Chapter 178

So this time he decided to start digging from the top again.

The shovel scraped forward along the mud on the top, and he could hear the impact sound from time to time.

Before long, a large piece of wood appeared in front of everyone.

But the wood was not a single piece, but flat pieces combined together one by one.

This made everyone even more curious.

This is clearly a man-made wooden board!

Xiang Fangyang cleared a large area, almost all of which were such man-made wooden boards. Perhaps because of the age, they all looked a bit black.

The cameraman asked curiously: "Is it ebony!"

Xiang Fangyang smiled and shook his head: "No, this wood looks like it was manually arranged, so its age won't be too far back. Ebony takes at least thousands of years to form, this is clearly not!"

"Then what is it!"

"Ghost knows, just dig it out, I don't believe it!"

Xiang Fangyang kept digging along the wooden board in another direction.

Until he dug for an hour, everyone was stunned.

What appeared in front of them was actually a large piece of wooden board, and this was no ordinary wooden board.

But the deck of a ship!

The area under the deck was also cleared out, revealing that large piece of wood.

Xiang Fangyang actually dug up a wooden ship!

Who could have thought of this? Not to mention them, Xiang Fangyang himself couldn't have thought that there was a ship underneath!

——【Awesome, digging up a ship on land, you are too showy, Xiang Fangyang. In this life, I don't admire walls, I only admire you. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, if someone told me they dug up a ship on land, I could kick him to death with one big foot, but the facts tell me, you really did it! Too awesome!】

——【I didn't believe it when I saw people digging up ships in the desert before, but now I have to believe it. Last time it was a tank, this time it's directly digging up a ship. Tell me, when do you plan to dig up an airplane, so I can be mentally prepared. Or when will you go dig up an aircraft carrier for me to open my eyes!】

——【This ship looks like an ancient ship, maybe there are treasures on it, just thinking about it makes me feel exciting. It's like treasure hunting. You guys say, could this be a pirate ship, with pirate treasure inside!】

——【This ship doesn't look particularly big, logically speaking, there shouldn't be anything good. Rich people wouldn't put valuable things on this kind of ship, that's courting death. And ancient public security was poor, big ships would hire some guards, which is relatively much safer. This kind of ship would be robbed by a few people.】

——【This ship doesn't look like a Chinese ship, but rather like a foreign ship from the past. I don't know if you noticed, this shape is weird. By the way, why would a foreign ship sink here? I suddenly feel that there must be something weird inside, maybe there are really good things inside.】

Since it has been confirmed to be a ship, Xiang Fangyang also knows how to dig.

First, dig out the mud around the ship's body, so that you won't dig like a headless fly.

The main thing is that the ship's body is more than one meter below, if you dig down to the bottom, it will be more than three meters.

Fortunately, he is operating an excavator, if it were manual labor, he would probably be exhausted.

Time passed minute by minute, and it has been almost two hours since the discovery.

Everyone just watched Xiang Fangyang dig the soil, and there was nothing.

But they were all very patient, just the operation of digging up the ship was enough to stun everyone.

Not to mention they believed that such a ship would not sink here for no reason.

As for what is inside the ship, this is what everyone cares about.

When the entire ship's body was cleared out.

The whole ship was about thirty meters long and ten meters wide.

The middle was full of mud, which still needed to be cleared slowly, but Xiang Fangyang was not sure what it looked like in the middle.

To avoid damaging the things on the ship, Xiang Fangyang had to dig carefully.

When the mud in the middle decreased bit by bit, everyone could see that the mast of the sail had long been broken.

The deck in front of the ship was higher than the middle, and there should be a house inside.

The deck at the back of the ship was higher and larger, more like a place for accommodation and storage.

As for what the inside of the cabin looked like, everyone didn't know.

Seeing that the mud on the top was getting less and less, Chen Feng immediately called a dozen archaeological staff to start the cleaning work.

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More than twenty archaeological team members came to the scene with brushes and shovels, and after cleaning the big ship for more than an hour, the mud on the entire ship's body was clean.

Chen Feng said suspiciously: "This ship looks a bit like the foreign ships from before!"

Xiang Fangyang nodded: "Yes, it is indeed a foreign ship!"

Just after the cleaning was finished, the system panel also popped up.

【Foreign Ship】

【Type: Merchant Ship】

【Specifications: 31 meters long, 5.8 meters wide, 1.5 meters high】

【Age: Late Qing Dynasty】

【During the Qianlong period, strict restrictions were placed on trade policies. It was ordered that merchants from various countries could only trade in Guangzhou. However, this regulation was not strictly enforced, and many foreign merchant ships were still allowed to trade...】

The people around were incredulous about the appearance of this big ship, such a big ship was actually dug out from the ground.

Chen Feng spoke again: "What age is this ship, do you know!"

Xiang Fangyang nodded and said lightly: "Qing Dynasty!"

"Qing Dynasty? Didn't the Qing Dynasty not allow foreign merchant ships to come in for trade!"

"That's right, the relevant orders were issued, but have you ever thought, since the country was closed, where did the Opium War come from! It was because it was blocked, but not completely blocked, so it came into contact with Western culture, but didn't keep up with the pace of the West, which led to the country's door being blown open in the end!"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Feng fell into deep thought. It was clear that the Qing Dynasty at that time was not completely closed, it could only be said to be relatively closed!

Then it is reasonable for this ship to be here now.

First of all, this was originally a river, and it sank for some reason.

With the salvage level at that time, such a big ship definitely couldn't be salvaged.

Thinking about it this way, it makes sense. The only thing that makes people sigh is that in about 200 years, a big ship was completely buried in the ground.

If it weren't for the coincidence of digging it out today, ghost knows when it would see the light of day again.

Xiang Fangyang watched the mud inside the big ship being cleared out bit by bit and said lightly: "If there are no accidents, this should be a merchant ship, and it is very likely that the trade goods from that year are preserved in the cabin!"

Chen Feng nodded solemnly: "It's just that I don't know if it has been soaked and rotted after so many years!"

More than an hour passed, and it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon.

Most of the mud in the house of the cabin had been cleared.

Qin Lao and others finally couldn't wait to go up to see what was inside.

Everyone went up to the ship along the stairs one after another. Although it had been 200 years, people could still stand on the deck.

It's just that it made a creaking sound when walking, looking quite fragile.

To avoid damaging the ship's boards, the archaeological team brought a whole wooden board and laid it on top, which could reduce the stress points on the ship's boards below.

When everyone walked into the room at the back of the ship, they were a little disappointed when they saw the scene in front of them.

Except for the control room, there was almost nothing of value on the ground.

There were several large boxes on the ground, and when opened, there was only mud inside. The trade goods from that year had long rotted into decomposition products.

Secondly, there were some silk fabrics, which had long been tattered and had no value at all.

If there was anything of value, it would be some blue and white porcelain from the Qing Dynasty.

However, although these count as cultural relics, their archaeological value is very average.

The cabin below had not been cleared out yet, but for now, it was clearly just an ordinary merchant ship, and there were no very valuable cultural relics.

Most of the things below the cabin were just the daily necessities of the crew. After 200 years of soaking and rotting, it is estimated that they were already unrecognizable.

Qin Lao sighed and shook his head after watching for a while: "Such a big ship actually doesn't have many cultural relics, a bit disappointed!"

Chen Feng had the same feeling. Dozens of people from the Cultural Relics Bureau came to help clean up.

Just to get results as soon as possible, but the results were so unsatisfactory.

But no matter what, this ship can be considered a precious cultural relic.

However, just at this moment.

Xiang Fangyang inadvertently discovered a rusty thing embedded in the pile of mud that had not been completely cleared in front.

Mixed with mud, it looked like black rust.

Out of curiosity, he walked up and picked at it with his hand.

Suddenly the system panel popped up.