"Bang dang...... That's it, let's see for yourself. Hong Tao dragged the bottom of the cloth bag, and a lump of stuff wrapped in mud and sand fell heavily on the conference table.

"Oh God...... Don't be so rough, it's ...... It's ......" Jim could see at a glance what these shell-like things were, and his hands wanted to touch them but were afraid that they would break them, and he stretched them out as if he didn't know where to start.

"Bang! bang...... This is a pile of gold coins, what are you afraid of, aren't we just here to find them!hahahaha, take it casually, it's okay, it's not bad!" Hong Tao looked at Jim's virtue and was very anxious, this was just a small step in his pretending, everyone didn't touch it, this process was too slow. In order to let himself pretend to be forced as soon as possible, Hong Tao picked up his right palm, like a palm breaking a boulder, and slapped it on the pile of mud lumps. In an instant, the mud on the conference table was splashed, and the fine mahogany table top was scratched, and the original lump of dirt was now a large patch, scattered on the conference table, revealing more than a dozen yellow round metal objects.

"Ah......" A room of people was petrified in an instant, including Levin, all forgot about Hong Tao's existence, their eyes looked directly at the yellow cancan on the table, and there was more than one sound of swallowing saliva.

"This ...... This is a gold coin from the bottom of the sea? Pope's gold coin...... This is a peerless treasure!" the Puyol brothers were the first to react, tremblingly stretched out their hands, picked up the largest gold coin, tears fell, and they almost knelt down and kowtowed to the gold coin.

"Then this is mine, count it as my private collection......" Hong Tao was quicker this time, and snatched the largest gold coin from the Puyol brothers' hands with a whoosh. Straight into his pocket. Since it is a peerless treasure, it must be precious. I'll talk about how precious it is later, and I'll rest assured if I put it in my pocket first.

"This is history, it's a cultural relic, it's a ......" The Puyol brothers didn't expect Hong Tao to be so simple. It was definitely impossible to snatch it back, but he still stretched out his hand, hoping to awaken Hong Tao's conscience and take the initiative to hand over the gold coin.

"History and artifacts are on the table, and more are sleeping on the bottom of the sea, don't give up the whole forest because of one tree. Now let's talk about salvage, what do you say, Mr. Jim?" of course Hong Tao can't give it, even if he calls the Pope to him, he won't take it out. As for how to divert other people's attention, it's very simple, one sentence is enough.

"That's right! I'm going to get the charts, Dan, I'm going to get the computer, we're going to get rich!" Jim immediately jumped up from his chair and ran out as he arranged the work of his men, leaving the Puyol brothers alone.

When the voice of the waves rang out again in the conference room. The attitude of everyone present has obviously changed, not to mention a 180-degree reversal, at least 90 degrees, even Levin is looking at the gold coin. While looking at the historical materials brought by the Puyol brothers, I listened very carefully to Hong Tao's vernacular. What kind of inspiration, reverse analysis, and mastery of historical data, anyway, the words that can express wisdom in English are basically used up by Hong Tao. At this time, Hong Tao really hated English. There are too few adjectives in this broken language to show his tall image vividly. If this were to be changed to Chinese, the adjectives alone would be enough for him to speak for an hour.

Now Hong Tao even says that he is God. No one will stand up against it, and this is called the right of the successful. You can only sit down honestly and listen to him brag about X, but if there is a trace of dissatisfaction, he will immediately pick up a gold coin and shake it at you, this thing cannot be refuted, you have the ability to find out the gold coin! So many people, so many equipment, is not as efficient as a small submarine, what else can be said? Even if Hong Tao himself said that he was completely lucky, and he had no wisdom at all, others would not believe it. People will definitely wonder if this grandson is hiding something from him when he says he is so incompetent, this is called habitual thinking, and everyone is the same.

Of course, there is a limit to bragging, endless blowing will be counterproductive, when you can blow, when you have to stop, waiting for others to digest and absorb, this is a science, Hong Tao has at least a bachelor's degree in this science. After talking for more than an hour, he felt that the heat was almost over, and immediately handed over the initiative to the Puyol brothers and Jim, who first researched the origin, historical origin and historical period of the gold coins, and determined that these gold coins were likely to be the goods loaded on the gold fleet, and then Jim began to analyze and discover the hydrological characteristics of the gold coin sea area according to the GPS positioning data provided by Hong Tao, so as to come up with a more suitable in-depth exploration plan.

At present, large-scale excavation is not possible, because there is no excavation permit, and these gold coins Jim is unwilling to show the Spanish government, he is afraid that after the other party sees it, not only will not only not issue an excavation permit, but also have to protect this water, and no one is allowed to dig it, then it will be in vain. Therefore, it is necessary to find evidence other than gold coins, such as some equipment on the ship, which only proves that there are ancient shipwrecks here, but not about the gold fleet, so that you can get an excavation certificate. After all these treasures have been excavated and shipped back to the United States, and then the excavation list is submitted to the United States government, even if the Spanish government has an idea, there is nothing that can be done. It can't go to the United States to get these treasures back, and the only way is to file a lawsuit in the American courts and settle the dispute through legal means.

Even if the lawsuit is won in the end, the Spanish government will have to pay enough salvage and exploration costs, and it will have to come up with about 15% of the items as a reward. So in any case, before all these treasures are shipped away, it is definitely impossible to let others know the news, so in the conference room, Hong Tao confiscated all everyone's mobile phones, and Lada is responsible for keeping them, and whoever wants to get in touch with the outside world must use the communication center on the Mouse Superman to talk. And all the people on the ship can't leave the ship casually, as long as you don't die, you have to stay on the ship, not only they can't leave the ship, but outsiders can't get on the ship, and before all this work is done, the Christmas cooks and women are gone.

"It's still hard for me to imagine how such a large fleet would take such a big risk to sail into such a narrow channel, knowing that entering this sea under the nautical conditions of the time is like letting your Mouse Superman pass through the reef now, unless the commander of the fleet is crazy!" Jim was still struggling with where the wreck would be found, because it was very, very unreasonable to infer from his expertise.

"God knows, if everyone had followed the rules, there wouldn't have been so many shipwrecks in the world. People make mistakes, maybe the Anglo-Dutch fleet was chasing too closely at that time, and the captain made a mistake as soon as he panicked. It doesn't matter what the ancients thought, what matters is how we go there unknowingly to search for evidence for excavation. My little submarine has lost its snorkel, cannot work underwater for long periods of time on its own power, and has no high-powered searchlights. Hong Tao didn't think about this kind of question that never had a definite answer, he was a gamer, not an archaeologist, and the captain of the ship back then could think whatever he wanted, anyway, he was sunk here.

"It's not a problem, you have deep diving equipment on board, although you don't need deep diving equipment at this depth, but it can keep me at the bottom of the sea longer, even if I don't have the help of the submarine, I am sure to get the job done, my nephew can go into the water with me, he is also my good helper!" Dan was unimpressed by Hong Tao's worries, there are several treasure exploration teams in the world that can be equipped with this kind of small submarines specially used for scientific research purposes, and most of them are not manually explored.

"I'll go too, I'm going to see it myself, maybe there's only one chance in my life!" Jim also took a leap of the leap to try, for him, treasure hunting is both a job and a hobby, if he can complete the work and satisfy the hobby, is what he hopes for the most.

"To be honest, I wanted to go down and have a look, and I think the Puyol brothers had the same idea as me. I'm going to call Amundsen, the snorkel must be delivered in advance!!" Everyone's eagerness to try also affected Levin, or that man was a social animal, and his emotions would be contagious. Diving into the icy Atlantic Ocean in a diving suit, he definitely couldn't do it, so he could only fight the idea of a small submarine, as for what he could do to blackmail Amundsen, that was his ability.

At about 12 o'clock in the meeting, Hong Tao went back to sleep, leaving Jim and the others to guard a table of gold coins and talk about tomorrow's search plan with great interest. The coins were registered, and Jim would soak them in a weak acid solution and lock them in a safe, which would have to be registered for whoever took them. Of course, the largest papal gold coin in Hong Tao's pocket is not on the list, it is the exclusive property of the discoverer, and he has the right to choose one as his collection, although there is no legal law, but in the treasure hunter industry, this is the unspoken rule. Hong Tao likes this unspoken rule very much, it seems that the unspoken rules are not all bad, and the specific quality depends on your position.

At half past five the next day, Hong Tao was woken up, and Jim's team was already in the hangar ready to go, just waiting for Hong Tao to pilot his small submarine. Although the small submarine has lost its snorkel and power supply, it is a submarine after all, even without external support, it can stay underwater for more than 40 hours by relying on its own electricity and oxygen, and can work continuously for about 10 hours with the mechanical arm and lighting equipment turned on, which is still very useful for cleaning up obstacles on the seabed. (To be continued......)