Chapter 713: The Golden Hiding Place?
It was indeed not a rock underneath, but a rusty iron plate.
Chris and the others worked hard together, and soon cleared out this pit more than one meter deep, and even figured out the thickness of this big stone, which was one and a half meters thick!
In other words, the weight of this boulder is definitely more than thirteen tons!
This stone is pressed against an iron plate, and if it were not for the width of the boulder and the narrowness of the bottom, the edge of the iron plate that was pressed would not really be exposed.
Clark smacked the iron plate with a sapper's shovel, and then said in surprise, "It's empty down there!"
In fact, even if they don't knock, a few people can understand what it means that an iron plate that has suddenly appeared in this inaccessible primeval jungle that has been crushed by a boulder.
No one would be idle to press such a large stone on an iron plate, that is to say, there must be a cavity dug by hand under this iron plate, and the large mound next to the boulder is probably the soil dug out when this underground cave was excavated.
But the question is, who is really idle and sore to dig such a large cave in such a ghost place where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs? Judging from that large mound of earth, the space under this iron plate is obviously not small, otherwise it would be impossible to dig up so much soil.
And most importantly, judging from the trees on the mound and the degree of rust of this iron plate, it has been here for at least more than half a century, who would have dug such a cave here half a century ago?
Thinking about the coordinates recorded in Alfred's notebook, although the location of this cave is a little different from the location marked in the notebook, Alfred wrote those things in the forties when he wrote them, and at that time, he was able to accurately correct the coordinates to an error of about 200 meters, which was already very accurate.
Alfred died in the fall of 1946, and if he was able to write down the location and coordinates of the cave in his notebook, it means that the cave must have been built earlier than 1946!
With the level of laziness of the Filipinos, this project certainly could not have been done by the Filipinos, and of course, it could not have been done by the colonizers and Americans. Then the only person who is possible to dig such a large cave in such a place is already about to come out.
"The cave below is very likely dug by the person who invaded Southeast Asia back then!" Yang Jing said softly but very firmly.
"Did you dig it up during World War II?" asked Clark in surprise.
"Well, there is a great possibility that it was dug up by Yu himself during World War II. Yang Jing nodded heavily, "In the later stage of World War II, the United States achieved absolute sea supremacy in the Pacific War, and later directly threw two atomic bombs on the mainland, which directly blew up the emperor, so the emperor had to surrender unconditionally. However, this surrender came too suddenly, which made it impossible for the wealth looted by the devils in Southeast Asia to arrive safely in the mainland, so he hurriedly buried the looted wealth in various hidden places in the Philippines, preparing to wait for the future to come and take it out. ”
Chris also nodded and said: "I have heard of this matter, at that time, the federal army not only achieved absolute sea supremacy, but also launched a counteroffensive against the Philippines, with the help of a powerful navy and air force, the federal army in the Philippines defeated and retreated. At that time, more than half of the wealth he had plundered from Southeast Asia was piled up in the Philippines, waiting to be pulled by ship to the mainland. However, the loss of sea supremacy and the successive victories of the Union Army in the Philippines forced him to hide the plundered wealth in the Philippines. In the Philippines alone, there are said to be 175 hiding places. But BOSS, most of these hiding places have been discovered, even the federal government also shipped back tens of billions of dollars worth of gold jewelry from the Philippines that year, is this a hiding place that the federal government missed back then?"
Yang Jing nodded and said, "It's very likely." During World War II, the iron hooves of Yuben quickly spread throughout East Asia. In the process of aggression and expansion, the **** set up a secret agency to plunder the property of the Asian people, the 'Mountain Lily' Society. Emperor Hirohito appointed Prince Takeda Miyatsunetoku, a member of the imperial family, as the head of the organization in Asia, and they brought back to the mainland a large amount of goods and gold plundered from China. ”
"And as Chris just said, most of the wealth looted in World War II was piled up in the Philippines, but as Samoto lost his control of the sea and retreated on the battlefield in the Philippines, in order to protect the safety of the plundered wealth, the emperor ordered the 'Mountain Lily' to quickly register this treasure and bury it in 175 'royal treasure spots' throughout the Philippines. ”
"On September 2, 1945, after the surrender of the Philippines, the U.S. officials on trial had learned from the CIA that he had buried treasures in the Philippines, and he tried every possible means to obtain the secrets during the trial. After finding more 'royal treasure spots', U.S. intelligence agencies quietly dug up billions of dollars worth of gold nuggets, diamonds, and platinum. ”
Hearing Yang Jing's words, Clark couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and said, "How much wealth did these damn people rob in the first place?"
Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders and said: "How much wealth I robbed in Southeast Asia at the beginning, I'm afraid it's difficult for outsiders to know except for the head of Yue himself." However, according to estimates, he robbed hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth in Southeast Asia during World War II. As far as I know, the largest post-war gold acquisition by the United States was in Santa Romana in the Philippines. When the Japanese were losing ground in the Philippines, Filipino guerrillas found themselves transporting large numbers of heavy boxes to a cave and then sealing off the exit with explosives. A major of the US Strategic Intelligence Agency, who was with the partisans at that time, remembered the location of the treasure. The agent reopened the cave after the battle and found the chest full of gold. ”
"Between 1945 and 1948, this shipment of gold, worth tens of billions of dollars, was shipped to the United States. Instead of returning it to its victims in Southeast Asian countries, the United States deposited the gold in 176 banks in 42 countries, among which the Geneva branch of the Union Bank of Switzerland opened a gold account worth tens of billions of dollars in the name of 'Lansdale'!"
"Hiss......" There was a neat gasp, and it was obvious that tens of billions of dollars of gold had frightened these bodyguards.
That's tens of billions of dollars in the 40s, and if you put it now, it's hundreds of billions of dollars!
Then, the eyes of these guys fell on the boulder and the iron plate.
Chris swallowed dryly and asked, "BOSS, do you think there is any gold that I hid back then?"
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, we have to dig up this place completely to know if there is gold in it!"
Clark spat at his hands and said, "So what are we waiting for......?