Chapter 540: Gold and Silver

…… Seeing that noon time had come, Liu Dong was about to eat something and continued to look for it, but just after he took out the sauce beef that had been stored in zài from the mustard seed space and took a bite, his eyes suddenly widened!

After being stunned for a few seconds, Liu Dong didn't care about eating, and immediately stood up and turned to look at the stone under his buttocks.

It's not that this stone is beautiful, but that this irregular bluestone, which is as big as a tabletop, has obvious excavation marks about the size of a laptop on one side! In this barren mountain range, the appearance of this kind of large stone with obvious excavation marks already shows that he must not be far from his destination.

Thinking of this, Liu Dong didn't have the heart to eat, and immediately began to use the relics to focus on looking for this kind of stone with obvious traces of excavation, and sure enough, Liu Dong soon made a new discovery, and although these stones were very messy, and even covered by dry grass and shrubs, it was obvious that they were extending in one direction.

At this time, Liu Dong also secretly guessed in his heart that it was likely that these stones were all dug out by the Japanese when they built a secret base, and then they were used to pave the road, and finally the road was blown up again in order to keep the secret of the base when retreating!

The reason for this conclusion is that there are a large number of pits distributed in the central valley of these rocks, although after years of encroachment, many large pits that should have been deep have now been filled with mud and gravel, as well as thick fallen leaves and wild grass, but Liu Dong's relics Yuanguang can still distinguish the difference from the surrounding soil.

"Found it!"

After an obvious large space appeared in the area shrouded by the relics yuanguang, Liu Dong wanted to roar a few times excitedly.

After taking a few deep breaths, I finally suppressed the excitement in my heart. There was wind under Liu Dong's feet. After crossing a rough valley with high and low waves. Stopped on a hillside covered with rocks, weeds, and low trees.

The rock-covered hillside clings to a bare cliff with obvious signs of cracking, and Liu speculates that the last retreating Japanese soldiers used explosives to blow up the cliff and bury the hole.

Looking at the hole that was buried by hundreds of tons of gravel under the light of the relics, Liu Dong frowned secretly, looking at this trace, it was obviously impossible for anyone to enter or exit, and he didn't know how Zhao Rongcheng's Japanese father escaped!

After a walk around the area covered by rocks. Liu Dong started to clean up from the top, fortunately, there is an area that has been expanded to 8 million cubic meters of mustard seed space, otherwise if Liu Dong is asked to move away the tens of thousands of gravel that is pressing the entrance of the cave, it will be enough for him to work for ten days and half a month.

It took more than ten minutes to clean up about 200 square meters of rubble, and a rusty steel gate on the door was exposed, which was close to the mountain behind him. But here it's even bigger, and the lock alone is the size of two adult palms. The door nose that connects the two doors is also as thick as an adult's finger, and the lock lever is as thick as a child's arm.

In the absence of a key, no one has a headache in the face of such a strictly guarded gate, and Liu Dong is of course no exception.

"Fortunately, I was prepared!" Liu Dong said in his heart.

Immediately after that, he took out the small generator and the cutter from the mustard seed space, and prepared these things just to prevent him from running into this kind of tightly guarded gate, but he didn't expect it to come in handy as soon as he came!

When the gasoline is poured into the generator and started, the grinding wheel of the cutter begins to spin rapidly.

When Liu Dong found the right position on the gate, he began to cut it slowly, with the harsh friction sound and violent sparks, the valley in winter immediately became lively, fortunately there was no one here, otherwise Liu Dong really wouldn't dare to do it in broad daylight.

After more than twenty minutes of piercing friction, the piercing friction sound finally cut off the lock lever as thick as a child's arm!

Seeing that the task was completed, Liu Dong was also relieved.

After hurriedly packing up the generator and cutting machine and reinstalling them into the mustard seed space, Liu Dong pulled out the lock lever, and then pushed open the two steel gates that were five meters long, four meters high, twenty centimeters thick, and weighed more than ten tons!

Fortunately, Liu Dong is strong and strong, and his arm strength is far beyond ordinary people, otherwise he would really not be able to push open these two heavy steel doors that have not been opened for more than half a century.

"Boom, squeak, squeak!" "Boom, squeak......" The cacophony of steel crashing and grinding, and the north wind rushing into the cave, made the dust that had accumulated in the passage for decades undisturbed fly.

After pushing open a gap that allowed him to enter, Liu Dong walked in sideways, then turned over and closed the door again. Of course, it is still necessary to leave a gap for ventilation, although after coming in, Liu Dong did not notice any peculiar smell or lack of air in the passage, but it is still good to be prepared.

Liu Dong's years of hunting experience told him that in any unknown situation, prudence and caution can save lives!

After entering the door, Liu Dong found that the inner passage was the same width and height as the gate just now, and it extended downward with a 15° slope, and both sides of the passage were excavated mountains, which were very solid.

After walking forward fifty meters along the passage, two spaces of about fifty square meters appeared on both sides of the passage, judging from the style of the space, these should be two sentry boxes, and after going down fifty meters, there are two sentry boxes again. After passing through six sentry boxes in a row and circling down three hundred meters, a huge space appeared!

And Liu Dong's relics are just shrouded in this space, which means that the area of this underground space is nearly 400 meters long, nearly 200 meters wide, and nearly 5 meters high.

And in such a large underground space, all the military materials are placed, in addition to guns and explosives, there are also a large number of weapons, Liu Dong strode to the side of the nearest wooden box, and then lifted the canvas on it, after opening the wooden box, a bundle of 38 covers still rubbed with butter appeared.

Liu Dong casually took a handful of it, opened the chamber of the gun and looked at it, and found that there was no rust inside. After pulling the trigger. It also felt very relaxed. It is clear that the gun is in good condition and can still be used even after half a century.

In this wooden box with a length of 1.5 meters, a thickness of 30 centimeters, and a width of 50 centimeters, there are 20 poles of such a 38 big cover! But there are nearly 2,500 boxes of such a wooden box with 38 large lids in the entire warehouse, that is, there are 50,000 rods of 38 large covers to store zài here, which is enough to arm the two 28,000-strong A full division regiments of the Japanese army during World War II!

And there are not only 38 rifles in this warehouse. There are also more than 200 wooden boxes containing southern pistols and Type 100 submachine guns, as well as more than 2,000 boxes of Taisho 11th type machine guns, that is, 300 boxes of crooked light machine guns, 150 boxes of 1,500 Type 92 heavy machine guns, and 500,000 boxes of Type 97 grenades.

There are also nearly 500 Japanese guns of various calibers in World War II such as the 94-type 37mm rapid-fire gun, the 92-type 70mm infantry gun, the 94-type 75mm mountain gun, the 99-type 105mm mountain gun, the Meiji 38-year 105mm field howitzer, the Meiji 38-year 150mm field howitzer, and so on!

There were even 36 Type 94 ultralight tanks. That is, the 'bean chariot' that is often ridiculed by military fans!, and six of the most successful Japanese tanks in World War II, the 57mm caliber Type 97 medium tank!

So much military materiel is stored here. It can completely supply the consumption of the entire Japanese North China Front for half a year, no wonder it will be built so secretly!

On the left hand side of this large base, after passing through a space of nearly 400 meters, there are six passages that continue to the left, and there is a distance of fifteen meters between each passage, and entering any of the passages, there are wooden doors on both sides that are one meter wide and two meters high, and inside the wooden doors are four three-person beds with a height of three meters.

However, in the middle two passages, Liu Dong found a large number of bones, judging from the clothes that have not completely decayed, these people are ordinary people, only seventeen are real Japanese soldiers, it is obvious that they should have been ordered to be slaughtered after the escort of supplies was completed, in order to cover up the secret.

Looking at the hundreds of twisted bones in front of him, although Liu Dong was not afraid, the miserable whiteness still gave him a very big spiritual impact, the brutality of the Japanese army and the suffering of the nation during World War II were clearly displayed in front of him from these white bones in front of him.

Although this is a tragedy half a century ago, Liu Dong, who is sensitive to five senses, seems to still be able to hear that kind of dying wail!

"I'll pay tribute to you with Japanese heads!" muttered in a low voice, Liu Dong threw out all the Japanese corpses in the mustard seed space.

"More to come!"

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"It seems that Zhao Rongcheng's Japanese father escaped from here!" Liu Dong thought to himself when he walked to the end of the passage, looking at the dark and obvious explosion marks around it, which were enough to accommodate adults to enter and exit.

After turning around the dormitory area and finding nothing, Liu Dong walked along the cement corridor between the dormitory area and the military material storage area, and continued to walk back, and there were two steel doors that were the same width as at the beginning, and they were also locked, but this lock had been sawn open, it should be the relationship between Zhao Rongcheng's Japanese father!

After Liu Dong pushed the door in, and after passing through a corridor five meters wide, four meters high, and thirty meters long, another wide space appeared in front of him, but this space was only half the size of the outside, but the area was nearly 40,000 square meters!

And in this nearly 40,000 square meters of space, which is almost square, there are eight piles of things that are hidden by canvas. Seeing these eight piles of things, Liu Dong suddenly had a feeling of dazzle, because what flashed in front of his eyes was colorful and different concentrations of spiritual light, seeing them, Liu Dong suddenly felt as if he had arrived at that large museum! There are so many good things!

Here, Liu Dong didn't need to suppress his excitement, so he walked to the first, and relatively small canvas pile without any scruples, and pulled off the canvas on it with a 'bang'.

Immediately, with a wooden box of 70 centimeters long, 50 parts wide and 30 centimeters high, stacked into a pile of materials with a height of 1.5 meters, a width of 3 meters, and a length of nearly 150 meters appeared in front of you!

casually grabbed a wooden box and opened it, Liu Dong's eyes flashed with dazzling golden light, and large gold bars weighing about two catties were neatly listed. The gold in this wooden box alone is nearly 200 kilograms!

And in this wooden box pile, there are 200 wooden boxes loaded with gold in this way, which means that there are 40 tons of gold in this batch of materials!!

"Damn, the little devil is too good at looting, it is estimated that a lot of Zhaoyuan gold mines were dug up back then!" Liu Dong said excitedly.

Of course, these chests are not all gold, and China was a real silver standard country in the first place. So there was more silver than gold in this batch, and all the silver added up to almost 120 tons!

Seeing so much gold and silver, Liu Dong quickly estimated their value based on the market price of gold and silver he knew.

In 2001, the price of an ounce of silver was $4.95, 120 tons of silver were worth $21.2 million, while the price of an ounce of gold was $298.5, and 40 tons of gold were worth $1.27 billion!

"It's a pity it's not enough!" Liu Dong sighed in his heart.

The initial construction fund he had prepared for the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace Museum was $2 billion, and now it still looks far behind!

Of course, what Liu Dong wants to build is not just a simple museum of the Old Summer Palace, but also hopes to rebuild it into an artistic masterpiece again, such as the furniture in the garden, all of which are made of the most precious yellow pear, small leaf red sandalwood, camphor wood, wenge wood, old mahogany, etc., which represent the royal nobility, and the sculpture must also use the best materials, and it is the master's handwriting. In addition, the silk used in it must also be the finest 'lake silk', and although the porcelain is contemporary, it must also be the handiwork of a master! In short, although the future Old Summer Palace Museum is rebuilt in the later period, Liu Dong hopes that any of its things will be the top of the same kind.

In this way, in a few decades, this will be a precious treasure house of art, and this is also a long-term goal that Liu Dong has set for himself after solving the problem of food and clothing.

Of course, the pursuit of the ultimate also represents a lot of expenses, and the Old Summer Palace Museum, which can be rebuilt with only 15 billion Huaxia coins or even less money, is probably not enough for 100 billion under Liu Dong's plan!

So $2 billion is just the initial money!

However, with this large amount of unexpected talent, it is enough to solve a big problem! Of course, the premise is to exchange the gold for dollars or Chinese coins that can be spent!

Of course, this should not be difficult to solve for the company that owns Rose Jewelry, which is on its way to becoming the largest jeweler in the country!

put away all the gold and silver, and Liu Dong also had more yearning for the rest of the things. (To be continued......)