It didn't take long for the two patrol boats to arrive at the scene and take over the rest of the work. This made Captain Wang and Political Commissar Zhao Liang, who had been nervous, relax a little. After introducing the situation to Deputy Director Gong of the border defense station, everyone rushed back to Tokyo Island Base. The three boats categorized the boats with different speeds. Captain Wang led the fastest team to take the lead and took the injured fishermen to the boat. After preliminary care, they rushed to the Tokyo Island base. The rest of the boats followed a patrol boat and slowly returned. The other patrol boat went inland to scout to see what was going on.
After splitting up, Captain Wang and the others had a smooth journey. Nothing else happened. They arrived at the dock of the Tokyo Island Base smoothly. They got in touch with Director Jiang of the border defense station on the island and introduced the situation in detail. After the border defense station took over the follow-up work, the anti-smuggling team members who had stayed at sea for several days could finally rest comfortably under the warm reception of the border defense police.
After sleeping for an unknown period of time, Wang Wenbao was woken up by the noises outside the base. He got up and saw that the rest of the anti-smuggling crew had also been woken up. Everyone felt a bit confused. Some of them even mumbled something and wrapped their heads with the bedsheets before continuing to sleep. Most of them still had their eyes wide open as they walked outside with one foot high and one foot low. They found that the noises were coming from the dock. However, they were blocked by the wall and could not see clearly. Everyone did not care about their singlets and big shorts. They dragged their slippers and went over to watch the show. They ran to the dock area and saw clearly that it was the fishermen on the island who were looking at the new things! The two sailing ships from the 17th to 18th century were pulled by patrol boats and parked outside the dock. The sailing ship looked terrible on the outside. The originally tall front and back masts had been broken into several pieces and were lying on the side of the ship in a mess. Some of the masts were still dragged in the sea by ropes. There were several big holes on the ship, and it looked like it had been burned. The entire ship had been blown up by artillery shells. If it wanted to be used again, it would be useless. It was not easy to fix them. There were many foreigners on the transport boats who were being transferred to the shore, especially a few of them who were wearing red long clothes and trousers. However, they looked very sorry. Whether they were wearing red clothes or not, they looked like they had just burned coal, causing black shadows to be everywhere. However, their heads were covered so that no one could see them... This was too funny... As for those fishermen... Obviously, they already knew that their fellow villagers were injured by these people, so they all looked indignant and shouted,"Fight!" Fight! Kill them! Kill these foreigners!" "Kill them!" " Tell them to scram!"
Passing by the excited fishermen, they saw Inspector Jiang and the others holding walkie-talkies in front of the dock. They were giving instructions on the spot. Just as they were about to pass through the fishermen to the front, they heard Inspector Jiang's voice coming from the electric loudspeaker."Fellow countrymen, fellow countrymen! Please make way! Don't push! Everyone, step back a little and let the people on the ship get off! We still need everyone's help to unload the things on these two ships. These bandits have sent us things. We can't pretend to be polite and let them take advantage of us.”…. The voice from the loudspeaker kept repeating, and the fishermen were also stimulated by this funny words and laughed out loud…
Seeing this, Wang Wenbao and the others knew that they couldn't go up at the moment. They pulled an old fisherman beside them and casually asked about the situation. The old fisherman's face was red and his eyes were wide open. He looked angry and excited, and he didn't want to answer. Wang Wenbao and the others were a little disappointed. Just as they were about to find someone else to ask, the old fisherman turned around and asked them,"These few comrades are unfamiliar. I wonder where they came from?!”When Wang Wenbao heard this, he quickly revealed his identity. When he heard that they were police officers and had only arrived on the island today, the old fisherman became more talkative."Sigh! I say, comrades, you've seen the situation at the dock. These foreigners deserve to be killed! There were a few fishermen on the transport boat that we were returning to the island in the morning. They were injured by them! Especially the youngest son and his wife of Chen Sanmei in East Chen Ao. They were seriously injured! It looked like he wouldn't be able to live past these few days. These foreigners were too arrogant! When we went overseas to fish, we were bullied by them. Now, they actually came to our land to bully us.! Hong Kong had already returned! They still treated it as an old society? You guys have to interfere in this matter! When they came to the surface, they heard from the captain that they were pretending to be ancient ships and even fired at them when they were not prepared! It's a pity that I'm a little old. Otherwise, I'll give them a few hits in the morning! That's right! Comrade, why is there no reply from the mainland? Do you know what's going on?”When Wang Wenbao and the others heard this, although they were inevitably surprised, it seemed that they were also looking for an answer to what happened on the shore. How should they answer? "Old comrade, today's incident was a little unexpected, but you all still have to believe in Director Jiang and the others. I believe that they will definitely handle this matter well!"”"Of course I believe! The people on the island would naturally believe Director Jiang and the others! I'm just afraid that those on the shore…Sigh! What a sin! Everyone was going to move to their new homes on the shore in a few days. Why did this happen? Chen Sanmei was looking after the newly built house on land. She didn't know about this yet. How was she going to tell this old brother? After suffering for a lifetime, in the end, when he was about to enjoy it, he caused such a thing!”The old fisherman shook his head as he spoke. Wang Wenbao and the others did not have any good ways to comfort this obviously sad old man. However, they were also sad. Everyone quickly fled back to their resting place without saying a word.
After a short rest, they put on their clothes. When they went to the wharf, they found that the wharf had already been loading and unloading the materials from the two ships. Some fishermen were helping some fighters in the border defense station to move the items from the wind-sailing ships.
The fishing boat was leaning against the sailboat, using the mechanical boom on the fishing boat as a crane to lift baskets of things onto the transport boats. Several transport boats were shuttling back and forth, and there were more than a dozen people loading and unloading the things from the boat at the dock. They were all sweating, but it seemed that everyone was very enthusiastic. A few forks were transporting the sorted things into different warehouses. Two people were holding notebooks, probably to record them. When they saw this, they helped out. Not to mention, there were quite a lot of things on these two boats. Captain Wang saw that Superintendent Jiang and a few strangers were reading the notebook, so he ran over to read it together. However, he was really shocked when he saw it! There were quite a lot of things on these two boats! From food to clothes to play, there was everything! Rice, flour, salted pork, salt, potatoes, various vegetables, and tea leaves were all in abundance. The most abundant goods were silk and other high-grade fabrics. There were already hundreds of them. Moreover, it seemed that there were quite a lot of these things on the ship. They could really get anything they wanted. It seemed that these British people treated this ship as their home. However, it was also true. They had come from afar and had nothing on land. Naturally, they would grab whatever they could and put it on the ship. Looking at the quantity, This was almost a hundred tons. If not for the help of machinery, these things could not be moved ashore in a short period of time.
Seeing Captain Wang coming over, Director Jiang introduced him to the others. He then knew that the youngest one was the deputy secretary of the island, the other two were Qian Jinfa, the manager of the village sideline company, Chen Zhiqiang, the teacher of the provincial sports school and Director Zhang Ming, the local police outpost. He then introduced Captain Wang and Political Commissar Zhao Liang to them, At the same time, he also jokingly pointed at the two ancient ships and several smuggling ships, saying,"These are all the items seized by Captain Wang and Political Commissar Zhao Liang. Now we can borrow all of them and fight the local tycoons!" Everyone laughed nonstop. The others quickly came up to greet Wang and Zhao, and exchanged greetings. Chief Jiang hid to the side and looked at his spoils. It seemed that he wanted to get some benefits from them.
At this moment, Superintendent Jiang, who was reading the records, suddenly waved at everyone. He pointed at the record book and pointed at the silver and gold records. Everyone looked forward and was a little surprised. They saw that the silver and silverware totaled 37826 kg, and the gold and gold totaled 12683 kg. This made everyone a little unable to believe their eyes. Usually, the concept of silver and gold was usually stated in grams. How could it be stated in kilograms like what was recorded now? Moreover, the records used blocks, which meant that they were relatively large. With some doubts, everyone pulled the recorder beside them and quietly asked the two of them if they had remembered these numbers wrongly or if there was a mistake with the metal. These two didn't seem mysterious at all. Instead, they said to everyone with excitement,
"We were also a little surprised at the beginning! The gold and silver had already been packed in boxes. When they came up, they were a little suspicious. They opened one of the boxes and found that it was indeed filled with large ingots of silver. Some of them had words on them. They were usually 50 taels each. Each of them was more than 10 centimeters long, 15 - 17 centimeters wide, and 8 - 10 centimeters high. They looked like bowls!，There were dozens of them in each box, and most of them weighed about 150KG. It was probably packed in such a big box for the convenience of transportation. The chest containing the gold was smaller, but it looked more secure. Originally, we planned to count the boxes separately, but we didn't have enough time. We could only do a rough calculation today. Look at how many people there are at the dock. There are too many things on the ship. Not only are there a lot of things, but there are also a variety of things. We don't have enough people!”
"Then what is this PESO silver coin? There are also Eagle Ocean and Gold Coin. You know these. Hehe, there are a total of 13 boxes. Why didn't you count the exact number?”
"We don't know. We asked everyone and they all said that they had never seen it before. However, we could tell that it was silver at a glance. We didn't know which country it was from, nor did we know when it was made. We only saw such symbols on it, but we didn't know which country's words were from. At the moment, even if we want to count it, we can't count it all at once, so we'll record it down first and count it when we have time in the future.”
At this moment, Teacher Chen from the provincial sports school continued,""I know a little about this PESO. I've seen it when I was looking up information before. It's a type of Spanish peso. It's the Garola IV silver coin that was cast in Mexico. It was the most popular foreign currency in China before the Eagle Ocean. It's usually called the Garola IV coin in the Spanish peso, also known as Benyang or Buddha Head. Each silver coin weighs 416 centimeters, which is more than two cents of China's Kuping seven coins, and contains 90% pure silver. Before the Opium War, it was already in circulation in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangxi, and other places, and it was even more valuable than the silver of the Qing Dynasty. Everyone knew that the Eagle was the Mexican silver dollar. It was widely used after 1842. In fact, these two kinds of silver dollars were similar, but one appeared earlier and the other appeared later. Therefore, everyone was more familiar with the Mexican silver dollar and not too familiar with the local silver dollar. At present, it was more valuable than the Eagle in the collection world.”
"Oh, Teacher Chen, you know quite a lot. You have to introduce more to us in the future!”
"Alright! Alright, if there's a chance, I'll definitely introduce more.”
"You can't hide anything!"
"Look at what you're saying. How can I? Knowledge is used to let everyone understand all kinds of things. I didn't dare to hide anything. I was just afraid that my knowledge wasn't enough for everyone. At that time, I would make a fool of myself!”
" Teacher Chen, you're too humble…"
"There, there…"
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