I heard that the local ship sank, and foreigners went to the sea for treasure and found tens of thousands of China cultural relics. What happened?

A long time ago, there was a shipwreck comparable to the sinking of the Titanic in China's waters. And in this shipwreck, a large number of cultural relics sank to the bottom of the sea together with ships.

It is precisely because of this disaster that an Englishman made a windfall. He took away some complete and valuable cultural relics. However, the most outrageous thing is that he actually smashed all the remaining cultural relics in order to ensure the preservation of his hand.

Today, countless Chinese people are very angry with this behavior, and the protection of cultural relics has become the craze of the times.

the sinking of Taixing

China has been very advanced in both commerce and agriculture since ancient times, but before that, our navigation was not perfect.

As a result, an unprecedented shipwreck occurred in 1822. At that time, a commercial ship named Taixing set out from a port in Xiamen, China, to do porcelain business overseas. At that time, the displacement of the whole ship exceeded 1, tons.

You know, in the early 19th century, the productivity of the whole world was very backward. At that time, it was quite remarkable to be able to produce a large ship with a displacement of 1, tons, and it was one of the best ships in the world at that time.

But at that time, there were more than one million pieces of porcelain and thousands of tourists besides the sailors on board. Many people had never seen such a huge ship at that time. Although it was the most commercial ship, it still didn't stop those curious tourists.

At that time, the society was quite turbulent. Even now, there are still some pirates in some public waters, who specialize in plundering past ship merchants.

At that time, Taixing chose a longer route to avoid pirates at sea. But people are not as good as heaven, what's more, drifting at sea is far more dangerous than on land.

The weather at sea will change at any time. One second it may be clear Wan Li, and the next it may be a storm. Coupled with the poor preparation for sailing at that time, once there was a storm, there were almost no rescue measures, and at that time, I had given my life to God.

However, when people on the whole ship celebrated after thinking that they had escaped the pirates' robbery, they didn't expect an unprecedented shipwreck to await them.

No one knows what happened at that time. Thousands of tourists fell into the sea with millions of pieces of porcelain. However, only 18 people were rescued by a British freighter and recovered their lives.

At that time, the sinking of Taixing and Titanic were hailed as two major shipwrecks in the world. Before they set out, they were both called "great ships that will never sink" but they both failed. In the eyes of the world, these two great ships were the pinnacles of the world at that time, but in front of the sea and nature, they all seemed so "powerless".

Even today when science and technology are so advanced, when we face the disasters brought by nature, we still look so pitiful and helpless. We never expect to conquer nature, but we just hope to get along with it safely.

A windfall made by Mike Hatcher

With the passage of time, countries all over the world have formed a relatively stable pattern. Moreover, there is a unified regulation on the high seas in the world, that is, no matter who or any organization, as long as it is a ship salvaged from the high seas, no matter which country it once belonged to, it has no right to go back.

Although this regulation is open to people all over the world, some people have taken advantage of a loophole and made an ill-gotten fortune. Among them, the representative figure of this industry is the British professional treasure hunter-Mike Hatcher.

after the sinking of Taixing, China also sent a large number of search and rescue personnel to the suspected shipwreck. However, everything on the sea is ever-changing, and there was no instrument to accurately measure the position at that time, so it was difficult to find the location of the death at that time.

Because the people who fell into the water at that time were rescued by a British freighter, the British had a book called "Indian Navigation Guide", which introduced in detail the time and place of the sinking of Taixing at that time. It's just that no one in China has read this book at all, and the location of the shipwreck at that time has never been found.

But this book happened to be seen by Mike Hatcher. At that time, he was already an expert in salvage at sea, but he bought most of the salvaged items and the money went into his pocket. Moreover, he had accumulated a lot of wealth by salvage and sale at that time, and he also had a special team of his own.

He made "clever" use of international conventions. Mike Hatcher and his team successfully mixed into some salvage teams every time. In just a few years, a lot of treasures were salvaged, and these countries could not completely stop him.

Knowing that there was huge wealth on the Taixing, Mike Hatcher took action. He almost determined the specific location of the sinking of Taixing by combining the Indian Navigation Guide and some records at that time. After that, he began to take his team into the South China Sea, ready to start salvaging porcelain that had been sealed for many years.

after unremitting investigation, he finally found the location of the sunken ship. What his team will do next is to take these cultural relics ashore and auction them.

In the end, he salvaged about one million pieces of cultural relics, and they were all the most valuable porcelain in the Kangxi period. Thanks to this salvage, McMack Hatcher and his team also made a windfall. This alone won't make the Chinese people so angry. In order to get a good price for what they have, he smashed all the low-value ones and threw them back into the sea.

We are glad that we were born in the most glorious era of our motherland, and the legacy of history has become a classic culture. They will not hinder our development, but they also play an extraordinary role as witnesses of history.

China is not only profound in culture, but also rich in cultural relics. Nowadays, they have also become the most powerful evidence for us to explore history, and naturally their value is no small matter.

After this incident was made public, China immediately sent its own underwater archaeological team to salvage some sunken ships. The achievements in recent years are also remarkable, and more and more cultural relics have returned to the embrace of the motherland.

The most important thing is that Chinese people's awareness has improved, and they have paid great attention to and cared about their own cultural relics. Some of them were bought back by some domestic collectors at a high price and then handed over to the country.

the country is our safe haven, but when the country needs us, we must also be duty-bound.