Chapter Ninety-Two: Silver Ingots
After eating the corpse of the ironclad snake kingfish, the big lobster suddenly jumped from the deck into the sea, making Jiang Tian inexplicable, and quickly switched his consciousness to the big lobster's body.
The big lobster passed a vague consciousness to Jiang Tian, although it was not very clear, Jiang Tian probably knew what the big lobster went to the sea for, it turned out that it had found a treasure.
Make Jiang Tian funny, a lobster, where do you know what is a treasure and not a baby!
However, remembering that Tang Qing's titanium alloy suitcase was discovered by the lobster and it was the one who took the initiative to contact him, Jiang Tian was curious, could it be that the lobster really has a high IQ, a rare genius of the lobster family for thousands of years?
Soon, the lobster came to the bottom of the sea, where the terrain was steep, the trenches were criss-crossed, some of them were even one or two hundred meters deep, and the lobster was crawling towards a large trench.
The trench is about 100 meters wide, and the ground is full of dark rocks and unknown plankton, and the water is relatively turbid, and at the slightest movement, many fine particles are stirred by the sea.
The visibility underneath is very low, and even with the eyes of a large lobster, you can only see things vaguely about ten meters away.
The big lobsters walked all the way along the trench, and after ten minutes, Jiang Tian finally knew what the big lobster wanted to take him to see.
In front of him, there was a pile of broken wood, piled high together, and it was vaguely clear that this was a sunken ship, and the ancient sailing ship, from the long mast, you could vaguely see the majesty of this ship.
I don't know how many years it has been washed by the sea, and I can't tell how long the wreck was.
Jiang Tian smiled bitterly, no wonder the big lobster would pass on such a consciousness to himself, and he was excited when he saw the shipwreck, it turned out that he had a criminal record, and the original day/this battle/ship was this guy who went in to search, and wanted to engrave it in its consciousness: The owner likes this thing very much!
Jiang Tian asked the lobster to crawl around the wreck, and then commanded the lobster to start tinkering and cleaning up all the planks around the wreck.
Since you're here, you naturally have to search and see, maybe you'll really be found by yourself.
Even with the 4-meter-long size of a large lobster, it is still a huge project to clean up such a large pile of shipwrecks.
Two hours later, thanks to the efforts of the hard-working cleaner of the lobster, the stray planks were finally removed from the seawater, revealing the keel of the wreck.
The lobster climbed onto the wreck, "clicking", many wooden planks could not bear the weight of the lobster, and they were trampled to pieces.
With the current size of the lobster, it can no longer burrow into the wreck, so it can only search a little, but find nothing, and there is nothing worth noting.
Just as Jiang Tian was about to leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a large box below the deck, which had rotted, revealing the silver-white things inside.
"Huh?"
Jiang Tian let the big lobster crawl over, then waved his claws to clean up the obstacles in front of him, and then opened the box, the box collapsed at the touch of a button, the wooden board shattered, and the silver-white things flowed out one by one.
"It's a silver ingot!"
Jiang Tian quickly recognized the thing in front of him, the bright ancient silver ingot.
Since he knew what kind of treasure it was, and he didn't need a lobster to clean it up, Jiang Tian directly switched his consciousness back to his body, and then gave instructions to the pirate ship: salvage silver!
This trench is only about 300 meters at most, and the pirate ship can salvage the sea area at a depth of 800 meters, and there is no doubt that the next moment all the silver ingots on the bottom of the sea will be collected into the storage room.
Jiang Tian was worried that there were other treasures on the shipwreck, so he let the lobster sabotage, wielding his meteor hammer to continuously smash the shipwreck, and suddenly the sea water in the trench flowed, the silt rolled, and it was turbid.
Some timid sea fish were so frightened that they fled in all directions, and if these sea fish could speak, they would probably have to cross their waists and scold the big lobster for this neurosis.
In the end, the entire wreck was dismantled by the lobster, but this time there was no receipt, except for some daily necessities and a few rotten scabbards and rusty knives, it seems that this was still an official ship.
After telling the big lobster to go back to his cave honestly, Jiang Tian pulled out his consciousness, returned to himself, and then took out the silver ingot.
"Bell, bell!"
The sound of the silver ingots crashing against the deck was heavy, which showed the weight of the silver ingots.
Jiang Tian squatted down, fiddling with silver ingots, a total of 20 large silver ingots, some of which were printed with the words "made in the year of Qianlong", and some were printed with dragon patterns, and 20 silver ingots of the Qing Dynasty were placed on the deck, neatly like 20 small boats.
Perhaps because they have been soaked in seawater for a long time, they have been corroded by seawater, or because silver oxidation has occurred, and many silver ingots have a layer of black and off-white marks on them, which cannot be rubbed off by hand.
This made Jiang Tian's heart fall from the clouds into the abyss all of a sudden, if it was a round and bright, full of spirit, and colorful silver ingots, there would definitely be people chasing after them to buy it, Jiang Tian remembered that in April last year, there was a news report that a 50 taels of Qing Dynasty treasure silver was auctioned at a sky-high price of 3.88 million.
Of course, this kind of price is rare, and the treasure silver is perfect in terms of fineness and other aspects, but coincidentally, in March this year, another silver ingot was auctioned for a high price of 2.2 million.
This at least shows that the value of the completed and fine-grained Daqing silver ingot collection is between 2 million and 4 million.
And Jiang Tian looked down at the 20 silver ingots he fished up, he really wanted to cry without tears, he thought he had made a fortune, but he didn't expect it to be of this color, but he was afraid that no Tibetan friend would spend a lot of money to shoot a blackened silver ingot.
Back to the rented house, Jiang Tian took out the electronic scale he used to weigh himself on weekdays, put all 20 large silver ingots on it, and then the number on the electronic scale displayed: 33.31kg, on average, about 3.3 catties.
Jiang Tian searched the Internet for the conversion between two and two catties in the Qing Dynasty, half a catty and eight taels, one catty is equal to 16 taels, then 3.3 catties is equivalent to 52.8 taels.
There must be an error in this, but Jiang Tian can be sure that these 20 are all 50 taels of silver, and when you turn it over, the silver ingot is like a horse's hoof, no wonder you can often hear the "horseshoe print" in film and television dramas, which originally came from here, referring to 50 taels of silver.
Jiang Tian searched for information about silver ingots on the Internet and learned that the fineness of silver ingots in the Ming and Qing dynasties was generally between 95-98, and the appearance had a special luster and warmth of silver.
Due to the residual gas in the fan during casting, there are irregular gas cavities at the bottom of the silver ingots, commonly known as honeycomb. Honeycomb is an important reference condition for authenticity and fineness. The honeycomb is deep, the hole is round and bright, the spirit is full, and the color luster is good. If the honeycomb is gray and black, the silver ingot is most likely low-colored.
Needless to say, those that were auctioned off at high prices were all silver ingots of excellent fineness, Jiang Tian picked up his silver ingots and looked at them, and the honeycomb was gray and black, all of which had oxidized
Inadvertently, Jiang Tian saw someone on the Internet saying that if the silver jewelry is oxidized, there is a way to repair it, and immediately click on it, well, there are various methods, some say to use toothpaste, some say to use salt water, the last post attracted Jiang Tian's attention, saying that boiling in a pressure cooker can remove the silver oxide on the surface and restore the fineness of the silver itself.
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