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On September 30, the 23rd year, the Ayutthaya army attacked from the south, Johor, Pahang and other places were breached, and the Ayutthaya army even implemented a scorched earth policy in the two places, in addition to burning down the granaries in various places, destroying important local buildings, such as the city government, ports and bazaars, resulting in a major setback for the Malacca Trade Center, the import and export of goods in the two places was directly reduced by 75%, and the trade share of the Malacca Trade Center was also greatly reduced, which was the most serious, in addition to trade, taxes, agricultural production, Order and industrial production have been greatly affected, and the city of Malacca is currently under siege by the Ayutthayan army.

In order to seize the share of Malacca's trade, countries are preparing to form new trade centers, and they all want to form the next Malacca, after all, the prosperity of Malacca is coveted by all countries, and now there is an opportunity to form a new trade center, so why not give it a go? In case it is formed, the country will not want to be short of money.

On the one hand, he sent the national navy to pick up the merchants stranded in the Malacca area, but he was not interested in the trade center, and the formation of a trade center had little impact on their income, and the competitiveness of the Cham merchants was much stronger than that of other countries, after all, which country would introduce policies to promote trade, many countries were the lowest status of merchants, which greatly affected the enthusiasm of merchants, no matter how much money there was, what was the use of not getting status.

The Ayuthiya army did not embarrass the merchants of other Allied countries or countries that had joined the war, nor did they embarrass the local people, but they only destroyed important local buildings, making it impossible for the Malacca region to help the front line for a short time. But when the Ayyuthians attacked the port of Malacca, they destroyed the ships of the merchants of various countries, and they are now stranded in Malacca, unable to enter the city and unable to return.

Knowing the news of the outbreak of war in Malacca, the merchants returned home one after another, anchored in the Natuna Islands to trade, the Natuna Islands were originally mainly responsible for the trade transit of Borneo, Japan, Central Plains and other northern regions and Malacca, coupled with the superior policy of the Natuna Islands, most of the merchants bought a property on the island, and all the merchants who were originally on the way withdrew to Natuna, and the merchants who had not yet set off from Natuna and were still going to Natuna all anchored in Natuna.

Although there was no specific order to establish a trading center in Natuna, local officials had already taken action to turn Natuna from a transit point into a trading node, and determined to make Natuna the first trading center of the Cham Po.

Natuna officials first emptied all the treasury and used it to build a large bazaar, and at the same time opened up investment channels for merchants from all over the world, and there was naturally no shortage of patriotic businessmen in the Champa country, and the most proud thing was that their country could maneuver between many countries, and had a strong enough strength to make the country afraid, and then the Cham had a national trade system that other countries did not have, so that they felt that the status of merchants was no longer as humble as before.

The only thing that made them feel dissatisfied was that the country that seemed so perfect to them did not have a trade center, and the key was that the central government had never planned to set up a trade center, which was not very recognized by the merchants. If you don't build it, then we will build it at our own expense, so at the end of the twenty-second year, the merchants built the bazaar, and their plan was to build the largest trading place in the South Seas, and they were going to build a trading place that was bigger than Malacca in three years.

It wasn't until June 23 that Priango opened an international auction, and the plan for the Natuna Bazaar was stopped by them, they thought that maybe the government was going to build a trade center in Priango's Zhuxi City, but they were hasty, this auction was not only to make money, but also to attract foreign investment to build Priango, they only recently discovered these things, but now the establishment of Porenogo City, they have obtained a lot of benefits, and they are included in the list of advanced people in Priango Province, Imports and exports in the province of Priango are exempt from customs duties, and they can have "privileges" in Priangori in the future.

Now that the plan to invest in the Puliango Trade Center has been put on hold, and now it is the siege of Malacca, coupled with the support of the Natuna government, which has rekindled their hope and allowed them to resume the construction plan of the trade center, which was acquired by the government, led by the government, with the government contributing 30%, the businessmen contributing 70%, the management to the government, 95% of the customs duties being owned by the government, and the merchants receiving 5%.

Businessmen are not greedy, money is a number to them, 5% tariffs seem to be very little, but the trickle flows up for a long time, there is a stable income every day, and after a long time, the income is very considerable, this investment is much more secure than the profession of a businessman, after all, it is normal for businessmen to go bankrupt, let alone lose money.

After the part that had been built was acquired by the government, it immediately began to be put into operation, and the merchants from all over the country felt that they could not go to Malacca anyway, and now they did not know where to go, so it was better to try their luck in Natuna, and at the same time, the news of the opening of the Natuna trade node was on the Zhan Pao, and the people in all parts of the country who radiated through the Zhan Bao heard that the merchants who were originally responsible for purchasing goods from Malacca simply went directly to Natuna to buy goods, and their domestic merchants could also be exempted from customs duties, and they could save a wave of money.

After Natuna opened the trading center, he personally named the trading center "Lakshmi", the goddess of wealth in Brahmanism, hoping that this name would bring wealth to the trading center and the merchants who came to trade.

Lakshmi Trade Center was very popular as soon as it opened, at first it was because of the trade between merchants on the island, there were more barters, of course, the barter here is not an exchange between goods, but to exchange their own goods for money to buy goods from other countries, most of the merchants are naturally very satisfied, they sold goods and bought things and made a little money, followed by the news through the newspaper, attracting a large number of merchants to flow in, promoting the second prosperity, the war in Majapahit is not over, They can't go to Malacca to trade with confidence.

Sunda established a trading center in Banten, and a trading center in Palembang next to Balin, etc., and the formation of these trading centers attracted nearby merchants to trade.