Song Siyuan looked at the pendant and explained: "I am 100% sure that such a silver coin is a Western item, looking at the shape of the crown, shield, and lion, it is probably from England." ”

"Do you know what this is?" Yue Guanchao asked curiously.

Song Siyuan shook her head: "I don't know very well, but I know that this silver coin has a lot of origin, waves, seagulls, ships, and the sun, which are the signs of the Age of Sail, and the crown and shield have a strong aristocratic image, I guess it should be related to some royal associations in some England." ”

"Some royal society?"

Everyone became curious, and Song Siyuan continued: "These royal societies have a long history, as early as the 16th and 18th centuries, the Great Voyage discovered the New World......

South America, Africa, Oceania, the Far East, Southeast Asia, these unknown places outside the European continent are like the New World for Westerners, coupled with the wealth of the Far East recorded in the "Travels of Marco Polo", there are constantly explorers and adventurers who are taking chariots and horses to the New World to find treasures, gold mines, treasures, and even visit mysterious animals and lost civilizations.

Everyone wanted to find something in the vast New World to make a name for themselves in the West!

At that time, it was not as modern as it was modern, there were cruise ships and giant ships that could be used for navigation, at that time ship technology was not developed, if you want to sail you still have to take a sail wooden boat, such a ship is bulky and difficult to walk, once you sail into the sea, then you can only resign yourself to fate, in case of any wind and waves, doomed to lose all your money.

The risk is high, the distance is long, and the cost is high, and if an ordinary person wants to go to sea to the New World, it is basically impossible to rely on his own strength, so if there is really this demand, he can either gamble with huge debts, or he can only rely on the big tree to enjoy the shade, or he can take risks and gather a group of people to become pirates, and make profits by plundering passing merchant ships at sea.

At that time, there were many royal societies under the rule of the British royal family, such as the Royal Book Society, the Royal Horse Racing Society, etc., and in the context of the Great Voyage, of course, there would be the Royal Maritime Society related to navigation.

Speaking of this Royal Maritime Society, its predecessor is indeed not glamorous!

As early as the Age of Discovery, with the opening of shipping routes by Spain and Portugal, there were not only mature trading caravans in the seas, but also many pirate ships.

Most of these pirates were landless peasants in the countryside, unemployed craftsmen in the cities, murderers, criminals, and bankrupts, who could not afford to make ends meet, so they took risks and profited from the Age of Sail, driving pirate ships to plunder passing merchant ships across the oceans.

After the decline of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, England became the new overlord of the seas, and in order to maintain trade routes, they began to rectify maritime security around the world, most of the pirate gangs were eliminated, and the remaining pirates were either eliminated by the Royal Navy, or, accepted Zhao'an, and became the royal pirates of the British royal family.

Although this kind of pirate is a pirate, the treatment is much better than that of ordinary pirates, they will be issued by the British royal family with a royal pirate paper, and later rely on the document to legally plunder ships, but the looted things need to be given to the British royal family, so as to swear allegiance to the British king.

After entering the 17th and 18th centuries, with the development of industrial innovation, new warships continued to appear, piracy gradually disappeared, although professional pirates no longer existed, people's pursuit of wealth will never dissipate, the British royal family is not willing to give up a large amount of overseas treasure, in order to continue to find seafaring agents to search for treasures for them, thus establishing the Royal Maritime Society.

The Royal Maritime Society is similar to a club and a salon, where it is run by a royal family with a noble title, and any Westerner who wants to sail can become a member or senior member of the association by submitting an application, in addition to absorbing some ordinary seafarers, explorers, adventurers, or old pirates who want to go to sea but cannot afford to raise money.

These people had no money, and the Royal Maritime Society had money but was not willing to go to sea, so the two hit it off, and the Royal Society took the lead, allowing these people to form a sailing team ranging from dozens to nearly a hundred people, and drive huge ships to the New World.

During this period, if the giant ship can successfully reach the New World and find any treasure to bring back to the mainland, then according to the original contract, the Royal Society will take the lion's share, and these professional seafarers will take the small one, and if the giant ship sinks or nothing is found, then the debt will be written off.

Although there are many risks in going to sea, they can only take a small part, but, in the social background at that time, only this small part, is much stronger than ordinary people as workers, the higher the risk, the greater the return, these professional navigators are of course willing to take risks, happy to go overseas to hunt for treasure.

"Dare to be affectionate, these people are ordered to hunt for treasures, and these foreigners are also embarrassed." Yue Guanchao teased.

Song Siyuan shook her head: "What's so embarrassing about that, this huge empire that never sets the sun depends on eating human blood and steamed buns?" It is not surprising that they did not hesitate to resort to war in order to dump industrial products here, and to finance the treasure hunt of seafarers. ”

"Then you mean, what the Ghost Fang Sect got was actually the badge of the Royal Maritime Association, and the person who had contact with him was the Maritime Association?"

Song Siyuan nodded, acquiescing to Yue Guanchao's guess: "It's just a guess, I have described the specific details of this badge clearly a few days ago, and sent it to my parents by telegram, so that they can check it at the embassy abroad, maybe there can be clues." ”

As he spoke, Tan Yanqiu had already walked into the hotel room, and saw that they were all smiling and said, "You are all here, today is the Han Opera Queen Conference, if you are willing to appreciate your face, come with me to have a look." ”

Everyone was bored these days, Yue Guanchao took them to the Fuyuan Grand Theater, and after arriving, they were placed in the box on the second floor facing the stage.

As mentioned earlier, the Jianghan area is the opera wharf, the opera from all over the world gathers here, the local Han opera elects the queen, it is an annual ceremony, when they arrive, the hall on the first floor is already full of spectators, the neon shines around, the speakers roar, Xuanhe is lively, and the voices are boiling.

But all the local Han opera troupes in Jianghan can submit a list to the opera actors to participate in the election, these hundreds of opera troupes, after half a year of selection, the survival of the fittest prevailed, and finally selected the six most likely to compete for the queen of Han opera.

The elderly are like Hua Yuxiu, the new red ones are like Yun Fengchai, and the glamorous ones are like the sable cicadas, singing kung fu, body posture and posture are different, at this point, it is basically necessary to use real kung fu, these famous actors compete on the same stage, and it also makes the audience watch a gluttonous feast.

It's just that when it came time to award the final award, it was beyond everyone's expectations!

Hua Yuxiu didn't win the queen of Han drama for a second time, and even the queen and the queen didn't have her share, which was more or less surprising to them.

"Boss Tan, Hua Yuxiu returned empty-handed this time, you are going to suffer a big crime, aren't you afraid of her trouble?" Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes.