Me who fears women travels with beautiful girls

Chapter 178, Chapter 33, The Van Baalen

Although it was uncomfortable to be looked at hostilely by a group of Indonesian indigenous people, the three got unexpected clues.

Soon, after returning to the ship, Sutina sent the request about the Van Baren to the domestic team.

Different from the usual Q&A, this time, they waited an unusually long time for the reply from the domestic team.

From daytime to early morning, until Song Wenbin curled up in the main salon of the yacht and fell asleep, Su Tina suddenly ran out of the cabin wearing a nightgown and holding a notebook. Song Wenbin woke up shaking.

The photographer sitting in the corner was also awakened by her movement, and hurriedly took the camera to shoot.

"found it!"

Su Tina held the notebook and said excitedly and excitedly.

As soon as Su Tina said that he found it, Song Wenbin didn't care about being tired, rubbed his eyes and got up, drank some red tea and asked, "Did you find it?"

"That's right." Su Tina excitedly put the notebook on the coffee table, pointed to a completely English document on the computer and said, "This is the most professional academic team in China that helped us find information about Van Baren from foreign historical documents. record."

Huo Yu and Song Wenbin moved their heads closer together, but Song Wenbin's head knew the match, and he couldn't understand any of the letters on the document.

Fortunately, Su Tina knows English very well. She pointed to the red-lined summary on the document and read: "Van Baren, full name, Mondrian van Baren, was born in 1747, and his maternal ancestors were officially illustrious. One of the founders of the famous Dutch East India Company, "Jean Heigan van Linschoten", was an out-and-out explorer himself. From a young age, he had an interest in navigation and wealth Extraordinary obsession.

According to literature records, in 1780, Van Baren, who was 33 years old at the time, led his fleet to the Dutch Indonesia at that time, and lived in Indonesia for 18 years. The style and appearance have been investigated and recorded in detail.”

After a pause, Sutina shook her head, and said: "I think this paragraph is a historical disguise, or Van Baalen himself's cover-up of his own purpose, because in the nearly 20 years of scientific investigation, he did not leave behind Not a single book, not even a single sentence, not a single article remains."

"I see, you go on."

After listening to Su Tina's speculation, Song Wenbin looked at the document and said.

"The literature doesn't say much about Van Baalen's own activities in Indonesia, but what really matters is this passage."

Sutina pointed to the words in the English literature, and translated word by word: "In 1797, Van Baren, who was 51 years old at the time, ended his 18-year scientific expedition in Indonesia, driving a ship with the same name as himself. The ship departed from Jakarta and returned to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. However, just after the ship entered the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Malacca, it encountered a terrible and huge storm. into the sea."

"Where is Shen?"

Song Wenbin asked immediately.

"No one knows, none of the 180 people on that ship survived." Su Tina said softly.

Song Wenbin was stunned, he opened his mouth, and subconsciously looked back at the dark sea water outside the porthole of the yacht, his back felt a little chilly for a while.

"No one knows?" Huo Yu asked again.

"There is no survivor." Sutina said firmly; "At that time, there was no satellite record, let alone a voyage recorder. How to know the sinking location. In fact, until the Van Baren did not return to the port of Amsterdam on time two months later, people It was discovered that it had sunk. As for the fact that it encountered a storm in the Indian Ocean, it was later speculated, because that storm was the biggest climate disaster that year."

Huo Yu fell silent.

Song Wenbin shivered, couldn't help but lit a cigarette, calmed down the slight fear in his heart, sat on the sofa and began to think.

After pondering for a long time, he asked: "If according to what that guy named Wutou said today, the Van Baren carries tens of billions of dollars of property, even if Van Baren intends to hide this wealth, then I don't believe it. The Dutch East India Company didn’t know about it, so many treasures sank with the Van Baalen, didn’t their company send people to search or salvage them?”

Huo Yu also looked at Su Tina, and Song Wenbin's question made her a little confused.

Amidst the smoke, Su Tina bit her finger and fell into deep thought.

The light of the notebook shone on Su Tina's face, she bit her finger, her big eyes flickered in the night.

Biting her nails and thinking for a long time on the sofa, Sutina slowly said: "I don't know these things, but according to world history, it is speculated that in 1799, only two years after the sinking of the Van Baalen, the Dutch East India Company declared disbanded.

The background of its dissolution has nothing to do with the world environment. In the era of great navigation, the war between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom continued. The two countries have fought at sea for hundreds of years since the seventeenth century. In the early days of the war, the Dutch have always occupied With the absolute advantage of the sea.But in the eighteenth century, the situation over the sea changed suddenly.

First, the Netherlands and France fought an endless battle on land. Then, the British nobles drove away King James II and established a constitutional monarchy in a bloodless and peaceful way, which is the famous glorious history. revolution.

And before the war, after nearly a hundred years of luxury and the consumption of European hegemony, the Netherlands is no longer the world hegemony that roamed the world.At this time, the British Empire had won the Seven Years' War and annexed French colonies in India and North America. "

Listening to Su Tina's words, Song Wenbin seemed to hear the endless shouts and gunfire. The girl's short description made him travel through time and space and return to the turbulent and treacherous era of great navigation.

In the quiet cabin, the white-haired girl described indifferently with a blank face: "In 1780, the United Kingdom unilaterally abolished the various treaties of the Anglo-Dutch Alliance led by William III on the grounds that the Netherlands supported the American War of Independence, and launched the Fourth Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Relying on its superior navy, Britain completely defeated the disarmed Netherlands, and plundered the Netherlands' rich caravan supplies and colonies.

This war not only crushed the Netherlands, but also caused economic crisis of the Dutch East India Company, and finally announced its dissolution on December 1799, 12.The sea coachmen and colonial empires that once dominated the 31th century collapsed and declined with this war.Under such a background, who would have the energy and ability to search the entire sea to find the whereabouts of a sunken ship? "

After a pause, Sutina said softly: "Not only that, I think that the fourth Anglo-Dutch naval battle originated in 1780, and that time was the last sea confrontation between the Netherlands and the UK. And at that time, Fan. Barron came to Indonesia to carry out large-scale sea salvage, the reason behind it, combined with his own identity, I don't believe there is no political factor in it."

"wonderful."

Song Wenbin groaned.

Su Tina's analysis was very appetizing to him, and he instinctively felt that this analysis was correct.Even their small-scale searches in Indonesia have the shadow of a country behind them, so he does not believe that no country was involved in the nearly 20-year search of the Van Baalen. "

Huo Yu folded his arms and stared at the notebook for a while, and said, "This is good news for us. If the Van Baalen has not been salvaged and is still lying on the bottom of the sea, there is no doubt that even if that If there is no Jiuwenlong treasure box presented to Zhu Di by the fisherman Wang Jin on this ship, then its value is enough for us to complete this important task."

"good."

Song Wenbin nodded: "But these clues alone are not enough for us to find the sunken ship. The information is too brief."

Sutina clicked on the computer with the mouse, and said: "Although Van Baalen himself died in the sea, the cemetery is still hidden in the Dutch national cemetery. His descendants are still alive. You can read this article signature."

She pulled the document to the top, pointed to the title of the paper and said: "The title of this paper is "Van Baalen's sinking position and speculation", which was published by Dr. Pierre de Witt in the Royal Netherlands in 1923. In the journal of the Academy of Social Sciences."

She clicked on the name, and immediately another row of data appeared. Su Tina said: "The ancestor of Dr. Pierre is the family of Van Baren. According to blood, it should be his grandnephew. From 1893 Since [-], he has been teaching at the Humanities Department of the University of Amsterdam, dedicated to researching and sorting out the history of the Dutch East India Company. These documents are exactly what the domestic team found from the library website of the Humanities Department of the University of Amsterdam.

But only a small part of the literature can be read, and most of the content is hidden. The original is stored in the library of the Humanities Department of the University of Amsterdam, and outsiders cannot peep. "

After a pause, Sutina said again: "There is one more thing worth mentioning. The former site of the University of Amsterdam is the former headquarters of the Dutch East India Company."

Song Wenbin's eyes widened instantly.

"Can I pay to read it?" He subconsciously asked.

Huo Yu sneered: "You treat this kind of information as online articles."

Su Tina shook her head, "There is no such thing as paid reading. Many materials of the University of Amsterdam are not disclosed to the public. After all, this is the No. 20 university in the world, and it keeps a lot of top-secret materials."

Song Wenbin let out a long breath and spread his hands: "Please, this is an unlimited special, there will always be a way."

Method…..
In the dark night, the three of them looked at each other.

"There is no other way."

Su Tina said slowly: "The power of the Internet is limited. If we want to find detailed information about the Van Baalen, we must go to the University of Amsterdam and find all the information about the Van Baalen from that university." file."

Huo Yu said softly, "Going to Holland?"

Su Tina looked at Song Wenbin: "Brother Song, what do you think?"

"Fuck..."

Song Wenbin said with emotion: "It's crazy, it's not enough to go to Indonesia, do you want to go to the Netherlands?" He said, looking at the director Bao Li who was squatting next to the camera, and asked: "Is there a time limit for our programs? "

Pauli was silent, without any answer, like a machine that only takes pictures and records.

Song Wenbin shook his head and sighed: "Then let's go to the Netherlands. It's just that we don't know the place well, and that place is not a vegetable market. We can go in and out when we want. We're going to that kind of place, no one is there. If you cooperate, it may be difficult to move an inch."

"I'll ask." Huo Yu stood up from the sofa and said, "There must be someone in the company who knows more about that place."

After finishing speaking, Huo Yu walked to the side of the flying bridge, took out his mobile phone and started making calls.

Only then did Song Wenbin realize that Huo Yu had won the European Championship before, so he must have been to Europe.

After a phone call, Huo Yu came back, and she said: "I just contacted the producer of our show, and the producer said that she is very familiar with the situation in the Netherlands and Europe, and she is willing to come out to help We have the exact location of the sinking of the Van Baalen."

"Really?" Su Tina's eyes lit up.

"Producer?" Song Wenbin asked.

"Yes, the producer and chief planner." Huo Yu said: "But the premise is that we must first go to Amsterdam to meet her."

Song Wenbin has been in the program group for so long, and has always been on the executive side of the program, and he doesn't know anything about the people on the program, but since it's the producer and the planner..."

Song Wenbin's fist subconsciously hardened. In Nigeria, the Caribbean, Seoul, Siberia, and even Indonesia this time, God knows how much insane torture he has suffered.

The people who tormented him were undoubtedly those colleagues from the planning team who had never met before.

"Really, I really can't wait to see them." Song Wenbin gritted his teeth and said.

(End of this chapter)