"Demolish it and rebuild it? No!"
"Impossible!"
"This is a nationally protected key cultural relic! A Northern Qi Xing Kiln site, where a large quantity of Translucent White Porcelain has been unearthed, along with porcelain figurines fired from Translucent White Porcelain! Even if its review has not yet been finalized, it is still a nationally protected key cultural relic!"
"Do you think a kiln of this level is something you can rebuild whenever you want and demolish whenever you please?!"
Professor Zhang's voice was thunderous as he pointed at Shen Le's nose and launched into a relentless barrage.
Though he did not utter a single curse word, nor even a single sentence of direct scolding or reproach, the force of that tirade still drove Shen Le back again and again.
"Professor, is there perhaps a possibility that the application and review are all in our own hands anyway? If we demolish it and do another round, we can still make the review deadline..."
The application required documents, and the speed of writing those documents was in the hands of researchers like them, the ones excavating and restoring the kiln site.
Under normal circumstances, excavating a porcelain kiln and carrying out the subsequent organization work would take at least three or four months.
Over the past few days, Shen Le had helped Professor Zhang's students look up and organize materials, and he had also glanced through some earlier reports.
For example, the Ming Dynasty kiln site at Liyang Porcelain Mountain in Jingdezhen had been archaeologically excavated from July to November 2005, a total of five months.
And the Jinshan Kiln Site in Shangyu, Zhejiang, had been excavated from May to September 2014, also taking five months.
Compared with that, they had Shen Le, a human-shaped nuclear-powered workhorse for digging dirt, as