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After returning to the company and having dinner, Yang Jing arranged for personnel to move all the materials from the bank's vault to his apartment on Fifth Avenue. Anyway, after Vivian's illness was cured, Yang Jing Jing hasn't had any major issues recently.

Everything in the company is proceeding in an orderly manner. Under the leadership of Henry, the two generals David and Niam are becoming more and more brilliant. Even without Yang Jing and Old Mike, the troika can still bring KY investment funds are developing steadily and rapidly.

So Yang Jing didn't go to the company at all, but studied those materials at home.

The activities of the Bolshevik Party in Petrograd are becoming more and more rampant. To be on the safe side, His Majesty the Tsar began to arrange for the transfer of the treasury and the property of the Winter Palace from September. The person responsible for the transfer of wealth is His Majesty's most trusted subordinate. With the assistance of Britain's most famous spy, Sidney Raleigh, British diplomat Robert Bruce Lockhart, and Lockhart's mistress, Baroness Moura Budbergh, at least 1,600 tons of gold and many precious antique 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.” This document is the earliest timeline among these documents, Yang Jing Put this information first.

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

That's what Yang Jing did when he was looking for Japanese treasures, and it's still handy now.

This information was obtained by Niam from the Leningrad Archives officials with money, and then from the bottom of the archives. It records some things before and after the February Revolution launched by the Bolshevik Party. Among them were the contingency measures Nicholas II took against the rise of the Bolshevik Party at that time.

Yang Jing has verified this information, and it is indeed from the confession of the head of the Winter Palace guards. It was the Bolshevik Party who arrested the Winter Palace guards after the February Revolution on March 8, 1917, that is, February 23 in the Russian calendar. The confession from the leader's mouth.

Moreover, these materials can also be compared with some materials of later generations. At that time, the Winter Palace was in turmoil, and the Bolshevik Party had already gained a huge advantage in Petrograd. 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 loyal men to secretly transport the wealth out of Petrograd.

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

Yang Jing had also seen 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 to 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 several days. In Petrograd, Moscow and Other industrial cities lack food, but in Siberia, the Urals, the Caspian Sea, the Volga River and the Don River, there is a lot of food, meat, and fish rotting. In this year alone, 150,000 carloads of spoiled food were stored. Sea transportation is not good. , the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea have long been blocked by Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The connection 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 our territory of 50,000 square kilometers. Three million refugees are homeless and lack food and clothing. Many people lost their lives, were injured and maimed and Died of the plague. As of March 30, 1917, our country has lost a total of 8.4 million people. Many soldiers have no one to support their families, and life is very miserable.

.After the outbreak of the Great War, China's agricultural production was seriously affected. Fifteen million people who were able to work were recruited into the army, mainly from rural areas. The area of ​​cultivated land has been reduced by 10 million dessiatines, the number of livestock has been reduced by one-third, and the harvest of grain has been reduced by one-fourth. In particular, the difficulty of transportation has actually interrupted the connection between urban and rural areas. In the market, grain, There was a growing shortage of meat, sugar, and other agricultural products. By December 1916, Petrograd could only receive 14 percent of the planned food supply, while landlords, rich peasants, and businessmen held a large amount of necessities, hoarding them and speculating. Food often came from Shops disappeared, but they were sold at high prices on the black market. In the summer of 1916, the price of food in Petrograd tripled compared to before the war. Meat and sugar were especially expensive. The people were starving, complained, and had to fight. In 1915, there were 684 peasant uprisings caused by starvation in Europe and Russia. In the first five months of 1916, there were 510 peasant uprisings.”

These materials are the second, formed in mid-April 1917. These two pieces of information seem to be nothing alone, but once they are connected, you can immediately understand why Nicholas II wanted to hide in Petrograd, that is, Leningrad in later generations, the gold in St. Petersburg, and the Winter Palace The hidden wealth is secretly transferred to the field.

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 this city on the east coast of the Gulf of Finland. Later, with the outbreak of the First World War, Russia The situation is getting more and more difficult, and the mediocre Nicholas II is very good at suppressing the domestic people. Therefore, the Bolshevik Party, which has been preparing for a long time, is finally ready to make trouble.

Nicholas II naturally saw this too. Just to be on the safe side, he began to export a large amount of wealth concentrated in Petrograd, just because he was worried that it would be taken over by a pot.

As a result, Nicholas II himself probably did not expect that he would step down so cleanly. On the first day when the February Revolution broke out, he was kicked out of power in disgrace, 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 before they were sent to the guillotine in Yekaterinaburg.

To explain it in modern terms, Nicholas II is a typical example of the money is spent but the people are gone.

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

And at least the wealth arrived in Kazan!

In the subsequent materials, Yang Jing also found the materials that the Nyamto people found from a very sensitive department in Moscow. These materials were all the materials left by the Cheka back then, and some of them came from 1918. The archives of Nicholas II's family before and after the execution, including Nicholas II's confession.

Cheka is a very famous organization. After the October Revolution in Russia, under the direct instruction of Vladimir to use extraordinary means to fight against all counter-revolutionaries, a special organization was established by Polish-born White Russian aristocrat Dzerzhinsky. Department - Cheka, the full name is All-Russian Elimination of Counter-revolutionaries and Sabotage Extraordinary Committee, referred to as the All-Russian Elimination Committee, and Cheka is the abbreviated transliteration of Russian.

The predecessor of the famous KGB in later generations was the Cheka.

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

However, it is precisely because these materials are all from the archives created after the establishment of Cheka, so the credibility of these materials is still very high.

But even Nicholas II's confession did not say where the treasures were shipped. In that statement, Nicholas II only said that after the wealth was transported out of Petrograd, the first destination was Kazan. According to Nicholas II's account, if the situation improves at that time, then the wealth will be shipped 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 statement that he did not expect the situation to deteriorate so badly, so he only knew that the wealth was transported to Kazan, but where did it go from Kazan, General Kolchak Even Nicholas II himself didn't know whether he had received that batch of wealth.

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

But 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 antiques and artworks from the Winter Palace fell into the hands of Kolchak. After all, the treasures that Yang Jing obtained from Siberia were secretly transported to the Taimyr Peninsula by the head of General Kolchak's Guards, Kuvayevich Antonov, according to Kolchak's order.

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

In other words, at least part of the 1,600 tons of gold fell into the hands of Kolchak, but it is not known whether it was all of it.

Looking at the piles of old materials, Yang Jing couldn't help feeling a little headache.

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

Anyway, the gold has been lost for more than 70 years, and even after 30 years, this batch of gold has still not been found. So Yang Jing is not in a hurry, just analyze the information slowly.