With the blessing of the ship-borne wire-controlled submarine, the efficiency of Gu Kun's operation this time is, of course, several times faster than that of the previous ships.

And that's just an assessment of the overall efficiency of the entire ship's salvage.

If you disassemble all links, just look at the salvage speed of those goods in the ship, there are transport submarines and non-transport submarines, at least ten times different.

In just four or five days of intense operation, Gu Kun got more than 300 tons of cargo boxes, and almost emptied more than half of the cabin of the sunken ship.

The rest of the boxes have also been preliminarily inspected underwater, and they have been judged to be worthless.

These can be pulled directly to the seabed and thrown away, or eventually salvaged with the hull with pontoons and hoists. Even if it is scattered during the lifting process, it is not a pity.

In addition, in the past few days, Gu Kun also commanded everyone to carry out the first pontoon demolition and lifting operation, and hoisted the stern building, whose contents were basically hollowed out, and put it on the "Nightingale".

Galen sailboats have tall sterns, and because the stern is a superstructure, the structural timber is often much thinner than the hull of the hull. At the time of the sinking of the Galen ship, it often broke off from the body.

This ship was no exception, and when the stern was on the bottom of the sea, it had already been disconnected from the rear hull many times, and there were only a few dozen planks left to connect it. So Gu Kun just used the submarine's mechanical arm to dismantle it slightly, and then split the stern from the hull and fished it up separately.

This is also a relatively safe way to salvage sailboats, because after the stern is removed, the Galen ship is not prone to top-heavy problems, and it is not easy to roll over with an unstable center of gravity when the whole ship is lifted in the future.

In addition, the captain's room and chart room of ancient Galen ships are generally located in the stern. Although there is no cargo here, you can find a lot of archival information about the ancient ship.

"Okay, that's all for today's homework, everyone have a good night's rest, and starting tomorrow, we will carry out the whole ship lifting operation. ”

As the stern and the last batch of valuable cargo boxes entered the hold of the "Nightingale", Gu Kun announced a piece of good news that everyone could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

These days, they are all working in shifts, and they have to work as soon as they wake up, and they are really tired, and everyone is eager to get a good night's sleep.

Gu Kun also gave out at least $3,000 per person in bonuses, and Gao Jianxiong and Long Wu's henchmen were several times more than ordinary people.

There were more than 30 people on board, and the total amount was $200,000.

After everyone went to rest, Gu Kun returned to the captain's room, carefully opened a few boxes containing the personal belongings of ancient captains and sailors in the stern, and searched for items that proved his memories of his previous life.

He was very careful, knowing that these things had been soaked and must not re-contact the air, so he packed the boxes into a special nitrogen glass cabinet and operated through the glass cabinet.

This kind of glass cabinet may be unimaginable to ordinary people, but the officials who have visited the limited exhibition treasure house of high-end museums should be no strangers to it-

It is the kind of sealed glass on all sides, filled with nitrogen or inert gas, but the front of the glass has two round holes, and the round holes are covered with airtight rubber gloves.

Museum operators, when they want to fiddle with the contents of the glass case, can reach into the two round holes covered with airtight rubber gloves and take the contents through the latex gloves.

Since Gu Kun wants to do the business of salvaging ancient cultural relics, of course these preparations have been done. He never saved money on equipment.

At this moment, his hands were in airtight rubber gloves, and he first flipped through a copy of the shipwreck captain's logbook, as well as a few nameplates.

The first important information he confirmed was that the ship was indeed called the "Suarez", which was completely consistent with the information he had seen in his previous life, indicating that he was not wrong.

This is a silver ship that sailed from Acapulco to Manila in the 1580s, equivalent to the early years of the Ming Dynasty. The later generation was fished up around 2006 by an archaeological company commissioned by the Philippine government.

The reason why this ship became famous in later generations and left many relevant records that Gu Kun found and memorized was mainly because this ship made a major overthrow on many historical details of the Spanish silver circulation trade at that time.

In the previous historical circles, the scale of Manila's silver trade at that time was mainly inferred from the records of archival documents - the transpacific silver ships written in the written archives were generally around four or five hundred thousand silver pesos.

But many historians and historians who tend to be conspiracy theories believe that this figure should be greatly underestimated.

Because hundreds of years ago, Spain's level of governance and the ability of its own homeland to monitor its colonies across the ocean could not have been as efficient.

Those colonists, whether they were governors or mine owners, went to the other side of the world to work hard to open mines, not to work for the king of Spain, so it was inevitable that the production of silver mines that were concealed at all levels and that they would work together to smuggle it would be inevitable.

However, the only documents that historians can find are the customs declaration files of Manila at that time, so even if they think that there is indeed a concealment, they do not know what the proportion of this concealment should be.

After 2006, the "Suarez" was salvaged in the Philippine Sea, which showed great historical research value - the customs declaration documents on this ship showed that the number of silver coins declared was 500,000 silver pesos.

But the silver coins that archaeologists actually found from the wreckage of the ship alone cost a full 1.13 million silver pesos more than the customs declaration documents - the extra silver coins were kept in a relatively secret cabin. The captain's logbook also clearly stated that after arriving at the port, he should give the Manila assistant investigator the benefits and conceal the report from the people who went into the water.

Therefore, on Gu Kun's boat, there are actually 500,000 silver pesos of normal imported silver coins, and 1.13 million silver pesos of ancient walking S silver coins, adding up to 1.63 million silver pesos!

He didn't tell his subordinates about this, and he couldn't say it.

He couldn't say: Historical documents believe that this type of ship has a customs import volume of about 500,000 silver pesos, but I actually opened my eyes to heaven, and the prophet knew that this ship had more than 1.6 million silver pesos, right?

Since I can't say it, it's rare to be so confused.

By the way, it can also make the unwillingness in the hearts of subordinates eliminate seventy percent, how good.

After a cursory examination of the written records that had been fished up, Gu Kun returned to the cabin where the containers were kept, and finally checked all the boxes.

In many boxes, there are worthless goods on the top to cover up, and the bottom is still dominated by silver coins - it can be seen that this kind of thing is not only in modern times, but also in the Spaniards four hundred years ago. This is all in order to evade the inspectors on the Manila side, and the superficial work can be slightly passable (of course, the most critical factor is to stuff money into the Manila inspectors)

This is the same as Yuriolov putting potatoes on the M16 rifle.

The main disguise cargo on the "Suarez" was also potatoes and corn, which were relatively popular in the Americas at that time, but only began to be introduced in Asia, which is known as the "Great Species Exchange" in the history of navigation.

"Alas, if these things had been transmitted back to the mainland as soon as they arrived in Manila, maybe the Ming Dynasty would not have perished so quickly, at least not in the way that it was later. ”

Looking at these residues that had been completely carbonized and decayed, Gu Kun couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He has read the history books, the Acapulco-Manila route, which was opened in 1565, so sweet potatoes and corn were first introduced to Manila in the early 1570s.

And the sweet potato was brought back to China by Chen Zhenlong, who was adrift in the South Seas in the twenty-first year of Wanli (1593). At that time, the Spanish colonists strictly controlled the spread of sweet potatoes and corn, which were high-yield crops in the Americas, and the customs and prevention were very strict.

Chen Zhenlong was braided in hemp rope with sweet potato rattan, so he passed the test in confusion.

From this point of view, Hu Jian's ancestors made the greatest contribution to the rise of Chinese civilization from more than 100 million to 400 million.

It's a pity that Daming didn't have time to enjoy the dividends after the complete diffusion of high-yield crops, so he hiccuped. If we had pushed back from before 1593 to the 1570s, and had spent 20 more years of breeding and breeding, the situation might have been very different.

The founding of the Lan Fang Kingdom was originally based on the canonization of Emperor Yongli more than 300 years ago, so the Lan Fang people still have some feelings for the Ming Dynasty.

"These things will also be moved into the Maritime Museum in the future, as 'the first American crops to come to Asia', and if the Chinese tourism industry rises in the future, it can be used as a tourist attraction to attract Ming Fan tourists to make a pilgrimage." ”

Gu Kun had already thought about how to maximize the value of these cultural relics.

Maybe in a few years, he can stuff some black money and let the writers who wrote "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", or other writers who are similar to bestsellers, carry some private goods and render more of the secrets in it.

……

The next day, after everyone had a full rest, the final salvage operation of the whole ship officially began.

Gu Kun continued to drive his submarine, cooperating with divers, and stuffed hundreds of inflatable pontoons that provided reserve buoyancy into the cavity of the wreck.

The Nightingale was much larger than his previous research vessels, weighing 7,000 tons and carrying 6,000 tons.

However, the ship's own equipment and supplies occupy a displacement of 2,000 tons, so the maximum additional load is only 4,000.

But this is enough to fit a large Galen sailing ship with a maximum total weight of 1300~1500 tons.

Under the full lifting of the 500-ton buoyancy reserve buoyancy and all the hoisting cranes on board, the overall empty hull weighing more than 800 tons rose steadily and finally surfaced.

The big ship immediately lowered several small boats, towed them on the side, controlled the attitude of the wreck fished up, and waited for the sea water to be discharged, so that the wreck could regain the level that its own buoyancy alone was enough to float on the water. (The wooden boat unloaded the cargo, and the sea water was partially discharged, so it was possible to float up)

Then, relying on traction, the wreck can be towed directly from the dock landing module at the stern of the "Nightingale" with submarines to be towed. Then the hatch was closed and the water pump was used to empty all the seawater in the dock landing module.

"Ready to go home!"

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PS: I know that some book friends complain that they feel dull after chasing for a longer time.

I'll tell you in good conscience, my update speed is definitely fast in the free period. Most people are free for 4,000 words a day. I only had a week before, and it was reduced to 4,000 words a day, and then it was all 6,000 words a day.

Of course, this speed keeps up with the people after the shelves, it must be incomparable, I also want to put it on the shelves, and I also want to write a little faster, but it is true that there were too many strong players before, I can't compete, I review, it's because I don't have enough audiences to write books.

If you really don't want to chase more, after chasing it in the past few days, it will be about Thursday and Friday of this week, and you can raise it for a few days later, such as raising it for a week, because by then, whether there is a strong push should have been determined.

Wait until the book hits the shelves on January 10th, and then come back to open the slaughter (I'm afraid it's a little ...... I forgot to come back on January 10th, alas).

Some things are wrong if you don't say them.