At the beginning, the crew and passengers on the "Taixing" should have exceeded 2,000 people, which is the data given by nearly 200 survivors who were rescued, and more than 1,800 people died in shipwrecks, and the wooden galleon that was 90 years earlier than the Titanic hit the rocks, causing more casualties than the number of people killed on the dream ship!

There were many people on the Titanic who had the dream of going to the New World to start a new life and got on the big steel ship, and the passengers on the Taixing made of giant wood were not like this, leaving the rule of the Qing Dynasty and going to Nanyang to find a new life.

The times are different, the big ships are different, the dreams are the same, and there are the same tragic endings......

168 years have passed, and no one can figure out the exact number of people killed at that time, and it is even more difficult to know who was named.

There was not even any record of the ship's voyage in the archives of the Qing court's department in charge of shipping, because Xiamen at that time may have lost its official qualification to export materials.

Some people even suspect that the ship left Fujian Province by smuggling and smuggling at that time, which was very common on the southeast coast during the Daoguang period - just one Guangzhou 13 line, how can it meet the interests of maritime merchants, and Fujian Province has always had a tradition of maritime trade, and the interests are intricately entangled.

This will Zhang Nan and the others have serious expressions, Xiang Weirong stands in the middle of the first row, Zhang Nan is on the left hand, and Guan Xingquan is on the right hand.

Sacrifice, you have to say a few words.

Zhang Nan doesn't speak Hokkien or Hakka, but fortunately, there is a guy on the cargo ship who grew up in Fujian Province as a child and teenager, so he asked him to come: if you use Mandarin, how many souls who have been floating in this sea for 168 years can understand?

As for Thomas, Randy, and the others, their expressions were equally solemn, each holding a flower in their hands, and Mark and Jacob were carrying a huge wreath of flowers.

As for what to say, it is according to Zhang Nan's reminder, to the effect: Ladies and gentlemen, this time we are here to collect treasures, disturb your peace, and prepare special sacrifices for you to enjoy, I hope you will forgive me.

This area is currently not under the management of China, and if we don't take it away, it will be plundered by Fanbang.

Most of the treasures obtained from this salvage will be sold to the people of Fanbang, anyway, these goods were originally exported, and the owner of the goods will forgive me.

If you want to return to the roots, if you have a spirit, you can place your trust on your personal belongings, no matter how valuable this part is, we and other treasure hunters will not be greedy for ink, and they will be sent back to China within a year after sorting...

Shen Shinto said, only the buddy himself can understand this, what kind of fanbang or something, even Zhang Nan didn't understand what he said, let alone Thomas, a group of blond, red-haired, blue-eyed, and green-eyed Fanbang people.

Hokkien, this dialect also belongs to the super difficult category, and outsiders are like listening to heavenly books.

The man gestured to the side, and the group took the incense and bowed three times, and then inserted the incense into a large basin filled with clay that was used as an incense burner.

There are also several large iron buckets in front of it, burning paper and ingots.

Thomas and others prayed there, may the deceased rest in peace, and then threw flowers and wreaths into the sea.

The memorial ceremony is finished, remove the incense and set it aside, wait for it to go out on its own, and then eat!

Yes, it's noon, eat.

There are a lot of people, and there are restaurants and kitchen boxes in the container barracks on the decks, and everyone is divided into three waves, one on duty, and the other two groups go to the ship building and the small restaurant in the container to eat.

The sacrifices also have to be eaten, and the nine bowls of dishes are meat and vegetarian, which will be on the table in front of Zhang Nan.

Cooked pig's head and cooked rooster are cut by the kitchen and directly plated to be eaten. As for the big knife of meat, after cutting it again in the kitchen, it was copied back to the pot meat.

In Zhang Nan's hometown, the tradition has always been that the sacrifices are eaten by the living after the sacrifice, and it is not good to waste food.

The Qingming and winter solstices are not only a traditional education for children, but also an opportunity to feast - if there are few immediate family members at home, you can also invite a few collateral relatives to come.

Relatives do not participate in the sacrifice, but they can also enjoy the sacrifice together after the sacrifice. If you have friends who have just come that day, you can avoid it during the sacrifice and eat together after the ceremony.

I heard from the elders that when they could still worship in the ancestral hall, the sacrifices were also eaten last.

9 large bowls, basically all meat dishes, which probably understands why it is traditionally eaten last, and there are not many opportunities to eat meat dishes in the past.

Although the lonely souls in this sea area are not the ancestors of Zhang Nan and others, they are both Chinese, and they can be regarded as a family, and it is reasonable to eat sacrifices.

If you don't eat it, do you throw it away?

......

After eating, this is the right thing to do.

The size of the Big Shark is large enough, and as a container bulk mixed ship, it is easy to install equipment.

Submarine radar was there, but it didn't work this time: the water was too shallow and it didn't work in the first place.

Captain Jamie Bostwick explained the large amount of diving equipment used this time, and said: "This trip was very lucky, our 20 frogmen only searched for one day to find the exact location, the wreck is very well preserved, surrounded by corals basically in one piece......"

Thirty meters in front of the cargo ship, two small boats were working, and standing at the bow of the ship, it was clear that divers in diving suits had turned over and disembarked.

There are thick pipes connected to pumps on the deck of cargo ships, which remove sediment from the wreck and pipe it directly downstream to the sea.

“...... When the cargo hold is opened, the Great Shark will stop directly above the wreck, so that the crane speed will be much faster. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Nan asked, "How deep is the water over there?"

"30 meters. ”

As soon as Captain Jamie said, Zhang Nan shook his head in his heart.

I thought that the water depth was about five or six meters here, but I didn't think that there was a cliff ahead, and my idea of going to the water over there to see the wreck site was completely dispelled.

I can't swim and stay away from the water, but I have dug many ancient tombs and ruins on the road in my two lives, but I have never fished anything under the water: the bronze weapons from the battlefield are not counted, they are dug up by other machines.

There are a group of professional divers, and it is said that people who can't swim in shallow water diving can also go to play, and Zhang Nan originally wanted to overcome his fear of water and go into the water to see the bottom of the sea.

Within 18 meters, healthy adults can try it after a certain amount of training, and once they exceed this depth, it is better not to try it.

Well, now that the water depth is 30 meters, no matter what, you have to have a certain amount of diving training to go down, just like my brother-in-law and Brother Guan, I don't think I will go into the water to try diving at this depth.

The combined forces are full of talents, and there are many professional divers, and this depth is trivial.