Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After opening the door, what appeared in front of everyone was a construction site that looked obviously messy. Everyone scrambled to remove the canvas that temporarily covered the window as a curtain, allowing sunlight to shine into the room.

In fact, in the early days, our family always thought that he might have been serving Germany. After all, before World War II, the Germans were unable to conduct military research and development at home because of the Versailles Treaty. Mr. Frey said while looking at the house.

After World War I, the Allies imposed a series of restrictions in order to disarm Germany to the greatest extent: abolition of the universal compulsory military service system, limiting the number of German army personnel to 100,000, and limiting the number of naval personnel to 15,000, and abolishing the General Staff .

In addition, they also set a maximum limit for Germany to possess warships and prohibited the possession of submarines and military aircraft. The production and import of heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles is prohibited. Under such circumstances, German military production would naturally not be able to continue normally.

Therefore, in order to prepare to maintain their own military production, the Germans established secret contacts with many countries at that time, the most famous of which was the Soviet Union.

In 1921, the Soviet Union and Germany reached a secret cooperation agreement. The Soviet Union provided training venues, raw materials, and military material production bases for the German Wehrmacht, and Germany provided military technology, funds, and technical personnel to help the Soviet Union upgrade its military industrial system.

In 1922, the Soviet Union and Germany formally signed the Treaty of Raballo, which marked the normalization of relations between the two countries, and included secret military supplementary provisions.

German industrial giants began to set up factories directly in the Soviet Union and provide technical support. For example, the Junkers Aircraft Company set up a factory near Moscow to produce military aircraft and distributed them to the Soviet Union and Germany in a certain proportion.

The Soviet Union and Germany cooperated to invest in chemical plants and produce military poison gas. The German Navy handed over some submarine blueprints and tried to launch new submarine research in the Soviet Union. Of course, Germany's first tanks were also trained in the Soviet Union.

In addition to cooperation with the Soviet Union, Germany has also started research on fighter jets and products with the Netherlands, and research on light weapons and artillery with Switzerland. These cooperations have basically been made public today.

That's why Mr. Frey and his family thought that the old Mr. Frey was probably involved in secret cooperation with the Germans. After all, the company he worked for was the Swiss branch of Germany's Kluber.

And if this is the case, then it may explain why the other party rarely responded to letters at that time, and when he wrote home, most of the letters contained vague content.

After all, the Germans were doing most of this work in secrecy at the time, so it was normal for those involved in the research to have restrictions on external communications.

It was just that during the renovation, Mr. Frey discovered the basement and some strange items in his home, so he thought about it again and found Liang En, hoping to find out what his grandfather did back then. .

This basement is here. Stepping on the construction debris on the ground, they quickly arrived in the living room, and then several people walked to the corner of the room.

Obviously, this house originally had a stone floor, but due to renovations, the stone floor was pried up, so the iron plate underneath was exposed.

This was discovered when we were renovating it. Because it had been used as a hotel for so many years, when the previous contract ended, we found that the whole room was a bit dilapidated, so we decided to renovate it.

Watching Liang En pull up the iron plate under his feet, Mr. Frey said at the same time as he turned on the headlight that had just been tied to his head to illuminate the situation below.

One of the core tasks of the renovation was to lift all these slates from the ground, and then clean and replace them as a whole. We discovered this basement while taking these slates off the ground.

Because this place had been inspected and cleaned before, the decayed wooden ladder below was dismantled and thrown aside. A silver-white aluminum alloy ladder was firmly fixed below.

Frey was the first to climb down the ladder, and after the light came on underneath, Liang En also put on a headlamp and followed the hole.

When his feet touched the floor, his eyes widened in surprise, because this basement was not a temporarily excavated underground space like he imagined, but a carefully constructed underground bunker.

The walls of the entire basement are made of smoothed cement, and steel bars as thick as a little finger are exposed under the partially peeled cement blocks. At first glance, it gives the impression that it is very solid.

Even if it weren't for the fact that several load-bearing columns and beams were added due to the strength of this place, so that the height of the entire room was less than two meters, the overall appearance would be no different from an extra floor.

This should be a World War II German defense fortification. He said after looking at the ventilation duct exhaust window embedded in the wall and the covered eagle holding a swastika on the exhaust window.

However, compared with the standard fortification, this fortification has been strengthened. If there are no accidents, it can even be used to withstand direct fire from artillery below 100mm. So if I am not wrong, this should be a professional modification based on the standard fortification.

The entire basement looks like a large warehouse. Judging from the marks on the floor, a lot of things have been placed here before, but now only eight boxes remain.

Unfortunately, these boxes are all the most common wooden boxes, so it is basically impossible to tell where these things come from just by relying on these boxes.

Here are the things my father left for me. Mr. Frey came to a box, and then he and his daughter moved the lid of the box to reveal the contents of the box.

The box was filled with yellowed documents, but when Liang En stepped forward to check, he found that there were obvious blisters and traces of mold on the documents, so that the words and patterns on them looked extremely blurry, making it impossible to distinguish the contents.

The only thing that can be called a clue is the Gothic German on the titles of these documents, which was a common German writing style in the past.

However, because the Germans regarded this writing as an official writing during World War II, it basically disappeared after the end of World War II.

The situation is like this, because we are on a peninsula now, so even if the surrounding area has been specially waterproofed, the basement is still very humid, and the items in the boxes are obviously damaged. Mr. Frey said helplessly.

Because of this, we have not opened the next box after opening the first box. We hope to leave enough information for you professionals.

You are right, sir. It is best to keep these things as they are when you are not a professional. At least you can avoid a large part of the secondary damage. Liang En smiled and nodded.

To be honest, many times because excavators do not understand cultural relics and excavate or even repair them at will, the damage to cultural relics in the end is greater than the damage caused by hundreds or even thousands of years.

Therefore, for non-professionals, the best way to find cultural relics is to report them to the relevant departments. It is most appropriate to let professionals come instead of dealing with those things yourself.