National Taiwan University history professor Tsao Yung-ho suggests that perhaps future exploration not only of the Penghu ships but of other wrecks as well will settle several long-standing controversies within the community of historians. For example, did trading vessels go through Penghu on a large scale as early as the northern Sung dynasty, before the earliest records of such trading?
台大歷史系教授曹永和認為，不只是目前所發現的這艘古沉船，假使澎湖海底其他沉船，都有進一步探索的可能，那麼許多在史學界吵嚷不休的問題，如貿易船大量經過澎湖的時間，是否提前至文獻未載的北宋等都可得到解決。