Hongxian (When the world stopped making sense)

Life:
On September 16, 1859, Hongxian was born as Yuan Shikai in the village of Zhangying Xiangcheng County, Chenzhou Prefecture, Henan, China. His father was Yuan Baozhong and his mother’s name isn’t mentioned. He started a early military career and was noticed by his supervisors and was made a major by a young age. He was noticed by Emperor Guangxu and was made a personal advisor. He worked for many years in the Imperial Court as a trusted ally of the Dynasty. When the first Chinese Civil War started he began doubting the Child Emperor’s qualification and in 1910 he took full military control and declared himself Hongxian Emperor on the 7, July 1910.

Reign:
It was controversial but the population was focused on the War, and when Russia took Manchuria for themselves everyone was fine with the new Dynasty of Xian. He finished of the Republican Rebels and was a fairly popular Emperor, and he made the Country more Agriculturally efficient.

Taking back Manchuria:
After 6 years of Russian Manchuria the indigenous people of Manchu wanted to rejoin China, so Hongxian convinced the people to raise a wall over the Manchu-Russian Borders without letting Moscow know. After that the Chinese troopsocc