Edo Traveler

v12 Chapter 125: A few ways to salvage a sunken ship

The news about the silver mine is probably not so easy to hide. After all, once the silver mine is developed, thousands of miners will migrate to Tsushima Island. So Matsudaira Qixuan sent telegrams to Chuemon on the one hand, and on the other hand, hurried to speed up the salvage of silver in the port.

what to do?

Hai Mai please!

What is a sea girl, simply put, it is a woman who lives by the sea. To be more specific, it is a person who fishes seafood such as abalone, scallops, and sea urchin in the offshore waters. It is about the same meaning as the Danmins in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, asking for a living from the sea.

There are also documentaries in the later generations. Many old ladies in their 60s and 70s are still going to sea as sea girls. Because the price of fresh abalone and seafood is good, they can earn a certain amount of income to support their families. It's just that this industry is basically in a state of dying out in later generations. The sea girls are all very old, and the work is dangerous.

As for now, it's different. Ida's family knows that selling shark fins can make a fortune, so they send people into the sea every day to catch sharks. The Shimadzu family knew that scallops made money, so they fished and collected scallops everywhere.

How many poor people are willing to venture into the sea for a hot soup and rice.

It is said that in this era, some sea girls have even undergone certain specialization changes. Some people have experienced a career as a sea girl for more than ten to twenty years. Work continuously for more than five minutes.

Really amazing!

During the previous war, thousands of people watched the Posad Nico sink in the harbour outside Izuhara, but the exact location could not be determined until it was launched several times. Twelve ships sank in the entire sea, who knows which one is which.

Do you expect Haenyeo to know the battleship?

Secondly, Songping Qixuan has always been a little regretful. He patronized to keep secrets, and did not ask the little Russian officer where the three million taels of silver were kept. If it is inside and outside the captain's room at the stern, I am afraid it is not easy to salvage. Because there was an explosion in the stern, who knows where it went.

If it is ballasted at the bottom of the ship, some may lie quietly on the bottom of the water. Because the Posad Nico was flooded and sank, and the boiler did not explode, the front and middle parts of the ship should be well preserved.

Let's set the reward. In addition to immediately rewarding 20 gold coins to those who find Shen Yin's location, one of the family's father, brother, son and nephew is also allowed to go to the Naval Academy for free.

Do you want to be a poor fisherman who seeks a living from the sea all your life, or go to school for a few years, enter the navy, get on a big ship, win a big victory, and shine on the lintel? Think about it for yourselves, I, Marquis Akashi, spit and nails, and has a great reputation all over Japan.

Except for the one who found the sinking silver, the rest of the sea girls who participated in the salvage, as long as they can get 10,000 taels, can have a free school place at the Yokohama Merchant Marine School at home, including food, housing, and distribution. If you do well, you can enter the navy, and if you do well, you can get into the Tokugawa cruise ship, which is also an iron job.

As for the sea girl herself, how much you get, 1% belongs to you!

About 30 meters deep in water, Songping Qixuan couldn't get down anyway. It must be fast and good. Of course, it is to recruit brave men under the heavy reward, no, it is the brave sea girl.

If you can change your destiny, then look at the jump today, sisters!

A group of masters of the training team surrounded the scene on the coast, and then watched as the sea girls, old and young, threw them into the sea like dumplings.

Matsudaira Qixuan had to get things done before July, because the typhoon started to blow after July. The entire Kyushu is under the influence of the typhoon. The wind is strong, and it is an exaggeration to say that it can eat people, but it is not uncommon to directly blow the coastline to you.

The mighty power of nature, how can you and other little mortals be able to resist? Therefore, Songping Qixuan's eldest boss temporarily put it down and went all out to supervise the salvage.

Fortunately, there is a specialization in the art industry, and the sea girl is the sea girl, and they go into the water one by one like swimming fish. The navy soldiers could only determine the approximate location of the sinking of the Posad Nico. After three days and nights of repeated dives by the sea girls, they finally found the approximate location.

According to the report, the rear part of the ship was indeed blown up, and it was not troublesome to get in at all, but there are cabins in the lower part of the warship. In order to prevent the water from being shot somewhere during the battle, the general cabins are so-called watertight partitions. cabin. It is very difficult to open and close the cabin at the bottom of the water.

"Who can smash open the cabin and reward one hundred gold coins!" Songping Qixuan himself had no choice, but he had the right to reward and punish.

A large group of naval officers who returned from studying in Britain and France, and even naval ship designers, looked at each other in dismay. The bottoms of warships are all covered with copper skins, which cannot be pierced by the sea maiden. Secondly, no one here knows which cabin the silver is in.

"When I was studying in France, I heard the instructor say that the Russians have an electrolyte to trigger mines, which may blow up the hull of the ship." A naval officer thought for a while.

It is nothing more than adding a huge counterweight to the mine and throwing it into the water, and then the mine touches the hull and explodes underwater. Regardless of whether it is feasible or not, the effect of this explosion may not be very good. Who knows how much it can explode underwater.

"En!" Hao Lai was a direction, and Matsudaira Qixuan took it down.

"Since the hull is intact and not far from shore, just tug the boat ashore," said another naval officer.

Anyway, the shogunate had a small steamer, let the haenyes go into the water to tie the boat, and then pull the boat to the shore.

What he said was not wrong. The Posad Nico, whose stern was bombed, lost its rudder, so it rushed towards the shore for a while, and it was less than three hundred years away from the shore. M, it's really not that far. As long as he managed to drag him more than 100 meters to a place where the shallow sea was only seven or eight meters deep, the lack of protection would emerge.

"Tugboat?" Matsudaira Qixuan turned to look at Ono Hiroshi, he had to ask the experts.

Do you think the 3,000-ton displacement of the Posad Nico is a joke? Procrastinate? If it is on the water, it can be dragged by a few small steamers, but how can it be dragged under the water. Besides, how do you tie the ropes to the boat, they will sink to the bottom of the water.

and many more!

The Posad Nico sank in the water, indicating that there should be a big gap, or even several large gaps, or he should have washed all the way to the beach without losing the rudder.

At the moment, the sea girls haven't seen the gap, which means that the gap is on the other side of the ship's capsize. As long as the ship can fall, the ship will be close.

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