Chapter 172: Silver Mountain
Han Peacock knew that the simulated sea turtle had begun to be controlled, so he didn't care what the turtle was doing, he thought about swimming to the entrance of the wreck.
Due to the urgency of time, Han Peacock's purpose is very clear, he directly enters the bottom of the cabin, and if there is heavy cargo, it will generally be placed at the bottom of the ship as the existence of the bottom of the pressure box.
The ship was supported in the wind and waves for more than five hours, so the hull was seriously damaged, and the huge scars on the hull could be clearly seen by Han Peacock under the illumination of the diving lamp.
There are huge impact marks on the bow and sides of the hull, which shows that it is not so easy for the ship to break out of the reef area.
Because it is a steel giant, the inside of the ship has not been seriously damaged, and all the cabins inside the hull are open, which is very convenient for Han Peacock.
I don't know if this is the Dainichi Maru, but Han Peacock found that the structure of this ship was the same as that of the Dainichi Maru, so he easily entered this behemoth that was more than a hundred meters long.
The ship was overturned, and one of the exposed sides was completely broken, and Han Peacock really couldn't imagine what kind of encounter the ship had endured back then.
Although there are cracks that can go directly into the ship, Han Peacock still follows the predicted route, and if he enters the ship directly through the cracks, it is easy to get lost because he does not understand the situation inside the ship, which is even more wasteful of time.
Thanks to the help of the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag, the Han Peacock has no resistance in the water, and it is more convenient than on land.
With the help of the ubiquitous seawater, the Han peacock is much faster than on land. He quickly passed through a cockpit and, after opening a hatch, entered the ship's bottom warehouse.
This ship is most likely the Dainichi Maru, otherwise the internal structure of the cabin would not be the same as the Dainichi Maru.
If this is really the Dainichi Maru, whether there is any treasure here depends on this warehouse.
Using brute force to smash open a dark window that had been decayed, Han Peacock successfully entered the interior of the warehouse this time.
Han Peacock looked at the warehouse under the light in a daze, as if he was in a silver world, it turned out that the entire warehouse floor was paved with silver bricks. There are even some gold bricks.
Inside the wide cabin. A large winter melon is placed, and under the illumination of the diving lamp, all of them shine with silver light, and they are all made of silver.
These silver winter melons are very heavy. One is afraid of weighing hundreds of pounds. Such a silver winter melon Han peacock has heard of it. It was specially made by big merchants during the Ming and Qing dynasties, which could effectively prevent the plundering of thieves and robbers.
Of course, in the face of a thief who openly broke into the treasury. Those big businessmen, big families are helpless.
Obviously, in 1935, the Japanese would never have been able to honestly exchange this kind of silver through commercial means.
There are dense silver winter melons, and I can't count how many of them are at once, in addition to silver winter melons, there are also many golden winter melons.
Not only that, there were dense cages next to it, and Han Peacock took advantage of the benefits of the sea water to easily move a few boxes, some of which could not be opened, and Han Peacock did not violently dismantle them, after all, these would belong to him in the future.
And some of them can be easily opened, after Han Peacock opened it, he found that there were pearls, agate, and gemstone jewelry inside.
Of course, there are a lot of Han peacocks in it that I haven't seen but have heard of, and it can be said that there are endless treasures here, from the north, from the south, from overseas, from China, to foreign, for a time, it dazzled the eyes of Han peacocks.
Han Peacock casually lifted a silver winter melon, even with the help of seawater, he still felt struggling.
Han Peacock took a sip of seawater, and then squirted out, but he was surprised in his heart: "What a big winter melon, it's still silver......"
Han Peacock looked at this brilliant underwater world, his expression straightened, and his eyes opened, hundreds of catties of golden winter melons and silver winter melons were piled up together chaotically, forming a gold and silver mountain.
Seeing that the golden winter melon and the silver winter melon are stacked together, and there are gold bricks and silver bricks scattered everywhere, and the most shocking thing is the silver mountain that is piled up into a small mountain.
It was an even bigger round silver nugget, and Han Peacock knew that it might be even the legendary ghost.
Each of these ghosts weighs more than a thousand pounds, and even if they are ghosts, they will worry about how to move away.
Han Peacock looked at so many silver mountains and had already determined that this was the Dainichi Maru, because on this route, only the Dainichi Maru matched this ship among the missing large cruise ships.
This cruise ship from Qinhuang Island to Naha Port and then to San Francisco in the United States, I want to come here for jewelry and gold bricks, which are shipped back to Japan, and a large number of silver winter melons and ghosts are definitely destined for the United States.
Han Peacock picked up a gold brick, which was about thirty centimeters long, about fifteen centimeters wide, and almost ten centimeters thick.
Such a gold brick weighs more than 50 kilograms, and now a 25-kilogram gold brick is worth about 8 million yuan, that is to say, each gold brick in this cabin will exceed 8 million yuan.
Han Peacock looked at the gold bricks scattered at the bottom of the boat, just what he saw, it was definitely not less than a hundred, but at this time, Han Peacock smiled bitterly, such a batch of wealth was born, it would definitely cause chaos.
Thinking of this, Han Peacock immediately began to act, only to see that in the originally calm warehouse, whirlpools continued to appear, and when a whirlpool wrapped a gold brick, that gold brick would disappear into the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag at the same time along with the sea water that formed the whirlpool.
With the help of the Xuanyuan Water Control Banner, Han Peacock's water control magic power has almost no restrictions, and it can be said that as long as he wants, he can continue to control the sea water here.
Han Peacock first put away the boxes in the seawater, but fortunately, most of these boxes were copper-clad boxes, so these boxes had been soaked in the seawater for so many years and did not rot.
After collecting the box, Han Peacock put away the scattered gold and silver bricks again, and now all that was left were big silver winter melons and ghosts.
There are not too many ghosts, and Han Peacock is a little short, and there are only seventy or eighty, but that's all, there are forty or fifty tons.
There are a lot of silver winter melons left, and I heard that this thing was brought back by those traitors in China who traded with the Manchus and Mongolians.
Because the distance from the grassland to their hometown was too far, they came up with such a way, and came up with such a round rumbling thing, which could not be moved, not to mention the robbers, even they themselves were not easy to transport.
After the big businessmen got them back to their hometowns, they were all hidden in their rat holes, and they were only looted by the Japanese during the war.
There are hundreds of silver winter melons here, even if one has two hundred catties, these silver winter melons have more than 50 tons, and these silver winter melons look like a lot, but they are not much.
According to the following relevant records, at that time, the big merchants in Shanxi, Xixi, Shaanxi, and Xi and other places, each of them had a heritage of several million taels of silver, and some large merchants had accumulated wealth for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and tens of millions of taels could be obtained.
Back then, the Japanese raided their homes, but they all had to find that kind of big businessmen, such people all had a deep background, so according to the two million taels of silver each family harvested, how many tons of silver were the two million taels?
At that time, it was sixteen taels and one catty, although one tael was less than fifty grams, but at that time, there were more than 600 grams per catty.
From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, one catty was equivalent to 596.82 grams, and one tael was equal to 37.30 grams.
Two million taels is 7.46 million grams, 7,460 kilograms, or 7.46 tons, which can show that the big landlords and businessmen in the Qing Dynasty were very wealthy.
During the Japanese invasion of China, the Japanese who entered China were all China experts, and they were very aware of this situation, so every time they occupied a place, the Japanese would loot it on a large scale.
Almost all of the gold and silver looted were shipped back to Japan, which was an important reason why Japan's economy recovered so quickly after World War II.
It took Han Peacock an hour to put away all the gold and silver in the bilge, and then he wandered around the cabin for another hour, almost turning around all the cabins.
Since it is a cruise ship directly to the United States, entering Qinhuang Island is just a transshipment of goods, so in addition to some cotton cloth and silk in this ship, only some porcelain is valuable, but these porcelains are not good things, all of them are ordinary goods of some folk kilns.
Of course, there were no official kilns after the Qing Dynasty, and the porcelain here is also considered to be a fine quality among the private kilns, otherwise it would not have been transported back to China by the Japanese or exported to the United States.
After all, at that time, the Japanese were already very skilled in ordinary porcelain, and a large part of the porcelain imported from the United States was monopolized by the Japanese.
Therefore, in the face of this kind of porcelain, Han Peacock did not dislike it, but because there were too many of them, Han Peacock just collected some intact ones.
After a storm, there were not many complete porcelains on this ship, and after Han Peacock's search, all that was left were fragments.
Of course, due to the relationship of time, Han Peacock did not have the opportunity to visit all the cabins, so that there must be something missing from the other cabins, but Han Peacock couldn't care about it at this time, the big head had already entered his pocket, and he always had to leave a little leftover food for others.
The crew on this ship did not have much cargo, and Han Peacock walked around the ship for two hours, but he only encountered the bones of a dozen crew members, which were loaded in two cabins of the cargo cabin.
This shows that the ship should be loaded after returning to Japan, which also allows the Japanese side to reduce losses.
When there was really no time, Han Peacock left the ship and returned to the salvage ship.
When he returned, he met the artificial turtle, due to the obstruction of the data cable, the turtle could not go deep into the cabin at all, and could only wander around the periphery, but even so, it also allowed Song Min and them to obtain a lot of information.
Seeing the steel wire mesh that Song Min put down, Han Peacock thought about it, but still didn't use it, and when he returned to the boat smoothly and changed into his clothes, Han Peacock found that everyone in the boat looked at him with a strange look. (To be continued......)