Chapter 48: Dividing the Treasure

Mo Qiong looked at Zhang He who was ecstatic and laughed along with him.

This guy is really a middle school student. After finding the treasure, he doesn't care about the value, but seems to value fame more.

But it's okay. Mo Qiong doesn't care about fame. He is even willing to give the right of discovery to Zhang He alone.

When he heard the last sentence, Mo Qiong was stunned.

Every time you go out to sea, you just let it go for a few days? Good guy, is this going to die?

This time, Mo Qiong is here, so there will be so many surprises in the so-called fate.

But if you really think that there are surprises every time, you can touch the treasure by digging randomly in the sea, then it will be like waiting for the rabbit by the tree?

The sea is very dangerous. If you keep drifting like this, something will happen sooner or later.

But now Zhang He can't listen to the advice. He excitedly pulled Mo Qiong back to the yacht.

The yacht is not far away. The others are tired of playing and are waiting for them there.

Seeing them coming back, Xiao Kun said, "Why did you run so far? Come on! We're waiting for you to grill fish together."

Zhang He laughed and said, "What fish? Come down and dig for treasure!"

Everyone was stunned, and Xiao Kun said in surprise, "Did you find pearls again?"

"There are pearls, but they are placed in a box." Zhang He laughed.

"In the box?" Everyone didn't understand yet.

Zhang He shouted, "Treasure, idiot, come and dig!"

Everyone was shocked, and finally reacted, and all jumped into the water to follow and see.

But Mo Qiong said, "Well, it's too heavy, let's drive the boat directly over."

Zhang He nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes."

When they drove the boat to the top of the treasure and anchored it, and dived to check.

Everyone was stunned. The boxes that Zhang He and Mo Qiong dug out were all locked, and they couldn't see what was inside.

But the original box was broken, and when he reached out, he found a handful of jewelry.

Xiao Kun could tell at a glance that these were all simple jewelry artworks, which must be ancient objects, and the workmanship was very different from modern ones.

What made him even more crazy was that there was a crown in the broken box!

"Fuck!" Xiao Kun frantically took out the crown and floated to the surface.

Everyone followed him and heard him roaring.

"Quick! Quick! I'll save this first, you guys quickly carry the broken box onto the boat!"

He climbed onto the boat directly holding the crown and looked for a hair dryer everywhere.

Everyone saw him drying the crown very carefully, and realized that these were all cultural relics. The broken box would definitely not work if it was soaked in sea water.

The boxes were heavy, but it was easy to do it with several people working together. Several men carried the boxes onto the boat one by one, while the women continued to clear the silt underwater.

After that, the men went to help again, and several people worked hard, and found more and more boxes.

In the end, after more than two hours of going up and down, they finally confirmed that there were no boxes.

After counting carefully, they brought up a total of 21 boxes.

"Tired..."

Everyone climbed aboard to rest. Seeing Xiao Kun still taking care of the crown, they could not help but said angrily, "Why do you only care about this and not help?"

Xiao Kun said without raising his head, "Those jewels are not as important as antiques. Do you know how valuable this ancient crown is?"

A woman said, "One hundred million? Or two hundred million?"

"You know shit! Priceless! The crown is priceless!" Xiao Kun said excitedly, "Have you heard of a crown auctioned for a sky-high price?"

The woman thought for a while and said, "Didn't Princess Diana's crown get auctioned? I remember it was only a few million."

"That's not a real crown. It's just a modern craft that looks like a crown. It has no political significance to the country and does not symbolize any power. If it wasn't owned by Princess Diana, I could make a hundred of that thing and give it to you!" Xiao Kun said.

Zhang He listened and said, "Then how do you know this has political significance? Do you know which country's crown it is?"

Xiao Kun shook his head and said, "How can I know which country's 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 crowns casually like now? This crown must have been worn by a king. It is a real crown."

"Real crowns have never been auctioned. Ancient crowns must be national collections. 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 wanted to buy the Byzantine crown, but couldn't afford it. In the end, they spent 100,000 gold coins to buy a scepter."

"Now, crowns are either in museums or in the hands of royal families of various countries. Even if there are ancient crowns unearthed from private land, there will definitely be relevant countries that find and buy them. It is impossible to bid at a sky-high price."

"This thing is a priceless treasure."

Mo Qiong listened and secretly thought he knew the goods.

Xiao Kun didn't know that this was the Ryukyu crown, but he knew that it was a priceless treasure.

Priceless here means that it must not be allowed to be auctioned publicly, unless it is a crown of an unknown country, it may be bought by a private person.

So it is impossible to sell this thing at a high price.

Zhang He asked: "Then 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, checked for a long time, and then shook his head and said: "No, it is in the exclusive economic zone of New Guinea... Alas, there is a small island of theirs nearby. If there is no small island, this is the high seas."

"It doesn't matter. Where it was dug from is up to us." Xiao Kun said confidently.

Everyone was calm and didn't care whether it was the high seas.

Mo Qiong saw this and couldn't help but secretly said: It's really a rogue, but I like it.

Next, everyone counted the harvest.

A total of 21 boxes, in the box of jewelry that was broken.

Twelve strings of large and small pearls, more than 200 pearls. Thirty jade bracelets, rings, and pendants, more than 40 various rings and rings, and various artworks such as white jade paperweights, jade Buddhas, and jade fish.

Some of them also have the word "Dajun" written on them, which is Chinese characters.

Xiao Kun was surprised and said: "Which royal family would use Chinese characters? And still call it Dajun? North Korea? No, the crown of North Korea is not of this style, nor is it so luxurious."

Zhang He said: "Don't shake this half bottle of water, just go back and find someone to identify it."

When everyone found 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 objects..." Xiao Kun was a little disappointed. Not to mention ritual objects, there was not even a piece of porcelain.

Mo Qiong said: "Are gold and silver not considered cultural relics?"

Xiao Kun said: "Yes, but these gold and silver have been recast into gold bricks, so there is almost no added value. Basically, it is only calculated based on the current price of gold and silver."

"Well, if this box of jewelry is auctioned separately, it can be worth about 200 million, not counting the crown."

"As for the remaining gold and silver, weigh them, the total value is only 20 million."

The box is very small, one box of gold is less than 100 kilograms, and silver is even lighter.

The value of the 19 boxes together is not even one-tenth of the box of jewelry.

However, this is already a lot, Xiao Kun was only slightly disappointed, and then he immediately became excited.

Things worth more than 200 million are right in front of them. Even if they are not short of money, they can't despise this property.

"More than 200 million, how to divide it?" someone asked.

When it comes to dividing money, everyone gets excited.

This was fished out from the sea by everyone. As for whether it is the high seas, that is not a problem. 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 the origin of the crown must be verified by an archaeological team. 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 from a farmer in New Guinea. Later, someone from my auction house found out and bought it back to the country. Do you understand?" Xiao Kun said.

In New Guinea, land is privately owned. Whoever owns the land, all the related interests belong to him, and even the country has no right to interfere.

So in Xiao Kun's mouth, this crown suddenly became something in someone's private land and was sold to their auction house.

As for who dug it, when did they dig it, and whether there are other things in the family's land, his family naturally has a team to arrange it properly.

Zhang He smiled and said, "Okay, okay, no one will snatch it from you, but this thing cannot be sold publicly. Did you collect it and secretly hand it over to the country?"

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. When the time comes, no matter which country comes to claim it, they have to talk to us. If it belongs to our country, it will be even better. At that time, my family will directly bid it in private, sell it at an unprecedented sky-high price, and then give it to the country."

The thing belongs to their auction house. No matter how rich others are, once they decide to bid it in private, no matter how much money they shout, they can't take it away. Instead, they will raise the price even higher.

If the price is too high, the tax is a bit scary, but the country must have subsidies, plus the fame and fortune in the operation of this matter, Xiao Kun's family will still benefit greatly.

Zhang He made a sound of "tsk tsk", and then looked at everyone and asked, "Does anyone want this thing?"

Everyone smiled and shook their heads: "No, no."

Zhang He nodded and said, "Then let's do this, the gold and silver will be divided equally. As for these jewels, before they are appraised, everyone can pick them and estimate them to be roughly equal. But whoever has the most valuable item after appraisal will be determined by fate."

"It's fate that the nine of us got these things. We have to choose well this time. Whoever earns more or less can't say it later."

Everyone laughed and said, "Wow, this is exciting. I have to choose carefully."

Mo Qiong didn't say anything on the side, but when he heard Zhang He say 'nine of us', he knew it was safe.

He has already integrated into this group.

Zhang He saw this and said, "You pick it too."

"This one hasn't been counted yet." Mo Qiong pointed to the wood carving.

"Same, whoever wants it can pick it." Zhang He said.

Mo Qiong immediately took the wood carving in his hand.

However, Xiao Kun watched from the side and laughed: "You are really good at choosing. You picked the cheapest one."

Mo Qiong said: "It is a cultural relic and a work of art after all. It is hundreds of years old. It can't be cheap, right?"

"No, no, no, this thing is at most tens of thousands of yuan. It can't even be auctioned at a medium-sized auction." Xiao Kun said.

Mo Qiong was stunned and said: "Tens of thousands of yuan? So cheap? How can something hundreds of years old be so cheap?"

"It's not that the older it is, the more expensive it is. The original value of an antique 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 the royal family was captured when they fled. The pirates looted it, and when they buried the treasure, they also buried their own amulets," Xiao Kun said.

Mo Qiong grinned, but he didn't expect that when he picked it, he picked the least valuable one.

He originally thought that if 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 bunch 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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p.s: Sorry.