The four of us got into the cabin through the gap dug out by Ma Hailong, and soon came to the cabin of this Ayutthaya treasure ship.

After hundreds of years of immersion, the cabin of this ancient ship was already dilapidated, and I looked around after entering, only to see that because the hull capsized, the cargo in the hold had piled up on one side of the hull, and the other side was clean and clean, with nothing but some aquatic plants growing on the bottom of the sea, and some shellfish crawling.

Ma Hailong, who came first, gave us a thumbs up and nodded.

Judging by what he meant, he seemed to be very satisfied with the state of this cabin.

A few of us couldn't talk, we could only communicate through body language, Uncle Mei and I saw the wooden box in the cabin, and we wanted to go up and open the box, but we were immediately stopped by Yu Xiaobo.

Yu Xiaobo made a pause gesture at us, and then pointed at Ma Hailong, and I immediately understood that he meant that we should not rush to do the work first, and the hands-on work should be done by Ma Hailong, a professional.

Ma Hailong's movements were very neat, and he immediately began to take out tools from his backpack to clean up the cargo box at the scene, because the cabin we were in was relatively close to the bottom of the sea, so there was a thick layer of sand on the cargo box.

Ma Hailong carefully swept away the sand with a brush, and then used a crowbar to pry open a wooden board of the cargo box, inspected the goods inside, and then happily beckoned to us and let us pass.

When I saw this, I knew he must have found something good.

"Rich! Get rich! Sister Xiaomei's medical expenses have been settled! "I was ecstatic in my heart.

A few of us came to the side of the cargo box, and Ma Hailong commanded me and Yu Xiaobo to one left and one right, and let the two of us work together to lift the cargo box to the side.

The two of us hurriedly followed the command of the big hand, grabbed the wooden box, slowly lifted it down, and placed it in the open space of the cabin.

Because of the buoyancy in the water, it looks like a heavy wooden box, and it doesn't take much effort to lift it, and when the wooden box hits the ground, I can't wait to look inside.

By the light of the headlamp, I saw that there were many small yellowish, delicately shaped, lifelike Buddha statues neatly placed inside, each of which was the size of a palm, but the details were very comprehensive.

Wearing diving equipment, I can't figure out what kind of material this Buddha statue is, but I can see that the material of these Buddha statues is definitely not ordinary, and it can be preserved for hundreds of years intact.

The Ayutthaya Kingdom has the title of "Land of a Thousand Buddhas", and the whole country believes in Buddhism, so it is not uncommon to see Buddha statues on their boats.

This box of beautifully shaped Buddha statues can obviously be sold for a good price.

At this time, Yu Xiaobo took out a Buddha statue from the cargo box, looked at it carefully, and then pointed to the Buddha statue and made a strange gesture to me.

He put two fingers to his mouth, then tugged at his nose again, motioning to lengthen it.

I understood at a glance that Yu Xiaobo was pretending to be an elephant, and he was imitating an elephant.

After thinking about it again, it dawned on me that Yu Xiaobo was telling me that these Buddha statues were all ivory products. I had heard him say that the Ayutthaya Kingdom was rich in ivory and rhino horn, which were the main products of their export trade, and the yellowed Buddha statues in front of him were obviously carved from ivory.

At this time, Ma Hailong cleared out the second cargo box again, and he gestured for us to go over and carry it, and Yu Xiaobo and I went over again and moved the second cargo box over.

When I pried open the wooden board and looked inside, I saw that this cargo box was also filled with small ivory Buddha statues, and the design type and style of these Buddha statues were very similar to those in the previous cargo box.

Although there was no industrialization at that time, these Buddha statues must have been handmade and not produced on an assembly line, but their craftsmanship looks similar and similar.

After that, we moved two or three more containers, and all of them were similar ivory Buddha statues, and it can be seen that the Ayutthaya Kingdom at that time made money from these ivory small products.

After these boxes were cleared, Yu Xiaobo pried them all open, and then picked and chose from the inside, picking out all the Buddha statues with the best color, the highest carving technology, and no flaws, and gave us a few points.

Because everyone's backpack space is limited, we definitely can't take all these Buddha statues out, so in the end we only took three or four of the best quality Buddha statues each.

After everyone had finished installing the Buddha statue, Yu Xiaobo suddenly borrowed a crowbar from Ma Hailong, and then he did something I never expected.

He took a crowbar and smashed the remaining Buddha statues in the container!

He was merciless, knocking it to a sparse piece, the level of destruction, even if he handed over all the Buddha statues to cultural relics experts, it was basically impossible to restore them.

Although I'm just here to make extra money, it stands to reason that we can't take these Buddha statues, and it has nothing to do with me whether they are bad or not, but maybe because I have been getting along with Jiang Yongguang and Xiaoliang and other cultural relics protection workers before, I also have some awareness of cultural relics protection.

Seeing these historical relics being directly destroyed, I still regret it in my heart.

At that time, I guessed that the reason why Yu Xiaobo did this was because he wanted to keep the fertilizer and water from flowing into the fields of outsiders.

Since we can't take these treasures, let's just destroy them all, so as not to cheapen others.

Later, after a while, I realized that Yu Xiaobo's hand had a deeper meaning.

As the saying goes, scarcity is precious.

The reason why something is valuable is because it is rare and rare.

For example, if you play coins, you all know Daqi Tongbao, why is Daqi Tongbao so famous? Everybody wants? Just because in this world, there are only two Great Qi Tongbao, only these two, and the others are all fakes.

Similarly.

If these Buddha statues are not destroyed, then there are hundreds of the same ivory Buddha statues in this world, so that the Buddha statues we take out will definitely not be sold for a high price.

But if Yu Xiaobo smashes all these hundreds of Buddha statues, and only the six or seven on us remain, then the value of this Buddha statue will definitely rise, and it will be a hundred or thousands of times more than before.

That's the economic mind, and that's what I admire about Xiaobo.

And at the same time that Xiaobo smashed the Buddha statues, Ma Hailong turned over the cargo boxes below, and the cargo boxes under these Buddha statues were filled with some natural treasures.

There were boxes of ivory and boxes of rhino horn.

As soon as I saw these boxes of ivory, I suddenly remembered that I had seen similar ivory in the ancient Shu tomb before, and it stands to reason that the geographical location of Shu is that there are no elephants living in it, and these ivory are not from Southeast Asia.

In this way, there may have been frequent international trade more than 4,000 years ago, but we underestimated the ancients and did not realize this until now.