Chapter 949 Floating Under the Sea

"Zhang T, thank you for your hard work. Keep an eye on it. I'll go out to pick up people, one by one...

Although he was slandered, when the teacher came, Zhuang Rui still wanted to greet him, and now he is the only one on the ship who majored in archaeology, and the relevant technical personnel are seriously insufficient.

After the sunken ship floats out of the sea, tens of thousands of ancient cultural relics on it need to be sorted out, but Zhuang Rui can't do it by himself, so it is necessary to ask for help from China.

Of course, the ownership of this batch of sunken ship cultural relics still belongs to Zhuang Rui. These people came at most to add a title that participated in the country's first successful deep-sea salvage. Zhuang Rui didn't pay much attention to this honor.

"Brother Zhuang, did they also bring a tugboat?"

Peng Fei also came to the deck from the monitoring room and stood on the side of the ship next to the spiral ladder with Zhuang Rui to welcome those domestic experts.

"That's their business. Anyway, we don't have to..."

Zhuang Rui curled his lips when he heard the words. Some relevant departments in China are not generous enough to do things. They look rare. Do they take a tugboat tow the shipwreck? They are reluctant to give up themselves. Thanks to those people, can they figure it out?

After waiting for about 20 minutes, Professor Meng and his party changed to the boat and finally boarded the deck. Zhuang Rui hurriedly greeted him and said, "Teacher, please come in person. The students are uneasy..."

Professor Meng was originally presiding over the excavation of Liu Xiu's tomb in Henan Province, and his work has made great progress. He has continuously excavated more than a dozen discoveries that can fill the gap in domestic archaeology, which has attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad.

However, after hearing the news that Zhuang Rui was salvaging the sunken ship in the South China Sea and receiving Zhuang Rui's call for help, he immediately put down his work and gathered a group of domestic underwater salvage experts and archaeologists to rush here overnight. Among other things, this friendship is indeed heavy.

"Don't talk to the teacher in the tone of your businessman..."

Professor Meng looked at Zhuang Rui angrily and then said, "But Xiaozhuang, after these objects are salvaged, you should study them for us first. Don't be in a hurry to put them in the museum..."

Professor Meng is not really angry. As a teacher, he can see the students' promisingness, which is absolutely as sweet as honey in his heart, and Zhuang Rui's project this time will also fill the gap in the national underwater archaeology. Professor Meng is only happy at this time.

"I'll do what you say, teacher, just do what you say..."

Professor Meng's words made Zhuang Rui smile bitterly: "Well, I just said that I was a businessman, and now I'm starting to bargain..."

However, Zhuang Rui had no reason to refuse the teacher's request, which means that someone gave him this batch of sunken ship cultural relics for free.

"Well, you know all these people. You don't need me to introduce them. Let's introduce the situation of this salvage to us..."

Follow Professor Meng, not only people from the archaeology community, but also several antique ceramic identification experts. Zhuang Rui has been in this industry for several years, and he is no stranger to these people.

Behind a few experts, followed by seven or eight young people who seemed to be in their early twenties. Zhuang Rui knew that this should be the students in the school who followed them for an internship. For them, such an opportunity is rare.

"Xiaozhuang" If you don't do it, it's not a little quiet..."

The speaker is an old acquaintance of Zhuang Rui. Professor Tian of the Palace Museum. Since the last "Cizhou Guanyao Incident", Zhuang Rui and Professor Tian have also become friends, and the relationship is very good.

"Hey hey, Mr. Tian," you said, I'm going to be proud..."

Zhuang Rui smiled and let the group of people into the monitoring room in the platform. "Of course, those students were left outside." They looked curiously at the floating crane work one by one. Everything on the sea was very novel to them.

"Lao Tian is right, Xiao Zhuang, you have brought us a lot of surprises in the past two years..." Professor Meng and Zhuang Rui walked side by side, but they sighed a lot in their hearts.

At first, Zhuang Rui got the Dingguang sword, which confirmed that the legendary ancient emperor's sword did exist. Later, he found pirate treasures overseas, which made the national archaeological boundary very popular in the world.

It is the recent unearthing of the tomb of the emperor in the Han Dynasty in Henan Province, which has nothing to do with Zhuang Rui. If he hadn't followed the vine and let the two big cow brothers lead the way, or the emperor's tomb would have been destroyed in the hands of tomb robbers.

Now Zhuang Rui is even more amazing. Deep-water archaeology has always been a blind spot in the archaeological field of [Zhongzhong]. The country has spent more than ten years of time and effort, and has not been able to salvage the South China Sea No. 1 that has already been surveyed.

For the first time, Zhuang Rui salvaged a sunken ship at a depth of 3,000 meters. Its technical difficulty is well known, which is also rare in the world's deep-water salvage calendar.

"Zhang Gong, this is my tutor, Professor Meng, teacher, this is the commander-in-chief in charge of the salvage work, Zhang Gong..."

As he spoke and entered the monitoring room on the platform, Zhuang Rui introduced several staff in the room to Professor Meng and others. It was these people who wanted to salvage the sunken ship.

"Professor Meng, I've heard about it for a long time. Since Ann is here, I have handed over the commander-in-chief one by one...

After Zhuang Rui introduced Professor Meng to Zhang Gong, Zhang Gong was ready to unload the burden immediately. In the past few days, he has been paying attention to the underwater situation day and night, and Zhang Gong was much more haggard than when he came.

"Don't, there is a specialty. You can ask me to introduce history, but the old man doesn't understand these things. Mr. Zhang, you continue to command. After the ship is salvaged, it's my job..."

Professor Meng waved his hand and said with a smile, but his body took a few steps, staring at the ancient sunken ship that was slowly floating up.

At this time, the ancient sunken ship is still one or two hundred meters deep from the sea. Even if you don't rely on strong lights, you can faintly see the outline of the sunken ship.

"That's right, it's a shipwreck in the Song Dynasty. Look, the bow is high and the lines are smooth. It is indeed the characteristics of the ships of the Song Dynasty. Xiaozhuang, you have filled a gap in the national deep-water archaeology this time..."

Professor Meng looked at the ancient ship wrapped in fishing nets on the screen with an intoxicated face. He not to mention the value of the objects in the sunken ship. The sunken ship alone has considerable value for the study of the ancient maritime history of [China] China.

"All the people of the Ministry of Transport can go home to grow sweet potatoes. It's a shame."

Professor Tian said something coldly next to him. Zhuang Rui was a little stunned and asked, "Mr. Tian, what's the matter with the Ministry of Transport?"

"Why is it none of their business? The salvage of the sunken ship must be carried out with their consent and guidance. However, Nanhai No. 1 has found it for more than ten years, and a lot of things have been recovered from it, but the whole ship has not been flooded until now. Compared with you, this is the home of a group of people stealing vegetarian meals..."

Professor Tian is a little indignant. He himself is engaged in the study of ancient ceramics. Of course, he wants to have more physical objects in the export of porcelain in the Song Dynasty. However, over the years, the things salvaged by the country have not been found by private fishermen.

When Zhuang Rui heard Professor Tian's explanation, he knew that the salvage of sunken ships in China should be approved by the Ministry of Transport, and the salvage should also be directed by the experts they sent.

As for those qualified salvage companies, they are probably subordinate enterprises in the department. The professional skills are not very good, but there are many people who eat idle meals.

After hearing this statement, Zhuang Rui was immediately happy. "Luckily, I didn't go to the domestic idea, otherwise I'm afraid I would be scraped off a few layers of skin by those old men."

Sitting in the monitoring room for a while, Zhang Gong stood up and said, "Mr. Zhuang, Professor Meng, there is still half an hour at most. The sunken ship is about to float out of the sea. Let's go outside and wait..."

"Okay, everyone go out, pay attention to safety, don't lean on the starboard..."

Zhuang Rui nodded and told several experts that the hull was dozens of meters high. If it fell from the ship, even if it was seawater below, it would be seriously injured if it was not shaken to death.

Hearing that the sunken ship was about to come out of the water, everyone rose up and walked out of the monitoring room together to the deck between the platform and the floating crane.

The cruise ship's floating crane and platform form a triangle, and the middle position is where the sunken ship comes out of the water. At this moment, the deck is full of people.

It was not only the staff of the platform, but also the crew who saw this situation for the first time. They came over to watch the fun one after another. The bearded captain came in person and took a telescope to observe the sea.

But of course, the most eye-catching King Kong combination. King Kong sits a little guy on his shoulder, and he is struggling to get through the crowd. This guy is crazy. The more people there are, the happier he is.

Zhuang Rui didn't have time to teach King Kong a lesson at this moment. He stared at the sea and sensed the sunken ship with aura.

"Fifty meters..."

"Forty meters..."

"Twenty meters..."

"Ten meters..."

A sound of real-time data kept coming from the walkie-talkie, and at five meters, the calm sea rolled up, and a high wooden pole appeared on the sea. Zhuang Rui knew that this was a broken mast.

"It's out!"

"Look, the big ship is coming out..."

"It's all wood, and there are still a lot of things on the ship..."

After more than a week of nervousness, the ancient shipwreck of the Song Dynasty finally emerged from the sea, revealing its mysterious veil.

For a moment, all the staff on the cruise ship cheered. Many people took off their hats on their heads and threw them high into the sky.

The water out of the sunken ship not only represents the completion of their work, but also refreshes the history of deep-water salvage. At this moment, everyone's heart is full of joy.

Through the gap in the middle of the fishing net, it can be clearly seen that the wood of the ancient ship is slightly red, and the hull is not rotten. Except for the broken mast, it is basically intact.