Bill walked forward with Quinn and heard James screaming frantically and Li Shang standing there. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Li Shang, what's wrong with James?" Bill Gates said worriedly as he looked at the crazy James.

Li Shang looked at James, who was laughing wildly, and smiled bitterly at Bill Gates, "It's okay, I'm just too excited."

This is a fact, after all, as long as ordinary people see these mountains of gold, they will fall into madness.

Bill Gates picked up a gold brick in his hand, and his hand sank violently, almost falling to the ground, it was too heavy.

"This is!" Seeing the sign on the gold brick, Bill Gates raised his head suddenly, looked at Li Shang in shock and said.

Li Shang nodded and didn't say anything, but both of them knew what they were going to say in their hearts.

"Yes sir, you guessed it right!" said James in a hoarse voice after a frenzy.

Bill Gates was pleasantly surprised and said, "James, how are you?!"

James smiled, but at the same time was a little embarrassed, and said, "Sir, I'm fine, after all, it's so charming here, it's going to make me a little crazy"

Li Shang turned to James and asked, "James, do you know the origin of this ghost village, and how can there be so much gold in this underground?"

Although his cheeks were sweaty after the madness, James opened his wise eyes and said, "Although there is no actual evidence, it should have something to do with the World War II period!"

It turned out that during World War II, in order to maintain the operation of Hitler's weapons of war, the Nazis looted the gold and silver bullion of the European Central Bank.

Almar Horace Grillet Schacht was Adolf Hitler's economic backer, and it was he who developed the dictator's economic plan during those crucial six years.

At that time, Schacht was Germany's longest-standing financier, as he broke the worst inflation in the country's history, in 1923. Schacht supported Hitler with his enormous reputation and economic means in 1932, after which he became chairman of the Nazi Central Bank and Minister of Finance.

Schacht's distinctive middle name came from his father, who had immigrated to the United States long ago with the hope of creating a new life and became a U.S. citizen in 1872, but eventually decided to return to Germany.

One of Schacht's father's heroes was Horace Grillet, editor of the New York Tribune, who famously exhorted his readers: "Go west, young man, and grow up with that country." Schacht was conceived while he was in the United States, but in 1877, not long after he was born, his parents returned to Germany.

At the center of Schacht's economic policy for Hitler was self-sufficiency, that is, complete self-satisfaction. During World War I, the British blockade starved the German people and defeated Germany as a result.

Nearly half of the millions of Germans died of famine. This prompted Berlin to resume submarine warfare in 1917 in the hope of defeating the Allies before the United States could join the fight. This strategy failed. The experience of the blockade convinced the German people of their post-war decision not to rely on other countries for important imports.

But there's only one problem. Naturally, there are not all the vital products that Germany needs to have a fighting machine for the country. Without them, the Nazis would be no different from toy soldiers. While Germany had a large amount of low-quality iron ore to make weapons, it lacked high-quality steel for the mass production of tanks and bombers.

Although low-quality iron ore can be converted into a higher quality product by the metal tungsten, the metal can only be purchased from Spain or Portugal.

Germany also lacked the oil needed for tanks and bombers. So Germany began an emergency program to successfully manufacture synthetic oil, but they were still unable to produce the required high-quality oil.

They bought large quantities of high-quality oil from Romania to fuel Nazi tanks, and in June 1941 they invaded the Soviet Union. Chromium was another natural resource needed for the war but lacking in Germany, which they bought from Turkey. Sweden also supplied Germany with ball bearings, another important raw material.

The five countries that were perhaps neutral would not accept the payment of war materials in Deutsche marks, but they would accept gold. Some of the world's gold is in private hands, but the main part of the huge amount is in central banks. Willy Sutton robbed the bank because it had money, and the Nazis robbed the central bank because there was gold there.

Swiss bankers played a crucial role as financial intermediaries in the transaction.

In the spring of 1938, Austria was the first victim of Nazi aggression. With Schacht's help in the establishment of the Bank for International Settlements and his close relationship with it, he learned that the Austrian Central Bank had almost 100 tonnes of gold.

This was almost four times the amount of gold held by Germany at the time. When the Nazi army marched into WYN on the morning of Saturday, March 12, a businessman and early Hitler supporter, Wilhelm Kopple, and two armed Nazi commandos arrived at the Austrian Central Bank and brought Austrian gold to Berlin.

Germany forced the Austrian Central Bank to ship an additional 5.7 tonnes of gold to London for safekeeping.

The Nazis also demanded that WYN's large and wealthy Jewish community hand over 14.3 tons of private gold to Berlin. Schacht immediately left WYN to lead the Nazis in the seizure of the Austrian Central Bank. In the festive celebration of the command, he brought the soldiers who had taken the oath of allegiance to Hitler and asked them to join in the "Long live the triple victory of our great leader."

A windfall befell the Nazis at an important time. In mid-1938, Berlin had almost run out of foreign currency and gold coins, in large part because of the reorganization of its armament program and the fact that Berlin was forced to reduce its war accumulation.

On October 3, 1938, Emil Poue, who soon became vice president of the German National Bank, wrote in a memorandum: "The rearmament program can be carried out quickly only through the limited use of gold, the foreign exchange left by the former Reich, the rapid recovery of Austrian gold, foreign raw materials and valuable securities reserves." ”

When Germany invaded other European countries one after another, one of their first stops was always the local central bank. After a quick understanding of what had happened to Austria, foreign central bankers rushed to try to get the gold out of the country.

Usually the gold is sent across the ocean to Canada and the United States, where it is temporarily kept at the New York Fed in Lower Manhattan but ends up at Fort Knox, the U.S. reserve in Kentucky. Even the Vatican secretly shipped almost 8 tons of gold to New York.

In the darkest days of the London raids, the Bank of England carried 2,000 tons of gold across the Atlantic in large quantities in U-boats. This included not only British gold, but also a large cache of gold from other countries. Amazingly, not a single ship sank. The British people jokingly called this secret shipment margarine.

At this time, James raised his head and said excitedly, "This gold must have been left at that time!"

Then speculated, "Shacht has the status of an American citizen, he must have secretly hidden this gold here, it must have been decades, and Shacht died unexpectedly, so no one knows about these gold roads now!"

James exclaimed excitedly, "It must be so, it must be so!"

Bill Gates looked at James, who was starting to get excited again, and stepped forward to persuade, "James, don't get excited, don't get excited!" and turned to Li Shang and said, "Now that this place is full of media, the news must not be hidden for long, it is better to announce it directly, if you fight a lawsuit, you will definitely win!"

Bill Gates's words hit Li Shang's heart, and he nodded directly in agreement, but still said, "The announcement is an announcement, but not now, wait for a suitable opportunity to talk about it!"

Bill Gates also nodded and said, "It's okay, the timing is really not right now!"

Bill was more thoughtful, looked at James, who was sweating with excitement and his face was pale, and said, "Let's go out first, it's been a long time down there, I don't know what the mess is like above, let's go up first!"

Li Shang nodded and helped James to walk outside.