With the help of the submarine terrain detector, what did Gu Kun find?

For this question, the Huaxia survey technicians represented by Du Guowei are, of course, temporarily confused, and can only wait for the answer to be revealed after diving exploration.

Perhaps, Du Guowei will still feel that Gu Kun is making a big fuss: It is obviously a coral reef under the sea, is it necessary to make such a big fuss? The survey ship must not encounter hundreds of coral reefs in a day, and they must not be exhausted to death if they are all dive and visually confirmed like this.

However, Gu Kun's heart was already sure.

Who made his hearing so strained?

He could tell that the structure of the underwater obstacle was supposed to be hollow, and under active sonar illumination, its echo was completely different from that of a normal coral reef.

After a while, Gu Kun personally put on the diving equipment, and then in the process of preparation, he didn't forget to make a bet with Du Guowei or something.

"I think it's a shipwreck, it's not far from the ancient shipping route from southern Vietnam to Borneo, maybe you can catch a civilian ship in the Ming and Qing dynasties - our Lan Fang Liguo, which fled from the Han people in the late Ming Dynasty. ”

When Du Guowei heard this, he couldn't help pouting: "This is too mysterious, our equipment can't respond to this level of accuracy." ”

Gu Kun smiled confidently: "Fortunately, the depth of the water here is less than 100 meters, so I can hear so accurately, otherwise, I wouldn't be sure." Let's not talk about it, just take a look and you'll see. ”

Gu Kun carried an oxygen cylinder on his back and a cable wrapped around his waist, on which an empty metal bucket stuffed with counterweights was set, and the other end of the rope was hung on the ship's winch. Then he jumped into the sea.

As soon as he entered the water, the familiar and intimate smell of the sea once again made him feel calm.

This time, because he had to work for a long time and carefully survey the situation, he chose to go fast and slow down to prevent oxygen poisoning.

Within ten minutes, he slowly sank to the bottom of the sea at a depth of about 100 meters. There was no sunlight to penetrate here, so Gu Kun could only rely on the diving lamp on his helmet.

Rao is his underwater shimmering vision is different from ordinary people, and he can only see more than ten meters away at most.

It was the wreck of a wooden boat that had been cut in two and completely broken to the left and right, and if you didn't look closely, it would have been mistaken for a coral reef - because after hundreds of years of growth, the wood has already attached to the calcareous coral with a thickness of more than ten centimeters.

If it weren't for the fact that the sunlight here is too weak, and the flora and fauna are much sparser than the shallower waters, I'm afraid that a dozen centimeters is far from enough, but it is possible that the whole thing is jammed with coral. In that case, Gu Kun's hearing would not be able to tell whether it was a shipwreck or not.

Perhaps, a few days ago, there was more than one nameless fifth-generation shipwreck located in a shallower sea along the way, which was missed by Gu Kun because it was completely integrated with the coral reef.

"The ship is so rotten that it is impossible to salvage the water as a whole, so we can only see if there is any cargo in the ship, and then find a way to drag it up with a section trawl. ”

Gu Kun thought so in his heart, he searched back and forth for a while, and saw a small number of boxes lined up in the bilge, and the rest were worthless bits and pieces, and some bones were also found.

Gu Kun estimated that this was not an ancient merchant ship, and it was more likely to be a ship transporting people and immigrants.

"Don't bother them, let's check something a little and go back and check it. ”

Gu Kun still maintained his sense of awe, so he turned on the video recorder with an IP68 diving shell on his back, and took a video with the faint light of the diving lamp.

Then he put away the VCR, picked up some bottles and cans, and a limited number of bones, piled them back into the empty metal cylinder that had been lowered with him, and then knocked on the wall of the cylinder, and after confirming the code three times, the ship's winch began to slowly lift.

......

Three hours later, Gu Kun returned to the boat, immediately changed his diving equipment, took a hot bath first, and then cared about the harvest.

"Can you see the history of those porcelains, is there anyone on your ship who understands this?" Gu Kun returned to the captain's room and asked bluntly.

Du Guowei handed him a cup of ginger tea: "Lao Zhang has seen it, and said that the age should be from the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of them have no colors, only a small part of blue and white, and the painters are not good, it should be an ordinary folk kiln." If you have a bone, it will be more accurate to send it to the carbon-14 isotope determination when the time comes. ”

The "Lao Zhang" in his mouth is nominally an ordinary surveyor on this ship, a rough man in his forties. When Gu Kun saw it, he felt that something was wrong with the other party, but as long as there was no threat, he didn't bother to expose it.

Now it seems that there are indeed people from the domestic cultural and archaeological department on board.

As we all know, the archaeologists who really do things on the front line are the faces of scholars and the hands of farmers, which are the traces of time left by field investigations. As for the kind of thin skin and tender meat filmed in tomb robbery idol dramas...... Just take a look.

Gu Kun smiled smugly: "Lao Zhang still understands this?"

Du Guowei was a little embarrassed, he was more nerdy, so he said bluntly: "Lao Zhang worked in the East China Maritime Archaeology Institute, but now he is indeed a person from our design institute......

Gu Kun: "Then call him over, and I'll talk to him personally." ”

After a while, the guy whose full name was Zhang Baihui and was used to being called Lao Zhang by everyone was brought to Gu Kun.

I don't know how this person's name was chosen, maybe the five elements of his life are lacking wood.

Gu Kun's salutation was quite polite: "Teacher Zhang, based on your experience, can you deduce the nature of the ship?"

Zhang Baihui scratched his hair and pushed his glasses: "According to my judgment, this should be an immigration ship, not a merchant ship." I also watched the tape footage you just made.

According to the hull structure, you have already infiltrated the cargo hold of the ship just now, and the cargo hold is relatively intact, but there is only such a small amount of cargo there, and you can basically make a judgment. Those boxes should only be brought casually as ballast, not professionally sold.

You're doing the right thing, scoop up a few bones in small quantities for scientific identification, and let them rest in peace. I advise the whole ship not to be salvaged. ”

Gu Kun found that there was little porcelain when he dived just now, which was only relatively small compared to professional merchant ships, which did not mean that there was no porcelain. Because porcelain was transported as ballast for light-laden ships back then, some stones had to be transported for nothing if the porcelain was not transported, otherwise the center of gravity of the ship would be unstable.

It's just that a professional maritime trade ship may have thousands of boxes of porcelain, while an immigration ship may have dozens or hundreds of boxes, an order of magnitude or two worse.

Gu Kun nodded, and asked without much expectation: "These porcelains are not very valuable, right?"

Zhang Baihui thought for a while: "It must be worthless in China." Internationally...... The folk blue and white at the end of the Ming Dynasty, complete large pieces, and bulk shipment prices have risen to several thousand dollars in recent years, and small pieces such as dishes may be only a few hundred dollars.

As for those who don't even have a color, the folk use of plain porcelain can only cost 180 US dollars a piece, and they can be disposed of casually. In recent years, the price of ancient collectibles has risen in waves, and before the collapse of the Soviet Union, artifacts around the world were at least several times cheaper than now. ”

Cultural relics in prosperous times, gold in troubled times.

There is no mistake in that.

Anyone who has seen the history of the international antiques market for decades knows how much the collapse of the Soviet Union played a role in the overall rise of global antiquities, because those who have money no longer have to worry about the outbreak of world war and chaos on the scale of extinction.

If you had left it in the late '80s, it wouldn't have been able to sell for a good price.

Gu Kun figured out all the causes and effects, so in front of Zhang Baihui and Du Guowei, he announced a decision:

"Ladies and gentlemen, although this shipment was found by our ship, everyone has worked a little hard. However, this is still the exclusive economic zone of Lanfang, and the former owner of this boat is very likely to have immigrated to Lanfang, so there should be no objection to the property rights of the boat. ”

Zhang Baihui was more knowledgeable, and nodded very resignedly: "Indeed, this is the ship that belongs to Lan Fang." ”

Their current coordinates are about 50 nautical miles west-southwest of Lanfang. This place is beyond the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea line of any country, but the nearest archipelago to Indonesians, the Tameran Islands, is seventy or eighty nautical miles away (the Natuna Islands are further away)

Therefore, according to the equidistant center line, this must be the exclusive economic area of Lanfang.

No matter how much the Chinese want to stretch out their hands, they will not reach out to the Java Sea, so it is better to admit one generously.

When Gu Kun saw that the other party was on the road, he also threw out a bait: "However, this boat can also be regarded as witnessing the pioneering history of the Chinese ancestors in the late Ming Dynasty, and it has cultural and historical research value." Out of goodwill and goodwill, after salvaging the boxes of porcelain here, I am willing to donate a few boxes to museums in Hujiang, Donghai, Hujian and other provinces, as well as special maritime museums, for cultural exhibitions. ”

When he donated, he was sure that each provincial museum only gave so many pieces of folk blue and white in the late Ming Dynasty, and the rest used worthless plain porcelain to make up a box. Anyway, for cultural exhibitions, the economic value of porcelain is not important, but the historical background, age, and story are important.

In this way, Gu Kun didn't spend much money, and he had a good reputation.

When everyone heard this, they were really motivated, and everyone was busy for a long time, putting the cylinder to remove the dozens of complete boxes of ballast, and the others remained as they were, especially not taking the scattered belongings of the ancients, and then recording the exact coordinates.

After doing all this, the big ship put down a small boat and carried these goods back to Lanfang Island first. And the big ship itself continues its journey to survey the topography of the seabed.

This time, Gu Kun didn't plan to make much money, he just hoped to find a reasonable excuse for him to embark on this road under the witness of everyone.

In the future, it is not that he is bent on fishing for the relics of the ancients, but that he was inspired by the Huaxia scientific research ship to embark on this road, which is very reasonable.