Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 767 Basement

After opening the door, what was displayed in front of everyone was an obviously messy construction site.Everyone hastily removed the canvas that temporarily covered the windows as curtains to let the sunlight into the room.

"In fact, our family always thought that he might have been serving Germany in the early days. After all, before the Second World War, the Germans could not carry out military research and development in the country because of the "Versailles Treaty." Mr. Frey said looking at the house.

After the First World War, the Allies made a series of restrictions in order to disarm Germany to the greatest extent: abolish the universal compulsory military service, limit the German army to no more than 10 people, and the navy to no more than 1.5 people, and abolish the General Staff .

In addition, they also set a maximum limit for Germany to own warships and prohibited the possession of submarines and military aircraft.The production and import of heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles is prohibited.Under such circumstances, German military production naturally cannot continue normally.

So in order to prepare to maintain their own military production, the Germans established secret contacts with many countries at that time, the most famous of which was the connection with the Soviet Union.

In 1921, the Soviet Union and Germany reached a secret cooperation agreement. The Soviet Union provided the German Wehrmacht with training grounds, raw materials, and military material production bases, and Germany provided military technology, funds, and technical personnel to help the Soviet Union upgrade its military industry system.

In 1922, the Soviet Union and Germany formally signed the "Rapallo Treaty", which marked the normalization of relations between the two countries, and attached secret military supplementary clauses.

German industrial giants began to set up factories and provide technical support directly in the Soviet Union.For example, the Junkers Aircraft Company set up a factory near Moscow to produce military aircraft, and allocated them to the Soviet Union and Germany in a certain proportion.

The Soviet Union and Germany cooperated to invest in chemical factories and produce military poison gas.The German Navy handed over some submarine drawings and tried to carry out new submarine research in the Soviet Union. Of course, Germany's first tank was also trained in the Soviet Union.

In addition to cooperation with the Soviet Union, Germany also started research on fighter jets and products with the Netherlands, and research on small arms and artillery with Switzerland, and these cooperations have basically been made public today.

That's why Mr. Frey's family thought that the old Mr. Frey might have participated in the secret cooperation with the Germans. After all, the company he worked for was the German Krupp branch in Switzerland.

And if this is the case, then maybe it can explain why the other party seldom replied to the letter at that time, and at the same time, most of the letters were full of vague content when they wrote home.

After all, when the Germans were doing these tasks, they were mostly in a state of secrecy, so it is normal for those involved in the research to have restrictions on their external contacts.

It's just that during this renovation, Mr. Frey discovered the basement and some strange items in his home, so he thought about it again, and found Liang En, hoping to find out what his grandfather did back then. .

"This basement is here." Stepping on the construction waste on the ground, they quickly came to the living room, and then several people walked to the corner of the room.

Obviously, this house originally had a stone floor, but the stone floor was pried up due to renovations, so the iron plate underneath was exposed.

"We discovered this when we were renovating. Because it has been used as a hotel for so many years, when the previous contract ended, we found that the whole room was a bit dilapidated, so we decided to renovate it."

Watching Liang En pull up the iron plate under his feet, Mr. Frey turned on the headlamp that was just tied to his head on the side to illuminate the situation below and said at the same time.

"One of the core tasks of the refurbishment is to lift all these slabs from the ground, and then perform an overall cleaning and replacement of these slabs, and when these slabs were removed from the ground, we discovered the basement."

Because it had been checked and cleaned before, the decayed wooden ladder below was dismantled and thrown aside, and a silver-white aluminum alloy ladder was firmly fixed below.

Frey was the first to climb down the ladder, and after the lights were turned on, Liang En also put on a headlamp and went into the hole.

When his feet touched the floor, his eyes widened in surprise, because this basement was not a temporary dug underground space like he imagined, but a well-built underground bunker.

The walls of the entire basement are made of smooth cement, and steel bars as thick as little fingers are exposed under some of the cement blocks that have fallen off. The first impression is that it is very strong.

Even if it wasn't for the strength of this place, a few more load-bearing columns and beams were added to make the height of the whole room less than two meters, and the overall appearance would be no different from an extra floor.

"This should be a German defense fortification of World War II." He glanced at the ventilation pipe exhaust window inlaid on the wall and the covered eagle logo holding a swastika on the exhaust window.

"However, compared with the standard fortifications, this fortification has been strengthened. If there is no accident, it can even be used to resist direct-pointing fire from artillery below 100mm. So if you guessed correctly, this should be a professional transformation based on the standard fortifications."

The entire basement looks like a large warehouse. From the marks on the floor, it can be seen that many things have been placed here before, but now there are only eight boxes left.

It's a pity that these boxes are all the most common wooden boxes, so it is basically impossible to judge where these things come from just by relying on these boxes.

"This is what my father left for me." Mr. Frey came to the side of a box, and then removed the lid of the box with his daughter to reveal the contents of the box.

The box was full of yellowed documents, but when Liang En stepped forward to check, he found that there were obvious signs of blisters and mildew on the documents, so that the text and patterns on them looked blurry, and it was impossible to distinguish the contents.

The only thing that can be called a clue is the Gothic German on the titles of these documents, which is a more common way of writing German in the past.

However, because the German language was used as the official language in World War II, it basically disappeared after World War II.

"The situation is like this. Because we are now on the peninsula, even though the surrounding area has been specially waterproofed, the basement is still very humid, and the things in the box are obviously damaged." Mr. Frey said helplessly.

"Because of this, we didn't open the next box after opening the first box, hoping to leave enough information for you professionals."

"You are right, sir. It is best to keep these things as they are when you are not a professional. At least you can avoid a large part of the secondary damage." Liang En smiled and nodded.

To be honest, in many cases, because excavators do not know how to excavate cultural relics indiscriminately or even restore them at will, the damage to cultural relics in the end is greater than the damage caused by hundreds or even thousands of years.

Therefore, for non-professionals, the best way to find cultural relics is to report them to the relevant departments. It is the most appropriate way to let professionals come instead of handling those things by themselves.

(End of this chapter)