Although there are no antiques and cultural relics as expected, these precious metals are also very good. These things were looted by the Japanese from various Asian countries in the past. If we don’t take them away, it won’t be long before these precious metals are taken back to their homeland by the Japanese and become part of the luxurious life of their Majesty the Emperor.
Moreover, the quantity of these precious metals is not small. Yang Jing only made a rough estimate and found that there are no less than 50 tons of gold stored in this warehouse alone.
All of this gold was cast into gold bricks, which were similar in size to the ones Yang Jing found in the ballast tank of the "First Xinxing Maru", but their number was much greater than those in the shipwreck.
Next to the gold, there were some silver-white and black metal ingots. Yang Jing walked over and looked at them carefully before he could identify the identity of these metal ingots.
Most of the metal ingots with silvery white color are white gold, or platinum; the metal with the same silvery white color but much lighter than platinum should be palladium.
Whether it is palladium or platinum, both are collectively called "white gold" by the Chinese people because of their silvery-white metallic color. This is a precious metal that is as valuable as gold, and its output is much lower than that of gold. Whether it is platinum or palladium, the reserves on the earth are similar, only 8% of the reserves of gold.
Next to these platinums was a pile of black metal ingots. Yang Jing examined them for a while before realizing that these metal ingots were most likely the legendary "black gold".
The so-called black gold refers to rhodium in the platinum group metals, also known as rhodium gold. Because this metal shows a gray-black metallic luster under normal conditions, this metal is also called "black gold".
As the saying goes, "scarcity makes things valuable." The reserves of rhodium on the earth are far lower than gold and platinum, only about one-tenth of platinum, so the value of this black gold is far greater than that of gold and platinum.
Although the amount of black gold in front of us is not much, weighing only about less than two tons, its value is comparable to five tons of gold. This is because the price of rhodium has dropped a lot recently. If it were more than ten years ago, the price of rhodium would be more than seven times that of gold!
But no matter what, the value of these 50 tons of gold, about 10 tons of platinum and these black golds is already amazing enough. Although I didn't get the expected antiques, these gains are enough to justify the hard work I put in with a group of people when I was looking for this base in the Mauger Islands.
No, these things naturally could not be left to the Japanese. Yang Jing just stretched out his left hand and walked past the shelves, and then all these priceless precious metals were collected by Yang Jing into the storage space.
After cleaning up this warehouse, Yang Jing continued to sweep the remaining three warehouses. The remaining three warehouses were mostly filled with precious metals, mainly gold bricks, gold foil, and gold powder, but there was no platinum or black gold.
From the remaining three warehouses, Yang Jing harvested more than 100 tons of gold bars and dozens of tons of gold foil and gold powder. The gold obtained from these four warehouses alone exceeded 200 tons!
This number is definitely not small, but Yang Jing not only did not feel happy, on the contrary he felt a little frightened, and then began to get angry.
This base was just one of the many secret bases built by Japan back then, and this base has been almost completely moved. The remaining precious metals are probably less than 3% of the original amount. One can imagine how much precious metals and other wealth the Japanese looted in Asia back then.
If we really calculate it, these more than 200 tons of gold are probably not even one thousandth of all the wealth looted by the Japanese devils back then. This number is really terrifying, it makes people feel cold all over, and it makes people uncontrollably angry!
The Japanese back then were worse than locusts, worse than the most brutal bandits. They were not human at all! They were worse than animals!
Yang Jing was almost out of control due to his anger, but in the end, it was a few boxes in a corner of the warehouse that forced him to suppress his irritation.
These boxes are all wooden boxes. The wood on the outside has almost rotted away, and the lids are open. If my guess is correct, the treasures that were supposed to be inside should have been taken away by the Japanese long ago.
But when Yang Jing saw these opened wooden boxes, his heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason...
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