Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Build a cup!" After completing the reception, Liang En looked at these teacups, which had a frosted glass surface texture due to being soaked in sea water for a long time, and immediately recognized what they were. "But this thing should be from the Song Dynasty -"

"Yes, you are right." A porcelain research expert came over and said, "If you look carefully, you will find that there are even traces of use on some of them."

"Yes, there are traces of use on it." After taking a closer look, Liang En nodded. Small traces of wear from the edges of these porcelain pieces. Look, most of these buildings are not new. "What does this mean?"

"This means that these lamps were already used by people at that time, and they were most likely purchased at the request of the recipient." Another expert said.

Although the practice of buying used Jianzhan is a bit strange, it is a relatively common thing whether in Korea, Japan or Southeast Asia, because these places are areas radiated by ancient Chinese civilization.

And this kind of civilizational radiation can be considered to have far-reaching and heavy influence. For example, Japan and South Korea will comprehensively learn from China at that time, and even turn their own civilization into a secondary civilization of Chinese civilization.

As for the less affected countries, such as these Southeast Asian countries, the presence from China has also subtly changed their daily lives, making their lives completely different from the past.

To give the simplest example, before the Chinese came to Southeast Asia, people here used large leaves as tableware and ate with their hands, but they later gradually used porcelain plates imported from China as tableware.

Because of this cultural radiation, people in those areas will habitually pursue goods from China, especially the local upper class, who will even use these goods to reflect their identity.

For example, they will also learn from the tea fighting that was popular in China at that time to show their noble status, because in their view, imitating the life of the Chinese seems to transcend their current life and reflect the feeling of being a Chinese.

Just like when the first KFC opened in China in the 1980s, a group of people spent a lot of money to eat there. This does not mean how delicious those burgers, fried chicken and mashed potatoes are, but how American they feel. life.

The biggest gain of this day is this pile of jianzhan, which proves that this ship is not a simple trading ship, and may carry some important things on it. Because ordinary trading ships will not carry such high-end items.

What everyone found the next day was even more shocking: in the stern, the safest place on the ship, divers found two corroded wooden boxes with only some rusty iron reinforcements left. .

After cleaning away the surface soil and some of the coral growth, divers found 20 huge plates from the remains of the boxes.

"The highest grade Yuan blue and white plate - this kind of thing is not common even in China." After just a few glances, the porcelain research expert came to a conclusion.

"Except for a few hoards in China, most of this kind of stuff is abroad. Because this kind of stuff was mainly used by the Yuan Dynasty court as a reward, so there aren't many left in the place of origin."

The first blue and white porcelain plate to be cleaned out was a large blue and white porcelain plate with a blue ground and white flowers, cloud shoulders, phoenix pattern and rhombus mouth. The entire plate was painted with sumali green material imported at that time, showing a blue color that was as graceful as a gem.

The blue and white porcelain plate has seawater cloud patterns from the outside to the inside, entangled peony patterns, six phoenixes and six petals, which represent heaven and earth, wealth, auspiciousness and Buddhism respectively, and are full of rich Chinese customs and Buddhist meanings.

Considering that the early Khans of the Ilkhanate in ancient Persia did not convert to the religion of the ruled area, but adhered to the traditional belief in Immortality and Buddhism, it was normal for the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to use their type of porcelain.

Because of the emergence of blue and white porcelain, almost all experts have focused on it. Let's not talk about how precious this thing is. Just the fact that these things appear on the ship is enough to explain the problem.

After all, ordinary ships would not carry such things, so this ship is most likely an official canonization ship of the Yuan Dynasty, carrying a lot of valuable materials.

This led to the fact that when the divers said that there was a shoal that the scholars could search by themselves, only Liang En and two younger scholars were willing to leave the ship and come to the shoal.

The water depth of the reef where the ship sank is obviously different. For example, the water depth in the main area where the ship wreckage sank is between 10 and 15 meters, so the cleanup work must be carried out by professional divers.

The area that Liang En and the others are searching now is located in the shallowest part of the entire reef area. It is only more than 1m deep at low tide, so they can use the low tide time to detect it with a special waterproof metal detector.

So Liang En and the three of them, wearing diving suits, drove a rubber boat to the reef with the help of two sailors, and then everyone started the search in separate areas.

The reef is roughly the size of two basketball courts and is located not far from where the ship broke. Judging from the wreckage, the ship probably broke after hitting this reef.

Therefore, if there were no accidents, when the ship collided, some items on the upper deck would have been thrown to the reef due to the force. Therefore, if you search carefully, you are likely to find something valuable.

Searching in water is obviously much more difficult than searching on land, because the resistance of the water causes each movement to consume more energy on the ground.

And the surface of this reef is different from what it looks like. Of course, Liang En only found out after he got into the water that although this reef looked flat from a distance, it was actually very rugged.

Fortunately, the many previous physical enhancements gave him a strong body and a balance ability far beyond that of a normal person, so after a simple adaptation, he quickly started his next search work.

The shoal assigned to Liang En is close to a square with a side length of 20 meters, but after excluding a series of places where things are obviously impossible to find, it can be roughly determined that only half of the area can be searched.

However, after Liang En jumped into the water, he did not just carry the metal detector and act recklessly. Instead, based on the location of the sunken ship and the specific circumstances of the ship's sinking that everyone had deduced before, he began to calculate which items were most likely to fall. s position.

After a simple calculation, he waded forward seven or eight steps and then checked on the back of a reef. Soon the metal detector made a sound.

After a quick inspection, Liang En carefully used a shovel to pry open some mountain pepper, and then took out a silver coin from behind the coral reef.

After cleaning off the attachments on the coin, Liang En discovered that it was a silver dinar coin that was most common in the Middle East. Although its value was not high, it was also a manifestation of international trade in that era.

After accepting the first discovery, Liang En continued to search along the groove behind the reef, and soon the detector made a sound again.