The following is what I plagiarize from The Grandmaster and unfold. If the original author sees this, please contact me immediately.


    Seven thousand three hundred and eleven, twenty-nine thousand thirty-eight.


    The Yangtze River Basin is the birthplace of civilization in southern China. In ancient times, the Yellow River was called the River, and the corresponding Yangtze River was called the River. For thousands of years, dynasties and dynasties had passed, and the humans who lived by the river had multiplied, cultivated, fought wars, and lived together.


    The banks of the Yangtze River were often flooded with ancient objects, and it was not uncommon for fishing families on the Yangtze River to fish for cultural relics and gold and silver vessels. The Jingzhou Museum once had a bronze sword, which the experts determined to be from the Spring and Autumn Period. When the sword was unearthed, it was still extremely sharp, and the blade looked as if it was new. In fact, there were many swords that were salvaged from river bottom, there were countless historical wars in the Yangtze River, and salvaging swords was nothing. However, after these swords were salvaged by fishermen, they would all be handed over to a certain sect''s Daoist Priest. That sect of Taoism specialized in collecting weapons that could be salvaged from the bottom of the Yangtze River. However, they did not pay the fishermen. Instead, they drew them a talisman. This talisman could dispel all the strange animals in the Yangtze River, allowing the fishermen to advance freely in the storm.


    This was the famous "Water Repellent Talisman" of the Yangtze River Basin.


    Fishermen would also fish up gold and silver and other items in the Yangtze River, which they could keep for themselves. However, he definitely could not keep the iron. If he were to fish it up, he must immediately throw it back into the water. Otherwise, the ship would be destroyed and the people killed. This was the rule of the boat owners on the Yangtze River. Anchors were the most dangerous of all, because the sinking of an anchor meant the sinking of a ship. After the people on board had been buried, their grievances would accumulate to the anchor. The boatmen on the Yangtze River, with their heads raised, were able to avoid this.


    However, after it was time for the founding of the country, this rule changed. First, during the period of great steelmaking, every family had made a pot of steelmaking, and they all mustered their strength, hoping that the output of the steels would surpass the output of the British and the British. All of the iron grade equipment on the ground had been smashed, so the Long Range Rover suddenly remembered something from the river bottom.


    This was the first time that the river bottom Anchors had been salvaged on a large scale. They had first used the scrolling hook to find the iron anchor, and then sent the Water Ghost to investigate. They did not expect that the number of long river bottom iron anchor had greatly exceeded their leaders'' expectations. They immediately started to salvage the ship, but this task was resisted by all the old boatmen.


    The reason was as I said, taboo.


    In an era when everything was being swept away, this resistance was undoubtedly a good example of stopping the construction of socialism. Thus, countless old boatmen were pulled out to fight with the young workers. But even so, they still couldn''t be locked up. The salvage skills were still in the hands of these old boatmen.


    Under the strong political pressure, many of the old boatmen couldn''t stand the threat of being criticized and dismissed from public service and finally compromised. However, the process of salvaging the anchor only went on for a few months. After picking up a dozen or so anchors, it stopped.


    After the first anchor was fished out, it was placed in an earthen furnace to be smelted. Until the end of the Great Leap Forward, the anchor had not melted, but it had wasted a lot of fuel. Two of the workers who had forged the anchor had died for no reason at all.


    The old boatman began to say that he really couldn''t fish up the anchor, much less smelt it. But then the Long Navigation Administration did not hear these feudal superstitions. He was determined to continue salvaging.


    After the second anchor was salvaged, everything was fine. However, no one dared to smelt it anymore. After that, he fished out a dozen more, all of them piled on the river bank of the Yanzhi Dam.


    There are two reasons for the end of the salvage anchorage campaign: one is the end of the Great Leap Forward, and the party and the people''s government are beginning to realize the mistake of smelting steel. Secondly, something happened during the last salvage process. According to the records of the Long Navigation Bureau''s internal archives, it was winter that day. The Water Ghost found out the location of an iron anchor, and then the leaders immediately ordered them to salvage the area. Thus, the two barges went on a salvage mission.


    There was an old boatman who refused to work on the boat, and was forced onto the boat by the leader. The old boatman had no choice but to tell the leader, "If I don''t come back, you must give me the status of a martyr."


    This request of the old boatman was not an act. After the status of a martyr was confirmed, the family would receive a compensation that was much higher than the ordinary pension. Furthermore, every month, the family would be given a living allowance.


    The leader had agreed to the old boatman''s request in order to make a great contribution. As a result, after the two barges left, they never returned.


    When the fog on the Yangtze River cleared, the two barges disappeared without a trace.


    The Yangtze River was not a sea. Although the water surface was wide, it was impossible for the two ships to disappear without a trace. Furthermore, the barge was a national asset, so no one dared to neglect it, not to mention the fact that there were several tens of lives on board.


    However, the people who were searching had searched back and forth from Yichang on the Yangtze River to Zhizhi River dozens of times, but they still couldn''t find any trace of the barge. They contacted the long-distance navigation station of Wuhan in Sha City, but they couldn''t find any trace of the barge drifting down.


    In short, the two ships had completely disappeared. According to the records, this incident had caused a huge panic within the long haul. In the end, we can only judge the error of the operation of the barge, causing the collision, and conclude the case with sea damage. Then, the Yangtze River flood, flooded the Yanzhi Dam, after the autumn water receded, the iron anchors stored in the riverbank all disappeared, returning to the Yangtze River. The leader could not keep his promise to the old boatman and could not give the old boatman the title of martyr. It caused the anger of the old boatman''s apprentice.


    The old boatman''s apprentice''s surname was Ye, the old man from Yichang should have remembered, because this young man surnamed Ye had become the head of the Revolutionary Committee of the Yangtze River Ship Workers during the Cultural Revolution. Chief Ye remembered that back then, the Leader had gone back on his word and tortured the Old Leader during the Cultural Revolution, causing the Leader to hang himself in the basement where he was imprisoned. He had finally avenged his master.


    From this, it could be seen that the people who were trying to salvage the anchor were not going to get a good ending. It confirmed this taboo that had existed for thousands of years.


    However, the difference from thirty years ago, was that the salvaging of the anchor was now prohibited by the Long Range Rover, because according to the relevant regulations of the state, any valuable cultural relics and treasures in the long river bottom were all owned by the state. Anyone who salvaged the anchor would have to turn it over to the state. Fishing things in the river bottom was an extremely exhausting and painstaking task, without any benefits to drive it, who the hell would be willing to do it?


    So it was all about money.


    The unit''s benefits were already very bad. Thus, many of the workers who knew about salvaging anchors in the past remembered that the items in the Yangtze River river bottom were basically cast iron weighing more than a thousand pounds, the heavy ones could reach a few tons, and the scrap iron in the junkyard could reach eighty-one pounds. If he fished out an iron anchor, he would earn more than a thousand yuan.


    Wealth could make a difference, and so the staff of the Long Navigation Bureau, faced with being laid off, began to fish anchor at night and sell scrap iron. He had even made a small fortune. In the end, he found out that it was much better than the unit''s monthly salary of more than a hundred yuan. Thus, he decided to simply disembark and rent a boat to salvage the anchor. In any case, the regulations of the country were just on paper and were not binding at all. When they met the water police station, they were all colleagues in the past, so they just turned a blind eye and left. In the end, the more they did, the easier it became. At the end of the nineties, they made a fortune. Later on, some people came to look for them and bought the anchor. The price of the anchor was ten times or even a hundred times higher than that of the junkyard.


    Because many of those anchors were cultural relics, the biggest task they did was to pick up an anchor from a sunken Japanese warship in the Shikai section. At that time, they were already professionals, yet they actually contacted the Japanese on their own initiative. The Japanese were to bring the anchor home, saying that it was to be placed next to the Yasukuni shrine.


    This matter attracted the attention of the government, so they finally arrested the salvor. He also intercepted the container at Yangshan Port in Shanghai that had already been loaded onto the ship, took out the anchor, and then ordered the salvor to sell the cultural relics.


    This wave of workers who fished for the anchor eventually ran out of money and did not die a good death. However, the business of salvaging the anchor did not end because of this matter. Instead, more people joined in the salvage team.


    It was still the same word — "money!"


    Thus, after the first salvage anchorman went to prison, a group of people appeared on the Yangtze River. Relying on simple and crude ship like equipment, they swam across the Yangtze River, found out the location of the iron anchor during the day, and used ships to salvage during the night. Just like the Corpsemancer on the Yangtze River, it had become a professional team.


    This industry had at least a few dozen people supporting it. Due to the increase in the number of people, resources were actually limited. However, over the past ten years, they had also picked up a few dozen iron anchors from the river bottom one after another. They were all sold to other places at a trading post near River Creek, and the buyer never knew of their identities or their background.


    This was the story of the iron anchor on the Yangtze River. Everyone had forgotten the taboo from hundreds of thousands of years until one day, in 2008, something big happened.