Although the enthusiasm of all the crew members was mobilized because of the visible return, except for the first day after the discovery of the river boat, the remaining days did not find any ships with salvage value.

However, this is also expected from the trip.

The seabed here is relatively shallow, only about 50 meters, and the wrecks above the main channel have long been salvaged, and only in the area far from the main channel are there some fish that have slipped through the net.

What's more, this is an equatorial windless zone, and if it weren't for the reef, there would be no serious shipwrecks at all, so there are far fewer shipwrecks here than in the South China Sea.

When the Ranger arrived in Tanjung Pandan, it found a total of four wrecked ships, but they were all small fishing boats with no salvage value, which also poured cold water on the ship's excited heart.

However, Zhou You did not get the slightest frustration, because he did not come because of these ships at all. The main purpose of his efforts was to get the Batu Hitam, the famous Blackstone.

The Arab-style merchant ship was shipwrecked near a black reef in the northeastern part of Belitung Island, hence the name Blackrock.

The cultural relics salvaged from the Blackstone include Changsha kiln, Yue kiln, Xing kiln, Gongxian kiln porcelain, as well as gold and silver ware and bronze mirrors; Three of the intact Tang Dynasty blue and white porcelain plates are particularly eye-catching, as the Changsha kiln porcelain bowls bear the inscription of the second year of the Tang Dynasty Baoli (826 AD), and combined with other artifacts, the age of the shipwreck is confirmed to be the first half of the 9th century.

From the Blackstone, a total of more than 67,000 pieces of cultural relics and ceramic products were salvaged, most of which were Chinese ceramics. There are 56,500 pieces of porcelain from the Changsha kiln alone.

The more peculiar cultural relics include 10 pieces of gold ware, which are comparable to the gold and silver objects unearthed in the Tang Dynasty cellar in Hejia Village, Xi'an in 1970. Among them, the eight-sided Hu people are 10 centimeters high, which is slightly larger than the size of the two eight-sided Hu people gold cups unearthed in Hejia Village.

There are also 24 pieces of silverware, 18 silver collars and 30 bronze mirrors, each weighing 2 kilograms. Other scattered artifacts may be personal belongings of the crew members of the ship, including two glass bottles, a lacquer plate (remnant), ivory game equipment (which appears to be used for amusement), and inkstone and ink (remnant).

Although these were only ordinary commodities in the folk kilns at that time, 1,200 years later, these originally worthless porcelains have also become worth a lot of money, and ordinary dishes, each of which was quoted for 500 US dollars, this shipload of porcelain, plus antiques, was finally auctioned for 35 million US dollars in the previous life.

Although these antiques are not comparable to the harvest of traveling around Spain, antiques are like that, sometimes a single piece can be sold for the price of a shipload of antiques.

The harvest of traveling around Spain is the cultural relics of the royal family in white clothes, which have precious historical value, but the black stone is full of folk porcelain, and the cultural relics are also folk cultural relics, and the value is of course far from the same.

It's like Van Gogh's paintings and the paintings of an unknown painter, although they are both paintings, but a Van Gogh painting can be worth tens of millions of dollars, but the paintings of ordinary painters may be hundreds of dollars.

Zhou You clearly remembered the location of the Blackstone in his heart, but he couldn't go directly to salvage it, so he could only come to Belitung Island first to collect information.

When their ship entered the port, Indonesia's maritime surveillance department and underwater cultural relics department sent observers to supervise their salvage operations.

Zhou You doesn't care about this, since you are salvaging inside the other party's national border, you must abide by the rules of the other party, and this is not on the high seas.

Lin Wei is not a bare-bones commander now, after returning to Singapore last time, she immediately recruited troops, added several assistants to herself, and hired Deloitte as her company's accounting firm under the instructions of Zhou You.

In Lin Wei's opinion, all this is unnecessary, there are only more than 30 people in their company, and one cashier and one accountant are enough.

But Zhou You insisted on hiring one of the big four accounting firms as his company's auditor. This is mainly because the company's main profit direction in the future is abroad, and there is no accounting firm with strong power and familiar with the financial policies of various countries, and it will suffer a lot of losses.

Lin Wei came to Belitung Island with three assistants and began to collect wind on the island, especially the fishermen's villages near the sea.

In the past few days on Belitung Island, they have also collected a lot of folk legends and new things that fishermen have encountered.

These information, which are almost legends or stories in the eyes of others, have been greatly valued by Zhou You. He gave all the crew members a vacation, and hid in his room while studying the information.

Tanjung Pandan is a small city with a total population of less than 100,000, and the entire island of 4,000 square kilometers has a population of less than 200,000, most of whom are Malays, and a small number of people of Chinese descent. The people of the island mainly cultivated rice and fished, and it was not until more than a decade later that tourism gradually developed here.

Although the official languages here are English and Indonesian, since there are no Indonesians, Malay, Chaozhou and English are the main languages, and no one speaks Indonesian.

The arrival of the Ranger was warmly welcomed by the local government, and Lin Wei, who arrived in advance, had already purchased all kinds of logistics supplies, gasoline, diesel, and all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits.

Although the petrol and diesel on the island are more expensive than the ones they buy in Singapore, Zhou You doesn't care about the small amount of money and intends to make some money for the locals.

Even the boat docking fee is paid at a relatively high price. Spend a little money, and then you can get some of the locals in a way that doesn't cause trouble to your actions, which is also negotiated.

It was also here that Zhou You got the news, because the turmoil caused by Humo's killing not only did not get smaller and smaller, but gradually expanded, because he was killed, Jakarta has recently arrested a lot of suspects, because more than ten people have died in this incident, many of them are enemies of the Suharto family.

Even Indonesian Attorney General Supanji, who was investigating Suharto's crimes, was assassinated by the killer, but his life was great, and although he was seriously injured, he saved his life.

Because of his assassination, there is now a boiling of public sentiment in Indonesia, and another wave of anti-Soviet sentiment has been set off.

Prabo is no longer a general, and his ouster has left Suharto without the army he can control the situation, and he has to become extremely low-key.

Prabo could not stay in Indonesia any longer, and in recent days, he has been assassinated twice, and he was scared to fly to India for refuge.

Zhou You didn't expect that he would kill Hu Mo and cause such a big turmoil, so he also became extremely cautious, except for entertainment, he didn't even get off the boat.

In addition to him, there are also people from the Singapore Navy who can't get off the ship casually, because they are active military personnel, and if they go to other countries, it is a very sensitive matter.

So, anyone can get off the boat and go shopping, but they can't. They can only stay on the ship honestly and guard the ship.

Two days later, Zhou You, who had not slept all night, quickly gathered all the personnel on board, directly gave a few vague addresses, and arranged for the Ranger to prepare to go to those destinations.

These locations were all determined based on the information collected by Lin Wei and the others, the most obvious of which was the shipwreck address of the Blackstone.

Because the Blackstone itself was hit by a reef and sank, the local reef can be said to be famous far and wide.

Therefore, Zhou You did not hide it, and directly set the first destination there.

This was also unanimously agreed upon by the ship's leadership. Everyone knows that since the nets of the local fishermen are broken every time they walk there, there must be something underwater.

Not to mention, there are many fishermen on the island who have salvaged a lot of various kinds of porcelain from their homes. Local antiquities dealers are very active on the island, buying these porcelain on the island, and they will transport it to the big cities to sell, and most of them are sold in Singapore.

Of course, Zhou You looked down on these petty fighters, and would not go to steal business with these people, and the main purpose of his visit this time was the Blackstone.

The shipwreck location from Tanjung Pandan to Blackstone is about 100 kilometers, Tanjung Pandan is in the western part of Belitung Island, but Blackstone is in the northeast of Belitung Island, near Mangar, another famous town on the island.

However, Zhou You deliberately did not use the Blackstone, but only sent out two speedboats. Wait until the speedboat makes a discovery, and then it's not too late to send out the Ranger.

When the people from the Maritime Supervision Department and the Underwater Cultural Relics Department arrived on the Ranger, they were warmly welcomed by Zhou You, and of course some small favors and bribes were inevitable.

However, these two staff members are small roles, and no matter how good they are, they dare not run rampant in front of Zhou You, not to mention that there are dozens of heavily armed soldiers on the ship, and after the two of them come up, they can't be honest anymore, as if they are not here to work, but to take a vacation.

When I was on the high sea, there was no signal, and when I arrived at Belitung Island, the mobile phone signal was connected, and the two mobile phones that traveled around rang beeping.

Among them, the most phone call is Paris, the chick, who has been called by her more than 100 times in Singapore, at least 20 times a day. When Zhou You called her back, she almost cried.

Zhou You replied to the phone one by one, and made up his mind that when the preliminary work in Indonesia was completed, he must install a set of satellite base stations on the ship, and he could also make and receive calls on the high seas in the future, which is too inconvenient now.

On the third day of my stay in Tanjung Pandan, good news came from the speedboat and a major discovery was made at the predetermined location.

A speedboat returned, and the crew needed to drive the ship back, and the Ranger immediately set off for its intended destination.

Zhou You knew that he was going to be in the limelight again this time. (To be continued.) )