Chapter 6: The Golden Ship

The frequency of the summoned sound became more and more intensive, and Ye Tan's double pupils, purple-blue lightning, suddenly burst out, penetrating the blue sea water, and reaching the bottom of the cave more than 100 meters deep.

But at the bottom of the cave, a dazzling white light, the texture is swirling, in a state of chaos.

The purple and blue electric rays had just been injected into that light, just like entering a password, a huge siphon force pulled Ye Tan and was involuntarily swallowed in.

Just when Ye Tan was terrified, the purple-blue star light emitted from his body isolated the erosion of white light, forming a human-shaped light mask, which protected Ye Tan impermeable.

Ye Tan clearly felt that his body was in a state of rapid shuttle.

In the light tunnel, a familiar golden light once again came from far and near.

Ye Tan touched his hand, and a heavy feeling fell in his hand, and it was a big gold brick.

"One, two, three...

Under the protection of the light mask, Ye Tan intercepted one big gold brick after another.

By the time Ye Tan was down-to-earth, there were already 28 gold bricks piled up inside the light mask.

Bring the gold bricks into the blue pupil space. Ye Tan's eyes did not emit purple and blue pupils. The whole area was pitch black. Countless strange and chaotic sounds swarmed into his ears at once.

Breathing seemed to be a little tight, and Ye Tan felt the tremendous pressure of the thin light mask outside his body. Intuition told Ye Tan that he was now at a position 1,000 meters below the bottom of the sea.

"What is this place?"

Ye Tan muttered to himself strangely, took out a large bottle of spiritual spring from the blue pupil space, and drank it into his stomach in one gulp.

The majestic life force once again moisturizes every cell of the leaf sandalwood. The tired eyes instantly became bright.

Purple-blue pillars of light burst out from Ye Tan's eyes, illuminating the entire seabed like two bright lights in the night.

The 86-meter-long, 40-foot-wide, 32-foot-deep, 10-knot, dilapidated passenger and cargo steamer that was almost broken in two saw Ye Tan's pupils. The flipper wheel, which was originally more than ten meters high, has been broken to the point of not being in shape. It is said to be propelled by 2 large steam engines with a piston stroke of 10 feet. All kinds of large and small marine fish, shuttling and cruising.

Scattered around were the wreckage of the ship's hull, some of which had been half-buried in the sand. Piles of gold bricks and coins, spread on top of snow-white sand. All sorts of suitcases, lying there in a mess.

"The gold bricks originally came from here."

Ye Tan suddenly realized that he was talking to himself.

Taking a step, what made Ye Tan strange was that the footboard did not sink into the silt and sand, probably because of the stars.

Gold is too attractive to Ye Tan. He didn't look much at it, and then collected the gold bricks, gold bars, and gold coins scattered on the bottom of the sea into the blue pupil space.

Within a radius of 800 meters, Ye Tan scraped the ground three feet, what gold bricks, gold bars, gold coins and gold jewelry, Ye Tan collected a total of about seventeen or eighteen tons. Even those suitcases, Ye Tan didn't let go, and he took them and said goodbye.

"What kind of ship is this?"

Ye Tan wondered in his heart, what kind of ship was loaded with so many gold bricks.

The famous shipwrecks in later history, Ye Tan almost knew everything. Especially those stories of deep-sea treasure hunting, Ye Tan only had envy. It is for this reason that Ye Tan, who is full of curiosity, wants to find out what is going on, and by the way, he is addicted to treasure hunting.

“。。。 Beauty...? ”

On the passenger and cargo steamer, only the word "beauty" was left, which made Ye Tan stunned all of a sudden.

"Is it the Central America?"

Suddenly, Ye Tan had a flash of inspiration, and at the same time, he suddenly opened up and was shocked, and exclaimed.

Despite appearing here, Ye Tan was full of surprise. But no matter how strange things happen to him, it's not strange.

As far as Ye Tan knows, in 1988, Thompson, a native of the United States, claimed to have found some gold in the deep sea of South Carolina, but then his whereabouts were unknown.

Ye Tan is convinced that things are not as simple as Thompson said.

What's even more bizarre is that at that time, the U.S. government insisted that there were only 21 tons of gold on board, worth more than 40 million U.S. dollars.

However, according to the descriptions of more than 160 surviving insiders, the data of the 3-ton gold brick gold coin in the shipping log does not match the record. The U.S. government alone has 10 tons of gold for armaments. One of the passengers, in a small backpack alone, contained 825 gold Double Eagle coins with a denomination of 20 yuan. This gold coin, in the late 20th century, was worth 30,000 US dollars.

Of the more than 600 passengers on board, more than 500 carried gold.

Beginning in 1849, hundreds of gold owners, employing thousands of slaves and laborers, searched for gold for eight years, but was there only 21 tons of gold?

Although it was shipped away in 4 years, the gold was worth more than 50 million US dollars. But how did the name of San Francisco come for nothing? Moreover, it is also known as North and South San Francisco.

The output of 1780,000 gold pans, how terrifying is this? In response to the government's call, they brought back all the gold they had earned in the past eight years to New York. On average, each gold mining boss, more than 2 tons of gold, there are still some.

It's a pity that they wanted to use the large amount of gold in their hands to realize the dream of a wealthy nobleman, but in the end it came to naught.

Moreover, the "Central America" passenger and cargo steamer with a displacement of 2,141 tons and a carrying capacity of more than 1,300 tons also carried a large number of gold coins from several San Francisco mints.

There is also the US government, counting on gold that can save a country's economy, and these chains of evidence, more or less, are proving that the truth is not so simple.

It was the sinking of the "Central America" gold ship in a hurricane that caused an even greater panic in the American economy, causing more than 1,600 private banks to cease business and more than 10,000 enterprises to fail, making the economic crisis in the United States even worse!

According to records, Branner, the richest man in San Francisco, built a warehouse in the Sutter mining area, as well as a warehouse at the San Francisco Mint, and rented gold diggers to store gold sand, which can be described as a mountain. How could 21 tons of gold make sense?

What's more, the Yuba and Sacramen rivers are called gold fields by Chinese miners, not gold mines. A handful of soil is put into a gold panning basin and washed, at least more than one-third of it is gold sand.

Therefore, Ye Tan estimated that the "Central America" passenger and cargo steamer carried at least more than 500 tons of gold. And it's a little bit more.

Even if passengers leave some gold bars and luggage off the steamer in order to save weight, that is only a small part of it.

No matter what time it is, most people still choose to die for money.

Otherwise, the name "Golden Boat" would have been called in vain.

"Qi Huo, 666!"

Ye Tan clapped his palms and praised his cleverness.

After figuring out the origin of the shipwreck, Ye Tan's mood suddenly brightened.

Ye Tan got into the passenger and cargo ship through the hole. A big squid pounced on him, and was put into the pond of the blue pupil space by Ye Tan and fed the sperm whale.

There were not as many skeletons and bones in the cabin as expected, and it was estimated that people had already made a mess at that time and had already run to the deck.

The entire cabin is about 9 square meters and about 2.5 meters high, and according to the carrying weight of the hull structure, this warehouse has at least more than 200 tons of gold.

Ye Tan picked up a gold brick and looked at it carefully, and it was printed with an impression of the English name of Elobot, as well as the weight of gold.

Since the soaking time was not very long, and the hull had not yet been completely rusted, the rust yellow had not yet invaded, and the gold did not appear oxidized rust.

"It seems that this is a public warehouse, rented by the financiers to store the gold."

Ye Tan said as he put all the gold bricks into the blue pupil space.

"These gold bricks are my wages for helping you collect the silver remains, (the bones are buried in the earth and yellowed, and they are called gold bones, and the white bones are called silver bones.) Lest in 130 years' time, your bones be drained to the bottom of the sea 3,000 meters below the sea, and there will be no dross left. Provided, of course, that I can find your silver remains. ”

Ye Tan said as he clasped his hands together, and bowed three times in the five directions of southeast, northwest, and middle.

Walking through the warehouse, Ye Tan found two skeletons in the corridor. Four Colt revolvers, two six-pointed star badges made of brass, and a bunch of bullets scattered around. Ye Tan estimated that they were the police officers responsible for escorting the gold. Because of their duties, they can't leave this place.

Thinking of this, Ye Tan was in awe. Carefully put away the two police badges and looked at the names on them, one was called Fleison and the other was named Naim. Ye Tan temporarily put their bones into the purple pupil space.

Pulling open the iron door of the warehouse next door, large gold bricks rolled out of it. Under the illumination of the purple and blue pillars, the golden light shone brightly, and the steel seal mark of a double-headed eagle the size of a dollar coin was pressed on it.

Ye Tan took a closer look, there were four warehouses like this. It was precisely the hull that broke between the front and rear of these four warehouses.

Almost all the gold bricks were spilled.

In Ye Tan's view, gold belongs to ballast when the wind is calm. In the event of a hurricane, it is a talisman. To be more honest, it was this gold that sank the steamer.

"Huh? Wooden crates for gold coins? ”

Just opposite him, Ye Tan found that inside the broken warehouse, according to the volume, there may be eight wooden boxes of exactly the same size.

The wooden box is 1.5 meters high, 1.2 meters long and 1 meter wide. Each volume is approximately 1.8 cubic meters. Moreover, the wooden box was not only locked by a large iron lock, but also sealed by a round lead cake.

"Gold Twin Eagles?"

The next moment, the eyes passed through the safe, the golden gold coin, on the front was two bald eagles, minted with the words 20 US knives, and on the back was a bust of Lady Liberty, wearing a crown on her head, curly hair hanging down like a waterfall, and 13 five-star stars surrounded her. The time is 1857. And the S sign at the beginning indicates that this is a gold coin struck by the San Francisco Mint.

Of course, Ye Tan also saw 10 US dollars, 5 US dollars, 2 US dollars, and 1 US dollars.

Ye Tan counted, 20 gold coins with a denomination of US dollars, a total of 4 wooden boxes. 10 US dollars, 5 US dollars, 2 US dollars, 1 US dollar denomination, 1 wooden box each.

According to the volume of 20 US dollars, at least 300,000 gold coins are stacked in one cubic meter. For 10 US dollars, 500,000 can be stacked in one cubic meter. 600,000 for 5 US dollars, 1 million for 2 US dollars, and 1 million for 1 US dollar. (It's all written for the plot, and these data can't be taken seriously)

According to rough estimates, there are a total of 77.4 million eagle dollars in gold coins, and the news given by the United States is almost a discount. If the economic crisis is counted, the US knife depreciates, multiplied by the 30 exchange rate, and is worth 2.322 billion US dollars.

Previously, the U.S. government deliberately confused the public in order to minimize losses and stabilize people's minds.

More than ten minutes later, Ye Tan put the gold bricks inside and outside the shipwreck into the blue pupil space. By the way, I took stock and obtained a total of more than 980 tons of gold bricks and gold coins. Worth 3,626 million, in an instant, Ye Tan came up with a total of 5,948 million US dollars.

There are also precious metals and items hidden in the suitcase, and Ye Tan has no time to sort them out for the time being.

In 1852, California passed a law prohibiting the independent exploitation of gold by overseas Chinese. Ye Tan has so much gold in his hands, even if he joins the American nationality, it is a very difficult job to wash his name.

Ye Tan suddenly remembered that by October, the California Assembly had passed a decree prohibiting Chinese and Mongolians from entering California. To put it bluntly, it's to stop immigration. Ye Tan doesn't need to think about it, but he is worried that the Great Depression will jeopardize employment opportunities in the state.

However, Ye Tan will definitely not let this decree pass!

"Huh? Is this also a light tunnel? ”

Purple and blue light columns, cruising from the bottom of the sea. Suddenly, two light clusters were activated in an instant. It made Ye Tan feel very familiar, but not very sure.

"Where do they lead?"

Suddenly, Ye Tan had an impulse of yearning in his heart.