818. No. Republic
Qin Shiou had to explain awkwardly, saying that Billy was not kneeling, this was a sitting posture that Americans were used to.
Father Qin nodded suddenly, put down the barbecue and let them continue to play, and left quickly, he was also embarrassed.
Billy was even more embarrassed, but the embarrassment was not this matter, he didn't know why Father Qin was so nervous, he was embarrassed: "You actually used luck to find the shipwreck?!" God, spare me! I'm a partner, and I've failed so much! ”
Little Blake was also speechless, he patted Qin Shiou's shoulder and said, "Don't talk about this matter tonight, let's drink, starting tomorrow, please ask Young Master Billy more about how to find the wreck!" ”
Later, when the four of them ate a case of beer, little Blake began to regret what he just said, 'don't talk about work'? This is really a stupid statement, it's right to talk about work, otherwise listening to Billy talk about his relationship history would be crazy!
Billy grabbed a bottle of beer, pulled little Blake with the other hand, and said sadly, "...... Man, you can't feel how I feel, I love that lovely girl! It's not like you, it's ...... to see a woman love one and only love what it feels like to do AI with them."
Little Blake's face is full of pathos, why is his son a playboy? Yes, Lao Tzu has had relationships with many women, but can that have you Miami pervert Billy? What face do you have to pretend to be pure in front of yourself?
Billy continued: "I went to China with my beloved girl, but she rejected me, saying that she wanted to find an upright, motivated young man to spend her life with, not a prodigal son in love! Oh. God, who told this girl about my past? Qin. Sue me, it's not you ......"
Talking to the back. Billy's voice was like a wolf's howl, and the little radish head in the villa listened sideways, and curiously came out to look this way, with a rare sense of familiarity.
Qin Shiou hurriedly swore: "God knows, Billy, my good fellow, I definitely never told Huang Jiajia about your bad deeds!" Absolutely nothing! ”
Billy pulled Little Black to sob, then raised the bottle and yelled, "it, guys." It's a brother's, so he dried up the wine in his hand! ”
Little Blake's face changed a little, Billy's wine was only a little at the bottom of the bottle, and he had a new bottle of wine in his hand.
Billy came tonight as drunk, but he had to pull a cushion on his back when he was dying, and he successfully drunk little Blake, so Qin Shiou had to ask Nelson to drive them to the town hotel.
When he woke up the next day, Billy was normal, but there was still a bit of melancholy in his eyes, which made him more attractive. A handsome blonde young man with melancholy eyes, this is a character only in comics, and a favorite of rotten girls.
Billy came to find Qin Shiou and said, "Look for the wreck." Not like you, man, you know. Of the tens of thousands of shipwrecks on the seabed, only a handful. Less than one percent of the sunken ships had negotiable wealth, such as gold and jewelry. Such a big project is not something that can be encountered casually. ”
Qin Shiou agrees with this point of view, he has a golden finger like the sea god consciousness, and he has not found a valuable shipwreck for a long time.
Billy continued: "Do you know how much time our Odyssey spent preparing and searching before finding the first valuable wreck, the Socrates? Exactly 12 years! ”
Qin Shiou said: "You mean, I need to be more patient? ”
Billy looked at him strangely and said, "No, that's what I'm going to talk about later." After finding the Socrates, we look for a second shipwreck with a treasure, do you know how much time it took? Only two years! ”
"Your mother blew up, don't fucking beat around the bush, just say it!"
Billy took out a small notebook, opened it carefully, and said, "In the first twelve years, our company was not only looking for a ship Socrates, but also collecting a lot of information about the shipwreck through various means, understand, information!" ”
Of course, Qin Shiou understood what he meant, most shipwrecks had an approximate location, and by searching around, the ship could be found.
He knows this, but the location information he can find is all ordinary shipwrecks, and the shipwreck information is relatively transparent after World War II, and the valuable shipwrecks are all before World War II, so how can he find them?
Billy sighed, "I gave you a digital copy of the shipwreck information log booklet." ”
Qin Shiou said embarrassedly: "Maybe I deleted it by mistake......"
It doesn't matter, the booklet in Billy's hand records less information about the shipwreck, but each one is more reliable.
The two discussed information about the wrecks and identified a target: "The shipwreck of the Republic." ”
The USS Republic is one of the most famous shipwrecks in modern American history, which occurred just after the end of the American Civil War, when the steamer was laden with cargo and coins and was on its way to New Orleans to support the post-war reconstruction of New Orleans.
Just two days after leaving New York, the 210-foot-long steamer, the steam-age ship, was tragically targeted by the Barbary Pirates, the sworn enemy of the U.S. Navy at the time, who dispatched two clippers to attack the Republic, stealing all the cargo and coins on it.
According to reliable investigations by the Osside Company, the Republic was robbed of more than $400,000 in gold and silver coins.
Today, a century and a half later, the value of gold and silver coins has far exceeded the face value of those years, and the market price of a $10 eagle gold coin ranges from $3,000 to $500,000!
The feud between the U.S. Navy and the Barbary pirates has a long history, starting after the end of the American Revolutionary War, and it is fair to say that it was these pirates who contributed to the creation of the U.S. Navy.
In the early 19th century, the Barbary pirates were overwhelmed by the U.S. Navy, which had been heavily defeated by the U.S. Navy in the two Barbary Wars in North Africa, and successfully stationed troops in the Mediterranean.
Unfortunately, when the American Civil War broke out, the navy weakened, and the Barbary pirates revived, and it was under these circumstances that the Republic was captured.
But at that time, although the U.S. Navy was wounded, its roots were still there, and when it learned that the Republic had been snatched away, the angry Navy sent elites to chase and kill all the way, and the two sides had a major battle in the high seas of the North Atlantic.
As a result of the battle, the Barbary pirates were wiped out, and although the Navy rescued the Republic, the gold and silver coins on board were moved to the pirate ship, which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean several kilometers deep.
With the technology of the US Navy at that time, it was naturally impossible to complete salvage at such a depth.
It happened that there was a hurricane at that time, and the naval ships had to return to port, and they left a marker balloon on the battlefield, but because of the hurricane, the balloon disappeared, and then the location of the battlefield became obscure, and then the shipwreck treasure was gone. (To be continued......)