725-773 (28 BC-20 AD) (L'Uniona Homanus)

The Second Srivijaya Expansion, Mahrajah Balaputra.
The Srivijaya Empire opened a new campaign of expansion after gaining a safe and uncontested border with the Sinican Kingdoms. The Srivijaya developed a great fleet, called the Golden Fleet, to move to take the remainder of the islands of Indonesia as well as the great island of Australia which held great ports, though no hinterland. The Maharajah Balaputra who ascended to the throne in 725 (28 BC) prepared his naval forces. At the same time an alliance was formed with Japan to assure that these gains would be recognized by the other naval power in the Pacific.

The Battle of Melanesia led the Srivijaya to take the remainder of the islands of INdonesia as well as prepare a launch base for a surrounding of the Island of Australia. The move into the Gulf of Carpentaria set up a base for an invasion into any of the other islands that could threaten the Srivijaya. The rest of the island would not be bothered with and many aboriginies of Australia ignored the Srivijaya.

Next in the goals of the Srivijaya was to solidify an alliance with the other countries in Asia and the islands. The Treaty of the Islands set in stone the agreement of Japan and Srivijaya to protect each other if either were to come under attck. The Second Treaty of Hainan allowed the Srivijaya and the Nanese to protect eachotehr in a similar manner. While this happened the Mongols and the Bei people convened a peace against the Empire of Japan which was still hated by both of them. The United Kingdom and the Song-Tang Commonwealth removed themselves from any deliberation of peace treaties between their other neighbors.

The Textile and Printing Industries
From Song-Tang came an invention meant to make clothing and silk weaving a more developed part of hte Song-Tang economy and to concentrate the economy of the two kingdoms into one commonwealth. This technology, after being stolen by the United Kingdom, became a central part of the trading eceonomy between these kingdoms. Each began to take the textile invention and develop their own style of fashion as well as reduce the unemployment among their people. The only kingdom kept out of this was the Empire of Japan which sold the metal and wood that made them but never bothered asking what they went towards.

The Printing press which had long been in use for the printing of newspapers from the elites of Sinica became a staple of pamphleteers in the Kingdoms which also made information about the political affairs of the countries expand. The elections of Dukes in the Song-Tang Commonwealth focused more on their ralations with other countries, neither of these kingdoms had a tradition of neutrality and it was in many ways seen as a sign of weakness. The Dukes of old were thrown out in exchange for separate parties which allied themselves with the two camps that were split between the Mongols and the Kingdom fo Bei, as the Bei Kingdom had been saved by Song in the Sino-Japanese War and the other camp that allied itself with the Srivijaya because they favored the new Empire and saw them as a wealthy ally. These political divisions made elections of King by the Dukes more contentious than they had ever been. The interregnum period which had never before lasted more than a month and a half took almost two years before a double alliance was reached and the next King, King Hong 宏, became the King of the Song-Tang Commonwealth in 742 (11 BC). This however satisfied no one.

The Song-Tang Civil War
The Song-Tang Commonwealth was consumed by the differences between the now very political members of their society. The King was taken prisoner by the Tang independence movement and taken deep into the heart of Tang, where they had no real opposition. They were followed by the Song, who still wanted to have a commonwealth, with the intention of restoring the King.