In Russian, "золото" means "gold", and the reason why Qiao Tianyu knows this Russian word is, of course, all thanks to Andrei.

In the previous life, Andrei had studied trading with Qiao Tianyu for many years, and Andrei's English was not good at first, so he marked the corresponding Russian word under each English word.

Over time, Qiao Tianyu has seen a lot, and he has also learned some of these common Russian words such as "stocks", "bonds" and "gold".

And just now in the document of Chubais, Qiao Tianyu also saw the words "5000" near "золото", and connected the two pieces of information, Qiao Tianyu immediately reacted.

The 5,000 tons of gold that were transported yesterday by armed escort!

Could it be that Chubais came for the 5,000 tons of gold?

This is not impossible, after all, if it is just for a videotape, Chubais will send Popov to intimidate and it will be over, and there is no need to go out in person.

It seems that Chubais's trip to Dubai is likely to be for 5,000 tons of gold!

Speaking of which, it is necessary to briefly introduce the important position of gold in the world economy and finance.

Since ancient times, gold has been the most important form of monetary payment and wealth storage means for human beings, even in modern times, gold out of the field of circulation, "resignation" after the monetary attributes, has been responsible for the "quasi-currency" and "last means of payment" function, is a country's monetary authorities to balance the balance of payments, affect the level of exchange rates, stabilize the national economy, curb inflation, improve international credit important carrier.

Therefore, countries around the world regard gold reserves as one of the most important foreign exchange reserves to cope with unexpected emergencies.

Some people even say that whoever controls the world's gold will also control the discourse of the world economy, which is by no means groundless.

You must know that after the end of World War II, the United States accumulated huge gold reserves because of the war, and its gold reserves once accounted for more than 75% of the world's total gold reserves!

It is precisely because of the strong gold reserves of the United States that in July 1944, when the countries of the world were discussing the new post-war world economic order, a double-pegged monetary system was established with "the dollar pegged to gold, and the currencies of various countries pegged to the dollar", which is often referred to as the "Bretton Woods system"!

The establishment of the Bretton Woods system completely established the status of the dollar as the central currency of the world, and since then the United States has started the history of using the money printing machine to frantically encroach on the fruits of the labor of the people of the world.

Therefore, it can be seen that a large part of the reason why the United States has become a powerful force to dominate the world is because of gold!

Because of the success of gold, the United States has also attracted the coveting of other countries, so all countries in the world have followed the example of the United States and increased gold reserves as much as possible within the scope of national strength, in order to strive for a greater voice in the world economy.

However, in 1994 the world's total gold stock was only about 170,000 tonnes, and most of it was held by private wealth or gold jewellery, with only 30,000 tonnes of official gold reserves held by central banks and the International Monetary Fund.

And this is equivalent to nearly 20% of the world's total official reserves of 5,000 tons of gold, undoubtedly to the vast majority of countries to improve the opportunity to improve the national voice, so for "ambitious" countries, these 5,000 tons are undoubtedly very tempting!

From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand why the 5,000 tons of gold were so vigorously escorted, and it is understandable why Chubais went out in person!

Fortunately, on the way back, Qiao Tianyu was not wearing a hood, besides, there was no need for this at all, could it be that Qiao Tianyu would be stupid enough to go to the KGB station to seek revenge, isn't that impatient?

On the way back, the KGB's car also walked along a section of the coastal avenue, where Qiao Tianyu once again saw the huge Chinese oil tankers.

However, compared with yesterday, those oil giants didn't seem to have changed at all, and they were still quietly docked there motionless, which made Qiao Tianyu a little puzzled.

Because Qiao Tianyu knows that the cost of going to sea for these oil tankers is calculated in days, and in 1994, the daily cost of each 250,000-ton oil tanker was as high as about 50,000 US dollars.

All in all, the cost of these more than 30 oil tankers in China on the Persian Gulf is 1.8 million US dollars per day, which is a lot of money for China in the mid-90s.

"What are they waiting for?" Qiao Tianyu couldn't help but put a big question mark in his heart.

When the KGB's Mercedes SUV returned to the villa in the city center, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and at this time, Chubby Face and Andrei were in a hurry at the gate of the yard.

When they saw that it was Qiao Tianyu who came back, they hurriedly ran over excitedly, pulling Qiao Tianyu to ask questions, for fear that Qiao Tianyu would suffer a loss, which also moved Qiao Tianyu.

"Where's Uncle?"

Qiao Tianyu suddenly remembered the matter of the Huaxia oil giant ship and wanted to inquire about Qiao Dahua, but he realized that there was only a little chubby face and Andre at the gate of the courtyard, and he didn't see Qiao Dahua's shadow.

"Uncle...... Uncle he ...... "The little chubby face is hesitant, and he didn't say why."

However, at this time, Qiao Dahua's extended Cadillac bulletproof business class stopped in front of everyone, and the drunk Qiao Dahua staggered out of the car.

Seeing Qiao Dahua's drunken appearance, Qiao Tianyu frowned, and a trace of displeasure flashed on his face.

But after all, he was an elder, Qiao Tianyu didn't say much, and after letting Andre help Qiao Dahua back to the room, Qiao Tianyu took the little chubby face and Andre to the bank of the Dubai Canal not far from the courtyard.

"Master, I have to complain to you today! Look at your uncle, it's so unreasonable! I feel more and more that there is something wrong with him!" the little fat face couldn't hide his anger, and said angrily.

"This morning, after you were arrested by those people, I begged him to find a way to save you quickly, but he acted like no one, saying that he couldn't afford to offend those people, and he didn't even want to find a way, and it was almost noon, and he went to the wine bureau to drink!"

"You said that you are his nephew and his successor, how can he ignore it like this, and do you still have the appearance of being an uncle?!"

"Master, I strongly suggest that you stop caring about his! Anyway, he doesn't even care about your life or death, what are you doing with his business?!"

"Huh ......" After listening to the bitter complaint of the little chubby face, Qiao Tianyu took a deep breath, was noncommittal to the little chubby face's words, and kept looking at the cruise ship on the canal in the distance with an expressionless face.

After about ten minutes, Qiao Tianyu finally turned around and looked at Little Fat Face and Andre.

"Keying, Andrey, it's a big deal......"