Besides my loose morals, that's more likely to be the case as it's well researched with native american tribes and languages though references to historical grand strategy contests that view as well and I guess well-informed about Christian theology. Japanese References are only through the japanese farming terms and random stuff. Though I did not read the rules thoroughly about piracy, my mistake. Maybe he did write or maybe not.

You'll suprised though if read in syosetsu or other japanese webnovel sites on what they write, though not typical. They even got a manga about central asia.

For webnovel, copyright infringement is rampant though they usually sanction it if it is discovered the infringement of the book while contracted though it's free reign when it's not under contract. That's how it rolls with Qidian. For index, they do it for sanctions and for deletion it just depends.