The Eastern Sun Never Sets Empire

In 1876 (about a hundred years after the end of the book), the Global Industrial University had developed into the "Global Institute of Science and Technology", with seven branches spread across four continents. The first steam-powered airship across the Atlantic Ocean, Yuanzhi II, took off from Quanzhou, carrying fifty passengers and one hundred tons of cargo. It flew for seven consecutive days and arrived in London. At this time, the clocks on both sides of the English Channel had been calibrated to "Quanzhou Standard Time". When the airship landed, London citizens poured into the streets to look up. A local newspaper reporter wrote in the report: "A hundred years ago, it was an iron ship; a hundred years later, it was an iron bird. Things coming from the East always make the British look up first."