Chapter 771: Two Thousand Tons of Gold
The iron door had been badly deformed, apparently blown open.
The soldiers in charge of the blasting, when they saw Liao Yaoxiang walking quickly, immediately stood up and said loudly: "Chief! We've completed the demolition mission, please instruct the chief! ”
Liao Yaoxiang returned a military salute and said with a full heart: "Quickly pry this door open for me!" ”
It took a few minutes for the door to be opened.
When the door opened, everyone stared at the gate with excitement, and the door finally opened in everyone's eager eyes.
"It's really a vault! And it's a large vault! ”
What was imprinted in everyone's eyes was a huge vault, Liao Yaoxiang walked into this vault and roughly looked at the area, there are at least thousands of square meters here.
The floor and the surrounding walls were made of huge bluestone, and in the hall, there were piles of things, all of which were tightly covered with black cloth.
Liao Yaoxiang didn't give an order, so naturally everyone didn't lift these black cloths.
The things covered by these black cloths are all very regular rectangles, about one meter high, one meter wide, and about ten meters long.
"Chief! It can't be all gold and silver! ”
If it's all gold and silver, it's too much, at least thousands of tons, what is the concept of thousands of tons, and China's gold reserves are only a few thousand tons at present.
"I don't think it's all gold and silver."
Liao Yaoxiang was also a little uncertain in his heart, and Liao Yaoxiang also didn't believe that these were all gold or silver, but Liao Yaoxiang was a little looking forward to it.
Liao Yaoxiang knew that Japan had not only looted a large amount of gold and silver in China. In addition, Japan plundered a lot of gold and silver in Southeast Asian countries.
Japan's frenzied plundering in China and Southeast Asia has to mention the "Golden Lily" program initiated by Japan.
In 1937, the Japanese army swarmed along the coast of China and then advanced towards Nanjing, and the troops involved were so large and the front was so wide that the Japanese rulers feared that the commanders would lose control of money because of the competition for the spoils of war.
Army and navy officers have always had a history of scooping up large amounts of loot by the way, not to mention small-scale looting by soldiers.
Meantime. A large number of Japanese mafia elements came to this newly occupied area to commit crimes. The situation is further complicated by the joint efforts of Japanese and Chinese triad leaders.
In order to control the entire situation, the Japanese High Command began Operation Golden Lily, and it was at this time that the Golden Lily Plan began to be implemented.
Operation Golden Lily, which was in charge of Chichibu Palace, the younger brother of the Emperor. The implementers of the "Golden Lily Plan" are all members of the Japanese imperial family, as well as a large number of little devil gendarmes.
In Nanjing alone, Little Japan plundered unimaginable amounts of gold, silver, and even large quantities of antiques and artifacts.
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.
For more than 1,000 years, Nanjing has been a wealthy city, and many Chinese with wealth and status have villas in the city. There are other immovable properties in the suburbs. It was not the first time that Nanjing had been sacked by its conquerors, but this time it was carried out most carefully and systematically. It is said that at this stage, the secret gendarmes collected at least 6000 tons of gold.
Officially reported looting is often a fraction of the actual amount. Countless small gold nuggets, white gold, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, works of art and antiques that the Chinese loved to store were also looted. These all come from private families and rural graves. The Japanese did it so thoroughly that they even knocked off the gold teeth of the corpses.
Begin. Little Japan was only plundering and looting gold and silver.
Later, the gendarmerie detachment even ransacked houses in large quantities -- removing furniture, mirrors, and carpets, packing them into boxes, and transporting them to Japan by rail.
At last. A large number of precious books, manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings in China have also become the object of plunder by little Japan, and little Japan has even come from Japan to talk to a large number of experts who are specifically responsible for collecting these cultural relics.
In Nanjing alone, a large amount of gold, silver, antiques, jade, precious books, manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings, etc., were all looted by Little Japan, which was very careful, and everything was numbered, packed, and then put into waterproof boxes. They also compiled and copied several detailed catalogs to ensure that nothing was lost on the way to Japan. About 2,300 Chinese laborers packed the goods, 400 Japanese soldiers supervised their work, and more than 300 trucks transported the boxes to Shanghai and loaded onto ships.
As a group army commander, Liao Yaoxiang naturally knew something about Little Japan's "Kimberly" operation.
Liao Yaoxiang looked at the large amount of black cloth on the ground covered with piles of very regular things, Liao Yaoxiang looked forward to it, those were all gold and silver.
Liao Yaoxiang was excited in his arms, and personally lifted a black cloth, and the golden light almost dazzled Liao Yaoxiang's eyes.
The commanders and comrades around him, as well as a large number of soldiers, also gasped one after another, everyone didn't expect that this large pile of things was all gold.
That's right! It's all gold!
This pile of things about one meter high, about one meter wide, and about ten meters long, as soon as the black cloth was lifted, it was all gold, and the gold bars were stacked neatly.
Liao Yaoxiang excitedly picked up a gold bar, the gold bar was heavy, according to experience, Liao Yaoxiang knew that this was a one-kilogram gold bar, a standard one-kilogram, and there were all such gold bars here.
The commanders and soldiers around have never seen so much gold in their lives, and this pile alone may be about two hundred tons.
Such a pile of gold is exactly two hundred tons, no more, no less.
Liao Yaoxiang calmed down his excitement and said loudly: "Comrades! Lift all these black cloths for me! ”
Hearing Liao Yaoxiang's order, the people around came back to their senses at this time, and everyone cheered and began to lift the pieces of black cloth.
A warrior forcefully lifted a piece of black cloth, and the bottom of the black cloth was covered with gold, and then lifted a piece of black cloth, it was still gold.
Everyone lifted several pieces of black cloth, and all they saw were golden pieces, piles of gold bars, stacked neatly, looking so dazzling, so exciting.
It didn't take long for all the black cloth of this huge vault to be removed, and everyone saw a whole 10 piles of gold, that is, a full 2,000 tons of gold.
2,000 tons of gold!
In addition to these 2,000 tons of gold, there are more than a dozen piles of silver of the same size, and the silver of the white flower flower is all silver ingots, and these silver are at least two or three thousand tons.
With so much gold and silver, even Liao Yaoxiang was so excited that the corners of his mouth trembled a little, and his face was a little flushed.
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This is today's second update, I insisted on writing, my head was dizzy, and it took a long time to finish. Originally, I was only going to write one chapter, but I felt that one chapter was really too little, so I insisted on writing this chapter. (To be continued.) )