Looking at Yang Jing holding the broken nautical chart with a beaming face, Gege asked a little puzzled: "This is what you said about picking up leaks?"
I don't think it's very good, isn't it just a tattered nautical chart. ” Yang Jing happily took a sip on Gege's face, and whispered: "Daughter-in-law, whether your husband and I are missing or not, you will know in a while."
It's not convenient to display here, let's find a secluded place, I'll show you and you'll know. ” At this moment, Gege's curiosity was completely hooked, and the girl immediately stopped noisily visiting the flea market, and pulled Yang Jing back to the hotel quickly.
In the hotel room, several people gathered together, not only Gege's face was excited, but even Chris's four bodyguards were also looking forward to and excited.
While visiting the flea market in Beaumont, the four of them had seen two broken charts come together, and now a third chart had arrived, and it was very likely that they would be combined into a whole chart, which filled the hearts of Americans who had been looking forward to finding a legendary pirate treasure since childhood.
Yang Jing looked at a few people, smiled and shook his head, and then carefully removed the plastic seal on the nautical chart he had just bought, and then pretended to take out the other two nautical charts from his bag, and directly took out the two nautical charts he had obtained before from the space.
Three broken charts were spread out on the table, Yang Jing first put together the two charts he had obtained earlier, and explained to Gege as he put them together: "These two broken charts were purchased by me from the Vauver flea market in Paris and the flea market in Beaumont, Texas Oil City. ” As the two mutilated charts were pieced together into a single chart, Gege also covered his mouth and showed an expression of disbelief.
"It's amazing that you bought one in Paris and the other in Texas, and it's hard to imagine that you can put it together."
Yang Jing smiled and said, "This is nothing, look at the nautical chart we bought today!"
” As he spoke, Yang Jing carefully took the nautical chart he bought today and began to put it together, without much effort, this mutilated nautical chart was indeed completely put together with the nautical chart that had been put together just now, forming a complete sheepskin nautical chart!
The whole chart was not very large, only thirty centimeters square, but when this third chart was put together, a complete chart of the upper part of the Atlantic Ocean was immediately in front of everyone.
Yang Jing pointed to the sailing routes from Europe to Boston, New York and Philadelphia through Icelandic waters and said: "These routes are the North Atlantic routes, and at that time, the North Atlantic routes from Europe to North America were the closest, but this route was also full of dangers. ” Gege continued: "For example, the big ship named Titanic. ” Yang Jing nodded, "That's right, although this route is the closest route from Europe to North America, there are countless ships that have sunk on this route, including luxury cruise ships like the Titanic. ” Gege asked curiously, "Yang Jing, does this nautical chart mark the location of those sunken ships?"
And then you go and salvage those sunken ships?
” Yang Jing shook his head with a smile and said, "How is it possible?"
If I'm not mistaken, the chart is supposed to have been made by pirates, and how could those pirates know the location of the wrecks?
Well, the reason why the North Atlantic route appears on this nautical chart is that I guess those pirates stepped up the North Atlantic route when they drew this nautical chart compared to a gourd. ” Yang Jing pointed to the Caribbean Sea as he spoke: "At that time, this area was the most rampant area of Caribbean pirates!"
Look here, Montego Bay in Jamaica, Havana in Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas are a succession of islands that have nurtured countless pirates.
And if you look at this nautical chart, except for the North Atlantic route, there are no other routes from Europe to North America and the Caribbean, but there are many routes in the Caribbean, and there are routes from the Caribbean to West Africa.
Therefore, it is clear from this nautical chart that it is a hand-drawn nautical chart drawn by some pirate in the early seventeenth or eighteenth century. ” Gege nodded thoughtfully, "As soon as you explain this, this nautical chart seems to be really like that."
But what's going on with this route?
From the Caribbean Well, this should be the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, right?
The route traveled north from Puerto Rico Island, passing through New York and Boston, and then continuing north across the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay and Smith Strait.
Yang Jing, what does this black six-pointed star mean?
Why is the terminal of this route in this place?
Why is it represented by such an evil symbol?
” In Christian teachings, the six-pointed star is considered to be the representative of evil, which is why Gege asked.
Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know about this."
But I can be sure that the place marked by this black six-pointed star is already deep into the Arctic Circle, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it would have been difficult for anyone to sail so far north.
Of course, it is not excluded that some pirates will choose such a remote place for adventure or to hide treasure. ” Gege's eyes lit up and he asked, "Then you mean that this nautical chart is very likely to be a treasure map of pirates?"
” 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 date before the 18th century, and they were most likely made by pirates.
But in the eighteenth century, almost no one could reach such a farther north, let alone the pirates who roamed the warm Caribbean seas all year round, how could they go to such remote and cold seas?
” When Gege heard this, he had nothing to say.
The seafaring technology of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries could not be compared with that of modern times, and at that time, it was almost impossible for a sail-powered ship to reach the sea above 70 degrees north latitude, let alone the area marked by the black six-pointed star on the nautical charts even exceeded 80 degrees north latitude.
You must know that the first person in human history to explore the Arctic region, that is, the American explorer Pearsy, when he explored the northernmost point of Greenland, it was already the end of the 19th century!
Although the location marked with the black six-pointed star is not the northernmost point of Greenland, the northernmost point of Ellesmere Island is also about the same as the northernmost point of Greenland, both of which belong to the extreme north alpine region, and ordinary people cannot survive there at all.
Even Yang Jing couldn't figure out why Mr.
Boardman, nicknamed "Sea Snake", drew such a nautical chart.
In terms of seafaring technology at the time, it was unthinkable to be able to travel all the way from the Caribbean to the alpine regions of the far north.
But that's what happened on this chart!
If it weren't for his intuition to tell Yang Jing that this nautical chart was useful, he really thought that it was scribbled by the sea snake Boardman.
However, if we look at the general shape of some of the straits and islands marked on the nautical chart, it seems that this Mr.
"Sea Serpent" really went to those far northern, otherwise he could not have drawn such a nautical chart.
If it's understandable that he can draw Newfoundland and Labrador, it's shocking that he can draw Baffin, Devon and Ellesmere further north.
At that time, there were no means of satellite surveying and mapping, and if you wanted to draw the coastline of a sea area inseparable, the person who drew the map had to have personally visited those places, otherwise it would be impossible to draw it.
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However, the nautical chart in front of me almost draws the coastline of Baffin Island, Devon Island, and Ellesmere Island further north!
It's not that accurate, but it was unthinkable to be able to paint that area like this at that time.
Yang Jing and Gege couldn't guess, but Clark McCann said with a little hesitation: "Boss, maybe other pirates can't go to the high latitudes so north, but there is one pirate who may be able to do this." ” "Huh?
Clark, tell me about it. ” Yang Jing knew that Americans, like Clark, who were born and raised, did not have an ordinary love for pirate culture.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the heart of every American boy, there is a pirate dream that can never be erased.
Some Americans are even better than the pirate experts, and they can open their mouths to tell all sorts of legends about pirates.
Clark smiled and touched his head, looked at Yang Jing and then at Gege, and then said: "Boss, I don't know if you have heard of the 'black baron-to-be' Basalomew Roberts?"
” Yang Jing shook his head, but he didn't want to ask excitedly as Gege beside him: "You mean that Basha Lomew Roberts, one of the legendary top ten pirate kings in the Caribbean?"
” Clark laughed, "yes, it's the pirate king."
If no other pirate king can go to the seas so north, then Roberts can definitely reach those seas!
Because this guy is the best pirate king!
” Yang Jing was a little confused.
Although he is very proficient in antique literature, he really does not know about the pirates who were active in the Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Oh, and it can't be said that he doesn't know, at least Yang Jing knows that there are Captain Jack Sparrow and his Black Pearl in the Caribbean, and he also knows Captain Barbossa and David Jones and his flying Dutchman But these are the characters in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", the real Pirates of the Caribbean in history, he Yang Jing really doesn't know much