Chapter 0950 – Surfacing (III)

“Worker Zhang, you work hard, keep an eye on it, I’ll go out to meet the people.”

Although his heart was slandering, Zhuang Rui still had to go and greet his teacher when he came, and now he was the only one on this ship who specialized in archaeology, and there was a serious shortage of relevant technicians.

After the shipwreck surfaced, tens of thousands of ancient cultural relics above need to be classified and organized, that is, exhausted Zhuang Rui he can’t finish by himself, so asking for help from the country is a must.

Of course, the ownership of this batch of shipwreck artifacts still belongs to Zhuang Rui, these people came to the most is to add a participation in China’s first successful deep-sea salvage title only, Zhuang Rui is not much on this kind of honor on the heart.

“Brother Zhuang, they also brought a tugboat to ah?”

Peng Fei also came from the monitoring room to the deck, and Zhuang Rui stood together on the side of the ship next to the rotary ladder to greet the experts who came from China.

“That’s their business, we can’t use it anyway.”

Zhuang Rui sniffed, some of the relevant domestic departments to do things is not atmospheric enough, looking at all rare, take the tugboat to tow the wreck? They give up their own still can not give up it, loss of those who can think out?

Waiting for about twenty minutes of time, Professor Meng and his entourage changed the dinghy, finally boarded the deck, Zhuang Rui hastily greeted up, said: “Teacher, trouble you personally over, the student heart uneasy ah!”

Prof. Meng was originally presiding over the excavation of Liu Xiu’s tomb in Yu Province, and the work has made great progress, successive excavation of more than ten discoveries that can fill the gaps in domestic archaeology, received considerable attention at home and abroad.

But Professor Meng heard the news that Zhuang Rui is salvaging the South China Sea shipwreck, and received Zhuang Rui’s distress call, immediately put down the work at hand, convened a group of domestic underwater salvage experts and archaeologists, rushed here overnight, not to mention, this friendship is indeed heavy.

“Don’t give the teacher your businessman’s tone of voice.”

Prof. Meng looked at Zhuang Rui with a feigned anger, then said, “But Xiao Zhuang, after these objects are salvaged, give us a good study first! There’s no rush to put them in the museum.”

Professor Meng is not really angry, do teachers can see the students out, that absolutely heart like eating honey sweet, and Zhuang Rui this project, will fill the blank of national underwater archaeology, Professor Meng at this time the heart only happy part.

“How you say I will do, teacher, according to what you say.”

Prof. Meng’s words made Zhuang Rui laugh bitterly, “Come on, just now he said he was a businessman, now he’s starting to haggle.”

But for his teacher’s request, Zhuang Rui had no reason to refuse, this was like someone breaking the generation of this batch of shipwreck relics for him for free.

“Well, you know all these people, no need for me to introduce them, introduce us to this salvage!”

Following Prof. Meng, not only people from archaeology, but also several experts in antique and ceramics identification, Zhuang Rui has been in this business for several years, and these people are not strangers.

In a few experts behind, also followed by seven or eight young people who look no more than the early twenties, Zhuang Rui know, this should be the students in the school, followed by the internship, for them, such an opportunity is not common.

“Xiao Zhuang, if you don’t make a move then it’s already done, once you make a move it’s not a small one!”

Speaking of this person is Zhuang Rui’s old acquaintance, the Palace Museum Professor Tian, since the last “Magnetic State kiln event”, Zhuang Rui and Professor Tian also became friends, the relationship is very good.

“Hey, Mr. Tian, you say this, I can be proud of ah!”

Zhuang Rui smiled and let the group into the monitoring room inside the platform, of course, those students were left outside, one by one, curiously watching the floating crane work, everything at sea was new to them.

“Old Tian was right, Xiao Zhuang, you’ve brought us quite a few surprises these two years!” Prof. Meng and Zhuang Rui were walking side by side, but their hearts were quite emotional.

Initially, Zhuang Rui found the Dingguang Treasure Sword, confirming that the legendary ancient imperial sword does exist, and then found the pirate treasure overseas, letting the Chinese archaeology community in the world made a big splash.

Is the recent unearthed in Yu Province Han Dynasty emperor tomb, and Zhuang Rui also can not get out of the relationship, if not he followed the melon, let the two bull brothers to lead the way, or the emperor’s tomb will be destroyed in the hands of grave robbers.

Now Zhuang Rui is even better, deep water archaeology has always been a blind spot in the Chinese archaeological community, the country time-consuming and exhausting more than a decade, have not been able to survey the South China Sea one salvaged.

And Zhuang Rui first shot, salvage is three thousand meters deep shipwreck, its technical difficulty can be imagined, which is also rare in the world deep water salvage history.

“Worker Zhang, this is my mentor, Professor Meng, teacher, this is the chief commander in charge of this salvage work, Worker Zhang.”

Speaking into the monitoring room on the platform, Zhuang Rui introduced the several staff members in the room to Prof. Meng and the others, to say that salvaging the shipwreck relied on these people.

“Prof. Meng, I’ve heard a lot about you, since you’re here, I’m handing over this commander-in-chief ah!”

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

“Don’t, there are specialties in the arts, it’s fine for you to ask me to introduce history, but these are things that old man doesn’t understand, Zhang Gong, you continue to command, what happens after the ship is salvaged is my job.”

Professor Meng waved his hand and said with a smile, but his body was walking a few steps tighter, his eyes staring towards the ancient shipwreck that was slowly floating upwards.

At this time, the ancient shipwreck was still one to two hundred meters deep from the surface of the sea, and even without relying on a strong light, the outline of the shipwreck could be vaguely seen.

“That’s right, it’s a Song Dynasty shipwreck, look at the high bow and smooth lines, it’s indeed a characteristic of Song Dynasty ships, Xiao Zhuang, you’ve filled another gap in the country’s deep water archaeology this time!”

Professor Meng looked at the ancient ship wrapped in fishing nets on the screen with an enraptured face, not to mention the value of the objects inside this shipwreck, this shipwreck alone has a considerable value for the study of ancient Chinese maritime history.

“The Ministry of Transportation’s gang can all go home and plant sweet potatoes, shame on them!”

Professor Tian coldly said from the side, hearing Zhuang Rui somewhat stunned, he opened his mouth and asked, “Mr. Tian, what does this have to do with the Ministry of Transportation?”

“How is it not their business? This shipwreck salvage work, must be in their agreement and under their guidance can be carried out, but the South China Sea No. 1 found more than ten years ago, also salvaged a lot of things from above, but the whole ship until now have not been out of the water, and you compared to this is a bunch of stealing a lot of guys.”

Prof. Tian some indignation, he himself is to do research on ancient ceramics, of course, want to more Song dynasty export porcelain in kind, but so many years, the state salvaged these things, but not as much as the folk fishermen fished it!

And Zhuang Rui heard Professor Tian’s explanation to know, in the domestic salvage shipwrecks, to be approved by the Ministry of Transportation, and in the salvage of the time but also by the experts they sent command.

As for those qualified salvage companies, nine times out of ten are subordinate enterprises of the Ministry of Transportation, professional technology is not good, but there are a lot of people who eat free food.

After hearing this statement, Zhuang Rui’s heart suddenly celebrated, “Buddy fortunately did not go to hit the domestic idea, or I’m afraid to be those lords to scrape off a few layers of skin alive.”

After sitting in the monitoring room for a while, Zhang Gong stood up and said, “Mr. Zhuang, Prof. Meng, there’s at most half an hour left before the wreck surfaces, let’s go wait outside!”

“Good, everyone go out, pay attention to safety, don’t lean on the side of the ship.”

Zhuang Rui nodded and explained a few words to a few experts, the ship’s hull was tens of meters high, if it fell from the ship, even if there was seawater underneath, it would land a serious injury if it wasn’t shocked to death.

Hearing that the wreck is about to come out of the water, all the people are excited, together out of the monitoring room, to the deck between the platform and the floating crane.

Cruise ship floating crane and platform, formed a triangle, and the center position is the wreck out of the water, at this moment the deck has been full of people.

Not only is the platform staff, is the crew is also the first time to see this situation, have come over to see the fun, the bearded captain have personally run to, take a telescope if something to observe the sea surface.

But the most eye-catching of course, King Kong combination, King Kong a shoulder sitting on a little guy, is excited in the crowd drilling around, this guy is a person crazy, the more people the more happy.

Zhuang Rui has no time to teach King Kong at this moment, his eyes are staring at that piece of sea, using his aura to sense the rising shipwreck.

“Fifty meters ……”

“Forty meters ……”

“Twenty meters ……”

“Ten meters ……”

A sound of real-time data kept coming from the intercom, and when it came to five meters, the calm sea water rolled over, and a tall wooden pole appeared on the sea surface, which Zhuang Rui knew was the broken mast.

“It’s coming out.”

“Look, the big ship came out.”

“It’s all wooden, and there’s a lot of stuff on board!”

After more than a week of intense hustle and bustle, this ancient shipwreck of the Song Dynasty, finally surfaced, revealing its mysterious veil.

At one time, all the staff on the cruise ship cheered, and many people took off their hats on their heads and threw them high into the sky.

The wreck’s release from the water not only represents the completion of this section of their work, but also refreshes the history of China’s deep water salvage, at this moment, everyone’s heart is full of joy.

Through the gap in the middle of the fishing nets, it could be clearly seen that the wood of this ancient ship was slightly reddish, the hull was not rotten, except for the broken masts, basically kept intact.