The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The salvage work continued on the second day. Every day, hundreds of blue and white porcelains and a larger number of other porcelains were salvaged with water. Many of them had to save water because of the need to clean the items on the yacht.

The "Sunshine Star" is one of the world's most valuable superyachts. It is not a salvage vessel. This porcelain is not a gold brick that can be stacked, and it needs to be packaged and protected. I had to ship other porcelains, except for the blue and white porcelain and the most exquisite part of Longquan porcelain, to the "Big Shark" cargo ship more than ten nautical miles away in a lifeboat.

Zhang Nan has the idea of ​​customizing a large professional salvage ship. After all, the "Great Shark" is a cameo and has no deep-water salvage and rescue capabilities.

Besides, large-scale salvage and rescue boats are not only their own big toys, but also one of the company's training boats. They can also rent out the salvage points and maintenance fees and crew salaries.

Owning a deep-sea salvage ship wants to make a lot of money unless luck is good, but it takes more than ten or two decades to recoup the capital and work hard.

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The salvage work here is very lively, and it is the same internationally. They are all busy around the Persian Gulf.

The day before yesterday, on the day of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning Iraq for violating the UN Charter and requesting its withdrawal with 14 votes in favor and 0 votes against (Yemen did not attend).

Yesterday, August 3, the United States and the Soviet Union reached a consensus and issued a "Joint Statement" demanding that Iraq "unconditionally withdraw its troops from Kuwait..." This is completely consistent with the United States' policy goals on Iraq.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also stopped all arms supplies and military assistance to Iraq.

However, in Zhang Nan's view, the Soviet Union in this meeting has long been overwhelmed. The economy is about to collapse and a group of brothers are splitting up. There is no need to stand up with the United States, let alone Iraq has done too much this time.

On the 7th, Bush formally signed the "Desert Shield" action plan. A brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States, with about 2,300 people as the vanguard, took off from the Fort Bragg base in North Carolina to Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis in the first five days were really frightened. While the front-line troops were mobilized urgently, they also looked at the Suleyil base in the western half of the squad-there is the Saudis’ biggest trump card, which has just been deployed and is ready for use. 36 big killers!

I bought 35 rounds for 3.5 billion US dollars, and it is said that one more round was given away. After the most difficult five days, the Saudis felt that the money was really worth it!

Abruptly "scared" Saddam Hussein not daring to take a step beyond the thunder pool!

Now that the U.S. Airborne Division is here, the Saudis still have to continue to count on the Suleyil base for a while-before the U.S. heavy troops arrive in large numbers, can they count on the Air Force to block Saddam’s tanks?

That is wishful thinking!

This is Saudi Arabia in a desert environment, not the Ardennes in a mountainous and forested environment 56 years ago. Before a sufficient number of U.S. heavily armored troops and air forces arrived and deployed in Saudi Arabia, Saddam could really sweep Saudi Arabia casually. Unless he is really worried about the threat from the Suleyil base.

Strategic deterrence seems to be unnecessary for thousands of years, but existence is the truth!

The 1.5-ton high-explosive warhead specially equipped on the upper part of Dongfeng III is not comparable to Iraq’s own "Hussein missiles" whose warheads weigh less than 200 kilograms for range.

One shot will kill people, and many people will die!

However, no matter how lively the Gulf is, everything that will happen is known to me. Except for his three conscripted C141s and the skyrocketing crude oil price in a few days, which has caused investment companies to make money, other Zhang Nan will not go. Care.

Zhang Nan has already begun to hate the feeling of "knowing what will happen". For example, when the big bosses "Taixing" and "Blackstone", he didn't feel any special surprise at all, because he had a spectrum in his heart.

The shipwreck in the Yuan Dynasty below feels a bit of being in Berchtesgaden. I don't know what good things the divers will bring to themselves next, which is very exciting.

I like this feeling. There are exciting new discoveries on the shipwreck every day. This is even better than yesterday when Nicole called and said that a small settlement made another $5.6 billion.

For example, on the afternoon of the 7th, divers found copper coins placed in a decayed wooden box near the front cabin. The number was not large, only about tens of thousands, which was incomparable to the 28 tons found on a sunken ship on the side of Bangzi.

Here are basically the copper coins of the Yuan Dynasty, with the most various "Zhizheng Tongbao", and almost none before the Song Dynasty.

At this time, Zhang Nan was holding the "Zhizheng Tongbao" out of the water in his hand. Needless to say, this has already limited the time for the ship to go offline, and it will not be later than "Zhizheng".

Chen Jianghua on one side simply took one in his hand, rebuilt it, and said, "It should all be new and there is no trace of use."

He was talking about "Zhizheng Tongbao." Although these coins have been in the mud on the seabed for more than 600 years, not only did they fail to form bobbins, but even if they were corroded by seawater, the money and fonts were still clear.

Zhang Nan put the money back in the plastic box where he saved the money. "It should be regarded as the early years of Zhizheng. The money was not used much, but when the Zhizheng copper money came out, who was the destination of the ship and the people on the ship? It's even harder to guess."

Chen Jianghua nodded and said, "The firing time of Yuan Qinghua in Gan Province should be in Zhizheng 12 and 1352. That year, Xu Shouhui's peasant army captured Raozhou, and Jingdezhen was completely reduced to a war zone, and it was impossible to fire again. Blue and white porcelain exports.

The Ilkhanate in the Middle East is generally believed to have begun to disintegrate in 1335, splitting into Eastern Persia, the Kartidian dynasty of Afghanistan, the Muzaffar dynasty of Western Persia, and the Zarayier of the Mongols. The dynasty, as well as the Chubang dynasty in Turkey, in the first year of Zhizheng, this group of guys had long been human brains.

Even if this batch of porcelain was exported from the northern port after the burning of Yuan blue and white in Jingdezhen, the reason for going to the Middle East would be even harder to guess, because in 1355, the Qincha Khanate had breached Taoli Temple City, the capital of the Ilkhanate. In Tabriz, Iran, even the fifteenth monarch of the Iraqi Khanate, Nu Shi'er, was missing at the end, and the orthodox Iraqi Khanate of the Taoli Temple was completely destroyed. Some local nobles also took the opportunity to stand alone, and the following history is a mess, and the buyers of these porcelains are even harder to say. "

"Could it be the gift that the Yuan Dynasty gave to that lost child before Taohua Temple fell?"

"Who knows, it's a pity that paper can't be stored in sea water for hundreds of years, otherwise it might be clear."

In 1355, the Yuan dynasty was completely over before that meeting. All the forces in the south were in a mess, fighting with each other and fighting with the Yuan army in the south. Even Zhu Yuanzhang was still in the hands of Guo Zixing. The Ming army had to advance to the capital in August 1368. Only then did Emperor Yuan Shun abandon the city and all fled to the Mongolian grasslands. Yuan died.

During the 13-year period, it was not impossible for Yuan Ting to export porcelain and send a few envoys-but it had to be guessed. During the war, the documents of the Yuan Dynasty were basically lost, and there was no written record about the export of blue and white porcelain.

Without words, a reasonable guess is the most reasonable possibility.

How long can the paper in the sea water be kept?

Zhang Nan doesn't know, but there is absolutely no 600 years. It is estimated that 600 days will be difficult.

Unless it is handed down to the world, if paper is to be preserved for hundreds of thousands of years, it must be kept in a dry and sealed environment, such as the Buddhist scripture cave in Dunhuang and the heavenly palaces of some stupas in the northwest.

In fact, when Chen Jianghua first came to Indonesia, in Helan County, Ningxia, cultural relics experts at all levels were beginning to demolish and rebuild a dilapidated and almost overturned pagoda during the Xixia period. A large number of Xixia cultural relics such as paper and silk were found in the temple of the pagoda.

Dryness and waterproofing are important.

The northwest has the climatic conditions that can preserve paper for more than 500 years, but the south is difficult. Anyway, you don’t even want to find paper books under the ground.

But Cheng Ye Xiao He defeated Xiao He, a very small number of "organic cultural relics" with words can be preserved if they are soaked in water with almost no oxygen, such as those silks in the Mawangdui.

But Zhang Nan, a guy who used to deal with construction sites, don't want to dig out any books or silk.

Those who engage in "local goods" rely on objects that will not rot. The only exception is a legend of a Song version of the book unearthed in the south...

The legend that had been heard in the circle popped out of Zhang Nan's mind, but when he just thought about it, he saw a diver showing his head.

Holding a small lump in his hand, when he saw the boss standing on the sun deck, he took off his breathing apparatus and shouted, "Boss, there is a seal with words."

After months of working on Haidilaobao, divers and sailors also know that words with words are awesome, especially for the boss and Researcher Chen.

Westerners also recognize the seals, but they found out that they did not send them up in a box step by step, but sent them directly by divers.

Here Chen Jianghua also saw the object in the hands of the diver, and said, "It seems to be an official seal."

Judging at a glance is not because his eyesight is different from ordinary people, but the appearance of the seal itself is very distinctive. Almost no ancients in the Yuan Dynasty, or even the ancient Chinese in the past dynasties, have such an appearance.

Zhang Nan took the seal from the diver and asked: "Where did you find it?"

"In the silt on the side of the wreck, it is almost half a meter deep from the original seabed."

Zhang Nan nodded, "Good job!"

The diver smiled, and it must be a good thing to get the boss's approval, so he bit his respirator and dived again.

Now Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua will look at the slightly greenish rusty seal together: it is square, buttoned, that is, the button is very high and the seal surface is not thick, which is different from the general four-sided, three-dimensional, square and square seal. Look at it aesthetically. Kind of ugly.

This is why Chen Jianghua thought it was an official seal at a glance: ugliness is ugly, but it is very practical --- grasping the high buttons, it is very convenient and fast to knock on the seal, just like the private seal of modern people will never go to the whole "Official seal type" is a truth.

The seal surface is almost square, and the length and width are about 7 cm. The overall height is one centimeter more than the length and width because of the button that looks like a "print handle." It is estimated to be very imposing when knocked. , Papa".

Although there is a lot of patina, you can still see the densely engraved Basipa script on the printing surface, which will make people suffer from intensive phobia. Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua still can't understand!

But in no hurry, I will soon understand what kind of seal this is: because the characters used by the Yuan Dynasty government are very interesting, these eight Siba scripts were invented by the emperor according to the wishes of the emperor during the Kublai Khan period.

The emperor liked this new script very much, but even the Mongolian nobles didn’t like this kind of hard to write, hard to read and hard to read: relearn a new language and writing. For this, those who can only ride horses, bend bows, and chop. As far as human killing embryos are concerned, they are absolutely bitter!

There are many people who learn under the emperor's strict orders, but it is absolutely indispensable for officials of the Yuan Dynasty who are blind to this kind of new language that is difficult to learn.

What to do if you don't know?

There is a way!

Seals in Basiba are almost always engraved with Chinese characters on the reverse side of the seal, so that some seal owners don’t know what they are holding.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the popularization rate of this Chinese character should be much higher than that of Basiba.

Sure enough, Zhang Nan recognized a few words, but because of the corrosion, some of them couldn't make it clear.

"I'll clean it up."

Hearing what Chen Jianghua said, Zhang Nan handed him the seal, "Have tools?"

"A pair of tweezers and toothpicks will do. I will bring the small kit."

After speaking, leave. This researcher is dedicated and takes his own **** wherever he goes.

Cleaning up the patina is a delicate job, and Zhang Nan didn't bother to bother him, and stayed on the sun deck to watch.

It didn't take long, just over half an hour, and Chen Jianghua came out. He should be in a good mood looking at his expression.

Zhang Nan took the seal and took a look: He did not remove all the green rust, but cleaned out all the lines of the text without damaging the seal material.

Practiced!

On the right side of the seal button is engraved: "East Road Mongolian Guards and Hundred Households"; on the left side of the button is engraved "Zhongshu Libu" and "April Day of the Second Year".

Hundreds and thousands of households, as soon as he read this, Zhang Nan's mind popped out of the novel "Yang Kang and Xiaolong Girl fought against the Mongolian army before Xiangyang City. They threw spears and smashed hundreds and thousands of households, and killed a gray beard. "Wan Hu" scene description, and indispensable "jinyi guards" come out to shine.

Guan Xingquan on one side probably knows what Hundred Households are, but he doesn't know much about it. He still doesn't know about Mongolian military and official positions. By the way, ask Chen Jianghua, an expert.

"Hundred households, official names, set up at the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, were hereditary military posts. The Yuan Dynasty basically followed the Jin Dynasty official system, and set one hundred households as the head of a hundred, which belonged to one thousand households, and one thousand households belonged to ten thousand households. Jurisdiction.

There are hundreds of households stationed in various places, and hundreds of households are set up, which are divided into thousands of households.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the 100 households had two grades. The upper one had one member from the Mongolian and the Han one hundred households, each of whom was awarded a silver medal from the sixth grade, and the lower one had one member from the seventh grade silver medal..."

Well, Guan Xingquan draws inferences about it: It turns out that a "thousand households in Mongolia who were generally killed by Yang Kang's cutting of melons and vegetables" used plain gold medals.

Gold medal, "It's really worthless!"

The guards of the guards are like "The Royal Forest Army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But listening to Chen Jianghua's words, it is not the case at all: The guards of the Yuan Dynasty were formed in the first year of Zhongtong, and they were formed by Kublai Khan after the imperial army system of the Central Plains. army.

The first guard organization in the Yuan Dynasty was called the Wuwei Army, with about 30,000 soldiers. In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan was renamed the Guardian Army, divided into left and right wings.

Later, the organization of the guards continued to change, and the scale became larger and larger. The ethnic composition of soldiers changed from a single Mongolian to more and more complex.

Not to mention, the guards composed of single-color eyes are divided into Tang Wuwei, Qinchawei, Guichiwei, Xiyuwei, Kangliwei, Left and Right Asowei, Longzhenwei, Longyiwei, Oruosiwei, and Weiwu A Speed ​​Guard...

At least dozens!

In addition, the number of guards made up of Han people in the guards, the guards and various institutions of the Mongols themselves are so large that Chen Jianghua can't figure it out unless he goes back to look through the information.

Zhang Nan listened to his ears, and then said: "It is at least certain now that there is at least one official with a gold medal at the level of 1,000 households and above on that ship, and there are also a hundred households.

I don't know if I can find something with words. "

As soon as the words were finished, another diver came up: They found two boxes of silver coins!

Take a look at the first few coins: they are all coins of "Zhizhengtongbao".

This was not over yet, and news came up: gold ingots and silver ingots were found, not many, just a dozen, each up to two kilograms.

This is normal, "...a long-distance sea-going ship, so a little bit of copper is not enough, even if the goods are worth a lot of money, you have to bring some cash to defend yourself, right?"

This was what Zhang Nan said. The "Black Stone" that was salvaged before was strange: the "cash" found on board was only 126 copper coins.

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