In the dark night, a convoy of more than thirty trucks parked in the devastated Osaka city, in an old factory that seemed out of place with the surrounding buildings.
Compared with the large-scale factories in Japan, this factory is so small that it can barely be called a workshop.
So why can this dilapidated factory, which is obviously no longer engaged in any production tasks, be completely preserved during Japan's rapid expansion?
If you ask any Japanese passerby on the street, you will get an answer.
This is the "Sumitomo Copper Blowing Works", the ancestral business of Japan's Sumitomo Foundation. The Sumitomo Foundation's first copper smelting plant is located here.
Starting from this copper smelting plant, Sumitomo began to enter the metal smelting industry and soon became Japan's leading metal smelting company.
It then developed into what became the Sumitomo Zaibatsu.
Needless to say, this convoy is the Brazilian Expeditionary Force led by Fang Lang. As for why Fang Lang came to such a small ancient factory ruins?
This has to be said about the shrewdness of these Japanese chaebols.
Everyone in later generations is studying the Japanese chaebol. Why was it that the Japanese chaebol were able to become such a behemoth again after they were split up and reorganized by the Americans, and the factories were so severely destroyed?
Everyone has a consensus, that is, the Japanese chaebol had hid all their wealth before they knew that Japan was going to be defeated.
The Americans dug three feet and found nothing.
Fang Lang also got confirmation from Colonel Malik.
The US military did seize the assets of the consortium immediately, but found nothing.
But Fang Lang passed through Osaka in a later life and experienced the custom services of Osaka's custom streets. No, he made a mistake and came back to experience the scenery of Osaka's scenic streets.
I heard a saying from some drunk Japanese drinkers sitting next to me.
As soon as Fang Lang came to Osaka, he quietly came to the site of the "Sumitomo Dobuki Works", the ancestral business of the Japanese Sumitomo Foundation, to confirm the authenticity of the news.
Next, Fang Lang issued an order that baffled all the Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers.
They were asked to clear out all people within two hundred meters of the two streets.
So, today is obviously the time for Fang Lang to seize the fruits of victory.
I saw Fang Lang holding a flashlight and walking into the ruins of this dilapidated factory that didn't even have a locked door.
He came directly to a huge metal smelting furnace standing against the wall, opened a rusty iron door about two meters high and one meter wide, and walked directly into the smelting furnace.
It looked like some waste slag inside. Fang Lang picked up the slag on the ground, found a cover and lifted it up directly.
A dark hole in the ground leaked out. When the light of the flashlight shone down, it was discovered that it was a basement that was larger than the building area above.
Walking down the basement, Fang Lang saw a neat row of copper rods stacked on his left hand side, yes copper rods. It is a copper rod made of pure copper that is commonly used in industry.
On the right side, there are densely packed bronze vessels, the number of which definitely exceeds 2,000.
Qi Qingshan and others who came in behind Fang Lang were stunned. They didn't know the value of these bronzes, but they were shocked by the huge number.
Objects with various shapes and full of patina are obviously more eye-catching than industrial copper materials.
Fang Lang didn't waste any time and waved his hand directly:
"Move it for me, move everything here, leave nothing behind."
"Yes, sir!"
Then the soldiers of the Second Company of the Expeditionary Force began the work of porters.
Fang Lang was by his side the whole time, carefully directing everyone to pack the boxes.
Put all the bronzes into the wooden boxes that had been prepared long ago, and stuff them with straw, cotton wool and other things to prevent collisions.
If there are Chinese historians present, they will be stunned, because there are at least more than 500 Chinese bronzes and ancient bronze mirrors in it.
There are the Kuishen drum from the Shang Dynasty, the tiger-eating human-eating 卣 from the Shang dynasty, the sacrificial head fangzun from the late Shang dynasty, the Chimei bell from the Warring States period, the Jingjishi 卣 from the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, the Chiwen Fangding from the Spring and Autumn Period, etc. Each piece is a national treasure-level cultural relic of China.
In modern society, all these cultural relics are collected in the Sumitomo family's Izumiya Museum, and Chinese people can only watch them from a distance through glass cabinets.
Although most of the soldiers don't understand what these things are. However, since the chief attaches so much importance, everyone must take it seriously.
After counting and counting during packing, it was finally confirmed that the number of bronzes reached more than 3,200 pieces. Everyone had a clear division of labor. Some people packed, some moved, and some were responsible for transportation.
The transportation was finally completed at dawn.
However, Fang Lang did not stop and said as if casually:
"Don't leave any copper materials to the Japanese, transport them all away."
The price of copper during this period was as high as US$3,514 per ton, and the copper rods here were at least hundreds of tons, easily worth US$3 to 400,000.
This is no small sum of money.
Of course, if it's just for these copper materials, it's definitely not worth Fang Lang's troublesome efforts to clear two streets.
According to what Fang Lang heard, these were not copper materials, but copper coated with gold.
This is also the capital that enabled the Sumitomo family to rise rapidly after the war and quickly return to its pre-war strength.
The Sumitomo family is very smart. They store all the family wealth underground in this dilapidated ancestral property that has a history of hundreds of years.
Everyone thinks that this place was deliberately preserved by the Sumitomo family to commemorate the family's first copper smelting factory.
There are even only two old men arranged to guard here, which is basically equivalent to no defense.
And all Japanese people know that this is the ancestral property of the Sumitomo family, and its commemorative significance is greater than its actual significance.
Almost all members of the Sumitomo family forget this place selectively and will not mention it easily.
It is also not on the list of Sumitomo's production factories. The US military searched according to Sumitomo's corporate structure and found no such factory.
Because it is indeed no longer a factory.
It was this humble, dilapidated factory that preserved the wealth of the Sumitomo family and provided sufficient financial support for the Sumitomo family's rapid rise again after the war.
Unfortunately, due to the direct intervention of Butterfly Fang Lang from later generations, all the wealth hidden by the Sumitomo family was directly and quietly transferred.
In fact, the Sumitomo family had become suspicious of Fang Lang's unusual behavior, and went to Colonel Malik to complain about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's misbehavior.
However, they have obviously forgotten their identity as a defeated country, and a defeated country has no room for bargaining.
As Japan's largest chaebol, the U.S. government is trying every means to pursue your war crimes, and has included the current head of the Sumitomo Zaibatsu on the list of war criminals.
How can I embarrass my allies for you?
Therefore, their complaints did not achieve the effect they wanted. Instead, the soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force became even more aggressive.
This caused their personnel who could still pay attention to the ancestral business from a distance to be directly driven out of the observable range.
Maybe this is the so-called shooting oneself in the foot!
It was already getting brighter, but I wasn't afraid that the Sumitomo family would find me.
But there is definitely no way to hide it from the US patrol.
And if the US military discovers his behavior of eating alone, it will obviously cause Colonel Malik to have a grudge against him.
This is not what Fang Lang wants to see.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Fang Lang decided to take the initiative to explain to Colonel Malik that at the worst possible price, he would share the price with him.
Fang Lang, who hadn't slept all night, drove directly to the US military station and saw Colonel Malik, who was in high spirits.
Apparently, Colonel Malik was relieved and in a good mood.
You no longer have to worry about these equipment falling on your hands, or the alliance president discovering that you are hiding Japanese military assets.
Sleeping with one hundred thousand dollars on my pillow, I slept soundly.
Looking at Fang Lang, whose face was full of oil and his spirit was obviously a little unusually excited, he couldn't help but said strangely:
"Fang, what's wrong with you? Did you not sleep all night? Why, are you worried about this batch of equipment!"
After saying that, he stepped forward and patted Fang Lang on the arm and said:
"Don't worry! All the equipment will be installed on your ship before the Alliance General Manager's personnel arrive. You don't have to worry that things about this factory will not spread."
Fang Lang noticed that when Colonel Malik said this, the cold light in his eyes flashed away.
I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, thinking that this old boy was going to kill him.
But it's wrong to think about it. After all, Fang Lang and him are considered accomplices. If they really want to be investigated, both of them are guilty of the same crime.
And Fang Lang didn't feel any hostility from him.
That means the target he wants to silence is not himself, then who could it be?
Without thinking too much, Fang Lang immediately understood his plan. It was obvious that the workers in this factory might be in danger.
Although this would be a bit cruel, Fang Lang showed no mercy at all.
This is a fucking artillery factory. The artillery produced has caused countless harm to his hometown and the people of the world, so Fang Lang can't wait to help applaud him.
However, Fang Lang came here today not because of this incident, so he said directly:
"Marick, what do I have to worry about? I've seen the situation and it should be finished in the early morning this morning.
Once the cargo is on board, our ship will depart directly. When the people from the League President arrive tomorrow morning, no trace will be left. "
Malik also showed a satisfied smile and said with a pun:
"Yeah! Nothing will be left."
"I came here today to share some good news with you. My people just discovered a batch of Japanese copper rods.
You have just provided a batch of equipment for making cannons, and equipment for making cannonballs will appear soon.
This is really the icing on the cake! Although these copper materials have not yet found a buyer, I inquired about the current copper price and made an evaluation. This batch of goods is worth at least 200,000.
Man, we're going to get rich again. "
