golden ear

Chapter 306 Mughal Treasure

Wu Tianyuan casually said a few words of comfort, there is no way, dog eats dog, black eats old routine.But remind him one thing, that is, try to go to the high seas for treasure hunting in the future, so as not to cause trouble!
"How is the boss? Are you more interested in us salvaging the sunken ship?"

Old Qiao brought Wu Tianyuan to the Odyssey banquet this time, out of selfish hope that this treasure hunter would pay more attention to the shipwreck!Awa Maru and Russian gold made Old Qiao have great confidence in Wu Tianyuan, and he is definitely the most wealthy treasure hunter.

But after a few months, the new boss hasn't moved anymore?What kind of antique porcelain did you go to tinker with?What future does that have?It takes a long time, and the money earned is not as much as going to sea once!

So he purposely brought Wu Tianyuan to see the Odyssey company. One salvage can earn 5 million US dollars. How much broken porcelain can be burned to make it back?
Wu Tianyuan also understood what Lao Qiao was thinking. After all, he was cooperating with others and hadn't seen anything for a few months, so he would naturally be anxious.He didn't give up the cornucopia of the sea, it's just that treasure hunting is accidental after all, and it can't happen every day.Tianyuantang is a long-term income, but the antique porcelain is also on the right track for the time being, and the next step is to go to the sea to search for treasures!

"Is this the treasure map of the great pirate Captain William?"

Old Qiao said excitedly: "This is the treasure that I have spent several years finding. Now that you are here, the boss, I really want to arrive at the Mughal treasure early. Shit Sussex is a ball!"

"What's the situation?" Wu Tianyuan had never heard of this name before, curiously picked up the information and began to study it.

During the prosperous period of pirates from the 14th to the 18th centuries, the vast ocean was completely chaotic and disorderly.Through robbery and plunder, the pirates obtained a large amount of treasure, gold, silver and diamonds piled up like mountains.In order to make their future life comfortable, the pirates buried the looted treasures in remote places.But in reality, only a handful of pirates ever found their hidden treasure again.

At the end of the 17th century, between the coasts of Madagascar and Malabar, Captain William, the pirate king, plundered a fleet of Prince Orangpus of the Mughal Empire in India, and innumerable spoils worth about one billion fell into his palm.What he left to future generations is a legendary experience full of mystery and a broken treasure map.

William, like Captain Kidd, began as a privateer hired by the royal governor of Massachusetts, Belomont, to capture pirates.He didn't catch the pirates, but he became a pirate himself.

In 1697, William asked his men to hang a red pirate flag on the top of the fleet's mast, and attacked a pilgrim fleet from Merka in the Red Sea, and began his series of desperate piracy.

Over the next two years, William became "the terror of the sea" between the coastlines of Madagascar and Malabar, amassing an untold fortune in the process to a safe depository.

In the past 300 years, there was still no clue to William's treasure. Until 1932, an Englishman named Gilmore bought a strange old sailor box with iron hoops in a thrift store.He found a strange little wooden board in that box, opened the wooden board, and a piece of parchment fell out of it.

On the paper was a map of a small island, on which it was clearly visible that there was a bay next to the lagoon, and then a coral reef, with instructions showing trees and definite walking distances.

At the same time, there is a reminder on the side of the parchment: "To find my treasure, you must follow this road. Captain William, 1696." Gilmour was stunned, he couldn't believe his eyes.

After calming down, he fell into confusion again, because the paper did not state which island, which region, or which sea area it was.Gilmour spent all day in the library, archives, and antique shops, looking at the mess of yellowed and broken sea charts. He tirelessly inquired about the information about Captain William and searched for the relics used by the captain in the past.He spent more than a year looking for the answer to this question, but he did not solve the mystery.

In the summer of 1933, he bought a beveled writing cabinet used by William from an antique dealer.Examining the writing-case very carefully, a small ball of parchment was found in an extremely minute hole, glued with turpentine and pitch.

Gilmour found that everything on the second treasure map was almost exactly the same as the first one, the only thing missing was a reminder of the name of the island.Several additional letters were found on the unfolded parchment, which he recognized as the words "China Sea."

Coincidentally, in the same year, someone sold Gilmour a second ancient wooden box used by Gent. In the interlayer gap of a secret drawer of this box, Gilmour found a third parchment, which also had a treasure map drawn on it. , which not only includes the outline of the mysterious island, but also marks the geographic longitude and latitude.

Holding these three broken treasure maps, Gilmour was so excited that he could not sleep at night. In order to find this mysterious island, he decided to go to London and combine his three treasure maps with those found in the Topographic Survey Department of the British Museum in London. Compare hundreds of new and old ocean maps from .

This last incident alarmed the British Admiralty, who carefully examined the authenticity of the three treasure maps.After confirmation, the British Admiralty agreed to provide Gilmore with a treasure hunting ship and necessary assistance, but the condition was that Gilmore must truthfully hand over all the proof materials of the treasure to the British government.Gilmour rejected the suggestion.

This time he made up his mind to follow his friends to find the island.However, when he was preparing for the treasure hunt, he died suddenly, and his three treasure maps and Captain Gent's treasure were once again lost in the fog.

More than 20 years after his death, in 1951, a man named Braun bought the British pirate captain's treasure map from Gilmour's former housekeeper and sole heir for 5000 pounds.

Finally, a two-masted sailing ship named "Ramona" carried Braun and a treasure hunting team composed of 5 treasure hunters from 12 countries, and set out to sea mightily.However, they did not expect that their speedboat encountered a hurricane at sea.

After four days of hard drifting at sea, they encountered a supply ship from the English fleet, but they could only be dragged by the supply ship.Braunley ended this hopeful treasure hunt in desperation.

In 1952, Japanese fishermen came to a small island called "Jing Mine Island" in the northernmost part of the Ryukyu Islands located between Taiwan Island and Japan's Kyushu Island in order to escape the storm.By pure chance they discovered a very rare stone painting of a goat on a cracked stone wall.

This meaningful discovery has brought endless reverie to Nagajima, an amateur pirate treasure researcher.Nakajima systematically traversed the deserted island until at last he discovered an entrance to a cave behind the thickest bushes.

So he lit a torch, groped forward step by step, passed a stone door, and came to a darker stone room.He stopped there, staring at the iron boxes all over the floor with wide eyes.

When he opened the heavy box lid, a strange scene appeared in front of him: there are not only unbelievable gold and silver coins shining here, but also wonderful jewelry and jewelry.That's part of William's loot, the hefty treasure chests that have sat in a remote cave in the Ryukyu Islands for more than 200 years.

The material value of this wealth did not mean much to the private researcher, who only wanted compensation from the Japanese government for his research and search for funding, and even refused him a bonus.

As a result, the treasure was transported to Tokyo under the most stringent protection measures, but in the end the treasure was still missing. William's spoils once again disappeared in the vague mist full of legends, without a trace!
(End of this chapter)