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General Eichman left two of his entourage outside the door and followed Yankel into the captain's cockpit. ↖ ↖ ↖ Top ↖ Story, www.

"Well, what the hell is going on? You have to know that the Emperor's orders have the potential to start a war! Yankel poured Eichman a cup of coffee and sat down on the couch.

"So, the Emperor did not know how the Spaniards wanted to transfer the gold from the treasury to Russia, and the intelligence services confirmed that the republican government was indeed preparing to transfer half of the gold reserves to Russia." Eichman said.

"So what? That's not our thing, anyway. Yankel said.

"And His Majesty the Emperor thinks that the Russians will embezzle this huge amount of gold."

"That's just the Spaniards, why should we care about them?!"

"The problem is that His Majesty the Emperor doesn't want the Russians to get this gold."

"As for it? We are at the risk of war for the sake of the Spaniards. ”

"That's 800 tons of gold and about $200 million in foreign exchange." Eichman said.

"How much?" Yankel was taken aback.

"800 tons of gold and about 200 million dollars in foreign exchange cash." "It's a lot of money, and the total value is about $800 million. ”

"But I'm not going to return it to the Spaniards even if I take it back?" Yankel said.

"And, of course, to the Spanish people, but not now." "The funds will be in the temporary custody of the Empire. It will be returned to the Spanish Government in due course, which will deduct all the aid we now provide to the National Army. ”

"Oh, I kind of get it." "But the Russians will certainly not hand over this huge sum of money lightly, and we may have a fight." ”

"It takes skill. We'll push them into shallow water first, and if they resist again, we'll find an excuse to sink them, and we'll leave the rest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "I brought out three camera teams, and we would prove on film that it was the Russians who fired first, and we were forced to return fire." ”

"But what if the Russians don't fight back?"

"This requires your cooperation to plant a few explosives on the warship and set them on fire." Eichman said. "A camera will be in the command tower, and there are some lines that you need to rehearse a few times first."

Eichman placed some pieces of paper on the table, and Yankel picked them up and read them, which was a bit of a script, and some of the things he needed to say included: "Push them to the shore, we need to check if they are carrying prohibited items." ”

"Exercise restraint, if the Russians don't fire, we won't be the first to use force!"

"Send them a signal. We need to board the ship to check! ”

"Oh my God, are the Russians crazy. Dare to attack us and start fighting back! ”

"Let the destroyers go and rescue the Russians who have fallen overboard. We don't want to attack them, they brought it on themselves, we are forced to defend ourselves! ”

After reading it, Yankel threw the pieces of paper on the table, "You have carefully prepared a scam. But what if the Russians insist on declaring war on us? ”

"What's so terrible about that, would the Empire be afraid of Soviet Russia?!" "If they want to attack us, they have to cross the Don and Ukraine, and their navy has to travel thousands of miles from the Baltics." With the strength of the Soviet Russian Navy. Even if they all go out, I'm afraid you'll be able to clean them all up. Besides, Zhuashvili probably does not have the courage to start a war with the Empire at the moment. ”

"Well, for $800 million, we'll offend the Russians one more time, we've always been enemies anyway." Yankel said.

"Well done, Admiral, His Majesty the Emperor promised that this money would be temporarily allocated to the Navy for the expansion of the new phase."

"Well, in that case, we'll do our best, and I don't want to be scolded by Marshal Horty." "But is this news true?" Yankel said. ”

"We've been keeping an eye on the Bank of Spain in Madrid, and they're going to report to us as soon as there's news." Eichman said.

Plans had been drawn up, but the Austro-Hungarian fleet had to wait at sea for ten days.

Spain's real treasury is in the hands of the republican government, because Spain did not participate in the European war, during the European war, made a lot of war money, only to Germany and Austria tungsten ore and other rare strategic metals, from Germany and Austria to get dozens of tons of gold. At this time, Spain was the sixth largest gold reserve in the world, with nearly 1,200 tons of gold in its treasury and more than $300 million worth of national currencies.

Due to the outbreak of the civil war, the republican government began to use the gold reserves to buy weapons from abroad, although the Negrin government in the Soviet Union advisers decided to transfer half of the gold reserves to the Soviet Union, on the one hand, to facilitate the purchase of weapons in the Soviet Union, on the other hand, to ensure the safety of this batch of gold.

But there was a lot of opposition in the government, with some fearing for the safety of the gold and fearing that Russia would swallow it. However, it took a few days for the republican government to learn from the advanced experience of Soviet Russia and purge these opponents in the name of "counter-revolution," so that it did not dare to oppose the government's decision again.

The boxes full of gold coins and foreign exchange were taken out of the treasury, filled with almost a hundred trucks, and then transferred to the only Russian cruiser "Red Ural", and on November 22, 1936, the cruiser "Red Ural", escorted by two Soviet Russian destroyers "Mosk" and "Kursk", together with the supply ship "Ulyanovsk", left the port of Santander.

A worker picket who was on duty on the dock in the port of Santander watched the Soviet Russian warship leave the dock, turned around and said to his friend: "Tarias, I forgot to send bread to my family today, you can take it for me for a while, I will be back soon." ”

"Okay, you hurry up, in case the post is checked above, I can only say that you went to the toilet, but I can't hide it for a while." Tarias said.

At the same time, on a fishing boat outside the port, a man in civilian costume was fishing in the bow of the boat, and after seeing the Russian ** ship leaving the port, he immediately returned to the cabin and said to one of the people inside: "Send a report to the outside world: At 11 o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, I will send four fishing nets." ”

Ten minutes later, a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman walked briskly into the post office and wrote in a newspaper: "Food is scarce, we urgently need 400 boxes of butter, and we must send it to Santander within 11 days." Then it was handed over to the help desk.

"Please send it to the Ogle Chamber of Commerce in Lisbon."

A telegram censor came up and said, "Where are you from?" Mr. ”

"Portuguese, manager of the office of the Lisbon Ogle Chamber of Commerce in Spain, food importer."

The telegram examiner looked at his telegram, then motioned to the attendant to approve the delivery, and said slightly apologetically: "Please understand, sir, that this is a necessary measure to defend the republican government. Does your company have any other food items that can I buy some? ”

"It should be no problem, please leave your home address, and I will ask the worker to send it to you."

"Thank you so much, if you need help in the future, just come to me, there is almost no food on the market at present, and the children at home are really pitiful, thank you so much!" The telegram censor said.

About half an hour later, a telegram was received aboard the "Grand Duke Friedrich".

"They came out and left the port of Santander at 11 a.m. today." Ejickman said, looking at the telegraph.

Yankel walked over to the chart table, "They should be here now!" He tapped his finger on the map and said, "Start as planned!" (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......) R527