Treasure hunters can also be called gold diggers, they visit the mountains, all over the sea, just to get rich overnight, among these people, some people do get rich, but there are also people who are bankrupt because of the adventure treasure hunt, but they are insisting on finding the only glimmer of hope, until death is not willing to give up.
In 1999, a British treasure hunter, came to China, China is rich in land, with the title of a great power of the Heavenly Dynasty, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, the Western powers invaded China, which also allowed the Western invaders to taste the sweetness in China, it is said that after the Anglo-French coalition army washed the Yuanmingyuan, a French second-class soldier, so he became rich, he was called China's "James".
In May 1999, a British man named Mike Hatcher entered China and organized an expedition that seemed to be purposeful, led by Mike Hatcher to the South China Sea to carry out seabed salvage, and during the salvage process, Mike Hatch found a giant merchant ship.
Among this merchant ship, Mike Hatcher found a large amount of blue and white porcelain, it turned out that this salvaged merchant ship, named "Taixing", was more than 50 meters long, about 15 meters wide, and weighed more than 1,000 tons, and the ship was only at its peak during the Ming and Qing dynasties, but even at that time, this kind of merchant ship was also a rare giant Chinese sailing ship.
According to records, in the second year of Daoguang (1822), the Taixing, departing from the port of Xiamen, headed for Indonesia, in order to avoid pirate pursuit, detoured to The Paracels, unfortunately sank, on the Taixing, found 350,000 pieces of Qing Dynasty porcelain, most of which were used for export to the Asian market blue and white porcelain.
These porcelains are also from Dehua, after the Taixing salvaged water, Mike Hatcher, all 350,000 pieces of porcelain, brought all 350,000 pieces of porcelain to Germany, and held a public exhibition in Germany, they announced that between November 17 and 25, the blue and white porcelain will be publicly auctioned.
The West has a special fascination with blue and white porcelain, just one day, the exhibition day emerged hundreds of thousands of people to watch, and this auction is also the largest auction in the history of world archaeology, Dehua porcelain lovers, after learning of the situation, also went to Germany.
They spent a lot of money to prevent the loss of porcelain abroad, but Mike Hatcher seemed to be deliberately embarrassed, only selling 72 pieces of porcelain that were ordinary to Dehua merchants, and Mike Hatcher smashed all the most ordinary porcelain in order to continue to raise the price.
According to relevant personnel, Taixing has a total of more than 1 million porcelain, damaged 650,000 porcelain during salvage, and then smashed tens of thousands of porcelain, and now only 350,000 porcelain is less than 350,000 porcelain, if these more than 1 million pieces of porcelain are in, the lowest value is 100 billion.
The porcelain damaged by him was also brought back by Dehua merchants, and even if it was destroyed, they were all left behind by China.