Pry open the iron door of the basement, and there is a room of more than 30 square meters, which should be the place where the guards are on duty, but it is already empty.

At the end of the room was a thick oak door with six huge locks hung in a row, and it was estimated that all six keys were scattered for safekeeping, which was also a means of guarding against thieves.

"Prepare explosives and smash his ......" Under the order, naturally there were soldiers who were proficient in explosives and began to plant explosives with detonators, and after a while, they only heard a loud bang in the basement, and the smoke and dust sprayed out along the gate for five minutes.

After the smoke dissipated, Qiu Wei rushed into the vault with the Marines, only to be stunned on the spot.

"Oh my God, did the French kill all the elephants in Africa? How can there be so many tusks?"

"Look, sir, there's a whole box of gems here, is this a diamond? This is a ruby......

"Gold Coins...... Gold ingots...... Look, these big chests are full of gold, coins and ingots that have already been minted!"

Rich, absolutely rich, the vault is more than 90 square meters, full of hardwood shelves neatly placed on some of Africa's treasures.

Ivory, rhinoceros horn, diamonds, rubies, sapphires...... There are also all kinds of special ores that cannot be named, and there are even naturally occurring dog's head gold.

At the bottom of the shelf, there is a large wooden box with a mouth, and after opening, it is full of all kinds of gold, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 ounces of gold, which is nearly 1,500 kilograms of gold!

Qiu Wei swallowed fiercely: "My God, how can these French people be so rich? There is so much gold hidden in the vault of just one Dakar?"

A Prussian soldier next to him replied, "It's not just the gold of Dakar, it's the most important port for French rule in West Africa, and the wealth of Senegal has to be collected here before it can be transshipped to Paris......"

"One of the two black slaves we just interrogated was literate, and he was also a supervisor of the black slaves in the Governor's Palace, and he said that the Governor's Palace now has a year's worth of taxes for the whole of Senegal, and a fiscal surplus of nearly ten years......"

"Why didn't it arrive in time for Paris?" asked Qiu Wei.

"Because of the railway, Dakar is preparing to build a railway to the north, and this money should be the money to build the railway......"

Qiu Wei smiled, "Railway?hahaha...... Our prime minister also wants to build the railway, and the railway from Tanggu to Kaiping and Luanzhou has begun field surveys, and now is the time for lack of money!"

"Go, grab a team of black slaves for me, and remove everything that can be removed here......"

In a short time, the Marines captured hundreds of strong men from the streets, and none of them dared to resist under the pressure of bayonets, and in addition to the fact that the black slaves had been enslaved and ruled for three or four hundred years, they had already formed a slave culture of submissiveness.

As long as they can live, they will not consider resisting, not to mention that these water ghosts have promised the last person to send them ten gold coins.

Smoke began to rise from the kitchens of the Doge's Palace, the Marines systematically began to set fires, black slaves carried gold, precious stones, and ivory, and no one dared to bother under the threat of bayonets.

All the documents in the governor's palace were swept away, Qiu Wei did not have time to read them one by one, he was going to pack them all up and take them to the Zhiyuan, and then find an opportunity to contact the Prussian intelligence agents and send all the secrets of these French to Prussia.

In the firelight, hundreds of French soldiers tried to counterattack the Doge's Palace, but under the precise blows of snipers, the command system of the two companies soon collapsed, and everyone who wore the appearance of an officer was in the spotlight.

Not only did the snipers form a huge suppression of the French army, but the rear-loading Mauser had already exerted unprecedented suppression of the front-loading French-MLE1857 mini-rifles.

The fixed-loading Mauser had already fired four or five rounds, while the MLE1857 rifles on the opposite side could only fire one round! No matter how this battle was fought, the two French companies had collapsed in less than ten minutes.

Qiu Wei looked at the retreating French army like water and did not order pursuit, but looked back at the black slave team that was constantly carrying gold out, and sighed: "Colonialism is so good! The feeling of bullying people, why is it so cool!"

It was only at this moment that Qiu Wei's group of students thoroughly understood the importance of colonies to European civilization, and this plundering of global resources finally achieved the absolute strength of European civilization.

Senegal alone in West Africa can amass so much wealth, and now France is the second largest colonial country after Britain, which shows how much wealth can be amassed in a year.

There are some things that Xiao Letian did not tell his subordinates, in his previous life, Xiao Letian clearly remembered that after the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia finally unified Germany, and at that time, Bismarck opened his mouth to the French lion to ask for 5 billion gold francs in war reparations.

This was the first strategic mistake in Bismarck's life, and he thought that 5 billion gold francs was a lot, and the French government's treasury was so empty that it could not afford to pull out a single gold coin.

5 billion gold francs according to the price of silver at that time, is more than 700 million taels of silver, and throughout the history of the Qing Dynasty, the richest Qianlong period, the highest peak of treasury income is more than 80 million taels of silver, and then it has decreased sharply year after year, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the fiscal revenue could not make ends meet, leaving empty numbers on the books to barely support the façade.

Bismarck is really calculating, the purpose of offering a sky-high price is to make France unable to pay back the money in the short term, so as to form a situation of suppression of France for decades, and if the money is not paid off, there is no reason to return France to Alsace and Lorraine. 、

If it is really a generation, the promotion of German education alone can change the demographic and cultural structure of the land.

But Bismarck underestimated the heritage of the old powers, and it can even be said that he underestimated the true foundation of the colonial economy, because Prussia had never experienced the feeling of making a fortune with a colony.

Bismarck definitely misjudged the amount of wealth of the French people, and he also misjudged the strong nationalist spirit of the French people, who had been baptized by the Revolution.

After the war, in order to pay off the war reparations as soon as possible and redeem the land occupied by Prussia in the north as soon as possible, the new government began to issue government bonds to the private sector on a large scale.

A scene that stunned Bismarck was the fact that the defeated French government, a new government that had not yet established credit, actually issued three successive treasury bonds of 5 billion gold francs, and each of them saw an unprecedented rush to buy the treasury bonds.

The 15 billion treasury bonds were sold out in an instant, and the total subscription amount reached a jaw-dropping 45 billion gold francs, which was nine times the size of the British lion's big mouth.

At this point, Bismarck's wishful thinking was completely shattered, and later generations of Lenin even gave France a special nickname, called usury imperialism.