The salvage work continued the next day, and hundreds of pieces of blue and white porcelain were salvaged every day, along with a larger number of other porcelains, so much so that the yacht had to save water because of the need to clean the water.

"Sunshine Star" is one of the world's most famous superyachts, not a salvage ship, and this porcelain is not a gold brick that can be stacked up, but also packaged and protected, which takes up too much space. I had to transport other porcelain, except for blue and white porcelain and the finest part of Longquan porcelain, to the "Big Shark" cargo ship more than ten nautical miles away by lifeboat as soon as it came out of the water.

Zhang Nan has the idea of customizing a large professional salvage ship, and the "Big Shark" is a cameo after all, and there is no ability to salvage and rescue in deep water.

In addition, the large salvage and rescue ship is not only its own big toy, but also one of the company's training ships, and it can also rent out some maintenance fees and crew salaries.

Owning a deep-sea salvage ship wants to make a lot of money unless you are lucky, but it is not a big problem to recover the cost and work hard in ten or twenty years.

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The salvage work is very lively here, and the same is true internationally, which is busy around the Persian Gulf.

The day before yesterday, on the day of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Iraq's violation of the UN Charter and demanding the withdrawal of its troops by a vote of 14 in favor and 0 against (Yemen was not present).

Yesterday, 3 August, the United States and the Soviet Union reached a consensus and issued a "Joint Statement" demanding that Iraq "unconditionally withdraw its troops from Kuwait ......," which is completely consistent with the US policy objectives toward Iraq.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also stopped all arms supplies and military aid to Iraq.

However, in Zhang Nan's view, the Soviet Union has already taken care of itself, the economy is about to collapse, and a group of brothers are breaking up, so how can they still have the heart to raise the bar with the United States, let alone that Iraq has gone too far this time.

On the 7th, Bush formally signed the "Desert Shield" action plan, and one brigade of the US 82nd Airborne Division took off from the Fort Bragg base in North Carolina to Saudi Arabia by plane with about 2,300 troops as the vanguard.

In the past five days, the Saudis have been really frightened, and while the front-line troops are urgently mobilized, they are also looking at the Sulaiil base in the western half - where is the biggest hole card of the Saudis, with 36 weapons that have just been deployed and can be put into use!

3.5 billion US dollars bought 35 rounds, and it is said that another one was given away, and the most difficult 5 days passed, and the Saudis felt that the money was really well spent!

Saddam Hussein was "scared" so hard that he didn't dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool!

Now the American Airborne Division is here, but the Saudis will continue to count on the Sulaiil base for a while - can they count on the Air Force to hold off Saddam's tank cluster until the arrival of American heavy troops in large numbers?

That's wishful thinking!

This is Saudi Arabia in a desert environment, not the Ardennes in the mountainous and forest environment 56 years ago, and Saddam Hussein could really have swept through Saudi Arabia casually before a sufficient number of US heavy armored troops and air forces arrived in Saudi Arabia and were deployed, unless he was really worried about the threat of the Sulayil base.

Strategic deterrence may seem to be used for thousands of years, but existence is the truth!

The 1.5-ton high-explosive warhead specially equipped with by the Dongfeng Sanshang is not comparable to Iraq's own "Hussein missiles" that weigh less than 200 kilograms for their range.

If you take a shot, you will die, and many people will die!

However, no matter how lively the bay is, everything that will happen is known to him, except for his three conscripted C141s and the soaring crude oil prices in the past few days that have made the investment company profitable, the other Zhang Nan doesn't care at all.

Zhang Nan has begun to hate the feeling of "knowing what will happen", such as when the big guys "Taixing" and "Blackstone", he didn't have any special surprise at all, just because he had a spectrum in his heart.

The Yuan Dynasty shipwreck below gives me a bit of a feeling of being in Berchtesgaden, and I don't know what good things divers will bring to themselves next, which is very exciting.

I like the feeling that every day on the shipwreck is exciting and new, which is even cooler than yesterday when Nicole called and said that she had made another $5.6 billion in a small settlement.

For example, on the afternoon of the 7th, divers found copper coins in decaying wooden boxes near the front cabin, the number was not much, only about 10,000, which was not comparable with 28 tons found in a wreck on the side of the stick.

Here is basically the Yuan Dynasty copper coins, all kinds of "Zhizheng Tongbao" the most, before the Song Dynasty almost none.

This will be Zhang Nan holding the "Zhizheng Tongbao" out of the water in his hand, needless to say, this has already limited the time for the ship to go offline, and it will not be later than "Zhizheng".

Chen Jianghua on the side simply held a handful in his hand, renovated it, and said, "It should be all new, and there are no traces of use." ”

He is talking about "Zhizheng Tongbao", although these copper coins have been in the seabed silt for more than 600 years, not only have they not been cemented into a tube of money, even if they are corroded by seawater, the surface and font of the money are still clear.

Zhang Nan put the money back into the plastic frame where the money was stored, "It should be regarded as the early years of 'Zhizheng', and the money was not used much, but as soon as this Zhizheng copper coin came out, it was even more difficult to guess who the destination of the ship and the people on the boat were." ”

Chen Jianghua nodded and said yes, "The firing time of Yuan blue and white in Jiangxi Province should be in the 12th year of Zhizheng and 1352, when Xu Shouhui's peasant army captured Raozhou, and the Jingdezhen area was completely reduced to a war zone, and it was impossible to fire blue and white porcelain for export."

The Ilkhanate in the Middle East is generally believed to have begun to disintegrate in 1335, splitting into the Kartid dynasty of Eastern Persia and Afghanistan, the Muzafar dynasty of Western Persia and the Zarayil dynasty of the Jarayil Mongols, and the Chubang dynasty in Turkey.

Even if this batch of porcelain was exported from the northern port after Jingdezhen stopped burning Yuan blue and white flowers, the reason for going to the Middle East will be even more difficult to guess, because in 1355, the Kipchak Khanate attacked the capital of the Ilkhanate, Taoli Temple City, which is now the Iranian Tabriz, and even the fifteenth monarch of the Ilkhanate, Nu Shierwan, was finally missing, and the orthodox Ilkhanate of Taoli Temple was completely finished. Some local aristocrats also took the opportunity to stand on their own, and the history that followed was a mess, and the buyers of these porcelains were even more difficult to say. ”

"Could it be that before the fall of the Peach Blossom Temple, the Yuan Dynasty gave that a gift to that lost a child?"

"Who knows, it's a pity that paper can't be kept in the sea for hundreds of years, otherwise it might be able to figure it out. ”

In 1355, it would be too early for the Yuan Dynasty to be completely finished, and the various forces in the south were in a mess, fighting each other, and fighting with the Yuan army in the south of the Yangtze River. Even Zhu Yuanzhang was still mixed under Guo Zixing, and the Ming army had to enter Dadu in August 1368, and Emperor Yuan Shun abandoned the city and left, all fled to the Mongolian steppe, and Yuan died.

In the intervening 13 years, it was not impossible for Yuan Ting to export porcelain and send a few envoys - but it was a guess. During the war, the documents of the Yuan Dynasty were basically lost, and no written records about the export of blue and white porcelain could be found.

Without words, a reasonable guess is the most reasonable possibility.

How long does the paper in the sea water last?

Zhang Nan doesn't know, but there is absolutely no 600 years, and it is difficult to estimate it in 600 days.

Unless it is handed down, if the paper is to be preserved for hundreds or thousands of years, it must be in a dry and sealed environment, such as the Tibetan scripture caves in Dunhuang and the heavenly palaces of some pagodas in the northwest region.

In fact, during the period when Chen Jianghua first came to Indonesia, cultural relics experts at all levels in Helan County, Ningxia, were beginning to dismantle and rebuild a dilapidated and almost overturned pagoda of the Western Xia period, and they would soon find a large number of Western Xia cultural relics such as paper and silk at the location of the pagoda Heavenly Palace.

Dryness and waterproofing are important.

The northwest region can have the climatic conditions to preserve paper for more than 500 years, but the south is difficult, anyway, you don't want to find paper books from underground.

But a very small number of "organic cultural relics" with words can be preserved if they are soaked in water with almost no oxygen, such as those silks in Mawangdui.

But Zhang Nan, a guy who used to deal with construction sites, didn't want to dig up any books and silk.

Those who engage in "local goods" are counting on objects that will not rot, with the only exception being the legend of a Song version of a book unearthed in the south...

Zhang Nan popped up the legend that he had heard in the circle, but as soon as this thought came up, he saw a diver showing his head.

Holding a small pimple in his hand, he saw the boss standing on the sun deck, took off the respirator and shouted, "Boss, there is a seal, with words." ”

After several months of searching for treasures under the sea, divers and sailors also know that those with words are awesome, especially for the boss and researcher Chen.

Westerners also recognize the seal, and this time they found that they did not send it in a frame step by step, but sent it directly by divers.

Here, Chen Jianghua also saw the object in the diver's hand and said, "It seems to be an official seal." ”

Judging at a glance, it is not because his eyesight is different from ordinary people, but the appearance of the seal itself is very distinctive, and almost none of the ancients of the Yuan Dynasty, or even the private seals of the ancient Chinese people of all dynasties will have such an appearance.

Zhang Nan took the seal from the diver's hand and asked, "Where did you find it?"

"The mud on the edge of the wreckage is about half a metre deep from the pristine seabed. ”

Zhang Nan nodded, "Good job!"

The diver smiled, it must be a good thing to get the boss's favor, so he bit on the breathing apparatus and dived again.

Now Zhang Nancai and Chen Jianghua looked at this slightly green rust seal: square, pouting buttons, that is, the buttons are particularly high and the printing surface is not thick, which is different from the general three-dimensional square kind of seal, which looks a little ugly aesthetically.

This is the reason why Chen Jianghua thinks that this is the official seal at a glance: ugly is ugly, but it is very practical--- holding the high button, it will be particularly convenient and fast to knock on the seal, just like the private seal of modern people will never go to the whole "official seal type".

The printing surface is almost square, the length and width are about 7 centimeters, the overall height is because of the button that looks like a "seal handle", the height is more than one centimeter longer than the length and width, and it is estimated that it is very imposing when knocked, "pop, pop".

Although there is a lot of patina, you can still see the dense Ba Si Pa script engraved on the printing surface, which will make people suffer from dense phobia, Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua still can't understand it!

But don't worry, you will soon find out what kind of seal this is: because the script used by the government of the Yuan Dynasty is very interesting, this Ba Si Pa script was invented by the national teacher in accordance with the emperor's wishes during the time of Kublai Khan.

The emperor liked this new script very much, but even the Mongolian nobles did not like this kind of script that was difficult to write, difficult to read, and difficult to recognize: to learn a new language and script was absolutely bitter for those who could only ride horses, bend bows, and cut people!

There will be no shortage of people who learn under the strict orders of the emperor, but the officials of the Yuan Dynasty who are blind to this kind of new script that is difficult to learn are absolutely indispensable.

What should I do if I don't know?

There is a way!

Seals in the Phags-pa script are almost always engraved with Chinese characters on the reverse side of the seal, so that some seal owners don't know what they are holding.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the popularity of this Chinese character should have been much higher than that of the Paspa script.

Sure enough, Zhang Nan recognized a few words, but because of rust, some of them couldn't be seen clearly.

"I'm going to clean it up. ”

Hearing Chen Jianghua say this, Zhang Nan handed him the seal, "Have tools?"

"If you have tweezers, a toothpick, and a kit, I'll have it. ”

After saying that, he left, this researcher is dedicated, and he takes his own food guy with him everywhere.

Cleaning up the patina is a delicate job, and Zhang Nan didn't bother, and stayed on the sun deck to watch.

It didn't take long, just over half an hour, and Chen Jianghua came out, and he should be in a good mood when he looked at his expression.

Zhang Nan took the seal and looked at it: he did not remove all the green rust, but cleaned up the text lines, and did not hurt the seal material itself.

Practiced!

The right side of the seal button is engraved with the words: "The Mongolian Guards on the East Road are pro-army with the seal of one hundred households"; and the left side of the button is engraved with the words "made by the Ministry of Chinese Calligraphy and Rites" and "April Day of the second year of Zhizheng".

Hundreds of households, thousands of households, as soon as he saw this, Zhang Nan's mind popped out of the scene description of "Yang Kang, Xiaolongnu Xiangyang City fought against the Mongolian army, threw spears to knock over hundreds of households, thousands of households, and killed a white-bearded household", and the "brocade guards" came out to show a portrait.

Guan Xingquan on the side probably knows what a hundred households are, but he doesn't particularly know about it, and he doesn't know about Mongolian military and official positions, so by the way, ask Chen Jianghua, an expert.

"Hundred households, official names, set up at the beginning of Jin, are hereditary military positions. The Yuan Dynasty basically followed the official system of the Jin Dynasty, and set up a hundred households as the chief of a hundred husbands, which belonged to a thousand households, and a thousand households belonged to ten thousand households and were under the jurisdiction of a thousand households.

The 100 households stationed in various places shall set up 100 households, which shall be subordinate to each 1,000 households.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were 100 households of two classes, and 1 member of each of the 100 households of Mongolia and Han was set up, and they were all made from the six-grade silver medal, and 1 member of the 100 households was set up below, and the silver medal was set up from the seventh-grade ......"

Well, Guan Xingquan drew inferences: it turned out that a "Mongolian thousand households who were killed by Yang Kang like chopping melons and vegetables" used plain gold medals.

Gold medal, "really worthless"!

The guards were the "Imperial Forest Army" when they heard it, but listening to Chen Jianghua's words, it was not the case at all: the guards of the Yuan Dynasty were formed in the first year of the Central Union, and they were the central army formed by Kublai Khan in imitation of the forbidden army system of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The first guard organization of the Yuan Dynasty was called the Wuwei Army, with about 30,000 soldiers, and Kublai Khan changed its name to the Guards in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, which was divided into two wings.

Later, the establishment of the guards and pro-army continued to change, and the scale became larger and larger, and the ethnic composition of the soldiers became more and more complex from a single Mongol.

Not to mention the others, the guards composed of the monochromatic people are divided into Tang Wuwei, Kipchawei, Guichiwei, Western Regions Guard, Kang Liwei, Left and Right Asuwei, Long Zhenwei, Long Yiwei, Luo Siwei, and Mighty Asuwei......

At least a few dozen!

In addition, the guards composed of the Han people in the guards and pro-army, the guards and various institutions of the Mongols themselves are so numerous that Chen Jianghua can't understand them, unless he goes back and turns over the information.

Zhang Nan also listened to it, and then said: "Now it can at least be determined that there is at least one official with a gold medal of more than 1,000 households on that ship, and there are 100 households.

I don't know if I can still find something with dots. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, another diver came up: they found two whole boxes of silver coins!

Let's take a look at a few of the pieces sent first: they are all silver coins of "Zhizheng Tongbao".

This is not over, and news comes that gold and silver ingots have been found, not many, only a dozen, each with a maximum of two kilograms.

That's normal," ... A long-distance sea ship, just a few copper coins are enough, even if the goods are worth a lot of money, you have to bring some cash to defend yourself, right? ”

This was said by Zhang Nan, and the "Blackstone" salvaged before was very strange: the "cash" found on the ship was only 126 copper coins.