Warlords: I just made a little fortune, but I didn’t build a country.

Chapter 64: Make a fortune together

"A colorful bowl with the Eight Immortals, a colorful plate with dragon and phoenix patterns, a colorful plate with flower and butterfly patterns, a white jade bowl with a longevity pattern, a yellow jade dragon and phoenix vase, a white jade bowl with an imperial poem, and a Tang Yin snow painting. These are really good things!"

Qin Lin was also a young man from an aristocratic family, and he had a good understanding of music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Looking at the mountains of ancient calligraphy and paintings in the warehouse that were placed on the ground like rags, he shouted that the Japanese were wasting resources like this!

"Young Marshal."

Zhang Hu came up to Qin Lin and said, "We have already counted everything. We will load all the ancient calligraphy and paintings onto trucks and transport them to Kyoto Airport. The flight transport division has already been notified and they will arrive in about five hours."

“How many antiques, calligraphy and paintings are there?”

"Nineteen thousand and seventy-six pieces," Zhang Hu responded, "but I don't know the exact value. But there are many masterpieces by famous artists, and their value is inestimable. We need professionals to appraise it."

"Ah."

Qin Lin nodded and said, "The first batch will be to transport these antiques and calligraphy and paintings back, and then they will be sold to Northwest Bank, Dongsheng Bank, Rural Commercial Bank, and Zunyuan Bank. It just so happens that the four major banks have auctions, and as for the very precious cultural relics, they will be kept."

"Yes, Marshal."

Zhang Hu nodded. Seeing so many colorful antiques, calligraphy and paintings, Zhang Hu was also very shocked. If any one of them was auctioned, it would be enough for an ordinary person to live on for a lifetime.

"How much money, gold, and silver is there?"

Qin Lin asked again, "Have you calculated the specific data?"

"We have calculated it," Zhang Hu replied. "Fortunately, the soldiers in my guard brigade are all literate and have been to school, so we were able to calculate it, but it took several hours."

Then, Zhang Hu took out a thick paper and said, "According to statistics, we have seized 2380 million silver dollars in this warehouse, of which 2000 million are silver notes from the Daqian Empire Bank, and 380 million silver dollars in cash. But to be honest, these wealthy families don't have much in the way of silver dollars, but they have a lot of reserves of US dollars and British pounds."

"The US dollars alone amount to 3800 million, which is equivalent to 7600 million dollars in cash, and 900 million British Pounds. However, the exchange rate between British Pounds and British Pounds is 9000:1.9, which means million dollars in cash. Add to that some scattered money from other countries, and the total amount is million dollars."

"I heard," Zhang Hu said, "that the devils seized the money from the wealthy merchants in the consortium and forced them to withdraw the money from the bank. However, according to investigations, these wealthy merchants have their own private banks and underground vaults to store their money. They don't like to keep their money in banks. Otherwise, the devils wouldn't have been able to seize so much cash."

"Don't underestimate Kyoto."

Qin Lin said, "Any rich businessman here has been in business for generations. Their family's wealth can rival that of a country. Officials are even more so. The amount of money they embezzle is beyond your imagination. After all, our Daqian country is vast and populous, so there is a lot of money to be made. Moreover, Kyoto is the capital of several dynasties. How does the saying go? A dynasty lasts for a hundred years, and a family lasts for a thousand years!"

"How much gold and silver are there?" Qin Lin asked again.

"There is very little silver, only one or two tons, and most of it is silver jewelry," Zhang Hu responded, "but there is a lot of gold. Fifty percent of our Daqian country's gold reserves are in Kyoto, and most of them are in the headquarters of the Imperial Bank, which was seized by the Japanese. According to statistics from the year before last, our Daqian country's gold reserves were 800 million taels. According to statistics, there are 180 million taels of gold in this warehouse, which is 90 tons."

"How many?"

Qin Lin swallowed his saliva. You know, now that the war with the Japanese country has broken out, the price of international gold has begun to rise with the passage of time, from 40 oceans per tael of gold to 1 oceans per tael of gold, which is equivalent to doubling. These 80 million taels of gold are hundreds of millions of oceans.

The key point is that gold is a war reserve material. Now that the world is at peace and only a few countries have gone to war, the price has doubled. If there is a global war, the price of gold will soar, and it is possible that one or two ounces of gold will cost hundreds of dollars!

"call!"

Qin Lin let out a sigh of relief. The total value of all the items in this warehouse was as high as hundreds of millions. If this money was taken away by the Japanese country, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Transport everything back to the northwest!"

Qin Lin raised his voice, "With this money, our Northwest region will be able to control the Central Plains and resist the Japanese invaders. I was just worrying about increasing the number of troops in the Northwest to more than one million. Where will the military funds come from? Now we have it!"

"Yes."

Zhang Hu also smiled happily and said, "With this money, we in the northwest will have the strength to resist the Japanese alone. Moreover, with this money, we can continue to expand the scale of our special operations plan."

"You boy."

Qin Lin pointed at Zhang Hu and said, "I was wondering why you are grinning so happily. This is the reason."

In fact, Qin Lin was also very excited, because most of the six northwestern provinces are plateau areas with average economy and population. Only northern Sichuan can stand out, and the rest are a bit worse. For example, Qinghai-Tibet Province has a large territory, but its population is only 83.

Therefore, regional restrictions have led to great restrictions on the economy. This is why the Qin army has always maintained an army of 30. Even during wartime, it was only expanded to 50. This is because a certain amount of funds is needed to develop the region. If all the funds are used to expand the troops, then it will go against the Northwest policy.

"Try harder."

At this time, Zhang Hu began to let the soldiers of the Guard Brigade load all the funds into trucks, and the transport brigade was also moving supplies. As for whether some soldiers would steal them, Qin Lin was not worried, because once they did something that was detrimental to Qin Lin, or went against Qin Lin, or betrayed Qin Lin, a red alarm would appear above their heads, with an annotation. This is why the Northwest Intelligence Bureau is like an iron barrel, because this intelligence bureau was created by Qin Lin himself.

Of course, the most important point is that Qin Lin believes that his soldiers will not do such a thing.

The result was the same. After all the money and materials were moved, there was no red alert. As for returning the money to Kyoto officials, consortiums, and landlords, Qin Lin did not think about it, because it was robbed by the Japanese devils! What does it have to do with him? He robbed the Japanese devils' money, not his own money, so why should he return it?

Do you think this is the case?

At this time, outside Kyoto, Chang Xingwang's Infantry Division had massacred all the soldiers of the Japanese 117th Division. The battlefield records took a few photos and these Japanese soldiers were burned. As for the people in Kyoto, they also began to evacuate and let them take refuge in the Central Plains and Northwest regions.