Asean in Love

Life in the Bali kingdom was peaceful like in a dream, safe for everybody and the queen of Bali felt good. Now that her father was with his ship in Bali, the queen remembered her youth with much nostalgia.Her father, Subadar Cin, was powerful and all her friends envied her beautiful silk dresses made by seamstresses according to the latest trends in the Song Dynasty.Yes, but in Bali she could no longer wear Song Dynasty clothes, they were just taking up space in her wardrobe, so she came up with the idea of ​​donating her clothes to a drama theater so that they could play her characters."This cloth belongs to Subadar daughter ", the queen said when giving her own cloth from Song dynasty to theater actors.The father really laughed while watching the theatrical performance in which there was acting, dancing and singing, but sometimes he would also cry when he realized how the fate of his daughter's misery was complicated by an intrigue at the royal court, and the creator of that entanglement was the brother of the king's first wife, Begawan Sivagana, a court adviser of King Pangus. If the roles could be changed like in a puppet show, life would be different and more beautiful, this is how his daughter had to hide behind a mask both day and night, just like in masked performances on the island of Bali.He remembered that some tribes around the nearby islands and archipelagos don't wear masks but paint their faces with pictures and signs."So, it would be better for my daughter to paint her face with a short-term tattoo than to wear a heavy wooden mask on her head all day."Here on Bali Subadar still had his ship, and he was not allowed to return to the Song Dynasty because Kublai Khan stole all the property of those who were close to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. His large capital remained in the bank account in the Song dynasty, but as he was a businessman engaged in overseas trade, he had deposits and capital in many metropolises and major ports throughout Asia and Europe, thanks to which he became a great patron and sponsored the construction of villages for refugees from the Song Dynasty in Bali around a castle previously built by King Pangus of Bali.From time to time he sailed his huge ship to other ports of the world carrying goods from Bali, thus he helped that during his life the island of Bali flourished economically and the inhabitants lived well, it will be the Sanfotsi system in Southeast Asia, with floating houses around the main cities that some travel writers later called it the kingdom of Zabag, which in translation meant the kingdom of the Gods, as the island of Bali was called before.In the surrounding kingdoms around the Indian Ocean, the kingdom of Bali became known as a great economic power and many wanted to have good economic, trade and cultural cooperation, so they invited the Queen of Bali to festive banquets and royal weddings, hoping that some of their princesses would also marry Mayadenawa, future good fortune king of Bali.Over the years, the prince grew into a real giant, strong like Hercules, and according to the chronicle of the kings of Bali, he will found an even bigger empire than the kingdom of Bali.Some people were afraid of his enormous power, like the court adviser Siwagana, who knew that false gossip and planting falsehoods was as powerful as a weapon, and Prince Mayadenawa, just like his mother, knew how to often hide behind different masks to confuse his enemies and their informants.Mayadenawa was energetic, full of spirit and great respect to others, and with a big and beautiful hearty smile he gained many friends and influence in the Polynesian peoples despite enemies from outside.Mayadenawa liked to dance and play drums with his friends from Tonga Islands and Hawaii, so there were cherefull festivals and events in Bali welcoming all people regardless of origin and religion."Mayadenawa will be a good king and ruler of Bali", everyone was talking around, and the queen was happy about that."If king Panagus can hear this in the spirit world, he will be also proud that our son became a good person able to take care of the Bali kingdom well", the queen regent was thinking of letting her son rul the Bali kingdom.Like any mother, she would sometimes turn a blind eye to his naive games, like his nocturnal searches for mermaids in the sea.The queen as the daughter of a sailor and the owner of a large merchant ship is not so naive to the stories of the mermaid girls.Every mythology and legend has its spiritual side of the story, and lonely sailors on long transoceanic voyages invented romantic and tragic stories about the beauties of mermaids from the sea, so on the island of Bali, mermaids were indispensable stories on bachelor parties of excited youth.