Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 564 567. Qing Dynasty Treasure Notes (15)

For the next two days, Ao Muyang remained at sea.

Professor Cao was a scientific research maniac. After obtaining the water temperature distribution map, the overheating problem of the divers could be solved. They adjusted the heat dissipation capacity of the diving suits and the researchers continued to go into the water.

Ao Muyang naturally had to follow. As long as there were people underwater, he would never stay on the sea surface. He was so dedicated to his duties.

Maybe it was because of his good protection or because they were lucky. In the next two days, the team did not encounter any problems underwater and everything went smoothly.

After the investigation, Professor Cao did not treat him badly. In addition to the 30,000 yuan salary agreed before, he gave him a bonus of 5,000 yuan to thank him for his efforts in this investigation.

Ao Muyang returned the favor and let Professor Cao and his group stay in the village for a day. Food, drink and accommodation were all free. He did not do it for money, but just to make some friends.

In addition, Professor Cao is a master in domestic geological research. He publishes countless reports in newspapers and magazines every year. If he mentions Longtou Village and introduces Longtou Village in his reports in the future, it will be of great help to the village.

Longtou Village is applying for a natural reserve for sea turtles. The more people in the academic community can help speak up, the better.

Back in the village, Ao Muyang hosted a banquet for Professor Cao. During the banquet, he asked Professor Li Ji to accompany him. Then, while drinking, he learned from the two knowledgeable old professors a way to prevent marine cultural relics from oxidizing rapidly after being taken out of the water.

The method is very simple, that is, to spray antioxidants upwards, using water-soluble antioxidants to fight against the ubiquitous air and the oxidation reaction it brings.

The antioxidant he chose is glutathione solution, which is easier to obtain. Many fruit vendors will use it to spray fruits to slow down the ripening process of fruits.

Lu Hu has enough connections. After he called to ask, someone sent him a bottle by express the next day.

After getting the glutathione solution, he finally opened the two small boxes.

First, he scraped off the wax on the outside of the box. After years of seawater reaction, the wax had deteriorated and became like jade, hard and beautiful, but unfortunately worthless.

After scraping off the wax, he sprayed a layer of glutathione solution on the box.

Then he made a hole in the box. The box was made of wood. If it had not been wrapped with a layer of wax, it would have been soaked by seawater like those big wooden boxes.

Wax is a good thing for preserving items in seawater. Under its protection, the small wooden box is still intact.

Then he sprayed some glutathione solution into it through the small hole, and then opened the small box.

The box was light and there was no gold, silver or jewelry in it. Ao Muyang opened it and saw that there were a few pieces of paper inside.

These papers were thick and dim, with blue-green fonts and patterns printed on them. One of the horizontal lines on them was: Qing Baochao!

Seeing this thing, Ao Muyang was happy. His hard work was not in vain. He finally got cultural relics from the sea!

This is the Qing Dynasty Treasure Note, a Qing Dynasty banknote, which is definitely a cultural relic.

It can be seen that the shipwreck in the sea sank in the sea during the Qing Dynasty. He checked online and found that the Qing Dynasty Treasure Note he had in his hand was from the Xianfeng period, and it was written on it: Xianfeng Year 5 Qing Dynasty Treasure Note 2,000 Wen Zhejiang Tax Ticket.

For the Qing Dynasty Treasure Note, those who like Jin Yong's dramas will not be unfamiliar with it. The most important trading role in "The Deer and the Cauldron" is it. At that time, Wei Xiaobao often took out large banknotes worth thousands of taels of silver. He was a local tyrant.

In fact, it can't stand scrutiny. Ao Muyang saw the introduction on the Internet that the face value of the banknotes issued by the Qing Dynasty was not large. The ones he got were "2,000 Wen", which had a very large face value, but it was only one tael of silver.

According to the regulations of the Baochao Bureau of the Ministry of Revenue of the Qing Dynasty, one tael of silver in official notes was equivalent to 2,000 Baochao coins, and 2,000 Baochao coins were equivalent to one tael of silver, which was parallel to big coins and coins...

However, due to excessive issuance, it depreciated and caused serious losses to the people. By the end of the Xianfeng period, this thing was almost waste paper. Later, in the first year of the Tongzhi period, this Baochao was even stopped from being used.

This resulted in a result that Baochao was not used for a long time and remained in the market for a short time. Today, they have become very rare, so they are very valuable in the modern collection market.

There are relevant auction records on the Internet. Last year, such a Baochao appeared in the Christie's Spring Auction in Hong Kong. Specifically, it was the "Xianfeng 2nd Year Great Qing Baochao 500 Wen Tax Ticket", which was sold at a high price of 200,000.

Ao Muyang counted and found that there were a total of eight such banknotes in the first small box, which was about 1.6 million.

One million and six hundred thousand is not a small amount, which is nothing for his wealth, but this thing can be seen in the world, and he can spend this money openly, unlike the cash obtained from selling the eunuchs' treasure, which has to be hidden.

With joy, he opened another box, ready to collect another batch of Qing Dynasty treasure notes - no, another batch of RMB.

This box is heavier, at least twice as heavy as the previous box, and it is obvious that there are more Qing Dynasty treasure notes, no, more RMB.

As a result, he was disappointed when he opened the box. There was no banknote in this small box, not a single one, but a pile of envelopes!

Opening the kraft paper envelope, there was crispy rice paper inside, because Ao Muyang did not prepare it for oxidation, it quickly became fragile after being pulled out.

The rice paper was full of words, and the handwriting was already unclear. Ao Muyang carefully identified them and recognized that they might be letters from home.

The reason is that there are stamps on the cowhide envelopes. Some of the stamps are yellow, some are green, some are big, some are small. In any case, there are the words of the Qing Dynasty Post Office on them, as well as the marks of one cent silver and five cent silver.

Most of the words on the family letter are not clear. Only the beginning of the title is heavy, and you can see the name of the parents. Such things are not valuable even if they are left by celebrities.

Moreover, Ao Muyang thinks that this family letter is not from the hands of celebrities. It should be left by the captain or the first mate, otherwise it would not appear in the cockpit.

He stuffed the kraft paper back into the envelope and kept it together with the Qing Dynasty treasure banknotes. The letter paper was not processed, and the Qing Dynasty treasure banknotes were carefully sprayed with a layer of antioxidant.

At least there was a harvest of about 1.6 million, and Ao Muyang was quite satisfied. He then took a photo of the Qing Dynasty treasure banknotes and sent it to Mr. Cheng Deming, wanting to ask him about the value of the treasure banknotes.

The old man often flies around China. As a collector, he has to attend auctions and private collection appreciating meetings everywhere, and he also has to cooperate with the government and universities to identify some unearthed cultural relics.

When Ao Muyang sent the photos, he happened to be back in Hongyang, so he took the initiative to call him: "Hey, Xiao Ao, you are so stingy. Why don't you call me when you find cultural relics? Why send WeChat messages?"