Happy Tycoon

Seeing Yang Jing holding the broken nautical chart with a beaming face, Ge Ge asked a little puzzled: Is this what you said to pick up the leak? I don't think it's very good, isn't it just a tattered nautical chart? Picture.

Yang Jing gleefully smacked Ge Ge's face, and said in a low voice: Daughter-in-law, you'll find out in a while whether your husband is picking up on me. It's not convenient to show here. Let's find a secluded place and I'll show you You will know.

Now Ge Ge's curiosity was completely aroused, the girl immediately stopped making noises and went shopping in the flea market, and dragged Yang Jing back to the hotel.

In the hotel room, a few people got together, not only Grid was excited, but even Chris and his four bodyguards were looking forward and excited.

When they were visiting the flea market in Beaumont, the four of them saw two broken nautical charts merged together. Now the third nautical chart has come again, and it is very possible to synthesize a whole nautical chart. Let them, Americans who have been looking forward to finding a legendary pirate treasure since childhood, are full of expectations.

Yang Jing looked at several people, shook his head with a smile, then carefully removed the plastic seal from the newly bought nautical chart, and then pretended to take out the other two nautical charts from his bag, and took them directly from the space. The two nautical charts obtained before were released.

The three incomplete nautical charts were laid flat on the table. Yang Jing first put together the two previously obtained nautical charts. I bought it at the Wanfer flea market in the United States and the flea market in Beaumont, Oil City, Texas. Look, isn’t it amazing that these two incomplete nautical charts can be put together?”

As the two incomplete nautical charts were pieced together into one nautical chart, Ge Ge also covered her small mouth and showed an unbelievable expression.

It's amazing. You bought one in Paris and the other in Texas. It's really unimaginable that you can put it together.

Yang Jing smiled and said, It's nothing, just take a look at the nautical chart we bought today!

As he said that, Yang Jing carefully took the nautical chart he bought today and began to piece it together. Without much effort, this incomplete nautical chart was indeed pieced together completely with the one he had just pieced together, forming a Created a complete sheepskin nautical chart!

The whole nautical chart is not that big, only 30 centimeters square, but when the third nautical chart is pieced together, a complete nautical chart of the upper half of the Atlantic Ocean is immediately presented in front of everyone.

Yang Jing pointed to the sea routes from Europe to Boston, New York and Philadelphia via the waters of Iceland and said: These routes are the North Atlantic route. At that time, the North Atlantic route was the closest from Europe to North America, but The route is also fraught with danger.

Grid continued: For example, that big ship named Titanic.

Yang Jing nodded, That's right, although this route is the shortest route from Europe to North America, countless ships have sunk on this route, and many of them are luxury cruise ships like the Titanic.

Gege asked curiously: Yang Jing, does this nautical chart mark the location of those sunken ships? Then you go to salvage those sunken ships?

Yang Jing shook his head with a smile and said, How is it possible? If I am not wrong, this nautical chart should be made by pirates. How could those pirates know the location of those sunken ships? Well, the reason why the North Atlantic route appeared On this nautical chart, I guess it was those pirates who compared the gourds when drawing this nautical chart, and then stepped up the North Atlantic route.

Yang Jing said while pointing to the Caribbean sea and said: At that time, this sea area was the most rampant area for Caribbean pirates! Look here, Montego Bay in Jamaica, Havana in Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas are a series of islands. Numerous pirates have been bred. And if you look at this nautical chart, apart from the North Atlantic route, there are no other routes from Europe to North America and the Caribbean. On the contrary, there are many routes in the Caribbean Sea. The route to West Africa. Therefore, it can be clearly identified from this nautical chart that this nautical chart should be hand-painted by a pirate in the seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

Grid nodded thoughtfully, If you explain it this way, this nautical chart seems to be the same thing. But what about this route? From the Caribbean. Well, this should be from the Caribbean Sea. Puerto Rico, right? The route goes all the way north from Puerto Rico, via New York and Boston, and then continues north through the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay and Smith Strait. Oh my goodness, it got to The northernmost point of Ellesmere Island. Yang Jing, what does this black six-pointed star mean? Why is the terminal of this route here? Why is it represented by such an evil symbol?

In the teachings of Christianity, the six-pointed star is considered to represent evil, so Ge ​​Ge asked this question.

Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders and said: I don't know about this. But I can be sure that the place marked by the black hexagram is already deep into the Arctic Circle. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was difficult for anyone to sail. Traveling so far north. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are pirates who choose such a remote place for adventure or hiding treasures.

Grid asked with bright eyes: Then you mean that this nautical chart is likely to be a pirate's treasure map?

Yang Jing shook his head and said: I'm not sure about this, I just think this nautical chart is very strange. After all, most of these parchment nautical charts appeared before the eighteenth century, and this nautical chart is most likely drawn by pirates. But in the 18th century, almost no one could reach that far north, let alone those pirates who roamed the warm Caribbean waters all year round, how could they go to such remote and cold seas?

When Gege heard this, he was speechless.

The navigation technology of the 17th and 18th centuries could not be compared with modern times. In that era, it was almost impossible for ships powered by sails to reach sea areas above 70 degrees north latitude, let alone The area marked by the black six-pointed star on the nautical chart even exceeds eighty degrees north latitude.

You must know that the first person recorded in human history to explore the Arctic region, that is, the American explorer Peary, was already at the end of the nineteenth century when he explored the northernmost tip of Greenland!

And although this place marked with a black hexagram is not the northernmost tip of Greenland, the northernmost tip of Ellesmere Island is almost the same as the northernmost tip of Greenland. Survive.

Even Yang Jing couldn't figure out why Mr. Boardman, nicknamed Sea Snake, drew such a nautical chart. In terms of the navigation technology at that time, it was simply unimaginable to be able to reach the alpine region of the extreme north all the way from the Caribbean Sea. But, that's what's marked on this nautical chart!

If Yang Jing hadn't intuitively told that this nautical chart was of great use, he would have thought that it was the sea snake Boardman's scribbling.

However, judging from the general shape of some straits and islands marked on the nautical chart, it seems that Mr. Sea Snake has really been to those extreme northern regions, otherwise he would not be able to draw such a nautical chart. If it is understandable that he can paint Newfoundland and Labrador Peninsula, it is shocking that he can paint Baffin Island, Devon Island and Ellesmere Island in the north. up.

At that time, there were no satellite surveying and mapping methods. If you want to draw the coastline of a sea area exactly, the person who draws the picture must have been to those places in person, otherwise it is impossible to draw it.

However, the nautical chart in front of me almost draws the coastlines of Baffin Island, Devon Island, and Ellesmere Island in the north! Although it is not so accurate, it is simply unimaginable to be able to draw the sea area like this at that time.

Yang Jing and Grid couldn't figure it out, but Clark McCann said hesitantly: Boss, maybe other pirates can't go to the high latitudes so north, but one pirate might be able to do it.

Huh? Clark, tell me.

Yang Jing knew that native-born Americans like Clark and the others had an extraordinary love for pirate culture. It is no exaggeration to say that in the hearts of every American boy, there is a dream of pirates that will never fade away. Some Americans are even more powerful than those pirate experts. They can tell various legends about pirates with their mouths.

Clark patted his head with a silly smile, looked at Yang Jing and then at Grid, and then said: Boss, I wonder if you have heard of the 'Black Baron' Bartholomew Roberts?

Yang Jing shook his head, but he didn't want Grid next to him to ask excitedly: You mean the legendary Bartholomew Roberts, one of the top ten pirate kings in the Caribbean?

Clark smiled and said, Yes, that's the Pirate King. If other pirate kings can't go to such northern seas, then Roberts will definitely be able to reach those seas! Because this guy is the best Pirate King!

Yang Jing was a little confused. Don't think he is very proficient in antiques, but he really doesn't understand the pirates who were active in the Caribbean Sea in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oh, I can’t say that I don’t understand, at least Yang Jing knows that there is Captain Jack Sparrow and his Black Pearl in the Caribbean Sea, and he also knows about Captain Barbossa, Davy Jones and his Flying Dutchman

But these are the characters in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. Yang Jing really doesn't know much about the real pirate kings of the Caribbean in history.