Write a realistic, plausible alternate history scenario in the form of a history book chapter in the world of the alternate history scenario with absolutely no references fo real life, OTL or that this is even an alternate history timeline at all, in which the pre-Qing Ming dynasty ruled by the Jurchen/Manchurian-Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu as its reigning imperial family is restored as the government of the eighteen provinces of the Han dynasty through the stratocratic [military dominated/military government] Beiyang Government-ruled presidential parliamentary republic of the first Republic of China as the post-1915, pre-1916, short-lived unitary parliamentary constitutional imperial royal monarchy of the Empire of China founded and lead by Yuan Shikai, albiet with the descendants of the Imperial House of Zhu in charge instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants formally being enthroned as the next Chinese imperial family, after the death of Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and thus the founding leader and  fascist dictator of the People's Republic of China in 1976 and Manchuria, East Turkestan, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Guangdong and Guangxi breaking away from Han China after Mao's death in this timeline and remaining independent from Han China all the way into the rest of the 20th century into the 21th century and beyond.

Before the restoration of the Ming dynasty as a Zhu-ruled restored Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China after Mao's death, the death of Soviet dictator's Josef Stalin's puppet in China before the establishment of the PRC in 1949 and brutal warlord and dictator of Nationalist China before and after the formation of the PRC in mainland China, Chiang Kai-Shek in 1975 lead to the overthrow of Nationalist China in exile on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands since 1949 and the subsequent restoration of the partially Han Chinese side branch of the Japanese imperial family, the supposedly Shinto pantheon-descended, Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty, the Japanese Han Chinese Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled combined rump state, satellite state and tributary kingdom of the Tungning Kingdom as the government of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after Kai-Shek's death. 

Nationalist China returns to its [Nationalist China's] pre-1949 stronghold of Guangdong and Guangxi after the restoration of the Ming dynasty as a Zhu-ruled restored Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China after Mao's death and immediately gets taken over by Cantonese nationalist and Cantonese independence groups and activists in Guangdong and Guangxi upon returning to Guangdong and Guangxi, who use the military, economic and developmental aid given by both the Soviets and the Americans to "reclaim China" to Nationalist China to instead develop, rebuild and restore Guangdong and Guangxi, with some of the aid also being secretly sent to pro-democracy and anti-communist guerilla groups in Vietnam to overthrow the newly established communist Vietnamese government with the Empire of Vietnam ruled by the nativized Vietnamesed side-branch of the Imperial House of Zhu, the Vietnamese Imperial House of Ngyuen/Ngyuen dynasty, subsequently being restored as the government of all of Vietnam. 

Yunnan restores the  the Daili Kingdom and the Daili Kingdom's imperial family, the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan to power via the restoration of the Chinese bandit faction/Chinese warlord faction/Nationalist Chinese government faction of the Yunnan Clique