"Well, there is a sunken ship. What I want this time is not only the porcelain on the ship, but also a secret book. That thing is very important to me." Han Kongque said.
"It's not a treasure? But a secret book? When did my brother become so simple-minded?" Han Ronghua didn't believe it at all.
Han Peacock said with a smile: "Didn't I say that? There must be porcelain, but the secret book is the key point, but it is not so easy to achieve the goal this time, because the secret book is just my guess, and it is likely to be
The owner of the secret book took out the ship, so that on this sunken ship, only some porcelain can be harvested."
"It would be great to harvest some porcelain." Han Ronghua said contemptuously.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "I didn't say I was dissatisfied!"
"What's there?" Han Ronghua was still a little curious.
Han Kongque said: "I don't know what it is specifically. This can only be determined after it is salvaged. However, some porcelain has been salvaged from the seabed in Vietnam before, and they were all fished out of the seabed at the southern end of the Jin Mau Peninsula in Vietnam.
"
"Ah? It's been fished out by others, how much is left?" Han Ronghua said.
Han Kongque said: "That ship was quite special. When it was passing through the Jin Mau Peninsula of Vietnam, it encountered an island. In the end, a fire broke out on the ship and the ship sank. The porcelain salvaged by the Vietnam government was from this ship that was destroyed by the fire.
The ship was salvaged from the water, and the ship I salvaged was the pirate ship that robbed the freighter."
"So, the value of this pirate ship must be higher than the value of the cargo ship salvaged by Vietnam? How much benefit did Vietnam get that time?" Han Ronghua asked.
"That's porcelain from three hundred years ago and has been auctioned. Turn on your computer and I'll look for it for you." After saying that, Han Peacock provided Han Ronghua with some keywords and quickly searched for relevant content.
For three hundred years, nearly three centuries, this kind of porcelain has been on display, naturally attracting many people to watch it, so pictures are indispensable.
This is a collection of 75,000 pieces of shipwrecks being auctioned in Amsterdam, dating back to 1725. The total estimated value is 2 million euros.
In the on-site display cabinet, there are a dozen small blue and white bowls stuck together and overlapping, shaped like a conch. This is because the Chinese merchant ship carrying this batch of porcelain was originally bound for Europe. However, it caught fire on the deck midway and sank off the coast of Vietnam.
outside.
These dozens of porcelains melted and stuck together due to the high temperature of the fire. They were transformed into "conches". Some of these exquisite porcelains, which had been sleeping on the seabed for 300 years, were fished out by local fishermen in Vietnam in 1998 and were brought to light again.
After the news of illegal fishing by fishermen was exposed by the media, the Vietnamese government immediately salvaged the sunken ship and recovered the artifacts fished by the fishermen.
Most of the porcelains salvaged are from Jingdezhen and are of high quality, including blue and white tea sets, porcelain boxes, beer mugs, and colorful glazed dolls. It can be seen from the shape and pattern that this batch of porcelain is specially made for the European market and exported from China.
porcelain.
"Seventy-five thousand pieces were sold for two million euros? Isn't this too worthless?" Han Ronghua said a little surprised. This treasure was far from the treasure she had imagined. So many porcelains were only worth two hundred.
million euros.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "First, that was more than ten years ago. Now the value of Hailao porcelain has definitely increased. Secondly, Hailao porcelain is almost all civilian porcelain. In other words, most of the porcelain exported at that time was
They are all defective products that are not used by the domestic royal family. Thirdly, those batches of porcelain were all melted by the fire.
Of course, the ones that are not melted must have been severely corroded by marine life. Therefore, taken together, its value is a little lower. You have to listen clearly, it is only a little lower. You must know that two million euros, converted into RMB, is more than
Fifteen million, so 75,000 pieces of sea-sourced porcelain sold for 15 million is not a small amount."
"It took more than a month of hard work, hard work, and fear to earn 15 million. What is there to be proud of? If we have this time, we might as well take good care of our breakfast chain. We have 700 chain stores.
The daily profit is more than 7 million, and 15 million is only two days' profit." Han Ronghua curled his lips and said.
Han Peacock thought about it, isn't it?
Originally, he would be very happy if he could fish something worth fifteen million out of the sea water, but now, after taking more than a month to fish out something worth so little, he really has nothing to be happy about.
However, he could not be despised by his sister, so Han Kongque said: "You are wrong about this. You must know that there are many sunken ships in the South China Sea, and there are not only tens of thousands of people in each sunken ship."
Not just a piece of porcelain, but hundreds of thousands. If it is a shipwreck returning to the city, the shipwreck will often be filled with gold, silver and jewelry."
"Maybe it's spices or something. If it's really spices or other goods, then this sunken ship will be worthless. Also, are the things we export now inferior goods?
Since we are now exporting the best things, would it be possible in ancient times to keep good things for ourselves and use defective products to make money? This is not logical no matter how you think about it!" Han Ronghua doesn't understand anything.
, so he quickly caught the loophole in his elder brother’s words.
Han Kongque was a little speechless. His sister was really not easy to fool. The ancient export porcelain (folk kiln wares) were all high-quality products from various kilns at that time. Ancient kilns, kiln workers, and traders all worked hard to get a good price.
It is to select the best utensils and sell them for money, and keep the worst ones for your own consumption. Therefore, there is an old proverb: The porcelain burner eats the lack (shortage refers to the incomplete utensils).
Of course, Han Peacock did not completely deceive Han Ronghua, because in ancient times, the types of porcelain exported were relatively simple, and they were inseparable from dishes, bowls, jars and other utensils, and the water-exported utensils could be seen as blessings.
, mainly Jian celadon, supplemented by Zhejiang and Jianglong Longquan porcelain, so its value cannot be very high.
Based on the records of Hailao porcelain auctioned by domestic and overseas auction institutions in recent years, and combined with the market transaction price of Hailao porcelain (genuine) in the domestic market, the online valuation is still slightly conservative.
"Do you know about the sensational Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck in China? The market valuation of that batch of Southern Song Dynasty celadon is that the average actual value of each piece is only RMB 2,000. If there are 60,000 to 80,000 complete pieces, the total value will be more than RMB 1,000.
200 million to 160 million yuan.
However, based on long-term experience in collecting and researching porcelain salvaged from the sea, there is a 40% chance that porcelain salvaged from the sea will be intact.
The degree of damage is serious. It has been soaked in seawater for hundreds of years. Even if it is dehydrated and desalted after being released from the water, more than 60% of the glaze of the artifact has been corroded and damaged, and its value will not be much less.
, if the preservation is a little better, the harvest will be great.
Therefore, no matter how you calculate it, salvaging a sunken ship is a way to get rich overnight. You must know that a ship is calculated as transporting 300,000 pieces of porcelain. The number of complete pieces of porcelain is about 120,000, and the number of well-preserved ones can reach 40,000 to 50,000.
pieces, so the value of a sunken ship is definitely more than you imagine."
"Why is what I heard different from what you said?" At this moment, Liu Xu walked into the room.
"Is the meeting over?" Han Peacock asked as he looked at Liu Catkin who walked in.
Liu Xu said: "It's over. From today on, there won't be many things here that I need to deal with."
"That's great! This way you can have more time to take care of the child." Han Peacock said happily.
"Sister-in-law, tell me, what have you heard?" Han Ronghua was more interested in the sunken ship.
"Just take the Nanhai No. 1 sunken ship that your elder brother mentioned just now. In order to salvage the water, the country invested a huge amount of more than 800 million yuan in salvage. However, the value of the cultural relics salvaged from the Nanhai No. 1 ancient sunken ship is only worth 160 million yuan.
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Isn’t this a bit worth the loss? And are there so many pieces of porcelain? Are there so many complete vessels? We still have to crane our necks to wait and see, so treasure hunting activities such as salvaging sunken ships are actually similar to gambling. They are played by men looking for excitement.
Game." Liuxu finally concluded.
Han Peacock said with a smile: "You are overgeneralizing. Why did Nanhai No. 1 lose money? That's because the ancient sunken ship Nanhai No. 1 was excavated and salvaged in China as a whole. Although it is an unprecedented example in the history of world salvage, if
When the gain outweighs the loss, it becomes a face-saving project with a reputation but no reality.
It has been 20 years since the Nanhai No. 1 ancient shipwreck was discovered in 1987. Experts from the cultural relics and archeology community in my country (a Japanese archaeological group also participated in this investigation) have studied and demonstrated for six years. There has been enough time to research how to salvage it. It is beneficial to the country and the people, but the result is that a lot of money and manpower are invested, and an overall salvage method is used that is not worth the gain.
The history of foreign maritime salvage of sunken ships is decades earlier than that of our country. Their professional experience in maritime salvage is richer than ours, and their maritime salvage equipment is more advanced than ours. But why do foreign salvage institutions not conduct overall salvage in their maritime salvage?
Is it because they have no experience or advanced equipment and capital investment? In fact, the overall salvage of the sunken ship is not worth the loss, which makes them stop! Because the overall salvage and the direct salvage of cultural relics from the shipwreck on the seabed are basically the same.
It’s just that after the overall salvage, the cultural relics in the sunken ship are relatively intact, and the loss will be relatively less, but the time and financial investment will be much greater. Directly salvaging the cultural relics in the sunken ship will cause greater losses, but the time and financial investment will be much less.
Not only was the time short, it had no impact on the salvage of complete vessels, and the only losses were those insignificant and incomplete vessels.
Therefore, no matter which method is used for salvage in the end, the cultural relics must be taken out from the sediment of the sunken ship and the warehouse to determine their variety, age, quantity, and value, and show them to people for viewing and research! The results of both are the same
, but the funds consumed are different.” (To be continued..)