The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Chapter 211 Where does the gold come from?

"After days of bloody fighting, Tengchong County was finally liberated, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops were annihilated. Tengchong County, which had been occupied for a year and six months, finally returned to the embrace of the Party-State."

The female announcer's voice was clear and bright. She spoke Jiangsu and Zhejiang Mandarin slowly but articulately, and Zhang Chi did not find it difficult to listen.

As for the fact that the Anmin Army’s contribution to the Battle of Tengchong was not mentioned at all in the broadcast, Zhang Chi was not surprised. After all, the main purpose of radio was propaganda.

As for the actual battle report of the Battle of Tengchong that ended before the Spring Festival, Zhang Chi had already read it.

After nearly two months of fighting, the Anmin Army and the Expeditionary Force suffered a total of nearly 5000 casualties, and annihilated more than 5600 Japanese soldiers including the commander of the 113th Regiment, Colonel Ito Masayoshi, and wiped out more than a dozen Japanese squadron-level and above units in one go.

During the entire battle, a total of 5 75mm mountain guns and field guns, 9 infantry guns, more than 30 light and heavy machine guns, 11 mortars, and more than 600 rifles and cavalry rifles were captured.

All the captured items, 21% plus 50%, were given to the expeditionary force by the Anmin Army, and the commander-in-chief also took the lead in returning the favor and paid a large sum of money in return.

Zhang Chi lay on the comfortable sofa, patting the armrests, listening to the announcer's "praises" and thinking.

With the liberation of Tengchong, the remaining Japanese devils in western Yunnan only had Songshan left, and they could not make any waves at all. Then he could completely withdraw Bai Minghui's Eastern Route Army to join the upcoming Battle of Mandalay.

Thinking that Wei Junru had hinted to him many times, the expeditionary force did not want anyone to steal the credit.

Zhang Chi finally made up his mind and decided to do just that - except for leaving the Armored Training Division to patrol the Stevenson Highway area, all other troops retreated westward and prepared to participate in the next battle.

The female announcer's report ended quickly, and then music came from the radio.

Zhang Chi quickly instructed Xiao Qi, "Tell Director Guan of the Ninth Institute that next time he doesn't need to go through you to present the treasure. If there's anything, please ask him to come in person. Also, tell him to debug the broadcasting equipment as soon as possible. We also need to set up our broadcasting system as soon as possible."

Xiao Qi looked bewildered: "Should I ask Secretary Zhang to do this?"

Zhang Chi beckoned Xiao Qi over and patted him on the head: "You're an adult now, so you'll be in charge of the broadcasting system this time."

In order to maintain balance, Zhang Chi naturally cannot let Zhang Guangsong be responsible for everything.

Xiao Qi widened his eyes and was stunned for a moment.

Although he was accustomed to Zhang Chi's task arrangements, he was obviously not used to it as he was asked to personally take charge of such an important task this time.

"Then who will take care of your daily life?" he asked subconsciously.

Soon he had an expression of sudden enlightenment: "Oh, Brother Zhang, you want to get a wife, you don't want me anymore, so you want to kick me out."

Hearing this, Zhang Chi could only wave his hand with a dark face and signal Xiao Qi to get out.

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After seeing Xiaoqi off, Zhang Chi started thinking about the issue of gold.

As the system upgrades and more types of synths are opened, his demand for gold becomes greater and greater.

Even if he could use various means to attract talents from other countries, or cultivate talents himself, or call on the Qian people stranded in Baiying to return.

But due to issues such as trust, he ultimately needs a sum of gold to exchange for some 100% loyal synths.

Not to mention that with the B-29 on the tech tree only a few months away from being developed, he would need a large sum of gold to purchase nuclear weapons.

At present, including the newly recovered Baowen mining area, the gold mines controlled by Zhang Chi only produce a few tons of gold per month, and he still needs to pay the mining costs.

In addition to the system requiring gold, issuing its own currency in the future will also require gold as a ballast.

Where can one get gold without any capital?

Zhang Chi took out a piece of paper from his desk and started writing and drawing.

First of all, the White Eagle. The United States has made a fortune from the war and currently has about 14,000 to 18,000 tons of gold.

Such a large scale of gold reserves is undoubtedly enviable, but there is no doubt that the White Eagle's military capabilities are also top-notch at this time.

Even if the synths he sent to White Eagle to start a company could earn sword music, it would be difficult for them to exchange the sword music for gold and ship it out of White Eagle under the supervision of the Federal Reserve, so the idea of ​​getting gold from White Eagle could be rejected.

Next are the John people. They probably have several thousand tons of gold. Part of it is stored in Maple Leaf as funds for national restoration (because they are afraid that Hill will go to the island), and part of it is left in the three islands.

Hill was unable to complete the "Sea Lion Project" to land on the island, so Zhang Chi was equally unable to touch the gold.

However, Zhang Chi thought that the Majiagang Oilfield, which was discovered in the millennium near the Fog City, could be developed recently by synthetic humans disguised as white eagles to make some money and a small amount of gold.

The only ones left are France and France, the two former European powers.

Among them, the gold of Fa Kingdom is either in the hands of General Dai or in the hands of Weixi Fa Kingdom. Perhaps I can send troops to join the Normandy landing and then plunder within the territory of Fa Kingdom?

However, Zhang Chi knew that Hans' troops on the Western Front were not all weak. The Wehrmacht armored divisions and some SS troops were still very combat-effective. Therefore, he circled the two words "Faguo" and wrote "to be determined".

During the Franco-Russian Civil War, about 600 tons of gold were shipped to Russia in exchange for a large amount of weapons aid. This gold should still be in Moscow.

Adding to the Russians' own gold reserves, Zhang Chi estimated that the other side probably had more than 1000 tons of gold.

As for this gold, Zhang Chi planned to use penicillin and semiconductors, which were difficult for the Russians to obtain, to get dozens of tons for fun.

(The above gold reserve estimates are based on the statistical table of gold reserves of various countries in the world drawn up by T. Green in 99)

As for the Japanese, due to the continued increase in war spending, they are actually on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhang Chi estimates that the official gold reserves of the Japanese will not exceed 100 tons.

However, the Japanese have been waging wars for so many years and plundering everywhere, so the various tycoons, nobles, and royal families must still have large amounts of gold.

Even in Southeast Asia, there should be a lot of gold that the Japanese looted but did not have time to transport back to their homeland.

Zhang Chi estimated that this part should be at least several hundred tons or even a thousand tons. After all, many of the Japanese corpses collected after the war had big gold teeth or gold and silver jewelry they looted.

It is still very possible to obtain this gold. As long as we can obtain the identity of a victorious country and station troops on Sakura Island after the war, there will always be a chance to torture this gold out.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chi wrote down the three words "high probability".

Then he wrote the words 'Temple Gold'.

This gold under the temple in Sindhu is a sum of gold that he can 100% get, but he doesn't know whether there are really hundreds or thousands of tons of gold under the temple as reported in the newspapers before he traveled through time.

After all, things that happened in Sindhu were always so bizarre and beyond common sense, and Zhang Chi couldn't tell what these Indians were thinking.

After using the system to exchange for a group of synths who spoke King John's language and sent them to Sindhu for an expedition, the only thing Zhang Chi could do was wish them all the best.