So a robber is a robber.
But that’s what these foreigners are like.
The English name of our country translates to porcelain.
In the eyes of foreigners, we are the representatives of porcelain.
Porcelain is not only valuable in our country, but also priceless abroad.
Ye Zhen announced the name of this foreigner.
Actually, if you know anything about it, everyone knows it internationally.
“The name of this foreigner is Hatcher.
He is a world-famous salvageman of marine treasures.
How did Hatcher make his fortune?
一开始其实他开的公司是一家废品回收公司。
Specializes in salvaging some artillery shells and rubber that were left on the seabed during World War II.
There are also some sunk ships and merchant ships during World War II.
Just remove the metal above and recycle it as scrap.
That's exactly what Hatcher's company did back then.
But since he was a child, Hatcher has had a dream of treasure hunting.
Just like those families who were looking for the Golden City and Atlantis. ”
Speaking of this, some adventurous families who have volunteered to find Atlantis.
Have indeed come into contact with Hatcher.
Because internationally, He is also a famous treasure salvage expert
They have also collaborated before.
It’s just that Hatcher’s reputation was not very good later.
The rest of the people rarely interact with him.
“By chance, Hatcher learned a piece of news.
It was said that fishermen in the Philippines found some fragments of porcelain on the seabed.
It was still the 1970s of the last century.
Hatcher was very keenly aware of the unusualness of this time.
If for others, it is just an accidental news.
Hatcher then began to study my country’s ancient shipping and Maritime Silk Road.
There are also various routes and records of ancient maritime trade.
Sure enough, Hatcher finally discovered a sunken ship from the Ming Dynasty.
On this sunken ship alone there are 20,000 pieces of Ming blue and white.
Hatcher took some of the porcelain to England.
This batch of porcelain earned Hatcher millions of pounds.
That was the pound in the 1970s.
Hatcher had no idea that these porcelains were so valuable before this.
After earning his first pot of gold, Hatcher fell in love with this feeling completely.
He also hired many archaeologists and historians.
The purpose is to study Chinese shipwrecks from ancient books.
Hatcher already had a salvage team, and now he has his first pot of gold.
Sure enough, Hatcher's team discovered a second sunken ship.
That was a ship departing from Thirteen Lines.
One ship set off from Yangcheng in 1752, during the Qianlong period.
Merchant ships loaded with various Chinese goods, including various porcelain, silk, tea, wood, gold bars, etc.
Unfortunately, this merchant ship sailed for 16 days.
Before reaching its destination of Amsterdam, it accidentally hit a rock and sank.
This merchant ship from the Qianlong period became Hatcher's second target.
After more than two months, Hatcher and the others finally figured out the route and the location of the sunken ship.
This time he salvaged more than 200,000 pieces of porcelain, 45 kilograms of gold ingots, and two bronze cannons.
Finally, these things were secretly dragged to the high seas for a year.
He claimed it as his own on the grounds that no one claimed it.
Because of the international convention, sunken ships that are unclaimed within one year can be legally auctioned.
Hatcher took advantage of such a loophole.
It was the 1980s.
Our country has also received news that the official plans to buy back some of our country's cultural relics.
So he sent someone to bring 30,000 US dollars to a local auction.
But in that auction, there was nothing with a starting price lower than thirty thousand US dollars. In the end, Hatcher earned more than 20 million US dollars.
It was this time that made Hatcher famous in one battle.
Became the most famous and richest salvager in the world at that time.
Then there is the story of the Taixing that I just told you. ”
After hearing about Hatcher's fortune-making process, I have to say that it is very enviable.
In fact, many people wanted to imitate Hatcher back then.
Want to make a fortune in the ocean.
Unfortunately, they don’t have Hatcher’s professional team and luck.
It is said that in his 40 years of salvage career, Hatcher has salvaged more than 80 sunken ships.
It can be said that there are countless profits.
Why does Ye Zhen want to tell this story?
Ye Zhen said calmly, "Everyone knows now how many treasures there are in the sea.
Hacher and his team once discovered a strange thing in the seabed.
You must know that Hatcher's salvage team can be said to be one of the most experienced personnel in the world
While they were searching for an ancient shipwreck.
I accidentally discovered that there are other things in a certain seabed.
They generally rely on tools such as sonar to explore the seabed.
Undersea sonar and radar show that there is a disc-shaped thing on the seabed.
The diameter is about sixty meters and the height is about eight meters.
Such a thing appeared very suddenly under the sea.
Their crew members were very curious at that time, what on earth was this.
Why does it look like a tree stump? I have never seen anything like this before.
And it’s not deep, just about a hundred meters deep.
When the crew on the ship saw this thing, they immediately thought of it.
Could this be USO? That is, a flying saucer under the sea.
In terms of appearance, it looks very much like a flying saucer.
This incident quickly attracted the attention of the local media.
Said they found a UFO under the sea. ”
After everyone saw this, they felt that something was wrong.
"Is there really a submarine spaceship that has been stranded?"
"This guy named Hatcher must be too lucky."
"How come I haven't found anything? Well, I have never picked up five cents since I was a child.”
The local media soon reported this incident.
It was still 2001.
Not only the local media, but also the world's attention is focused on this.
I think they discovered something extraordinary.
This can be considered a great discovery of the century.
Some people asked, could it be a shipwreck?
But no one has ever seen a round ship.
At the beginning, some people also said, could this be the legendary Noah's Ark?
Later a geologist came out and said.
I thought it was something, but it was just a naturally formed terrain.
Not worth paying attention to.
But Hatcher’s staff firmly believe that this is not a natural formation at all.
Because according to their sonar detection, this thing is very smooth.
The curvature of the edge does not appear to be natural.
In fact, it is very simple. I want to know what is under the sea.
Just dive down and take a look and you will know
After all, it is not deep, just a hundred meters.
For frogmen with extensive diving experience.
This is far from their limit.
But in this sea area, we are in that kind of dangerous zone.
Even skilled divers have trouble going down.
After all, the sea is a place where you will lose your life if you are not careful. (End of chapter)