Chapter 808: Scavenged Wealth!
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Chapter 808: The Looted Wealth!
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From 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., Liu Dong searched almost four-fifths of the Florida islands and reefs, launching a total of 14 times and picking up 19 shipwrecks!
Counting the Madelena harvested earlier, there are 20 ships in total! From these 20 shipwrecks, Liu Dong harvested a total of 6.5 tons of gold, 178 tons of silver nuggets and ingots, 177,800 gold coins, and even more silver coins, close to 2.5 million! There are more than 80,000 pieces of gold and silver tableware, candlesticks, religious utensils, and handicrafts, 274 boxes of diamonds with 4.39 million carats, and the number of emeralds is several times that of diamonds, close to 12 tons!
In addition to this, there are about 237 boxes of Chinese export porcelain, about 3,000 pieces!
There are 374 boxes of jadeite, but unfortunately there are not many that can reach the gem level, and the value is not high.
In addition, the number of tin tableware, wine bottles of different shapes, crystal ornaments, cannons, muskets, various swords, compasses, etc., which is not too high, but belongs to a good collection, exceeds 400,000 pieces!
But the value of these 400,000 collectibles is probably not even worth $400 million.
Of course, these 20 shipwrecks still brought Liu Dong more than $2 billion in wealth.
However, except for gold and silver nuggets, the rest of the things will take a long time to be realized, so Liu Dong's harvest in a busy night is 6.5 tons of gold and 178 tons of silver.
Silver is worthless, 178 tons. Sounds like a lot. But the real value is only more than $5 million!
Instead, it was affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks some time ago, and the global stock market crashed. Although the price of gold has recently fallen from the beginning, the price of gold futures in New York is still around $600 per ounce.
Therefore, Liu Dong's 6.5 tons of gold that can be immediately cashed out can be exchanged for about 130 million US dollars for Liu Dong!
It's just that Liu Dong used to feel that there was a lot of money, but now that he has a cash fortune of 6 billion yuan, it is difficult for him to have that sense of excitement in his heart in the face of more than 100 million US dollars.
To say that all the finances, except for most of the gold and silver handicrafts that will be collected in the future, a small part of which are sold. The most valuable ones are the rough diamonds and emeralds, but it's a pity that Liu Dong plans to enrich the material storage of rose jewelry, and he can't realize them for the time being.
"Sir, why do you wake up so early?"
Looking at Melissa, who rubbed her head vigorously with her hands and looked confused and slightly sore on her face, she walked out of the cabin, Liu Dong smiled and nodded.
"I have a habit of waking up early!"
Liu Dong's answer made Melissa a little surprised, after all, he had never seen Liu Dong get up so early before!
"Melissa, remember what happened that night?"
"At night? In the evening, after I had dinner. Originally, I was going to read a book and then go to bed. But before I finished eating, I suddenly felt dizzy, and then ...... And then I fell asleep! As she spoke, Melissa quickly noticed something was wrong.
"Sir......!"
Looking at her shocked appearance, Liu Dong said indifferently: "Gat and Roy, the man who fell into the water who was rescued by us, put anesthetics in the drinks and dinners we drank!" ”
"Oh my gosh, it's horrible!" After half a shock, Melissa suddenly shouted.
"Alright, now that they've been locked up in the cabin by me, you go wake up the others, and then hand these two guys over to the police when we dock in Miami!" Liu Dong commanded.
"Yes, sir, I'll go!"
Looking at Melissa who turned away, Liu Dong looked at the blue sea in the distance, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his face showed a hint of thought.
Handing over Gat and Roy to the police station is the safest way Liu Dong has come up with!
Otherwise, if he lets these two people go himself, it will be difficult to protect those enemies who want to deal with him, kill these two, and then detain the basin on his head!
There is little chance of this happening, but Liu Dong can't help but take precautions early, after all, this is the United States, he is not familiar with his life, and his relationship network is far from deep! Once a death case occurs, I am afraid it will be very troublesome to take yourself out! It can't be too cautious.
Moreover, handing them over to the police is the best outcome, and if they die at the police station, or die after they come out, it has nothing to do with them.
After Melissa woke up the remaining four people and told them the truth, you can imagine that these people were angry! If Liu Dong hadn't stopped him, I'm afraid the two of them would have to be beaten with a stick!
You must know that the most annoying and easiest thing to hate in the world is 'Grace will take revenge'!
"Is the ship that took you to sea nearby?" As he spoke, Liu Dong asked after handing the binoculars in his hand to Roy.
"It's gone!"
After searching the sea for a while, Roy shook his head nervously, although he wanted to point out one to Liu Dong casually, but remembering the heart-wrenching pain last night, he shivered in his heart, and finally told the truth after hesitating.
However, Liu Dong was not surprised by his words.
The people who have enmity with him are not small families, but rich families with names and surnames in the United States, and they have more channels to find out whether they are still alive!
Not to mention anything else, if he really dies, I'm afraid that Melissa and Nord will report the case first, and then the person who will do it will naturally know that the plan has succeeded, otherwise it will fail!
After nodding, Liu Dong took back the binoculars, and then said, "Nord, Harlin, you two go and call the Miami Police Department, and when the police arrive, hand these two guys over to them!" Also, tie them up and don't let them jump into the sea! ”
"Don't worry, boss, wrap it up on me!" The tall Nord patted his chest, and then followed his partner Haring, and the two happily tied Roy and the two into rice dumplings with a cable!
When Liu Dong drove the boat and parked the Gonggong on the dock, in less than five minutes, the police car of the Miami Police Department had already arrived here, boarded the boat to ask about it, and asked Liu Dong and others to make a record, and then took the leftover lunch from last night, and after collecting evidence on the spot, they took people away!
After sailing at sea for nearly a week, the food stored in the refrigerator on the ship was almost consumed, and it was just in time to replenish it, so after the police left, Liu Dong sent Haring and a maid named Mei Li ashore and asked them to go to the supermarket to buy necessities.
"Boss, look, there are a lot of people around, it's very lively!" Nord, who was standing on the bow deck of the ship and looking out, suddenly pointed to the dock, about a hundred meters away from them, where the crowd gathered, and said excitedly with surprise.
In the direction of his finger, Liu Dong naturally saw the crowd gathered on the shore, and there were about a hundred of them!
In foreign countries, it is rare to encounter such a scene!
"You watch the ship here, I'll go and see!"
"Okay!" Nord whispered.
Although there is some reluctance, who calls someone the boss!
Liu Dong didn't have the heart to take into account the thoughts of this temporary subordinate, because he had discovered a very interesting thing just now!
After coming to the shore, Liu Dong soon came to the side of the crowd that was gathering more and more people.
"Who said that only Chinese like to watch the excitement! It is clear that the curiosity of the Americans is no worse than that of the Chinese! Shaking his head, Liu Dong stepped towards the crowd.
With his strength, naturally no one could stop him, so he was quickly squeezed by Liu Dong to the center of the crowd.
Surrounded by the crowd was an excited and nervous young black man wearing a plaid shirt on top, a pair of half-cut shorts on the bottom, and a pair of slightly worn sandals barefoot.
Of course, the most interesting thing is a seashell about twice the size of an adult's fist that he held in his hand!
The reason why this black boy was surrounded by everyone was that he found a diamond in this seashell!
It is this diamond that makes many people who want to fish a wreck from Florida's golden beaches, like Mel. Fisher-Price surrounded the sea adventurers who had made a fortune salvaging the 'Lady Atoka'.
Looking at their jealous eyes reddening, Liu Dong chuckled and shook his head, after last night's hard work, nearly half of the wrecks with salvage value in the waters around Florida have been fished up by him, and the rest are either in the deep sea, Liu Dong can't salvage them for the time being, or he hasn't had time to find them yet. In short, after being searched by him, it is estimated that the name of Florida's Golden Beach will decline in the future!
When the time comes, more than 90% of the adventurers who want to make a fortune from the bottom of the sea will change jobs!
However, these are not Liu Dong's concerns!
Now he is more interested in the diamond in the hands of the black boy, because it is so precious that Liu Dong does not want to miss it.
"Eric, take out your diamond and show it to us, anyway, with so many people present, everyone won't grab it!" A tall, muscular black man said loudly.
But looking at the playful look on his face, and the ill-intentioned look in his eyes, a fool can guess that what he just said was a fart!
"Yes, Eric! Take it out and show us! We're not going to grab it! The people around him also chimed in.
In the face of these people, the young man named Eric not only did not let go, but hugged him tighter, although he did not speak, but from the expression on his face, it could be seen that he did not trust these partners who had the same skin color as him in the slightest.
If it weren't for the fact that this is the dock and there are police officers maintaining order next to him, I'm afraid the diamond in his hand would have been robbed a long time ago.
A Miami native and black, who dropped out of school at the age of 15, Eric knows more about the chaos than anyone else!
………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)