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    The sinking of the treasure ship "San Jose" was nothing to the British Imperial Navy at that time, because they did not know that it was a treasure ship and thought it was just an ordinary troop transport.

    The maritime struggle for hegemony between the British Empire and the Spanish Empire was the largest and most brutal maritime war in the history of the human world. The Pacific naval battle of World War II may be more famous in the future, but the number of personnel involved, the damaged warships and the victims are far less.  It is far inferior to the ocean hegemony war between two empires.

    By that time, both sides were already at war. As long as they were ships of the other party or their allies, they would be destroyed, regardless of whether they were troop transports or slave ships.  So much was destroyed in this way that the captain of the battleship responsible for sinking the San Jose did not record the specific location of the sunken ship.  Even at that time, they did not come specifically to sink the San Jose. At that time, they had other important responsibilities. To sink the San Jose, they could only just shoot the rabbit in the grass and follow the trend.

    The San Jose was also unlucky, and Felipe V was even more unlucky. This money was his military expenditure. It was said that the ship carried the main treasures plundered from Spanish American colonies, including countless gold, silver, and various gemstones!

    The reason why he prepared so much military expenditure was not only to use it to compete with the British Empire for maritime hegemony, but also to organize a new army and regain Italian territory.

    The naval war between Britain and Spain lasted for hundreds of years. The two sides continued to fight over the ownership of the Atlantic Ocean. Later, they joined the Dutch Empire. The situation was particularly chaotic. Spain's sea power was constantly challenged and slowly fell behind.

    The Anglo-Spanish Great War in the 16th century was a turning point. The British Empire replaced the Spanish Empire and became the maritime hegemon of the Atlantic Ocean. At that time, the Atlantic Ocean was the lifeline of slave transportation and shipping. Felipe V was unwilling to do so and always wanted to seek revenge.  Defeat the British Empire and regain maritime supremacy in the Atlantic.

    But God is not as good as man. He was full of ambitions. In the end, not only did he fail to defeat the British Navy, he was even defeated by the four-nation coalition when he regained Italy due to lack of military spending. He eventually died in depression.

    Throughout that era, the San Jose was a ship that could influence the war situation of the era. If it had returned to Spain safely, perhaps the world structure would have been rewritten. At least Felipe V could have successfully organized an army to regain Italy and then control the Mediterranean.  , accumulating strength may not really be able to attack the British Empire and curb the rise of the empire on which the sun never sets.

    Felipe V knew the importance of the treasure on this ship, so in order to hide it from others, he did not use conventional treasure ships to transport it, nor did he organize a large fleet to escort it.  Because at that time, the hegemony of the Atlantic Ocean was in the hands of the British Navy. Even if he organized a large-scale fleet escort, it would only serve as a target for the British Navy.

    "It's a pity that God's calculations are not as good as those of humans. After entering the Caribbean waters, the San Jose finally encountered the British Empire Navy, and was then beaten to death. Unfortunately, it was knocked over by a volley of artillery fire.

    There were more than 600 Spanish naval elites on board, but only a fraction of them escaped in the end. These people did not return to Spain, because at that time, losing a huge treasure was a serious crime of beheading and would implicate the entire family.  As a result, these people fled for their lives, and the news of the sinking of the San Jose was covered up.

    After that, although the news of the sinking of the San Jose spread widely, the British Navy did not record the specific location of the sinking of the San Jose at that time. The few people who narrowly escaped from the sinking were just ordinary soldiers, and the sea was no better than the land, and the vast ocean had no trace.  Therefore, no one could find this supposedly priceless treasure ship in the end.

    Qin Shiou recalled the information about the San Jose and asked Black, "Have you really found the location of this ship? Over the centuries, countless people have not found it. How did you find it?"

    Little Blake smiled slightly and said: "I have better luck. At the beginning of the year, I received a logbook of a ship named 'Sturdy as a Reef'. I conducted research based on the information in it, and then you guess what I  What did you find?"

    "This ship is the warship that sank the San Jose?" Qin Shiou asked strangely. It may not be a coincidence, because the identity of the warship that sank the San Jose was not determined at the beginning, which led to the location of the sunken ship.  Completely unable to query.

    Maritime warfare in that era was very chaotic. The navies of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal often fought in melee. You beat me and I beat you. Not only did the navy fight with the navy, the navy also liked to attack civilian ships and merchant ships. Some civilian ships and merchant ships would also disguise themselves as  Navy ships or pirate ships then attack each other.

    After fighting for decades, several maritime overlords found that this was not possible and that the only people who would be injured in the melee was their own grassroots economy. So they negotiated and were not allowed to attack civilian ships and commercial ships in the future.This is the Four-Nation Maritime Convention.

    But as we all know, contracts between countries are created to be destroyed. The navies of the four countries do not comply with the convention at all. They should attack civilian ships or civilian ships, and plunder merchant ships or merchant ships.  In order to avoid being caught, they began to make false accounts. After attacking such ships, they refused to admit it and did not record it in the captain's logbook and battle log.

    Little Black nodded and said: "Yes, according to my research, it is like this. Later, in this logbook, I found the year the San Jose was sunk, that is, the ship's travel route in 1708. In the end,  It was determined that the place where they sank the San Jose was not far from the Cayman Islands, because the Rock was trying to replenish supplies. They encountered the San Jose and thought it was a Spanish troop transport, so they took it  Sunk."

    "When they sank the San Jose, they were worried that there would be Spanish naval ships behind them, and they didn't have much supplies anymore, so they quickly ran away. This is the reason why they didn't leave any specific records of the location of the naval battle!"

    Qin Shiou rubbed the back of his head and felt that little Blake was also a talent. He could find out so much information by following the clues. He couldn't help but praise: "It's their loss if you don't work for the Intelligence Five Tigers, and it's also a loss for your talent."  waste."

    The Intelligence Five is a collective term that refers to the five main agencies responsible for intelligence collection in Canada, namely the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, the Armed Forces and Defense, the National Security Intelligence Service, the Royal Mounted Police and the Communications Security Bureau.  These five agencies are responsible for collecting signal intelligence and some human intelligence for Canada for use in decision-making, maintaining national security and military operations. The elite talents inside are all good at intelligence analysis, so Qin Shiou said this.

    Little Black took out a chart of the Caribbean Sea that he carried with him, and marked a red five-pointed star in the southwest. He said firmly: "This is the approximate location of the San Jose. You can find a way to communicate with Bilicha."  For a moment, I thought, we are really going to become incredibly rich!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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