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Chapter 1346: Side Story: Having the Whole World in View (23)

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This chaos lasted for nearly 600 years, only ending with Great Qi fully supporting the countries in Nanyang to drive all the Western colonists out of their territory.

But historians of later generations have mixed reactions towards this.

Western historians unanimously believed that Great Qi had ulterior motives. The evidence was that later on, a few princes of Great Qi led a pirate ship to upset the structure of Europe and even supported a puppet regime to control Europe for more than 300 years.

Even till this day, Great Qi’s influence on Europe remained.

They believed that Great Qi had ulterior motives adopting such a policy towards Nanyang—they wanted to use the Westerners to fight against the countries of Nanyang to achieve a balance.

Regarding this, the Qi people snorted and retorted, "Great Qi has never interfered in Nanyang’s internal affairs. On the contrary, Great Qi has been supporting and helping the various countries in Nanyang for so many years. That speculation is completely nonsense. Because the royal families of the various countries in Nanyang don’t want Great Qi to interfere too much in this matter, they can’t interfere too much. It was because the Western countries later seized the political power of the various countries in Nanyang and delusionally wanted to completely replace their royal families and enslave and slaughter the natives, that Great Qi stepped in to help Nanyang. Great Qi couldn’t stand by and watch while all that was happening."

Hence, the Qi people replied, "You’re just trying to hide your dirty thoughts. It can’t be that Great Qi asked you to colonize the countries of Nanyang, right?"

As for the idea of supporting the Western puppet regime, the Qi people said proudly, "We Qi people value friendship and righteousness. Joao and Jose are good friends of our ancestor, and it’s only right to help out a friend when they’re in trouble. The idea of a puppet regime is purely a filthy speculation of yours."

At that time, a thousand years had passed, and no one could guarantee that the history that everyone knew was true. The Great Qi royal family, who had kept the handwritten information of the ancestors at that time, silently read all kinds of novels on the Internet about the brotherhood between their ancestors and the members of the Portuguese royal family’s branch, Joao and Jose.

No matter how the East and West attacked each other, the countries of Nanyang maintained a friendly international relationship with Great Qi all along. Even if there were occasional conflicts, Great Qi’s status as a suzerain state had never wavered.

That was because no one could deny the importance of Great Qi in the development of the Nanyang countries. In that era when talents gathered and knowledge erupted, it was Great Qi that infused various cultivation techniques into the Nanyang countries and developed their wisdom. In the current Nanyang, 90% of people spoke Mandarin, and the natives and Qi people had long assimilated.

The Westerners had mocked Nanyang more than once for being just a satellite country of Great Qi, but so what? Nanyang’s economic and cultural development was not inferior to the Western countries.

Because of Great Qi, the rebellions that occurred during the reforms were not as intense as those in the West, and the economic and cultural damage was not as serious as those in the West. Coupled with the fact that they had the backing of a big tree, the countries in Nanyang enjoyed rapid economic development.

At this moment, the ancestors of the Great Qi royal family, who future generations would go on to think that they shared close ties with Joao and Jose, pouted childishly and said, "Joao has such a sad ending. He’s actually sent to prison!"

Little Lion grabbed the letter from his hand and pursed his lips in disdain after reading it. "He’s too stupid. Do you really plan to support him to become the Emperor of Portugal? Can’t you choose another candidate?"

Little Leopard hesitated for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "In the Portuguese royal family, we only know him and Jose. The most important thing is that our relationship is not bad. Although he’s a little incompetent, does it fit right with our goal?"

Little Lion raised his eyebrows and asked, "When did your relationship become good? Why didn’t I know?"

Little Leopard said nonchalantly, "At least that’s what he thinks."

Tiger Head looked at his brother speechlessly for a while before turning around and saying to Little Lion, "Who did this kid learn this hypocrisy from?"𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"From Brother Little Fu!"

Little Fu, who was carrying a watermelon over, immediately shouted in dissatisfaction, "What did you accuse me of this time?"

Tiger Head took the watermelon from his arms and placed it on the table. He casually took out a dagger and made a few cuts on the watermelon. With a light touch, the watermelon instantly split into 16 petals.

Little Fu couldn’t stop him in time and could only look at the split watermelon in a daze. Then, he stared at the dagger in Tiger Head’s hand and said suspiciously, "Brother Tiger Head, has your knife cut anything else besides the watermelon?"

Tiger Head put the dagger back nonchalantly and said, "It’s been inserted into a lot of things before. If the question is what it hasn’t been inserted into, I might be able to answer you more quickly."

Little Fu’s face turned slightly ashen as he asked, "Has it been stabbed into a human before?"𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Tiger Head grinned. "Of course. This is a killing knife."

Little Fu looked at the watermelon on the table and couldn’t eat it no matter what.

Little Lion and Little Leopard, on the other hand, ate without any psychological burden. As Little Leopard ate, he explained, "Brother Little Fu is a clean freak. Since he won’t be eating this watermelon, I’ll eat his share for him."

Little Lion turned around and instructed someone to fetch another watermelon. Tiger Head sat cross-legged on the ground and said, "How dare you travel far with such a problem? Can you be so thorough on the road?"

Little Lion nodded. "Do you think you can go to the West? Not to mention Second Uncle, even I won’t let him go."

Little Leopard and Little Fu took advantage of the long vacation homework to come here. In other words, it was the hottest summer vacation of the year. They did not want to return to the capital, but wanted to follow their fleet to the west for a spin.

However, they could not stand the heat when they came to Luzon to visit their relatives, let alone take a long boat trip in this weather. Seeing this, Tiger Head and Little Lion immediately made the decision to keep them around.

"I definitely won’t be particular when the conditions don’t allow for it. But I can afford to be picky now, can’t I?" Little Fu said as he turned around and took the watermelon from the soldier. He cut it open with a fruit knife and only felt better after eating a piece.

It was really too hot at this moment.

Little Leopard and Little Fu didn’t really want to return to the capital. They wanted to pester the two of them to let them follow the fleet to the west to see Joao.

However, Tiger Head and Little Lion didn’t agree. They instructed their bodyguards to follow them closely and quickly sent a letter to the capital, hoping that their daddy would show his might and get them to go back.

However, before their letter could reach Great Qi, Qi Haoran’s letter reached Luzon from Guangzhou via the ship.

Little Lion opened it and took a glance, then immediately shouted, "Big Brother is getting married. Father and Mother are asking us to go home!"

The other three immediately rushed up to watch and shouted, "Who’s so amazing that Big Brother actually agreed to get married?"

As Little Bear was already 22 years old, his father, Royal Uncle, and the other elders had been fretting over his marriage. Other than his mother, who despite being worried had persuaded everyone to relax and wait for Little Bear’s fate to arrive, the other elders wished they could grab a random woman from the streets and stuff her into his bridal chamber.

At 22 years old, one was not considered young anymore. Even Qi Wensu, who was a few years younger than him, was married and his wife was already pregnant.

Little Bear had become the ’leftover man’ of the Great Qi royal family, but he had no qualms about it. Previously, be it his father or Royal Uncle, no one could force him to get married. Who knew that he would actually agree to get married this time, and furthermore, it happened so quickly!

Little Lion put away the letter and said seriously, "There are still three months until Big Brother’s wedding. We have to rush back now. When we get back, we have to help Mother handle the wedding. Don’t think about running away again. No matter what, we have to wait until Big Brother gets married and after we meet Sister-in-law."

Glancing at each other, Little Leopard and Little Fu were no longer sad that they could not go west. They quickly went to pack their luggage. They were also very interested to meet the woman who could subdue their big brother.

At this moment, everyone had forgotten about Jose, who had written a letter to ask for help, as well as the imprisoned Joao. Clearly, they weren’t as close with the Great Qi royal members as thousands of people in the future would go on to imagine.