Ever since humans have mastered the skills of using tools and creating improved tools, they have gradually begun to gain the upper hand in the battle with animals, and Paul will use powerful rubber band spearguns, and hundreds of kilograms of sharks will not have much ability to resist.

"It would be better if there were underwater submachine guns!"

Zhang Nan said casually, and Thomas nearby was stunned.

"Submachine guns?"

Although this old Maozi is already anxious, although their underwater submachine guns have been equipped with troops for more than ten years, they are still absolutely secret!

Beginning in the 60s, the Western world began to develop underwater firearms, but according to those semi-public information, whether it is the United States, West Germany or Great Britain, there are also underwater multi-barreled pistols, which are unheard of!

Even so, the "combined forces" have not been able to come up with such an underwater weapon so far.

The scope of use is too narrow, and the necessity is not great, otherwise it is not too difficult to find a private firearms workshop with good technology, starting from ammunition and continuing to the design and manufacture of firearms.

Everyone still knows the principle, that is, the bullet should be long, and the sealing of the shell should be good, because the bullet is too long, the pistol must be connected in parallel......

Pistols are easy to make, and they can't help but be a first-class gunsmith with great creativity: this type of pistol is not even an automatic weapon.

But this automatic submachine gun is troublesome, the principle is similar to that of land weapons, but it is not something that ordinary studios can make at all, otherwise the US military underwater special forces, or seals, would have been equipped a long time ago.

But the boss didn't say anything, and Thomas didn't ask much.

Mercenaries aren't skilled enough to protect naval bases, and if an enemy frogman tries to sneak up on their yacht, they can throw a few grenades into the water.

An offensive grenade has a radius of five meters if it is on land, and if it is thrown into the water against a frogman......

Fish under the water will die without looking at them, and so will people, and overpressure is terrible, very scary!

There is definitely no frogman who wants to feel the underwater explosion of a grenade 50 meters away in the water, which is more terrible than being fired a 155mm high-explosive grenade 50 meters away on land!

......

Soon, I watched the traffic boat tie the big fish to the stern of the boat, and just dragged it over.

The huge shark dragged up to the reopened sun deck, and Cuenca proceeded to disembowel the fish, throwing its entrails directly into the sea, and a group of sharks quickly gathered nearby!

The water is clear, the sun has not yet set, and you can see that those sharks are not very large, and they are only about a meter long.

How is this neat?

There are sharks everywhere, and we won't be able to dive tomorrow!

Zhang Nan was worried, but Weta waited for a few small sharks one or two meters long below to eat the discarded internal organs, and directly threw a large package of shark repellent into the water.

The sharks left and fled.

"These are star sharks in the shallow sea area, they don't grow big, and those few fish just now are already considered adults. ”

Vita Bruno, who spoke, had already taken off his diving gear and helped the yacht sailors to dismantle the thresher shark he had caught, "This is a fox-type thresher shark, this shark sometimes goes inshore, but this one is at least 6 meters long and can weigh 250 kilograms, which is rare to see in the shallow waters of such an island..."

There is a fishy smell in the air, but it is not the fishiness of other species of sharks that make people want to use air fresheners, at least Zhang Nan can accept it.

There were no chainsaws on the yacht, and the sailors used an unusually sharp sailor knife to cut the shark into several large pieces, because the shark is a cartilaginous fish, and the large vertebrae can be easily cut with a boning knife in the kitchen.

There was no shark fin stripping on the yacht, and the traffic boat first sent a few professional divers back to the "Big Shark", there was no place for them to live on the yacht, and the divers changed their clothes and other items were also on the cargo ship.

It was getting dark, and the boat had taken away more than 100 kilograms of shark meat and all its fins, and there were fishermen-turned-men on the cargo boat, who might have a knack for shark fins - such a large thresher shark can produce a lot of shark fins.

It's a pity to throw it away, this shark fin is actually the cartilage on the shark's body, fresh stewed soup, this taste depends on the seasoning, as for the nutritional value...

There's always protein.

There is no killing without buying and selling, but since it has been slaughtered, it is a waste to throw it away.

It is said that the traditional Chinese method of cooking fish is not very suitable for dealing with ordinary sharks with bad smells, and the same is true for thresher sharks, which belong to the different species of shark family.

Braised shark meat?

That's a waste!

Frying and grilling is the finishing thing, adding some onions is even better, and guys who are used to Western food can also squeeze some lemon juice on the shark meat pieces, which is definitely sour enough!

As for Zhang Nan, he ate the shark meat as a steak with black pepper sauce.

The main course of dinner, which started at almost 8 p.m., was this thresher shark that was too curious - the taste of the sea fish, the taste of veal, was great!

At the same time, the people on the cargo ship also enjoyed the shark meat, and the news came back that it was full of praise.

......

Early the next morning, the transport boat went a few nautical miles away to pick up Weta and the other six divers: there were enough people left, and after cleaning up the sedimentary layers of the seabed and broken coral today, they could take pictures tomorrow and then start large-scale fishing for underwater cultural relics.

After 7 o'clock in the morning, the divers went into the water one after another to search, as for Zhang Nan, holding a fishing rod, fishing on the side of the boat that the sun could not shine for the time being.

It's a patient job, and the divers under the water search for "possibly" wrecks, but they are not fish after all, and they have to get on the boat or yacht to rest after a while.

Rely on luck, don't force it.

The divers not far away obviously had little effect on the desire to eat the sea fish, and by the time the sun hit Zhang Nan's head, he had already caught five or six.

I thought it was starting to be too hot, and I was about to call it a day and go back to the cabin, but Cuenca came over, his face was a little excited, "Boss, Vita, they have found out!"

Zhang Nan put the fishing rod on the deck, stood up, and saw that near the southeast side of the reef, the traffic boat was recovering the frogman.

"What did you find?"

"It should be a shipwreck, there is porcelain, it should be relatively old, and no wood has been found on the surface of the seabed. ”

Cuenca is also an old sailor, although he has not participated in any submarine exploration activities before, but he also knows that if it is a wooden ship, it is generally soaked underwater for one or two hundred years, and it is unlikely that those ship masts will be completely rotten, at least there will be some traces on the surface of the seabed silt.

The ocean is strange, and wood can last much longer than human remains: after a hundred and eighty years, human remains often have no bones left!

And the news from the work secret walkie-talkie is: there are only ceramic products, and there is no wood at all.

Soon, the transport boat approached the "Sunshine Star", and the divers, with the help of the deck sailors, carried a large urn with a height of 50 or 60 centimeters onto the sun deck.

The mouth of the urn is broken, and there are many marine shellfish attached to one side of the surface, and from the traces on the surface, about one-third of it was previously trapped in the silt and corals of the seabed.

These are not the point, the point is that Weta is reporting to himself: "...... Just about 100 meters southwest of the reef, less than 15 meters deep, there are several such large urns and a small number of scattered disk outcrops......

Four people, we directly entrusted this guy up. ”

Is a big urn that is broken good?

There are many pottery urns left behind by shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, but few people will treat them as treasures, let alone broken ones.

The divers struggled to get it up, not only because it was almost exposed to the seabed, but because it wasn't just a six-series urn, it was a container: through the broken mouth of the urn, you could see that there were a lot of plates inside in addition to some attached sea creatures!

Disk-type storage, densely stacked together, is definitely a disk.

Turning over a large vat of seawater, it rushed upwards. Some of the top-facing edges of the disks closest to the mouth of the urn are damaged, and some of them have barnacles on them, and it is estimated that the lower ones should be well preserved.

Without gloves, Zhang Nan directly took out a plate on the top layer with his hands: a large piece was missing on one side of the plate, and the large half covered with silt was brushed in the bucket, and the pattern came out.

It's a pattern: a flying bird!

"Take some more out and don't break them. ”

Zhang Nan said a word, and studied this broken plate by himself.

If he didn't say anything else, then no one would ask him about the plate, and he thought he was studying something, so it was not easy to bother.

Of course, Zhang Nan knows the origin of this thing in his hand, but he has never used the porcelain of this kiln in his two lives combined: in the antique world of Jiangnan Province, there are really few people who will collect the porcelain of this kiln.

Distance, geographical reasons, plus the porcelain kiln of the unified era, the Jiangnan antique industry loves the Yue kiln.

Local characteristics, now the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty Jun, Ru, Guan, Ding, and Ge, that is all, but in the last life, a grassroots collector like Zhang Nan, where to find those five famous kiln products of the Song Dynasty?

Since about the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has been said that the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty officially created the era of "porcelain" for firing practical utensils and ornamental vessels...... In the previous life, some people said: In fact, before the Song Dynasty, most of the firing practical utensils and ornamental utensils in China were pottery, which were different types, so it is said that "the arrival of the five famous kilns is the arrival of the porcelain era in the true sense." ”

It's fucking bullshit!

Zhang Nan was not familiar with so many porcelain kilns from the Tang Dynasty and his predecessors in the north, but in the south, Zhang Nan got a large number of porcelain from the ancient tombs from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, which were too numerous to remember!

Don't be the Yue kiln of the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, it is a peak of Chinese porcelain firing: no way, the north of China at that time was really the world of the barbarians, and the Han nobles ran to the south, so they did not expect the north of that period to have superb porcelain-making technology.

Yue kiln even has secret color porcelain, isn't that called porcelain?!

Well, one or two thousand years ago, the south was the "Southern Barbarian", but the secret color porcelain has entered the underground palace of Famen Temple, that is not porcelain?

To put it bluntly, the "five kilns" are to a large extent specially designed for the royal family and dignitaries, while the Yue kiln and Longquan kiln, which were popular in the earlier period, are more for the general public.

Zhang Nan didn't know if the poor and white people could afford it, but during the period of the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, as long as the rich people could afford to build brick tombs, there was always celadon to accompany the burial, and the quality was just good.

Isn't that called porcelain?

The five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty were circulated and unearthed very little, and the general grassroots collectors should not play that.

Even if Zhang Nan had the ability to go to the auction house to auction one back in his previous life, if he didn't know that it was auctioned, his friends would think that he had made a counterfeit product: what circle to play what collection, grassroots, just play local characteristics, add some Qing Dynasty porcelain, it's almost the same.

The first time I got started, Zhang Nan took a closer look at the porcelain plate in his hand in the natural light, and through the fracture, he could see that the carcass was loose, and his fingers flicked, and the feeling was more obvious.

Because there was a crack on the top, Zhang Nan simply broke off a piece of it destructively: the porcelain tire is gray-blue, reddish, and the glaze is yellow, but it still belongs to the category of green glaze.

The glaze has fine grains, and the bird painted occupies almost the entire plate, which is underglaze.

This is terrible, because the age and kiln mouth where this plate is located, according to Zhang Nan's understanding, should basically use the stacked coal method, that is, stacked firing, and the center and bottom of the plate are unglazed exposed tires.

Multiple pieces of blanks are stacked together for firing, and the utensils are spaced to pad the firing, and this plate is still used with the highest yield of scraped glaze stacking: scraping off a circle of glaze in the inner part of the utensils, and then placing the unglazed bottom of the stacked firing utensils on it, generally about 10 pieces are overlapped layer by layer.

In this way, the firing output is high and the cost is low, but there is no glaze in the center of the utensil.

However, although the bottom of this plate is unglazed, it is about 18 centimeters in diameter and has a large size.

Not only that, it's not stacked, it's glazed on the plate, otherwise what would the bird do?

The men carefully took out the plates in the large urn, and there were not many breaks, there were more than sixty of them that were exactly the same, but there were slight differences in the paintings.

The deck is neatly spread out face up, and it looks spectacular!

The complete plate, which is not yet covered by sea creatures, is clear at first glance: not only is the bird drawn in the middle, but there are also four symmetrical ribbons of brown "stippling" on the four opposite corners of the plate.

Laymen will think that it is a flaw in the glaze, but in fact, it is a decorative color specially made by craftsmen, a small technique that has been in place since the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

"When was this?"

It was Xiang Weirong who was questioned, and he had never seen this kind of porcelain. But I didn't ask which country it was: Vita-Bruce said that there was no slag left in the wood on the seabed, and it was too late.

Needless to say, hundreds of years ago, porcelain was almost a specialty of China, and Xiang Weirong didn't think about the porcelain of the little devil and the stick.

"Tongguan kiln, that is, Chang-sha kiln, is the earliest kiln in Chinese history to fire underglaze colorful ceramics.

It arose in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, was the most prosperous in the late Tang Dynasty, and declined in the late Five Dynasties. This copper official kiln can be said to have changed the pattern of early porcelain with blue and white glaze, and there is a saying that 'white and long sha color in the south and north are long'. In the late Tang Dynasty, it can still be regarded as the 'first kiln for export', which should be the late Tang Dynasty. ”10