space fisherman

Chapter 72 Ancient Silver Coins

Ye Yuan came to the edge of the seaweed, the depth here was already more than [-] meters, the light was very bad, but Ye Yuan's perception was still not affected by the light.

Ye Yuan poked into the seaweed with his senses and took a look, just this one glance made his heart excited all of a sudden.

Because he suddenly saw that there was an oak box among the aquatic plants on the bottom of the sea.

The oak box is in the shape of a cube, with a length, width and height of about 30cm.

The wooden box style is very simple.

Ye Yuan's first reaction was that there should be a sunken ship nearby, otherwise where would this wooden box come from?
The perception spread out, and after careful sensing in this sea area, after a long time, they did not perceive any items related to the sunken ship.

Ever since Ye Yuan could breathe freely in the water, he fantasized that he could find sunken ships in the endless ocean. These are all treasures in the ocean.

Among the shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea, there are countless ships that were buried on the bottom of the sea due to wars.

From the wooden boats in the cold weapon era to the sailing warships in the gunpowder era;
From ironclad ships powered by steam engines to modern warships of the nuclear age.

There are everywhere warships swallowed by the ocean, and the magical underwater world is like a museum of naval weapons buried deep in the ocean.

Taking World War II alone as an example, there were 1424 sunken ships of various types buried in the Pacific Ocean, including 500 merchant ships of various types above 1113 tons, with a total registered tonnage of more than 532 million tons; 311 warships of various types .

The situation in the Atlantic battlefield is even more serious, with as many as 1698 ships from European countries.

Huaguo is a large coastal country with a long history and vast sea territory.

As early as five or six thousand years ago during the Neolithic Age, China started shipping by sea.

However, in the thousands of years of maritime history, the waters of Huaguo are also bloody and stormy, with constant wars.

According to relevant information, there are more than 2000 shipwrecks of various types in the Huaguo Sea, and this place has attracted worldwide attention as a treasure land with rich ancient shipwreck relics and historical relics.

Ye Yuan once read a report on the number of shipwrecks. So far, the number of shipwrecks in the world's oceans, according to the latest data from the International Maritime Archeology Organization, shows that in the depths of the world's oceans, in the past 400 years, the number of sunken ships in the world has sunk There are as many as 25 ships in the ocean.
Some contain a lot of wealth, including gold bricks, silver ingots, precious jewelry and jade, etc., and their value is even more immeasurable.

Ye Yuan has long wanted to find these sunken ships, but he has gone to sea so many times, but he has never found a sunken ship.

Despite the astonishing number of shipwrecks, the area of ​​the ocean is not small.

Excluding the territorial waters of some countries, it is far from being salvageable. The Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean alone are huge.

There is a saying in Blue Star that "land is divided into three parts and ocean is divided into seven parts".One can imagine how big the ocean area is.

Ye Yuan didn't find any items related to the sunken ship, so he had no choice but to get the wooden box in front of him back to the fishing boat.

Remove the seaweed that has been adsorbed on the wooden box. From the adsorption of seaweed, it can be seen that this wooden box has been here for a while.

After cleaning the seaweed on the wooden box, Ye Yuan could see the whole picture of the wooden box clearly.

The style of the wooden box is very simple, it is made of oak, and the outside is sealed with wax oil. The wooden box is locked by a copper lock, and the preservation is quite complete.

Ye Yuan returned to the surface of the sea with the wooden box in his hand. At this time, many crew members on the ship were looking around.

After all, Ye Yuan has been in the water for a while, and these crew members have heard about Ye Yuan before they came. They know that their boss beat the frogman in diving, but it is said that it was once. You can't believe it without seeing it with your own eyes.

Everyone was waiting anxiously on the boat, when Ye Yuan finally showed his head on the surface of the sea, holding a wooden box.

Lao Yu hurriedly asked a crew member to put down the spiral ladder.

Ye Yuan returned to the boat along the spiral staircase with the wooden box in his hand.

Everyone gathered around curiously.

"Is there a sunken ship here?"

The crew asked excitedly
"I don't know, I only found this, I didn't find any other items."

After Ye Yuan took a sip of the mineral water handed over by the crew, he replied.

Yu Hongbo ordered a few sailors with good water skills to put on diving equipment, and then went to explore the sea.

Ye Yuan didn't stop him, he believed that it would be useless for these people to go down for something that he didn't find, but he couldn't say this, let them go down and have a look, maybe they can really find it?
Ye Yuan ignored the sailors who went into the water, and directly brought an axe, with a "bang", the copper lock broke in response.

Open the wooden box, because the wooden box is wrapped with wax oil, there is no seawater inside, and a small cloth bag is quietly placed in the wooden box.

Ye Yuan opened the cloth bag, and a dozen coins rolled out of it.

The crew members who were still on board surrounded them, and the coins were all the same.

The coin is very heavy, and there is a head of a foreign man printed on it. Judging from the appearance of the head, it should look like a long time ago.

Ye Yuan didn't recognize these coins, and many crew members around didn't know where the coins came from.

Ye Yuan took out his mobile phone, opened Du Niang to search, he has to say that there are too many advertisements on Du Niang now, it took him some time to search, these coins should be coins from the Antoninian dynasty in ancient Rome.

Because on Du Niang, I found a silver coin with Hadrian's head on it, which is the same as the coins in Ye Yuan's hand.

Hadrian's full name is Publius Elius Hadrian.

Also known as Emperor Yong, he was the third emperor of the Antony dynasty and one of the five virtuous emperors, reigning from 117 to 138.

During his reign, he stopped the war in the East, concluded a peace treaty with the Parthian king, and reformed the bureaucracy and law.

The "Hadrian's Great Wall" across the east and west was built in the northern part of the British Isle to defend against the invasion of the "barbarians" who lived there.

The world has always rated him well, and his personal hobbies are also very rich.He is a learned emperor.

Hadrian lived in a turbulent and thrilling era.

In the 2nd century AD, he became the ruler of the Roman Empire, arguably the most successful Roman ruler.A seasoned soldier and talented administrator, he reigned supreme at the height of the Roman Empire.

The boundaries of the ancient Roman Empire in Hadrian's time had reached the limit of expansion.

The price of the silver coins in Ye Yuan's hands is basically around 5 on the Internet, which is not very high.

Ye Yuan didn't worry too much about the prices of these items, because there were not many gold coins, so he didn't plan to sell these gold coins.

It didn't take much effort, several crew members who went into the sea had already come up, and they didn't find any clues, Ye Yuan wasn't too disappointed, this was what he had thought of before.

The main purpose of going to sea this time is to stop the whaling ship, and the mission has been completed.

I also got these silver coins by accident, which is already a good ending.

Ye Yuan did not continue to stay in this sea area, he believed that since his perception did not perceive a sunken ship, the probability of a sunken ship in this sea area would not be very high.

As for why this wooden box is here, there are many reasons, so Ye Yuan won't worry about it anymore.

(End of this chapter)