Chapter 4 3. "Film Zero"

The so-called No. 0 film is a code name, which originated from a film about the Daqing Oilfield that Harbin Film Studio began shooting in the early winter of 1959. This film was named "No. 0 film", and only high-level central executives It can only be watched, and its content involves scenes and details of the early exploration, positioning, development, and oil battles of Daqing Oilfield.Since then, we have habitually referred to the confidential films shot for the central high-level officials as No. 0 films.No one knows where the real No. 0 film ended up. Someone in our industry once said that because Huang Jiqing and Li Siguang were involved in the film, the film seemed to be destroyed artificially in the end. What is the truth? That is " One of the countless unreasonable things in the "Cultural Revolution".

The video we watched briefly but clearly introduced the purpose of our secondment this time.I can only briefly talk about the content of the short film here. What needs to be explained in advance is that under the circumstances at the time, it was impossible for us to doubt the credibility of this short film, but now it seems that some clips are really hard to believe. Things go something like this: In the winter of 1959, when fighting a fire at the southern foot of the Greater Khingan Mountains, loggers who were fighting the fire found the wreckage of a Japanese transport plane in a mud bubble.It is said that the fire dried up all the water in the bubble, and the mud surface dropped, revealing a broken wing.

The local loggers did not recognize the plane at the time. They climbed into the wreckage of the plane and took out many parts from it. A retired military officer saw that this incident was notified to all levels. At that time, high-level leaders attached great importance to this kind of military legacy equipment. On the one hand, it may have considerable military research value, and on the other hand, it may also have remnants of anti-injury ammunition, so the central government immediately sent people to deal with this matter. When relevant parties dug the plane out of the mire and checked the cabin, they were surprised to find that all the documents transported by the plane were the documents of the Kwantung Army's geological exploration of the three eastern provinces and parts of Mongolia.

We all know that after the Japanese occupation of Kanto, they spent a lot of effort in searching for minerals in Manchuria and Mongolia, the most important of which was oil, but I don’t know why, the drilling depth of Little Japan was generally not high at that time, and there were no clues when looking for it. .Their exploration team even walked through the ore layer of Daqing Oilfield several times, but they did not find any treasures underneath.Afterwards, Japan always believed that China was an oil-poor country. It was not until Huang Jiqing discovered the Daqing oil field that he reversed this concept (in fact, before Japan occupied the three northeastern provinces, the Americans also searched for it, but found nothing. This is in our Now that I think about it, it's a really weird thing).

But Japan's basic exploration work was not sloppy at all. When the Soviet Red Army attacked the Kwantung Army, our underground workers tried to find these documents, but failed.Later, these things disappeared. The Chinese believed that they were seized by the Soviet Union, the Soviets believed that Japan destroyed them, and the Japanese believed that the Chinese and the Japanese surrendering army secretly reached an agreement to take them away.What none of the three parties expected was that these materials had actually been lying in the mud of Greater Khingan Mountains in China for twenty years.

These materials are precious, and later played an important reference role to a certain extent, especially in the exploration of certain large shallow mineral deposits in Inner Mongolia. From these materials, we can see that the Japanese are rigorous in their work. All the exploration materials are classified and sealed in cowhide boxes. Different information has different color covers. These things were later found in the confidential working group of the Beijing Archives Bureau. , are strictly classified. This was originally a very ordinary thing, but the occurrence of one thing made this accident very special.

Because these documents are all written in Japanese, and there are a large amount of geological exploration data, translators and geological exploration personnel need to cooperate with each other, and the finishing work is very slow. During this period, one thing happened: one of the archivists, in the Under a leather case of -34, a strange black password iron box was found. It was a very weird box, which was pressed under the box, very inconspicuous, but the code lock on the box was very precise, and it was obvious that it was used by the army. What's in it?At that time, after the box was reported to the public, it aroused strong interest from the high-level officials. They called for expert consultation, spent a lot of effort, and used chemical potions to destroy the box. Geological prospecting data written in code with keywords.

At that time, they wondered why this data should be specially preserved. Is the area explored by this geological exploration data different from other places? The central government suspects that this document may contain clues to the Japanese search for oil.But all the key information of this document is written in cipher text. The Japanese code is quite powerful and could not be deciphered at that time. The Americans who mastered the Japanese code book were only a few years after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and were completely unable to communicate with the US. The devil discussed borrowing it to take a look.So we don't know the specific content at all, we can only see the location and scope of the exploration.

Therefore, according to the records in the materials, a special project team was formed for the 723 Project, which was already being implemented at that time. One of the three exploration teams secretly took the materials and entered the jungle here, looking for the records mentioned above. clues.Later, sure enough, they found this temporary Japanese base where we are now in the jungle. However, the place is already deserted, everything has been burned, and there is not even a piece of paper. It can only be judged from some traces nearby that the Japanese did have an exploration team at that time, and carried out carpet-style exploration nearby. exploration.Its breadth even includes 80% of the mountainous jungle here.

However, after our own survey team conducted a census survey nearby, there were no results, and nothing could be seen on the surface.Shallow excavations have also yielded nothing, and the site lacks any features worthy of geological exploration. The Japanese attach great importance to it, which is in sharp contrast to our own team's lack of discovery.At that time, the person in charge of 723 intuitively felt the particularity of the matter, so, with trust in the Japanese exploration data and the basis of the depth of the oil storage strata, the central government made a decision to use the "seismic exploration equipment" introduced by the Soviet Union. Conduct seismic surveys of this area.

This was a relatively advanced technology at that time. Here is a description to explain the working principle of this device: The seismic waves are artificially stimulated on the surface, and when they propagate underground, they will be reflected and refracted when encountering rock layers with different medium properties. The seismic waves are received by geophones on the surface or in wells.The received seismic wave signal is related to the characteristics of the source, the location of the receiver point, and the nature and structure of the underground rock layer that the seismic wave passes through.By processing and interpreting seismic wave records, the nature and morphology of subsurface rock formations can be inferred.Seismic exploration is superior to other geophysical exploration methods in terms of layering detail and survey accuracy.The depth of seismic exploration generally ranges from tens of meters to tens of kilometers. China began to import this kind of equipment in 1951. By then, it had some practical operation experience. This kind of equipment is generally used in the exploration of ultra-deep deposits. Up to now, the data fed back by exploration is three-dimensional, which is very powerful. , Of course, these data are still just a bunch of extremely confusing curves to ordinary people. Afterwards, through the "geological data imaging" algorithm, these curves can be restored to a roughly readable black and white film.Now our prospecting already has relevant software, which can be generated in real time, but at that time, it was necessary to use a hand-cranked computer to calculate.Of course, these are all things that scientists do. For us basic technicians, it is undoubtedly listening to heaven. We can only understand the kind of black and white film after geological imaging. The seismic survey lasted for about five months, and after collecting the data, a discovery was indeed made, but the discovery was jaw-dropping. Exploration showed that there was an abnormal reflection of seismic waves 1,200 meters underground in this area.What is shown on the film is a very prominent and irregularly shaped white shadow, like a cross, with terrifying precision. It is 49 meters long and 34 meters wide, as if embedded in the ground 1,200 meters A chunk of metal in a rock crust. When we saw this shot, we all talked about it and felt incredible. However, when the technicians in the film zoomed in on the dot of the cross, all the surroundings fell silent again. It turned out that the cross-shaped white shadow, after being magnified two hundred times, clearly showed a geometric shape, and everyone recognized what it was at a glance. It turned out to be an airplane! It took me a long time to understand that this situation means that in the place where the Japanese were exploring, we found a bomber embedded in the geological rock crust 1,200 meters underground!