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Chapter 183: Almost Fought Over a Ship! (Seeking Subscriptions)

Looking at the brown water column constantly spurting onto the mudflats, the members of the inspection team present all showed excited expressions.

These people had traveled thousands of miles from several inland provinces to Ruixian County in this remote corner of southern Zhejiang, all for the sake of this Jingwei engineering vessel.

After witnessing the video of the anti-typhoon merging and breach closure, the cities that had suffered from the backflow and flooding of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers could no longer sit still.

They couldn't wait to immediately sail this Jingwei 01 back to properly manage the silt and blockage problems in the water networks passing through their cities.

After all, in the eyes of Lu Shoucheng and the others, the seabed silt and waste extracted from Jingwei 01 were visually very similar to the silt blockage in the riverbeds of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.

So, not long after the Jingwei started, Lu Shoucheng on the side asked, "President Chen, the working principle of this Jingwei seems a bit similar to the 'Tianjing' that was sent to build islands in the south! Can you give a detailed introduction to its operating efficiency?"

The so-called 'Tianjing' in his mouth is the largest star-class self-propelled cutter suction dredger built by China Merchants Heavy Industry.

The Tianjing is 127.5 meters long, 22 meters wide, and has a draft of 6 meters. It has a cutter power of 4200kw, a maximum dredging depth of -30 meters, and a dredging efficiency of up to 4500 cubic meters/hour.

It was designed and built in 2008 and completed in 21 months. On the day of its launch, it immediately won the first place in Asia and the third place in the world in terms of dredging capacity.

It was sent to the south to blow sand and fill the sea, turning reefs into islands.

Subsequently, until the more powerful 'Tiankun' was launched in 2017, the Tianjing, which had been in operation for nearly 10 years, was relegated to the second line and dragged back to the shipyard for equipment platform modification. From the initial design of the marine operating environment, it turned to the task of building the Pinglu Canal.

However, as a star vessel, the daily work of the Tianjing can be said to be very heavy.

The heads of flood control departments in inland cities like Lu Shoucheng had also considered the Tianjing.

However, this star ship dedicated to major domestic projects, like a popular celebrity, has a very full schedule.

It's either on the way to work or back in the factory for maintenance.

Wanting to spend money to bid for the Tianjing's operating time, they couldn't compete with those established large state-owned enterprises in terms of financial resources and connections.

After all, there are currently less than 50 such large-scale cutter suction dredgers in the world, and China alone accounts for 35 of them. The most advanced 'Tianqi', 'Tianjing', and 'Tiankun' are subject to unified management, command, and dispatch by relevant departments.

To put it simply, this thing is a national treasure that you can't buy even if you have money!

It's not something that ordinary local department leaders like Lu Shoucheng can access.

Seeing a private engineering vessel that seemed to be able to replace the 'Tianjing', Lu Shoucheng and the others were naturally a little overjoyed.

Seeing that the people from the inspection team had done sufficient homework before coming, Chen Jue immediately showed an expression of 'you guys are pretty good' and started talking nonsense on the spot: "Leaders, the Jingwei is not a traditional cutter suction dredger. The designed cutter power is not high, and the single-arm excavation efficiency is only about 2000 cubic meters per hour, but its real strength is comprehensive versatility!"

This Jingwei 01, which was modified with MC materials, does have some functional overlap with the Tiankun.

However, after adding high-performance [Iron Blocks] and MC [Lithium Electric Pistons], the operating capabilities of Jingwei 01 are not as simple as cutter suction dredging!

"Comprehensive versatility?"

Lu Shoucheng muttered with a suspicious expression, his eyes staring straight at the Jingwei that was starting to move. He thought: "2000 cubic meters per hour is enough! As long as we spend more money to rent it back, we can definitely clean up the blocked river channels and riverbeds."

Seeing this, Chen Jue didn't explain too much, but shouted into the walkie-talkie used for command in front of the inspection team: "Old Liu, increase the intensity! Let the customers see the strength of our Jingwei!"

A voice rang out from the walkie-talkie: "Received, Boss!"

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw another change on the deck of the Jingwei that was working.

The originally raised mechanical arms suddenly retracted inward, and in full view of everyone, they switched to a brand-new extended version of the arm body from the workbench in the cabin, while the supporting working components were switched to two unfamiliar 'roller' and 'cuboid' shaped modules.

From a distance, it looked like a row of enlarged mahjong tiles and curling irons were being raised.

"This... what kind of engineering machinery is this?"

"It doesn't look like a drill, but rather a steel roller fitted in front of a road roller!"

"There seem to be blades and serrations on it, it shouldn't be a simple roller."

"Why does it look a bit familiar!" The inspection team discussed.

Everyone's attention was attracted by this high-tech action comparable to a Transformers transformation.

As the whirring of the motor sounded, the extended mechanical arms pressed the 'roller' and 'cuboid' into the turbid seawater from high to low.

Before long, the nearshore sea surface, which had been muddied by the cutter and suction pump, began a strange agitation.

A large pile of rubble and silt piled up like a small mountain actually presented the posture of a coin pusher, wrapped in mud and seawater, pushed layer by layer from below the sea level to the mudflats.

Such a common-sense-breaking scene directly stunned Lu Shoucheng and the others!

"What is the principle?"

"The silt and garbage on the seabed ran ashore by themselves?"

"Incredible! Too incredible!"

Watching the stacked seabed waste automatically go ashore, the inspection team instantly exploded.

Many people's hands holding mobile phones to record videos began to tremble slightly.

Chen Jue, who was responsible for the reception on the side, quickly explained: "These two working modules, one is a 'jaw crusher' and the other is a 'obstacle clearing bulldozer', which were previously installed on the Yugong 01 experimental vehicle."

"However, the Yugong 01 uses the Xugong XDE440 mining truck as the chassis, and the self-weight is less than 600 tons. After going to the 10,000-ton ship, it was specially changed to an enlarged version. One trip can clear a range of nearly 30 meters wide, which is more than enough for clearing obstacles on the seabed."

As soon as this was said, the leaders who had watched the live broadcast of the 15-day community construction showed a look of sudden realization.

After all, the industrial and technological shock brought to everyone by the scene of the 'God's Plasticine' smoothing the construction site can be said to be unparalleled.

Even these well-informed department leaders felt that such a shocking picture was enough to be remembered for a lifetime.

So, after witnessing this 'upper suction and lower push' dredging and unblocking ability, everyone in the inspection team, including Lu Shoucheng, threw olive branches with eager faces: "President Chen, can your group's Jingwei 01 be rented to us?"

"Just name the rental fee!"

Because the city where he was located had just suffered from floods in the past two months, causing significant economic losses to the local area.

Lu Shoucheng and the other leaders urgently needed an engineering weapon that could come and go freely for dredging and unblocking to help the local city resolve future water conservancy hazards.

Even in order to reach a cooperation, these department heads of the inspection team were carrying high bidding budgets.

The purpose was to borrow this Jingwei 01 back as soon as possible.

So, when the first person spoke to place an order, the remaining brothers in distress in the inspection team started to boo one after another: "Old Lu, you're not honest! Your Wuhan is far away in Beihu Province. Even if this Jingwei is to be lent to us, it has to go upstream and dredge each city one by one."

"That's right! Didn't we agree before coming? We'll schedule it one by one! President Chen, we, Jiangjiu City, will offer an engineering budget of 100 million to rent it to us first!"

"No way! Our Gan City is the closest to Ruixian, and it should be our turn first. President Chen, just name the engineering budget quotation, including the fuel consumption of the Jingwei, and Gan City will also cover all the travel expenses of the shipworkers and technicians!"