Looking at these porcelains with distinctive blue and white characteristics, Chen Wenzhe smiled. He could recognize these porcelains even without the money.
Chen Wenzhe, who knows a lot about porcelain, recognized it at a glance. These should be blue and white porcelains fired in Jingzhen during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, or in the early Qing Dynasty.
This was also a period of foreign trade. During that period, the country was in chaos, and even the coast was not peaceful.
It is quite normal to have some domestic porcelain on these ancient foreign ships.
“Without the deposit, I don’t know when and where the porcelain was produced, but it must have been fired in a private kiln!”
What is the difference between official kilns and private kilns? It is too obvious.
This point is clear in Chen Wenzhe's eyes.
In fact, even if he didn't say it, others knew it.
Even ordinary people know that ancient porcelain with a base should be taller.
With the bottom mark, people can tell at a glance that the porcelain was fired in that era.
Such porcelain should be able to sell for a higher price!
"Come, come, come here, let's have a little meeting!"
Looking at the people with different expressions, Chen Wenzhe shouted directly and called everyone over.
"I plan to hand over the sunken ship, but before handing it over, I can let you leave some souvenirs. I counted. There are a total of sixteen of us here. Each of us leaves one thing, just one. There is no need to fight for it.
It’s easy to find sixteen good things here.”
"One for each person?" Zheng Yu rolled his eyes and started to laugh at Chen Wenzhe.
Chen Wenzhe rolled his eyes and threw the gold-wrapped jade pipe in his pocket to Zheng Yu.
Seeing that Zheng Yu had gotten something, Zhang Yijie's movements were not slow. He stretched out his hand and took out a golden object the size of a baby's palm from a pile of gold and silver products.
"A pocket watch?" Chen Wenzhe said with a smile.
He had already scanned the memory of these things just now.
Therefore, the value of these things has been squeezed out by him.
"I want this modified gold cup!" Cao Qingchun directly chose something valuable at first glance.
A piece of porcelain that originally seemed to be a bottle had its mouth cut off. After modification, a gold base was added, and the rim of the mouth and the body of the cup were all covered with gold ornaments. It looked very gorgeous and exquisite!
After the three of them made their choice, everyone looked at Chen Wenzhe.
Chen Wenzhe thought, "It's not appropriate for him not to want something, so he might as well get one!"
After thinking for a while, Chen Wenzhe started picking and choosing among the gold items.
These foreign devils are so vulgar that they don't have any jade or anything like that. All they carry with them is gold and silver products.
All the gold objects on it were turned over, revealing a black scabbard underneath. Of course, there was a small knife inside.
Chen Wenzhe knew that this was a knife made of meteorite iron. Despite its dark appearance, it was made entirely of stainless metal.
Maybe it contains chromium, or for other reasons, but it is very corrosion-resistant.
Among the information recorded in the Sui Marquis Pearl, this one is very special.
In addition to this one, there are some special items, such as a small leather pocket with hidden gems. After so many years, it has not been corroded by sea water.
Picking up the black sheathed knife and the black leather bag, Chen Wenzhe straightened up.
At this time, the group of staff, as well as Lao Zhao and his son, did not choose.
"What? We have all chosen, and you don't? In the future, someone may report us because of uneven distribution of the spoils!" Chen Wenzhe said with a smile.
"Boss, we pay wages, so we don't need anything anymore." The middle-aged captain said directly.
Chen Wenzhe looked at the other staff, or rather the bodyguards.
They all had expressionless faces and were actually unmoved.
Are the things here not valuable? Isn’t it true that you are blind to money?
"Okay, no need to ask, their salary is very high and their benefits are also very good, so there will be no problem."
At this time, Zheng Yu said with a smile.
What he didn't say was that these people were employees of his company, so naturally they wouldn't be greedy for some foreign money.
Of course, this is because they don't have much wealth, and they can still withstand the test.
Finally, Chen Wenzhe looked at Lao Zhao and his son!
Lao Zhao smiled bitterly and said: "Don't look at us, we also collected the money, you can do whatever you want with the things!"
"Haha, I didn't expect that the makeshift team was actually quite good. Let's all get a gem as a souvenir!"
As he spoke, Chen Wenzhe opened the small leather bag, which contained dozens of gemstones, mainly rubies, sapphires and tourmalines.
Chen Wenzhe didn't intend to keep these things, so he selected them and distributed them to everyone present.
Although they didn't think about dividing things, everyone was still very happy when they really got a gem.
"They are all collected. Although these gems are not big in size, they are not low in value. The captain's piece is the most valuable. It is a ruby, worth at least five or six hundred thousand."
"Eh? It's so valuable? Can I don't want it?" The captain, who had always been silent, finally lost his composure.
"Okay!" Chen Wenzhe said happily.
"Uh!" The captain was stunned, but fortunately he reacted quickly: "Forget it, I can't break away from the masses, so I'd better accept it reluctantly!"
As soon as he spoke like this, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became relaxed.
Everyone's expressions became a little excited, and some actually started whispering among themselves.
Seeing them holding gems one by one and playing with them, Chen Wenzhe had to remind them.
"Keep them carefully. All the gems here are worth more than 500,000 yuan. If you want to sell them, come to me. If you don't want to sell them and want to process them into jewelry, you can come to me, no matter what.
, put it away, don’t throw it away!”
"Wow..."
When Chen Wenzhe said this, the scene became more lively.
Each gem is worth more than five hundred thousand. Is it so valuable?
Of course they are valuable. After all, they were specially collected and preserved by the captain of the sunken ship. Naturally, they are all good things.
"Are you a little suspicious? No doubt, that ship should be a merchant ship coming for domestic trade, or a warship escorting. Anyway, they have money, and I speculate that it may be from North and South America. They produced more than just gold back then.
The silver mine also produces a large number of gemstones.”
Chen Wenzhe had determined at this time that the search ship they found was a warship, not a merchant ship.
The warships are good, which means that they came in the same batch, and they must not be the same one.
Also, the fact that the warship capsized and sank off the coast of the South China Sea was definitely not due to a storm, but probably due to a war.
Just to prove this, Chen Wenzhe asked people to desperately dig out the buried warship.
Finally, he also saw the hull of the ship that was torn apart by cannonballs, so he knew that maybe with enough luck, he could also find some locations where other warships sank.