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Chapter 683: Clarke's Sailing

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"Hello, Mr. Liu!"

"Hello!"

After the two shook hands briefly, Liu Dong said, "Are you ready for what I want?"

"Yes, Mr. Liu, we are all ready! Two sets of diving equipment, which can provide fresh water and food for a week, as well as barbecue equipment, fishing gear, etc., as long as you want, we have all prepared!"

"I want to take a look!" Liu Dong said.

"Okay, please here!"

Because of the accident at Van Gaal Manor, Picasso's "Portrait of Stein", which Liu Dong should have spent 70 million euros to get his hands on, is now lying in his mustard seed space without spending a penny, so Liu Dong, who is now quite rich, directly spent 5 million euros to rent this medium-sized yacht for a month.

And generously, he also got the highest VIP treatment from the yacht charter company, and the yacht charter company has already helped him solve it without him doing it himself!

After following the other party around the boat, Liu Dong nodded with satisfaction.

"Mr. Liu, don't you really need drivers and service personnel?" the business manager said after some hesitation.

"No, you don't. Isn't there autopilot on board? And I've learned some boat skills myself. It's no problem to drive this yacht!" Liu Dong said without hesitation.

He doesn't need outsiders to intervene in the two-person world between him and Mei Xue. In addition, this trip to sea is mainly for the female tsar to wreck, if there are outsiders, Liu Dong is not easy to act.

And when he was in China, he learned to steer a boat with Chen Mo, although the skills are not very good, but in the vast ocean, as long as it is not a big storm, it should be enough!

Looking at Liu Dong's confident appearance, the business manager couldn't say anything more. After a few words, he drove away.

After getting ready, he glanced at Mei Xue, who was looking at the various rooms in the cabin as light as a butterfly wearing flowers, and let out bursts of exclamations from time to time, Liu Dong smiled and said loudly: "Xue'er, get ready!

"Got it!"

The beauty's light and delicate voice made Liu Dong's mood also become happy.

Soon, the two-story luxury yacht with a length of nearly 50 meters has slowly left the port under the guidance of Liu Dong, leaving Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, according to the route planned by Liu Dong. Head towards the island of Jurm off the coast of Finland, where the wreck took place.

In addition, the reason why Liu Dong did not take a plane first went to Finland and then rented a yacht to find the shipwreck treasure of the female tsar. More of them plan to see if they can use their relics to find a few more valuable shipwrecks in the ocean east of the Netherlands.

You must know that since the beginning of human activities in the ocean, over the past few thousand years, there have been more than 3 million shipwrecks in the ocean, and more than 3,000 shipwrecks with salvage value.

But now there are less than 30 shipwrecks salvaged in the world, which shows how much wealth the ocean contains!

And Liu Dong is aiming at this huge wealth in trillions of dollars.

With the help of Relic Yuanguang, the ocean is a super bank that Liu Dong can withdraw anytime, anywhere, and without risk.

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The Dutch were the 'sea coachmen' who controlled the general trade of the world in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and before the three Anglo-Dutch wars, the British were forced to ask their Dutch cousins if they wanted to fish on their doorstep.

At its peak, there were tens of thousands of ocean-going carriers, more than all the merchant ships of all European countries combined, and with such a busy sea transport, you can imagine how much wealth is hidden in the waters near the Netherlands mainland.

In addition, the average water depth of the North Sea is only 96 meters, and the deepest depth is only 800 meters, most of the area is within the scanning range of Liu Dong Relic Yuanguang, and it is now summer, the weather in the North Sea is not as bad as winter, and there are not many wind and waves, which is a good time to search for wrecks.

However, when Liu Dong really drove the boat to IJssellake, he found that the truth was not as simple as he imagined, there were many shipwrecks, but the relatively vast ocean, even if millions of shipwrecks were thrown into it, it was a needle in a haystack!

However, I have to admit that Liu Dong's relics are too sharp, and the foundation of the Dutch 'sea coachman' is also hard enough, and Liu Dong found the first shipwreck in IJssellake, only 5 kilometers away from the port of Amsterdam.

The wreck is about 20 meters above the sea, and the entire hull of the ship, except for two masts that are less than a meter above the bottom of the sea, has been completely covered by mud and sand.

Judging by the shape of the ship, it should be a Clark ship!

The Clark is a three- or four-masted sailing ship formed in the 15th century. The main feature is its large bow and stern, which resemble a round U-shape when viewed from the side. Sails are suspended from the relatively large bow mast for extra power and balance. The Clark galleon can be said to be a type of merchant ship developed specifically for ocean trade.

The Clark sailing ship was another peak in the history of shipbuilding in the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century, and was one of the pioneers of great geographical discoveries and global trade. It wasn't until the Europeans developed the famous galleon based on this type of ship that she slowly withdrew from the seafaring scene.

In the East, the Clark galleon was also known as the 'House Boat' or 'Black Ship'!

And the Clark sailboat was also the prototype of the battleship.

After the Battle of Diu, naval artillery warfare has been widely recognized, a ship with three masts, a load of 200~600 tons, and even up to 1,000 tons of Clark warships have been widely used.

At this moment, the Clark sailboat that Liu Dong saw was not a warship, but a sailboat about 36 meters long. Three masts. Three decks. A cargo ship with a deadweight of about 600 tons.

The whole ship is not obviously damaged, it is still very intact, from which it can be seen that it should have been blown over by the wind and waves of the North Sea, after all, in addition to the high cost of the Clark sailboat, it is also difficult to drive in addition to the name, generally it is only used between major ports, as well as ocean trade!

However, although this ship is relatively well preserved, it is not the treasure ship that Liu Dong is most looking forward to. It's just that ordinary cargo ships, textiles, food, etc., in the holds, have rotted over a long period of time. The remaining iron farm implements, ship implements and timber are of limited value.

Of course, there are more than 8,000 gold and silver coins on the ship, and some exquisite gold and silver tableware from the 17th century are also very collectible, and there are some porcelain, although there are not many exquisite ones, but it is worth a little money, isn't it?

Of course, the most valuable thing is the whole shipwreck, although it is nowhere near as beautiful as the hundreds of elaborate hull sculptures on the Swedish 'Vasa'. But the entire well-preserved shipwreck is a huge work of art in itself.

"It seems that it is necessary to build a new 'shipwreck museum' on the basis of the Old Summer Palace Museum in the future!"

Come to think of it. Liu Dong walked out of the cabin, looked at Mei Xue who was sitting in the living room watching TV, and smiled: "Xue'er, do you want to swim?"

"Now?" Mei Xue said in surprise.

It's already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the lake has begun to cool down, so it's obviously not a good time to swim.

"Of course!"

"Okay then!" After some hesitation, Mei Xue nodded.

"You wait for me, I'll go change my clothes!"

Soon, the light figure of the beautiful woman appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes again, but after changing into a one-piece swimsuit, Liu Dong was somewhat surprised by the other party's figure.

"It seems that the little girl back then has finally grown into a plump beauty now!" Liu Dong suppressed the flame in his heart that became more and more vigorous after Huanxi Zen broke through further, and said secretly in his heart.

"Let's go!"

Liu Dong's fiery eyes made Mei Xue a little embarrassed, although she liked each other, but after all, the two hadn't seen each other for more than four years, no matter how strong the relationship was at the beginning, it was a little light now, so although she identified the other party, Mei Xue didn't have the idea of giving her a qiē now.

Maybe it's because I'm scared, maybe it's because I want to regain the feeling I had back then.

Looking at the back of the beautiful woman running, Liu Dong also immediately chased after her.

This time the launch was only to salvage the sunken ship, and the secondary thing was swimming, so Liu Dong took a break and took the Clark sailboat into the mustard space, and then set off again with Mei Xue, who was tired of swimming.

Fortunately, this Clark sailboat still has two masts exposed at the bottom of the lake, otherwise Liu Dong would have to work as hard as digging the Yuan Dynasty shipwreck in China.

After setting the yacht to autopilot, Liu Dong took Mei Xue to the recliner on the roof of the boat and sat down.

Looking up at the blue sky, looking at the blue lake, and the occasional cargo ships passing by, coupled with the beautiful woman snuggling beside him, Liu Dong's heart flashed in an instant to simply put down a qiē and take the person he likes to travel around the world until the end of his life.

But this is destined to be just a flash of thought, Liu Dong's own ideological realm has not yet reached that height, and there are still too many things in his heart that he can't let go.

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IJsselmeersee, the largest lake in the Netherlands, is the result of the Dutch people's reclamation of land from the sea, and was originally part of the Zuiderzee and has now become a freshwater lake.

In this area of the busiest sea of the Dutch Golden Age, of course, it has now become an inland lake, and there are certainly many ships buried under the 3,440 square kilometers of water.

However, not all ships have the value of salvage, before leaving IJsselmeer and entering the Wadden Sea, plus the previously salvaged Clark sailboat, Liu Dong only went into the water three times!

The two ships that were salvaged in the back were both Galen ships, an armed merchant ship of about 400 tons, and a battleship of about 1,300 tons, with three decks and more than 70 guns, according to the classification of battleships in the Age of Sail, this should belong to the category of third-class battleships.

The reason why they were salvaged is that both ships are relatively intact, and the other is that the salvage value is relatively high.

In particular, the 400-ton Galen armed merchant ship should have just completed the transaction in the Netherlands, so it not only has more than 10,000 gold and silver coins on board, but also more than a dozen bronze sculptures, as well as hundreds of porcelain and gold and silver tableware and other artistic treasures, with a conservative value of no less than 100 million US dollars.

As for the battleship, it was purely out of Liu Dong's collector's fetish, after all, men liked tall naval warships, even though it was only a seventeenth-century commodity. (To be continued......)