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The Qingluo Sea area, with its vast azure waves, has clear and clean seawater with a slightly cold temperature.
In this sea area, a variety of fierce seafood grows rather slowly, which only enhances the quality and flavor of these seafood. There was a ti when this vast sea area was filled with fishing boats, yielding plentiful products.
Unfortunately, in the Qingluo Sea, pirates have been on the rise for an unknown period of ti. As a result, the fishing economy is almost at a standstill, and the number of comrcial vessels compared with a hundred years ago has decreased by eighty to ninety percent.
Only the rchant ships of big prominent families such as the Cao Family and the Fang Family can travel unimpeded in this sea area.
At this mont.
Amidst the vast ocean waves, a fleet of ships forms a stable formation, cutting through the wind and waves, moving swiftly ahead.
Among this fleet, the most eye-catching is a unique large rchant ship.
This ship, nad "Luo Miao Ship," is the latest type of rchant ship jointly built by the Chen Clan of Donggang and the Changning Wang Clan.
Unlike common sea ships with several towering masts, it has a gigantic cylindrical object erected in the place where a mast should be.
Its size is also much larger than that of a typical ship, and many joints have used the latest steel structures. Aside from the traditional sails, there's a large power cabin at the bottom of the ship with a massive boiler installed, alongside a propeller driven by a steam structure.
This is the latest artifact product launched by the Wang family's secret research institution — "Wang's Steam Engine".
As for the steam engine, it is one of the most powerful tools driving the progress of Earth's civilization. Every layman knows the principle of the steam engine, but most of them do not understand its specific structure.
Like Wang Shouzhe, he certainly knows that steam can generate power and vaguely knows so general structures. But if you ask him to suddenly design an entire steam engine structure, it's sothing he couldn't do even if it ant his life.
Luckily, the Wang's research institution, after decades of developnt, is now full of talents. About the topic of steam power, the concept and principle, as well as the general direction and thinking of the structure, were proposed by Wang Shouzhe decades ago.
The structure of steam power is not complicated. This world does not lack intelligent people. Many tis, the only thing missing in facing a technical bottleneck is an idea and a direction.
With a clear idea and direction, blacksmiths, artifact refiners, and technical personnel are encouraged by Qian Gold to overco various obstacles bit by bit. After decades, they have developed a large, yet very primitive steam power system.
No matter how primitive it may be, it is still a steam system. Belonging to the "boiling water" entry-level 'high-tech', it's much advanced compared to simple sail power.
Please note, the biggest problem limiting the developnt of the shipping industry is the cargo capacity of ships. Only with a sufficiently strong cargo capacity can there be substantial profits.
And what limits the cargo capacity of ships is actually power.
With sails as power, it's easy to be influenced by climate and ocean currents. Nearly half of the year has to be forcibly stopped, and the power that can be provided also has an upper limit. The transportation speed is really not very fast.
But with the steam system as power, there is no such trouble.
The power generated by the steam system has a much higher upper limit compared to sails, and it's more stable, less affected by climate and ocean currents, and it can consistently provide trendous power. Even when sailing against the current, the speed will not be too slow.
Apart from that, because the price of coal in this world is quite low, its consumption is not high.
Based on this, the shipping industry has great potential developnt in the future.
However, so far, the Wang family's steam power system is still in an experintal state, and improvents continued to be needed during practical uses. It is far from being ready for mass production.
The "Luo Miao Ship" is the Wang family's test subject.
At the sa ti, this large rchant ship nad "Luo Miao Ship" is also the flagship of this whole fleet.
It carries the most precious foreign glass products, and on the ship, there's a total of twelve Divine Might Cannons installed. Its defense power is so strong that calling it a "moving fortress on the sea" is not an exaggeration.
Compared to the Luo Miao Ship, the defenses of the other nine rchant ships paled in comparison, each rchant ship only has one Divine Might Cannon.
The bow of the "Luo Miao Ship" is quite high, which is about fifty to sixty feet above the water surface, making it look much more elegant than an ordinary sea ship.
At this mont, a lady stands gracefully next to a Divine Might Cannon at the front end of the deck.
She has a pretty face with long hair simply tied into a ponytail behind her head. There aren't any extra adornnts on her. Under the cover of her Profound Martial uniform and cloak, her body appears tall and lithe, looking spirited and heroic.
This lady is naturally the person in charge of this fleet, Wang Luomiao.
Usually, high-quality ladies from Profound Martial families, the more excellent ones would follow the Academic Palace route, while most of the others go to get married and have children, serving as marriage ties for the family, especially those from the direct line. Most of the ti, they cannot dictate their own marriages.
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