Chapter XXXVII
Zhou You and Master Qin observed in the cockpit room for a long time, but they didn't see the specific style of this ship. Inland river boats are not like sea boats, and the development style of each generation is more obvious and easy to judge.
The style of river boats is less obvious, and each country and region has a different style of decoration. The only thing that is certain now is that it was a diesel-powered ship, and judging by the simple interior design, it matched what they had judged from the beginning to be a World War II ship.
Since the cabin was not badly damaged, and the silt below was not deep, they cleaned it up and found five long guns, as well as two pistols, which had been scrapped after decades of corrosion, but Zhou You still packed two pistols into a mesh bag.
This kind of mesh bag has fine drainage holes, which can hold any item, not even the pendant of a necklace, only the water can not be retained.
In addition to these guns, they also found two necklaces, more than a dozen gold and silver coins, and a hand-melted gold bracelet, which weighed almost a pound.
Not finding anything missing, Zhou Youcai pointed to the door of the rear cabin again, Master Qin nodded, and the two of them opened the door of the rear cabin together.
Because of their mental preparation, the two of them were not at all surprised by the dense skeletons in the cabin behind. The skeletons had been corroded over the decades, and their clothes had all rotted, and the corpses, as well as the aquatic plants, had formed a thick layer of solidification above the chamber.
Since the ship was tilted on the right side of the seabed, when they came in, there were two rows of seats in a dozen rows on the right side, the left side was the original top of the ship, the top of the head was the original left side of the ship, and in the middle of the ship, there was a large hole with a diameter of two or three meters, which was obviously the main reason for the sinking of the ship.
Because of the explosion, the entire hull was somewhat deformed, but the deformation was not serious. Most of the people on board were probably killed in the explosion, so they should not have suffered much death.
Zhou You didn't want to look for the jewelry that was still left on the corpses, and he and Master Qin set their eyes on the boxes and packages below, and the two of them made a few gestures, and began to search for packages by package.
The clothes in the package, including paper letters, were all rotten, but the metal objects were not. Gold and silver, in particular, were inherently corrosion-resistant, so it didn't take long for the two of them to collect a bag full of them. Zhou You gestured and asked Master Qin to return to the water first, put down the hanging cable, and prepare to collect it for a while.
Although the harvest here is not very much, the value of gold and silver jewelry, including some antiques, will not be low, not to mention how much money can be made, but at least this time the cost can be kept partially.
After searching the entire cabin, there was no other gain, but Zhou Yu still did not give up.
He had already seen that this was originally an inland passenger ship, and it may have been carried to the sea with almost a hundred people to avoid the Japanese, but it still did not escape from the poisonous hands of the Japanese.
Since they are fleeing, of course, the finances they carry with them will not be too small. Zhou You has gained a lot now, but he is still waiting to see if there will be a mezzanine on the ship.
Not only him, but everyone is a little greedy and insufficient!
When he got on board with the harvest, another speedboat came along. Liang Hao and Zhou Minghong saw a bag full of gold and silver antiques, and they excitedly wanted to go into the water again.
Zhou You was already satisfied with today's harvest, and divided a ship and took him back to the mothership first, while the rest of the people, leaving a group of daring ones, conducted a comprehensive search of the entire ship, hoping for a greater harvest.
Zhou You returned to the mothership, and immediately attracted the attention of everyone on board, even those soldiers of the navy were shocked by the harvest of Zhou You, there were so many gains on the first day of going out, how could it not be envied!
Zhong Hanwei couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many gains just after going to sea, which makes me want to do this too." ”
Lin Jiapei laughed at him and said, "You also do this business? Do you have $20 million to invest? Do you know how much the 20 million is returned every year when it is deposited in the bank? What is this harvest today, good luck is not every day! This harvest is not even enough for the cost of our salvage. ”
Zhong Hanwei had nothing to say.
Indeed, in order to be able to salvage in Indonesian waters this time, Zhou You's license fee alone is one million US dollars, plus public relations expenses, nearly one and a half million US dollars have been spent.
Coupled with the cost of the Ranger going to sea, the wages of the seafarers, and the bonuses harvested this time, there will not be many people who really fall into the pockets of Zhou You, these gold and silver antiques are modern civilian goods, and there will rarely be historical relics value, if it is only calculated according to the value of gold and silver, it will be very good to be able to sell for 500,000 US dollars.
Back in his cabin, Zhou You took Yang Enquan with him, and Chuckel entered the storage room and began to sort out the harvest.
The tour's bedroom has two doors, one is the main entrance, which leads directly to the command room. One is the rear door, located at the height of the third floor, with a balcony and no road access, which can only be accessed by a crane.
This door was not meant to be passed through, but mainly to transport some valuable harvests directly to the traveling rooms.
These two are almost the strongest doors on the ship, not to mention kicking them, even the guns can't penetrate them.
Behind the traveling bedroom near the bed, there are two small warehouses, which are also safe houses welded with special steel plates, the outer one can be sorted and harvested, and the inner one is the warehouse.
There is also an exit to this warehouse, a passage formed by a seventy-degree bevel that goes directly down to the bottom of the ship, with three one-way partitions in the middle, which can only be opened from above, and cannot be reached below.
Even the Navy's Chief Pan Li shook his head when he saw this arrangement, because this kind of security was already safer than the command room on the warship, and ordinary artillery shells could not explode.
The three of them began to sort gold coins, silver coins, ordinary jewelry, and antiques one by one. Then it is simple anti-corrosion, anti-oxidation, and then packed into a special white sealed box of PVC.
This is not over, the air inside the box is extracted by the extractor, so that a near-vacuum environment is formed inside, and then it is placed on the shelves in the warehouse.
Although Zhou You is not an antique major, he has worked like this for six years before, so he still has a certain appreciation for general antiques.
After taking pictures of all the harvests and registering them, he began to judge the value one by one.
Today's harvest is mostly silver ingots, totaling about 30 kilograms. This is followed by gold bars, which are about 12 kilograms. The rest were their respective gold and silver coins, 1,300 silver coins, and not many gold coins, only more than 20.
Due to the large number of impurities, the value of silver ingots and gold bars is actually not very high. The current price of gold is about ten dollars a gram, the bars are worth about $120,000, and the silver ingots are less than $10,000.
Only these antiques, since most of them are Indonesian-style, they can't judge the value of traveling around, and they can't be valued now. However, it should be a little higher than the value of gold and silver, and these will have to be assessed by experts later.
They hadn't finished cleaning up these harvests, and Liang Hao and the others had returned, but they hadn't found much of value as they had expected at the beginning of the tour.
Since it is a refugee ship, there may be hidden treasures, but this kind of commercial ship, which is occupied by ordinary people and fleeing for their lives, will not have too much money to hide.
However, they cleaned up cleaner than Zhou You, so they still picked up a lot of good things. However, instead of the joy of the harvest on their faces, their faces turned pale and looked extremely uncomfortable.
No matter how bold they were, seeing hundreds of skeletons at once still had a huge psychological impact on them. And it's not on the shore, even if you see it and feel uncomfortable, you can avoid it.
With hundreds of corpses in a cabin, surrounded by these things, it was bold enough to be able to pee your pants without being frightened.
"Captain Lin, record the latitude and longitude of the treasure we just fished for, if the identity of these people is found from these jewelry or antiques in the future, there may be someone to collect the bones in the future."
"I know, I've written it down."
"Today's harvest, all the crew members who perform underwater operations, have a 5 percent share, and then the whole ship's seafarers, there is also a 10 percent share, and when the value of all the harvest is determined in the future, this money will be distributed."
This sentence won the cheers of all the seafarers, although the dividend ratio of 15% had been determined in advance of the trip, but at that time it was just an empty word. Now that I have seen these harvests, they are worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, 15 percent dividends, and the minimum is tens of thousands of dollars, and there are only more than 20 people in total, and one person can share thousands of dollars.
In the commercial salvage industry, in fact, there are no special rules. However, in the previous life, when traveling around the Odyssey Company, the Odyssey Company implemented a share ratio of less than one million gains, a share ratio of 15 percent, one million to five million, and 12 percent; five million to ten million, ten percent; more than 10 million, 8 percent; When it reaches more than 50 million, it is only 5 percent, more than 100 million, the highest is only 4 percent, and generally 3 percent.
And this is not the proportion of total income, but the proportion of gross income, which is to be calculated after removing taxes.
These divisions are mainly divided into two parts, and one-third is to subsidize and reward dangerous positions according to different types of work.
The remaining two-thirds are shared by everyone, including those who have been allocated before, and this time they are still included in the distribution range. According to the position, work experience, and ability to contribute, we take care of everyone's psychology.
Although there is no absolute fairness in this world, this distribution scheme is still relatively fair, at least in the previous life, no one really criticized this distribution scheme too much. (To be continued.) )