In the spring of the end of the century, two ocean-going salvage ships appeared on the high seas near the South China Sea. The salvage boat was accompanied by armed men with loaded guns. A young man and a woman stood with a group of people on the bow of the boat in front. The salty smell of the sea breeze blew the clothes of these people, and in the midst of the call of seabirds, a middle-aged man in a white uniform pointed ahead and said, "Experts, go about ten nautical miles further and you will reach the predetermined location." “

These people are Professor Xu and his entourage, and Zuo Yucheng and Ye Xiaochi, as non-governmental participants, also came to participate in this salvage operation. The situation under the sea has been found out by divers, and it is indeed as they expected, there is a merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty lying on the bottom of the sea. That ship was supposed to have been sent out overseas by a big merchant at that time during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. It's just that there was a wind and waves on the way, which led to the shipwreck.

The reason why this information can be preserved and recorded is that this ship is one of the fleets, and although the other ships were also damaged and killed in that great storm, the ship and the goods on board were saved, and someone can also record this incident, and it was later recorded in the county records of the area where the big merchants lived.

This piece of information is one of a series of clues found by Professor Xu and the others, many of which have been detected and found nothing, five years have passed, Zuo Yucheng and Ye Xiaochi's children have gone to kindergarten, and they have finally found a place where a large shipwreck is buried.

At this time, the captain was holding a telescope and looking ahead, and in the distance there were seabirds passing by in the sky from time to time. On both sides of their salvage ship, there were also armed men sent by the official escort, and although they tried their best to cover the news of the shipwreck, the clues still could not escape the eyes of those who cared about it.

If it weren't for their armed forces, even if they did fish out of the sea, they might not be able to keep it. If those people dare to come, there will be weapons on board. Professor Xu saw the captain put down the binoculars and asked, "Are you okay?"

The captain shook his head: "It's nothing, none of us are vegetarians, not to mention that there are Liu Tuan's people guarding the periphery." “

After talking about safety, the captain asked Professor Xu: "I heard that you have been looking for these wrecks for several years, and you haven't found any big ones until now, so it's not easy." “

"It's been several years, I haven't been at home since the New Year of '94, and since then, it's been 99 years in a blink of an eye, and time flies so fast! If nothing happens this time, the harvest should not be smaller than the one in Simpson, who fished out the wreck in '93. However, this is just a prediction, and it is difficult to say whether it can be fished safely. “

The captain listened and said: "Technically speaking, it should be no problem, this is not the first salvage, but what was salvaged before was not ancient shipwrecks and porcelain." It would be a little more difficult to get the porcelain from those ships intact. However, the success rate is relatively high. "The captain can't guarantee that anything will happen, not to mention that this operation is still at sea. Although they had chosen a good weather beforehand and had a weather forecast. But emergencies are not impossible.

It didn't take long for the ship to reach the predetermined sea area, and the captain began to give orders in an orderly manner. Several divers put on wetsuits, put on oxygen masks and oxygen cylinders, put on fins, and jumped into the sea one after another.

Although Ye Xiaochi didn't have much research on the specific methods of salvage, he also knew that the captain wanted to tie a steel cable to the bottom of the wreck and then use lifting equipment to lift it out. As an aid, they also inflate some of the cylinders underwater, which are attached to the wreck, creating a huge buoyancy that makes salvage easier.

These preliminary preparations alone took a day and a night. Ye Xiaochi heard those divers come to the boat to rest, and said: "This ship is really big enough, there are stacks of plates and dishes in it, and there are piles of bowls, and I can......'t count them at all." Of course, they also mentioned the bones on the ship, as well as the rusted metal utensils. Although the cargo on the wreck was mainly porcelain, after all, China's porcelain was particularly popular overseas at that time, otherwise the English name of the country would not be the same as the English word. In the eyes of foreigners at that time, China was a place rich in porcelain, but there was not only porcelain in the shipwreck.

When everything was ready, the captain gave an order, and the lifting equipment of the two ships began to operate together. It didn't take long for the steel cable hanging from the wreck to straighten up, and when the wreck finally came out of the water, the people on the salvage ship cheered.

Professor Xu and they sorted out the piles of porcelain that the crew moved to the ship on the ship, and several old men looked at those exquisite plates, and shed tears of excitement, five years, a whole five years, these five years, they withstood the doubts and pressure again and again, looking for people everywhere to find money, just to promote this salvage again and again. I don't know how many insiders are saying that they are whimsical, and some even say that they are too idle and take advantage of the name of experts and do not do their jobs.

That's because they didn't see a treasure hunter like Simpson take the ancient treasures of our country and make a fortune by auctioning them, and they couldn't experience that desolate mood. If they don't get anything for a few more years, they won't be able to account for many people. Finally, like Simpson, they salvaged the treasures that had sunk into the sea in ancient times, and this time, these things would not be auctioned off by foreigners as private property, or even sold to patriots at home at a high price.

This time, even if the ships roaming around the periphery of this sea wanted to get their hands on the treasures they had caught, they could only look at the ships and sigh.

Ye Xiaochi followed Professor Xu to see all the porcelain, and she found that these porcelains were basically porcelain from the Ming Dynasty from Hongwu to Xuande.

That era went through the Hongwu Dynasty of Ming Taizu, and then passed through Zhu Di's Yongle and then Xuande, this period was at the peak of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and the porcelain fired out is often sky-high now. Ming Dynasty porcelain in the Xuande went into decline, until the Qing Dynasty Kang Yongqian three dynasties of the national strength again strong, the quality of porcelain on the peak again.

However, it is precisely because this shipwreck is in the year of Xuande of the Ming Dynasty that there is no variety of colored porcelain that was popular in the Qing Dynasty, and there is no pastel and colored glaze, which are basically plain porcelain, mainly blue and white, and there are also imitations of porcelain from several famous kilns in the Song Dynasty.

On the way back, the armed men followed the salvage ship with loaded guns and ammunition until they entered our territorial waters, and the people on board could no longer follow, and then they dispersed.

Not long after, a major domestic newspaper published the incident of China's first salvage of an ancient shipwreck on the high seas. It's just that ordinary people don't pay attention to this kind of news, but this incident has caused a storm in the archaeological and antique circles, and after a long time there are still people talking about this incident and the people involved in it.

In the end, Zuo Yucheng's Jinguzhai was rewarded with dozens of porcelains of various colors, which were of very small value compared to the entire shipwreck, but Zuo Yucheng and them could accept them. After all, they can't do it themselves, it's better than making foreigners rich.

And because of this incident, Zuo Yucheng's Jingu Zhai has become a first-class antique shop in Luochuan City and even in the domestic antique industry, and with the increase in popularity, the business in the store has increased a lot more than before. Dong Qing had already become the store manager at this time, and his subordinates brought three young men to learn to sell and identify goods with him. As for Ye Xiaochi, in addition to accompanying his children and family when he has free time, he often walks around with Zuo Yucheng to hunt for treasures. And instead of fading with time, her special abilities have become more acute. However, she wisely kept a low profile, except for Zuo Yucheng, no one else knew about this matter, and they all thought that she was just talented.

In the evening of this day, Ye Xiaochi and Zuo Yucheng went out to go home, and as soon as they walked to the road outside the community, they saw a pair of children being led by Song Hongyan, standing at the gate of the community, like two little penguins, as soon as they saw them, the two children broke free of Song Hongyan's hands and pounced on their parents.

Zuo Yucheng squatted down and let his little daughter pounce on him, Ye Xiaochi picked up his son, and a family of four walked towards Song Hongyan, the figures of several people looked extremely harmonious under the reflection of the red clouds in the sky, and a pair of young men and women passing by held hands and saw their happy family and looked back again and again. Finally, the girl said, "Brother, let's get married too." The boy seemed very happy: "I have proposed to you several times, and finally agreed, do I have to thank that family?" The girl smiled and took his hand and left.