There is a saying: "One ship has ten tombs", Wang Chenhao didn't know this sentence before, but now after the salvage of the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck, he deeply felt that this statement was true.

After two days of intense salvage work, the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck totaled more than 150,000 pieces of cultural relics, removed the damage and loss during the sinking and the man-made losses during the salvage, and finally was salvaged out of the water with more than 123,400 pieces, of which Song porcelain accounted for more than half, basically all of the Song Dynasty Ding, Ru, Ge, Jun and Jingdezhen five famous kilns produced, porcelain in the modeling, glaze and decoration have reached a very high artistic realm, any one is exquisite and valuable. In particular, hundreds of "noble-born" porcelain pieces have been unearthed, all of which are from the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. The highest value of a single piece is a pair of shadow celadon jade bottles of Jingdezhen kiln system, which is the only pair in China, and Qiao Yuying has conservatively priced it at more than 6 million taels. There are also white porcelain vases from Fujian Dehua kiln, green glazed dishes and bowls from Fujian porcelain stove kilns and celadon from Zhejiang Longquan kiln, all of which are rare treasures.

After the preliminary appraisal by Qiao Yuying and several other appraisers, this batch of Song porcelain was worth a total of about 230 million taels of silver. This is the value without considering the market affordability, and if it is sold at one time, it is estimated that it can only be sold for about 80 million taels.

Wang Chenhao learned through Qiao Yuying that it would take at least three to five years to complete the sale of all these Song porcelains at a high price. And Qiao Yuying's method for Wang Chenhao is to sell about 30,000 pieces in the first batch, which can bring him about 50 million taels, and then a small amount of a batch will flow out every month according to market demand until all are sold.

But Wang Chenhao has his own plans, he hopes to be able to cash out a large amount of money in the short term, so he is ready to sell 30,000 pieces at a time in China, and sell the rest in Europe and the United States, so as to earn greater profits.

In addition to porcelain, the rest are gold, silver, copper, iron and more than 20,000 copper coins from the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, which were placed in a separate special small cabin (ancient safe), most of which were used to purchase goods back to China.

Judging from the more than 20,000 bronze coins that have been salvaged out of the water, most of them in the Northern Song Dynasty, a small part of them are in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the latest "Shaoxing Yuanbao" belongs to the Southern Song Dynasty during the Gaozong period. From this judgment, it can be seen that the sinking time of the ancient ship "Nanhai No. 1" was not earlier than the Shaoxing period of Gaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty, about 800 years ago. However, the more than 20,000 copper coins were of little use to Wang Chenhao, and the interest of people in collecting ancient coins in this era was almost zero.

Most of the gold and silver items were in the form of gold bars and silver ingots, and there were almost no jewelry, so they were melted in a pot directly on the ship, and then stored in the shape of gold and silver cakes, which were worth about 20,000 taels of silver. But compared to the huge profits of porcelain, this is obviously a drop in the bucket.

Since Wang Chenhao's antique sales channels are limited to antique shops in Tianjin, such a large antique sale requires the assistance of a more extensive large antique dealership. Qiao Yuying has acquaintances in this regard, and she asked Wang Chenhao to hand over the right to sell domestic antiques to her family.

Wang Chenhao has no better way in this regard, and Qiao Yuying's father Qiao Zhiyuan has his own money bank and antique dealership, and has a certain business ability, plus Qiao Yuying's personal ability and prestige in this regard, it is not a good way to hand it over to her family.

Wang Chenhao then agreed to Qiao Yuying's request and agreed on the rules of cooperation with her. The Qiao family was responsible for setting up a large auction house in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin, and Wang Chenhao handed over his antiques to the auction house for public auction. In return, the Qiao family only charges 10% of the basic operating auction fee and is responsible for publicity. The profit outside the transaction is 70% for the auction house and 30% for Wang Chenhao. Overall, it's a mutually beneficial deal. Wang Chenhao didn't have to worry that his antiques couldn't be sold, and the Qiao family also took this opportunity to use a large number of antiques in Wang Chenhao's hands to make a name for himself and create another career.

After Wang Chenhao and Qiao Yuying agreed on the rules of the contract, the two also had common interests, and they cooperated much more harmoniously.

The next day, Wang's fleet sailed to the Hong Kong pier, where it was resupplied with food and fresh water. Considering that the more than 100,000 antiques of Nanhai No. 1 already accounted for more than half of the deadweight tonnage of the Thebes, Wang Chenhao's original plan was not well prepared, and he needed a special transport ship. So he sent a telegram from Hong Kong to the Beiyang Army Training Yamen (formerly the Zhili New Army Army Yamen), ordering Wang Shizhen to lease a large transport ship in Tianjin to replenish the fleet.

Wang Chenhao regarded Wang Shizhen as a confidant, so he did not hide the matter of the No. 1 treasure in the South China Sea. Wang Shizhen was overjoyed when he learned the news, and the power transmission report told Wang Chenhao that everything was normal and there was no need to worry. At the same time, after Wang Shizhen negotiated with the German merchants in Tianjin, he leased a relatively fast transport ship with a load of 1,200 tons, the Hebrew. Wang Shizhen was very thoughtful as a strategist, he was worried that Wang Chenhao's fleet was carrying a large amount of valuable things and might be harassed by pirates, so he took advantage of his position to transfer a company of troops from the New Army of the First Town to board the Hebrew to strengthen the security of Wang Chenhao's fleet.

Wang Chenhao's fleet stayed in Hong Kong for half a day and then continued its journey. According to the plan, Wang Chenhao's next target is Huaguang Reef No. 1 in Xisha Island. However, as soon as his fleet entered the South China Sea, it encountered strong winds and waves, which caused the original salvage operation to be cancelled.

Wang Chenhao tried to wait a day to see the situation, but the weather still did not improve. Through the wheelhouse, Wang Chenhao stared at the vast sea in front of him, the island in the distance was struggling in the wind and waves, and soon Wang Chenhao's vision was obscured by the high waves and the water vapor in the sky.

At that time, Huaguang Reef No. 1 encountered this kind of bad weather, and docked close to the island in order to avoid the wind and waves, but ran aground and sank.

At this time of year, the South China Sea is always the worst time for sea conditions, and Wang Chenhao is short of time and can't spend it here, so he just marked the location of the wreck, and next time he directly asked his salvage team to come over and salvage the shipwreck treasure below.

Ancient ships left behind a large number of shipwrecks and treasures of Chinese dynasties on the "Neigou" route along the continental edge and the "Waigou" route along the Xisha Islands, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands.

Wang Chenhao's fleet traveled along this route, preparing to salvage the treasures of the Fuxiang and Taixing shipwrecks stolen by the treasure thieves Hatcher's gang, but the fate of the people did not fulfill people's wishes, the location of the Fuxiang was also in the sea conditions of strong winds and waves, and the location of the Taixing was close to the Spanish Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, where piracy was rampant, and Wang Chenhao temporarily abandoned the plan for safety reasons.

However, Wang Chenhao was not idle, he drove the Jiaolong along the route of China's Maritime Silk Road in the South China Sea, and found more than 200 shipwrecks, especially the wrecks of more than a dozen Western Galen shipwrecks with strong metal fluctuations, because this kind of ship sank not too long, so Wang Chenhao can identify them. Some of them are wrecks of warships left over from the Spanish-Dutch War, and some are Spanish treasure ships that were sunk by the Dutch, the latter of which is most motivated by the fluctuations in metal signals.

Wang Chenhao marked them one by one on the chart. Since the Jiaolong involved Wang Chenhao's secrets, he would not leave it in the salvage team. And without the accurate detection of the Jiaolong, the salvage team would not have achieved such fruitful results. And Wang Chenhao can't stay at sea forever, so he decided to hand over the chart with the location of the wreck to Lin Chengping, the captain of the salvage team, for safekeeping, and when Wang Chenhao is not in the salvage team, Lin Chengcheng will lead the team to carry out the salvage according to the chart marking.