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Mo Qiong looked at the ecstatic Zhang He and smiled in agreement.
This guy is really a second-rate guy. After finding the treasure, he doesn’t care about the value. Instead, he seems to care more about fame.
But it’s okay, Mo Qiong doesn’t care about fame, and he is even willing to give up the right of discovery to Zhang He alone.
After hearing the last sentence, Mo Qiong was startled.
How many days do you just go with the flow every time you go to sea? Good guy, are you risking your life?
This time, with Mo Qiong around, there will be so many surprises in the so-called fate.
But if you really think that there will be surprises every time, and you can find treasures by digging randomly on the sea, then you are just sitting back and waiting for the rabbit.
The sea is very dangerous. If you keep drifting like this, something will happen sooner or later.
But now Zhang He couldn’t listen to the advice. He excitedly pulled Mo Qiong back to the yacht.
The yacht is not far away. Everyone else is tired of playing and is waiting for them there.
Seeing them coming back, Xiao Kun said: “Why are you running so far away? Hurry! I’m waiting for you to grill fish together.”
Zhang He laughed and said: “What kind of fish are you grilling? Come down and dig for treasure!”
Everyone was stunned, and Xiao Kun said in surprise: “Did you find the pearl again?”
“There are pearls, but they are placed in a box.” Zhang He said with a smile.
“In the box?” No one understood yet.
Zhang He shouted: “Treasure, silly, come and dig it!”
Everyone was shocked and finally realized what was going on. They all jumped into the water to follow.
But Mo Qiong said: “What, it’s too heavy, let’s just drive the boat over.”
Zhang He nodded: “Yes, yes, yes.”
After they anchored the boat above the treasure and dived down to check it out.
Everyone was shocked. The boxes that Zhang Hemo Qiong dug out were all locked and they couldn’t see what was inside.
But the original box was broken. When I reached out and took it out, I found a handful of jewelry.
Xiao Kun could tell at a glance that these were simple jewelry works of art. They must be ancient objects, and their workmanship was very different from modern ones.
What made him even more crazy was that there was a crown in the broken box!
“Holy shit!” Xiao Kun frantically took out the crown and surfaced it.
Everyone followed and heard him roar.
“Quick! Quick! I’ll rescue this first, you guys quickly carry the broken box onto the boat!”
He climbed onto the boat directly with the crown in hand, looking for a hairdryer everywhere.
Everyone saw that he was drying the crown extremely carefully, and they also realized that these were cultural relics. The box was broken and it would definitely not be safe if it was soaked in sea water.
The boxes come with weight, but it is easier if several people work together. The men carry the boxes onto the boat one by one, while the women continue to clear the mud underwater.
Then the man went to help again, and several people worked hard and found more and more boxes.
Finally, after spending more than two hours going up and down, I was finally sure that there were no boxes left.
Counting carefully, they carried a total of twenty-one boxes.
“Exhausted…”
Everyone climbed onto the boat to rest. Seeing that Xiao Kun was still taking care of the crown, they couldn’t help but said angrily: “Why do you just care about this and don’t help?”
Xiao Kun said without raising his head: “Even if those jewelry are antiques, they are not as important as this one. Do you know how valuable this ancient crown is?”
A woman said: “One hundred million? Or two hundred million?”
“You know what the heck! Priceless! The crown is priceless!” Xiao Kun said excitedly: “Have you ever heard of where the crown was auctioned for a sky-high price?”
The woman thought for a while and said, “Wouldn’t Princess Diana’s crown be auctioned? I remember it was only a few million.”
“That’s not a real crown, it’s a modern handicraft like a crown. It has no political significance for the country, and it doesn’t symbolize any power. If Princess Diana didn’t own it, I would make a hundred of those things and give them to her. It’s okay for you!” Xiao Kun said.
After hearing this, Zhang He said: “Then how do you know this has political significance? Do you know which crown it is?”
Xiao Kun shook his head and said: “I don’t know which crown it is. There are so many small countries in Southeast Asia.”
“But this is at least a craft from hundreds of years ago, and it is a typical Chinese art style. Hundreds of years ago, do you think you can make a crown at will like now? This crown must have been worn by a certain king , is the real crown.”
“The real crown has never been put up for auction. Ancient crowns must be collected by the country. Even if the country was destroyed, it was collected by the conqueror or bought by other countries, but it would never be auctioned. Hundreds of years ago The French royal family once wanted to buy a Byzantine crown, but couldn’t afford it, so they finally spent 100,000 gold coins to buy back a scepter.”
“Today, things like crowns are either in museums or in the hands of royal families in various countries. Even if there are ancient crowns unearthed from private land, relevant countries will definitely find and buy them. If you want to auction them for a sky-high price, Impossible.”
“This thing is a priceless treasure.”
After hearing this, Mo Qiong secretly knew the goods.
Xiao Kun didn’t even know it was the Ryukyu crown, but he knew it was a priceless treasure.
The priceless here means that it must not be allowed to be auctioned in public. Only if the crown of a country is completely unknown can it be bought privately.
So it is impossible to sell this thing at a high price.
Zhang He asked: “How to deal with this?”
Xiao Kun thought for a while and asked: “Where is this? Is it the high seas?”
Zhang He hurriedly opened the navigation and checked it for a long time before shaking his head and saying: “No, it’s within New Guinea’s exclusive economic zone… Alas, there is one of their small islands nearby. Without that small island, this would be the high seas. .”
“It doesn’t matter. Where did you get it? It’s up to us to decide?” Xiao Kun said confidently.
Everyone looked calm and didn’t care whether this was the open sea or not.
When Mo Qiong saw this, he couldn’t help but secretly thought: It’s really a gangster, but I like it.
Next, everyone counted the harvest.
Twenty-one boxes in total, including the broken box of jewelry.
Twelve strings of large and small pearls, more than two hundred pieces. There are thirty pieces of jade bracelets, rings and pendants, more than forty pieces of various rings and rings, as well as various works of art such as white jade paperweights, jade Buddhas and jade fish.
Some of them also have the word Maharaja written in Chinese characters.
Xiao Kun said strangely: “Which royal family can use Chinese characters? And call it a king? North Korea? No, the North Korean crown is not of this style, nor is it so luxurious.”
Zhang He said: “Don’t shake the half bottle of water. Just go back and find someone to identify it.”
After everyone discovered that the other boxes were sealed, they immediately opened them all.
As a result, there was only one box of jewelry. Among the remaining twenty boxes, there was one box of gold, eighteen boxes of silver, and one box with only a wooden sculpture.
“There are no ritual utensils…” Xiao Kun was a little disappointed. Not to mention the ritual utensils, there wasn’t even any porcelain.
Mo Qiong said: “Aren’t gold and silver considered cultural relics?”
Xiao Kun said: “Forget it, but these gold and silver have been recast into gold bricks, so there is almost no added value. It is basically just based on the current price of gold and silver.”
“Well, if this box of jewelry were auctioned separately, not counting the crown, it would be worth about 200 million.”
“As for the remaining gold and silver, weigh them and the total is worth 20 million.”
The box is very small. A box of gold weighs less than a hundred pounds, and silver is even lighter.
The combined value of the nineteen boxes is less than one-tenth of the box of jewelry.
However, this was already a lot, and Xiao Kun was only slightly disappointed and immediately became excited.
Things worth more than 200 million are placed in front of them. Even if they are not short of money, they cannot despise this property.
“More than two hundred million, how to divide it?” someone asked.
When it comes to penny, everyone gets excited.
This was fished out of the sea by everyone. As for whether this is the high seas, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, they have many ways to turn these things into the high seas.
Only the crown is more troublesome. Unless it is hidden, it must have a clear origin.
Because there must be an archaeological team to verify the origin of the crown. If it is also said to be the high seas, then where is the high seas?
Xiao Kun has already thought about this.
“Zhang He, I don’t care how you divide it, I want this crown, but you must remember that the crown has nothing to do with this batch of jewelry. The crown was dug out of his home by a farmer in New Guinea. Later, my auction house People learned about it and bought it back to China, do you understand?” Xiao Kun said.
In New Guinea, land is privately owned. Whoever owns the land will own all the benefits related to it. Even the state has no right to get involved.
So in Xiao Kun’s mouth, the crown suddenly transformed into something belonging to someone’s private land and was sold to their auction house.
As for who dug it, when it was dug, and whether there is anything else in the ground at home, his family naturally has a team to make arrangements.
Zhang He smiled and said: “Okay, okay, no one will rob you, but this thing cannot be sold to the public. Are you collecting it and secretly handing it over to the state?”
Xiao Kun glared and said: “Why do you secretly hand it over to the country? Just publicly identify it, publicize it, and organize a big auction. No matter which country comes to recognize it, it will have to talk to us. If If it belongs to our country, that would be even better. When the time comes, I will take a photo of it directly from my house, sell it for an unprecedented high price, and then give it to the country.”
The item belongs to their auction house. No matter how rich others are, once they decide to take the auction, no matter how much they shout, they will not be able to take it away. Instead, they will raise the price even higher.
If the price is too high, it would be a bit scary to pay taxes, but there must be subsidies from the state, and coupled with the fame and fortune from this operation, Xiaokun and his family will still benefit a lot.
Zhang He clicked his tongue, then looked at everyone and asked, “Does anyone want this thing?”
Everyone smiled and shook their heads: “No, no, no.”
Zhang He nodded and said: “Well, let’s just divide the gold and silver equally. As for these jewels, before they are appraised, let’s pick them out and estimate them to be almost equal. But who will have the items at that time? It’s extremely valuable after identification, and that’s life.”
“It is fate that the nine of us got these things. If we choose well this time, we will not be able to say who has earned more and who has earned less.”
Everyone laughed and said: “Wow, this is exciting, I have to pick it up.”
Mo Qiong didn’t say anything at the side, but when he heard Zhang He say “there are nine of us”, he knew it was safe.
He has integrated into this group.
When Zhang He saw this, he said: “You can choose too.”
“This hasn’t counted yet.” Mo Qiong pointed at the wooden sculpture.
“Same, whoever wants it will be picked.” Zhang He said.
Mo Qiong immediately took the wood carving in his hand.
However, Xiao Kun looked at it from the side and said with a smile: “You are really good at choosing. You picked the cheapest one.”
Mo Qiong said: “After all, it is a cultural relic and a work of art. Things from hundreds of years ago are not much cheaper, right?”
“No, no, no, this thing is worth tens of thousands of dollars at most, and it won’t be able to go to a medium-sized or larger auction.” Xiao Kun said.
Mo Qiong said in shock: “Ten thousand yuan? So cheap? How can something that is hundreds of years old be so cheap?”
“It’s not that the older it is, the more expensive it is. The original value of antiques also depends on it. The wood carving craftsmanship is too poor. It’s just a small folk object, a bit like a pirate’s amulet. I guess this royal family It was looted by pirates when they escaped. When the pirates buried the treasure, they also buried their own amulets.” Xiao Kun said.
Mo Qiong grinned, but he didn’t expect that he would pick the least valuable one.
He originally thought that this thing was placed in a separate box. It must be some kind of valuable antique. You must know that pirates don’t even respect the crown and just stuff it with a pile of treasures.
But now that Xiao Kun explained it like this, Mo Qiong realized that even if this thing was precious to the person who buried it, it didn’t mean that it would still be precious hundreds of years later.
“I’m afraid this thing is just something the Pirate King thinks is important.”
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