Chapter 25 Strange
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Spain. City of Cadiz.
The oldest city in southern Spain was once the third largest city in Europe during Roman times, but it has long since lost its former glory, and due to geographical limitations, it is now only a medium-sized city in Spain.
However, during the Age of Discovery, this city was the www.biquge.info of Spain's global conquest, and it had a high political and economic status in Spain at that time.
In the eighteenth century, due to the siltation of the Serbian river and the construction of Spanish ships, Seville could no longer provide a port of call for large sea ships, so Spanish sea ships moved to Cadiz, using this as their home port and taking the steps of global conquest.
The two hundred years from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century were the post-golden age of the city of Cadiz. However, in the twentieth century, the small urban area limited the development of the city, and it was reduced from an economic city to a small city dominated by tourism.
After traveling from Singapore to Spain again, I immediately soaked in several libraries in the city of Cadiz, hoping to find some useful materials from the vast ancient texts.
For 500 years, from the 15th century to the 20th century, Seville and Cadiz had the most prosperous commercial trade in the world. The European conquest of the American continent brought together countless merchants and adventurers from all over the world, who settled here and left countless precious documents here.
Not to mention the complicated public libraries, there are dozens of large-scale private libraries in Andalusia alone. Most of them are concentrated in Cadiz and Seville.
Zhou You is very interested in these documents, because most of the shipwreck treasures that occupy half of the world in the Caribbean and the Atlantic can be found here.
Past. It was not until after 2000 that the world's major commercial salvage companies began to systematically sort out these precious documents, and the Odyssey company he worked for relied on the collection of materials in these two places to obtain a number of valuable materials.
Republic. The shipwreck treasures of the Mercedes, the Gersopa, and the Mandra were all gradually discovered by relying on the information obtained here. Finally, let them see the light of day again.
Of course, Zhou You didn't need to rely on these to find these treasures now, because the warp and weft points of the wrecks of these ships were all in his heart.
But he can't just swagger and go straight to the salvage, once it's luck, twice it can be luck, but it can't be luck all the time!
If he doesn't do any work and goes around to find treasure, then he is afraid that he will encounter the attention of people all over the world.
Therefore, in order to move forward with this matter reasonably, it is necessary to organize this series of work from scratch.
Not only is he checking the information himself, but he is also ready to wait for the funds for his auction to arrive. It is necessary to make a large-scale donation of funds in these two areas and sort out all the precious documents here.
Go your own way and let others have no way out. In this way, you can make yourself stronger and make others weaker.
Commercial salvage companies all over the world are his opponents, and this time, he wants to make no other company look up to him.
However, the job is actually not an easy task, because although he can speak a little Spanish, it is okay to speak it just yet.
In fact, he was also an illiterate Spanish-speaking person. His level of Spanish is probably not as good as that of a first-grader in elementary school, and he can't read many Spanish books, let alone the ancient Spanish that evolved hundreds of years ago.
He learned Spanish in Chile. There are some differences between Spanish and the native Spanish language of the American continent, but what they have in common is the essence of Old Spanish.
Besides, traveling around is mainly to hide people's eyes, so he is still very interested in studying these words carefully.
For this. He bought two Spanish dictionaries and sat in the reading area of the library every morning, taking them with him.
The preservation of ancient books in Spain has been practiced since the Second World War, and all the original books have been sealed, but almost all copied books, including photocopied books, can be found as long as they are carefully searched.
Zhou Yu was more punctual than the library staff, reading for more than seven hours a day, and a lot of useful information was stored in the computer he had bought for him.
Although he was exhausted from tossing and turning every day, he still couldn't forget Hu Mo's contemptuous tone and disregard like a fly, this feeling was like poison, which kept corroding his heart, making him feel unbearable pain and not forget.
But before the Blackstone was salvaged, he could only endure and endure again......
He wanted to use this pain to remind himself that he didn't have any right to be arrogant right now!
Spain was the first empire on which the sun never set, and from the 15th to the 18th centuries, their flags were planted in all corners of the world. Now seeing these histories, traveling from the beginning of the boring has gradually been attracted to it, and even found its own fun from it.
What he didn't know was that from the time he re-entered Spain, his entry records were known to Runette.
Everyone, including Runette and Gracia, didn't understand what Zhou Yu was doing, and he was now more rigorous than the Puritans, and this contrast made both Runette and Gracia feel that their knowledge of Zhou Yu was only scratching the surface.
They begin to meet Zhou You is a ruthless playboy who takes pleasure in picking up chicks and enjoying them.
But now Zhou You has become a puritanical scholar, except for four or five hours of vigorous exercise every day, that is, he reads carefully in the library, without the slightest interference from the outside world.
Gracia thought that he was exposed, so Zhou You stopped contacting him, and even Runette was suspicious.
But when Gracia called Zhou You in front of Runette, Zhou You on the other end of the phone was still gentle with Gracia and made no secret of his liking for Gracia.
It's just that he disguised the information that he was already in Spain, so that neither Runette nor Gracia understood why Zhou You had become like this.
The contrast between before and after a person is so big, it's really incomprehensible!
In the past half a month, Zhou You has read the relevant materials of the two libraries. Based on the reading records of Zhou You, Runette made a careful analysis and finally determined it. The trip was made to an interest in past Spanish shipwrecks.
Runette immediately asked people to collect information on this, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but get excited.
Currently, there are more than 30,000 shipwrecks in the world. More than 3,000 ships are salvageworthy, and more than 500 shipwrecks have huge fortunes.
If all these wrecks are salvaged by one person, then he can easily become the richest man in the world.
He thought he had understood the purpose of Zhouyou, and gathered everyone to analyze Zhouyou's actions.
Carneroga, Toles. The meeting was attended by Gracia and several members of the task force who had been in charge of traveling around the city.
At the beginning of the meeting, Runette listed all the information he had collected about his travels.
Evan Zhou's current net worth is estimated to be around $60 million, which includes his stake in HCH Pharmaceuticals, the valuation of two trademarks, and what he has gained in Ibiza. But except for these antiques, which can be directly turned into cash, other assets are difficult to convert into cash. So, our goal in the first place was just his harvest.
"However, I now realize that our thinking has gone into the wrong place. Evan Zhou's real property should not be this batch of antiques, but his trademark and shares, antiques are just a one-time business, and if they are sold, they will be gone. But his company's earnings outlook is now very positive, and the future value here is much greater than the actual value. Not to mention anything else, as for the two trademarks in his hand, after the fermentation of the lawsuit with Pfizer, there are now media valuations of $40 million for these two trademarks, and it seems. It seems that Pfizer also endorses this assessment. ”
Torles asked, "We all know this, but what do you mean by this?" ”
Runette laughed and said, "In other words, Evan Zhou attaches great importance to these antiques. It will be lower than we expected at the beginning, and in the choice between life and wealth, he should value his life more. So, we don't need his life at all to get this batch of funds. And later, it is even possible to get even more. ”
Torles objected: "I can't accept your opinion. Evan Zhou is not an ordinary person. It is precisely because he is a rich man that we must avoid future troubles. Otherwise, if he retaliates, his destructive power is far greater than that of an ordinary person. If he offered us a reward of 1 million, do you think you would have a good life? ”
"Yes, it's going to send us all into a panic." Runette nodded, agreeing with Toles, but added, "When I saw that Evan Zhou had been collecting all kinds of maritime history, I found something very interesting, which we ignored at first, but now it seems very important. ”
He turned on the VCR and played a news interview with a Hong Kong television station. In the picture, He Jisheng interviews a reporter about the discovery of treasures in Spain.
Everybody doesn't understand Hong Kong, but Runett said: "This is the chairman of Weiman, which works with Evan Chow, and he said a very interesting piece of information, that is, Evan Chow borrowed $5 million from him a few months ago, and you must not think of what Evan Chow did with these 5 million dollars." ”
This aroused everyone's interest, and Gracia asked: "With his financial ability, this five million dollars loan must be related to his investment in the future." ”
"What a smart boy...... "Runett laughed and said, "Yes, Evan Zhou used this money to order a sea vessel of more than 5,000 tons at the shipyard in Yangcheng, note that this is not a yacht, but a salvage ship!" ”
(The Blackstone in the previous chapter was actually salvaged in '99, but I've pushed it back two years in the article, hoping that you don't connect it with reality.) (To be continued.) )