a comeback.According to the information collected by the Niam, Kolchak's army at that time was more than 500,000 men, accompanied by 750,000 exiles who opposed the Bolsheviks and cherished the Tsar, of whom 270,000 were bishops, monks, and nuns; In addition, there were more than 200,000 noblewomen and their children, and the total number exceeded 1.2 million!
Kuvaevich Antonov's treasure map also mentions that after the fall of Omsk, more than 1.2 million people retreated eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway under the leadership of Kolchak, but when they retreated to Tomsk, more than 1,000 kilometers east of Omsk, they were hit by a snowstorm and severe cold."
Omsk was occupied by the Red Army, and the general ordered us to set off immediately, but when we reached Tomsk, the temperature plummeted, and a large number of soldiers froze to death.And the most desperate thing is that the fuel for the armed train has also run out.The general ordered us to replace the sleigh and pull the sled on, and repeatedly instructed us to take care of the gold and works of art, which the general said was the foundation of our comeback.When we arrived in Krasnoyarsk, we couldn't walk, the damn cold had frozen a large number of horses to death, and even we, the best equipped guards, had frozen to death.I told the general that I couldn't go on like this, and the general reprimanded me harshly. ”This is a handwritten message left by Kuvaevich Antonov on the back of the treasure map, which is enough to prove that Kolchak was in control of the Hermitage collection and a large amount of gold at that time.Although Antonov did not mention how much gold Kolchak had in his hands, Yang Jing had already figured out how much gold Kolchak had in his hands when he arrived in Tomsk from the information collected by Niam.It should be five hundred tons of gold!
This data is a figure deduced by Yang Jing based on many sources.Because there is a lot of information that directly indicates a number - twenty-eight armed escort trains!
This "28-car armed escort train" is mentioned not in one source, but in more than a dozen sources from different sources, so the data on this key "28-car armed escort train" can almost certainly be very true.At that time, when Kolchak retreated from Omsk to Tomsk, a total of twenty-eight armed escort trains escorted this batch of gold!
According to the load capacity of the train at that time, a train was calculated according to the maximum load capacity of 50 tons, and this kind of armed escort train only occupied more than half of the load capacity with heavy armor and weapons, that is to say, the remaining load capacity of a carriage of this armed escort train definitely did not exceed 20 tons!
Twenty-eight armed escort trains, which can only carry a maximum of five hundred tons of gold!
That is, when Kolchak retreated from Omsk, he took only the Hermitage collection and five hundred tons of gold.Of the remaining 1,100 tons of gold, they either stayed in Omsk or were transferred by Kolchak to some other place to hide!
Because of the whole 1,600 tons of gold, Kolchak simply couldn't take it away!
The 500 tons of gold that Kolchak took away, Yang Jing would not think about it.Although many people say that the 500 tons of gold were finally sunk by Kolchak on Lake Baikal, Yang Jing absolutely does not believe it.Some, if not even a very small part of the 500 tons of gold, were taken to Lake Baikal and eventually sank to the bottom, but the vast majority of the 500 tons of gold would never have been brought to Lake Baikal in such bad weather.The average winter temperature in Omsk is minus 22 degrees, but when Kolchak's troops reached Tomsk, an extremely strong cold snap swept through Siberia, and the temperature plummeted to more than minus 60 degrees in just a few days!
Kolchak's troops arrived at Lake Baikal at the end of February 1920, and in three months, from November 13, 1919 to February of the following year, only 200,000 of Kolchak's more than 1.2 million troops remained!
If people can't even live, who cares about the gold?
Just like walking in the desert and finding gold and clear water together, people will choose clear water instead of gold.In the extreme environment of Siberia at that time, people would rather carry a little more food than take a gold brick.Yang Jing estimated that there is a great possibility that the 500 tons of gold bricks were buried on the spot by Kolchak in a random place, and a small part of them may have been left in the Siberian wasteland forever with the White Army who died with them.But it is unlikely that all 500 tons of gold were transported to Lake Baikal and sunk.Kolchak is not brain-dead, he will not do such brainless things.One was that it was simply impossible to transport so much gold to Lake Baikal by manpower.Another more important reason is that even if Kolchak is brain-dead, are his soldiers brain-dead?
Do you take these 500 tons of gold without food, in order to work hard to transport these 500 tons of gold from Tomsk, 2,000 kilometers away, to the Baikal sunken lake?
This is pure nonsense!
So, those 500 tons of gold did not reach Lake Baikal!
It's just that it's hard to say where the gold is still or where it was buried, and there is no clue to the 500 tons of gold.Therefore, Yang Jing was completely dead set on these 500 tons of gold.Even if he has the Tianyan skill, but such a big Siberia, where do you ask him to find it?
The only gold that is now possible to find is the 1,100 tons of gold that Kolchak hid before he left Omsk.This gold is also the focus of Yang Jing's attention.Based on the evidence summarized above, Yang Jing is almost certain that the 1,600 tons of gold that were transported from Petrograd that year, of which 1,100 tons of gold had been secretly hidden elsewhere by Kolchak long before Omsk was defeated by the Red Army.It's just that the total weight of this batch of gold is as high as 1,100 tons, where can such heavy gold be transported?
And how can it be transported?
It is obviously impossible to transport it by train.At that time, although Omsk was passed by the Trans-Siberian Railway, it was the only one.The gold was brought from the west by this railway, and it was naturally impossible to bring it back.And to the east, there are not so many wagons available, otherwise Kolchak would not have taken with him only five hundred tons of gold.In other words, the 1,100 tons of gold will either remain in Omsk or will be transferred somewhere else by other means.What means of transport could have been used to transport such a heavy piece of gold?
Yang Jing looked at a huge large-scale map of the Soviet Union in front of him in a daze, and finally set his eyes on the river that ran north and south of Omsk.PS: Bow and thank "Book Friend 20180313120405479" for the 500 tip, "Book Friend 20181030162859263" 200 for the tip, "Coffee Powder" and "Very Lazy Fish" for 100 tips.