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