The main body of the cargo ship is a wooden structure, which looks like it has been around for quite a long time, and all parts of the hull have been badly corroded by seawater. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Upon closer inspection, it was revealed that most of the boxes in the hold had actually decayed, leaving only the broken wooden frames, and the contents of the contents could not be preserved.

Zhao Xinglan counted it, only four or five wooden boxes remained intact, they all seemed to be made of high-quality logs, the corners of the box were embedded with brass decorations, and the exquisite brass animal head reliefs could be seen on the lid of the box, which looked very precious.

The five wooden crates were half a meter high, about 70 centimeters wide and one meter long, and they were all properly hidden in a secret compartment on the ship, which was tightly sealed, showing that the owner attached great importance to these things.

“…… According to the information that can be found on the Internet, the age of the sinking of this ship may be in the last years of the Ming Dynasty in China!" Phantom Li said.

"Yes, it should be a smuggling ship!" Zhao Xinglan guessed.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He led fleets to the Western Ocean many times, and overseas trade was once extremely developed, and the imperial treasury benefited a lot. It's a pity that the imperial court later ordered a ban on the sea, which completely reversed the original situation.

There are many reasons for the ban on the sea, such as the ancestral system, the trouble of the Japanese and the Japanese, etc., of course, one of the key factors is due to the selfishness of the Jiangnan officials.

The benefits of maritime trade were not unclear to the decision-makers at the top of the Empire. However, for those officials who were born in the Jiangnan Shi clan, this was absolutely unbearable. A lot of profits have been made by the royal family, what do the families behind them eat?

In the imperial court, the majority of officials from the Jiangnan region accounted for the majority, so the Ming Dynasty was founded for more than 200 years, and most of the years maintained the policy of banning the sea and closing the country. Correspondingly, many of the wealthy gentry in Jiangnan are engaged in overseas smuggling, colluding with those bandits and thieves to make profits, and make a lot of money!

I don't know which family in Jiangnan this ship came from, it sank for some reason, and if it wasn't found by the battle split of the Mother Emperor now, maybe there would never be a moment to reappear again.

A large shark-like split slowly swam over and swallowed all five boxes.

The size of this shark reached fourteen meters, which was the largest transport-type split that the Mother Emperor could concoct so far, and its abdominal cavity was hollow, and there was still a lot of room after loading this batch of boxes. It's perfect for transporting goods!

More than a dozen small combat splits followed into it, and then the abdominal cavity of the transport split was closed inside and out, and the air and seawater inside were all pulled out and squeezed out, becoming an environment similar to a vacuum.

This is to prevent some precious goods from being damaged by the action of seawater and oxygen after being unpacked.

"Alright, open it!" Zhao Xinglan ordered.

The first box was opened, and inside was layers of vermilion silk fabric, which were uncovered layer by layer as the battle split was revealed, and finally the true appearance of the contents was finally seen: all of them were extremely fine porcelain, cups, plates, teas, and cups, each of which was carefully wrapped in multiple layers of silk satin.

"It's ...... Is it ruby red?" Zhao Xinglan stared at a glazed plate with a bright red color, a little uncertain.

"Ruby red" is a porcelain treasure in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, because the glaze shimmers with the same color as ruby, so it is named. Because this glaze is often used as a sacrificial vessel, it is also called "sacrificial red".

If this thing is genuine, any one of them is a valuable treasure, as for how much it is worth, Zhao Xinglan has no bottom in his heart now, maybe he will have to find a special appraisal agency in the future.

The remaining boxes were opened one by one, and there were three boxes containing various porcelain, but unfortunately a considerable part of them had been broken into pieces, and less than half were intact.

When she found the last box, Zhao Xinglan finally smiled, and it was full of gold and silver ingots. Among them, silver ingots account for the majority, and the total data of gold ingots is estimated to be more than 30 kilograms.

"Bring those gold ingots back first. Zhao Xinglan said. In other words, only this thing is the most convenient harvest now, and as for those porcelain, it has to be considered in the long run.

Antique appraisal requires extremely professional knowledge and a wealth of experience, and ordinary people simply do not understand the doorway. Today's antique market is flooded with fakes, and there are too many unscrupulous scammers of all kinds, and if you are not careful, you may be tricked.

If she went to a random antique shop to sell, they would most likely say that what she took out was a fake, and would only offer a very low price to buy it. And if there are more of them, it may attract the attention of those who are interested.

Therefore, Zhao Xinglan felt that this thing was not the time to take it out at all, so he could only hide it first. She can't make a move until she has a certain amount of power in the future.

"Master, according to your orders, the second Wisdom Split has been born, and I plan to let it occupy a desert island to build a secret base, what do you think?" said the Empress.

Phantom Li had mentioned this to her last time, so Zhao Xinglan happily agreed.

There are many unowned desert islands in the Pacific Ocean, because the area is too small, often only a few tens to hundreds of square meters, strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as a reef, and it is far away from the main international shipping routes, and there are no resources for development, so in fact they are idle.

Zhao Xinglan naturally knows the scale and purpose of the secret base, and it seems that it is meaningless now, and it may come in handy in the future.

Those boxes of porcelain are not easy for her to handle now, so she can directly send them to the secret base for storage, and then transfer them back when needed in the future.

“…… I think there should be a lot of shipwrecks around this sea area, and you will have to arrange more splits to explore here in the future!" Zhao Xinglan finally said.

There is a "Maritime Silk Road" in Southeast Asian waters, according to incomplete statistics, about 2,000 to 3,000 sea ships sank in this sea area, most of the shipwrecks are Song and Yuan ships, including some foreign ships, such as the Tang Dynasty RB sent Tang envoys to sink sea ships, the British East India Company and Sweden's shipwrecks. If we add in the shipwrecks that countries around the world have come to China to trade and return to China, the number accumulated over the past thousand years is even more staggering. Due to the precious value of ancient porcelain in most shipwrecks, foreign experts call it the "porcelain capital of the seabed".

This underwater treasure has spawned one legendary story after another for many years, and has also attracted a group of professional treasure thieves, coupled with the theft and excavation of some fishermen along the coast, a large number of precious ancient porcelain, boats and other cultural relics have been stolen and destroyed. For example, the "Nanhai No. 1" shipwreck, which is comparable in value to the Qin Terracotta Warriors, suffered a catastrophe in the last century, when a British company used the most rudimentary salvage method in order to save costs and shorten the construction period: a 2,000-ton barge and a 100-ton crane. As a result, in addition to some of the metal parts intact, many precious porcelain pieces were smashed to pieces by the bastards.

Zhao Xinglan felt that with the mother emperor, the sleeping treasures in this sea area would be discovered sooner or later, but in order to avoid triggering a collapse in the antique market, most of those porcelains could only be collected, and only a very small part could be sold for wealth.