There is a lot of historical evidence showing that before Nicholas II was imprisoned, he did smuggle out a large amount of gold from the Petrograd treasury, and Yang Jing also saw relevant clues in the treasure map left by Kuvaevich Antonov.
Therefore, part of the wealth accumulated by the Romanov dynasty for three hundred years has fallen into Yang Jing's hands, but Yang Jing has not obtained any of the huge amount of gold in that huge wealth.
After the death of Nicholas II and Kolchak, the whereabouts of the huge amount of gold became a mystery. For a century, countless people worked hard for this legendary gold. No matter who they were, they all wanted to get this priceless gold.
Even many professional archaeologists have joined in, and some have even seriously summarized six possible locations where the gold might be hidden...
Some say that the gold is buried in an underground fortification somewhere in Kazan, some say that Kolchak sank the gold into Lake Baikal, and some say that the gold is buried underground in a village near Krasnoyarsk...
Anyway, Yang Jing looked at it with disdain.
In fact, we can roughly analyze where that batch of gold should go based on the historical timeline.
In March 1917, the February Revolution broke out and Nicholas II was imprisoned. Before that, Nicholas II had secretly transported 1,600 tons of gold and many Winter Palace treasures out of Petrograd. Because everyone knew that Kolchak was a die-hard fan of Nicholas II, the final receiver of this huge wealth should be Kolchak.
Since the treasures of the Winter Palace have fallen into Yang Jing's hands, it is obvious that the treasures of the Winter Palace must have passed through Kolchak's hands. Therefore, the batch of gold amounting to 1,600 tons should also have fallen into Kolchak's hands.
What is certain is that the gold had arrived in Kazan, and the black-and-white photos of the gold stored in the vault of the Kazan Bank in the documents are enough to prove this.
Kazan was liberated in August 1918. That is to say, the gold had been transported to Omsk before that. It was impossible for the White Army to give the gold to the Bolshevik Party for free.
Omsk was the headquarters of the White Army at the time. Kolchak led millions of White Army soldiers loyal to the Tsar to defend Omsk. If Nicholas II was still alive, it might be difficult for the Red Army to capture Omsk. But unfortunately, Nicholas II was secretly executed in July 1918.
The Tsar died, and both Kolchak and the White Army lost their object of loyalty. This was obviously a huge blow. It is probably for this reason that the White Army's combat effectiveness dropped sharply, and Omsk was successfully captured by the Red Army.
It took only fifteen months for the Red Army to liberate Kazan and capture Omsk. In November 1919, Omsk was occupied by the Red Army. Kolchak decided to lead his troops across more than 6,000 kilometers of Siberia and flee to the Pacific coast, where he sought support from Japan in order to make a comeback.
According to the information collected by Niam's people, there were more than 500,000 troops following Kolchak at that time, and there were also 750,000 exiles who opposed the Bolsheviks and were nostalgic for the Tsar, including 270,000 bishops, monks and nuns; in addition, there were more than 200,000 noble ladies and their children, with a total number of more than 1.2 million!
It was also mentioned in the message on Kuvaevich Antonov's treasure map that after the fall of Omsk, more than 1.2 million people, led by Kolchak, retreated eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway. However, when they retreated to Tomsk, more than 1,000 kilometers east of Omsk, they were attacked by blizzards and severe cold.
"Omsk was occupied by the Red Army, and the general ordered us to set off immediately. However, when we arrived in Tomsk, the temperature dropped sharply and a large number of soldiers were frozen to death. The most desperate thing was that the fuel of the armored train was exhausted.
The general ordered us to change the sleds and use horses to pull the sleds to continue moving forward. He repeatedly reminded us to keep the gold and artworks well. The general said that this was the foundation for our comeback.
When we arrived in Krasnoyarsk, we really couldn't move anymore. The damn cold had frozen a large number of horses to death. Even our best-equipped Guards had frozen many soldiers to death. I told the general that we couldn't go on like this, and the general severely reprimanded me. "
This is the handwritten message left by Kuvaevich Antonov on the back of the treasure map, which is enough to prove that Kolchak had the collections of the Winter Palace and a large amount of gold in his hands at that time.
Although Antonov did not mention how much gold Kolchak had, Yang Jing had already figured out from the information collected by Niam how much gold Kolchak had when he arrived in Tomsk.
It should be 500 tons of gold!
This data is a number inferred by Yang Jing based on a lot of information.
Because a lot of information directly points to a number - twenty-eight armed escort trains!
This "28-carriage armed escort train" was not mentioned in one document, but in more than ten documents from different sources. Therefore, it is almost certain that the data of this key "28-carriage armed escort train" is very real.
When Kolchak retreated from Omsk to Tomsk, there were a total of 28 armed escort trains escorting the gold!
According to the load-bearing capacity of trains at that time, a train car was calculated with a maximum load-bearing capacity of fifty tons. The heavy armor and weapons alone accounted for more than half of the load-bearing capacity of this armed escort train. In other words, the remaining load-bearing capacity of a car of this armed escort train would definitely not exceed twenty tons!
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