Chapter 280: Time-consuming and laborious salvage
The first day was not really salvage, it was all about commissioning various equipment and building the salvage platform, and this situation lasted for two days.
However, Xu Wenjie and the others were not idle, Martin got his submarine out, and several people were studying this large ball of only more than ten cubic meters at this time.
Xu Wenjie knocked on the inner wall of the ball and asked, "Are you sure that after this thing goes down to a depth of three hundred meters, it will not break directly due to water pressure?" ”
Martin said proudly: "Even if it's a kilometer, it's guaranteed to be intact, and these materials cost me about 10 million dollars." All the equipment here combined, I spent 45 million dollars. ”
Xu Wenjie was speechless, this guy deserves to be the second generation of rich, this kind of thing is not a person who can be burned with a lot of money, who can afford to play.
"Let's try it in the water first, and if it's okay, we'll sit down and have a look." Perhaps, with the addition of this salvage work, we will be able to speed up a little faster. Muhart said, looking at the two huge robotic arms.
Indeed, if you use this thing to clean up sand and gravel, it is much faster than a human.
"Okay, if you don't worry, then I'll experiment first. In fact, it has been experimented with before it was shipped, and there are no problems at all. ”
Watching Martin get in, Xu Wenjie was skeptical about this thing, if there was really a problem underwater, then he didn't want to cry without tears!
However, when he saw that there was a huge steel cable attached to the salvage ship on top of this thing, Xu Wenjie understood that his worries were unnecessary.
If something goes wrong, the salvage ship will take care of towing the thing. There is also specialized life-saving equipment inside. Guarantee the safety of those inside.
With the submarine diving. A group of people surround the data that comes up. Found that everything was working fine and there were no problems.
Moreover, the robotic arm can also be used in water, but the flexibility is not too good. However, there shouldn't be any problems with digging sand.
Finally, a group of people sat inside the submarine and went down to see the wreck. In this case, it is better to look at the wreck more carefully than to dive.
Xu Wenjie discovered. On the hull, there are indeed a lot of carved patterns. He wondered if the engraver was following the ship.
Because it could not be salvaged in the past few days, Xu Wenjie did not stay on the ship. Even Muhat, too, got off the ship. There are professionals on it, but they don't need to direct things.
For two days, the platform was being built, and of course, the underwater clean-up operation was also carried out at the same time. Sand and gravel around the hull. It's slowly being cleaned up.
On the third day, Xu Wenjie got a good news when he was cleaning up underwater. Outside, they found something floating out of the boat.
When Xu Wenjie saw something, he was a little surprised, this was actually a wood carving, and it seemed to be a series with the Poseidon wood carving.
When Muhatt handed the wood carving to him, Xu Wenjie's eyes lit up. Regardless of the rest, with these two wood carvings, the money he spent on salvaging the ship was returned.
"Wen Jie, let's discuss how it is, if you find this kind of wood carving, don't need the rest of the salvage fee, you can just give me the wood carving."
Xu Wenjie shook his head and said, "This is not good, haven't you noticed that these wood carvings seem to be a set, and they are likely to be made by a carver." If I sell you one, I'll lose a lot. ”
Muhatt looked at Xu Wenjie and thought to himself that this guy's luck was really good. At present, the value of this ship is definitely much higher than the salvage fee.
Even if all the porcelain inside is broken, Xu Wenjie will definitely gain more than he paid.
The next situation seems to confirm this, and wood carvings have been found from the hull of the ship one after another. Among them is a set of beautiful marine wood carving maps, which seem to be the route of the ship's voyage.
Now, Xu Wenjie can be sure that there is indeed a master carver on this ship. The carver seems to carve things when he has nothing to do on the ship.
In addition, in addition to wood carving, porcelain has finally gained something. Inside a box of fragmented porcelain, there are two well-preserved vases of fine porcelain.
The slender vase looks like the jade bottle held in the hand of Guanyin Bodhisattva. After these two vases were salvaged, Muhatt has been pestering Xu Wenjie, wanting to spend money to buy them.
In fact, the price of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty was not very high, but this batch of porcelain was obviously an official kiln. At that time, the merchant ships that could go to sea were originally royal fleets.
The salvage continued, because the fat man was on the boat, and Xu Wenjie was liberated. Moreover, this guy even invited experts to identify these cultural relics.
Hearing the sighs of those experts every day, Xu Wenjie's heart blossomed. At present, the salvage fee is three times the amount of the salvage fee. No wonder I don't know, many people like to look for shipwrecks in the sea to salvage, as long as it is not too lucky, it is guaranteed to be a treasure.
"Wen Jie, there is information from the state that they want to buy a batch of porcelain from us and use it for research, what do you mean?"
"Promise them that those porcelain pieces that are not of high value will be sent directly to the country, and I will donate them to the country."
Xu Wenjie didn't care anymore, even Muhatt gave a set and donated a set of porcelain to the country, so it didn't matter.
Anyway, at present, so many porcelain are salvage, and it is destined that the price of some porcelain will not be too high.
When Xu Wenjie came to the salvage ship again, thirteen days had passed, and during this time, the clean-up work below had ended. Now, the hull is being reinforced, and the next step is to tow the entire ship up.
However, the cleaning of the inside of the hull has been continuing, and with a large number of items being delivered, it is conservatively estimated that he has earned at least more than 40 million from this sunken ship.
And that's not even counting the value of the hull itself, Xu Wenjie heard from the workers that the hull was like a work of art, with a lot of patterns carved on it.
Muhatt looked at Xu Wenjie, and he felt that the goddess of luck had favored him. They searched for so long in that sea area, and they didn't even find the shadow of the ship, and they found a treasure ship casually.
"In five days, the hull will be ready to be towed. The ship is so well preserved that it may have something to do with the sand and gravel burial. ”
"Well, that's good, I hope there won't be any surprises."
Xu Wenjie looked at the sea and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, he didn't expect the harvest to be so big. During this time, there will be surprises waiting for him every day, and Qin Daixue has complained to him every night these days.
Of course, looking at those wood carved porcelain, Qin Daixue was also excited. Especially after knowing the value of these things, I specially asked the uncle to get a huge safe.
Moreover, she also asked Xu Wenjie to raise some lions in the yard to prevent someone from stealing these things.
Xu Wenjie was a little speechless, if the thief dared to come here to steal, he would be guaranteed to die ugly, Mickey Mouse had already been sent over by his uncle.
Now, as long as the boat is towed up, this salvage mission is over, but what makes him speechless is that the little killer whale has not come back yet, and he doesn't know where it has gone. (To be continued......)