When I pried open the iron door in the basement, I saw a room of more than 30 square meters. This should be the place where the guards were on duty, but it was already empty.

At the end of the room is a thick oak door with iron hoops, with six huge locks hanging in a series of them. It is estimated that these six keys will be kept in scattered storage, which is also a way to guard against thieves.

"Prepare explosives and smash him..." With a command, a soldier who was proficient in blasting naturally started to place explosives with detonators. After a while, there was a loud bang in the basement, and smoke and dust sprayed out along the gate for five minutes without dissipating.

After the smoke dissipated, Qiu Wei rushed into the vault with the landers, but was shocked on the spot.

"My God! Did the French kill all the elephants in Africa? Why do they have so many ivory?"

"Sir, look, there are still a whole box of gems here. Is this a diamond? This is a ruby..."

"Gold coins...gold ingots...Look, these big boxes are full of gold, all of which are already minted gold coins and ingots!"

If you get rich, you will definitely get rich. The vault is more than 90 square meters, and there are hardwood shelves everywhere, with some African treasures and specialties neatly placed on them.

Ivory, rhino horns, diamonds, rubies, sapphires... and various special ores that cannot be named, and even natural-formed dog-head gold.

At the bottom of the shelf is a large wooden box with mouthfuls. After opening it, it is full of all kinds of gold, which is estimated to be 50,000 or 60,000 ounces. This is nearly 1,500 kilograms of gold!

Qiu Wei swallowed hard, "My God, why are these French people so rich? There is so much gold hidden in just one Dakar vault?"

A Prussian soldier next to him replied, "It's not just the gold of Dakar. Dakar is the most important port for France to rule West Africa. The wealth of Senegal must be gathered here before it can be transferred to Paris..."

"One of the two black slaves we interrogated just now was actually literate, and was also a supervisor in the black slaves of the Governor's House. He heard from his confession that the Governor's House now has a year-long tax in Senegal and a financial surplus of nearly ten years..."

"Why didn't it be shipped to Paris in time?" Qiu Wei asked.

"Because of the railway, Dakar is preparing to build a northward railway, and the money should be the funds for the railway construction..."

Qiu Wei laughed, "Railway? Hahaha... Our Prime Minister also wants to build a railway. The railway from Tanggu to Kaiping and Luanzhou has begun on-site surveys. Now is the time to lack money!"

"Go! Catch a team of black slaves for me and move all the things that can be moved here..."

In a short while, the Marines captured hundreds of strong men from the streets. None of them dared to resist under the pressure of bayonets. In addition, black slaves have been slaved for three or four hundred years, and they have already formed a submissive slave culture.

As long as they can survive, they will not consider resisting, let alone these water ghosts promised that the last person would give them ten gold coins.

The kitchen of the Governor's House began to smoke, and the Marines began to set fire in a planned manner. The slaves were carrying gold, gems and ivory. No one dared to make a fool of themselves under the threat of bayonets.

All the documents in the Governor's Office were swept away, and Qiu Wei had no time to go and read them one by one. He planned to pack them all and take them to the Zhiyuan, and then find an opportunity to contact the Prussian intelligence officers and send all the secrets of these French people to Prussia.

Hundreds of French soldiers in the fire attempted to counterattack the Governor's Office, but under the precise attack of the sniper, the command system of the two companies soon collapsed, and anyone wearing elephant officers was paid attention to.

Not only did the snipers put a huge suppression on the French army, but the rear-mounted Mauser has already put an unprecedented suppression on the front-mounted legal mle1857 Minnie rifle.

The fixed-loaded Mauser had fired four or five bullets, but the mle1857 rifle on the opposite side could only fire one bullet! How could he fight this battle? In less than ten minutes, the two French companies had collapsed.

Qiu Wei looked at the French army retreating like water and did not order a pursuit, but turned around and looked at the black slave team that kept carrying gold out and sighed, "It's so good to colonialism! Why is it so good to bully people!"

It was not until this moment that Qiu Wei and other international students thoroughly understood the importance of colonies to European civilization. This kind of plunder of global resources ultimately made European civilization absolutely powerful.

In Senegal, West Africa alone, we can conquer so much wealth. Now France is the second largest colonial country after Britain, which shows how much wealth it can accumulate in a year.

There are some things that Xiao Letian did not tell his subordinates. In his previous life, Xiao Letian clearly remembered that after the end of the French-Prussian War, Prussia finally unified Germany. At that time, the Bersmese asked the French lion for 5 billion gold francs of war compensation.

This was the first strategic mistake that Pesme made in his life. He thought that 5 billion gold francs were already very much. At that time, the French government's treasury was empty and could not even take out a gold coin.

According to the price of 5 billion gold francs at that time, it was more than 700 million taels of silver. Looking at the entire Qing Dynasty history, during the richest Qianlong period, the highest peak of the national treasury income was more than 80 million taels of silver, which then dropped sharply year after year. By the late Qing Dynasty, the fiscal revenue was insufficient to cover the income, leaving only the numbers on the books barely supporting the storefront.

It's really easy to calculate. The purpose of offering a sky-high price is to make France unable to pay back the money in the short term, thus forming a suppression of France for decades. And if the money is not paid off, there is no reason to return France in the Alsace and Lorraine.

If you can really occupy a generation's time, just promoting German education can change the population and cultural structure of this land.

But Besmer underestimated the heritage of the old powers, and it can even be said that he underestimated the true heritage of the colonial economy, because Prussia had never experienced the feeling of making money with a colony.

Bismey definitely misjudged the amount of wealth among the French people, and he also misjudged the strong nationalist spirit of the French people baptized by the Great Revolution.

After the war, in order to pay off the war reparations as soon as possible, the new government redeemed the land occupied by Prussia in the north as soon as possible and began to issue national debts to the public on a large scale.

A scene that stunned Pesmeer. The defeated French government, a new government that had not yet established a credit, actually issued three consecutive 5 billion gold francs of national debt, and each of them showed an unprecedented rush to buy.

The 15 billion treasury bonds were sold out in an instant, and the total subscription amount actually reached the 45 billion kin francs that were dumbfounded, which was 9 times that of the McLeo of the Pessians.

At this point, the wishful thinking of Bismeer was completely shattered, and later Lenin even gave France a special nickname called usury imperialism. Mobile phone users can visit http://m.piaotian.net
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