Chapter eight hundred and fifty first feeling like in a dream
"The content is between 97 and 98 percent, neither too low nor too high. The total quantity is a little more than ten tons. Even if it is ten tons, it is not pure enough."
No one else spoke, it was the leader who spoke.
Of course, people didn't know about Chen Wenzhe's little thoughts, but no matter what, he didn't lie because it was unnecessary.
Chen Wenzhe was satisfied. He was a little cautious, but he could still select qualified partners in this way!
The gold brick alone weighs ten tons. No, it should be two to three hundred kilograms more.
However, 3% of 10,000 kilograms is 300 kilograms, so they didn't cheat him much.
A gold brick is about forty-five pounds, so it should weigh fifty pounds.
In six hours, he unearthed a total of 2,230 gold bricks from the bottom of the sea. By calculation, it was just over ten tons.
Fortunately, he directly destroyed the hull, so he could put the gold directly into the gondola. Otherwise, just carrying the gold would have exhausted him half to death.
The price of ten tons of gold is definitely not low. The bank purchases it at a price of 370 per gram. One ton and one thousand kilograms is 370 million.
Ten tons is 3.7 billion. Even if you take half of it, you still have 1.85 billion.
It can be said that this is the most money Chen Wenzhe has ever earned at one time.
The jewelry I obtained the previous time was not as shocking as the cash.
1.85 billion, it’s still cash. How many domestic individuals can take out so much cash at once?
At this time, Chen Wenzhe really had to think carefully, should he continue to salvage the sunken ship?
The sea area found this time was actually used to search for another sunken ship, not to salvage the current warship.
He also didn't expect that a battleship he accidentally discovered would carry so much gold.
Besides this gold, there is also a lot of stuff left.
If you really want to calculate it, the value of those fragmentary gold products is probably no worse than that of gold bricks.
For example, those gold masks, how come the price of each one is not several million to tens of millions of dollars?
There are about ten pieces of such antiques, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars. When converted into RMB, it is also six to seven billion.
After all this calculation, the country really didn’t take advantage of him this time!
Chen Wenzhe felt very satisfied with this cooperation. After all, he unexpectedly got a large number of antiques.
Just by taking a simple look, you can tell that the number of antiques piled up in a messy manner exceeds a hundred.
Even based on the lowest price, one million US dollars per piece, this is still 100 million US dollars, worth more than 600 million yuan.
After the dizzy transaction was completed, the remaining things began to be handed over to Chen Wenzhe.
There were too many things, and they definitely couldn’t be taken away directly, so what Chen Wenzhe got now was just a document with the details of everything he salvaged from the water.
In addition to gold utensils and silverware, the most common items are some gold and silver coins.
There is nothing to say about the gold and silverware, each piece has detailed records.
Therefore, this document focuses on recording silver coins of various varieties and complex shapes.
In that era, all gold and silver coins were used, but most of what Chen Wenzhe got this time were Spanish silver coins!
There was nothing that could be done about it. After the Great Geographical Discovery, Spain gradually occupied large tracts of American land.
Since the 1630s, Spain has set up factories to mint silver coins in its American colonies, which were rich in silver.
These silver coins passed through the Port of Acapulco in Mexico, crossed the Pacific Ocean, and were transferred through Luzon (the Philippines) before arriving in southern Fujian and Dongguang on the southeast coast of my country.
After trading with domestic merchants, Chinese goods loaded with silk, porcelain, and spices were shipped to the Americas.
This maritime trade route is known as the "Medieval Maritime Silk Road".
The series of shipwrecks that Chen Wenzhe knew were all on this medieval Maritime Silk Road.
The main characteristic of this kind of silver coin is that it is irregular, that is to say, it is not the round silver coin that we will be familiar with in later generations.
In 1535, Spain first set up a mint in Mexico City to mint "cross silver coins" according to the shape of Spanish currency.
This silver coin has a cross pattern on the front, a lion and a castle in the four diagonal squares, and an early Spanish national emblem on the back.
The face value of "Silver Cross Coin" is 8r (that is, 8 riels, equivalent to 1 peso), 4r, 2r, 1r, and 1/2r.
With the expansion of its colonies, Spain also set up factories to mint "cross silver coins" in Peru, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia and other places.
According to the distinction between the casting place mark and the casting year number, "cross silver coins" are minted in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia and other countries, and there are many versions with and without casting year numbers.
However, the value of this "cross silver coin" is not very high, because there are too many of them, and they flowed into our country early and in large quantities.
It is an irregular-shaped currency minted in Spain before round silver coins were minted in 1732.
Although it is unattractive in appearance, it is widely used because of its uniform weight, ability to count by coins, and ease of counting.
Unfortunately, the value of this kind of silver coin is not very high now because there are so many of them.
Even domestically, it turns out that there are a lot of them circulating.
This kind of "cross silver coin" has been widely circulated along the southeastern coast of my country for nearly 200 years.
And it almost became the standard currency of southern Fujian at that time. To this day, there are still reports of "cross silver coins" being unearthed and discovered in southern Fujian.
"Young man, don't be in a daze. What are you going to do with these things?"
Just when Chen Wenzhe was looking at the documents in a daze, the leader finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Looking at the smiling leader, Chen Wenzhe returned to normal.
"I originally planned to donate these cultural relics to the country, but I didn't expect that the country wouldn't want them!"
The leader laughed even harder: "We don't want to take advantage of you."
"You can still occupy a little bit. For example, I probably didn't clean up the sunken ship!" Chen Wenzhe also said with a smile.
The leader shook his head and said, "That's not necessary. If you go there again, you might get into trouble!"
At this moment, Chen Wenzhe's cell phone rang, and it was a text message.
I picked it up and saw that it was a credit message, worth 1.85 billion, exactly the same!
Looking at the large series of numbers on the text message, Chen Wenzhe felt a little emotional.
If ordinary people were to handle the transfer business, they would definitely not be able to do it, right?
Transferring 1.85 billion at once, and it's not during working hours, is definitely something that most people can't do.
After getting so much money at once, Chen Wenzhe was really in a trance, feeling like he was in a dream!
"Has the money arrived?" the leader said with a smile.
He couldn't help but smile, mainly because he was in such a good mood. Who would have thought that a casually arranged operation would lead to so many gains?