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 * China: In response to a draining National Treasury (as the surplus wanes), the Qianlong Emperor begins to cut down on the oversaturated bureaucracy, deciding to host imperial examinations every five years instead of the traditional three years, triggering some Confucianist hardliners and traditionalists. He also tries to clamp down on corruption, purging corrupt aristocrats and scholar-officials. In addition, he restores the land tax, though fixes it at a low rate to avoid any public upheaval. Gulangyu and Macau are integrated as directly-administered municipalities, their status before Arab and Iberian (respectively) cession. Border guards continue to expel illegal Russian settlers trespassing into Chinese vassals such as North Mongolia, Sakha, and Nivkhgu, but refuses to alert the Russian government to avoid any diplomatic tension. The Holy Confucian Church continues its free public distribution of compilations of Confucian holy texts, and encouraging Confucians to join the Church and participate in communal rites as interpreted from the Confucian classics. The Eastern-rite Church (or the Holiest Procurator of the Heavenly Teachings in the East) continues to purge its clergy of corrupt officials, while launching active missionary campaigns to curtail the influence of foreign missionaries. However, they still fail to compete with the appeal of Immaculata missionaries in Korea (where they have a more strong influence), though achieve massive success in China. Agricultural productivity rises due to implementation of irrigation and more resource-intensive methods. Both grains and cash crops are widely cultivated. The mining industry, propelled by restrictions against logging and a high demand for tax funds, experiences a boom, with vast reserves of high-quality anthracite, gold and copper being found and exploited. Multiple chaebols in the sector are given government subsidies in-exchange for a particularly volume of precious metals shipped yearly. However, this also results in false reporting to fulfil quotas and the displacement of various communities near mining sites. Industrial facilities continue to churn out massive volumes of wrought iron derived from pig iron, as well as gunpowder and other processed commodities; most of which are utilised in the production of various armaments, firearms, and artillery. Iron-cased rockets are developed by a group of scholar-officials in Dalyeon, but however, are still in experimental phase. Korean multiple-rocket launchers are still preferred. Immense commercialization continues, aided by heavy infrastructural development, urbanization, and a strong internal demand for consumer goods and luxury items. Basic sanitation and hygiene is taught, and public bathhouses, spas, latrines and sewage systems are all built. In Zaihaibian, Suolong and Nangang all expand. Fire-fallow cultivation is encouraged, leading to rapid deforestation of the forest, with local tribes being forcibly assimilated or expelled.
 * Nivkh Commandery: Tiger Pastries Inc., a subsidiary of Lady Lin Tea, continues to flourish as a business. 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.
 * 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. The Tibetan clergy continues to administer the protectorate, with its leader, the Dalai Lama, being considered a vassal or substitute monarch. 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).
 * North Mongolia: Yurt is further settled. A healthy aquiculture industry is established, harvesting and raising fish from the Baikal Lake.


 * 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


 * land tenants
 * maintain estates of landlords for pay
 * produced taxed by landlord


 * free peasants
 * owns their own land


 * labourers
 * services exchanged for pay


 * women now have legal rights to property


 * Chinese kinship system and concept of nuclear family is promoted


 * concubines are discouraged (for commoners)


 * criminalizes shame killing


 * Three Obediences are promoted


 * footbinding is banned


 * minimum age of marriage - 12 and 10


 * Bide is married off to a daughter of a prominent aristocrat (Mei Ling)
 * Bide (Petar) rejects her; and sets sights on Jie Zi (Joseph)
 * Mei Ling tries to commit suicide by jumping into a volcano, but it is revealed Bide is half-Russian so the marriage is called off
 * Bide marries Jie Zi with the latter being the "bride", but also marries sixty-nine other concubines

Future

 * 1820s - need to import foodstuffs


 * 1850 - Taiping Rebellion ATL

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

 * How?
 * Civil War - 10 years
 * Taiping Rebellion


 * China is "humiliated" since it needed to call upon European partners


 * Some courtesans and aristocrats sees that the modernization of its out-dated army is an imperative to exert political control over China
 * Emperor refuses, and a reactionary court emerges
 * a pro-reformist court emerges


 * some pro-reformist courtesans study in Europe


 * Political strife - Jasmine Coup
 * pro-reformist courtesans conspire with some royalty in order to install a new Emperor


 * Fuxing Restoration (复兴; "renewal") - 1860s


 * Abolish tributary system


 * pro-reformist faction monopolizes control over government


 * Reforms
 * 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 overemphasized land armies, and while achieved a degree of military success in land, were unable to combat Western fleets at sea)


 * reform tax system


 * introduction of railways, telegraph lines, and a universal education system
 * Western curriculum
 * import Western sciences
 * primary schooling is compulsory
 * goal of universal primary schooling and literacy by 1900


 * 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 to provide revenue


 * Government
 * Constitution, gives absolute power to monarch


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


 * later; constitutional monarchy


 * dualistic union
 * federal government seated in Beijing and Hanseong
 * China proper
 * Korea proper
 * Tibet and Mongolia as autonomous self-governing territories


 * Imperial Diet
 * lower House of Representatives (300 seats)
 * 100 seats per constituent state
 * higher House of Peers (100 seats)
 * any candidate

Russo-Chinese (invasion of Yangtze or Yellow River valleys)

 * Prewar stage
 * Britain (attacking) - +117.6
 * Population - +100 (30 million; capped)
 * Location penalties - -40% (Multi-continental Empire + other continent, three regions over + one region not penalized)
 * Government - +6 (Westminister monarchy)
 * Economy - +45 (Tier V; industrialized)
 * Technology - +45 (Tier V; industrialized)


 * China (defending) - +168
 * Population - +100 (420 million; capped)
 * Government - +8 (Celestial Empire)
 * Economy - +30 (Tier V)
 * Technology - +30 (Tier V)


 * Battle stage
 * Britain (attacking) - +89
 * Army - +56 (80,000; max professional)
 * Navy - +36 (60 ships, 20% bonus; max)
 * Location - -3 (near major river/coast with naval superiority)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -0
 * Attrition - -0% (assuming best-case scenario)


 * China (defending) - +94
 * Army - +60 (200,000; levies, OTL numbers)
 * Navy - +30 (60 ships; max)
 * Location - +4 (near/at major city)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -0


 * Final stage
 * Britain (attacking) - 117.6 + 89 = +206.6
 * China (defending) - 168 + 94 = +262

262/212 = 123.58%

123.58% in-favour of China; British invasion repelled

Russo-Chinese War (invasion thru Manchuria)

 * Prewar stage
 * Russia (attacking) - +157.55
 * Population - +100 (100 million; capped)
 * Location penalties - +15% (Multi-continental Empire, one-region over)
 * Government - +7 (Absolute monarchy)
 * Economy - +10 (Tier III)
 * Technology - +20 (Tier IV)


 * China (defending) - +168
 * Population - +100 (420 million; capped)
 * Government - +8 (Celestial Empire)
 * Economy - +30 (Tier V)
 * Technology - +30 (Tier V)


 * Battle stage
 * Russia (attacking) - +448
 * Army - +456 (80k professionals, 800k conscripts; third of max)
 * Location - -8 (near/at strategic fortress)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -0
 * Attrition - -0% (assuming best-case scenario)


 * China (defending) - +638
 * Army - +630 (2.1mi levies; third of max)
 * Location - +8 (strategic fortress)
 * GL/GG/GA - +0 (N/A)
 * Blunder - -0


 * Final stage
 * Russia (attacking) - 157.55 + 448 = +605.55
 * China (defending) - 168 + 638 = +806

806/605.55 = 133.10%

133.10% in-favour of China; Russian invasion repelled

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

 * Matthew C. Perry lands in Korea (Busan), rather than Japan (which remains isolated)
 * due to weak government, there is no resistance to gunboat diplomacy
 * Korea is opened to foreign trade and missionary activitiy


 * Patriotic Duke Heungseon Daewongun still acquires power
 * instates a harshly isolationist policy, shuts down all trade apart from Mokpo and Ganghwa (similar to the Canton system), bans and persecutes Christianity


 * The French Expedition to Korea is a success (unlike OTL), as French place more effort into subjugating Korea (to


 * 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)