Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 572 Meeting the Earl
After making preparations for exploration, it does not mean that you can start working directly, because this kind of underwater exploration in a foreign country has a series of preparations to do.

First, there is the matter of ships, equipment and personnel. The Fisher family in another world mobilized two 90-foot ships, a smaller search ship, scanning equipment and 25 staff.

Liang En wasn't worried about money, but the problem was that it would take a certain amount of preparation time to prepare so many people and equipment from scratch.

After all, Liang En's previous excavation work was basically done by one or two people, and he had never carried out such a large-scale excavation, let alone a complicated seabed excavation.

Although it is not difficult to gather these things with his money and contacts, it is not so easy to find them all in a short time.

The second is a series of formalities. Because the salvage location is located in the territorial waters of the United States, it is natural to go through a series of procedures if you want to salvage.

Illegal digging without a license is obviously not a good idea when there are rules in place, especially on American soil.

After all, according to the routine practice of the US police, once the illegal excavation is discovered, there is a high probability that the other party will shoot directly instead of arresting.

The last aspect is to make all legal preparations. The Fisher family in another world has experienced more than 100 lawsuits throughout the excavation process.

Of all the lawsuits, Mel's biggest legal dispute is over the ownership of the wreck of the Lady Atoka.Since 1975, the Fisher family has successively salvaged various cultural relics such as gold, silver, jewelry and coins.

While these shipwreck treasures brought wealth, they also plunged the Fisher family into a lengthy lawsuit with the US government.

The U.S. government and the Florida government are no longer satisfied with the previous agreement with Mel to donate 25% of the salvaged assets, and believe that these treasures should all belong to the government.At the same time, the Florida government also seized a large number of treasures.

In 1982, after nearly 8 years of unremitting efforts, Meier and his team finally won the appeal of the US Supreme Court.Court rules Fisher family has title to treasure from Lady Atoka and Santa Margarita shipwrecks

But the previous agreement with the government to donate 25 percent of the total value remains in place.Due to this decision, the legal ownership of the wreck's treasure has been complicated, but it has finally allowed them to continue salvage work on the wreck of the Atoka Lady.

Since there are lessons learned from the past, Liang En will naturally take precautions in this regard. Fortunately, he is stronger than the Fisher family in terms of personal connections and wealth, so it is not complicated to solve this problem.

It's just that it takes time to solve all the problems, so Liang En and the others simply found a place to store the cannon and returned to Dublin.

It's a pity that taking the raven with him this time was useless. The only good news was that Raven's mood improved a lot because he went out for a walk with him.

In the following period of time, Liang En began to contact his own network to prepare for the future ocean salvage, and of course, to participate in the succession ceremony of the future Duke.

To be honest, he had never met this Mr. Doris, who was about to become a duke.According to the butler Lubzon, his master has been in poor health, so he usually stays at his home most of the time.

So Liang En was also very curious about what kind of person this partner with whom he had a lot of contact with but he had never met before, and hoped to take this opportunity to get in touch.

Liang En and the others were very close to each other, so they were invited to London two days before the ceremony to visit this familiar stranger, Mr. Du Lisi.

"The other party's behavior is actually a kind of noble etiquette." On the way to London, Joan explained to Liang En the situation here from her own perspective.

"After all, the official ceremony is held in the church, and you can't enter the church because you don't believe in religion, but in this way, it's obviously a bit rude based on our relationship with the Earl."

"So as a compensation, it's a good idea to invite you to a private house as a guest, because it can express his importance and friendship to you."

"Ah, these are really troublesome." After listening to Joan of Arc's speech, Liang En smiled and said, "It seems that I may not be very used to this aspect of things, so I'll leave it to you."

"Of course, I am very willing." Jeanne nodded slightly, "It is my duty to handle these things for you, and I am happy to do so."

After leaving the airport, it was past two o'clock in the afternoon, and Liang En took the car sent by the butler Lubson to the Knightsbridge area in the west of central London.

Although the British duke was completely down and almost sold out all his family's properties, the Doris family was not this kind of shell nobles, and they also owned a lot of properties, such as the real estate in Knightsbridge.

The real estate owned by the Earl's family is a six-storey, 1260 square meter residence, which is only a stone's throw from Harrods department store and is one of the most expensive real estate in London.

It's an English Baroque building that shines brightly on the corner of Cadogan Square, and the house looks like a school or other Victorian charity.

At the same time, this is also a century-old building. The residence was built on the estate of the Cadogan family.First owned by Oscar Leslie Stephen, director of the Great Northern Railway in 1884, it is typical of the influx of luxurious new homes that have flooded around the square.

Soon, Liang En and the others came around this building and got off the car. After getting off the car, Liang En focused his attention on this ancient building.

It is a Victorian red brick building with a facade built around a central ledge structure with Dutch gables, while ornamental pilasters on the main upper level will continue to the hipped roof with arched brick chimneys.

Also carved on the outside reflecting the monarch's name are terracotta sculptural reliefs depicting King James VI of Scotland, who was later also King James I of England, and Mary.

After entering the room, Liang En confirmed that His Excellency the Earl had great taste in the maintenance and improvement of ancient buildings. He not only retained the ornate and other original features of the era, the huge stone fireplace and the grand staircase, but also maintained the ancient buildings. Also perfect.

Soon Liang En and the others followed the marble stairs to the second floor, and then met today's protagonist, Mr. Du Lisi, in a living room with old-fashioned mahogany paneling.

As the butler Lubzon said before, the earl and the future Duke, Mr. Doris, does not look very good now. He was helped out by the butler, and his weakness can be seen at a glance.

This was the reason why the earl hadn't met Liang En and the others before. After all, his health was not very good, so he stayed at home most of the time.

And this meeting can be regarded as the first face-to-face conversation between the two parties after working together for such a long time. Fortunately, because of the happy cooperation before, everyone chatted very speculatively.So when it was time for dinner, the earl invited Liang En and the others to have dinner.

(End of this chapter)