54. Dig up your treasures

The smoke of gunpowder that had permeated the entire territory of Chile for more than three months finally dissipated, and the international world quickly recognized the Monte political axe, but the United States made some miscalculations; after seizing the "Itata" Capitol freighter that had come to their country to purchase arms, they wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail the Chilean Congress in exchange for huge profits in saltpeter, but due to the rapid offensive of the Capitol army, they finally returned in vain, and the embarrassed and angry Americans simply seized all the arms, including the Itata, on the grounds that they could not sell arms to the belligerents.

President Balmaceda did not commit suicide with a gun, as history describes, but suddenly disappeared when the Capitol troops approached the city, prompting those forces who remained loyal to him to angrily accuse Congress of assassinating the president while secretly searching for his whereabouts. At the same time, there are also the congressional forces led by Monte, and Balmaceda is like a cannonball that can explode at any time for them.

The two sides of the accusation, one after another, disturbed the search, but covered up another incident, the ironclad ship Brad, the protective cruiser Eramaliz and the protective cruiser Pingdu, which had just arrived in Chile, were quietly crossed out of the roster by the Chilean Navy, along with two torpedo ships and a wooden training ship.

When the six warships sailed directly into the bay of Mas Ti Island and arrived on the same day, the officers and men of the escort who had come here to rest and prepare to go home cheered excitedly, as if they saw the picture of the fleet protecting them and fighting in the four seas.

The ironclad ships Longxiao, the cruisers Sky Survey and Sea Cruiser, the torpedo destroyers USS Swordfish and Exocet, and the USS Voyager training ship. Under the expectation of everyone, Young Master Li casually set new names for the six warships, and the escort team was officially renamed the Pacific Army.

When the excitement gradually cooled, a serious fact was placed in front of Long Guozhang, the first commander of the Pacific Fleet, and Chen Ping, the chief of staff, because they found that in order to drive these six warships, at least 1,500 people were needed. But now! Long Guozhang had less than 500 sailors who had been trained on a freighter.

Suddenly, everyone's eyes were full of sadness.

In the end, the first commander, Long Guozhang, could only grit his teeth, reluctantly left the fleet temporarily, and began to recruit sailors and suitable naval officers all over the world.

Compared with the depression of the fleet, Zhao Long is full of spring breeze, twenty-five intact 75 mm army guns, and a large number of shells, which suddenly made the army that lacked heavy firepower turn over and sing the serfs, especially here There is such an open sea area that can be used for artillery training, and there is no need to dodge and dodge, so during this period, almost every day, you can hear the rumbling of artillery in the south of Maasti Island.

When Young Master Li came to inspect the escort army after he was busy, he found that these guys had actually used up a full thirty boxes of shells, and he was so angry that he let Zhao Long soak in the sea for a day.

Crossing the ocean, coming to a strange country to fight against an unfamiliar opponent, and finally achieved the result of 70 dead, 231 wounded, annihilating and capturing more than 3,000 enemies.

It can be said that the escort team relied on the military concept of a hundred years later to defeat the Chilean Army, which was still using the three-stage shooting method, not looking for cover during the battle, and charging straight and straight, completely living in the middle of the 18th century at the world's third-rate level.

is like that movie that was very popular in the past, the lone knight, who draws the word Z, can take on hundreds of clumsy soldiers alone, and he can still be more than vertical. Young Master Li burst into tears, there are two thousand young masters! Such a result is not worth boasting about at all.

What really pleased him was that the soldiers had passed the first battle, and the young officers had been trained, laying the foundation for future expansion. In the end, in order to reward everyone, Master Li specially asked Simmons to bring a boatload of wine and food, and personally arranged for the soldiers to have a good rest.

The fleet was formed, and the convoy also needed to be formalized.

The escort team was officially renamed the First Division of the Pacific Army, with a total of four regiments, each regiment of 1,000 people, because the actual total number of the escort army is currently 3,000 people, so Li Mo authorized Zhao Long to form another regiment, in addition to the first time to form an artillery company, temporarily transferred 300 people from the escort army, led by Chilean instructors, to learn artillery techniques.

The division commander is naturally Zhao Long, and the four regiment commanders are Luo Feng, Ouyang Xiu, Huang Fuqi, and Chu Tianjin. These four people have been tempered in this war, and in order to better enrich them, Li Mo even specially asked Chen Ping to contact Simmons and let the four of them receive training at the Chilean Army Academy for half a year.

When Young Master Li was busy with all this, he immediately took Liu Guishan and others to start "inspecting" the Masi Island, which would belong to him within three years.

Grandma's, you blackmailed Lao Tzu with so much money, it's time for you to bleed!

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After several days and nights of searching, Young Master Li almost despaired, standing by the highest volcanic lake on the island, he even wondered if he was mistaken, or that Robinson Island and Masti Island in later generations were not the same place?

But I clearly remember that the host of that episode said that the Chilean political axe was to change the name of Mas Ti Island to "Robinson" in 1966. Crusoe Island", also opened up as a national park!

Young Master Li looked up into the distance, and the boundless Pacific Ocean was like a huge blue gem, exuding a brilliant and charming brilliance in the sun, and he, a traverser, had actually established two bases in the south and north of the ocean at the same time in just a few years.

Although the bases are temporary, they are an important prelude to their own solid steps, and it is with them that the two most important strokes of the Great Pacific Plan of their dreams have been outlined.

What's more, more important, this south and north actually have gold at the same time, is this a coincidence of the legend in the play?

What can make Young Master Li collapse is that the young master has trampled on every inch of land here, but where is the so-called greatest treasure of the 21st century broadcast live on TV?!

Gold from the North is being mined and secretly shipped to Hawaii. And to the south! In the past half a month, he has searched almost the entire island of Maasti Island, but he has not found any clues, if it were not for the real treasure unearthed pictures in that National Geographic program, I am afraid he would have given up.

After finding a big stone and sitting down, Li Mo pulled up a weed, put it in his mouth, and looked blankly at the rocky hill in front of him, which was most like a treasure land, but this rocky hill was too big, even if all the guards were used, it would be impossible to dig it out in a short time, once the large-scale action alarmed the Chileans, not to mention the unstable relationship, even if it was a brother, in the face of such a huge treasure, Monte would definitely let the fleet directly destroy himself!

The sun is setting, the harsh winter in the northern hemisphere has just ended, and the summer here has come to an end, watching the sun slowly fall in the distance, Li Mo suddenly has an urge to rush into Antarctica and walk towards the end of the sky.

I don't know how long it took, when there was only a thin line left in the remnant sun, Young Master Li got up and sighed, he still couldn't locate the specific location of the treasure in a short time, did he really want to dig up here on a large scale?

Suddenly, Li Mo's eyes lit up! I saw that as the sunset was falling more and more, a long oblique shadow was pulled out of the huge mountain rock not far away, and when the top of the shadow touched another big mountain rock next to it, the scenery of the chaotic stone hill in front of him seemed to be distorted, and he looked at it blankly, until it overlapped with the picture of the treasure unearthed in the sunset in his mind, Li Mo felt as if he had been hit by hundreds of tons of air hammer! The blood rushed into the brain at once, and the whole body trembled with horror.

"Here, here!" Young Master Li jumped and cheered, crossed the largest and most suspicious boulder, and stopped in front of the mountain rock next to it shrouded in its shadow.

Then, holding the stone, I twisted my ass!

Liu Guishan's eyes were in a daze, because he saw that the god-like young master Li in his heart was dancing with his hands, holding a big stone that was about to be weathered, and twisting his butt on it! Yes, twist the ass! Wiping his eyes, Liu Guishan was sure that he was not mistaken. And the twist is so joyful, the posture is like a ram in estrus riding on the back of a ewe...... which is really unsightly!

"Young master, this is?"

"Could it be that I haven't seen my mother for many days, and I'm having hysteria?"

"It's possible, I heard that the young master used to let Miss Qiao sleep with him every night!"

"Why don't you go and talk to the division commander and find two Chilean girls to extinguish the fire for the young master?!"

"Laugh ass! Go quickly, call Chen Ping and Zhao Long to come! "Young Master Li kicked the bastard who said that he wanted to help him find a foreign girl to extinguish the fire, and he climbed the stone and didn't want to come down again.

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"What, digging a camp here?" Zhao Long's eyes widened, and he swept around, bare! It's all rocky, and the terrain is uneven, so I'm afraid it won't be possible to build a camp in a few months, and besides, this is still the live-fire training ground he chose, if it is converted into a camp, where will he train?

Chen Ping also shook his head like a wave drum, although the island of Masi Di is not big, but near the north of the Masi Gulf, there is enough to build a camp for thousands of people, why build another camp?

Besides, from the sea, there is no boundlessness here, and there is not even shade from the trees, which is not in line with the young master's low-key style!

It is expensive and time-consuming, and it is easy to be discovered, which is not cost-effective.

"Advantageous! Of course it is advantageous! Young Master Li's mouth was crooked: "There's gold down here!" ”

Gold! Here's down?

Zhao Long and Li Qiang stared at each other and shook their heads, if there is gold down here, Lao Tzu can dig jade in the pit!

Isn't the young master stupid to be blackmailed by the Chileans, and he thinks about money, right?

"Say, why don't you have any eyes? Only then does your thatched pit have jade! Kicking Zhao Long, who was muttering, and immediately asked Chen Ping to arrange for the fleet to go to sea for large-scale ocean-going training on the pretext of adapting to the new warship as soon as possible, so that those Chilean instructors who came to the ship would have to leave with the ship to teach with the army.

After sending away the Chileans, Young Master Li immediately Zhao Long personally selected a hundred of the most trustworthy soldiers, and began to dig in the place designated by the young master overnight, although no one knew what the young master was going to dig, after a day of serving, a tattered wooden barrel was smashed open by an iron pickaxe, revealing a golden color, and everyone held their breath.

There really is gold!

How can there be gold in this place?! And how did the young master know?

"I read it in the book! Haven't you heard the phrase "there is a golden house in the book"? "Since the teacher's theory and the newspaper theory, Master Li shamelessly launched the book theory.

What did you read in the book?

"Why didn't I see the gold here after reading this Robinson Crusoe three times?" Chen Ping's eyes were straight, and he found Robinson Crusoe and wanted to jump into the sea.

As the iron pickaxe dug deeper and deeper, the gold coins and jewels that appeared from time to time, and the book treatise of Young Master Li was completely thrown out of the clouds by everyone, and finally when the tunnel meandered under the stones, and finally reached directly below the stones, everyone held their breath.

Master Li finally understood why after the news of this treasure spread in 1940, countless people searched the island but did not find it, it turned out that the cunning pirates not only buried the treasure under the soil layer up to fifteen meters deep, but also deliberately turned the tunnel when excavating, and placed the treasure room under the boulder, so that even if the soil layer was dug up, the treasure could not be seen.

While marveling at the wisdom of the pirates, the dazzling treasure also dazzled everyone's eyes, not only those soldiers who excavated, one by one, were dumbfounded and at a loss, but even Young Master Li, a traverser who accurately knew the value of the treasure, was also in a daze.

Too much! It's just too much!

"Dig!" Young Master Li swallowed wildly, his eyes turned green: "Let you lie to the young master!" Let you treat the young master as a wronged leader! Young master digs up your treasures! Haha~"

864 barrels of gold, 160 chests of gold coins, 200 gold ingots and 21 barrels of jewelry! Finally, after three days, the soldiers excavated all of them, and although the weight did not match the legendary record of thousands of tons, there were still a total of 325 tons of gold, as well as 21 barrels of jewelry whose value cannot be estimated for the time being!

God, every soldier who looked at these gold was dizzy, and Li Mo even calculated in his heart, just this batch of gold is worth about 45 million pounds, which is more than 200 million when converted into dollars! And that's not even counting the immeasurable jewels! No wonder the narrator of later generations said that this batch of treasures was worth 10 billion US dollars, considering the actual value of the currencies of the two eras, converted into later generations, even if there is no 100 billion, 5 billion is still there.

As the last piece of gold ingots was dug up, Zhao Long and others sealed the gold overnight and loaded it onto two armed cargo ships, and then immediately announced that a large-scale artillery training would be held at the place where the gold was unearthed.

After getting this coveted batch of golden treasures, Young Master Li didn't even have the interest to say hello to Monte, and asked Simmons for a cruiser to escort him, and after leaving five hundred people to garrison Masti Island, he returned to Hawaii with two cargo ships and the remaining officers and soldiers on the grounds of official urgency.

On the third day after Master Li left with the gold, Chen Ping also took Liu Haitao, Ji Weishan and several naval officers who had studied in Europe to join the Chilean Navy shipbuilding supervision group headed by Simmons and set off for Europe......

ps: Rushed out, I originally wanted to divide it into two chapters, but Hippo still decided to finish it at once and end the Chilean volume! In addition, there is indeed a treasure legend on Mas Ti Island, and interested friends can Baidu Niang (Robinson. Crusoe Island treasures), but haven't been discovered yet, or yet? Everyone~~ Go and try it?!