According to Yang Jing's analysis, there was a 70% chance that the 1,100 tons of gold in Kolchak's hands were transported to a place in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River by a transport ship converted from an inland gunboat and hidden there.

Gold is very heavy, and the actual volume of so much gold is not that large. According to the specific gravity of gold, 1,100 tons of gold is only about 4 meters * 4 meters * 4 meters in size. In fact, because these golds are gold bars, the volume must be larger than this, but it is definitely not much larger.

If Kolchak used the transport ships that gunboats were supposed to carry to transport the gold, three 400-ton inland gunboats would definitely be able to transport all the gold.

If it were safer, four gunboats could be sent with more than a hundred elite soldiers to escort the 1,100 tons of gold upstream and into the mountainous area on the border between China and Russia without anyone noticing.

After passing Oskemen, whether it is the Altai Mountains and Narym Mountains on the northeast bank of the river or the Kalba Mountains on the southwest bank of the river, they are all excellent places to hide gold.

The most important thing is that the distance from Omsk to Lake Zaisan on the Irtysh River is only 1,500 kilometers. Even if these military gunboats are fully loaded, they can run at least 20 kilometers per hour. It only takes a little more than six days to reach Lake Zaisan from Omsk.

"If Kolchak is smart enough, this route would be the most appropriate one for him to choose!" Yang Jing looked at the huge map and thought silently in his heart.

It's a very simple truth. If you calm down and think about it from his perspective, you can actually guess Kolchak's final choice.

Some experts in later generations also said that the gold of the last Tsar was very likely hidden in the mountainous area on the China-Russia border.

It is estimated that these experts made such inferences based on the situation at the time and their speculation on Kolchak's psychology.

Regardless of whether these experts guessed or how they came to this conclusion, Yang Jing planned to collect some relevant information and clues first, and then slowly search for the gold.

There are a lot of clues in the information that Niam searched for, and Yang Jing only looked at a small part of them. Perhaps some accurate information can be found in the remaining clues.

There is no need to rush, just take your time to search. The whole world has been searching for Nicholas II's gold for a century, but not a single drop has been found. Why should I be so anxious?

Of course, there are also a lot of information and clues collected from Eastern Europe, but most of these information and clues are about **gold.

During World War II, the crazy Hitler not only attacked the whole of Europe, but also frantically plundered the wealth of the occupied areas.

One of the main reasons why Germany dared to challenge the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union alone was that Hitler plundered a large amount of wealth from the areas occupied by the German army in the early stages of the war, and his level of madness was no less than that of Japan.

War requires financial support, which is an eternal truth. In order to obtain sufficient war funds, every time the German army occupied a country, they would plunder the country under Hitler's orders and transport the looted property to Germany in case of future emergency.

Of course, this did play a big role in the early stages of the war, otherwise how could a small country like Germany get so much money to invade so many countries. However, Hitler later aroused public outrage and suffered a crushing defeat, which led to his death before he could spend many of the properties he had plundered, including some rare treasures.

But later, the victorious countries found out that the property he looted was missing and no one knew where it went. This became a mystery that troubled the whole world. So, how much wealth did Hitler loot? This is probably only known to him or those who were very close to him.

Anyway, in World War II, the German guerrillas not only killed innocent people indiscriminately, but also plundered the property and art treasures of many countries. Hitler had carefully organized a special force whose mission was to carry out large-scale robbery of precious cultural relics, gold and silver treasures from various countries in a planned manner.

At the same time, whenever the Soviet Union occupied a country, its financial personnel would immediately seize the country's gold, foreign securities, foreign exchange, etc., and collect an astonishing amount of "occupation fees" from these countries. By the end of the war, the income from "occupation fees" alone was 60 billion marks, about 24 billion US dollars. The Soviet Union also used various reasons to force the occupied countries to pay "fines" and "tributes". According to statistics from relevant US agencies, the amount of this item alone reached 104 billion marks, about more than 40 billion US dollars!

The wealth plundered from these two legitimate means alone amounted to 64 billion U.S. dollars!

This is the 64 billion US dollars during World War II, not the current 64 billion US dollars. You should know that in 1940, the GDP of Germany was only 56.1 billion US dollars, the GDP of the Soviet Union was only 43.3 billion US dollars, and the GDP of the United Kingdom was only 38 billion US dollars.

With this comparison, you can see how crazy the ** was back then.

It was like when the Soviet Union conquered Poland, its second in command, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, ordered the plundering of Polish cultural relics. Half a year later, it could be summed up in one sentence: all the cultural relics in the country had been taken over.

This is what Goering said when he reported to Hitler.

According to a secret report from the German government, by July 1944, cultural relics transported from Western Europe to Germany had been loaded into 137 railway freight cars, totaling 4,174 boxes, and 16,000 paintings alone, most of which were masterpieces by famous artists. The total value of cultural relics collected by Goering alone reached 50 million German marks. Among them were 5,000 world-famous paintings, 160,000 jewel-encrusted treasures, and more than 2,400 ancient and precious furniture. Among these items, 150 were rare treasures, which was simply a museum.

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