golden ear

Chapter 302 Atokaff

"You mean there's a small auction house that has a few pieces of the Atokalve up for auction?"

Wu Tianyuan received a call from Ross, saying that a news came from an unknown small auction house in New York, USA, that there were several gold bars salvaged from the Atocalf that year were up for auction.

"Okay, find someone to take a picture of it for me, and then send it to me as soon as possible!"

Wu Tianyuan hung up the phone. He had already told Ross to pay attention to all kinds of information and collections related to the treasure, and once it appeared, buy it for him to use in the treasure hunt.I have been building Tianyuan Hall for the past three months, and I am a little ready to move, and I miss the excitement of treasure hunting.

"Okay, continue to hunt for treasures, especially the sea, there are countless treasures waiting for me to discover."

Wu Tianyuan formally summoned the manpower, and now Tie Xue sent 40 elites as bodyguards, because they were going to salvage in the high seas, they were all equipped with heavy weapons.Wang Jun also applied for the assistance of the navy, and was accompanied by small combat warships in the treasure hunt.

In 1622, a Spanish ship full of magnificent treasures from the New World encountered a sea storm on the Florida coast of the United States on its way back to its home country. It sank to the bottom of the sea together with at least eight other ships, and only 265 of the 5 people on board survived.

Next month, precious treasures such as the exquisite gold chalice, emerald inlaid cross and precious gold bars discovered from the shipwreck will be unveiled in New York, attracting widespread attention from collectors and art lovers around the world. It is the famous Ato The Kraft is known as the third largest treasure in the world.

On July 1985, 7, after more than 20 years of hard work, American treasure hunting expert Mel Fisher finally found the wreckage of the most famous frigate of the Spanish fleet, Mrs. Atoka, and found a treasure worth 15 Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of treasures, including various ancient coins and treasures.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of this discovery, Guernsey Auction House in New York held a grand special auction last year. Nearly 40 pieces of the wreck of the Lady Atoka and other relics from Fisher's salvage of the seabed wreckage were sold for a total of 300 million US dollars.

In an interview with AFP, Fisher's daughter Taffy said the lots were treasured by her parents.Undersea treasure hunting is a bittersweet ordeal, and now is the time for more people to share in the fun and insights.In addition, many of Fisher's other underwater salvage treasures have also been donated to major museums in the United States for public tasting and appreciation.

"Speaking of that Mel, she is also a legend in the salvage circle!" Old Joe exclaimed, "Mel defines himself as a treasure hunter. In 1955, he established a company called "Save Treasure", which specializes The waters off California looking for Spanish wrecks."

In his 20-year salvage career, Fisher has salvaged six famous Spanish shipwrecks, becoming a celebrity in the circle and earning a lot of money.Before he knew it, he had reached the age of retirement, but he was unwilling to leave the salvage ship, because he had vowed to find the Lady Atoka, which was said to have the most treasure.

So the whole family gave up the normal operation of the company for this ideal. Fisher's wife, son and daughter went into the water with their father, looking for their dreams at the bottom of the sea.Their search was meticulous, using metal detectors for anything that wasn't rock.

On July 1985, 7, Fisher and his family found the Lady Atoka and tons of gold on it, but this joy was tempered by 20 years of hardship.Fisher thought that God would let him find the Lady Atoka, but his patience was always being tested.

Wu Tianyuan admired his spirit of grinding an iron rod into a needle, but he didn't need to work so hard and trouble, he could directly lock the specific location and start salvaging.

"Huh? These are golden crosses and chalices?"

The first batch of treasure chests came out, and Wu Tianyuan was interested in studying more than a dozen crosses and three holy grails. They were made of pure gold, and many precious stones were inlaid on the crosses.

"I haven't contacted Andrew for a long time, but I found out again this time!"

Every month our cardinal will call Wu Tianyuan to ask if he has found any treasures. He has won the trust of the Pope because of his good relationship with Wu Tianyuan. Andrew became famous.

"And gold? Let Polar Bear and William handle these."

A total of more than 30 treasure chests were salvaged in a few days, most of them were gold bars, and there were also a small amount of jewelry and religious items.

"Dear Wu, you have finally returned to the treasure hunting circle!"

Andrew sighed and said, "I heard that you are imitating ancient Chinese porcelain recently? You also created your own hall name. I really thought our treasure hunting master quit the arena?"

"Don't worry my old friend, I'm just tired from running, just take a rest!" Wu Tianyuan said with a smile: "This is another new harvest, there are many holy objects on the sunken ship of Atokalf."

Andrew looked at it with satisfaction, nodded and said: "The 16th century was the time when Spain was the most powerful. It can be said that it robbed the whole of South America and Oceania. Many sacred objects disappeared on the way back. This batch is a very small part of them."

He was also very interested in seeing the latest antique porcelain from Tianyuantang, especially the celadon and white porcelain from Ding Kiln. He liked it very much and said, "It seems that you are not only amazing in treasure hunting, but also the antique porcelain is of first-class level. On behalf of the Holy See, I hope to talk to you Cooperation, how about buying some celadon and white porcelain tea sets every month?"

"No problem, but there were not too many in the past few months. The products produced by Tianyuantang are all high-quality goods, and they must conform to the noble status of the Holy See, right?"

"It doesn't matter, you decide for yourself, we want as much as you have!" Andrew smiled: "We can also give back to the believers as a holy grace and help you make a name for yourself."

Wu Tianyuan is very satisfied, Andrew is really timely, and the Holy See has come forward to help build the brand of Tianyuantang, which is really like adding wings to a tiger.Even the Holy See of the Vatican uses Tianyuan Hall?Who else in the world dares to make irresponsible remarks!
After seeing off Andrew Wu Tianyuan, we went to the newly built art center, it was really big and luxurious! The open space of 15 square meters, three top museums, and two high-grade galleries are shocking.

Hu Jianmin smiled and said, "How is it? Not bad, right? Lao Wang, Lao Xu and I have put in a lot of hard work. We changed the drawings more than a dozen times and took turns supervising the work. Only then can we achieve our current results."

"Nice! This is the most atmospheric art center in China, no worse than foreign public museums!"

Wu Tianyuan went around the Western Pavilion, the Ancient Civilization Pavilion, and the Tianyuanhui Members' Private Pavilion, each of which has a different style, both hardware and software are first-class configurations, and I am very satisfied.

"Hey, there is a lot of pressure, two museums, more than 5 square meters, a headache!"

Not only Wu Tianyuan had a headache, but even Lao Ren felt helpless. He finally worked hard to create a Tianyuan Museum, and now there are three more at once!I am also drunk.

(End of this chapter)