However, the content recorded in this notebook also made Yang Jing finally understand that the "Awa Maru scam" turned out to be true.In the eyes of Westerners, when it comes to shipwrecks, I am afraid that the first thing that comes to mind is the Titanic.But in the East, especially in Huaxia and Yumoto, when it comes to shipwrecks, the Awa Maru is definitely the first thing that comes to mind.The Awa Maru is a civilian ocean-going freighter built by me in early 1943, although this ship is a civilian freighter, but the displacement exceeds 11,000 tons, and this ship is definitely built in accordance with military performance and requirements, no matter in terms of scale, nature, performance, it is a military ship in the true sense.Because the merchant ships of the same model as this ship have been transformed into light aircraft carriers by Xiao Yueben, only this ship still has the "commercial" brand, which shows the excellent performance of this ship.Just kidding, an ordinary 10,000-ton merchant ship could run at a speed of 20 knots in those days?
Can an ordinary merchant ship survive bomb blasting and U.S. torpedo attacks during the six round-trip routes to and from Singapore to deliver supplies to the Army, and still remain unsinkable?
Can an ordinary merchant ship be praised as an "unsinkable ship" by the military?
Isn't this just talking nonsense with your eyes open!
But the little devil did it, and he did it so grandly.During the blockade of the western Pacific by American warships, it was such a military version of the merchant ship, swaggering back and forth from Morimoto to Singapore, not only transporting a large number of military supplies to Terauchi Shouichi's men, but also transporting the huge wealth looted by Terauchi Shouichi's men from Southeast Asia to the Honto mainland.However, Skynet is magnificent and not leaky!
It's not that the time has not come!
The Awa Maru, which successfully completed six supply and delivery missions, was finally punished by God when it carried out its last transportation mission.Facts have proved that this "unsinkable ship," which the military has placed high hopes on, is far from the real "unsinkable ship" of the German Navy, the battlecruiser Seydlitz.In the famous Battle of Jutland, the battle cruiser, which belonged to the battle patrol detachment of General Hipper, suffered a total of eight 15-inch shells, six 135-inch shells and eight 12-inch shells, a total of 22 large-caliber shells and one torpedo hit the ship, but the ship did not sink.The Lion-class Battle Cruiser Queen Mary, the rival of the giant ship, was killed and sunk after only seven bullets.It can be seen that the real name of the "unsinkable ship" is not something that the small Awa Maru can bear.Perhaps it was precisely because of this military version of the merchant ship that it should not have been able to bear such a name, as a result, in the course of its last mission, the US Navy "Queenfish" and wingman "Sea Fox" used only four torpedoes to sink the Awa Maru in just three minutes!
And along with the sinking of the Awa Maru, it was the 2008 name himself.At that time, after the Awa Maru was hit by a fish, many of them jumped into the sea, but they refused to be rescued by the Americans.Could it be that they have a ghost in their hearts, afraid that they will tell some secrets that should not be told after being rescued by the Americans?
Anyway, all but one of the passengers on the Awa Maru was rescued, and all the others sank in the depths of the East China Sea with the Awa Maru.As for people like Akio Sayama Nakasa, who was on a secret escort mission, the devil knows how many more of those dead passengers were.It is estimated that no one cares about how many people have died, but people are more concerned about the wealth that is claimed to be worth five billion dollars that sank with the Awa Maru!
According to a special issue of the Republican newspaper in the United States from November to December 1976, the Awa Maru was loaded with 40 tons of gold and 12 tons of platinum.150,000 carats of industrial diamonds, bundles of banknotes of unknown value, and 40 boxes of artefacts, handicrafts, and precious stones.According to Natos, a former observer of the U.S.
Marine Laboratory and a member of the National Diving Leadership, if the Awa Maru were to be salvaged, at least $2.5 billion worth of property could be recovered, and the wealth on the entire Awa Maru was worth more than $5 billion!
According to Takashima's report on November 21, 1976, the Awa Maru was sunk with 40 tons of gold ingots, 12 tons of platinum, 150,000 carats of unprocessed gemstones, several bundles of American, British, and Hong Kong currency, 40 boxes of handicrafts, 3,000 tons of tin ingots, 2,000 tons of tungsten, 2,000 tons of aluminum ingots, 800 tons of titanium, and 2,000 tons of rubber!
On May 2, 1979, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that your army commander Morikawa Iemitsu said that the 26 military trucks loaded by the Awa Maru at that time were all loaded with gold bars, anyway, from any point of view, in the mid-to-late 70s of the last century, when China was preparing to salvage the Awa Maru, reports from all over the world were saying how much wealth the Awa Maru had, and even the legendary Peking Man skull fossil was on that ship.But it turns out that all these reports are nonsense!
The Awa Maru, which sank in the East China Sea, is a huge fortune that attracts many people to explore it.For this reason, the United States and the British have kicked the threshold of Huaxia out, hoping that they can use advanced underwater salvage technology and Huaxia to carry out joint salvage, and participate in the sharing of salvage, especially Yueben, when it was a good period for China and Japan to restore relations, Yuben was very enthusiastic about the Awa Maru, but they were all rejected by Huaxia one by one!
Because no matter how you look at it, the Awa Maru is Chinese.Such a large amount of wealth was too important for Huaxia, which was poor and white at that time.From 1977 to 1980, Huaxia sent the largest salvage team in history, with more than 600 divers launching operations, including the navy.Unfortunately, probably because of technical reasons, only 5,418 tons of tin, rubber, mercury, niobium-tantalum, mica, actinic glass and other materials were salvaged in the end, with a total value of only about 50 million yuan.In addition, 368 Japanese bones were recovered and returned to the Red Cross Society by the Shanghai Red Cross Society.Not to mention the skulls of the Pekingese, even a tael of gold and silver have not been seen.After the first salvage, a few years later, China and the United States began salvage operations in nearby waters again, but still no gold was found.The two unsuccessful salvages have actually explained that the Awa Maru is a huge hoax.Of course, perhaps the Awa Maru did pull a lot of precious artifacts looted from China on Hong Kong Island at that time, even including the four skull fossils, but these treasures, including a piece of gold, platinum and precious stones that were supposed to be transported to the mainland, were not loaded on the ship in San Fernando, because these things were intercepted by Jun Inoue!
From Yang Jing's point of view, the intuitive Inoue Jun did not ship these priceless riches with a very correct choice!
Otherwise, these treasures would have to sink to the bottom of the sea forever along with the Awa Maru, and I wouldn't have found so many treasures here!
No matter how the Awa Maru scam was formed, these treasures will eventually be spent in China, and that's the most important thing!
This sixth large iron box is probably the core of the seven iron boxes, not only because the treasures contained in it are the most precious, but also because there is information about the origin of these treasures in this box.In particular, the notebook left by Inoue Jun is the most intuitive explanation of how these treasures are buried here.As for the seventh big iron box, it is indeed all porcelain, but most of these porcelains are the best porcelain of the three generations of Kang Yongqian in the Qing Dynasty.In the top ten of the highest auction prices of modern Chinese porcelain, four pieces of porcelain are from the fine porcelain of the Kang Yongqian Dynasty, which is enough to prove the high value of the porcelain of the Kang Yongqian Dynasty.In the last iron box, there are a total of 16 pieces of fine porcelain from the Kang Yongqian and Qianqian dynasties, and these porcelains can also be matched with those materials.Although these porcelains cannot be compared with those treasures in the sixth iron box, they are definitely national treasure-level porcelain, these porcelains are all looted from Southeast Asia, and these porcelains are also the porcelain given to the three emperors of the Qing Dynasty Kang Yongqian to the subject countries of Southeast Asia.Those countries in Southeast Asia worshipped these gifts as family heirlooms, but they didn't expect to be served a pot by the little devils who were predators.And Inoue Jun chose the best among them, and then divided it and hid it here.Obviously, this Inoue Jun is definitely a person who has a very deep understanding of Chinese culture.That's right, although this guy serves Emperor Yumoto, I have to admit that in the field of archaeology and treasure appreciation, this guy can definitely be called a big family.The little devil didn't know how much porcelain he looted in Southeast Asia, but this guy was able to choose the best among the many looted porcelain, which is enough to prove this guy's deep skill in porcelain.Yang Jing was even thinking that if this guy was still alive now, I was afraid that even the fourth master, Cai Yi, would have to bow down when he saw this guy.Thinking of this, Yang Jing thought of the fourth master, Cai Yi.If the fourth master saw these precious porcelain, he would probably be so happy that he couldn't close his eyes for three days and three nights, and his consciousness retreated from the storage space, and Yang Jing only felt relaxed.The most important thing in treasure hunting is not the process, but the moment of the final "inspection"!
Although the process of treasure hunting is also very interesting, where is the enjoyment of testing the final harvest?
Just like this visit to the Philippines, I spent more than 20 days in eight locations, and caught up with earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and super typhoons.This process can definitely be called a lot of disasters, but if compared with this harvest, Yang Jing would rather go through such a troubled process again than give up these treasures.In fact, the two tons of gold and the two boxes of gems found earlier were enough to pay the price of this treasure hunt.But apparently God favored himself and found such a batch of treasures in Laoag!
This batch of treasures alone is enough to be called "a huge harvest"!
Not to mention, there are treasures hidden under the Catholic church in San Fernando.And judging from what Inoue Jun wrote, the treasures of San Fernando were also hidden by this guy, and if you look at the treasures of this treasure, the treasure buried under the Catholic church is probably not worth much less than this batch of treasures.Thinking about the treasures he had just harvested, Yang Jing's heart was even hotter, and he wished that it would be dawn now, and then hurry up to San Fernando to dig out all the treasures under the Catholic church.I thought about it for most of the night, and it wasn't until more than two o'clock in the morning that Yang Jing fell asleep.Early the next morning, after breakfast, the group walked up to the helipad on the roof of the hotel and took this helicopter to fly directly to San Fernando in the south.