"Huh? Brother Huangfu, do you know this person? It seems that you have a wide range of contacts in the United States..."
Zhuang Rui was also stunned for a moment. He originally wanted Huangfu Yun to find a friend to inquire about it, but he didn't expect that he knew this guy himself. It seemed that he had done well in the United States before. You know, the fourth wife can be called a friend.
It is estimated that the net worth of these people is over tens of billions of dollars.
Huangfu Yun smiled bitterly and said: "Well, I know him, but I guess he doesn't recognize me. You really found the right person. In the United States, there are only a few people who are worthy of Bonadette's true love."
identity……"
Sure enough, just as Zhuang Rui had guessed, this man named Bonadette was really no ordinary person.
After World War II, a new large consortium emerged in California, USA, called the California Group, which included the Bank of America Group, the San Francisco Group and the Los Angeles Group.
During World War II, the economic strength of this group increased dramatically with the rapid development of California's arms industry, especially the growth rate of financial capital, which formed a large consortium with Bank of America as its financial center.
Just twenty years later, in 1974 alone, this consortium had assets of US$167.1 billion, ranking third among the top ten consortiums in the United States. It played a major role in the political and economic life of the United States.
The southern consortium formed a new arms industry group and became a force that competed with the old consortium in the northeast.
Now more than thirty years have passed since the 1970s. The influence of this consortium has long been integrated into every corner of the United States and even the world. Its actual assets are simply impossible to estimate, and Bonadette is
The man behind this consortium has been firmly in control of the lifeblood of this large consortium since the late 1980s, and has great influence in the United States.
You must know that the social structure of the United States is, at best, highly liberal. At worst, all politics and diplomacy in the United States are controlled by those financial groups. Among other things, they are the funds needed for the presidential campaign.
, are also donated by these consortiums. Just imagine how could the president not be affected by them after he takes office?
Therefore, people like Bernadette are the real upper-class people in the United States. Their influence in certain circles is unmatched by even the president of the United States. The social resources they can use are far greater.
It is beyond ordinary people's imagination. As for the American Mafia or other gangs, they are as vulnerable as children in front of these people.
"Brother Huangfu, how do you know him?"
After listening to Huangfu Yun's introduction, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but feel a little strange. Real tycoons like this are usually very low-key. As Huangfu Yun said, basically few people in the United States know Bonadette. To say four things,
It's okay to be able to get to know this person so well, but with Huangfu Yun's status, it's difficult to get into that circle.
Huangfu Yun laughed when he heard this and said: "Where I used to work, I had some business with him..."
It turns out that this man named Bonadette came from a military family. Since the musket era in the 19th century, some members of his family have held high positions in the U.S. military and participated in the mining of gold mines in California, accumulating a fortune.
Abundant original capital.
The Bernadette family participated in both World War I and World War II. When the American army entered Berlin, the leader of the Bernadette family, Bernadette's father, was one of the generals, and Huangfu
The so-called cloud business originated from an incident at that time.
Although the American army entered Berlin later than the Soviet Red Army in order to reduce its own casualties, the wealth that the Nazis plundered from all over the world still made the Americans a fortune. According to the oral account of an American soldier at that time, we can know
How huge those wealth are.
"We felt like we had entered a treasure house like an Arabian Nights. The scene inside was difficult to describe in words. What was shown in front of us was an illuminated secret room 23 meters wide and 45 meters long. There were more than 7,000 marked objects in it.
The bags are knee-high and arranged in 20 rows, with the distance between each row about 1 meter.
On the other side of the room were bundles of cash, each with the word "Melmer" printed on the label. These boxes clearly belonged to pseudonymous accounts of the Nazi SS. This is an indication of the scope and complexity of the wealth the Nazis plundered across Europe.
’s first clue.
We opened the bags and made a list of these belongings: 8198 gold ingots, 55 boxes of gold bricks (2 per box, each weighing 10 kilograms), hundreds of bags of gold utensils and products, more than 1300 bags of gold marks and gold francs
and gold pounds, 711 bags of $20 gold coins, hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins from 15 other countries, hundreds of bags of foreign exchange banknotes, 9 bags of rare ancient gold coins, 2,380 bags and 1,300 boxes of German marks in cash.
The face value is 2.76 billion, 20 silver ingots weighing 200 kilograms each, 40 bags of silver bars, 63 boxes and 55 bags of silver plates, 1 bag of platinum (containing 6 platinum ingots), and 110 bags of diamonds and looted from different countries.
jewelry.
In other tunnels, we also found a large number of precious artworks from museums in various European countries and stolen from private individuals: oil paintings, prints, pencil drawings, sculptures, antique clocks, stamp albums. These treasures also revealed the cruelty of the Nazis.
Among the gold products, there are several bags of gold teeth extracted from the mouths of prisoners in the extermination camps..."
The discovery of this treasure was later called the Merckx Treasure. This was a plan by the Nazis to transport the wealth plundered during the war to other countries and hide it.
At the beginning of 1946, the monetary gold (gold bricks, gold bars and gold coins) in the Merckx Treasure was handed over to the Allied War Reparations Committee and finally to the Gold Return Committee of the United States, Britain and France. They were responsible for returning the gold to the victimized countries as soon as possible.
of the central bank.
In addition to this treasure, another treasure of similar size was gold plundered by the Ustasha regime in Croatia, but this batch of gold was not found in the end.
There are signs that they were most likely secretly transported out of Europe by the Vatican and the CIA. How much of this treasure remains in the Vatican is still a mystery. Several large-scale treasures have also been found in the Austrian Alps.
Smaller Nazi treasure cache.
Except for the Merckx treasure, the whereabouts of the rest of the treasures became unknown in the end. Many treasures disappeared from people's eyes for no reason. Except for some caring people, many people lost their lives as time went by.
And forget the existence of these treasures.
In early 2003, some European victim countries during World War II suddenly raised the issue of Nazi treasures at that time, and attracted the attention of relevant organizations. With the cooperation of many countries, many dusty histories were gradually revealed.
veil.
There is a lot of evidence that not only was part of the Merckx treasure hidden by Bernadette's father, but also some of the smaller Nazi treasures unearthed later were secretly transported out by Bernadette's father.
Europe, of course, he did not hand over these things to the country.
The revelation of this incident caused an uproar in the United States and European countries. Several countries that were devastated by the war of World War II united to demand that Bonadette return the gold, gold bars, gold coins and other treasures that he had secretly hidden at that time, and sent out
Joint legal team.
There is a popular saying in the legal circle: "Law is a game for the rich." This sentence has been confirmed in the United States. In addition to the billionaire football star who was acquitted of killing his wife, Mr. Bonadette also
He spent a lot of money to hire hundreds of lawyers and defeated the lawyer alliances of several small countries.
The reason why Huangfu Yun knew about this matter was because he was one of the hundreds of lawyers at the time. It was through this case that he learned about Bonadette. Of course, this case was not heard in public until the verdict was announced.
After that, very few people knew about Bonadette.
After Zhuang Rui heard this bizarre story, he felt a little curious and asked: "Brother Huangfu, you have been involved in that case. How much treasure do you estimate that old Bernadette embezzled from Germany?"
Huangfu Yun pondered for a while, seeming to be thinking about the case that year. After a while, he said: "According to the figures proposed by the claimants, the wealth at that time was over hundreds of billions of dollars. If it were put into
Now, there are at least trillions, which is simply incalculable..."
Not to mention the wealth represented by hundreds of billions of dollars in the 1940s and 1950s, let’s take the multi-millionaires in China in the 1980s as an example. The multi-millionaires back then were ranked at the top of the Forbes rich list now.
These people are not inferior to each other, but imagine how much wealth this has.
"Damn, this consortium was built with the wealth of half a European. No wonder it's growing so fast..."
Zhuang Rui now finally understands why such an emerging force has been able to compete with the established forces in the United States in just a few decades. With those Nazi gold as capital, it may be difficult to develop slowly.
After Huangfu Yun finished explaining to Zhuang Rui, he asked a little strangely: "By the way, Zhuang Rui, you haven't told me yet, how did you get this person's business card? Let me tell you, this person has no reputation, but
To exert real power, Bill Gates is far behind..."
Zhuang Rui understands what Huangfu Yun means. In this world, the most famous people may not necessarily be the richest people. Bill Gates is famous, but the strength of many established brands is far from that of the second or third generation.
It can be compared with the financial upstarts who have only emerged in ten years.
