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ERA · TRADING PORTFaifo, the Port Centuryc. 1523 – 1778Once a year the monsoon carried Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese ships into a river mouth in Quảng Nam, and they stayed four months. The Nguyễn lords taxed each ship by where it had come from. A European ship paid the most, eight thousand quan to enter.ERA · ĐÀNG TRONGThe Nguyễn Lords1558 – 1777Nine lords held the southern realm for more than two hundred years with a government that lived off the sea: a duty on every trading ship that put in, and each year seventy men in small fishing boats sent three days and three nights out to the islands to bring back what the water had given up. When the port could no longer keep it, the whole machinery fell in three years.