Including the Royal Merchant, the original treasures were also scattered within a radius of 0.5 kilometers, and if they were all in the hull, they could all be salvaged in half a month. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But the Victory is different, this is a sturdy warship, the cargo hold is small, and the treasure is all in the sturdy cargo hold. If they don't want to destroy the hull structure, it won't take them a week to salvage all the treasures.

Moreover, this ship is all loaded with gold coins, 200,000 gold coins, a total weight of less than ten tons, and it can even take two or three days to salvage the water.

But now that British and Spanish historians and heritage conservation experts are there, of course, Zhou You can't destroy the hull at will like last time, otherwise it will lead to harsh criticism.

After lunch, the salvage plan was also arranged. This salvage will start from the periphery, and the first thing to clean up is the cannons scattered all over the place, and after the perimeter is cleaned up, the main hull will be cleaned up.

Moreover, this time it will not use violence to disassemble the hull, but according to the actual situation that has been cleaned up, and then determine the next plan, anyway, the British side means to try to ensure the integrity of the ship.

In the afternoon, when the thirty-four bronze cannons scattered around were salvaged, everyone was almost sure that the ship was the Victory, which had been sunk by the British more than two hundred years ago.

Because the history on these bronze cannons fully proves that they were the standing ship-based guns of the British period of the seventeenth and even eighteenth centuries.

During that period, although Britain waged countless wars with the newly founded United States, the Netherlands, Spain, and even most of Europe for the sake of colonies, there was not a single record of the sinking of British warships in this sea.

Because of previous wars, the sinking of warships has been recorded in detail, and they can all find their home. Coupled with the fact that most of the battlefield is not here, it is easy to deduce that this ship is very likely to be the Victory.

The British team reported the information to China, and it was confirmed the next day, and among the missing ship registrations, only the Victory matched the ship on the bottom of the sea.

The British also sent a larger salvage team, and a semi-submersible salvage vessel came to assist in the salvage, hoping to get the Victory back to Britain as intact as possible.

In this regard, Zhou You neither opposes nor supports, and has a bit of a casual attitude. Anyway, now that the contract has been signed, only he is most sure of the amount of wealth on the ship, and the British side has no intention of backsliding.

However, since the other side wants to leave the wreckage of the Victory intact, the salvage work must be more detailed.

Like the Royal Merchant, the Ranger's job was to blow the sand off the exterior of the Victory. If the cracks in the hull are not large, you still need to use a pump to pump out all the sediment in the hull before you can clean up the contents inside.

This kind of wooden ship has been soaked in the sea for more than 200 years, and it has long been decayed and cannot withstand too much external force, so it is necessary to strengthen the hull before these works.

Since March 4th, the Ranger has been busy reinforcing the Victory's hull, which is tied to the Victory with sturdy canvas straps, but not too tightly mechanically.

Then, the sand pumping pipe is inserted through the entrance of the cabin, as well as the gap in the hull, and the sediment is pumped out little by little. For each part, a frogman wearing a wetsuit was sent down to install an inflatable bag from the belly of the boat.

These inflatable bags are a bit like airbags, but more like sturdy balloons. They can fill the space inside the hull so that in the future, when the hull comes out of the water, the water will flow out of the hull, so that the whole ship will not fall apart.

It was also because of the meticulous work that had to be done that it was not until three days later, when the British semi-submersible ship arrived at the scene, that all these preparations were completed.

In the process of cleaning the cabin, less than 100 bones were recovered, and each body was packed in a professional body bag for burial.

Of course, everyone's main concern is the wealth in the bottom of the boat, even if one or two nerds focus on culture and history, but most people still focus on harvest.

Because the Victory was overturned on its side at the bottom of the water, and the hull was torn in half during the storm, Zhou You also sent frogmen into the cargo hold at the bottom of the ship at the first time.

After the sediment was pumped out, the wealth in the bottom silo was fully revealed. Due to the fact that they are under the water and wrapped in sediment, most of the gold coin boxes are intact, and some of them have no signs of oxidation at all.

In three days, relying on the deep-sea robot, seventy-nine boxes have been salvaged, of which more than forty are intact, and the lower it goes, the more intact the character is, only the bottom part of the fairy has been squeezed and broken.

Each of the seventy-nine chests contained a thousand gold coins, but only a little more than 70,000 gold coins were salvaged by traveling around, and a large part of the gold coins were still in the mud and sand below.

This batch of gold coins is also the Venetian gold coins that are not recorded in many historical documents, not the Portuguese gold coins that everyone knows.

At that time, many countries in Europe were not united, and all countries, and even some principalities, minted their own coins. In addition, their weights and measures are messy, so it also leads to differences in the weight of the gold coins.

Portuguese gold coins, for example, had a standard weight of one ounce, but the Ducat, which was first used in Venice, was only one-eighth of an ounce. Later, due to the inconvenience of mutual trade and exchange, the later gold coins of Venice were ten ducats, that is, one point and two ounces.

Each of the 70,000 gold coins weighs nearly 39 grams, and with the corrosion that has been under the sea for so long, each piece is almost 40 grams.

When more Britons arrived, they were dazzled by this dazzling wealth, and they did not even need to trim it, but also invested in salvage.

At present, it is manpower that restricts the speed of salvage. Because the cabin is not suitable for machine operation, frogmen need to enter the cabin to clean up, and there are only two professional frogmen on the Ranger, and there are also old sailors such as Chu Yannan and Feng Haijun who can dive to a depth of 110 meters.

That's why the clean-up work has been so slow these days, if it weren't for the fact that the British need to be alone in the town, they would have been eager to go into the water themselves and help get gold coins.

The British sent more than ten frogmen at once, and with their help, the cleanup was much faster.

On March 14, after 12 days of salvage, all the mud and sand in the ship's hold, including weapons, and more than 60 cannons were removed from the ship's hold.

In addition, there are some goods that can no longer be distinguished, according to the analysis of Zhou You, the jar should be filled with tung oil, and those hair-like things should be rotten hemp rope, these things were necessary on ships at that time.

Of course, cleaning up is more about disagreeing with the corroded gold coins. They recovered nearly two hundred and fifty chests, two hundred of them, containing gold coins, including 100,000 Portuguese gold coins and 100,000 Venetian gold coins.

And their travels were far more than that, for they had recovered not only 200,000 and 1,000 gold coins, but also more than 5,000 silver coins, and more than 300 gold and silver objects.

These gains satisfied everyone, especially Zhou You, who was absolutely satisfied with this operation. Although I have to give half to the British, these things originally belonged to others, and now I can grab half of them, which is enough.

However, he also regretted a little, if he knew that this salvage would go so smoothly, why didn't he secretly salvage it himself?

But the thought passed by in a flash, because unless he shut up all the crew members and hid the gold coins from anyone, the secret would be revealed. At that time, not only did I not get a single gold coin, but I was afraid that I would have to face legal accountability from the British.

At that time, don't say that he was just a Singaporean, even if he was the president of the United States, he would not be able to step down.

Although this society has always been the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle also has rules, if you are a weak person who does not follow the rules, then the strong do not follow the rules, and the weak will not be able to stand it.

Zhou You just wants to make money, then these gold coins must be auctioned, and if they are put up for auction, you need to provide the source of the gold coins, which is not one or two, this is more than 200,000 pieces, there is no detailed source, no one dares to take over.

If you can't turn it into money, it's just a pile of scrap. If he melted all these gold coins, according to the current price of gold, a gram is about 30 US dollars, and there are less than eight tons of gold in total, which is equivalent to less than 300 million US dollars, and it would be good to have more than 200 million yuan after deducting taxes and fees.

But with the British, he doesn't have to pay British taxes and fees, he now divides half, and the minimum value is more than $500 million, even if he pays 16% of the taxes and fees to Singapore, he can net more than $400 million.

This account can be easily calculated.

On the one hand, it is sneaky, and it has to encounter a crisis afterwards to earn 200 million. On the one hand, it is bright and bright, and it can also get the friendship of Britain, and it can solve the crisis of the Royal Merchant, and it can earn 400 million. This account can be easily calculated.

Besides, what you want is to live happily and freely, and there is a lot of legal money to make, so why make this illegal money!

After these days of salvage, all the crew members were also exhausted. But traveling around this time is even busier, because this time is the most critical time.

(To be continued.) )