The hotel has six decks and is fully equipped with ocean-view rooms, a dining hall, and bathrooms.

The Xie family members boarded the ship first. After Xie Anfeng and Xie Yu counted them two or three times, they made sure that all the Xie family members who were willing to leave, as well as more than a thousand soldiers, had boarded the ship from the stern.

Li Yunmu had already given the cabin structure to Xie Zhaozhao.

Xie Zhaozhao looked at it for a while, then handed it to Xie Yu: "Brother, please assign rooms to everyone."

Xie Yu assigned rooms, and Ling Xun continued to follow up on the enthronement, writing the room numbers on the list.

Xie Zhaozhao and Yuan Yuanman walked onto the deck together and watched as Fernandin and the shore personnel worked together to begin removing the gangplank, shouting "Anchor!" in unison.

Just as the gangplank was being removed, Xie Qingcang, Xie Qingyun, and Xie Qinghai's illegitimate sons, who originally did not want to follow, broke free from their parents' obstruction and boarded the ship as the last group.

Now that winter is here, it's not a good time to go north, as it involves going against the wind. However, the Liberty and Wonder are the most advanced large ships in the world today, using conventional steam power, so they are not greatly affected.

Both ships were used for both military and commercial purposes; otherwise, they wouldn't have sold for over ten million taels of silver each.

After the ship shouted the "alignment" call, it began to raise the mast.

"Feed him up, hey, hey hey..."

With the sound of "Standing Mast," the ship slowly departed from Yejian Port.

The operator at the top of the road waved and retreated.

“Those are all our people,” Li Yunmu said. “I started negotiating the lease of this dock in Yejian Port with Yin Jin’an. Later, Yin Jin’an said that to prevent the imperial court from seizing it, we should just buy it.”

Yin Jin'an...

Xie Zhaozhao felt her eyes burning and her throat tighten.

She could never forgive herself.

The large ship slowly departed, crashing against the waves with a "whoosh," its bow stirring up high sprays of water, and her heart finally settled down.

On the shore, apart from the illegitimate sons who were unwilling to be exploited by their stepmother and elder brothers any longer, Xie Qingcang, Xie Qingyun, Xie Qinghai, and the other two hundred or so members of the second grandfather's branch of the family all watched the large ship sail away in a daze.

The Freedom sailed against the wind and waves, the coastline receding further and further away, until it gradually became a black line.