Chapter 1332: Side Story: Having the Whole World in View (9)
Little Lion said, "Zhu Yi wrote that not only has he been promoted to a noble, but he has also been hailed as a war hero in their country. They said that he has been a pirate for more than 20 years, and during that period, most of his earnings have been transported back to his country to pay for the country’s expenses. Therefore, the Emperor and nobles of their country value him very much."
"To think a country’s expenses relied on such ill-gotten gains. How can such a country possibly be benevolent and moral?" A cold glint flashed across Qi Haoran’s eyes as he asked, "Didn’t you ask Zhu Yi to open a shop to collect information from them? Are there any gains?"
"Considering the shop has just opened, and they’re from Great Qi, it can’t possibly be so fast." Little Lion put away the letter and said, "However, Joao did provide some information. Pedro mentioned the explorer thing again and wants to recruit more warriors to adventure in the east."
"Just like how he came here to be a pirate in the past?" Qi Haoran sneered and twirled the ring on his finger. He said coldly, "The navy of Great Qi is not to be trifled with. If they dare to come, we will dare to slay them!"
Qi Haoran spoke domineeringly, but he was slapped in the face in less than two months.
The Zhou family’s letter for help was handed to Qi Haoran.
It turned out that there were a few groups of Westerners who specialized in intercepting Great Qi’s merchant ships in the Indian Ocean. In just a month, nearly half of the Great Qi merchant ships passing through the Indian Ocean route had been eliminated.
Among these ships, there were two ships from the Zhou family containing goods worth 800,000 taels of silver. If they could not get the goods back, the Zhou family would suffer heavy losses.
Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin had a share in those goods, but the Zhou family didn’t dare to let these two lose money, so he had to bear the bulk of the losses.
Family Head Zhou had no choice but to write a distress letter to Qi Haoran, hoping that he could get the people from the navy government office in Guangzhou to help get the cargo ships back.
Qi Haoran crumpled the letter in his hand and angrily ran to the Ministry of War to look for official documents in Guangzhou.
It was not until he found Zhou Zhou’s report on this matter in a pile of memorials that his expression softened.