Crazy God has opened a new book, the title is Da Yin. Here is the link. I hope brothers can support it.
Many people know the story of the "Republic". At that time, just after the American Civil War, the "Republic" loaded with cargo and coins set out from New York, preparing to go to New Orleans to support the post-war reconstruction of New Orleans.
This 210-foot-long ship in the steam era unfortunately encountered a rare hurricane five days after sailing out of New York, and sank to the icy seabed.
Reports at the time said that the property on board the "Republic" exceeded $400,000 in gold and silver coins.
More than 130 years later, the value of these gold and silver coins has far exceeded the face value of the year. The market price of a gold coin with a face value of US$10 ranges from US$3,000 to US$500,000.
However, locating a sunken ship is difficult. A ship like the Republic, battered by wind and waves, breaks into pieces as it sinks and hits the seafloor at speeds of 100 miles per hour, leaving it in a tangled mess.
The bodies are also scattered everywhere on the seabed.
Therefore, even if you know the location of silence, it will not be easy to find the treasure inside the sunken ship.
Since learning about its story in 1992, the two guys from Odyssey have been working hard with it. They analyzed its wreckage in detail from the literature and used computers to simulate the ship's line and speed at that time.
In the end, the sunken shipwreck was locked within a range of 1,500 miles. This range is not small, but it is a very ideal data when it comes to salvaging shipwrecks.
After all, compared to the vastness of the sea, this range is nothing.
Of course, next, just using sonar to carefully comb through such a large area of the seabed will be an extremely arduous task.
In 2003, Odyssey finally successfully found the "Republic" under the ocean 100 miles off the coast of Georgia. The gold and silver coins recovered were sold for 75 million US dollars, and their initial investment was only 2 million yuan.
, I made a lot of money all of a sudden.
The situation that Han Peacock is facing now is similar to that of the Republic.
If there were ships entering this sea area in ancient times, there must have been special reasons. One was the undercurrent on the seabed, and the other was the storm.
Even in ancient times, merchants who could sail on the sea must have been masters. At least they had pilots who were familiar with this sea area. Otherwise, no one would risk their lives.
Therefore, only the possibility of an accident would cause the ancient sailing ship to sink in this sea area. Since it is a wooden sailing ship, the area of the sea area locked by Han Peacock will be very small, rather than the 1,500-mile range of the Republic.
Even so, it is still a huge project for Han Kongque, but as long as there is a possibility of harvest, Han Kongque is still full of enthusiasm for work.
After all, if there is a discovery this time, it will definitely not be a small harvest. Ancient maritime merchants transported the most gold and silver treasures and ancient exquisite porcelain.
While thinking about what was missing, Han Peacock searched for it. After being disappointed several times in a row, he finally made a discovery.
"Haha, I just said that my inference is not wrong. There is really a shipwreck here." Han Peacock laughed loudly at the bottom of the sea.
After the metal detector sounded, Han Peacock initially thought it was just an ordinary metal mine, but when he turned it over, he found traces of a ship.
Although the ship was covered by sand, it was not buried deeply. Han Peacock flipped it over slightly and it was exposed.
Looking at the wooden ship, Han Peacock was happy for a while before continuing to work.
However, he seemed to be happy too early, as he was not very lucky. There was almost no property on board.
"Is this a motor? A wooden fishing boat?" Han Peacock flipped through it and was a little dumbfounded. It turned out to be a modern fishing boat.
"It seems that it is indeed dangerous here, especially for some small boats." Knowing that there would not be much gain, Han Peacock directly broke through with violence and quickly capsized the small boat.
There was nothing on the boat. It was definitely a fishing boat. It looked like it could not have been wrecked more than thirty years ago.
"We can't be disappointed. Since we have found a fishing boat, it means that this place is indeed dangerous. Where there is the first one, there is the second one." Han Peacock kicked the wood on the fishing boat, and with a crash, the fishing boat completely fell apart.
"Eh? Is there a fishing boat down there?" Looking at the fishing boat that was kicked to pieces, Han Peacock became happy again.
With the new discovery, Han Peacock became cautious again. He used the magical power of water to carry the scattered wood pieces and move them to other places.
As he cleared the fishing boats above, a wooden sailboat below was exposed.
"Is this an ancient sailboat?" Han Peacock carefully cleaned the ten-meter-long sailboat.
This sailboat didn't seem to be too big, which meant that there wouldn't be much harvest on it, which made Han Peacock disappointed again.
"Huh? Is this an artillery piece?" When he saw the long copper pipe, Han Peacock discovered that it was probably a warship. Of course, it could also be a pirate ship or an armed merchant ship.
But no matter what kind of ship it is, it is possible that it can carry cargo. A ship that can use artillery must transport something unusual.
Han Peacock used his magical power to stir up the surrounding seawater and slowly remove all the sediment covering the ship. Soon, a large sailing ship was exposed in front of him.
The more than ten meters long place he saw just now was actually a side of the ship. Now that it was completely cleared, Han Peacock discovered that the ship was more than twenty meters long. It was definitely a large transport ship.
"I hope there is something good up there." Han Peacock looked at the sunken ship.
This ship is a wooden sailing ship. It seems to be a merchant ship made in Portugal or Spain, but I don't know what it is carrying.
This merchant ship seems to have capsized. Now it is lying on its side on the seabed. Han Peacock carefully searched the side and found no injuries. This means that it was not sunk. It was probably encountered in a storm and rolled over and sank.
Undersea.
After cleaning up the garbage around him, Han Kongque boarded the merchant ship and slowly got into the warehouse.
Looking at the pieces covered with patina, Han Kongque discovered that this was actually a merchant ship filled with copper ingots.
"Copper ingots are not bad, and the current price of copper is not low." Han Kongque said with a wry smile.
He wouldn't be so unlucky, would he?
A sunken ship was discovered, and it was all made of copper ingots?
I just don’t know if ancient copper ingots are antiques. I wonder if anyone is willing to collect such things?
Fortunately, this ship is still intact. If it is salvaged, a shipwreck museum will not be lost. However, thinking about the maintenance and cleaning of this wooden merchant ship after it is salvaged, Han Peacock once again has a headache.
If you hire professionals to handle it, the price will definitely be higher than the price of this merchant ship. But if you don't hire professionals, the ship will soon rot and disintegrate after it goes out of the water.
The wooden ship has been soaked in the sea for many years and has long been soaked by the salt in the sea. If it cannot be treated and properly maintained, this wooden sailing ship cannot be preserved.
"Huh?" Just when Han Peacock was flipping around on the boat, he made another discovery.
Han Peacock picked up a round shiny coin, which was a gold coin.
Han Kongque didn't know much about foreign gold coins, so he couldn't recognize what era this gold coin was at the moment. However, he was much happier when he discovered the gold coins than those copper ingots.
Since there is one, it means there are more here.
This made Han Peacock become more energetic, and Han Peacock slowly cleaned up the garbage inside the sunken ship.
There were some small fish, shrimps, seaweed, and some coral polyps found in this sunken ship.
After cleaning these things, the remains of some wooden boxes were exposed, followed by piles of gold coins.
"Haha, so the real treasure is here?" Han Peacock suddenly became excited when he saw these gold coins.
"Is this merchant ship not only transporting copper ingots, but also gold coins? What is this? Is this ivory?" After flipping for a while, more things were exposed to Han Peacock's eyes.
By this time, Han Peacock was already happy.
It was very possible that there were gold coins on this ship, because as a merchant ship, trading in various seaports naturally required hard currency, and what surprised him was the ivory on the ship.
It appears to be a wrecked ship transporting copper ingots, ivory and gold coins.
According to preliminary analysis by Han Peacock, it is likely that a Spanish or Portuguese merchant ship sank to the bottom of the sea in stormy weather in the late 15th or early 16th century.
Analysis of the cargo's contents revealed that it was likely a merchant ship used to build artillery, or perhaps used to transport ivory for trade.
Han Peacock was most interested in gold coins. He checked a lot of them, the most common of which were Spanish gold coins from 1751 and 1759. They had the image of the King of Spain on them, so Han Peacock recognized these gold coins.
And this is not the first time that these two gold coins have been discovered. They should be gold coins issued by Spain in the 17th century.
These early gold coins generally did not contain very high gold content due to limitations in smelting and purification technology.
Nowadays, gold coins range from 900 to 999, etc. Theoretically speaking, it is 100% impossible.
"The harvest is good, but you only need to take back a small part of these things." Han Peacock planned how much things he could bring back on this boat.
It doesn't matter whether you bring the ivory or not, but you definitely don't want to bring the copper ingots. You have to take a large part of the gold coins back anyway, since there are plenty of places to hide gold coins on the ship.
"It seems that we have to recruit people when we get back. I'll leave this to Lao Wu. No matter what his background is, the people he recruits can't trick me." Han Peacock chuckled, grabbed a handful of gold coins and got on the boat.
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There were two iron buckets on the boat, and they were put into the water again, filling two buckets at a time. In this way, Han Peacock actually filled hundreds of buckets.
"Just these gold coins are enough to build a museum. There are millions of gold coins. I really don't know how this ship can carry so many gold coins." Han Kongque looked at the gold coins in the cabin and felt a little emotional. (~^~)