Chapter 831: The Portuguese Colonial Treasure Ship
"Haha, Brother Sun, we found another shipwreck." Chen Yi was also full of excitement, and said with a smile at Sun Hongzhi.
Sun Hongzhi's face was full of smiles, and he nodded again and again, "Yes, boss, we found another shipwreck, and in less than a month, we found two, which is really gratifying." ”
Next, the entire cruise ship continued to follow the previous process, first sending underwater aircraft and divers to the bottom of the sea to explore.
Chen Yi really can't wait to salvage this Spanish ship and see how much valuable wealth it has, many years ago, Portugal invaded China and occupied Macao, and now, when he encounters this Portuguese ship that plunders wealth, he will naturally not be polite.
This ship is on the high seas, whoever finds it, whoever salvages it, it is whose wealth it belongs to, and the country to which the wreck belongs can not find trouble, I believe that this Portuguese ship will cause a sensation.
After detection, it was found that the ship was about 40 meters long, which can be said to be a medium-sized ship, and judging from the images sent by the underwater machine, this ship did not look like a Chinese ship at all.
"Boss, this ship looks a little strange." Sun Hongzhi couldn't help but point to the image and asked Chen Yi.
Chen Yi looked at the image and couldn't help but smile, "Because it's not a Chinese ship, according to my speculation, it should be a foreign merchant ship, and it depends on what age the cultural relics on it are to know what kind of country's ship it is." ”
At this time, a diver seemed to have discovered something, and pointed the camera lens of the underwater machine at a certain location on the seabed. Suddenly. Under the illumination of the light. They saw a box that had been dug out of the mud, and in the box, there were pieces of yellow objects, but due to the fact that they had been soaked in water for a long time, they had oxidized, and they had lost their original luster.
"This, boss, is this gold?" Sun Hongzhi saw the contents of this box. Some people couldn't believe it, and said that the Qing Dynasty shipwreck salvaged between them, except for some jewelry, there was no piece of gold stored at all.
Objects such as jewelry, far less dazzling than gold, are like a pile of pearl necklaces and a pile of gold bars in front of you, which one is more attractive, is something that anyone knows.
"It's probably gold, but it's oxidized because it's been on the ocean floor for too long. So there's no shine produced, Brother Sun. We may have found a treasure and told the divers to look at the seabed around the wreck first, salvage these items scattered on the bottom of the sea, and when the whole ship is salvaged, I will give everyone a bonus. ”
Seeing these lusterless gold, Chen Yi also showed excitement on his face, although he had identified gold bars before, but it was only an identification, far from showing gold bars in front of him, so amazing.
"Okay, boss." Sun Hongzhi also nodded heavily, no matter how well he did on other ships before, no one gave him a bonus, but now, he has met a good boss.
Later, several divers searched the seabed around the wreck, finding the boxes buried in the silt, after which they were wrapped in nets, fixed to cables, and salvaged out to sea by floating cranes.
The first chest was salvaged along the way, and this was the cracked chest, and when the box was pulled to the deck, pieces of gold bars scattered out of the gaps in the chest, some dull, some with a little gold in the sun.
"Boss, it's really gold bars, what kind of ship is this, it actually contains gold bars." Seeing these golden objects, Sun Hongzhi couldn't help but say with excitement in his heart.
"Judging from the words on the gold bars, this should be from Southeast Asia, and I think it should be the wealth plundered by the colonists." Looking at some of the text symbols engraved on the gold bars, Chen Yi said seriously, and these gold bars have been clearly identified by him, which are gold bars produced in Southeast Asia.
The soldiers on the side, looking at these gold bars, also showed a happy smile on their faces, this kind of joy is not the kind of smile that wants to possess, but is happy for Chen Yi from the bottom of their hearts.
The second box, also quickly salvaged up, different from the previous gold bars, this is a box of porcelain, after Chen Yi's identification, this is a box of Ming Wanli period of fine porcelain, the whole box has a total of 30 pieces, but the value has reached more than 3 million.
After a day's work, they finally searched the seabed near the wreck, and completely salvaged the boxes and some items scattered on the bottom of the sea, and tomorrow, they will salvage the wreck.
And this kind of salvage is still the overall salvage, with the ability and equipment of their cruise ship, this Ming Dynasty shipwreck, although it is larger than the previous Qing Dynasty shipwreck, but it is definitely capable of salvaging as a whole.
And after discovering this large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, Chen Yi also sent more sailfish to patrol the vicinity to prevent the appearance of some ill-intentioned people, after all, this is not an ordinary shipwreck, but a shipwreck carrying huge treasures.
The ship had been buried for a longer period of time and had fallen deeper into the mud, so it would have to take a day to clear the mud and wait until the day after tomorrow before it could be salvaged.
Around the wreck, a total of nine scattered chests were found, as well as a number of items, and of these chests, three were porcelain, while two boxes contained gold bars, and the other box contained some jewelry, which looked very attractive, and the remaining chests, some were copper coins, and some were cotton cloth.
Looking at these soldiers around him, their psychological activities were unobstructed in front of Chen Yi, he was very glad that he asked Yue Tianhao to help recruit these soldiers, otherwise he would be an ordinary crew member and see these gold, silver and jewelry, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not have other thoughts.
The first day was spent in the salvage of scattered items, and being able to salvage this ship, Chen Yi had a sense of accomplishment in his heart, this was not brought by money, but by salvaging ships, besides, this one was a Portuguese shipwreck.
The next day, divers began to dredging some parts of the hull to facilitate subsequent salvage work.
They are now on the high seas at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca, so they can meet twenty or thirty ships a day, and they pay great attention to their luxury cruise ship.
And the swordfish transmitted a lot of information, Chen Yi needed to filter it in order to get some useful information from it, and several of the sailfish said that there was a small boat parked there a few nautical miles away from them, and then seemed to be holding a telescope to observe this way.
This piece of information made Chen Yi pay attention to it, and told these swordfish that if they came back next time, they would send a few fish to follow them.
If what he expected was right, these should be real pirates, different from those impostors dressed up in the Filipino maid country, but whether they were genuine pirates or not, they couldn't stop the progress of his salvage, and they couldn't take advantage of him.
If they were sensible, they might be able to let them go, but if they killed themselves, then no one could save them.
Sure enough, in the afternoon of that day, they sent boats to make observations, and several of the sailfish were sent to follow them, and after an hour or two, they returned to the place and told Chen Yi what they had observed.
On a small island, and there are many people, Chen Yi smiled, this is a pirate, there is no doubt that this is a pirate, and their second reconnaissance should be about to start.
At night, Chen Yi became more vigilant, and let many schools of fish surround him, closely protecting the cruise ship, and at a distance of about ten nautical miles, there were also many swordfish probing the situation.
This night, Chen Yi spent on the deck of the cruise ship, with the support of Tai Chi health care and internal breath, he did not feel the slightest cold, but there were no pirates to attack, which made him a little disappointed, he really hoped that these pirates would attack at night, at that time, they sank without knowing it.
The night gradually receded, and the first light rose from the sea level, Chen Yi was on the deck, facing the east, looking at this light, and used the Tai Chi health maintenance exercise to absorb the aura in it.
Watching the sunrise from the sea is a very enjoyable thing, the beauty is amazing, the sun seems to slowly rise from the sea, until it really comes out of the sea, which is also a sign of the coming of the day.
Today is the third day they found the wreck, and today, the salvage work will be carried out, yesterday the dredging work has been completed, the salvage work is still in accordance with the process of the Qing Dynasty shipwreck, first put the pontoon, and then use a large net to wrap the whole ship, the whole salvage up.
With their deck more than 100 meters long, even if two such ships are put on board, it will not be any problem.
In the morning salvage process, Chen Yi still got the information of the sailfish, and the pirates came to the nearby area a few nautical miles again, and the boats were also changed from small boats to large ships.
Chen Yi smiled, couldn't help it, then we had to see if they could get close to his cruise ship, he would never be polite to these pirates.
The pontoon was slowly put into various parts of the wreck, and with Sun Hongzhi's order, the pontoon was slowly filled with air, and this wreck, like the previous Qing Dynasty wreck, was slowly supported by the pontoon.
Several divers and underwater operators are observing or irradiating some important parts to prevent accidents from happening to the pontoon.
At this time, Chen Yi did not go to the equipment room, but used guò identification to identify the situation on the seabed, and soon, he identified that there was something wrong with a pontoon, and then hurriedly walked to the equipment room, observed it, pointed to one of the pictures, and reminded them. (To be continued......)