On the same day, Chen Shao also received the news of the successful completion of the "Dog Slaughter Operation". The dog slaughtering team involved in the operation has also successfully boarded the oil tanker returning to China, and there have been no accidents.

Subsequently, the details of the Japanese base camp were also transferred to Chen Shao. And in the intelligence, the "Golden Lily" plan was also mentioned for the first time.

"According to the latest intelligence, it turned out that Hatohiko Asakanomiya sent troops to Southeast Asia to express condolences to Southeast Asia was just a pretense, and the real purpose was to implement the 'Golden Lily' plan. Now that Hatohiko Asakanomiya has died, the Japanese side will send a second prince to investigate the cause of Hatohiko's death on the surface, but secretly it is still necessary to continue to implement the 'Golden Lily' plan that was suspended due to the death of Hatohiko Asakanomiya. At present, preparations are still being made to send a second prince, and the candidate has not yet been decided, but there is a high probability of sending Chichibu Miyashihito. ”

In the era of the information explosion in later generations, Chen Shao also heard a little about this "Golden Lily" plan, but he did not expect that in this time and space, Japan would continue to develop this Golden Lily plan. This made Chen Shao feel very angry, because this plan caused immeasurable losses to the land of China in the war of aggression against China in later generations.

Later, during World War II, Japan carried out a systematic plundering of the wealth of the invaded countries, which was not just an individual act, but an organized, planned, multi-strategy, and strictly implemented collective action of the whole society.

China's losses were particularly great compared to those of other countries that had suffered from Japanese aggression, and the barbaric iron hooves were accompanied by frenzied plundering by open fire. Japan looted thousands of Chinese cities and villages, taking away untold amounts of gold, silver, and jewelry, as well as cultural relics, ancient books, and works of art. The most conservative estimates at the time were also billions of dollars. In addition to Chinese mainland, from Hong Kong to Singapore, from Manila to Jakarta, all Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asian countries have suffered the same brutal plunder.

The Japanese looting was not blind and did not consist of scattered plundering by individual soldiers, but was highly organized. Japan's systematic looting program was named after a haiku by Emperor Hirohito called the "Golden Lily" program. Theoretically, all Japanese "trophies" should be "contributed" to the emperor. In fact, the vast majority of the high-class "loot" went into the pockets of the Japanese imperial family, and these were highly classified.

The Golden Lily Project was officially launched during the Nanjing Massacre, mainly because the Japanese high level feared that the sporadic looting of soldiers would destroy some cultural relics of immeasurable value, and at the same time prevent gold and silver treasures from falling into the private hands of Japanese officers and soldiers. The Emperor's ruling circles wanted to monopolize this wealth.

The head of the Golden Lily Project was the Japanese Imperial Family, who was in charge of the Japanese branches in the various occupation zones. The main executor of the plan was the Japanese army, and the Japanese economic organization played an important role, and the yakuza were accomplices. The Golden Lily Project has brought together many experts, including experts in cultural relics identification, transportation, geological construction, etc.

It can be said that Japan's plundering of the wealth of Asia has mobilized the forces of the whole society, and the targets of its plundering also include the treasury and banks of the occupied countries, and they have also unscrupulously looted the jewelry of the civilians of the occupied countries and even all metal objects that can be used to make weapons, and the Japanese army has even excavated the ancient tombs of the occupied countries to plunder the wealth from them.

In the information sent by the spies, there is also a manuscript of the content of the "Golden Lily" plan, but it is not very comprehensive. On the first page of the intelligence, Chen Shao saw the words North Korea.

In later generations, the celadon produced in Korea was famous all over the world, and after the Japanese invaded Korea, they were still not satisfied after robbing the celadon collected by the Korean court and the people. More than 2,000 ancient tombs in North Korea were excavated, including the tombs of the Joseon kings in Kaesong, and all the treasures in the tombs were plundered, including celadons, Buddha statues, crowns, necklaces, earrings, bronze mirrors, and other ornaments.

In the name of scientific research, Japan has also transported tens of thousands of Korean cultural relics and ancient books to Japan, which are all national treasures of the DPRK. Korean temples were not spared, elaborate Buddha statues and bronze bells were shipped to Japan, and all metal religious artifacts were looted and used to cast weapons.

The second part of the content of the "Golden Lily" plan is Southeast Asia, with a large share, covering the entire Southeast Asian region. Even the Philippines in the hands of the United States at this moment is in the eyes of the Japanese.

According to the plan, after the occupation of the Malay Peninsula, the regional headquarters of the "Golden Lily" program was established in Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur and Penang served as a transit war for looting stolen goods.

The Golden Buddha statue is an important object of plunder in Southeast Asia for the "Golden Lily" program. Many wealthy believers in Southeast Asia cast their Buddha statues in gold, and they put plaster on the outside of the Buddha statues to prevent theft. In later generations, the Japanese army knocked down a large number of Buddha statues, and the golden Buddha statues they took away were as much as 8 tons in Myanmar alone, and they also grabbed a 4.5-meter-high golden Buddha.

The main reason why Japan set its sights on the Philippines was that the Philippine treasury at that time contained 51 tons of gold, 32 tons of silver bars, 140 tons of silver coins, 27 million U.S. treasury bonds, and a large number of precious stones and securities. Through the investigation of the Japanese intelligence department, all this money has entered Hirohito's eyes, but regarding the Philippine side, the Japanese side did not start planning, but only mentioned a little bit in the plan.

One of the most important plans of the "Golden Lily" program was to send a large number of Japanese bank staff to various parts of Southeast Asia to assist the Japanese army in cleaning up local bank accounts and finding out hidden accounts and property. Torture and other means were used to force local bank staff to hand over the keys to secret vaults and safes, and to seize money from banks in Southeast Asia.

Plundering the wealth on the surface is one thing, but the other side of the "Golden Lily" plan is that the issuance of military tickets and the manipulation of currency are the most vicious and can completely destroy a country's economy.

The Japanese army also planned to plunder wealth through criminal establishments such as large-scale drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, forced labor, and the establishment of casinos and brothels. In addition to the naked robbery, the Japanese army planned to issue military tickets without any credit and capital reserves for compulsory circulation every time they occupied. In this way, they received a large amount of supplies as well as a large amount of currency for the occupied territories.

Later, after the Japanese army occupied the three eastern provinces, it established the Central Bank of Manchukuo, issued occupation coupons as a new currency, and forced the exchange of valuable Chinese currency held by Chinese residents, and the exchanged Chinese currency was used to extract war materials from China. The Japanese did the same in Southeast Asia. The continuous increase in the issuance of military tickets has caused inflation, and the credibility of military tickets has been declining, and when one type of military ticket loses its credit, Japan replaces the old one with a new one. The Japanese established a predatory fiscal system in the occupied areas, and through the discovery of military tickets and various taxes, the wealth of the occupying powers was continuously withdrawn back to Japan.

Later, after the Kwantung Army occupied the Northeast, it forced the people of the Northeast to grow opium poppies, and established dozens of opium processing factories in the Northeast to refine heroin. Mitsui is also involved. Subsequently, Japan set up hundreds of drug-making factories in North Korea, Taiwan and Chinese mainland. Japan's gendarmerie, chaebol, and triad are all in cahoots for drug profits.

By the time World War II officially broke out, 90% of the world's illegal opium and morphine were produced by Japan, and the Japanese army became the world's largest drug cartel, with drug revenues of up to $300 million a year.

In the "Golden Lily" plan, there was also a plan that made Chen Shao want to directly send strategic bombers to raze the entire Japanese island to the ground. The plan proposes that the Japanese military establish a comfort women system in combination with the X society, and forcibly recruit women from Korea and Southeast Asia to serve as comfort women. The filthy money that these women exchanged for ** also went into the hands of the Japanese militarists, as well as into the hands of the imperial family.

In later generations, Chen Shao was very depressed, China is an ancient country with history and civilization, but the evidence that proves this history and civilization has to be found in foreign countries, this is not embarrassment, not sorrow, but a shame! Wealth can be renewed, but cultural heritage is not. It is precisely because of the various inhumane plunders since the Opium War in later generations that countless treasures of China have been scattered overseas. This is a shame that every Chinese will bear.

Later, after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, the military police immediately moved around, and they kept a close eye on the wealthy merchants and gang leaders in Nanjing, and used all kinds of means, including kidnapping, to force them to hand over their huge wealth. It is said that at this stage, the Japanese military police robbed 6,000 tons of gold. Diamonds, precious stones, and platinum were also looted, and the Japanese even went to the countryside to dig graves and knock out the gold teeth from the corpses.

Japan has always attached great importance to rare Chinese books. After the invasion of Nanjing, Japan sent a large number of scholars and monks to collect and sort out the books looted in Nanjing and other places, and they strictly monitored the libraries, museums and other buildings in Nanjing. As many as 1,000 Japanese monks and scholars came to Nanjing to organize and catalogue the books. More than 2,300 Chinese laborers were recruited to pack the books, and 300 trucks were used to transport the books to Shanghai and back to Japan.

The record in Mr. Guo Qi's "Record of Blood and Tears in the Trapped Capital" can be used as corroboration. "They (the Japanese army) had done a rigorous investigation in advance, and immediately after the capture of Nanjing, they carried out a planned search and looting operation, and they swept away and robbed all the ancient calligraphy and paintings collected by various organs, schools, museums, libraries, mansions of high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants, major companies, and large merchants. None of them 'slipped through the net', and the Japanese army continued to loot, and at the same time even made the final loot on the stalls in the form of half-buying and half-robbing. ”

In addition to ancient calligraphy and painting, jewelry, and treasures, the second focus of the Japanese all-out looting was on scrap copper and rotten iron, which were the raw materials for making guns and bullets. Everywhere the Japanese army went, the scrap copper and rotten iron must have been looted, and every family that suffered, from the iron gate and iron fence to the copper lock and copper bolt, was absolutely not spared.

The passage of locusts was particularly inadequate, and Japan's "Golden Lily" plan turned their so-called Imperial Japanese Army into a "locust army", and even the locusts had to bow to the wind.

Looking at the content of the entire "Golden Lily" plan, Chen Shao can only be described as angry. If it weren't for the fact that the spy got this information, he would have forgotten that Japan still had this criminal plan.

It's not too late, though.

(To be continued)