615-660 (138-93 BC) (L'Uniona Homanus)

The Chrysanthemum Affair
There was an intense culture of violence already present on the island of Taiwan and this presented many problems for the administration and fortification of the island for the Sinican occupiers. Despite the heavy losses that had been done to the people of Taiwan many immigrants had come in response to a call for repopulating from the military, surrounding islands, and regular Sinican people to supply populace for Taiwan. Many of these became sympathizers for the Taiwanese dissidents who had recorded stories of the horror of the battle for their island. Others became loyal to the Emperor Zhangshao and against the native Taiwanese, many policies of discrimination were enacted.

The Japanese had become increasingly militaristic and expansionist in their governance after the ascension of Emperor Sujin 崇神 in 615 (138 BC). The lowest island in the Ryukyu Chain of Islands pointing to Taiwan became very wealthy and fortified by the Emperor as well as the frontier lands of the Island of Hokkaido 北海道. Further development would begin on the circuits of provinces created by Emperor Sujin in the North Land Circuit, the West Sea Circuit and the Shaded Mountain Circuit (Hokurikudo 北陸道, Saikaido 西海道, and San’indo 山陰道 respectively). The Yaeyama islands 八重山諸島 became the center of the flow of the Imperial treasury which was filling with all the money from trade with Sinica and the business being created at the same time.

In Taiwan at the same time a group of violent men came together in the communities of the island to dedicate themselves to the ideal of independence. They became very radical in their isolation and were beginning to form plans for acts to drive out the Sinicans. The organization was called the Chrysanthemum Group so that Taiwan would be as beautiful as the Chrysanthemum flower. The next task of the group would be securing money and weapons, which would come from the Japanese.

The rifle had been a recent invention in Japonica and truly incorporated in the military of Sinica. The Chrysanthemum Group claimed that the target practice of the military in occupied territories was being performed on native peoples, this was never confirmed true or false but served the groups purposes in recruiting people against Sinica. From this group would come many Japanese and when they traveled to and from the Yaeyama islands, being the closest, the generals saw an opportunity upon learning this information. The intelligence was guarded until it could reach the emperor whereupon he would make the final decision. He chose to take the road of expansion,as he had learned as a boy was a greater move, and build up more money and arms in the Yaeyama Islands and would supply the Chrysanthemum Group with the gunpowder and rifles they requested and, upon another war with Sinica, Japonica would move to take Taiwan and then the rest of Asia. The Sinicans focused more on their plans to take Asia rather than to maintain a stable lasting empire. Aristocrats and wealthy merchant owners from the Mainland did however come to the island to build large estates on the conquered areas which had their proprietors killed or enslaved as well as set up provisional governments for friends who had become favorites of the Emperor.

The first attack of the Chrysanthemum Group came to the estates of one of these aristocrats and took as hostages the people living inside. If their demands were not met they would die alleged that groups apparent leader to the Emperor who was developing Hainan at the time. He took no action and eleven people died in this event. People already sympathetic to the Chrysanthemum group did not lose their loyalty after seeing this bloodshed and many would not after seeing indeed much more. The island became increasingly split over the next few years and many other acts of terror meant to scare the people of Taiwan into supporting them and pursuing independence. The first response however would not come until long after the Chrysanthemum group appeared to pose a threat to the grand invasion plan of Emperor Zhangshao, who was beginning to age.

The son of Zhangshao was growing up well and began to desire to emulate the personality of his father. He would lead an army against what he thought was the biggest threat to the Grand Invasion Plan of Sinica, the Chrysanthemum Group in the Spring of 622 (131 BC).

The Second Battle of Taiwan 622 (131 BC)
The Island of Hainan remained firmly in the control of Sinica but the loss of Taiwan would prevent any major attack against the areas of South East Asia and expansion of Sinica. The Crown Prince of Sinica named Liu Qi and intended to succeed his father in as Emperor if Sinica. The prince took forces into the South Sinica Sea from Hainan and Hong Kong and prepared for what he believed would be either a campaign of great or short length. It turned out to be of not really either.

Liu Qi 劉啟 entered Taiwan in the spring and his father prepared to follow after him if good news was not received. Taibei had become the center of the conflict once again as the riflemen of the Chrysanthemum Group not only held out in the fortress estates of the dead aristocrats and businessmen but also in the very fortifications built by Sinica, that were incredibly strong and difficult for Liu Qi to overcome. The Sinican forces and the Chrysanthemum forces almost destroyed each other completely but the leader of the Chrysanthemum Group was killed by Liu Qi; a young recruit who had been nearby then proceeded to kill Liu Qi and the battle was left undecided. The Chrysanthemum Group fell apart and th records of the Japanese treachery were quickly sent back to the Emperor in Hainan.

The Succession of Emperor Zhangshao
The Emperor Zhangshao had promised, in exchange for the city of Hong Kong, that the infant son of the former governor be second in line for the throne. Zhangshao was ill but was appearing to recover from his illness upon hearing of the victory over Taiwan in spite of hearing of the death, however noble, of his son Liu Qi.

The son of the former Governor of Hong Kong now proceeded to be in line for the throne. The news of Japonica’s betrayal was not yet received as the information was not yet pieced together. The once thought peaceful neighbor to the east took in the Governor’s son, renamed Liu Che 劉徹, in order to take him off of the hands of the ministers of Sinica. Liu Che had returned before the news came and after his adopted father had died in Hainan in 623 (130 BC). Liu Che became Emperor Wu 武 and received the news of Japonica promptly.

Rather than retaliate, as was expected, Emperor Wu took up the idea of developing the state. The ministers suspected that their Emperor had been poisoned mentally by the Japanese but the people of Sinica did not know anything of his history even in Japonica, that was a secret of the high stratum of Government. Emperor Wu did not allow this story to come to the attention of the press and exiled many of the ministers and members of government how had known about his time in Japonica. The child did develop more roads and canals in Sinica as well as incorporate the Taiwanese more equally into the Empire. The ministers he replaced them with were not unpopular and they were not as corrupt as the old ministers. The castaway ministers decided to develop a method of publicizing this knowledge and arrived upon the movable printed type which would so revolutionize the Sinican country.

The knowledge split the country into the camp that was tired of Zhangshao’s wars, government corruption, and no attention to the people and their development and people who loved Zhangshao, thought Emperor Wu did not deserve to be Emperor and who thought the ignorance that proceeded from the Emperor was irresponsible and a betrayal to the country. The first Sinican Civil War would result from these two sides as well as from what little remained loyal to the old warring states from before the Qin Dynasty.

The First Sinican Civil War (The Han Civil War) 628-635 (125-118 BC)
The Grand Imperial General under Zhangshao was named Cao Wei 曹为 and the Imperial Army united against not only following orders of the Emperor but against Cao Wei who, despite being a brilliant and tactical leader, was corrupt and abusive. He led a separate army to the largest city of the north, Beijing 北京. he built up support from the outskirts of the Empire and from the Korean peninsula. The Emperor in Yuzhou 禹州 also managed to group his military into a comparable force. The difference in the size of the armies became negligible. In 628 (125 BC) the first attack came in the city of Tianjin 天津 and it would prove a decisive opening of hostilities.

The City of Tianjin was gained by the Emperor Wu after almost a year of stalemate and the army of Cao Wei proceeded to, while the outcome of Tianjin was becoming more clear, attack the cities of Lanzhao 兰州 and Xining 西宁. Strategic cities though they were the mission became very costly to defend for the weakened army of Emperor Wu. The army of Cao Wei however gained many new recruits as he moved from one city to the next. Cao Wei began to move into the outskirts of Yuzhou when other troops from the southern parts of SInica arrived around the other side of Cao Wei’s advance as well as to the cities of Beijing and Tianjin through the sea. The sides became fractured as Cao Wei’s generals could not decide whether to advance into Yuzhou or to return and defend the cities that they had already captured or the capital in Beijing. This would become the Shame of Fanyang 范陽, Cao Wei’s second in command and leading this charge to the Han Capital. Fanyang was executed shortly thereafter and replaced by Bohai 渤海 who was charged with not failing Cao Wei in a march to the city.

Bohai had grown up among the elite military men from the Han Dynasty and was ruthless not only in military affairs but also in his personal life. He treated his troops with the hardest discipline and moved quickly through the larger, though more poorly trained, Han forces. Yuzhou became the center of the conflict while Cao Wei held off the forces in Beijing and Tianjin. Yuzhou fell quickly and Emperor Wu died in 631 (128 BC) to the dismay of many of his troops. Bohai, rather than turn over the Imperial power to Cao Wei in Beijing and and continued to move against his former commander.

The Civil war became increasingly complex as many soldiers could not decide to whom their loyalty ought to lie. As this happened armies that had been laying dormant in the country in response to the methods of the Taiwanese. Terrorism became a policy of these armies loyal to their own leaders interests as well as others loyal to the old warring states that still had some descendants. The Armies of Chu, Wei, Yan, and what remained of people who claimed connection to the Han Dynasty, called the Han Army, moved against the usurper Bohai who killed their Emperor. The Country of Nanguo expanded northward with the money of Hong Kong and Hainan as firmly theirs. Others remained loyal to Cao Wei in Beijing and others left all these ties to found new areas in the areas developed by Qianshao in the later days of his life.

In Japonica the Emperor Sujin died happily with the plan of his coming closer to fruition. His grandson, his son had died of illness earlier, became the Emperor Kaifu 海部 ascended and planned to take the Chinese lands while they fought amongst each other. The usurper Bohai was killed by mobs before the Japanese arrived in Taiwan, which they quickly took over. Cao Wei moved to reunite loosely the many different tribes of Sinica against the Japanese which he still held as their greatest enemy. He promised that if he was able to defeat the Japanese he ought to be the Emperor of Sinica. This agreement was settled in 635 (117 BC) and brought an end to the Civil War for a short time.

The Invasion of Japonica 636 (117 BC) and the Breakup of the Han Dynasty
Cao Wei was given license to invade Japonica and did so in the year 636. The People of Japonica expected this and had built up their defenses on the Western Coast and were surprised to find that no ships had come. They learned that they had all been destroyed in a wind storm on the sea of Japonica and saw the destruction of the ships come to their shores instead of soldiers. The Japanese took this as their chance to take Sinica but were disuaded by the Emperor Kaifu. Cao Wei, as he had promised, killed himself upon hearing of his failure but his lands would still remain the strongest of Sinica. The different smaller states developed very different cultures from their separation from each other.

The Kingdom of Bei and the Kingdom of Korea
The successor of Cao Wei created the northernmost kingdom, called Bei, and created a very centralized military state in the lands he controlled. The Korean Peninsula had been influenced by the around ten years of intense military control they all, like everyone in the Kingdom, had to suffer under the total dictatorship of the King. The rebellion of Korea was met with scorn as well as intolerance. Korea was seen as an undeveloped and poor part of the Kingdom and some were even glad to have its riddance. The Koreans responded through programs of massive industry in the production of paper, gunpowder, metal, and of course military conquest.

The Koreans were not going to invade the kingdom with the most powerful military development in Sinica. They were however very able to conquer the areas north of them, a loss collection of tribes that could fall like dominoes. The Korean King developed the native language of Korea as their official language and in order to increase the prestige of his Country renamed it the Great Kingdom of Korea. The Korean King also invested in the educational system of the country mostly for the purpose of convincing the people of Korea about the greatness of their Country.

The Kingdoms of Bei and Korea became very hostile towards each other as Korea developed as a power in the North of Sinica after 636 (119 BC). Many destructive wars followed in the years coming after until the Peace of Incheon ( 仁川 or 인천) which brought a lasting, though tense, peace to the expanding countries who were heavily influenced by eachother especially in their oppression and policies against freedom.