Chapter 247 The Treasure Map of the Last Tsar
"OK, are these eight gems so satisfying?" Yang Jing clapped his hands and stood up.
The fat man and the others burst into laughter. Although these eight gems were from Yang Jingtao, they were also very honored as participants. Especially the fat man, he now had some more bragging materials.
Yang Jing didn't have to think about this specifically, just to know how this fat man brags about the future.
"In fact, in addition to these eight gems, there seems to be something in this small sheepskin bag. Let's take a look at what it is."
"What? There's something?"
"Haha, how valuable can the things that can be stored with these precious gems be?"
"Jesus Christ, the boss is really rich now..."
Yang Jing ignored their words, but opened the sheepskin bag again, and then gently poured out. After a while, a thinner piece of sheepskin rolled into a roll fell out of the bag.
Seeing this parchment, several people's eyes widened, especially Chris and the other four.
In traditional Western culture, pamper scrolls can generally be directly linked to mysterious wealth. Whether it is the legendary pirate treasure or other treasures, before it is revealed to the world, a pamper scroll will always appear...
Because this pampering roll is protected by the sheepskin bag outside, it is still quite soft even after more than a hundred years.
Yang Jing gently opened the rolled sheepskin, and suddenly, a clear map appeared in front of everyone.
"This is..." The fat man immediately screamed in surprise when he saw this map, "This is a map of Siberia!"
Several people nodded, and the tall and powerful Clark said, "That's right, this is indeed a map of Siberia. The lake below should be Lake Baikal, and the peninsula above should be the Temer Peninsula."
"Well, this is indeed a map of Siberia." George Bruce also said with great certainty.
Chris and the others are all soldiers, so they naturally have a set of things when looking at maps. Since they all say that this is a map of Siberia, the area marked on this map must be Siberia.
The map is very simple, with only a black line from west to east and another black line separated from the black line, leading to the north to the northernmost coastline of the map.
The black box from west to east is thicker and somewhat tortuous, with three obvious place names marked on it, but they are all written in Russian.
Yang Jing asked, "Who do you understand Russian?"
John Bruno said: "Let me see, I know a little bit of Russian."
Chris smiled and said, "You don't know much about Russian? Are you very proficient in Russian, okay?"
John Bruno smiled shyly and looked down.
"BOSS, the place name on the left side of the map should be Omsk!" John Bruno pointed to the place name marked with a black sickle hammer at the far left of the map and said with great certainty.
Then he pointed to the place where the two black lines were forked and said, "This should be Krasnoyarsk. As for the place close to Lake Baikal on the far right, it is Irkutsk. Well, there is also this black line divided from Krasnoyarsk. The place name at the end of the north end is... Kolchak Island!"
Listening to John Bruno's words, an idea flashed through Yang Jing's mind. Although he felt that this idea seemed unreasonable, the map in front of him was a hurdle that could not be overcome.
"Didn't the legendary treasure of the last tsar did not sink into Lake Baikal with Kolchak's troops? Instead, he asked this named Kuvaevich Antonov to secretly transport it to Kolchak Island halfway?" Yang Jing thought to himself.
He could not help but think so. There are many famous treasures in history that are unknown, and the treasure of the last Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is undoubtedly the most famous one.
After the fall of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, the whereabouts of the tsar treasury were unknown. Some people say that the batch of gold, which is now worth $70 billion, was hidden somewhere by those loyal to Nicholas II; others say that the gold was all the golds were all loaded onto his White Army commander, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, and sank into the bottom of Lake Baikal.
There are many different opinions, and no one knows where the gold that is worth enough to make anyone crazy end up in the end. But one thing is certain is that when Nicholas II stepped down, the gold was loaded on the train, but no one can understand where the "gold trains" headed.
Some people also said that the gold that Kolchak sank to Lake Baikal at that time was not 1,600 tons, but only 500 tons, worth 500 million US dollars at that time, was divided into 28 armed trains and set off from Omsk. In the end, due to the severe cold and insufficient fuel, the 500 tons of gold and Kolchak's 1.2 million troops remained in Siberia. As for the 500 tons of gold, it sank directly into Lake Baikal...
But no matter what, no one knows where the priceless treasures of the last Tsar ended up being.
"Brother Yang, if I read it correctly, this black line that goes east and west should be the Siberian Railway. As for the black line that goes north separated from Krasnoyarsk, it should be the Yenisei River!" Lin Dan said while pointing to the Google Map on his phone, "Look, is this black line very similar to the direction of the Siberian Railway? And this black line heading north is basically the same as the trend of the Yenisei River."
Yang Jing grabbed the sheepskin map and looked at Lin Dan's phone. Sure enough, the two black lines on the map are really similar to Google Satellite Map.
Yang Jing nodded and was about to say something, the fat man next to him pointed to the sheepskin map and said, "Old Yang, there are words at the back of this sheepskin map!"
Yang Jing turned over the map and found that there were indeed several paragraphs written on the corner on the back, but they were all in Russian.
He happily handed the sheepskin map to John Bruno, and John Bruno immediately looked carefully.
"Omsk was occupied by the Red Army, and the general ordered us to set off immediately, but when we arrived at Tomsk, the temperature dropped sharply and a large number of soldiers were frozen to death. What was most desperate was that the fuel from the armed train was also exhausted."
"The general ordered us to replace the sled, pull the sled with horses and continue to move forward, and repeatedly told us to keep the gold and artworks. The general said that this is the foundation for our comeback."
"When we arrived in Krasnoyarsk, we couldn't walk 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 could not continue like this, and the general scolded me harshly."
"After two days of repairing in Krasnoyarsk, the general suddenly came to me and said, "Let me take some of my people north of the Yenisei River and bring those precious works of art. The general said that he would continue to walk east with his troops and gold to attract the pursuit of the Red Army. The general asked us to go along the Yenisei River to the Tungus area and then do the repairs, and continue to go north after the spring next year. The general said that in that area, the Red Army could not find us."
"In order to allow us to send out this batch of precious art safely, the general left us with a lot of precious fuel, warm supplies and food. I took fifty soldiers most loyal to His Majesty Nicholas II and escorted two vehicles of precious artworks overnight and set out along the Yenisei River. As for the general and those comrades, I wish you peace all the way..."
John Bruno read those passages with some stuttering bluffs, and finally, he said, "The signature is Kuvaevich Antonov."
"Kuvaevich Antonov?" The fat man said to himself with a frown, and then said to Lin Dan: "Kobayashi, can you check this guy named Kuvaevich Antonov?"
When the fat man said this, Lin Dan had already started to fiddle with his cell phone. After checking for a while, he shook his head and said, "There is very little information about this person. There is almost no information about this person on WikiLeaks, Google and Yahoo. However, this person has been mentioned here. Kuvaevich Antonov is likely to be the leader of the guards of Admiral Kolchak and one of the officers most trusted by Kolchak."
The fat man was stunned for a while before saying, "Old Yang, look at this map involving Kolchak, and Kuvaevich Antonov also mentioned Kolchak's gold and artworks. Do you think this map may be related to the legendary treasure of Nicholas II?"
Yang Jing nodded and said, "Not possible. If I didn't make a mistake, this map should involve part of the treasures of the last Tsar!"
After a pause, Yang Jing paced around the room, "First of all, the whereabouts of Nicholas II's golden treasures are now the most recognized by the world. Kolchak has sunk to Lake Baikal. It is said that there are submarines who have found golden rectangular metal blocks at the bottom of the lake, but they have not been salvaged for various reasons."
"With these things written by Kuvaevich Antonov, we can almost conclude now that Kolchak did retreat from Omsk with a large amount of gold and some precious works of art. As a result, the severe cold and blizzards caused great obstacles to his retreat. Kolchak, as an excellent leader, certainly would not put all the eggs in one basket, so he arranged for Kuvaevich Antonov to lead a small team of soldiers to advance north with those more precious works of art.
The people continued to advance east with gold and large troops, so that at least some of the treasures could not fall into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. As a result, Kolchak did not escape in the end. His Kuvaevich Antonov was likely to send those precious works of art to the final destination, that is, the island that Kolchak discovered when he was young. The island was named after Kolchak, but it was only changed to Rastorguyev Island in 1937!"
Chapter completed!