During dinner, Zhang Nan found a very interesting thing: the host apologized to all the guests for today's bad traffic, and then said that the chaos in Ahmedabad should be cleared up soon, and everyone should not worry, and they can naturally leave the station and airport with peace of mind in two days.

Then just like the first day, everyone watched the singing and dancing into the feast, took care of Zhang Nan and the guests from the Middle East, got on a roasted camel, and the atrocities that happened in the city in the morning were directly forgotten, and they had nothing to do with them!

Today, Zhang Nan learned a trick: this is the real traditional sense of the life of a superior person, high at the top, and does not care about what happens at the lower level.

Indifference is not ignorance of "why not eat minced meat", but self-confidence after having a complete understanding of the current state of society.

In contrast, the high-ranking politicians in the Western world seem to live a superior life, but today they are concerned about famine in Africa, and tomorrow they are concerned about the Middle East

Compared to these princes, those people live like a poor bastard who is busy with life all day long!

Stayed at the castle for four days and participated in a hunt, but unfortunately there were no tigers.

Gujarat is home to the only wild lion outside of Africa, the Asiatic lion, but they live in nature reserves in the southwest and don't have their turn to hunt.

Zhang Nan is not even interested in hunting African lions, not to mention the cherished wild Asian lions, he is not a bloodthirsty hunting maniac.

After the hunt was over, as Pendwin Singh said, the chaos did not spread on a large scale again in Gujarat, but was temporarily controlled by force!

A lot of people have died, and if they are forcefully suppressed, it is certain whether it will break out again, but this has nothing to do with Zhang Nan.

The day after his hunt, he boarded his own private jet at Ahmedabad International Airport and returned to New York along the route he had come.

Be a good man and father at home, and don't run around anywhere.

Between Christmas and New Year, Zhang Nan received good news.

From the Arabian Sea, the captain of the "Deep Diver", who was the first mate of the "Sunshine Star" and the captain of the "Big Shark", called Jamie Bostwick.

"Good news, boss!

We are sure that we have found the John Barry, which is about 1,300 feet apart on the seabed at a depth of 8,500 feet

Just twenty minutes ago, the 'Peace One' found a large number of silver coins from the thirties and forties from the wreckage of the ship, the boxes had long since rotted, and the cut cabin was surprisingly thick!

It's the John Barry Liberty Ship, the Navy's record is correct, Washington is lying, and we're going to get rich!"

Jamie Bostwick on the satellite phone was obviously excited, and Zhang Nan was in Nicole's oversized office on the 82nd floor of the Empire State Building, with Nicole and Jenny on the side.

The captain had a big throat and a lot of breath today, and even the two housekeepers on the side heard it.

"Congratulations, Jamie!

But don't get too happy just yet, the silver Shah is an add-on, and the key is the industrial silver ingots.

According to the information, finding those silver ingots can only show that the company and the guys have made a lot of money, and if you only rely on those Shah silver coins that cannot be salvaged, you can keep the capital and steal the fun. ”

Hearing what the boss said, Jamie Bostwick on the other end of the phone hurriedly said: "Don't worry, boss, the total value of silver coins on the ship is more than 25 million US dollars, and it is estimated that it is no problem to salvage one-third of it in a reasonable time and with reasonable difficulty."

We keep our average combined expenses within $25,000 a day, and we still make a fortune."

Jamie is happy, because this kind of deep-sea salvage is very expensive, and the risks and rewards are also large, and if the goods are received richly, all the personnel on board will have a considerable commission.

Of course, if you get nothing to do, or lose your old capital, then you will not have a dime bonus except for the salary of this trip: deep-sea salvage is a gold-swallowing beast, especially a salvage project at such a depth.

It is difficult to find the target, and even if it is found, the subsequent salvage is still time-consuming and laborious, and the difficulty of the salvage operation at a depth of one or two hundred meters cannot be compared with it.

"Basically, you can't be wrong, the Mir-2 submersible is exploring the first half of the wreck, and the good news is that the fracture site is relatively far back, not in the front cargo hold.

Otherwise, we should rush back after fishing for the silver coins, there is a layer of silt on the bottom of the sea, and if the silver ingots are scattered from 8,500 feet, there is no value in the deep silt.

As long as there are silver ingots, then we can now be sure that those lovely treasures are still in the hold, and I don't know if our salvage ship will be overloaded by then. ”

Jamie's estimate is based on evidence, and it should be the same: even if the free-wheel is broken in two, it has been rotting at the bottom of the sea for nearly 50 years, but the model can still be judged.

Coupled with the discovery of a large number of silver coins minted by the Shah in that era, as well as the comparison of the sunken sea area of the respective ship, it should be the "John Barry" that Washington still wants to hide.

Zhang Nan didn't hit the other party anymore, and said into the phone: "Then pay attention to safety, if there is another breakthrough, call you." ”

"Thank you boss, I hope we can find those lovely silver ingots before the new year!"

Zhang Nan also asked the captain to convey his greetings to the crew, during the Christmas and New Year period of Westerners, the "Deep Diver" is still operating in the Arabian Sea in the northwest of the distant Indian Ocean, and the crew has worked hard enough, hoping that those people's efforts can be satisfied with the reward.

Zhang Nan doesn't care about silver, but that's the company's business, and it's the livelihood of the employees.

Hanging up the phone, Nicole sitting in the senior chair said to Zhang Nan: "Did Roosevelt really send silver to Stalin?"

"It should be that silver is not only money, but also very much in demand in industrial manufacturing.

The Soviet Union was really trying its best, the Tehran Conference was still delaying the opening of the second battlefield, and the war on the Italian peninsula was a small fight, and everyone knew that an Alpine mountain separated the whole of Italy into a small European world.

Stalin was not stupid, the actions of the Allied forces in Italy were at most a small containment, and even if Italy was completely occupied, it would be impossible for the Allied mechanized forces to cross the Alps on a large scale to attack the German forces in Western Europe and Germany proper.

The Soviet Union had the vast majority of the mustachioed elite troops on the Eastern Front, and the Soviets were playing with their lives and Britain and the United States were fighting petty, and Stalin was of course not happy.

The results of the Tehran Conference now seem to be very good, and all three sides are happy, but in fact, I judge that Stalin was definitely not happy, which can be analyzed in combination with the situation of a series of battles on the Eastern Front at that time

At that time, the Soviet Union had already seized the strategic initiative, but the pressure was still too great, and millions of Allied troops were on vacation in the British Isles and North Africa.

I think that if Roosevelt had not bled a little, Stalin would have been able to delay the Eastern Front and wait for the offensive when the Normandy landings came.

If the Soviet Union had found a few excuses to delay time like the Anglo-American allies had done before, and watched a big drama on the Eastern Front for a month or two, the Allied forces on the Western Front would have been so sad that they would not know how many times sad!

As soon as this situation appeared, the accusation of the Soviet Union was of little use, and the Allies watched the drama of the east from the west across the sea for a year or two.

But unless we get that silver up, Washington will never admit to such a thing. If it weren't for the fact that some of us in the Admiralty have been searching for information on various shipwrecks, the freshly declassified Navy materials would have been destroyed by Washington, if they still remember this."

At this time, Jenny, who was reading the report before, said: "But this is also a good thing, Washington does not admit this for the sake of face, then this batch of industrial precious metals does not exist, and there is no need to share it with Washington."

How nice!"

Zhang Nan smiled, "This is called death to save face and suffer crimes, and the company can make a lot of money." ”

At the end of 1943, the Soviet Red Army fought tenaciously on the Eastern Front, not only regaining the strategic initiative in the war, but also winning successive victories, which greatly damaged Germany's vitality.

But the price paid by the Soviet Union and the Red Army was also huge, and it was terrible to look at it in the Western world: the cruelty and casualties of the war on the Eastern Front were beyond imagination!

Roosevelt was trying to persuade the Soviet Red Army to advance all the way west and attack Berlin, the capital of Germany, without rushing the cost, and of course, he did not want the Soviets to completely occupy Germany, let alone see the Soviet Union march into Western Europe.

In addition to the fact that the United States continued to send a large number of cargo ships to provide various material assistance to the Soviet Union according to the Lend-Lease Act, Roosevelt also had to use other methods to prevent Stalin from getting out of the way with the Soviet Red Army!

World War II was a world war, and the isolationism of the Americans could not be played, although the allies had been providing all kinds of assistance to the Soviet Union, but on the issue of opening up the second battlefield on the Western Front, Britain and the United States were dragging it out again and again, and Stalin was very angry.

So there is a legend, a rumor that has only been vaguely recorded and archived by the US Admiralty, and which Washington has always denied: in order to reduce losses on its own side, it will continue to let the Soviet Red Army die with a mustache.

Shortly after the Tehran Conference at the end of '43, Roosevelt decided to give Stalin 2,000 tons of American silver ingots, which were worth more than $26 million at the time, to appease Stalin and the Soviet Union about the time of opening up the Second Battlefield.

Washington wanted to save face, and in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, and especially not to make Britain think that the United States was currying favor with the Soviet Union, this operation was absolutely secret.

A free-wheeled ship called the John Barry was assigned to carry out the transport, and the industrial precious metals were to be transported to the Soviet Union along with other supplies.

For the sake of safety, the cargo ship was routed along the southern route, bypassing the Suez Sea, the Red Sea, and the Arabian Peninsula before arriving in Iran.

At that time, Iran was occupied by the Soviet Union, the British army, and the American army, and it was convenient to hand over a large number of industrial precious metals to the Soviet side, and although the southern route was long, it was much less dangerous than the northern route.

The plan was perfect, the loading was so secret that even the FBI was involved in the operation.

The reality was cruel, the first half of the voyage was almost accidental, but the Persian Gulf was almost there, and a submarine torpedo sent the "John Barry" to the bottom of the Arabian Sea.