Conan: The Mechanic

"However, if you really want to say it, brother Tadao is here to find treasures, right?" Just when Saxue was about to bring the detective team back to her room, Conan looked at Tadao's blushing face and said lightly.

"Huh?" Tadao was stunned.

"You said that your job is a treasure hunter, didn't you?" Conan shrugged.

"Ah..." Tadao smiled wryly. "That's right..."

"Could it be that there is treasure here!?" Mitsuhiko said excitedly.

"Treasure?" The tall man just took off his shoes with his partner and walked into the hall, but at this moment he looked at Tadao curiously. "Friend, would you mind talking about it?"

"Ah..." Tadao looked at the tall man's eyes and blinked. "Okay...then let's find a place to sit and talk, go to my room."

"Go to our room," the tall man said. "It's just what I paid for the lecture fee."

"Ah..." Saxue suddenly remembered something. "Two guests, you haven't registered your names yet!"

"Oh..." The tall man scratched his head. "That...my name is Ichiro Kimura." Then, he pointed at the short man again. "That fat man is called Tanaka Jiro."

"Where am I getting fat!" Tanaka Jiro said speechlessly.

"..." Chiba observed Jiro Tanaka's figure—although he wasn't thin, he wasn't too fat after wearing a jacket, and when he entered the room, he unzipped his jacket, revealing his exposed neck. Must be a muscular man.

"Since you work here, you should be familiar with the room here, right?" Kimura Ichiro glanced at Tadao. "Take us there."

. . .

"Hmm..." Sitting in Kimura and Tanaka's room, Tadao glanced at the little guys next to him. "Since there are little guys in the audience, don't you mind if I start with the basics?"

"It's still a long time before night falls," Tanaka wanted to say, but Kimura took the lead. "It's better if you give them some generality, so that they won't come in and ask non-nutritious questions when you're talking about the core content."

"We also know a lot about treasures!" Yuan Tai said angrily. "It's a hidden treasure!"

"Why are the treasures hidden?" Tadao asked with a smile.

"Huh? This..." Yuan Tai muttered embarrassingly, and instantly became miserable.

Tadao looked at the other people, but Ayumi and Mitsuhiko didn't know the answer either; Haibara Ai pretended that he didn't hear anything and looked ahead; Chiyu and Conan looked at each other and shrugged that they didn't know the answer—this The question is too big to answer.

"Treasures are things that ancient people hid in hidden places," Conan began to explain. "Because Japan didn't have an institution like a bank during the Warring States Period, and there was no way to store large sums of money - in the Far East next door, around AD 713, that is, in the early days of Emperor Xuanzong's Kaiyuan period, you only need to pay rent. A locker where large sums of money are stored on their behalf - so it is safest to bury the treasure in a place that only you know. Because no matter how strong the defense is, it may be broken, and the treasure whose location is unknown can be well preserved. But The treasurer is likely to die suddenly due to sudden illness or accident, and it is too late to explain the location of the treasure. In this case, the treasure will become a treasure that no one knows where it is."

"That's right," Tadao smiled gently. "So it's our job to find these treasures~"

"Why does it sound like you're fishing for gold in a haystack..." Mitsuhiko tilted his head, confused. "Japan is so big, it must be difficult to find treasures!"

"Don't underestimate the quantity and quality of Japanese treasures!" Tadao retorted with a smile. "Do you know how Japan is described in Marco Polo's travelogue?"

"cipangu, the country of gold."

"cipangu? Is this the Italian meaning of the Land of Gold?" Ayumi asked curiously.

"Italian shouldn't have this word," Ai Haibara, who had been silent for a while, shook her head. "Arabic should not have the sound of p, and I don't know Chinese and Mongolian. Other languages ​​should not be in Marco Polo's language library."

"cipangu means 'Japan' in Chinese (the pronunciation of Japan in Middle Chinese)..." Conan pouted, then turned to Tadao. "Indeed, the Japan he described is extremely rich, but there are still doubts about whether he really came here!"

"Yeah..." Qianyu nodded. "Although there are accurate accounts of some events, as Heigl and Kronas (sceptics of Marco Polo's travels) said, there are many flaws in Marco Polo's travels, and there are also many scholars in the Far East. There is no trace of Marco Polo at all."

"But there is no doubt," Tadao said after looking at Conan, Chiba, and Ai Haibara in surprise. "Many warlords in Japan do indeed have superhuman wealth lost underground, such as the treasures of the Yuuki family buried in the north Kanto by the Yuuki Seiya, which the Edo shogunate was desperately looking for; Royal gold; also the military gold of Toyotomi Hideyoshi buried in the Tada Silver Mountain in Hyogo Prefecture~www.NovelMTL.com~ Are you looking for the treasure of the Takeda family?" Conan raised his eyebrows. "But if I remember correctly, there have been super-large-scale excavations in the history of several golden mountains here... There are even thousands of people digging gold, but they have found nothing."

"But if they didn't find the treasure because there was no treasure at all, then it would be difficult to explain the dozen or so gold bars in the late Meiji years," Chiba spread her hands. "That's not a small amount."

"Is your knowledge so rich?" Tadao exclaimed. "You don't even know that."

"What exactly are you talking about?" Yuan Tai poked Conan and asked.

"At the end of the Meiji era, someone found the body of a man who fell to his death at the foot of the nearby Kurokawa Jinshan," explained Conan. "There are more than ten gold bars on him, so it triggered a treasure hunt."

"A dozen or so? How much is that?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"At the end of the Meiji period, the world currency was the British pound, and the United Kingdom adopted the gold standard system. One pound was equivalent to 7.32 grams of gold. If there were more than ten pieces, it might be around 600 pounds."

"£600?" The little guys were obviously disappointed with this answer. "That's less than 100,000 yen, right?"

"At that time, 600 pounds was very expensive..." Qianyu pouted. "In 1918, when working 52 hours in the UK, the average weekly wage was £1.50, and it would only be lower at the end of the Meiji period, so £600 can be said to be the income of the average British in ten years."

"So many!" The little guys exclaimed together.

"I think that the treasure of Jin Takeda Shingen is actually not on the well-known Kurokawa Jinshan, but in the Jinshan mine here!"