The Jin Shang each perked up their ears to listen to Zhu Wencong's words. Their understanding of foreigners was minimal, always based on hearsay.
Their impression of foreign merchants mostly referenced Russian traders, with whom the Jin Shang interacted frequently, thereby validating the view that foreign merchants are all robbers.
Zhu Wencong had to enlighten them: "Take a simple example, are those who leave their homeland wealthy or poor?
The East and the West are the same in this regard. Those White people who come from afar can't survive in their own country and must seek a new life elsewhere.
Let me tell you this: those wealthiest White people you encounter in the East are actually poor in their own countries.
Truly wealthy and powerful Whites wouldn't come to foreign lands, so now you understand the status of Whites in the East?"
Everyone showed expressions of enlightenment, realizing that this was indeed the case; those Whites were merely pretending to be wolves.
