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In the dim waters, beneath the decaying planks of the ship, were all kinds of porcelain neatly surrounded by mud and sand. The salvage staff carefully used their hands with leather gloves to take out the plates and plates one by one and put them into a special steel wire mesh, with a gap between each plate, just like a restaurant rack, and the plates were firmly stuck inside.

Each small piece of steel mesh can hold 20 pieces of porcelain, which is then loaded into large steel bar containers, enough for 24 boxes, and then hoisted directly onto the ship by a crane.

On board, under the supervision of government workers, the seafarers cleaned up the porcelain a little, and then put it into well-made PVC containers, each box is divided into two layers, each layer can hold 20 sets of porcelain, after filling a box, it is placed in front of the extractor, the air in the container is extracted, and then it is neatly stacked in the cargo hold where the car can run inside.

When there are enough 16 boxes on each pallet, it will be secured by the straps in the warehouse, 16 boxes per pallet. Everyone can clearly see that more than 30 pallets have been stacked in the warehouse, which means that more than 50,000 pieces of porcelain have been salvaged.

Of most interest is the crew's protection of the underwater vessel. Whenever a space is cleared, the first step for the crew is to support the original hull with wooden strips, which are wrapped in thick cotton cloth in front of the hull so as not to damage the hull.

Although there were only more than 20 people working on the ship, for this salvage, Lin Wei found a full 80 people in the local area to do logistics services.

In the PVC boxes ordered back from Malaysia, each with foam partitions to prevent the porcelain from hitting each other. According to the amount of space exposed by the Blackstone, dozens of carpenters cut out strips of wood of different lengths. All kinds of work need to be supported by a lot of people, so that the progress can be as fast as they can do when they travel around.

When the video was played, Lin Wei immediately attracted the attention of countless media reporters, and there was a large number of raised hands in the audience.

Lin Wei thought of Zhou You's instructions and said, "I know that you have many questions to ask me, but the salvage work has not yet been completed, so when things have not yet had an accurate result, I can't answer too much." In the future, we will hold a press conference at 8 p.m. every day to report on the salvage situation of the day, but we also reserve the right to answer sensitive questions. Also, I will only have five questions for each day's press conference. Now, the first question is for a reporter from Indonesian state television. ”

The people in the audience were boiling, but before they could complain, a reporter from Indonesian national TV who was named stood up and asked: "Miss Lin, I would like to ask about the details of the contract signed between your Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company and the Indonesian government. ”

Lin Wei cleared her throat and said: "According to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the harvest of any commercial organization on the high seas belongs to itself, unless there is a shipowner or cargo owner who can give evidence that the sunken ship belongs to him. In sovereign states, salvage operations are distributed according to a pre-agreed proportion. Let me first remind this journalist that we have now identified the merchant ship as an Arabian dhow from the first half of the ninth century AD, and that the porcelain on it is from China in the 9th century AD. So, in any way, these antiques do not belong to Indonesia. However, since the shipwreck is currently in Indonesia, according to Indonesian law, we pay an exclusive exploration right of 500,000 US dollars per year, and our harvest will pay you 20% tax according to Indonesian law, all of which is in our interests and Indonesian law. Second place...... We will choose one of our friends from the media in Asia. ”

She pointed to the reporter of Mediacorp Lianhe Zaobao, and the reporter stood up and asked, "Hello Miss Lin, we all know that Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company is a Singaporean company, so how will we deal with this harvest?" Is it an auction? Or will it be donated to the museum? ”

Lin Wei said: "As everyone knows, we are a commercial salvage company, and we have invested 20 million US dollars in the current salvage ship alone. Also, we have to pay 20 percent of the tax to the Indonesian side, so we have to rely on auctions to recover some of the money. Of course, we are not a profit-seeking company, according to the assumption of our company boss Mr. Zhou You, we will donate a complete set of various kinds of porcelain to the local museum according to the origin of the porcelain on the ship, including Changsha that has been determined, and Yangzhou, the origin of the merchant ship. In addition, including Singapore, Indonesia, and the destination of merchant ships, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, we will donate a complete set of porcelain. As you know, we have now salvaged nearly 50,000 pieces of well-preserved porcelain, so you don't have to worry about running out of distribution. ”

Lin Wei pointed to the reporter of the European Reuters news agency again, he stood up and asked happily: "According to a detailed investigation we have done on the owner of your company, Evan Zhou, he was lucky to get a batch of treasures in Spain in June last year, and after a year, he can get a bigger treasure in Indonesia, I want to ask, is there anything to do with this?" Or is the god of luck watching over him? We all know that Hilton's eldest lady, Miss Paris, has publicly announced that Evan Zhou is her boyfriend, and it seems that he is really favored by the god of luck! ”

The reporters present all laughed, and even Lin Wei showed a light smile, but she quickly retracted herself.

"My boss is a very attractive man, isn't he? If you know him in detail, you will know that his dream as a child was to sail around the world in a boat, and he has been working hard to achieve this dream. However, in my opinion, these two harvests have nothing to do with each other, the only thing that is the same is that my boss has a heart that has the courage to explore. The harvest in Spain is his luck, but the harvest in Indonesia this time is that he is good at seizing opportunities. Since the sixties, with the development of Indonesia's fishing industry and the introduction of large trawls, local fishermen have often been caught in broken nets when they pass through the waters where the Blackstone has sunk. And the local fishermen can often salvage all kinds of porcelain from the sea, but no one in the local area cares. It was also after we got the news that we searched this area, which led to the appearance of the Blackstone. Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. ”

This time, it was a reporter from the United States who asked a question, and Lin Wei deliberately controlled it to give the media on every continent a chance.

"As far as we know, the Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company is a private company registered by Evan Chow, but why did we find the Singapore Navy on board? Excuse me, what is your relationship with the Singapore Navy? Is Evan Chow a representative of Singapore? You know, he is only 20 years old this year, and his development process is too smooth. Without the support of one force, no one can develop so fast! ”

"Then I can only say that this is the difference between a genius and an ordinary person. I also don't understand why Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard at the age of 20 and became the richest man in the world last year. ”

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

Lin Wei continued: "The media has analyzed my boss Evan Zhou countless times from beginning to end, he relied on an ancestral prescription to become a shareholder in the pharmaceutical factory, which gave him the opportunity to develop, and before he got the Spanish treasure, he had already ordered a salvage ship worth 12 million dollars at the local shipyard, and everyone thought he was crazy. But even without the treasures of Spain and the profits of the pharmaceutical factory, he was sure enough to pay the ship's payment. I would like to share with you one more news here, Pfizer has reached an agreement with Weman Huanchi to get the full Viagra Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional trademarks from my boss at a high price of $70 million. While we envy his success, we should also see that the vision of geniuses always sees farther than we ordinary people......"

Finally, a question was asked by a journalist from South Africa. "We've seen a lot of comments in the media lately, which is, who exactly does cultural heritage belong to? Is it modern piracy for commercial salvage companies to rely on financial advantages to hunt for treasure? ”

This question made Lin Wei think for a while, and the videos of the protection of the Blackstone delivered today were just to face the situation she was encountering now. In the previous life, the German company was pointed out by thousands of people, the museum refused to exhibit, and the auction was canceled, because they made a wrong decision in the face of this problem, which was contrary to the public psychology, and finally caused them to fall into an embarrassing situation, a shipload of treasure shouted for 40 million US dollars and no one asked for it, and finally had to sell it to Singapore for 35 million US dollars.

Although Lin Wei didn't know this, Zhou You had carefully analyzed the current situation for her and reminded her of the links to pay attention to in this regard.

"When ordinary goods meet commercial exchange, encounter the transformation of time, and become of historical value, then at this time, who belongs to it, this is a very complicated question, and I can't answer it. For example, when I bought a souvenir from Indonesia and went on a trip to a Pacific island, I lost it there. A thousand years later, who does this Indonesian-style souvenir belong to? These antiquarians believe that commercial salvage companies are piracy in search of treasure, so who can represent justice? The Blackstone is an Arab merchant ship whose cargo came from ancient China and sank in Indonesian waters, so who has the right to inherit these goods? No one. We have now salvaged the goods, and we will donate them to museums in each link according to the value of the research. And then auction off the rest of the goods, get more working capital, and then try to get more sunken ships back into the world, how can such an act be called piracy? Because there is no injured party at all. There is no losing side, only the profitable side, or even several parties, and I think this is a benefit, not a pirate. ”

Lin Wei's words ushered in the enthusiastic applause of the reporters in the audience. (To be continued.) )