Along the way, Wu Tianyuan also opened his eyes, and it was the first time to see such a scale of the Rosewood Professional Museum, the corner tower of the Forbidden City, the Qianqiu Pavilion and the Wanchun Pavilion in the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City, showing the royal style. Pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info Shanxi Wutai Mountain Longquan Temple archway, 320 dragons have different postures, exquisite round carving, relief, openwork, the world is rare; The antique Beijing courtyard house, the Shanxi Feiyun Tower, and the large architectural model of the old Beijing ancient city gate are all available.

"This is the exhibition area on the first floor, which fully displays the characteristics of red sandalwood furniture from the elements of shape, art, material, rhyme, etc., and allows the public to understand and recognize red sandalwood culture and furniture through multimedia interaction."

The second floor displays the essence of Song and Yuan Dynasty furniture culture, the connotation of literati craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, and comprehensively displays the pinnacle of Chinese classical furniture, as well as the materials, design, craftsmanship and cultural connotation of Ming-style furniture.

The third floor comprehensively displays the literati atmosphere of Jiangnan garden furniture, and shows the living life of the four talents of Jiangnan and the culture of mahogany furniture.

"The fourth floor displays the classic display and furniture of contemporary neoclassical rosewood furniture in important places, halls of fame, and art museums, showing dozens of high-end furniture exhibition areas from different countries, different levels, and different choices, and experiencing the cultural connotation of classic furniture in the blend of history and reality, and enjoying a strong cultural atmosphere and quality of life."

"On the fifth floor, you can enjoy high-level leisure and entertainment, tea tasting, and music appreciation, and the club integrates thousand-year-old Chinese medicinal diet, physiotherapy, and health care, and provides themed cultural accommodation services, and everything you hear and see is the history and culture related to the rosewood culture."

Not to mention anything else, Chen Lihua really loves red sandalwood, a museum basically makes all the projects that can be developed and utilized to the fullest, and even Wu Tianyuan admires it.

Wu Tianyuan's main target is still Ming and Qing dynasty furniture, there are at least a few hundred pieces here, he looked at it again, there are a few to the generation, most of them are antique. In the end, 200 pieces were selected and purchased in a one-time package.

All the collections are shipped back to the art center and stored in the storeroom, where they will be used for sure. Originally, Wu Tianyuan was going to continue to go to several other private museums, but suddenly Lao Qiao made a phone call and asked him to change his itinerary.

"You received an invitation from the Odyssey Company to attend the celebration party?"

"Last month, Odyssey, the world's deep-sea shipwreck salvage giant, announced that they had found the largest shipwreck treasure ever recovered by mankind on a wreck in the Atlantic Ocean, worth more than $500 million!"

Lao Qiao said with some envy: "Odyssey has always been the boss of the circle, both hardware and talent are second to none. Every year, they take the lead in organizing an industry gathering to exchange experiences among peers. ”

Wu Tianyuan was also very interested, and saw the demeanor of the salvage overlord with his own eyes, and the two of them set off to New York together to attend a banquet.

"This is the famous treasure hunter Mr. Wu? I have admired the daimyo for a long time! ”

The founder, Greg, personally welcomed the arrival of Wu Tianyuan, and he had already heard thunder, and this time he invited Lao Qiao in the hope of meeting the treasure hunting master in the middle of the day.

"Mr. Greg is an old-timer in the circle, and this time I came to learn more from you."

The three of them came to the VIP room to chat, Wu Tianyuan watched the salvage clip played on the screen with great interest, Greg explained with a smile: "On the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, the 250-foot-long treasure hunting ship "Odyssey Explorer" is working hard, you see that floating next to the ship is a huge underwater remote-controlled robot, and that high-tech thing is the size of a truck. It will be sunk thousands of feet below the sea, at the site of the shipwreck, codenamed "Black Swan", and we believe that when it comes to the surface, it will bring back more than $500 million worth of gold and silver treasures, and more. ”

"Oh? How did Mr. Greg determine the harvest of this salvage? ”

Greg whispered, "In fact, thousands of silver coins have been salvaged by robots, and the value of $500 million has been calculated in this way." About 500,000 silver coins and hundreds of gold coins were found in fairly good condition on the wreck, and Odyssey consulted renowned numismatic experts, who estimated that the average market value of each silver coin was about $1,000. Since most of the coins have not yet been recovered from the water, we have to refuse to disclose the location and identity of the wreck, as well as the origin of the gold and silver coins, for safety reasons. ”

"At the beginning of the salvage, there was some trouble, the newly bought foam buoyancy was too buoyant, and the underwater remote control robot could not dive. The crew had to hoist it onto the deck and tie 40 pounds of lead weights to the float ring, but it still didn't work, and the robot was like a cork floating on the water, staggering and refusing to dive. ”

"Then someone came up with the idea, try dumbbells? Dumbbells were brought from the gym in the cabin, tightly tied, and the underwater remote-controlled robot was lowered to the surface. Eventually, the robot's engine spun and it slowly dived to the bottom of the ocean. ”

Greg said proudly: "Don't be in a hurry to envy the discovery of other people's $500 million, you must know that among the tens of thousands of shipwrecks, only a very few, less than one percent of the wrecks have circulating wealth, such as gold and jewelry." Such a large project is not something that can be encountered casually, and it took Odyssey a full 12 years before finding its first valuable shipwreck, the Republic. ”

"My partner, Morris, and I were laymen, the owner of an advertising agency in Florida and a real estate developer, who had nothing to do with the salvage of the shipwreck. The only thing they had in common was that they liked to sail boats, so they became good friends. ”

"In 1986, a boat broker told them that a college in Florida was going to sell an 85-foot expedition boat for $100,000, and we bought it. At first, I just used the boat as a leisure tool, drinking gin on the deck and watching the sunset or something. ”

"It didn't take long for me to find out that the ship was also equipped with underwater expedition equipment, so I started renting the boat to some scientists and underwater treasure hunters who were doing underwater research. After seeing many stories of other people's treasure hunts, the two of us also decided to experience the fun of treasure hunting ourselves. In the waters of Florida, a shipwreck was actually found, but it was unfortunate that there was almost no possessions on board. This success sparked our interest and we decided to make the search for the treasure of the shipwreck a business under the sea. ”

Even Old Joe had heard these stories for the first time, and he was curiously waiting for Greg to read the following, looking forward to knowing their family history.

"The purpose of the company is to use treasure hunting as the development of oil fields! It's so different from other businesses that no one can be sure when the big investment will pay off. From the outset, however, the company set a principle: it hoped that Odyssey's process of finding the treasure would be as regular as Exxon's discovery of oil. ”

"When we can keep finding new wrecks, the face of submarine wreck salvage will change, it's no different from oil companies discovering oil fields, it's a risk at first, but as long as they find the first oil field and keep repeating their discoveries and accumulating experience and technology, it's going to be successful." (To be continued.) )