章節 1337: Chapter 1337: You can't lose if you have a backer
He was in the mood, and for the next few days, Xia Yu buried himself at home to comb through it.
There was no hiding the news of major shipwrecks and treasures in later generations, and every discovery was news that spread all over the place, especially in the Internet age, when past news was constantly being dug up.
Although he couldn't remember all the information, he knew about some of the well-known shipwrecks and treasures.
There were many gold shipwrecks of Westerners, such as the Spanish Lady Acao, which was salvaged in 1987. There were 40 tons of treasure on the shipwreck, including nearly 8 tons of gold and 500 kilograms of precious stones. The value of all the treasure was about 400 million US dollars.
The British Sussex, which was searched in 1998 and found in a sea area east of the Strait of Gibraltar after four years, had a sunken ship worth £2.4 billion in gold coins.
There are also the Spanish gold fleet and the gold rush ship 'Central America' that have not been salvaged in their previous lives, but have been widely rumoured.
The Spanish gold fleet is said to have 5,000 carriages of jewels and was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Vigo Bay.
The 'Central America' gold rush ship, on the other hand, sank in Panamanian waters with the gold obtained by gold rushers fighting each other for eight years in the American West.
And of course, there is also the ancient Chinese shipwreck that made Xia Yu wring his hands.
For example, the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck, a wooden ship from the early Southern Song Dynasty that transported porcelain along the Maritime Silk Road, sank in the waters of Yangjiang, Guangdong Province. Its previous life was accidentally discovered when the Yangcheng Salvage Bureau and the British Salvage Company wanted to salvage the East India Company's shipwreck, the Rhineburg.
This shipwreck, which is more than 800 years old, was discovered in August 1987, but because the mainland lacked sufficient salvage technology and strength, the news had to be kept secret, and it was not salvaged until 2003. There were a total of more than 4,000 rare cultural relics, and the value was estimated at more than 100 billion yuan in later generations.
It is considered a good thing that this treasure ship was recovered by the mainland.
But there is also the wreck of the Huaxia Taixing, which had a million pieces of porcelain on board and sank on a reef in the South China Sea in 1822. It was finally discovered by accident when a British marine company salvaged the 16th century Huaxia wreck. At the time, the salvage expert, Michael Ha, Michael Har, the salvage expert at the time, had no respect for Chinese history at all. In order to create a gimmick to facilitate hype, he smashed a total of 650,000 pieces of porcelain salvaged, and took the remaining 350,000 pieces to Germany for auction. At that time, only 72 pieces were auctioned back by Dehua County, Huaxia.
This is an absolute insult to Chinese culture!
There are even more sunken ships like the Taixing and Nanhai No. 1 that have not been salvaged.
To sum up, the world knows that sunken ships are salvaged along fixed ancient trade routes and in war-torn waters.
The East is mainly concentrated in the Indian Ocean, and the West is mainly concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Maritime Silk Road in the East and the shipping routes of companies such as the East India Company in the Indian Ocean are full of treasures such as gold and porcelain.
In the Atlantic Ocean, it was mainly the route used by European countries to transport gold cargoes when colonising the Americas. When countries such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom fought for maritime hegemony, they sank countless ships and lost countless amounts of gold.
Apart from these two areas, there are also pirate shipwrecks, World War I and World War II shipwrecks, etc. In particular, World War I and World War II shipwrecks are the closest to the present day and the information is the clearest. The key is still salvage technology and a touch of luck.
Xia Yu believes that his luck will never run out, and with his guidance, the probability of discovering a sunken ship is the greatest.
Therefore, what he needs most urgently is a top marine salvage company with sufficient strength and a large number of vessels operating separately at the same time.
Although the more salvage vessels there are, the greater the expenditure, the greater the probability of success.
He is not short of money, and he can support a large marine salvage company with just a few hairs from his leg.
Therefore, the most crucial thing at the moment is to have the ships and the crew in the right numbers.
Although he has previously acquired the Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, Jardine Matheson and Swire Pacific consortia, he has also been involved in shipping companies.
However, because he knows the trends in the world shipping market, Xia Yu has not made shipping companies a target for acquisition.
During the overall acquisition process, although he acquired the shares of Swire Pacific Shipping and other companies due to the cross-shareholding of companies in this huge consortium,
he has since disposed of them.
As a result, there are currently no shipping companies in Xia Yu's business empire.
However, this has also avoided losses due to the shrinking shipping market.
Think about it: in 1980, the value of a newly built Panamax ship was 28 million US dollars. If it were still in operation today, the price of a second-hand ship would not exceed 10 million US dollars!
According to the trend, the market will continue to shrink, and it should hit bottom around September 1986, before beginning to rebound.
So there are still nearly two years left.
However, since he needs it now and is not planning to become the world's shipping tycoon anytime soon, Xia Yu naturally will not wait any longer.
His consortium has huge shipping needs anyway, with Pacific Oil and Blue Star Mining as the two largest clients, while Rolls-Royce Motors and Tiangong Motors are also major clients.
There is huge demand for both tankers and bulk carriers.
Even if he were to acquire a shipping company now, as long as he refrained from adding new ships, the shipping business of the consortium would support it, so it would not lose money!
Shipping companies backed by his consortium have advantages that other shipping companies do not have!
'I just heard that Wheelock is on the verge of collapse. Check what the situation is and if it is suitable, acquire it before someone else does. I'm in a hurry to use it...'
After a little thought, Xia Yu made a decision in his heart, wrote it down on a piece of paper, and immediately handed it to Fok Kin-ning to arrange.
Xia Yu then focused his thoughts on two companies:
Pacific Oil and Bluestar Mining.
He planned to compete with the Rockefeller consortium and the Middle Eastern tyrants in the oil sector, and become the supreme master of Bluestar in the mining sector!
Salvaging sunken ships, apart from saving Chinese cultural relics, earning pocket money and having some fun, is no way to get rich, and it won't play a supporting role in his career.
But if he can become one of the giants that dominate the world's energy and resources, then the influence will be different.
Especially in the two fields of gold and diamonds, the Rothschild family has always had enormous influence.
The diamond industry is fine, but compared to the gold industry, it is not even worthy of mention.
But as long as the Rothschild family still has the strongest influence and pricing power in the gold sector, even if he has already given the Rothschild family two slashes, the Rothschild family will still be able to recover by sucking blood from everywhere.
But in the final analysis, although futures have the greatest influence in the gold sector, the source is still the gold mines.
If you have the most gold mines in the world, you will occupy the largest market share in global gold mining every year.
If the Rothschild family wants to manipulate the price of gold futures, they will have to look at his face!
'We need to think about which major mines and oil fields have not yet been discovered.'
'I can remember the names and some information about the major oil fields and mines that are famous in later generations, but the specific information is a bit vague. This is a bit embarrassing. It seems that we need to first investigate the global oil and mining industry landscape and the discovered resources.'
'This is a huge project!'
'Fortunately, we have been collecting information on the global industry before, although we haven't done it with full force due to manpower issues, but it should have yielded some results.'
'Now we have to tilt resources and do our best on this...'
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