Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

Chapter 1110 Shipwreck in the Northern Song Dynasty

"Academician Li, it seems that the deep-sea trawl net of the fishing boat was entangled in the reef below. If the trawl net is disabled, the loss of the trip to sea will not be ordinary." Lu Guoqing took a look and said, "We want to go there Can you help me?"

"The deep-sea trawl net is very big, and there is nothing we can do if it gets entangled in the reef. Captain Dana said that the fish here are very abundant, and there have been many incidents of the trawl net getting entangled, but they still come over to lower the net, which shows that they are very capable. If you are greedy, you should be lucky enough to catch something. Since you are greedy, you must pay the price for your greed."

The Gu Yunxuan salvage ship was parked on the sea. Everyone stood on the bow and watched the fishing boat in the distance exert its strength. Suddenly the trawl net loosened, as if it was freed from the entanglement of the reef, and was smoothly pulled onto the fishing boat.

Sure enough, most of the fish in the trawl net escaped. Originally Li Mo was just looking, but his eyesight was extraordinary, and at a glance there seemed to be other things in the trawl.

The trawl net was hoisted by a crane, and the fish and dark oblong foreign objects caught in the net fell to the deck.

"What is it?" A crew member wanted to lift the one-meter-long foreign object. "It's a piece of wood, and it's quite heavy."

"It's bad luck. Throw away the wood. If the fishing net is broken, we must repair it immediately, otherwise it will be delayed for a long time."

One of the men shouted, and the crew member picked up the wood and threw it overboard.

Li Mo's heart moved slightly, and when he glanced at the strange pupils, the wood actually emitted an orange halo, which was darker in color. It was wood from the Song Dynasty, and it was still in the early days.

“Mr. Lu, fish out that piece of wood.”

"Okay, here we come." Lu Guoqing didn't think much, it was finally time for them to take action. Even though they were salvaging a piece of wood, they were still involved.

The wood was quickly placed in front of Li Mo. He knocked it with his hands and it was as hard as new. Then he asked Bronze Hammer to bring an ax and split it in half.

“Boss, what kind of wood is this? It’s quite difficult to split, but it hasn’t been corroded by the sea water yet.”

 “This is teak.”

A smile appeared at the corner of Li Mo's mouth. It seemed that there was no reef under the water, but a sunken ship. Otherwise, a section of it would not have been removed by the trawl, a bit like a ship's sail.

He stood up and walked to the side of the ship. With a sweep of his strange eyes, the dark seabed immediately became brighter. He saw a ship lying quietly on the seabed. From the appearance, it was about forty meters long and fifteen meters wide. Left and right, the overall hold is pretty good.

 It’s just that I may have been entangled in a deep-sea trawl just now, so there was shaking and the bottom of the sea was turbid.

The perspective gaze went deep again, and then the orange ocean world turned into an orange ocean world in front of me, with countless orange haloes complementing each other. He saw the piles of various porcelains and saw a scene that made him unbelievable.

 During the Song Dynasty, especially the Northern Song Dynasty, overseas trade was unprecedentedly prosperous, especially porcelain. Products from the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty were highly sought after by overseas countries due to their fine workmanship and elegant styles. Kaifeng official kiln and Yuezhou Ge kiln are located along the canal. Porcelain from other famous kilns such as Dingzhou Ding kiln, Ruzhou Ru kiln and Yuzhou Kai kiln is transported through the canal to Guangdi port and sold overseas.

Nowadays, if anyone in the collection world can bring out a piece of porcelain from the five major official kilns of the Song Dynasty, it will cause a sensation. But here, under the water of the South China Sea, there are an incalculable number of porcelain from the official kilns of the Song Dynasty. Even if it is porcelain from the sea, Each piece can easily exceed one million in the international auction market. If you encounter a rare model, it is no longer a legend to exceed one million.

The total value of the porcelain on this early Song Dynasty shipwreck was astonishing, and he also found a lot of lacquerware, ironware, and even goldware, silverware and some wood carvings.

Of course, silk and porcelain were mainly exported in the overseas trade of the Song Dynasty. The former could not withstand the corrosion of sea water and had long since disappeared.

 Li Mo Yitong has been scanning carefully. Countless schools of small sea fish are swimming around in the sunken ship of the Song Dynasty. Of course, there are also many larger sea fish around, but there are no dangerous sea fish.

“Boss, why do you think there is wood in this place?”

Tongchui asked, bringing Li Mo back to reality.

Li Mo smiled and said: "It seems that luck is always on our side. I guess there may be a sunken ship or something like that below. The deep-sea trawl net just happened to hook on the sunken ship. In all likelihood, that piece of wood is Some part of the sunken ship.”

 Lv Guoqing thought about it for a moment and realized that it was really possible.

“Academician Li, I will personally lead a team to search for it.”

"Okay, Mr. Lu, please arrange for a few people to go down together and bring all the equipment. Remember, safety is the most important, and everything else is secondary. Tell all brothers, as long as you confirm that there is a sunken ship under this sea area, Regardless of whether there is any sunken treasure on the sunken ship, I will immediately give everyone a bonus of 100,000."

Lu Guoqing turned around and shouted: "Brothers, you must have heard it. Twenty people come out first. We will act immediately and prepare to go into the sea to explore."

There were cheers on the deck. Lu Guoqing selected twenty people, and the rest helped them put on their equipment, and also carried shooting machines, lighting equipment and underwater auxiliary thrusters. People on the boat can directly follow the camera to see what is on the bottom of the sea.

 “Boss, when will we go to sea?”

Bronze Hammer came over and asked.

"Wait a minute. The fishing boat's trawl just now must have stirred up the silt on the seabed, so wait for the seabed to calm down for a while before going down. Then go and identify yourself with the people on the fishing boat and ask them not to carry out deep-sea trawling operations nearby for the time being. ."

"clear."

 All preparations were carried out for half an hour, and the propeller was hoisted down to float on the sea. Li Mo was observing the situation on the bottom of the sea at all times, and waited for more than ten minutes before turning back and saying, "Mr. Lu, be careful. I'll have someone prepare a celebration drink for everyone to welcome you back safely."

"Academician Li, you can rest assured that we are all covered." Lu Guoqing said proudly, and then waved his hand to the back, "Brothers, prepare to go to the sea."

 Twenty people were hoisted down by the crane, and then dived downward one by one with the help of auxiliary thrusters. They are all professionally trained and have experienced many underwater diving operations. The only difference is that this time they are in the South China Sea, far away from the port.

 But this time they are equipped with the latest and best equipment, and the safety performance has been increased several times, not to mention the auxiliary thrusters, which can greatly save their physical strength and dive time.

 “Is the lens clear?”

Li Mo walked up to a young man who was operating a tablet computer.

“Boss, the signal is normal, the light is strong, and the lens is very clear.”

Li Mo stood nearby and watched carefully. The sunken ship was about forty meters under the sea and could be easily reached by divers wearing the latest equipment.

A hundred meters away from Gu Yunxuan's salvage boat, the fishing boat was no longer operating. Some people were repairing the trawl net, while others were curiously looking at the huge salvage boat from a distance.

“Li Mo is really omnipotent. There is no place for him to show his potential on land anymore, so he actually went to the South China Sea to hunt for treasures.”

“Do you think there is really any sunken treasure under this sea?”

“We were careless. We had salvaged the piece of wood just now. Unexpectedly, we threw it away because our head was so hot, but he salvaged it again and used this to speculate that there was a sunken ship under the sea.”

"So what if we guess it? What if there really is a sunken treasure under the sea? Who of you would dare to go into the sea?" "That's right. We ordinary people can only look at the treasure and sigh. Okay, I'll go. Spread this news and stop other fishing boats from coming here. Once they come, they won’t be able to set off the nets, which is a waste of time and energy.”

The fishing boats quickly started to leave. This area will no longer be able to set nets for at least the next few months.

Li Mo looked at the real-time footage captured by the camera and asked, "Mr. Lu, did you hear that? I heard a thumbs up in front of the camera."

 Lv Guoqing gave a thumbs up.

“Mr. Lu, try swimming forward.”

The sunken ship was sixteen or seventeen meters in front of him. With the help of the propeller, Lu Guoqing advanced more than thirteen meters. Suddenly, under the light, a huge object appeared in front of the camera, lying there quietly.

“Everyone, be careful, there seems to be the outline of a sunken ship ahead.” Li Mo reminded, and saw Lu Guoqing slow down and finally approach the giant creature on the seabed. Countless sea fish were stimulated by the light and fled away one after another.

Only when the camera in front of the camera was completely quiet did everyone really see what it was.

 The people who stayed on the ship were all excited. It turned out to be a sunken ship, and it was extremely large.

“Mr. Lu, would you like to see if you can take pictures of the sunken ship from other angles? Then everyone will form a team and spread out to take pictures of the sunken ship from as many directions and angles as possible.”

Lu Guoqing began to change positions continuously according to Li Mo's instructions. Under the forty-meter ocean, twenty strong lights intersect from time to time.

The person operating the tablet computer on the deck kept switching the camera, allowing Li Mo to see the sunken ship from multiple angles.

 “Back to shot number four, yes.”

Li Mo looked at the switched camera, and then said: "No. 4, No. 4, dive about three meters below to see what's there?"

Salvager No. 4 followed the instructions and swam downward slowly, and a round thing appeared under the camera.

“No. 4, that round thing should be porcelain. Please carefully collect it and bring it up.”

Salvage officer No. 4 obeyed orders.

Currently, twenty salvagers are looking around the sunken ship. Judging from the lens analysis, the sunken ship from the early Song Dynasty is lying on the seabed at an angle of almost 40 degrees, and the overall condition is quite perfect. An astonishing amount of porcelain was stored inside the cabin, and of course a lot of it was scattered around when the boat capsized. After thousands of years of precipitation, the scattered porcelain has been buried deeply under the sea. Only Li Mo can accurately find and dig it out.

“Mr. Lu, can you try to find the entrance to the cabin?”

Lu Guoqing raised an OK sign in front of the camera, and then he and three other salvagers used propellers to swim while looking for the entrance.

“Mr. Lu, according to the structure of merchant ships in the Song Dynasty, can you find anything by swimming a few meters to the left?”

 It must have been discovered, the entrance to the cabin was found at once. Lu Guoqing slowly swam toward the entrance, then stood at the hatch of the ship and looked inside. Although it was covered with mud, he could still tell that the cabin was full of things, but he didn't know what they were.

“Beautiful, Mr. Lu, you can go back.”

Li Mo snapped his fingers and smiled at the people around him: "Everyone can have a drink at noon, and all kinds of seafood will be served."

Everyone jumped for joy. If the ship sank, there would be a bonus of 100,000 yuan, and it was very high, almost equal to their salary for nearly a year.

In order to counteract the impact of water pressure on the human body, people do not surface directly, but swim a certain distance upstream to adapt. Too fast a speed may affect the lungs.

 Half an hour later, the twenty people returned safely and returned to the deck via the crane.

"Mr. Lu, you have a great victory. Our first treasure hunt at sea went smoothly. When we have dinner, I will distribute bonuses to everyone. Come, help everyone to have a good rest first."

“Academician Li, this is the porcelain you asked me to bring back, intact.”

This is a bowl that has been cleaned. There are nails at the bottom to support the firing. The celadon glaze is light in color. The body of the bowl has large crisscross patterns. The fetal bones are made of porcelain clay with a high iron content, so the embryo is purple. Black, with unglazed feet and exposed iron bones, it is obviously different from other celadon porcelain of the same period.

“Academician Li, what dynasty is this bowl from?”

 Lv Guoqing took off his equipment and walked over and asked softly.

"Judging from the porcelain production technology, it dates from the early Song Dynasty. The address of the official kiln in the early Northern Song Dynasty was today's Kaifeng area. Kaifeng was also called Bianjing during the Northern Song Dynasty. However, due to several changes in the course of the Yellow River and floods in history, Bianjing in the Song Dynasty was submerged in the Under six meters of sand, there are no remains on the ground, making it difficult to conduct archaeological excavations. Therefore, the kiln site of the Northern Song Dynasty official kiln has never been found."

"Of course, historically, the Bianjing official kiln was mainly used by the palace. Its output was small and the firing time was short, so there were few handed down products. Even today, some people in the archaeological community deny its existence. This bowl has the remarkable characteristics of porcelain from that period. characteristics, so there will be no problem in identification, it’s just about which kiln the bowl came from.”

 The shipwreck of the Northern Song Dynasty also brought a piece of porcelain, which made everyone excited.

“I’m going to contact someone. You all have a good rest and wait until the marine archaeological experts arrive. That’s when you’ll be busiest.”

“Okay, Academician Li, go and get busy.”

 Li Mo walked into the cabin, turned on the satellite video call, and directly called Director Zhou of the Kyoto Institute of Marine Archeology.

The video call was quickly connected. Director Zhou was not in the office, but was having a meeting outside. Several familiar people appeared in the camera and waved to him.

"Sorry, Director Zhou, I didn't know you were in a meeting. I'll contact you later."

“Bye bye, Academician Li, I was able to get through and everyone else agreed. Is everything going well for you on your treasure hunt?”

 “Everything goes well, small gains are achieved.”

Director Zhou was stunned for a moment: "Is it possible that you really found the sunken treasure?"

"Hahaha, I have always been very lucky. I found a shipwreck from the Northern Song Dynasty in the South China Sea, and I also brought out a piece of porcelain from the ship. I will package and send you the video files captured under the sea later."

 (End of this chapter)