In the history of the world's oceans, there have been many shipwrecks, including the sinking of the British warship Mary Rose in 1545, the sinking of the Argentine warship Belgrano in 1982, the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in 1941, the sinking of the British cruise ship Lusitania in 1915, and the sinking of the cruise ship Titanic in 1912.
The shipwreck incident has led to countless valuable treasures being collected at the bottom of the sea, becoming the "funerary products" of the dead. According to the statistics of American oceanographers, it has been found that in the recent 2000 years of the world, its shipwreck incident has led to about 1 million shipwrecks on the seabed, and the treasure value in the shipwrecks is between tens of billions and trillions of dollars, attracting countless "gold diggers" from all over the world to loot shipwrecks and dive to dig for treasure.
In 1999, a British archaeologist Hatcher drove the "Taixing" to the bottom of the South China Sea to salvage the remains of a Chinese merchant ship called the Godmarssen, which was originally on the way from Guangzhou to Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, in the winter of 1725, because of accidentally encountering a reef and sinking the ship, Hatcher pulled up to 239,000 pieces of blue and white porcelain, 125 gold ingots and other cultural relics on his ship to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to sell, making more than 20 million US dollars.
It can be seen that the value of these shipwrecks, in the fishing of our fishermen, accidentally found a British shipwreck, which was once the "policy" of smashing and robbing the Eight-Power Alliance to collect the treasures of the Yuanmingyuan after the Chinese cultural relics and treasures, is about to be reported to the government agencies, waiting for archaeologists to sort out the statistics of its treasures, the British learned of the news, actually asked China to return all the items on the ship, which is lamentable.
According to the statistics of historical materials and various documents, there are as many as 23,000 pieces of Chinese historical relics in the British Museum, and the Fontainebleau Palace in France actually has a special Chinese exhibition room, which openly displays various treasures they snatched from the Yuanmingyuan in that year. According to conservative statistics from experts, China's cultural relics lost abroad alone reached a staggering 1.64 million pieces, most of which are in 47 museums around the world, and many people's private Chinese treasures cannot be counted.
Many people can not forget the tragic history of 1860, that is, the Qing Dynasty that lost power and humiliated the country was violated by the Eight-Power Alliance, among them, England and France joined hands to sweep the things in the Yuanmingyuan and empty it, can be moved, can not move the standard smashed with countless cultural relics and treasures full of return, 48 hours later, before the countries left, they did not forget to put a fire on the Yuanmingyuan, trying to burn their own sins.
Wen Feng, the minister in charge of the Yuanmingyuan at that time, felt very distressed about this, his liver and gallbladder were split, he jumped and committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea, and those who stole the treasure decided to directly use the way of shipping to put more treasures on the boat and slowly drive on the surface of the sea, but for some reason, one of the boats suddenly sank, this boat is the shipwreck containing countless treasures salvaged by Chinese fishermen in the waters of the South China Sea.
When the historical relics and countless treasures that have endured vicissitudes have returned to the motherland, these treasures have witnessed history, although these treasures are only part of the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, but for the archaeological community, the significance and value of this are unlimited. When the archaeologists were full of indignation and indignation to uncover the side of history, the British declared: "This is our shipwreck, accidentally fell to the bottom of the sea, please return all the belongings on board as soon as possible." ”。
After this news spread, the people outside the circle at that time instantly exploded and expressed their attitudes one after another: First of all, these things were snatched by the great powers of various countries from things that originally belonged to China, and originally belonged to China. Secondly, how can fishing boats salvaged in the waters of the South China Sea be called "returns" of what they have obtained on their own and on their own?