After returning to the hotel, Yang Jing couldn't wait to get into the space.That gold has long been placed in a corner of the space, and in that corner, all the gold is placed.Yang Jing was interested in the four teak barrels.Through the perspective skill, Yang Jing already knew that the four teak barrels were filled with whale oil, and there was a well-sealed iron box in the whale oil.The use of whale oil to preserve things has been around since the days of Viking.Whale oil was a universal oil before the advent of oil.In particular, whale oil and gas were the most common sources of lighting used by Westerners before the discovery of oil.However, the production cost of gas is too high, and it is very inconvenient to transport, so many Westerners use whale oil for lighting.Especially in the early 19th century, the steam engine was popularized and applied, and manpower was liberated to a great extent.At the same time, the explosive growth of scientific and technological and industrial knowledge, people's motivation and momentum to learn have increased simultaneously, and the demand for indoor lighting has risen sharply.This has led to an increase in the price of whale oil, and whaling has become a lucrative business.At that time, many newly industrialized countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Norway and other countries were involved in large-scale whaling.When whaling is mentioned in modern times, ten out of ten people will think of that country, but who can know that the whaling industry of Little Yuben is really small compared to the United States 200 years ago.Between the twenties and sixties of the nineteenth century, the United States had the highest number of whals in the world.The forty years from 1820 to 1860 were the "golden age" of American whaling.During that period, the development of the domestic economy in the United States and the rise of the Industrial Revolution were driving the huge demand for whale oil.Clever humans have also made more use of whales, with cetacean products such as soaps, skin care products, lubricants, female girdles, and more.At the time, the income of a whale caught was equivalent to half a year's salary for a land-based worker.There are even women who disguise themselves as men to work on ships, and many young girls dream of marrying the captain of a whaling ship.Whalers have become the embodiment of light to some extent, and the whaling industry has become the most respected profession.Around 1846, nearly half of all U.S. fishing vessels were engaged in whaling, and 735 of the world's 900 whaling vessels were American.One can imagine how developed and crazy the whaling industry was in the United States at that time.According to statistics, in the 100 years of the 19th century alone, the number of whals in the world is conservatively estimated to exceed 4 million, and an average of 110,000 whales are hunted every day!
This amount is several times more than the number of whalings in a year in all countries around the globe that are now allowed to hunt!
In that crazy era, whales almost became extinct.If it weren't for the American Colonel Cornon Drake who drilled the first modern industrial oil well in Pennsylvania, and oil replaced whale oil in the century that followed, it is estimated that whales would have been extinct by now.It can be said that Colonel Conon Drake is the savior of all whales in the world, and his photographs should be hung in the mysterious whale mounds in the world's oceans, and whale oil is not only an excellent oil for lighting, but also an excellent oil for embalming.Hundreds of years ago, many precious items that needed to be preserved for a long time would be wiped with whale oil to achieve the effect of anti-corrosion and moisture-proofing, which was not much worse than paint.In particular, many shipwrecks salvaged in Greenland and the North Atlantic in recent years have been preserved because they have been soaked in whale oil.He obviously knows the role of whale oil, so he uses barrels of whale oil to preserve these iron boxes.Use his consciousness to open the whale oil, and gather the whale oil together, forming a huge oil bubble and letting it suspend in space, and then Yang Jing took out the four iron boxes.The four iron boxes are made of ordinary steel plates, and they all have hidden locks on them.Because they have been soaked in whale oil, these iron boxes are very well preserved.The secret lock on the box is difficult for Yang Jing, and in the space, Yang Jing's consciousness is the supreme god.It's just that after opening these boxes, Yang Jing, who had great hopes, was completely disappointed.Originally, I thought that these boxes contained some precious materials, after all, before opening these boxes, Yang Jing had already seen through the perspective skills that the boxes contained some paper products, and at that time Yang Jing thought that they were important military materials of the army at that time.In modern times, even some classified military information during World War II is quite valuable.After opening the results, Yang Jing was disappointed to find that these things were just some ordinary family letters—family letters between senior Japanese officers stationed in Rabaul, the Solomon Islands and other places, and family members in the local area.Although it is said that "the beacon fire lasts for three months, and the family letter is worth ten thousand gold", but you little devil's senior military officers use this method to transport family letters, which is inevitably too much, right?
However, Yang Jing still looked at these family letters with some unwillingness, opened them one by one, and when he saw that they were indeed family letters, he immediately cleared the space.Yang Jing also knows a little Japanese, which is also due to the fact that when he was studying in London, a professor who taught modern economics was from the book, so at that time, in order to get enough credits, Yang Jing deliberately learned a little Japanese, but it was only limited to understanding some Japanese texts, if he was asked to speak Japanese, Yang Jing would only say "cry you a few wow", "Sanyou Nala" Of course, "Ya Yan Butterfly" He could also understand and flipped through dozens of letters in a row, Yang Jing completely lost patience, I'm going to get all this mess out of the storage space.But inadvertently, Yang Jing caught a glimpse of a very thick envelope with the Japanese words "だいほんえい" printed on the surface, and it just so happened that Yang Jing really understood what these Japanese words meant.だいほんえい, which translates to "base camp"."
Could it be that this letter was sent to the base camp?"
Yang Jing's heart moved slightly, and he thought to himself.The letters opened earlier had already made Yang Jing understand that the "Daiichi Xinxing Maru" sailed from Rabaul, docked at Lorengau, and then continued to prepare to go north to the Caroline Islands, more than 1,000 kilometers away, and return to the mainland via Guam."
It's just that the communication with the base camp, how can such backward means be used?"
Yang Jing was really a little puzzled.Radio during World War II was already very advanced, and if you hit a keyboard, radio waves could instantly transmit messages to the other side of the world.Even some extremely classified drawings are often transported by powerful battleships or cruisers or even more stealthy submarines, and it is absolutely impossible to transport them with such transport ships.However, this letter sent from Rabaul to the local base camp of Yuben was mixed with some family letters.Yang Jing shook his head slightly and opened the letter with his consciousness.The envelope is thick, and there are quite a few things inside.There were more than thirty pages of letterhead, and they were full of things written in Japanese, but unfortunately Yang Jing could only recognize a small part of them.However, what made Yang Jing feel strange was that the more than 30 pages of letter paper did not seem to be from the hand of one person, but at least more than ten different handwritings.And on the last page, Yang Jing saw the names of several familiar senior officers.The names of Jun Imamura, Shouichi Terauchi, and Masago Yamayama were all high-ranking military officers during World War II, so why did their names appear in this letter?
Because he couldn't quite understand what was written in the more than 30-page letter, Yang Jing was going to wait a while to go out and see if he could buy a Japanese dictionary.Attached to the letter is a very detailed, large-scale chart of a few islands and reefs, with an archipelago of four islands of varying sizes in the center.On the top of the archipelago are a few words in Japanese - Maug Islands.And on this chart, there are also the signatures of those people.Obviously, the letter was less of a correspondence in the ordinary sense of the word and more like a petition, since the signatures were almost all copies of high-ranking military officers.Needless to say, Imamura Jun is the supreme governor of Rabaul's base.And Terauchi Shouichi's fame is greater than that of Imamura, and the big one is not half a star.In the little devil's war of aggression against China, this Terauchi Shouichi was the stormtrooper of the Japanese army!
In 1937, Terauchi was appointed commander of the North China Dispatch Army, which commanded eight divisions including the First and Second Armies and about 150 aircraft of the Air Corps.It was under the leadership of this guy that the Japanese army occupied the whole of North China and even knocked down the provincial capital of Jin Province.However, the famous Battle of Taierzhuang was fought by this guy's men, which made this guy who was invincible in North China suffer a big loss.Later, when the Southeast Asian War broke out, Terauchi Shouichi was awarded the title of "Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Army", commanding 11 divisions of the Japanese army with a total of 250,000 people to attack Southeast Asia and occupy the entire Southeast Asia, and was awarded the position of marshal by Emperor Momoto in 1943.Unlike Imamura, who was Rabaul's commander, Terauchi Shouichi came under his rule after he conquered all of Southeast Asia.As for Shan Shan Zhengxiang, he is not an ordinary person, although he is only a vice admiral, he was the commander of the Kaohsiung Garrison on Bay Island during World War II.In addition to these three people, among the signatures were Rear Admiral Akimoto like Akiyama Monzo.This guy used to be the commander of the Sixth Base Force and the commander of the garrison of Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands.Mori Kunizo, Vice Admiral of the Akamoto Sea, Commander of the Special Base Area in Chichijima of the Ogasawara Islands.Yorizo Tanaka, Vice Admiral Yorizo, commander of the 13th base area in Burma.Rear Admiral Nishida, Commander of the Pari Island Garrison in the Marshall Islands.This series of names of senior officers made Yang Jing very strange in his heart what was written in this letter, and what this nautical chart represented!