The following morning at 10:00 AM, a fishing boat with the words "Yu Xue 69" written on it appeared around the salvage vessel. This boat was there to pick up Bai Yu and his two companions and take them back to Sanya.
To date, Bai Yu's company owns more than 100 vessels of various types, including 100 trawlers, all of which are large fishing boats between 70 and 75 meters in length.
If these ships are arranged in order, they would be from Yuxue to Yuxue No. 99, a total of one hundred ships.
The first fishing boat was Yuxue, and the second one was Yuxue No. 1.
The vehicle that's here to pick up Bai Yu is their company's Yu Xue No. 69.
The Yuxue No. 69 stopped a few dozen meters away from the salvage ship. Then, Bai Yu and the other two boarded the Yuxue No. 69 together with the small boat on the salvage ship, carrying the things they wanted to take back.
The only regret is that, because his company is developing too fast, Bai Yu only knows one person on the fishing boat Yu Xue Liu Jiu: the chef in the kitchen, Brother Zhang.
This chef was Bai Yu's third senior apprentice, so in terms of seniority, he was of the same generation as Bai Yu, but in terms of age, he was almost twenty years older than Bai Yu.
Apart from that, Bai Yu didn't recognize any of the crew members; at most, he felt that a few of them looked somewhat familiar.
After all, no matter what, Bai Yu still attends his company's annual meeting every year. These crew members attended last year's annual meeting, and Bai Yu also attended.
Although they didn't know each other, Bai Yu was naturally a bit outgoing, and since these were all employees of his own company, he didn't feel like a stranger when interacting with them.
Before long, Bai Yu was holding a piece of porcelain and earnestly showing it off to a group of crew members.
Although Bai Yu didn't know which kiln the porcelain in his hand came from, or its age, he also didn't know the meaning of the painted decorations or its value.
But that didn't stop Bai Yu and his crew from bragging, because they didn't know anything about it either.
Even those who were a little older and had some knowledge of antiques were completely fooled by Bai Yu.
After all, in the minds of all the crew members, no matter how young their boss was, Bai Yu was rich. It was perfectly normal for rich people to play with antiques and have some knowledge in this area.
There are certain barriers to entry when it comes to antiques. It's not something anyone can just get into. There are prerequisites; you need to have a certain level of financial strength, otherwise it's all just talk.
Of course, Bai Yu didn't just brag about how amazing the porcelain pieces he brought back were; he also talked to the crew about how the salvage of the sunken ship was carried out.
Although they were all crew members, because they worked in different industries, the crew of the Yuxue had no knowledge of salvage work. This is another example of how different professions can be completely different.
Then Bai Yu explained to them how salvaging a shipwreck works.
During this casual conversation, Bai Yu and his two companions quickly arrived in Sanya and went straight back to the dock in their county.
When Bai Yu returned to the dock, it was already September 30th. In just one more day, it would be National Day.
These days, people who go out to work and make a living don't necessarily have to take a holiday.
For example, of the more than one hundred fishing boats owned by Bai Yu's company, only thirty or forty are currently docked at the county and city wharves. The rest of the boats are all operating at sea.
Even the Yuxue No. 69, which just arrived in port today, can't just go on vacation after returning; they still have to unload the cargo.
During the return journey, Bai Yu had already learned from the crew that their fishing boat had been at sea for more than twenty days, and they only returned after the hold was fully loaded.
Preliminary estimates suggest they brought back approximately 1,000 tons of seafood on this trip.
Even if all the crew members worked in three shifts a day to unload these goods, it would still take two or three days to finish loading and unloading them all.
Only after all these tasks are completed can the crew of the Yuxue No. 69 finally get some rest.
Of course, there are people who can rest whenever they want, and that is company bosses like Bai Yu who don't care about anything. The company has trustworthy people to manage it, so every day is a day off for him.
Of course, Bai Yu wouldn't mistreat employees who had to work during the holidays.
Besides providing them with overtime pay, they will have no shortage of food and drink, and it will be exceptionally lavish.
The moment the fishing boat came to a stop, Bai Yu, Wang Hai, and Li Shuang disembarked and got into Lu Sheng's car, which was already waiting at the dock.
Then they returned to the company and went straight to Bai Yu's chairman's office.
"Ah Sheng, you really missed out by not going on this shipwreck salvage mission. See this box I'm holding? This is the treasure we salvaged from the shipwreck. It's a real gem!"
As soon as Li Shuang got into the car, he said to Lu Sheng with a smug look on his face.
That's understandable, after all, the experience of going to salvage a shipwreck this time was quite unique, plus the few complete porcelain pieces they brought back were all cleaned by the few of them themselves.
The significance of this is quite profound, and Lu Sheng did not go with them this time.
"Shuangzi, although I didn't go with you, my experiences during this period are no less than yours. Something big is happening at our company again."
"Something big has happened? What big thing has happened? How come none of us know?"
When this important matter was mentioned, not only did Li Shuang, who was in charge of operations and marketing, immediately become interested, but Bai Yu and Wang Hai, who were sitting in the back row, also became interested.
You should know that the people sitting in Lu Sheng's car were all senior managers, chairman and shareholders of Yu Xue Company. How could they not have heard a word about the so-called big event that happened in their own company?
However, after Li Shuang asked the question, Lu Sheng did not offer any explanation. He simply continued driving, taking Bai Yu and the others back to the company.
After Bai Yu and the others arrived at the company, there were several people waiting for them at the entrance.
However, these people were completely unfamiliar to Bai Yu. There were three men in total, all dressed in suits and ties, and they were clearly not employees of their company.
Although Bai Yu's company earns a lot of money every year, they are still quite casual about their clothing.
After all, the company's employees are mostly young people, and not many young people are willing to wear suits. Besides, their company sells goods through live streaming, so how can they sell products if they dress so formally?
What's the deal with those uniformed men at the company entrance? What are they here for?
"Ah Sheng, what's going on here? Are these people here to discuss a collaboration? Which brand do they represent?"
When Bai Yu got out of the car and saw these people, he instinctively assumed that they were there to discuss cooperation with their company.
After all, Bai Yu only saw this kind of clothing on the staff of their partners; even the employees in their company's legal department wouldn't dress like that.
“Brother Yu, they’re not from the brand. They’re appraisers we found for you. They’re appraisers from Hong Kong auctions and they know a lot about porcelain. They should be able to recognize the porcelain you brought back this time.”
"An appraiser? Or an auction appraiser? No wonder he's dressed like that."
Bai Yu muttered a complaint to Lu Sheng in a low voice, then took the lead and walked over to greet the three appraisers.
Of course, he simply greeted them and then led the way into the company, heading straight for his chairman's office.
The main issue is that Bai Yu's current attire is a bit informal. After getting off the bus, he had a backpack hanging in front of his chest and another backpack on his back.
It wasn't just Bai Yu who did this; Wang Hai and the other two did the same. There were a total of eight pieces of porcelain, and each of the four of them carried two pieces.
The way the four of them are dressed now, standing next to three people in suits, just looks really strange.
That's why Bai Yu naturally had to take the lead and walk into the company.
Upon entering the company, the employees were all very excited to see Bai Yu and his group enter, especially the more senior employees, who immediately surrounded them.
"Mr. Bai, you're back! How's the salvage operation going? Have you found any intact porcelain pieces?"
"Of course! With President Bai personally involved, how could he not bring back a complete piece of porcelain?"
"Mr. Bai, what are the results of the salvage operation? You haven't updated for three days. Stopping updates isn't a good habit!"
"Mr. Bai, you should check your comments section. The netizens are going crazy, saying you're keeping the fans in suspense. There are messages everywhere urging for more content."
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Can you imagine? A bunch of people gathered around, each talking at once, just like buying vegetables at a market.
Because of Bai Yu's noise, he barely heard what these people were saying, only catching some keywords like "porcelain" and "discontinued updates."
By combining some keywords, Bai Yu could guess what they were talking about.
"Stop arguing, everyone. I was just drifting on the high seas before, and I ran out of satellite internet. I had no choice but to stop updating."
Alright, alright, you all better get back to work. I'll update soon, and I'll definitely let you see the final result, okay?
After briefly explaining the situation, Bai Yu chased away all the employees surrounding him.
Who could have imagined that he had already edited the final salvage process and was uploading the video to his computer, and the video was already halfway uploaded, when suddenly he received a notification that the video upload had failed.
After Bai Yu checked the data, the upload failed, which was rather embarrassing because Bai Yu's network had run out.
Uploading videos on the high seas is different from uploading videos at home. There is no network signal on the high seas. To use the network, you need to buy a satellite network, or like Bai Yu did when he traveled around the world, install a signal base station on the boat.
Bai Yu was on a salvage ship before, where there were no signal base stations. If he wanted to use the internet, he had to buy a satellite network himself.
I bought this Baiyu account; it cost several thousand yuan and included several gigabytes of data.
But who could have imagined that in just seven days, he would have used up all the data he bought, and he wouldn't even have finished uploading the last video.
Bai Yu quickly arrived at his office. He took off his two backpacks, placed them on the sofa, and took out a laptop from one of them.
"Shuangzi, Asheng, please greet the appraisers and pour them some tea. I'll upload the previous videos first."
“These are minor issues. Brother Yu, please take care of your business first.”
The seven people in the office then split into two groups and got busy with their own tasks.
Bai Yu plugged in his laptop, connected it to the company network, and immediately uploaded the video he had just watched.
He also glanced at the comments section of his own account, and what he found was truly astonishing. Bai Yu's face turned almost black with anger.
The main issue is that Bai Yu previously released a trailer showing the salvage of the ship's cabin, explaining the progress of the salvage operation, and then he stopped updating.
Bai Yu originally planned to only take a two-day break from updating, as he could quickly return to Sanya and then release the video, which would only be a two or three-day delay.
But in just two or three days, his comment section was filled with people offering him virtual candles, and countless fans were praying for him.
After all, the videos he posted before were all on the open sea, and in international waters, not in our own waters.
For most netizens, the ocean is unknown, and anything can happen at sea.
Then, if just one person starts thinking the worst, it will lead countless netizens to think the worst, and then even more netizens will start thinking that way.
In just three days, Bai Yu's latest video received nearly ten million comments, with the top-ranked comments all being prayers for him.
Seeing these comments, Bai Yu really didn't know what to say. It was just three days without internet, how did things turn out like this?
You said if you were to scold your fans, they would be sincerely praying for you, hoping you would be safe.
If you're suggesting we just pretend we didn't see it, that's impossible. Those are millions of comments; you can't just ignore them.
Ultimately, it's because Bai Yu himself is so popular. He's the number one figure in the domestic short video sector, and with the Olympics having ended less than two months ago, the buzz he generated during the Games is still going strong.
Then he said he was going to go out to sea to relax, and for the first week he updated regularly every day, but then suddenly stopped updating at the most crucial moment.
In this situation, do you think anyone would worry about Bai Yu's safety?
At the same time, it's also Bai Yu's fault for being careless. He didn't think about it in this way, and even when he contacted Lu Sheng and others via satellite phone, he didn't mention that he had stopped updating.
Then things evolved into the current situation, leaving Bai Yu speechless.
Bai Yu then immediately posted a pinned comment: 'Thanks everyone's support, I'm fine here. The reason for the previous hiatus was because I ran out of internet access, which worried everyone. I'm back at the company now, and the latest video is available.'
Just as Bai Yu posted her comment, another group of people in the same office exclaimed in surprise.
"My goodness! Mr. Li, this porcelain is from Ru ware. It is a piece of Ru ware, but unfortunately it is from the Southern Song Dynasty, not from the peak period of Ru ware."
One of the middle-aged appraisers, while expressing his amazement, also shook his head.
Bai Yu had heard of Ru ware; it was the foremost of the major official kilns of the Song Dynasty, and the porcelain it produced was exclusively for the use of the imperial palace.
Well, that's the end of Bai Yu's understanding; he doesn't know much more about the rest.
But it doesn't matter if he doesn't know, he's back now, he can search for it on the computer.
Bai Yu then searched on the computer and understood what the other party meant by "not the peak period of Ru ware".
Ru ware is indeed one of the most famous official kilns of the Song Dynasty, but this is limited to a specific period, namely the Northern Song Dynasty, when Ru ware was the most famous.
However, after the transition from the Northern Song to the Southern Song Dynasty, Ru ware began to decline, and even ceased production for a period of time.
After production resumed, Ru ware had lost its leading position in the porcelain industry, and by the Yuan Dynasty, it had completely declined.
The Ru ware porcelain that the middle-aged man mentioned was one of the two pieces inscribed with the words "Imperial Household". The porcelain was shaped like a bottle and had a sky-blue gradient color, but there was nothing else particularly outstanding about it.
In the other party's words, after Ru ware resumed production in the Southern Song Dynasty, it lost its leading position in the porcelain industry, and the porcelain that was previously exclusively supplied to the royal family began to move towards the low end.
Ru ware with the inscription "Neifu" (内府) was produced in large quantities at the time and was highly sought after in the market, even reaching overseas markets.
This piece of porcelain was likely intended by the owner of the sunken ship to be sold overseas during the Southern Song Dynasty.
The reputation of Ru ware, coupled with its status as a royal supplier and the inscription "Imperial Household" on the bottle, greatly increased the value of this type of porcelain.
Although the Song Dynasty may not seem particularly powerful in our country, and it was almost bullied to death by the Jin Dynasty, in South Asia, the Song Dynasty was the Celestial Empire.
In addition, Song Dynasty merchants were very skilled at doing business. They not only did business in their own countries, but their businesses had long spread all over the world, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East and European countries.
During the Song Dynasty, porcelain, silk fabrics, and tea were all highly sought-after commodities. As long as they were shipped out, they could bring back huge amounts of gold and silver.
Furthermore, although this porcelain piece is of a single color, according to the appraiser, its value is considerable.
Although this Ru ware piece is from the Southern Song Dynasty, this porcelain piece, which is over 30 centimeters tall, would have a starting bid of tens of millions if it were to be auctioned. As for the final price, that's hard to say.
As for the other few pieces, which are decorated with various patterns and designs, their value is relatively much lower.
In the words of the appraiser, although these porcelain pieces are beautiful, they are completely useless. All five of them combined are not as good as this one piece of Ru ware.
Although this Ru ware porcelain piece is from the Southern Song Dynasty, it is still a giant among the top porcelain manufacturers.
The five porcelain pieces were most likely produced in folk kilns, as the appraisers did not see a trace of official kiln origin in them.
In the realm of porcelain, the value of porcelain from folk kilns and official kilns is inherently limited due to their origins.
Because of their exquisite shapes and their status as Song Dynasty porcelain, these five pieces of porcelain are quite valuable. If they find a buyer who likes them, it's not impossible for them to sell for several million.
However, reaching eight figures is almost impossible unless they can change their origins or have traces left by celebrities.
In any case, these three appraisers did not see these characteristics in these porcelain pieces.
As for the other piece of porcelain from the Imperial Palace and made during the Zhenghe era, the three appraisers were somewhat unsure.
Normally, porcelain pieces from the same batch bearing the inscription "Neifu" should all be produced by the same manufacturer.
The first piece of porcelain bearing the inscription "Neifu" (内府) exhibits characteristics of Ru ware in terms of its shape, texture, glaze, and firing technique.
However, another piece of imperial porcelain has a pattern on it. The main color of the glaze is sky blue, and it is decorated with many flowers and plants, as well as many lines that look like fallen leaves.
While seemingly chaotic, it possesses a unique aesthetic appeal.
This is a bit different from traditional Ru ware. Ru ware porcelain is either a single color or has a small number of lines or patterns, and its main feature is naturalness.
However, the patterns on this piece of porcelain are a bit too numerous, which is quite different from the naturalistic style of Ru ware. Instead, it looks somewhat like Jun ware.
Jun ware was also one of the famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. In fact, the peak period of Jun ware lasted much longer than that of Ru ware, and Jun ware continued until the Ming Dynasty before disappearing.
However, as mentioned before, it's quite puzzling why high-end porcelain products from the same batch of goods shipped overseas would come from different places.
This is precisely why the appraisers were somewhat undecided.
However, one thing is certain: they can confirm that the Ru ware piece is real. In fact, if Bai Yu is willing, their auction house can directly take the porcelain piece for auction or buy it out at a fixed price.
If it's a buyout, the other party is willing to offer 20 million, and we can sign the contract on the spot and transfer the money immediately.
This means that as long as Bai Yu is willing, the moment he signs the agreement, they will have already recouped the cost of this voyage to salvage the ship's hold.
The cost was recouped with just one bottle...
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