Chapter 450: The Gold of the Chinese
Of course, Jenny knew what wealth Zhang Nan's watch represented, the treasures of the Third Reich were immeasurable, and the more than 100 or nearly 200 tons of sky-high treasures harvested in the mine last time had already been preliminarily counted, but that was to get the approximate number of data. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
How many kilograms of gold bricks, how many kilograms of gold coins, how many kilograms of gold products, how many oil paintings, how many boxes of ancient documents, how many sculptures, how many winning bids, how many miscellaneous arts and crafts......
Even the total number of gold coins has not been counted, let alone the variety and value!
There are too many, too complicated, so much that if Zhang Nan collates and archives it alone, it will take at least a few years to check the information alone.
How much was the treasure brought back by the yacht worth?
Zhang Nan conservatively estimated tens of billions of dollars!
In the end "hundreds"?
I don't know, I can't figure it out.
What is the optimistic estimate?
I'm sorry, but unless all the researchers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are brought in to help with the inventory and sorting for two months, there is no rough idea at all!
Not to mention that it is impossible to let those people participate, even if there are enough knowledgeable and reliable people to sort it out, it is impossible for that wealth to be calculated.
There are ordinary gold bricks with market prices, as well as a huge number of antiques and artworks, and these immortals can't give a relatively accurate number, which can probably be counted in "tens of billions" will be the most accurate number.
The Third Reich's plundering of the wealth of Europe and North Africa was both brutal and professional, and efficient, and what can be compared with the scale and ability of Hitler, a madman, to plunder the wealth is just as crazy, even more cruel than the German Nazis!
This would have been a little hard for Jenny to believe, but she had seen the magic of her man many times before, and asked, "Is there really that many?"
Zhang Nan sighed and said, "Maybe it's more than that." There are documents that when the little devils captured Jinling, they plundered 6,000 tons of gold, and after the end of World War II, did the little devils have 600 tons in their hands?
I don't know the exact figures, but MacArthur would have estimated that there weren't even 60 tons. ā
"Impossible! 6,000 tons is 6 million kilograms, is there 6 million people in Jinling?
Even if there are so many people, it is impossible to have an average kilogram of gold per person. ā
Hearing Jenny's words, Zhang Nan smiled, "It's not a city, the little devil slaughtered the city in Jinling, killed hundreds of thousands of us, the whole city was turned upside down, and the plundered wealth was uncountable."
There were also the surrounding cities and villages, which were the richest areas of China at the time, where the Japanese military police seized all the property of the Chinese government, blew up the bank vaults, robbed the rich and middle-class merchants and wealthy people of gold, silver dollars, precious stones, jewelry, art and currency, and even knocked off the gold teeth of the corpses.
Even the property of the underground gangs at that time was robbed, and the ground was really scraped.
In a few months, it was not impossible to loot 6,000 tons of gold in the southern part of the province of Sioux. ā
Speaking of this, Zhang Nan felt the need to talk to Jenny about the Chinese people's habit of collecting wealth.
"We Chinese people have always liked to collect gold and silver, and it is still in recent decades that we have really accepted paper money as currency.
Although China was probably the first country in the world to use paper money, the unpleasant memories of using paper money in the 14th and 15th centuries, coupled with the long warlord melee before the liberation and the crazy depreciation of the Kuomintang currency, made our people not accustomed to and dislike the use of paper money for a long time, so they liked to use metal money.
Hundreds of thousands of years, accustomed to it, and the invasion of the little devils followed by the warlord melee not long after, the number of precious metals and antiques that were robbed is simply impossible to calculate. ā
Speaking of this, Zhang Nan paused for a moment, and then said: "In southern China, needless to say other places, the wealth of a single family is tens of millions of taels of silver for those top wealthy families in the Jiangnan region at that time.
10 million taels of silver is probably equivalent to at least 500 million US dollars now, and the purchasing power may be more than that, and among the Chinese in the world, such a huge rich person is not the top, and the real top rich people are the overseas Chinese in the Japanese-occupied areas of Southeast Asia.
In the thirties and forties, many of the local billionaires in China had actually declined, and the wealth accumulation of the local billionaires at that time was actually only a few generations at most, and there were too many wars.
In Southeast Asia, many of the wealthy Chinese families even lasted for centuries, and after the Japanese occupation, those families were basically wiped out.
Little devils like to find trouble with Chinese people the most, because we like to hoard wealth, and we should not let go of the bank. ā
At this point, Zhang Nan smiled bitterly: "Look at me, I understand, I'm about to use the families on both sides as super vaults." ā
As the old saying of the Chinese people goes, "wealth is not exposed", Zhang Nan also imperceptibly adheres to this tradition - if this really raids his own home, it is estimated that many people will be mad.
"Then we're going to Japan?"
When Zhang Nan heard Jenny's words, he shook his head and said, "No, it's not Riben, at least not that narrow island country for the time being."
We will have other better opportunities to steal money from that island, even if there is gold hidden in the little devil's homeland, after more than 40 years, it is estimated that it will have been taken away by the emperor and the little devil of the dog day.
It's the Philippines!
During World War II, there was an SS organization called the 'Foreign Exchange Protection Department' in Germany, which was responsible for looting wealth in the occupied areas, and there were also little devils, called the Mountain Lily Society.
The rank of this mountain lily was much higher than that of its Nazi counterparts in Germany, and the heads of the major occupation areas were several princes of the Gori Imperial Family, including the two younger brothers of the Gori Emperor.
Because the average little devil soldier and officer did not dare to touch the wealth of their emperor, that Hirohito thief.
Moreover, since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the headquarters of this Mountain Lily Society has been placed in Singapore, because the Chinese in Southeast Asia are rich, and the wealth of the Japanese-occupied areas of the Chinese mainland has been looted.
By '43, the headquarters had been moved to Luzon in the Philippines. ā
Guan Xingquan listened and pondered in the co-pilot seat, and when he found that Zhang Nan stopped talking, he asked: "The question of the priority of war needs?"
"Brother Guan is different when he comes out of the army, this is to the point.
Most of the wealth plundered in Southeast Asia was placed in the Philippines, because in 43 the Japanese army was still thinking about a conditional armistice, and then continued to occupy the Philippines, hoping to slowly move the plundered wealth from all over Southeast Asia back to the mainland after the armistice.
The headquarters was moved because of the increased threat to the shipping routes of US submarines, and for Japan during World War II, especially in the latter part of World War II, 1,000 tons of gold may still be 1,000 tons of rubber or even 1,000 tons of oil.
In the real chaotic times, a sack of gold is not as good as a sack of grain.
The devils of the dog day understand this truth, their local resources are too small, and the transshipment of gold is not particularly important. And unlike Nazi Germany, Hitler had Spain, Switzerland, and Sweden to do business, and they could buy and sell with gold.
The devils of the Chinese people basically have no place to use gold, and they can use worthless military tickets in the occupied areas, and at most they can deposit a little in the Portuguese banks in Macao and Chile before the outbreak of the Pacific War.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, gold was an accumulation for the devils, and there was no need to use it at all.
Because of this, since 43 years, Dog Day has prepared hundreds of locations in the Philippines to hide gold, and it has been stored one after another until the defeat of the little devils. ā
"Is that the gold you're targeting?"
Zhang Nan nodded to Jenny, "That Marcos has been in exile in Hawaii since the year before last, and before that, he would put at least 10 tons of gold in the gold market every year.
According to current Philippine government estimates, the Marcos family of about 20 people has looted at least $10 billion in wealth in the Philippines.
This is, looting?
Shave a hair!"
At this point, Zhang Nan's tone was sarcastic!
"The Philippine monkey has a dime, and the gold reserves on the books of the whole country are only about 10 tons. $10 billion, not so much after selling all the monkey skins, not that Marcos may have gotten a lot of looted gold buried during the dictatorship. ā
The other three people in the car understood what was going on, but even so, this Zhang Nan still had a lot to say: this Marcos has more than this amount of wealth, and I remember that more than ten years later, it was revealed that he had a credit certificate that could withdraw more than 7,000 tons of gold at one time in a bank in Switzerland!
And these more than 7,000 are said to be only a part.
What is this concept?!
It's scary to say it!
Where does his gold come from? The vast majority of it comes from Chinese families in Southeast Asia who have been killed by devils and like to hide gold.
Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, Warren Buffett or something are floating clouds, they are all virtual, and the real rich are behind them!
However, Marcos is not the most bullish, the most bullish is the "Bilderberg Organization" composed of real financial oligarchs and former high-ranking political officials in various countries: one of its members, the former US Secretary of State, asked Marcos to sell a huge amount of gold to 2,000 banks in Europe and the United States at the beginning of last year.
These were all revealed years later, and it would be a secret within a secret.
The members of that organization are the real world financial oligarchs, and they all have extremely strong government backgrounds, these are the real financial predators, and they can even influence politics!
How much gold was asked of Marx to sell?
More than 60,000 tons in total!
Zhang Nan remembered that the exact number was 63,321 tons!
The Filipino monkey, why does it dare to jump up and down?
Because this monkey has stolen gold, although it can't be put on the market all at once, then the major countries will automatically unite to destroy it without a meeting because of economic problems!
Even if it can't be sold all at once, it can only be slowly released from the hands of some controllers, but it is enough for it to jump up and down.