Chapter 1,332 The national treasure among national treasures
It is not easy to find sunken ships on the seabed. Even if you have accurate information, you still need to try your luck to find a sunken ship on the seabed.
From May 1st to 12th, searchers used sonic locators and magnetometers to repeatedly scan the sea area, but found nothing.
After spending more than 1.2 million US dollars in 12 days, Hatcher had no choice but to give up.
Some foreign systems are very good, but some jobs are very unfriendly to capital, such as high wages and high benefits.
No matter what they do, the cost is very high.
Even the cost of machinery and equipment is much higher than in China.
For example, if you buy a tractor that costs more than 100,000 yuan in China, you will never be able to get it abroad without a few hundred thousand yuan.
With such a high cost, there is no way for them to maintain it.
However, Hatcher was lucky. He made one last attempt before giving up and finally discovered a seabed with abnormal reflection.
The excited Hatcher and the divers immediately sank here to search, and they almost fainted from happiness!
After removing the layer of sand that covered the surface, the remains of the Taihe were lying there quietly.
The most important thing is that near this sunken ship, porcelain and gold and silver treasures are almost everywhere, shining with dazzling light!
Looking back, Chen Wenzhe was shocked when he saw this situation.
What did he see? After lifting up the sediment on the seabed, countless treasures were exposed on the seabed.
Take a look at what's there: gold nuggets, ingots, silver coins, sextants, pocket watches, artillery, precious silks, tea, etc.
Unfortunately, of the last two, only the packaging is intact, and the contents must have rotted away.
Not to mention tea and silk, the most eye-catching thing here, and the largest number, are boxes and boxes of blue and white porcelain, which is also the famous Dehua porcelain.
After just a few glances, Chen Wenzhe knew that there were at least hundreds of thousands of pieces of porcelain here.
Therefore, the legend says that this ship carried nearly 1 million pieces of porcelain, which should be correct.
Moreover, most of these porcelains are exquisite and valuable cultural relics.
Unfortunately, Lady Luck was not on Hatcher's side this time.
They had just discovered the treasure on the seabed, and before they had time to salvage it, they were discovered by Gao Qijing.
After that, it was a battle between powerful machines and underwater robots, and the winner had just been decided.
The people on Hatcher's fleet are just professional treasure thieves who put profits first.
No matter what they do, they need to consider the cost.
It was the same this time. The underwater robot they carried was only used for detection, and they never thought of using it for combat.
Besides, their equipment is very advanced in terms of detection, but it is not good for combat.
Advanced means that the price is higher, and we are more reluctant to use it for consumption.
So, this time they suffered a loss.
Even so, they were completely defeated after scrapping six underwater robots.
At this time, even if they still have robots, they dare not arrange to enter the water at will.
As for divers, they dare not go into the water.
They all saw clearly what happened to their underwater robots.
What would happen if a diver encountered Chen Wenzhe's underwater combat robot?
Without enemy interference underwater, Chen Wenzhe and the others were able to carry out salvage operations.
Under the underwater robot's camera, Chen Wenzhe once again saw the dense treasures on the seabed, which still felt a bit unreal.
Happiness comes so suddenly, you must know that this is a huge number of 1 million pieces.
The delivery this time knocked Chen Wenzhe unconscious.
However, he soon came to his senses. Although there were a large number of these porcelains, he still needed to salvage them all as safely as possible.
His purpose is not to turn these cultural relics from more than 100 years ago into money, but to protect them all.
Chen Wenzhe is very rich now, and he doesn't need to take advantage of scarcity.
Our Chinese people naturally know this truth, and foreigners are no exception.
They can do whatever they want for money.
And Chen Wenzhe can do whatever he wants for this batch of porcelain?
What's more, he is now facing the notorious Hatcher fleet. Shouldn't he use all possible means?
Faced with such a destructive maniac, we should be more ruthless.
With a huge quantity of 1 million pieces, how can we safely salvage them from the water?
With the greedy guy like Hatcher, it will definitely not be easy for Chen Wenzhe to salvage a huge amount of porcelain from the water safely and without worries.
But it’s impossible for him to smash some of the same large batch of porcelain!
That bastard Hatcher, when he had a huge harvest last time, after selecting nearly 350,000 pieces of high-value porcelain, he smashed the same or, in his opinion, lower-grade porcelain on the spot, a total of 650,000 pieces.
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If this were done in China, it would be considered a light crime for Hatcher to be shot 100 times.
Most of the 350,000 pieces of porcelain preserved by Hatcher were identified as being produced during the Kangxi period.
From firing to being salvaged from the sea, that batch of porcelain has a history of at least 277 years!
The most important thing is that these are the finest and famous Dehua blue and white porcelain. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a national treasure among national treasures!
Fortunately, Hatcher's guy did not complete the mission successfully, because in the later stages of the salvage, the Indonesian Navy discovered that Hatcher's salvage procedures were actually forged!
So an arrest operation was launched. After the cunning Hatcher got the news, he escaped with the 350,000 pieces of porcelain.
In this way, the two cabins at the stern of the Taixing that could not be opened in the future, and there were many treasures inside, were completely preserved.
That year, an Australian marine company finally salvaged the Taixing from the water, and there were more than 200,000 pieces of fine porcelain left in the remaining two cabins.
Hatcher made a fortune, but the cultural relics he smashed were sobbing silently in the sea.
It can be said that Hatcher is not only the hero who brought the Taixing back to light, but also the eternal sinner who destroyed cultural relics.
Facing the loss of our country's cultural relics, the Chinese people are very sad, and overseas Chinese entrepreneurs have also begun to buy back these national treasures.
Among them, Mr. Zheng Changlai, the chairman of the Panlu Group, a Chinese entrepreneur, after many twists and turns and more than two years, bought out 120,000 pieces of Dehua blue and white porcelain on the Taixing from the British Commonwealth Precious Metals Company at one time and shipped them back to China!
When the scenes of these national treasures being transported back to China were broadcast live on TV, I believe every Chinese person was very excited!
Our national treasure is finally home!
But this time, such a regret must not happen.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll sink that guy's fleet!"
Chen Wenzhe is really ruthless because he believes that the countries behind him are powerful now.
They do have strength and confidence.
Just when Chen Wenzhe was getting angry, Gao Qijing had already started to take action.