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In British history, there have been five warships named after the Victory, the most famous of which is, of course, the flagship of Nelson, Britain's legendary general. However, the Victory was built in 1778, thirty-four years after the Victory that Zhou You now refers to.

The Victory, which sank in 1744, was once one of the most famous warships in British history and was the main warship of the British Navy. The battleship was 53 meters long, belonged to the sail warship, and could accommodate almost a thousand soldiers.

Before sinking, the Victory had fought a war against French warships off the coast of Portugal and had won.

On its return, the ship was loaded with 100,000 gold coins obtained from the Portuguese, which alone weighed four tons.

In all historical records, this batch of gold coins has been mentioned repeatedly, and it is also the most interesting wealth on the Victory.

But Zhou You knew that there was much more to this ship than that. Because before the battle with the French battleship, the Victory had just fought a battle in Venice, Italy, and helped the Venetians resist the invasion of Venice by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the reward at that time was 100,000 yellow gold coins.

Since the Middle Ages, the Venetians have been the richest cities in Europe, they are the famous trading centers and industrial centers of Europe, and finally the development of glass and mirrors have made them even richer.

So, their gold coins were heavier than Portuguese gold coins at that time, and each coin weighed nearly fifty grams, which is nearly five tons of gold coins.

Although the price of gold has been relatively stable in recent years, at only $400 per ounce, these nearly 10 tons of gold coins can easily be sold for more than $100 million and can easily be sold for $800 million, or even more than $1 billion, regardless of their historical value.

It was clear to Zhou from the Odyssey's internal sources that this was a great fortune, as they had easily sold each of the gold coins for $5,000 after they had put them on the market, and demand was still in short supply.

This is because this well-preserved gold coin is easier to preserve than other works of art, and more importantly, it retains its value very well.

In Europe and the United States, the art market has always been highly sought after by the wealthy, and tens of millions of dollars for a painting are often popular, mainly because the rich value of the art is preserved.

Although the number of these gold coins is quite large, the total number is less than 200,000, and sixty percent of them have been put into museums by the British government, that is, only 80,000 have flowed into the market, which is not enough for those rich to divide up.

After winning the battle against the French army, the Victory prepared to return to England, but they lost their way in the fog, deviated from course, and eventually sank in the south of Ireland due to a storm.

It is also for this reason that Britain has been searching the English Channel for hundreds of years for the whereabouts of the Victory, but has no idea that the Victory will sink hundreds of kilometers away in the south of Ireland.

Labitz's information was transmitted back home, where it was immediately taken seriously by all sides of the United Kingdom. Because the sinking of the Victory was arguably one of the heaviest losses of the British Navy, and the ship at that time carried more than 900 excellent soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles, as well as huge wealth.

If this news is leaked, it will immediately detonate public opinion, because the descendants of these soldiers will put huge pressure on the government, which will make the British government quite passive.

Although the bones of these soldiers could not have been preserved for more than 200 years, the ship had to be salvaged to serve as a source of mourning.

Therefore, the British side immediately sent a higher level of negotiators, including a deputy speaker of the House of Lords, Earl Stephen. The earl was not only a close relative of the royal family, but also a descendant of the then captain of the ship, John Balchin.

As a descendant of Balchin, his ancestors have been heavily criticized in the shipwreck, as almost everyone believes that John Balchin was primarily responsible for the accident.

Because some British experts on Alderney once believed that the Victory had run aground and sunk in the waters around Alderney, the captain of the ship, Sir John Balchin, and the caretaker of the Alderney lighthouse. But since the main wreckage of the Victory has never been found, Balchin's descendants have refused to believe it.

This time, Zhou You declared that he had found the sinking place of the Victory, and Stephen immediately offered himself to participate in the negotiations, and organized a negotiation team as quickly as possible to Singapore.

As soon as he saw Zhou You, he asked with concern: "Is the wreck of the Victory in the waters near Alderney Island?" You also don't have any evidence to prove that you found the Victory? ”

Zhou You also knew something about Earl Stephen in advance, since the current negotiations were mainly with him, Zhou You also collected a lot of information about him from Britain, so he was very clear about the relationship between his family and the Victory.

Therefore, Zhou You said bluntly: "Although I don't have any evidence that the wreck we found is the Victory, I am sure that this ship is the Victory, because we have found at least more than fifty copper cannons in the surrounding waters. Since this is a British battleship, we have not kept any information, but we have written down the detailed latitude and longitude points. And, this location is far from Alderney, and I believe that the facts will prove that the accusations of your ancestors by some irresponsible experts in the UK are wrong and irresponsible. ”

He shook Zhou You's hand excitedly and said, "If this is true, I thank you on behalf of the Balchin family, it is you who have washed away the stain on our family crest." ”

With such a tendentious vice chairman in charge of the negotiations, the subsequent negotiations went very smoothly. Because Stephen believes that as long as the conditions are above the bottom line in the UK, there is no need to worry about traveling.

This time, Zhou You introduced the negotiation of the Victory, Stephen focused on the glory of his family, and Britain focused on the treasure on the Victory. Compared with the Royal Merchant, which was difficult to negotiate at the beginning, the British finally relented, as long as Zhou You could successfully salvage the Victory and hand over half of the wealth to the British, then the British side could also accept a 10% dividend.

So, after a difficult first week, the ensuing negotiations took only three days to reach an agreement on all sides.

First of all, the British side recognized Zhou You's ownership of the wealth of the Royal Merchant, which had been salvaged, but until the Victory was salvaged out of the water, these harvests could only be kept by a third party, and Zhou You had no right to dispose of it.

Only when Zhou You salvaged the Victory and distributed the wealth with the British, then Zhou You could salvage the Royal Merchant for a second time, and make multiple estimates of the final harvest and pay 10% of the tax to the British government.

Of course, since the Victory was a British warship, even if it was salvaged from the water, it could only be shared equally with the British government, which was a fortune of nearly half a billion dollars.

The Singapore side also congratulated the turnaround in the negotiations, because Britain used to be the suzerainty of Singapore, so Singapore has also felt a lot of pressure in recent times, and now the matter can be resolved smoothly, and they are also relaxed.

On December 8, Zhou You took Yan Fangqing and Long Long back to the mainland to participate in the third anniversary celebration of Huanchi Pharmaceutical, and got a check of more than 30 million yuan from Huanchi Pharmaceutical.

Subsequently, Zhou You returned to Singapore from the mainland alone, while Yan Fangqing took the child and stayed in Yangcheng accompanied by bodyguards and Liang Hao. She also had to discuss with Ma Hongtao and Yan Miaojing to spend the more than 30 million yuan.

It has been almost two years since I invested in the real estate industry in Pengcheng, and since most of the houses purchased have not been sold, but only rented out after simple renovation, the company's profits are not very high.

However, in the past two years, the company's fixed assets have been rising, and the more than 40 million yuan they have invested in have been worth more than 50 million yuan after two years of housing price increases, an increase of more than 20 percent.

Moreover, the golden age of the real estate industry has not yet arrived, and these houses will soar by at least ten times more than ten years by waiting for a decade from now. Therefore, Zhou You made up his mind to only enter and not exit, and wait until the house price takes off, and then sell some of the properties.

Returned to Singapore, the negotiations with the United Kingdom also came to an end, although the specific terms reached were a little different from Zhou You's psychological requirements, but they did not deviate from the previous framework of the two sides, so Zhou You happily signed the contract.

At this time, the two sides held a grand press conference in Singapore, announcing to the world's media that the dispute between Zhou You and the British Royal Merchant had been satisfactorily resolved.

Although neither Zhou You nor the British side announced a specific solution, some details were still obtained by the powerful media. All of a sudden, news of the Royal Merchant and the Victory dominated the world's major media.

The 500 million treasures of the Royal Merchant, the 1 billion treasures of the Victory, attracted strong media attention from all over the world.

And if Zhou You really successfully salvaged the Victory, then he could harvest a billion dollars of wealth, so this also made Zhou You's net worth increase dramatically. According to media analysis, if all goes well, the traveling personal legal net wealth will exceed $2.5 billion, which is enough to put him in the top 200 of the global list, according to the 2001 list of the world's richest people.

Moreover, he is also the youngest on this list, and the youngest of the first generation of self-made billionaires.

For this reason, the Singapore media also carried out a new round of praise for Zhou You, and carried out a new round of god-making movement according to the meaning of the young master.

However, Zhou You didn't particularly care about this, and after attending the annual celebration of Lin Wutong's Genting Group on December 14, he quietly went to Spain with a few brothers and began to fulfill the contract with the United Kingdom.

(To be continued.) )