Chapter 16 A Thousand Sails Passed by the Side of the Sinking Boat

At the end of October, "Star Wars" was released after more than four months of screenings. The North American box office is $370 million, and the global box office is $850 million, which is more than 100 million more than the box office of the original time and space. Not counting the periphery, Wang Jie alone shared $336 million at the box office and made a net profit of $300 million. George Lucas also earned more than 24 million in directing fees plus box office sharing.

It took Wang Jie a week to teach the girls Gongsun Sword Dance, and in the future, it will be up to them to practice on their own.

Wang Jie began to prepare for the trip. He put the supercomputer in the subspace he carried with him and the golden Buddha that contained the "Joy of the King of Fudo" in the basement of William's Farm Villa.

Wang Jie asked old Jim to hire an ocean cruise ship and announced that he was going on vacation. Wang Jie left old Jim at home to take full charge of all the property when he was out, and only brought his bodyguard Matthew Clark with him.

For thousands of years, human beings have never stopped exploring and conquering the vast and bottomless oceans, and many unfortunate ships have sunk to the bottom of the sea in the process of maritime trade or simple wealth transfer, and today, as many as 3 million ships carrying huge wealth are sleeping on the bottom of the sea, with a total value of more than trillions.

Wang Jie's first stop was the Caribbean Sea near Cuba, which was a pirate's paradise in the Middle Ages. In August 1622, the Spanish Lady Atoka returned to Spain with a fleet loaded with treasure looted from South America, but the fleet was hit by a hurricane off the coast of Havana, and the Lady Atoka quickly sank to the bottom of the sea. There are 40 tons of treasure on this wreck, including nearly 8 tons of gold and 500 kilograms of gemstones, and the whole family of the original "treasure hunter" Melfhill began to search for it, and they used metal detectors to search inch by inch, and finally found the "Lady Atoka" on July 20, 1985, and Foshir became a rich man.

When Wang Jie arrived at the predetermined sea area on the hired Poseidon cruise ship, the Caribbean monsoon had just passed. Wang Jie put on a wetsuit ordered in advance, let the crew on the cruise ship drop anchor and dock the ship, and plunged into the sea one by one. Originally, the bodyguard Matthew Clark insisted on following the launch, and stayed on the boat despite Wang Jie's repeated objections, but he asked Wang Jie to keep in touch with the underwater radio radio all the time.

The blue underwater scenery is fantastic and beautiful, and beautiful fish swim past Wang Jie from time to time.

Wang Jie took out a metal detector from the subspace he carried and began to search, and finally found the wreck of the "Lady Atoka" behind a large reef, the hull was covered with algae, and half of the hull was still buried in the sand of the seabed. Wang Jie observed carefully, found the location of the warehouse, turned off the radio intercom, and took out a convenient shovel used by Lu Zhishen in the Water Margin from the space, and drilled a big hole in the hull of the boat, at this time he turned on the radio intercom, only to hear the anxious call of the bodyguard Matthew Clark, Wang Jie immediately responded: "My walkie-talkie may not have a good signal, I will go up in a while." ”

Wang Jie took out the underwater searchlight from the subspace, and when he turned it on, he saw that the cabin was full of large wooden boxes, and several broken wooden boxes were scattered with gold coins around them. Wang Jie put all the boxes in the warehouse into the subspace, and didn't even let go of the coins that were scattered, and only teleported out after everything was completed, which took less than half an hour before and after.

After Wang Jie surfaced, the hired crew members pulled the boat with ropes, and after Wang Jie took off his diving suit, one of the crew members jokingly asked, "Master William is here to hunt for treasures!"

"Yes!" Wang Jie said seriously: "I read from the book that there are many sunken pirate treasure ships in the Caribbean. ”

Another crew member said dismissively: "The book is nothing more than fictional stories. Every year, there are more people who come here to hunt for treasures, but they all return in vain. ”

Wang Jie pretended to be disappointed and sighed.

After spending another two days at sea and touring the beaches of Havana, Wang Jie ordered the Poseidon cruise ship to return.

After returning to the farm, Wang Jie piled up all the treasures in the No. 9 warehouse in the basement of the villa, and then he told the housekeeper Old Jim to come down and check it together, and when Old Jim came to the warehouse, he was stunned.

"Master William, what is the matter with all these treasures?" asked Old Jim, stunned.

"This is what I went out to bring back this time, you don't have to ask about the specific process, these things have not been desalted, you have to find a way to deal with it, except for the more collectible ones outside the collection room, the others are sold, recently I urgently need a large amount of money, remember to keep a low profile as much as possible, if anyone asks, say that it was left by my late father." Wang Jie didn't go into too much detail, everyone has their own secrets.

The housekeeper old Jim found that his young master was becoming more and more mysterious.

After staying for a week, Wang Jie took the Poseidon cruise ship again to start a new journey, this time to the Indian Ocean.

After the Tang Dynasty, due to the rise of the Persian and Turkish Empires, the Northwest Silk Road began to be blocked, and the economy of northern China became weaker and weaker, so the Maritime Silk Road was opened. A merchant of the Tang Dynasty loaded porcelain, tea, silk, etc. onto the Arab dhow "Batu Hitam", ready to be exported to Malaysia, India and other places. There is a good chance that the ship will be hit by a storm in Southeast Asian waters and sink on a reef under SH. In this way, the Don ship Batu Sitam fell asleep quietly at the bottom of the sea.

More than 1,200 years later, in 1998, Walter Faun, a 47-year-old German, heard from an Indonesian employee that there was a priceless shipwreck in the waters between Borneo and Sumatra. The speaker has no intention of listening, and Walter Fahn has a keen interest in the wreck. He prepared all kinds of diving equipment and rushed to Indonesia, which changed Walter Fahn's life and brought to the surface the largest group of ancient artifacts in the history of world archaeology. He called the wreck the Batu Sitam shipwreck, and recovered 60,000 pieces of ceramic wine jugs, tea bowls, and gold-stamped tableware carved in relief, all of which are Chinese ceramics from the 9th century. With these discoveries, Walter Fahn suddenly went from an ordinary clerk to a world-class super-rich. However, it is a pity that Professor Geng Baochang, a first-class expert on ancient Chinese ceramics at that time, also believed that these treasures belonged to China, but it is a pity that this shipwreck did not sink in our own territory, but made a German make a windfall.

Wang Jie is going to dig out these treasures in advance, and as for whether to dedicate them to Huaxia, we will talk about it later. He is not at ease with the Forbidden City Museum, because after 2000, the moths in it have resold a lot of donations from overseas Chinese.

After a two-day voyage off the east coast of the United States, the Poseidon finally arrived at the port of Sumatra. After a night of pausing in the port for repairs, Wang Jie let the crew lift anchor and sail to their destination the next morning. However, there was a small accident this time, there were too many items, Wang Jie's portable subspace capacity was limited after all, in order not to expose the secret of the spatial ability, Wang Jie hurriedly contacted Shi Nansheng on Hong Kong Island, Le Yiling and the two let them rent a large warehouse in Xiangjiang Port, and went back and forth three times before storing all the porcelain (the other items on the ship have long been rotted) into the warehouse, and then he bought a mansion covering an area of 1200 square meters in Baijiadao, less than 20 meters away from his original mansion, hired someone to re-alter and strengthen the basement, Wang Jie secretly transferred the porcelain in the warehouse to the basement of the newly purchased mansion in batches.

This incident gave Wang Jie a small lesson, and he also stopped the next treasure hunt. Before his ability was further improved, Wang Jie was not ready to take another risk, this time he had already begun to make the bodyguards and crew suspicious, but fortunately, he hid it well and did not reveal any clues.