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Trade and Chaos

In the late 13th century, the population of Irraya started to increase and due to that the town of Irraya started to expand and flourish that it absorb it's nearby towns, Irraya started to look more as a progressive town.

The population increase also happened in Meykawayan and Irraya although it is less than that of Irraya.
Due to the population of Irraya and it being a trading hub in Selurong it became a big city in the Island of Selurong and very prosperous compared to other towns, and second to it is Meykawayan and third is Lingayen in Kaboloan.

After a long storm,the Bannag river and Pampanga river both overflowed and left the flood plains of Bannag and Pampanga river fertile where in the Cities of Irraya, Meykawayan and Apalit are found which made the farms and the harvest more fruitful in the river.

The people of Selurong experienced prosperity due to international trade, there are two important polities in Selurong competing for the supremacy in the Island Selurong and these are Kaboloan, Kumintang and Tondo but currently Tondo had the economic supremacy as for the moment, in Early 14th century an earthquake occurs in the Tondo which also affected Balintawak causing the area of Tondo to be sparsely populated due to the people fleeing it and the royal family of Tondo moved to the area west of Lihan causing Tondo and the city of Maynilad to be a depopulated and lose their significance completely, Tondo was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake but the Tondo Royal family rebuilt their original capital Tondo but it will never be able to regain its glory as a capital and the defacto capital is moved north to Macabebe where the Tondo royalty are currently residing, in the mean while the Confederacy of Madya-as and the Rajahnate of Cebu are booming due to them being near the Sulu trading port, the Sulu polity is an ally of the Tondo polity.

In the early 14th century Due to the increase in Population in the plains of Selurong which are the Pampanga river area, the Bannag river area and the Kaboloan region which is the Agno river area, the dialects in the Bannag river area began to be more uniform and the Pampanga river area began to look uniform as well and the process of converging of the dialects in the Bannag river area and the Pampanga river area dialects began in the early 14th century begin to look more similar to each other and they begin to converge to be more similar linguistically.


The people from Goryeo and Nippon traded with the people of Selurong which cultural bring influences to Selurong.
In the meantime in Champa In 1307 AD, the Cham King Jaya Simhavarman III (Che Man), the founder of the still extant temple of Po Klaung Garai in Panduranga, considered to cede two northern districts to the Đại Việt in exchange for the hand in marriage of a Viet princess but his advisers adviced him against the cession of the two districts because it will greatly weaken Champa, instead he marries a Mongolian noblewoman named Odval, who was pregnant while her husband, Simhavarman was sickly, she gave birth to a son and she died at the birth of her own son, the son was named Simhavarman after his own father in 1308, Simhavarman III died a few months after the death of his wife, Odval, the new King of Champa, Che Chi was declared to be the King of Champa, Che Chi took the custody of his younger brother.
Champa and Vietnam had peace during the reign of Che Chi, Che Chi sent emissaries to Vietnam when he succeeded as the King in order to improve Champa’s relationship with Vietnam and also the relationship between Cambodia and Vietnam also became better due to Che Chi marrying a Cambodian woman in the end Champa became peaceful with its neighbors.

On 1333 in Nippon, Emperor Go-Daigo ordered local governing vassals to oppose Hōjō rule, in favor of Imperial restoration, in the Kenmu Restoration.
To counter this revolt, the Kamakura bakufu ordered Ashikaga Takauji to squash the uprising. For reasons that are unclear, possibly because Ashikaga was the de facto leader of the powerless Minamoto clan, while the Hōjō clan were from the Taira clan the Minamoto had previously defeated, Ashikaga turned against the Kamakura bakufu, and fought on behalf of the Imperial court.

After the successful overthrow of the Kamakura bakufu in 1336, Ashikaga Takauji set up his own bakufu in Kyoto, the Ashikaga Bakufu and Emperor Go-Daigo were agreeing on how to govern Nippon but they had some minor differences.

In the meanwhile in the mid-14th century, the other strong polities in Selurong namely, Kumintang and Kaboloan recognize the ruler of Tondo as their liege which cemented the rule of the Tondo Dynasty in all of Selurong, the Rulers of Tondo were dominating Selurong economically and they are even praised, the Tondo Dynasty are related to the Sri Vijaya Dynasty and came from Sumatra before they lived in Tondo.

In the Mid-14th Century the Vietnamese attack Champa causing some people to flee for nearby areas which are Guangdong, Selurong, Borneo and north Sumatra.
In the Mid-14th Century the trade relations between Selurong and Champa became better that there are some Cham migrants to Selurong after Champa was attacked by the Vietnamese in the Mid-14th Century due to land disputes.

In the meanwhile in Goryeo, King Gongmin began to push Yuan garrisons back around 1350. By the 1350s Goryeo regained its lost northern territories from the Yuan Dynasty and this contributed to the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in Eastern Asia, King Gongmin celebrated at the return of the lost lands of Goryeo.
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