Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 321 Search
"Jiancup!" After receiving the teacups, Liang En looked at the teacups that had been soaked in seawater for a long time and showed the surface texture of frosted glass, and recognized what they were at once. "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 some traces of use on it."

"Yes, there are traces of use on it." Liang En nodded after taking a closer look.Minor wear marks from the edges of these porcelains.See, most of these built-in lamps are not new. "What does this represent?"

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

Although it is a bit strange to buy used Jianzhan, it is a relatively common thing in Korea, Japan or Southeast Asia, because these places are the areas where the ancient Chinese civilization radiated.

And this kind of civilization radiation can be regarded as far-reaching and relatively heavy, such as Japan and South Korea will fully learn from China at that time, and even turn their own civilization into a secondary civilization of China civilization.

As for those with relatively shallow influence, such as these Southeast Asian countries, the existence 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 gradually used porcelain plates imported from China as tableware.

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

For example, they would also learn that tea fighting was popular in China at that time to show their noble status, because in their view, imitating the life of Chinese people seemed to surpass their current life and reflect the feeling of being Chinese.

It’s like when the first KFC opened in China in the 80s, a group of people spent a lot of money to eat it. This does not mean how delicious those burgers, fried chicken and mashed potatoes are, but to feel American from it. life.

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

And what everyone found the next day was even more shocking: in the stern cabin, which is the safest position on the ship, divers found two corroded wooden boxes with only rusty iron reinforcements left. .

Divers recovered a full 20 gigantic plates from the wreckage of the boxes after cleaning away the surface dirt and some coral growth.

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

"Except for a few hoards in China, most of these things are abroad, because this kind of things were mainly used for rewards by the Yuan Dynasty court, so there are not many places of origin left."

The first blue-and-white porcelain dish to be cleared out was the blue-and-white blue-ground white-flowered cloud-shoulder phoenix pattern Linghuakou large plate. The whole plate was painted with Su Mali green material imported at that time, showing a kind of blue like gemstone.

On the blue and white porcelain platter, the seawater cloud pattern from outside to the inside, the peony pattern with entangled branches, six phoenixes and six petals represent heaven and earth, wealth, auspiciousness and Buddhism respectively, full of strong Chinese customs and Buddhist meaning.

Considering that the early khans of the Ilkhanate in the ancient Persian region did not convert to the religion of the ruled area, but insisted on the traditional Changshengtian belief and Buddhist belief, it was normal for the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to use their porcelain.

Because of the blue and white porcelain heavy vessels, almost all the experts jumped on it, not to mention how precious this thing is, the mere presence of these things on the ship is already very telling.

After all, ordinary ships would not carry such things, so this ship is likely to be a Yuan Dynasty official canonized ship, 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 big boat and come to this shoal.

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

The area that Liang En and the others are going to search now is located in the shallowest part of the entire reef area. When the tide is low, it is only more than 1m deep. Therefore, they can use the special waterproof metal detector to detect it by taking advantage of the low tide time.

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

The reef, roughly the size of two basketball courts, is located not far from where the ship broke.Judging from the wreckage, it is very likely that the ship broke after hitting the reef.

Therefore, if there is no accident, when the ship collided, some things on the upper deck would be thrown to the reef due to the force, so if you search carefully, you may find valuable things.

Searching in water is obviously more difficult than searching on land, because the resistance of water makes every movement consume more energy on the ground.

Moreover, the surface of this reef is not what it looks like. Of course, Liang En discovered that although this reef looked flat from a distance, it was actually very rugged after he got into the water.

Fortunately, many times of physical strengthening before gave him a strong body and a balance ability far beyond normal people, so after a brief adaptation, he quickly started his next search work.

The shoal assigned to Liang En is close to a square with a side length of 20m, but if a series of places that are obviously impossible to have things are excluded, it can be roughly determined that only half of the area can be searched.

However, after Liang En jumped into the water, he didn't directly carry the metal detector to do it. Instead, he began to calculate that the leftovers were most likely to fall based on the location of the sunken ship and the specific circumstances of the ship's sinking that everyone deduced before. s position.

After a simple calculation, he waded forward seven or eight steps and then checked the back of a reef, and soon the metal detector sounded.

After a quick inspection, Liang En carefully pried away some mountain peppers with a shovel, and then fished out a silver coin from behind the coral reef.

After cleaning off the attachments on the coin, Liang En found that it was the most common silver dinar coin in the Middle East. Although the 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 sounded again.

(End of this chapter)