Chapter 361 It’s all about money
Xiao Peng sat in the Calypsope without saying a word, while a group of people stared at him.
Pascal and Fabian came over and sat next to him.
Fabian handed Xiao Peng a cigarette and said, "You've been sitting here for two hours. Chen Cheng asked if you're going down today?"
Xiao Peng didn't answer him directly. He smoked a cigarette in silence, crushed the butt, and said in a muffled voice, "No!"
Chen Cheng, who was standing nearby, heard this and shouted, "Boss, you're not going to let it go anymore? What a shame!"
Hua Chong also said: "Yes, now it only means that I am unlucky. We will definitely have good luck in the future."
Xiao Peng immediately stood up and said angrily: "If you can't come down, then don't come down!"
After saying that, he simply waved his hand and left the cabin.
Watching Xiao Peng leave, everyone looked at each other and asked, "What should we do next?"
"How about you go and persuade the boss?"
"Shit, why aren't you going?"
"So what do we do?"
"The boss has spoken, what else can I do? If I don't want to leave, then I'm going to go do some maintenance on the 'Deep Sea Warrior'!"
"Wait for me!"
People left one after another, leaving only Fabian and Pascal in the cabin.
Fabian asked Pascal, "Pascal, what is the estimated value of what we salvaged?"
Pascal shook his head. "The total price won't exceed one million. We've really lost a lot this time."
After discovering the "shipwreck graveyard," Xiao Peng and his team began exploring. Since each work session lasted only a little over an hour, progress was slow. So far, the ships they'd found had mostly been worthless, mostly bottles and jars, and minerals. They had, however, discovered several slave ships.
They worked here for more than fifteen diving days but found nothing valuable. There are many shipwrecks here, but only archaeologists are interested in them.
This is understandable. Those who run smuggling ships are a group of desperate criminals. How much wealth can they have?
But the gambler's heart was there. After finding one ship, Xiao Peng always thought he would find the treasure on the next one. As a result, for fifteen consecutive days of salvaging, he always went out with high hopes and returned disappointed. Every time he harvested, he was full of disappointment.
What does fifteen salvage days mean? More than a month of work and nearly 10 million in expenses.
Xiao Peng had originally hoped to find Doroshenko's wealth and do some "private work" along the way, but he didn't expect his plans to change quickly. He found a ton of shipwrecks, but they were all money-losing finds!
"Let's go, Fabian." Pascal stood up and said, "Let's go and persuade Xiao. He must be in a bad mood right now."
Fabian sighed and said, "Damn the smuggling route. This time we really lost a lot of money."
Pascal consoled him, "Deep-sea salvage is a gambler's job. We just lost this time. Fortunately, the loss wasn't much, just a few months and less than 20 million in expenses."
"Even with you comforting me like this, I really can't be happy!" Fabian shook his head. "Let's go. Xiao will definitely be even more upset. This trip to the Black Sea was clearly full of hopes of getting rich, but it ended up like this."
Fabian was right. Xiao Peng was now lying on his bed in his bedroom, examining a two-meter-long longbow he had found on a sunken ship.
He is in a really bad mood now.
All his salvage wealth was obtained through cheating with his own ability. Now he came to the Black Sea and wanted to rely on formal methods to conduct underwater salvage, but he was met with failure and just kept losing money!
Even if he now has such good equipment and such a good ship and has done so much preparation in advance, there is no guarantee that seabed salvage will definitely make money.
Xiao Peng was still doubting himself when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Xiao Peng shouted.
Fabian and Pascal walked into Xiao Peng's room. Pascal took the longbow from Xiao Peng and said, "Hey? A Welsh longbow. A treasure that the British are proud of. I haven't seen this thing in years!"
Xiao Peng rolled his eyes at him and said, "Just say what you want to say. Don't try to start a conversation with nonsense here. You have two of these hanging on your wall, right?"
Pascal laughed. "This is my third one. You know the French love for the Welsh longbow."
Xiao Peng nodded: "You take it."
The love-hate relationship between Britain and France has lasted for centuries.
From the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the present day, the two sides have formed alliances no fewer than five times and engaged in war dozens of times, with over fifteen major battles. Although France performed poorly during World War II, historically, France has held an absolute advantage in all battles between the two nations. During the Napoleonic Wars, France repeatedly defeated the anti-French alliance formed by European powers, bringing France to the peak of its power. However, the subsequent Franco-Russian War and the fiasco of the Peninsular War led to the decline of the Napoleonic Empire, and it was only after the disastrous defeat at Waterloo that Britain began to rise.
But the British also have something to be proud of, and that is their longbowmen.
During the Hundred Years' War between the two nations, English longbowmen, armed with Welsh longbows, inflicted heavy losses on the French. The universal "middle finger" gesture originated during that era.
After the French recaptured Normandy from the Vikings, their relationship with England became complicated. Henry II, King of England at the time, was a relative of King Louis VII of France. Henry II had married Louis VII's ex-wife and received Aquitaine and other territories from her as a dowry. Henry II was both a vassal of France and King of England. He could be the boss in England, but in France, he had to obey the king.
As a result, relations between the descendants of England and France became increasingly chaotic, with each side believing they could inherit the other's throne and reclaim the territory that had been taken away. After the death of King Charles IV of France, who had no sons and whose daughters had no right of succession, the French throne passed to Philip VI. This greatly displeased King Edward III of England, who was Charles IV's nephew. So, Edward III led his army to France to seize the throne, officially kicking off the Hundred Years' War.
In the early stages of the war, the English longbowmen gave the French a hard time. At the Battle of Crécy, 9,000 Englishmen defeated 30,000 French, relying on the Welsh longbow.
Because both the index and middle fingers are needed to draw the bow, the British archers would extend their middle fingers to provoke the French soldiers. Eventually, the middle finger gesture was passed down and became the most popular insulting gesture in the world.
However, after the emergence of French heavy cavalry, the power of the English longbow was greatly reduced. Nowadays, most French aristocrats collect this thing at home and display it for display, and it is very popular among the French.
But this thing is really worthless!
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