The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family novel Chapter 6210

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Harrison then pointed at Devin with his shaking hand and cursed, "Bastard! You are all completely useless!"

Anxious, Devin started, "Dad, I just received the news. It's official news from Oskia. The news was translated and published on American online media, which is how we became aware of it. However, there is no description or explanation in the news about how it returned to Oskia. I'm not clear on how it actually got back, but the fact is, it has indeed returned to Oskia—"

"Shut up!" Harrison interjected him with a roar. "Go and protest at the Oskian embassy! Tell them that the tower is our family's private asset and demand that they return it immediately!"

He added while heaving angrily, "Don't wait for their answer. Call Julien back instantly, have him lead a team along with the best lawyers in the country to Oskia, and negotiate with the Oskians. If that doesn't work, sue them! I don't care what you do, but I want the Four-Sided Treasure Tower back!"

"But, Dad..." Devin lamented, looking a little embarrassed, "Oskia has published the history of the Four-Sided Treasure Tower and mentioned the history of the First and Second Opium Wars and the Eight-Nation Alliance. Now, the whole world knows that the Westerns looted the tower along with millions of Oskia cultural relics. If we try to negotiate with Oskia and ask them to return the tower, it wouldn't just be legally untenable. The public will not be happy with it—"

"The public?!" Harrison interrupted him again with a snarky tone. "I don't give a fuck about what the public thinks at this point! Two hundred years ago, with the slogan 'for the good of Britain', Queen Victoria ordered the British Army to invade Oskia and sell opium. We were merely picking up scraps behind the convoy. She wasn't held accountable, and now you want to talk to me about what the public thinks?! If someone stole from the British Museum and returned the artifacts to the country of origin, I bet Britain would shamelessly ask them to return them!"

He was heaving indignantly as he continued, "The diamond on the British king's scepter was cut from the Great Star of Africa, which was mined in South Africa! Edward VII had it taken, cut into hundreds of different sizes, and set into his own jewelry! How dare he have such audacity? Why couldn't he return the diamond to the South African people? They stole an entire museum and a full royal palace without consequence. Damn it! Our ancestors worked tirelessly to bring back the Four-Sided Treasure Tower from Oskia, and we've kept it for two hundred years. Why should we return it? Did I consent to that?!"

Devin pursed his lips and tried to reason, "Dad, at that time, South Africa was a British colony. According to the international law of that era, the possessions of a colony belonged to the mother country. Even the people of the colony were considered subjects of the mother country. Not just the Great Star of Africa, even if Edward VII took all the diamonds in South Africa, so no one could say that he broke the law. At most, they would condemn him for his dishonorable past."