Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 348 Salvage of the Deep Sea Treasure Ship (4)

Off the coast of Cuba, open sea waters.

In fact, Mel has never felt that 2000 million is a disadvantage. Business is business, and 2000 million is written in black and white on the contract.

If there is no gain from this trip, then Zhao Wenmu will lose all of the 200 million invested, and he will not make any compensation.

In the same way, even if this trip is full of rewards, he will not covet the part that does not belong to him.

To be precise, he valued the title of discoverer of the Lady Atoka more than more money.

This is an honor that can be passed down for a hundred years!

As long as Zhao Wenmu does not interfere with this honor, he will never covet Zhao Wenmu's treasure.

Of course, he admitted that Zhao Wenmu was the co-discoverer of the Lady Atoka.

In the next few days, the salvage work was accelerated again, and at the same time, Mel and Zhao Wenmu strictly controlled the crew's external communication to avoid complications.

After all, this is the high seas.

Once the other salvage ships got the news and ran over to intervene, there was nothing they could do.

It is not impossible to even come to a group of pirates to loot.

There are no laws and morals above the high seas.

Zhao Wenmu came to see Mel on this trip, bringing more than ten security guards, and most of them were Xiangjiang security guards whom he trusted the most.

Why don't you have a heart of defense?

On the fourth day, the biggest harvest finally surfaced.

Divers found more than 10 exquisitely shaped ancient Spanish gold coins and countless gold bricks in the wreckage of the fourth cabin. In terms of weight alone, this batch of gold reached 4.2 tons.

What's more, these are cultural relics, and their value is far higher than that of gold of the same weight!

As the salvage work continued, a large number of gold and silver coins, rough gemstones, and accessories were salvaged one after another.Salvage work continues, but the most important parts have been completed.

Next, Mel will search the waters around the sunken ship carefully again, and salvage the small sunken ship that was discovered before.

It was supposed to be just a merchant ship, but even so, the crew and passengers should have brought a lot of goodies with them.

After all, more than 300 years have passed, and the most invaluable objects on the colonists have now become precious cultural relics.

Up to now, the total amount of gold they have discovered has exceeded 4.755 tons, silver bricks and silver coins have reached an astonishing 42.6 tons, and the number of gemstones has exceeded 1!

The number of other various cultural relics exceeds 7000!
The richness of the harvest is staggering.

"Zhao, the value of these treasures is between 6 and 8 million US dollars. After all, as cultural relics, their value fluctuates greatly! Have you planned what to do with it?"

In the luxuriously decorated banquet hall of the yacht, Mel with flushed cheeks looked at Zhao Wenmu who was sitting opposite.

"I'm going to entrust an auction house and give them full power to dispose of these treasures!"

In fact, Zhao Wenmu had already discussed with Rong Zhenyi through the satellite phone on the ship.

The latter will help him entrust an international auction house.

"Will the cost be too high if the auction house handles it?"

Mel felt a little pained.

After all, he once handled the loot in the auction house, and the other party charged a 10% commission.

"It's not a big problem. I'm going to give them a 6% commission for the portion of the auction with a total amount of less than 0.5 million U.S. dollars; and a 6% commission for the portion above 10 million U.S. dollars."

Zhao Wenmu's answer stunned Mel.

Is that so? !

Even the auction houses are targeting the poor, it must be!

In fact, the practice of the auction house is also very generous. The commission for small-value item auctions is not much, but it consumes more time and energy.

In contrast, the time and manpower consumed by a large client like Zhao Wenmu is not as much as imagined.

What's more, even if it is only 0.5%, there are as much as 300 million US dollars!
300 million US dollars, the auction house earned 200 million with tears.What's more, the big part that really makes money is the part above $6 million.

If the auction amount reaches 6.4 million, the profit can be doubled!
Therefore, the auction house will definitely do its best to sell these treasures at a high price.

In any case, the auction house will not lose money.

Of course, Zhao Wenmu is always the biggest winner.

The first and most valuable treasures will be brought back to Florida by yacht, and will be handed over to the auction house after Zhao Wenmu signs a formal agreement with the auction house.

Just when Zhao Wenmu and others were preparing to return with a full load of treasures, a plane from the Coast Guard of the Beautiful Country suddenly flew over the Meili.

Not long after, a ship belonging to the Coast Guard appeared near the Mei Li.

"This is the high seas, you have no law enforcement power!"

For the officials of the beautiful country who boarded the Meili, Meier was not at all afraid, and loudly accused the other party of invading private property.

"Mr. Mel, it's not bad that this place is on the high seas, but the Meili is a ship registered in the beautiful country, of course we have the right to enforce the law!"

His words are not bad.

A ship is a mobile maritime land, and most countries will clearly stipulate in their laws that the laws of their country are fully applicable to ships of their own nationality.

What do you mean?

That is to say, whether the Meili is in the high seas or in the territorial waters of other countries, it is bound by the laws of the beautiful country.

Law enforcement officials even boarded Zhao Wenmu's yacht.

Seeing the gold, silver bricks and other treasures loaded on the yacht, the soldiers of the guard stared straight.

"We are a registered legal salvage company, and this salvage operation has also been filed. It is a commercial operation that has been allowed and protected by the government of the beautiful country!"

Mel patted the relevant documents issued by the government of the beautiful country in front of the officials.

The official browsed through it carefully and confirmed that he couldn't find anything wrong with it, so he could only leave angrily.

"It would be nice if it was salvaged illegally, so that the treasure can be detained legally. As for how much treasure will disappear, who cares?"

I don't know how many officials on that big ship have such an idea.

Mel has been in treasure hunting for many years, how could he give them such an opportunity?

It's not just the Coast Guard, it's the Spanish government that Mel is really on guard against.

After all, the Madame Atoka originally belonged to Spain, and the Spanish government or the descendants of the original owner of the ship are likely to claim ownership of the wealth on board.

This is indeed the case.

After the treasure came to light, the Spanish government waged a decade-long legal battle with Mel's salvage company.

In the end, of course, there is no result.

After all, the shipwreck happened more than 300 years ago. No civil law or property law in the world can protect ownership for such a long period.

And the wreck was found on the high seas.

The most important thing is that the salvage company belongs to the beautiful country.

In fact, the last one is the most important reason.

The government of the beautiful country will not support any claim by any other country to this treasure.

Otherwise, wouldn't the large number of shipwrecks discovered by the beautiful country on the east coast, in the Caribbean Sea, in South America, and in Africa have to be returned to Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom? !

I'm afraid the European guys are thinking about farting!
It doesn't matter who is the father.

In addition, this batch of treasures also played a little trick during the auction.

Everyone knew it belonged to the Lady Atoka, but there was never any written or spoken reference to the Lady Atoka.

Anyway, it belongs to "that famous shipwreck".

Just understand everything.

In this case, even if the Spanish government wins the case, only the 379 tons of tin ingots publicly acknowledged by Mel will be distributed.

God damn tin ingots.

The nearly 400 tons of tin ingots were the largest cargo on board, and the divers almost vomited blood in order to salvage them.

(End of this chapter)