The sinking of the treasure carrier "San Jose" was nothing to the British Imperial Navy at that time, because they did not know that it was a treasure ship, and thought it was just an ordinary troop carrier.

The battle for maritime hegemony between the British Empire and the Spanish Empire was the largest and most brutal naval war in the history of the human world.

At that time, the two sides have already killed the red eye, as long as it is the ship of the other party or the other ally, it will be destroyed, regardless of what troop carrier or slave ship you are. This was so much destruction that the captain of the battleship responsible for sinking the San Jose at the time did not specifically record the location of the wreck. Even at that time, they did not come specifically to sink the San Jose, at that time they had another important task, and the sinking of the San Jose could only be said to be a grass and a rabbit, taking advantage of the situation.

The San Jose was also unlucky, and Felipe V was even more unlucky, this money was his military expenses, and it is said that the ship carried the main treasure plundered from the Spanish American colonies, gold, silver, all kinds of precious stones, and countless others!

The reason why he prepared so much military expenditure was not only to fight for maritime hegemony with the British Empire, but also to organize a new army and recover Italian territory.

The naval war between Britain and Spain continued for hundreds of years, and the two sides continued to fight for the ownership of the Atlantic, and later joined the Dutch Empire, the situation was particularly chaotic, and Spain's sea power was constantly challenged and slowly fell behind.

The Anglo-Spanish naval battles of the sixteenth century were a turning point, when the British Empire replaced the Spanish Empire as the maritime hegemon of the Atlantic, and in that era. The Atlantic Ocean was a lifeline for slaves and shipping, and Felipe V was not willing to do so. He has always wanted to seek revenge and defeat the British Empire to regain maritime supremacy in the Atlantic.

But man is not as good as heaven. He was full of ambition, and in the end, not only did he fail to defeat the British navy, but he was even defeated by the Four-Nation Coalition when he recovered Italy due to lack of military funds, and finally died of depression.

Throughout that era, the San Jose was a ship that could influence the tide of the era, and if it had returned to Spain safely, perhaps the world would have been rewritten, and at least Felipe V would have been able to organize an army to recover Italy. And then control the Mediterranean, accumulate strength, maybe it can really hit the British Empire, and curb the rise of the empire on which the sun never sets.

Felipe V knew the importance of the ship's treasure, so in order to hide it, he did not use a regular treasure ship to transport it, nor did he organize a large fleet to escort it. Because at that time, the hegemony of the Atlantic Ocean was in the hands of the British Navy, and even if he organized a large-scale fleet to escort the ship, it was only a target for the British Navy.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven. After entering the Caribbean, the San Jose eventually encountered the British Imperial Navy, and then was beaten by a rabbit in the grass, and was unlucky to be overturned by a round of cannons.

There were more than 600 elite members of the Spanish Navy on board. In the end, only a fraction of the survivors were escaped, and these people did not return to Spain, because at that time the loss of a huge treasure was a major crime of murder. It will be connected to the whole family. So, each of them fled for their lives. The news of the sinking of the San Jose was thus covered up.

After that, although the news of the shipwreck of the San Jose spread widely. However, the British Navy did not record the specific location of the sinking of the San Jose at that time, and the few people who escaped the wreck were just ordinary soldiers, and the sea was no better than the land, and the vast sea could not be marked, so in the end, no one could find this treasure ship, which was said to be priceless.

Qin Shiou recalled the information of the San Jose and asked Little Blake, "Have you really found the location of this ship?" I don't know how many people haven't found it for centuries, how did you find it? ”

Little Blake smiled slightly and said, "I'm lucky, at the beginning of the year I received a logbook, it was a ship named 'Solid as a Reef', I researched it based on the information in it, and then guess what I found?" ”

"This is the same ship that sank the San Jose?" Qin Shiou asked strangely, it may not be a bit too coincidental, because it was impossible to determine the identity of the warship that sank the San Jose in the first place, which caused the location of the wreck to be completely impossible to query.

At that time, the naval warfare was very chaotic, the navies of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal often fought each other, you hit me, I fought you, not only the navy fought with the navy, the navy also liked to attack civilian merchant ships, and some civilian merchant ships would also disguise themselves as naval ships or pirate ships, and then attack each other.

After decades of fighting, several maritime hegemons found that this would not work, and it was their own grassroots economy that would be hurt by the melee, so they negotiated that they would not be allowed to attack civilian and commercial ships in the future, which was the Four-Power Maritime Convention.

But as we all know, the creation of the contract between the countries was used to break it, and the navies of the four countries did not abide by the convention at all, whether they should attack civilian ships or attack civilian ships, and whether they should plunder merchant ships or plunder merchant ships. In order to avoid being caught, they began to make false accounts, attacking such ships and refusing to admit them, and not recording them in the captain's logbook and battle log.

Little Blake nodded, "Yes, according to my research. Later, in this logbook, I found the route of the ship in 1708, the year the San Jose was sunk. Eventually, it was determined that the place where they sank the San Jose was not far from the Cayman Islands, because the Reef Solid was trying to resupply, and they came across the San Jose, thinking it was a Spanish troop transport, so they sank it. ”

"Sinking the San Jose, they were worried that there were Spanish Navy ships behind them, and they didn't have much supplies, so they quickly slipped away, which is why they didn't leave a specific record of the location of the naval battle!"

Qin Shiou touched the back of his head, feeling that little Blake was also a talent, and he could find so much information along the way, he couldn't help but praise: "It's really a loss for them that you don't go to work on the intelligence of the Five Tigers, and it's also a waste of your talent." ”

The Intelligence Five is a collective term that refers to the five main agencies responsible for intelligence gathering in Canada, namely the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, the Armed Forces and Defence, the National Security Intelligence Service, the Royal Mounted Police, and the Communications Security Agency. These five agencies are responsible for collecting signal intelligence and some human intelligence for Canada, which are used for decision-making, safeguarding national security, and military operations, and the elites in them are all good at intelligence analysis, so Qin Shiou said so.

Little Blake took out a chart of the Caribbean Sea that he was carrying, and a red five-pointed star was drawn in the southwest, and he said firmly: "This is the approximate location of the San Jose, you can find a way to check with Billy, I think, we are really going to become rich!" (To be continued.) )