PS: I fell asleep last night, now make up for it

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Tongbai County, Hanjing City, at the foot of Tongbai Mountain.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tongbai County, together with the five counties of Xichuan, Dengzhou, Xinye, and Tanghe, which originally belonged to Nanyang Prefecture, was included in Hanjing City and became part of the Greater Capital Region. Tongbai County has changed from a county under the jurisdiction of the government to a county under the jurisdiction of the capital, which can be regarded as an upgrade. And Nanyang City, which was reorganized by its original predecessor, Nanyang Mansion, was miserable, and its territory was directly shrunk by forty percent.

Of course, it is not only Nanyang that is so miserable, Xiangyang City in the south is also the same, and the four districts and counties of Xiangzhou, Fancheng, Laohekou and Zaoyang are also gone, becoming part of the Greater Capital Region. The city of Yunyang next door has also drawn the Danjiang estuary.

The current Hanjing Capital Region includes the following areas: Xichuan, Dengzhou, Xinye, Tanghe, Tongbai, Xiangzhou, Fancheng, Laohekou, Zaoyang and Danjiangkou. The total area is about 20,980 square kilometers. The city center is between Dengzhou and Xinye, south of the Turbulent River, on both sides of the Erguang Expressway in later generations.

Tongbai County is a good place, with the largest reserves of trona in Asia and the second in the world. There is also the country's largest open-pit gold mine and the country's largest silver mine - Tongbai silver mine. Well, this is only the largest in the core territory, and now that a large number of new territories have been received, the gold and silver mines of Tongbai are far from the largest.

However, when it comes to the silver mine here, there is a very strange thing. According to research, there were people mining and smelting silver here during the Tang and Song dynasties. In addition, according to the "Tongbai County Chronicles" in the 18th year of Qianlong (1753) of the Qing Dynasty, mining was still carried out here in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, however, mining had been completely abolished. However, why the mine was closed and scrapped is not mentioned in the existing documents and the historical materials of the stone tablets of local residents. It was not until the end of the seventies after the establishment of the Datu Dynasty that mining resumed here. As for the gold mines in the area, they were also discovered at that time.

Of course, on this plane, the gold and silver here naturally don't have to wait until the end of the seventies, and Wen Desi let people mine here early. Unlike other metal minerals, which are restricted from mining, gold and silver mines, as well as precious metals such as platinum group metals, especially those that are easy to mine, are not many of the types that China is fully engaged in mining. The reason is simple, these precious metals are important things for any country, and it is impossible to export them to China in large quantities like other metals.

Therefore, if China wants to get more precious metals, it can only take a multi-pronged approach. On the one hand, Wen Desi sent people to loot outside, used various vest companies to exchange, and smuggled precious metals to China. On the other hand, there are "special archaeology" trips around the world to collect precious metals from various ancient ruins and shipwrecks. In the end, I dug it myself.

Although the gold and silver mines in Tongbai County are far from the largest in the country, they now have the largest deposits of gold and silver in the world, yes, gold and silver, not gold and silver mines.

Because this is where China's central vault is located!

As for why the location of the central vault was chosen in Tongbai Mountain, the reason is that the mountain here is made of granite, which is strong enough, and it is a stable address, so there is no need to worry about the earthquake collapsing the vault.

Tongbaishan Central Treasury is the largest vault in China and the world. About 80 percent of China's official holdings of gold, about 70 percent of its official holdings of silver, and about 60 percent of its platinum group metals are stored here. Moreover, it is not only Chinese gold and silver, but also a considerable amount of gold and silver reserves of the People's Revolutionary Union and the SCO countries, as well as gold and silver from the Bank of the Earth (or the People's Revolutionary Union).

For example, the People's Republic of Japan has 1,325 tons of gold here, which is equivalent to about 90% of the country's official gold. In addition, there are 1878 tons in Belarus, 651 tons in Turkey, 280 tons in Siam, 255 tons in Arabia, 198 tons in Persia, 372 tons in Chile......

The younger brothers put the gold and silver in China, which is the same reason that everyone in the original time and later generations put the gold and silver in the United States. On the one hand, it is necessary to facilitate trade settlements and financial exchanges between the SCO. On the other hand, it is used as a guarantee for the state, which is equivalent to a "hostage". In the end, I feel that the boss is the safest here.

Naturally, the security measures here are also very tight, and there are more than 2,000 full-time security guards here, who are equipped with extremely advanced weapons, body armor and various high-tech equipment. Thousands of monitoring points have also been set up in the entire vault area, including but not limited to laser alarms, infrared monitoring, and life detection...... And so on, all kinds of cutting-edge technology and black technology, and even hundreds of robots. Security guards are not only humans, but also many animals, police dogs, police cats, police rats, and police eagles at least thousands.

Moreover, within five kilometres of the vault, there was also a mixed brigade, a motorized infantry regiment, a mountain regiment and a ground aviation regiment. Only by getting the alert, you can rush to the aid within twenty minutes. It is indeed very safe.

Today, Wen Desi came to inspect this heavily guarded place, accompanied by Liu Yang, chairman of the Finance Federation, and Chen Zhaoyang, director of the Central Treasury.

In fact, the central vault of Tongbaishan is said to be a warehouse, but in fact it is almost a town built in the belly of the mountain, from the entrance at the foot of the mountain to the gate of the real vault more than a kilometer away, there is a direct railway to the outside world, and there is a complex network of passages, and there is even a power station in it.

Purpose-built electric vehicles carrying them stopped at the door of the vault.

"Mr. Wen, please ...... here" Chen Zhaoyang led the way in front.

"Bang dang ......" an alloy gate more than one meter thick opens in the role of the hydraulic system.

Chen Zhaoyang introduced beside him: "Mr. Wen, this is the No. 1 vault, and it is all my country's own gold reserves......

This is only the outer door, and after passing through a similar alloy door, it is actually to the vault. In fact, this vault is not full of gold bricks, and the reflection of golden light is enough to blind a dog's eyes. It is a 15,000-square-kilometer strip of space, with three avenues leading to the end, each flanked by a reinforced concrete wall divided into a small storehouse, like a stall in a vegetable market. Of course, this "small room" is only relatively speaking, and each warehouse is also 200 square meters.

Gold bricks and bars of various specifications are placed in these "small rooms" in different categories, and the walls of these small rooms by the passage are alloy fences and 10 cm thick bulletproof glass, which does not affect the line of sight. Standing here, I finally have the feeling of being blinded by the golden light.

Generally speaking, if people from other countries want to look at their gold, they also stand outside the glass wall and look at it like this. Of course, China is no better than the lighthouse country of the original time and space, and the original owners of the gold deposited here can at least touch it, but the lighthouse country is different, and the Germans can't go to see their gold up close.

Of course, now that Wendeji is here, of course there will be no restrictions, and all the doors to the vaults are open.

Wen Desi casually picked a vault and walked in, picked up a gold brick and looked at it. There are several sizes of gold bricks here, ranging from one kilogram to twenty kilograms. What he is holding now is the most common one-kilogram gold brick, with "People's Bank of China" and the emblem of the Central Bank on the front, "purity≥999.0‰, weight 1000 grams" and the number of gold bars, etc., and on the back are the words "China Central Treasury", "Casting Date: XX Year X Month X Day" and so on. The text and patterns are inscribed.

Liu Yang introduced on the side: "Mr. Wen, among the gold products we get from home and abroad, except for those cultural relics with scientific research value and handicrafts with collection value, other gold coins, gold bars, and gold bricks are all made into standard gold bricks according to our own specifications, except for a small amount of gold bars as samples. ”

"Including the Anglo-French gold bricks that Germany traded to us during World War I?" asked Wendesi.

"Yes. The gold bricks in Europe are not the same size as ours, and the purity is not the same, so they are all re-smelted. ”

"Oh, how much gold and silver do we have here now?"

"It's about more than 20,000 tons of gold, I can't remember the detailed data...... Liu Yang said to Chen Zhaoyang next to him: "Director Chen, you are a landlord, let's introduce it." ”

Chen Zhaoyang hurriedly said: "There are a total of 28,895 tons of gold, of which 20,289 tons belong to China, and the rest of the gold is deposited by foreign countries and Earth Bank. The stock of six platinum group metals, including platinum, palladium, osmium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium, is 356 tons. The stock of silver is 47,588 tons, since the adoption of the gold standard in China, silver has gradually withdrawn from the field of circulation, although now China's total silver stock is more than 350,000 tons, but most of it is used for industry. ”

Because silver has now almost lost its function as a currency, but as an industrial metal, it is widely used in industrial production due to its chemical and physical properties. Therefore, it has gradually withdrawn from the ranks of precious metal reserves. In fact, gold and platinum group metals are the same, these things are very important industrial metals, Wen Desi hoarded these things not only for the financial order and economic stability, but more importantly, for their industrial value, many aerospace equipment will use these precious metals.

Wen Deji looked at the vault for a while, and then accompanied by everyone to the smelter outside the vault, well, it was a gold smelter.

Wen Deji walked to the feeding truck that was about to be sent into the electric furnace, picked up something like a crown and looked at it, and asked a little puzzled, "What are these things?"

In the body of the feeding car, there are also a lot of Southeast Asian-style gold jewelry, handicrafts, gods and other things. However, the workmanship is relatively rough, if it is not made of gold, no one may want it on the stall.

"Mr. Wen, these are all trophies sent from the Malayan front just now, and many of them are copied from the Sultan's palace and the mansions of various nobles......," Chen Zhaoyang hurriedly explained: "After being screened by the expert group, the gold products that are considered to have no cultural relics value and collection value are all sent here for re-smelting and purification, and made into standard gold bricks." These days, they have sent a total of 56 tons of various gold products. ”

Liu Yang said: "Before smelting, all these things have been modeled, photographed, and deeply scanned, and all the information such as their shape, size, weight and color have been stored, and if they are needed in the future, they can be copied soon, but I don't think there will be this opportunity, their workmanship is too poor......