The Fisherman Who Never Catches Fish-Chapter 406 - 239: Advanced Shipbuilding Technology! (Seeking Subscription)_2

The discovery of this sunken ship gradually unraveled some mysteries for everyone.

After all, this treasure ship of more than two thousand material, not even the flagship, indicated that the main ship would only be larger.

Thus, previous speculations that the flagship Zheng He Treasure Ship might have had a displacement of ten thousand tons were quite possible.

Scholars had once reconstructed the treasure ship according to shipbuilding principles and the Chinese wooden sailing ship construction method and calculated that the largest treasure ship had a full-load displacement of about 22,848 tons, using a block coefficient of 0.43, which meant it could carry 9,824 tons.

This sunken ship undoubtedly provides significant research value for the study of Zheng He’s voyages to the Western Seas and the Great Ming’s shipbuilding craftsmanship, enabling the replication of the advanced shipbuilding technology of the time.

"Awesome!"

One expert was visibly excited; he had never felt as happy as he was now.

The well-preserved state of this sunken ship provided a wealth of useful information for his research.

"Although this ship sank, it was better preserved as a result."

Other ships that didn’t sink had long vanished into the annals of history, impossible to find again. They might have been destroyed in later wars, dismantled completely, or even damaged during subsequent conflicts.

But this ship, due to an accident in the past, became the best-preserved one.

After being discovered today, centuries later, it became the subject of study.

"Didn’t expect to be this lucky."

"The stuff found at the old shipbuilding site previously discovered isn’t even a tenth of what’s on this ship."

Imagine how excited they were.

And all of this was thanks to Fang Hao; if he hadn’t discovered this sunken ship, it probably would still be lying alone on the seafloor, very difficult to find.

Perhaps it would eventually be discovered, but that could have been hundreds of years later.

So Fang Hao’s contribution was anything but ordinary.

The salvage of the sunken ship progressed very smoothly, and researchers preserved the structure of the ship with 3D scans.

As for the ship itself, experts on-site attempted restoration plans to see if it could be repaired, and then... they planned to lift the sunken ship and tow it back to the port.

Compared to the weight of an Ironclad Ship, this wooden sunken ship was definitely much lighter.

The repair plans were not complicated, and with today’s equipment and instruments, none of it was too difficult.

As the overall commander on site, Fang Hao coordinated and handled these matters to resolve them efficiently.

...

Online, a group of people watched the live broadcast of the ship’s salvage.

Everyone watched with keen interest.

"Holy shit, our shipbuilding craftsmanship was so advanced back then!"

After learning about the construction of the Great Ming Treasure Ships, they were astonishingly surprised.

Our shipbuilding craftsmanship was definitely world-leading at the time, totally in a class of its own.

Just look at Europe and America during the same period; they were far behind us.

Even though they had already begun the Renaissance.

But before the start of the Industrial Revolution, they were nowhere close to us.

"This is the confidence of the Great Ming Dynasty!"

"Those designs are incredible."

"I can actually sense how advanced it was back then."

"To be able to build ships with a displacement of several thousand tons, even ten thousand tons, is just terrifying!"

"If there was an overseas war, who would we fear?"

"It would absolutely be a cross-dimensional strike."

"So why have we become like this now?"

"It’s all because of isolationism. We’ve stuck to our old ways, and thus we gradually fell behind."

"Ah, damn that woman. If not for her, how could we have suffered so badly, regressing three hundred years?"

"Thankfully, we are now catching up fast."

Everyone felt indignant, recalling the terrible history that was anything but minor.

Fortunately, those times are behind us.

We are now gradually catching up, our advanced vessels are not inferior to others, and we are even starting to mass-produce them.

We must not forget history; studying it is crucial for better future development.

"So much good stuff."

"These porcelains could probably fetch a good price."

Back then, these official kiln-produced porcelains were all exquisite, not to mention having endured several hundred years; those porcelains had long become antiques, priceless treasures.

Everyone felt a tremendous sense of emotion.

Upon seeing the Great Ming Treasure Ship, everyone could feel the technological advancements of the time and the superior shipbuilding craftsmanship.

Truly extraordinary.

After marveling at it, people then turned their attention to the items aboard the ship. These were antiques, all with high collectible value.

With so many ancient artifacts salvaged this time, museums could be enriched once more.

The local Jinghai museum had mobilized again, hoping to retain some of the artifacts retrieved this time within Jinghai’s museum. ƒreewebɳovel.com

They hadn’t kept much of what was salvaged before.

So they hoped to keep a bit more this time.

"Fang Hao, little brother..." The director of the Jinghai Cultural Relics Bureau rubbed his hands together and approached Fang Hao, hoping that he could leave more items in Jinghai.

After negotiations, most of the items would indeed stay in Jinghai.

Jinghai was going to build an underwater museum at the time, which was absolutely great news.

After all, this was Zheng He’s treasure ship; the items inside were incredibly precious.

Plus, there was another sunken ship here, just repair it and tow it back to Jinghai, and the rest of the tasks would be much simpler.

Only after dealing with these affairs did Fang Hao get to rest.

As the overall commander, he had been almost too busy to handle everything; now he finally had a chance to take a break.

He thought salvaging the ship was the end of it, but only when he got to work did he realize there was so much that needed coordination.

This salvage operation was primarily led by the Jinghai side.

Hence, Fang Hao had to shoulder even more responsibilities.

Once he finished with these tasks, Fang Hao finally rested and then ate something to replenish his energy.

...

"This guy..."

A group of people lurking in Fang Hao’s live stream room felt very depressed.

They had thought something would go wrong with Fang Hao, but not only did nothing happen to him, but he also demonstrated abilities beyond what normal people could do.

A person could last almost half an hour underwater without any diving equipment; that was truly incomprehensible.

And it was in the deep sea, dozens of meters down, yet without any problems at all.

Completely unimaginable.

Those people had thought Fang Hao would get into trouble, but instead, they learned a lesson.

Fang Hao showed them what it means to exceed human limits.

And that last Qinggong, it completely blew their minds.

The man was unharmed and even discovered a sunken ship at the bottom of the sea, salvaging a trove of treasures.

Well... talk about envy.

They were absolutely dying of envy.

"Definitely not an ordinary person."

"Too terrifying."

Those people’s understanding of Fang Hao was renewed again; they felt it was time to label him differently.

He was undoubtedly a character of great danger.

"SSS-tier priority individual."

That was their assessment of Fang Hao.

Its importance went without saying.

They needed to reassess and restudy Fang Hao.

They had thought that by following Fang Hao’s methods and setting up a small fishing squad, they could achieve some effect.

But now it seems... that approach might not be feasible.

Their gradually formed fishing squads seemed to have no effect at all.

They could only catch fish and couldn’t, like Fang Hao, catch those treasures.

Previously, some hawks were quite proud, thinking they had successfully created such a special fishing task force.

But in the end, they discovered that these simply resulted from ’faking’ and weren’t truly catching treasures.

Others... the treasures caught were purely by chance, they could only catch them once, not consistently.

In other words, their gradually formed fishing squads, their special fishing task forces, were all failures.

Not a single success.

They couldn’t, like Fang Hao, catch everything.

So far, the only person with such ability was Fang Hao alone.