Global Treasure Hunting: From Penniless to Billionaire

When the smoke and dust cleared, the original stones were broken into more than a dozen pieces, and more gaps were exposed at the entrance of the cave.

Zhao An laughed, and greeted Wang Guangxu: "Captain Wang, it's up to you!"

Wang Guangxu responded, greeted the workers and began to clear the stones at the entrance of the cave.

Another half an hour passed, and all the gravel at the entrance of the cave was cleared away, revealing a cave entrance that was as tall as one person and big enough for four or five people to pass through.

The entrance of the cave looked unfathomable, and the ground was so dark that it was impossible to see what was inside.

Wang Guangxu and other salvage workers on the Changfeng all looked at Zhao An expectantly, waiting for his order.

Zhao An calmed down and asked the two Serenity sailors to take out specially prepared strong flashlights from their backpacks and distributed them to the workers. Then he looked at Li Zhiyuan and asked, "Are you afraid?"

Li Zhiyuan said disdainfully: "Cut, am I afraid?"

So Zhao An led Li Zhiyuan into the lead, and led a group of workers into this secret cave.

The initial section of the cave is fairly dry, but it gets wetter as you go in, and you can even hear the sound of water droplets dripping.

But everyone didn't go far, because they could already see the light of the flashlight reflected by the gold coins in the scattered pile of treasures.

"What is that, a gold coin?"

"My God, so many gold and silver treasures..."

Everyone was whispering, and soon followed Zhao An's footsteps and walked in front of the pile of treasures.

Zhao An looked at everyone calmly, and said to Wang Guangxu: "Captain Wang, now you take the workers back first, bring the guys over here, and send these harvests to the ship."

"In addition, inform Captain Zhou Liangyu of the Juli to prepare to cooperate with everyone's work."

The treasures here are roughly a combination of gold coins, silver coins, gold bars, silver ingots, and various gems. The overall amount is between two and three tons.

Some were packed in wooden boxes, and some were even put into oak barrels altogether, as if they had finished drinking the wine in the barrel and put the treasures in it directly.

These are part of the wealth accumulated by the pirate king Roberts through countless robberies, but for some unknown reason, so many well-buried treasures were eventually abandoned here.

It's also cheaper Zhao An...

The workers quickly brought the utensils from the Changfeng with excited expressions, and then under the supervision of Zhao An, they packed all the treasures in and moved them to the beach in boxes.

Then it was transferred by a small boat to the vicinity of the Serenity, and finally hoisted by the Julius, and landed on the deck of the Serenity smoothly.

All the workers worked together and were full of energy. After spending more than two hours, they finally moved all the treasures in the cave.

On the way back, Zhao An also announced the reward in a timely manner: "After going back, it is still the old rule. In addition to your salary and bonus, each of you will be rewarded with a large Spanish gold coin, whether you collect it, pass it on to your family, or Pick up the auction, it’s all up to you.”

Immediately there was warm cheers from the returning crowd:

"Wow ~ thank you boss!"

"Thank you Mr. Zhao!"

Zhao An laughed and said, "I've caught a lot of good catches in the past few days, everyone will have extra meals tonight!"

No matter how expensive the tuna or Atlantic cod are, it doesn't matter to Zhao An. Anyway, this thing is something he can ask for.

The crowd cheered again, celebrating what they had gained with Zhao An.

In the evening, while the fleet was moving forward, they each held a celebratory dinner, the kind with enough wine and meat.

Li Zhiyuan hugged Xiao Yuqi, looked at the atmosphere of the three ships, and asked Zhao An, "Where shall we go next?"

Zhao An said with a mysterious smile, "Throughout the seventeenth and eighth centuries, this route was a golden passage, and the number of ships sunk in it is innumerable."

"I plan to let the fleet fish slowly and enjoy it!"

Chapter 925 Quedaf Merchant Account

Historically, Pirates of the Caribbean only appeared in the [-]th century. At the beginning, they were foreign aid invited by Britain, France and the Netherlands to beat up the Spanish navy.

At that time, the Queen of England had a deep-rooted hatred for Spain, so she issued licenses to all teams preparing to rob Spanish cargo ships, allowing them to "legally" rob, and all the property they robbed belonged to them.

Therefore, these licensed teams can all be called Pirates of the Caribbean, but they are not without restrictions, that is, they must never rob British cargo ships.

It wasn't until the British finally defeated the Spanish Armada that these Caribbean pirates slowly disappeared into history.

But throughout the Age of Discovery, when Western colonists plundered the Americas and traded black slaves, navies, merchant ships, and pirates experienced countless fierce battles on this route, and shipwrecks abound on this route.

Zhao Anwen sat on the Tranquility and led the salvage fleet to stop and go, purposefully salvaging the sunken ships along the channel.

Fan Yunting led the diving team members to follow Zhao An's instructions, and each carried two oxygen bottles and jumped into the sea.

As soon as these divers entered the water, it was like a fish returning home, and they dived freely and freely.

Soon they arrived at the deep water area, where the light had begun to dim. Fan Yunting turned on the underwater searchlights and purposefully searched for the sunken ship on the bottom of the sea.

He is already very experienced in this, and he can find the target accurately wherever Boss Zhao instructed him.

Soon, the diving team who arrived at the bottom of the sea first sent a light signal in the direction of Fan Yunting, telling him that he had found the target.

Fan Yunting swam over quickly, and soon saw the target this time.

It was a two-masted ship, one of the masts was broken, and the remaining one was also rotting in the seawater.

Around the hull, there were several gun barrels covered with copper rust. Fan Yunting adjusted his direction and came to the side of the ship. He reached out and wiped off the handwriting covered by barnacles and seaweed on the side of the ship...Look Clear the above words.

I can vaguely recognize the English words on it: Quedaf Merchant No.!

Fan Yunting searched around again, and found some items scattered on the ship, broken pottery, and broken boxes around the sunken ship, but they seemed to be of little value.

This time, Fan Yunting saw the light signal from the team members again, and it seemed to be in a hurry, as if they had discovered something again.

When he swam over to see, good guy, there was a big hole on the side of the cabin, reflected by the underwater searchlight, and there were piles of glittering gold coins in the hole.

They were originally contained in metal boxes, but now the metal boxes were obviously eroded by sea water, exposing the gold contained inside.

Fan Yunting made a few gestures to the team members to signal them to go up, and at the same time manipulated his body to start to float up slowly.

"Hoo~!"

Floating to the surface, Fan Yunting took a deep breath of fresh air.

He excitedly looked in the direction of Tranquility, and wanted to inform Zhao An of the good news immediately, but in the end he returned to Changfeng and reported the news to Zhao An by radio.

Zhao An calmly ordered: "Take a short rest, and then try to salvage this treasure ship with all your strength... Also inform the Juli to fully cooperate with your salvage mission."

At the end, he also added: "Be careful, I wish you all a victory!"

Li Zhiyuan, who was holding Xiao Yuqi beside her, asked curiously this time: "Quedav Merchant? Why does it sound like the name of a cargo ship..."

Zhao An chuckled, combined with the information fed back by his real eyes, and the information he had recently collected on the Internet, he explained to Li Zhiyuan:

"The Merchant of Quedaf is the car of the British captain William Kidd, to be precise, his flagship."

"Historically, there has been no clear conclusion on whether the Quedaf Merchant was an armed civilian ship or a pirate ship."

"But he is actually a pirate ship that is both merchants and pirates..."

Li Zhiyuan suddenly realized: "Oh~! That is to say, this Quedaf Merchant is usually engaged in ocean transportation business, and when the market is bad, it also acts as a pirate robbery."

"Anyway, in that era in the vast sea, as long as the opponent's body was destroyed, no one would know the nature of his businessmen and dark bandits..."

Zhao An laughed happily and said, "That's the way it is. The European 'navigators' back in those days... weren't they all like this?"

"If you can't beat him, go into business seriously, if you can beat him, rob him!"

Then the Juli and the diving team began to cooperate tacitly. One party put all the gold, silver and jewelry on the seabed into the box that sank to the bottom of the sea, while the other quickly put away the chains and hoisted up the relics from the bottom of the sea one by one.

Yellow and orange, golden gadgets are so cute. When boxes of gold coins and jewels were hoisted on the Changfeng, the boatmen all showed excitement and their eyes became eager. Enthusiasm has increased a lot.

Fortunately, Wang Guangxu was always watching to prevent these workers from making mistakes.

After a simple cleaning, the gold coins were put back into clean boxes, and then hoisted to the Serenity for safekeeping.

After two days of salvage, all the valuable targets on the Quedaf Merchant were salvaged. Zhao An also arranged for the fleet to celebrate, and handed over the chart he had drawn to Song Haicheng to be in charge of the next salvage mission. .

He took Li Zhiyuan and Xiao Yuqi to fly to Rio de Janeiro on the Atlantic coast by helicopter, and then flew back to China on the Zhiyuan ship from Rio de Janeiro.

Zhao An actually gained a lot from this trip.

While the salvage team was salvaging, he was also searching for ruins on the seabed along the way, and he did not arrange for the fleet to salvage some sunken ships that were not worth salvaging.

It is said that the value is not high, and it is only relatively speaking.

After searching, he directly used the function of the six-compartment backpack to put the contents of the sunken ship into the backpack.

When I went out, it was empty, but when I came back, the six-compartment backpack with a capacity of [-] tons was almost full.

There is no other reason, but the function of the six-compartment backpack is too powerful. Compared with manual salvage, Zhao An's speed and efficiency are much higher.

After returning to Cuiping Mountain Villa, Zhao An entered the underground treasure room, and poured out all the items he had collected.

A trip to the Atlantic, his treasures enriched again.

In the morning of the next day, Li Zhiyuan sold out her vacation and went to work. Zhao An arrived at the Jiangcheng military division by car. He asked Fang Diwei with an excited look, "I heard that my aerospace plane is about to go offline?"

Chapter 926 Tricky Problems

As soon as Zhao An arrived at the military division, he laughed when he saw Fang Diwei, "I heard that the aerospace plane I customized is going to be offline soon?"

Fang Diwei was working at the time, and there were a lot of troubles in the military recently. He raised his head and glanced at him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and said, "You have a good nose, you can smell such confidential news... .”

It wasn't that Zhao An planted some spies in the military industry system, but he knew from afar that his aerospace plane was almost finished on the production line of the aerospace plane at the 883 Base through the detection ability of the Eye of True Sight.

At this moment, according to his request, the aerospace aircraft is equipped with the latest generation of laser automatic anti-missile system.

Zhao An smiled and said, "I'm here to talk about this matter. When it goes offline, should the name of the plane be printed on it?"

Fang Diwei snorted and asked, "Are you going to give the title of the book?"

"Of course it's called Chengying!"

Without even thinking about it, Zhao An blurted out the name. Obviously, the name had been thought of long ago.

Chengying was originally a famous sword in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it was titled as the top ten famous swords in ancient times.

It is a delicate and elegant sword. According to legend, when it was released, "the dragon bears the shadow and the geese forget to return", hence the name Chengying.

At the same time, Chengying is also the name of a mecha in modern science fiction settings, and it is a new type of tactical mecha developed based on orbital airborne combat.

In fact, it is also taken from the description of Chengying in "Liezi·Tangwen": Light is invisible because time flies faster than lightning, and it can pass through the sky and earth in an instant, making people unaware; It seems to exist but not to exist.

Simply put, this thing is fast...

Fang Diwei smiled and praised: "Good name, I will report it to you later, and let them engrave it on the fuselage for you."

Zhao An asked again: "Are we preparing for large-scale production of aerospace planes now?"

Fang Diwei gave him a blank look, obviously this involved confidential information again.

However, Zhao An was originally an insider, and most of the technology of the entire aerospace plane was provided by Zhao An.

老方坦言道：“空天飞机的性能，以及它卓越的反隐形外加运载能力，还有可控源"发；自;小.说,群:9;8、0!2，05?8'5：6！！核聚变动力的驱动方式，是完美具备作为武器装备的条件的。”

"With such technical capabilities, if we don't give priority to satisfying national defense strength, God will think that we are reckless..."

Zhao An's eyes lit up and he said, "Oh, is it used as an air-space combat platform, or is it directly used as an orbital weapon?"

"Second brother also knows, I am a military fan, let's discuss."

Fang Diwei snorted and said, "Currently we have designed four uses. On the one hand, as you said, as an air-space combat platform, there are two branches here, one is similar to an aircraft carrier, an aerospace carrier. "

"Increase the carrying capacity by adding propellers, and carry carrier-based aircraft to achieve combat purposes."

"There is also a tactical-level unmanned aerial vehicle, which analyzes and identifies targets through the quantum computer carried on the aerospace plane, and completes precise and all-round strikes."

What Fang Diwei said is very sci-fi, but precise drone strikes have always been the direction of discussion in future war scenes. For clustered and intelligent attacks on infantry positions and ground targets, drones are an excellent solution to replace soldiers' charge.

They have excellent characteristics such as fast speed, easy to break through, and difficult to defend.

Just imagine, the aerospace plane passes through the enemy's position at high speed, and quickly drops the drone cluster, and the wild drone breaks through the enemy's defense line, drops bombs or kills the enemy target as if entering no one's land... .

Zhao An smiled and said, "Then what's left are orbital weapons and super bombers?"

With a carrying capacity of more than [-] tons, even throwing stones down can bury the target.

Fang Diwei said: "Basically, there is also a fast way of transporting troops. You have seen it before. The super soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor are also capable. And their number reaches a certain base, and their combat effectiveness should be impressive." You can imagine."

"And the exoskeleton armor has now been improved twice, and its performance has also improved a lot."

Zhao An said with a chuckle: "Since that's the case, second brother will apply for me to add some weapons to my Chengying number?"

Fang Diwei: "Don't even think about it!"