nucmednet Chapter 123 Legendary Treasure, Investing in the Salvage Team
Chapter 123 Legendary Treasure, Investing in the Salvage Team
"I can help you resolve any future problems!"
"You don't need to follow me."
"But I have two requests—"
"1. Return all the illegal cultural relics in your possession and send them back to their original countries."
"2. From now on, you are not allowed to participate in private archaeology, oops, I mean you are not allowed to rob tombs, understand?"
Jiang Feng gave a very serious and solemn warning.
Huang Weiming agreed without hesitation.
"President Jiang, don't worry. As long as you're willing to protect us, I'll send those things back right away."
"We will absolutely not leave any evidence!"
He was a smart man and of course understood Jiang Feng's meaning. These things were hot potatoes; if they were exposed by someone and caught red-handed by the police, it would be troublesome.
Sending it back can be considered a form of repentance.
Moreover, most of them come from China.
Jiang Feng nodded with great satisfaction. The reason he asked them to send it back was not only to avoid future trouble, but also to make them determined to quit their criminal activities.
Grave robbing is extremely unethical, but treasure hunting is much better. International maritime law stipulates that unclaimed shipwrecks in the high seas generally belong to whoever finds them, or at least have a right of sharing.
(But warships are an exception, as they belong to their respective countries, including ancient warships, which also belonged to their original countries.)
Jiang Feng respects the laws of all countries in principle.
Except for the occasional times when I don't want to be respectful...
(→_→)
"Mr. Huang, as far as I know, there are six individuals or groups who possess concrete evidence of your illegal and criminal activities."
"I'll take care of it for you."
"Erase all evidence of your tomb raiding!"
"From now on, let's just do legitimate treasure hunting."
Despite Jiang Feng's calm and collected advice, Huang Weiming couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine and gasp.
That's right, there are indeed six individuals or groups who possess evidence of their crimes; they're all partners.
Very secret
Very cautious
Jona and Brandon Lee have no idea!
President Jiang actually found out?
(horrified)
He swallowed hard and quickly promised, "Thank you, Mr. Jiang. I will never do anything shady again."
"Do not worry!"
"Treasure hunting is also a lot of fun!"
"For example, the legendary treasure of King Solomon, the gold treasure of Lake Baikal, and the treasure of the golden fleet."
Jiang Feng had also heard of these treasures.
The treasure of King Solomon has even been made into a movie, with a fantastical plot that supposedly includes not only a large amount of gold and jewels, but also the legendary Ark of the Covenant (also known as the Ark of the Covenant).
King Solomon's Treasure
Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark
They're all talking about this stuff.
Its authenticity is highly controversial.
To say it's fake isn't entirely true; there's no doubt that King Solomon possessed enormous wealth.
After all, it is certain that King Solomon was the third and last monarch of the United Kingdom of the Jews, and that the Jewish dynasty collapsed after his death.
The wealth of the Jewish kingdom, including the burial goods of King Solomon, is an absolute treasure!
It's hard to say whether the Ark of the Covenant is real or not...
It comes entirely from the Bible.
King Solomon was a legendary monarch, exceptionally talented and intelligent. In his conquests to expand his territory, he amassed enormous wealth, including vast amounts of gold.
The Temple and the Ark of the Covenant were both built by him!
The Ark of the Covenant was essentially a cabinet for storing sacred objects, and for Jews, it held a god-like status.
If this thing is real, even if it's essentially just scrap metal, it could easily sell for tens of billions, with countless Jews willing to pay for it!
The Ark of the Covenant disappeared.
The reason is very simple:
Although King Solomon was wise and powerful in his early years, he suffered from the common ailment of most kings: he became senile and incompetent in his later years, indulging in women, which led to widespread suffering and war!
The Jewish Union also split into north and south, and was subsequently destroyed by the Assyrian and Babylonian dynasties.
The Ark of the Covenant has long since vanished without a trace!
There are rumors that his son took the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia before the dynasty fell.
According to the Bible, King Solomon had a brief affair with the Queen of Sheba and they had a son, Manniriq, who was the first emperor of the Ethiopian Empire.
For thousands of years, countless people have searched for the Ark of the Covenant, but no one has ever seen even the slightest evidence of it!
Really?
or
fake?
Perhaps, no one will ever know!
Jiang Feng was inclined to believe that the Ark of the Covenant might have existed, but it was certainly an ordinary object, and perhaps it had long been destroyed.
╮(╯_╰)╭
The Baikal gold treasure is even more interesting. After the collapse of Tsarist Russia, its remaining forces, led by Admiral Kolchak, retreated to the Far East with a million men.
It is said that they took away thousands of tons of gold treasures from the Tsarist Russian royal family. When they passed Lake Baikal, the temperature plummeted to minus sixty degrees Celsius, and many people froze to death.
Their train ran out of fuel.
There was no other way but to carry the gold and cross the frozen Lake Baikal by sled! You have to understand that Lake Baikal is tens of kilometers wide, and in a blizzard at minus sixty degrees Celsius, you would definitely lose your bearings and it would be impossible to cross it.
In addition, with pursuers ahead and blockades behind, 25 of these defeated soldiers, nobles, and intellectuals perished here, and a large amount of gold also sank into Lake Baikal.
As for Kolchak, he was betrayed and arrested before they could cross Lake Baikal.
The authenticity of this treasure is also in doubt!
Did the Russian imperial family still have so much gold?
If it's true, why can't it be found? During World War II, in order to fight against Germany, Russia conducted a large-scale search, but found nothing at all; it was a complete waste of effort!
In 1997, Russia, facing economic difficulties, once again utilized high technology to conduct a large-scale search for gold treasures.
Unfortunately, we still didn't find anything!
To say it's fake...
According to some sources, Kolchak once used dozens of boxes of gold to purchase weapons from Japan, but Japan simply embezzled the gold and denied the purchase. It is said that this batch of gold was kept at Mitsubishi Bank.
Moreover, there is no doubt that the Tsarist Russian royal family possessed treasures, and it is a fact that they have not been discovered to this day.
Perhaps it wasn't found because of the deep water?
Lake Baikal has an average depth of over 700 meters.
The deepest point exceeds 1600 meters!
Moreover, Lake Baikal is located in a geologically active zone, where geological movements are frequent. In the past, a major earthquake caused the lake level to drop rapidly, making the environment quite complex.
The world's largest freshwater lake!
It is over 600 kilometers long!
It's tens of kilometers wide!
It's not something that can be searched so easily.
In reality, ocean salvage and treasure hunting only salvages shallow-water shipwrecks; ships deeper than a kilometer cannot be salvaged at all.
They also lack the capability for large-scale deep-sea searches!
Modern high technology is far less advanced than we imagine; it's impossible to detect everything simply by scanning the water's surface.
It needs to be that advanced.
Wouldn't the submarine be doomed?
It can detect precisely at close range and in small areas, but it is not yet possible to conduct large-scale or deep-range detection.
Therefore, the possibility of a gold treasure in Lake Baikal still exists, though the probability is unknown and unimportant. Lake Baikal is an asset of Russia, so even if it were discovered, it wouldn't make a difference!
The most reliable one is the treasure of the gold fleet.
This is highly likely to be true.
Because there is a wealth of historical data to support this!
Moreover, this is a major historical event.
In 1702, the Spanish "Golden Fleet" was defeated by the Anglo-Dutch forces in Vigo Bay. Many of the treasure ships were scuttled and sunk, and several others were captured. The authenticity of this account is highly reliable.
The admiral of the West Banya Navy was captured, and he confessed that a treasure of about five thousand carriages had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Jiang Feng felt this was very believable, didn't he?
It is much more reliable than the treasure of King Solomon, the treasure of the Ark of the Covenant, or the gold treasure of Lake Baikal.
【Hahahahaha】
[You guessed exactly the wrong thing]
The system couldn't resist making a wicked joke:
[Are you possessed by some extraordinary wisdom?]
【→_→】
Jiang Feng was stunned. Had he guessed everything wrong?
What does this mean?
Is it...
Does King Solomon's treasure really exist?
Does gold exist in Lake Baikal?
(⊙～⊙)？
He asked Huang Weiming, "Mr. Huang, it's said that the treasure of the Spanish gold fleet is worth five thousand carriages of gold?"
Huang Weiming quickly waved his hand:
"No, no, no, that's a misunderstanding. Everyone assumes that the ships are carrying nothing but gold when they hear about a gold fleet."
"The gold fleet is also called the treasure fleet."
"Actually, they were transporting gold, silver, jewelry, as well as colonial products such as pepper, cocoa, tobacco, dyes, leather, and carmine, not all of them were gold."
"In fact, the amount of gold is very small."
"Mainly silver!"
"Moreover, before the naval battle began, the gold and silver had already been transported by land and safely returned to the palace."
"There is very little gold and silver jewelry left."
"It's mainly agricultural products~"
“I am much more interested in King Solomon’s treasure, the Ark of the Covenant, and the gold treasure of Lake Baikal.”
really
The treasure of the golden fleet isn't as exaggerated as it seems!
Does that mean that King Solomon's treasure, the Ark of the Covenant, and the gold treasure of Lake Baikal really exist?
What the hell!
6
Jiang Feng announced with great interest, "President Huang, we can cooperate and establish a treasure hunting and salvage company."
"The treasure you discovered independently—"
"We'll split it 5-5."
"The treasure I entrusted to you to retrieve—"
"It depends."
"what do you think?"
Huang Weiming was overjoyed: "Great! Of course I want to cooperate with President Jiang, it would be my honor."
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