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Dezhou


Chapter I


During 1417, the East King of Sulu, Paduka Pahala, sailed with his family and 300 other people of noble descent. He was to pay tribute to the Yongle Chinese emperor, Zhu Di, who was of the Ming Dynasty. While he was welcomed by the emperor upon his arrival in China, he nevertheless contracted a mysterious disease on his way home and died at Dezhou, a town in Shandong province in China the eldest son, Tumahan returned to Sulu and but his sons, Antulu and Wenhala remained in china. The emperor immediately commissioned artisans and sculptors to build a tomb for the deceased monarch, which still stands today.


In the return of the Prince to Sulu, Tumahan he would encounter Rajah Baginda of Sulu who came from Minangbangkau.


In this time, Sulu had been focused on its trade from China and weakens its connections to Majapahit but Selurong would strongly be a part of Majapahit and remains to be a hopping point of traders from Majapahit to Okinawa and Japan…
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