Chapter 269: Ming Dynasty Merchant Ships

Lin Wen is not the kind of person who has a hot brain and does whatever he wants, he is the kind of master who plans and then acts.

Why do you want to go to sea? Taking your family to relax is just a passing, and the more important purpose is to salvage things. The auction house auctioned such a large amount of things outward, and the terrible thing was that there was no channel for acquisition, only no way out, and there was not enough to toss it so much! Lin Wen had already asked Liu Yu to adjust the auction volume, from the original weekly to every 10 days, and each time from 100 to 50 pieces, so that the company had to continue to operate.

In addition to salvaging the wreck, another important purpose is to see the deployment of that Seralvo Island!

Before going to sea, Lin Wen once again found the small book that memorized the latitude and longitude, and with his perverted memory, he picked three points......

"Brother Ding, I found this point after consulting a lot of information, let's go to this sea area at full speed first!"

Ding Chong took the latitude and longitude given to him by Lin Wen and didn't ask any questions, this is not what he should care about, what he wants to do is to ensure the safety of navigation!

Near the point where Lin Wen gave Ding Chong, there were three shipwrecks that he saw last time, and according to Lin Wen's judgment, they should be ships of the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the navigation industry was highly developed, Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, not only a sea line, that was the world with warships, which opened up a new situation for the commerce and diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty, ships have different uses, shipping is highly developed, and commerce and trade go to overseas countries. It was only in the middle of the period that Zhu Yuanzhang's grandchildren, who were not doing their jobs, either became carpenters or played poetry, completely abandoned the navigation industry, and overseas trade was gradually interrupted.

After two days and two nights of sailing, we finally arrived at the sea area designated by Lin Wen!

In the past two days, Lin Wen also found many shipwrecks in many places, but he did not stop, anyway, there will be time and opportunity to salvage in the future, and it is impossible to fish them all out at once.

The three points I chose this time are based on the experience of the last time. Last time, only a Song Dynasty shipwreck was salvaged, and after the small wooden boat and the things in the ship were fished up, they were placed on this huge "Canglong", which was like putting a small table in the house, which was too little. Be sure to fish a little more this time!

Lin Wen stood at the bow of the ship, looked at the surrounding seas, and slowly began to search!

Where there are treasures, aura is definitely different from other places, and Lin Wen is very sensitive to aura, it didn't take him long to lock on to those three wrecked ships!

Although the three shipwrecks were not together, they were a few nautical miles apart, and it is estimated that the fleet was attacked by a storm and sunk by a huge wave, or it was sunk by an attack on a powerful sea warship.

"Brother Ding, according to records, there should be a shipwreck near here, you let people use radar to detect and search, hehe, Earl Howard said that our equipment is the most advanced in the world, come on, let's try, detect that direction first, I feel that there is a treasure in that piece!" Lin Wen said half-truths to Ding Chong.

Ding Chong looked at Lin Wen with a puzzled face, this guy's expression now is really a bit like a magic stick!

Ding Chong turned around and arranged for someone to use radar to scan and detect.

"Report to the captain that there is a shipwreck on the seabed 30 degrees in front of the left, 6 nautical miles away from the target, and at a depth of 53 meters!"

It's not the first time Ding Chong has been surprised, the last time he salvaged, Lin Wen was like a magic stick, if he found a small island, there would be a treasure, and if he found a location, there would be a shipwreck, it was really evil!

"Slow approach! Directions, 30 degrees to the left front!"

Lin Wen saw that the ship was moving, and the direction was the sunken ship, he smiled, and the smile was a little hateful. He pointed out a rough area and then asked them to probe it with an instrument, so that he could also hide himself cleverly.

As long as the shipwreck can be found, the rest is simple, because this group of people is not an archaeological expert, they need protective salvage, they are selective and violent salvage, and only pick the valuable!

This shipwreck is not as well preserved as the last Song Dynasty shipwreck, maybe the depth is not enough, or the current is invading, or the craftsmanship of the ship itself is not up to par?

Lin Wen actually saw very clearly, and the hull of this ship was of little value when salvaged.

After looking at the images from radar scans and robot detections, he decisively decided that only the valuable things in the ship should be salvaged, and useless ones should not be used!

Because the location of the wreck was only fifty or sixty meters, Ding Chong decided to send two people to dive down first, after all, after the people went down, the situation was more accurate......

It took three full days to salvage the ship's things, and this is enough to put down the divers, which is fast enough.

There are so many things fished out from the bottom of the sea, and the happiest person is Xiao Lin Feng, who is holding a few kinds of porcelain, which seems to be very novel!

The only things that can come out of the water are some porcelain, gold, silver and bronze ware, and as for silk fabrics, tea and other things, they have long been decomposed and lost.

More than 4,000 pieces of porcelain salvaged from this ship can be regarded as a great harvest, Lin Wen looked at these porcelain, and preliminarily concluded that this is indeed a shipwreck of the Ming Dynasty!

The decorative techniques of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty have changed from carving, scratching, printing and plastic before the Yuan Dynasty to painting as the main technique. The content of the painting decoration is more complex and diverse, with plants, animals, words, landscapes, people, flowers, birds, fish and insects all included in the painting. In the early days, he mainly focused on freehand painting, and his painting style was free, unrestrained, and free.

On the basis of the development of blue and white porcelain, the development of colored porcelain in the Ming Dynasty also had a new leap. In the Ming Dynasty, colored porcelain gradually became popular, in addition to the reasons of color materials and painting technology, it should be mainly attributed to the improvement of the quality of white porcelain. The common colors of the Ming Dynasty glaze color are red, yellow, green, blue, black, purple, etc., the most representative is "Chenghua Doucai", Doucai is a combination of underglaze blue and white and overglaze color of a color porcelain process.

The shape of the salvaged porcelain is slightly plump, vigorous, and the lines of the vessel are soft and round, giving people a sense of simplicity and solemnity. The carcass is thick and heavy, and the glazed enamel is thick and moisturized. In blue and white porcelain, most of them are blue and white, which is commonly known as "bright green glaze".

Lin Wen also put a lot of effort into the study of porcelain, although there is still a big gap from the professional level, but many porcelains can also be said one, two, three. He has made up a lot of lessons on the knowledge of porcelain in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, so when he sees this, he knows it in his heart.

Look at the ornamentation of the porcelain, there are mainly landscapes, people, flowers and birds, animals, etc., the picture is bold and chic, the brushwork is smooth and skillful, and the composition is simple and ancient. Large utensils, the foot is mostly sand bottom, often there is a collapsed bottom, sticky sand, jumping knife marks, the shape of the foot has a straight circle foot, flat cut circle foot, wall type circle foot, high foot and many other shapes.

What makes Lin Wen feel very excited is that in this batch of porcelain, there are hundreds of official kiln models! In fact, the difference between this official kiln and the folk kiln is not too much, the official kiln materials are more fine, the workmanship is more exquisite, and the workmanship of the folk kiln is already very superb, and the shape of the utensils is not constricted, there are thousands of strange forms, and there are many patterns.

Although the official kiln and the private kiln have their own merits in terms of artistic value, the price of the official kiln objects is obviously much higher.

Looking at these objects, ornaments, household utensils, and study pens, the variety of styles can be seen to indicate that this is very likely to be a merchant ship.

Whether it's a merchant ship or an official ship, it doesn't matter what kind of ship it is, as long as it has good things!

After the divers transported the last batch of porcelain to the ship, Lin Wen roughly calculated that the more than 4,000 pieces of porcelain and gold and silver ware were relatively damaged, and less than half of them were well preserved, and most of the rest were mutilated. Even so, it is already a huge gain.

In the evening, Lin Wen held a small dinner on the boat to celebrate the victory and the success of the salvage, but the amount of wine still has to be controlled, security guards are necessary, and on the high seas, anything can happen......