Chapter 1281 – Nautical Chart (II)

This sheepskin is indeed true, is Zhuang Rui from the pirate island, its history, I’m afraid than he drew nautical charts, but also two centuries in the morning.

But above the sheepskin drawn nautical charts, but Zhuang Rui students last night hard work, using many modern means to concocted, which also used the Beijing University Archaeological Research Institute of some of the chemical agents.

Zhuang Rui concocted this nautical chart, there is no other meaning, is to find a name for his marine salvage only.

Another reason is that the treasure he is going to salvage this time has caused a great sensation in history, if the treasure surfaces, I believe that all parties will stare at the ins and outs of this matter.

That said, Zhuang Rui for no reason designated a sea said underneath the treasure, this is also too metaphysical, coupled with Zhuang Rui’s previous performance, must be stared at, so Zhuang Rui spent not a small amount of effort, rushed out overnight.

Some friends said, if this is recognized as a fake nautical chart, that is not a coincidence?

But this kind of thing is basically impossible to happen, we must know, the most difficult to verify the antiques, is also true and false, like some porcelain bottom paragraph is true, but above is to do the old, often even connoisseurs can be fooled into the.

Zhuang Rui with this technique, in the real parchment scroll above the drawing of nautical charts, and the use of chemical means, will be its strokes pattern do old, even with carbon fourteen method of detection, but also can not say that it is fake.

Growing up so big for the second time to make a fake, but also completely self-handed operation, which has not had time to hide from the experts, let Peng Fei this kid to see out, Zhuang Rui can not be angry well?

The first fake? Of course is to fool the little kid that time, speaking of which, in passing, mention Zhuang Rui in Hebei to invest in that ceramic research institute.

With Zhuang Rui’s financial support, Xu Guoqing more than two years, successfully imitated the Song five kilns in the three kinds of porcelain, although the beginning of the cost of a lot of money, but when the firing process and the formula is mature, the firing cost came down.

Because Xu Guoqing completely restored the Song porcelain firing process, its fired porcelain, has a very high artistic standard and collection value, which also makes him famous in the ceramic world, many national museums, have collected his works.

In this way, as long as the modern ceramic crafts produced by Xu Guoqing, in the market price even more than the end of the Qing Dynasty, some official kiln porcelain, which also allows Zhuang Rui’s investment slowly back, and now in the maintenance of a balanced income and expenditure on the basis of the profitability has begun.

But Xu Guoqing imitation of ancient porcelain, that is in order to restore the Song porcelain firing process has been lost, while Zhuang Rui made this fake chart, but really is to satisfy their own desire to get that batch of treasure.

Of course, no matter how Peng Fei guessed, Zhuang Rui wouldn’t admit that this thing was imitated by him, otherwise he simply couldn’t explain how he could accurately find the location of the shipwreck.

“Zhuang, boss, oh my god! I think …… I’ve found the sea area that this nautical chart corresponds to.”

Just as Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei were sitting on the deck drinking a little wine and bullshitting with the sea breeze, Clyde’s voice suddenly came from his ears shouting, looking back, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

I don’t know what Clyde did in this half hour. At this time appeared on the deck, his head cap has been askew, even the well-combed beard around his mouth, also on one side of the cocked up, looks incomparably funny.

“Captain Clyde, I think a qualified captain should be a gentleman, how did you get this look?”

Zhuang Rui smiled and joked with Clyde, having known him for a few years, it was really the first time Zhuang Rui had seen Clyde looking like this.

“Boss, I’ll prove to you whether I’m a qualified captain, let’s not talk about this first, you’ve long since examined this place, right?”

Coming to Zhuang Rui in front of him with great vigor, Clyde pressed on Zhuang Rui’s jokes, a hand swept the beer on the coffee table in front of Zhuang Rui to the deck, and couldn’t wait to lay a nautical chart in his hand as well as a parchment scroll on it.

“Of course, of course I already know what this place is.”

Zhuang Rui nodded, what a joke! In order to pull out the map of this sea, Zhuang Rui almost didn’t beg Ouyang Lei’s head.

But after thinking and paying more attention, Zhuang Rui still looked up the map on the internet and made it ambiguous so that it would be more in line with the characteristics of ancient nautical charts.

“Hey, boss, the sea on this map is in the vicinity of Vigo Bay in the Atlantic Ocean, right?”

Clyde spoke while placing the two nautical maps in his hands, pointing to two places with almost identical lines and said, “Boss, this is the treasure of the golden fleet, haha, we’re going to be rich!”

Clyde, who had always behaved in a gentle and elegant manner, was wearing his hat crookedly at this time, his face with veins exposed and his teeth gritted, which was a modern-day Pirates of the Caribbean look.

“Cough cough, Captain Clyde, calm down, calm down ……”

See Clyde so excited, Zhuang Rui had to give him cool down, “Clyde captain, this is just a nautical chart, where exactly what, who does not know, and this is a few centuries, inside the treasure may have been salvaged is not allowed.”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Clyde shook his head and said, “No, boss, although there are people salvaging there every year, but none of them were able to salvage anything valuable. And did you see, the coordinate point of this map is not inside Vigo Bay, but rather it’s deviated out by almost a hundred nautical miles, it’s even more unlikely that anyone would pay attention there.”

Clyde’s words really made Zhuang Rui somewhat impressed with him, that point of deviation, is Zhuang Rui intentionally made, and the actual location of the shipwreck, but also to deviate some more.

Originally Zhuang Rui also wanted to find an opportunity to remind Clyde, did not expect this old man himself to see out, but saved Zhuang Rui a lot of words.

“Hey hey hey, I say, Brother Zhuang, Captain Clyde, can you two stop for a while and tell me, what is this called the golden fleet, what is this all about?”

Clyde and Zhuang Rui discussion hot and heavy, but let the side of the Peng Fei listen to such as in the clouds in general can not understand the mind, Peng Fei students even the domestic history did not pass the exam, not to mention the foreign things a few hundred years ago.

“Uh, Captain Clyde, you popularize this knowledge for Peng Fei!”

Seeing Clyde’s face reddening with excitement, Zhuang Rui knew that if he didn’t give this dude a chance to talk, he probably could only kick him into the sea to make him sober up a bit.

“Peng, I’ll give you, the gold flotilla, but the world’s largest amount of sunken treasure, that happened in ……”

Clyde is not ashamed of his ancestors are when the pirates, mentioning things in the history of navigation, not ambiguous at all, the original will be the ins and outs of the gold flotilla to Peng Fei introduced once.

To say this thing, but also to introduce the era and background.

The incident occurred in 1702, at that time, the sea lord Spain is and Britain, the Dutch allied forces to fight for the hegemony of the sea, but at that time, due to various reasons, Spain’s domestic finances, has been plunged into a very difficult situation.

In June 1702, a huge fleet of 17 galleons, in compliance with the order to carry the gold, silver and jewelry plundered from South America back to Spain, this fleet, in later times was called the gold fleet.

Just as the “gold fleet” sailed to the Azores when the sea, suddenly a British, Dutch joint fleet blocked the way, this 150 warships fleet, forcing the “gold fleet” sailed to the Vigo Bay to avoid, and then was the British and French allied forces blocked the sea.

In the face of strong enemy encirclement, according to reason, the only and the best way, is to unload the treasure from the ship, from the land to the Spanish capital Madrid.

But at the time of the Spanish domestic, there is a strange rule: all from South America to transport things, must first to the city of Seville acceptance.

The rigid Spain did not dare to violate the order to unload the treasures from the ship, but under the special order of Queen Marie de Sava, a small portion of the king and queen’s gold and silver jewels were unloaded and transported to Madrid by land instead.

After a month of besieging the Spanish fleet, the British and Dutch allied forces of about 30,000 men, under the command of Admiral Rooker, launched an onslaught on the Bay of Vigo, with a bombardment of 3,115 heavy artillery guns, destroying the batteries and barricades, and the Spanish defenders collapsed, and as the allied forces were excited by the countless treasures in front of their eyes, the battle progressed rapidly, and the bay soon fell.

At this time, the “gold fleet” commander-in-chief Belasco desperate, he ordered the burning of ships carrying gold, silver and jewels, instantly, Vigo Bay has become a sea of fire, in addition to a few sailing ships were captured by the British and Dutch allied forces in a timely manner, most of them buried at the bottom of the sea.

After the end of the war, people have been focusing on the treasure in the fleet.

According to the captured Spanish admiral Chacón estimates, seventeen galleons, a total of about 4,000 to 5,000 carriages of gold jewelry sunk to the bottom of the sea, this data, so that the British and the Dutch at the time crazy.

Just let the world is strange, although the British risked many times to dive under the sea, but also only fish on a very small amount of booty, so this batch of treasure strongly attracted countless treasure hunters.

Since then, in nearly 1,000 nautical miles of the seabed, appeared a batch of adventurers, some of them fished up has been empty shipwrecks, some have got a pure emerald, amethyst, pearl, black amber and other jewelry emerald, some still with modern technology and tools to continue to seek.

As the years go by, the winds and tides have covered the treasure with thick mud, and the many rumors have added a bit of mystery to the treasure, undoubtedly bringing too much trouble to the adventure.