Chapter 102: The Atoka Shipwreck
In fact, in 1715, it was not only the Lady Atoka that sank, but also at least 8 ships, more than 700 sailors, and more than 40 tons of treasure, including nearly 8 tons of gold and 500 kilograms of precious stones, all worth about $400 million. And what Xiaomei found was only part of the treasure.
Taking advantage of the fact that Comrade Xiaomei has not yet broken the boat to hunt for treasure, the news of one of the top ten treasures in the world, how can Xiao Yuan not know it, at least the salvage site, close to the sea area between Havana, Cuba, he knows, he has a golden finger on his body, and he is afraid of a hammer!
As for Comrade Xiaomei, it's better to be an ordinary treasure hunter with peace of mind, his family was also a tragedy in his previous life, and his son, daughter-in-law, and crew all sank into the sea in 75 years.
The limited funds were spent, and they all relied on loan subsidies to pull investment to maintain, and finally fished out, and got into multinational lawsuits, and the governments of the three countries were all red-eyed, and in the end, the overbearing ugly government succeeded, restricting him to death by rules and regulations, and also defaulted on 25% of his wealth!
Three-quarters of the Earth is covered by oceans, which is where the real wealth lies, but human power is limited, and the secrets of the ocean can never be understood.
Although Xiao Yuan's golden finger is strong, he searched with all his might, forming a circle with a radius of fifteen meters around it, which seems to us humans to be a large area, but when it is put into the sea, it is just a line.
In addition to eating, he basically sleepless, Xiao Yuan is like a hard-working ant, frantically searching at the bottom of the sea, this still knows the approximate range, otherwise it is all luck and no fun!
After nearly three days and three nights of hard work, Xiao Yuan, who was depressed, couldn't help but drink and sleep in the space.
After resting, Xiao Yuan, who was refreshed, had only been working for an hour, and the surprise came in front of him, the swarthy overturned wooden boat, and the golden patch of the seabed, made him directly excited!
Xiao Yuan, who was excited, didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he collected it all first, including the wooden galleon in Xidaya!
Not only can this one be done, but the nearby sea area can also be let go, in order to prevent omission, he is more than just scraping the ground!
Thirty feet have been explored, after all, for so many years, the floating sand and silt on the bottom of the sea have buried a lot of treasures!
After two days and one night of work, Xiao Yuan felt satisfied, not to mention the Lady Atoka, even the gunboats had received several ships, and the pirate ships had also received several ships, not to mention the golden fleet of the West Daya!
It is not enough to describe the full receipt, Xiao Yuan's harvest far exceeds that of Comrade Xiaomei, there are as many as 13 tons of gold, and all kinds of top gems are close to one ton.
There are a lot of treasures in the seabed silt, and Comrade Xiaomei's salvage is still far worse than Xiao who opened the hanging!
In addition to these, silver, copper, and steel have been harvested a lot, as well as a large amount of shipwreck wood, clean it up, make some shipwreck wood furniture, it is quite distinctive!
Especially in the outside courtyard, it is not only very distinctive, but also relatively strong, not easy to break, and it can be regarded as waste utilization!
There is a lot of silver in the space, and the last harvest has not been processed, and he doesn't need to use it, where is it used so much. It seems that you still have to deal with it when you have time, and it's useless to put space completely!
In fact, there are very few countries in the world that have adopted the silver standard, and it has withdrawn from the stage of history and has been depreciating for more than half a century, and only now is it seeing signs of rising.
Since the end of the 50s of the 20th century, that is, in the past few years, the ugly country began to continue to have inflation, and the people were forbidden to own gold, many people began to buy silver to fight inflation, and the price of silver gradually rose to more than $2 per ounce from 1960.
In 1971, President Nixon, the one who established diplomatic relations with us, closed the gold exchange window, defaulted on the world, and the Bretton Woods system collapsed.
In 1974, in order to try a new model of gold price management, the government decided to open up the gold futures market, and President Ford signed a bill to allow private ownership of gold in the country.
After a lapse of 41 years, the people of the ugly country are once again free to buy and trade gold, and along with the rise in the price of gold, silver has also risen sharply, rising to more than $4 per ounce for the first time in history.
In late 1979 and early 1980, the Hunter brothers' manipulation of the price of silver was well known in the market, and as the price of gold set records every day, the price of silver skyrocketed.
The price of silver was the highest, once touching $50 an ounce, and by any measure, this is the highest peak in the history of silver prices.
Knowing this history, Xiao Yuan considered keeping it, he was not in a hurry to use the money, although it was said that the appreciation of 25 times in 20 years was indeed very slow, but he really did not lack money to use!
This time, he didn't have room to feed the gold, one is not needed for the time being, and there is still a goal in the future, and we will see the situation together when the time comes.
The second is that there are a lot of gold coins and gold products, and the added value is very large.
His idea is far more than just cashing out, isn't it good to get a mortgage? If you also want to pick wool and cut leeks, you need to prepare funds, the more the better, so as to maximize the benefits.
Since you're here, don't bother tossing, let them wait a few more days! It is impossible to put it not far away, that world-famous golden treasure, turn around and leave, this is not Xiao Yuan's style!
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Western Daya overthrew the Inca Empire and plundered all the gold and precious stones. Pizarro, the commander of Western Daya, heard that all the gold of the Inca Empire had been brought from the kingdom of Manoa, ruled by a chieftain named Patti.
And there was a mountain of gold and silver treasures, and Pizarro immediately organized an expedition to the Golden City, located deep in the dense Amazon forest.
Yet in this vast primeval forest, every step forward means fear and death, with fierce beasts and poisonous snakes, savage cannibal tribes, and lost and threatened!
The expeditions were disappointed or unaccounted for, and Pizarro looked at the forest with nothing but disappointment and sighs.
Subsequently, the people of the Western Daya, the Portuguese Taoya, the Parrot Country, the Windmill Country and the West Germans heard the news of the Golden City, and everyone wanted to grab a thousand gold, so they flocked to the Amazon jungle.
Among them, there was a man named Kaisada in West Daya, who led about 716 expeditions to the Golden City, and after paying a heavy price of 55o lives, he finally discovered the Golden City and the legendary Golden Lake in the Kandina Marga Plain.
Jadeite gemstones worth $3oo were found, but this was only a tiny fraction of the treasure that was difficult to estimate in the Golden City.
Xiao Yuan's target is the Golden Lake, which is located in the territory of Glen Bingya, deep in the Amazon jungle. The legendary Golden Lake is the Guadavida Lake here.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the nephew of the last Indian king described the traditional coronation ceremony that took place on the shores of the Golden Lake, when the heir to the throne was painted with gold dust like a gold sculpture and then swam in the lake to wash away the gold dust.
His subjects offered gold and jadeite piled at his feet, and the new king threw all the gold into the lake as a sacrifice to God, a traditional ritual that was performed countless times, showing the abundance of the golden lake!
Since the 16th century, the salvage of the Golden Lake has not stopped. In 1545, a treasure hunt team organized by the people of the Western Daya salvaged retrieved hundreds of gold items from the shallow bottom of the lake in three months.
In 1911, a company in Parrot Country dug a tunnel and drained the lake, but the sun quickly dried the thick mud into a dry and hard mud slab, and when the Parrot people brought in drilling equipment again, the lake was filled with water again, and this costly salvage failed.
Many people believe that there are still treasures of astonishing value buried at the bottom of the golden lake, hundreds of tons of gold, and more than 5ooo gold products.
The reason why Xiao Yuan chose the target was Golden Lake. The reasons are very simple, first, the search range is small, and it is much less difficult to search than the treasure sunk in the sea.
What is a needle in a haystack? In order to find the treasure at the bottom of the sea, the treasure hunter will spend several years, or even more than ten years to search, even if he is a hanger, there is no good way in the ocean, rely on the general direction, and then carpet search.