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Chapter 815 The most valuable sunken ship in the world
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If Liu Dong hadn't possessed a powerful weapon like the Relic Yuanguang, absolutely no one would have known that beneath these calm waters, there was a huge sunken treasure hidden that could trigger greed in the hearts of everyone in the world.
After swimming around the sunken ship and suppressing the excitement in his heart, Liu Dong began to clean up the sediment covering the sunken ship bit by bit. This time he was more cautious and cautious than before when he salvaged all the sunken ships combined, lest he
If you move too fast, you will damage the priceless treasure inside!
An hour passed quickly. Liu Dong went to the water surface to take a breath before finally clearing the ship, which was nearly 60 meters long, 21 meters wide, 16 meters high, with six decks and three gun decks, a total of 65 guns of different calibers.
The artillery and first-class battleship 'Virgin Maria Liberation' with a full load of about 3,200 tons were completely excavated from the seabed.
Looking at the first-class battleship "Virgin Mary Liberation" lying on the seabed like a giant beast under the sea, Liu Dong inevitably became excited again!
“More than a week of hard work finally paid off!”
After sighing with emotion, Liu Dong quickly came to the deck of the battleship. Looking at the name of the ship on the huge navigation clock, Liu Dong once again confirmed the identity of the battleship under his feet.
It is the world's most valuable sunken ship that he is looking for, carrying a fortune of US$3.2 billion.
Liu Dong almost glanced at the three gun decks on the "Virgin Mary Liberation" battleship. Except for the remaining 57 bronze cannons and some daily necessities often used by the crew, they still had some value.
, there are not many things that are truly valuable.
Below the third gun deck is the sailors' living quarters, which don't have many good things.
But when he reached the fifth floor, Liu Dong couldn't restrain his excitement again!
Because there are so many good things, and the real supplies on this sunken ship are more detailed than the specious and inaccurate list of supplies on the sunken ship.
There were not 15,399 gold coins, but exactly 50,000; there were not 153 gold cigarette cases, but 350, and each one was engraved with an eagle, a lion, and a wolf head. These patterns often appear in the family emblems of European aristocrats.
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There is not one golden sword, but hilts inlaid with precious stones, a total of 12 gorgeous golden swords! There is not one gold watch, but nearly 90! And in the box next to it, there are also gold Jesus statues and crosses, as well as
The gold dinner plates and wine glasses are gorgeous in shape, and some are embossed with images of female angels. There are five boxes of them, about 318 pieces!
Other diamond necklaces, diamond rings, and diamond earrings filled two large boxes, at least thousands of pieces.
The remaining unprocessed rough diamonds filled ten boxes, amounting to more than 12 million carats, which is nearly double the amount of diamond resources collected from all the shipwrecks discovered by Liu Dong!
And the quality is also better, especially the box that may have been damaged when the ship capsized. None of the diamonds in it are smaller than 10 carats. The largest 9 diamonds are individually wrapped in small steel boxes, and each one is...
Over 100 carats!
Now Liu Dong believes that the 100-carat top-grade transparent diamond that Eric once picked up from the clam shell came from here, because there are so many large diamonds here, and the collection value of those over 3 carats alone exceeds
200 pieces!
In addition to the largest number of rough diamonds and the greatest value, there are eight boxes of agate and jadeite. In addition to the limited value of jadeite due to the small number of gem-level gemstones, the value of agate is quite high, and there are also many top-notch agates among them!
In addition to diamonds, jade, and agate of various colors, the remaining most abundant emeralds are because Colombian emeralds are just like Burmese emeralds. They are not only produced in large quantities, but also of excellent quality. Therefore, emeralds are loaded on this ship.
There are as many as 22 boxes, especially a columnar emerald that is about the size of a washbasin and weighs more than 200 kilograms, which is solemnly locked in a single iron box. It has completely reached the level of emerald and is pure and flawless.
It is difficult to see flaws in it with the naked eye. It can be said that this top-grade emerald, which is comparable to glass-type imperial green jade, is the largest, most beautiful, and most valuable emerald Liu Dong has ever seen.
As for the value, Liu Dong has no way of estimating it, because emeralds of this level will never appear on the market and have been collected by rich people who have long been discovered!
"I think it should be no less than 100 million US dollars!" Liu Dong guessed in his mind.
But no matter how much it is worth, Liu Dong will not sell it.
In the cabin on the fifth deck, in addition to various gold and silver handicrafts and gems discovered by Liu Dong, there are also numerous cocoa, dyes, and several large boxes of traditional Chinese ancient fans, which of course have been soaked in seawater for more than 200 years.
Years ago, the paper on the fan had long since rotted under the erosion of sea water, and the only thing left was the umbrella rib!
After checking everything in the fifth cabin, Liu Dong looked at the bottom cabin. There was nothing else here, it was all gold and silver!
Various gold and silver plundered from Mexico and Peru were filled into large boxes. Of course, there were only a few boxes containing gold, but there were also 22 boxes. Each box contained 473 kilograms of gold bricks. All together, they were about
10.4 tons of gold! This is another fortune of over US$200 million!
Just looking at these gold Liu Dong lost the excitement he had when he saw the large number of diamonds and gold and silver handicrafts. As for the silver behind, although the amount is dozens of times that of gold and the weight reaches nearly 300 tons, its value is really
Too low! 300 tons of silver is just shy of $100 million!
So after taking a look at the situation at the bottom, Liu Dong looked at the fifth floor again, with a satisfied smile on his face again.
This is the most valuable treasure on board the Virgin Mary Liberation!
Looking at the nautical bell on the ship, Liu Dong took it off with a look of pain on his face and threw it aside. Although the value of a single nautical bell is not too high, as the most important symbol on a ship, the nautical bell
The meaning is extraordinary, but unfortunately the wealth on board the Virgin Mary Liberation is too tempting!
If Liu Dong really puts this Spanish first-class warship on display in the future, I'm afraid the Spanish government will come directly to file a lawsuit and demand that the ship be taken back!
And maybe the Yankees will intervene, because the whole world knows that the Virgin Mary Liberation sank in the Strait of Florida, and this is the maritime territory of the United States! So this ship should be the property of the United States.
Make sense.
In order to avoid these troubles in the future, after throwing away the navigation bell, Liu Dong once again erased almost all the signs that could prove its identity on this first-class battleship. Then he took the entire battleship into the mustard space.
, and then moved the bones on the ship to the big pit where the battleship was originally located, and then covered it with sand again!
"Although I took away the battleship, you are treated well if you can rest in peace!"
After taking one last look at the slightly turbid sea bottom, Liu Dong turned around and headed upstream to the sea.
Because Liu Dong usually told him not to disturb him unless there was anything special, so during the two hours he left, the six crew members of the Gonggong did not know that their boss had gone to sea to take the world's most valuable
A sunken ship was salvaged!
After quietly returning to his room, he took a shower, wiped his body, and changed into clothes. Liu Dong lay down comfortably on the lounge chair on the balcony, squinting his eyes and feeling the soft sea breeze and warm sunshine.
Physically, Liu Dong can finally relax and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Caribbean Sea!
"Next we should go to Colombia. Although the wealth on the San Jose shipwreck is not as rich as that of the Santa Maria Liberation, it is still a huge treasure worth more than 1 billion U.S. dollars! Since it can afford it
It’s so close, so there’s no reason to let it go.”
Although there are more than 3 million sunken ships in the ocean, there are not many sunken ships with a wealth exceeding one billion US dollars!
So Liu Dong had already made up his mind. After picking up the Virgin Mary Liberation, he sailed straight to Colombia. Of course, he had to choose a good route when going to Colombia.
The best route is to follow the route that Spanish colonial transport ships often passed hundreds of years ago! But after thinking about it, Liu Dong denied it, because the Caribbean Sea is not the Baltic Sea, and the average depth of the water here is more than 2,000 meters, so even if
He discovered the sunken ship. If the sunken position was more than 350 meters away, he had nothing to do. Instead, it would be more reliable to walk along the coastline of Central America. At least in the past, these areas were all colonies of Spain, and they were all filled with gold and silver.
In a high-yield area, there should be many sunken ships with wealth left behind!
After making up his mind, Liu Dong suddenly became alert and looked up at the sea. Soon, an ordinary cargo ship 500 meters away came into his sight. The cargo ship was not big, only weighing more than a thousand tons, and it was mottled.
The hull shows that it has been sailing on the sea for a long time!
"These guys are so determined to follow them after they reach the sea!" Liu Dong sneered. After thinking for a while, he took the radio placed on the table next to him, turned it on and said directly: "Captain Nord!"
"Boss, what are your orders?"
"Speed is 40 knots, let's go to Havana!"
"Got it, boss!"
Feeling the yacht under him slowly turning around and then accelerating, Liu Dong looked at the freighter in the distance and smiled: "If you can catch up, then come over!"
Driven by a powerful power system, the huge yacht with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons crossed a white track, getting faster and faster, and then quickly rushed into the distance among the blue sea and sky.
And watching them leave, the people on the dilapidated freighter in the distance became a little angry! (To be continued.)