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Chapter 830 The luxurious Golden Palace
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Although Liu Dong had seen the relic Yuanguang countless times in the past few days since he came to the castle, when he actually saw it with his own eyes and stood in front of it in person, the indescribable shock still could not make Liu Dong.
Use language to express.√∟,
There are many words about the golden house in China, such as the famous "the book has its own golden house", and the allusion of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that "the golden house hides the beauty" and so on.
But most of them are used as metaphors. Since ancient times, no emperor has used gold to build a palace.
But Liu Dong saw it today.
What appeared in front of him now was a golden house!
No!
To be precise, it should be a golden palace!
Because its area has exceeded the concept of "house", it is completely a golden palace covering an area of 600 square meters and a height of 10 meters.
This palace has a living room, a bedroom, a dining room, a study, and a bathroom. In short, it contains all the spaces needed for human life.
And these spaces are not empty, there are furniture made entirely of gold placed in each space.
In addition to many gold furniture, diamonds, silver foils, agates, rubies, emeralds and other colorful gems are used on the walls to form various exquisite patterns. In the corner, there is a large emerald that is made entirely and is the same size as an adult.
Beautiful sculptures of various sizes.
As well as pure gold swords, armor, heavy swords, gold plates, gold goblets, gold tableware, etc., almost everything you can think of that can be made of gold can be seen here!
During the stroll, Liu Dong's mind was completely shocked. Although this golden palace was not a classical work of art and even existed for less than 30 years, this did not cause any damage to its value.
Whether it is gold, or various types of jewelry and furnishings, numbering at least more than 100,000 pieces, they are all symbols of wealth, and they do not look tacky at all when placed or inlaid in the palace, because they all serve an exquisite and elegant piece.
And great art.
Of course, the value of this work of art is also immeasurable.
Liu Dong only calculated the value of this golden palace based on the actual value of these jewelry and gold.
Of course, if you want to make a calculation, you must have a standard, and Liu Dong’s standard is the ‘Amber Room, the eighth wonder of the world’ that was once famous but whose whereabouts are still unknown!
The famous "Amber Room" was built in 1709. In order to imitate the luxurious life of French King Louis XIV, King Frederick I of Prussia ordered the most famous architect in Prussia to build the "Amber Room". The area of the "Amber Room" was approximately
55 square meters, with a total of 12 wall panels and 12 column bases, all made of amber, which was 12 times more expensive than gold at the time, with a total weight of at least 6 tons. The "Amber Room" was also decorated with diamonds, gems and silver.
Foil can be assembled into various shapes at will. When completed, it is dazzling and magnificent, and is known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
In 1716, King William I of Prussia gave this rare treasure to Peter the Great in order to form an alliance with Russia. However, in 1941, the Nazi German army invaded St. Petersburg and dismantled the "Amber Room" in the palace and filled it with 27
The box was transported back to Königsberg, Germany. After the end of World War II, the whereabouts of the "Amber Room" were unknown and disappeared mysteriously from the eyes of the world.
Although he has never seen the splendor of the Amber Room, Liu Dong believes that this golden palace is not inferior to the other party in terms of value.
And the Amber Room is only 55 square meters!
The 55-square-meter Amber Room used six tons of natural amber, and the density of gold is about 20 times that of amber!
As a simple analogy, if gold is used to build a palace, 55 square meters will require approximately 120 tons of gold! And 600 square meters will require 1,309 tons of gold.
Of course, the real situation cannot be calculated like this. After all, due to the difference in space and thickness of the building wall, the consumed raw materials will definitely be different.
But Liu Dong believes that the gold used in this 600-square-meter golden palace must be no less than 1,200 tons of gold!
According to the current market price, gold is US$400 per ounce. After the 9.11 incident gradually passed, the international gold price has fallen from its peak.
But even so, the value of the 1,200 tons of gold in this golden palace alone is as high as 17 billion US dollars, if you include the countless treasures inside!
Over $20 billion, that’s for sure!
Only in today's era of mechanized gold mining can such an artistic miracle built entirely of gold appear.
Of course, it is also because of Muñoz’s unique taste in gold that he created this rare and unique art treasure!
Of course, Munoz may have spent only one-half, one-third, or even less on building the gold palace now worth US$20 billion.
After all, he has gold mines and emerald mines in his hands, so he can be completely self-sufficient.
But no matter how much Muñoz spent on this luxurious, majestic, magnificent, extravagant golden palace, which is a collection of all human words to praise wealth, it belongs to Liu Dong from now on!
But after turning the entire golden palace from the inside out more than a dozen times, Liu Dong finally understood a problem!
No matter how luxurious and valuable this golden palace is, it cannot bring him a penny of wealth!
Because it is obviously impossible for Liu Dong to dismantle such exquisite works of art and sell them. Such a completely wasteful method is not wise, so the fate of this golden palace in the future will be that it will be the most precious exhibit after the restoration of the Old Summer Palace.
The treasure of the town hall!
Therefore, this ‘amazing miracle’ that Muñoz devoted his whole life and a lot of wealth to build is destined to be of little help to Liu Dong.
"But the good thing is that it already belongs to me, right?"
Thinking of this, Liu Dong finally felt some comfort in his heart!
After calming down and slowly receiving this golden palace into the mustard space bit by bit, Liu Dong felt extremely satisfied in his heart. Then he glanced at the empty and brightly lit ninth-floor underground palace,
Returned to the eighth floor above.
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"Master?"
Jose Aguilar knocked on the door!
Liu Dong lived in Muñoz's original room, but after Liu Dong took away the alloy password door, Liu Dong was not willing to live in a coffin-like metal box like Muñoz, so he
Let Jose press the button on an ordinary wooden door again.
With his current alertness, anyone with malicious intentions can be discovered by him as long as he enters the room. There is absolutely no need to set up excessive security measures.
Moreover, the security level of this heavily guarded castle is already perverted!
"come in!"
Liu Dong's voice made Jose Aguilar agree before he opened the door and walked in.
"Master, breakfast is ready. After you finish eating, you can take the plane directly...!"
Before he finished speaking, Jose Aguilar's eyes were widened, with a look of shock that could not be concealed on his face.
"How's it going? Looks like it, right?" Liu Dong said with a smile.
"call!"
After hearing the familiar voice and letting out a heavy breath, Jose Aguilar couldn't help but said with a wry smile: "It's so similar. If I hadn't seen Muñoz die in the hands of the young master with my own eyes before,
I really thought he wasn’t dead!”
The lifelike mask on Liu Dong's face really shocked him.
"Haha, since you, the person who is most familiar with Muñoz, can't see it, then it will be impossible for others!" Liu Dong said with a smile.
"Master, what do you want?" Jose Aguilar said with his eyes shining.
"There is a saying in China that 'warm water boils frogs'. If we suddenly clear the obstacles in the army, the method is too drastic, which may lead to unpredictable changes! On the contrary, if we adopt a gradual approach and gradually pass through various
Only by cleaning up in different ways can we control the army as smoothly as possible!"
"Young master is wise!" To Liu Dong's surprise, Jose Aguilar actually said this Chinese sentence in a precise and precise manner.
"This guy is really a smart man. No wonder he is so trusted by Muñoz!"
After taking a look at Jose, who looked respectful, Liu Dong said: "Let's go, after breakfast, let's go to Laya Valley. I can't wait to see my army!"
Listening to Liu Dong's voice completely transforming into Muñoz, the surprise in Jose Aguilar's eyes flashed away.
My new master is becoming more and more mysterious!
Half an hour later, three heavily armed helicopters took off from the castle and flew towards the Raya Valley outside the castle.
The Laya Valley is not far from the castle, and is only separated by two mountains, which blocks the only mountain passage into the castle from the outside world.
In less than ten minutes, Liu Dong had already seen from the plane a huge valley surrounded by mountains and greenery, covering an area of more than a thousand acres. On the east side of the valley was a group of barracks, most of which were no more than five stories high, while on the north side of the valley
It's a weapons depot, tanks, armored vehicles, and about 12 armed helicopters. Seeing these equipment, Liu Dong also understood that Muñoz had devoted all his efforts to this unit.
Let’s not mention tanks and armored vehicles, but these 12 Mi-24 armed helicopters are worth more than 100 million US dollars, and the monthly maintenance fees are even more expensive!
Before coming here, Jose Aguilar had shown Liu Dong the equipment level of this division. The equipment level of helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles and automatic artillery was basically equivalent to one-third of the domestic motorized divisions!
In one year, equipment maintenance, training expenses, etc. will cost at least 500 million US dollars!
However, Liu Dong couldn't help but frowned when he looked at the results of 500 million US dollars of annual training from the plane! (To be continued...)