Captain Nemo took us to visit the library of Nautilus with a collection of 12,000 books, smoked cigars made of kelp for me, watched the specimens he collected, and saw the elegant room he prepared for me and the humble room where he lived.

Captain Nemo introduced us to the use of various instruments in the room, how to mine seabed minerals, how to generate electricity and how to provide air, and introduced the use of a small boat and showed me around the kitchen. Captain Nemo introduced me to the submarine's general situation, structure, power, lighting and construction process.

Creation background

The brutal suppression of the Polish people's uprising against the czar's dictatorship was the trigger for Verne's creation of Two Wan Li under the Sea. In his novels, he created Captain Nemo, a tall figure who opposed the autocratic rule of the czar, and endowed him with a strong sense of social responsibility and humanitarian spirit to express his criticism of reality.

At the beginning of writing the novel, Verne and publisher hessel argued about the character of Nemo, the captain of the Nautilus. Hessel thought that Nemo should be described as the mortal enemy of the slave trade, which provided a clear and ideal defense for his ruthless attack on some ships at sea.

But Verne hoped that Nemo was a Polish, and he would never forgive his hatred for the Russian czar (he brutally suppressed a Polish uprising). However, hessel was worried that he would cause diplomatic differences, and this book was banned in the lucrative Russian market.

Finally, the author and publisher gradually compromised with each other. They think that Nemo's real motivation should be ambiguous to be attractive, and Nemo should be roughly positioned as a supporter of freedom and an avenger against oppression. In Mysterious Island, he was declared as the Prince of Dhaka, India.