Before coming to Great Xia, Zhang Yang would never have believed such a thing existed. Thirty years ago, after a strange metal called "aerofloat gold" had been excavated from the Underground World, these miraculous flying vessels appeared. Yet they could only be seen in Great Xia, and even here, only an extremely small number of people could own one. Airships remained the backbone of aerial transportation in Great Xia, while these floating flying vessels were still rarely seen. In the months since Zhang Yang had arrived in Great Xia, including today, he had only seen one twice.
The people disembarking were packed together. One person, walking off the ship with his head raised to stare at the sky, failed to watch where he was going. Jostled by the crowd, he accidentally fell from the dock embankment into the water, shouting in alarm as the people around him scrambled to haul him back out.
"That's a floating flying vessel made from aerofloat gold..."
As a group of newly disembarked passengers craned their necks to look at the strange thing in the sky, a dark-brown-skinned sailor who had come down from the ship and was securing the anchor chain explained it to them in fluent Hua.
"Ah, can that thing be bought? How much does one cost?" A pot-bellied middle-aged man, surrounded by a crowd of attendants, stared at it with shining eyes. His face plainly said, "This lord is loaded." "Ah, just how much money does this Qin Family you mentioned have?" Sensing the trace of teasing in the sailor's tone, the surrounded middle-aged man asked somewhat indignantly.
"The Qin Family is a prominent clan in Oceanic Province. They have taken root and multiplied here for more than forty generations. The Qin Family has a nickname: Qin Hundred Cities!"
"Qin Hundred