Chapter 5 The First Harvest

After packing up the gold, Lu Yuan conducted a careful search of the ship. However, to Lu Yuan's disappointment, he only found some sailors carrying gold and silver coins, gold and silver jewelry, jewelry, and silver tableware for dining.

However, this is also normal, most of the normal shipwreck treasures are in the ship's hold, but unfortunately the ship's cargo hold has been damaged, and most of the belongings have fallen into the cracks. If you want to take them out, you have to improve your cultivation first.

After leaving the wreck, Lu Yuan did not continue to search, and he was already very satisfied with these gains now.

Although it was his first time hunting for treasure under the sea, he also knew that the difficulty of treasure hunting was very high. It's like he read a report when he was in school.

In August 1622, the Lady Atoka, a fleet of 29 ships, returned from Lammyju to the west with treasure.

For the sake of safety, everyone put the most valuable and most valuable treasure on the Lady Atoka, which has the greatest firepower and the most ferociousness.

Unfortunately, the Lady Atoka's cannons had little deterrent effect against hurricanes. When the fleet sailed to the sea between Hawa and Bagu. The hurricane swept through the last 5 ships in the fleet.

The Lady Atoka was the first target due to its heavy load and the slowest sailing speed.

The ship quickly sank to the bottom of the sea at a depth of 17 meters. The sailors on the other ships immediately jumped into the water in the hope of salvaging some treasure, but just as they found the wreckage and were about to salvage the gold bars, another more powerful hurricane struck, killing everyone under the water.

More than 60 years ago, there was a man named Mel Fisher, who was an adventurous man from an early age. In 1955, with the support of his family, he founded a company called "Save the Treasure".

Specializes in the search for shipwrecks in the Caribbean. In his 20-year salvage career, he has salvaged 6 famous shipwrecks, become a celebrity in the circle, and have also earned a lot of money.

Before he knew it, Fisher was of the age to retire, but he was reluctant to leave the salvage ship, as he had vowed to find the legendary Lady Atoka as a child.

He founded Save the Treasure, a treasure hunting company, to find the Lady Atoka.

In order to achieve his goals and ideals in his lifetime, he gave up the normal operation of the company and mobilized the whole family to devote themselves to the search for the Lady Atoka.

With the support of their families, they searched meticulously, using metal detectors to detect anything they saw that was not stone.

On July 20, 1985, Fisher and his family finally found the Lady Atoka and the tons of gold on board.

The wreck, which claims to be the largest treasure under the sea, contains 40 tons of treasure, including nearly 8 tons of gold and 500 kilograms of precious stones, all of which are worth about 400 million meters.

It took Fisher thirty years from the beginning of the search to the successful salvage of the Lady Atoka.

The story of the Lady Atoka has also become a story similar to that of "grinding an iron pestle into a needle" in the United States.

"Looking for Atoka" has become a common phrase, meaning stick to your dreams and you will succeed.

Compared with Mel Fisher, Lu Yuan feels that he is already very lucky.

It has only taken me four days to find the information on my own.

Although most of the treasure has fallen into the cracks, it cannot be salvaged for the time being.

But with this box of gold, it was enough to solve Lu Yuan's urgent need.

Because it was already daytime, in order to avoid being discovered and causing unnecessary trouble, Lu Yuan did not immediately rush to this sea area.

Instead, he returned to the desert island cave first, and after a full meal in the cave.

Lu Yuan also entered the Dingzhong space. In the corner, there was a pile of gold in a mess.

The gold was minted into blocks of the same size, without any markings on them.

Although it has been sleeping in the sea for hundreds of years, it is still bright.

Lu Yuan put these gold bricks away one by one, and estimated their value by the way.

Lu Yuan estimated that the weight of this pile of gold was about 500 kilograms.

According to today's gold price, it should be around 180 million yuan.

However, after all, this is gold refined four hundred years ago, and the purity should be lower.

In addition, the buyer will also reduce the price, so Lu Yuan finally estimated that this pile of gold could be sold for about 1.4-150 million yuan.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but get excited, he didn't expect that he would reach a small goal in just a few days.

After rejoicing, Lu Yuan began to worry again, although the batch of gold he salvaged was on the high seas, and the wreck was also a merchant ship.

According to international salvage law, the gold is owned by individuals.

But nowadays, the control of gold trading in China is very strict, and how to realize this gold is also a very troublesome matter.

In the evening, Lu Yuan had already returned to his accommodation on the island.

After thinking for a long time, he took out his phone and dialed a call!

"Boss, I'm Lu Yuan......"

The phone with Lu Yuan was the anniversary of his college classmates, because he was the oldest among the people in the same dormitory that year, so several brothers in the dormitory affectionately called him the boss.

Lu Yuan has a very good relationship with him, and he has always treated Lu Yuan as his brother.

Although the two didn't see each other much because of work, the brotherhood has never been broken.

When it is not a holiday, the two will also exchange gifts.

Usually, if something goes wrong at work or in life, the two will also confide in each other.

Lu Yuan and Nian are actually the only friends who can confide in each other, real confidants.

Another important reason why Lu Yuan called Anniversary is that Nian's family has been in the gold jewelry business for generations.

He was also the only gold merchant Lu Yuan knew.

Three days later, Lu Yuan had arrived at the port city, the largest financial center in the south of Zhuxia Kingdom.

When I left the airport, I saw a familiar face smiling at me from a distance.

"Ah Yuan, this way!"

This person is the anniversary, and he shouted at Lu Yuan from afar.

After the two met, they hammered each other's shoulders.

"Boss, I haven't seen you for so long, the younger I get, the old man in the family is still fine!"

"It's not like the same as before, but you haven't been here for a long time. The old man is still talking about you!"

"That's good, help me say hello to the old man, and I'll go see him in a while!"

"You said, don't release pigeons, the old man has been looking forward to you for a long time. I really don't know who the two of us are his own grandsons. ”

The two chatted and walked, and soon arrived at the parking lot.

"I've seen Young Master Lu!"

After several bodyguards of the anniversary saw Lu Yuan, they greeted him respectfully, and then enthusiastically let him into the car.

"Go to the Ritz-Carlton!" Anniversary instructed the driver

Lu Yuan glanced at the anniversary in surprise.

Nian smiled, "Ah Yuan, we have been friends for more than ten years, I don't know you yet, you must have something important coming to me this time, right?"

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "Boss, I still can't hide anything from you, there are indeed two things that need to trouble you, and we will talk when we get to the hotel in a while." ”

The two laughed and talked and soon arrived at the Ritz-Carlton, one of the best hotels in Port City.

Unlike other hotels, each room here is equipped with a dedicated meeting room and everything you need for business negotiations.

So as soon as Lu Yuan heard that he was at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel just now, he knew that Anniversary must have known that he was looking for him for an important matter.

After handing over in the hotel lobby, under the leadership of the waiter, the two quickly came to a room on the third floor of the hotel.

After resting on the sofa, Lu Yuan took the initiative to tell the anniversary about himself.

"Ah Yuan, you mean there is a batch of gold that you want to sell?"

Lu Yuan nodded, "Gold trading is secondary, I came this time mainly to set up an ocean exploration company!"

"Ocean Exploration Corporation!" jumped in surprise.

"Ah Yuan, you don't have a fever, why would you want to register a company like this?"

Lu Yuan said: "Boss, sit down quickly, let's be honest, I have mastered some special treasure hunting methods now." ”

"I tried it a few days ago, and the effect is quite good! The gold I want to sell you this time is the result of the other day!"

"That's it!" Nian Shen said: "Ah Yuan, I believe in your character, you can leave the matter of gold to me! As for the establishment of the Ocean Exploration Company, I don't know very well, I'll help you consult tomorrow!"

Lu Yuanxi said: "Boss, what is the relationship between the two, I won't say thank you." After the company is established, I will divide your shares in three tiers!"

Nian smiled and scolded: "You just get out, you can hold the company's shares alone, if you need funds, tell your brother, and the brother who can help will definitely help you." ”

"But the matter of shares should never be mentioned again in the future, I hope that our brother's relationship can still be the same as before!"

Lu Yuan instantly understood the meaning of the anniversary, the anniversary was good, how many of the original good friends were because they partnered together to do business, and finally parted ways and broke up unhappily.

He nodded and said, "Boss, thank you so much!"

Nian said with a smile: "I said just now, I don't need to say thank you, why is it here again now." ”

"By the way, Ah Yuan, how much gold do you have to sell, the amount is too small, I won't help you!" Anniversary smiled

Lu Yuan thought about it for a while, and finally decided to hide some of it. It's not that he doesn't trust Anniversary, but he doesn't want to cause unnecessary trouble to Anniversary.

"Boss, this time we salvaged a total of 3,000 ounces of gold!"

"So much, Ah Yuan, it seems that you should treat you this time!"

"Boss, isn't it a little more?"

Nian smiled, "3,000 ounces, although it's a lot, but it's not too much, and we will have several transactions of this scale in our port city every year." ”

"But in terms of price, there will be some differences due to different purities, Ah Yuan, can you show me a sample first?"

Lu Yuan said, "No problem!" and then walked to the suitcase......