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Fan Wuxian was also very surprised by these new discoveries. He didn't expect that there were so many things on the ship, and some of them were really unheard of and unseen.

There are also many domestic experts who come to research, especially many of them are old experts in the domestic archaeological field, not the kind of pseudo-experts who come out to deceive by publishing a book under their name.

Fan Wuxian received these people very warmly, and visited the various unearthed artifacts that had been sorted out together.

The wooden chess pieces unearthed by the sea boat, aroused everyone's special attention, this is the witness of the cultural life of the boatmen, the unearthed chess pieces totaled more than 60 pieces, a kind of Yin carving plus the round frame filled in red, another kind of ink book or double hook Zhu book, there are generals, soldiers, elephants, cars, cannons, horses, soldiers and other names, belonging to three sets of different forms of chess remains.

The chess pieces found in the sea ships can show that the chess has been finalized in the Song Dynasty, and the style of the game of the game prevailed in the palace and even the sailing ship, and they were the pastime and entertainment of the crew.

Another interesting discovery is that people have sifted out thousands of shells from the sea mud in the cabin, as well as a few pieces of coral, including ringed shells, hedge snails, crystal snails, silver mouth concave snails, milk jade snails and so on. Dazzling and endearing. The colorful shells mark the 10,000-mile route of the ancient ship, and they are also the ornaments and decorations of the crew, and the analysis of the shells can roughly deduce the places that the seafarers have been.

An expert who can be called an old man in the domestic sea ship archaeology field said to Fan Wuxian, "The ocean-going cargo ships of the Song Dynasty mainly sailed from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean. The tropical climate is hot, and the fire is burning and the mouth is dry. When a boat is about to cross the ocean, a water tank must be set up, and a sweet spring will be stored for food and drink, so that the ocean will not be too worried about the wind, but the presence or absence of water will be the ear of life and death. Due to the relatively large demand for fresh water, the ship was equipped with a water tank, and the seventh warehouse of the ancient ship of Houzhu contained fresh water for drinking. Drinking water is so precious that it is necessary to have a planned rationing for individuals to save some in case the fresh water tank is damaged, leaking or other accidents. ”

The reason why the old experts say this is because the ancient ships of Hengshan Port have unearthed dozens of labels with "water records", such as "certain water records", and some of them are also tied with small ropes, which may be the marks of the crew's personal storage of fresh water. Many of the jars and bottles with lids in the excavated objects may be the containers used by individuals to hold water, and the small octagonal wooden plaque with the words "×× Water Record" is likely to double as the wooden lid of this kind of water jar.

Actually, it was because of the long time spent navigating the sea in the past. In terms of marine equipment, all kinds of living facilities are also fully taken into account, and Zhou Qufei of the Song Dynasty recorded in the "Lingwai Dai Answer" that hundreds of people in a boat accumulate a year's grain and make wine in it.

The relics unearthed from this Song Dynasty sea ship vividly show people a picture of life scenes: small checkered sacks were once filled with rice and other grains, and the pig, sheep, fish and bird bones contained in some cabins are obviously the remnants of the bones eaten by the crew, and the bird bones also reveal the long sea journey of green water and flying birds.

The small-mouthed clay vase should be used for wine, and the boatmen who have been dealing with the wind and waves for many years, aged wine is a must-have drink.

Scattered in the cabins, there are also some peach pits, lychee pits, plum pits, bayberry pits, ginkgo pits, olive kernels, coconut shells, etc., which clearly show that hundreds of years ago, these summer fruits abundant on the southern coast enriched the life of seafarers on the water. Increases hydration and nutrients.

Although Hengshan Port may not be like the Quanzhou Port in the Song Dynasty, specifically taking the South Sea route, but judging from the various goods carried on the ship, or the destination of the ship is not only one, after all, the route sailed by the sea ships of the Song Dynasty was opened up by the navigators of the past dynasties through difficulties and obstacles.

At that time, the ships of Quanzhou Port were loaded with silk, porcelain, copper and iron, medicinal materials and other items, and brought back spices, jewelry, ivory, rhino horn, tortoiseshell and other specialties from Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and other places.

And in this newly discovered Song Dynasty ship, also unearthed more than 2,000 catties of spices, sandalwood, agarwood, true incense, **, ambergris, as well as pepper, tortoiseshell, betel nut, etc., most of these items are produced in the spice corner of Srivijaya, Champa and East Africa, which is an important material evidence of the trafficking of imported goods by maritime merchants in the Song Dynasty.

"It seems that when we were in the Song Dynasty, we began to do cross-border trade, transporting goods from the South Seas to the East to make money, haha-" Fan Wuxian couldn't help but laugh after listening to the comments of these old experts.

With so much harvest in front of him, a large part of it will be included in the pocket of Fan's Investment Group, and he can't help but feel bad, which is a lot of income.

The most rare thing is that the ambergris found is very well preserved and white.

The first country in the world to discover ambergris was ancient China.

In the Han Dynasty, fishermen caught some gray-white fragrant waxy drift in the sea, which is the finished ambergris after many years of natural degeneration, ranging from a few catties to dozens of catties, there is a strong fishy smell, but after drying, it can emit a lasting aroma, and when lit, it is even more fragrant, more fragrant than musk.

Some local officials. After the acquisition, it was presented to the emperor in front of the treasure, and was used as a spice in the court, or as a medicine.

At that time, no one knew what kind of treasure it was, so they consulted the alchemists in the palace, and they thought that it was the saliva that the dragon in the sea shed while sleeping, dripping into the sea water and solidifying, and after a long time, it became ambergris.

It is also said that during the Yin Shang period, people had mixed ambergris and musk with plant spices to make sachets and hang them on the head of the bed or on the body.

The real discovery of the secret of ambergris is the fishermen of the island of Kotra in Saudi Arabia, the fishermen on this island have to catch sperm whales for a living, ambergris is actually the excrement of sperm whales, once, an old fisherman found a piece of ambergris when he cut open the intestines of a sperm whale.

At the time, the fishermen thought that it was swallowed from the sea and did not take it seriously, but the news spread and attracted the attention of marine biologists, who immediately conducted in-depth research and finally solved the mystery of ambergris.

It turns out that large squid and octopus have tough jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths. It is not easy to digest, when the sperm whale swallows large mollusks, the jaws and tongue teeth accumulate in the stomach and intestines, which stimulates the intestines, and the intestines secrete a special wax-like substance, which wraps up the residues of the food, and slowly forms ambergris.

Scientists have found clotted intestinal fluid and foreign bodies in the intestines of an 18-meter-long sperm whale, which is believed to be the beginning of ambergris, and some sperm whales will vomit the coagulation, and some will be excreted from the intestines. Only a small percentage of sperm whales keep ambergris in their bodies.

Ambergris discharged into the sea is light black at first, under the action of sea water, it gradually becomes gray, light gray, and finally becomes white, white ambergris is of the best quality, it has to be soaked in seawater for more than 100 years, and all the impurities are floated out in order to become the top grade of ambergris.

Ambergris taken from the intestines of a killed sperm whale is of no value, and it must be floated and soaked in seawater for decades to gain a high status, and some ambergris blocks are soaked in seawater for more than a hundred years.

Since ancient times, ambergris has been expensive, almost equivalent to gold, and if you pick up white ambergris, it is even more priceless.

However, to identify ambergris, one must have relevant knowledge of biology, ecology and chemistry, as well as long-term experience in dealing with the ocean, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Now, all kinds of ingredients in ambergris can be synthesized, but they cannot completely replace the ambergris given to humans by the sea, because the current human technology has not yet reached the wonder and harmony of nature, especially the ambergris in natural ambergris, which will form a thin film on the skin after being added to perfume, which can make the fragrance last for a long time.

Today, the international market for natural ambergris is completely controlled by France, a major perfume country, and the purchase price per kilogram is around 50,000 francs, and the price of the fragrance company after processing is more than 100,000 francs per kilogram. However, with the large-scale killing of sperm whales by humans, the resources of ambergris have been decreasing year by year, and now the annual trade volume of the world has been reduced to less than 100 kilograms, and the quality is also declining year by year, which is completely not at the original level.

The white ambergris that has been preserved for nearly a thousand years and is still intact, and it is a ambergris with this period of history, it is really difficult to estimate how valuable it is.

However, Fan Wuxian has never had the idea of auctioning off this batch of ambergris, it is best to keep this thing for his own use, since the world can't find this kind of thousand-year-old ambergris, then he has nothing to do to light a little smoke, even if it is an emperor-like enjoyment.

Some artifacts with more cultural value have been found in the wreck. For example, some of the lacquerware of the Song Dynasty, beautifully made for a while, so that the archaeologists who rushed to hear the news were amazed, for these things, Fan Wuzhi is very generous, as long as it is recognized as a national treasure, they will all be given away, directly to the National Museum.

In fact, Fan Wuxian knows very well in his heart that pure resource things, such as these thousand-year-old ambergris and the like, although precious, are difficult to define into cultural relics, so he can take them for himself without hesitation, but those things that archaeologists look at and blush, cultural relics that can awaken the memory of an era, and he has no need to fight with others for any ownership.

The excavation of the shipwreck has been going on, and most of it has been cleaned up on the eve of the National Day, but looking at the current situation, they probably plan to salvage the entire ship, restore it as much as possible, and put it on display in the museum.

Such a large thousand-year-old ship itself is an important material evidence for the study of the maritime culture of the Song Dynasty.

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