Harry Potter: Dawn's Light
Chapter 750

"Gold Ship"

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There was a profession called shipwreck hunter. No one knew how many secrets lay hidden in the depths of the vast ocean, and many ships that had sunk at sea had carried enormous treasures.

According to research, in 1857, a ship laden with gold bars, gold dust, and gold coins sank at sea in a hurricane, drowning all 425 people aboard. The gold on that ship had come from California, during the Gold Rush. It was said to have carried 3,100 gold coins, 45 gold bars, and 72 jin of gold dust. The disappearance of such a vast amount of gold even had a certain impact on California's economy.

The gold coins from those wrecks were worth more than just their weight in gold; a single one was already worth more than $800,000. There were also buyers for the items from the Titanic. The shipwreck hunters in the movie had been searching for the Heart of the Ocean, a blue diamond very similar to the "Hope" once owned by Louis XVI.

The people of Paris had also been incited to storm the Bastille. It stemmed from long-standing accumulated conflicts that finally erupted. If those aristocrats in salons, dressed in "exquisite" breeches, had known how to fight—or how to negotiate with people—they would not have ended up being beheaded by the Sans-culottes.

New aristocrats replaced old aristocrats, newer aristocrats replaced the new ones, generation after generation. There was nothing wrong with that. Those without ability were replaced by those with ability. During that thorough revolution, even the wizards hiding in secret were found. That showed just how chaotic the situation had been.

But Napoleon's invasion of Venice went too far. Even the Nazis had merely colluded with Switzerland; they had not truly attacked it. No wonder he had dared to bypass

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