The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 642 Found the "Treasure Under the Mountain"!!!

It was not until the mid-1960s, after Marcos was elected the sixth Governor of Luzon, that he secretly organized personnel to carry out large-scale excavations in the mountains of Luzon.

As for how much treasure Marcos actually dug out, it is unknown.

However, one thing is certain: before Marcos came to power, his assets were less than 6 US dollars, but within a few years after taking office, his assets reached several billion US dollars.

In addition, Marcos's home has a large golden Buddha statue that is 28 inches tall and weighs about 2000 pounds. The head of the golden Buddha can be unscrewed, and there are diamonds in the belly of the golden Buddha. This golden Buddha is said to be one of the treasures looted by Yamashita Tomoyuki at that time.

Later, Marcos was the boss in Luzon for 21 years. It was not until Mrs. Aquino came to power that the Marcos family immigrated to Hawaii.

Later, before his death, Marcos made a will in front of his friends, saying that there were more treasures hidden in certain places in Southeast Asia that could be excavated in the future, worth tens of billions of US dollars.

When a person is about to die, his words are also good.

Marcos had a sudden realization before his death, and he planned to make these locations public.

Unfortunately, when he was about to tell the locations of the gold hiding places, he suddenly fell into a coma and stopped breathing.

Marcos died, but the few words he left before his death caused a huge sensation in the world.

From then on, treasure hunters from all over the world began to flock to the Southeast Asian archipelago.

After the end of World War II, rumors of the "Treasure of the Malay Tiger" spread throughout Southeast Asia.

Now, Marcos' last words completely confirmed this long-standing rumor.

As we all know, the crazy acts of burning, killing and looting committed by the Japanese pirates during World War II made them extremely hated by the whole of Asia.

At that time, in order to plunder the property of Asians more comprehensively, they even set up a secret organization called "Mountain Lily Society". This organization, under the leadership of the Japanese pirate army, specialized in plundering the transferred property.

Therefore, the entire Japanese pirate army committed all kinds of evil during the war, not only plundering a large amount of property for the Japanese government, but also
Even ordinary soldiers gained huge benefits from this war.

When they invaded Southeast Asia, they buried the gold treasures in caves because they were not conducive to marching.

Among them, "Mountain Lily" is the most organized plundering with the most efficient means.

Later, the situation in the Pacific became critical and they had no time to transport the treasure back to the country, so they converted abandoned mines, caves and secret military bases into treasure hiding places.

In order to prevent the secret from leaking out, the Japanese pirates brutally killed those who knew the location of the treasure.

After withdrawing from the site where the treasures were buried, the Japanese pirates also ordered all exits to be blown up.

And such things are only a small part of the Mountain Lily Society's means.

In the process of hiding their treasure, countless innocent people were brutally murdered, so only a few people knew the location of their treasure.

However, there is always a loophole, and a Luzon servant managed to escape when the Japanese pirates tried to kill him.

The servant told the Allied forces about the "treasure", but the Allied generals were skeptical at the time, perhaps they did not expect how much treasure the Japanese pirates could hide.

It was not until the Japanese pirates had completely retreated that the Allied forces accidentally discovered a cave abandoned by the pirates during their pursuit.

After entering, they found that there were boxes full of gold. Although the amount of money was huge, it was only a small part of the property plundered by the Japanese pirates in Southeast Asia.

The Allied Forces then realized that the servant was not lying and that the Japanese pirates did have a large amount of treasure hidden in the Southeast Asian archipelago that had not been transported away in time.

Unfortunately, the servant only heard a few words and had no idea how much treasure the Japanese pirates had hidden or where it was exactly.

It is still unknown how much property the Japanese pirates buried.

Many experts analyzed that the Japanese pirates wanted to use these properties as important bargaining chips after the war.

However, the Japanese pirates' wishful thinking was wrong. Southeast Asian countries hated these pirates so much that they did not compromise with Yamashita Tomoyuki and other executioners, and eventually brought them to justice.

Because only a few Japanese pirates knew the secrets of these treasures, and as they were tried, these secrets would never be revealed.

What's funny is that after the Japanese government was defeated in the war, it still planned to take back these treasures one day, but it was really a futile effort.

At that time, some people speculated that during the Pacific War, the Japanese pirates plundered Southeast Asia worth more than hundreds of billions of dollars.

Of course, this is just speculation, and the property they plundered may be even greater.

Where did the property go?
There are many different opinions, but there are five directions that are generally recognized.

The first was to transport the property back to the Japanese pirates' territory. The King of Japan once ordered the Japanese pirate army to transport the property looted from Southeast Asia back to Japan by ship.

The treasures that could not be taken away were stored in some abandoned caves. The Japanese ordered their vassal troops to dig the caves. After the task was completed, they brutally killed the vassal troops to prevent the secret from being leaked.

The second is that it sank to the bottom of the sea.

After 1943, the Japanese pirates suffered successive defeats on the Pacific battlefield.

In the Pacific battlefield, the "Sam" Navy sank a large number of Japanese pirates' ships.

Among them were ships carrying treasures.

Once, the "Sam" Navy captured several Japanese pirate transport ships and discovered that one of the ships was carrying 40 tons of gold and 12 tons of platinum.

And these are only the wealth that has been discovered. It is unknown how much wealth there is that has not been discovered and has fallen into the seabed.

The third is to hide some things secretly.

It is said that the Japanese pirates had 175 treasure hiding places in Luzon alone.

During the Pacific War, the "Sam" Navy also increased its maritime patrols, which made it impossible to safely transport the looted property of the Japanese pirates back to their country.

So in order to protect these properties, they ordered them to be buried in 175 locations in Luzon. The reason why the Japanese pirates did this was that they actually fantasized about negotiating terms with the Allies to maintain control of Luzon.

However, the Allied forces completely shattered the Japanese pirates' fantasy, so the Japanese pirates decided to say their final farewell to these treasure hiding places.

They held a grand farewell ceremony in Tunnel No. 8. In the middle of the ceremony, they sneaked out of Tunnel No. 8 and sealed the exit with explosives. The engineers were also buried inside. In this way, the location of the treasure was unknown to outsiders.

Yamashita Tomoyuki surrendered to the Allied forces three months later. During his trial, the Allied forces tried every means to seize the treasures hidden by the Japanese pirates in Luzon.

However, Yamashita Tomoyuki refused to reveal the news, but his driver attracted the attention of "Sam".

So he ordered the driver to be arrested, trying to extract more secrets about the treasure from him.

After repeated intimidation and inducement, the driver revealed the location of the treasure and took "Sam" to the treasure place.

So, "Sam" secretly transported away the gold mines, which were worth as much as 10 billion US dollars at the time, without telling other allied forces.

But what really made "Sam" win was at Santa Romana in Luzon.

At that time, the Luzon guerrillas accidentally discovered that the Japanese pirates had transported a large number of boxes into a cave.

The guerrillas tracked the entrance to the cave, so they remembered the location. After the war, they led "Sam" to the location and dug up nearly hundreds of millions of yuan in gold bars.

Later, "Sam" discovered many treasures between 1945 and 1948, and all the gold worth tens of billions of dollars was shipped back to the country in batches.

"Sam" took the property plundered by the Japanese pirates for himself, and placed these golden villages in banks in 42 countries as "America's" off-book funds.

These huge treasures also provided "Sam" with the capital strength in his later confrontation with the "Polar Bear".

"Sam" used this wealth as funds to fight against the "polar bears" and greatly increased their economic power.

Fifth, some of the treasures were obtained by private individuals. After World War II, there were countless treasure hunting teams organized by international and private organizations.

The most sensational incident was the "Rojas Incident". Rojas was a very famous treasure hunter in the local area. He not only discovered a pure gold Buddha statue in the local area, but also discovered a large number of rare treasures.

Whether it was transported back to the country by the Japanese pirates, sank to the bottom of the sea, or was captured by "Sam", this is only a part of the Japanese pirates' treasure, and there is still a large amount of treasure that has not been discovered.

This is why many international treasure hunting organizations have been searching for these treasures in Southeast Asia over the years.

Therefore, "Shenlong Security" under "Liu's Overseas Investment" also established a professional treasure hunting team.

Some scholars have speculated that the total price could be as high as hundreds of billions of US dollars, including precious metals such as gold and silver, gemstones, antiques and artworks. The Japanese pirates most likely stored these treasures in Luzon as a transit point so that they could be transported back to Japan at the right time.

However, due to the worsening war situation, these treasures could no longer be transported back to Japan.

Therefore, before the Allied forces landed on Luzon Island, General Yamashita Tomoyuki, the Japanese pirate commander who was known as the "Tiger of Malaya" and the commander of the 14th Area Army, ordered the treasures to be buried in secret locations along the way when he led his troops to retreat from Manila to the mountainous area in northern Luzon Island.

After the Japanese pirates were defeated and surrendered, Yamashita surrendered to the Allied forces and was later tried as a war criminal.

But he did not reveal the whereabouts of the treasure, so the famous legend of "Treasure under the Mountain" was left behind.

There is actually no official record of this matter, and the Japanese pirate authorities rarely put "treasure hunting" on the agenda seriously.

However, from the end of the war to the present, the vast majority of Luzon people have firmly believed in this matter, and the treasure hunt has never stopped.

What pushed the treasure hunt to another climax was that in 1985, someone actually sold gold worth billions of pounds in London.

This man was unknown, but his extraordinary behavior immediately attracted people's attention.

After much investigation, people found out that the owner of this huge amount of gold was the former Luzon President Marcos and his wife.

At that time, Marcos stepped down and immigrated to the United States, so he asked his son Ferdinand Jr. to go to Country Y to sell gold.

Little Ferdinand was behind the scenes directing the troops and asking his men to come to the front of the stage to sell the goods.

How did Marcos have so much gold?
Some snobs, after investigation, found that the Marcos family owned even more property than this.

Marcos served as a second lieutenant in the Allied Forces in the early days of the Pacific War. He was an intelligence officer of the 21st Division of the Far East Army of "Sam" and was stationed in Luzon.

The investigation also found that Marcos had an unusual experience with Yamashita Tomoyuki after the war.

Marcos must have obtained some of the secrets of the treasure from Yamashita Tomoyuki.

After Marcos was elected as the Governor-General of Luzon, he secretly organized people to dig for the treasure.

No one can tell exactly how much gold the Japanese pirates looted, and no one knows exactly how much gold is buried underground in Luzon.

In addition to the underground treasures that have been excavated by Sam and Luzon officials, there are some treasures that have not been discovered and are still dormant.

In the early 1970s, Luzon native Rogelio Rojas found a treasure on his own.

Although Rojas was just a locksmith, he dreamed of finding a treasure one day, and he would search for information about the treasure when he had nothing to do.

By chance, he met a Japanese pirate soldier who had invaded Luzon during World War II.

Under the guidance of the soldier, Rojas spent more than half a year and finally dug up a treasure. In addition to gold nuggets and golden Buddha statues, there were also many diamonds with a value of over 200 billion US dollars.

At that time, newspapers in Manila disclosed the news one after another.

Of course, Marcos would not fail to hear it, and soon his uncle, the judge, ordered the confiscation of the golden Buddha and jewelry, and charged Roxas with illegally hiding national treasures.

Most of these treasures easily fell into Marcos' hands.

Later, Marcos was abandoned by the people of Luzon because of corruption, and he had to flee to the United States in a hurry.

It is said that before his death, Marcos made an oral will in front of his friends, asking to hand over his other treasures to the people of Luzon. Unfortunately, before he could tell where the gold was hidden, he fell into a coma and died.

"Shenlong Security" also has a very professional treasure hunting team, led by the famous explorer Rocher.

After Rocher, who loved adventure, learned about the rumor that Yamashita Tomoyuki was hiding something, he formally reported it to the "Shenlong Security" headquarters.

With the strong support of Liu Shudong, Rocher led the team to Luzon and began a treasure hunt that lasted for two years.

Rohr himself is also the chairman of the Southeast Asia Explorers Association. In order to find treasures, he recruited dozens of professionals, brought professional detection equipment, and began targeted excavations.

In the process of searching for treasure spots, Rocher collected information through various channels and carefully screened each potential treasure spot.

And his intelligence and perseverance were eventually rewarded.

While exploring a mountain in northern Luzon, Rohr and his team came across a thick cement wall.

They determined that this was a treasure site where items were buried and began digging a tunnel.

During the excavation process, they also encountered a large number of difficulties and limitations, such as weather conditions, air quality in the tunnel, health risks and some legal issues.

Seven months later, they finally succeeded in discovering a nearly one-meter-tall golden elephant, which was placed in a large wooden box, and its belly was filled with jewels...

This treasure spot was fixed by the Japanese pirates using the strongest cement.

While digging in the underground tunnels, Rohel and his team also discovered some anomalies.

He was well aware of Rachman Hirst's words, "There is no such thing as an impenetrable wall," and he knew that some of these caches might be discovered and then stolen.

In order to ensure confidentiality, the engineers at the treasure site were also sealed in instead of being killed immediately.

Under the conditions at the time, the Japanese pirates' design was very clever, making it almost impossible for others to invade the underground world of the treasure site.

Fortunately, these huge treasure troves will eventually be discovered by the world.

The amazing discovery of this mysterious treasure trove caused a huge sensation within the "Shenlong Treasure Hunting Company".

The morale of the elite team led by Rocher was greatly boosted, and their confidence in discovering more "Yamashita Tomoyuki treasures" increased.

After professional exploration, the "Shenlong Treasure Hunting Team" successfully excavated dozens of golden Buddha statues, as well as an astonishing number of various gemstone ores and exquisite gold products in this site.

What is amazing is that each golden Buddha is well preserved and has different shapes, some are solemn and dignified, some are kind and benevolent, showing the exquisite craftsmanship of ancient craftsmen.

When reporting to Liu Shudong, the leader of the "Shenlong Treasure Hunting Team" could not hide his excitement.

According to preliminary estimates, the market value of this batch of precious cultural relics is as high as tens of billions of US dollars, setting a record since the treasure hunting team was established.

What is even more exciting is that Rocher expressed confidence that this is just the tip of the iceberg of the "treasure under the mountain."

With his team's expertise and the latest exploration equipment, he is confident that more priceless treasures will be discovered in the future.

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As the excavation work progressed, the treasure hunting team discovered a hidden underground passage on the hill east of the treasure location.

The entrance to this passage is cleverly hidden in the mountain and covered with vines.

If the treasure hunting team had not used the latest caving equipment, it would have been almost impossible to discover this secret entrance.

Rohel personally led the team to explore further. Strong flashlights illuminated the ancient moss-covered stone steps, and the air was filled with the smell of damp earth.

After walking about 50 meters along the winding passage, a breathtaking sight comes into view - the entire cave is filled with thousands of tons of jadeite raw stones, which glow with a lustrous green light under the light.

What is even more shocking is that in the center is a reclining Buddha carved from a single piece of white jade, which is more than half the length of the statue. Its delicate and warm texture and lifelike expression can be called a rare treasure.

The ancient experts of the archaeological team initially judged that this was most likely a sacred object secretly worshipped by an ancient Southeast Asian emperor in order to pray for peace and prosperity for the country and the people.

At the same time, the technical team also found some code books and maps at this treasure site.

These precious code books and maps are undoubtedly the core key to deciphering the complete distribution map of the "treasure under the mountain".

Rocher acted decisively and immediately dispatched elite security forces to seal off the scene. At the same time, he urgently contacted the most prestigious code-breaking team of "Shenlong Security" company to rush to the rescue.

The entire research team held their breath, clearly aware that they were standing on the last threshold of uncovering a shocking mystery that had been hidden for half a century.

Liu Shudong knew that this matter was of great importance, so he reported this important discovery to the Liu family in Yanjing through encrypted channels overnight.

Liu Zhiye could not hide his excitement after receiving the news. As an insider, he knew better than anyone the astonishing value contained in the "Yamashita Fengwen Treasure" - it was not just astronomical wealth, but also touched the nerves of countless forces.

Faced with this huge amount of ownerless wealth, even the calmest people would be overwhelmed with emotions, not to mention those forces that have been eyeing it covetously for a long time.

(End of this chapter)