The Scholar's Sailing Diary, A Kingdom's Shipbuilding Masterpiece, The Budding of Deep-Sea Adventure

"In late March, a Kingdom longship sailed day and night, changing men but not ships, and reached Whale Port at urgent speed! The build of this longship was clearly somewhat larger than Whale Port's two longships. It was a new vessel just launched by the Kingdom's Southern Shipbuilding Institute! I carefully measured this longship's length: it was an astonishing 28 meters long and 7 meters wide, its hull additionally reinforced with iron hoops and copper nails, and it could carry a full seventy thousand jin! By comparison, Whale Port's two old longships were only 24 meters long, a little over 6 meters wide, and carried just over sixty thousand jin..."

"Main God be witness!! This great longship is the vanguard of the Kingdom's second support fleet, and also the smallest and fastest of the ten great longships in this batch. And the flagship of this batch of great longships is a shocking 36 meters long and 9 meters wide, capable of carrying more than eighty thousand jin!... It is said that the great keel timber running from bow to stern on this great longship was a forty-meter-tall spruce felled in Tecos Mountain in the south, then dragged by several hundred Laborers along the rivers for several hundred li all the way to Atoyac Lake, and finally handled and built by several dozen senior craftsmen. It truly represents the highest masterpiece of the Kingdom's shipyards!... And Director Talaya of the Institute of Divine Inspiration also specially issued instructions to name this brand-new great longship flagship the 'Great Snow Wolf'..."

"Of course, a 36-meter-long great longship is not actually the limit of Kingdom shipbuilding. It is said that when the support fleet set out, among the third batch of Kingdom great longships then under construction, there was actually a giant oar-and-sail ship