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During this period, political events taking place further south would prove of great consecuence for Kon Ninh. The [[Daxia|Zhong dynasty]] under the [[Shuimian Emperor]] forced [[Metzetta]] into an unequal arrangement whereupon the latter relinquished control over the waters off its western coast for Zhong shipping. This reopening of unhindered access to the [[Sea of Capelan]] soon had repercussions for Matsumori rule of Kon Ninh. Shuimian sent the Baron Zhaoze Chigua and his Fleet of Northern Munificence to Oyashima ostensibly on a voyage to reestablish diplomatic relations with the northern polities. Secretly however the Baron had orders to assess the strengths of his interlocutors and intimidate them into vassalage if feasible. Arriving first at the Kon Ninh islands, Baron Zhaoze received a frosty reception by the Matsumori's, proud and prickly despite their humbling by the Toshimochi dynasty. The incensed [[Daxia]]ns planned to stay in port but a few days more while making note of the sparsity of the garrison and the lack of any ships of military value at harbor; at this point they were secretly approached by a cabal of Den Cai princes who promised to accept vassalage if the Emperor expelled the Matsumori. Baron Zhaoze readily agreed to the scheme and on the day of his supposed departure, he invited the Shogun aboard his flagship under the pretense of presenting him with a gift from the Emperor; the Shogun and his advisors were seized as soon as they set foot aboard. The [[Daxia]]n fleet then disgorged its soldiers onto the port and while the Matsumori garrison fought fiercely to rescue the Shogun and hold the city, they were overwhelmed after hours of fighting. The last Matsumori Shogun to rule over Kon Nihn, Umon Matsumori, was ritually executed by his captors and his severed head was thrown into the sea as a final indignity. The Den Cai princes chose the eldest among them, Duy Cai, to be crowned as king of a renewed kingdom. In an act of typical [[Daxia]]n imperial arrogance, Baron Zhaoze insisted that as the Emperor's representative he must crown the king himself in lieu of the typical Den Cai ritual of being crowned by an eminent religious figure. While the crowning ceremony went as Zhaoze demanded, it created seeds of distrust between the two sides; the crowning of Duy Cai by the Baron is known as ''The Humiliation of Duy Cai'' in historical sources of the period. After installing Duy Cai, the Baron left a garrison and sailed back to [[Daxia]] where he was elevated amid much pomp at court to the new position of ''Judicious Overlord of Den Cai and its dependencies'' and was instructed to sail back north and begin acquiring the 'dependencies' part of his title.

====Matsumori dynasty====

Distant enough from their Shangese colonial neighbors to the south and deeply inbreed with the Mongolic natives, the Matsumori court established a unique cultural and ethnic identity. It was in this period that the {{wpl|Japanese language|Mututori language}} became distinct from the {{wpl|Chinese language|Daxian language}}. Their rule of the Kita-Hanto, (Eng: Northern Peninsula) was absolute. They established sedentary farming communities further and further east. By the 1160s they controlled the whole of the Kita-Hanto and had abolished the nomadic lifestyle.