[Yesterday there was something that only changed one chapter, and today I tried to update three chapters]

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Wang Chenhao never expected that the treasure expert introduced to him by Qiao Zhiyuan turned out to be a woman.

Qiao Yuying is Qiao Zhiyuan's youngest daughter, who helps Qiao Zhiyuan manage a treasure shop in Shanghai, and has excellent ability. Qiao Zhiyuan explained to Wang Chenhao that because Wang Chenhao was in a hurry, Qiao Zhiyuan could only contact other treasure connoisseurs in the mainland for one night, so he would find Qiao Yuying for help on the spot.

Qiao Zhiyuan's explanation was reasonable, and Wang Chenhao couldn't find out the reason, so he had to order the maid to lead Qiao Yuying on the boat and arrange to stay, as for whether she has the ability or not, it will take a few days to find out.

Wang Chenhao's itinerary is very tight, not only to salvage the treasures under the sea but also not to delay the business, while talking to Qiao Zhiyuan, Wei Han and Li Jingchu came to see off Wang Chenhao, Wang Chenhao simply politely greeted them for a while and then left. As for Li Jingchu and Qiao Zhiyuan, they wrote off their grievances under the guidance of Wang Chenhao, and the two of them are grateful to Wang Chenhao, so there is no need to elaborate on them.

When the fleet set sail, Wang Chenhao ordered someone to lower the Jiaolong, and then he drove the Jiaolong to scan the seabed near the route. Due to the limitations of detection technology, the treasure of undersea shipwrecks in this era was almost not visited by treasure thieves.

Jiaolong is equipped with a domestic **K submarine detector, which is imitated from the product of the American EGG company in the 80s - **S-960 submarine scanning system, which can achieve 100% coverage of the scanning area when the side sonar system that processes submarine acoustic information with a computer can detect the wreck. However, Wang Chenhao did not have time to conduct a comprehensive scan of the entire Taiwan Strait, but only made a general survey of the vicinity of the shipping route along the main channel, and found a large number of wrecks with strong metal fluctuations.

Wang Chenhao marked the locations that might contain treasures on the charts, but he was not in a hurry to salvage them. Wait for enough time before ordering his salvage team to carry out the salvage. Because of the tight schedule of this trip, Wang Chenhao could only pick the key shipwrecks for salvage first. Wang Chenhao's targets were placed on the well-known Fuxiang, Taixing, Nanhai No. 1, and Huaguang Jiao No. 1, the first two of which were ancient ships stolen by the British treasure thief Hatcher and his gang, and the Nanhai No. 1 and Huaguang Jiao No. 1 were discovered by the Chinese themselves.

On January 25, Wang Chenhao's fleet sailed to the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangdong. Because Wang Chenhao knew the approximate location of Nanhai No. 1 and coupled with Jiaolong's advanced detection capabilities, he quickly found Nanhai No. 1 at a depth of 20 meters west of the Pearl River estuary and more than 30 nautical miles below the sea surface of Hailing Island in Yangjiang.

Nanhai No. 1 is covered with silt about 1 meter thick. Due to the chemical reaction of the iron objects on the wreck under the action of seawater corrosion, the surrounding cultural relics, shells and sea mud gradually condensed into one, so that the surface of the wreck has been covered by large condensations. It is precisely for this reason that the nearby fishermen did not find Nanhai No. 1, and there is no shortage of things on the entire Nanhai No. 1, quietly waiting to be excavated.

Nanhai No. 1 has a large number of gold and silver artifacts and antique jade artifacts of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, which are priceless because of their age, and Wang Chenhao ordered all the team members on the Thebes to carry out salvage work on it, requiring that the treasures inside be completely extracted as much as possible.

The divers on board the Thebes quickly descended with the help of a pump submersible and arranged a dirt and sand barrier around the wreck to prevent the surrounding sand from flowing back during excavation. At the same time, the stern of the Thebes lowered a 40-centimeter-diameter water pipe, which went directly to the top of the wreck, and with the sound of the motor on the ship, the mud pumping machine quickly sucked out the silt covering more than one meter thick.

The work lasted more than three hours, and finally the hull of Nanhai No. 1 was exposed, which was about 30 meters long, nearly 10 meters wide, and more than 3 meters deep. Although the shipwreck has been more than 800 years old, the condensation of the hull has preserved the porcelain inside.

The 60 divers on board the Thebes were divided into three groups to excavate the shipwreck's three cabins, and soon the exquisite shipwreck treasures were recovered. Due to the sheer volume, a 100-kilogram grab head was no longer enough at first. Wang Chenhao's time was limited, so he approved the use of the largest 1-ton grab. The advantage of using a large grab head is that it can be salvaged quickly, and the disadvantage is that it is easy to damage the porcelain. However, there are nearly 150,000 cultural relics in Nanhai No. 1, and some damage will not affect the overall situation of the final auction.

The divers carried out the salvage operation in an intense and orderly manner, and soon batches of shipwrecked artifacts were salvaged. The team members on the deck are divided into arrays, and the salvaged objects are washed, and then sorted by category and put into storage.

The cultural relics contained in the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck are mainly porcelain, which belong to the export porcelain of several famous kiln systems of the Song Dynasty such as Longquan in Zhejiang, Dehua in Fujian, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, etc., with unique shapes and exquisite craftsmanship, and the vast majority of cultural relics are intact, far from being comparable with similar porcelain unearthed on land, and most of them are very rare or even unique cultural relics and treasures.

Wang Chenhao was very much looking forward to the results of the salvage of this ship, so he came out to inspect everywhere, and Li Guodong and a few personal soldiers were with him. The two daughters of the waiter and the two daughters of Si Qi watched the salvage of the sunken ship for the first time, and they had already jumped happily and ran to watch.

"My lord, look at this bowl, it's different from the bowl we saw before, and it's almost time to catch up with the imperial bowl that entered the palace."

Li Guodong also had some insight in following Li Hongzhang before, but he only knew the surface.

Wang Chenhao took the porcelain bowl from Li Guodong's hand and played with it, he knew that Nanhai No. 1 was a shipwreck in the Song Dynasty, so he nodded after pretending to identify it, and said, "This should be porcelain from the Song Dynasty." ”

"Adults have good eyesight!" An old man next to him stood up, took the same porcelain bowl, and said, "According to the old man's inference, these porcelain bowls belong to the shadow celadon of the Song Dynasty." ”

The person who spoke was an antique appraiser surnamed Liang, and there were five or six people next to him, all of whom were experts that Wang Chenhao had just invited from the Xinchang Antique Store in Guangzhou.

Master Liang said: "The shadow celadon bowl in Jingdezhen in the Song Dynasty was used by the royal family at that time, and the craftsmanship was lost during the Yuan Dynasty, so one such bowl is worth about 10,000 taels of silver. ”

Wang Chenhao was overjoyed when he heard this, a bowl is worth 10,000 taels of silver, and there are at least five or six thousand such bowls on this sunken shipwreck, wouldn't he be going to make a fortune.

When Wang Chenhao was happy, he suddenly heard a woman's voice behind him.

"It turns out that the adults have already asked for another master!"

The voice was very unfamiliar, Wang Chenhao turned around and saw a young woman about twenty-eight years old walking slowly towards him.