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 * Jin dynasty: The Qianlong Emperor launches an edict officially abolishing the increasingly-irrelevant and useless Korean caste system. Instead, the caste system is reformed into a five-rank system based off Chinese social structure, and is implemented in both China and Korea. The castes include (hierarchically): landlords and other aristocratic positions, white collar workers, merchants, craftsmen, and peasants (divided into land tenants and free peasants/labourers). However, the system is no longer hereditary, with the status of nobility and having to be obtained via imperial examination. Contracted servitude has now fully replaced remnants of institutionalized serfdom, with aristocrats having to pay labourers for service, and land tenants (which replaces the role of the serf) having to pay rent (usually in the form of agricultural goods). Property laws are further liberalized, and wages are heightened. An investigation into potential government corruption begins. The public distribution of Confucian classics, a lax intellectual climate, and improved education causes a revival in Confucian thought and various reinterpretations of Confucius' teachings, with the silhak (renamed into shixue) sect gaining the most followers. Basic sanitation is promoted; public bathhouses, spas, latrines, and sewage systems are all built. Pluviometres and water gauges are manufactured to maximize agricultural productivity, and the further adoption of New World crop varieties (mainly sweet potatoes and maize) in places where wheat or wet-rice cultivation is not feasible is encouraged. The Grand Canal is expanded and renovated to accommodate greater boat traffic, and in-order to provide adequate irrigation to more the far-flung inland rural communities. To facilitate transportation and internal commerce, roads are paved with stone. The policy of militarization continues to be pursued, with shipyards, arsenals, and industrial facilities dedicated to producing armaments being built. Commercialization and the division of labour continues, resulting from a heightened demand for commercial goods from both the domestic and foreign market. The baekjeong class (descendants of Khitans) are continued to be forcibly assimilated, with ghettos being torn down. This is met with resistance, with the baekjeong primarily engaging in revived banditry. The ban on footbinding is enforced, with instead small shoes or false shoe stilts being replaced as an equivalent. Meanwhile, due to influence from shixue, women's property rights are instituted while girls and childless women are encouraged to work out in the fields with their male siblings or husbands. However, they are still exempted from tax and womanly virtue including the principle of the Three Obediences (obey father, then husband, and eldest son after widowhood) are promoted.
 * Nivkh Commandery: The Nivkh Prince-Governor (which is the member of the Nivkh Ayzik branch of the House of Kim) continues to adopt Korean and Chinese architecture, paving roads to facilitate transport, and replacing wood and thatch roofing with stone bricks and clay tiles, respectively. The assimilation of various non-Nivkh tribes living in the area begins, with many Nivkhs convincing fellow tribesmen like Oroks or Ainu to adopt a civilized sedentary lifestyle. The baking industry booms, with various pastry recipes being produced and proving quite popular.
 * Sakha (protectorate): The Khan continues to adopt Korean and Chinese architecture, paving roads to facilitate transport, and replacing wood and thatch roofing with stone bricks and clay tiles, respectively. Siberian crab-apples become a local renowned fruit, and is particularly prized in Korea and northern China.
 * Xizang (protectorate): Lhasa, the capital, is expanded and modernized. Advisors are sent to assist the Tibetan clergy in administrating the protectorate. Many Tibetans are encouraged (via financial incentives) to become more sedentary, with food instead being supplied from nearby Sichuan (thereby reducing overreliance in inefficient herding). A permanent military presence of a thousand troops are established. News of the yeti attacking the expedition causes mass hysteria, taking advantage of the situation, some local merchants sell "urine and silver" bags as a method to "repel potential yeti".
 * Port of Nangang: The Emperor decides send more emissaries to the Angu peoples and peripheral tribes in Haegajang in-order to enrich the knowledge of their culture, while sends more colonists to cement the colony of Nangang from any tribal intrusions.


 * Stuff


 * Emperor Kim Geun (Jin Qin)
 * increased power for silhak scholar-officials (check)
 * humanistic (check)


 * encourage commoners to participate in civil service (check)


 * reduce court factionalization (check)
 * maintain policy of no-favouring (check)


 * reduce military service tax (check)
 * mitigate by taxing more businesses (check)
 * continue policy of militarization though (check)


 * renaissance in printing industry (check)
 * end of literary inquisition (check)
 * more publications (check)
 * more moveable types (check)


 * campaign to improve agriculture (check)
 * mass-manufacture pluviometre (rain gauge) once again (check)
 * use water gauges (check)
 * encourage cultivation of New World crops (check)


 * campaign to modernize architecture (check)
 * implement roof tiles, stone walls (check)


 * campaign to improve literacy (check)
 * make an edict requiring at least one person (son) of a household to be literate (check)
 * publicly distribute important books (such as the Four Books and the Five Classics) (check)
 * newspapers (check)


 * relatively-egalitarian
 * abandon caste system, emancipate serfs (who gain full property rights over rented land)


 * "Rye wine" (kvass)
 * 黑麦酒; Hēimài jiǔ
 * made by fermenting rye bread, and adding honey/berries
 * popular in North China; milk-tea popular in South China and Korea
 * due to alcoholic, age limit set at seven


 * ban dog meat
 * apart from nureongi breed


 * abolish caste system
 * land distribution
 * purge oppositional aristocrats


 * encourage market economy


 * repeal restrictions on merchantile activities

Reserves in the peninsula

 * limestone – 110 billion tonnes
 * lignite – 16 billion tonnes
 * magnesite – 6 billion tonnes
 * iron ore – 5.02 billion tonnes
 * zinc – 21.588 mi tonnes
 * lead – 11.04 mi tonnes
 * anthracite coal – 5.9mi tonnes
 * uranium – 4mi tonnes
 * copper – 2.956 mi tonnes (equating to $18.98 billion)
 * barite – 2.1mi tonnes
 * gold – 2.04k tonnes of gold (equating to $86.2 billion); depend on this for your currency
 * silver – 4.58–6.58k tonnes ($2.7–3.86 billion worth); still a lot
 * nickel – 36k tonnes (essential to creating copper alloy coinage)

TL plan

 * Revolt of the Three Feudatories succeeds
 * Ming royalists re-instate the House of Zhu


 * Korea reconquers Gando and Liaoning


 * Manchuria fragments into four states once again
 * Later all subjugated a tributaries


 * 1700s
 * China never reinstates Haijin and the Canton system
 * no isolationism


 * Japan ends sakoku and submits as a Chinese tributary (albeit not a frequent sender of tributary missions)


 * China rediscovers steam engine
 * causes a boom in textiles production


 * later Ming Emperors begins promoting heterodox Confucianism
 * caste-system and imperial examination (which is less oriented to philosophy) becomes increasingly irrelevant (social stratification weakens)


 * China begins planting New World crops (ala otl)
 * causes a boom in population and food supply


 * China momentarily lapses due to reaching Malthusian constraints
 * causes the tributary system to collapse


 * Chinese monarchy abolishes caste-system and imperial examination
 * paid servitude
 * begins promoting a relaxed form of Confucianism
 * more technological/social progress


 * China undergoes an Industrial Revolution


 * imperial tributary system becomes more ceremonial


 * Korea pursues domination over northern Manchurian states

Sino–Korean industrialization

 * Self-Strengthening Movement


 * aim for the 1860s (same timeframe as otl Self-Strengthening Movement)
 * centred around military and economic modernization (however, the basic economic goal is to obtain ability to self-manufacture modern weaponry)


 * build arsenals and factories producing military goods, shipyards (as otl)
 * however, focus on building naval capability as well (as otl, Qing China overemphasize land armies, and while achieved a degree of military success in land, were unable to combat Western fleets at sea)


 * allow foreign investors
 * allow foreigners to control industries such as textiles
 * entice investment through low labour costs (since lower wages)


 * open all ports to European trade


 * find a European trading partner to aid the construction of industrial facilities and to provide expertise and instructions to Chinese labourers, and to obtain foreign capital to kickstart development

Plan

 * purge of reactionary elements


 * more liberalised property laws and intellectual climate
 * allow heterodox Confucianism


 * maintain stability


 * Plan
 * abolish caste system


 * more liberalised property laws and intellectual climate
 * reduce inheritance as means to obtain wealth


 * reform tax system


 * introduction of railways, telegraph lines, and a universal education system
 * Western curriculum
 * import Western sciences
 * primary schooling is compulsory


 * hire advisers from the West
 * aid institutional reform
 * aid the construction of industrial facilities and to provide expertise and instructions


 * build;
 * factories producing armaments and ammunition
 * other industrial facilities (steel mills, textile mills, iron smelters, mines for anthracites)
 * shipyards
 * arsenals
 * railway, telecommunications


 * export manufactures
 * entice foreign investors and allow direct-foreign investment
 * allow foreign companies to operate textile businesses (tax-exempted, but Korea–China gets half of revenue)


 * Constitution, gives absolute power to monarch


 * bicameral Imperial Diet – appointed by Emperor
 * lower House of Representatives, higher House of Peers

Battle I

 * Prewar stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - +25
 * Population - +6 (1.5 million)
 * Government - +5 (tribal)
 * Economy - +7 (Tier II)
 * Technology - +7 (Tier II)


 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - +15.1
 * Population – +0.1 (25k)
 * Government - +5 (tribal)
 * Economy - +5 (Tier I)
 * Technology - +5 (Tier I)


 * Battle stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - +4.3
 * Army - +3.3 (11,000)
 * Navy - +2.5 (5 ships)
 * Location - +3.5 (near major river/coast with naval superiority)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -5
 * Attrition - -0 (N/A; no winter in Cali)


 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - -0.7
 * Army - +0.3 (1,000)
 * Navy - +0 (0 ships)
 * Location - +1 (near major river/coast)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -2


 * Casualties
 * Mzwerka (attacking)
 * 11,000 * 0.1 = 1,100 casualties
 * 5 * 0.1 = no ships lost
 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending)
 * 1,000 * 0.15 = 150 casualties


 * Final stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - (25 + 4.3) = +29.3
 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - (15.1 - 0.7) = +14.4

203.4% in-favour of Mzwerka (Tier I)

Battle II

 * Prewar stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - +25
 * Population - +6 (1.5 million)
 * Government - +5 (tribal)
 * Economy - +7 (Tier II)
 * Technology - +7 (Tier II)


 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - +15.1
 * Population – +0.1 (25k)
 * Government - +5 (tribal)
 * Economy - +5 (Tier I)
 * Technology - +5 (Tier I)


 * Battle stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - +5.97
 * Army - +2.97 (9,900)
 * Navy - +2.5 (5 ships)
 * Location - +3.5 (near major river/coast with naval superiority)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -3
 * Attrition - -0 (N/A; no winter in Cali)


 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - -1.745
 * Army - +0.255 (850)
 * Navy - +0 (0 ships)
 * Location - +1 (near major river/coast)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -3


 * Casualties
 * Mzwerka (attacking)
 * 9,900 * 0.06 = 594 casualties
 * 4.5 * 0.06 = no ships lost
 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending)
 * 850 * 0.3 = 255 casualties


 * Final stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - (25 + 5.97) = +30.97
 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - (15.1 - 1.745) = +13.355

231.8% in-favour of Mzwerka

TOTAL WAR SCORE: 203.4% + 231.8% = 435.2% (Tier II)

Battle III

 * Prewar stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - +25
 * Population - +6 (1.5 million)
 * Government - +5 (tribal)
 * Economy - +7 (Tier II)
 * Technology - +7 (Tier II)


 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - +15.1
 * Population – +0.1 (25k)
 * Government - +5 (tribal)
 * Economy - +5 (Tier I)
 * Technology - +5 (Tier I)


 * Battle stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - +4.7918
 * Army - +2.7918 (9,306)
 * Navy - +2.5 (5 ships)
 * Location - +3.5 (near major river/coast with naval superiority)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -4
 * Attrition - -0 (N/A; no winter in Cali)


 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - -0.8215
 * Army - +0.1785 (595)
 * Navy - +0 (0 ships)
 * Location - +1 (near major river/coast)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -2


 * Casualties
 * Mzwerka (attacking)
 * 9,306 * 0.02 = 186 casualties
 * 5 * 0.02 = no ships lost
 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending)
 * 595 * 0.75 = 446 casualties


 * Final stage
 * Mzwerka (attacking) - (25 + 4.7918) = +29.7918
 * Plains and Coast Miwok (defending) - (15.1 - 0.8215) = +14.2785

208.6% in-favour of Mzwerka

TOTAL WAR SCORE: 203.4% + 231.8% +208.6% = 643.8% (Tier III)

Korean Nestorian Church

 * does not believe in the holy trinity
 * no distinction between the father, son, and holy spirit concepts
 * has fused into a single entity; tiān (天; "Heaven")


 * nestorianist (?)
 * in a sense, Confucius is just a regular man of lesser importance (similar to Jesus of Nazareth in Nestorian teachings)


 * Confucius was prophet
 * instructed upon by by "Heaven"


 * no Bible
 * Four Books and Five Classics of high-importance


 * incorporates Confucianist teachings and rites (such as filial piety)

Wank Korea TL

 * Hyojong of Joseon lives longer (not dying in 1659 at age 39), enough for the Northern Conquest (whilst the Qing was still dealing with the Ming royalists in the south)
 * revives navy (comprised of panokseon and armoured turtle-ships) and constructs various shipyards
 * revives military-industrial complexes, makes various armaments (including cannonry and muskets)
 * builds fortresses along Yalu River
 * revives Korean agriculture
 * encourages usage of paper money (pegged to Korean gold and copper), so iron ore could be used for armaments


 * Revolt of the Three Feudatories
 * Revolt of the Three Feudatories, Ming royalist Kingdom of Tungning, and Joseon form an alliance (due to anti-Manchu Hyojong)
 * a revived Joseon Navy being used to attack Beijing and the periphery)


 * Qing collapses under joint-attacks
 * Liaoning east of the Liao River is annexed by Korea, alongside Manchuria (Ming allows Korea to administer Manchuria since it struggles to reconsolidate control over China proper, which is unstable) - exempted from indemnities
 * Ming royalists take over Yangtze Basin and northern China
 * Three Feudatories take over southern China


 * Three Feudatories vs. Ming royalists
 * Ming royalist victory (supported by Joseon), reestablishment of tributary relations between Ming dynasty and Joseon (but less frequent, annual not tri-annual tributary relations)


 * due to success against the Manchus, Joseon abandons its harsh isolationist policies (and begin trading extensively with the Dutch after the release of Hemel, and European interest following the publication of "Hemel's Journal and Description of the Kingdom of Corea")


 * 1700s
 * since orthodox Confucianism isn't enforced by the Qianlong Emperor (who sought to reaffirm the Aisin Gioro and the Manchus' hua [sinicized/civilized] identity), the Chinese intellectual climate isn't as reactionary


 * atl Ten Great Campagins
 * Dzungar Khanate is annexed (without genocide)
 * Mongolia is annexed (in response to Russian imperialism and fear of barbarian tribes)


 * Haijin and Canton system is not implemented


 * Reign of Yeongjo
 * continued commercialization (as otl)
 * supported by stable, backed-up paper currency
 * supported by demand of Korean luxury-items including ginseng and porcelain from Western markets (silver replaces gold)
 * supported by acquisition of Manchuria (arable land is exploited)
 * spread of education (as otl)
 * Catholicism is still outlawed as "evil practice" (as otl)
 * continued militarization (atl)


 * early 1800s
 * due to trade deficit, British still try to mitigate it by selling opiates to China (which is worried over outflow of silver)


 * Opium War still occurs
 * Hong Kong island is still ceded
 * Britain is compensated for confiscated opium


 * political chaos in Korea still occurs in the early 1800s


 * late 1800s


 * Patriotic Duke Heungseon Daewongun still acquires power
 * instates a harshly isolationist policy, shuts down all traded apart from Mokpo and Ganghwa, martyrs and persecute Christian converts and missionaries


 * French Expedition to Korea is success (unlike otl)
 * forcibly opening ports and lifting ban on Christianity


 * Britain intervenes in Korea, seeking to contain Russian and French influence in Northeast Asia (where it lacks any significant power projection)


 * instead of Japan (which is initially subjected to American influence, which is weakened following American Civil War), France and Britain compete for influence in Korea
 * conservative court is split; more conservative seeks Chinese intervention and assistance, less conservative seek French intervention and assistance
 * reformist Kim Ok-gyun (more influenced by Britain than Japan) and his "Independence Party" is supported by the British


 * after being thwarted by French and British interests in Korea, Russia establishes influence over Japan to seek a warm water port (Sapporo, Hokkaido?), annexing Karafuto province and the rest of the Kurils
 * failed Meiji Restoration, and feudal lords maintain power (albeit under Russian influence)


 * The Tongzhi Restoration and the Self-strengthening Movement stays relatively the same, except it doesn't lose momentum in the 1880s/1890s (when the reactionary faction under Cixi begins growing in power)
 * Sino–French War ends in Chinese victory, Tonkin remains under Chinese suzerainty
 * all French concessions are ceded back to China


 * Due to Chinese victory in the Sino–French War, there won't be extra concessions (sans British ones)


 * late 1870s - Gapsin Coup occurs, with success (w/ British support)
 * Britain seeks a powerful Korea to counter Russia and China (just in-case it drifts from British influence)
 * British-derived single-party constitutional monarchy (with Gojong being Emperor) is established, with "Independence Party" being ruling party with Kim Ok-gyun as the leader
 * China (under reformist atl Prince Gong) does not intervene in the loss of its tributary


 * following the Gapsin Coup, Korea rapidly industrializes (due to more ample resources, more geographic connectivity and possibility for telecommunications and railway development)
 * Korea establishes unequal treaty w/ Japan (utilizing gunboat diplomacy) - in-line with the 1876 Treaty of Ganghwa; annexes Tsushima daimyo and settles Liaoncourt islands disputes


 * eventually Korea colonizes the Ryukyus, in response to Russian encroachment in the Sea of Korea and Japanese politics (as well as to gain prestige as first non-white state to participate in colonialism)


 * Russo–Chinese/Sino–Russian War – Russian defeat (atl First Sino–Japanese War)
 * to oust the Russian influence from Mongolia and Xinjiang
 * supported by the British


 * following success in Self-strengthening movement, China begins requesting the revision of unequal treaties (and lessening of payment of indemnities; though atl it wouldn't be as demanding as otl due to extra prestige) and trying to gain prestige among European powers (especially after victories with Russians and French)
 * British concessions are recognized
 * Macau is retained by the Portuguese


 * atl Prince Gong dies in 1898; Tongzhi Emperor comes to power (who doesn't die)
 * establishes a more independent foreign policy - meaning the renouncement of British support (who re-orient themselves to support a burgeoning Korea)


 * in response to Chinese victory in the Sino-Russian War, the Russians subjugate Japan as a protectorate, and forcing Japan to cede several ports under direct Russian administration
 * growing naval presence of the Russians in the Sea of Korea is particularly disturbing to the Koreans


 * 20th century
 * due to withdrawal of British support, the Russians begin reinvigorating their efforts to establish a sphere of influence over China (the frontier regions of Mongolia and Xinjiang) - much to the dismay of the Koreans


 * Anglo-Korean Friendship Treaty is ratified (similar to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty)