The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

What the two divers brought up were two gold ingots, the gold ingots dangling in good condition!

One big and one small, east-style pig-loin shape, the big one is weighed in your hand, you don't need to look carefully to know that it is fifty taels, and the front is engraved with Chinese characters: ninety percent gold fifty taels.

There are also characters engraved on the side, but they are not Chinese characters: the Arabic numerals above Zhang Nan can understand, but they can’t understand the letters above.

Guan Xingquan took over and looked at it, "It's Dutch."

"Guess?"

The Dutch ship, this neighborhood was once a Dutch colony and sphere of influence, and you can guess nine out of ten by guessing.

It is also normal for several words and letters to be mixed on gold ingots: even if the Dutch used force to occupy the nearby area, the mainstream prevailing in this area is still Chinese culture. This is especially true for the handicraft production process. It is only natural that such labels are marked on gold ingots.

Zhang Nan asked him if he guessed it, but Guan Xingquan didn't show any expression of "You look down on us", his appearance remained cold, and said, "I can understand a general idea."

Zhang Nan was not as cool as him, and a strange expression appeared. Guan Xingquan, who had been together for so long, knew that he was thinking "I haven't seen you learn Dutch".

Explained, there is no way, the world of genius is always lonely: "Dutch and German belong to the West Germanic language family, and Dutch has evolved from the ancient Low German dialect. Simply put, the Dutch is 60% of the German language plus 40% of people who speak English and understand German, but those who have never studied Dutch can also guess and understand when they read Dutch.

Many Dutch words are half a catty to German, and you can understand them quickly. There are only a few words between the two or one or two letters changed. "

Well, normal people don't compare with language geniuses, Zhang Nan consciously shut up.

The general meaning of the Dutch words engraved on the gold ingots, Guan Xingquan and guessed it, now he understands nine out of ten times: "These golds are smelted and refined from local Indonesian gold, using traditional Chinese casting molds. , It also uses Dutch weights and measures..."

The time for gold ingot casting has not yet reached the era when the Dutch completely ruled the Dutch East Indies. "...The gold may be re-melted after plundering, or it may be obtained from gold mining. Europeans estimate that this gold is also needed, and it cannot be taken alone. Porcelain plates for money."

Boss Guan had a very reasonable guess, and Zhang Nan fully agreed: The two brothers have carefully studied the gold production in Southeast Asia's history.

The other gold ingot is twelve ingots, and the upper part is also engraved with Chinese characters to indicate the weight and color, and it is also engraved with Dutch and Arabic numerals side by side.

Use an electronic scale from the kitchen. The fifty-tael piece weighs 1873 grams, and the ten-tael piece is 374.5 grams, which is quite standard.

The surface of the two gold ingots are finely cast, the shape looks comfortable, and the color is pure. They can be regarded as excellent in color among the gold ingots three to four hundred years ago!

Actually, even if the casting people make them crooked, they will definitely be pleasing to the eye: who would look at gold not pleasing to the eye

The two brothers looked at the gold ingots, and there was no need for Zhang Nan to talk nonsense on the other side. A group of divers went into the water again like dumplings, and even the underwater metal detectors were taken out of the warehouse again.

The previous salvage only found a dozen Dutch horse sword silver coins and three twelve silver ingots. I didn't expect that there were still gold ingots in the "empty" cargo hold!

Not private property of the crew, gold bullion is cargo!

Digging the seabed down another three feet has to fish!

The 50 taels of gold ingots feel a bit heavy in the hand; this is not modern gold, but an antique. This feels even better. Even Zhang Nan couldn't help but go into the water again.

The gold ingots were randomly placed on a folding beach table on the sun deck, and Dixit and Sawaguchi Yasukiko also held them to play with them for a while.

"Martha, Mr. Allen seems to like gold very much. His eyes changed when he saw gold ingots just now."

Sawaguchi Yasukiko’s voice was very low, speaking of Zhang Nan still habitually carrying "Mr.", which is her cleverness, because Zhang Nan hasn’t asked her to change her mouth yet, and she judges from the social environment she has been in contact with. , I think it is better to be obedient.

Dixit can't manage Zhang Nan's relationship between men and women, nor does it belong to her. The existence of Yasukiko Sawaguchi is even more inevitable, and he has to face reality.

Hearing her words, she whispered: "Tell you a secret. Among his favorite things, gold ranks first, and diamonds and everything are behind..."

Zhang Nan likes gold, besides people, this thing is definitely number one!

The shipwreck on the seabed was first treated with a sand suction pump in the cargo hold, and all the rotten wood inside was removed and thrown away, and a lot of metal ingots were quickly exposed underneath in a mess.

There was not much gold, and after a busy hour, I found fifteen ingots-3 ingots for 50 taels and 12 ingots for 10 taels.

In addition to Zhang Nan's favorite gold ingots, 72 large rectangular silver bars of dark brown, ugly and ugly, each weighing about 5 kg were found.

The silver bars are not marked with Chinese characters, and they are all in Arabic numerals and Dutch.

When the final value of the search for the sunken ship was squeezed out~www.wuxiaspot.com~ it was already past 10 o'clock that night, and the underwater lighting equipment was used after dark.

Zhang Nan, who had returned to the yacht a long time ago, originally planned to continue tomorrow morning, but the divers felt like chicken blood. Weta said that they had finished their work early and had peace of mind, and Zhang Nan would follow them.

These guys have been divers for many years. Except for the "Blackstone", "Taixing" and the small amount of gold and silver jewelry and utensils found on the Arabian ship with the same currency, they have no other chance to salvage gold and silver products.

This time it’s antique gold and silver ingots. You can brag about it when you go out. Can you be positive?

However, after being searched by them like this, they didn't leave much for those "latecomers"-the previous salvage was more civilized, so try not to continue to damage the damaged porcelain left on the seabed.

But in order to find out all possible precious metals, the divers are not so elegant today, and all of them have become barbaric operations.

Zhang Nan didn't stop this. The quantity of intact porcelain he got was enough, and the others were free.

Since I'm a treasure hunter, not an archeologist, and I can already judge that this is a Dutch armed merchant ship, why bother to do it more.

Zhang Nan is not interested in the colonial history of the Dutch at all!

For the late dinner, a pile of gold ingots was piled up in the center of the table as "drinks", and the divers who were invited to the main restaurant of the yacht had an appetite.

Thanks to the divers for their hard work, especially the two divers who kept their eyes on the spot.

The more precious and valuable the salvaged items are, the more bonuses this group will receive. The value of 17 gold ingots plus more than 300 kilograms of silver ingots is not as valuable as the non-ferrous metals in that little devil cargo ship, but gold always makes the boss happy.

As soon as the boss is happy, everyone's income will be more. Everyone understands this truth.