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Chapter 20 - Chapter 20: Circle of Life or Every Age has Worries (Samsara)

Living in peace in her Balingkang Palace, the Queen Regent made a lot of efforts to promote interculturalism in the community of Balinese people. Many other peoples lived in Bali, not only native Balinese, their fate brought them to Bali for many reasons, mostly there were love stories about couples of different castes, nationalities or from conflicting kingdoms who came to live in peace and love and of course tolerance offered by the famous island of Bali at that time by multicultural harmony.Tolerance was not only in words, but in deeds, which showed that all new peoples were equal members of the community living in the kingdom of Bali, which was open to new cultures and arts. Festivals were often held in the name of diversity that can enrich and supplement the community with new knowledge in medicine, technology and international traditional culinary customs.In order to promote friendship the queen established a tournament of friendship and unity and all those who want to compete in sports and dance are invited to participate for free, and the winners of each discipline will receive trophies and valuable prizes in the monetary currency that was then introduced as the currency of the former Song dynasty because they had copper, silver and gold mines here for making coins that were still valid in international trade, coins were more valuable than paper money for many reasons, coins were also made into alloys in Balinese tooth repair technology., so it was an eternal life cycle of precious metals as samsara. Coins could not disappear in the flames like banknotes because their melting point was much higher than paper.The queen also invited the leaders of other nations and kingdoms in the area and even further afield because overseas ships were also arriving from Europe, so the queen invited and sent official decrees several months in advance.Everyone in the surrounding kingdoms felt that the queen had good intentions and wanted to promote peaceful relations among nations, usually tournaments would announce new engagements or weddings in royal families, so many were curious if Prince Mayadenawa had found the one of his heart.The prince's maternal grandfather was smiling because he knew that the queen was bothered by Mayadenawa's evening outings with the noble class company in search of mermaids in the sea, namely they had night swimming parties in the sea until early morning."Father, at least you know how I barely survived during my pregnancy with MajadenawaI even wrote a novella of my memories of traveling to the future, but due to the fall of the Song Dynasty, my book was never published, and the manuscripts remained with the book publishers in the Song Dynasty.""Don't worry daughter, he is just having fun with his company like all young singles.""Ah yes, that's because you don't know what troubles can befall young princes, what if he disappears or is captured by some wild tribes?""What are you talking about? Mayadenawa is a giant, not an ordinary man, he is stronger than ten other young men!""Father, the more powerful and wealthy people are, the more enemies they have, who knows who is lurking behind the rainforest while he is having fun with his friends swimming in the night, and maybe running into sea sharks!""There are none here, you know that very well!""But there are them around Zealandia and the sea can bring them to our islands!""Invite the queen of Zelandia to a tournament, those islands were inhabited by our ancestors fishermans in ancient times and they discovered new lands by traveling through oceans for fish.The Queen of Zelandia has a daughter to marry, so our prince has a chance to get married and calm down, he has been a bachelor for too long.""It's not just boyhood, it's adventure, he jumps from vines like Tarzan straight into the waves of the sea.""Who is Tarzan, some prince?"Now the queen laughed. How to explain to him that it is a character from the movie."Yes, the prince of the jungle in the 20th century.""You are talking about the future again, then there will be no jungle in Bali.""There will still be jungles, even the son of the richest man in the world will disappear in his boat in the jungles around the island of Bali.""Ships do not sail through the jungle.""Well, they are not ships for sea navigation, but aircraft that travel through the air and sky, so they are also called spaceships.""Okay, I understand daughter, since you know a lot more and worry about your son, relax, he is good-natured, and as such he is able to make friends easily with everyone, even the tribes from the jungle and tropical rainforest."