Chapter 229: Gold and Silver Treasures
Those fishermen grew up on the seashore since childhood, so they naturally know the difficulty of diving, don't look at Lu Yao can find so many abalone on the bottom of the sea, if you really want to replace them, the result may not be.
And often soaked in the cold seawater, especially prone to arthritis and rheumatism, many of them now suffer from rheumatism, the weather is cold, the pain in the limbs is unbearable.
In the past, I had no money and had to endure this hardship, but now it is different, I don't have to go to the sea every day, I can earn tens of thousands of dollars by working on the deck, so why suffer this sin?
Lu Yao smiled and didn't say anything more, and took the bag of abalone to the fish cabin and put it away, in order to ensure that these abalone were alive, he did not put them in the freezer cabin, but kept them in an ordinary cabin in a large bucket.
At sea, you will often encounter some precious seafood, which is naturally more valuable alive than dead.
So in order to ensure their survival, many large plastic buckets are prepared on the fishing boat to keep them.
After dealing with the abalone, Lu Yao returned to his captain's room and told them not to disturb him, and then he entered Fanghu Immortal Island and prepared to count the income this time.
Lu Yao looked at the neatly stacked iron boxes on the beach, and swept them over, there were about 1,200 or so, if each box was full of boxes full of gold coins, then he would really be rich this time.
He found the iron box he had opened at the beginning, and poured out all the gold coins, which were more than 40 centimeters high, and filled it with more than 3,000 gold coins.
Lu Yao picked up a gold coin and looked at it, it was a double-headed eagle coin, with numbers such as 5 and 1897 engraved at the bottom, which was the time of minting, and on the other side was the head of the Russian emperor.
He weighed it and felt that the gold coin weighed about 4.4 grams, and a box of 3,200 coins weighed about 14,080 grams.
At present, the price of gold in China is about 345 grams, so the value of this box is about 4.86 million.
But in reality it is far from worth that much, because the gold used in the gold coin is not a thousand pure gold, but contains other metals.
Lu Yao estimated that the gold coin itself would be worth up to 4 million Huaxia coins based on the price of gold alone.
In this way, this 1,200 boxes of gold coins are worth 4.8 billion Huaxia coins, which sounds like a lot, but the gap between them and the rumors on the Internet that there are at least 200 tons of gold worth 900 billion Huaxia coins is nearly 187 times.
Lu Yao felt that none of the news on the Internet could be taken seriously, not to mention, when he opened the second iron box, although it was also full of a box of money, it was no longer gold coins, but silver coins.
His heart sank suddenly, and he knew that there were not such good things in this world, how could all the chests be filled with gold?
Lu Yao was still thinking that even if there were no two hundred tons of gold, it would be fine to have twenty tons of gold.
However, as boxes of silver and copper coins came out, Lu Yao's disappointment became bigger and bigger, the greater his hope, the greater the disappointment, although it was all money picked up for nothing, but seeing gold turn into silver, the gap was inevitably too big.
But fortunately, in the more than three hundred iron boxes opened, he also found some double-headed eagle gold coins worth 10 and 15, which made him feel a lot of comfort.
Originally, Lu Yao thought that these iron boxes were full of gold, silver and copper coins, but the next few boxes lifted his spirits, and there were gold ingots neatly placed inside.
Lu Yao picked up a gold ingot, and looked close to the light, which was also engraved with ancient characters such as "Liaodong Official Money Bureau" in Huaxia.
At a glance, it can be seen that these gold ingots come from China, and they should be the gold plundered in the war of aggression against China a hundred years ago.
In addition to gold ingots, there are also silver ingots, as well as gold bars, gold nuggets and silver nuggets, many of which are privately minted by the people.
According to Lu Yao's rough statistics, these gold and silver accounted for almost 700 boxes, adding up to ten tons, of which silver accounted for the most, accounting for almost six tons, and gold accounted for about four tons.
Whether it is gold or silver, it is not full color, it is estimated that the content of pure gold and pure silver is only about seven or eighty percent, so that the weight of silver is 4.8 tons, and the weight of gold is 3.2 tons.
Among them, the price of silver is 3.8 Huaxia dollars per gram, and the total price of 4.8 tons of silver is 18.24 million, and the price of gold is 345 grams and the total price of 3.2 tons is 1.104 billion.
In addition to gold and silver, there were nearly five hundred iron chests containing all kinds of antiques, precious stones, precious jewelry, and all kinds of strange ores.
Lu Yao conservatively estimated that the combined value of these antiques, treasures, and various ores would not be lower than the value of those gold and silver.
That is to say, Lu Yao went to fight the autumn wind tonight and cut off more than 200 million Huaxia coins of treasures.
If this incident were known to the leaders of the Goryeo Guoshinichi Salvage Company, it is estimated that they would collectively cry and faint in the toilet.
Looking at the dazzling array of items piled up on the beach, Lu Yao couldn't help but smile and said, "This trip is really not in vain, just these gold and silver treasures are worth the trip." ”
But then, he frowned again, these gold and silver are all standard, and they must not be circulated directly, otherwise others will suspect that the box that mysteriously disappeared from the sunken ship has something to do with him.
That's why Lu Yao doesn't like to salvage the sunken ship, it's too troublesome.
In domestic waters, private individuals are not allowed to salvage shipwrecks at all, because they belong to the state, and even if they are salvaged secretly, it is difficult to salvage the goods, and if you are not careful, you will be treated as a cultural relics dealer, and if you are not careful, you will go to jail.
Even if it is salvaged on the high seas, it will involve many international salvage laws, and there are a lot of troublesome things, Lu Yao is not unable to make money, so why do you have to be persistent in finding the wreck?
For salvaging shipwrecks, it is natural that if you encounter it by chance, you will do it, and forget it if you don't encounter it.
It's still comfortable to fish, the fish in this world don't say that there is any mark, as long as you can catch it, it's yours. When it is sent to the market to be sold, no one will come to check the origin of the fish.
With the help of Tai Chi, Lu Yao can harvest at least five or six million every time he goes to sea, and more than tens of millions, once these fish are sold, it is legal income, and no one cares how you want to spend it.
But the items that salvage the sunken ship are different, and they must find ways to make them change their appearance, otherwise they can only be like the lucky ship that Lu Yao salvaged last time, knowing that it is worth billions, but he can only quietly go to the sea.
The same is true of the gold and silver worth 1.1 billion yuan this time, they cannot be taken out and used directly, and now only the state organs have the ability to transform them, otherwise they can only send them abroad to find a way, but in that case, there is also a risk of leakage.
But those jewels, like all kinds of gems and diamonds, because they are not different in size, there are no special marks for others, and they can be taken off directly.
What's more, many of the gems Lu Yao found in these iron boxes were semi-processed rough stones, cut piece by piece, but not refined and polished.
When it comes to the market, no one can tell where it came from.
Among them, in addition to rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, the most is jadeite, but there are not many jade that Lu Yao wants most, and there are very few diamonds.
The reason for the lack of jade is estimated to have something to do with the fact that the Russian Empire did not like Huaxia jade at that time, and naturally they would not bother to grab what they didn't like.
The reason for the lack of diamonds is that there are no big diamond producing areas in China, so naturally they can't grab much, and the Chinese people in that period were not particularly sought after for diamonds.
It stands to reason that jadeite is not a Chinese specialty, why are there so many?
This is the reason why jadeite is popular in Huaxia, it is completely driven by a woman, she is the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in China, who is particularly obsessed with jadeite in her life.
The so-called upward and downward effect, jadeite suddenly became popular in China, and the real calculation is that the popular time is only one or two hundred years.
Compared with the light-colored jade, these brightly colored jadeites are naturally more popular with the Russians, so it is not difficult to understand that they will snatch jadeite in large quantities.
Lu Yao wondered whether to let Frasers United Investment Company invest in another jewelry company, get these gems out, process them and sell them, and the price would definitely be higher.
However, considering that Yang Huai is busy with the affairs of the tourism company at the moment, Lu Yao decided to put this matter aside for the time being, anyway, the value of these gems here will only get higher and higher, and there will be no depreciation.
In the end, he came to the pile of ore, which was the biggest gain Lu Yao thought he had gained today.
The gold, silver and jewelry in front of them are just some worldly possessions, which can be used by Lu Yao, or they are just some icing on the cake.
But all kinds of strange ores are different, it is very likely that there is some kind of natural treasure, but it is suitable for making magic weapons, or even magic weapons.
Most of these strange ores come from extraterrestrial meteorites, and it is not surprising that some of them can be used for refining weapons.
Among them, Lu Yao found a fist-sized piece of pure gold, this ore is the strongest and sharpest, and it is the main material used to build a flying sword.
Pure gold may be very common in the cultivation realm, but there are not many on the earth, and it takes at least some energy to get it.
If it weren't for Min Tao to help him as an agent for the elixir, Lu Yao might have been very happy to see this piece of pure gold, but with the cooperation with the Special Affairs Bureau, the nature of this ordinary refining material was not very high.
But in any case, this is also a material that cultivators can use, and the joy that those gold and silver treasures bring to Lu Yao is still stronger.
After sorting the piles of ores, Lu Yao found iron mother, Nine Heavens Dark Iron, meteorite iron, star silver, purple gold, purple copper and other refining materials in addition to pure gold, and he collected them together.
As for the remaining materials that do not possess spirituality, Lu Yao also stacked them with his hands, many of which could not be used for refining, but it could not be said that they were worthless, and perhaps they were of other use in academic research such as scientific research and archaeology.
Anyway, things don't take up much space there, so maybe they'll be useful in the future.