Colonel Takada was very alert. Even though there were two guards outside his bedroom, he still closed the window before going to bed. At this moment, Tang Cheng was hanging outside the window. After carefully checking the condition of the window, he could only take out the small tool he had prepared long ago, follow the gap in the window, and slowly insert the thin tip of the wire into the gap in the window. After a few breaths, the wire in Tang Cheng's hand passed through the gap in the window smoothly.
Tang Cheng, who moved gently, saw that the iron wire had passed through the gap in the window, and immediately pulled back the iron wire. This time he replaced it with a thin copper tube, and slowly penetrated the gap in the window along the traces left by the iron wire. The copper tubes currently used in Tangcheng are hollow, and the thinnest incense stick can be inserted into them. After the copper pipe passed through the window smoothly, Tang Cheng took out the incense drawn from the system, lit it and slowly inserted it into the copper pipe.
Last night, Tang Cheng immediately climbed along the rope net until he climbed to the top of the building. Compared with Tang Cheng's previous forcible attack method, Tang Cheng's action steps tonight seemed a bit cumbersome, but Tang Cheng himself seemed to enjoy it. After changing positions on the roof, Tang Cheng quickly followed the rope back to his room. After confirming that these drunken Japanese businessmen were still fast asleep, Tang Cheng opened the door and went up the stairs to the floor where Colonel Takada's room was located.
It was already late at night, and the waiters on the floor had gone to bed early. Along the empty corridor, Tang Cheng, who was tiptoeing, soon appeared outside the door of Colonel Takada's suite. Placing lit incense in the gap under the door was just a step taken by Tang Cheng, and he also placed incense in the rooms where Colonel Takada's guards stayed. After placing the incense, Tang Cheng hid back at the corner of the stairs, looking down at his watch. Three minutes later, Tang Cheng returned to the corridor.
Tang Cheng had lock-picking skills that he drew from the system, and when he left Chongqing, he brought a set of homemade lock-picking tools with him, which came in handy now. The door lock of the hotel was not difficult to open. It only took Tang Cheng a few breaths to successfully open the door of Colonel Takada's suite. Before Tang Cheng entered, he even put on shoe covers on his shoes. He didn't want to leave any traces on the other party.
On the sofa outside the suite, the two guards were sleeping crookedly. Tang Cheng just wanted to laugh. After confirming that the two of them were unconscious and holding the incense antidote in his mouth, Tang Cheng opened the door between the bedroom and the outside room. Colonel Takada, who was on the bed, was already unconscious at this time. After Tang Cheng checked the other party's condition, he walked to the window and extinguished the incense in the copper tube, and then put the flying clothes wrapped in cloth strips out. Claw, fixed on the windowsill.
All the boxes that Colonel Takada planned to bring back to Japan this time were neatly stacked beside his bed. Tang Cheng counted them carefully, and there were exactly fourteen boxes, no more, no less. Tang Cheng had no intention of taking away these boxes, so the first step he had to do was to open the boxes. Only by opening these boxes could Tang Cheng know what was in the boxes. Tang Cheng, who had already activated the triple eyepiece skill, did not turn on the light in the bedroom. Being unaffected by the light, he could see things as clearly as daylight even in a dimly lit bedroom.
Huh? The first box Tang Cheng picked up was unexpectedly light. Worried that the box was empty, Tang Cheng opened the box first, but the result surprised Tang Cheng. The box that Tang Cheng opened was the same size as other boxes, but inside the box, there were two wooden boxes, one large and one small, wrapped in cotton. Tang Cheng originally thought that these two boxes contained nothing more than gold and silver jewelry, but when he opened the two boxes, he found that the boxes contained two large and one small pieces of dried ginseng in excellent condition.
The small ginseng looked like it was seventy or eighty years old, but the big ginseng made Tang Cheng stunned. A ginseng of this size must be at least two hundred years old. Tang Cheng, who was ecstatic in his heart, almost screamed out. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and suppressed the sound in his throat. When Tang Cheng was still in Nanjing, he had been secretly looking for old high-end medicinal materials. After moving south to Chongqing, he took advantage of the opportunity of confiscating the assets of traitors to replace many good medicinal materials with inferior ones.
But this was the first time Tangcheng had seen ginseng of such good quality and age, and there were only two of them. Tang Cheng, who was so excited, slowly closed the wooden box containing ginseng, and then put the two boxes into his personal equipment bag. With the joy brought by these two ginseng, Tang Cheng opened other boxes much faster, until he saw an emperor's gold seal in one of the boxes, and ecstasy filled Tang Cheng's heart again.
Counting this gold seal, Tang City already has two emperor's seals. Not to mention the value of the two gold seals themselves, just the name of the emperor, these two gold seals are priceless. All the boxes were opened by Tang Cheng. The things originally packed in the boxes, except for the two ginsengs that were first put into the equipment bag by Tang Cheng, were all placed on the floor of the bedroom. There were twelve self-alchemy bricks without any markings. Tang Cheng weighed each one, and the total weight seemed to be more than a hundred kilograms.
More than one hundred kilograms may not sound like much, but more than one hundred kilograms is gold. During the Republic of China, most of the gold circulating on the market was gold bars, which are also commonly known as large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker. Gold is a precious metal in any country. Under normal circumstances, gold is not allowed to circulate in the market. In the early years of the Republic of China, almost all the products circulating on the market were Yuan Datou, also known as Dayang. But in the middle of the Republic of China, due to skyrocketing prices and the massive loss of silver dollars, currencies in various places were no longer universal, so gold bars became hard currency.
During the Republic of China, gold bars had two specifications: one was a small yellow croaker gold bar weighing one tael, and the other was a large yellow croaker gold bar weighing ten taels. At the time of the Republic of China, the regulation of sixteen taels per kilogram was still used, so a small yellow croaker gold bar weighing one or two pounds should weigh 31.25 grams, and a large yellow croaker gold bar weighed 312.5 grams. In other words, one kilogram of gold can hold up to three large yellow croaker gold bars and two small yellow croaker gold bars according to the metric conversion. There were more than a hundred kilograms of gold in front of Tang Cheng. If converted into gold bars, there would be more than 300 large yellow croaker gold bars and more than 200 small yellow croaker gold bars.
However, there is no shortage of gold in the Tang family now. The gold mine in northern Myanmar can produce no less than ten kilograms of high-purity gold almost every month. And according to the estimates of Mr. Ma and the professor, the gold mine in northern Myanmar can be mined for at least two more years. Therefore, facing the gold in front of him, Tang Cheng was only slightly excited and stopped paying attention to them. What really made Tang Cheng ecstatic were the antique calligraphy and paintings he took out from other boxes. Most of these antique calligraphy and paintings were exquisite.
Tang Cheng didn't have a deep understanding of antiques, so he couldn't estimate the value of this pile of things at once. And now is not the time to dwell on these things. After taking out all the things in the boxes, Tang Cheng first put some valuable-looking antique calligraphy and paintings into his equipment bag, and then quietly followed the rope fixed on the window sill. It slid down silently. When Tang Cheng came back, his equipment bag was already filled with bricks and stones.
Tang Cheng leaned on the rope on the window sill and moved back and forth, using his equipment bag to move all the things on the bedroom floor to the deserted yard. After he filled the boxes with bricks and stones, he placed the boxes as they were, and finally removed the flying claws fixed on the windowsill. After clearing all traces, Tang Cheng left directly from the door. When he returned to his room, the drunken Japanese businessmen were still sleeping soundly.
Holding back the discomfort, Tang Cheng poured some wine on himself, and then lay down directly on the floor with joy. Tang Cheng, who was not sleepy at all, was lying on the floor at the moment, but his mind was thinking about tonight's delivery. All the things he moved to the abandoned courtyard were packed into iron boxes that had been prepared long ago, and then buried deep in the ground. The turf covered by Tangcheng above the deep pit only needs a rain to cover all traces. No one would have thought that there are still a number of treasures buried in this abandoned yard.
After more than an hour, Tang Cheng, who had been thinking wildly, finally fell asleep. When he woke up again, there were not only the drunken and listless Japanese businessmen in the room, but also several Japanese military police with grim faces standing there. Tang Cheng and others, who were asked not to whisper, were taken out of the room by the military police and gathered together with other guests in the hotel into the restaurant on the first floor. "Sakata-senpai, what happened?" Tang Cheng, who knew it well, pretended to be confused and asked in a low voice about the Japanese businessman who had a drink with him last night.
Saburo Sakata, who is also in the brokerage business, was also confused. Before Tangcheng woke up, they were woken up by the military police who broke the door directly. However, Saburo Sakata was the most sociable, and he quickly found out the information from several acquaintances in the restaurant. "I heard that Colonel Takada's things were lost! The military police are here to help arrest people! They asked us to come down, maybe just to ask about the situation!" Saburo Sakata's voice was very low, and there was a trace of uncertainty in his expression.
In Shanghai, the people who should not be offended the most are the military police. Even Japanese businessmen like Saburo Sakata showed some lack of confidence when facing the military police. Tang Cheng didn't notice Saburo Sakata's expression at this moment. He just looked at the other people in the restaurant thoughtfully. When he saw the Japanese military police with serious expressions in the restaurant, Tang Cheng, who was sitting next to Saburo Sakata, looked confused. Even though she looked excited, she was already happy in her heart.
