Chapter 221: 777 Trillion!

In the final months towards the end of World War II, Japanese general Yamashita Fumimi led his troops to put up a final desperate resistance in the lofty mountains of Luzon in the Philippines. At the same time, several members of the Japanese imperial family stepped up in a nearby cave to direct the looted riches hidden in the war.

For Japan, which was about to be defeated, it was essential to hide these riches! If Japan had lost the war militarily, with all this wealth, Japan would not have lost economically. Overseering the execution of the looting and concealment of these booty were Emperor Hirohito's brother Yoshihito Chichibu, Takahito Mikasanomiya, and cousin Takeda Palace Tsunetoku. This plan is known as the "Golden Lily Project".

Fearing that the Japanese mainland would be attacked and occupied after the defeat of the war, and that the looted wealth would be confiscated, it was necessary to find a place to rest for the wealth.

In addition to the parts that were shipped back to Japan and mainly hidden in the Imperial Palace, some of them were sunk to the bottom of the sea by deliberately caused shipwrecks, and a great deal of wealth could only be hidden on land, so Japan chose to build 175 royal treasure vaults in the Philippines.

In order to reduce the spread of secrets, tens of thousands of laborers, prisoners of war, and even Japanese officers and engineers were buried in the ground. In the next half century, with clues, a legend of "gold under the mountain" was spread in some areas.

And the eyewitness to this bizarre, evil, and terrifying incident is the personal Filipino manservant of Prince Taketiannomiya, who is in charge of the Philippine treasure hidden by the Japanese imperial family, Benville Mores. The Japanese army tried their best, but they were careless, and they left a living hole in the implementation of the plan.

Out of sympathy for the occasional sprout, Takedanomiya called Ben out of Suido before the Suido exploded, made him choose his life, and was entrusted with the important task of hiding 175 royal treasure maps to be returned to him or the Japanese Imperial Family in the coming days, and no one else was to give them.

In September 1945, after receiving a notice from home, Yamashita surrendered to the Allies and was subsequently imprisoned. Yamashita was charged with war crimes, but the issue of Japanese looting of wealth was not publicly mentioned during the interrogation.

The burial place of the treasure from the mouth of the mountain seems unlikely, and his driver, Kojima Shaosa, becomes the breakthrough. After torture, Kojima finally confessed in early October, and led the American-Filipino intelligence officers who were responsible for torturing him to dozens of treasure caches.

Two of them were easily opened, and everyone who knew about them, from General MacArthur to President Truman, was amazed at the amount of treasure buried in the vault.

For reasons that are inconvenient to say, the secret of Japan's plundering of Asia's vast wealth was concealed. Shockingly, this wealth was neither returned to its countries of origin, nor given to the victims as war reparations, nor did it fall asleep, but was constantly unearthed, and finally fell into the hands of the political brains of the countries that held real power, and became an unlimited source of funds for some politicians to use in secret operations without leaving any trace.

The fact that Japan plundered Asian treasures during World War II and kept them secretly in American banks was closely linked to the Swiss banks' secret vaulting of Jewish gold looted by the Nazis, and it was dangerous to expose the secrets of both of them.

Jean, a professor and parliamentarian in Switzerland, exposes 50 years of official "amnesia" in his book Switzerland, Gold and the Dead.

In 1998, he testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee about the presence of Jewish property in the Swiss banking sector, after which he was charged with treason by Swiss federal prosecutor Carra. The accusation was attended by 21 bankers, business lawyers and a number of far-right politicians, many of whom are shareholders of some of the largest Swiss banks. They accused Ziegler of being complicit in a number of Jewish organizations that were extorting huge sums of money from Switzerland.

Ziegler was one of many people who were persecuted for maintaining moral integrity in the face of greed. Kristof was a guard at the Swiss Federal Bank, and after he testified before the U.S. Senate about the banking documents he had secured from the Swiss Federal Bank's shredders, he was threatened to kill and kidnap his wife and children.

"How much? 777 trillion! ”

Wu Tianyuan listened to the narration of the archives in shock, 777 trillion? Even the yen is an astronomical amount, which is converted into 194 trillion US dollars! Half the world can be bought!

Since the end of the Cold War, the financial crises that have occurred in various small and weak countries have proved that a large enough amount of hot money is enough to destroy the economic lifeline of a country, so that it will lose some or even all of its economic sovereignty.

China's current GDP is about 13.6515 trillion yuan, and in 2004, the total GDP of the whole world was only 40.8 trillion US dollars.

The same is true of many countries in Asia, where Japan has plundered the most treasures from China. Japan's plundering of China began in the northeast and spread to Shanghai, Nanjing, and hundreds of cities and towns across the country, where billions of dollars worth of gold nuggets, treasures, diamonds, colorful gemstones, porcelain, works of art, ancient fossils, priceless thread-bound texts, religious relics, and ancestral treasures became the pockets of the Japanese.

In addition to Chinese mainland, from Hong Kong to Singapore, from Manila to Jakarta, almost all overseas Chinese settlements have suffered the same fate.

One of the reasons for the establishment of the Golden Lily Organization was to ensure that the wealth flowed only into the Emperor's coffers. It is a royal organization that includes experts in finance, accounting, bookkeeping, shipping, and various treasures. This institution is supervised by members of the royal family and is practiced by manipulating the underworld.

The underworld is milking China's wealth, and the Golden Lily Project is to squeeze that layer of cream. In Nanjing, the first executors of Operation Golden Lily were the gendarmerie. The military police special operations squad was deployed to search and seize all Chinese government property, blow up bank coffers, and rob wealthy and middle-class businessmen and others of gold, precious stones, jewelry, art, and currency.

The Japanese even knocked off the gold teeth of the corpses, what was the real amount of wealth plundered from China? It is difficult to calculate, but it is possible to find a set of data that the gold reserves of rich Asia accounted for only 5% of the world's gold reserves at that time after the looting of Japan during the war.

And what China has lost is not only gold, silver and jewelry, but also porcelain, works of art, ancient fossils, thread-bound books, religious relics, and countless priceless treasures such as the "Peking Man Skull".

Most of the above treasures were shipped to Japan, where they were stored in the Imperial Palace of Japan, or in the private collections of Japanese oligarchs. At the end of the war in 1945, all this treasure should have been returned to the victim country, but in fact this was not done.

After the war, Germany returned huge amounts of looted treasure and stolen art, and they paid $55 billion in reparations to Nazi victims. In contrast to Germany, Japan refused to apologize and evade reparations, and they returned only a small amount of their treasure, the vast majority of which remained in Japan.

Japan was not penniless after its defeat, it plundered a lot of gold from all of East Asia. Washington knew this, but it lied to cover it up for the Japanese government, Japanese corporations, and the Japanese imperial family so that they would not have to pay war reparations or return looted treasures.

Washington did this because it wanted to use Japan as its ally against communism and socialism in Asia, and in order to establish an anti-communist government in Tokyo, the United States and Japan made many secret deals, such as regaining state power to the fascist leaders during the war, granting personal freedom to all war criminals, and using the looted treasure from China to set up secret bribery funds.

In exchange for Japan's cooperation with the United States in the Cold War, the United States now seemed inevitable and deceptive in announcing the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, so that the Japanese upper echelons would not have to produce their loot.

Article 14 of the treaty was thus added, which reads as follows: "The negotiating Powers of this treaty consider that Japan shall pay war reparations for the damage and suffering suffered by its allies during the war." However, these countries also acknowledge that Japan's resources are not sufficient to make such reparations at present. Accordingly, the Allied Powers waived their claims for national reparations resulting from Japan's acts of war, and the claims of Allied nationals for reparations resulting from Japan's acts of war. ”

This clause became the legal basis, so that prisoners of war and laborers who had been tortured and tortured for several years by major Japanese companies such as Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo could not be compensated as individual victims. To this day, the United States uses Article 14 of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty to shelter the Japanese government and the Japanese zaibatsu and prevent victims from claiming compensation from these wealthy multinationals.

All of this is being manipulated by the U.S. government. China and the Soviet Union refused to sign the 1951 peace treaty, but the United States threatened other allies to accept it. In return, they reached a secret agreement on how to deal with the plundered gold.