Write a realistic, plausible alternate history scenario in the form of a history book chapter completely set in the world of the alternate history scenario with absolutely no references to real life, OTL or that this is even an alternate history timeline at all, in which the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed], a bicameral national legislature divided into a Senate and House of Representatives known as the National Assembly having Beiyang Government ruling [the Beiyang Government] over the sixteen provinces of Han in the China region excluding the Cantonese dominated Guangdong and Guangxi, which [Guangdong and Guangxi] both [Guangdong and Guangxi] came under the rule of the Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China sometime in 1914, [the Beiyang Government ruling over the sixteen provinces of Han] since the 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution that [the Xinhai Revolution] toppled the Great Qing Empire and [the Xinhai Revolution] subsequently made the Beiyang Government as the post-1912, pre-1915 and post-1916, pre-1928 presidential parliamentary republic of the first Republic of China the government [the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China] of the 16 provinces of Han after the Qing collapse as the short-lived Empire of China founded [the Empire of China] and [the Empire of China] lead[the Empire of China] by [the Empire of China's founder who was also its leader] the top dog in the Qing military before the Xinhai Revolution and rising star in the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution who then became the first Republic of China's first Great President, being in office from 1912-1915 until he dissolved the first Republic of China and made the Beiyang Government into the Empire of China with himself as its first Emperor, reigning under the combined era and regal name Hongxian [Promote the Constitution] Yuan Shikai, [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China founded and lead by Yuan Shikai as the Hongxian Emperor of Han China] from [how long the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China lasted for] 12 December 1915-22 March 1916 before his [Shikai's] death sometime in 1916, [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China], before [the Beiyang Government] reverting [the Beiyang Government] to [what the Beiyang Government reverted to] the first Republic of China after Yuan Shikai dissolved the Empire of China sometime before his [Shikai's] death in 1916, [the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China after the Empire of China was dissolved] lasting [the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China after the Empire of China was dissolved] until [how long the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China after the Empire of China was dissolved lasted for] 1928, [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China] survives post-1916 into the rest of the 20th century into the 21th century and beyond due to the influence of the Xinhai Revolution itself having started out as a movement to restore the Ming as the government of a post-Qing China, the existing strong Ming monarchist, Ming restorationist and Ming revivalist sentiment among the Chinese people along with the influence of the Ming restorationist romanticist millerian, adhering to Militant self-defense and tax resistance, heterodox traditional Chinese folk religion in addition to Ming restorationist romanticist monarchism, rural secret society and folk religious sect based in Northern Han China's provinces of Henan, Shandong, Hebei, the Yellow Sand Society, the renmants of the the syncretic religious and political movement which forecasts the imminent advent of the "King of Light", i.e., the future Buddha Maitreya, along with a hybrid movement of Buddhism and Manichaeism that emphasised Maitreya teachings and strict vegetarianism; its permission for men and women to interact freely was considered socially shocking appealing to many Han Chinese who found solace in the worship of the mother goddess in Chinese religion and mythology, also worshipped in neighbouring Asian countries, and attested from ancient times, Queen Mother of the West, which had helped the founding ruler of the Ming dynasty and thus the Ming dynasty's first royal imperial monarch, Zhu Yuanzhang, [Yuanzhang] having the combined regal and era name of Hongwu to conquer much of China from around 1352-1371 but was later suppressed by the members of the Imperial House of Zhu ruling over the Ming dynasty as Emperors of Han China respectively over the centuries, the White Lotus Sect ,and the White Lotus' daughter organization, the Chinese fraternal organization and historically a secretive folk religious sect founded to resist the rule of the Qing over the eighteen provinces of Han, with goals of Ming restorationism, which later became a massive crime syndicate in both East Asia and the world after the 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution that toppled the Qing the post-1761 Heaven and Earth Society, [the Heaven and Earth Society] better known as the Triads, [the influence of the Yellow Sand Society, the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society] leading to the descendants of the Ming dynasty's reigning imperial family, the Imperial House of Zhu, being selected as the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China's reigning imperial family when the Beiyang Government is formally changed from the first Republic of China to the Empire of China via an unanimous election at the National Assembly on 11 December 1915, confirmed as the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China's reigning imperial family when the Beiyang Government is declared as the Empire of China on 12 December 1915, and formally enthroned as  the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China's reigning imperial family when the enthronement rites for the Beiyang Government's as the Empire of China first unitary constitutional parliamentary imperial monarchial royal head ruling over China as the Emperor of Han China ascends the dragon throne on  1 January 1916, instead of Yuan Shikai using the transformation of the Empire of China to declare himself Emperor of Han China unlike in real life.