Xia Yu had already salvaged a lot of porcelain on this wreck before, but whenever new cultural relics appeared, they would still bring him great surprises and feel like witnessing history. Unfortunately, as far as the current situation is concerned, only he himself can enjoy this sense of accomplishment.

Xia Yu also comforted himself that this is in the stage of primitive accumulation of capital, and there is no way to do it so perfectly. His plan is to salvage the shipwreck, and then go to the waters of other countries to secretly salvage it. Annan, Bamboo Kingdom, Island Kingdom, Southeast Asia and other waters are buried with countless treasures of shipwrecks everywhere. If gold that can be salvaged easier to cash is achieved, the primitive accumulation process will be accelerated.

Of course, the most important thing is the upgrade of his own abilities. He has long fantasized that one day he could collect the entire shipwreck, including the surrounding mud and sand, into space, and then transport it to the high seas, and then organize a fleet to salvage it, and then completely whitewash...

The work of cleaning mud and sand is a bit monotonous and difficult. When digging a pit underwater, the mud and sand will be automatically backfilled due to the influence of the current. For this reason, Xia Yu also carried out improvements based on the specific situation he encountered. He simply put the mud and sand into the space and then separated them to stack them separately, which would consume more mental energy.

In order to solve the problem of automatic backfilling of quicksand, conventional underwater archaeological operations generally adopt the method of immediately extracting the dug silt and sand onto the salvage boat, and repeatedly screening the silt and sand drawn every time to ensure that there are no cultural relics missing. He does not have such conditions now and can only adapt to local conditions.

Time flies quickly. Xia Mingguang asked him to get on the boat and rest through the communicator. Xia Yu was not at the bottom of the sea and couldn't go out. During this period, he was quite satisfied to be able to figure out the owner of the shipwreck through the bronze cannon.

I went back to the boat to rest for a while, drank some water and had something to eat. It was still early, but it was eleven o'clock in the morning.

But Xia Yu was not idle when he was resting. When he was chatting with his father, he operated in the Baoding space. The blue and white beans, blue and white bowls, plates, plates, and cups that were newly collected were desalted. Even though the quality of these porcelains was basically not good, the value was not high. Some surface glaze was severely eroded by sea water and marine life, mainly shellfish. Some had been damaged and turned into pieces of porcelain of large size. This was not broken by him, but was caused by falling when the ship sank when it was under the sea or being washed by ocean currents and tides.

The bases of these scattered blue and white porcelains were all from the late Kangxi period. After he identified them as export porcelain fired by Jingdezhen folk kilns.

Among ordinary shipwreck treasures, the porcelain in the cabin used to store porcelain is the best preserved. Xia Yu is also full of expectations for this. He also likes this excavation process, and I don’t know what kind of surprises will be there later.

Before he had a rest and went into the water again, Xia Yu also took the pip shrimps, shrimps, two big blue crabs weighing about one and a half pounds from the space, and put them in the bucket, so that Xia's father could make lunch later. He could start the meal after diving this time.

Xia Mingguang was not polite either. As a fisherman, he had a very high level of cooking on the boat. Everyone should mainly depend on the temperature.

Xia Yu continued to dive and started a new round of digging.

If there is only mud and sand operation, it is actually the most convenient for him, but he is also worried that there will be cultural relics in the mud and sand, and the cultural relics will be damaged when collected into the space. So he adopts a combination of naked eyes and active perception. Fortunately, his eyesight is now amazing. The depth of 40 meters under the water should have been as dark as a few meters under the water.

He started to explore one by one from the cabins of the bronze cannons, and began to investigate one by one. Several cabins were empty, with only mud and sand inside.

He thought that this should be a room where silk or crew members live.

In the cabin below, he gained a lot after he opened the mud and sand.

There are many mottled and severely corroded wooden blocks exposed, which are obviously not the wood of the hull, but more like wooden boxes.

He guessed that it was a wooden box for transporting tea, and when he saw the tin foil under the wooden blocks, the closer the guess was to the truth.

But this is not a surprise. Tea has always been the main source of export goods. Some cargo ships, such as the Swedish merchant ship "Gothenburg", which is similar to this wreck, are tea.

After nearly three hundred years, it would be a miracle to be able to preserve the tea. Some of the salvaged tea on the Gothenburg can even be drunk, that's it.

Xia Yu thought about it, but he did not delay any delay in doing things.

Continue to dig, and put the mottled wooden boards and broken tin foils, and the black mud, there are obvious traces of tea in the space, and they are stored aside without having to put them in the sea water.

What surprised him was that when he moved the upper layer of mud and sand and continued down, he finally found a complete wooden box, which seemed to be filled with tea.

These wooden boxes are also precious cultural relics. At this time, it was a special time to test him. They were originally covered with thick silt, and these wooden boxes could not touch the sea water. After he removed the silt on it, the wooden boxes were exposed to the sea water.

Xia Yu could no longer save his mental power, activate his active perception ability, and control his delicate and accurate mental power, quickly putting wooden boxes into the space. He ignored the silt and sand on the surface of the wooden box for now, and sealed it up to prevent the air and sea water from entering.

These wooden boxes have different sizes, and there are three types, all of which are rectangular. The smallest one is 40 cm tall and the bottom width and length are 32 cm long; the middle box is about 47 or 8 cm and 40 cm in size; the large box is about 56 cm and about 48 cm.

These boxes are not light in weight, with a large box of about 100 kilograms, a medium box of 80 kilograms, and a small box of 70 kilograms.

There is no doubt that the tea leaves are contained inside.

Xia Yu was familiar with history, especially the history of the Maritime Silk Road. He knew that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, merchants used this kind of box to transport tea. The thickness of the wooden boards was more than one centimeter. The box was generally first covered with a layer of black lead or tin sheets, and then covered with a layer of mulberry paper coated with tung oil. The inside was soft and hard on the outside, with double layers of space. The tea wrapped inside was difficult to oxidize.

After collecting the wooden box into the space, he did not think about opening the box to see how it was inside. If the tea leaves inside were still there, it would add oxidation after ventilation.

He also paid special attention to the sealing of the wooden box and did as much as possible to ensure that air and seawater were not allowed to enter. Generally, divers wanted to do this when salvaging such boxes, it was much more difficult than him.

In this cabin, Xia Yu collected a total of 120 complete boxes of all sizes into the space, which made him very tired.

When Xia Mingguang called him to get on the boat to have a meal, he also gave him a chance to rest.

He also estimated that the tea leaves in this cabin looked like seven or eight tons, and in addition to these complete tea boxes, there should be a lot of them eroded by sea cement and sand. You can make a rough judgment from the pile of black soil mixed with wooden boards, tin foil and lead sheets that he got into the space.

Back on the boat, Xia Mingguang had already prepared lunch, and the noodles with shrimp and vegetables were the main meal, while the green crab and grouper were steamed.

After he asked him to rest and eat, Xia Mingguang also asked him how he gained.

Xia Yu briefly talked about the owner of the ship and the extraction of cultural relics.

"It feels much better if it is a Portuguese ship!" Xia Mingguang said with emotion, "A Yu, this should be the goods they bought with money, right!"

Xia Yu nodded, "Even if it is possible that it is smuggled, the Portuguese have to pay for it, so that Chinese merchants will sell the goods to them!"

Xia Mingguang had no expectations for tea. What he thought was, "It's almost three hundred years since it has passed, and the tea should be broken!"

"Not necessarily, I see that many boxes are sealed quite well. Maybe I can pick out some tea that I can drink! After more than two hundred years of the wreck of the Gothenburg shipwreck, the tea leaves are still preserved quite well. I think the boxes I just salvaged are better preserved than them. When I go back, I will check carefully about the condition of the tea inside." Xia Yu replied.

Xia Mingguang said, "Even if it is well preserved, these teas are probably not sold."

"Well, it's basically just preserved as cultural relics, and the tea leaves at that time were quite different from teas now."

"Is there nothing valuable?" Xia Mingguang asked.

Xia Yu said, "There are not many people showing up for the time being, the porcelain is not of good quality, and I can't sell any good prices!"

"Then don't sell these porcelains, just keep them yourself!" Xia Mingguang told him, "No matter what, it's always right to be low-key."

Xia Yu said yes, he was really hungry, so he had lunch to fill his stomach first.

During this period, Xia Xue also called them, caring whether they had lunch, how much they had harvested, and when they were going back.

Xia Yu said that the gains were quite huge, and she also said that before dark, she would know that they got home.

Xia Mingguang also gained a lot of fishing this morning, and these catches can be known.

Having lunch, resting on the boat, taking a half-hour nap, Xia Yu also seized the time to rest. He also suppressed his curiosity and did not open the tea box collected into the space. What was the situation of the tea? He had to maintain his energy and prepare for the afternoon salvage work.

At 1:30 pm, Xia Yu continued to dive.

But he was not very lucky this afternoon, so he salvaged several more cabins, and was just like the tea box. Fortunately, there was a different appearance in the last cabin of the day.

In addition to the tea box, there are other tea items, including tin cans, porcelain cans and clay pots that are sealed very tightly. Compared with the previous tea boxes, this type of tea that is stored in tin cans and porcelain cans has a higher probability of being well preserved.

It is particularly worth mentioning that the tin can is similar to the historical records. The cans are 42 cm wide and 47 cm high. There are two types of square cans and 37 cans. The tea leaves inside weigh between 15 and 20 kilograms.
Chapter completed!