Agents of the Republic of China

Note [-]: Golden Lily Project.During World War II, while trampling Asian countries by force, Japan persistently and secretly implemented a "Golden Lily Plan" to plunder the wealth of the occupied countries.On the eve of Japan's defeat and surrender, tens of thousands of tons of treasures were hidden in various parts of the Philippines or sank to the bottom of the sea with shipwrecks.China alone has lost billions of dollars worth of porcelain, art, ancient fossils, thread-bound books, religious artifacts, and more.

In 1937, Hirohito and his advisers established the "Golden Lily Organization," a body that ensured that looted wealth went only to the emperor's coffers.It is a royal organization, including experts in finance, accounting, bookkeeping, shipping and various treasures.Overseen by members of the royal family, the agency operates through the manipulation of the underworld.

When the Japanese army began to encircle Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Dai Li to box as much as he could from the collection of the National Museum and artworks from other cities. Finally, they were transported to Chengdu and Chongqing in western China, but those who could be boxed and shipped away after all limited.

After the fall of Nanjing, the first executors of Operation Golden Baihe were the gendarmerie.Special operations teams of military police were dispatched to search and seize all Chinese government property, blow up bank warehouses, and rob rich and middle-class businessmen and others of gold, gems, jewelry, art, and currency.It is said that at this stage the secret gendarmes collected at least 6000 tons of gold.

An important example of Japan's attention to detail in its looting was the presence of a carefully selected collection of antiquities special operations with expertise in rare books and manuscripts.Some of them were monks of the Nichiren sect, whose task it was to sift through such books in libraries, museums, private collections, or Buddhist scriptures at monasteries, and to transport the treasures to Tokyo.Before their looting, they had traveled around China, befriending private collectors and compiling catalogs of the most rare books and manuscripts.

After the Nanjing Massacre, more than 1000 such experts came to Nanjing and began to select from the precious collection of books and manuscripts.Although much of Nanjing is in ruins, the building where the books are stored is under tight security.Japan's Imperial Library has the power of priority selection, and the most precious items are picked out for the emperor to see in person.Each piece is carefully numbered, packed, and put into a waterproof case.They also compiled and copied multiple detailed catalogs to ensure that nothing was lost en route to Japan.About 2300 Chinese laborers packed the items, and 400 Japanese soldiers supervised their work. More than 300 trucks were used to transport the boxes to Shanghai, where they were loaded on ships.

As a victim of Japan's foreign aggression, China suffered far more victims than any other nation or country.Between 1895 and 1945, Japan looted the most treasures from China compared to other places.Japan's looting of China began in the northeast, and then spread to Shanghai, Nanjing and hundreds of towns across the country. China's billions of dollars worth of gold nuggets, treasures, diamonds, gemstones of various colors, porcelain, works of art, ancient fossils, priceless The thread-bound classics, religious relics and ancestral treasures have all become Japanese.In addition to mainland China, from Hong Kong to Singapore, from Manila to Jakarta, almost all overseas Chinese settlements have also suffered the same fate.

Most of the Chinese treasures were shipped to Japan, where they were stored in Japanese imperial palaces or in the private collections of Japanese oligarchs. When the war ended in 1945, these treasures were supposed to be returned to the victimized countries, but in fact this was not done.After the war Germany returned an enormous amount of their looted treasure and stolen art, and they paid $550 billion in reparations to Nazi victims.Contrary to Germany, Japan refused to apologize and evade compensation. They only returned a small amount of treasure, and most of the treasure remained in Japan.

Note 16: Porcelain.Porcelain first appeared in the middle of the Shang Dynasty in the [-]th century BC, but it is far from the later porcelain, so it can only be called "primitive porcelain" or "primitive celadon".