Chapter 1200 What Is This?
Han Li never dreamed that among these treasures piled up like a small hill, silver actually accounted for almost half of the amount.
And the quality of these silvers was not very good, which reduced the expected harvest again.
However, Han Li thought that these were all picked up for nothing, so he still patiently investigated bit by bit.
The things Han Li investigated next, such as the more valuable gold bars, gold bricks, gold coins, gold and silver products, diamonds and jewelry raw stones, ivory, and rhino horns only accounted for a small part.
Most of the remaining things were some things similar to cultural relics, and these things were very miscellaneous. It was estimated that they had no value at the time, and they might not be valuable in the future.
For example: a statue of the high priest made of bronze and crystal, objects with snake heads on both sides, and several stone statues of Sekhmet, the ancient goddess of war and destruction, with lion heads and human bodies.
Bronze gilded painted mummy masks, Egyptian cat statues made of unknown black stones inlaid with gems, scarab handles, and fish-shaped handles inlaid with gold on blue-green stones.
All of the above are small items. Although the workmanship is OK, Han Li is not optimistic about their value.
However, among these seemingly worthless "cultural relics", the largest number is the items with a strong Indian style. Maybe they were exploited the most by England at that time.
For example: bronze statues of Vishnu and Shiva, sculptures of sky dancers, gold bracelets with two snakes entwined together, snake-shaped scepters inlaid with gems, and items from several other Indian sects.
Of course, there are other styles that Han Li can't recognize, such as a statue of a human head with blue skin and bulging eyes like balls, a statue of a naked little boy wearing a gourd-like object on his head and a pair of small wings on his back, etc.
When Han Li investigated here, he guessed in his heart that the unlucky captain named Elvin Kidd was definitely a person with little cultural knowledge and short-sightedness.
Otherwise, why would he rob these things, and finally someone would go to great lengths to hide them here.
Let’s not talk about the things that are the same style as the mummy, and the things that Han Li can’t tell the style of.
Let’s just talk about the things in Ah San’s place. The English royal family has ruled there for nearly two hundred years. What good things have the royal family and the queen not seen there?
Including the most dazzling light blue “Mountain of Light” diamond, and the pink “Sea of Light” diamond, these rare gems in the world are all inlaid in the queen’s crown.
Can these things collected by Elvin Kidd catch the queen’s eye? For things like this, even if he feels that he has accumulated enough and wants to offer them, what awaits him may not be a title, but a gallows.
After all, pirates like Elvin Kidd were called “sea dogs” by the English royal family at that time.
It’s just like raising a dog. If this dog can bring back prey for the owner, then it will naturally get the owner’s praise and a meat bone.
But if this dog brings back a bowl of poop that it thinks is very delicious, then the result waiting for it is hard to say.
If the master is in a good mood, he will break your legs and send you to prison to do hard labor until you die. If you can offer some money to smooth things over, you may get a chance to be sent to Kangaroo Island to fend for yourself.
If the master is in a bad mood, you will be beaten to death. Anyway, the British royal family and the queen don't lack such a "sea dog" at all, or a "sea dog" that has no vision and can't bring benefits to themselves.
Before Han Li finished complaining in his heart, his mental power found a very strange object with a strong Dragon Country feature.
This discovery made Han Li unable to take care of the rest of the things. He put it in the decomposition space with a thought, and took it out without stopping to look at it carefully.
This is a sheep's head made of brass, which may have other materials added to it, or a special process.
In short, it was placed in this humid seaside cave, and there were still not many signs of erosion and corrosion on the surface. Han Li took out a soft towel and wiped it gently to restore its original appearance.
Han Li took the sheep head, which was about 50 centimeters long, in his hand and examined it carefully. He saw that it was cast very finely and delicately, and the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears were vivid, and even the hair on the sheep head was unusually clear.
The more Han Li played with the sheep head, the deeper and brighter its color became. In the end, it gave him a feeling of deep color, inner brilliance, and full of charm.
The more Han Li played with it, the faster his heartbeat became, and he kept muttering softly in his mouth.
"No way, no way, this sheep head can't be one of the twelve animal heads, right?
It must be, it must be. Except for the skilled craftsmen in our country, other countries at that time could not have made such a fine, clear, lifelike and precious treasure that has hardly rusted after so many years.
In later times? The sheep head has never appeared in later times. Either the sea level rose and blocked the entrance to this remote seaside cave, or the sea water rushed in and rolled it to an unknown seabed, or..."
Han Li held the sheep head and played with it for a long time, then carefully tied a long red rope on it, and confirmed it several times before putting it into the decomposition space.
Han Li did not intend to hand over this sheep head immediately, nor did he intend to keep it privately. He needed to think carefully about when to let it appear in the public eye in China.
Han Li would never agree to a certificate of merit or a few hundred yuan. It was not that he cared about money, but he wanted it to help him or his family in some way.
The arrival of the sheep head, a treasure, made Han Li explore the remaining objects more carefully.
But it was a pity that, let alone treasures like the sheep head, he only found a copper-plated kirin among the treasures in China.
Han Li wiped the copper kirin carefully and took it in his hand to examine it carefully.
The color and pattern of the copper kirin should be cloisonné, and the workmanship is also very delicate and realistic. It is an object made by the craftsmen of the Dragon Kingdom.
The copper kirin stands on four legs, and the kirin opens its mouth to roar, as if it is about to jump up.
Although Han Li did not know the origin of the copper kirin, he had figured out its function.
The bronze Qilin is an incense burning device. When the incense is lit in the abdomen, the fragrance spreads out from the round hole in the mouth.
Han Li played with it in his hand for a while and then put it away. However, he decided in his heart that he would use this beautiful cloisonné Qilin when reading books and burning incense in the future.
Han Li did not find any objects with the style and craftsmanship of the Dragon Country. He cursed Elvin Kidd in his heart that he was a fool who didn't know the goods and actually threw such treasures in the innermost.
However, at this time, he no longer had the desire to see and touch, and wanted to be an ancient rich man. He waved his hand and put all the broken boxes and treasures in front of him.
Finally, a rough count was made. The silver of ordinary quality was about one and a half tons, and various gold bars, gold bricks, gold coins, and gold and silver products were about two hundred kilograms.
There were more than 300 diamonds and various gemstones, 55 large and small ivory, 97 rhinoceros horns of different lengths and thicknesses, and a number of statues, sculptures and other "cultural relics" from different countries.
After Han Li put away all his things, he took off his clothes, stretched out for a while, and swam out.
He returned to the shore, wiped his body clean, put on his clothes, and let the RV go up to light the stove and made himself a cup of hot tea. While sipping the hot tea, he thought about what had just happened.
At this time, Han Li slapped his forehead. He was busy going back to the car to warm up, and forgot about the blue langoustine that was the biggest contributor to this harvest.
But how to take it with him? The sea Tai Sui has not yet been transformed. Do I have to take a big basin and fill it with sea water to take it with me?
Big basin? Thinking of this, Han Li sank his mental power into the vast peach garden, and made a pit with a diameter of about one meter and a depth of only about 30 centimeters on the rock at the edge of the foot of the mountain.
Next, Han Li came to the beach, took some sea water to fill the pit, and took some more and put it in the decomposition space for use. Then he grabbed the blue langoustine that was dazed at the beach and threw it in.
Han Li returned to the RV without stopping. He immediately started the car and drove to the A99 highway, continuing to drive south.
What Han Li didn't know was that because he had just made a pit filled with seawater on the edge of the vast peach garden, this pit or seawater was like a medicine, triggering the next step of transformation of Hai Tai Sui that had not been completed for a long time.
Han Li was now almost doing two things at once. While driving, he tried his best to search for the news about treasures in England that he had seen in his previous life in his mind.
Han Li couldn't go to other countries, so he was too lazy to think about it.
However, most of this kind of news was true or false. When Han Li saw this kind of news in his previous life, he would usually just skip it.
So until it got dark, Han Li didn't find any very useful news in his memory.
But Han Li didn't give up. After parking the car and having dinner, he made himself a cup of tea and took out the maps he bought from various places to look through them.
Han Li wanted to find familiar place names on the map, and combine those dispensable memories of his previous life to add some inspiration and enlightenment to himself.
This method seemed stupid and unreliable, and Han Li did not have any expectations at first. He regarded this behavior as a pastime before going to bed.
But when Han Li's finger slid on the map to a small village called Hoxon in Suffolk, England, some familiar memories immediately emerged in his mind.
At the end of 1992, a villager in this village accidentally excavated this treasure while repairing his house.
It is said that there are 14,191 silver coins, 565 gold coins, 24 copper coins, 79 silver spoons, more than 20 silver candlesticks, some small silver statues and 29 pieces of finely crafted jewelry made of pure gold, as well as about 250 kilograms of gold nuggets from various periods and mints.
The gold coins can be traced back to 394 AD to 405 AD, which is the ancient Roman period (9-7 coins), a kind of gold coin with a gold content of 99%.
That was the time when the most ancient Roman coins were discovered, and it was also the most important cultural relic discovery in the history of Ingolan.
Han Li didn't care about what was discovered, nor did he care whether the country had any historical excavations.
Han Li recalled the thought after hearing this news, that is, it would be a waste if he didn't take the foreigners' unowned treasures. Even if he took a hundred or a thousand times more treasures, it would not be as much as the fraction they had robbed from his home before.
At this time, Han Li thought of a lot of things. He thought of many things that happened in the country before and after, and finally thought of his golden finger, so a very practical idea emerged in his mind.