Zhang Nan said a lot, but he didn't think that Guan Xingquan was asking about this at all.

"I said, how can you tell that this is Jingdezhen. ”

Zhang Nan was stunned, "This... Determine the age first, Wanli's can't be wrong. This batch of porcelain bowls is not faint, no rust spots, blue and white hair color blue flashing gray, gray and light, obviously Zhejiang material mixed with too much Jiangxi Province Shiziqing color; glazed white in blue, enamel thin, standard Wanli late Jingdezhen products..."

Speaking of this green material, Zhang Nan has a set. The development of blue and white porcelain in the Ming Dynasty is very complex, and can be roughly divided into several periods: Hongwu porcelain, Yongxuan porcelain, the pinnacle of Yongxuan porcelain, the blank porcelain of the dark period, the delicate and beautiful Chenghua porcelain, and the Jiawan porcelain.

Wanli blue and white porcelain is one of the high-yielding households, there has been a great chaos between the government and the people competing for porcelain clay resources, and the early stage also uses the Huiqing imported from the Western Regions. Later, there was no money to buy imported green materials, so I was forced to continue to develop domestic resources, and in the middle and late Wanli periods, this Jingdezhen blue and white was very distinctive.

“... In the 48th year of Wanli, almost half a century, the green material is messy, the glaze layer is thin, and it is not particularly difficult to judge. ”

After Zhang Nan finished speaking, Guan Laoda pursed his mouth and said, "What about the Zhangzhou kiln?"

He asked about the difference between the two, with the characteristics of Wanli Jingdezhen blue and white, it has to be compared with the color of Zhangzhou.

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said to Yasuko Zeguchi, who was watching the excitement on the side: "Jingzi, bring a soup spoon with water." ”

After explaining here, he said: "If I remember correctly, this Zhangzhou kiln only began to exist in the early Ming Dynasty, and it should be created for export, and in the first one or two hundred years, the glaze of Zhangzhou kiln is basically beige ice cracks, which is very different from Jingdezhen."

I don't know much about the others, this ordinary person who plays blue and white is basically playing the kiln mouth of Jingdezhen, many people don't even know that there is blue and white in Zhangzhou, and there are many exports. ”

There are more export sales, less domestic sales, and relatively few people play.

At this point, Yasuko Sawaguchi handed Zhang Nan a spoon: there is a bucket on the side, and the spoon was not completely salvaged yesterday, and there are scattered on the bottom of the sea, these are the guys who went into the water with Zhang Nan just now.

There are no ice cracks on this spoon, "In the late Ming Dynasty, this Zhangzhou kiln is getting closer and closer to the style of Jingdezhen, especially this glaze, the cracks are basically gone."

However, the glaze on this spoon is obviously a little thicker than Jingdezhen's, and the cyan is much darker, the green material is different, more traditional, and it is not as often an innovative hodgepodge as the green material in Jingdezhen at that time. ”

Needless to say, you can guess: Zhangzhou is already close to the sea, and it is more convenient to get some green material than Jingdezhen, and you don't have to worry about green material like Jingdezhen all the time.

Speaking of Qinghua, there is a diver on the sea, it is Captain Vita.

didn't go to the sun deck, so he leaned out his upper body and said to Zhang Nan: "Boss, I found a few old-fashioned naval guns below, and there are holes in the bulkhead of the cargo hold, and a lot of porcelain on the lower layer is smashed." ”

As he spoke, he handed up a dozen pounds of iron lumps: this is a rusty cannonball.

"That's it, after the sand suction pump sucked the cabin clean, there were five or six, not used on the sunken cannon, and a lot of shells were found in the cannons below, only three or four pounds. ”

Floating on the water with a surplus load of more than a dozen catties is trivial to Weta, but Zhang Nan didn't pay much attention to the diving ability of the diving captain, and he was more interested in cannons and shells.

It's a bit interesting, no wonder there is no reef or anything near here, and the water depth is at least seven or eight meters or more: it turns out that the ship sank not because of a reef, but because of a naval battle!

Pirate?

It is possible that this area was a pirate den at the beginning, and many pirate ships were equipped with Western cannons obtained by various means: the islands in this large area of sea were gathered by the Spaniards, the British, and the Dutch, each with their own contradictions, and it was normal to do business with pirate groups.

The enemy of an enemy is a friend, that's true.

Of course, it is also possible that the Spaniards went to war with the Dutch, who had been under their rule, and the plundering of their opponents' merchant ships was a common method of adversaries at sea, and it is unknown who bombarded the shipwreck below.

Even the Spaniards and the pirate group teamed up to do it, but they didn't think about a few shots, and actually penetrated the cargo hold near the waterline and beat the whole chicken and eggs!

"Get those cannons up as soon as possible. ”

Hearing the boss's command, Weta answered, bit on the breathing apparatus and dived again.

If the cannon is beautiful, it should be good to go back to the manor as an ornament.

At this time, Guan Xingquan picked up the cannonballs and said: "The water here is not deep, and the empty cargo hold may have been filled with inorganic matter, and it is very likely that the person who sank the ship was salvaged first." ”

Yes, it is possible!

The depth of the water is only eight or nine meters, and looking at the current situation of the wreckage, when the ship just sank, it was not overturned or upside down, but directly sat on the bottom. In this way, when the height of the hull is counted, the water depth is almost half, and the cargo inside can be retrieved by primitive salvage methods.

Those who beg for a living at sea all the year round have many masters who dive for two or three minutes in one breath, and the water here is shallow, whether or not they come up with a container that uses a diving bell underwater to save air, this up and down ventilation salvage items is also trivial: salvaging items that are only a few meters deep underwater is not a big problem for a group of pirates or sailors.

In the original naval battle, it was very likely that the prisoners would be captured, so it was logical for those people to figure out what was in the sunken ship, and to deliberately take the contents of one of the cargo holds first.

The only problem is: those porcelains were not dispensable bargains four hundred years ago, even if Zhang Nan was a pirate leader, he would find a way to get them!

Why did the porcelain stay?

Zhang Nan's explanation for himself is: "Maybe the weather got worse not long after the salvage, or there were other unexpected situations, such as the Dutchman's ship coming again."

The salvage ship had to leave, after which the salvage ship either could not find the wreck again, or simply sank the salvage ship. ”

For what happened at sea hundreds of years ago, it is necessary, or can only be guessed, with a big brain.

Anyway, the gang also left some for Zhang Nan's gang.

There were cannons underneath, so I simply put on my back and went down, and saw that there were three cannons temporarily exposed in the sea sand, each of which was about three meters long, not particularly thick. The barrel of the cannon is not round, but has more than a dozen planes of equal width, similar to an expanded hexagon, and the rear of the cannon is also cast with a relief totem.

Western-style cannons, three of which belong to the same type, with a diameter of about eight centimeters in the muzzle.

After a while, the first cannon was tied with a rope and was picked up by the "Big Shark" with a crane.

Zhang Nan also simply climbed onto the cargo ship and saw the water cannon: the bronze cannon, a measuring caliber of 82 mm, 2.95 meters long, this is a three-pound cannon, and the weight of the cannon should be seven or eight hundred kilograms.