"Of the more than five hundred people on board the Shenlong, two hundred of them are actually women?" Qin Mingyue said in surprise.*
Han Kongque said with a smile: "More than one-third are women. It's not tiring to work with men and women."
LiuXu said: "Did you really pay high wages?"
Han Kongque said: "It's not just high wages, but also high benefits. Otherwise, how many girls would be willing to float on the sea all year round?"
"Can you really get your money back?" Qin Mingyue asked.
Liu Xu said: "Everyone's monthly salary cannot be less than 10,000 yuan, right? A monthly salary of 10,000 yuan is high in the inland, but it is average in coastal cities. There are no seafarers who go to sea with 10,000 yuan.
It just doesn’t have any appeal.”
"This trip to the South China Sea has yielded a lot. As soon as you get on the ship, you will understand." I saw the Shenlong from a distance.
Even in the world's first-class waterport terminal, the Shenlong is the largest type of ship. The Shenlong is docked alone at a small cargo terminal. Some soldiers are on guard around it to prevent some curious people from approaching.
Only some trucks pulling containers, driving onto the Shenlong from time to time and unloading cargo on the Shenlong, showed a trace of the Shenlong's vitality.
Han Kongque's motorcade also drove directly into the Shenlong and stopped in a special warehouse.
After getting off the car, Han Kongque saw Lu Ming, but the most eye-catching thing was not Lu Ming, but the elegant woman standing next to Lu Ming.
"Are you Li Lan? Your illness is completely cured?" Han Peacock said to Li Lan with a smile on his face.
Li Lan's face was originally pale, but now she looked flushed. That healthy color could not be concealed no matter what.
"I haven't had a chance to take a good rest, Mr. Han. I heard that you were going to board the ship from here this time, so I came here to thank you." Li Lan always spoke in such a soft voice, but her voice was not too deep.
It has a touch of magnetism and makes people feel comfortable listening to it.
Han Kongque looked at Li Lan, laughed and said: "Don't blame me for bringing Lu Ming to the sea, which separated you and your wife for a long time. I am very grateful. How can I let you come on board the boat to thank me? No way.
Lu Ming missed you, so he deliberately found an excuse to trick you into boarding the ship, right?"
"Are you Lu Ming's lover?" Liu Xu and Qin Mingyue both looked at Li Lan curiously. They had naturally heard about the two of them, and it was rare for such two good people to meet together. It was really rare in this world.
Li Lan said: "Hello, sisters-in-law."
"Haha. Let's not stand here and talk. Let's go to the command room! I'm very curious about the harvest this time." Han Kongque said immediately because he was afraid that Liu Xu and Qin Mingyue would be embarrassed.
Lu Ming glanced at Qin Mingyue doubtfully, and Li Lan said hello to the two sisters-in-law. That was because Lu Ming had told Li Lan that Liu Xu and Zhou Meiren were both Han Kongque's wives, so that she would not be offended by what they said.
One of them, Qin Mingyue, is not Zhou Meiren now, and Ren Han Peacock is also surprised that she didn't correct her.
After entering the command room, Lu Ming immediately turned on the projector and started playing their harvest journey.
"After entering the South China Sea this time, we have been sailing along the 'gold coast' that is favored by illegal salvage elements - Xiaori Island. Xiaori Island is an administrative village in Nanri Town, Nanri Town (Nanri Town).
Archipelago) belongs to Putian City and consists of 111 islands and reefs.
Xiaori Island is an inconspicuous island among many islands and reefs. Due to the discovery of a large number of ancient undersea porcelain in the nearby waters, the little-known Xiaori Island became famous overnight."
Han Peacock saw in the picture, approaching Xiaori Island, the speedboat drew a beautiful arc and slowly stopped on the sea.
"The shipwreck is nearby. The guide accompanying us on the ship participated in many illegal salvage operations many years ago and is quite familiar with the environment here." Lu Ming pointed to the sea surface in the picture.
Han Peacock looked at the northern foot of Xiaori Island in the picture. It was completely deserted. There were no ships on the sea as far as the eye could see. Even the seagulls that had been seen everywhere in the past had disappeared.
"There is another small island a few nautical miles away from Xiaori Island, which is D Island. Xiaori Island, D Island, and E Island, S Island and other islands in a certain direction together form a long and narrow sea channel. It is said that this is the so-called
Maritime 'Ancient Silk Road.'"
"It was in this area that the coast police seized nearly a hundred illegal salvage ships and more than 2,200 pieces of undersea porcelain. Even though it is quiet now, the scene at that time was chaotic!"
As the video continued to play, Lu Ming introduced more and more: "After May, people often illegally salvage undersea porcelain in the waters of Xiaori Island, so there are particularly many coast guard patrol boats in this area.
However, most people just make a small fuss. When encountering the coast guard, they will take the stolen porcelain and jump on a speedboat to escape. Often what is left behind at the scene is a high-powered motor boat with some fragments of ancient porcelain scattered on the boat.
and salvage equipment.
At the beginning, we locked the route based on these clues and continued sailing south to avoid conflict with the domestic coast guard ships. In this way, we kept investigating and searching for ancient routes, and we also made some small gains, but the big gains came more than ten days later.
"
“On May 11, two illegal salvage vessels hurriedly cut off their anchor ropes and tried to escape to the islands and reefs, but they did not escape the pursuit of the coast guard patrol boat. 12 illegal salvage personnel and more than 70 pieces of ancient porcelain that had just emerged from the water were found in
He was captured on the spot in the waters near Xiaori Island.
After receiving the news, we conducted a rigorous search in the reef area. Two days later, we found an ancient wooden ship of about 40 tons sunk on the seabed, with a large number of plates, bowls, dishes and other porcelain scattered around it.
This is our first harvest. Through cleaning and salvage, we recovered more than 90 types of vessels and nearly 10,000 pieces of general jars, phoenix-tail bottles, and tube-shaped flower cups from this Qing Dynasty sunken ship more than 300 years ago.
Rare cultural relics such as goblets.”
"Maybe it is because the domestic efforts to crack down on illegal salvage are increasing year by year, so in domestic waters, the number of illegal salvage ships has decreased a lot, while at the same time there has been an increase in ocean-going salvage ships. After going beyond the scope of actual domestic control, we have successively discovered several
Ten incidents of salvaging porcelain from shipwrecks.
Although they were all sunken ships that had been salvaged once or many times. However, due to the outdated equipment of the salvage ships, we still made huge gains. After more than ten days in a row, we salvaged ships from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
There are tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain from various periods.
Six or seven shipwreck sites have been discovered in the entire South China Sea. It is impossible to say how many more shipwrecks will emerge. It is impossible to say, but there are definitely many shipwrecks, and they all have a history of hundreds or thousands of years.
Historically, due to the underdevelopment of navigation knowledge, technology and equipment, the probability of merchant ships encountering typhoons, heavy rains or even tsunamis and causing shipwrecks (shipwrecks) during navigation was quite high.
No one knows how many sunken ships are lying on the seabed, and no one knows how many valuable treasures are in the sunken ships. What we can do is try our best to fight for the targets targeted by foreign salvage companies.
But our strength is still a bit inferior to those of foreign companies, large and small. After all, their numbers are there, and we simply cannot stop too many salvage ships from carrying out destructive salvage with the Shenlong alone.
"
Through Lu Ming's introduction, Han Kongque knew that some foreign salvagers were well-organized, and some even formed "joint-stock companies" with huge funds, using partnerships, high salaries, etc. to hire professional divers to implement salvage plans.
These people pursue profits and adopt destructive salvage methods. There is often not much left of the sunken ships that have been swept away by such large companies. Lu Ming was unable to bear it and asked Han Kongque for instructions. On a stormy night, Lu Ming salvaged the ship.
Attacked some foreign salvage ships that were too arrogant.
In the next month, whenever there was wind and rain, the Shenlong launched devastating attacks. After five such attacks, the foreign salvage ships wandering in the South China Sea had basically disappeared.
"You waited until all the salvage ships from all countries had left before returning, right?" Han Peacock said with a chuckle.
Lu Mingdao: "If they don't leave, how can we leave?"
"No one found out that we did it, right?" Han Kongque said.
Lu Mingdao: "Suspicion will definitely be suspected. However, every time the Shenlong is attacked, it is 300 nautical miles away from the salvage ship. Coupled with the bad weather, it will not be easy for them to find evidence of our attack. Moreover,
We have also conducted several military exercises there, so it is normal for some of our own bomb fragments to be scattered in the nearby waters."
"How much did you gain from this trip to sea?" Qin Mingyue finally couldn't help but ask.
Lu Ming smiled at this time: "The harvest this time is not small. There are more than 400,000 complete artifacts, but less than 100,000 of them are well preserved, and 200,000 can be repaired. The remaining 100 are
More than 10,000 pieces were severely damaged. Even if they are repaired, they will not be restored to their original appearance. As for the broken porcelain, there are too many."
"The harvest is only porcelain?" Liu Catkin asked.
Lu Mingdao: "Of course it's not just porcelain, like some ancient swords, spears, cannons, besides these there are also some gold and silver products, gems, diamonds, etc. Among them, diamonds are the least, and they have only been discovered once. It must be a
A foreign shipwreck.
Next are gems, the quantity is not very large, and then there is gold and silver, the quantity is large. As long as you search carefully for all sunken ships, you can harvest some silver and gold. Of course, there will be no shortage of gold and silver jewelry."
"Ming Yue is interested in ancient jewelry, why don't you bring a batch over and let us have a look?" Liu Xu said.
Lu Mingdao: "What we found is a sunken ship from the Ming Dynasty. The harvest is not small. I will ask someone to bring it up. These things have been sorted out by the female crew members on the ship recently. They have all been cleaned up now."
"They? These require professional knowledge." Han Kongque said.
Lu Ming smiled and said: "The work on the ship is a bit boring, so since they like it, I asked the appraiser on the ship to teach them some professional knowledge. This can not only give them some fun, but also share some work."
"If they do a good job, we can't let them work in vain, clean and restore antiques, grade them according to the degree of restoration, and provide them with corresponding benefits according to their grade in future jobs." Han Peacock thought for a moment and said.
Lu Ming smiled and said: "In this case, boss, you will need to increase a lot of expenses."
"What? Their levels are not low?" Han Peacock asked curiously.
Lu Ming smiled and said: "The quality of the female crew members we recruited is very high, and women like beautiful things, so the things we salvaged, even the porcelain, are all very beautiful.
Women like this kind of things more, so they learn professional knowledge such as repairs much faster than the male crew members on the ship. After more than a month of life on the ship, they have learned a lot. If they are rewarded according to the level of appraisers,
, everyone’s reward will not be less.”
"This is absolutely no problem. The stronger their abilities are, the more benefits they will bring to us. Now that the ship has returned, the promises made before going to sea must be implemented as soon as possible, especially the wages and benefits, before the crew members disembark.
Distribute it, don't wait until they leave the Shenlong and go back home for vacation. Our rewards have not yet been implemented, which would be dishonest." Han Kongque said.
"Wow!" At this time, a scream disturbed the conversation between Han Kongque and Lu Ming. Han Kongque looked over and found some jewelry in the tray.
"These are thirty-eight hairpins with blooming flowers and wealth."
"Eight Ruyi Branches of White Jade."
"Four colorful inlaid gold Ruyi branches."
"One hundred and twenty-eight ordinary lapis lazuli hairpins"
"Twenty-two pieces of medium white jade"
"Three hundred fine round pearls and six hundred medium pearls."
"There are six medium-grade cat's eyes, two of which are damaged."
Qin Mingyue casually opened a plate, revealing a plate of golden hairpins. Under the candlelight, the golden light shone, filling the room with brilliance.
Han Peacock picked up one of them and prepared to take a closer look. As soon as he picked it up, it was heavy. As soon as he got it, he immediately knew that it was the real thing. He put it under the light and played with it gently. He saw that the hairpin was made with fine workmanship. It was not simple at all.
Things that people wear.
After putting down the hairpin, Han Kongque and Lu Ming all looked at Qin Mingyue, and she began to uncover the red cloth one by one.
This tray contains bracelets, and the next tray contains necklaces. The materials are all made of real gold, but the style is a bit old.
Qin Mingyue checked and commented while others only listened. Even Han Kongque and Liu Xu, two well-read experts, did not do much research on this kind of thing.
Finally, Qin Mingyue and the other girls all came to Han Kongque and Lu Ming. There were two trays on their tables. Qin Mingyue stretched out her hands, one to the left and the other to the right, and opened the two pieces of red cloth at once.
As soon as the red cloth was pulled away this time, everyone in the room suddenly felt their eyes light up. Everyone knew that all the good things were here.
"The world is full of snobbery. It's a pity that such good things are delivered to you two who don't know anything." Qin Mingyue's eyes did not leave the tray, but she kept talking.
"So, being able to read eyes is also a skill. Although you are an expert in this field, they still know very clearly who has the final say here and who is the boss." Han Kongque said with a smile. (To be completed.