The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 454: Going to the museum or to the navy, Yun Kun, what do you think?
Gu Yulin spewed out a lot of words like a machine gun, including but not limited to renting it to the navy as a patrol boat...

Leased to the Navy as a submarine...

Leased to the Navy, in emergency situations, to cross long distances, to transmit messages point to point, or to rescue people who fall into the water...

Shen Le was completely dumbfounded.

What did you say
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?

I could rent it to you as a submarine - of course, it's not a question of money - but a wooden sailing boat?

Are you really not afraid that when it sneaks under the sea or rises from the sea surface, someone will see it and shout:
"Ghost Ship!!!"

Then, his eyes rolled back and he fell backwards, and he was so frightened that he almost had a stroke...

If this conversation took place in the studio, he might have found a reason to decline the offer on Yun Kun's behalf.

However, they were talking in the flower hall beside the lotus pond. When they opened the window, they could see the water, and the small wooden boat stretched out its body, almost occupying the entire lotus pond:

This also means that Yun Kun heard every word and every detail of what Gu Yulin and Shen Le talked about...

[Being a submarine? Can a submarine help fight people? ] Yun Kun was very excited and very happy. He was eager to try and asked:

[Can we beat up those bad guys? Can we beat up all those who bullied us? ]

Shen Le was sweating profusely. Yun Kun, let's not talk about the present, we should try our best to maintain peace, we will not take the initiative to provoke conflict;
Even if you are a wooden ship, you will not have any advantage in a collision with the current mainstream iron ship!

I don't even need missiles or rockets, just a round of machine guns to make you full of holes! When I hit you, it hurts me, and I have to find ways to find materials to repair you!

what?
You said you can dive?
...There are so many anti-submarine methods nowadays. If a depth charge is dropped on you, do you think you can't be blown to pieces?

Shen Le's forehead was sweating, and he held onto the windowsill of the Lotus Hall, trying to persuade her earnestly. Even after his saliva dried up, Yun Kun shook the sails and refused to agree:

【I want to go! 】

【I really want to go! 】

【I am a warship! 】

[It's a warship from the Ming Dynasty's treasure fleet! ]

[I can suppress the sea borders! I can show my power to foreign lands! I can win over distant people! I want to go! I want to go!!!]

sweat……

Um, Yun Kun, times have changed. This is no longer the era of wooden sailing warships...

Shen Le was sweating profusely. Although Gu Yulin couldn't hear what the ship was saying, he could probably guess a little by observing its expressions.

He smiled slightly and advised slowly:
"Mr. Shen, don't be in a hurry. Don't be in a hurry. This matter cannot be settled in a day or two. You can have a good talk with... this person, and then I will report to the higher-ups."

Shen Le had no objection. Gu Yulin quickly said goodbye and retreated. The next day, the director of the Magic City Special Affairs Bureau called Shen Le's phone:
"Gu Yulin has reported to me about the ship. Um... is it convenient for us to meet and talk?"

When I was making the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword, the Special Affairs Bureau helped me a lot, and they didn't ask him for money afterwards.

In the words of the Special Affairs Bureau, "The reward for killing the monster and the monster's corpse are enough to offset the electricity bill and coordination costs," so he doesn't have to worry about money anymore.

Since the other party had already done this, Shen Le was too embarrassed to refuse directly, so he said something like, "No, don't come, I can't agree to it."

He made an appointment with the director, and soon after he hung up the phone, his doctoral fellow called him again in a hurry. As soon as he answered the phone, he asked:

"I heard you repaired the boat?"

"Yes!"

Shen Le answered happily, wishing he could give himself 72 thumbs up. He repaired such a big ship by himself!
Fixed it by one person!
There were a lot of helpers though... For example, the little guys helped, the bamboo grew into scaffolding, and the creepers grew lifting slings...

but!

After all, he was the only one who repaired it!

"Can I come and see?" The doctoral student's eyes turned green with envy. Alone!

Own an ancient ship!
If it were him, how big a project could he apply for, how long would the project take, and how many papers would he write!

But Shen Le finished it so quickly... in less than half a year... what a waste of talent!
There are so many people in their museum, and they have been repairing an ancient ship for so many years and it is still not finished... If everyone can repair it at the same speed as Shen Le, how will they make a living?
The number of ancient ships that can be salvaged from the sea is limited!

Even if they find it, the number of ancient ships that can be salvaged from the water is limited...

"no problem!"

Shen Le smiled. During the restoration of the ancient ship, his doctoral fellow student had been very helpful, providing information, guidance, and suggestions.

The important thing is that even if Yun Kun behaves strangely in front of him, Senior Brother can accept it: he has been frightened enough before...

"Then...can I bring a few fellow apprentices with me? Can the mentor come over?"

It was all a small matter, Shen Le agreed very readily. As for whether these two groups would bump into each other at the door...

Well, there is only one boat anyway, if two parties fight for it, you can just raise the price. It is up to you to decide how much to raise, I did not force you!

As a result, the next day, the director and his assistants bumped into the doctoral student and his group at the door.

The two groups arrived at the same time, looked at each other, paused, and immediately put on a skilled social version of a smile and began to shake hands and say hello.

Shen Le quietly watched the inexplicable stiffness under their smiles, and the flying glances from the team members behind the two leaders. With a sincere smile on his face, he silently gave himself thirty-two thumbs up:
"Come, come, come... Teacher, please, Director, please..."

He welcomed the two groups of people into the factory together and took them to a corner. The director glanced at them and his eyes couldn't help but twitch:
At the edge of the factory, there is a row of bamboo tables and chairs neatly arranged, or rather, "growing" in a row:
The bamboo poles are bent and stacked together. The branches are connected and the leaves are connected, forming a flat tabletop, a flexible chair seat and a backrest...

He casually pushed the bamboo branches, which grew very smoothly, and intertwined with each other in the shape of longitude and latitude, and were inserted under the large bamboo poles that served as the edge.

Probably, if you sit down, even if you sit crookedly and break a few bamboo leaves, you won't sit on a thin bamboo branch and make it stand up, and then you will break a chrysanthemum...

More importantly, the four legs of these bamboo tables and stools are firmly rooted in the ground, and there are traces of natural bulging and cracking of the soil around them.

Oh, by the way, because the table is too long, there is a row of bamboo shoots growing underneath, and the tips of the bamboo shoots are used to hold the table top firmly to prevent it from collapsing in the middle...

The director didn't even need to sense the aura to be 100% sure that these tables and chairs grew out of the mud. As for why they grew so smoothly and so conveniently...

The director has already counted the names in his mind. There are several experts in the Special Affairs Bureau who are good at promoting the growth of plants, but how many of them can promote the growth of plants to such a level that they can be used to make tables and chairs casually?

Unlike the director, Gu Yulin, who was at the end of the team, was shocked. This was clearly an open space!

When he came a few days ago, there was nothing here!

Why are there so many now? No, these tables and chairs have grown out!
"When did you do this! - If you need tables and chairs, just tell me! I'll help you move them!"

He couldn't help but complain. Shen Le spread his hands:
"I need your help, but I have to move it myself! Besides, where should I move it? Over to the boss lady's side?"

Would it affect their ability to make money by moving the tables, chairs and benches they use for business to entertain guests?

no way!

"Forget it, I'll just have to bear with these bamboos..."

"You want to bear the blame?"

The doctoral student continued fluently. Shen Le continued to spread his hands:
"Don't be ridiculous, my bamboo, how could you scold me?"

Under his guidance, the bamboos first grew a long table in the corner, and then grew twenty-four chairs:
The table has two long sides, ten on each side, and two short sides, two on each side. It's enough for as many people as you want!
Don’t worry about not being able to fit it!

Now it seems that it is fortunate that I did not slack off and arranged more tables and chairs. On one side of the Special Affairs Bureau and on the other side of the museum, they sat separately, and Shen Le sat at the cross head, not biased.

I looked around and before I could even open my mouth, I saw some people who seemed to have nails stuck in their buttocks—

At the museum, none of the two teachers, three students, and the keeper of the Mazu Temple sat upright.

He turned left, right, looked at the ancient ship again and again, and then tried to turn back:
If they didn't have to pretend to be negotiating, probably everyone would have climbed onto the ancient ship and started working with their instruments, right?
As for the Special Affairs Bureau, the directors and their left-hand men were still able to hold on, but there was a hint of eagerness in their eyes.

The director's right hand, those people who sat down with their backs straight, as straight as javelins, stared at the wooden boat, and they were almost unable to pull it out...

Shen Le simply didn't wait for them to speak, and stretched out his hand to lead them aside:
"Everyone, this is Yun Kun, the wooden boat I just repaired. Yun Kun, say hello to everyone."

With no sign of human control, the sail on top of the boat suddenly spread out and then quickly folded up.

The two professors and three doctors trembled all over, but their emotions were relatively stable, worthy of being people who had been tested by the Shipwreck Museum. As for the special affairs bureau personnel brought by the director -

If their eyes were originally illuminated by the light of a 60-watt light bulb, by now, the light would probably have reached 300 watts?
"Well... if you want to observe and measure, just go ahead..." The people who came were eager to hear this. Led by the doctoral student, the five professionals from the museum opened their suitcases, took out various testing instruments, and rushed over like wolves and tigers;
On the director's right, several operatives stood up in unison and walked quickly towards the wooden boat.

They were arranged in rows and columns, moving as fast as the wind. All they needed to do was stand at attention, turn right, and march in unison...

I said, if you bring the navy people here - if you really bring the navy people here - can we bring them here openly?

They are all our own people, there is no need to let them wear the guise of the Special Affairs Bureau!
In addition to these surveyors, there are two others who take an unconventional approach.

The keeper of the Mazu Temple took out a set of small tools, incense tables, tablets, fruits and vegetables from the suitcase.

An incense table was set up next to the bow, and incense was burned and prayers were offered, as if to ask Mazu for divine power to help her communicate with the ancient ship;
Another old monk was sitting cross-legged at the stern of the boat, twisting his rosary beads one by one with his fingers and chanting scriptures with his eyes closed.

As for this method of chanting, is it to consecrate and bless the ancient ship, or to improve one's own communication skills and communicate with the ancient ship - all beings are equal, perhaps in the eyes of Buddhism, spirits of instruments are also objects of communication?
In short, the only people left at the table were the director of the Magic City Special Affairs Bureau and a middle-aged professor from the Shipwreck Museum, who looked at Shen Le in bewilderment.

The professor was silent for a moment, pushed his glasses, and coughed:
"Student Shen, you said this ancient ship... is from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty? Is it a ship from Zheng He's voyage to the West? Do you have any evidence?"

"Yes, I have!"

Shen Le answered in a very absent-minded tone. He opened his laptop, found the folder containing the test data, and moved it over to show the professor:
"Look, this is the inspection report of the ancient ship's planks... This is the inspection report of the ancient ship's nails... The sails... The rigging..."

"This is the identification of the material of the ancient ship's planks... This is the identification of the ship's shipbuilding materials... Mainly pine wood, etc.... The shape and materials used are in line with the practices of the Longjiang Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty...

However, there is a batch of ship planks made of Southeast Asian hardwood, which means that it is likely that the ship was damaged in Southeast Asia and was repaired using local materials..."

The professor had read some of these documents beforehand, having obtained them through his PhD seniors. There were also some that the professor had never seen before, and he was now reading them very carefully.

After looking at it for a long time, he still shook his head:

"But this evidence is not enough. What if it has never been out to sea, but was just repaired with wood brought from Southeast Asia?

Also, you said it was used in the Grand Ceremony, and later it sank in Poyang Lake during the Chenhao Rebellion..."

There's even less evidence for this, I know.

Moreover, it is hard to convince people that the dolls and furniture on the ship, especially the paper furniture, paper lanterns, paper dolls, etc., were preserved from that time!

So far, there have never been so many paper artifacts preserved in a shipwreck!
I can't convince you of this either... Shen Le thought silently. For now, he had no choice but to use his universal move:
"Yun Kun told me himself!"

"What?!"

"It was indeed Gu Chuan himself who told him." The keeper of the Mazu Temple finished a round of prayers. It seemed that with the help of Mazu, he had really established a certain communication with Yun Kun. At this time, he walked over quickly.

There were beads of sweat on her forehead. It was obvious that the previous communication had put a lot of pressure on her. Her face was still flushed and her chest was heaving.
“I just talked to Yun Kun, and he told me a little bit about his experiences… What Mr. Shen said is true.

——It also said that it still remembers all the places it has been to before, and it can take us there!"

"Yes, this is a very rare ancient ship that has survived Zheng He's voyages to the West and has survived to this day." Shen Le nodded seriously:
"Although the way it is preserved... is not so easy for the academic community to accept... but..."

But if you have questions, you can still ask it, right?
You can still measure it, study it, and use it as a benchmark to research many shipbuilding projects in the Ming Dynasty, right?
When doing research, sometimes you can’t be too picky!
"So, can this ancient ship stay in our museum for a while so that we can study it carefully?"

The middle-aged professor looked left and right, his eyes moving around between the people present and the ancient ship, and finally reacted:

"Let our experts conduct a targeted and careful study! Study its structure, its composition, and all its details!"

What a pity it is still a repaired ship!

After being restored, many places are different!

Many materials have undergone structural and compositional changes, such as reduced salt and water content.

Oh, how did it get fixed?
What a waste of resources!

“Not only can it measure, it can also go into the sea!”

On the side of the ship, another professor shouted over in an excited tone.

There are only written records of Zheng He's voyages to the West, and some cultural relics such as stone tablets remain. There are no particularly detailed records of the specific route he took or where he arrived!

Today's historical researchers can only rely on guesswork and vague written records to infer. If there were a ship and a person who witnessed the event back then, and took them on a real trip...

That's just so blissful!
I wonder how many details buried in the dust of history have been unearthed again!

[Yes! Yes, yes! ]

The sails rustled. Shen Le heard Yun Kun very excitedly and happily responded:

[I want to take them for a walk! Eunuch Sanbao spent so much time and visited so many places, but all his achievements were buried by them! I want to take them back to find them again!]

"Hey, you had a good chat with the keeper of the Mazu Temple." Shen Le couldn't help laughing. Yun Kun happily waved the sail:

[Of course! They take good care of me! They always do! Before our first voyage, and before every voyage, we would offer sacrifices to the Goddess of Heaven. Eunuch Sanbao offered sacrifices to the Goddess of Heaven several times!]

Uh... well, it turns out that this friendship dates back to the time when Zheng He sailed to the West.

As for the temple keepers who took care of the fleet and prayed for the fleet back then, it doesn’t matter if they are not the same group as today.

In short, for Yun Kun, the divine power of Mazu is the taste that he is familiar with?
"no!"

The director of the Special Affairs Bureau listened to this quietly, and finally couldn't help it. He pressed his broad palm on the table and leaned forward. Although he didn't stand up directly, the sense of oppression was rising:

"We can't give you this ship! This ship is of great significance to the country and the navy!
We need such a submersible wooden boat to transport personnel and supplies for us inconspicuously, scan the seabed for us, and in short, defend our country for us..."

【Defend our country! Defend our country! 】

Yun Kun shouted excitedly for the second time:

[The navy is too suffocating now! Those South Sea barbarians and natives have climbed over our heads and dared to fight us! Take me there! I want to beat them to death! ]

Sweat... Yun Kun, please don't be so excited...

The descendants of those native princes who came to kowtow to Zheng He’s fleet during his cruise are not going to dare to climb over our heads…

Occasionally there are one or two, mainly because the United States is behind the scenes fanning the flames...

"Yun Kun! This kind of thing is decided by our big ship and the sword-wielding guards on the big ship! You are just a small wooden boat with 400 dan, so don't get involved!"

"Even if you don't go out to perform the mission, you can still study it for us! Study why it can dive! Why it can travel through water veins!"

A member of the Special Affairs Bureau who was lying on the side of the boat, holding an instrument that Shen Le didn't recognize and trying to scan every inch of it, suddenly turned around and shouted.

On top of Yun Kun's boat, the sails fluttered with a clattering sound. The old monk chanted a Buddhist name loudly and opened his eyes:

"This donor Yun Kun said that he is willing to be studied, but he is not allowed to be disassembled or his planks are not allowed to be sawed..."

"Wait, how can we study this? X-ray it? What kind of equipment can be used to X-ray such a large ship?"

Shen Le turned his head silently. You guys take it easy! You guys really should take it easy!

Don't make Yun Kun angry. If you make him angry, he will turn around and dive into the Dragon Palace. Then everything will be lost and no one will suffer!
"Or it can be used as a sailing training ship for the navy! I think Yun Kun would be willing to let the Ming warships be used as training ships for the navy, right?"

[I do! I do!]

Yun Kun almost yelled. The old monk and the temple keeper of Mazu Temple showed painful expressions and covered their ears at the same time. The middle-aged professor could no longer bear it and sprayed back:

"Are you kidding me? Why does the navy need a sailing training ship? Who still sails a sailing ship in the modern navy?"

"The navy has no sailing ships anymore, so we still need sail training ships." The director had obviously done his homework when he came, and he had a series of plans, and he was eloquent and confident:

"Sail training ships are very useful for improving the coordination of naval recruits. Our army has one now, and we just took one out for a walk recently..."

"But Director, today's sail training ships are also steel ships with steam turbines, they just have masts and sails installed for the new recruits to train!"

The doctoral student who was lying on the deck measuring suddenly raised his head, held up his cell phone, and interrupted loudly:
"Besides, our training ship, the Breaking Wave, weighs 1200 tons. It doesn't make sense to use a 400-ton hard-sailed wooden boat as a training ship!"

Ah this...

The director was choked on the spot. Shen Le observed the expressions of the people and smiled without saying anything, letting the two sides argue and rebut, and propose various plans to Yun Kun.

After a long while, the only staff member on the left side of the director who did not board the ship suddenly smiled:
"Oh, I think there's no need for everyone to argue like this. If Yun Kun wants to contribute to the country, he can work for both the historical and cultural system and the navy..."

"How can this be possible?"
Both parties, no, three parties, including Shen Le, were all surprised. The unremarkable staff member said confidently:
"It's very simple. The scholars go on board, and the navy also goes on board. The scholars start the ship, and the navy protects it on the side. In other words, this ship can be driven by itself, right?"

No need for the navy to open it?
The current navy probably can't operate this hard-sailed wooden boat well...

(End of this chapter)