Chapter 11 Going to the Devil's Bank
Driving on the road, Zhang Meng whistled and bathed in the light of the morning light, and was naturally refreshed.
Zhang Meng was thinking about how to get some money for him. Although Zhang Wei agreed to ask Zhang Meng to sell the house, it was still other people's money after all, and Zhang Meng didn't want to be a soft meal.
In the 21st century, Zhang Meng may have to work as a small demolition worker in every detail, but in this era, Zhang Meng thinks he is omnipotent and even can do whatever he wants.
Zhang Meng drove slowly near the commercial center of Elizabeth Street. Looking at the prosperity along the way, he suddenly found a banknote escort car stopped at the entrance of a building called Zhengjin Credit Bank. Armed escort soldiers entered the building with more than a dozen large boxes.
Zhang Meng had a sudden inspiration and secretly asked that the bank's defense and police measures in this era were still very primitive, and it should be easy to rob a bank.
The thought flashed, and Zhang Meng immediately pulled over to stop.
He is a person who does it at will.
In the early days, robbing banks had no technical content. It was usually done after dark, and use explosives or nitrifying glycerin (maybe burning the money) to explode the vault and take money away while the night is dark.
After 1930, the banking industry in the United States experienced technological progress. They generally installed alarm systems and cement-reinforced anti-explosion vaults. For a while, the robbers had no choice but to rob the bank, but the technology was upgraded soon.
The new robbers changed to rob banks during the day, and even the police admired the professionalism of the robbers like clocks. This technological progress was attributed to Herman Lamm nicknamed "Baron".
Lamm is a German, served in the Prussian Army, and immigrated to the United States after being expelled. When serving his sentence in Utah prison in 1917, he came up with a new idea of robbing banks: using military principles. He believed that robbing banks was not a matter of guns and courage, but a technical problem. The robbing bank system he invented was later called "Baron Lamm Technique", and it has lasted forever. Most bank robbers in the 21st century used this tactic to improve, especially in backward countries and regions. This is still the most effective method.
The current Zhengjin Bank takes advantage of the world economic depression after World War I and the European powers are too busy to take care of their control and relaxation of their colonies in China, and quickly extends its tentacles to various places. In addition to Dalian, Shenyang, Kaiyuan, Changchun and Harbin, it also opened branches in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Qingdao and Hankou, further expanding the scope of financial invasion to China's clearance. In terms of financial activities, in addition to issuing currencies and absorbing deposits, in 1913, Zhengjin Bank occupied the custody of China's salt tax revenue through large aftermath loans.
This is a very aggressive Japanese bank, and Zhang Meng couldn't help but look tight.
For Zhang Meng, robbing banks with his ability cannot be called violence, but art.
Besides, it is only 1928, and the security technology upgrade of banks in the United States has not yet begun. The current anti-theft level of banks in various countries is undoubtedly as simple as playing house for Zhang Meng.
If you grab a few more banks, you may be able to survive in this world.
Zhang Meng suddenly smiled badly and showed a half-white teeth.
Zhang Meng first checked the site near the bank, drew pictures, and entered the bank on the grounds of loans to negotiate with a lobby manager named Abe Koizumi.
Abe Koizumi's office was near the entrance of the third staircase. The two of them discussed in detail in the office, but the door was not closed.
Zhang Meng really wanted to sell his villa, so he directly reported his name and address. Abe Koizumi obviously knew the situation of the villa group by the Wutong River, and immediately stated that each villa there could generally be mortgaged 300,000 yen (the yen was very valuable at this time), and he was very eager to make this loan transaction with Zhang Meng.
Zhang Meng took advantage of Abe Koizumi's urgent mentality and asked them about the credit and strength of the credit bank in a variety of ways to inquire about the bank's situation.
Abe Koizumi did not doubt that he was there. He pointed to the armed escorts carrying money boxes at the entrance of the corridor and said, "We are a Hong Kong branch here. In order to enter the Hong Kong financial industry, Yokohama headquarters specially transferred a large amount of funds. Tens of millions of yen are deposited here every day to ensure the opening of the Hong Kong financial market, so there is no need to worry about the strength of our credit bank."
Zhang Meng understood that the Jinjin Bank had just entered Hong Kong and would indeed inject huge amounts of funds to ensure credibility, so this was exactly what he was happy about, because he was afraid that the Japanese had no money in the vault.
Zhang Meng watched the other party lift the box upstairs, so he asked in confusion: "What? Shouldn't the vault be placed in the basement?"
Abe Koizumi smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, what you said is the past. Now all the vaults in Hong Kong have been changed upstairs because they are easily dug up the basement and exploded and stolen by people."
Zhang Meng suddenly realized and smiled and said, "Then your bank is too backward, right? I heard that the United States has sirens and cement-reinforced vaults that cannot be blown up at all."
Abe Koizumi said immediately: "It seems that Mr. Zhang is very familiar with the United States. I guess he has a business there, right?"
Zhang Mengshun climbed and said, "There are only a few companies. I have invested in real estate there recently and need to turn over the capital, so I mortgaged the property here."
Abe Koizumi believed it, so she explained: "In fact, our bank also plans to renovate it, but the president objected, so he also used the old vault on the eighth floor. However, we have also introduced an anti-theft alarm system, and the police will be able to arrive within ten minutes if there is anything wrong."
It turned out that the vault was on the eighth floor. Zhang Meng nodded, looked at the air conditioning vent above his head, and asked, "It's quite cool here. Do you have air conditioners installed?"
"Of course!" Abe Koizumi said proudly: "With the strength of our bank, how can we retain customers in the summer without installing the most advanced central air conditioner? All floors here are supported by central air conditioners, and the banknotes in the vault also enjoy this humane treatment."
Zhang Meng knew it in his heart.
At this time, the armed escort personnel came down from the upper floor, followed by an old man. Abe Koizumi said that the old man was the specially hired British president Holmes, and the key and password of the vault were on him.
After asking about the question, Zhang Meng pretended to be anxious. After asking about the location of the bathroom, Zhang Meng quickly checked the number of security guards in the security room and the location of the vault through his urethra, and then checked the ventilation vents on the ceiling, which could be used to crawl.
After returning to Abe Koizumi's office, Zhang Meng agreed with him that he would come with his house to sign a relevant loan mortgage contract with him tomorrow.
Abe Koizumi was immediately overjoyed and kept sending Zhang Meng away from the bank building.
After coming out, Zhang Meng did not leave.
After checking just now, he found that the alarm system was very primitive and there was no independent alarm line. As long as the original anti-theft system was cut off, the alarm would not ring again. If you want to go to the eighth floor without disturbing the security guards downstairs, you can only go down from the top floor. There are many security guards. It is best to settle them, and it is better to still bomb the ether bomb from the ventilation duct to the security room where they are located. Zhongce breaks them one by one and knock them out, but that is very time-consuming. The worst strategy is to shoot them directly and kill them, but Zhang Meng is not a bloodthirsty person, and he will never kill innocent people even if he has no choice.
Looking around the surrounding buildings, there are many tall buildings. The only thing that is taller than the bank building is the KaDeWe Hotel next to it.
Zhang Meng entered the KaDeWe Hotel, asked for a room on the top floor, and then climbed to the roof of the hotel.
The Bagrey style architectural style makes the roof high and pointed. Zhang Meng carefully prevents his feet from slipping. It is not a joke if he falls down.
Take out his Swiss multi-function folding knife, which is a classic folding knife with more than 70 functions, including a laser pen that can accurately measure distances within 150 meters. After measuring the distance between the roofs on both sides of the building 23.2 meters, ropes and nail guns were needed in the past. If you escape urgently, the bank building is more than 30 meters high and requires a downhill lock.
After Zhang Meng made plans, he left the hotel and took a walk around the city of Berlin. He bought all the various crime equipment he needed.
Zhang Meng believes that the best way is to get the password and key from the bank president, and the worst way is to open the vault with explosives.
Obviously, Zhang Meng doesn't like to use the worst.
It was time to get off work at the bank gate. Zhang Meng followed the bank president Holmes all the way. Seeing that Holmes first went to school to pick up his granddaughter, and then played with his granddaughter for a while. They didn't go home until Zhang Meng was impatient with him.
After following all the way to his doorstep and observing the surroundings, Zhang Meng covered his face and climbed over the wall to enter Holmes's house.
There were only Holmes and his granddaughter in the house. Zhang Meng easily controlled them. After a combination of soft and hard work, Holmes just said nothing. In the end, Zhang Meng threatened to kill his granddaughter, forcing Holmes to submit, and handed the key and password to Zhang Meng.
Zhang Meng tried it repeatedly several times to confirm that the password was true.
Holmes said furiously: "Even if you get the key and password, you can't get into the building, and you can't escape the security and police. They will soon know that I was kidnapped, so you'd better stop."
"Then I won't bother you!" Zhang Meng saw that Holmes's face looked very ugly, and he knew that the password must be true.
After knocking Holmes and his granddaughter out, Zhang Meng tied them up and left.
Zhang Meng felt hungry and wanted to rob the bank after dinner, but he thought that the security guards in the bank would definitely be ready to have a meal at this time and would definitely gather together to clean up them together.
Without further ado, Zhang Meng immediately brought all the equipment back to the roof of the hotel and started the action.
In a dark corner on the right side of the roof, Zhang Meng connected one end of the rope lock to the flying claw of the nail gun, and then shot it at the opposite bank building.
With a light "ding", the flying claws landed on the opposite rooftop. Zhang Meng pulled it gently, and the flying claws were buckled against the railing.
He pulled the rope hard, and Zhang Meng also fixed the other end, hung the pulley, and slid hard along the rope to the opposite side.
The moment he landed on the ground, Zhang Meng rolled and hid in the dark corner next to him. After a while, he carefully opened the wire of the vent and then got in.
Soon, Zhang Meng found the security room. Sure enough, a group of security guards were eating bentoes, cigarettes and alcohol. They seemed to be very leisurely on weekdays.
Zhang Meng took out a simple ether bomb, opened the safety and placed it on the vent. The ether gas was blown into the security room along the vent. In less than ten seconds, everyone fainted.
Zhang Meng retreated, jumped down from the vent of an office next to him, came to the door of the security room, counted the heads, and many of them were here.
Zhang Meng was relieved immediately. After cutting off the alarm ringtone, he went straight outside the vault. He dialed the mechanical password, inserted the key, and opened the vault door directly.
As the vault door opened, there were tens of millions of banknotes and gold bars, as well as bank bonds, various antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which were mortgaged by the lender.
Zhang Meng couldn't take away so much money and things, so he could only choose valuable ones. The first thing he was to bear the blame was the dozen bank bonds, which were bearer bonds, with a total of more than 10,000 to 10,000 US dollars each.
Then Zhang Meng began to sweep the gold bars and the bill worth 1,000 yuan, and kept filling his backpack.
Before leaving, Zhang Meng found an exquisite small box. When he opened it, he saw that it turned out to be a sapphire necklace. Zhang Meng was knowledgeable and immediately guessed that it was priceless and should be a mortgage. He thought that there was no gift for Zhang Wei, which was just right.
Thinking of Zhang Wei, I couldn't help but think of Xiao Zhao. So Zhang Meng searched through the boxes and cabinets and finally found only a gold bracelet used by a woman. The carvings looked very good. After weighing them, it was enough to weigh one or two. It was a big gift to Xiao Zhao. Thank her for her careful care for herself during this period.
When they left, the bank security guards were still in a coma.
Chapter completed!