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After departing from Jiangling Prefecture, the ironclad passenger ship went south along the Yangtze River before turning into the Grand Canal and heading north.
Three days later, the iron ship had left Huzhou and entered the Luzhou section of the Grand Canal.
For Qi Xuansu, Luzhou was where his luck began to change. But this was his first time using the Grand Canal waterway.
After several years of treatment and being dredged, the water in the Grand Canal was much cleaner. The sun was shining brightly, reflecting on the surface of the water, resembling beautiful sparkling crystals.
Liu Hu stood on the deck, looking at both sides of the bank. Huge manufacturing plants could be seen from time to time, with billowing black smoke rising into the sky. These plants had only emerged in the past hundred years and were mainly focused on smelting steel.
Although buildings still used masonry and wood as the main materials, firearms and ironclad ships required a large amount of steel. Since there was a high demand, these steel plants came into being.
It was a coincidence that both firearms and smelting...
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