According to the statistics of American scholars on the shipwrecks that have occurred in the world in the past 2,000 years, there are currently about 1 million shipwrecks buried in the sea, and the treasure value inside is between tens of billions and trillions of DOLLARs, of which there are at least 2,000 shipwrecks in the South China Sea alone, and the treasures inside are of great value.
For these treasures, countless "explorers" in the world have run to salvage shipwrecks, when a British professional treasure hunter named Mike Hatcher secretly salvaged an ancient shipwreck in the South China Sea, which carried 22,000 pieces of Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain, casually sold for millions of dollars, to know that the middle class in the United States only made about $10,000 a year.
With Mike Hatcher pioneering, more so-called "explorers" sneaked into the waters of the South China Sea to salvage, although they are well aware that this is illegal, so they usually salvage treasures in the South China Sea and then transport them to the high seas for more than 1 year, because in the high seas for more than 1 year unclaimed shipwrecks, whoever finds it belongs to whom.
However, later Chinese fishermen inadvertently salvaged a British shipwreck in the South China Sea, and before the experts could sort out the cultural relics, the British who received the news immediately asked China to quickly "return" the things to them, which was ridiculous, and it should be known that the cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan were carried on it.
Let's briefly recall the "Yuanmingyuan Incident", in 1860, two robbers walked into the Yuanmingyuan, one of them called "English", the other called "France", they held hands and looted the Yuanmingyuan. Because there were so many treasures in the Yuanmingyuan, they didn't know where to start, some people took axes to chop up furniture in order to cut off the gems on it; some people took guns and strafed precious porcelain in order to practice marksmanship; and some people really couldn't move the treasures and simply destroyed the rest.
After 48 hours, the robbers felt that they had almost robbed, so before leaving, they put down a fire and destroyed the exquisite Yuanmingyuan, and Wen Feng, the minister in charge of the garden, directly committed suicide by throwing himself into Fuhai, and he did not dare to see this scene happen.
So how should the two "harvested" robbers bring the treasure back? Shipping was their best bet, but for some reason a British ship containing a large number of relics from the Yuanmingyuan sank in the South China Sea.
When Chinese experts found the relics of the Yuanmingyuan on the sunken ship, they were extremely excited, even if they were only the tip of the iceberg in the precious cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan, but they were enough to have a great effect on archaeological research, but the British said: "This is our ship, and the things on board are of course also ours, please return china as soon as possible." ”
As soon as they heard this request, Chinese netizens instantly "fried the pan", first of all, these cultural relics were originally Chinese, and the British used improper means to snatch them; secondly, this is a shipwreck salvaged in China's waters, which has nothing to do with Britain.
According to the data, there are about 23,000 precious Chinese cultural relics in the British Museum alone; the Fontainebleau Palace in France has a special Chinese exhibition room, which openly displays the Chinese cultural relics they snatched from the Yuanmingyuan. According to conservative statistics, China's loss of cultural relics abroad reached 1.64 million pieces, which are "collected" by 47 museums in the world, and there are many "private collections" that we cannot count, and whenever we think of this, it will make every Chinese sad!