Our country has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, and the water area of inland seas and coastal seas is about more than 4 million square kilometers.
Our country not only has a vast territory, but also has many ethnic groups.
Since the pre-Qin period more than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese nation has thrived on this land of China.
Today, our country has thousands of years of civilization history.
The charm of Chinese culture is that it is a country that can embrace all rivers.
We welcome others to learn our culture and are happy to spread Chinese culture to all parts of the world.
In ancient times, the main ways for Chinese culture to communicate with foreign cultures were the land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road.
Whether it is spiritual culture or artifact culture, they all go to the world.
The shipwreck of the "Jinling" is a typical representative of this kind of exchange.
According to later historical records, in 1752 AD, it was during the reign of the Qing government in my country, and the reigning emperor was Emperor Qianlong.
In the winter of this year, a merchant ship named "Goldmarsen" was loaded with my country's porcelain and gold and sailed from Jinling to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
This is a ship loaded with cargo. If it can arrive smoothly, it will benefit greatly.
But after sailing for sixteen days, the ship hit a reef and sank in the waters of the South my country Sea.
This ship also had another name. People at that time called it "Jinling".
This is not the first ship to be silent in the South China Sea. It can be said that there may be countless treasures hidden on the bottom of the South China Sea.
In modern times, some foreigners have focused on my country's ancient shipwrecks in order to make a fortune.
In the 1980s, many people abroad set up expedition teams to explore the South China Sea in my country, hoping to find treasures sunk on the seabed.
Not to mention, some people have made a fortune by salvaging ancient Chinese shipwrecks and obtaining the treasures inside.
The most rampant among them is a foreigner named Mike Hatcher.
Mike Hatcher's childhood life was not happy, and it can even be said that he suffered from poverty.
In order to escape from poverty, he set his life goal as treasure hunting.
In 1970, Mike Hatcher established a commercial salvage company. In order to obtain greater profits, he set his sights on my country's South China Sea.
Unfortunately, after making a great discovery, he was also dazzled by the white porcelain.
In 1984, Mike Hatcher accidentally discovered relevant records about the "Jinling" that sank in 1752 in the archives of the Dutch East India Company.
Based on some existing information and relevant navigation diaries, he quickly determined the location of the shipwreck.
Mike Hatcher took his expedition team to the South China Sea of my country.
After a long period of survey, he soon discovered the sunken "Jinling" and began to salvage the sunken ship.
There is no doubt that the harvest this time was very rich.
In total, they salvaged more than a million pieces of Qing Dynasty porcelain, and more than a hundred gold ingots.
He was suddenly dazzled by so many porcelains, and so were the salvage team members.
It was this salvage that became a scar in the history of archaeology.
Our country has always been famous for its porcelain. Even our English name is "A", which has the same name as porcelain.
Unfortunately, just because the porcelain was made too well, the technology tree was distorted, which resulted in many humiliating scenes.
This time was no exception, so just one shipwreck cost us millions of pieces of porcelain.
If you sell millions of pieces of porcelain, you will really make a fortune.
But Mike Hatcher didn't think so. He didn't expect to fish out so much.
"Things that are scarce are valuable." When there are too many things, they lose their value.
In order to obtain higher profits, he smashed 650,000 pieces of porcelain and kept only 239,000 pieces of blue and white porcelain.
Because among porcelain, blue and white porcelain is generally the most valuable.
Of course, this is the idea of these foreign idlers. They simply don't know that the real thing is rare, and it is not the blue and white porcelain that is the most abundant.
Therefore, among the remaining 650,000 cultural relics, regardless of whether they were valuable, not to mention their manufacturing process, or the history of the cultural relics, they were all smashed to pieces.
This incident has become a scar in the archaeological history of our country, and the remaining more than 200,000 pieces of blue and white porcelain have already made Mike Hatcher hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.
This is definitely a shame and pain for the National Archaeology, but at that time, we had nothing to do.
The sunken ship was salvaged in the South China Sea. According to international regulations, it should belong to our country.
However, Hatcher towed the boat and the porcelain to the high seas, saying they had been salvaged on the high seas.
A year later, the sunken ship was deemed to belong to Hatcher because no one claimed it.
In this way, even our domestic experts were unable to recover these cultural relics even if they wanted to.
From then on, he seemed to have taken root in the South China Sea.
With money, you can hire more professional salvage personnel and purchase more professional salvage equipment.
In order to find the location of ancient Chinese shipwrecks, he also searched through ancient Chinese books.
In 1999, he discovered the Chinese sunken ship "Taixing" in Indonesian waters.
He spent a lot of money to fish it out of the sea of Indonesia, and suddenly gained huge profits.
200 years ago, my country's giant three-legged sailing ship "Taixing", loaded with spices, silk, tea, porcelain and more than 2,000 passengers, set sail from Hu Jianxia Port.
The ship was bound for Batavia in Southeast Asia, but unfortunately ran aground and sank in Indonesia, killing more than 1,600 people.
The casualties this time exceeded that of the "Titanic", and it was called the "Oriental Titanic".
In 1999, the sunken ship was salvaged and more than 350,000 pieces of porcelain were recovered, which shocked the world.
Unfortunately, these porcelains are scattered all over the world and are rarely collected in China.
Chen Wenzhe knew this because the cultural relics from the Taixing shipwreck were on display.
That exhibition was the first large-scale exhibition on the theme of the "Taixing" shipwreck in China. More than 400 artifacts from the shipwreck were on display, presenting the basic appearance of the Dehua kiln porcelain from the "Taixing" shipwreck.
The "Taixing" is the largest Chinese wooden sailing ship discovered in marine archeology so far, and it is also the sunken ship with the most complete cultural relics recovered.
It's a pity that the timing of discovering it was wrong. If it were changed to the current era, Hatcher would definitely not get any benefit from us, but what can we do?
At that time, we were poor and backward!
But today we have become a big country and will never be bullied again.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe plans to start from now on.
Now that we have encountered Hatcher's fleet, we must attack him all at once.
Even if there were no sunken ships here, Chen Wenzhe would still want to cause trouble for him.
What's more, the Hatcher fleet seems to have gained something, mainly because there are really many sunken ships in this sea area.