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Chapter 1,327 Shipwreck in the Late Qing Dynasty

"Don't hesitate to get him!" Chen Wenzhe already knew what Gao Qijing meant at this time.

No wonder this guy wanted him to leave. It turned out that without Chen Wenzhe's knowledge, they had already started to collide.

This sea area is really not big, and they all wander around within a few kilometers of the deserted island.

In addition, Chen Wenzhe and the others have been here for a long time, so they will naturally encounter salvage ships from other countries.

They all want to salvage treasures, so naturally they don't like each other.

When Chen Wenzhe and the others were salvaging before, no matter how big or small the fishing boats were, people came over to cause trouble.

Fortunately, they had many people and powerful equipment, so they were not affected by those people.

But things are different now, the Hatcher fleet is no weaker than Chen Wenzhe and the others.

This time it can be said that we are enemies in a narrow road. Now that we have met, Chen Wenzhe never wants to let these foreigners go.

Therefore, after just a little exploration, Chen Wenzhe and the others discovered that Hatcher's fleet had indeed discovered a sunken ship.

This situation was discovered by Gao Qijing immediately. Of course, he was not a good person.

After meeting these guys, what if the sunken ship was discovered later?

On this ocean, strength really speaks for itself.

Because if you really want to calculate it, this sea area is owned by someone, because the desert island not far away seems to belong to Yin Ni.

However, the ink pad is not a good bird either.

Besides, if they could, they would send warships to expel them?

Chen Wenzhe looked at the underwater monitor. The picture above showed that there were many unmanned underwater vehicles constantly shuttled underwater at this time.

"Don't hesitate, just do it!"

Chen Wenzhe was a little anxious when he saw that a submarine actually avoided an underwater robot that clearly had foreign letters on it.

"Boss, now is not the time to argue with them. We need to see the sunken ship over there first."

Soon, they discovered that it was indeed a sunken ship, and it was a Chinese-style sailing ship.

"This ship is so big!"

The submersible maneuvered quickly around the sunken ship, chasing the unmanned robot behind it.

Unfortunately, these flexible and fast-moving robots did not have a long range because they were not connected to underwater cables and were quickly withdrawn.

This allows Chen Wenzhe and his submarines to take pictures underwater.

"This should be a sunken ship from the Qing Dynasty. We have seen such sunken ships before." Gao Qijing quickly said with certainty.

At this time, Chen Wenzhe also noticed it, because he saw that this sunken ship was very similar to the Taixing that he had thought of before.

"This should be a shipwreck from the Wanqing period, maybe also from the Daoguang period!"

There is nothing we can do about having such an idea, because this ship, you can say advanced, is just a wooden sailboat.

You say it is backward, but its size is still huge.

This is very similar to the Taixing. The ship in front of you can carry a lot of cargo at a glance.

"Boss, look here, there are traces of shelling. This should be a sailboat that was sunk!"

Looking at the dark gap, Chen Wenzhe fell silent.

This ship was probably sunk, and it was still a Chinese sailing ship.

In this sea area, there has been no shortage of pirates from ancient times to the present.

And such a sailing ship must be bound for Batavia.

On this route, Chinese merchant ships that sank in the waters near Yinni usually set sail from Hu Jianxia Port, and their destination is Batavia in Southeast Asia.

A merchant ship as big as the Taixing can usually carry more than 2,000 people, including merchants, sailors and passengers.

This is not just people, there are also a large number of other goods including spices, silk, tea, porcelain, etc.

When a merchant ship like this encounters pirates, it is usually a tragedy.

Because the hull is too big and carries too much cargo, it cannot escape at all.

Just like the "Taixing", after arriving at Tioman Island in eastern Malaysia, it was speculated that it changed its route to avoid pirates.

It should be the captain's decision to no longer follow the traditional route of Bangka Strait that has been explored for centuries, but to change the course and head to the Gaspar Strait between Belitung Island and the east side of Bangka Island.

Gaspar Island is a place where ship accidents occur frequently. From the late 18th to the early 19th century, at least 50 ships sank in this area.

The "Taixing" was not spared at that place and unfortunately ran aground and sank.

At the time of the shipwreck, a British country ship "Indiana" loaded with opium happened to be passing by.

Out of humanitarianism, the captain of the ship helped the surviving passengers of the shipwreck and eventually rescued 190 people.

The sinking of the "Taixing" caused more casualties than the "Titanic", so it was called the "Titanic" of the East.

The reason why the sunken ship "Taixing" was found must be because there were survivors.

Because there were some survivors of the "Taixing", local newspapers once made relevant reports on the crash of the "Taixing".

The cargo ship "Indiana" that went to rescue also recorded the whole story of the accident in its logbook.

Because there are a large number of documents about the Taixing in existence, about 200 years after it sank, shipwreck explorers found clues from the relevant documents and then went to search and salvage it.

In 1999, the sunken ship "Taixing" was salvaged, and 350,000 pieces of porcelain were recovered from the sunken ship.

Mike Hatcher, controversial shipwreck explorer, discoverer and salvager of the Taixing shipwreck.

In 2000, Deutsche Nagel Auction House auctioned this batch of "Taixing" water-exposed porcelain.

The total turnover of that auction reached 22.4 million German marks, and the organizer said it was the largest auction in history.

The "Taixing" shipwreck is very representative. Compared with other sunken ships that were accidentally discovered and salvaged, the "Taixing" related literature records are very rich.

We can even learn today the exact name of the ship, departure time, departure location, captain's name, sinking time, etc.

It is also the largest ancient Chinese sailing ship discovered in marine archeology.

It is also the sunken ship with the most complete artifacts found in marine archeology.

The large number of people killed on the "Taixing" is extremely rare among ancient Chinese sailing shipwrecks.

From the above perspective, the Taixing shipwreck also has a unique status among all shipwrecks in ancient my country.

And now, Chen Wenzhe and the others actually discovered another large merchant ship, which was about the same size as the Taixing.

I just don’t know if any porcelain is carried on it, and I don’t know how much it carries!

"Wait a minute, the picture goes backwards. I really want to see a piece of porcelain."

At this moment, Gao Qijing suddenly came to his senses.

Soon, the video went backwards, and sure enough, a piece of blue and white porcelain appeared in the picture.

"The blue and white flower pattern plate is really from the late Qing Dynasty. It really looks like it was from the Daoguang period. Daoguang and Daoguang ruined all the family wealth and in the end the country could only perish!"


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