The "Big Shark" is a bulk mixed cargo ship, which will be simply modified and become a large salvage ship with makeshift equipment - it is absolutely not possible to let it deal with the "Titanic" 3,765 meters below the seabed, but the "Taixing" with a water depth of 30 meters can be dealt with casually.

You don't need too professional techniques, just be bold and careful, and the hardware equipment is excellent.

Zhang Nan worked as a tomb robber and cultural relics dealer in his previous life, and later "transformed" into a bright-looking collector, but to put it bluntly, he has the nature of a businessman and a collector in his bones.

Underwater archaeology?

Forget it, I'm not a curator, I'm not so careful and serious. Zhang Nan is playing commercial salvage this time, and the big deal is not as immoral as those who steal porcelain in the South China Sea and use explosives.

Those guys are crazy and brain-dead, and they use ZHA medicine to blow up the porcelain on the bottom of the sea that is cemented with coral and mud and sand - the tomb robbers who use ZHA medicine to open holes are simply weak compared to these people.

Zhang Nan still made a record, and the images of the shipwreck were captured by underwater cameras as materials that some people need to study in the future, and he would not pry most of the porcelain and throw it away, anyway, after the cargo ship returned to port, there was a place to pile up these porcelain.

Zhang Nan wore a white thin cotton T-shirt and a pair of off-white beach pants, a pair of non-slip sandals on his feet, moved a beach chair, and a sunshade overhead, sitting comfortably on the deck of the cargo ship and watching the sailors work.

Two marine cranes work non-stop, lifting the semi-rigid frame from the bottom of the sea to the deck again and again – with each lift, hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces of porcelain are fed.

There is a blackout cloth in front of the side of the beach chair, and a monitor is placed underneath: the signal is directly connected to the submarine camera fixed on the seabed under the seabed: Zhang Nan can see a large number of porcelain coming out of the water on the deck at the same time, he can also see the situation under the water more clearly.

Thanks to the clear water in the southernmost part of the South China Sea, there is not a lot of silt on the seabed in this area, and although the divers will affect the visibility of the seabed to a certain extent every time they pick up a large amount of porcelain, they will not be as blind as in the coast of China.

And "Blackstone" ...

Oh, Zhang Nan named the Arab shipwreck a few nautical miles away as the "Blackstone" in his previous memories - the big black reef was nearby, which made more sense.

Unlike the "Black Stone" which uses large urns to load porcelain, the "Taixing" upper warehouse basically uses huge wooden lattice shelves, and the rotten roof of the warehouse is removed in advance, and the porcelain is densely packed in rows and stacks of wooden lattices on the seabed, neatly exposed.

Especially those plates that are particularly neatly arranged and dense, people with dense phobia may be furious if they see it!

Divers can be seen using suction pumps to remove the sediment from the porcelain, then take out the porcelain plates and put them in small baskets next to them, and then transfer them to large baskets that are lowered nearby and parked on the seabed.

There are waves on the sea, so it is faster and safer, otherwise the big frame is easy to lift and fall, it is not a joke - the sea is shallow, and the cable is affected by the ups and downs of the ship, and it must not be placed just above the wreck, otherwise it is a trivial matter to smash things, and a diver who is not careful will collide with the work.

Today is March 22nd, and it has been two days of fishing, and every once in a while, an astonishing amount of porcelain is sent to the cargo ship with the action of the crane.

Except for Zhang Nan, the boss, everyone else is busy: although there is no amazing amount of bonuses like in the past for transporting Philippine gold, the salary and bonus for such a voyage and salvage are not low, and they can be regarded as high salaries in New York, and everyone is full of energy.

The bottom of the sea is busy, the deck is busy, and even the cooks in the galley in the ship are not available, and they have to take care of the logistics with other guys.

The weather is hot and there are many people doing heavy physical work, so chefs have to use more advanced skills to prepare meals, even the Chinese-style iced mung bean soup.

The galley was hot, and there was another part of the ship that was also very sour: rows of steel shelves had been fixed in the hold, frames with steel plates embedded in the middle, and a large number of rice husks from the southern United States and straw cut into knots by machines.

Zhang Nan came up with the method that the Tang Dynasty people used tea, and we used chaff and straw to prevent collisions.

The guys in the cargo hold are all working shirtless, and they have to run to the deck for an hour at most, wash their bodies with water, and then drink the Chinese-style bamboo shoot soup, iced sour plum soup and various drinks prepared by the boss - too hot!

Not only is it hot, but the anti-collision performance of chaff is good, but when it sticks to the sweaty body, the taste is not very pleasant.

It's not easy to be a farmer, and the guys from China are supposed to be doing farm work in the busy season in their hometowns; as for the American guys, it's thinking about those green Franklins in their heads, and this is nothing.

Besides, there are a few people who originally came out of the farm, and there is a guy from Arkansas who grows nearly a thousand acres of rice at home.

……

The others are busy, Zhang Nan is enjoying it, Xiang Weirong is looking east and west on the deck, as for Guan Xingquan...

Boss Guan can't be idle, and after many diving exercises, he will be helping to work under the sea.

At a depth of 30 meters, it was already difficult for him.

Xiang Weirong was not interested in challenging a quasi-professional diving depth of 30 meters, although when he joined the army in 70 years, he was almost assigned to be a diver in the navy because he belonged to a first-class body.

Not suitable, not submariners, it's divers, it's different.

In his words: "When you are old, you don't take risks if you can." ”

Zhang Nan deeply agrees with this: In fact, according to Weta Bruno, after three or five days of training, Zhang Nan may not be very suitable for diving 30 meters, but it is absolutely fine within 18 meters.

I still don't try, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, I'm getting older.

The brother-in-law walked over with a white piece of porcelain in his hand: it was one of the latest baskets of porcelain that had just been hoisted.

"Is it white porcelain, or is it from Dehua kiln?"

Xiang Weirong handed the things in his hand to his brother-in-law, and Zhang Nan took it: it was a piece of imitation ancient beast face pattern more than 40 cm high, and there was an applique animal face pattern on each side of the middle quadrangle.

Typical ivory white, rare: the production of white porcelain in Dehua kiln in the middle and late Qing Dynasty has been very small, and most of the kilns have been transformed to burn blue and white, so white porcelain products can be regarded as fine products in Jiadaonian.

Zhang Nan took a look at it and said, "The short man is tall, this thing is not a big problem to sell for 2,000 dollars, those plates and bowls are only ten or twenty dollars a piece, this thing is worth a lot of money." ”

Hailao Dehua kiln blue and white, at this price, this is still looking at the gimmick of "Hailao"!

Others buy souvenirs of an event of special significance, not completely "antiques", otherwise a Clark porcelain plate from more than 100 years ago would not have sold for $10!

In China, Daoguang kiln, many people have it at home, and some of them are relatively well preserved.

Especially in rural areas, because there are many old houses and many stores at home, it is normal for some families to even use them during the New Year and festivals.

Jiadao porcelain, which has not yet reached the level of "antique" in the eyes of the common people, is at most an old thing and an old item.

What price will these Jiadao kilns be in China?

No price!

Nowadays, few people in Huaxia play antiques will play Jiaqing Road Light-Year Kiln - it is estimated that there are all in their old houses, big road goods, who plays?

No one buys it!

This will be a small number of hawkers who have already begun to go from village to house to buy antiques, that is, to stare at the silver dollar, a very small number of official kiln porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, jade jewelry and other objects.

As for Jiadao porcelain, unless it is a vase, hat and bucket and other ornaments, no one wants daily utensils.

In another twenty or thirty years, the situation will be average, just like around 2015, a large blue and white glazed red carp plate with a diameter of more than 25 cm in good condition, the actual transaction price of the folk antique shop is more than 200, and it is sold online for five or six hundred.

Jiadao folk kiln, too much, especially blue and white, is not even as good as the later Tongzhi pastel.

Zhang Nan estimated that this batch of Hailao porcelain plates could be sold for more than ten dollars in the Western market, which was already very good.

In my memory, in 2001, 356,000 pieces of blue and white porcelain from the shipwreck of the "Taixing" were auctioned in Stuttgart, Germany, with a total turnover of 22.4 million Deutsche marks, equivalent to more than 11 million US dollars.

For Zhang Nan, this is not an exaggerated number, but for Hailao porcelain, this is already a very huge number.

It's very interesting, many people think that it was cheaper that time, and if it had been out of the water ten years earlier, it is estimated that it would have risen by a few percent - the emergence of the "global village" has been good and bad, the information is smoother, and the exchange of materials is more convenient, resulting in a decline in prices.

But in 2001, that couldn't be called any better: if it had been more than ten years later, Chinese collectors would have flocked to it, and if it had been a decade or so, Westerners would have been more curious about the mysterious Orient, and it would have been more expensive.

It's a bit awkward at the turn of the century, the world is just so wonderful.

Moreover, the "Taixing" shipwreck not only contains Dehua celadon plates and bowls, but also more expensive blue and white furnishings, as well as a small number of other varieties of porcelain.

Besides, there are millions of pieces, and even if most of them are not broken, it is not a big problem to sell three or four hundred thousand pieces, and it is not a big problem to get one or two million dollars for the company.

Excluding expenses, profits are not a dream.

Xiang Weirong is talking about the problem of the large number of porcelain, "... It's endless, and God knows when it's going to be fished. ”

"At least for a month or two, I estimate that there are millions of pieces, so let's take your time.

Tsk, some guys are busy.

Brother-in-law, let's go to Belitung Island in the afternoon, and tomorrow we will replenish the cargo ship with some fresh vegetables and poultry meat, and then we will have to do something else, and we don't have time to see that the guys here are all tanned like Zack, and we will come back when we catch the Blackstone. ”

There are also several black buddies on the ship, and the use of "you came back from Africa" can no longer reflect the viciousness of the equatorial sun!

In just this week's effort, Zhang Nan felt that he had already darkened a little, and if he soaked in the sea water again, he would be close to Comrade Zack.

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan stood up and handed the beast face pattern flower goblet in his hand to Alyosha who was passing by, "Put the yacht in my room and wash it." ”

I just said that this thing is worth one or two thousand, and it will feel like it is cheap: that is the price of the artifact itself, and with the characteristics of the shipwreck, it is estimated that it can be doubled by one or two more.

It's not bad to keep it as an ornament, or as a vase, not because of the monetary standard, but because there are not many Dehua white porcelain of this style, and it is also very beautiful, not to mention that there is a specific commemorative significance.

After speaking, I went to see the batch of white porcelain that was being sorted out and rinsed.

Not far, just over ten meters.

I thought it was all white porcelain just now, but when I got closer, I realized that it was a hodgepodge: white porcelain accounted for more than half, and many others were blue and white, plus a few pieces of variegated porcelain.

Ganoderma lucidum pattern blue and white plate and dish, "Morningside Half Famous Fragrance" blue and white plate, plum bird picture blue and white bowl, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum blue and white plate, blue and white spoon, chrysanthemum pattern blue and white plate, longevity pattern blue and white bowl, circle pattern blue and white bowl......

There are a lot of floral patterns, and in more elegant terms, the brushwork is smooth, the layout is sparse, elegant and refreshing...... The blue and white material should be domestic stone green, the hair color is scattered, and it is relatively soft.

Well, that's the official statement just now.

Whether it is export porcelain, Hailao porcelain, or folk kiln, it actually represents a meaning: something that is manufactured in large quantities and used to make gringo money!

A few years ago, the country was eager to sell all the best things for foreign exchange, because most of its own scientific and technological products were not good, and they could only sell craftsmanship and local products......

And the folk kiln porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, even if the degree of fineness and public welfare is not as good as the official kiln porcelain, even in the second year of Daoguang, it is something that can be dumped in Europe, a proper "high-tech"!

Will the Americans sell the best technology to Huaxia?

No!

In the same way, there is no top-level Chinese porcelain for export porcelain, and even the celadon bowl that Zhang Nan put away the day before yesterday is an ordinary level of goods: since ancient times, it has been a habit for Huaxia to export porcelain, and the official kiln in the general sense does not export, do you still want secret color porcelain? !

Oh, except for the strange one in the Yuan Dynasty, the blue and white porcelain that will be sold and given to the princely offices of the Middle East and the Near East: it will be local to China, and it is not very cold to blue and white porcelain from the aesthetic point of view.

In recent years, Zhang Nan has seen too much official kiln porcelain, and he can't look down on these folk kiln blue and white.

In the 21st century, there were two times, each time nearly 100 pieces of "Taixing" shipwreck porcelain "returned to their hometown", that is, all kinds of propaganda media were on, making it lively and vigorous!

Everyone knows that those things are not worth a few dollars at all, they are just a propaganda benefit, adding some historical educational significance, and so on.

As for economic value......

There are 365,000 more worldwide.

Museums are a good place to call home for some of these porcelains, but they are by no means the pursuits and preferences of true private collectors.

The base is too large, and at most a few are counted as a variety.

Folk kiln, Hailao porcelain, just this life!

Except for white porcelain and blue and white, variegated porcelain is all sauce brown, or rather......

They're not porcelain at all!

Seeing this basket out of the water just now, Xiang Weirong was a little speechless to the guys working under the seabed, who would pick up a sauce-colored guy in his hand, and said with a smile: "That Vita They are also hard enough, and they don't even let go of the tea bottle." ”

In my hometown, it is customary to call porcelain teapots and "teapots", which are pottery products, with a layer of sauce-colored coarse glaze on the outside, and the objects that lead to the fields to deliver water and soup when the farm is busy.

And the water tank is a material, thick, and it won't be too distressing if you fall!

Zhang Nan was also a little speechless: No one wants this thing for nothing after 20 years!

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