[I only updated one chapter yesterday, and try to update three chapters today]

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Wang Chenhao never expected that the treasure appraisal expert Qiao Zhiyuan introduced to him was actually a woman.

Qiao Yuying is Qiao Zhiyuan's youngest daughter. She helps Qiao Zhiyuan manage a treasure appraisal business in Shanghai and has excellent abilities. Qiao Zhiyuan explained to Wang Chenhao this way. Because Wang Chenhao is in a hurry, Qiao Zhiyuan can only have one night to contact other treasure appraisers in the mainland, so he asked Qiao Yuying for help on the spot.

Qiao Zhiyuan's explanation was reasonable, and Wang Chenhao couldn't tell him, so he had to order his maid to take Qiao Yuying on the boat and arrange to stay. As for whether she has the ability, she still has to wait a few days before she can tell.

Wang Chenhao's itinerary was very tight, and he had to salvage the treasures under the sea without delaying the main business. While talking to Qiao Zhiyuan, Wei Han and Li Jingchu came to see Wang Chenhao off. Wang Chenhao simply politely and set off for a while before leaving. As for Li Jingchu and Qiao Zhiyuan, they wrote off their grudges under the help of Wang Chenhao. They were grateful to Wang Chenhao and there was no need to explain in detail.

The fleet set sail. When passing through the Taiwan Strait, Wang Chenhao ordered people to put down the Jiaolong, and then he drove the Jiaolong to scan the seabed near the route. Due to detection technology, the treasures of the undersea shipwreck in this era were almost no treasure robbers.

Jiaolong is equipped with a domestic **k subsea detector, which is imitated by the product of the American Egg Company in the 1980s - the **s-960 subsea scanning system. This side sonar system that uses a computer to process subsea acoustic information can reach 100% coverage of the scanning area when detecting a shipwreck. However, Wang Chenhao did not have time to conduct a comprehensive scan of the entire Taiwan Strait, but he only roughly detected along the main channel near the route, and found a large number of shipwrecks with strong metal fluctuations.

Wang Chenhao marked the locations found that may contain treasures on the sea chart one by one, but he was not in a hurry to salvage them. Waiting for a sufficient time, he ordered his salvage team to carry out salvage. Because Wang Chenhao was in a tight schedule during this trip, he could only choose the key wrecks to carry out salvage. Wang Chenhao's targets were on the well-known Fuxiang, Taixing and Nanhai No. 1, and Huaguang Reef No. 1. The first two were ancient ships stolen by British treasure robber Hache and his gang. Nanhai No. 1 and Huaguang Reef No. 1 were discovered by the Chinese.

On January 25, Wang Chenhao's fleet arrived at the estuary of the Pearl River in Guangdong. Because Wang Chenhao knew the general location of Nanhai No. 1 and the advanced detection capabilities of Jiaolong, he soon found Nanhai No. 1 20 meters west of the Pearl River estuary, more than 30 nautical miles below the sea surface of Hailing Island in Yangjiang.

Nanhai No. 1 is covered with silt about 1 meter thick. As the iron items on the shipwreck undergo chemical reactions under seawater corrosion, the surrounding cultural relics, shells and sea mud gradually condense into one, making the surface of the shipwreck covered by large pieces of coagulation. It is precisely for this reason that nearby fishermen did not discover Nanhai No. 1, and the entire Nanhai No. 1, were still waiting quietly for excavation to be excavated.

There are a large number of gold, silver and antiques and jade artifacts from the Northern Song and Southern Song dynasties on the Nanhai No. 1. Because of its age, it is priceless. Wang Chenhao ordered all the team members on the Dibes to salvage them and require the treasures inside to be made as completely as possible.

The divers on Thebes quickly went down with the help of the Pangpu submersible and arranged a circle of soil and sand isolation belts around the wreck to prevent the surrounding sand from flowing backwards during excavation. At the same time, a 40-cm diameter water pipe was placed at the stern of the ship, and the water pipe went directly above the wreck position. As the motor sounded on the ship, the mud pumping machine quickly sucked out the mud that covered more than one meter of thick.

This work lasted for more than three hours, and finally it was about 30 meters long, nearly 10 meters wide, and more than 3 meters deep, the hull of Nanhai No. 1 was exposed. Although the shipwreck had been more than 800 years, the condensation of the hull preserved the porcelain inside very well.

The sixty divers on the Thebes were divided into three groups and excavated the three cabins of the wreck. Soon, one exquisite wrecking treasure after another was salvaged. Due to the huge number, it was not enough to use a 100 kilogram scratch at first. Wang Chenhao had limited time, so he approved the use of the largest 1-ton model scratch. The advantage of using a large scratch is that it is quick to salvage, and the disadvantage is that it is easy to damage the porcelain. However, there are nearly 150,000 cultural relics in Nanhai No. 1, and some damage does not affect the overall situation of the final auction.

The divers carried out salvage operations in a tight and orderly manner, and soon batches of shipwreck objects were salvaged. The team members on the deck were divided into arrays, washed the salvaged objects, and then filtered them into the warehouse according to the category.

The cultural relics carried by the No. 1 wreck of Nanhai are mainly porcelain, and are divided into several famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, including Longquan, Zhejiang, Dehua, Fujian, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, etc., with unique shapes and exquisite craftsmanship. Most of the cultural relics are intact and far from comparable porcelains unearthed on land. Most of them are very rare or even unique cultural relics.

Wang Chenhao was very much looking forward to the salvage results of the ship, so he went out to patrol everywhere. Li Guodong and a few personal soldiers accompanied him. The two girls Shishu and Siqi watched the shipwreck salvage for the first time, and they had already jumped and ran to watch.

"Sir, look at this bowl, it's different from the ones we've seen before. We're almost caught up with the imperial bowl that entered the palace."

Li Guodong had some knowledge of following Li Hongzhang before, but he only knew the basics.

Wang Chenhao took the porcelain bowl from Li Guodong and played with it. He knew that the No. 1 of Nanhai was a sunken ship in the Song Dynasty, so he pretended to be an appraisal before nodding and said, "This should be a porcelain from the Song Dynasty."

"My sir!" An old man next to him stood up, holding the same porcelain bowl, and said, "According to my inferring, these porcelain bowls should belong to the shadow celadon of the Song Dynasty."

The person who spoke was an antique appraisal master named Liang. There were five or six people next to him, both experts Wang Chenhao had just invited from the Guangzhou Xinchang Antiques Shop.

Master Liang said: "The shadow celadon bowl in Jingdezhen in the Song Dynasty was the royal family's royal property at that time, and the craftsmanship was lost during the Yuan Dynasty, so a bowl such as this was worth about 10,000 taels of silver."

Wang Chenhao was overjoyed when he heard this. One bowl was worth ten thousand taels of silver. There were at least five or six thousand such bowls on the shipwreck. Wouldn't it be a fortune?

When Wang Chenhao was happy, he suddenly heard a woman's voice coming from behind him.

"So my lord has already asked for another clever!"
Chapter completed!