The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Twenty minutes later, Zhang Nan was already standing on the original coastline, looking at the huge cofferdam in front of him, and stepping on the sand under his feet by the way.

"More than 90 years ago, a German accidentally discovered that this coastline has rich diamond resources, so he bought the mining rights for an entire tens of kilometers of coastline, and he made a fortune.

This originally had nothing but sand and fish in the sea. After mining and screening the diamonds, according to the currency value at the time, the annual profit exceeded 7 million pounds."

That was 7 million pounds at the beginning of the century. One pound is equivalent to 733 grams of gold, and 7 million pounds is more than 50 million grams of gold, which is equivalent to 50,000 kilograms and 50 tons!

This is a 50-year-old, bald, slightly blessed white man, the head of the mining exploration group here, his name is Polo.

"You are of German origin" Zhang Nan asked, turning around.

I know that this is a native of Namibia, and most of the white people here are of German origin.

"No, boss, I am Belgian."

Polo's expression was slightly serious, and he answered very formally, showing that he was quite proud of the nationality and ethnicity of his ancestors.

Unexpectedly, when he heard this, Zhang Nan looked at this one more and smiled.

What kind of hobbies the boss has, people around him know that even Guan Xingquan has a rare grin.

The Belgian detective Polo, who looks a lot in front of him, has seen a series of "Polo films" such as the tragedy on the Nile River, all of them are happy.

Well, Polo laughed himself, spreading his hands, and said "No way, coincidence, I can't trouble Agatha Christie."

Without rushing down the cofferdam, Zhang Nan bent down and squatted down, grabbed a handful of sand at random, stood up and spread it out to take a look.

Before this mine was abandoned more than 40 years ago, Zhang Nan's actions were absolutely forbidden to outsiders who came to this coastline. Before World War I, local miners were strictly prohibited from doing so!

In those days, miners who were not in the working state, even if their belongings were accidentally dropped, had to be reported to them before they could be picked up, otherwise they would be severely punished!

The sand is mixed with diamonds, and as the tide ebbs and flows, there will always be shining rough stones exposed on the surface of the beach.

Walk by, bend over, what are you doing

Today is different from the past, no accident, there are no eye-catching diamonds in the sand in Zhang Nan's hands.

This stretch of tens or hundreds of kilometers of coastline, as long as it is above the water, has been screened by previous miners how many times.

Throwing away the sand, patted his hand, and then the cofferdam was lowered.

On the side of the cofferdam near the sea, most of the wreckage of a wooden shipwreck was stripped out, and it was quite young.

With good luck, the personnel who were cleaning up found a small pile of gold coins, and the copper skin on the outside of the original cash box still remained.

Zhang Nan leaned over and took a look. The person on the side immediately handed over a bottle of mineral water to wash the sand particles standing above.

Among the clean-up personnel, there are already invited professional archeologists, and Mr. Polo seems to know some relevant knowledge.

Seeing that the boss seemed to be interested in this small pile of gold coins, he said, "The bronze revolving cannons discovered before have a typical Spanish and Portuguese style. Such small cannons are very common on ocean ships in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

The things previously found were in an abandoned town warehouse a few hundred yards away, and Zhang Nan didn't rush to look after getting off the plane.

The first scene is the most fun, the warehouse waits, don’t worry.

"The shape of this ship is also typical of Portugal.

Also, boss, we also found a large number of semi-circular copper ingots with clear trident marks on them.

At the beginning of the 16th century this mark belonged to the German bank and business family Jacob Fugger, who was the main raw material supplier for Portuguese coin minting.”

German Bank, the word "Germany" is not the name that came into being after Prussia unified Germany, it was there 500 years ago.

"We guess that this ship may belong to the famous Portuguese navigator Bartolomé Udias, whose expedition fleet disappeared near this area in 1500 AD!"

Mr. Polo talked eloquently, but Zhang Nan heard it and said, “A discovery is a good connection to a certain historical celebrity, but this ship does not belong to Dias.”

With that, he tossed the gold coin in his hand to Mr. Polo, which caused the latter to be in a hurry to receive it.

"This kind of gold coin knocking on the crown belongs to Portugal, but it won't appear until 1525. Dias died a bit early and couldn't close it."

After that, Zhang Nan has no more interest in this ship.

The same gold coins have been discovered before, but Polo and the professionals who have been invited to clean up can only judge that these gold coins are the products of Portugal four to five hundred years ago.

The inability to accurately identify the generations is not because the level is too bad, but the ancient coins of Portugal and Spain are too complicated, and there are too few people who can recognize them!

At this time, Zhang Nan said again, "This ship is well preserved, and the whole is cleaned up by archaeological methods. Anyway, it will not hinder the overall survey of the mining area in a short time.

Everything in the boat should be enough to open a museum. It's a pity that it's scattered and messed up. "

Keep it intact, as long as the seawater cannot decompose the items, there are all in the boat, and they are not washed away by the waves and currents.

After playing with the ancient western coins for so many years, I have read a lot and have more. Zhang Nan is already an expert in this field.

As for what gold coin

Even if it is a large Spanish treasure ship, it is like that in my own eyes, not to mention the small Portuguese cargo in front of me.

Thousands of gold coins, more silver coins, and a large number of copper ingots used to mint copper coins are a huge wealth for others, but not for Zhang Nan.

The interest in this ship is not as good as the sea outside the outer cofferdam.

Ascend the outer cofferdam, and the vast South Atlantic Ocean is ahead.

There was a company's boat nearby, and a little farther away, there was a navy ship more than fifty meters long.

And within a few nautical miles, you can still see several boats, large and small, seemingly fishing boats ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Seeing the boss, someone handed a binoculars, and Mr. Polo returned "Those are all fishing boats, and the larger ones should belong to the newly established fishing companies under the group."

Namibia is rich in marine fishery resources, and the neighboring South Africa, along the more than 2,000 kilometers of offshore waters in the South Atlantic, is the most famous fishing ground in the southern hemisphere!

Last year, driven by the company, the marine fishing industry has become Namibia’s second largest export and third-largest contribution rate.

Resources at the door cannot be cheap to outsiders. Namibia also declared an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles last year.

Not only submarine mineral deposits, but also fisheries, offshore fishing vessels of foreign companies are not allowed to enter the exclusive economic zone to fish without permission.

As for that small warship, which belongs to the Namibian Navy and was listed at the end of last year, it was not because the king of Africa came, it was originally on patrol missions.

It was a Type 89 ocean-going minesweeper originally from East Germany. It was a little one less than 400 tons. It could only be called a boat, but it had a range of 2,000 nautical miles, so it became a ship.

There were 14 ships built in the first class. After the merger of the two Germanys, they were sold at a big price by the Federal Republic of Germany.

You're welcome, Sunshine and Stars ate most of it.

The minesweeping function is not very useful, and there are only six 25mm double-barreled autocannons. Compared with larger ships, its firepower is weak enough, but its fuel-consuming diesel engine plus low operating cost and good In terms of ship conditions, after part of the air-conditioning system has been modified, it is really appropriate to take the African coast as a patrol ship.

Not to mention that these small and medium-sized ships built by East Germany are exquisite in craftsmanship. As long as they are properly maintained, they will serve for another 30 years.

The firepower is weak and weak, but it is enough to deal with the illegal intrusion of the fishing boats!