Volume VIII 1307 Russian Army Riots

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The act of stealing spreads like wildfire among the troops, and the eyes of the masses are clear, and if there is the first to attack, there will be a second, and if there is a second, there will be a fourth, and then this behavior will double like a square.

If you steal from me and don't steal it, doesn't that prove that I'm stupid? Even if I steal a pearl, it at least proves that I didn't suffer a loss.

How can you enter Baoshan and return empty-handed? Those who don't steal are all fools!

There were suddenly more accidents on the crooked mountain road, twenty tons of gold and more silver, plus jewelry, cultural relics, etc., all of which needed manpower to transport, and the troops did not even have horse-drawn carriages.

All of them had to rely on manpower, and the manpower of the guard regiment alone was simply not enough, so they had to draw a large amount of manpower from the engineer regiment and the logistical support unit.

However, these people were far less disciplined than the guard regiment, and theft became popular, and even the soldiers outside the troops carrying the gold colluded with each other.

The soldiers carrying gold, silver and jewelry threw some treasures on both sides of the mountain road while the officers were not paying attention, and Neiying, who had hidden them long ago, took advantage of the chaos to stuff the treasures into his arms.

No one felt guilty, because there was only one rumor flying in the army at that time, and that was that none of the gold was ultimately Russian, nor tsarist, but British.

Before the United States became the world's first power, the world's financial center was in the City of London, where the bulk of gold trade and bond transactions between countries were concentrated, and almost all the world's major banks had branches here, not to mention the super banks in Britain.

Since ancient times, the place where wealth has been gathered has been the place where gossip has been concentrated, and there is a lot of money, conflicts, and tongues, coupled with the hatred of the rich that is common to all mankind, so that many unfavorable rumors about bankers are flying in the sky.

None of the rumors say that the City of London is good, and all kinds of bizarre stories have turned the brainy banker into a demon, and people are angry at the rich people's extravagant life, while swallowing their saliva and yearning for it, while scolding the rich for bullying men and women, and at the same time eager to replace them.

It is in this complex psychology that the reputation of the European bankers, who are predominantly Jewish, is getting worse day by day, and perhaps the middle classes who have access to these people can still face the problem rationally, but for the poorest class, they are more willing to believe what they have imagined.

It is all the poor who have portrayed the City of London as the abode of the devil by their own imagination and some hearsay, and all the British bankers are devils who eat people and do not spit out bones.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that the soldiers are so full of a sense of justice and so natural when they steal gold.

Tens of tons of metal were transported entirely by manpower, and it was definitely a very hard and difficult task to travel through several mountains and transport them to the ship, not to mention that in the dark night, the accidents of blind lights along the way occurred frequently, and soon the St. Peter discovered that something was wrong.

"Report to the commander-in-chief! It seems that something is wrong, more than thirty boxes of gold have been found in a row with inconsistent weights, and I suspect that someone has stolen the gold......"

Frightened, Stefansky followed the adjutant to the deck, only to find two majors interrogating a group of soldiers kneeling on the deck.

"To answer my question, why don't you have a different kind of gold? I've already asked, the vault is full of standard boxes, each ammunition box contains 100 kilograms of gold, that is, 10 gold ingots, why are you all so small?"

"There are only 8 gold ingots in this chest, and 9 in this chest...... Look at this box again, damn it's only 5 pieces left......!

The soldiers were frightened, and they trembled and said, "I don't know! We really don't know! There are black lights everywhere, and we can't see the road...... Maybe it fell during a wrestling!"

"Fart! 50 kilograms of gold were lost in wrestling? Are you a fool to me? The ammo box is half as light, don't you even notice it......?

As they were scolding, the cold voice of the commander-in-chief sounded behind the two officers: "We don't have time to talk nonsense with them, since we don't tell the truth, then go to waterboarding!"

The wolf-like guards rushed up and dragged them to the corner of the deck, grabbing them by the hair, despite the wails of the soldiers, and half a bucket of seawater in the bucket that wiped the deck, and the guard grabbed the hair and pressed his face into the water.

The tortured soldier struggled desperately, but to no avail, two strong guards held him in such a way that he could not resist at all, and just as his struggle became weak, the guard jerked up, and the filthy sea water ran down his hair and cheeks.

"Ahhh......h

Three times, no one asked him, and the fourth time he cried, the soldier cried and shouted, "I confess......!" I stole the gold, and I colluded with others to steal the gold and bury it in the mountains......"

"Woooooooooo......oo Don't torture me, I'll confess completely, now stealing treasures in the mountains has become a common practice, not only a few of us, but more and more people are stealing later......"

Stefansky slammed his fist into the railing, only to hear a click that the sturdy oak railing was cracked.

"Axon is still too young, he can't stop those arrogant soldiers at all! Damn, let Vinya go ashore! I believe in his methods, let him enforce military discipline!"

Having received the order, Vinya temporarily handed over the command of the battleship to the deputy captain, and he began to land with more than 1,000 elite sailors gathered from each ship, and began to climb up the mountain road that carried the gold.

"All of you have enough torches, each with two torches, look for these damned thieves! After shouting three times, shoot me if you don't listen!"

When Vinya entered the mountains, under the bright light of the two thousand torches, he was shocked by the qiē in front of him, and in just over half an hour, the act of stealing had turned into robbery, and in front of Vinya's eyes, he saw a box of gems overturned, and a group of soldiers rushed out to look for those shining red sapphires.

"Are these still Imperial soldiers? Damn you're all greedy wild dogs! Shoot the ...... in the lead"

The guns went by, and the most fierce soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the blood drowned all the gems on the ground, and the rest of the soldiers looked up and said, "God! There is a general! It's General Vennia! Run, run, ......."