Chapter 123: Salvage
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Through the footage of the underwater camera, it can be seen that after the platform lifting gear starts to operate, the wreckage that has been tied up slowly shakes and the image disappears.
At a depth of more than 40 meters, and the wreckage was salvaged, but two or three minutes later, a behemoth covered with silt surfaced to the surface.
The lifting gear on the platform directly lowered the shapeless wreck onto the deck, and when the wreckage was stabilized, it was vaguely clear that it should be a cabin, but the cabin and windows were covered by silt, and there was only a rough outline.
"Quick, clean up with a high-pressure faucet, and the rest of the crew will be ready to rescue the contents of the wreckage......"
As the leader of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ministry of Agitation, Director Wu is not useless, and the experience of salvaging the wreck is still quite rich.
This wreck doesn't have much research value, what matters is what is inside, so Director Wu issued such an order, and seven or eight high-pressure faucets washed the surface of the wreck at the same time.
After the black sludge was washed down by the water column, the mottled hull was exposed, and although there was rust everywhere, some patterns could still be faintly seen.
"It's a cabin, no...... Don't know what's inside?"
After the muck windows and the mud on the wreckage windows and men were cleaned away, the outline of the entire cabin became clear, and Professor Meng took two steps forward, looking a little excited.
Of course, the Awa Maru is more than 15o meters long and has dozens of rooms and cabins on it, while in the salvage at the end of the seventies of the last century, only about twenty cabins were found at most.
In other words, the salvaged hull was less than half the size of the Awa Maru, which was the main reason for the lack of gold and valuables.
After Professor Meng's decades of research and analysis, those important objects should have been placed in the captain's room, and now such a seemingly complete cabin has been salvaged, and Professor Meng can't help but be excited.
"A group of people go in and clean up the contents ......"
After the technicians stepped forward to make sure that the uncovered cabin would not disintegrate, Director Wu gave the order, and the four mermaids entered the cabin and began to clean up the mud inside.
Although he could see the situation inside from the outside, Professor Meng was still a little anxious, walking back and forth on the deck.
You must know that the fossil skull of Peking Man carries the hard work and efforts of several generations, including Professor Meng's teacher, which really makes the old man unable to calm down.
"There is a present, there is a ......"
A voice came from the mouth of the person squatting in the cabin, and Professor Meng suddenly came to the spirit, and he didn't care that it was full of mud, and rushed in with one arrow step, which was more agile than the young man.
"This ...... This one...... It's gold......"
When he came to the staff member, Professor Meng took the object in the man's hand, wiped it with his sleeve, and suddenly showed a look of disappointment on his face.
Gold is worth a lot of money, and compared to the fossilized Peking Man skull that Professor Meng is looking for, it is also a far cry.
However, since there is gold in this cabin, it means that this is the place where important goods are placed, thinking of this, Professor Meng's heart is hot,
Ignoring the foul smell of the cabin under the sun, Professor Meng squatted down and cleaned up with the staff.
"Zhuang Rui, the teacher is busy working inside, and you, a disciple, don't say to help the helper......"
After Qin Xuanbing put Fang Fangyuan to sleep just now, she also rushed to the deck to watch the excitement, and couldn't help but feel a little strange when she saw Zhuang Rui's old god standing outside.
"Ahem, there's nothing the teacher wants, at most it's just some yellow and white blockages......
Zhuang Rui shook his head, to be honest, Zhuang Rui was not interested in this wreck at all, even if he salvaged all the gold he surveyed, it had nothing to do with him, and he could only make political achievements for these officials in vain.
As for those Qing Dynasty ceramics and gold and silver objects that can be called antiques, Zhuang Rui really can't look at them very much, and the reason why he agreed to participate in this salvage is only for the legendary "Peking Man skull fossil".
After reading the documents compiled by Professor Meng, Zhuang Rui has a deeper understanding of the "Peking Man Skull Fossil", and the dozen or so boxes that disappeared back then have extremely important scientific research value for the history of human evolution and archaeology.
Therefore, after Zhuang Rui did not survey the "Peking Man Skull Fossil" before, he was not so concerned about this salvage, if it were not for the fact that the gold would not sink forever at the bottom of the sea, Zhuang Rui would not even bother to help them survey.
However, the master has something to do, and when Qin Xuanbing said this, Zhuang Rui also pinched his nose and walked into the wreckage of the cabin to help Professor Meng clean them up.
Zhuang Rui didn't want to stay in this cabin with an unpleasant smell for a long time, so he immediately used his aura to find the pieces of gold scattered in the mud, and with his joining, after about a dozen hours, all the objects in the wreckage of the cabin had been cleared out.
Yan Se had a slight amount of jet-black gold, piled up on the deck, and there were also some uncorrupted iron tools and the remains of the chest, but the rest of the things had disappeared with the passage of time.
Several technicians took the weight-measuring instruments and weighed the gold bricks piece by piece, and after more than half an hour, the results came out, and a total of 4.8 tons of gold appeared from the wreckage of this cabin.
"Da Xian, Da Xian, contact Deputy Prime Minister X immediately, oh...... No, contact the minister first and report this important ......"
Unlike Professor Meng's disappointment and Zhuang Rui's tastelessness, Director Wu's hands were trembling with excitement at this time, G's mistake.
Before the "Xuanrui" went to sea for salvage operations, Vice Premier X, who is in charge of national education, science and cultural work, personally gave an instruction sheet to the staff involved in the salvage.
Therefore, when Director Wu was excited just now, he wanted to report directly to the vice premier, but fortunately, Director Wu corrected his mistakes in time.
The good news reached Vice Minister Yu, and he immediately reported it again, and in the news broadcast that night, this exciting news was broadcast for the Chinese people.
Of course, the pictures that filled the news footage were of course the pictures of the leaders, and the wreckage and gold of the real shot were only swept away, and as for Director Wu, the picture was transferred after only two words.
However, this also made Director Wu very happy, and he drank two bottles of Moutai at night, I don't know if it was taken by the wine, but he generously approved a note to Zhuang Rui, and all the fuel costs of the salvage operation were reimbursed by the Maritime Safety Bureau.
Zhuang Rui didn't shirk it, the amount of fuel money to be spent on this day at sea is not a xi, so he put away the strips at the moment, and when the salvage operation was over, he slaughtered a sum from the Maritime Safety Bureau, these are all later words.
Vice Minister Yu also personally came to the "Xuanrui" to cheer up the personnel involved in the salvage.
Of course, the final announcement of the prize of 10,000 RMB per person is everyone's favorite.
And a few divers who received a heavy reward of 50,000 yuan per person were even more energetic, and they didn't use Zhuang Rui's command to survey the remaining wreckage in the subsequent survey.
More than 2o days have passed in a flash, and the salvage of the wreck of the Awa Maru has also come to an end.
The salvage was a great success, with a total of 38 tons of gold and many valuable ancient Chinese relics.
In addition, more than 200 bones were sorted out from the broken wreckage, which should have been the victims of the "Awa Maru", and these bones were collected together, ready to be returned to the Japanese side after the salvage was completed.
The relevant ministry has played the video of the salvage operation, which has caused a huge response from the people, and the appearance of the bones has also attracted the attention of the Japanese side.
The relevant ministries also prepared a grand celebration meeting, which will be held after Zhuang Rui and others return to Beijing, but the skull fossil that made Zhuang Rui and Professor Meng worry about has been nowhere to be found, which made Professor Meng and several paleoanthropologists on the ship very disappointed.
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Due to the fact that another typhoon was about to hit the sea area where Zhuang Rui was located, on the night of the end of the salvage, the "Xuanrui" sailed 20 nautical miles north, preparing to return to Beijing early the next morning.
In the evening, Zhuang Rui asked the restaurant to prepare some Xi dishes, and then invited the teacher over, he could see that Professor Meng had lost a lot of weight in the past 20 days, and wanted to explain the teacher.
"Teacher, it seems that the fossilized skull of Peking Man is not on the Awa Maru......"
Zhuang Rui sat opposite Professor Meng, looking at the teacher's somewhat old face, and felt very unbearable, these days, his hopes turned into disappointment, which hit the old man's heart very hard.
"Xi Zhuang, don't say it, the teacher is fine, the skull fossil is not as heavy as gold, maybe when the Awa Maru disintegrates, it will be washed away by the sea......"
Professor Meng shook his head, this time he came with hope, but he left with disappointment, Professor Meng didn't know if he would be able to see those skull fossils in this life?
"Okay, let's go rest, I'm going back to Beijing tomorrow......"
Professor Meng waved his hand, went back to his room alone, and looked at the old man's slightly gloomy back, Zhuang Rui didn't know why, and his heart suddenly became a little panicked.
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