Chapter 259: Gold, Silver, and Ordnance
The next morning, a professional demolition team arrived and after evacuating the nearby crowd, they installed explosives and prepared to blast them.
At this moment, in the distance, Lin Han and the others, as well as the governor of Gunma Prefecture, were looking from afar.
Lin Han, Jiang He and the others were naturally chatting and laughing, and they were quite interested. But Governor Kameda stood aside, but his face was not good at all.
After hearing the news of the excavation of cement, Governor Kameda's mood suddenly collapsed like a plane crash.
The legendary Tokugawa buried gold is actually in Mt. Akagi in Gunma Prefecture!
Yesterday, I was thinking about the 100 million yen compensation fee, but after a night, the treasure came out.
If you knew this, you should have had a good talk with the other party, and no matter how bad it is, you have to find a way to get a little more compensation.
Now it's good, 100 million yen will dig up the Tokugawa buried gold.
It seems that the Gunma Prefectural Office has earned 100 million yen.
But in the long run, the Tokugawa buried gold is dug up, and there will be so many tourists in such a small place as Akagi Mountain.
That's a big loss!
"Boom-boom-"
Just as Governor Kameda was feeling concerned, a loud noise was heard not far away, and the ground shook, startling a group of birds, and a group of animals ran out of the woods.
The blast is complete!
After checking the safety, everyone rushed to the pit and looked down in unison.
At this sight, many people couldn't help but widen their eyes and let out a burst of exclamation.
"This ......"
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect ......"
I saw that at the bottom of the pit, the cement was still cement after it was blown up, and I didn't know how thick the cement was, and it didn't look like a blast was enough.
"Tokugawa rejoices in this miser, if he doesn't give the money to Emperor Meiji, he still hides it so deeply!" said a Japanese worker.
"Keep bombing!"
The crowd retreated, and the demolition team stepped forward again, installed explosives, and blasted ......
After several blastings, the cement at the bottom of the pit was finally completely blasted open, breaking a large hole.
The inside of the big cave is a little deep, and I can't see anything clearly, I don't know if there is a treasure, and I am not sure if there are traps or something.
Lin Han thought about it, and then decided to go down to see it in person, so he asked people to put a hanging rope on him and descend down the bottom of the pit.
The rope dropped for a moment, and his feet hit the bottom.
I untied the rope and took a flashlight to take a photo, but at first I saw a pile of broken copper and iron, all kinds of rusty armor, katana, and the like, piled up everywhere.
The broken copper and iron were already badly corroded, and they had just been bombarded several times by the demolition team, and at this time they were even more dilapidated, and they looked like garbage collection sites.
Lin Han thought in his heart, these armors and weapons, nine times out of ten, were some of the ordnance that Tokugawa Keiki secretly hid before the opening of Edo Castle.
It seems that the last shogun, I am afraid that he did not expect or was not reconciled, that the shogunate era has come to an end forever.
Just over twenty years before the end of the Edo period, the last epoch of the shogunate, China had just experienced the First Opium War and entered what we now often call "humiliating modern history."
Speaking of which, before the First Sino-Japanese War, the relations between China and Japan were not as bad as they were later, and they were both bullied by Western powers, and sometimes they were quite sympathetic.
It is worth mentioning that during that period, there was a "diplomatic joke" that shocked the world between China and Japan.
Roughly speaking, the two countries have been raped by Western powers for a long time, and have signed various unequal treaties for a long time, so that they have only seen unequal treaties and do not know what normal treaties look like.
So a few years after the return of the great government, China and Japan signed a miraculous "Sino-Japanese Treaty of Reconciliation".
In this treaty, the two countries sold each other's sovereignty, built each other's naval bases, and established extraterritoriality for each other...... It has become a major sensation in the international diplomatic community......
Lin Han took a flashlight and searched in the deep cave to talk, and after a while, he found thousands of small wooden boxes that had rotted in a corner.
He frowned slightly, then summoned a gust of wind to blow away some of the musty smell, and then kicked a wooden box with his foot.
With a "bang", the rotten wooden box was kicked and smashed by him, and a pile of silver ingots was scattered all over the ground.
Silver!
The corners of Lin Han's mouth moved slightly, and then he kicked several wooden boxes one after another.
There was a clanging sound, and the silver ingots were scattered, and in between, several chests fell a pile of gold ingots.
In this place of decaying treasure, most of the silver ingots have oxidized and blackened, but these gold ingots are as bright and shining as they were a hundred years ago.
Lin Han didn't know how much gold and silver a small wooden box here could hold, but roughly estimated that a box containing gold ingots was worth at least hundreds of dollars.
A box containing silver ingots is estimated to be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
There are thousands of boxes here, and the total value of them is probably a billion dollars!
As for the broken copper and iron, most of them are just ordinary ordnance that has been badly corroded and damaged, although there are also a lot of them, but compared to these gold and silver, the value is dispensable.
Lin Han finally put his mind at ease, nodded and turned back, being pulled up by the hanging rope.
"How's that? There's treasure down there?"
As soon as he came up, the surrounding people hurriedly gathered around and asked a little nervously.
Lin Han smiled: "Of course, in addition to the legendary gold and silver, there are also some weapons from the Edo period. ”
Hearing this news, whether it was the people on Lin Han's side, or the demolition team and excavation team, they were all overjoyed.
"I got it!"
"The legendary Tokugawa buried gold!"
In contrast, the governor of Gunma Prefecture, Kameda, looked much more bleak, walking aside alone, silent, his face cloudy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Seeing this, Lin Han thought about it and walked over and said, "Governor Kameda, of course we will sell the gold and silver in the Tokugawa buried gold to the Huaxia Gold Group. ”
"As for the damaged ordnance, after consideration, we decided to sell it to Gunma Prefecture, I don't know what you think?"
These damaged ordnance are not of much value, do not make much money, and are slow to realize.
But for Gunma Prefecture, it is a historical business card that can replace the Tokugawa Buried Gold Legend and continue to attract tourists to the local area.
After all, it's someone else's territory, and if you do it too much, I'm afraid it will only cause trouble.
Of course, Governor Kameda also understood this in his heart, so after a little hesitation, he responded directly.
After talking with Governor Kameda for a long time, Lin Han found Jiang He again and asked, "Director Jiang, how is the fineness of the gold and silver appraised?"
Jiang He groaned slightly: "According to the results of the appraisal just now, the total value of gold and silver here should be 2 billion to 3 billion US dollars, but it is ......."