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Only then did everyone realize that shipwrecks were so valuable.

In particular, some people are already wondering whether they can dig up some shipwrecks themselves?

Some knowledgeable people know the value of Nanhai No. 1.

Some cultural relics experts also know that Nanhai No. 1 has no research value.

Just the value of cultural relics on the market is over two trillion yuan.

This is just a rough estimate.

It is conceivable how great the value here is.

However, salvaging a shipwreck is not as simple as everyone thinks.

Making profit without any investment is even more impossible.

Because if you want to salvage a shipwreck, you must first find the shipwreck before you can salvage it.

The search process is even more of a technical job.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have taken so long for Nanhai No. 1 to be discovered.

This requires advanced sonar and radar exploration.

Looking for a sunken ship in the ocean is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.

This requires personnel and equipment.

There is a possibility that you will end up with nothing because there is no guarantee that you will find the shipwreck.

If none is found, your crew incurs the expense of maintaining your boat and fuel.

These are all losses, only expenses and no income.

Even after you find the ship, you still need to salvage it.

Salvage is a technical job.

After salvaging, you cannot confirm whether the ship is valuable.

It is possible that a worthless ship was salvaged.

For example, if an empty ship sinks, then the ship has no value.

Ships like the Nanhai No. 1, which are fully loaded for trading, are the most valuable.

If you salvage a boat it's worthless.

You may not even be able to earn back the wages of your employees and the fuel costs of your ship.

In this case, bankruptcy is the only thing waiting for you.

So not everyone can make this kind of money.

Professor Zhou is very clear, "After the Nanhai No. 1 was salvaged."

"It is of great significance for our country to understand the history of the Song Dynasty."

"But if you want to make a fortune by salvaging sunken ships, it's not an easy thing."

"It's like tomb robbing. You at least need to know where the shipwreck is."

In fact, there are many things in the sea.

Just like several US nuclear bombs lost in the ocean.

It has not been found yet.

Si Xiaoping was also relieved when he saw Ye Zhen appear on the screen on time.

After reading the news on the Internet, Old Wu almost couldn't breathe.

Old Wu was wondering if Ye Zhen had run away with his magnetite?
After all, it is a magical item that can restore youth! Who wouldn't covet it?

But now that he saw Ye Zhen appear on the screen again, Old Wu realized that he had been overthinking.

"Nanhai No. 1, I almost joined this archaeological team."

"It's just that I was busy with other things at the time, so I didn't join."

Professor Yan Xin also saw Ye Zhen, but he saw Ye Zhen’s background today.

It’s different from where the show was previously broadcast.

Although it is just a small detail, Professor Yan Xin is now a psychic.

There has been improvement in all aspects, whether it is observation, smell or hearing.

"The studio has been renovated?" Professor Yan Xin ignored the subtle changes.

“There are indeed all kinds of incredible things in the sea.”

"According to what Mr. Ye said before, exploring the ocean is more difficult than going into space."

"We have so many ultra-ancient civilization ruins on the ground."

“This is what remains.”

"Similarly, in the ocean that occupies 70% of the Blue Planet, are there more ruins of super-ancient civilizations?"

Professor Yan Xin was right.

If there are still relics of super ancient civilizations in the world, the sea is one of them.

What treasure could be more valuable than discovering the remains of a super ancient civilization?

Ye Zhen gives you an example here.

“You might think that Nanhai No. 1 is a national-level archaeological project.

But personally, I have also discovered similar shipwrecks.

Here we have to mention the Taixing, which sank in Indonesia. This is a shipwreck from the Qing Dynasty.

Everyone knows that during the Qing Dynasty, my country implemented a policy of seclusion.

But not the entire country is closed.

There is a place that is still open to foreign trade.

This place is today's Yangcheng, the former Thirteen Factories.

We continued to maintain various trade and exchanges with foreign countries.

Taixing was one of those Qing Dynasty merchant ships.

From our country to Java and other places.

船长50米，宽10米，重1000多吨。1822年1月。

That is, it set out from the port in the second year of Daoguang.

But unfortunately it sank on the way.

It was not until May 1999 that it was salvaged by an Australian marine company.

And 35 pieces of Qing Dynasty porcelain were salvaged.

Most of these porcelains are blue and white porcelains produced in Dehua in the 18th and early 19th centuries for export to the Asian market. They are mainly daily-use porcelains such as blue and white plates, bowls, cups, saucers, jars, and covered bowls.

This company can be said to have become rich overnight.

Their company put some of the blue and white porcelain up for auction.

A total of 72 pieces of collection were auctioned.

This is just a small part of it.

This batch of items alone was worth over 2000 million RMB in .

That was over 2000 million yuan in .

And in Taixinghao, there are countless such blue and white porcelains.

It is conceivable how much this ship is worth.
There were some patriotic overseas Chinese at that time.

We 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 state.

But what about the rest of the objects?

These foreigners also know that scarcity makes things valuable.

They simply smashed some of the porcelain that they had salvaged.

Because they thought they were not valuable, they destroyed many intact porcelain pieces.

The purpose is to sell it at a good price.”

Hearing this, every Chinese person would feel tough.

“Are these foreigners human beings?”

"You really are not worthy of being called a human being. Those are all cultural relics!"

"Why did they have to find it?"

"Isn't that something that belongs to our country?"

But in the international community, shipwrecks are considered ownerless.

Those are things from the Qing Dynasty. Whoever salvages them owns them.

So they deal with it this way, and there's really no way to deal with them.

But the Indonesian officials didn't know it at the time.

These foreigners made fake salvage certificates and deceived local officials.

But you can't condemn others either.

On the one hand, if it weren’t for this foreigner, no one would have discovered the Taixing shipwreck.

No one has ever seen so many blue and white porcelains reappear in the world.

In fact, the international community still encourages the public to participate more in the archaeology and discovery of these underwater cultural relics.

Because this is the only way to allow more precious cultural relics to see the light of day again.

However, the foreigners who salvaged the Taixing did receive generous rewards from it.

However, it was really inhumane for them to smash the porcelain that was salvaged.

It's just that some foreigners think this is very normal.

Because the law does not prohibit it, no one will be punished.

Because these people are used to being robbers.

Don't say they salvaged it themselves.

Even if it was the cultural relics they looted from other countries in the past, they could shamelessly not return them to others.

For example, some cultural relics in ancient Egypt, obelisks and the like.

Almost all of Europe has done these things, stealing them directly into their own countries.

There were also Buddha statues and murals from the Wei and Jin dynasties in my country that were directly cut up and stolen by the foreign powers.

Displayed openly in their museum.

They would not think there is anything wrong with salvaging a sunken ship and breaking porcelain. (End of this chapter)