Chapter 17: Amazing Value

Half an hour after lunch on June 17, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the Black Pearl finally arrived at the unnamed reef where it had been booked, which only surfaced at low tide, and the Black Pearl was anchored about three kilometers to the south.

The site is directly above the shipwreck, which is at a depth of about 100 meters. As for the candidate to go to the bottom of the sea to explore treasures, Wang Peng naturally has to be a person, because the people on the ship, now only he can operate the space device.

Although the opening conditions of the space device, although it is very low, but unfortunately the people on the earth are now low, although the requirements only need 2 points of intelligence and 5 points of physique, you can freely control the volume of the space device within 1000 cubic meters, it is such a bottom of the requirements, but now the people who can meet it are very rare, in such a large population in China, I am afraid that there are not many people who meet the requirements. There should be a lot of people who meet the requirements of physique, but at the same time, the 2 points of intelligence required are not so easy to meet.

Not to mention that in addition to him, there are three intelligent machines and three ordinary crew members on the ship.

As soon as Wang Peng dived to the bottom of the sea, he saw a moray eel near the wreck, hiding in the gap between the rocks and the wreck, waiting for an opportunity to catch shrimp, crabs and other arthropods swimming in front of him. Wang Peng knew that this was a baiji moray eel, with an adult body length of up to 2 meters, a brown body, without any markings, and a fierce carnivorous fish;

There is also a leopard shark on the bottom of the wreck on the right side of the shipwreck, also known as the big-tailed tiger shark, which is shy by nature, slow-moving, carnivorous, and feeds on benthic invertebrates and small fish, and is oviparous. This leopard shark is about 3 meters long, with prominent ridge-like protrusions on the side of the body, and a greatly extended tail fin that accounts for almost half of the body length. The colours and patterns of leopard sharks vary greatly between juvenile and adult stages. When they were young, they were called zebra striped sharks, with thick black and white stripes covering their bodies; When it grows up, it becomes light brown with spots all over the body, with leopard-like patterns, hence the name leopard shark. This is clearly an adult leopard shark.

Dragonhead fish, fairy fish, blue-eyed fish, exotic fish, deep-sea dogfish, new light fish and other kinds of exotic fish, Wang Peng is dizzying.

Wang Peng carefully circled the wreck, but the visual inspection was about the same as the number on the data, during which the leopard shark carried out a tentative attack on him, and was shocked by Wang Peng's leaking momentum, not only the leopard shark was frightened away, but the surrounding fish also scattered and swam away, Wang Peng stood on the deck of the wreck, tried the strength of the wreck wood, and found that as long as he stepped on it not very hard, it would not break, and then he entered the cabin in a big hole in the center of the wreck.

As the hole went down to the bilge, I knew that the wreck was smashed by a meteorite, Wang Peng secretly said, this is how unlucky it must be to encounter such a thing, being smashed by a meteorite, the people on the ship did not know what their mood was.

The meteorite went all the way to the bottom of the ship, gouging through layers of cabins before coming to a halt at the bottom floor. As for why it was not smashed through, Wang Peng guessed that it might be because of the ballast stone factor.

After Wang Peng opened the survey technique to inspect, he concluded that the hull structure of this wreck and Zheng Hebao's ship is not much different, both are set up with multiple horizontal bulkheads, and the whole cabin is divided into a number of small cabins according to function, more than 23 cabins, and less than 18 cabins, which not only has the effect of strengthening the structure and sub-compartment watertight and anti-sinking, so that the ship is likely to develop to a large scale, but also is conducive to dividing the compartment to classify and carry cargo, and meet the requirements of different functions.

Why go to the bilge first? Naturally, the bottom bilge of the ship is generally the cargo hold, and the cargo should be in the transfer cabin. The upper cabins are generally members' lounges.

Wang Pengtong Guò observed and found that the shipwreck was a fortune ship, with a small square head and a wide flat stern. The architectural form belongs to the building ship, there is a deckhouse in the middle of the main deck to form a midship, with a bulwark, a stern (meaning: tail, reporter's note) part has a three-story stern, and the bow (meaning: first) part has a two-story permeable forecastle. It is divided into five levels, from the bilge to the deck. There is a majestic tiger head relief on the front of the bow, a solemn dragon relief or painted on the front of the two sides, a phoenix painted on the rear, and a bird with wings spread above the stern plate.

It was obviously an official merchant ship in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, which either sank here just after going to sea, or was unlucky when it returned and sank here without reaching the mainland.

After 20 minutes of excavation, Wang Peng and the four found a lot of porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, with a wide variety of styles, basically all of which were practical items.

Of course, porcelain is the most abundant on the ship, there are ten cabins, all kinds of porcelain, the other five cabins, tea and silk, and a few cabins are for the crew to rest and activity rooms.

Ming Chenghua Dynasty is an important historical period in the history of porcelain firing in China, at this time the porcelain shape is exquisite, the fetal quality is fine and crystalline, the color material selection is pure, the tone is soft and quiet, the painting is elegant and graceful, with its light and elegant style is unique, completely got rid of the Hongwu, Yongle, Xuande period, there is no Yongle porcelain and Xuande porcelain of the atmosphere, but the pursuit of small and medium-sized works, the pursuit of pleasing to the eye, especially pay attention to the beauty of the line.

Wang Peng in the crew rest cabin with reconnaissance swept around, the specific number of large and small objects on the ship, the location of all into the mind, do not look at the don't know, look at the startled, hundreds of national treasure-level porcelain, such as: Doucai seawater dragon pattern "sky" word lid jar 2 pieces, Doucai chicken bowl cup 6 pieces, Doucai seawater beast pattern jar 12 pieces, Doucai entwined branch lotus pattern jar 12 pieces, blue and white Sanskrit cup 12 pieces, blue and white unicorn pattern plate 12 pieces, imitation brother glaze Bafang goblet 12 pieces and so on. Although these Wang Peng don't know the value, it seems that the name given is not a simple product, even if it is an application product of people at that time, it is also a high-end product.

The porcelain found in other cabins includes bowls, plates, cups, goblets, high-foot bowls, lying bowls, pots, boxes, stoves, washes, plum bottles, pear pots, trays, jade pots, spring bottles, etc., and it is initially estimated that there are 100,000 sets.

Wang Peng now really suspects that this ship was probably a merchant ship from the Great Inner at that time, and there were big people on board, otherwise there would not be such precious objects, mainly more than a dozen large boxes of gold and silver treasures on the ship, and there were a full three million taels of silver, and there were countless jade jewelry of all kinds.

In addition to all kinds of porcelain treasures, gold and silver treasures alone, Wang Peng estimated that there would be more than one billion, the value of the silver alone was about 700 million, and the valuation of other jewelry was also about 500 million.

As for treasure-level porcelain, Wang Peng has no way to sell it, and he can't sell it, so naturally it can't be regarded as valuable. All in all, the treasure on this sunken ship is very amazing, exceeding Wang Peng's expectations.