Happy Tycoon

Chapter 582 A series of signatures.

After returning to the hotel, Yang Jing couldn't wait to get into the space.

The gold is easy to say, it 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 skills, Yang Jing already knew that the four teak barrels contained 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 the Vikings. Before the advent of oil, whale oil was called a universal oil. Especially for the lighting of Westerners, whale oil and gas were used most before oil was discovered.

However, the production cost of gas is too high, and the transportation is very inconvenient, so many Westerners use whale oil for lighting oil.

Especially in the early 19th century, when the steam engine was popularized and applied, manpower was liberated to a great extent. At the same time, with the explosive growth of technology and industrial knowledge, people's motivation and enthusiasm for learning have grown simultaneously, and the demand for indoor lighting has risen sharply. This drove up the price of whale oil, making whaling a lucrative business.

At that time, many emerging industrial countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Norway had participated in large-scale whaling activities.

When whaling is mentioned in modern times, ten out of ten people will think of Japan as a country, but who knows that the whaling industry in small Japan is really nothing compared to the United States two hundred years ago.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, the number of whaling in the United States ranked first in the world.

The forty years from 1820 to 1860 were the golden age of American whaling. At that time, the development of the domestic economy of the United States and the rise of the industrial revolution were driving the huge demand for whale oil. Smart humans use whales more diversely. Whale products include soaps, skin care products, lubricating oils, women's girdles, etc., which can be said to make the best use of them.

At that time, catching a whale brought the income of each crew member equivalent to half a year's wages of land workers. There are even women who pretend to be men and get on the ship to work, and many girls dream of marrying the captain of a whaling ship. Whalers have become, in a way, the embodiment of light, and whaling has become the most respected profession.

Around 1846, nearly half of the fishing vessels in the United States were engaged in whaling, and 735 of the 900 whaling vessels in the world belonged to the United States.

One can imagine how developed and crazy the American whaling industry was at that time.

According to statistics, in the 1900s alone, the number of whaling in the world is conservatively estimated to exceed 4 million, with an average of 11,000 whales hunted every day! This amount is several times more than the annual whaling amount of all countries in the world that allow whaling!

In that crazy age, whales were almost hunted to extinction.

If Colonel Conon Drake, an American, hadn't drilled the first modern industrial oil well in Pennsylvania, and in the following century, oil replaced whale oil, it is estimated that whales are now extinct creatures.

It can be said that Colonel Conon Drake is the savior of all whales in the world, and his photos should be hung in the mysterious whale mounds in the world's oceans

Whale oil is not only an excellent lighting oil, but also an excellent antiseptic oil. 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-proof, which is not much worse than paint.

Especially among the many sunken ships that have been salvaged in the Greenland waters and the North Atlantic waters in recent years, many precious things have been preserved intact because they were soaked in whale oil.

The Japanese obviously also knew the effect of whale oil, so they used barrels of whale oil to preserve these iron boxes.

Open the whale oil with consciousness, and gather the whale oil together to form a huge oil bubble and let it suspend in the space, and then Yang Jing took out the four iron boxes.

These four iron boxes are made of ordinary steel plates, with built-in locks on them. Because they have been soaked in whale oil, these iron boxes are very well preserved.

The hidden lock on the box can't help Yang Jing. 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 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. At that time, Yang Jing thought they were from the Japanese army at that time. What about important military information?

In modern times, even some confidential military materials during World War II are quite valuable. After opening it, Yang Jing was disappointed to find that these things turned out to be nothing more than ordinary family letters--family letters between senior officers of the Japanese army stationed in Rabaul, the Solomon Islands and other places and their native Japanese families.

Although it is said that Family letters are worth tens of thousands of gold in three months, but your little devil's senior officers use this method to transport family letters, is it too much?

However, Yang Jing still looked at these family letters consciously, and opened them one by one. When he saw that they were indeed family letters, he immediately cleared the space.

Yang Jing also knows a little bit of Japanese. This is also due to the fact that when he was studying in London, a professor of modern economics came from Japan. It is only limited to understanding some Japanese characters. If he is asked to speak Japanese, Yang Jing can only say Crying for you, Sanyou Nala. Of course, he can also understand Ya Yudie

After flipping through dozens of family letters, Yang Jing completely lost his patience, and was about to clear all these messy things out of the storage space.

But inadvertently, Yang Jing caught a glimpse of the Japanese words だいほんえい printed on the surface of a thick envelope, and it just so happened that Yang Jing really understood what these Japanese words meant.

だいほんえい, translated as base camp.

Could this letter be sent to the base camp? Yang Jing thought to himself with a slight twitch in his heart.

The letters opened earlier have already made Yang Jing understand that the First Shining Maru sailed from Rabaul, stopped at Lorengao, and then continued to prepare to go northward to more than a thousand kilometers away. The Caroline Islands, which returned to the mainland via Guam, were attacked by the US-Australian coalition forces shortly after leaving Hong Kong, and were directly bombed and sunk here.

It's just that, why do you use such backward means to communicate with the base camp? Yang Jing was really puzzled. During World War II, the radio was already very developed. If there is something to do, just tap the keyboard, and radio waves can transmit the message to the other end of the earth in an instant.

Even some extremely confidential blueprints are often transported by powerful battleships or cruisers or even more concealed submarines, and it is absolutely impossible to transport them with such transport ships.

However, this letter sent from Rabaul to the base camp in Japan was mixed with some letters from home.

Yang Jing shook his head slightly, and opened the letter consciously.

The envelope is very thick, and there are quite a few things in it. There were more than 30 pages of letter paper, all of which were written in Japanese, but it was a pity that Yang Jing could only recognize a small part of it.

But what surprised Yang Jing was that the thirty-odd pages of letter paper did not seem to be written by one person, but at least ten different handwritings. And on the last page, Yang Jing saw the names of several familiar senior Japanese military officers.

Jun Imamura, Shouichi in the temple, and Zhengxiang in Yamagata.

These names are all senior officers of the Japanese military during World War II. Why did their names appear together in this letter?

Because he couldn't quite understand what was written in the 30-page letter, Yang Jing was going to wait a while and go out to see if he could buy a Japanese dictionary.

At the back of this letter, there is also a very detailed large-scale nautical chart. There are only a few scattered islands and reefs on the nautical map, and in the middle of it is an archipelago composed of four islands of different sizes. The top of the islands is marked with a few words in Japanese-Maoge Islands.

And on this sea chart, there are also those people's signatures.

Obviously, this letter is not like a communication in the general sense, but more like a petition, because almost all of the signatures are senior Japanese military officials.

Needless to say Imamura Jun, this guy is the highest officer of the Rabaul base.

But Shouichi in the temple is more famous than Imamura Jun, and it's not even a little bit bigger.

In the little devil's war of aggression against China, this Temple Shouichi was the Japanese army's assault force! In 1937, Toshiichi Terauchi was appointed as the commander of the Northern China Expeditionary Army, under the command of eight divisions including the First and Second Army and about 150 aircraft of the Aviation Corps. It was under the leadership of this guy that the Japanese army occupied the entire North China, and even defeated the capital of Jin Province.

However, in the famous Battle of Taierzhuang, it was this guy's subordinates who fought, and this guy, who can be called an invincible player in North China, suffered a big loss.

Later, when the Southeast Asian War broke out, Terauchi Shouichi was awarded the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Army and led 11 divisions of the Japanese Army with a total of 250,000 people to attack Southeast Asia and occupied the entire Southeast Asia. In 1943, he was awarded Marshal by the Emperor of Japan position.

Unlike Imamura, who was the commander of Rabaul, after Terauchi Shouichi occupied the entire Southeast Asia, the entire Southeast Asia was under his rule.

As for Shanxian Zhengxiang, he is not an ordinary person. Although he is only a vice admiral, he was the commander of the Kaohsiung Garrison on Wandao during World War II.

In addition to these three people, there are also Japanese rear admirals like Akiyama Monzo in the signature. This guy used to be the commander of Japan's sixth base team and the garrison commander of Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands.

Mori Kunizao, Vice Admiral of the Japanese Navy, Commander of Chichijima Special Base of the Ogasawara Islands.

Raizo Tanaka, Vice Admiral of the Japanese Navy, Commander of the Thirteenth Base in Burma.

Rear Admiral Nishida, Commander of the Garrison at Parry Island, Marshall Islands.

This series of names of senior Japanese officers made Yang Jing wonder what was written in this letter, and what did this chart represent!