"What the hell are you pulling me to this place? You said that you made a windfall of money, probably because you found gold here, right?"

Zhang Xiaoming smiled but did not speak, beckoned Yang Pingfan to get out of the car, only to see that this was originally a hilly area, when the mine was first opened, the engineer blew up half of the low mountain, forming a section like a knife and axe, decades have passed, the rock section is also covered with gray moss lichen, the whimpering cold wind blows from the mountains and forests, sending out a strange roar, the four fields are vast, there are no people, there are no living creatures, giving people a feeling of independence from the world.

Zhang Xiaoming took out a shovel and a miner's headlamp from the carriage, shook his head, signaled Yang Pingfan to follow, and led the way first, only to see him walk in front of a dense bush.

I saw Zhang Xiaoming raise the shovel high and shovel down towards the bushes, what is surprising is that the bushes are not as lush as they look on the outside, and the following is the pile of mud and rocks, Zhang Xiaoming shoveled a puff of soil, and soon dug a hole, Yang Pingfan looked carefully, only to find that a large part of the bushes did not grow out of the original, but moved from elsewhere, but the weather was cold, not so quickly dehydrated, so I couldn't see it from a distance, the soil below was not a frozen layer, but floating soil, Yang Pingfan was even more puzzled, and could only watch Zhang Xiaoming busy working。

The camouflaged bushes and floating soil were quickly shoveled away, revealing the rock pile below, which formed a small hole, and Zhang Xiaoming was the first to get in, and then beckoned Yang Pingfan to go in as well.

The entrance of the cave is only allowed for one person to enter and exit, but under the strong headlamp, it can be seen that the inside is extremely wide, and the depth cannot be seen, Yang Pingfan guessed that the cave has gone deep into the cliff.

After walking a few dozen meters inside, Zhang Xiaoming stopped and lowered his headlamp, "Ordinary, look at what this is?"

Yang Pingfan took a few steps forward and saw what the flashlight shone on, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Gold!

Countless pieces of gold, a mist rising in the light, scattered at the end of the cave, reflected an irresistible light, making it impossible to take a look off it.

Yang Pingfan couldn't help but take a few steps forward, only to find that in addition to gold, there were other things, rotten wooden boxes, wind lanterns that could still distinguish shapes, and guns and bullets that fell out of the boxes and spilled all over the ground, Yang Pingfan knew that this was the Mosingana rifle, he had seen it in 1943, when the guerrillas called it the Water Lianzhu rifle.

"It was an accident that I found this place. ”

Zhang Xiaoming said, "More than a month ago, there was an abnormal temperature rise, the permafrost melted, and the cliff collapsed...... Hehe, I didn't expect the plots in the third-rate stories to meet me. ”

"Where did you get all this gold?"

Zhang Xiaoming took a few steps forward, pulled out a gold brick casually, and handed it to Yang Pingfan, "Look at what's on it?"

Yang Pingfan wiped off the soil with the help of the light and found that the gold brick was engraved with the logo of a double-headed eagle.

"This is Tsarist Russia?"

Contacting the water bead rifle on the ground, Yang Pingfan immediately guessed the former owner of these golds, "How did the double-headed eagle gold bricks come here, I haven't heard that the treasury of Tsarist Russia is in Siberia?"

"Have you heard of the Kolchak gold story?"

Seeing Yang Pingfan shaking his head, Zhang Xiaoming began to popularize science.

After the October Revolution in Russia, Alexander Kolchak, the former commander of the Tsarist Russian fleet, gathered the remnants of the Tsarist Russian army, organized counter-revolutionary forces, and with the assistance of Britain and other Western countries, established an independent government in Omsk, and fought against the red regime.

However, the combat effectiveness of the White Army was really not good, and it was not long before Omsk was captured by the Red Army in November 1919.

In order to preserve his strength, Kolchak decided to lead his troops across more than 6,000 kilometers of Siberia and flee to the Pacific coast, intending to seek Japanese support there in order to make a comeback.

Kolchak's army was accompanied by more than 500,000 men, and the expedition was accompanied by 750,000 exiles who opposed the Bolsheviks and cherished the Tsar, including 270,000 bishops, monks and nuns, and more than 200,000 noblewomen and their children.

In fact, according to the results of later recognized research, among the more than 1.2 million fugitives in this vast procession of escapees, there was also an astonishing secret——— 500 tons of gold nuggets worth 500 million US dollars at that time, which was the capital allocated by the tsar to Kolchak for a comeback, which was packed in 28 armed escort vehicles.

1.25 million troops under the leadership of Kolchak embarked on a journey of 6,000 kilometers, their starting point, the average winter temperature in Omsk is minus 22 °C, minus 20 degrees Celsius is not uncommon for people living in the European part of Russia, but no one expected that just a few days after walking, the temperature dropped sharply from minus 20 degrees to minus 60 degrees Celsius, and in the small city of Tomsk, which is more than 1,000 kilometers east of Omsk——— The place where this disaster began was the coldest town on earth that year.

The bitter cold wind roared, and the blizzard pierced the body like a tug-of-war, bringing unspeakable suffering to the people of the Great Migration, which was rare in history.

It didn't take long for the endless snowy fields of Siberia to fill the roads of Siberia, hell on earth, with frozen people, discarded sleighs, frozen horses, together with dead bodies and never-ending snow all around.

From November 13, 1919 to February of the following year, for three months, a human tragedy caused by an unbelievable cold turned into a drama without stopping.

However, the march did not end there, and the people were like zombies on the move, with only one pair of feet still moving alternately from left to right.

The snow is getting heavier, the temperature is getting colder, and the Siberian cold wave is hanging over the heads of the migratory people, and the whole universe seems to be a huge package sealed by snow flakes.

At first, the conductor shouted hoarsely, "No sleeping" and "It's coming soon" to motivate the people, but later, even they themselves were lured by the god of sleep, and the ranks of the Great Migration were reduced at an increasing rate every day.

The bitter cold of Siberia, which has not been seen in a century, has turned into a cruel suffering, cruelly tormenting people.

The snow fell more and more violently like madness, and the Grim Reaper, wielding scythes and laughing, wantonly harvested the souls of the living, freezing to death 200,000 people in just one night near the city of Nikolaevsk, and by the end of February 1920 the ranks had been reduced from 1.25 million to 250,000.

After many hardships, these people finally made it from Omsk to the shores of Lake Baikal, 2,000 kilometers away, but for the final safety, they had to cross Lake Baikal.

The 80-kilometre-wide lake, covered with 3 metres of ice, is as 250,000 living people begin to cross the ice, and the ice on the surface of the lake glistens like the floor of a slippery dance floor.

The surface of Lake Baikal, which is frozen solidly, is even colder.

The temperature dropped to minus 69°C, and the violent blizzard roared as if it was about to freeze the bone marrow of the victims. Freeze their souls here.

It is useless to wear bearskins and seal skins in such places, and the extreme cold only makes bearskins act like ice masks on their bodies, and thousands of people have frozen to death.

The 28 armed escort trucks carrying the nuggets ran out of fuel, and they had no choice but to exchange the nuggets for horse-drawn sleighs.

However, the extreme cold caused the Siberian horses to die one by one, and the huge treasures inherited from Tsarist Russia had to be thrown into the Siberian wilderness.

A completely unimaginable tragic tragedy unfolded on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal: a general's wife was about to give birth on the ice, but there was no one who could go over to help, and people walked past her with heavy steps and expressionless faces. The general used his body to block a partition wall, originally to prevent people from seeing his wife give birth, but he really froze motionless like a wall, and then the general's wife froze to death with the child who was about to be born, and after a while, everyone froze to death......

The blizzard finally subsided, and a deathly silence enveloped all around.

All was gone, sorrow, pain, sighs, whispers, hatred, indignation, all feelings were gone with 250,000 souls.

The 250,000 bodies on Lake Baikal lay there until the lake thawed the following summer. When the ice thawed, this terrible and unbearable scene quietly disappeared from view and sank deep to the bottom of the lake.

The whereabouts of the 500 tons of gold nuggets have never been known and remain a historical mystery.

All later researchers felt that the gold sank to the bottom of the lake with the thaw of Lake Baikal the following year, so there are people everywhere in the world looking for those treasures lost in history, but no one has ever touched the idea of Kolchak gold, because Lake Baikal is 636 kilometers long, 48 kilometers wide on average, and has an area of 31,500 square kilometers.

But what I found was enough to overturn the speculation of those experts, those so-called experts were farting, Kolchak's people had already transported the gold across Lake Baikal a long time ago, but I don't know what the reason was, it was stored in a cave near here, and then the Soviets blew up the entire cave when they opened the mine, and a snowmelt was really destiny, and I was lucky enough to find out.

Zhang Xiaoming couldn't help laughing when he said this.

"But we can't get this gold back. Yang Pingfan came back to his senses and poured a basin of cold water on Zhang Xiaoming.

"Why? These are ownerless things, I found them, they are my things, why can't they be shipped back?"