On October 1, while people in China were celebrating the National Day, the Ranger stopped less than 50 meters from the shipwreck of the Blackstone, preparing to salvage porcelain that had sunk to the bottom of the sea for nearly 1,200 years.

It wasn't until he arrived at his destination that Zhou You reported his findings to Indonesia's YouTube department and Singapore.

Of course, there is no such thing as the Blackstone yet, and Zhou You is still going to use this name.

Due to the sinking of the ship as a whole, and the local sea area belongs to the sediment seabed, the whole ship is wrapped in sediment without the slightest gap, which also leads to the fact that most of the porcelain on the Blackstone has not been oxidized, although 1,200 years have passed, but many of the porcelain colors are still bright as new.

Before arriving in the tour, Chakr and his men had surveyed the overall situation, but did not take action. The company is a touring individual, no matter what actions are taken, it is Zhou You who has the final say.

The Blackstone is a 22-metre-long Arabian-style dhow made of wooden planks tied to coconut fibre and filled with olive juice in the gaps. When dried, the olive juice is firm and sticky, and no nails or bolts are used in the shipbuilding process.

Zhou You remembered all kinds of data about the Blackstone, but now except for him, no one knew what treasures were hidden under the mud and sand. The only thing that is known is that outside the mud and sand, there is also a lot of porcelain scattered. That's why they suspect that this is a merchant ship in it.

On the way here, Zhou You was thinking about how to salvage the Blackstone.

In the previous life, the German company did not have the ability to salvage, and they also made a lot of mistakes in the salvage process, causing a lot of pollution and rework, and it took nearly a year before and after to salvage all the porcelain.

This also caused the Indonesian side to have an excuse to have various disputes with them about the auction plan of the Blackstone, and in order to distribute the plan, the two sides even sued each other in court, and it took five years before the batch of porcelain was disposed of to the Sentosa agency in Singapore.

Because the two sides exposed each other's shortcomings, both sides lost, and in the end, no one dared to buy this batch of porcelain, more than 60,000 pieces of intact porcelain, plus more than 30 antiques, and in the end no one wanted it, so it was picked up cheaply by the Sentosa agency and bought it for 35 million US dollars.

If the porcelain is put up for auction, the value will be at least doubled.

Now that the tour is well prepared, not to mention that the ship is at a depth of twenty meters, even if it is two thousand meters, he can salvage it without damaging the environment.

Therefore, he will definitely not let the Indonesian side find any excuses, and he will only pay 20% of the Indonesian side's taxes at most for this batch of porcelain.

Without the support of the navy, he would still be a little worried, but now he is not the slightest worried, and even hopes that the Indonesian side will have some demon moths, so that he will have more opportunities to communicate and contact with the Singapore side.

The Blackstone has been in the sea for more than a thousand years, and although the planks have not completely decayed, they are not enough to support the weight of the hull.

They wrapped strong ropes around the hull of the ship and tried to salvage it all at once, but the hull was shattered, and all the porcelain was torn apart and fell into the sea before it could come out of the water.

Therefore, Zhou You will not make such a mistake, and is ready to send frogmen down, emptying the belly of the ship little by little, and it is best to finally salvage the hull of the Blackstone without damage.

When he came to the wreck, Zhou You did not rush to salvage, but first filmed all the conditions at the wreck with an underwater camera, and used the computer to make various simulated salvage plans.

At the same time, he also actively contacted a PVC box manufacturing factory in Malaysia and ordered 1,000 transparent boxes with a length of 70 cm, a height of 50 cm and a width of 50 cm.

This kind of box is hard enough, and after being closed, there is a small hole to pump air, forming a near-vacuum environment and reducing oxidation.

Zhou You had originally ordered a hundred and ten spare ones of different sizes, but now, when he encountered this shipwreck and saw so many porcelains on the bottom of the sea, this thousand may still not be enough.

Zhou You clearly remembered that there were more than 67,000 pieces of porcelain below, and 1,000 boxes were really not enough. However, before it was completely out of the water, he ordered too many boxes, which would make people suspicious, because the number of exposed now does not seem to be very large.

Two days later, the Ranger finally surveyed the surrounding geological environment, and through computer simulation and comparison, found a waterway that could drive directly above the wreck, and then dropped the anchor and prepared to work here for a long time.

The Indonesian side got the news, and various departments also sent a lot of staff to supervise the salvage plan around them on the spot. At this time, all the people were envious, and they did not expect that they had only been traveling for ten days before they found such a rich wreck.

However, at this time, they did not regret it, because when they saw the more than 20 Singaporean soldiers on board, they knew that if one was not handled well, it would cause international disputes.

This time, the Indonesians were not allowed to live on the boat anymore, citing the limited accommodation on the ship, and only a speedboat was provided to pick them up every day, allowing them to stay in Manggar, a few kilometers away.

The Indonesian side was afraid of the unilateral operation of the tour, so it also sent a maritime surveillance ship to stop next to the traveling Ranger to supervise the movements on board.

Zhou You didn't think about carrying their homework on their backs, but he wouldn't honestly do what they were told. Even if these porcelains are counted, their value is not high, and there is no need to hide them, but there are still more than thirty antiques on the Blackstone, and he doesn't want to declare them honestly.

There were several compartments on his ship, one of which was the original weapons bay. Now the ship has been redesigned with a weapon bay in the open spot, which is no longer needed. When you travel around, you are ready to catch high-value antiques, and they are hidden in the weapons compartment.

At this time, the atmosphere on the ship became tense, and no matter day or night, the two sonars and radar kept taking turns to scan.

He is not guarding against the Indonesian side, but against the fishermen. In normal times, these fishermen are teachers and people, but in the face of profits, they will also become robbers.

Whether in Somalia in Africa or in Southeast Asia, most of the so-called pirates are actually the second profession of these fishermen. If you are not careful, let them come to the scene and destroy it at will, then your own salvage plan will be a lot more troublesome.

On October 4, after four days of formal preparations, they officially launched the salvage of the Blackstone. Fearing encounters with historians, the archaeologists' "moral condemnation" did not seek to publicize the matter, either by Zhou Yu or by the Indonesian side.

They eat by attacking people, and they don't want to be targets. Conceal this matter first, and then reveal the salvage information when it can't be concealed anymore and the overall situation has been decided.

But Zhou You also knows that although the Indonesian side says it well, they can't believe it, and they can't wait to create a little more obstacle for themselves and let themselves retreat.

Therefore, the salvage operation should be both careful, cautious and fast.

Since there were a lot of people on the ship, Zhou You couldn't go directly into the water, so he had to stay on the ship and take charge of the overall situation, and he had to deal with these officials and gentlemen.

On the first day, after a simple clean-up, they recovered more than 2,000 pieces of porcelain from the water. Each piece of porcelain means a bonus for Huanyuanmen, so they are full of energy.

Due to the strict adherence to the salvage plan, there were no violations of the rules by everyone, and the waste water from the ship was also concentrated and not discharged directly into the sea, so that the Indonesian side could not find any excuse to complain about them.

The next day, which is also the day when the most porcelain salvaged in a single day in the salvage operation, more than a dozen seafarers are working underwater, and the steel salvage net will be hoisted up in almost half an hour, and more than 10,000 pieces of porcelain were salvaged on this day.

However, the subsequent salvage work is not so simple, because the inside of the ship has been hollowed out a lot, and if you want to protect the hull of the Blackstone from falling apart, you have to fix the ship while salvaging.

Even so, the Indonesian side was already shocked, and no one expected that a cargo ship only 22 meters long would be loaded with porcelain.

Zhou You has long ordered every crew member, as long as it is non-porcelain goods, they must be buried under water alone, not salvaged first, in order to increase a little bonus, no one will take the initiative to leak it.

Although the Indonesian side was also monitoring the ship, and two frogmen were also sent underwater to take turns to supervise, but under the deliberate cover of a crew member, the incident was not discovered by them.

At the end of the day's work, Liang Hao and Zhou Minghong dived down from the inlet at the bottom of the boat, collected the antiques, and hid them in the weapons compartment of the ship.

Within a week, the news was leaked.

On 8 October, a speedboat approached the salvage site, and Chakr, who was on patrol, was fully armed, and although they knew that the other party was a reporter, they still warned the other party not to approach and would not accept interviews for the time being.

The next day, the news was broadcast in Indonesian newspapers and television, and Nanyang Commercial Salvage was immediately condemned.

Zhou You was also a little helpless when he saw the news, he took out the contract, seriously warned the Indonesian and saw departments, and let them bear the vigilance work on the spot.

But within two days, they said that they could not bear the pressure anymore and wanted to strike and let Zhou You announce the current salvage results as soon as possible.

Zhou You knew that they were deliberately playing tricks, and Indonesian monkeys would always be so bad. But now the salvage activities are not over, and if you don't want to affect the current salvage activities, some things still have to be compromised.

Therefore, Zhou You had no choice but to decide to hold a press conference on October 12 in Bangka Benlang, the capital of Bangka Belitung Province. In order to prevent the other party from being a demon moth in a small way, Zhou You also decided to let Lin Wei regularly report the salvage situation every day. (To be continued.) )