Chapter 242 I am a hard-working porter
There is another important reason why countries place gold on a grain of rice.
That was the conclusion of the Bretton Woods Agreement, which involved 44 countries in the country shipping part of their gold to Britain to establish a unified world currency exchange rate system to facilitate the circulation and settlement of foreign exchange.
At this time, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had stored nearly 24 tons of gold shipped from various countries 4000 meters underground, and the amount continued to increase over time.
The last time Lin Hao came to check, there were less than 3000 tons. In just over three months, it has increased by more than 1000 tons.
Lin Hao looked at the neatly stacked gold bricks in the basement and subconsciously swallowed his saliva. These were real pure gold!
It is not the same thing as spending a lot of money, energy and cost to make gold-plated gold bricks and gold bars using tungsten, which has a density very close to that of gold.
After calming himself down, Lin Hao knew that now was not the best time to take action. After the conclusion of the Bretton Woods Agreement, the gold here would temporarily be in a period of rapid growth.
It seems that the smelting of tungsten ore must be accelerated, otherwise the gold disguised as tungsten ore will not grow as fast as the real gold in this bank.
Afterwards, Lin Hao increased his purchases of tungsten ore, but in order to prevent Mi Lijian from finding him through tungsten ore transactions in the future.
Lin Hao still used the previous method, which was to invest in machinery and equipment to increase production capacity in tungsten mining areas, and then directly purchase the additional production capacity.
Thinking that he would have to visit the island country again in the future, Lin Hao also made a batch of lead-plated silver bricks this time.
Finally, when the time passed 1945, Lin Hao had nearly tons of gold-plated tungsten products and more than tons of lead-plated silver products in his hands.
At this time, the gold bars stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had reached 8,000 tons.
There were originally 11 tons last month, but in order to avoid risks, Mi Lijian has begun to transfer the gold to another storage points.
Therefore, Lin Hao had to start the plan of using someone else's power in advance. If he did not take action, there might only be three to five thousand tons left next time.
Coming to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York again, Lin Hao used the Traceless Stretching Spell to replace the real gold bricks and gold bars inside with the gold-plated bricks he made!
Of course, Lin Hao did not replace all of them, but left some for them to use, trying to extend the time before they were discovered.
In fact, even if all the gold bricks here were replaced, there would be no need to worry about being discovered, because they were all transported here by various countries for storage.
You should know that the gold sent by these countries is used for trade settlement, to put it simply, it is used for international settlement at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The remaining portion will be moved from the gold in one country’s room to the gold in another country’s room.
And there are more than 3,000 trading rooms in the basement of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York!
If Mi Lijian said that the treasury here was stolen, I am afraid that all countries would no longer believe Mi Lijian and would demand the return of their gold reserves.
So even if they find out that the gold has been stolen, they will just swallow the loss and then prohibit any country from counting their gold reserves, and then continue to use this fake gold for settlement!
(Germany stored 2000 tons of gold in the Federal Reserve. It once asked to see its gold, but was ruthlessly rejected. Later, Germany got angry and directly asked to ship back its gold reserves. After shipping back about 700 tons, Bai Gong directly threatened that if Germany shipped more gold back to Germany, Mi Lijian would severely sanction Germany!)
Because of international settlement, Mi Lijian has turned it into a closed system. Therefore, as long as no one knows that the gold is fake and as long as Mi Lijian does not use the physical gold, then the fake gold is real!
It may seem confusing, but this is the reality!
However, Lin Hao thought that it would be better to discover it later, because Lin Hao didn’t know whether the Mi Lijian people would go crazy after finding out that the gold had been swapped!
After exchanging 500 tons of gold, Lin Hao left them about tons of gold for pocket money. He felt that he was very generous. He was simply like the American old man Liang Xin.
Lin Hao returned to his home and looked at the gold bricks placed in the space. Lin Hao took them out, spread them on the ground one by one, and then lay on them to feel them carefully.
After walking like this for a few minutes, Lin Hao stood up and stepped on the gold bricks.
After a long time, Lin Hao shook his head. At this moment, he felt that it was difficult to have much desire for money.
Because in Lin Hao's eyes, gold and money are essentially just tools for trading. He put away the gold bricks that were used as the floor.
Afterwards, Lin Hao no longer paid attention to the gold bricks he had obtained, and began to live a shameless life with his woman.
Of course, he is also preparing for the next wave of actions!
At this time, the country was already on the decline on the European battlefield, while on the Pacific battlefield, Milijian was pressing the island countries step by step and bombing Ryukyu and Taiwan.
The island nation obviously also predicted some bad results, so it began to intensify its plundering efforts in all occupied areas, and then some of them began to be transported frantically to the island nation's mainland.
As far as Lin Hao knew, the island nation had been ravaging China for fourteen years, and the amount of gold it had plundered (including gold bars, gold jewelry, and gold ore) alone exceeded 21000 tons.
Not to mention anything else, just in Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, nearly 6000 tons of gold were stolen.
The plundered natural resources were calculated in billions of tons, so Lin Hao was naturally salivating over that batch of gold.
Of course, it was not just the country. When the entire Southeast Asian countries were swept by the island country, the amount of gold seized was too much to be immediately transported back to the island country. Therefore, most of it was buried on the spot and waited to be transported back.
Lin Hao has no plans to touch the gold in the island country for the time being. He needs to choose a suitable time to take the gold instead of just rushing forward and grabbing it.
Otherwise, you could have eaten 90% of the cake, but in the end you could only eat 10%, which would not be worth it!
Therefore, Lin Hao used the intelligence network he had cultivated overseas over the years to find several hidden locations where gold was hidden.
Afterwards, Lin Hao wandered around Southeast Asia for more than two months and found seven places where treasures were hidden.
This trip to Southeast Asia yielded 700 tons of gold and more than 5000 tons of silver. Lin Hao then flew directly to Hokkaido, because it was already March 1945, 3, and the next Dongjing bombing was about to begin.
At this time, the fruits of the island country are ripe, and it is time to pick the island country banks!
Afterwards, we rested in Hokkaido for two days, soaking in hot springs and doing aerobic exercises with Lily and the others.
After resting in Hokkaido, Lin Hao set out in high spirits and went to several places that had been selected long ago, and then rehearsed the process.
Finally, Lin Hao arrived at Dongjing on March 3th. You should know that most of the gold looted by the island country in the country entered the vaults of these banks.
Therefore, Lin Hao had long been eyeing the banks in the island country, especially the banks in Chiyoda District, which is relatively popular in Dongjing.
Afterwards, Lin Hao spent two days in Chiyoda District, visiting almost all the banks, big and small, and becoming a diligent porter, which made Lin Hao exhausted.
Just like Mi Lijian’s New York Federal Reserve Bank, all the gold inside was replaced. The difference was that this time Lin Hao used lead-cast gold-plated bricks and gold bars!
Lin Hao once again accepted 3500 tons of gold and more than 8000 tons of silver. "I didn't expect the harvest this time would be so huge." However, Lin Hao couldn't care less. The time for the bombing was getting closer and closer, and Lin Hao was not sure whether Mi Lijian would temporarily change the bombing plan.
Therefore, his time was quite tight, and he rushed to Tianhuang's treasure house without stopping, and once again replaced the real gold and silver with lead ingots.
In addition, a large number of precious ancient books and other important cultural assets were discovered!
Therefore, this time, in addition to obtaining another 1500 tons of gold and 3000 tons of silver, all these important cultural assets were also packed up and taken away!
These cultural relics were beyond Lin Hao's expectations, so his transportation was a spur-of-the-moment decision and he did not prepare any replacement props.
But at this moment, Lin Hao no longer cared about the issue of being exposed.
Anyway, Dongjing will be a sea of fire tomorrow, and they may not notice the theft.
Lin Hao thought about it and decided not to take those mahogany boxes and other things. He would only take away the cultural heritage inside and leave an empty box. It should be enough to last for a day!
When Lin Hao had packed up everything, it was already March 3, and the time for the Dongjing bombing was getting closer and closer.
Lin Hao didn't dare to rest. He took advantage of the night to fly the plane to the last treasure place, Nagano Prefecture.
Unlike the gold looted from the country, only a small portion of the gold and silver treasures looted from Southeast Asia were placed in banks when they were transported back to the island country. Most of them were actually stored in underground fortifications in Nagano Prefecture.
Lin Hao finally arrived in Nagano Prefecture in the early morning, and then spent some time sneaking into the underground. He found that the gold here was stored separately.
Although it is a bit troublesome, Lin Hao has the space!
After a little effort and spending some time, Lin Hao took away 2000 tons of gold and nearly tons of silver stored here. Lin Hao felt like he was about to go numb!
There are really too many of them, not just gold and silver, but also other pearls, gems, diamonds, precious minerals, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, ceramics, jade, and so on~!
Lin Hao couldn't help but sigh again, there were just too many and they were too messy!
But Lin Hao saw that this batch of treasures was mainly from East Asia, but there were also a lot of wealth that was plundered from the motherland.
Therefore, Lin Hao was not polite. In addition to taking away the gold, silver, treasures, and golden Buddha shrines, he also took away the most important cultural heritage. He couldn't let the Japanese get away with it.
Think about the reality, the island country openly displays the things looted from these countries in their Dongjing National Museum, and even prohibits Chinese people from visiting some of them. It makes me angry just thinking about it!
"Take it away, take it away, take them all away, leave no one behind!"
When Lin Hao left Nagano Prefecture, it was March 1945, 3.
Lin Hao did not leave the island country. Instead, he waited in the wild until dark and then flew to Dongjing.
On March 1945, 3, the first Dongjing barbecue! The fireworks display lasted for 9 consecutive days (the fire was put out after burning for 25 days). How could I miss it?
You have to know that Lin Hao came to Dongjing not just to enjoy the fireworks display, but to participate in the fireworks display. It would be the most fun to fish in troubled waters!
“It makes me a little excited just thinking about it!”
As time gradually approached the midnight, Lin Hao had been hovering above Dongjing, at an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters.
After a while, Lin Hao discovered that on the ground of Dongjing, patches of fire began to appear and were burning on the ground.
Lin Hao knew that these burning fireballs were incendiary bombs dropped from the air by Mi Lijian's B29 bombers.
As incendiary bombs continued to be dropped, the fire on the ground spread rapidly, and the bombing lasted for a full 2 hours.
After Mi Lijian's B29 bomber left, Lin Hao knew that his time to take the stage had come!
Then Lin Hao lowered his altitude and used reference objects and the fire on the ground to find the building complex in Chiyoda District.
Lin Hao bombed this place without hesitation. Lin Hao used super-large bombs loaded with TNT. Each bomb weighed 5 tons. It is conceivable what happened after landing.
This aerial bomb, code-named "Little Fatty", was developed by Lin Hao at an arms company based on the Great Ying Empire's high-heeled cup aerial bomb.
But unlike the highball glass bomb, the biggest advantage of Lin Hao's bomb is that it can drill into the ground. You should know that Lin Hao has been planning for this day for a long time.
Lin Hao then lowered the plane's altitude to several hundred meters, scouted the location first, and then returned to an altitude of 2000 meters to begin dropping bunker-buster bombs on the ground.
"Boom boom boom~!" Sixty or seventy bunker-buster bombs were dropped in an instant. Even though Lin Hao was high in the sky, he could hear the dull rumbling sound coming from the ground.
We lowered the altitude again to check and found that we were lucky enough that only part of the bank was blown up instead of the entire bank.
Of course, this was intentional by Lin Hao, because Lin Hao’s first target was the location of Kudankita in Chiyoda District, Higashijing Island!
Then Lin Hao performed the same operation again and dropped a total of 120 bombs, including 20 high-explosive bombs. When Lin Hao lowered the altitude to check, there was only a huge pit left in this sinful place.
Seeing that the goal was achieved, Lin Hao continued with today's mission.
This time, it lived up to everyone's expectations. After 100 bombs were dropped, there was no trace of a bank in the entire Chiyoda District, only a pile of bumpy ruins.
Afterwards, when Lin Hao found the location of Tianhuang's treasure house, he performed the same operation. With previous experience, the 100 bombs dropped by Lin Hao accurately blew up a meteorite crater at the location of the treasure house!
Seeing that the mission here was completed, Lin Hao thought about it and decided to add some fire to keep them warm.
So they used a special type of bomb with white phosphorus added, and dropped hundreds of them in batches.
Lin Hao not only helped them turn the soil for free, but also helped to eliminate the poison with fire. He is really a good guy.
Afterwards, Lin Hao headed west with satisfaction until he arrived over Nagano Prefecture and ordered a set of Dongjing meal for them.
It also lived up to expectations and blew the underground fortifications in Nagano Prefecture directly out of the ground, leaving behind a meteorite crater.
(End of this chapter)