Chapter 601 Big Yellow Croaker
Being despised by the mice, Lu Fei was furious.
I made a homemade smoke bomb, lit it, and threw it into the hole.
In addition to the precious medicinal materials, this smoke bomb also contains about two grams of gold snake venom, which is too luxurious.
You know, not long ago in Yangcheng, Lu Fei exchanged a gram of gold snake venom for the Feng family's most valuable golden lacquered wood carving shrine!
Now using two grams to deal with mice shows that Lu Fei is really anxious.
The smoke bomb was thrown in, and soon the yellow smoke filled the air. One after another, the little mice were choked by the yellow smoke and crawled out and fled.
Lu Fei sat on the ground, counting and laughing.
But after a while, Lu Fei stopped laughing.
In less than a minute, more than thirty mice, large and small, crawled out of the hole.
Oh my God, are these rats holding an annual party here?
How come there are so many!
I go!
Just as Lu Fei was thinking about it, a super big rat weighing five or six kilograms and comparable in size to a kitten crawled out, dragging its fat chassis.
OMG!
The size of this mouse is too exaggerated!
If the little puppy were here, he would definitely be considered a rat.
The super big rat gave Lu Fei an extremely angry look, shook his fat chassis, and left unwillingly at a speed of less than two kilometers per hour.
Lu Fei rolled his eyes at Big Mouse in return and thought to himself.
If I hadn't made the mistake of destroying your stronghold first, based on your attitude towards me, I would have sentenced you to death.
The mice dispersed, and the yellow smoke dissipated half an hour later. After waiting for a few more minutes, Lu Fei got in again.
When he came outside the brick wall and looked through the hole he had demolished, Lu Fei's nose almost became angry.
The space inside is not large, the height is only one and a half meters, and the area is only a dozen square meters.
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There were three large camphor wood boxes placed in front of them. All three of these camphor wood boxes had mouse holes, and some had more than one.
There were actually more than a dozen burglary holes on the box on the far left, which was simply terrible and made Lu Fei extremely distressed.
If the box contains paintings and calligraphy by famous artists, they will be destroyed.
Looking at the open space, it was even more messy.
Sawdust, corn, soybeans, rice, mouse hair, and more, mouse feces, mixed with dozens of gems of various colors. Needless to say, it is all the work of this scourge.
If he had known that these guys had made this place like this, Lu Fei should have killed them all when he was up there just now.
Lu Fei continued to dismantle the green bricks while cursing these harmful people.
Ten minutes later, Lu Fei successfully got into the secret room.
The cat bent down and looked around the entire secret room again. After confirming that there were only these three boxes, Lu Fei began to clean up the gems on the ground.
In the mess, Lu Fei picked up a total of thirty-two gems.
Although the colors are different, they are all top-quality products of various types, and they are large enough.
Among them, Lu Fei found six cornflower sapphires of the same style as Niu Niu. Although they were not as big as Niu Niu's one, they were not much different.
Putting the gems away, Lu Fei opened the first box from right to left.
The lid of the box was opened and the flashlight shone in. The golden light was so bright that it was dazzling.
"Big yellow croaker?"
Neatly arranged inside the box are twelve gold bars, commonly known as large yellow croaker.
Lu Fei picked up one and weighed it. It was very heavy.
On the back are Dr. Sun Yat-sen's portrait, layout and "China
Mint" icon.
The number, quality and weight of the gold bar are stamped on the front.
This is undoubtedly the standard twelve large yellow croakers of the Central Mint of the Republic of China.
In the early years of the Republic of China, countries around the world had begun to adopt the gold standard system, and gold transactions were frequent. The gold trading volume of the Magic City Gold Market was second only to London and New York, making it the third largest gold market in the world.
In 1935, the legal currency policy implemented by the National Government stipulated that anyone holding spot gold or silver should exchange it for legal currency at the National Bank.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government's gold policy was nothing more than collecting gold to prevent the outflow of gold, enrich legal currency reserves and curb inflation.
In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, the policy of selling gold and using gold savings was adopted to stabilize the currency system.
During the Civil War, due to rapid inflation, the country was forced to mint gold bars again.
When the Anti-Japanese War came to an end, due to the expiration of gold savings, the Central Mint moved inland and rented a factory in Chongqing to cold-roll and cut the 400-ounce gold bricks imported from the United States into small gold bars.
Gold bars minted by the Central Mint are referred to as "factory bars".
These were minted by the Central Mint of the Republic of China government between 1945 and 1949. They were used for the maturity redemption of gold savings deposits and temporary military pay during wartime. Generally, 10 taels, 5 taels, 1 tael, and half taels were minted respectively.
Among them, gold bars with one or two weights are called "small yellow croakers", and gold bars with twelve weights are called "big yellow croakers".
The exact weight, quality and quantity number are stamped on the front of each coin, and the "Sun Yat-sen" and "cloth emblem" patterns of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China or the words "Made by the Central Mint" are stamped on the back.
On August 19, 1948, the government launched gold yuan coupons to force the redemption of gold in the hands of the people and prohibited anyone from holding it.
At this point, the gold market in the Magic City completely collapsed, and ordinary small-amount gold transactions went underground.
According to "Li Zongren
Memoirs" "After the issuance of financial bonds in August of the 37th year of the Republic of China, all private gold, silver dollars and foreign currencies were collected by the government. At that time, the Finance Committee of the Supervisory Yuan secretly reported that the total gold inventory was 3.9 million taels..."
However, just three months later, the gold yuan coupon policy failed, the currency system collapsed, and market transactions relied on gold, silver dollars, and U.S. knives. The Central Mint had to produce gold bars again, and the raw materials were still gold bricks imported from the United States.
As of March 1949, a total of more than 1.11 million gold bars of various weights were produced, with a total weight of more than 1.53 million gold bars.
A ten-liang large yellow croaker is equivalent to 312 grams today.
According to the current price of gold, this large yellow croaker is worth about 100,000 yuan if calculated as ordinary gold.
But during the Republic of China, a large yellow croaker was a considerable treasure.
At that time, a small yellow croaker weighing one or two could be exchanged for 40 yuan, and a large yellow croaker could be exchanged for 400 yuan.
At that time, the courtyard near Shichahai in Tiandu City only cost 80 to 100 oceans.
In other words, a large yellow croaker can buy at least four courtyard houses near Shichahai. If you do the math, you will know how terrifying this thing is.
This box is a standard money box during the Republic of China. It is 52 centimeters high, 80 centimeters long and 55 centimeters wide.
If there are large yellow croakers inside, there will be exactly 66 croakers on the upper and lower floors. How many courtyard houses are these?
Therefore, these large yellow croakers alone are enough to show how much financial resources Du Yuesheng has.
However, although this thing was great during the Republic of China, now, a box is not as valuable as a gem in Lu Fei's pocket.
So Lu Fei was slightly shocked by the visual impact at first glance.
After calming down, Lu Fei completely dismissed these wealth that were beyond the reach of ordinary people.
