Speaking of the 'Blackstone', it is another pain in the hearts of the Chinese people. Updates are fast and ad-free.

In countries around the world, especially in developed countries in Europe and the United States, there are many private salvage companies that make money by salvaging shipwrecks from the ocean. However, most of the targets are the Atlantic, in search of the wealth of their ancestors.

Of course, there are many people who have taken a different path and set their sights on Asia. The German Wauthfa was one of them.

Watta, who turned out to be just a German cement factory owner, happened to hear an Indonesian worker at his factory say that there were no ancient treasures in the waters of the islands between Borneo and Sumatra. In 1996, Watfa went directly to the sea area they called with diving tools and Indonesian workers to look for a shipwreck.

As a result, the following year, they discovered the Yingtan shipwreck of the Ming Dynasty, and in 1998, the Majeni shipwreck was discovered, which gave Wattfa confidence, and in the same year, Wattfa found a wreck near a large black reef off Belitung Island, and named it 'Batu Sitam', which is translated as 'Black Stone' in Chinese.

This ship is really a star in the field of maritime archaeology! Even when the General Assembly delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, he made a special mention of this ship, in order to tell the splendid history of exchanges between countries on the ancient Silk Road.

The Blackstone is not an ancient Chinese ship, but a merchant ship from the Middle East, which can be seen from the shipbuilding technology, each wooden strip on the ship is tied together with coconut shell fiber, without any wooden tenon structure and iron clamps, which is completely different from Huaxia shipbuilding. It is also known as one of the most important and oldest ancient archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Because the Changsha kiln porcelain bowl on the boat has the year name of the second year of the Tang Dynasty Baoli. Therefore, the age of the shipwreck is confirmed to be the first half of the ninth century, and it is the oldest seafaring sailing ship salvaged so far! The existence of the 'Blackstone' directly proves that there was already a direct maritime ceramic trade between China and Arabia in the Tang Dynasty.

More importantly, along with the ship, 67,000 cultural relics were salvaged! Many of them were national treasures! And 98 percent of them were porcelain. Including Changsha kiln, Yue kiln, Xing kiln, Gongxian kiln, etc., the rest are gold and silver wares and bronze mirrors, etc., including the only surviving piece of Tang Dynasty tribute 'Jiangxin Mirror', which was found from the 'Black Stone'! The rest of the national treasure-level cultural relics are even more numerous, what eight-sided Hu people play the golden cup, which is one of the most important Tang Dynasty gold artifacts found outside of China; all kinds of gold, silver and bronze ware are beautiful; there is also a one-meter-high white glazed green color high-footed long-handled pot, the body of which is engraved with a diamond-shaped pattern with flowers and leaves. The most precious are the three pieces of Tang blue and white porcelain, which are the earliest and most complete blue and white porcelain found in China so far!

At that time, more and more Chinese cultural relics came out of the water, which attracted the attention of the Chinese side, and several museums wanted to buy the treasure on the ship together, but the Watt Law proposed that the treasure must be purchased as a whole, and according to the contract, the money for the auction of the 'Blackstone' by the Watt Law must be shared with the Indonesian government, and the distribution plan of the two parties was not agreed, so the treasure was not put up for auction.

While Huaxia was waiting for the news of the auction, Li Jiapo directly took advantage of the situation and bought the exhibition rights of the salvaged cultural relics for several years. At this time, Huaxia had no choice but to wait for the end of the exhibition right to consider starting, but Li Jiapo slowly raised funds during this period of time, and finally directly purchased this batch of cultural relics. So these precious Chinese national treasures have become Li Jiapo's treasures. I have to say that it has always been a regret of Huaxia.

Now that Director Gao and Elder Sun have heard that there are seven or eight shipwrecks comparable to those of the 'Blackstone,' can they not be excited? You must know that so far, there have been more than 100 sites that have been salvaged and salvaged by Southeast Asian countries! More than 200 shipwrecks have been salvaged, most of which were discovered after the 80s of the last century, of which the Philippines has the most, with 41, Indonesia 27, Thailand 23, Malaysia 17, Vietnam 10, and Huaxia。。。。。。。 0.

Most of the more than 200 shipwrecks came from China, but also from Europe and the Middle East, and all of them were loaded with fine porcelain, pottery and metal vessels from China. It has to be said that this is a big loss. I didn't expect that at the bottom of the sea, which had been screened by Southeast Asian countries, Xiao Peng would be able to find seven or eight sunken ships, and in Xiao Peng's words, it was the same specification as the 'Blackstone', and it was pure nonsense to say that Director Wang was not excited.

"Boss Xiao, can you introduce me to the situation of those ships you mentioned?"

Xiao Peng sighed: "What else is there to introduce here? They are all merchant ships in ancient times, I don't know about them in that era, but they do guarantee it." There are materials, have been verified by me, at least the porcelain is really not lacking, the depth of these ships is different, the shallowest is about more than 30 meters, the deepest is about less than 200 meters, but these ships have something in common, that is, the preservation is quite intact, according to my observation, these ships are buried under the silt, forming an anaerobic environment, avoiding oxidation damage to the wooden hull, so what you should consider now is to 'salvage and preserve the whole thing'? or 'salvage and preservation in situ'. ”

"What's the difference between the two?" Director Wang is an expert in cultural relics, but he doesn't understand seabed salvage.

Xiao Peng replied: "The so-called overall salvage and preservation, just like the salvage of the 'Nanhai No. 1' back then, to make a special caisson for the whole hull to be salvaged out of the water, and to connect the shipwreck, cultural relics and the surrounding sea water and sediment according to the original state of the one-time lifting and transporting. This has the advantage of better overall protection of the hull and less loss of cultural relics. The disadvantage is that it costs a lot of money. The simplest thing is that when the caisson weighs more than 3,000 tons after being fully loaded, how much does it take to salvage the buoyancy airbags? Moreover, the salvage ship needs money, and the caisson needs money, and the underwater facilities, ships, and labor are all money, and if you calculate it, it will cost at least 70 million to 100 million to salvage such a ship. Those seven or eight ships add up to at least 560 million to be able to play. ”

Curator Wang was shocked when he heard this: "So much? What about 'salvage and preservation in situ'?"

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "That's much simpler, go into the water and only catch things without boats, the advantage is that the price is cheap, but it is easy to miss cultural relics." After all, no one can work so carefully on the bottom of the sea. Salvage a ship in this way, and a few million can be done. It's up to you to decide which method to use. Anyway, I can promise you'll never go back empty-handed, but there's only one thing to be aware of. ”

Curator Wang hurriedly asked, "Boss Xiao, please speak." ”

Xiao Peng said: "The distribution of these shipwrecks is along the ancient maritime Silk Road, and most of them are close to the islands controlled by other countries in Xisha and Nansha, so how to deal with this problem is up to you." ”

When Sun Lao heard this, his face was filled with joy: "Aha! I said why are you so kind to contribute the shipwreck site, it turns out that this is because of this? Are you afraid that you will salvage things and be snatched by other countries, so you use the power of the state to salvage these ships? Hehe, you kid still has the confidence to ask for three and a half percent? Two percent! No more!" After Sun Lao finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Peng happily.

How do you know that Xiao Peng looked at Sun Lao, but there was a hint of pity in his eyes, what did he mean?

"Why do you kid look at me like that?" even Sun Lao was puzzled.

Xiao Peng sighed: "Grandpa Sun, it is said that older people are more like children, I understand this." But you're a little too much like a child, aren't you? Are you happy to let me eat you?"

After hearing this, Sun Lao nodded: "What you said is very reasonable. I'm happy to see you deflated, but it's really not as simple as making you deflated, fifteen percent! That's how much is that? If you give you less, the country will earn more!"

Xiao Peng shook his head: "Old Sun, you seem to have forgotten something. ”

"What's the matter?" Old Sun looked at Xiao Peng with a playful expression. Xiao Peng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I can get the big goldfish out unconsciously, I can't get those sunken ships?" I don't go to salvage them, not because I can't salvage them, but because there are too many things, and it's troublesome to fish, everyone knows that I'm lazy and afraid of trouble." But since you are so reluctant to spend money, then okay, I'll salvage it myself. ”

After listening to Xiao Peng's words, the first person to be dumbfounded was not Sun Lao, but Director Wang. He didn't know what the big goldfish was about, but he knew what Xiao Peng meant by saying these words: I won't play with you anymore, I'll play by myself. Curator Wang hurriedly looked at Sun Lao with an anxious look on his face.

When Sun Lao heard this, he was also a little anxious: "Why are you kid making so much money? If those sunken ships really have so much wealth as you say, do you know how much it is?"

Xiao Peng frowned: "What is wrong with me making money on my own? You say that I have a lot of money, how much money I have? Ma's richest man is more than 200 billion yuan, and I don't even have enough of his fraction! But why are you eyeing me? Am I paying less taxes or donating less money? Am I breaking the law or breaking the law? Grandpa Sun, do you know that I am a young and vigorous person, and I can't stand the crowd of others, so you have to think that I am young and easy to bully? Okay, I'll go back to my Qianliyan, Made, I didn't look at those plates and bowls on the bottom of the sea, but now I think about it, there are so many people on my island, and I can save a lot of money to buy bowls and plates in the canteen! Don't you like how much money you spend? It doesn't matter, I'll go back and catch it myself, rest assured, I will pay taxes according to the law. ”

Sun Lao was stunned in place: "You kid is really a dog-faced? How can you say that you will turn your face? You still pay taxes according to the law, according to what you said, put those porcelain in your canteen as dishes, what taxes do you pay?"

Xiao Peng said: "The company's stamp duty." Okay, you guys play slowly, I'm leaving. I'm going to go fishing tomorrow. ”

Lu Ya hurriedly grabbed Xiao Peng, she didn't want to see things so stiff: "Xiao Peng, what's wrong with you? Can't you see that Grandpa Sun is joking?" Sun Lao is also angry, and Xiao Peng's courage is too fat! Do you dare to throw yourself face like this? Is it too indulgent to him?

Thinking of this, Sun Lao simply tilted his head and didn't look at Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng smiled slightly: "Lu Ya, I really can't see that Sun Lao is joking, I have a motto as a person, 'fool me once, it's your fault, fool me twice, it's my fault', no matter what, once is allowed, twice? Hehe, Sun Lao has already mentioned this money twice, is this a joke? Although I Xiao Peng has a little money, I am not a local tyrant, and I don't need to divide the land. It's not mine, I won't take a penny, it's mine, I won't let a penny! If I want to let it, it's up to me to make it!"