The movie Hands Up is a funny and real anti-Japanese movie. Behind the laughter is the cruelty and helplessness brought by the war. Our Japanese memory of the humiliation of the enemy in the film is our Japanese. The second film "Chasing Apo Pills" is based on real events. It is said that the ship was loaded with countless gold, silver, jewels and cultural relics, and finally sank off the coast of Fujian, China. What is the specific truth?
The first is the mysterious sunken ship Apomaru.
The vast ocean is always in dreamy blue, with countless dangers that we can never predict. Countless sailors, captains and pirates lost their lives in the beautiful and dreamy ocean, and countless ships made of steel never returned and sank to the bottom of the sea. It is the power of marine terror and the beauty of appearance that attracts groups of people who are willing to throw themselves into the embrace of the ocean. The ocean is the largest area on the earth, and human beings also have a strong desire to possess it.
In order to possess marine resources and make the vast ocean available for their own use, countries are scrambling to study ships and warships. Because they possess marine resources and become the overlord of the ocean, it means that they can have countless wealth and rich national strength. During World War II, with the development of scientific civilization, all countries began to realize the vastness of the earth and their ambitions were expanding. Japan has relied on the ocean since ancient times and has superb marine technology, which has launched fierce attacks and invasions on mainland countries.
During World War II, Japan's maritime power was second to none in the world, and its fleet was invincible in the ocean. Japan's maritime military strength can be seen from the Sino-Japanese War. At that time, Japan's most famous warships were not those that sailed south at sea, but a transport ship, the sunken Apomaru.
This warship is very mysterious. The task of transporting goods and personnel by sea has been successfully completed many times, and the task of transporting materials has been completed even in the case of broken cans and falls. Finally, it was easily sunk by four American torpedoes. With the sinking of the Apomaru, the mysterious cargo on board is to let people find out.
Second, the huge treasure on board.
Although it is conceivable that the rock-solid Apomaru was easily sunk, what really makes this ship mysterious is that it is said that it had huge property before sinking. It is reported that the ship was loaded with 40 tons of gold and 12 tons of platinum, as well as a large amount of money and 40 boxes of cultural relics and jewels, with a total value of $5 billion. Not only that, but there may also be priceless Peking man skulls on board.
Not to mention the value of gold, platinum, cultural relics and jewels, a Peking man's skull alone is a major discovery in ancient times, a treasure of China and even the whole world, and of great significance to the study of human evolution and ancient history. However, inexplicably, there are various indications that these huge wealth is likely to be on the sunken Apomaru, but more than half a century has passed, and the Japanese military and government have said nothing about this ship and what happened on it.
Apomaru was built and launched in March 1943. Since then, it has been sailing in the name of a civilian ship. After signing an agreement with the United States, Japan has always used it as the main tool for transporting materials and personnel. But more than ten years after Japan invaded China, the ship was also used to transport wealth.
Until 1945, when the Japanese army that was about to be defeated wanted to transport the property gained from the aggression and some Japanese troops back to Japan, it met the American submarine "Queen Fish" patrolling near the coast of Fujian, and was sunk by four torpedoes fired by the Queen Fish due to heavy fog and radar.
Third, carry out fishing work.
At that time, Abomaru not only had huge wealth, but also had 2009 people, including soldiers, sailors, captains, the elderly, women and children. After the ship was sunk, the "Queen Fish" who fired the torpedo arrived, but only one survivor was rescued. Survivors remained silent all the time, saying nothing about the wealth on board and the scene on board at that time. I just remembered that the night before the shipwreck, a woman on board just gave birth to a child, and the child became the smallest victim in the shipwreck.
After 27 years of sinking, that is, 1972, Nixon brought a mysterious gift when he visited China. This gift is about Apo Pill. Nixon provided a detailed list of the wreck site and the cargo on board. It is this list that makes the news of the huge wealth on the Apomaru more true, because it clearly says that the ship carries 40 tons of gold, 10 tons of platinum and many cultural relics and jewels.
Because the sinking place is in the territorial waters of China, only China in the world is qualified to salvage the Apomaru. It was not until 1977 that China's technologies were further improved that the salvage work was officially carried out.
During the three years from 1977 to 1980, China sent three armies and 120 excellent divers to carry out this salvage activity, which also attracted extensive attention from all countries in the world. In the end, China completed the salvage before the planned time in the United States, but only cleaned and salvaged some bones and materials worth more than 50 million yuan, and found no gold.
Fourth, maybe never.
After three years of salvage work, no gold was recovered, and these 40 tons of gold disappeared out of thin air. As for the reasons for the disappearance of gold, there are endless arguments, mainly two opinions.
One is that the "unsinkable ship" Apomaru sank not because of American torpedoes, but because it was equipped with explosive devices from the beginning. After being attacked, in order to prevent others from getting gold, it began to explode and was finally blown up.
It is also accepted that it is possible that the gold cultural relics and jewels on the ship are just a smoke bomb, and its own purpose is to lure China people to salvage the bones of the Japanese army that sank to the bottom of the sea, because no other country has the right to salvage this sea area except China. Another reason is that the United States and Japan wanted to know about China's marine technology, so let's give it a try.
We have no way to know the truth. Because of the first salvage, China didn't salvage for the second time. So far, the secret of the huge wealth on the Apomaru has never been true. Maybe the truth can only be slowly revealed by others in the future. Although gold has not been found, China's diving technology and marine exploration technology have advanced by leaps and bounds because of this salvage activity. This is a two-sided story.