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Chapter 808: The wealth collected!
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From 11 pm to 5 am, Liu Dong searched almost four-fifths of the Florida islands and reefs. During this period, he launched a total of 14 times and recovered 19 sunken ships!
Counting the Madeleine harvested earlier, there are 20 ships in total! From these twenty sunken ships, Liu Dong harvested a total of 6.5 tons of gold, 178 tons of silver bullion, silver ingots, 177,800 gold coins, and more silver coins, close to 250
Thousands! More than 80,000 pieces of gold and silver tableware, candlesticks, religious utensils, and handicrafts, 274 boxes of diamonds with 4.39 million carats, and the number of emeralds is several times that of diamonds, close to 12 tons!
In addition, there are about 7 boxes of Chinese export porcelain, about 3,000 pieces!
There are 374 boxes of jadeite, but unfortunately not many can reach the gem level, so the value is not high.
In addition, there are more than 400,000 pieces of tin tableware, wine bottles of various shapes, crystal jewelry, artillery, muskets, various swords, compasses, etc. that are not too high in value but are good collectibles!
However, the value of these 400,000 collections may not even be worth US$400 million.
Of course, these twenty sunken ships still brought Liu Dong more than 2 billion US dollars in wealth.
However, except for gold and silver nuggets, it will take a long time for the rest to be realized slowly, so what Liu Dong gained after a busy night was 6.5 tons of gold and 178 tons of silver.
Silver is worthless. 178 tons sounds like a lot. But its real value is only over 5 million US dollars!
However, due to the impact of the global stock market crash caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks some time ago, although the price of gold has dropped slightly from the beginning, the current price of gold futures in New York remains at around US$600 per ounce.
Therefore, Liu Dong's 6.5 tons of gold that can be liquidated immediately can exchange Liu Dong for about 130 million U.S. dollars!
It's just that Liu Dong used to think that this money was a lot of money, but now that he has a cash fortune of 6 billion, it is difficult to feel that excitement in his heart when facing more than 100 million US dollars.
Of all the financial items, apart from the gold and silver handicrafts that will mostly be collected and sold in the future, the most valuable ones are the rough diamonds and emeralds. It is a pity that these things Liu Dong intends to enrich the material storage of Qiangwei Jewelry.
.It cannot be cashed out for the time being.
"Sir, why did you get up so early?"
Liu Dong smiled and nodded as Melissa walked out of the cabin with her hands rubbing her head vigorously, a look of confusion and slight pain on her face.
"I have a habit of getting up early!"
Liu Dong's answer surprised Melissa. After all, he had never seen Liu Dong get up so early before!
"Melissa, do you remember what happened last night?"
"In the evening? In the evening, after I had dinner, I was originally going to read a book and then go to bed, but before I finished eating, I suddenly felt dizzy, and then...then I fell asleep!" He said.
Then, Melissa quickly noticed something was abnormal.
"gentlemen……!"
Seeing her shocked look, Liu Dong said calmly: "Gate and Roy, the drowning man we rescued, put anesthetic in our drinks and dinner!"
"Oh, my God, this is terrible!" Melissa suddenly shouted after being shocked for a while.
"Okay, now I have locked them in the cabin below. Go and wake up the others. Then when we dock in Miami, hand these two guys over to the police!" Liu Dong ordered.
"Yes, sir, I'll go right away!"
Looking at Melissa who turned away, Liu Dong looked towards the blue sea in the distance, his eyes slightly narrowed, and a look of thought appeared on his face.
Handing Gat and Roy to the police station is the safest way Liu Dong has come up with!
Otherwise, if he releases these two people himself, he will not be able to prevent the enemies who want to deal with him from killing these two people and then put the shit basin on his head!
The chance of this happening is small, but Liu Dong has to take precautions early. After all, this is the United States, he is not familiar with the place where he was born, and his network of connections is far from deep! If a murder occurs, it may be difficult to pick himself out.
It’s very troublesome! You can’t be too cautious.
Moreover, handing them over to the police is the best result. If they die in the police station or after they come out, it will have nothing to do with them.
After Melissa woke up the remaining four people and told them the truth, you can imagine that these people were angry! If Liu Dong hadn't stopped them, I'm afraid the two of them would have received a beating!
You must know that the most irritating and hateful thing in the world is "repaying kindness with hatred"!
"Is the ship that takes you out to sea nearby?" Liu Dong asked after passing the telescope in his hand to Roy.
"No more!"
After searching the sea for a long time, Roy shook his head nervously. Although he wanted to point out a boat to Liu Dong, he thought of the heart-aching pain last night and shuddered in his heart, so he hesitated.
Ichiban finally told the truth.
However, Liu Dong was not surprised by his words.
Those who have a grudge against him are not small families, but famous and wealthy families in the United States. They have more channels to find out whether he is still alive!
Putting aside everything else, if he really dies, Melissa and Nord will report the crime first. Then the people who made the move will naturally know that the plan has been successful, otherwise it will be a failure!
After nodding, Liu Dong took back the telescope, and then said: "Nord, Harlin, you two go call the Miami Police Department and call the police. When the police arrive, hand these two guys over to them! Also, tie them up.
Get up, don’t let them jump into the sea and run away!”
"Don't worry, boss, I'll take care of it!" The tall and tall Nord patted his chest, and then he and his partner Harlin happily tied Roy and Roy into rice dumplings with the cable!
When Liu Dong sailed the boat and parked the Gonggong at the pier, in less than five minutes, a police car from the Miami Police Department had arrived. They boarded the boat to inquire, and asked Liu Dong and others to make a record, and then brought the police car with them last night
After eating the rest of lunch, collecting evidence on the spot, he took the people away!
After sailing at sea for nearly a week, the food stored in the refrigerator on the ship was almost exhausted, and it just needed to be replenished. So after the police left, Liu Dong sent Harlin and a maid named Meili ashore.
, let them go to the supermarket to buy daily necessities.
"Boss, look, there are a lot of people around there, it's quite lively!" Nord, who was standing on the bow deck of the ship, suddenly pointed to the dock, about a hundred meters away from them, where the crowd gathered, and he was excited.
He said in surprise.
Through the direction of his finger, Liu Dong naturally saw the crowd gathered on the shore. There were about a hundred people in the dark crowd!
Abroad, it is rare to encounter such a scene!
"You look at the boat here, I'll go over and take a look!"
"Okay!" Nord whispered.
Even though I am a little reluctant, who is the boss?
Liu Dong didn't want to take into account the thoughts of this temporary subordinate, because he just discovered something very interesting through the relic Yuanguang!
After arriving on the shore, Liu Dong quickly came to the edge of the crowd that was gathering more and more people.
"Who said only Chinese people like to watch the excitement! It's obvious that Americans are no less curious than Chinese people!" Shaking his head, Liu Dong stepped forward and squeezed through the crowd.
With his strength, no one could stop him, so he was quickly pushed to the center of the crowd by Liu Dong.
Surrounded by everyone was an excited but nervous young black man. The black man was wearing a plaid shirt, a pair of half-cut shorts, and a pair of slightly worn sandals on his bare feet.
Of course, what attracted the most attention was the seashell that was roughly twice the size of an adult’s fist that was tightly held in his hand!
The reason why this black boy was surrounded by everyone is because he found a diamond in this sea shell!
It is this diamond that has attracted many sea adventurers who want to recover a sunken ship from Florida's golden beaches, or preferably make a fortune by salvaging the "Lady Atoka" like Mel Fisher.
Come up.
Seeing their jealous eyes red, Liu Dong chuckled and shook his head. After last night's hard work, he had fished out nearly half of the salvage-worthy sunken ships in the waters around Florida. The rest were either
It's in the deep sea, and Liu Dong can't salvage it yet, or he hasn't had time to find it yet. In short, after being searched by him, the reputation of Florida's golden beach will probably fade away soon!
By then, more than 90% of the adventurers gathered here who want to make a fortune from under the sea will have to change careers!
However, these are not what Liu Dong cares about!
Now he was more interested in the diamond in the black boy's hand, because it was too precious and Liu Dong didn't want to miss it.
"Eric, take out your diamond and show it to us. With so many people here, no one will snatch it!" A tall black man with bulging muscles said loudly.
But looking at the joking expression on his face and the malicious look in his eyes, even a fool could guess that what he just said was fart!
"That's right, Eric! Take it out and show it to us! We won't rob it!" People around him also echoed.
Facing these people, the young man named Eric not only did not let go, but hugged him tighter. Although he did not speak, it could be seen from the expression on his face that he did not trust these people with the same skin color as him at all.
partner.
If this was not a dock and there were police officers maintaining order nearby, I am afraid that the diamond in his hand would have been robbed long ago.
As a native of Miami and a black man, Eric dropped out of school at the age of 15, struggling to survive here and running for his own livelihood. Eric understands the chaos here better than ordinary people!
………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued)