It's normal for people inland to not understand the specific workings of the Four Seas Commerce Guild.
After all, in these days, the country still doesn't have the capability to implement compulsory education universally.
Even if compulsory education becomes universal later, there will still be all sorts of ignoramuses trolling the internet.
Taking anecdotal stories from marketing accounts as gospel history.
The main members of the Four Seas Commerce Guild are Overseas Chinese, but even Overseas Chinese are not a monolithic group, as there are distinct factions within.
Within the Four Seas Commerce Guild alone, the Chinese communities are divided into three factions.
One of them consists of the remnants of the Heavenly King Divine Sect, who fled overseas after their uprising failed.
The second comprises Chinese laborers from Fujian and Guangdong who were half-forcibly, half-willingly brought overseas to help build railroads for the Foreigners.