Treasure Hunt: I Can Possess Infinitely

Chapter 47

"It's worth a little, but if you have to knock it down and ship it back, the loss outweighs the gain." Chu Wen said.

Metal mines, and mines rich in metals, must be valuable!However, you have to knock it off at the bottom of the sea and then ship it back to China, which is a bit expensive.

"Look at the bottom, more than 20 meters to the right, is a sunken ship?" Captain Liu Haibo asked, pointing at the screen.

Everyone looked at it, and it was indeed the outline of a sunken ship.

It looks like a warship from before and after World War II.

The underwater robot approached and found that the sunken ship was corroded badly.At the bottom of the sea, a ship of steel rots more easily than a ship of wood.

"Is there something, Baiyin?" Liu Lixian's spirit was shocked, and the sockets of his eyes enlarged involuntarily.

Inside the sunken ship, there were large metal ingots, one half the size of a desk.

Seeing this, everyone's first reaction was silver.The last time I picked it up, the color was not so bright.

"Probably not. If it is silver, it will become dark when it is oxidized." Chu Wen shook his head slightly.

Anyone who has studied chemistry knows that no matter iron, copper, or silver, they are not very stable and are easily oxidized.

"No matter what it is, first salvage it and take a look."

"It's so deep, it's not easy for us to go down." Liu Haibo reminded.

The depth reported by the underwater robot is about 500 meters. Who can go down and salvage it?Then, we can only rely on the underwater machine.

Fortunately, Chu Wen prepared a lot of supporting tools.

A powerful rope is sunk to the bottom of the ocean, with a mechanical claw on one end and a windlass fixed to the ship on the other.

As long as you operate the robot well and fix the other end on the object you want to salvage, the side on the ship can be pulled up at any time to complete the salvage work.

The efficiency of doing so is not very high, but there is no other way for the time being.

Millions of underwater robots were finally not in vain.

A few days ago, Liu Haifeng stared at Chu Wen for a long time when he learned that Chu Wen had spent 800 million to build an underwater robot.Seventy-eight million yuan is an astronomical figure in a fishing village.

Not only Liu Haifeng and his wife couldn't understand, but many people in the village couldn't bear Chu Wen's speed of spending money.If this is their cub, it can almost be served on a leash.

Liu Lixian was a little regretful that his equipment was useless.

Still thinking about diving into the sea with Chu Wen this time, fishing for treasures!But at a depth of about 500 meters, no matter how good the equipment is, he dare not go down!

"Okay, I caught it, pull it up quickly." The guys on the boat stared at the underwater robot.

Good guy!
A group of people supervise a robot at work.

Liu Lizhong started the winch, and the rope was quickly wound up, pulling the silver-white metal ingot.Liu Lizhong didn't talk much, and he was a hardworking person, so Chu Wen asked him to operate the winch.

This work is relatively easy.

When the silver-white metal ingot was dragged onto the fishing boat, everyone gathered around to watch. Liu Lixian lay down on it and opened his mouth to take a bite from the edge.

Chu Wen pushed his head away: "What are you doing? You are a three-year-old child? You bite everything."

"Let me see if it's silver." Liu Lixian smiled mischievously.

Although the price of silver is not high, only a few yuan per gram, but the quantity cannot be supported!

"Just look, just move your eyes, what's the matter with your mouth?" Others teased.

Chu Wen pretended to look at it for a while, and then said, "Okay, this is not silver, it's platinum."

"Platinum? It seems quite expensive, right?" The others were taken aback.

"Gold or platinum?"

Chu Wen had already checked that platinum was more expensive than gold.

"Platinum, more than three hundred yuan per gram."

In nature, the reserve of platinum is rarer than that of gold, and the annual output of platinum in the world is far less than that of gold.

It is said that the annual consumption of platinum in the global jewelry industry is only 3% of that of gold.

Coupled with the high melting point of platinum, it is more difficult to purify and smelt platinum coin gold, and the energy consumption is higher. Moreover, processing platinum requires a higher level of technology than processing Huang Jing, so platinum is generally more expensive than gold.

Platinum has outstanding properties unmatched by other metals: it is extremely dense, tough and wear-resistant, and can maintain stable properties under various extreme environments, so it will remain as white as time goes by and will never fade.

However, despite this, everyone is still willing to buy gold, because gold is more investment than platinum.

Liu Lixian and the others were dumbfounded.

This piece weighs about a hundred catties, right?In the sunken ship, there are more than ten or 20 yuan of this kind of platinum metal ingots, which is about one ton.

Even if it is calculated at 300 yuan per gram, one ton is 3 million yuan!

This……

"300 yuan per gram, I think it's more than a ton, 3000 million? Hiss! Horrible." One of the guys calculated.

"What 3000 million? It's 3 million. Your math teacher's coffin can't hold it down anymore."

"My math teacher is your math teacher. He's not dead yet. Where's the coffin board?"

Chu Wen: "..."

If Teacher He hears this, can't he give these guys' children some homework in the future?

"Okay, you two, move inside!" Chu Wen interrupted their argument.

The salvage work is still going on. In addition to platinum, there are some other metal ingots from the shipwreck, all of which have been refined. It is estimated that they intend to transport them back to their own country for processing. Unexpectedly, there was an accident on the way.

Back then, the West colonized Southeast Asia and other regions and plundered many resources.

This thing, it can only be said that it is not a drop in the bucket.

Many people on board were immersed in the figure of "3 million", and it was really hard to imagine how much wealth that was.If Chu Wen was excluded, the assets of their village did not add up to [-] million yuan.

How do you spend so much money?

As pieces of metal ingots were brought onto the boat, everyone understood that even if there was no harvest from the fishing, Chu Wen would have to make a lot of money.

In addition, a sword was found in the sunken ship, which can be soaked in sea water for such a long time, and it is still preserved.It seems that this saber is not ordinary.

"This sword is a bit strange." Liu Lixian said after looking at it for a while.

The style is indeed a bit strange, slightly different from traditional Chinese swords.On the body of the sword, there are patterns similar to the veins of leaves.

"It should be the Malacre sword, one of the famous swords in the world. The Malay weapon used to cause a lot of trouble to the colonial Dutch." Chu Wen said after looking at it for a while.

The Malaykrishi sword flourished in the Majapahit Kingdom in the 13th century. Its rough-faced meteorite iron welded pattern blade is exquisite and extremely finely made. It takes about 500 times to hammer and forge it into the fire. The interlayer steel on the blade has 600 There are many layers.

It is said that the traditional Malay Krex sword is purely made of meteorite iron, that is, meteorite iron that fell from the sky.

The Malays love meteorites, but it is indeed a helpless move, mainly because of the lack of iron ore in the Malay Islands and the poor iron smelting technology.The nickel contained in meteoric iron can strengthen the toughness of the blade without breaking, and the pattern on the blade cannot be obtained by non-meteoric iron.

In ancient Malays, all meteorites discovered had to be handed over to the state, and then handed over to the blade makers by the king.

"So, it's worth a lot, right?"

Chu Wen shrugged: "It's hard to say, go back and ask a professional."

　The price of platinum was wrong before, and some brothers who read it carefully pointed it out.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)