Chapter 1865 Who went through the cave with Wei Xiaobao?
The live camera has turned to the main live broadcast room, where Xiao Peng is sitting at the door of the cockpit eating skewers. Now the sand washing work on the bottom of Lake Ladoga has been completed, and sure enough, a truck is lying quietly on the bottom of the lake. Now Yang Zhibin on the barge is directing the Russians on the barge to find a way to get the truck up.
Even from such a distance, you can hear Yang Zhibin cursing.
Working with the Russians this time really opened Xiao Peng’s eyes: they are all ruthless people!
How did they salvage the vessel? Two 16-ton cranes were installed directly on an unpowered barge, and the cranes were used to carry out the salvage work.
What's even more ridiculous is that the truck has been buried in mud and sand for decades and has long been rotten. In order to salvage the entire truck, it needs to be salvaged with overall protection, otherwise there is a high possibility that the body of the truck will be torn apart during the salvage process.
Such a situation had been considered in advance, so Xiao Peng asked them to prepare a high-strength protective net. Logically, this work should have been done by ROV, but the Russians thought it was too slow, so they put on heavy diving suits and jumped to the bottom of the lake to carry out manual salvage!
Although the water here is not deep, it is close to thirty meters deep!
The underwater pressure increases by one atmosphere for every ten meters you go underwater. Working at thirty meters underwater for such a long time, are they really not afraid of decompression sickness?
It turns out that Xiao Peng is a diver!
Why was he, a foreigner, able to gain a foothold in Marseille? Wasn't it because he was a certified diver? Why did being a certified diver allow him to gain a foothold and make a living? The reason was simple: diving is the most dangerous job in the world, bar none.
Contrary to what people imagine, many people think that the deeper the diving, the higher the mortality rate: in fact, the deeper the diving, the more dangerous it is, but more than half of diving deaths occur at a depth of less than ten meters, and most of them die on the water surface.
Tens of thousands of divers have died in strong currents within ten meters.
I don’t know what gas these Russian divers use. They are really risking their lives!
Moreover, these Russian divers basically violated all diving regulations: they took a gulp of vodka, shouted "Hurrah", and after reinforcing their helmets, they went directly to the bottom of the sea.
Xiao Peng asked Duan Bo to use ROV to keep an eye on them at all times. These idiots should not kill themselves!
At least it seemed they were skilled and daring. Not long after, Yang Zhibin's voice came over the intercom: "Boss, it's done!"
"Have all the divers come up?" Xiao Peng asked after taking a bite of the skewer.
Yang Zhibin said: "These living ancestors have all come up!"
Xiao Peng said, "Then tell the barge commander what needs to be done and let them do it. You can come over and eat the skewers."
Yang Zhibin was stunned. "Boss, why don't we keep an eye on them? I'm afraid these rough guys will do something weird again."
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "It's okay. This is a major event for their country. Who dares to slack off? Come back and have some barbecue. Leave the work to the Russians. This is a matter of their national honor. We've done what we should do."
Yang Zhibin asked, "Boss, don't you care what's going on down there?"
Xiao Peng replied, "It's a bronze statue of a woman. I guess it's Catherine I or Catherine II."
Yang Zhibin was shocked when he heard this: "Boss, you even know this? How did you do it?"
Xiao Peng did not answer his question but replied: "Come back quickly and eat skewers!"
"Okay!"
Xiao Peng put down the intercom. Hua Chong, who was grilling skewers nearby, said, "Who cares if he's the first or second generation? He's the one who went through the underground cave with our Lord Wei. Kasim, do you know who Lord Wei is?"
Kasin raised his middle finger at Hua Chong. "I've read The Deer and the Cauldron, okay? Hua Chong, you really should stay with the boss for a while longer, so you can read more books! The Princess Sophia in The Deer and the Cauldron is not Catherine the Great at all, neither the first nor the second. The time period doesn't even match, okay?"
"Huh?" Hua Chong was stunned after hearing this. "Boss, is Sophia, written by Mr. Jin Yong, a fictional character?"
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "It can't be considered completely fabricated. Why are Mr. Jin Yong's books so popular? It's because he often incorporates real historical events into his novels. His novels are generally written against a real historical background. For example, the 'Princess Sophia' in 'The Deer and the Cauldron' is based on a historical figure, probably Sophia Alexeevna Romanova, Ivan V's sister. She came to power through a coup and then made Ivan V and Peter I co-tsars, while she became regent. During her reign, she signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk with the Qing government. The reigns of Catherine I and II don't match."
After hearing this, Hua Chong had a new question: "Then why isn't there a statue of her down there?"
Xiao Peng waved his hands and said, "How could we possibly erect a statue of him? Peter the Great caused Sophia great trouble when she was little. The whole family was banished to the outskirts of Moscow for seven years. After he took back power, the first thing he did was to deal with Sophia, throwing her into a convent. Later, he stripped her of her princess status and turned her into a real nun. She wasn't even allowed to see other nuns except on Easter. She died a few years later. You want Peter the Great to build a statue for her? Is that even possible?"
Hua Chong suddenly looked up while holding his phone and said, "Damn, so ugly?"
He waved a painting and said, "So Wei Xiaobao went into the tunnel with a woman like this? She's tall, dark, thick, and beautiful!"
Xiao Peng turned his head and took a look. "That's 'Princess Sophia' by the famous Russian painter Ilya Yefimovich Repin. The Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg is named after him. It's a sacred place for art students. 'Barge Haulers on the Volga', which you studied in school, is also his work. This 'Princess Sophia' was probably painted after 1876, and Sophia died in 1704. Do you think this is Sophia's true image?"
Hua Chong frowned and asked, "Then why did she draw Sophia like this?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Repin's status in the art world is so high, partly because his painting skills are indeed high, and partly because... he spoke for the poor. That era happened to be the era of the overthrow of the Tsar. So he painted many paintings depicting the poor, and also many paintings criticizing Tsarist history. For example, the famous "Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son" tells the story of the first Tsar in Russian history killing his son, implying the Tsar's cruelty. Therefore, this painting was banned from circulation from the moment it was created."
Hua Chong asked in confusion: "Even though he painted like this, the Tsar at the time didn't punish him?"
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "This is where Repin comes in. He said: I paint historical paintings. I paint strictly according to historical records."
Hua Chong pointed at his phone and said, "Isn't this how history describes Princess Sophia? Isn't that insulting?"
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