After knocking on the enemy's patrol boat, and indeed not being caught, this was enough for Gu Kun to be quiet for a few days.

He believed that no one would disturb him for a short period of time in the future.

It is possible that foreign fishing boats or freighters pass by more than a dozen or twenty nautical miles, not too far from the original main international shipping lane.

But fishing boats and freighters are not nosy.

After Gu Kun breathed a sigh of relief, he instructed his sister: "In the past few days, I have taken advantage of the time to hurry up my homework, and I will go back to talk about it." Panpan, in the future, I will go into the water with Long Wu during the day, and you will help me keep an eye at night. Where the boat should be driven and demolished, you and Sister Chen should be careful when you take the others to work. ”

Gu Pan can't do his work, but as long as he explains and tells him clearly, he can help him be an overseer. This kind of thing, loyalty and reliability are the most important.

In the next two days, Gu Kun and Long Wu worked during the day and opened openings on the sunken ship suitable for loading pontoons.

The hull of the ship, which had been disconnected from a large opening, was completely dismantled into two sections so that it could be salvaged in sections.

Long Wu originally thought that he should fish up the half of the boat first and unload the cargo. That way, it's easier in terms of the difficulty of the job, and the number of pontoons used at the same time can be reduced by half.

But Gu Kun rejected the offer:

"I don't want a lot of cargo on my ship before I'm ready. I want the kind that can be gone in a day or two after I get the first shipment. ”

The reason why he had evaded the enemy's inspection before was because he was loaded like a research ship, and there was no cargo on board. In this case, of course, this condition must be fully utilized and the camouflage potential should be squeezed dry.

Or robustness first.

The subordinates did not question anymore and worked quietly.

For this reason, Gu Kun also gave each sailor at least a thousand dollars in red envelopes in advance to boost morale. For those of the highest ranks, Long Wu and Chen Li, they are at least $3,000 each. The total number of people on board exceeded 10, so Gu Kunguang sent 20,000 US dollars in red envelopes at once.

With the price of 94 years and the salary of seafarers, it is already very exaggerated to have so many red envelopes a week when going to sea. But if the money is not sent in this way, loyalty and confidentiality cannot be guaranteed.

As for how to send money, Gu Kun has also thought about it carefully.

First of all, in the past few days, he has openly and secretly mentioned the rules of the industry to his subordinates. The main example is Michelle Hatcher.

As mentioned earlier, every time Hatcher salvages according to the law, he actually gives only 15% to the official, and the 11% has been counted.

Gu Kun just wants to let his subordinates, who have never salvaged ships, know how much profit is shared in the salvage industry.

Since he wants to pursue secrecy, it means that the money he distributes to his subordinates must at least be significantly lower than the confession when he is publicly salvaged, otherwise what is the point of him keeping secrets? (In fact, for Gu Kun, secrecy has other meanings, but the intelligence and foresight of the crew are not enough to think of those, and the only meaning they can figure out is to save money)

In this way, the psychological expectation of the sum of the interests of all subordinates has been pressed to about 5%~10% of the income.

In addition, Gu Kun will not let Ma Zai know how much money these things can be sold for in the end, and there is an information asymmetry of several times here, and loyalty can definitely be guaranteed.

The person who assists in fishing does not know how to sell, and the person who assists in selling does not know how to fish. Even Long Wu didn't know about the existence of Fan Bilson, and in every segment, only Gu Kun was in control of the overall situation.

……

After two or three days of fine work, all the preliminary preparations were finally completed.

Everyone ushered in an exciting fourth day.

Today's plan is to bring everything up in one day. In order to ensure that there was enough time, they started to lift the operation after nightfall the day before - everything was fixed before dark, and after dark, it was just slowly lifted, and it would take several hours just to pull it up, and there was no rush.

There is a lot of underwater resistance, and there are eddies when it is pulled faster. There should be a diver in the water at all times to observe, and if you find that your attitude is unstable, you should stop and adjust.

It was not until dawn that the first section of nearly 100-ton hull was fished up from 8 p.m. to dawn.

This is a Galen sailing ship with a total weight of more than 500 tons in its original intact state, which is already relatively small in the Galen sailing ship on the Manila route.

Historically, the tonnage of Galen ships ranged from 300 to 1,000 tons, but more than 300 tons generally only appeared in the 16th century. In the 17th century, it was more than 400 tons.

And those about 400 tons are all on the Atlantic triangle trade route, and those who come to Manila must have at least more than 500 tons, otherwise it is not cost-effective.

However, when the ship sank, the superstructure such as the mast and sail platform collapsed.

The stern and other structures were also dilapidated, and Gu Kun found that there was nothing in the stern after diving in to observe, so he ripped off the stern and left it in the sea.

What he fished up this time was mainly those sections that included the cargo hold, so each section would not exceed 150 tons, a total of two sections.

After the things were fished up, everyone didn't dare to check them immediately. Because Gu Kun and Long Wu were still underwater, they had to replace the noose on the big ship's winch and fix it to the pontoons in the hull of the second section to be salvaged, and wait for the second section to also start to boost, and then they had time to come back and slowly check what goods were in the first section.

In order to prevent diving sickness and oxygen poisoning, divers went up and down for another five or six hours, so by the time the cabin was opened for inspection, it was already nine o'clock in the morning of the next day.

Gu Kun, who hadn't slept all night, didn't dare to slack off at all. He sent the other two divers into the water to observe the posture and maintain the balance of the lift.

Regardless of the high-intensity labor of more than ten hours in a row, he continued to count the money himself.

"Take those boxes out one by one and stack them! Be careful! If you break one box, you will deduct the red envelopes this time! If you break two boxes, you will deduct even the low salary! The planks in those cabins are useless, so they will be thrown back into the sea. ”

"Brother, the wooden plank will float on the sea, if someone nearby sees it in the future, will you suspect it?" Gu Pan was very careful this time and took the initiative to remind Gu Kun.

Although Gu Kun thought of it, he was still quite relieved that this sister would finally use her brain to help him.

He pointed out with confidence: "Who told you to throw it directly, pick those large planks with metal hoop attachments and throw them, the counterweight is enough for it to sink." Also, these bronze cannons, which are completely rotten, can also be tied to the counterweight board and thrown into the sea. ”

The ship was fished up with nearly 20 cannons, because the Galen merchant ships of the late 17th and 18th centuries were also equipped with firepower to prevent pirates.

If these cannons are well preserved, they can of course be regarded as cultural relics. If some of them are so rotten that they can't see their shape at all, they are worthless, because it is worthless to sell scrap bronze. It's better to throw away a little bit to reduce the target.

In addition, if the box is filled with silk, and the silk has completely rotted, it can also be thrown away. As for the tea, it is even more worthless, and it can only be thrown away.

In this way, dozens of tons of waste were disposed of. More than 50 tons of cargo boxes were sorted out on the ship, as well as 20 or 30 tons of garbage, mainly wooden ship boards.

These planks don't have enough counterweight, so they wait for the return voyage to drive a little farther before throwing them away, so that no one will find out where they came from in the vast expanse of the sea.

"There were 300 large boxes of porcelain and lacquerware, and a small half of them were broken. Six bronze cannons in good condition, dozens of boxes of silk soaked in water but still relatively intact in shape. ”

"This half of the hull is close to the stern, and there should be more cargo. Half of the fish is the bow of the boat, and it would be nice to have more than half of it. I expect to get a total of 500 boxes of porcelain. If it is intact and not broken, it would be good to pick out 300 boxes. ”

The income of this trip is at least ten times more than that of the migrant boat that was fished on official business before.