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Chapter 144: Blocking Golden Lily

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    The logic of Japan¡¯s top leaders is very simple. Predation and war must be carried out at the same time. If it loses the war militarily and has this wealth, Japan will not lose economically.

    And the wealth plundered by the war must be controlled by the royal family. This is also a means for the Japanese royal family to maintain its own rule!

    With the Japanese army's military victories, the Japanese royal family's Golden Lily plan also began to be implemented at this time.

    In 1937, the Japanese army swarmed the coast of China and then advanced towards Nanjing. The number of participating troops was so large and the front line was so broad that Japan¡¯s rulers were worried that they would lose control of their money as commanders competed for the spoils of war.  Because Japanese army and naval officers have always taken large amounts of loot by the way, not to mention small-scale robberies by soldiers.

    At the same time, whenever a war breaks out, a large number of Japanese gangsters, like sharks smelling blood, quickly come to the newly occupied areas to commit evil and plunder wealth.

    So in order to control the entire situation, the Japanese Supreme Command launched Operation Golden Lily, with the Emperor's younger brother Chichibu Palace in charge.

    In Nanjing, the first executors of Operation Golden Lily were the gendarmerie. The gendarmerie special operations teams were dispatched to search everywhere, seize all Chinese government property, blow up bank warehouses, and rob wealthy and middle-class businessmen and other people.  of gold, gems, jewelry, art and currency.

    For more than 1,000 years, Nanjing has been a wealthy city. Many wealthy and status Chinese have villas in Nanjing and other real estate in the suburbs.  Nor was it the first time that Nanjing was sacked by its conquerors, but this time it was done most carefully and systematically.  It is said that at this stage, the secret military police collected at least 6,000 tons of gold.

    Historical research on the issue shows that officially reported amounts of looting are often a fraction of the actual number.  In addition, countless small gold nuggets, platinum, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, works of art and antiques that Chinese people like to store were also robbed.  These came from private family and rural tombs, and the Japanese were so thorough that they even knocked out the gold teeth embedded in the corpses.

    The military police squad was busy ransacking the house. They removed furniture, mirrors, carpets, packed them in boxes, and shipped them to Japan by rail.  The elites of the Golden Lily Rangers focused their attention on bank bosses, industry association leaders, chain pawn shop owners and gang leaders, all of whom had their identities known clearly in advance.

    Japan attaches great importance to specific details in plundering. One important example is that at that time, there was a carefully selected special operations organization to collect cultural relics with expertise in rare books and manuscripts.  Some of them were Nichiren sect monks whose mission was to select such books from Buddhist scriptures in libraries, museums, private collections, or temples, and then transport these treasures to Tokyo.

    Before the plunder, they had traveled around China, befriended private collectors and compiled catalogs of the most precious books and manuscripts.

    After the Nanjing Massacre, more than 1,000 such experts came to Nanjing and began to select from precious collections of books and manuscripts.  Although much of Nanjing is in ruins, the buildings where the books were stored are under tight security.  Japan's Royal Library has priority in selecting items, and the most precious items are selected for the Emperor to see in person.

    ?Every item is carefully numbered, packed, and placed into waterproof boxes.  They also compiled and copied multiple detailed catalogs to ensure nothing was lost en route to Japan.

    During this period, approximately 2,300 Chinese laborers packed the items, 400 Japanese soldiers supervised their work, and more than 300 trucks were used to transport the boxes to Shanghai and then ship them.

    Japan¡¯s plunder of Asia has so far been dismissed by officials as random petty theft and violence by soldiers who had a few too many drinks, which is nonsense.

    Robbery as part of war is nothing new. In 1860, the British and French Expeditionary Forces came to North China. After getting drunk, they went crazy and robbed the gorgeous Old Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing, smashing everything they could not take away.  everything, and then a fire destroyed the entire palace except one pavilion and one house.  Not believing that the gold they had captured was real, the uneducated soldiers threw away much of it.

    But this is fundamentally different from what Japan did during its invasion of China, because the Japanese's plunder and robbery was not drunken robbery and destruction.  Japanese robbery was a rational and deliberate act, with special attention being paid to robbing valuable books and manuscripts, in which ordinary thieves and ordinary soldiers would not be interested.

    ?According to incomplete statistics, from Nanjing alone, China has lost billions of dollars worth of porcelain, artwork, ancient fossils, thread-bound books, religious relics, etc.

    Most of the Chinese treasures were shipped to Japan, where they were stored in the Japanese Imperial Palace or private collections of Japanese oligarchs.  At the end of the war, these treasures should be returned to the victimized countries, but in fact this was not done.

    After the war, Germany returned huge amounts of looted treasure and stolen art, and they paid $55 billion in compensation to Nazi victims.  Contrary to Germany, Japan refused to apologize and evaded compensation. They only returned a small amount of treasure, and the vast majority of the treasure has remained in Japan.

    After Japan surrendered, in order to please MacArthur and his men and escape responsibility for their war crimes, some Japanese war criminals turned over rare metals such as radium to the Allied Occupation Command in their own names.  This can't help but remind people of some things: Japan's war hooligans have made a fortune from the war. Is Hirohito, the emperor, really as poor as he was described when he was defeated?

    You must know that it was his royal family members who made money at that time.  Seven years after the war, Japan recovered its "vital energy." Could it be that apart from its own efforts and good luck, there were no other factors that helped its economic recovery?

    Think about it, when the US military bombed the Japanese mainland, what seemed to be turned into rubble were only civilian houses and the most basic civilian facilities, but not the Japanese Imperial Palace or large companies such as Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo that enslaved Asian people and Allied prisoners of war.  Destroyed in the war.

    In fact, this huge wealth did not lie quietly underground or on the seabed, but was continuously unearthed in more than half a century after the war.

    Many people believe that Japan¡¯s post-war economic miracle is not a miracle at all, but was accumulated by Japan¡¯s looting and plundering of China¡¯s wealth. Only the Chinese should clearly despise Japan¡¯s economic miracle.  The Chinese should always remember that without this blood-sucking war, Japan would be just a flat cockroach!

    Li Guoyao learned all these things by reading declassified documents, and he also knew that before the city was destroyed, a large number of members of the Golden Lily organization had already sneaked into Nanjing. These people were businessmen, scholars and archaeological researchers.  Their identities are mixed in Nanjing City and its surrounding areas, with the purpose of investigating the wealthy people and big families in China's capital area, and these people they investigate will be the targets of robbery and extortion in the future.

    ¡°These Japanese people seem to have independent identities, but in fact they are all managed by the royal family. The home base of these people in Nanjing is Hitachi & Co., as well as several small trading houses.

    "It would be fine if you didn't know about this, but Li Guoyao knew it. In this case, Li Guoyao decided to use thunderous means to stop the Golden Lily organization while rushing to transport the gold and silver that the National Government had no time to transport away in Nanjing.

    Although Li Guoyao also knew that the strength of their independent brigade alone could not completely stop Jin Lily. After all, as far as Li Guoyao knew, the Golden Lily organization could be said to be everywhere. This organization was operating almost wherever there were Japanese troops, including  The North China battlefield where the fighting is currently going on is also where the Golden Lily organization is rampant.  The Independent Brigade is just a small miscellaneous brigade, even if everyone has a clone, it will be too busy.

    But it doesn¡¯t matter. If you do everything step by step, as long as you catch all the Golden Lily members in Nanjing, it will be a huge victory.

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