C5 (1/2)
The following is what I plagiarize from The Grandmaster and unfold. If the original author sees this, please contact me immediately.
Seven thousand three hundred and eleven, twenty-nine thousand thirty-eight.
The Yangtze River Basin is the birthplace of civilization in southern China. In ancient times, the Yellow River was called the River, and the corresponding Yangtze River was called the River. For thousands of years, dynasties and dynasties had passed, and the humans who lived by the river had multiplied, cultivated, fought wars, and lived together.
The banks of the Yangtze River were often flooded with ancient objects, and it was not uncommon for fishing families on the Yangtze River to fish for cultural relics and gold and silver vessels. The Jingzhou Museum once had a bronze sword, which the experts determined to be from the Spring and Autumn Period. When the sword was unearthed, it was still extremely sharp, and the blade looked as if it was new. In fact, there were many swords that were salvaged from river bottom, there were countless historical wars in the Yangtze River, and salvaging swords was nothing. However, after these swords were salvaged by fishermen, they would all be handed over to a certain sect's Daoist Priest. That sect of Taoism specialized in collecting weapons that could be salvaged from the bottom of the Yangtze River. However, they did not pay the fishermen. Instead, they drew them a talisman. This talisman could dispel all the strange animals in the Yangtze River, allowing the fishermen to advance freely in the storm.
This was the famous ”Water Repellent Talisman” of the Yangtze River Basin.
Fishermen would also fish up gold and silver and other items in the Yangtze River, which they could keep for themselves. However, he definitely could not keep the iron. If he were to fish it up, he must immediately throw it back into the water. Otherwise, the ship would be destroyed and the people killed. This was the rule of the boat owners on the Yangtze River. Anchors were the most dangerous of all, because the sinking of an anchor meant the sinking of a ship. After the people on board had been buried, their grievances would accumulate to the anchor. The boatmen on the Yangtze River, with their heads raised, were able to avoid this.
However, after it was time for the founding of the country, this rule changed. First, during the period of great steelmaking, every family had made a pot of steelmaking, and they all mustered their strength, hoping that the output of the steels would surpass the output of the British and the British. All of the iron grade equipment on the ground had been smashed, so the Long Range Rover suddenly remembered something from the river bottom.
This was the first time that the river bottom Anchors had been salvaged on a large scale. They had first used the scrolling hook to find the iron anchor, and then sent the Water Ghost to investigate. They did not expect that the number of long river bottom iron anchor had greatly exceeded their leaders' expectations. They immediately started to salvage the ship, but this task was resisted by all the old boatmen.
The reason was as I said, taboo.
In an era when everything was being swept away, this resistance was undoubtedly a good example of stopping the construction of socialism. Thus, countless old boatmen were pulled out to fight with the young workers. But even so, they still couldn't be locked up. The salvage skills were still in the hands of these old boatmen.
Under the strong political pressure, many of the old boatmen couldn't stand the threat of being criticized and dismissed from public service and finally compromised. However, the process of salvaging the anchor only went on for a few months. After picking up a dozen or so anchors, it stopped.
After the first anchor was fished out, it was placed in an earthen furnace to be smelted. Until the end of the Great Leap Forward, the anchor had not melted, but it had wasted a lot of fuel. Two of the workers who had forged the anchor had died for no reason at all.
The old boatman began to say that he really couldn't fish up the anchor, much less smelt it. But then the Long Navigation Administration did not hear these feudal superstitions. He was determined to continue salvaging.
After the second anchor was salvaged, everything was fine. However, no one dared to smelt it anymore. After that, he fished out a dozen more, all of them piled on the river bank of the Yanzhi Dam.
There are two reasons for the end of the salvage anchorage campaign: one is the end of the Great Leap Forward, and the party and the people's government are beginning to realize the mistake of smelting steel. Secondly, something happened during the last salvage process. According to the records of the Long Navigation Bureau's internal archives, it was winter that day. The Water Ghost found out the location of an iron anchor, and then the leaders immediately ordered them to salvage the area. Thus, the two barges went on a salvage mission.
There was an old boatman who refused to work on the boat, and was forced onto the boat by the leader. The old boatman had no choice but to tell the leader, ”If I don't come back, you must give me the status of a martyr.”
This request of the old boatman was not an act. After the status of a martyr was confirmed, the family would receive a compensation that was much higher than the ordinary pension. Furthermore, every month, the family would be given a living allowance.
The leader had agreed to the old boatman's request in order to make a great contribution. As a result, after the two barges left, they never returned.