For Su Hongwen, who is familiar with military affairs, the first time he saw this warship, he could determine that this was a first-class pre-dreadnought battleship that the Royal Navy of the British Empire began to equip in the 90s of the 19th century, and it belonged to the Majesty-class battleship.

The Majesty Class is a development and continuation of the Sovereign Class, using Harvey steel armor plates to obtain adequate protection with less weight, and the armor-covered hull bends under the armor belt and meets the lower edge of the column plates for improved internal protection.

In terms of artillery, the new 305 mm main gun was adopted, which could fire armor-piercing shells with smokeless gunpowder, and the penetration ability was greatly improved compared with the previous 13.5-inch gun, which greatly reduced the weight.

As far as Su Hongwen knows, a total of 9 Majesty-class battleships were built, except for one Majesty that was sunk by the German U-21, the other 8 ships were decommissioned and disintegrated after World War I, how could one sink in the Indian Ocean?

Hehe, whatever is going on with him, if this battleship can be salvaged and placed on the island for exhibition in the future, it will definitely be very attractive

It's just that after careful exploration, Su Hongwen was very disappointed, because this place is more than 1,500 meters deep, coupled with more than 100 years of seawater erosion, the whole ship has already become a pile of rotten steel, even if it is salvage, it is worthless to exhibit.

However, to Su Hongwen's relief, he did not find nothing, in the cargo hold of a battleship, Xiaobai found 30 tons of gold scattered inside.

This batch of 30 tons of gold is supposed to be gold collected by the British Empire from India, but it was unexpectedly sunk here due to an accident during transportation.

This is the only antecedent and consequence that Su Hongwen can think of that can be explained.

After the mechanical arm of the "excavator" worked back and forth, it took ten minutes for Xiaobai to move a full 30 tons of gold to Su Hongwen of the "excavator".

Su Hongwen excitedly surrounded a large pile of gold bricks, and kept muttering: "I'm rich, I'm rich, wahaha, I'm really rich......"

Then Su Hongwen sat on a pile of gold bricks, crossed his fingers and began to calculate.

"Now the price of gold for 1 gram should be more than 250 yuan, even if it is 250 yuan, there are 30 tons here, the amount is ...... 1 ton is equal to 1000 kilograms, and 1 kilogram is equal to 1000 grams...... 1 gram 250 yuan...... Nima, I actually counted myself dizzy......"

After a long while, Su Hongwen was completely confused, the amount was more than he imagined!

"Mr. Commander, I have to remind you that you just calculated the price of gold in 2016, and you are now in 2006, through what I just checked, the price of gold in 2006 was about 450 US dollars per ounce, which is 150RMB per gram." Xiao Bai, the captain of the excavator, spoke.

"Huh? How can it be so cheap? Su Hongwen was stunned, he was just 13 years old in 2006, and he didn't care about the price of gold at that time.

"Okay, then it's 150 per gram, it's ......" Su Hongwen was silent for a moment, then pointed at Xiaobai and said: "You can calculate for me how many dollars and how many RMB these 30 tons are equal, I'm too lazy to calculate it myself!" ”

As soon as Su Hongwen's voice fell, Xiaobai gave a specific answer.

"4.5 billion RMB or 5.762803027392...... 100 million dollars! ”

Su Hongwen was speechless: "............"

There's no need to be so detailed after the decimal point, right?

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In the following half a day, the "excavator" piloted by Su Hongwen and Xiaobai carried out many salvage operations in the shallow sea channel within a radius of 200 nautical miles, and salvaged a total of 1.05 million gold and silver coins, as well as 0.7 tons of various colorful gemstones.

Of course, there are also indispensable exquisite porcelain in ancient China, among which the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are the majority, the Qingbai porcelain of Jingdezhen kiln, the celadon of Longquan kiln, the celadon of Ge kiln, etc., a total of 18,000 pieces, of which 11,000 pieces are in good condition.

These gold and silver coins, precious stones and porcelain, according to Xiaobai's calculations, are worth at least 3.5 billion US dollars, or 27.3 billion RMB.

This price is mainly a one-time sale of these income, if it is sold slowly, the money will at least double, after all, scarce is expensive!

The next thing is what to do with this batch of treasures.

There are only two ways to deal with such a huge treasure.

The first is to melt gold and silver, make bricks, and sell them to banks and bullion stores.

But it is a waste of time and energy to sell it like this, not to mention, the price will drop greatly, after all, gold and silver coins are still collectible, and they can only be sold as gold when they are melted into gold bricks.

Second, you don't have to deal with it, and you can directly entrust all these treasures to the auction company for auction, so that the benefits will be greater and more convenient.

However, it is a little troublesome to do this, after all, these sunken ships have owners, especially the 30 tons of gold found from the British battleship, if the British government knew that the original owner of this batch of gold was them, it would definitely not let it go easily, after all, Su Hongwen was not an opponent in their eyes.

Of course, these wrecks were sunk on the high seas, so according to the International Salvage Convention, the salvage of the wrecks on the high seas is the owner of the salvaged treasure.

So there is no need for Su Hongwen to be afraid of the British, Dutch, and Spanish.

Well, what do you say about the Netherlands and Spain?

Because most of the 1,050,000 gold and silver coins are from the Netherlands and Spain, and only a few are from the British Empire.

After all, before the rise of the British Empire, the Netherlands and Spain had already seized a lot of territory in Southeast Asia.

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Back to the "Adika" exploration spacecraft, in the room of a huge storage tank, Su Hongwen grinned at the robots who counted the salvage harvest back and forth, and sighed how beautiful life is and how easy it is to make money.

After the robot had thoroughly counted all the items, Su Hongwen instructed the robot to purify the 30 tons of gold salvaged from the Majestic-class battleship, and then melt it into a kilogram-sized gold nugget, after all, the gold of a hundred years ago contained a lot of impurities and metal components, which was much lower than the purity of gold now.

Once the gold is purified, no one will know that it is salvaged from the seabed and can be sold directly to foreign gold trading institutions.

As for the huge number of gold and silver coins, precious stones, and porcelain, Su Hongwen instructed the starry sky to invade the entire earth network to make an appraisal of the value of these things, and then pick out some gems, porcelain, and gold and silver coins with high collection value to keep for his own collection, and other collections with medium and low value or large quantities were directly handed over to the auction company for disposal.

To be honest, Su Hongwen didn't expect that this unexpected salvage harvest would be so big, the alien spacecraft can not only shuttle in space, but also explore submarine resources in the deep sea, it is simply an all-rounder in life!

Looking at the harvest in front of him, Su Hongwen thought about it in a blink of an eye, the entire earth and the ocean occupy seventy percent, and there are endless treasures at the bottom of the world at the bottom of the world, even if they are found and salvaged by others, they are just a drop in the bucket of the treasures under the sea.

In the United States in the 21st century, the historian Professor Coente once made a prediction that the world's buried treasures under the sea are estimated to be worth at least 800 billion US dollars, and in addition to gold, silver, jewelry and porcelain, there are countless invaluable treasures and human heritage waiting to be discovered.

Since Su Hongwen has decided to build the greatest science and technology island in human history, he is short of construction funds at this time, because he suddenly obtained the "Adika" exploration spacecraft, which caused him to be a little extremely excited, and he did not consider the issue of construction funds.

Now I see that the half-day salvage has earned almost three or four billion dollars, that is, the speed at which the Fed prints money is not as fast as what he can earn in a few hours.

What if the "Excavator" was sent out to salvage valuable treasures from all the seabeds of the entire planet?

So doesn't it mean that it won't be long before he becomes rich and rivals the country?

Thinking of this, Su Hongwen couldn't help laughing.