33. Middle Empire
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China
had this name before the last few decades when European influence ended
up dividing this land unified for eons. Since the foundation of Macao
by the Portuguese in 1555 and that of Victory by the British-Russians
in 1838, these two European powers maintained good trade relations with
China. By respecting the wills of the Chinese Emperors. |
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But in the year 1839, when the Emperor Qing Xuanzong, decided to change his Opium policy, the British-Russian who have lots of interest in the Opium market changed their stratagy. In 1842 ended the Opium war, in which the ties of the British-Russian and Brazilian Empire (throne of the exiled Portuguese crown) got very strong. This war caused the complete destruction of the Chinese fleet, and the confidence in the Manchou Imperial Dynasty crumbled to the ground. Moreover Bruce the First decided to offer as a wedding gift to Petra the First the protection of christian missionaries in China. |
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In 1851 Qin Wenzong tookup the crown, at the time the majority of Chinese Princes considered him incompetent. Either because of his attachment to obsolete Chinese traditions, or because of his submission to European ecoomic interests. Corruption at the time became wide spread in the Middle Empire. In these difficult times Hong Xiuquan proclaimed the need to over throw the corrupted system and the forecome of a new Empire, the Tai Ping. This empire of the "Great Peace" was filled with christian mysticism, and quickly became a BRE puppet. |
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Hong Xiuquan took control of Canton in 1853 and over threwrenversa the Prince of Guangdong. He organized many peasent revolts in the less industrialized southern and western parts of China, as a result in 1862 Emperor Qin Wenzong was forced to abdicate. |
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gathering of the Princes of the Middle Emmire Provinces took place,
many intrigues and political tricks enabled Hong Xiuquan to becaume
Emperor, many Princes hoped that power would destroy him, others that
he would spread christianity to the Northern part of the country. |
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Because of the Chinese Emperor's inertia the BRE let him get assassinated by a extremist anti-christian taoist in 1876. This event brought chaos to the fragile ME : the Princes couldn't find a new Emperor to govern them and each decided to take care of his part of China. The final blow was given when in 1881 the maritime provinces from Chanch to Shangai willingly broke away from the ME to enter the LE (without military invasion as in Korea or the Philippines). |
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Today the other provinces are more or less independant, although the provinces in the North, close to the LE are in its sphere of influence, and exspell even chinese christians. The
rest from the desert of Takla-Makan in the west to the Fujian Coast
fallow the rules of the ME before the fall of Hong Xiuquan. This land
of the Great Peace is under the growing influence of the BRE, thanks
to the newly Christianized nobility, clergy of chinese christianity. |
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| At the same time as christianity the missionaries introduced the Imperial-Christian alphabet in the Western and South Principalities. Therefore the non Mandarin speaking chinese have forgotten the only means of communication with the Northern part of the former ME, the ideograms. A
bit later the LE introduced it's newly created Panasian Alphabet, based
on the Republican Alphabet for the structure and the Katakana and ideograms
for the symbols. To the old linguistic barriers, new one appear : script and religion. Panasian Alphabet and Levantin-Synchretism in the North (Shintoism, Confucianism, Taoism, Bouddhism), Imperial-Christian Alphabet and Imperial-Christianity in the South and West. |
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