50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 350 Harvest
After Sun Zhiwei finished eating and cleaned up the house.

He observed the space and saw that Toby had almost finished moving the gold bricks in the garage, albeit intermittently.

He then went inside, lent a hand, and carried the last batch of gold bricks into the carriage.

After completing the move, the two went to the living room to rest, and Sun Zhiwei handed the prepared loan agreement to Toby.

With such a large sum of gold being lent out, this agreement was essential, and Toby accepted it quite naturally.

The agreement is very simple, with only three clauses:
1. James Roberts lent Toby Bradley 100,000 ounces of gold at zero interest, and Toby Bradley promised to return all the gold within three months.

2. If the payment is not made by the due date, James Roberts will charge Toby Bradley a penalty interest of 1% per month.

3. If Toby Bradley is still unable to repay all principal and interest after three more months, then Toby Bradley's personal assets will be used to compensate James Robert's losses.

Toby completely disregarded the last point. He firmly believed that as long as he played his trump card of 10 ounces of gold, he would be invincible.

Therefore, he didn't read the agreement carefully and signed his name directly.

After seeing off the excited Toby, Sun Zhiwei carefully stored the agreement away using his spatial storage. He couldn't lose it; it would be very useful later.

A few days later, the materials and equipment were ready.

But he knew that induction furnaces were very power-consuming, so to be on the safe side, he secretly ran an electric wire from the nearby Natural History Museum back to the basement.

With everything in place, Sun Zhiwei went to Wall Street again on November 7th.

Without even getting out of the car, they directly obtained the mold, stamp, and several gold bars of different purities as samples from the Federal Reserve's underground vault.

Those sample gold bars were all taken from a sealed vault by him.

Because the Federal Reserve's underground staff never inspect vaults that have already been sealed off, Sun Zhiwei is not worried about being discovered.

Returning home with the mold and gold brick samples, Sun Zhiwei turned off the lights and curtains, locked the door, and went to the basement.

A space has been cleared out in the basement, and the small induction cooker is placed on the open ground.

After connecting the power supply to the Natural History Museum, he began adding metal powder strictly according to the formula ratio, and then turned on the furnace to smelt the first batch of metal.

He soon obtained all six recipes for the gold brick.

After the gold bricks cooled down, he took them out and compared them with the samples one by one, and quickly found the formula he needed.

After that, it was just repetitive work, because it was a small furnace that could only melt a limited number of gold bars at a time, and each time it would take several minutes.

It took him two weeks to melt down a total of one thousand tons of metal into gleaming gold bricks.

After finishing his work, tidying up the basement, and retrieving the stolen electricity wires, he finally had time to check the results of his labor once everything was back to normal.

Inside the space, tens of thousands of gold bricks were piled up into a small mountain. Although he knew they were all fake, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Since ancient times, gold has been a symbol of wealth. Not only humans, but even gods and Buddhas would drape their statues in gold.

He took out 1 gold bricks from them and began to stamp them with steel stamps and engrave text indicating their origin, serial number, weight, purity, and other identification information.

This information is exactly the same as the gold bars in the Federal Reserve's vaults, and their appearance, color, volume, and weight are almost identical.

This was his first target: 10,000 gold bars, each 400 ounces long, weighing a total of 113.4 tons. In mid-November, Sun Zhiwei switched 10,000 of the gold bars in the Federal Reserve's underground vault, which had already been sealed with tape.

He was very careful with the switch this time, replacing each gold brick with a nearly identical sub-gold brick.

Moreover, in order to avoid being detected as anomalous, he only replaced the gold bricks in the middle and lower layers, leaving the exposed layer untouched.

This place is recorded 24 hours a day, and he doesn't want the videotape to show a gold brick suddenly disappearing and then reappearing.

It took him most of the day just to exchange those 1 gold bars. He had to change cars several times to avoid arousing suspicion from the police and security guards.

1 gold bars is not a large number compared to the total of more than 70 gold bars in the vault.

After successfully carrying out his first substitution, he rested for a few days and kept a close eye on the Federal Reserve's movements.

The result was that the underground vault remained completely unaware.

Sure enough, their impregnable defenses made them complacent, and the strict inspection system had become a mere formality.

Then there's nothing more to say. In the days to come, he plans to gradually replace all the real gold bricks in the vault with the sub-gold bricks he has in several batches.

To make his operations easier, he also staged minor car accidents on the street next to the Federal Reserve on several occasions, so that his car would be blocked in front of the Federal Reserve.

By early December, Sun Zhiwei had finally replaced all the 12 tons of gold bricks he had prepared.

During this operation, which lasted for more than a month, he obtained a total of 88184 standard 400-ounce gold bars.

But the matter wasn't over yet, because these gold bars from the Federal Reserve were marked, and he couldn't just take them out; he still needed to recast them.

Then he took out the electric furnace, reconnected it to the power supply of the Natural History Museum, and spent a week remelting the gold bars from the Federal Reserve.

During the smelting process, he added small amounts of other metals to change the metal composition and weight of these gold bars.

In the end, he produced 352,736 standard 100-ounce gold bars.

He engraved the Swell Gold Mine logo on these gold bars and also marked their attribute data before temporarily storing them in his space.

Based on the current gold price of $120 per ounce, their total value has exceeded $42 billion.

Unfortunately, he couldn't take them all out at once and spend them as money.

He could only gradually add small amounts of the gold mine revenue to his total assets over time.

However, as long as he still has gold mines, he can always turn all that gold into his own legal property.

If the output of the Swell gold mine can be increased, or if he gains control of more gold mines, the conversion process will accelerate accordingly.

In short, this period of time will not be short. With this in mind, he has decided to end the practice of concealing production in the Swell gold mine.

He no longer cared about the extra income of several thousand ounces of gold each month.

Moreover, concealing production is ultimately a hidden danger. If you want to operate an industry in the long term, you should try to reduce these illegal operations. There are more legal ways to avoid taxes.

(End of this chapter)