Only then did everyone realize that shipwrecks turned out to be so valuable.
In particular, some people are already thinking, can they dig out some sunken ships themselves?
Some knowledgeable people know the value of Nanhai No. 1.
Some cultural relic experts also know that Nanhai No. 1 has no research value.
The value of cultural relics on the market is more than 2 trillion.
This is still a rough estimate.
You can imagine how valuable this is.
It’s just that salvaging the sunken ship is not as simple as everyone thinks.
It is even more impossible to make profit without having to pay for it.
Because if you want to salvage a sunken ship, you must first find the sunken ship before you can salvage it.
The process of searching is even more of a technical job.
Otherwise, Nanhai No. 1 would not have been discovered for so long.
This requires advanced sonar and radar exploration.
Looking for a sunken ship in the sea is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This requires personnel and equipment.
You may end up with nothing, as there is no guarantee that you will find the sunken ship.
If not found, your personnel expenses your boat maintenance and fuel costs.
These are all losses, only expenditures but no income.
Even after you find the boat, you still need to salvage it.
Salvage is also a technical job.
After salvaging, you can't confirm whether the ship is worth anything.
It is possible that a worthless ship was salvaged.
For example, if an empty ship sinks, then the ship has no value.
Things like Nanhai No. 1 that are fully loaded for trading are the most valuable.
If the boat you salvage is worth nothing.
You may not even be able to earn back the salary of the hire and the fuel cost of the ship.
The only thing waiting for you is bankruptcy.
So not everyone can make this kind of money.
Professor Zhou knew very well that "after the Nanhai No. 1 was salvaged."
"It was of great significance for our country to understand the history of the Song Dynasty."
"It's just that if you want to make a fortune by salvaging sunken ships, it's not a simple matter."
"It's like robbing tombs. You at least need to know where there are sunken ships."
Actually There are many things in the sea.
Just like several nuclear bombs in the United States, they were lost in the sea.
Not found yet.
Si Xiaoping was relieved to see Ye Zhen appear on the screen on time.
Lao Wu almost couldn't breathe after reading the news on the Internet.
Old Wu was wondering if Ye Zhen ran away with his magnetic stone?
After all, it is a rejuvenating artifact! Who wouldn’t covet it?
But now after seeing Ye Zhen appear on the screen again, Old Wu found that he was thinking too much.
"Nanhai No. 1, I almost joined this archaeological team."
"It's just that I was busy with something, so I didn't join."
Yan Xin教授也看到了叶真，只不过他看到叶真今天的背景。
和以前节目播出的地方不一样。
虽然只是很小的细节，可是现在颜新教授已经是一名灵能者。
All aspects have been improved, whether it is observation, smell or hearing.
"The studio has been renovated?" Professor Yan Xin ignored this small change.
“There are indeed all kinds of incredible things in the sea.”
“According to what Mr. Ye said before, exploring the sea is more difficult than going into space.”
“ We have so many super-ancient civilization sites on the ground.”
"This is still preserved."
"Similarly, in the sea that occupies 70% of Blue Star, are there more super-ancient civilization sites?"
Yan Xin The professor was right.
If there are still super ancient civilization sites in the world, the sea is one of them.
What treasure is more valuable than discovering the ruins of a super-ancient civilization?
Ye Zhen gave everyone an example here.
“You may think that Nanhai No. 1 is a national archaeological project.
But personally, I have also discovered similar shipwrecks.
I have to mention it here Here comes the Taixing that sank in Indonesia. This is a shipwreck from the Qing Dynasty.
Everyone knows that during the Qing Dynasty, our country implemented a policy of isolation.
But not the whole country is closed.
There is a place that is still open to foreign trade.
This place is now Yangcheng, the original Shisanhang.
We continued to carry out various trade and exchanges with foreign countries.
The Taixing is one of the Qing Dynasty merchant ships.
From our country to Java and other places.
It is 50 meters long, 10 meters wide and weighs more than 1,000 tons. January 1822.
That is, it set off from the port in the second year of Daoguang.
But unfortunately it sank on the way.
Until May 1999, it was salvaged from the water by an Australian marine company.
And 350,000 pieces of Qing Dynasty porcelain were recovered.
Most of these porcelains are blue and white porcelain produced in Dehua in the 18th and early 19th centuries for export to the Asian market. They are mainly blue and white plates, bowls, cups, saucers, jars, tureens and other daily-use porcelain.
This company can be said to have become rich overnight.
Their company put some of the blue and white porcelain at auction.
A total of 72 collections were auctioned.
This is only a very small part of it.
This batch of things alone was worth over 100 million yuan in 2000.
That was hundreds of millions of dollars in 2000.
In Taixing Hao, there are countless blue and white porcelains like this.
As you can imagine, how much is this ship worth?
There were some patriotic overseas Chinese at the beginning.
I spent a lot of money to buy back some of them and donated them to the country.
It was put on display in a museum by the country.
But what about the other objects?
These foreigners also know that rare things are more valuable.
They smashed some of the porcelain they salvaged.
Because they felt it was worthless, many intact porcelains were destroyed like this.
The purpose is to sell it at a good price. "
Hearing this, any Chinese person feels like his fist is hardened.
"Are these foreigners human beings? ”
"You are really not a human being, they are all cultural relics!"
"Why did they find it?"
"Isn't that something that belongs to our country?"
But internationally, sunken ships are ownerless things.
That was something from the Qing Dynasty, and it belongs to whoever salvages it.
So if they deal with it this way, there is really nothing they can do against them.
It’s just that Indonesian officials didn’t know it at the time.
These foreigners made fake salvage certificates to deceive the local officials.
But you can't condemn others.
On the one hand, if it weren’t for this foreigner, no one would have discovered the sunken ship of the Taixing.
No one can see so many blue and white porcelains reappearing in the world.
In fact, the international community still encourages the public to participate more in the archeology and discovery of these underwater cultural relics.
Because only in this way can more precious cultural relics be brought to light.
However, the foreigners who salvaged the Taixing did receive huge rewards from this.
But the porcelain they broke and salvaged was really too disrespectful.
But some foreigners think this is very normal.
Because the law does not prohibit it, no one will be punished at all.
Because these people are used to being robbers.
Don’t say they salvaged it themselves.
Even the cultural relics they looted from other countries back then, they could be shameless and not return them to others.
For example, some cultural relics from ancient Egypt, such as obelisks.
Almost all of Europe has used these things and stolen them directly into their own countries.
There are also Buddhist statues and murals from the Wei and Jin Dynasties in my country, which were cut up and stolen back by the foreign powers.
It is displayed grandly in their museum.
They don’t think there’s anything wrong with salvaging the sunken ship and breaking the porcelain. (End of chapter)