Chapter 321: Mughal Treasures
Wu Tianyuan casually comforted a few words, no way, dog eats dog, the old routine of black eating black. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info just remind him of one thing, that is, in the future, try to go to the high seas for treasure hunting, and less trouble!
"How's the boss? Are you more interested in our salvage shipwreck? ”
Lao Qiao brought Wu Tianyuan to the Odyssey banquet this time, and his selfish intention was to hope that this treasure hunting master would pay more attention to the sinking ship! Awa Maru and Russian gold made Lao Qiao very confident in Wu Tianyuan, and he was definitely the richest treasure hunter.
But a few months have passed, and the new boss has not moved any more? What kind of antique porcelain are you going to tinker with? What's the future of that? It takes half a day's effort, and the money you make is not as much as going to sea once!
So he deliberately took Wu Tianyuan to see the Odyssey Company, and the income of 500 million US dollars from a salvage was 500 million US dollars, how many broken porcelain can be burned to earn back?
Wu Tianyuan also understands Lao Qiao's thoughts, after all, he cooperates with others, and if he doesn't see any movement for a few months, he will naturally be anxious. He didn't give up the cornucopia of the sea, it's just that treasure hunting is accidental after all, and it can't happen every day. Tianyuantang is a long-term income, but the antique porcelain is also on the right track for the time being, and the next step is to go to the sea to find treasures!
"This is the treasure map of the great pirate Captain William?"
Old Joe said excitedly: "This is the treasure that it took me a few years to find, and now that the boss is here, I really have to get to the Mughal treasure early, and bullshit Sussex is a ball!" ”
"What's the situation?" Wu Tianyuan really hadn't heard of this name, so he curiously picked up the information and studied it.
During the heyday of piracy in the 14th and 18th centuries, the vast seas were completely chaotic. Through looting and plundering, the pirates acquired vast amounts of treasure, with mountains of gold, silver, and diamonds. In order to ensure that their future lives were free of clothing, the pirates buried their looted treasures in remote places. But in fact, only a handful of pirates were able to find their hidden treasures again.
At the end of the 17th century, between Madagascar and the Malabar coast, the pirate king Captain William plundered a fleet of Prince Olampus of the Mughal Empire in India, and countless loot worth about a billion dollars fell into his hands. He left behind a legendary story full of mystery and a broken treasure map.
William, like Captain Kidd, began as a privateer hired by the royal governor of Massachusetts, Blomont, in order to capture pirates. I didn't catch a pirate, but I became a pirate.
In 1697, William had his men hoist a red pirate flag on the top of the flotilla's mast and attacked a fleet of pilgrims from Merka in the Red Sea, thus beginning a series of pirates that he had taken a reckless streak.
Over the next two years, William became the "terror of the sea" between the coastlines of Madagascar and Malabar, amassing a wealth and finding a safe deposit in the process.
300 years passed, and there was no clue to William's treasure until 1932, when an Englishman named Gilmour bought a strange old sailor's box with an iron hoop nailed to a thrift store. He found a strange little wooden board in the box, and when he opened it, a piece of parchment had fallen inside.
On paper is a map of a small island, on which it is clearly visible that there is a bay next to the lagoon, followed by a coral reef, and a description indicating the trees and a clear pace distance.
At the same time, there is a hint on the side of the parchment: "To find my treasure, you must follow this path." Captain William, 1696. Gilmour was stunned, he couldn't believe his eyes.
After calming down, he fell into confusion again, because the paper did not indicate which island, which region, and which sea area it was. Gilmour spends his days in libraries, archives, and antique shops, looking at the yellowed broken charts, and he tirelessly searches for information about Captain William and relics used by the captain in the past. He spent more than a year searching for the answer to this question, but he did not solve the mystery.
In the summer of 1933, he bought from an antique dealer a beveled desk used by William. The writing cabinet was examined very closely, and in an extremely tiny hole glued with pine resin and asphalt, a small parchment ball was found.
Gilmour discovers that everything on the second treasure map is almost identical to the first, with the only thing missing is a hint of the island's name. Several additional letters were found on the unfolded parchment ball, which he recognized as the words "China Sea".
It so happened that in the same year that Gilmour was sold a second ancient wooden box used by Ginter, and in the gap between the layers of one of the secret drawers of this chest, Gilmour found a third piece of parchment, on which also a treasure map was drawn, which included not only the outline of the mysterious island, but also the latitude and longitude of the geography.
Armed with these three broken treasure maps, Gilmour was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, and in order to find this mysterious island, he decided to travel far away to London and compare his three treasure maps with hundreds of maps of the ocean, old and new, found in the Topographic Survey of the British Museum in London.
The last incident alarmed the British Admiralty, who carefully examined the authenticity of the three treasure maps. After this was confirmed, the British Admiralty agreed to provide Gilmour with a treasure hunt ship and the necessary assistance, on the condition that Gilmour give the entire treasure to the British government. Gilmour rejected the suggestion.
This time, he made up his mind to follow his friend to find the island. However, while he was preparing for the treasure hunt, he suddenly died, and his three treasure maps and Captain Ginter's treasure were once again plunged into a fog.
More than 20 years after his death, in 1951 a man named Braun bought the treasure map of the English pirate captain from Gilmour's former housekeeper and sole heir for £5,000.
Finally, a two-masted galleon named "Ramona" carried Braun and a total of 12 treasure hunters from five countries to the sea. However, they did not expect their speedboat to encounter a hurricane at sea.
After four days of arduous adrift at sea, they encountered a supply ship of the English fleet, only to be dragged by the supply ship's support. Braunley ended his hopeful treasure hunt in desperation.
In 1952, Japanese fishermen escaped the storm and came to a small island called "Pure Mining Island" in the northernmost part of the Ryukyu Islands between the island of Taiwan and the Japanese island of Kyushu. On a purely fortuitous occasion, they discovered a very rare stone painting of a goat on a stone wall with cracks.
This meaningful excavation has brought a reverie to Nagajima, an amateur pirate treasure researcher. Naga Island systematically trodden through the deserted island, eventually finding an entrance to the cave behind the densest bushes.
So he lit a torch and groped his way through a stone door to a darker stone chamber. There he stopped, staring sharply at the iron boxes that were all over the floor.
When he opened the lid of the heavy box, he was greeted by a strange sight: not only an incredible number of gold and silver coins glittering, but also wonderful jewelry and jewels. This is part of William's trophies, and for more than two hundred years, these heavy treasure chests have been kept in a remote hole in the Ryukyu Islands.
The material value of this wealth did not mean much to the private researcher, who only wanted to be compensated by the Japanese government for research and search funds, and even refused the prize money that was given to him.
As a result, the treasure was transported to Tokyo under the strictest protection measures, but in the end the treasure was still missing, and William's loot once again disappeared into a vague fog full of legends, and was nowhere to be found! (To be continued.) )