Chapter 275： Gold ah gold

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Gerante Sanctuary has always been mysterious to the outside world.

That’s right, it’s not difficult to see how the other party started up and cleaned up. In the city of Herto, the Gerant family has already penetrated into every aspect.

On weekdays, it is as low-key as possible. Even the police chief, Master, doesn’t know the inner story of the family, and one can imagine how "mysterious" the other party has been. But fortunately, with Otto, the inner ghost, many things are clear at a glance.

The first is the grain reserves. The grain reserves of the Gerant Sanctuary can be said to be unprecedentedly huge.

An adult’s daily food ration is about two to three catties. This data varies according to the diet structure. If the diet includes a large amount of meat, eggs, milk, vegetables, and fruits, the food consumption can be gradually reduced, or even no food at all. . Here only food is used for the calculation, so two to three catties is a relatively average figure.

Some people may eat more, others may eat less.

Well, on the basis of three catties of grain, the resident population of Herto City is about 13 million-before the end of the day.

So in one day, the amount of food consumed is theoretically 40 million catties.

So how much is a month? How much is a year?

This number is huge.

But what is even more surprising is that the food reserves in the Gerant Sanctuary are enough for the whole of Herto to eat for three years.

When An Kai just heard this number, the whole person was shocked.

The amount of food that 13 million people can eat for three years is an exaggerated figure. He couldn't imagine that a local family like Gerant could have such a terrifying food reserve. Even if they have mastered all the agricultural land around Herto, but limited by the upper limit of production technology and storage technology, they can't have so much food.

After Otto's further explanation, An Kai can be regarded as fully understood.

It turned out that there are not only rations such as rice and wheat in Najerante Sanctuary, but also various beans and coarse grains, frozen meat, canned food, and compressed food collected from the military.

In addition, the Gerant family will buy extra food every year before the end.

Of course, this is not because the Gerant family has anticipated the end. This is impossible. They are not prophets. If they can really "predict" it, unless they are one of the people behind the zombies. But Otto also said that based on his relationship with Gerant, he didn't know that there was a behind-the-scenes man behind the end of the world, which meant that Gerant also didn't know the probability.

Therefore, Gerant was able to do something like this to collect grain, not because of foresight, nor because of precautions, but simply manipulating the price of grain.

Yes, control food prices.

Although the Gerant family sold all the mines and was not as good as the political arena, they have basically whitewashed the family. The past, after Gerant's grandfather became the first mayor of Herto, was completely emptied. At the very least, as long as they no longer engage in anger and resentment, the federal government will not attack them easily.

However, the members of this family are still very careful. They are afraid of being liquidated in the future, so they began to buy cultivated land in an attempt to get involved in food production to shape themselves a golden body.

But this alone was not enough. After Gerant's father inherited the family business, he took this work one step further, and they began to control Herto's food prices.

If you want to achieve this step, it is naturally more difficult. There are also many large grain groups within the Federation, and even many multinational grain groups are engaged in troubles and rains on this land. Compared with those grain groups, The Gerant family is still not enough. So in the two generations, they kept buying land and expanding the planting area. At the same time, they kept digging the granary underground, and purchased shares in grain and grain companies from the outside, so as to expand their own in this field little by little. The right to speak.

Until the end of the day, the Gerant family cannot completely affect Herto's food prices.

But this is already very scary. This is a city with a population of tens of millions. If calculated in the country before Ankai's rebirth, it is also the scale of a big city.

Moreover, the federal government in this world is not the same as the country before the crossing. The country before the crossing is a large country known for its population, and its population ranks among the highest in the world. In today's world, the federal government is not really a populous country. There are fewer than ten cities with a population of tens of millions in the entire Federation.

It can slightly affect the price of food in such a city, which is not sound, that is, it is possible under such a loose government system. Putting it in a country with a strong government will break you every minute. Anyway, This kind of existence can be regarded as a hidden danger that endangers food security.

But having said that, the Gerant family was really lucky. They had just shipped a large amount of grain back before the end, and before they could sell the old grain, the end had come.

So while others tightened their belts and pinched their fingers to calculate their rations, the food in Gerant's shelter was too much to eat.

After all, the entire Gerant Sanctuary had only a scale of less than five hundred people. With such a huge amount of food, relying on these five hundred people, I am afraid that they will not be able to eat them until they die.

Of course, it is impossible to eat that long. The grain reserves have a time limit. When the time is up, the unfinished grain will be spoiled.

Then there will be nothing left.

So Gerant Sanctuary is said to have begun to use grain to make wine. The basicity of wine is not as important as grain, but it has many important added values.

And besides food, what else does Gerant Sanctuary have?

Guns, ammunition, these are all taken for granted.

There is only one item that makes An Kai a little concerned.

That is gold!

Yes, that's right, there is gold in Gerante Sanctuary.

The reason why An Kai cares is not because of a collection addiction, or because he can't help himself with shiny things. The attributes of gold as a precious metal and currency are meaningless in the doomsday era, especially the meaning of currency, not to mention the doomsday era, it is in the era of peace, which was pushed forward one or two hundred years ago.

Holding gold in hand these days is far less useful than holding grain and firearms.

The reason why Ankai cares about these golds is only because gold plays a very important role and extremely great value in industrial production. As a metal, gold has great value in many areas of society, including but not limited to financial transactions, Collection, jewellery, medical treatment, food, electricity conduction, electromagnetic radiation reflector, photographic toner and conductive material of electron microscope, etc.

Of course, the first few items need not be mentioned, it doesn't matter what you eat, the last few items are important. Because of these properties, gold is widely used in the electronics industry, aerospace, and communications industries.

In some areas, gold even has irreplaceable properties, so it becomes very precious.

An Kai now has a lot of gold in his hands, which he found in the process of continuously collecting supplies, but with the establishment of the shelter, he gradually reduced the number of outings, and even after he basically stopped going out, he collected gold. The progress could not help but plummet. This thing is not glass or stone. It is everywhere on the streets. If the amount of gold is measured by a city, it is naturally huge. But if it is distributed to all corners of the city, it is not worth mentioning. And most of the time, gold exists in the form of jewelry.

A necklace, a ring, a pair of bracelets, etc., are small in size and difficult to find. If you accidentally fall into a crack in the corner, it is basically impossible to find Kent and Philip.

That is, Ankai's own trashman skills can find gold in all kinds of unexpected corners.

Thanks to his "effort" before, he now has about one or two hundred catties of gold on hand, but the density of gold is very high, one or two hundred catties is really nothing. You know, one hundred catties of gold is no more than a large Sprite bottle, and two hundred catties are two large Sprite bottles. It sounds like a large number, but when you look at it...what Yeah, that's it?

Gold, the size of two large Sprite bottles, is very valuable in peaceful times, but it is nothing for the sanctuary who wants to develop into the high-end precision industry.

Filling the teeth is not enough.

So Ankai needs more gold.

Of course, this work is not so urgent. It belongs to the ability to do the best. It doesn't matter if he can't do it temporarily. Anyway, his current phase goal is to capture Herto. As long as the entire city is taken, there must be gold.

The information provided by Otto can only be regarded as a pleasant surprise. There is actually more than ten tons of gold reserves in the Gerante Sanctuary.

I really don’t know how this family got so much gold.

In the peaceful age, gold has a high value, but for the people, gold has only two main functions.

First, it is used as collections and accessories. In fact, accessories can also be regarded as collections. After all, they all belong to the category of luxury goods.

The second is the financial industry. Gold reserves as large as the country, as small as private banks, can be regarded as very important. But it's rare for individuals to reserve gold, because it's really useless. After all, if it is not in the war years, collectibles and currency are more valuable. Of course, gold is also valuable, but there is no place to save it, and it cannot be traded. What's more, most people really can't get so much gold.

This is not a question of money or no money, it is a question of no channels at all and no qualifications to purchase.

Unless, it is possible to find a gold mine, and fortunately to hide it from everyone, mine it quietly, smelt the gold and store it.

However, this kind of thing is basically impossible.

After all, the paper can't contain the fire, and the secret mining can last a day or two days. Can it be hidden for a year or two?

Ten tons of gold is not a joke. According to the normal mining process, even if it is a formal gold mine, it will take a long time to collect ten tons of gold.

For example, when An Kai saw a post on the Internet before crossing, he didn't know whether it was true or not. He was purely curious at the time. It is said that on the earth, the Mbonig gold mine, known as the world’s number one gold mine, is more than 4,000 meters underground. It takes more than an hour to reach the bottom of the mine from the surface. The daily output of ore is 6,000 tons. A ton of ore can be recycled 0.35 ounces. Converted into the well-known unit of jin, it means that less than 120 jin of pure gold can be mined in a day.

Take a look at this number. The world's largest gold mine can mine 120 kilograms of pure gold a day. This is the result of excluding all mining and smelting links and looking directly at the numbers.

However, if gold mines are discovered in general countries or regions, if there are dozens of tons of reserves, they are basically considered to be super large gold mines.

As for the gold mine grade, An Kai didn't understand at all, so he didn't worry about this kind of thing.

In short, as a precious metal, gold is really expensive and difficult to mine. There is basically no possibility of large-scale hoarding by the private sector. Financial resources are on the one hand, and channels and qualifications are on the other. It is impossible for any country to allow private large-scale hoarding. gold. If you have money, you can buy gold jewelry, you can buy small gold bars and small gold bars for collection, but that kind of thing is usually 6 grams to 10 grams.

And things like the ten tons of gold reserves in Gerant’s house sounded like a fantasy.

Could it be that this guy robbed Herto's bank when the end came? This is not impossible. If there is a large amount of gold in the city of Herto-see clearly, it is a large amount-then it is the bank.

But this is also unlikely. After the end of the day, although all regimes in the world have almost collapsed in a short time But the place where the collapse is mainly lies in the sinking of local administrative institutions, like It is the high-level government, as well as the military, that can maintain a certain degree of order. Even when An Kai just crossed over, the federal army was still at war with zombies. If it weren't for too many zombies, and ninety-nine percent of the global population had become zombies, then it would not be a big problem for the army to directly crush the tide of corpses.

But even if you can't crush the tide of corpses, open a channel, enter the core area of ​​the city, and take away some important people or things, it should still be okay.

It's like the gold stored in the Bank of Herto. It is absolutely impossible for high-level government to let go of it. According to Master, the local garrison of Herto did send people into the city shortly after the end of the day. , Took away the gold in the vaults of several major banks. For this gold, even more than a dozen military trucks and various war weapons were used.

So the question is, since the gold stored in the vaults of Herto's large and small banks has been taken away by the army, where did the gold in Gerant's hand come from?

Of course, this issue is not really important. An Kai only needs to know that the other party has ten tons of gold in his hands.

So now the real problem is.

"How can I break through the defenses of Gerant Sanctuary, break into it smoothly, and take all the gold away?"

This question, undoubtedly, was used by him to ask Otto.

Since Otto and Gerant are relatives, cousins, and their relationship is very good, and even knows Gerant’s family history and ten tons of gold, isn’t it reasonable to leave the problem to him? An Kai also has reason to believe that since Odor dared to reveal all the details of Gerante, he must be ready to face deeper inquiries.

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