Chapter 153 The Lost Treasure
After confirming that it was Zheng He's treasure ship, Mr. Gu and others did not hide it, but instead expose the news to the media. Moreover, he also said that the credit for Zheng He's treasure ship was Xiao Hai's.
In fact, it is indeed the case. Without Xiao Hai's information, I don't know how long it will take to lie on the bottom of the sea before it can be discovered.
Xiao Hai gave them free news, but he didn't want anything and got nothing.
If you don’t give this credit to others, it’s really unreasonable. In the future, they would not have the face to cooperate with Xiao Hai again.
So, after the news was exposed, another media found Xiao Hai and wanted to interview Xiao Hai.
"I just provide information that is not worth mentioning. Mr. Gu is polite. How can this credit be considered on me? That is the efforts of the entire country's underwater archaeological team, not me alone..." Xiao Hai casually dealt with the media that came to him.
To this end, the number of netizens following Xiao Hai’s live broadcast room has increased a lot.
Xiao Hai does not have Weibo or something. If netizens want to know him, they can only use the live broadcast platform. Therefore, even if he does not have live broadcasts online, the number of followers is still increasing.
This is an unexpected surprise.
As the archaeological team digs deeper, the cultural relics on the treasure ship were cleaned up on the same day. Those porcelains and the like were preserved quite well.
What made them happy was that they actually got two bronze ware.
"Bronze ware? This is nothing strange, right?" Xiao Hai couldn't help but say.
Professor Wang from the archaeological team smiled and said, "That's not an ordinary bronze ware. According to preliminary identification, it is the famous Xuande Furnace in history."
After saying that, he saw that Xiao Hai had no expression of surprise on his face. Yes! Professor Wang understood that this kid had never heard of Xuande Fu at all, right? He was just a rookie about cultural relics and antiques.
But I can't say that. When Xiao Hai heard about Xuande Furnace, he learned through the system in his mind that all the information about Xuande Furnace was actually a lost treasure.
When he was looking up the information provided by the system, Professor Wang explained to him.
Xuande Furnace is a copper incense burner designed and supervised by Zhu Zhanji, the Ming Dynasty, in the third year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty. It is abbreviated as "Xuan Furnace". It is the first copper ware made of wind-ground copper in Chinese history.
In order to make a fine copper furnace, under Zhu Zhanji's personal supervision, the entire production process, including copper smelting, must be selected from classics such as "Xuanhe Bo Ancient Pictures" and "Archaeological Pictures" and hundreds of famous Song and Yuan kilns secretly collected by the Inner Palace. The shapes are appropriate and elegant, and the patterns are drawn into patterns and presented to them for personal reading. The source of the picture and the source of the allusions are explained. After screening and determining, they are cast into physical samples for their viewing. After being satisfied, they are cast accurately.
In addition to copper, this kind of treasure is also added with precious materials such as gold and silver, so the furnace is particularly delicate, dark purple or dark brown. Generally, the furnace material must be refined four times, while the Xuande furnace must be refined twelve times, so the furnace quality will be more pure, such as baby's skin. The Xuande furnace with gilded or gold-embedded sheets shines golden, which can give people an extraordinary feeling.
Those who know this treasure will know that the most wonderful thing about Xuande Furnace lies in its color, which blends in color and emits strange light from dullness. Historical materials record more than forty colors and are loved by the world.
If the Xuande furnace is placed on the fire for a long time, the colors will be brilliant and changeable. If it is placed on the fire for a long time, even if it is thrown into the sludge and wiped away the sludge, it will be the same as before.
Unfortunately, this method of casting this treasure was soon lost.
Not only were the casting methods lost, but hundreds of Xuande furnaces experienced wars and other factors, by the Qing Dynasty, there was no one that had been passed down from generation to generation, and all disappeared.
Before this, there was no real Xuande furnace. The "Xuande furnace" on the market or in museums were almost all imitated by later generations.
From the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, antique merchants imitated Xuande furnaces and activities have never stopped.
It is said that just after the Xuande furnace stopped manufacturing, some officials in charge of "Casting" summoned the original furnace casting craftsmen and imitated them according to the drawings and process procedures of the Xuande furnace. These carefully casted imitations can be compared with the authentic ones, and the experts cannot distinguish them.
To date, none of the Xuande furnaces collected in major museums in China can be recognized by many appraisers as real Xuande furnaces. Identifying the authenticity of Xuande furnaces has become one of the "unexpected cases" in Chinese archaeology.
"That's really congratulations." After Xiao Hai learned about it, he was also happy for the archaeological team.
No matter how you say the lost national treasure is, it is an exciting thing.
"Because of this, Mr. Gu specially called me and told me to thank you very much. When the matter on his side is over, he will come to Shaxin Island in person." Professor Wang told Xiao Hai.
Xiao Hai was amused and crying: "Old Gu is too exaggerated, right?"
Professor Wang shook his head slightly, not thinking that there was anything wrong with this. Only Xiao Hai himself didn't know the importance of his underwater archaeological team. It was really nothing wrong with Mr. Gu's visit in person, it was too normal.
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Coincidentally, one day later, a day later, some high sea near Japan's North Pacific Ocean, three salvage ships formed a triangular array and parked on the sea surface.
"All those who want to go into the water are ready." A person in charge spoke on the boat.
They are all from Linghai salvage company. Although Mr. Jiang did not follow him for this salvage, it does not mean that he doesn't care. Any discovery is required to report to him in time.
After a group of professional divers dressed up their equipment, they jumped into the sea under the command of their leaders and slowly dived into the seabed.
According to the information provided by Xiao Hai, there is an ancient merchant ship carrying porcelain and silver underneath. The depth of more than 400 meters is a great challenge for many professional divers.
Without any equipment, the maximum depth that humans can dive is more than 100 meters. Wearing a simple diving suit, humans can dive to more than 300 meters. If there are better diving equipment, some foreigners have broken the record of 700 meters.
Now, their diving equipment is of world-class quality, but most of these divers can only reach four or five hundred meters.
If the shipwreck is a little deeper, they can only use underwater robots. However, in that case, the cost will be higher and the salvage efficiency will be low.
When they came to the bottom of the sea, they saw a broken wreck. Some of the porcelain on the ship fell on the seabed, and some porcelain plates were even washed out dozens of meters by the water flow at the bottom of the sea.
Everyone was relieved to see the silver. The real money was the most practical for those who were engaged in marine salvage.
Chapter completed!