The Treasure Ship's Past, the Snow Wolf King, the Foundation of the First Two-Thousand-Liao Great Ship!

"Main God as my witness! A great ship of sixteen hundred Liao? How big would that be?... Ah, you mean eight times the size of this great God of Wind ship?... There's actually a great ship that big under heaven! Wouldn't that mean a single ship could carry more than two hundred people? More than a million jin?..."

"What! You're saying that Great Ming Han Tribe Grand Alliance from His Majesty's prophecy even has five-thousand-Liao sea ships? How is that possible?! Wouldn't that be like a small mountain on the sea, or even a floating island?..."

"Main God! What did you say?! You saw one with your own eyes?... More than twenty years ago, when some Fengzhou fleet came to enfeoff the leader of the Joseon Tribal Alliance?... Ah! You even went aboard and looked around, and you remember its specific form and size?..."

The long wind blew from south to north, over the raised fore-and-aft sail and across the slightly tilted deck. In the summer wind of early in the seventh month, there was dampness, and also the rare warmth over the surface of the Far North Sea.

Shipwright Kim Seon-su crouched on the damp deck, took the charcoal pencil Miki handed him, and sketched a simple Yingzao Fashi diagram, marking out the dimensions of the Zheyang Ship. Once Scholar Miki understood the conversion, he immediately sucked in a breath, his whole body heating with excitement.

A great Zheyang Ship of sixteen hundred Liao was a full eight times the size of this Zheyang Ship before them! Calculating by more than thirty tons of displacement per hundred Liao, that was five hundred tons, a displacement of one million jin!

And with the Kingdom's previous shipbuilding techniques, leaving aside the fleet flagship, the "Great Snow Wolf," which was more than