Chapter 307: History of the Awa Maru

   "Oh, you still have the energy to go to the morning exercise. It seems that I will work harder tonight." Iloti looked at Minano Shuichi meaningfully. This sentence made the latter's feet weak, because his feet were a little soft now. No, he needs to eat some oysters to make up for it today.

"What are you working hard for?" Yuko Miyamoto asked in confusion.

"Yuzi, you don't understand. You will understand when you grow up." Iloti smiled coquettishly.

"I've grown up, I'm eighteen years old, you see~" Miyamoto Yuko deliberately stood up.

"Fine, you've grown up."

Both were smiling.



A department of the z government of the island country.

"Minister Koizumi, after three years of investigation, we finally found the wreck of the Awa Maru in the waters south of the island country!" A man named Sano in an office reported to his immediate boss, Koizumi Hui.

"Very good, very good. In Huaxia's words, hard work pays off. We finally found the wreck of the Awa Maru! Now I order you to organize personnel immediately and send a salvage boat to salvage it there. By the way, this one The matter must be kept secret. If there are fishermen's fishing boats approaching, they will immediately disperse. This matter cannot be known to the people of the American Empire." Koizumi said coldly.

"Yes!" Sano nodded and bowed. He knew what the Awa Maru represented, it was a ship of gold! If this is known by the people of the American Empire, then the other party will definitely salvage it. Now all the waters here are U.S. imperial warships. Their island nation's warships were all confiscated or destroyed after the defeat.

If the other party knows this news, they will definitely go to salvage it. Now their island country is their little brother, they can do whatever they want, and they don't dare to say a word.

Speaking of Awa Maru, it is an ocean-going cruise ship.

It is 154.9 meters long, 20.2 meters wide, 12.6 meters deep, and has a gross tonnage of 11,249.4 tons. On March 28, 1945, the Awa Maru, which had been requisitioned by the army of the island country, loaded a large number of islanders evacuated from Southeast Asia in Singapore and sailed to the island country. At midnight on April 1, the ship traveled to the waters east of Niushan Island in China and was discovered by the US imperial submarine "Queen Fish" cruising in the waters. It was attacked by several torpedoes and sank quickly three minutes later. Except for 1 person, 2,008 passengers, crew, and 40 tons of gold, 12 tons of platinum, about 40 boxes of jewelry and cultural relics, 3,000 tons of tin ingots, 3,000 tons of rubber and thousands of tons of rice loaded on the ship all sank to the bottom of the sea.

It is said that 40 tons of gold, 12 tons of platinum, and a large number of industrial diamonds were also sunk to the bottom of the sea with "Awa Maru". In the 1970s, a long salvage began. To this day, the mystery of the "Awa Maru" that sank into the sea still remains...

Of course, the above are all records and reports in later literature. The salvage work did indeed start in the 1970s. As for whether it was salvaged or not, no one knew whether there were any gold treasures.

In fact, the oil tanker that was sunk as mentioned above is true, and it was indeed sunk by a U.S. submarine. But this one is not the real Awa Maru! It's called the Taiyo Maru tanker instead, and the tonnage is about the same size as the real Awa Maru.

There were two large cruise ships and several other small passenger ships evacuated at that time.

At that time, the Sun Maru was indeed sunk, and there were indeed 2,008 islanders on board, as well as 12 tons of platinum and a large number of industrial diamonds, 3,000 tons of tin ingots, 3,000 tons of rubber, and thousands of tons of rice. But the gold was not on the sunk tanker.

The real Awa Maru was actually evacuated from another route. Those dozens of tons of gold are on the real Awa Maru. This was deliberately arranged at the time of the evacuation. Because eggs cannot be placed in one basket. Besides, the islanders are also very shrewd, knowing that the sea area was blocked by the US imperialists at that time.

Minister Koizumi knew that the rumored Awa Maru was actually sunk by the Sun Maru. The real Awa Maru was evacuated from another place, but it was shot twice by the opponent's warship during the evacuation, and finally escaped the battlefield. Finally, when it came to the southern waters of the island country, there was too much water to repair it. I can't stand sinking into the sea, and there are dozens of tons of gold that sink into the sea!

At that time, the Awa Maru sent a distress message to the navy when it was about to sink in the southern waters of the island country, but at that time, how could the navy pay attention to this oil tanker? At that time, the war was in full swing. Where would we send warships to rescue?

So the Awa Maru was not sunk by the American Empire, but was injured and fled back to the southern waters of the island country sea and couldn't hold back. The oil tanker sent a telegram to the island nation's naval headquarters at the last moment of the sinking, informing that the sinking site was in the southern part of the island nation's sea. It sank directly before it came and reported the specific coordinates.

This also became a mystery. Later, the island country Z prefecture searched that sea area for several years and finally found the location of the Awa Maru shipwreck. Now it has also begun to organize manpower to carry out salvage work.

That is to say, the historical truth of the sinking of Awa Maru in history is this. The fake Awa Maru that sank in the waters east of Usan Island is the Taiyo Maru. The real Awa Maru sank in a certain sea in the southern waters of the Island Sea.

Of course, this historical truth is only known to the island country itself. Therefore, after several years of searching in that sea area, I finally found it.

But this news is definitely top secret on the island country side.

Sano took a deep breath after walking out of his boss's office: "The Awa Maru has a gross tonnage of 11,249.4 tons. It's not easy to salvage it!" And he also received news that the depth of the sinking reached 200 meters! He doesn't know how long it will take to salvage it!

The technique of salvaging sunken ships in these years is not as fierce as that of later generations! The depth of 200 meters is very deep. But no matter how difficult it was, no matter how many people died, he had to salvage it, because according to the top-secret documents above, he knew that there were dozens of tons of gold in the sunken ship. This is a lot of wealth. It can let the Z government get a lot of money into the account. He felt that he must go all out to salvage and go to work.

"The salvage work can be carried out slowly, but the **** on the American Emperor's side must not know this secret!" Sano said to himself in a deep voice. He actually hated the Medi people very much, because the Medi people didn't know how many of their people were killed. But now people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads. The people of their island country will always be an anti-bone boy.