Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!-Chapter 1563 - 1103: Treasure Ships of the Past, the Snow Wolf King, and the Keel of the First 2,000-ton Large Ship!

"Chief Divine bears witness! A one thousand six hundred-ton large ship? How big is that?... Ah, you say it's eight times the size of this Wind God Great Ship? One cannot believe there's such a colossal ship in the world! Wouldn't it mean that just one ship could carry over two hundred people? A million pounds?…"

"What! You say the prophecy from that Your Majesty includes the Great Ming Han tribe coalition's five thousand-ton ocean ship? How is it possible?! Wouldn't that be like a small mountain on the sea, even like a floating island?…"

"Oh Chief Divine! What are you saying?! You've seen it with your own eyes once?… It was more than twenty years ago when you came to enfeoff the Korean tribal alliance leader, what enfeoffment fleet was that?… Ah! You even went aboard to see and remember the specific shape and size?…"

Long wind blew from south to north, across the raised vertical sails and the slightly tilted deck. In the early July summer breeze, it carried the dampness and also the rare warmth from the far North Sea's surface.

Shipwright Kim Sun-su squatted on the moist deck, took the charcoal pencil Miki handed over, and sketched a simple design drawing, marking the dimensions of the Ocean Shielding Ship. As Scholar Mikki understood the conversion, he gasped, his whole being excitedly heated up.

A one thousand six hundred-ton Big Ocean Covering Ship is precisely eight times the size of the current ocean shielding ship! With a displacement of over 30 tons per one hundred tons, that's a 500-ton, million-pound displacement!

And with the Kingdom's previous shipbuilding techniques, not counting the flagship "Great Snow Wolf," which is more than thirty meters long and carries over 40 tons, eighty or ninety thousand pounds, an ordinary twenty-meter oar-sailed longship only carries 30 tons, sixty thousand pounds, merely half of this two hundred and some ton Ocean Shielding Ship…

In other words, a one thousand six hundred-ton Big Ocean Covering Ship is equivalent to the carrying capacity of nearly twenty longships! This is simply the colossal ship that Scholar Mikki, even in his wildest dreams, never dreamt of!

As for the five thousand-ton enfeoffment ship that Shipwright Kim Sun-su mentioned, it would have at least a 1600-ton load, a displacement of a full three to four million pounds…

"Chief Divine! Three to four million pounds of load? Truly, could there be such Heavenly Divine colossal ships in this world? And such a divine ship, wouldn't it be the dwelling place of Heavenly Divine in the human world, capable of carrying a thousand people?…"

"Exactly! Exactly! Priest Great Master, you are right!… Oh? Bodhisattva! You can actually write the words of the Upper Country? You calculate so quickly and accurately?… Oh Chief Divine! I've never seen such a clever Great Master! Uh… I misspoke, I'm clumsy with words!…"

Shipwright Kim Sun-su stared with wide eyes, watching Scholar Mikki write down "one thousand six hundred-ton large ship," "thirty steps long, ten steps wide, seven or eight steps high," "carry a million pounds," "carry two hundred and forty people." Then he astonishingly watched as the other continued calculating, writing "five thousand-ton colossal ship," "forty-three steps long, fourteen or fifteen steps wide, eleven steps high," "carry seven hundred and fifty people"…

"Priest Great Master, the enfeoffment ship's construction method is different from the Ocean Shielding Ship, you can't calculate directly like this… I've been on the ship, still remember the long and width of that enfeoffment ship…"

Seeing the "Two Classes Great Master" calculate the results, Shipwright Kim Sun-su scratched his head, in the dimensions position also wrote a line of numbers. He knows little of Chinese characters, but these numbers are something shipwrights must master.

"Five thousand-ton enfeoffment ship… is seventy-seven forty-nine steps long (63.7 meters), to match the lucky number forty-nine!… Width is eleven steps (14.3 meters), taking one-fourth and a half of the length… And its height is also about eleven steps, just with too many pavilions above, I don't remember clearly… But it's estimated its keel is three sturdy giant woods thirty steps long, assembled into a fifty-step long keel, that fifty steps are used as the enfeoffment ship's yardstick…"

"On that enfeoffment ship, there are three masts at the front, three masts at the rear, three masts at the middle, a full nine masts! And the three central main masts are particularly special!… Each main mast's height is over thirty-five steps (45.5 meters). Each main mast's side has two rows of auxiliary side masts, with three rows below each suspending horizontal frames, to hang six different sized, adjustable vertical sails!…"

"Chief Divine bears witness! Thus, just on that enfeoffment ship, there are three sails on the front mast, three sails on the rear mast, eighteen sails on the middle mast, a total of twenty-four vertical sails! These twenty-four sails adjust direction, borrowing different winds, managing the sails is a legacy of profound knowledge… As for the inside of that enfeoffment ship, I didn't have the chance to enter, and don't know how those combined inclined frames and side keels were precisely constructed with ingenious craftsmanship!…"

"Chief Divine! What did you say? Five thousand-ton enfeoffment ship, front and rear nine masts, twenty-four sails?… Whew! Such a Heavenly Divine colossal ship, I feel the divinity of Wind God, Sea God and even the Tree Spirit, just hearing about it makes one yearn for it!…"

Upon hearing Gold Shipwright Kim Sun-su's detailed description, Scholar Mikki's eyes widened more and more, finally even flashing with shimmering brilliance.

Although he couldn't imagine such a large ship, he could completely envision that if they could build one, just one of these Heavenly Divine giant ships, it would be a miraculous spectacle, floating and moving across the entire Northern Continent and Southern Continent! And with such a miraculous giant ship, coupled with a "Eye of the Spirit" hot air balloon that could ascend into the sky, spreading doctrine to the coastal tribes of the North-South Continent would be an effortless divine manifestation!

"Chief Divine, witness! Gold Shipwright, can only the Great Ming Han tribe coalition prophesied by Your Majesty build such a Heavenly Divine giant ship? Can your Korean tribal alliance, along with that Three Islands and tribal alliance from which the translator Watanabe hails, build one?"

"My Lord! The sealing ship is an untransmittable secret of Upper Country Ming; besides the Ming Dynasty's Southern Zhili Treasure Shipyard, there is nowhere else in the world with the relevant construction methods! As for the construction methods of the treasure ships, the great masters of the Two Classes have thought about it and hinted at it subtly a few times, but the angels of Upper Country firmly refused, saying there's absolutely no chance of it being transmitted outside!"

"The great masters of the Two Classes also had me and a few shipwrights secretly note down dimensions when boarding... but for such a colossal giant ship, without knowing the internal construction methods, without those inherited blueprints, it's absolutely, absolutely, absolutely impossible to build one!"

Recalling the instructions of the great masters of the Two Classes, Gold Shipwright sighed. The construction methods and blueprints of such giant ships, especially the intricate and tightly-knit internal structures, are estimated to cover dozens of sheets of paper. Without these painstaking construction methods and blueprints, meticulously summarized by the great masters of Upper Country over decades of research, there is not the slightest chance of replicating a five-thousand-load sealing ship!

"In fact, the angels of Upper Country also said it was only because we are from Korea that we were allowed to board for repairs and behold the majesty of Upper Country, bathing in its enlightenment... If it were the Japanese from the Eastern Sea, they would have been killed immediately and wouldn't be allowed on board even one step!"

Hearing what Gold Shipwright said, Watanabe the Japanese touched his nose with an awkward expression.

In the eyes of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese are nothing but sea marauders and bandits, the bane that disrupts official careers! However, the fishermen and boatmen along the coast of the Ming Dynasty often engage in private trade with pirate ships, because the profits from such smuggling are just too staggering!

"Ah! The five-thousand-load Heavenly Divine giant ship... The untransmittable Divinity of the Great Ming Han tribe coalition!"

The bald eagle hovered over the sea, and seagulls cried near the coast, while the towering Divine Solitary Mountain lay far on the horizon to the east. Amidst the boundless Far North Sea, the people heard the awe-inspiring rumors of the sealing ship, their faces filled with astonishment and yearning that wouldn't calm for a long time.

"Whew!... The giant ship of the Heavenly Divine is hard to find, perhaps a sixteen hundred-load large ship is possible..."

Scholar Mikki pondered for a moment, then let out a long sigh. But soon, he realized a serious issue. Since there were shipwrights from the Western Sea, the paddle-sail giant ship "Snow Wolf King," which the alliance was building, might be directly convertible into a sixteen hundred-load Big Ocean Covering Ship!

"Gold Shipwright! You previously said, to build a thirty-step long, sixteen hundred-load Big Ocean Covering Ship, you need to splice two thirty-step giant logs to form the keel?"

"Ah? My Lord! If it's just a thirty-step long Big Ocean Covering Ship, actually three twenty-something-step big logs can also be carefully spliced to form the keel. And the sturdy thirty-step giant logs, mostly centuries old, are indeed too rare to seek for any price…"

"No! Chief Divine bear witness! You didn't understand my meaning... Gold Shipwright, in the Kingdom, you're the only person who knows how to build a large ship, and the other kingdom shipwrights can only assist, probably unable to offer suggestions... To create such an unprecedented giant ship, we must use the best materials possible and try to succeed in one go!"

Scholar Mikki's eyes sparkled as he observed the anxious Gold Shipwright. He took a deep breath, ready to take a hugely advantageous political risk for the Kingdom's maritime venture, to request from the Divine Revelation Director Talaya...

"With the Chief Divine's blessing! When we return to the Kingdom, I will personally request the honorable Divine Revelation Director!... To hand over the paddle-sail giant ship 'Snow Wolf King', which the Kingdom has been constructing for a year and a half, to you and the craftsmen of the Kingdom for conversion into a two-thousand-load Big Ocean Covering Ship!"

"And with this giant ship as a foundation, you will not need to splice any keels… because the keel of this paddle-sail giant ship is a forty-step long (52 meters), two to three steps wide in diameter, millennium Divine Tree, a sacred Yun Shan giant log!"