The journey starts from the Titanic

After both parties exchanged greetings like old friends, Song Ziwen said with emotion: "Recently, we have been fighting a financial war with foreigners. The gold in major cities such as Wuhan and Shanghai was exchanged by some foreign firms. Brother He sent us precious ammunition this time. !"

"Where are there speculators, Nanhua also came here a few years ago, and those clowns can't turn the sky." He Wenxiu said in an aura.

As he walked out of the train station, He Wenxiu couldn't help but admire Wuchang Station.By the way, I also praised the Wuhan government's achievements in transportation infrastructure.Huang Zhonghan, the Minister of Transportation, took the hand of Zhang Jingjiang, Chairman of the China Railway Corporation, in full praise, and exchanged train container experience.

"After the completion of the Yangtze River Bridge, the station originally called Wuhan Station was renamed Wuchang Station. After several expansions. The scale can accommodate hundreds of locomotives, and even the recently popular containers can load more than 2,000 a day. Xiaguan, Baoshan, Nansha, etc. We have already equipped the large port terminal with a new type of gantry crane to connect water transportation and railways through containers. This is a great innovation."

Huang Zhonghan continued Zhang Jingjiang's words: "Yes, yes. Our Nanhua Railway is also working hard to cooperate with Nanxing Shipping Company. We can send Chinese containers to Nanhua's railway network, and we can also send Nanhua's containers to California, USA. Nanxing The shipping company and the California Shipping Company cooperated to build a joint venture in San Francisco and Long Beach to load and unload containers."

Huang Zhonghan's attitude made Lin Yimin on the side shook his head. Although you are a major shareholder of Nanhua Railway and your share is second only to Situ Nan, you will not be more reserved!

Old Yue Zhang is not like a high-ranking government official, but like the boss of a railway company. He and Zhang Jingjiang feel like they are late to meet each other.

Lin Yimin heard from Situ Nan that, with the support of the US-China Consortium and the government, South China and China have realized joint operations on land and sea, greatly improving transportation efficiency and conducting container experiments, which seems to have succeeded, but the container model is limited to machinery. There is still a long way to go before the equipment and the world's industrial development level are to be widely spread.

After the railway, the US-China Consortium and the Zhi Gong Party government reached a consensus to invest more resources in the field of road transportation, one is to build roads, and the other is to develop the automobile industry.

With this thought hidden in his heart, after Lin Yimin and Old Yue Zhang greeted him, their attention shifted to Wu Manli, or to be precise, to Wu Manli behind Wu Manli, who was held by Jiang Weiji's little hand.

"Sister-in-law, it's rare to see each other. This time, I must live with the young master for a day so that I can do my best to be a landlord." Lin Yimin respectfully said to Wu Manli.

"Okay!" Wu Manli smiled and greeted Wu Sinan to come over, "This is Uncle Lin. Uncle Lin, who has held you before, say hello to Uncle Lin."

"Hello Uncle Lin!" Wu Sinan greeted Lin Yimin earnestly and bowed slightly.Not afraid of life at all, a little old-fashioned demeanor.

"Hello Xiaonan! Uncle's house has a lot of fun toys and delicious things, just waiting for you!"

Lin Yimin squatted down and hugged Wu Sinan, and kissed him on the cheek.

Wu Manli stood and watched with a smile, loving the house and Wu. To Wu Sinan, Lin Yimin liked her.

Not only Lin Yimin, but Song Ziwen and others like Wu Sinan very much and praised Wu Manli for her good education. Wu Manli got off the train, and the proud smile on her face never stopped.

Jiang Weiji was envied by a boy who was so spoiled. He immediately thought of Jiang Jingguo, and there was endless hope in his heart. His son followed Wu Sinan's father, and he had a bright future.

Chapter 167 Underground Vault

The Wuhan headquarters of the Tax Police Corps is extremely busy. This armed force under the Ministry of Finance is like a big enemy. When the South China Premier visits Wuhan, they will send 100 tons of gold shipped from South China to the central bank’s vaults. 5 tons are stored in the treasury of Wuhan Central Bank, 3 tons are stored in the two eastern China cities of Shanghai and Nanjing, and 2 tons are stored in the Guangzhou branch.

Shanghai is the financial center of the Far East, bringing together hundreds of domestic and foreign financial companies. Guangzhou is adjacent to Hong Kong. Hong Kong is economically developed. There are many British banks and Chinese Commercial Banks. The two places have a large number of financial and trade exchanges every year, bringing Wuhan Central Bank A lot of pressure.

There is a shortage of gold and silver in China. In order to cope with the pressure brought by the bulk of precious metal transactions, it "borrowed" 100 tons of gold from Nanhua to stabilize the currency exchange rate and ensure financial order.

To put it bluntly, it means to strengthen the government's financial control and take back financial power from foreign banks.

The tax police corps' cars flowed continuously between the vault and the railway station.

As the Minister of Finance, Lin Yimin personally supervised the gold storage and went into the Wuhan Central Bank's vault to check the gold storage situation.

Even Song Ziwen is no exception. After all his busy schedules, he also took time to visit the vault.

When you walk into the underground vault, you will walk into a golden world. The gold is pressed into golden bricks, block by block, neat and tidy, and the glittering pieces of gold are shocking.

"Originally, there were 2 tons of gold in gold stocks, most of which belonged to the central bank, and the other half belonged to several major domestic banks, such as the Bank of America and the Bank of Communications, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Agricultural Bank of China. They basically accounted for the major pillar industries in Wuhan. "

"It makes sense. Meihua companies are too big. If we weren't also one of them, others would be scared if they were sitting in our place. Either they would be conquered by Meihua or they would die, and both would suffer."

Song Ziwen nodded and thought: With the rapid development of domestic industry and commerce, a number of powerful companies have emerged. Some companies in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places have united to form several consortia, stealing a lot of markets from the US-China consortium. But it cannot challenge Meihua.

In time, maybe they will unite to fight against Meihua, but that will be a long time later.

I heard Lin Yimin again: "I have seen a lot of vaults, but the most shocking me is in the United States. In the headquarters of Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, there is much more gold than here. The Federal Reserve’s branch in the western region. The main sources of gold for the company are Wells Fargo and Bank of America, the two major banks. The former is controlled by William Financial Holdings, while the latter’s equity is apparently dispersed in the hands of hundreds of thousands of small shareholders, but in fact it is almost controlled by William Financial Holdings and several companies. Secretly holding.

Although the gold rush has passed, the output of gold in California and surrounding states has not been low. The annual gold output is mainly deposited in Wells Fargo Bank. Wells Fargo Bank has always had a good relationship with the western miners and farmers, and the east bank moved westward. Before, Wells Fargo had taken root in the Midwest.

I heard from the young master that in the early years when South China was founded, it was supported by gold from the United States."

"I didn't expect that there are these secrets behind this. I haven't heard of you before. If it weren't for this underground vault, you wouldn't have told me. You hide it very deeply!" Song Ziwen listened to the fun, and did not forget to tease Lin Yimin. Tao.

I can't help but wonder how many treasures are dug out from the ground in a year behind the unknown gold mines in Sumatra and the West Coast!

No wonder the British insisted on destroying the Boers. It can be seen that South Africa has more gold than California, Sumatra.

This is imperialism!

Compared with them, the Wuhan government is a poor man.Although it had a good family background, it has been shabby for many years, and it will take a lot of effort to catch up with the wealthy powers outside.

"Yes, if it weren't for today in this golden place, I felt it, otherwise I can't remember a lot of things before. After all, I would not dare to talk about those things outside."

Lin Yimin nodded with emotion, and when he saw Song Ziwen's relish, he smiled mysteriously, and continued, "The most thrilling story about gold is the trip to Siberia when the master of Absinthe took a few years earlier."

"Siberia?" Song Ziwen was a little puzzled, frowning as if thinking of something, unable to catch his thoughts for a while, suddenly a flash of inspiration, isn't Siberian gold the legendary Tsar's gold?

"Are you saying that the Russian emperor fled to the east and lost the gold in the middle?" Song Ziwen looked at Lin Yimin in surprise. Seeing Lin Yimin smiled and nodded, he couldn't help widening his eyes, looking at Lin Yimin's calm and somewhat triumphant eyes. Can't speak for a while.

How many stories are hidden behind these eyes?

"Ah!" Song Ziwen sighed, looked at Lin Yimin, and curiously said, "The czar's golden legends are disturbing, true and false. Some people say that the Japanese have succeeded, but the Japanese don't recognize it. Others say that London exists and the British dominate. After the final glory of the czarist family, the British also denied it.

I originally thought that it should fall in the snow and ice of Siberia, if this golden legend really exists.Unexpectedly, the person who stood in front of me seemed to be the insider of the earth-shattering secret?"

Song Ziwen blinked, as if he was saying to Lin Yimin: "Aren't you talking about it?"

Lin Yimin looked back and saw that in the empty vault, there would be only him and Song Ziwen, and everyone else was spent by them.

Slowly said: "I didn't specifically participate in it. I didn't go to Siberia to eat ice and snow, and I only found out later. I don't know where the young master got the news. Before the winter of that year, the master of Absinthe Secretly took a group of people to the north. There were foreigners, um, probably Russians, or guides or insiders. There were also ours. There were hundreds of them. These people are not the agents we are training now. Elite soldiers, and the core forces of the US-China Consortium and the William Consortium, even I know that they are not in much condition. In short, they are a group of mysterious and powerful people."

Song Ziwen nodded. Every force has some hidden powers. At that time, he was not a prime minister and was busy managing the Wuhan Industrial Group. He had not had the opportunity to contact this high-level secret.

Lin Yimin is Situ Nan's assistant secretary, he is different.As for the Taoist Absinthe, the fake Taoist in a suit, Song Ziwen is not easy to provoke, who knows how much power he has buried in South China China.Among other things, several military generals have been trained and supported by people like absinthe all the way before their rise.

"The tree fell down and scattered, and the people on the fleeing road were panicked. The people who transported the gold had different thoughts. A small part of the gold was brought out by the Japanese, but the amount was not large.

Therefore, it is said that the Japanese swallowed the tsar's gold, but it was not injustice.Most of the gold could not be transferred to the ice and snow in the uninhabited Siberia. Very few insiders escaped by chance and unfortunately fell into the hands of the young master.So there was the later unknown but thrilling battle for gold.

Meihua Company deposited its gold in the treasury of the big banks in New York in exchange for the support of the United States for the independence of South China. This is how South China is today.

Later, the gold was transferred from New York to South China. I don’t know how the young master redeemed the gold from Morgan’s hands. However, several pillar companies such as the William Consortium’s petroleum, steel, electrical and automobile companies have attracted Morgans and other Eastern banks to judge. , They should have exchanged interests.

Maybe some of the gold bricks in front of us come from Siberia."

Lin Yimin smiled, touched a gold brick, feeling cold and cold, and added: "As for the British, did the Russians exist in London before the First World War? There are fewer things? Now they are all cheaper.

I think they are trying their best to block Soviet Russia, maybe because of a guilty conscience, they are afraid that people will get things back."

"Instead of being a British person, I would not spit out what I swallowed, and this is still an ownerless treasure, even more impossible."

Song Ziwendao.