Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

Chapter 1344 If you have a backer, you can't lose

When the interest came, Xia Yu spent the next few days at home burying his head in grooming.

The news of the major sunken ships and treasures in later generations is not hidden at all, and every time it is discovered, news is flying all over the sky, especially in the Internet age, the news of the past is constantly being turned up.

Although he can't remember all the information, he knows about some well-known shipwrecks and treasures.

There are many gold wrecks by Westerners. For example, the Spanish Lady Akato was salvaged from the water in 1987. There were 40 tons of treasures on the wreck, including nearly 8 tons of gold and 500 kilograms of precious stones. The value of all the treasures is about 4 One hundred million U.S. dollars.

The British Sussex, which was searched in 1998, took four years to find a wreck worth 2.4 billion pounds of gold coins in a sea east of the Strait of Gibraltar.

There are also the Spanish gold fleet, the "Zhongmei" gold rush ship, etc.

The Spanish gold fleet, known as the jewel of 5,000 carriages, was buried in Vigo Bay in the Atlantic Ocean.

The "Zhongmei" gold rush ship, which was obtained by gold diggers in the western United States for eight years, sank in the waters of Panama.

Of course, there are also the ancient Huaxia shipwrecks that made Xia Yu embarrassed.

For example, the "Nanhai No. 1" shipwreck, a wooden ship that transported porcelain along the Maritime Silk Road in the early Southern Song Dynasty, sank in the Yangjiang waters of Guangdong Province. In the previous life, the Yangcheng Salvage Bureau and the British Salvage Company wanted to salvage the sunken ship of the East India Company. Rheinburg, and the accidental discovery of the wreck "South China Sea No. 1".

This sunken ship with a history of more than 800 years was discovered in August 1987, but because the mainland lacked sufficient salvage technology and strength, it had to keep the news hidden until 2003, and there were more than 4,000 pieces in total. Rare cultural relics are valued at more than 100 billion RMB in later generations.

It is also a good thing that this treasure ship was recovered by the mainland.

But there is also the wreck of the Huaxia Taixing, with millions of pieces of porcelain on it. It hit a reef and sank in the South China Sea in 1822, but was accidentally discovered by a British marine company when it was salvaging the 16th-century Huaxia wreck. The salvage expert at the time, Michael Ha, had no respect at all. In the history of Huaxia, in order to create a gimmick to facilitate speculation, it is estimated that 650,000 pieces of porcelain were smashed, and the remaining 350,000 pieces of porcelain were auctioned in Germany. At that time, only 72 pieces were returned by Huaxia Dehua County.

This is definitely an insult to Chinese culture!

There are many more wrecks like Taixing and Nanhai No.1.

To sum up, the well-known direction of salvage of sunken ships is along the ancient fixed trade routes and war areas.

The east is mainly concentrated in the Indian Ocean, and the west is mainly concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Eastern Maritime Silk Road,

As well as the transportation routes of companies such as the East India Company in the Indian Ocean, the treasures such as gold and porcelain in this piece are not too much.

In the Atlantic Ocean, when European countries colonized the Americas, they transported gold cargoes. When Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other countries competed for maritime supremacy, there were not too many ships sunk, and there were countless gold sunk.

In addition to these two pieces, there are also pirate shipwrecks, World War I and World War II shipwrecks, etc. In particular, World War I and World War II shipwrecks are the closest to now, and the news is also the clearest. The key depends on marine salvage technology and the hidden luck.

Xia Yu thought to himself that his luck would never be bad, and with his own guidance, the probability of discovering the shipwreck was the greatest.

So what he needs most is to have a top-level marine salvage company that is strong enough to have enough ships to operate separately at the same time.

Although the larger the salvage fleet, the greater the expense, the greater the probability of success.

He is not short of money, plucking the hair on his legs is enough to raise a large marine salvage company.

Therefore, the most critical thing at present is to have ships and the number of crew members.

Although he has previously acquired Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, Jardine Consortium and Swire Consortium, he has also involved shipping companies.

However, because he knew the trend of the world shipping market, Xia Yu did not take shipping companies as acquisition targets.

In the overall acquisition process, although the companies of this huge consortium have cross-shareholdings, they have obtained shares in companies such as Swire Shipping.

But it was cleaned up later.

So far, there are no shipping companies in Xia Yu's business empire.

But it also avoided losses from a shrinking shipping market.

Think of a newly built Panamanian ship worth $28 million in 1980, and now in operation, the price of a second-hand ship will not exceed $10 million!

According to the trend, the market will continue to shrink and should have bottomed out around September 1986 before bottoming out.

So it's almost two years now.

However, since he is using it now, and he is not planning to become the world's ship king immediately, Xia Yu will naturally not continue to wait.

Anyway, his consortium has huge shipping demand. For example, Pacific Oil Company and Blue Star Mining Company are the two largest customers. At the same time, Rolls-Royce Automobile Group and Tiangong Automobile Group are also big customers.

There is a huge demand for both oil tankers and dry bulk carriers.

Even if you acquire a shipping company now, as long as you don't wantonly add new ships, you can't lose money with a consortium's shipping business!

The shipping company that is backed by his consortium has advantages that other shipping companies do not have!

"Just heard that Wheelock can't hold it anymore, check what's going on, and buy it if it's suitable, so as not to be bought by others later, I'm in a hurry to use it..."

After thinking for a while, Xia Yu made a decision in his heart, wrote it down on a piece of paper, and immediately handed it over to Huo Jianning to arrange it.

And Xia Yu put his mind on the two companies.

Pacific Petroleum Corporation and Blue Star Mining Corporation.

He intends to be able to wrestle with the Rockefeller Consortium and the local tyrants in the Middle East in the oil field, and be the supreme master of Blue Star in the mining field!

Salvaging sunken ships, apart from saving Huaxia's cultural relics, earning some pocket money and having fun, he can't make a fortune, and it can't play a pivotal role in his career.

But if it can become one of the giant crocodiles that can dominate the world's energy and resources, then the influence is not necessarily.

Especially in the fields of gold and diamonds, the Rothier family has always had a huge influence.

The diamond industry is nothing, compared with the gold industry, shoes are not worthy.

But as long as the Roshir family still has the strongest influence and pricing power in the gold field, even if he has given the Roshir family two swords, the Roshir family can still suck blood everywhere to recover.

But in the final analysis, although the influence of futures in the gold field is the greatest, the most source is gold mines.

If it is sitting on the world's largest gold mine, it will occupy the largest market share in global gold mining every year.

If the Rothschild family wants to manipulate the price of gold futures, they have to look at his face!

"You have to think about it, what big mines and oil fields are still undiscovered."

"I can remember the names and some information of well-known large oil fields and mines in later generations, but the specific information is a bit vague, which is a joke. It seems that we must first investigate the global oil and mining industry pattern and discovered resources."

"This is a big project!"

"Fortunately, I have been collecting global industry information before. Although I did not try my best to collect it due to manpower reasons, there should be certain results."

"Now we have to tilt our resources and do our best to do this..."

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