Chapter 19 Boutique Cabin
Xia Yu also sighed, "The pollution in the sea is actually quite large now. Heavy metals, microplastics, and various chemical pollutants were finally discharged into the sea. After raising the space for a period of time, I don't know if it has been purified."
"Pollution is global, there is no way, so let's take care of ourselves first. No matter what, it's delicious." Xia Mingguang said, which was quite a bit like "abandoned" with Xia Yu.
Xia Yu nodded, "The ancients often said that if you are poor, you will be able to keep yourself alone, and if you are prosperous, you will be able to help the world. We must inherit this fine tradition."
Xia Mingguang himself has a low level of education and has suffered a lot of losses from being uneducated, but he can still understand what Xia Yu said, "Just be ambitious!"
For example, when fishermen went fishing and fishing to fish in the sea, they first found porcelain, bowls, plates, etc., they did not recognize their value at first and did not take it seriously. It was not until later that a cultural relic dealer came up to buy it at a low price, or the relevant departments came up to recover it, and they slowly understood it.
Although Xia Yu was young at that time, he realized the value of the treasures buried by these wrecks early on. The father and son did not tell anyone about the wrecks found on Shigui Island. Unlike other fishermen, they spread the news when they were bragging or chatting.
The earliest discoverers of this type of shipwreck were basically fishermen, who accidentally salvaged porcelain while fishing.
After all, the sea is so big and there is no exact information, finding a shipwreck is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. Even under the guidance of fishermen, using high-tech equipment such as sonar detectors and other high-tech equipment is not that easy to find the exact location of the shipwreck.
After lunch break, Xia Yu continued to dive, and it was already cloudy. Xia Mingguang also asked him to bring a communicator so that he could maintain communication at any time and return immediately after the wind and waves.
Xia Yu nodded and agreed, and began to salvage the new cabin in the afternoon. He now put all the cabin partitions into the space.
He also looks forward to upgrading his abilities in the future. Just like the country used to salvage the Southern Song Dynasty shipwreck, it would be all included in space. It would be too convenient to deal with it, and it would be unaware of it.
However, there is still a long distance from such ability.
Xia Yu even felt that no matter how much he exercised his mental power, he could not upgrade or evolve to such a level of absurdity in the collection ability. A greater possibility was to allow the "body" to absorb more bronze cauldrons to have hope.
He has been doing it all the time to exercise his mental strength, and this will be it.
He didn't dare to be careless, it would be a real sin to break the porcelain.
As for the shipwreck itself, he is now very knowledgeable and remembered, which is similar to not forgetting it all, and has surveyed many times. After extracting all the things in the shipwreck, it is not a problem to restore the shipwreck itself.
In this cabin, Xia Yu made a discovery that surprised and even excited him.
The porcelain inside is also filled with wooden barrels, with more mud and sand, not as dense as the previous cabins. It is not like the cabins where tea leaves were used to have better wood quality, but these wooden barrels are well preserved and have not completely rotted.
First, collect the mud and sand around the wood into the space, and then use each wooden barrel as unit, together with a little mud and porcelain inside, to put it in the space. With wooden barrels, Xia Yu's extraction operation is more convenient and efficient.
What excited him the most was that there were very high-quality porcelain inside, which was also the main reason why he divided the ship into the Yongzheng period. Because the porcelain in the wooden barrel was fired during the Yongzheng period, the workmanship was exquisite and the painting was exquisite. Compared with Kangxi blue and white porcelain, it would be more elegant and elegant, and the overall quality was one level higher.
In the second barrel, Xia Yu saw the unique blue and white porcelain of the Yongzheng year.
This kind of porcelain is particularly precious because it is called "reborn porcelain" because it is very thin and light, just like there is no porcelain body. The total thickness of the body glaze is less than one millimeter, and it is as thin as paper. If he didn't see it with his own eyes, he would be a little unbelievable that there is such exquisite porcelain.
Such complete blue and white porcelains are probably difficult to see in the past, especially the Yongzheng Dynasty's porcelain is famous for its exquisiteness, but the Yongzheng Dynasty only lasted for thirteen years, and the number of porcelains in the world was very rare.
The reason why Xia Yu knew this was because he had a lot of research on shipwreck treasures. In the sea surrounding the Chinese Sea, there were shipwrecks from almost all dynasties. Since the 1980s and 1990s, Annan Kingdom, which has joined hands with Western countries to excavate a considerable number of shipwrecks in the South China Sea underwater archaeology.
In this way, Annan Kingdom had salvaged the porcelain from the Yongzheng period and was auctioned. However, Xia Yu had not seen what the real porcelain looked like before, but only in the images and written records. The blue and white porcelain he had salvaged around the shipwreck with the "Made in the Yongzheng Period of the Qing Dynasty" printed on it was not the porcelain.
From this, Xia Yu concluded that this was a boutique cabin specializing in storing fine porcelain, which should be the most valuable of the entire ship.
Restraining his joyful mood, his underwater operations were still as accurate and steady as ever. Such fine porcelains could not be missed.
Moreover, as he knew, the preservation of porcelain and other things on this shipwreck was much better than that of the shipwreck during the Yongzheng period when Anguo excavated.
However, it seems that the number of porcelain on this ship is not that large, and the Portuguese ships a lot of tea. And so far, Xia Yu has not seen any gold, silver, jewelry, or even the traces of copper coins. I don’t know if it is in other cabins or there is no such thing as it is.
Of course he didn't want it to be the latter. You should know that among all the treasures of shipwrecks, the easiest thing to do is hard currency - gold! There are many ways to do gold, and you can even make it melt before taking action.
Silver is not that valuable now, and copper coins are similar. Once you find that the quantity is basically quite large. As a widely circulated currency, the probability of producing special quality is not high.
After more than three hours of underwater operation, Xia Yu finally collected all the cultural relics in the cabin into the space.
The overall number of porcelain in this cabin is not large, and he did not count the specific number because most of them are contained in wooden barrels. Unfortunately, the porcelain that was not loaded into wooden barrels is not so well preserved, and some of them have traces of bumps or even broken into several pieces, which made him feel very distressed.
There are other tin cans and porcelain cans that are still tightly sealed. I don’t know if there is tea inside. He has no extra mental power to see through the situation inside.
Then there is a batch of high-end purple clay teapots, which are also goods that many merchant ships often sell.
Chapter completed!