Chapter 1870: Discovery in Kaliningrad
Xiao Peng held a champagne glass and looked at the DJ playing music. He smiled and said to Billy, "Billy, this was your idea, right?"
"Of course!" Billy said cheerfully, "Otherwise, what are we all doing? You have everything here except beauties, so I'll just bring them to you."
Fabian came over and said, "Xiao, I don't even want to go back now. I just want to stay in my room every day."
Xiao Peng tilted his head and looked around: "Where's Xiao Pa?"
Fabian sighed, "Playing with a puzzle over there!"
Billy laughed under his breath and said, "The Russians will go crazy if they find out, right?"
Xiao Peng scratched his head, not knowing what to say. "Billy, this is an absolute secret. At least not now. You must watch your mouth."
Billy laughed and said, "Idol, it's been all this time and you still don't trust me? I'm now a true 'salvage king'. I'll keep this a secret."
Sometimes when a person's luck comes, it is really inexplicable.
While in Russia, Xiao Peng acquired a castle in Kaliningrad. It's called a castle, but it's actually similar to an old-fashioned school building in China.
The Russians didn't care about the castle, which had long been rented out as a car repair shop. The person most excited to learn Xiao Peng had acquired the castle wasn't Xiao Peng, but Pascal. Pascal was a collector, deeply interested in historical treasures. When he heard about the castle in Kaliningrad, his first thought was the treasure of the Teutonic Knights. He excitedly dragged Fabian there, under the guise of renovating the castle, but in reality, he was searching for the Teutonic Knights' treasure.
Europeans are very interested in the legends of the treasures of the three great knightly orders, and countless people are searching for their treasures. Look at Hollywood treasure hunting movies, many of which are related to the treasures of the knightly orders.
However, movies usually tell about the treasure of the Knights Templar.
This is because only the Knights Templar of the three great knightly orders has completely disappeared. The other two still exist: the Knights Hospitaller, now known as the Order of Malta, rents a building in Rome, Italy. Although they own no territory and even rent their house in Italy, they enjoy diplomatic rights as a UN observer organization. The Teutonic Knights are similarly headquartered in Vienna, with a membership of over a thousand men primarily engaged in charitable work.
Since they still exist, their treasures aren't mentioned in movies and TV shows. But in real life, there are countless people searching for these treasures. A few years ago, a group of treasure hunters discovered a treasure trove on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, which was believed to be the Hospitaller's treasure, further inspiring treasure hunters.
However, the Teutonic Knights' treasure trove caused headaches for European treasure hunters.
Where was the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights? In Königsberg! That is today's Kaliningrad!
Königsberg, the German equivalent of St. Petersburg, was nearly razed to the ground by Allied bombing during World War II. After the war, it became Soviet territory, and the Germans living there were either repatriated to the Allied occupation zone or sent to work in the Siberian Gulag. It became a thoroughly Russian city and home to the Baltic Fleet. From then on, access to Kaliningrad became a difficult matter for non-Russians.
It was similar to Murmansk, where foreigners used to be followed by FSB or Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel, fearing that something might be leaked. Europeans who wanted to investigate the secrets of the Teutonic Knights' treasure were largely helpless there.
Now that Pascal has such an opportunity, can he let it go? For him now, how much wealth he gets is secondary, discovering history is what he wants.
As a result, his long search in Kaliningrad was in vain - if it were so easy to find something, it wouldn't be called treasure hunting, right?
It happened that Xiao Peng arrived in St. Petersburg at that time and asked them to go over and help him escape. But before they left, they made a discovery: they found a secret room next to the septic tank in Xiao Peng's castle, which contained more than a dozen boxes of amber and gems.
What do you call this? After searching high and low for something, it comes to you effortlessly! I searched for him among the crowd for hundreds of times, but when I turned around, he was there, in the dim light.
Well, the treasure of the Teutonic Knights was not found, but the treasure of the Amber Room was discovered.
During World War II, Germany occupied St. Petersburg. They removed the amber and gemstones from the Amber Room's walls, packed them into 27 chests, and shipped them back to Germany. Where? Königsberg, now Kaliningrad. That was the last known location of the Amber Room, and it disappeared from view. In 1997, a tourist discovered an inlay from one of the original Amber Room panels on a Kaliningrad beach.
There are many different opinions about the whereabouts of the "Amber Palace". Some say that when the Soviet Union attacked Königsberg, Germany burned a batch of artworks, and the "Amber Room" was one of them; some say that at the end of World War II, the German army, sensing the end of the world, threw many things into Lake Toplitz in central Austria in search of opportunities to climb the mountain again in the future; some say that the "Amber Palace" was destroyed by Soviet artillery fire during World War II; some say that the "Amber Palace" was hidden by the devilish officer Natli at that time. In short, there are many different opinions.
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union sent a large search team to search Kaliningrad but found nothing. Dr. Roeder, the former director of the Königsberg Art Museum, and his family died suddenly before the search team could find him. This completely made people lose track of the "Amber Room".
By the way, many of those who persisted in investigating the whereabouts of the Amber Palace died inexplicably, and this incident was called the "Death Curse of the Amber Palace."
In 1984, the group wrote a secret report to Moscow, questioning why they could not concentrate on their investigation without being constrained by the Soviet military and the KGB. However, just as the report arrived in Moscow, General Gusev of the intelligence department died in a mysterious traffic accident. The details are still unknown.
However, this makes people more convinced that the "Amber Palace" still exists in the world. Various "treasure hunters" regard the "Amber Palace" as their ultimate goal. In 2008, a group of treasure hunters discovered a batch of gold in the Czech Republic and said that it was the "Amber Palace", but St. Petersburg denied it because the "Amber Palace" included metal structures and did not use gold; Russian "treasure hunter" Sergei Trifinov said that he was in a bunker less than twelve meters deep in Kaliningrad, but he did not find it in the end; more people suspected that it was in Lake Toplitz in Austria. Several "expedition companies" have been searching for Nazi treasures in Lake Toplitz for many years.
The result? Sergei Trifinov was right, the Amber Room is in Kaliningrad.
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