After his first trial of salvage, Gu Kun also realized that it was very difficult to find the sunken ship by himself.
Because the Lanfang Islands were directly on the east-west trade route in ancient times.
Instead, it had to deviate from the main channel at that time by dozens or hundreds of nautical miles.
Therefore, the ships that can sink in the shallow waters around Lanfang are unlikely to be large merchant ships, but more civilian ships for immigrants, and the wealth on board is much less. The net profit at one time may be only a few hundred thousand US dollars.
It can only be said that it has great archaeological and historical and cultural significance. In the future, it can be used to open a maritime memorial hall and history museum, which can be regarded as a merit - Lanfang is too small a country, so far there is no museum, no matter it is
State or private.
In the future, if you really want to make a lot of money from shipwreck salvage, you will mainly have to rely on the coordinates of famous sunken ships that Gu Kun memorized from reading decrypted information and industry news in his previous life.
However, most of those shipwrecks were not within fifty nautical miles around Lan Fang. In the future, he would have to rely on a ship under his absolute control to secretly attack them. It would be somewhat inconvenient to use a research ship officially rented from the China National Design Institute.
He is a principled person and does not dare to mess around in the country. Therefore, even if he salvages ships in the future, he will only try his best to steal and monopolize shipwrecks in the exclusive economic zones of Indonesia and Vietnam, or ships at the mouth of the Gulf of Siam.
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As for the ships within the nine-dash line, he will definitely not steal them. Either he will cooperate with the Chinese side to salvage them after he discovers them, and he will pay his share of the tax according to regulations.
Or after being targeted by the famous Britannia poachers, they cooperated with the relevant departments to carry out protective and defensive salvage.
In short, the general principle is not to mess around in China's territorial waters.
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Another week later, the research ship returned to Lanfang Port after surveying the waterways around Lanfang Port and the sea topography of thousands of square miles.
Today is July 5th.
Before docking at the port, Gu Kun had notified relevant parties via satellite phone at sea and expressed his goodwill attitude.
Therefore, the domestic authorities also sent several commissioners in advance and were waiting to receive them at Lanfang Port.
They took away several boxes of less valuable but valuable cultural relics for historical research, and then flew back home from Kuching.
The leader of the team also said that when Gu Kun goes to China to study in September, he will have a few more donation ceremonies. At that time, department-level leaders from the relevant provincial cultural authorities will come out to speak and shake hands with him and take photos. At the same time,
, China also provided some qualitative documents dealing with this matter, and listed Gu Kun as a model for international friendly cultural exchanges.
Of course, Gu Kun would not refuse the benefits of this kind of facial recognition. Does this also increase his domestic exposure? Maybe because of this, when domestic Southeast Asian tourism becomes popular after 1997, there will be many
Because of this, people choose to spend their money here.
Think of it as a long-term approach to catching big fish.
After taking care of the matter of donating things, Gu Kun began to think about how to send away the Chinese personnel on the research ship.
He set up several banquet tables at the best hotel in Lanfang Port and treated all the domestic technical staff, including Du Guowei and Zhang Baihui, to a good meal.
After three rounds of drinking, Gu Kun proposed: "Du Gong, look, we have finished measuring the seabed topography of the access channel around Lanfang Port. I have seen it, and the total area covered these days is nearly 5,000 square nautical miles."
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Dean Xu's side should have enough data for port planning. I'm also anxious to see the final design draft as soon as possible, and I don't want Dean Xu's side to be delayed by waiting for my data...
So, how about I book a flight to Kuching tomorrow and take you back to China? As for this boat, I paid 1 million for rent, and there are still more than 50 days of rent, so I think I should have the right to freely use it. Don’t worry
, we will definitely sail the ship back well by then."
Gu Kun used this excuse to send away the Chinese crew, and the reason was quite good.
Relying on Gu Kun's ability, it only took 15 days to measure the area that was originally expected to take more than two months, which is equivalent to a five-fold increase in efficiency.
Because Gu Kun paid the rent and there were nearly two months left on the lease, he naturally had the right to continue to use the ship.
Du Guowei thought for a while and resisted symbolically: "Before I set sail, Dean Xu told me that I must return to China before September 1st... Their project breakdown and design progress are stuck at this pace.
. So it’s still early.”
Gu Kun had a serious face: "The sooner the better! I am Party A! I paid the design fee. Do you want to see if there are any errors in the design plan as soon as possible? I am the boss of Party A and will personally accompany you to speed up the data collection. You
Party B’s designer still has the nerve to prevaricate me?”
Du Guowei was completely speechless now.
For example, a locksmith, in order to make the residents feel that the 50 yuan they paid to open the lock is worth it, will often take two or three minutes to open a simple lock that can be opened in more than ten seconds.
People who spend money like this feel happy.
In the field of design, many designers from design institutes just take the past drawings and apply them, maybe with slight changes. But if the design is too fast, Party A’s father may think that your work is worthless.
I'm going to bother you two more times.
As soon as Gu Kun said that, it showed that he understood the tricks involved. Party A personally collected the information and asked you to speed up. You are really embarrassed to refuse.
"But, this ship is worth tens of millions. Taking your friendly attitude into account, we only collected the rent and confiscated the deposit. If all our people left..." Du Guowei thought about it and finally had this defense reason left.
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Gu Kun: "Am I this kind of person? You see, even the extra money I made was fully exchanged with you, and friendly donations and cooperation. Are you still afraid that I will run away? I don't have a deposit of tens of millions, but I
My friendship with so many friends in China does not allow me to do something like this and end my future!"
At this time, his always friendly attitude towards China came into play.
Du Guowei asked for instructions again, and the design institute relented.
Gu Kun successfully deceived all the Chinese crew members.
He immediately put his own trusted men on the ship, and also recruited Long Wu, Chen Li and the others back - when Gu Kun first boarded the ship, he had brought his men with him, not just Gao Jianxiong.
So his people have been secretly learning the precautions for sailing the survey ship.
After half a month of running-in, there was no obstacle to sailing the boat, locating the sunken ship and fishing for something. It was just modeling and drawing, which Gu Kun’s rough guys couldn’t do yet. But it didn’t matter, Gu Kun
Kun only needs to keep the relevant data and send it to Du Guowei when the time comes, so that they can slowly complete the drawing.
As for Long Wu and Chen Li after they were transferred back, Gu Kun's fleet of three fishing boats was handed over to Gao Jianxiong to lead, plus several other new crew members who had been tested in recent months, for them to lead on a routine basis.
I want to go fishing in the sea and do foreign trade with China.
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Long Wu and Chen Li returned to the port two days later. After they arrived, they immediately went straight to Gu Kun to wait for instructions.
The loyalty of these two people has been tested for a long time, and since they are not of Chinese nationality, Gu Kun is not afraid of them having more affairs. When they met, he said straightforwardly:
"In the past half month, I have actually discovered more than one boat, but I felt that if we cooperated with the Chinese side to keep it confidential, it would be easy to be spotted, so I didn't say anything.
Now, I will take you to fish out the sunken ship that I have located. Remember to keep your mouth shut. On the ship, you cannot easily let the crew know your positioning information. No one is allowed to enter the captain's cabin to look at the instruments. Do you understand?
"
At sea, not all ordinary sailors know their precise location.
Experienced sailors can certainly follow the ancient methods of looking at the sun and stars by using sextants, theodolite and time difference, etc., but the errors of these methods are at least several points of longitude and latitude, which is more than ten kilometers.
Therefore, Gu Kun's first priority for this secret operation was to prevent his junior crew members from knowing the precise coordinates of the time when the sunken ship was finally discovered.
Lest anyone find out that "this boat was actually fished in waters relatively close to Indonesia's exclusive economic zone", it will also be unnecessary trouble if the news reaches the ears of Indonesians in the future.
"Don't worry, boss, we know what to do. You are really amazing. You can actually find so many ships in half a month of seabed survey." Long Wu patted his chest and assured him that there would never be any leaks.
He didn't know that some of Gu Kun's words had deceived even him.
Because the so-called "newly discovered ship" was not newly discovered by Gu Kun himself.
It's the coordinates he recorded in his previous life.
He just used the information gap that Long Wu didn't go to sea with him for half a month to find an excuse for his cheating.
This is also the reason why Gu Kun did not take Gao Jianxiong to fish the boat with him, because Gao Jianxiong followed him for half a month and knew which sea areas he had visited and which ones he had not.
If Gu Kun said in front of Gao Jianxiong that he discovered a sunken ship outside the survey area through surveying the seabed topography, wouldn't he be lying?
At this moment, Gu Kun calmly accepted Long Wu's compliment without criticizing it.
Chen Li, who was more attentive, frowned and thought for a while, and sighed: "If I had known better, there would be no need to fish the first ship you found with the Chinese side. At that time, I endured it and secretly marked it down.
If we can fish it out after we take it over, we won’t have to donate anything.”
Gu Kun was stunned. He could tell that Chen Li was looking out for his interests.
However, this is still a bit petty.
Gu Kun chuckled and patted Chen Li on the shoulder: "Sister Chen, you have to take a long-term view. What I cooperated with them to get was just the least valuable one. It was an attempt to make a fortune.
At present, there are no laws and administrative regulations on international cooperation in maritime archeology in China, which means it is a blank. In a blank field, is it not worthwhile to create a precedent that can be cited in the future and set a tone and personality? There are many shipwrecks in the sea.
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Although China is a country with a civil law system and does not pay much attention to case law. However, in areas where the law is blank, precedents are still very useful. Gu Kun's asking for advice really created a stable environment for him.
"So it turns out that this is the case, or the boss sees things far away..." Chen Li felt secretly ashamed in her heart.