Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 238: A Shipwreck on the Seabed and $ Billion in Gold

January 8, 1962, the third day of the twelfth lunar month, is a very ordinary day.

Hong Kong Island, Zhao Mancang set foot here again, and did not go to find Liu Baochan first. Instead, after confirming that the other party was safe, he went to deal with his own affairs first.

At the Qifa Building in Central, Zhao Mancang called Bruce, Chen Liangsheng and others to a meeting.

After more than three years of development, the Hong Kong & Kowloon Daily has now become one of the top three newspapers in terms of circulation in the Hong Kong & Kowloon region, with an astonishing influence.

There are also two other publications, Ming Pao and Women's Health, which are also developing very well, especially the weekly Women's Health, which has a stronger momentum of development in Europe and the United States.

However, Zhao Mancang no longer cares about the profits of these media. He only regards these newspapers as one of the industries and an indispensable part of the group's future development, but no longer regards them as cash cows.

After learning about the development of these newspapers, Zhao Mancang did not make many changes.

Although the Hong Kong Daily and Ming Pao no longer need novels to support their circulation, the two newspapers still maintain the tradition of serializing novels.

And the requirements for novels are very high.

Of course, in the past few years, the novels that have been serialized are still the high-quality novels provided by Zhao Mancang.

It’s just copying anyway, and Zhao Mancang is least afraid of copying other people’s books.

In the past, Zhao Mancang might have worried about his insufficient experience points and been very stingy, but now he is not worried at all.

The experience points he exchanged for novels were no more than a thousand, while the system experience point balance was nearly a million, so he was naturally very generous.

After leaving Qifa Building, Zhao Mancang went straight to Wanbang Building in Sheung Wan.

The development of the two newspapers, "Sing Sing Daily" and "Kwong Fai Daily", is also good. The former ranks among the top five in circulation in Hong Kong, and the latter ranks among the top seven.

In the city of Hong Kong and Kowloon, the four newspapers created by Zhao Mancang are all among the top ten in terms of circulation, which shows how powerful he is.

There's no way around it. This is purely a dimensionality reduction attack, so of course others can't compare to him.

Novels such as "A Step into the Past", "The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "The Golden Sword and the Eagle Feather", and "Kunlun" are all long novels. Based on the serialization speed of updating 6,000 words per day, "A Step into the Past" with 1.5 million words can be serialized for 250 days.

So from 1959 to now, it has only been three years, or more than a thousand days, and only a few novels have been serialized.

You should know that the novel "The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has 3.74 million words, which requires 623 days of serialization.

After these martial arts novels are finished serializing, there are still many online novels. With so many novels that can be serialized, there is no need to worry about the newspaper circulation suddenly plummeting.

After the inspection, Zhao Mancang paid attention to the current situation of Hongyuan Holdings.

After that, Zhao Mancang finished his work and went to a restaurant to find Liu Baochan.

"Is it really you?"

Liu Baochan, who had taken leave, followed Zhao Mancang to the street next to her and still couldn't believe her eyes.

Of course she was very excited. After waiting for such a long time, her love finally came to fruition. Of course she was very happy.

"Yes, it's me. It seems you're living well here. I'm relieved."

Zhao Mancang nodded. He made some arrangements for the other party, asking him to come here in advance to adapt for a period of time, and then make other arrangements.

The time has come now, so Zhao Mancang asked the other party to take a few days off first. In the next few days, he will take him to have a deeper understanding of some things in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

An hour later, when Liu Baochan followed Zhao Mancang to a luxury villa in Repulse Bay, she looked very surprised.

In fact, she had a thousand words to say to Zhao Mancang, but when the words came to her lips, she just let him decide.

Liu Baochan knew that Zhao Mancang had escaped death in Moscow, but she didn't know what he had done abroad or what he had experienced in the past few years.

Having been in Hong Kong and Kowloon for several months, Liu Baochan certainly knew about the luxury villas in Repulse Bay, which is where the rich live.

But now Zhao Mancang brought her here and told her that from now on, this would be her home.

"Is this true? Am I dreaming? Where did you get so much money?"

She had a lot of questions, but Zhao Mancang did not answer them one by one. Instead, he prepared to spend a few days explaining everything to her.

Half a day later, Liu Baochan sat on the soft sofa, her expression still in disbelief:
"So, the restaurant I work at is also your business?"

"Well, I won't be staying here often, so this will be your property from now on."

Liu Baochan took a long time to recover from the shock.

In the next few days, Zhao Mancang took her to understand each one, and he planned to let her enroll in classes at the University of Hong Kong to learn more knowledge. Even if she really couldn't learn it, it didn't matter. It would always be good to know more.

Otherwise, Zhao Mancang would not dare to let the other party know more about the company.

"I want to give birth to your baby!"

This is Liu Baochan's idea, and it is also what she has always wanted to do. Whether she is in Beijing or in the glamorous world of Hong Kong and Kowloon, this idea has never changed.

"No rush, wait until you know more."

Zhao Mancang was not in a hurry, because the other party was suffering from lovesickness when he was at the Jundushan Farm, so he looked more haggard than others.

But this is Hong Kong and Kowloon, a glamorous capitalist society with dazzling commodities and many delicious foods. Moreover, Zhao Mancang gave her a lot of money and arranged for her to live in the Repulse Bay villa.

I believe she needs time to accept all this.

However, Liu Baochan didn't think so much. Compared to knowing more about the outside world, she thought it would be better to stay with her man and children. In this way, she could live a good life.

Three days later, Zhao Mancang left the Repulse Bay Villa.

He had to leave because Liu Baochan was too crazy. If he continued like this, his stored bullets would almost run out.

She risked her life to have a child.

And inadvertently, something she said made Zhao Mancang speechless.

Because she wanted to compete with Lin Wan, who had already given birth to four children, while she had none.

At that time, Zhao Mancang explained to her that the little bun was picked up from outside, but Liu Baochan didn't believe it.

After leaving Repulse Bay, Zhao Mancang still felt a lingering fear: "Was it right or wrong for me to do this?"

Men become unfaithful when they have money, as if this has been the case since ancient times.

In Hong Kong and Kowloon, Henry Fok also had three wives, and Huanggua Li often had "red flags flying at home and colorful flags fluttering outside" back then.

Moreover, polygamy has not been abolished in Hong Kong and Kowloon, and the laws of the Qing Dynasty are still followed.

Even in the 1980s and 1990s, it was still very common for a man to have two or three wives.

Even the term "keeping a mistress" was introduced to the mainland from Hong Kong and Kowloon.

"No matter whether it's right or wrong, I live my own life. Why should I live in someone else's world? Whether someone cheats or has three wives, what does it have to do with me?"

Shaking his head, Zhao Mancang threw these thoughts out of his mind and stopped thinking about them.

In the next few days, Zhao Mancang inspected companies one by one, including the Island Development Bank, Causeway Bay Auto Parts Factory, Wharf Holdings, Changda Group, and Dairy Farm.

These are all his properties, so of course he has to inspect them carefully.

After finishing the work, he went straight to Australia.

The number of workers at the Nolinasun Mining Company in Australia has been soaring. It is a large enterprise and Zhao Mancang has to pay attention to it.

Today, Australia has a population of only 10 million. If Zhao Mancang could cram 100,000 people in, perhaps the future would be very different.

The Chinese who have taken root in Australia may develop rapidly within a few generations.

Because the Chinese of this era are particularly keen on having children, and there are too few contraceptive methods and too few entertainment options.

In later times, many couples only had sex a few times a month, unlike in this era, where it happens almost every day.

Whether men or women, they will not have sex just because they have stomach pain a few days before their period.

After all, life would be less fun without sex.

In later generations, there were too many entertainment activities, so people naturally didn't pay much attention to the life of couples every day.

"Boss, our company now has tens of thousands of workers. Together with their families, the number of people we have immigrated to Australia has exceeded 40,000."

"The director of the local immigration bureau has spoken to us and has repeatedly stressed that we should manage these workers and their families well if any problems arise."

In the office, Zhao Mancang listened to the report from the person in charge and nodded from time to time.

After the other party finished speaking, Zhao Mancang said:
"Spend a little more money and make some arrangements. I don't want to hear similar warnings again. We are here to make money, not to cause trouble with them."

"If we recruit local Australian workers, haha, not only are the wages high, but they are also very lazy."

"So you take care of all this for me. If they cause me to suffer heavy losses, then I will ask you to get out. I opened a company to make money, not to let you cause trouble for me. Do you understand?"

The human resources in Australia are indeed not good enough. Zhao Mancang directly immigrated more Chinese from Hong Kong Island, which is much better than other methods.

Besides, Todai is short of everything except people.

By doing this, he not only did not pay more costs, but saved a lot.

Besides, it is incredible that Nolinasun Mining Company has developed to its current level in less than two years.

Zhao Mancang made money, Australia made money from taxes and revenue, and workers like Song Yajun also made money. The only loss should be Australia's local mineral resources.

But Australia lacks everything except these mineral resources, so Zhao Mancang's move is a win-win situation.

But even if it is a win-win situation, once the people on the Australian side have a sense of "crisis" and stir up some trouble, Zhao Mancang may end up with nothing.

In order to prevent such accidents as much as possible, Zhao Mancang, in addition to bribing these people, also trained his own people and placed them in.

Only in this way can he ensure that his interests in Australia are not harmed.

Although he only has a few companies here, and the Island Development Bank is considered a foreign-funded enterprise in Australia, even so, the number of its employees has exceeded 10,000, accounting for one thousandth of the local population of Australia. It is normal for people to be afraid.

After confirming the development status of Nolinasun Company, Zhao Mancang started to work again.

"We will establish two more companies, one as a seafood processing plant and the other as an ocean shipping company."

The seafood processing plant is naturally intended to solve the employment problems of the families of the mine workers. After all, there are not many jobs on the farm.

On the contrary, units like seafood processing plants cannot solve the problem of excess labor.

Australia already has very rich marine resources. After these seafood are processed, they are transported to thousands of supermarkets in North America through ocean shipping companies and put on sale, completing the industrial closed loop.

Otherwise, you can ship it to Hong Kong Island and sell it.

In short, just ship to where the market is bigger and easier to sell.

Zhao Mancang stayed in Australia for three days and then returned to Mindanao.

Arriving at the sea area dozens of kilometers away from Mindanao Island, Zhao Mancang spent 200,000 experience points to exchange for a deep-sea snorkeling equipment, and spent another 100,000 experience points to exchange for deep-sea salvage equipment, and then began to sink to the bottom of the sea.

The sea area several thousand meters below the sea is pitch black, and life in such a place is almost extinct.

But even in such a place, there are several transport ships lying quietly.

These transport ships were loaded with large quantities of gold, silver and jewelry, with gold accounting for the largest amount.

Using deep-sea salvage equipment, Zhao Mancang secured the ships and then pulled them all to the surface of the sea.

More than 150 meters below the sea surface, Zhao Mancang parked a submarine. His plan was to salvage the gold, silver and treasures to the submarine and then store them in the system space.

However, just after he put these transport ships into the system space and was about to drive the submarine away, he discovered something wrong.

Someone appeared in front of him.

"Is this Kimura or Sam?"

Zhao Mancang's eyes fixed and he suddenly became nervous. Without saying a word, he walked out of the submarine, folded up the submarine, and released a tuna.

He held the tuna tightly and moved forward as the tuna swam quickly.

Because only in this way can he avoid being discovered as much as possible.

Although he didn't know why the other party didn't discover him in advance and launch torpedoes or something, Zhao Mancang would not be so stupid as to drive a submarine and fight with the other party.

It’s just because he doesn’t know how many people the other party has brought and what preparations they have made.

So the safest way is to figure it all out first, and then choose to attack or retreat.

Zhao Mancang did not expect to encounter another team that came to salvage the gold treasure in the sea.

Soon, Zhao Mancang approached the other party's salvage vessel.

A total of three salvage ships arrived, and a number of salvage personnel and very modern deep-sea snorkeling equipment were also dispatched. These people did not come from Sam's side, but from Kimura's side.

Zhao Mancang couldn't confirm exactly how many people had come, but there must be at least one or two hundred people on the three salvage ships, right?

However, Zhao Mancang didn't care about all this. He now faced two choices: retreat or continue to wait?
What are you waiting for?
Of course, we need to see if there are other opportunities and let them all stay here so that these people won’t discover anything.

After taking a look at the time, Zhao Mancang quickly made a decision, which was to sink them all to the bottom of the sea.

Zhao Mancang did not have any good feelings towards the Kimura people. If they could go to hell and repent, he could barely accept it.

Before dawn and the sun rose, Zhao Mancang quietly climbed onto the boat.

"One. Two"

It was a very simple task for Zhao Mancang to deal with the Kimura people on a salvage ship.

However, just as he was about to enter the cabin and deal with the people inside, he heard a conversation coming from inside.

Zhao Mancang hid aside and listened for a while, only then did he realize that these people from Kimura had secretly sent a fishing team to the land to dig for other treasures.

In order to bring back more gold treasures, the Kimura people did everything they could.

"Okay, okay, that's how we play, right? Then I have to thank you guys very much."

Since he heard the news that they had other troops heading to the mainland to dig for treasure, Zhao Mancang was of course very happy, because in this way, he didn't need to go digging himself, he could just sit back and wait.

Bang!
After confirming the situation, Zhao Mancang took action again. Five of them were left behind, and the rest of the little Karami were dealt with by him.

After tying up the five people, Zhao Mancang locked them up. After he dealt with the people on the other two salvage ships, he could come and interrogate them.

More than ten minutes later, a gunfight suddenly broke out, making it impossible for Zhao Mancang to quietly deal with these Kimura people.

But this doesn’t matter much. With Zhao Mancang’s strength, he naturally doesn’t need to worry about this problem.

While strengthening defense, we also increased firepower in the attack.

About ten minutes later, Zhao Mancang finally dealt with the salvage personnel on the last ship.

The next step is easy. Take out the other five people who were kept and interrogate them one by one.

"Not talking? Refusing to cooperate?"

Zhao Mancang looked at Kimura who kept silent and was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

He was soft-hearted for a moment and did not intend to perform a limb replantation surgery on the other party. As a result, the other party thought he was just a "newbie" and wanted to fight him by keeping his mouth shut.

That's so childish! "Come on, you'd better be tough, otherwise I will look down on you."

After saying this, Zhao Mancang took out a saw and, in the horrified eyes of the Kimura man, he slowly moved it on the other's thigh.

The next moment, Kimura immediately put on a mask of pain and began to tremble all over.

Even so, he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

"Not bad, not bad. I like your character. Keep going. Let's see how long you can hold out. Yeah, it's been a minute. That's impressive."

While taking action, Zhao Mancang also praised the other party and did not conduct any interrogation at all.

Isn't this Kimura guy fearless?

Isn't it like a proud swan, unwilling to bow its head?

It doesn’t matter. Just continue to hold your neck high with pride and keep your mouth shut. Zhao Mancang wants to see how long the other party can hold on.

Zhao Mancang hasn't encountered such an interesting thing for a long time.

By the time he had taken the opponent's leg off, Kimura had fainted from the pain several times, but he still didn't say a word.

You know, Zhao Mancang was worried that the other party would die from excessive blood loss, so he gave him acupuncture to stop the bleeding and try to reduce the blood flow, while at the same time he gave him a blood transfusion.

Anyway, there are quite a few people on the salvage ship, and any of them can have matching blood types, so blood transfusion is a very simple matter.

"I really admire you. You're unwilling to speak even though you're like this. It's okay. I'll help you fix your thigh right now, so you don't become a cripple in the future. But your left leg has already been broken once, so shouldn't your right leg be symmetrical? And your arm, too."

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, Kimura, who was already extremely weak, became even more frightened and collapsed completely.

"Devil, you are a devil, I tell you, I tell you, I confess to you"

Kimura collapsed and burst into tears. He was even afraid that Zhao Mancang would continue to act and cause him more harm, so he had to take the initiative to tell everything.

This positive attitude of cooperation is simply jaw-dropping.

"Although you're doing well this way, I still prefer your unruly self from before. Honestly, I feel like I only used this little bit of my full strength. I feel so unaccomplished, you know? Are you really not going to let me complete this limb replantation surgery? Believe me, I'm very capable."

Zhao Mancang's words made Kimura even more devastated and he cried even harder.

At the same time, Kimura no longer dared to be stubborn and cooperated with Zhao Mancang's interrogation. In this way, it would be good for everyone and would avoid any "misunderstandings" between each other.

After dealing with this Kimura man, Zhao Mancang followed suit and completed the interrogation of the other four Kimura men one by one.

After getting the information he wanted, Zhao Mancang did not send the five people to see their Amaterasu immediately, but drove the salvage ship directly to Mindanao.

After landing on the island, he hid the five Kimura people, and then he went to find the team that was digging for gold treasures on land.

The rest of the journey went exceptionally smoothly. In less than half a day, we successfully found the team. Then we quietly waited for them to dig out all the gold treasures before taking action.

Half a day later, night fell and Zhao Mancang also began to act.

In order to ensure the lives of their leaders, Zhao Mancang was quite cautious during the operation.

Because these leaders are likely to control other gold treasure spots on land. If they can be caught in one fell swoop, then Zhao Mancang will certainly not mind digging up more gold treasures.

Otherwise, if they stay here, are they just waiting for the next Kimura people to come and poach them?

The fact that Kimura was able to avoid the large-scale interrogation by Sam's people and left behind many gold treasure maps or people who knew the location of the gold hiding places shows that Kimura had his own little tricks.

No one can guarantee whether they have other means hidden, so Zhao Mancang must ensure this when he takes action to avoid missing it.

Bang bang bang!
The entire operation lasted about half an hour. Zhao Mancang acted quickly and only experienced a brief gunfight. Moreover, this place was in the wilderness, so he was not discovered by the locals.

After finishing, Zhao Mancang began to count the gold that had been dug out.

"Huh, so little? Only one and a half tons of gold? Are these Buddha statues? Are these paintings? And are these antiques?"

After seeing what was in the box, Zhao Mancang frowned.

From these gains, we can see what the Kimura people did in Southeast Asia back then.

However, the Kimura people even robbed the vault of the Central Bank of the Malay Peninsula, so it doesn't seem surprising that they robbed these famous paintings and antiques.

There is a saying that goes, "Gold is in troubled times, antiques are in prosperous times."

During World War II, chaos was the main theme, so gold was valuable, while these so-called famous paintings and antiques were not very valuable.

It's just that the Kimura people are so cruel and ruthless that wherever they sweep, they will pick out every ant and tell whether it is female or male, not to mention anything else.

In short, the people of Kimura particularly like to implement the Three Alls or More Alls policy. No matter what it is, they want to move it away.

"It's really hateful. It seems that I am too kind to you."

Zhao Mancang's eyes were dim. He thought of the temple or something like that on the mainland of Tokyo, and those people who were identified as war criminals but were not executed.

Well, next time I go to Tokyo, I'll take these people to see their Amaterasu.

After counting the gold and other treasures, Zhao Mancang took out the Kimura people whose lives he had just spared and interrogated them separately.

Two hours later, Zhao Mancang successfully found the five exact treasure hiding spots.

After getting these locations, Zhao Mancang spent two hours visiting each place and then quickly dug out all the treasures.

Now his system space is large enough, so digging for treasure is very easy.

After everything was dug out and counted, there were a total of 8.2 tons of gold and 12 tons of silver. As for other antiques, there were more than 50 large boxes.

"Why are there so few treasures made of gold these days? Do these Kimura people love antiques so much?"

Zhao Mancang frowned a little. This was completely different from the golden shipwrecks he had salvaged from the seabed.

Although Zhao Mancang only salvaged one piece of gold from the golden shipwreck, the total amount of gold inside was more than 500 tons, reaching a huge scale of 587.8 tons.

Forget it, Zhao Mancang didn’t have any plans to do anything, so he should deal with these things first.

After finishing all this, Zhao Mancang plans to return to the sea and go to another sea area to salvage the shipwreck on the seabed there.

Unfortunately, before he set off, he encountered a team of Sam agents who had surrounded Zhao Mancang.

Zhao Mancang, who saw this scene, did not say anything and just did it.

Although he didn't know why he was targeted by Sam's people, he just had to do it. He was not a coward, so he just had to do it.

So, the two sides fought a fierce battle in a small town in southern Mindanao. Amid the flames, no one knew how many small pineapples were used.

Anyway, this is Mindanao. During the operation, Zhao Mancang implemented the principle of firepower first, without caring at all whether innocent people would be harmed due to excessive firepower.

As for the Sam people, they don't care about these things even more.

So even though Zhao Mancang had only one person and Sam had twelve agents, the battle between the two sides was on the scale of a small battle.

Boom!

After another small pineapple exploded, Zhao Mancang, holding his gun, took out another agent.

It’s no wonder that these agents are very powerful. At least their individual capabilities are not much different from those of Zuo Changsheng and others. Some of them are even better.

There is also a big difference between an agent and a secret agent.

Some agents have particularly sharp brains, so no matter what the circumstances, they can always create miracles.

But some agents are stubborn and simply won't change their minds and are unwilling to use their brains, so these people are more likely to get into trouble during their missions.

After Zhao Mancang eliminated five agents, the remaining seven agents had already found a way to retreat.

"God, let's go first. This guy is not someone we can handle. If we continue to fight, we might all die here."

There were seven agents left, and they hurriedly discussed their retreat.

Team leader Nelson hesitated for a moment, but still gave the order and left.

Nelson is not stupid, Zhao Mancang is a tough nut to crack.

But they wanted to retreat, but Zhao Mancang refused.

"You said you wanted to start fighting, and you started fighting without even asking for my opinion. Now you want to leave? How can it be so simple?"

Zhao Mancang was very angry and the consequences were serious.

In order to deal with these people, he directly took out a 155mm howitzer.

Bang!
The fireworks were blooming, but it was daytime and not beautiful enough.

But Nelson's side was completely confused. They all saw the howitzer and were horrified, but they couldn't hide at all. Three of them were taken away on the spot.

Of the four remaining people, two were injured.

Well, we must escape as soon as possible, otherwise our entire army will be wiped out.

It didn't matter to Zhao Mancang whether they were completely wiped out or not. He would certainly be happy to be able to keep them all here, but he would not be discouraged if they escaped.

Anyway, he has made a profit by killing one person, not to mention that there are already eight people left now, it’s a huge profit!
Just as Nelson and his men were evacuating, local soldiers from Mindanao arrived.

A gunfight broke out here in broad daylight, and many people knew about it, so they came here after hearing the news.

There were more than a hundred local soldiers from Mindanao who rushed over. Under the fire suppression, Zhao Mancang certainly could not gain any advantage at all.

So he evacuated decisively.

After returning to another place, Zhao Mancang first dealt with the Kimura people he had left behind and sent them all to see Amaterasu.

Then he left Mindanao and entered the vast ocean, and came to that sea area again to salvage the remaining shipwrecks on the seabed.

The Kimura people had been interrogated before, and they only knew the locations of these two shipwrecks on the seabed. They didn't know about other places.

This has been guessed by Zhao Mancang, because this is most likely a strategy formulated by the Kimura people to better ensure the safety of the gold.

It’s like when the Kimura people threw all the gold treasures on Mindanao or the nearby waters, but not that much was discovered by the Sam people. The reason is that simple.

The treasures that Sam's people took away were mostly from treasure hiding places with less gold but more antiques.

On the contrary, those treasure spots with more gold and fewer antiques were hidden by them.

Perhaps the people of Kimura firmly believe that they will rise again. Although they are not sure how long it will take, there is always hope.

It’s just that things are unpredictable and one’s fate is always affected.

In the early 1950s, when the Korean War broke out, the Kimura people immediately received full support from their father Sam. After 1953, Sam did not take back the investment, but instead allowed them to develop in order to contain another major power.

Therefore, the people of Kimura began to be eager to move towards the gold treasures hidden in Mindanao.

After all, if they want to develop the economy, they will definitely need more funds.

"Wow, there's so much gold here?"

When Zhao Mancang salvaged the gold from the deep-sea shipwreck and counted it, he was immediately surprised.

Because the gold in this deep-sea shipwreck weighs 627 tons, about 22.12 million ounces, equivalent to 840 million US dollars.

It’s indeed a lot!
After all, if you add in the other 587 tons of gold, it is worth 780 million US dollars. The gold from the two places together exceeds 1.5 billion US dollars.

This is indeed far beyond the total value of the gold that everyone thought the Kimura people left in Mindanao.

According to previous statements, the Kimura people buried more than 20 billion US dollars in gold on Mindanao Island. As for other silver, minerals, antiques, etc., the amounts are countless.

According to the treasure map of Prince Takeda, the total value of all the treasures hidden in Mindanao is 777 trillion yen, equivalent to 194 trillion US dollars.

However, this is unlikely!
If the gold is worth more than 20 billion US dollars, then Zhao Mancang will definitely believe it.

Before 1945, the total amount of gold in the world was about 20,000 tons. This is the approximate total gold reserves, that is, the total weight of gold that has been mined.

Among them, Sam holds 75% of the world's gold reserves, which is about 15,000 tons of gold.

Based on the price between gold and the US dollar determined by the Bretton Woods system in 1944, the price was about US$35 per ounce. 15,000 tons of gold was equivalent to 530 million ounces, or US$18.5 billion.

However, after World War II, that is, from 1945 to 1955, immigrants from all over the world brought a lot of gold, silver and other wealth.

On the other hand, Sam forced the Kimura people to take away a lot of gold treasures from Mindanao, which resulted in the Federal Reserve's gold reserves exceeding 588 million ounces around 1956.

In other words, in just about ten years after World War II, the Federal Reserve added another 580 million ounces of gold. At the current price of $38 per ounce, this amount of gold is worth $2.2 billion.

In this way, the gold that Sam took away from Mindanao was actually worth about 10 billion to 2 billion US dollars.

But no matter how powerful they are, they are not as good as the more than 1.5 billion US dollars in gold that Zhao Mancang took away this time.

All I can say is that possessing deep-sea salvage technology is truly amazing, and Zhao Mancang is a cheat, so of course he was able to take away so much gold.

"That's great. I'll sort it out first, then go to North America to deal with those companies, and then return to Beijing for the Spring Festival."

Zhao Mancang had already made plans and then headed straight to North America.

He had previously placed an order from Boeing for a private jet converted from a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft. He borrowed the airport at the military base on Mindanao Island, took off at night, and headed straight for North America.

It must be said that the Boeing 707 passenger aircraft is indeed awesome and very fast.

After more than ten hours of flight, Zhao Mancang successfully arrived in North America.

Starting with Aucma in New York, Zhao Mancang inspected these companies.

Of course, before the inspection, he must change his outfit, because these different companies represent different vests, and he must not be exposed.

Faced with the elusive boss, the heads of these companies dared not make any small moves.

The less involved the boss is, the more mysterious he is, and the person in charge dares not say anything.

What they should do is to manage the company conscientiously and responsibly. After all, power has been delegated to them. If they cannot manage the company well and then develop selfish motives, then they will die.

Who knows whether the third-party auditing company hired by the big boss is the boss’s real confidant?

A third-party auditing company will monitor the company's finances and conduct regular or irregular audit investigations every month or at regular intervals.

If something goes wrong, it will be a big deal.

In short, in short, as long as the boss doesn't speak, the management will definitely not be able to say a word.

"Oh, what are these expenses? How come I didn't know about this expense? It's an uncertain amount every month, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars."

After reviewing the financial statements, Zhao Mancang directly asked the person in charge to explain.

An expenditure of more than 100,000 US dollars is no longer a small amount of money, and it happens every month, so of course Zhao Mancang has to ask clearly.

"Boss, this is an information consultation fee. You have already signed the document because we..."

Benjamin Sharer, the head of Aucma, asked cautiously. Zhao Mancang was staring at the other person, so any micro-expression on the other person's face could not escape his gaze.

Judging from the other party's situation, this is probably not a simple matter.

The so-called information consulting fees are just buying insider information, but how much profit did the hundreds of thousands of US dollars bring to Aucma?

This doesn't seem to be reflected in the financial report?
(End of this chapter)