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This is not surprising, who let the well-known East India Company's nest in this neighborhood?

The East India Company is famous, but many people don't know. In fact, there are more than one East India Company, including Holland East India Company, Britain East India Company, Portugal East India Company, France East India Company, Sweden East India Company, Denmark East India Company and so on. Among them, the Dutch East India Company is the first joint-stock system in the world The British East India Company, let alone the British East India Company, opened the door of China with crow chips, making China a semi colonial and semi feudal country. At the same time, they are also the most powerful company in history, holding half of the world's trade volume at the highest time.

It is understandable that there are many sunken ships here. It was through constant wars that Britain gained the leadership of the world's oceans.

It was controlled by Spain at first. Then in 1588, Britain defeated the Spanish invincible fleet by the weak and took control of the sea. Although Spain regained the sea dominance a year later, they put their focus on the west, and central and South America became the places they controlled. The British, on the other hand, took a fancy to the Indian continent and often had armed conflicts with Dutch and Portuguese competitors in the Indian Ocean. It was here that they defeated the Portuguese and won the favor of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

The British, protected by Jahangir, soon surpassed the Portuguese who had bases in Goa and Bombay, and defeated the Dutch through the war, and gradually developed into a "Never setting Empire" in the future.

However, it was also because the unfortunate company had too much power to ban the sale of tea from sources other than the East India Company in the North American colonies, which aroused the anger of the local residents and led to the outbreak of the Boston Tea dumping incident, which as a fuse led to the independence war of star States.

However, even after independence, star states cannot do without the influence of the East India Company. In fact, today's star spangled nation's flag was inspired by the flag of the East India Company.

As for why companies in these countries are called "East India Company"? It's also about Columbus.

When Columbus arrived in Central America, he mistook it as India and regarded the indigenous people as Indians. In fact, Indians and Indians are still the same word in English. However, the clumsy Columbus refused to admit that he was wrong until he died. He called India "East India" and American countries "West India".

At that time, there was a nest of porridge here, so it's not surprising that there were more ships sunk.

But...... There are very few of them with salvage value!

This is not surprising, at that time, the ships were used for both war and cargo. If you encounter an enemy ship, you will start a war; if you can't, you will carry goods. What was the value of the goods at that time? Tea, spices...... All these things! These hundreds of years have passed, and they are rotten into dregs!

Moreover, the water area here is also deep. Most of the sunken ships are in the water depth of more than 200 meters. The cost of salvaging many sunken ships is not directly proportional to the income.

It may be because of this that the sunken ships here are well protected and not much salvaged. Of course, there are some jewelry and coins in some ships, but Xiao Peng really can't salvage them: he can't go down to the sea himself now. After all, it's not him and Yang Meng this time. Moreover, if he operates the current, he feels a pity that these sunken ships are not worthless. There is one thing on these ships that Xiao Peng is interested in - that is, all kinds of boats on the sunken ships First image.

If the bow of the boat is a little bit upset, he will be upset like this.

The last time he saw the "San Jose" yacht, he only thought about the treasure on it, but he didn't see the bow. However, when he saw so many bows here, Xiao Peng was still moved.

In fact, before 1800, if you asked a Western sailor what was the most beautiful thing on the ship, he would not hesitate to answer three words: bow image.

Westerners used to believe in the totem or God fixed in the bow of the ship, pray for God's blessing, that is, the bow image.

The bow is the symbol of a ship. Some of them adopt animal image and spirit image. Similar to the statues worshipped by Chinese people, it is a spiritual sustenance. Ancient Western navigators believed that the bow image could protect the safety of ships, scare away the ghosts in the sea and shock their enemies.

In order to make the bows, it is necessary to consume a whole piece of precious wood. In order to pray for peace, these bows are made by carving masters who have paid a lot of money to make them. Now almost all the existing bows are wonderful works of art. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is the best interpretation of the bow of that period: the bow of the black pearl is the image of a goddess holding a bird in her hand, which is very beautiful.

Of course, the bow of the ship also has a moral meaning. Captain Jack's surname is sparrow, which means sparrow in English. The bow on the Black Pearl symbolizes the protection of Captain Jack and his black pearl.

Of course, the bow is also a bit flashy: in the era of sailing, a few tons of wooden bumps carved into the bow could even affect navigation performance. And it's easy to be damaged in battle - it can't be repaired if it's broken. It's impossible to carry tons of wood on board, isn't it?And even if you do, you can still have a sculptor on board?

Because of these reasons, the bow image in the later period was obviously reduced a lot. No longer like before, it is a full-length image, but a bow image with more bust figures. In the future, the bow image will not be considered. Especially in the steam age, the bow image began to withdraw from the stage of history. Those ships were equipped with a large number of collision angles, and there was no place to install the bow image. In 1903, the Cadmus became the last warship with a bow image 。

But according to Xiao Peng's observation, there are still several ships with beautiful bow images, and they are all early bodies. The coordinates of these ships must be recorded! When you have time to carry it home as a decoration.

After Xiao Peng recorded the coordinates of these sunken ships along the way, the ships finally arrived at Gwadar Port.

As soon as their ship was berthed at the designated berth according to the instructions, a man came to the door and said, "are you Mr. Xiao?"

Xiao Peng and others looked at the visitors, wearing black trousers, beige short sleeve shirt, curly hair and dark skin.

After listening to his words, several people got off the ship in a daze.

Yang Meng sighed: "I'll go. Batie is batie. This Qilu dialect is really smooth!"

Xiao Peng also nodded there. What Yang Meng said is really right. I didn't expect that this guy said a standard Qilu accent, which made people feel more relatives. Is it Qilu who taught him Chinese?

"My friend, your Chinese has the characteristics of our hometown! What do you call it? " Xiao Peng shook hands with him happily.

As a result, after listening to Xiao Peng and their words, their faces froze: "well, I'm from Qilu. I've been here for a long time, and it's getting dark. My name is Li Xing. I've been waiting for a few people here for a long time

Xiao Peng and others were slightly embarrassed after hearing this: "that

Li Xing was very forthright and waved his hand: "it's not that you admit that you're wrong. I've been here for a long time. You're not familiar with the weather here. I've become a black charcoal when I'm here every day. But there's no way. Now I have to manage such a large port. It's not only for the Huaxia people, but also for the local people of Bati. Sometimes they have to reconcile the contradictions here. There are more and more things, so I can't go back. "

After hearing this, Yang Meng whistled: "so you are" batiteng "? Then you must take us to play well

Li Xing nodded his head and said, "China has already contacted us well and let us take good care of you. Let's go. The banquet is ready for you. It's not good for us to eat in the canteen. "

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "some of them are good. If you chew cans on the sea, you will become canned ones one by one."! Wang Hu, who is on duty today? "

"Shi Ming and Huang Bin!" Wang Hu replied.

Xiao Peng arranged: "that's OK. Shi Ming and Huang Bin will stay to watch the boat, and the rest will follow elder brother Li Xing!"

Li Xing said: "there's no need to leave people at all. It's just like going to our own home here! Don't you believe in my family? "

Xiao Peng shook his head: "brother Li, it's not that you don't believe in your family. There are some things on the ship, so someone has to guard it."

Li Xing didn't ask much after hearing about it. When he called from home, he said that the identity of these people was not ordinary. He had to do a good job of supplying and entertaining. He said, "that's OK. Please get on the bus."

He drives a battery car, which is the most common long sightseeing car in scenic spots. It is also suitable to use this as a means of transportation in such a wharf. However, it can be seen that Li Xing's status here is not low. Both the Chinese staff and the Pakistani staff here do not know him and greet him warmly. Li Xing is also ox x, almost everyone can name it.

Looking at Li Xing greeting the local people in his native language, Xiao Peng sighed: "is this the language of Bati? I don't understand. "

Li Xing shook his head and said, "Bati speaks Urdu, belonging to the Indian trilingual family. I speak Baluchistan, belonging to the Iranian language family. It's not the same. Well, here we are. "

When they arrived at the port office building, Xiao Peng got out of the car and said to Li Xing, "you are such a good language. Can you learn such a language?"

After hearing this, Li Xing said with a wry smile: "if you have been here for 20 years, you can speak Baluchistan."

"Ah?" After hearing this, Xiao Peng was stunned: "I heard that this port has only been in operation for less than three years?"

Li Xing explained: "it was operated by the Chinese side. In fact, the construction of the port began 20 years ago. After the construction, the BATR gave it to lijiapo. And we just got it in the last two years. Or our country is strong, otherwise, how could it be our turn to have such a good port? "

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