Chapter 0951 – Picking Peaches? (I)

In the vast sea, the roar from the cruise ship was deafening, after the wreck came out of the water, the platform and the floating crane suddenly doubled the pressure, at the moment bearing hundreds of tons of gravity, almost the power has been opened to the maximum.

Those who manipulate the machine workers, are very careful to slowly move the boom of the floating crane, the shipwreck is almost inch by inch in the rise, slowly to the cruise ship deck has long been empty out of the move.

Those relevant domestic department leaders, after seeing this wreck, immediately face embarrassed look, they brought the tugboat is not as big as this boat, and see others so careful action, also know that Zhuang Rui certainly will not share the credit with them.

“A little higher, a little higher, good!”

“A little to the left, a little more, gently, don’t break anything on the boat.”

“Slowly put it up, slower again, Old Yu, didn’t you fucking claim that you can pick up a serving of cigarettes with the boom?”

These workers all knew about Zhuang Rui giving them a raise, so they did their work very carefully, one by one the instructions were passed from the ship to the operators, and all the work was being carried out in an organized manner.

After more than three hours, the ancient shipwreck, which had sunk to the bottom of the sea for more than a thousand years, was finally safely placed on the deck.

The ship’s hull with a slight reddish luster, under the direct sunlight, showed a sense of vicissitude after a thousand years of weathering.

In order to facilitate future transportation, the fishing nets were still not lifted, but the ropes on them had all been cleaned off, and Zhuang Rui walked in the front row, standing side by side with Prof. Meng next to the ancient shipwreck.

“Dang …… dang ……”

Zhuang Rui struck the hull of the ship with his hand, making a sound like metal clinking, this Song Dynasty ship had survived for thousands of years, and instead of any decay, the hull of the ship seemed to be even more sturdy than before.

“Historical significance, archaeological significance, cultural relics of great value ah!”

Professor Meng gently stroked the shipwreck with his hand, his face was unusually agitated, saying three significant words in a row, even when Liu Xiu’s tomb was unearthed, Zhuang Rui hadn’t seen his teacher so out of sorts.

Zhuang Rui saw the teacher emotional, and overnight boat rushed, afraid of the old man’s body out of a good or bad, and quickly said: “Teacher, or first rest a little bit, we then clean up?”

Due to the direct sunlight will make the shipwreck wooden structure changes, this will be in the shipwreck above the staff to build a simple awning, Zhuang Rui means to wait for them to finish the work, and then carry out the work of cleaning the shipwreck.

To know, even if just a rough visual inspection, the ship’s artifacts at least are up to tens of thousands of pieces, alone those densely arranged together with the porcelain are countless, not to mention the countless gold and silverware, scattered in all parts of the hull.

Cultural relics cleanup work is not just take things out on the line, but also to its number classification, very cumbersome, alone these cleanup work, Zhuang Rui estimated that there is no ten days and a half months are very difficult to finish.

Professor Meng heard Zhuang Rui’s words, waved his hand and said: “No, we start now, Xiao Zhuang, you have not realized the importance of this ship, its value is no less than the Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi ah!”

According to Professor Meng, the significance of the discovery and salvage of this early Song Dynasty shipwreck lies not only in the finding of a shipload of tens of thousands of rare treasures itself, it also contains information beyond imagination and extraordinary academic value.

Because of the location of the shipwreck, not only in the “maritime silk road” channel, and its “collection” of the number and type of exceptionally rich and valuable, to the study of this period of history provides the most credible template. And the exploration and excavation of this shipwreck can also restore and fill a historical gap closely related to the ancient Chinese “maritime silk road”.

To know, this is far earlier than Zheng He went to the West when the maritime trade behavior, but also can be argued at that time China’s strong manufacturing power, its great age of navigation is far more than the United Kingdom and Portugal and other medieval maritime power.

Professor Meng and Zhuang Rui’s cognitive perspective on the shipwreck is not the same, when he finished elaborating the value of this shipwreck, Zhuang Rui a little embarrassed to spit out his tongue, dare I say that this archaeological professionals, or drilled into the eye of the money, only from the value of cultural relics above to make a judgment on it.

“That’s right, Xiao Zhuang, is the room where these objects are placed ready? Remember, the room should be dry, otherwise the glaze color of these porcelains will be oxidized and fade.”

Professor Tian was also rubbing his fists on the side, these Song Dynasty export porcelains are of great significance to the study of ancient export ceramics and the history of the South China Sea maritime transportation and trade.

The world thinks that the peak of the country’s feudal dynasties is the Tang Dynasty, in fact, not, from a commercial point of view, the Song Dynasty is the most economically prosperous, the most technologically developed, one of the most flourishing cultural dynasties in Chinese history, but also at that time the world’s most inventive countries.

Song Dynasty porcelain is also in addition to some of the Yuan Dynasty almost become orphaned porcelain, the most sought after porcelain in the international market, the price has always been high. So Prof. Tian at this moment, is already can’t wait to observe the difference between these export porcelain of the Song Dynasty and the domestic official porcelain and folk porcelain.

“Alright! The rooms are all ready, everyone can get on board, but be careful, some of the seaweed on board will be slippery.”

Seeing that both teachers said so, Zhuang Rui also had no reason to stop it, after he nodded his head, immediately someone set up a ladder and went on the thousand year old ship in stages and so on.

A piece of precious porcelain or gold and silver, was passed down from the ship, this work is very tedious, until late at night, the deck pulled up the lighting, in the ship there are still four or five trainees are busy.

Professor Meng and others although the spirit of exuberance, but the body really can not hold out, was persuaded by Zhuang Rui went to rest, but Zhuang Rui has been on the scene staring, these things less a piece of him can not afford to give up.

“Mr. Zhuang, are you free? I would like to have a few words with you.”

Just as Zhuang Rui wiped clean a bronze mirror and put it into a plastic bag, a voice came out from under the ship.

“You are?”

Zhuang Rui stretched out his head and saw a long, white, chubby, middle-aged man in his forties, Zhuang Rui vaguely had some impression that this person seemed to have boarded the ship with Prof. Meng, but the teacher didn’t introduce him at that time, so Zhuang Rui didn’t care.

“Mr. Zhuang, my name is Dou Zhe, is the State Ministry of Transportation is specifically responsible for the maritime traffic aspects, for your salvage behavior this time, our leadership has given a high evaluation, I think, we are not to find a place to talk about it?”

The person who came introduced himself, Zhuang Rui froze for a moment after listening, this official is not small, actually a cadre at the level of the main hall, and at that moment wiped his hands, and climbed down from the ladder next to the hull.

“Director Dou, go sit down in the room!”

Although he didn’t know what this Director General was looking for himself to talk about, Zhuang Rui also didn’t want to offend people for nothing, this would be a little after midnight, the other party came to look for himself, it was also considered to be sincere!

“Dou director, what is looking for me?” After sitting down, Zhuang Rui made a cup of coffee for Dou Director, these days are relying on this refreshment, and there is no other drink on the ship.

Director Dou seemed to know Zhuang Rui’s background, after standing up and receiving the coffee with both hands, he said, “Mr. Zhuang, I was entrusted by the leadership to congratulate you on the success of this deep sea salvage.”

“Oh, Dou director, thank you for the leadership’s concern, you see this work is relatively busy, heritage cleanup has only been carried out a small half, if ……”

Zhuang Rui’s words did not go on, but want to go away meaning has been very obvious, “Buddy tired day, have the work to accompany the wife and child is not good? Idle egg pain with this bureaucrat in this bullshit?”

See Zhuang Rui a little impatient look, Dou director hurriedly put down the hands of the coffee, said: “is this way, Mr. Zhuang, although you salvage this salvage all belong to your personal behavior, but salvage out of this ship, can still be the country ah!”

“Wait, Director Dou, it’s meaningless for you to say that, isn’t it? This ship is the Song Dynasty’s is not false, but said is the country’s, this is a little far, right? This is the South China Sea Malacca, not the relevant sea area of our country.”

When Zhuang Rui heard this from Director Dou, he was instantly on fire, dare this Director Dou come to pick the peach ah? He spent hundreds of millions of dollars to salvage out of the ship, a national want to take away? When buddies good bully ah?

“No …… no, not this meaning, Mr. Zhuang you misunderstood, you misunderstood.”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Dou director of that white face suddenly suffocated red, and quickly stood up, explaining: “This shipwreck of course belongs to Mr. Zhuang you, our leadership means, is it possible to this salvage, characterized as Mr. Zhuang and the country together?”

After talking for half a day, this sentence of Director Dou was considered to be to the point, China’s first deep-sea shipwreck salvage, may even be the world’s deepest deep-water salvage, such a name, to improve the political performance of certain people, is an unusually important role. And the leader of the account, is to let the director of the sinus and Zhuang Rui consultation, to see if the salvage party can add the words of the relevant state departments.

Although the sinus director knows that Zhuang Rui behind the background is very deep, but see Zhuang Rui young, it would like to take the initiative to make an official statement, to see if you can get a little more benefits. And let the Dou director embarrassed, Zhuang Rui simply do not eat him this set, directly blocked the words back, which makes the Dou director who is used to playing Taiji in the country, leaving a line for everything is very uncomfortable.

“State behavior?”

Zhuang Rui laughed and said, “The registered nationality of this ship is Panama, the salvage location is the open sea waters close to Malacca, the salvage cost of up to three hundred million US dollars is paid by me personally, is it not too appropriate for Director Dou to characterize it as a state act with one sentence?”

Zhuang Rui has now fully understood, this person is not rushing to these out of the water cultural relics, but rushed to this salvage event after the influence triggered.