The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

A diving suit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is a cow fork. After the diver wears it, he becomes a human monster. Iron Man is not so domineering!

By the way, will Iron Man come out?

I don’t know, Zhang Nan’s media group acquired Marvel, but he didn’t even bother to pay attention to those “American heroes”. He just felt that many of the characters in it had a strong American stupidity!

This chivalrous man is the same virtue as the little devil who has been fighting for decades and a bunch of monsters that Ultraman can never finish.

But the "Underwater Iron Man" in front of Zhang Nan's eyes is a complete look on board, because the diving captain Vita Bruno is now wearing this water newt 2000 full-man armored atmospheric diving suit is very heavy. The weight in the air reached 378 kg!

It allows divers to go deep into the water with a maximum depth of 2,000 feet (310 meters) for various operations, but in an air environment, after wearing it, the diver can only move with the aid of a crane.

It is now 7:30 a.m. the second day after the "Searcher" arrived in the salvage area. The "Great Shark" has left this area and returned to the United States. Otherwise, the gathering of two large ships would be an eye-catcher.

The Colombian navy patrol boats all ran around the area yesterday evening. At that time, the two salvage boats were using transportation boats to communicate with each other.

The Colombians looked at the two ships with the Stars and Stripes flags. They were obviously on the high seas. They took a few glances and left.

They are not warships. Colombians can't control this stay on the high seas.

Besides, ships flying the American flag are sailing in the Caribbean Sea. Except for the waters near Cuba, other countries will not go and find things to make themselves unhappy.

At that time, the people on the two big ships didn't bother to pay attention to the patrol boats of the Colombian Navy, busy working and transporting supplies.

In order not to overlap with Colombia, the crew of the "Big Shark", which has been out for a month, only relied on refrigerated vegetables and fruits to supplement vitamins in their diet during this time.

By this time, there will be some European cabbage, onions, carrots and burdock left on the vegetable item on board, and even the green peppers are finished.

The "Searcher" has good facilities and has a lot of cold storage and fresh vegetables. Even spinach and lettuce, which are perishable leafy greens, are still fresh. Use the transportation boat to get some of the "Big Shark". past.

As for the "Big Shark", it transferred a few divers discovered in the early stage and a few divers who were in good condition and had no major issues at home to go back to deal with to the "Searcher"-continuous deep-sea diving requires sufficient spare manpower. That job is very challenging.

Fortunately, the divers of the Star Company will be in good condition. Besides, the boss is here, and it will not take too long to stay on the boat for more than ten or twenty days.

The boss is very busy. It is impossible for him to stay on the salvage boat for a month or two. When he has enough time, the few deep-sea divers who came to support and serve as the reserve team can return to the United States with the boss.

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The water is too deep to anchor. The "Big Shark" modified by the cargo ship has no side thrusters and often has to play tricks of drifting with the flow. This is also the most important reason why it will leave at this time: after the water depth exceeds 80 meters, it can't do anything. Carry out fixed-point salvage.

If there are ocean currents in the sea, the anchor chain is not long enough, and the consequence of drifting with the current is that the engine always starts to circle around the sea, and the work efficiency is very low.

In contrast, the "Searcher" has several relatively complete sets of closed-open lateral positioning propulsion systems. Although it is not as good as the "Deep Diver", it can automatically control the propellers to almost "not move" when the anchor is not anchored on the sea surface. "" level, but it will not run around with the ocean currents.

The diver on the bottom of the sea wants to ascend, and as a result the ship above floats out for several miles, which is not only funny, it may even become a reminder!

Three divers wearing ordinary diving suits have already launched into the water from the transport boat that was put down in advance. It is the most dangerous when the crane uses steel cables to hoist Vita Bruno into the water. They will **** this humanoid monster into the water.

After that, the divers wearing ordinary diving suits would return to the transportation boat and wait until a few hours later, after Vita relied on the buoyancy control of the diving suit to return to the sea, he was hung on the steel cable and sent back to the mother ship deck.

Seeing the diving captain being hoisted, Zhang Nan turned and headed to the diving control room. The Hydra 2000 full-human armored atmospheric diving suit is connected with a cable and a camera on the top. Not only can it communicate with the control room in real time, but the people in the control room can also see the underwater picture.

Sawaguchi, wearing a sun hat, went to the diving control room with Zhang Nan.

"Alan, the sunken ship under the water really has a treasure 300 years ago?"

Even if she had seen seabed treasure hunting in the northern part of the Java Sea last time, she would still feel a little fresh.

Zhang Nan said as he walked: "If it's the San Jose, then you can't go wrong.

There are legends of more than two hundred and eighty years, and there are various versions, at least some say that the San Jose treasure is worth 1 billion US dollars, and some say that it can reach 15 billion. Anyway, it will not be less.

This matter is not only speculated by a group of experts, but even written about it.

In 1982, the Nobel Prize winner and Colombian writer García Márquez published a book of "Love in the Time of Cholera" in 1985. In the book, he said: "On the ship, a part of the treasure is loaded: three hundred boxes of Peru. Silver and Veracruz Silver, one hundred and ten cases of pearls collected and counted on Contadora Island;

The San Jose was also equipped with a treasure intended to save the Kingdom of Spain from poverty: 110 boxes of Muso and Somondoco emeralds, and 30 million gold coins. \'

If it is the common eight escudo gold coin, one weighs about 27.7 grams of zero points, and the smallest one is more than 3.46 grams of escudos.

If that Garcia’s research or hearsay data is true, even if it’s smaller, it’s..."

Zhang Nan was not good at math, so he turned his mind and understood: "Probably between 103 and 104 tons. If it is all eight escudos, more than 800 tons, this San Jose obviously can't fit.

However, the Spanish gold coins minted in South America are generally mixed models according to a certain ratio, not all 1 or 8. The proportion of large gold coins is much smaller, about 1 to 40 days.

If it is true, at least more than a hundred tons..."

After speaking, he reached the place. Zhang Nan sat down on a chair in the diving control room and could see the boss's display: The humanoid monster "driving" by Weta has been in the water.

"According to the analysis of the preserved Spanish gold coins, the Spanish gold coins minted in South America at the end of the 17th and 18th centuries contain about 90% of the gold and more than 100 tons. At the least, there should be 2 billion dollars."

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan stopped, and he found a problem: The estimate of "15 billion US dollars" was calculated 20 years later. At that time, the price of gold was about four times higher than it is now in dollar terms. That is at least 8 billion.

In addition to other messy treasures, such as more than ten tons of silver, perhaps not swallowed by sea water and time, and tons of seawater pearls, then this San Jose could really be worth tens of billions of dollars.

At this time, from the perspective of the armored diving suit on the screen, we can feel that Vita is slowly diving: there is no obvious reference object in the water, but the light change can be felt.

The diving commander in the control room talked to Weta from time to time, and the voice came: "Everything in the diving suit is normal and I feel good."

At a depth of about fifty or sixty, a few rays of light suddenly appeared in the water, and Vita turned on the light on the armored diving suit: the light will become dim as it goes down, and once it reaches a depth of 200 meters, it is basically pitch black!

The diving suit worn by the diving captain has its own power source, and the lights are powered by batteries. The connected cable does not supply power to the diving suit, but serves to transmit communication signals.

The speed of the dive was fast and then slow. It took about five minutes. A muddy sea bottom appeared in the display, which looked gray and white under the light.

There were a few strange-looking fish swimming across the bottom of the sea, and Zhang Nan also saw crabs crawling that could not be named.

The sunlight that can reach this depth is almost negligible, and the pressure of more than 20 atmospheres is not a joke, but there are not many lives here.

In fact, let alone the water depth of more than 200 meters, there are complex life in the Mariana Trench, which is tens of thousands of meters deep, but it is basically unknown.

Last night, the "Searcher" released an unmanned small submarine to survey the bottom of the sea. The location where Weta arrived is above the remains of the sunken ship, which is very accurate.

Imprecision is impossible: a metal object on the seabed reveals a section of thirty or forty centimeters. It is a Spanish-style cannon from the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century!

Weta didn't need to turn on several propellers to move a position. Relying on buoyancy, he took a little effort to stretch his legs to remove the silt on the bottom of the sea.

When the stirred silt dispersed, Zhang Nan saw something on the bottom of the sea through the display screen in the diving command room: a small black disc.

These are obviously metal, judging by the color, these are silver coins!

This will make a seemingly very difficult action in the underwater Weta: change his right leg to kneel, and the knee joint of the armored diving suit allows him to make such a move.

I have to make such a twisted shape, otherwise the two large multi-function pliers on the two anthropomorphic, super-sturdy arms of the diving suit will not be able to reach the seabed.

Weta controlled the movements of the large pliers in the "super-strong aluminum alloy arm". Zhang Nan, who was watching the screen on the boat, gave him an instruction through a headset: "Weta, flip those coins."

"Yes, boss."

Vita's voice was clear and crunchy.

The large pliers are very flexible, let alone flipping coins under the water, even pinching coins is fine.

But the problem is: it's not that there may be coins that are generally astronomical. It is the coins that Weta kicked out, and he manipulates metal pliers to clean them. It can't be done for several hours.

Looking at the situation, Zhang Nan said to the others in the diving command room: "It's too time-consuming. It seems that one arm of the diving suit has to be equipped with a shovel."

Everyone had no objection, and Vita, who heard the voice, said under the bottom of the sea: "Boss, next time I dive, I have to get the impact pump down and blow the silt away."

An air pump can be used to clear silt in shallow seas, but not in deep seas: how can the air be compressed?

Then you have to use cables to connect electricity, and a water flow pump placed on the bottom of the sea to deal with the silt.

Do not spray high-pressure air, and temporarily use accelerated water flow to hit the silt. This device is on the "Searcher" number, and it's also expensive!

Just a water pump is cheap to use on the road, but once it is used with the word "deep sea", cod liver oil processing is not particularly expensive, and the others are not cheap.

A piece of metal was turned up, and Zhang Nan saw it clearly, "It seems that they are all eight liel cross silver coins."

Guan Xingquan, who was watching the excitement while speaking, said: "In Huaxia, it is called "Benyang"."

He had two in his pocket, which were salvaged by the "Big Shark" before.

The Spanish eight riel silver coin has the Spanish national emblem on the front and the royal family emblem on the back.

There are also Latin letters and Arabic numerals on the edge of the coin. The pattern of the coin is divided into four small patterns on the front and back of the silver coin by a "quarter method", separated by a cross in the middle, and the four small patterns can be combined into a large pattern.

The pattern on the front is "Two Lions and Two Cities", with two castles on the upper left and lower right facing each other, and two standing lions facing each other on the upper right and lower left: this is the national emblem unique to Spain, and the standing lions and castles represent the ruling kingship.

The cross represents the cross, indicating that the state religion of Spain is Christianity. Because of the cross pattern on the silver coin, this type of money is also called the cross money.

On the front of the coin is written the text ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ which means King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor.

As for why it is called eight riel, because of the eight-digit Spanish coin system, 8 riel is equal to one yuan in Spanish money, or "a silver coin": one yuan is the standard, and 8 riel is divided into 4 riel, 2 riel, and 1 li. you.

As for the name "Benyang" is unique to China, it can be confirmed that the earliest Spanish silver dollars that flowed into China should be COB Benyang.

COB, which is a western transliteration, is generally called cobmoney in Europe and America, or cob for short, which means "Kappa".

Benyang is actually a kind of coin making. To be precise, it should belong to silver bullion. The shape is irregular, but the weight and fineness are appropriate. It has been cast since the reign of Philip II in the middle and late 16th century in Spain.

This type of "Kappa" can also be divided into two categories, one is the cross on the back of the Spanish coat of arms on the front, and the other is the cross on the back of the double pillars on the front.

The "Kappa" minted in Central and South America lasted until 1732. In the same year, a new type of double-pillar silver coin was minted by a machine in the Mexican Mint.

Because "Kappa" is originally made of silver coins, although the fineness and weight have a certain return, but in the actual casting process, the stealing of color and weight also occurs from time to time. This is similar to China's silver.

Zhang Nan had a native foreigner in his last life, and he also knew that this "Kappa" had been circulated by the method of weighing silver bullion during the nearly 200 years to China, and it did not play a role in counting silver coins.

The new double-pillar silver coin is different because it is cast by a machine, with standard colors and shapes, exquisite patterns, and easy to carry, and it can be valued by each coin.

As a result, this double-pillar Spanish silver coin replaced silver as the accounting standard in coastal areas during the Qianlong period of China!

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