After returning to the company and having dinner, Yang Jing arranged for people to move all the information from the bank's safe to his apartment on Fifth Avenue overnight. Anyway, after Vivian's illness was cured, Yang Jing didn't have any major things to do recently.
Everything in the company is proceeding in an orderly manner. Under the leadership of Henry, David and Niamh are becoming more and more successful. Even without Yang Jing and Old Mike, these three horses can lead the KY investment fund to stable and rapid development.
So Yang Jing simply stopped going to the company and started studying the information at home.
"...The activities of the Bolshevik Party in Petrograd became more and more rampant. To be on the safe side, His Majesty the Tsar began to arrange the transfer of the property of the national treasury and the Winter Palace in September. Those in charge of the transfer of wealth were His Majesty the Tsar's most trusted men, the most famous spy in Britain, Sidney Reilly, British diplomat Robert Bruce Lockhart, and Lockhart's mistress, Baroness Maura Budberg. With their assistance, at least 1,600 tons of gold in the national treasury and many precious antique artworks in the Winter Palace were transferred to eastern Russia to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Bolshevik Red Army..." This document is the earliest one in the timeline among these documents, and Yang Jing put this document first.
All these materials were written in Russian. In desperation, Yang Jing could only become an amateur translator again, translating word by word with the materials in one hand and an English-Russian dictionary in the other.
This is what Yang Jing did when he was looking for the Japanese treasure, and he still does it with ease now.
This document was found by Niamh after he bribed the officials of Leningrad Archives. It recorded some events before and after the February Revolution of the Bolshevik Party, including the measures taken by Nicholas II to deal with the rise of the Bolshevik Party.
Yang Jing has authenticated this document and confirmed that it indeed came from the confession of the chief of the Winter Palace guard. It was the confession obtained from the arrested chief of the Winter Palace guard by the Bolshevik Party after it launched the February Revolution on March 8, 1917, which was February 23 in the Russian calendar.
Moreover, these data can be matched with some data from later generations. At that time, the Winter Palace was in a precarious situation. The Bolshevik Party had already occupied a huge advantage in Petrograd. Even Nicholas II could not easily walk out of the Winter Palace.
However, Nicholas II certainly did not want the huge wealth accumulated by the Romanov dynasty to fall into the hands of the Bolshevik Party, so he secretly arranged for his loyal subordinates to secretly transport the wealth out of Petrograd.
At least Yang Jing knew that in the underground vault of a bank in Kazan, there were piles of gold bricks, which were said to have been transported from Petrograd.
Yang Jing had also seen a black-and-white photo of gold piled up in the underground vault of a bank in Kazan.
"...In the last five months of 1916, the railways could only deliver a little more than half of the food needed by the army. Many soldiers on the front line, even the wounded, did not receive food and gauze for several days. There was a shortage of food in Petrograd, Moscow and other industrial cities, but a large amount of food, meat and fish rotted in Siberia, the Ural Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Volga River and the Don River. In this year alone, 150,000 carriages of spoiled food were stored. Sea transportation was not good either. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea had long been blocked by Germany and the Ottoman Empire. Our country's contact with the Allies was mainly through Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok..."
"...Among all the belligerent countries, our country had the longest front. The war was fought on 50,000 square kilometers of our territory. Three million refugees were homeless and lacked food and clothing. Many lost their lives, were injured and maimed, and died of plague. By March 30, 1917, our country had lost a total of 8.4 million people. Many soldiers' families were left without support and lived in great misery..."
"...After the outbreak of the war, our agricultural production was seriously affected. The number of able-bodied people who were conscripted into the army reached 15 million, mainly from the countryside. During the war, in the fifty provinces of our country in European Russia, the rural male labor force decreased by half, the cultivated land area decreased by 10 million Russian acres, the draft animals decreased by one third, and the grain harvest decreased by one quarter. In particular, the difficulty of transportation actually interrupted the connection between urban and rural areas. In the market, grain, meat, sugar and other agricultural products were increasingly in short supply. By December 1916, Petrograd could only get 14% of the planned grain supply, while landlords, rich peasants and merchants controlled a large number of necessities of life, hoarded them and speculated. Grain often disappeared from stores, but was sold at high prices on the black market. In the summer of 1916, the price of grain in Petrograd increased by 13 times compared with the pre-war period, and meat and sugar were particularly expensive. The vast majority of people were on the verge of starvation, complaining and having to rise up to fight. In 1915, there were 684 peasant riots caused by hunger in European Russia. In the first five months of 1916, there were 510 peasant uprisings..."
These materials are the second set of materials, which were formed in mid-April 1917. These two materials seem insignificant separately, but once they are linked together, we can immediately understand why Nicholas II secretly transferred the gold hidden in Petrograd, which was later Leningrad and St. Petersburg, as well as the wealth hidden in the Winter Palace to other places.
During the Romanov dynasty, the capital of Russia was not Russia but Petrograd, so most of the Romanov dynasty's wealth was concentrated in this city on the east coast of the Gulf of Finland. Later, with the outbreak of the First World War, the situation in Russia became increasingly difficult. In addition, the mediocre Nicholas II was very good at suppressing the domestic people. Therefore, the Bolshevik Party, which had been preparing for a long time, was finally ready to make trouble.
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