The two divers sent two gold ingots, gold ingots of good color!

One big and one small, Oriental pig waist shape, the big one this Nan took a look in his hand and weighed it, without looking carefully, he knew that it was fifty taels, and the front was engraved with Chinese characters: fifty taels of ninety colored gold.

There are also characters engraved on the side, but not Chinese characters: Zhang Nan can understand the Arabic numerals on the top, but he can't read the letters on them.

Guan Xingquan on the side took it and looked at it, "It's Dutch." ”

"Guess?"

The Dutch ship, which was once a Dutch colony and sphere of influence, can be guessed nine times out of ten by guessing.

It is also normal for several characters and letters to be mixed on the gold ingots: even if the Dutch occupied the area by force, the mainstream of the popularity in this area is still the Chinese culture, especially the handicraft production process, and it is natural that the gold ingots are marked as such.

Zhang Nan asked him if he guessed, Guan Xingquan didn't show a little "you look down on us" expression, his cold appearance remained unchanged, and said, "I can understand a rough idea." ”

Zhang Nan is not as cool as him, a strange expression was revealed, and Guan Xingquan, who had been mixed together for so long, knew that he had the idea of "I haven't seen you learn Dutch".

Explain, no way, the world of genius is always lonely: "Both Dutch and German belong to the West Germanic language family, and Dutch still evolved from the ancient Low German dialects. To put it simply, Dutch is 60% German and 40% English, and people who know German, but people who have never learned Dutch can also half-guess and half-understand Dutch when looking at Dutch.

A lot of Dutch words and German are half a pound to eight taels, and you can understand them quickly, and the words between the two are only missing or changing one or two letters. ”

Okay, don't compare normal people with language geniuses, Zhang Nan consciously shut up.

Guan Xingquan even guessed the approximate meaning of the Dutch engraved on the gold ingot, and now he has understood it eight or nine times out of ten: "This gold is smelted and purified with gold produced in Indonesia, using traditional Chinese casting molds, and the Dutch weights and measures are used to mark ......."

The time for the gold ingots to be minted was not yet the time when the Dutch had completely ruled the Dutch East Indies, "... The gold may have been plundered and re-smelted, or it may have been mined, and the Europeans probably needed it, and they could not just use the porcelain plate as money. ”

Guan Boss guessed very reasonably, and Zhang Nan fully agreed: for the gold output in the history of Southeast Asia, the two brothers have carefully studied it.

The other gold ingot is a tael ingot, which is also engraved with Chinese characters to indicate the weight and fineness, and is also engraved side by side with Dutch and Arabic numerals.

Using an electronic scale from the kitchen, the fifty taels weigh 1873 grams, and the ten taels weigh 374.5 grams, which is very standard.

The surface of the two gold ingots has fine casting silk, the shape looks comfortable, and the color is pure, which can be regarded as excellent color among the gold ingots three or four hundred years ago!

In fact, even if the casters make them crooked and cracked, this will still be pleasing to the eye: who would look at gold unpleasantly?

The two brothers looked at the gold ingots, and the other side didn't need Zhang Nan to talk nonsense, a group of divers went into the water again like dumplings, and even the underwater metal detector was taken out of the warehouse again.

The previous salvage only found a dozen Dutch horse sword silver coins and three silver ingots of ten taels, but I didn't think that there were gold ingots in the "empty" cargo hold!

It's not the private property of the crew, the gold ingots are the cargo!

Dig up the seabed three feet further and fish it out!

The gold ingot of 50 taels is heavy and a little feeling in the hand; this is not modern gold, it is an antique, this feeling is even better, even Zhang Nan can't help but go into the water again.

The gold ingots were placed casually on a folding beach table on the sun deck, and Dixit and Yasuko Sawaguchi played with them for a while.

"Martha, Mr. Allen seems to be very fond of gold, and his eyes changed when he saw the gold ingots just now. ”

Sawaguchi Yasuko's voice was very low, and when she said that Zhang Nan still habitually carried "sir", this was her cleverness, because Zhang Nan had not yet asked her to change her words, and she judged from the social environment she had been in contact with, and thought it was better to be obedient.

Dixit can't control Zhang Nan's relationship between men and women, and she doesn't care, and the existence of Yasuko Sawaguchi is even more inevitable, so she has to face reality.

As soon as he heard her words, he whispered: "Let me tell you a secret, his favorite things are gold first, and diamonds and other things are behind..."

Zhang Nan likes gold, except for people, this thing is definitely the first!

The cargo hold of the wreckage on the seabed was first treated with a sand suction pump, and all the rotten wood inside was removed and thrown away, and a lot of metal ingots were soon exposed in a mess underneath.

There was not much gold, and after an hour of busyness, I found fifteen more ingots—3 ingots of 50 taels, and 12 ingots of 10 taels.

In addition to Zhang Nan's favorite gold ingot, 72 large rectangular silver bars weighing about 5 kilograms each were found.

The silver bars are not marked with Chinese characters, but are all in Arabic numerals and Dutch.

By the time the last value of the wreck had been drained, it was already past 10 o'clock that night, and the undersea lighting equipment was used after dark.

Zhang Nan, who had already returned to the yacht, originally planned to continue tomorrow morning, but the divers were in good spirits, and Weta said that he would be relieved to finish it early, and Zhang Nan would follow them.

These fellows had been divers for many years, and except for the "Blackstone", "Taixing" and a small amount of gold and silver jewelry, utensils and currency found on the Arab ship, they had no other chance to salvage gold and silver products.

This time it's an antique gold and silver ingot, and you can brag about it in the future, so you can't be positive!

However, after they searched the ground like this, they didn't leave much left for those "latecomers" - the previous salvage was relatively civilized, and they tried not to continue to damage the damaged porcelain left on the seabed.

But in order to find out all the possible precious metals, the divers are not so urbane today, and all of them have become savage.

Zhang Nan didn't stop this, the number of intact porcelain obtained was enough, and the rest was free.

Since he is a treasure digger, not an archaeological player, he can already judge that this is an armed Dutch merchant ship, so why bother to do it.

For the colonial history of the Dutch, Zhang Nan is not interested at all!

For late dinner, a pile of gold ingots is piled up in the center of the table as a "snack", and the divers who are invited to dine in the yacht's main dining room have an appetite.

Thanks to the divers for their hard work, with a special mention to the two divers who had an extra snack eye.

The more precious and valuable the salvaged item, the more the bonus will be. The value of 17 gold ingots and more than 300 kilograms of silver ingots is not comparable to the non-ferrous metals in the little devil cargo ship, but gold will always make the boss happy.

As soon as this boss is happy, everyone will earn more, and everyone understands this truth.