Chapter 605: The Nearly Extinct Shoal Sharks

Chen Zetao racked his brains but couldn't figure out how Xiao Peng collected all these treasures: Xiao Peng threw three empty containers into the sea in full view of everyone, but a day later when Pascal and his men salvaged the three containers, they were filled with all kinds of treasures!

How did he do it? No one could figure it out.

Of course, they didn't expect to get an answer from Xiao Peng.

How did Xiao Peng do it?

In fact, no one would believe him if he told it to others: he still relied on his own "shark army", but this time it was not "nurse sharks", "great white sharks" or "sevengill sharks", but monk sharks.

The 'Angler shark' is a very interesting species. Its appearance is very different from the sharks we usually know. It is more like the ray commonly known as the 'boss fish' or the anglerfish. Its body is flat and wide. Because it looks like a musical instrument pipa at first glance, domestic fishermen like to call it the 'Spike shark'.

In fact, people have been hunting monk sharks since ancient Greece. For a long time, people thought it was a kind of anglerfish, but later they found out that it was a shark.

This kind of shark usually likes to live in the seabed, such as sea mud and sand. It usually lurks on the seabed and waits for prey to come.

Moreover, this kind of monk shark is large and strong enough, with a length of about two meters and a super big mouth, which makes it very suitable for them to search for treasures in the sea sand!

However, Xiao Peng spent a lot of effort to find this group of giant sharks!

The 'shrike shark' is a creature that can 'PIAPIAPIA' slap the face of the Western media.

In fact, monk sharks are widely distributed around the world, found in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean seas, including the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, though with slightly different species. The Atlantic and North Seas and the Mediterranean were once home to monk sharks, with their numbers far exceeding those in China. But what happens now? Monk sharks in China are enjoying a good life and protected status, while those in the North Sea and the Mediterranean are on the verge of extinction: their leisurely lifestyle makes them a prime prey for Western fishermen.

In fact, most shark products, such as cod liver oil, are made from monk sharks. Western media turned a blind eye to this and then blamed China for the endangered shark species.

It is not surprising that such a situation has occurred. Now the mainstream media in the world basically have three voices: the entire South America, except Brazil, speaks Spanish; most of Africa speaks French; and then there are the countries that mainly speak English. Although more than one billion people speak Chinese, its influence worldwide is really not as great as these three languages: look at India, if there is no English, they can't even issue a national decree.

Regardless of whether it is Spanish, French or English, their core is Western countries, which means that Western countries are influencing the views of most people in the world through the media.

As the saying goes, "gossip can melt gold", and with some brainless and unscrupulous Chinese celebrities who are only interested in making money getting involved in the publicity, even some ignorant Chinese people think that China is the "source of evil" and that all bad things are related to China.

Anyone who has spent a few days in high school would not follow the crowd like this.

The data is reliable. In the past 20 years, only two countries in the world have seen a significant increase in greening: India and China. India's growth is less than half of China's...

It is precisely because of this that the "environmental girl" who is so popular in the Western world has no effect in China. In China, people don't look at what you say, but what you do. People who say one thing and do another are despised in China.

It was really not easy for Xiao Peng to gather this group of monk sharks.

Where is this? The North Sea of the Atlantic Ocean!

Xiao Peng remembered that he had learned in school that there were the so-called "four major fishing grounds" in the world, namely the Newfoundland fishing ground in Canada, the Hokkaido fishing ground in Japan, the Peruvian fishing ground and the North Sea fishing ground. Compared with these four fishing grounds, the domestic fishing grounds were all "small fish ponds".

However, only three of the four major fisheries remain, and one is practically defunct. The Newfoundland fishery was closed for over 20 years due to a lack of fish and has yet to recover. The defunct fishery is the North Sea fishery.

Fishermen from countries like Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all operate in this North Sea fishing ground, and disputes over fishing occur year after year. Furthermore, with the discovery of oil and natural gas in the last twenty years, the North Sea fishing grounds are now essentially defunct, with fishery yields drastically reduced. Finding enough monk sharks to work for Xiao Peng has been a real struggle.

But no matter what, the result is good. This container ship has been modified. From the outside, it is an ordinary container ship, but metal smelting equipment has been installed in the cabin, which is dissolving and weighing the gold and silver coins that Xiao Peng fished out.

This is why people around the world, good and bad, love gold: if it's in the form of coins, it's easy to trace its origin. But if it's gold, even if it's in nuggets, no one can find out!

"A total of 371 tons and 27 kilograms of pure gold, 122 tons and 317 kilograms of silver! 211 pieces of various jewelry and handicrafts." said the statistician on the ship.

Chen Zetao's assistant Wang Lou said, "Oh my God, Mr. Xiao, this is the only time you can become one of the world's top billionaires!"

Xiao Peng lit a cigarette: "When money becomes just a number, it has no meaning anymore."

"Brother Xiao, congratulations on your awesome performance!" Chen Zetao said.

Xiao Peng laughed and said, "Brother Chen, let's do as we agreed. I'll take the fifty tons of gold, and you can have Wang Lou take the rest back to the country to pay for it according to the international gold price. As for these artifacts, you can put them on display in the museum."

"Are you going to exhibit these?" Chen Zetao frowned. "After all, these are the property of the French Bonaparte royal family. Aren't you afraid that the backlash after the exhibition will be too great and detrimental to your stay in France? This is how it is here. It's only right for them to take advantage of you, but it's not right for you to take advantage of them!"

Xiao Peng said, "So I'm going to ask Zhang Cuijian to help me contact the Bank of France and have them take these fifty tons of gold. On the one hand, it's for Fabian and Pascal's dividends, and on the other hand, it's to find an ally and strengthen my relationship with the French government. Fortunately, we have this 'alliance' in Germany, which can help balance the situation on the French side. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would have no choice but to return home and retire! Even so, there are still people in China who are ready to deal with me? Don't they feel guilty?"

"Brother Xiao, you can rest assured now. Just because of the three major things you've done in a row, even saying a few bad words about you will bring bad luck to someone, not to mention punishing you!"