Memorial = funeral for someone who has died. I think the word that was really wanted in this chapter was memo or memorandum, meaning a business document or report.
Welcome to another episode of "Chinese writers cant math!". Why do I say so? Well lets do the math, the area hes speaking of is about 40-60k square kilometers, lets not forget that TWO world is 10x so we get about 6,2mil square km. On average it takes 0,2 square km of woods to build a 74 ship of the line, this includes non usable wood. So please tell me how the hell did they build 30miljon plus ships in a year?
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