C6 (1/2)

Because of the sentencing of the first Long Distance Bureau laid-off workers in the business of fishing anchors, the people involved in the business were all scattered, and many fishermen on the Yangtze began to pick up anchors. Usually, a fish paddle would go back and forth on the Yangtze River, but it didn't fish. Instead, it would be used to drag its net along with the long river bottom, and once caught, the boat people would use crude underwater equipment to dive in, and once the river bottom touched an iron anchor, they would use ropes to hold it in place.

The anchor in question, a couple, was found, and they were very glad that they had found it. They secured it with a rope, then hired a larger barge and slowly pulled it up with its winch. However, when the barge arrived, they found that it could not be lifted.

Due to the great buoyancy of water, the weight of an iron anchor was different in terms of river bottom and weight in the air. It would be a lot lighter. Therefore, the salvage Anchor used the barge to drive to the top of the anchor, and used a winch to pull the anchor out of the sediment of the river bottom, and then slowly drove it to the river bank. By the river bank, there was a crane that was prepared, and then lifted the anchor out of the water, this position was also fixed, because there weren't many suitable places for the crane to land on.

There was no need to talk any more nonsense, that husband and wife had invited a barge to salvage the anchor, taking advantage of the late night to fish it out. However, when the barge came down from the winch and began to pull, the ship's hull had already tilted, but the anchor still did not budge, so everyone became excited, it was clear that this was a big iron anchor, and the larger the anchor, the more valuable it was. So the couple had to tell the barge that the iron anchor was divided, and the barge's owner had found another barge, and both winches were hoisted at the same time. He reluctantly scooped the anchor out of the sand and slowly moved it towards the river bank. However, when they were more than 20 meters away from the river, the two barges could no longer be towed.

Everyone panicked. It was already past 5 in the morning, and the situation was very awkward. If they continued like this, the sky would brighten up, and the management department of the Yangtze River might even send someone over. Give up, and they would have to find the anchorage position again, and after putting down many anchors, they would never be able to find it again. This was something that happened a lot. No one wanted to waste their efforts.

The two barges decided to continue dragging the anchor, but suddenly a storm broke on the Yangtze River, breaking the winch of one of the ships. The barge was lucky, the other barge, due to the sudden drop of the anchor, also felt strange, the winch suddenly got stuck, the sailor on the winch was blown away by the cable on the winch, and the barge was forcibly pulled into the water.

An incident of stealthily salvaging an iron anchor turned into a major accident of sea damage. According to the news obtained from the administration, they immediately dispatched reinforcements, and in the end, two people were killed. One of them was a worker who operated a winch, and all the bones in his body had been smashed into smithereens. A person drowned and floated on the river. Missing two people, never to be found.

After understanding the situation, the board decided to salvage river bottom's sunken ships, and then discuss how to deal with the anchor. Of course, the leader's final intention was to salvage the anchor, because the country now valued the protection of cultural relics. They planned to salvage the anchor and place it next to the big oil tank of the Anglo-American company. They immediately set up a temporary salvage command post.

The equipment of the Long-range Administration was much more advanced. Two professional underwater fishermen went into the water and quickly found the location of the sunken ship. However, they reminded their leaders that the winch on the sunken ship was still connected to the anchor. The head of the port administration and the head of the port administration had a disagreement. They thought that they should salvage the sunken ship as soon as possible, so as not to affect the smooth flow of the Yangtze River, but the leader of the port administration wanted to salvage both the anchor and the sunken ship at once, so as not to waste the unnecessary cost of salvage.

In the end, the Port Authority took the upper hand and jointly salvaged the land. As a result, the two 3000 ton large salvage ships were unable to pull the sunken ship along. The salvage crew was stunned. How heavy was that anchor?

There was no way to get the Water Ghost to investigate, so the Water Ghost only came back after a long time. It turned out that the anchor was not a single anchor, but a chain.

In other words, the first two barges to salvage the anchor were forcefully pulling a chain anchor onto the surface of the river for a few hundred meters. How heavy would a chain that was several hundred meters be?

and the cause of the accident on the two barges, must have been at the other end of the chain, connected to an even heavier object. It is very likely that one of the early sunken ships fell into the depths of the river bottom, and once the chain reached the end, the two barges would no longer be able to drag it any further.

The situation had changed, and the Long-range Administration had rescheduled the salvage plan again. This time, they were no longer in a hurry as they realized that they had likely discovered the largest ever discovery of a cultural relic in the Yangtze River. So he soldered the rope of the winch and dragged the wreck to the river. Then, the Water Ghost went into the water again, feeling her way through the iron anchor's chains.

As expected, Jiang Xin, who was about two hundred meters away from the anchor, found the other end of the anchor. However, after Water Ghost came up, he reported that this was not a sunken ship. They felt around and felt that it was a huge metal plate.

What happened next was not reported by any of the media. At the temporary salvage command post, they were preparing to dispatch some personnel to explore this metal plate again. An event that happened once in a hundred years happened in the Yangtze River.

This was the famous and bizarre event of the Yangtze River — the disconnection of the river.

However, in the historical records, the Yangtze River really did stop flowing a few times, and the Yuan Dynasty clearly recorded it twice. Most of the documents recorded were wild records, and the current hydrology experts were dismissive of them. But it did happen in five or four years.

As for the folklore of the Yangtze River, it had always been this way. Rumors passed down from mouth to mouth were extremely terrifying, but no one knew the reason.

All the boats in the temporary salvage command post were anchored in the middle of the river, and below the river was the gigantic steel plate mentioned by the Water Ghost. The leaders were still doubting the authenticity of the Water Ghost's report, because it was very easy for the personnel working underwater to hallucinate.

It had been a busy day at the time, but it was already late at night. When the temporary salvage command center was in session, a loud rumbling sound came from the Yangtze River. It sounded like thunder, but the sky was cloudless and the moon hung high in the sky.

The rumbling sound lasted for more than ten minutes before it suddenly stopped. After a moment of silence, the sound came again. This time, the snoring sound was like a huge mouth opening to drink water. The sound lasted less than a minute.