The shipyard was located near the inland river docks. Once a ship was built, it could follow the river directly out to sea.
The shipyard was government-run. After Gu Zhang and his group arrived, Stone showed a credential to an official, who immediately and politely invited them all inside.
The official led them into an exceptionally tall and spacious workshop, where several half-finished ships were surrounded by hundreds of bustling workers.
After a tour of the interior, the official led them outside, where several large, completed ships were moored along the river channel.
The largest of them was several stories high, over a hundred meters long, and dozens of meters wide. It was truly a behemoth.
The official pointed at the ships and spoke as they walked, "These ships are all made of top-quality nanmu wood. The labor costs alone are over a thousand taels of Silver, and we can only build a few dozen a year."
