Sea City, the largest commercial port on the eastern coast of the Blood Qin Empire, could rank among the top five ports across all continents in the world. Port Vias, the largest port city on the Western Continent, was no more than a tiny child before Sea City—there was simply no comparison.
Though called a city, Sea City was in truth an extraordinarily prosperous urban cluster made up of nearly a hundred cities large and small. This stretch of cities extended for thousands of li, surrounded by plains, with fertile land, abundant products, and a vast population. It was one of the Blood Qin Empire's few first-rank provinces.
The three major provinces of Peace Province, Yue Province, and Yu Province formed the shape of the character 品, encircling Sea City tightly.
Peace Province lay directly to the north, Yue Province directly to the west, and Yu Province directly to the south. All three were second-rank provinces of the Blood Qin Empire, likewise incomparably wealthy and densely populated elite provinces. Combined, their annual revenue exceeded the Gallic Empire's total yearly tax income by fifty percent.
Peace Province and Yu Province in particular, one north and one south, each had a peninsula extending into the Eastern Ocean like an outstretched human arm. The two peninsulas thrust more than two thousand li into the deep sea. Sea City's boundless prosperity stemmed from the fact that these two peninsulas, a thousand li apart, enclosed an enormous natural harbor. Thus, Sea City's port had remained wave-free for ten thousand years, one of the finest harbors in the world.
Relying on these three great provinces, Sea City had become one of the world's foremost commercial ports. And relying on Sea City in turn, Peace Province, Yue Province, and Yu Province had become prosperous lands of the