Chapter 599: Madness
It's just that the date of the materials recorded in this ledger made Yang Jing have some doubts in his heart.
The first batch of materials recorded in the ledger was in May 1943, and this date was about the same as the date when Shouichi Terauchi, the first person to write and sign the "serial letter", signed it, that is, Shouichi Terauchi must have decided to do so at that time, so he launched a series signature and directly separated a part of the looted property and secretly transported it to this secret base.
Among the tandem letters found from the shipwreck, the first guy who also launched this tandem signature was Terauchi Shouichi, and the reason why this tandem signature was launched at that time also had a lot to do with Yamamoto Isoroku being killed by the Americans in April of that year, otherwise if Yamamoto Isoroku did not die, maybe it would not be Terauchi Shouichi's turn to start this matter.
The death of Yamamoto Fifty-six made Terauchi Shouichi aware of the tension of the situation, of course, long before Yamamoto Fifty-six's death, those goods looted from China and Southeast Asia were transported back to the Yamamoto homeland as early as possible, and were hidden in various secret bases in the Yamamoto homeland.
But the local is the local area, and it is obviously unsafe to put all the eggs in one basket, and perhaps it is for this reason that Yamamoto Isoroku proposed to build a secret warehouse outside the local territory to store the goods looted from all over the country.
In all fairness, the plan proposed by Yamamoto Isoroku at the beginning was a good plan, but unfortunately, the reason why the base camp did not give a clear answer is probably directly related to Emperor Hirohito at the time.
Ever since he found the serial letter in the sunken No. 1 Xinxing Maru, Yang Jing has been taking time to study some information about himself during World War II.
It is said that Ben is a barren island country with no resources to use, so it will continue to wage wars against foreign countries again and again. They didn't start a war just because they were idle, they also had no choice, they couldn't develop without resources, and if they couldn't develop, they would be bullied by others.
Huaxia, which has a vast land and abundant resources, has always been the coveted object in the minds of little devils, and it has always been in the first place. Therefore, after the Opium War, the little devils will continue to target the weak China, and finally invade China, starting a period of iron-blooded but extremely tragic anti-Japanese war journey in China.
But no matter what, whether the little devils invade China or Southeast Asia, they are all for huge resources. This kind of resource is used to feed itself, after all, if I want to develop rapidly and sustainably, I can't do without these resources and wealth. But at the same time, while plundering these wealth and resources, the royal family of Yuben did not forget to follow suit.
In other words, the resources and wealth that he plundered from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and even the Southwest Pacific were divided into two, and most of them were handed over to the top management of the company to develop the economic and military power of the company, and a small part was intercepted by the royal family.
Before World War II, the royal family was the real head of the family. The royal family used the war to loot a lot of wealth from all over the world, which seemed to him to be a matter of course.
So how much wealth did the royal family rob during the entire World War II and the invasion of China? This amount is estimated to be unknown to outsiders except for the few people who presided over this event at that time. However, it is absolutely not an exaggeration to describe the wealth that the royal family has looted from Asian countries.
In those years, with the outbreak of the all-out war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, the iron hooves of the army quickly spread throughout Southeast Asia, and a secret agency was set up to plunder the property of the Asian people, the "Golden Lily". Emperor Hirohito appointed Prince Takedanomiya Tsunetitoku Takedanomiya, a member of the imperial family, as head of the organization, and several other imperial princes, such as King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya and King Zaihito of Kanin Palace, also participated in the mission.
Yang Jing once read a report from some sources, saying that when the Japanese army captured Jinling, the capital of China at that time, in 1937, it not only slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Chinese people and committed heinous crimes, but also used the "golden lily" to personally participate in the robbery of treasures.
In Jinling, the Gendarmerie Special Operations Squad searched everywhere, seized the property of the Chinese government, looted the gold, jewelry, art, and currency of wealthy businessmen and others, and even knocked off the gold teeth on the corpses. At this stage alone, he plundered at least 6,000 tons of gold.
These looted treasures were shipped directly from Shanghai to the capital, or transported by train or automobile to Northeast China for processing, where the rare metals were graded, and the rest of the jewelry was melted down and recast into gold ingots of uniform size, and then transported back to the capital. In addition, the military also sent the boss of the Black Society, Kodama Yuyoshio, to Huaxia to rob the ill-gotten gains of the Black Society in China at that time. At first, Kodama loaded the plane to Zomoto with too much gold and silver, and the landing gear was crushed before takeoff. Later, he had to collect only the largest and finest rubies, sapphires, and diamonds......
In addition to gold and other precious metals, he also plundered cultural relics, books, copper and nickel coins and other property from China, and the total value is so amazing that it is impossible to estimate it to this day. After the wealth was shipped to North Korea, it was shipped back to the mainland of the country and became the property of the royal family.
At the same time, the **** also plundered a large amount of gold and silver treasures in Southeast Asia. In addition to the countries invaded, the targets of the robbery also included individuals, churches, temples, banks, companies, and underground economic groups in the occupied areas. At the end of the 40s of the last century, some people estimated that the "spoils of war" that Ben had obtained in Southeast Asia were nearly $100 billion, as well as many inestimable treasures, and this caused the Asian people to suffer immeasurable losses.
At that time, the behavior of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia was not much worse than in China, and the people of Southeast Asia generally believed in Buddhism, so there were many temples in Southeast Asia at that time. At that time, the Japanese army rushed directly into the temple, and when they saw something valuable, they grabbed it, and even scraped off all the gold leaf on the Buddha's body and snatched it away.
It's as if the first batch of materials recorded in this ledger is gold leaf scraped from the body of a Buddha in a temple in Southeast Asia.
He also believed in Buddhism, but they even robbed the temple at that time, which shows how mad he was at that time!
Quite simply, just from the fact that the situation in the Pacific Ocean was becoming increasingly tense and the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to Yuben, the frenzied army began to desperately transport goods to the mainland, and even the goods could not be transported, we can see how much wealth he had robbed in Southeast Asia at that time!
PS: I'll go to the airport right away and go home today.