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The impact of the establishment of the southern route was enormous in both economic and cultural terms for the [[Daxian]]s. The first contact with 'westerners' (Burgoignesc around [[Alshar]] were believed to be a subject people of the [[Audonia]]n muslim sultanates) and the confirmation that were were further lands beyong the Polynesian sea was a great shock to the Qian court. The flow of trade goods greatly enrichened the Qian state, with the treasury benefiting from extra taxes and tariffs, including a tax on all precious metals, fees for providing naval protection to merchant ships, docking, warehouse use and clerical services. In addition there were cultural and technological exchanges, with several [[Sarpedon]]ian scholars taking up employment with the [[Daxia]]n court. The first Christian preachers arrived by boat in 1623, with one of them eventually founding what would become the [[Democratic Christian Church of Daxia and the East|Church of the East]]. These new developments were not universally met with welcome arms, a great many instances of violently xenophobic events are noted in Daxian historical records such as the [[Pogrom of the Pelaxians]] in 1758 and Loa peddlers being thrown into the sea (on false charges of selling human meat)

In time further contacts would expand beyond simple trade with merchants from the [[Carto-Pelaxian Commonwealth]] and the court received embassies from nations such as the Imperium of [[Caphiria]], the bug kingdoms of [[Takatta Loa]] and the great seafaring power of [[Kiravia]]. Trade contacts would be increasingly delegated to experts from the [[South Seas Development Company|South Seas Trading Company]] which would come to enjoy a monopoly on the transport of goods of the route. On behalf of [[Daxia]] the company would engage in attempts at entrenchment and expansion in the [[Polynesian Sea]] region, such as at least one failed attempt by a group of privately armed filibusters to take over the [[Lotoa|Tolu Manatu]] queendom during the [[Tolu Manatu Incident]|Tolu Manatu incident]] and the building of an outpost further east in [[Truk island]] with an eye to expanding further into the Tainean Sea.