Chapter 227
After clicking shuhaige to send Qiao Yurou to the downstairs of their dormitory, Song Yi went straight to the picture museum.
Donghai University is the leading higher education institution in China. The collection of this museum is extremely rich, but unfortunately, Song Yi had traveled around the world before and had very little time to go to the museum. He went to the museum on a few times this time. This time he went around the museum on whim. It was not as he said. In order to wait for Baoqing to finish class, he had no time to do anything to do.
Song Yi went to the museum to check archaeological materials, but the purpose was to make the undersea shipwrecks. He had to find some theoretical basis for this. If he got it out of thin air, it would be unconvincing. Moreover, Su Mei knew that he could read and recharge for the lack of knowledge, so how could Song Yi fall behind.
He found the borrowing certificate on him last night when he was rummaging through the cabinets at home. He found the things that had been under the box. Song Yi felt that it was quite a miracle.
Fortunately, he had been through the picture museum with Lin Baoqing before, and after the general layout inside was clearly seen clearly about the archaeological department's information on the third floor, Song Yi went straight to the third floor.
Song Yi knew that the Department of Archaeology of Donghai University can be regarded as the ace major of Donghai University, but not many people are recruited every year. Song Yi also dealt with several professors of the Department of Archaeology of Donghai University in his previous life. His level was quite good. But at this time, they had not yet had any intersection with Song Yi, and Song Yi was not convenient for him to come to them directly.
In the cultural circle of Donghai, the most research-oriented archaeology is in addition to the group of people in the museum of Song Shibao, the Department of Archaeology of Donghai University, but the people in Song Shibao are still too busy with the museum. Don’t mention developing undersea treasures and salvaging porcelain. If they know about it, they must move things into the museum again. So what’s the point of Song Yi busy with
As for the masters hidden among the people, Song Yi thought that it would be better not to look for them. On the one hand, it would be unbelievable. On the other hand, there are too many people who are greedy for the interests and too few who are really learning.
Song Yi also considered it. In fact, in the whole country, there are not many people who have a very deep understanding of ancient merchant ships that sink the seabed. They are the majority of those who focus on other archaeological aspects. This cannot be blamed. On the one hand, this research direction is still quite unpopular. Secondly, it is much more difficult to salvage the seabed shipwreck than on-site archaeology in the mainland. Not to mention the moody and surging risks of the sea. This salvage tool alone stumped most people who want to study this aspect of renting boats and buying equipment, and they also have to find the right location of the shipwreck, etc. It is not affordable by a normal archaeological unit, not to mention individuals.
Therefore, the greatest hope that Song Yi puts in is not that those who have become famous professors and scholars, but whether they can tap into the potential, motivated, and truly love to study the history of shipwrecks as assistants. Of course, students with rich experience in history can also be able to use it as assistants.
Song Yi followed the map and looked for the past in archaeological data. Of course, if you want to study the undersea shipwreck, many of the data are in historical books, and many are in local chronicles, especially in coastal areas.
But now Song Yi can only choose to start from the archaeological department’s information first. If he can learn from something that others know, it would be equivalent to saving a lot of time for him.
But Song Yi looked at it and found that there were indeed fewer books in this area, especially the name was related to the undersea shipwreck.
This is understandable. If you have limited level of knowledge, you can't write it vividly. For books like this, you need to have illustrations or something, and it's hard to fake it.
Song Yi searched for a long time and found only two books, one of which was "Salvage and Protection of Undersea Shipwrecks". This book is of average level, but the information collected about the salvaged undersea shipwrecks is quite complete. Zhong also wrote about the author's attitude and opinions on the undersea shipwrecks, as well as the views on how to develop and protect such resources.
There is also an autobiographical book, "Hard's Undersea Treasure"
This made Song Yi a little angry, for no reason. This Hard is a Western treasure hunter who has been active in the South China Sea for a long time and said he is a treasure hunter, that is, he is looking for someone to invest in buying ships and equipment. After getting news of the shipwreck, he will go to develop and salvage him.
The countries in Southeast Asia and the conservative China treat the developers of undersea treasures, and their attitudes are still somewhat different. They generally encourage treasure hunters to carry out salvage work. Afterwards, they have to collect about 30% of the income after salvage.
Of course, this is related to the fact that these wrecks are not their country. The merchant ships sunk in the South China Sea were transported from China to other countries in ancient times. In theory, China is the owner of these wrecks. Although some people suggested that these wrecks should belong to China, at least they should be divided into a little bit, but others can't pay attention to it. Moreover, in other people's waters, they will be salvaged and you can't deal with it.
What’s annoying is that people often roam into the waters of China to salvage shipwreck treasures. This is one of the things that Hard did the most is that he salvaged the shipwreck one after another. He found thousands of pieces of porcelain, but he was worried that there were too many porcelains and couldn’t sell them at a price, so he smashed some of them and sold the remaining porcelain at a high price.
This is the reason why Song Yi hates him very much. If there is a chance, Song Yi must make him regret it. Why did his mother give birth to him in this world?
In China's own waters, private salvage of shipwrecks is not allowed. The reason is that it is a national thing, which is similar to the regulations for the unearth of cultural relics. Everyone knows it well.
Therefore, when fishermen find shipwrecks when fishing, their first reaction is often not to report to the country, but to salvage them on their own or other helpers. They do not have professional knowledge or professional equipment. The salvage method is naturally simple and crude, and they do not care about protecting shipwrecks or damaged shipwrecks and cultural relics. Although the relevant departments take action immediately after receiving the news, the sea area is so large, how can they take care of it?
After roughly turning over what Hard wrote, Song Yi made up his mind. After he finished the preparations and actually entered the sea to salvage the shipwreck under the sea, the first target he had to deal with was this damn Hard.
While Song Yi was gritting his teeth, a man next to him gently patted his shoulder.
Song Yi was a little surprised. He turned around and was a young man who looked like a student. He was about twenty-five or six years old. He was not too tall, had a little dark skin, and had thick eyebrows. He looked very energetic. Song Yi thought to himself that he should be a graduate student at Donghai University. He had a good view of people. Although this person was older than ordinary students, he obviously had the curly air on campus. Compared with those who were mingling in society, he was still much younger.
"I'm sorry to bother me, I want to ask, are you a student from the Archaeology Department?" The man asked Song Yi.
"No, I'm just concerned about this, why do you ask this?" Song Yi replied, and he suddenly felt interesting.
"I just chose here, and I saw the two books you have found, so I want to ask."
Song Yize said, "That let me guess, you should be a graduate student in the Department of Archaeology."
The student smiled and was a little silly, "Your vision is good, but you should not read the book you have in your hand."
"This is very well written. After reading it, people have the urge to salvage the shipwreck under the sea." Song Yi began to dig a hole
The man sneered at this, "If everyone salvages the underwater shipwreck like him, it would be a great disaster for the treasure underwater. The undead on the sinking shipwreck will not be able to rest in peace."
Song Yi felt more and more interesting, "How do you say this?"
The strong-browed student's attitude became more and more excited, "This Hard is a shameless bastard. He secretly salvaged the wreck of our country. I don't know how many things worth studying have been destroyed. The most overwhelming thing is that for his own self-interest, he actually smashed all the salvaged porcelain. He is really worse than beasts."
Song Yi was also very angry, "According to this, he deserves to die."
The student of thick-brow sighed, "Yes, that's a thousand pieces of complete porcelain. If you want to put it in our country, how many people can understand the history of these porcelains and understand the glorious porcelain we once had, but it was killed by heaven, how could this beast have taken action?"
"Driven by profit, such people can do anything." Song Yi got close to him. "It seems that this senior brother is more familiar with the undersea shipwreck. I will ask the senior brother more questions in the future. I haven't asked the senior brother yet. My name is Song Yi, from the Art Department of the First Year."
"My name is Zhao Haiyang, a student from the third year of the Archaeology Department. His main focus is on salvage and protection of submarine shipwrecks. It is a rare animal on the verge of extinction. Our school only studies this direction for two people," Zhao Haiyang said with a self-deprecating voice.
"That's not bad. At least there are like-minded people who will not be Senior Brother Zhao's confidante." Song Yi guessed that he should not be a professor at Donghai University. If there were such a professor, Song Yi would definitely have heard of it. Moreover, a professor would definitely not bring only one student out, which would be a failure.
Zhao Haiyang laughed, "You guessed it again. The other one is indeed my girlfriend. I am in the same class as her. We unanimously believe that the undersea shipwreck is a very direct research project."
Song Yi nodded and said, "That's true. Even laymen like me know that there are so many shipwrecks under the sea. There are so many places worth studying. Senior Brother Zhao, you are very correct in choosing such a research direction. Moreover, it is not particularly difficult to salvage the shipwreck under the sea. It is said that fishermen on the coast can dive to salvage them. There are specific projects to do, but why is it so unpopular?"
Zhao Haiyang said helplessly, "I know the fishermen who are talking about fishermen salvaging porcelain. Lin Ping and I are both in Guangdong. When fishermen there are fishing, they can often catch some porcelain. But you also know that after all, this is not enough to be on the table. If you really want to engage in research in this area, at least you have to have a big boat and buy all the necessary equipment before you can conduct subsequent research. My current research and Lin Ping are only at the theoretical level, unlike those who can be archaeological on the spot."
"Senior Brother Zhao doesn't have to be so frustrated. Even those who can be archaeologicalized on the spot still account for the vast majority of those who stay on the surface theory, compared with Senior Brother Zhao, you will not be much different." Song Yi comforted him and said
"But they have a place to go after graduation. We don't know where we are going. Do we really have to drive a fishing boat to salvage the wreck?" Zhao Haiyang's expression became more and more helpless.
"It's a good choice to salvage the undersea wreck by yourself," said Song Yi. "As long as someone is willing to invest, it's fine. I remember that our country seems to have departments in this area."
"There is such a unit, but the lack of funds and equipment has always been a waste of people. Most of the time, we are still doing theoretical research. We don't want to live that kind of life." Zhao Haiyang said that he was a child who grew up by the sea, and naturally knew more about the things in it than others. The more he wanted to change the status quo, but this reality really made him feel very helpless.
Song Yi asked him, "What are the plans of Senior Brother Zhao? This semester is about to end."
"Lin Ping and I have been running for almost a year. We wanted to find someone to invest in order to conduct relevant research on submarine shipwrecks, but unfortunately, we never found anyone who is willing to spend money. I can understand the illusory things they think are. If it really doesn't work, I will go and have a free meal." Zhao Haiyang replied
"Is your preparation work not good enough, so it can't attract others to invest?" Song Yi asked him
Zhao Haiyang replied, "How is it possible? We have prepared enough."
Song Yi said, "Then let me ask you, how much money do you think others need to spend on investing in this project and how much return can they get?"
Zhao Haiyang recited it familiarly, "The money for renting a boat to buy equipment and manual expenses is a little more expensive, but some things can be replaced. We calculated that within 8 million yuan, it should be possible to deal with the return. As for the return, salvage of porcelain and gold on the undersea wreck, the return should not be low. The key is that once the undersea wreck is salvaged, it can be carefully studied and investors can also gain a good reputation."
Still too angry, Song Yi shook his head and said to him, "You are too vague. You have not considered many questions carefully, so you can't find an investment. I'll ask you again, where do you plan to salvage the shipwreck under the sea? The shipwreck in our country is not allowed to be salvaged privately in the sea area. What should I do if there is a conflict? How to ensure the normal progress of salvage and research. What you mentioned about the return on investment? How do you know that there must be so many porcelain and gold on the shipwreck? Let's take a step back. Even if there are so many porcelains, do you have any channels to auction things and calculate with you. If a piece of porcelain is salvaged by fishermen, one piece may cost one or two hundred yuan. If you have a way to bring it to the auction or sell it directly to collectors, even if a piece of porcelain is 2,000 yuan, how many pieces of porcelain can you take to recover the investment."
Zhao Haiyang was frightened by his repeated questions, but insisted, "We have also analyzed that with the improvement of the economic situation, the prospects for making collections are still very good."
Song Yi smiled and said, "Then you still hope that investors will do their best to sponsor your research without paying attention to the returns."
Zhao Haiyang didn't know how to answer, so he just nodded silly
Song Yi said, "It's no wonder you can't find investors. Even if Hard first uses his property to mortgage it, then he is willing to invest in it. This is still the West. If you want to invest, you can only say that there are no one in a thousand. If you really encounter it, the probability... Moreover, even a regular unit in our country cannot invest so much research."
After listening to his analysis, Zhao Haiyang's heart was broken. Indeed, as Song Yi said, even if they traveled for a few more years, they would never find such an investor.
Do you really want to be a theorist and be in a daze
Suddenly, a glimmer of hope suddenly emerged in Zhao Haiyang's heart. Song Yi would not have made a special trip to attack him.
He said what this meant? Zhao Haiyang was a little confused, but this did not prevent him from tentatively understanding. "It seems that Song Yi, you know more about this aspect than us, so what are your suggestions?"
Song Yixin said that although Zhao Haiyang's head was a little silly, it was not too stiff at all. He still knew how to be enlightened. He joked, "I pray that I can meet an investor in your ideal and let you do research with peace of mind."
Zhao Haiyang whispered, "Didn't you say there are no such stupid investors?"
"Then there is only one last way," said Song Yi.
Zhao Haiyang hurriedly asked, "What's the solution?"
"Make money to do research by yourself" Song Yi said seriously
"If I can make so much money, why worry about not being able to do research?" Zhao Haiyang was disappointed. He thought Song Yi really had any good ideas.
"Senior Brother Zhao is so persistent in the research on the undersea shipwreck project?" Song Yi asked him
Zhao Haiyang said extremely firmly, "This is my ideal, and I have been struggling for it for so long. No matter what the outcome is, I will never leave Lin Ping and I with the same mind as me on that day. No matter what the matter is, no matter how difficult it is, someone will have to do it, right? I know this is a bit stupid, but this is the real me."
Song Yize replied to him, "I believe Senior Brother Zhao, and I must tell Senior Brother Zhao that I will never give up hope."
Speaking of this time, it was already time for dinner. Song Yi also invited Zhao Haiyang and said, "No matter what, the meal always needs to be eaten. Senior Brother Zhao and I hit it off at first sight. This time, we will introduce a noble person for you. Maybe we can help Senior Brother Zhao achieve his wish."
Chapter completed!