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

It's easy to say that the gold has long been placed in a corner of the space. In that corner, all the gold is placed.

Yang Jing is interested in the four teak barrels.

Through the perspective skills, Yang Jing already knew that the four teak barrels contained whale oil, and a well-sealed iron box was placed in the whale oil.

The use of whale oil to preserve things has been around since the Vikings were popular. Before the advent of oil, whale oil was a universal oil. Especially for Westerners' lighting, before oil was discovered, whale oil and gas were used the most.

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

Especially in the early 19th century, when the steam engine was promoted and applied, manpower was liberated to a great extent. At the same time, technological and industrial knowledge has exploded, people's motivation and motivation for learning have grown simultaneously, and the demand for indoor lighting has risen sharply. This makes the price of whale oil soar, and whaling has become a lucrative business.

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

When talking about whaling in modern times, ten out of ten people will think of Japan, but who knows that compared with the United States 200 years ago, the whaling industry in small Japan is really insignificant.

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

The forty years from 1820 to 1860 was the "golden age" of the whaling industry in the United States. At that time, the development of the domestic economy and the rise of the industrial revolution in the United States were driving the huge demand for whale oil. Smart humans use whales more diversified. Whale products include soaps, skin care products, lubricants, women's waistbands, etc., which can be described as making the best use of them.

At that time, the income of catching a whale for each crew member was equivalent to half a year's salary of a land worker. There are even women who pretend to be men and get on the boat to work, and many girls dream of marrying the captain of a whaling ship. Whalers have become the incarnation of light to some extent, and the whaling industry 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 were American.

One can imagine how developed and crazy the whaling industry in the United States was at that time.

According to statistics, in the only one hundred years of the nineteenth century, the conservative estimate of the number of whales in the world has exceeded 4 million, and the average number of whales killed every day is as high as 11,000! This number is several times more than the number of whalings in a year in all countries that allow whaling in the world!

In that crazy age, whales were almost killed.

Had it not been for the American Colonel Drake who had drilled the first modern industrial oil well in Pennsylvania, and in the following century, oil had replaced whale oil, it is estimated that whales are now extinct creatures.

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

Whale oil is not only an excellent oil for lighting, but also an excellent oil for corrosion protection. Hundreds of years ago, many precious items that needed to be preserved for a long time were wiped with whale oil to achieve the anti-corrosion and moisture-proof effect, and the effect was not much worse than that of paint.

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

I obviously know the role of whale oil, so I use barrels of whale oil to preserve these iron boxes.

Open these whale oils with consciousness, and gathered these whale oils together, forming a huge oil bubble and letting 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, and they all have concealed locks on them. Because they have been immersed in whale oil, these iron boxes are very well preserved.

The concealed lock on the box cannot help Yang Jing. In the space, Yang Jing's consciousness is the supreme god.

Only after opening these boxes, Yang Jing, who was full of hope, was completely disappointed.

I 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 belonged to the Japanese army at the time. Important military information.

In modern times, even some classified military materials from the Second World War are quite valuable. After the results were opened, Yang Jing was disappointed to discover that these things were nothing more than ordinary family letters—the family letters between senior Japanese military officers stationed in Rabaul, Solomon Islands and other places and their families in Japan.

Although it is said that "the family letters are worth tens of thousands of dollars in the war of fire for three months," the senior officers of your little devil use this method to transport the family letters. Isn't it a bit too much?

However, Yang Jing still watched these family letters with his own mind, and opened the envelopes one by one. When he saw that they were indeed family letters, he immediately cleared the space.

Yang Jing also knows a little Japanese. This is also due to the fact that when he was studying in London, a professor who taught modern economics was from Japan, so at that time Yang Jing deliberately learned a little Japanese in order to earn enough credits, but It is only limited to reading some Japanese characters. If he is asked to speak Japanese, Yang Jing will only say "Cry you a few wow", "Sanyou Nala"...Of course, "Ya Chudie" he I can also understand...

After turning over dozens of family letters, Yang Jing completely lost his patience and prepared to clear all these messy things 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 happened that Yang Jing really understood what these Japanese words meant.

だいほんえい, which translates as "base camp".

"Is this letter sent to the base camp?" Yang Jing thought to herself with a slight movement in her heart.

The letters opened earlier have made Yang Jing understand that this "First Xinxing Maru" sailed from Rabaul, stopped at Lorenga, and then continued to prepare to head north for more than a thousand kilometers away. The Caroline Islands and returned to mainland via Guam, but not long after they left Hong Kong, they were attacked by the US-Australian coalition forces and were directly bombed and sunk here.

"It's just that, how can communication with base camp use such backward means?" Yang Jing was really puzzled. During the Second World War, the radio was already very developed. Just tap on the keyboard for something, and the radio wave can transmit the message to the other side of the earth in an instant.

Even some extremely confidential drawings are often transported by powerful battleships or cruisers or even more concealed submarines. It is absolutely impossible to transport them by such transport ships.

However, this letter sent from Rabaul to the Japanese base camp is so mixed in some family letters.

Yang Jing shook his head slightly and opened the letter with consciousness.

The envelope is very thick and contains a lot of things inside. There are more than 30 pages of letter paper, and it is full of Japanese writing, but it is a pity that Yang Jing can only recognize a small part of it.

But what makes Yang Jing feel strange is that these 30-odd pages of letter paper do not seem to be from one person, but at least there are more than ten different handwritings. And on the last page, Yang Jing saw the names of several familiar Japanese senior military officers.

Kyun Imamura, Shouichi Temple, Masago, Yamaxian...

These names are all high-ranking officers of the Japanese military during World War II. How come their names appear in this letter together?

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

At the back of this letter, there is also attached a very detailed large-scale nautical chart. There are only a few scattered islands and reefs on the nautical chart. In the middle of the chart, there is an archipelago composed of four islands of various sizes. The upper part of the archipelago is marked with a few words in Japanese-Mauge Archipelago.

And on this chart, there are also signatures of those people.

Obviously, this letter is not like a communication in the ordinary sense, but more like a petition, because the signatures are almost all high-ranking military officers from Japan.

Needless to say, Imamura is the supreme officer of the Rabaul base. UU reading www. uukanshu. com

And Touichi Terauchi's reputation is greater than that of Imamura, and it's not even a star.

In the little devil's war of aggression against China, this Terauchi Shouichi was the Japanese assault force! In 1937, Terauchi was appointed as the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, and he governed about one hundred and fifty aircraft including eight divisions of the First and Second Army and the Aviation Corps. It was under the leadership of this guy that the Japanese army occupied the entire northern China and even defeated the provincial capital of Jin Province.

However, in the famous Taierzhuang Battle, it was this guy's men who fought, and this guy who was invincible across North China suffered a big loss.

Later, when the Southeast Asian War broke out, Terauchi was awarded the "Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Army", commanding 11 Japanese divisions and a total of 250,000 people in attacking Southeast Asia and occupying the entire Southeast Asia. In 1943, he was awarded a marshal by the Emperor of Japan. Position.

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

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

In addition to these three people, the signature also includes a Japanese rear admiral like Monzo Akiyama. This guy used to be the commander of the Japanese sixth base team and the defense commander of Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands.

Mori Kokuzo, Japanese Vice Admiral, Commander of the Special Base Area in Chijima, Ogasawara Islands.

Tanaka Raizo, Japanese lieutenant admiral, commander of the thirteenth base in Myanmar.

Rear Admiral Nishida, garrison commander of Parry Island, Marshall Islands.

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This series of names of high-ranking Japanese military officers made Yang Jing wonder what was written in this letter, and what this chart represented!