Easy Tycoon

Chapter 755 The Awamaru Scam
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 mentioning shipwrecks, the first thing that comes to mind is the Titanic.But in the East, especially in China and Japan, 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 the Japanese in early 1943. Although this ship is a civilian freighter, its displacement exceeds [-] tons, and this ship is definitely built according to military performance and requirements. In terms of scale, nature, and performance, they are all military ships in the true sense.

Because merchant ships of the same model as this ship have been transformed into light aircraft carriers by Japan, but this ship still has the "commercial" brand, which shows the excellent performance of this ship.

Just kidding, in that era, an ordinary [-]-ton merchant ship could run at a speed of [-] knots?Ordinary merchant ships can be bombed and attacked by U.S. torpedoes during the six rounds of the Japan-Singapore route to deliver supplies for the army, and still not sink?Can ordinary merchant ships be hailed as "unsinkable ships" by the Japanese military?
Isn't this just talking nonsense with your eyes open!
But it's just that the little devil did it, and he did it so openly.During the blockade of the Western Pacific by American warships, it was such a military merchant ship that swaggered back and forth from Japan to Singapore. The huge amount of wealth collected by his subordinates from Southeast Asia arrived in Japan.

However, Skynet is not missing!It's not that the time has not come!
The Awa Maru, which successfully completed six supply and delivery missions, finally suffered God's retribution when it performed the last transportation mission.

Facts have proved that this "unsinkable ship" that the Japanese military placed high hopes on is far from the German Navy's real "unsinkable ship" battlecruiser Seydlitz.In the famous Battle of Jutland, this battlecruiser belonging to General Hipper's battlecruiser squad suffered a total of eight 15-inch shells, six 13.5-inch shells and eight 12-inch shells in that naval battle. Inch shells, a total of 22 large-caliber shells and a torpedo hit the giant ship, but the giant ship did not sink.The Lion-class battlecruiser Queen Mary, which was the opponent of this huge ship, exploded and sank after only being hit by seven bombs.

It can be seen that the real title of "unsinkable ship" cannot be afforded by the small Awamaru.

Perhaps it is precisely because this military version of the merchant ship bears such a name that it should not have been able to bear. As a result, during its last mission, the US Navy "Queen Fish" and the bureaucratic boat "Sea Fox" The Awamaru sank in just 3 minutes with only four torpedoes!

And it was 2008 Japanese who sank along with the Awa Maru.These Japanese people deserved what they said. After the Awamaru hit a fish, many Japanese jumped into the sea, but they refused the rescue of the Americans. Isn’t this what they deserve?Could it be that they have ghosts in their hearts, afraid that they will tell some secrets that should not be told after being rescued by the Americans?
Anyway, all the passengers on the Awa Maru sank in the depths of the East China Sea with the Awa Maru except for one person who was rescued.As for people like Lieutenant Zuoshan Akio who performed the secret escort mission, the ghost knows how many passengers there are among those who died.

It is estimated that no one except the Japanese cares about how many Japanese died. People are more concerned about the wealth that is said to be worth 50 billion U.S. dollars that sank with the Awa Maru!
According to a report in the November-December 1976 special issue of the US "Republican Newspaper", the Awa Maru was loaded with 11 tons of gold and 12 tons of platinum.15 carats of industrial diamonds, a large bundle of banknotes of unknown value, [-] boxes of artifacts, handicrafts, and precious stones.

According to Natos, a former American marine laboratory observer and member of the national diving leadership, if the Awa Maru is salvaged, at least 2.5 million U.S. dollars worth of property can be salvaged, and the wealth on the entire Awa Maru is worth more than 50 billion U.S. dollars !
According to Baodao's report on November 1976, 11, when the Awa Maru was sunk, it carried 21 tons of gold ingots, 15 tons of platinum, [-] carats of unprocessed gemstones, several bundles of American, British and Hong Kong currency, and [-] tons of handicrafts. boxes, [-] tons of tin ingots, [-] tons of tungsten, [-] tons of aluminum ingots, [-] tons of titanium, and [-] tons of rubber!
On May 1979, 5, Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" reported that your Army Corps Chief Morikawa Iemitsu said that all the 2 military trucks loaded on the Awa Maru were gold bars
Anyway, no matter from which point of view, when China was preparing to salvage the Awa Maru in the mid-to-late 70s, reports from all over the world were saying how much wealth the Awa Maru had brought, and even the legendary BJ/ Fossilized human skulls were also on that ship.

But it turns out that all these reports are all nonsense!

The Awa Maru, which sank in the East China Sea, is a huge fortune, and it has attracted countless people to explore it.For this reason, the United States, Japan, and even the British have broken the threshold of China, hoping that they can use advanced underwater salvage technology to conduct joint salvage with China and participate in the sharing of salvage, especially Japan, which is at the time of China. It was a good time for Japan to restore relations. Japan was very enthusiastic about the Awa Maru, but China rejected them one by one!

Because no matter from which angle you look at it, the Awa Maru belongs to China.

Such a large amount of wealth was too important to China, which was poor and white at the time. From 1977 to 1980, Huaxia dispatched the largest salvage team in history, more than 5418 divers went into the water, and even the navy came to help.Unfortunately, probably due to technical reasons, only 5000 tons of tin ingots, rubber, mercury, niobium and tantalum, mica, and actinic glass were salvaged in the end, with a total value of only more than 368 million yuan in national currency.In addition, [-] Japanese bones were recovered and returned to the Japanese Red Cross Society by the Shanghai Red Cross Society.Not to mention the BJ man's skull, even a tael of gold and silver have not been seen.

After the first salvage, several years later, Huaxia and the United States once again started salvage operations in the nearby waters, but still did not find gold.

The two unsuccessful salvages actually showed that the Awa Maru was a huge scam.

Of course, perhaps the Awamaru did pull a lot of precious cultural relics looted from China on Hong Kong Island at that time, even including the four skull fossils, but these treasures included a piece of gold that should have been transported to Japan, Platinum and precious stones were not shipped in San Fernando, because these things were intercepted by Jun Inoue!

From Yang Jing's point of view, it was a very correct choice for the intuitive Inoue Jun not to ship these priceless wealth!Otherwise, these treasures would have to sink into the bottom of the sea forever with the Awa Maru, and I wouldn't have picked up so many treasures here!

No matter how the Awamaru scam was formed, these treasures will eventually end up in Huaxia, and this is the most important thing!
This sixth large iron box is probably the most core one among the seven iron boxes, not only because the treasures contained in it are the most precious, but also because there are materials recording the origin of these treasures in this box.

Especially the notebook left by Jun Inoue is the most intuitive explanation of how these treasures are buried here.

As for the seventh large iron box, it is indeed filled with porcelain, but most of these porcelains are the top-quality porcelain of the Kang, Yong, and Qian Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.

The top-quality official kiln porcelain of the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties in the Qing Dynasty is actually extremely valuable. Among the top ten modern Chinese porcelain auction prices, four pieces of porcelain are from the Kang, Yong, and Qian Dynasties. Great value.

In the last iron box, there are a total of [-] pieces of high-quality porcelain from Kang, Yong, and Qian 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 treasures.
These porcelains were all looted from Southeast Asia, and these porcelains were also rewarded to the Southeast Asian countries by the three emperors Kang, Yong, and Qian in the Qing Dynasty.

Those countries in Southeast Asia enshrined these rewards as family heirlooms, but they didn't expect to be picked up by the little devils who were looting.And Jun Inoue chose the best top quality among them, and then divided them up and hid them here.

Obviously, Jun Inoue is definitely a master who has a very deep understanding of Chinese culture.That's right, although this guy serves the Emperor of Japan, he has to admit that he can definitely be called a master in the field of archaeology and appraising treasures.

The little devil had looted a lot of porcelain in Southeast Asia, but this guy was able to select the best among the many looted porcelains, which is enough to prove this guy's profound skill in porcelain.Yang Jing was even thinking that if this guy was still alive, the fourth master, Cai Yi, would probably have to bow down when he saw this guy.

Thinking of this, Yang Jing thought of Fourth Master Cai Yi again.

If Fourth Master saw these precious porcelains, he would be so happy that he could not close his eyes for three days and three nights.
The consciousness withdrew from the storage space, and Yang Jing only felt refreshed.

In things like treasure hunting, the most important thing is not the process, but the moment of final "inspection"!
Although the process of treasure hunting is also very interesting, how can there be any fun in testing the final harvest?Just like coming to the Philippines this time, I wandered around eight places for more than [-] days, and caught up with earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and super typhoons in the middle. I can't go home.

This process can definitely be called a troubled process, but if compared with the harvest this time, 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 precious stones found earlier were enough to pay the price of this treasure hunt.But obviously God favored me very much, and unexpectedly found such a batch of treasures in Laoag again!
This batch of treasures alone is enough to be called "a huge harvest"!
Not to mention, there are still a group of treasures hidden under the Catholic church in San Fernando.And judging from what Jun Inoue wrote, the treasures of San Fernando were also hidden by this guy. If you look at the treasures of this treasure, the treasure buried under that Catholic church may not be worth more than How low are these treasures.

Thinking about the treasures he harvested just now, Yang Jing's heart became even hotter, and he wished that it would be dawn now, and then rush to San Fernando as soon as possible to dig out all the treasures under the Catholic Church.

After thinking wildly for most of the night, Yang Jing didn't fall asleep until after two o'clock in the morning.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, the group went to the helipad on the roof of the hotel and took the helicopter to fly directly to San Fernando in the south.

(End of this chapter)