Chapter 55: The Ancient Shipwreck

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Miao Miao waves, ups and downs.

The seagrass under the surface of the sea is also driven by the current, swaying in a bewitching posture.

Cai Hongming lightly pulled the seaweed, trying not to bring up the silt, so as not to make the sea turbid and unable to see anything. There were also some marine fish and shellfish lurking in the dense seagrass, and when he saw a large one, he easily put it into the water space of the platinum dragon seal, so that a complete biological chain could be formed inside.

Pull some out, see almost, he plans to stop. Suddenly, he saw a tall giant algae growing not far away, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Macroalgae is a genus of macroalgae in the Kelp order Kelp family, this seaweed grows very blocking, under suitable conditions, a giant algae can grow 30 cm ~ 60 cm per day, and can grow all year round. A giant algae can grow to more than 60 meters in a year, and its individual maturity is generally 70 meters ~ 80 meters, and the longest can reach 500 meters, so it is called macroalgae. In spring and summer, as long as the water temperature is suitable, it can grow about 2 meters per day, and the volume doubles every 16~20 days. This speed, on land and at sea, is unmatched by any other plant.

This stuff is mainly distributed along the Pacific coast of the Americas and is a cold-water seaweed. It is mainly distributed in the sea areas of Alaska through Canada, the United States to Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru and South Africa.

In 1978, China successfully introduced macroalgae cultivation from Mexico for the first time, and it is now growing well in coastal areas.

It's just that this thing is only cultivated in Shandong, how did you come here, and I haven't heard of people raising this thing on the southeast coast! Could it be that he was taken by a pink manta ray to swim to the waters of Shandong. How can it be?

Cai Hongming was confused, and planned to put away the tall giant algae and go up to see where he was now. Who knows how to pull the giant algae. It's endless. Originally, this thing was floating in the water for more than 50 meters, and he pulled it for a while, but it was almost 100 meters and he hadn't pulled it up yet.

He pulled it up vigorously, and after pulling it for a while, he pulled out the entire giant algae and put it into the water space of the Platinum Dragon Seal.

Wondering what was going on, he looked at the place where the algae had been pulled out. But I found that there was a very deep hole in the place where the giant algae was pulled, and if I looked closely, the hole was actually a wooden plank?

Well?

He was also stupid and bold, and he was curious, so he broke the planks and made the hole a little bigger. The planks had been soaked under water for no known how long, and they were so corroded that they were about to rot, and it didn't take him much effort to break them. When the entrance of the cave became larger, he took out the flashlight from the cave blessed land in the jade ding. Afraid of being eroded by water, he specially wrapped a thick layer of safety film around the flashlight, and then drilled into the hole.

The pink manta saw him burrow inside and wanted to go in too. It's a pity that the body is too big, and there is no way at all, so I have to look inside stupidly from the outside.

Cai Hongming came inside, shone a flashlight, and found that it was an ancient shipwreck. It was clear to me.

This area of the sea was once supposed to be the main passage for ships. The ship was probably unlucky and sank in a typhoon or reef. In Pingtan in Fujian Province, there is a sea area where a large number of ancient shipwrecks have sunk, and people who go fishing can fish out some porcelain or something from time to time, and last time there was a big news because of this.

Seeing that it was a shipwreck, Cai Hongming's eyes lit up.

Shipwreck. Sometimes it means treasure. Because shipwrecks are generally ancient, the contents of the ship have basically become antiques in modern times. If you are lucky, you can find a treasure that can be sold for a large price, and you will have plenty of food and clothing for a lifetime. Look at the style of the ship, and the condition of the mud. At least before the Qing Dynasty, otherwise it would not have been completely covered by the silt. At that time, everything was still all antiques, and any porcelain could be sold for a large amount of money.

The more he thought about it, the brighter Cai Hongming's eyes became, and he slowly swam into the boat.

The shipwreck hull is very large, almost ten meters high, anyway, Cai Hongming feels very wide swimming in it.

Ships like this generally have two layers, one for people and one for ballast. The place where Cai Hongming swam in is the upper layer of the cabin where people live, and this kind of cabin is generally divided into several spaces for people to put goods. Cai Hongming swam inside, holding a flashlight to shine around as he swam to see if there was anything good.

The cabin is not as good as the outside, and under the slight sunlight, it is dark inside, is it dark everywhere, gloomy, for no reason, Cai Hongming felt creepy.

He had also seen the ghost blowing the lantern, and he remembered that there was a chapter in it that seemed to write about encountering ghosts at the bottom of the sea. Originally, he was not afraid of those things, but at this moment, at this moment, inexplicably thinking of those who were killed, it really had to be creepy again. Secretly swallowed, shrunk his head and looked around. Suddenly, he saw that there seemed to be a shadow shaking next to him, and his heart chuckled, and he didn't feel awe-inspiring.

Isn't there such a thing?

He is a native of southern Fujian, southern Fujian and even the coastal areas of China always have a little respect for ghosts and gods, sometimes although he says he doesn't believe it, but when he enters the temple to worship, what should be taboo is still taboo, and he follows the customs when he enters the country, just in case! Seeing this situation now, he couldn't help but secretly pray in his heart for the blessing of the passing gods.

Suddenly, he saw the shadow move again, and he felt that something was wrong, so he shone it with a flashlight.

Damn, where is the ghost, it is clearly a tendril, I don't know what it is, from above penetrating the plank of the boat and floating in the water, startling him a lot.

Knowing that it wasn't a ghost, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to swim forward. Suddenly, a dark shadow swam from the front, burrowed under his crotch, and disappeared.

Oh, what the hell is that? It was too fast for him to see clearly. Fortunately, it's okay, it seems that he has to be careful, if something comes over and accidentally bites it curiously, then his life will be over.

After swimming for a while, Cai Hongming didn't know which part of the cabin he was in, so he could only continue to swim forward. After swimming for a while, I saw a room and went in to see that most of the things inside had been corroded by the seawater, and only chairs and things like shellfish were left. After looking at a few rooms, most of them were like this, even if I saw the box and opened it, the contents had already been corroded by the seawater. However, he found some porcelain, some of which were broken, and some of which were still well preserved, and Cai Hongming didn't know if those antiques could be sold for money, so they were all collected into the cave blessed land in the jade ding.

There is a warehouse behind the cabin of the occupant, and Cai Hongming finally ushered in his biggest harvest this time.

There were a bunch of boxes in the warehouse, some of the boxes were cracked when the ship tilted and sank, and some were broken, but there were many preserved, counting, there were almost twenty mouthfuls, and he didn't care whether the contents were still intact or not, so he put them into the cave blessed land in the jade ding, and planned to go back and look at it again.

There is more than one warehouse, there is one next to it, but except for this warehouse, which is where boxes are placed, there is no other place, and I don't know what it is, and it has long been corroded into dirt by now.

However, judging from the clues, these things should be medicinal herbs, spices and the like.

He also found from the clues he saw after entering the ship that it was an ancient shipwreck of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, he was even more sure that what he saw just now should be medicinal herbs, spices and the like.

During the Song Dynasty, the maritime trade was developed, and the maritime merchants worked tirelessly for the sake of money, transporting a large number of commodities to 58 countries in Eurasia, such as Champong, Chenla, Srivijaya, Kelantan, Boni, Balinfeng, Lanwuli, Diche, Sanyu, Dashi, Daqin, Persia, Baida, Majia, Yilu, Gulin, Shilan, Dengliumei, Zhongli, Sgariya, Magnolia Pi, etc., and when they came back, they bought back ivory, coral, agate, pearls, frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, pepper, glass, tortoiseshell and other valuable commodities from these countries.

Among them, the most commonly used spices are the most common, because this thing is the fastest to sell.

Cai Hongming searched the entire ship up and down, except for the previous boxes, he only found some porcelain, but the estimated value was not very high, because he found that these seemed to be the daily necessities of the people on the ship, but he still took them away, which was better than nothing.

In addition to these, he also found a large amount of pig iron in the bilge, the lowest layer where the ballast stone is placed.

Each of those pieces of pig iron was two meters long, thirty centimeters wide, and twenty centimeters thick.

It seems that the owner of this ship is really not afraid of death, you must know that in the Song Dynasty, salt and iron and other things were sold by the imperial court, and his private goods were sold, if he was known, he would kill his head and destroy his family.

However, these maritime merchants are also smart, when they go to use worthless stones to ballast, and when they go back, they use iron, and this time and again, the profit is not only a hundredfold. It's just that there is too much pig iron, it is estimated that it is not enough greed, and it is too much, and when it encounters a storm on the road, it is beaten by the waves, and these pieces of iron fall to the side, and the hull of the ship is unstable and tilted, so it is over. So it's better not to be too greedy.

These pieces of iron seem to be useless. Now that iron ore is so cheap, what's the use of these things, and it's cumbersome to carry?

Forget it, put it away, maybe it can be used to lay the foundation in the future.

Cai Hongming thought about it, so he put away all the iron pieces in the bilge, and then swam back.

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