How would Chinese history, politics and socioeconomic factors change if the post-1912, pre-1928 stratocratic [military dominated/military governed], a post-1913, pre-1925 bicameral national legislature divided into a Senate and House of Representatives known as the National Assembly having, whose [the National Assembly’s] senators were chosen by the provincial assemblies and the representatives were chosen by an electoral college picked by a limited public franchise, which [the National Assembly] elected the president and vice president for five-year terms, and also appointed a premier to choose and lead the cabinet, with the relevant members having to countersign executive decrees for them to be binding having, whose [the National Assembly’s] task was to write a permanent constitution, draft legislation, approve the budget and treaties, ratify the cabinet, and impeach corrupt officials whose important ministries were army, finance, communications, and interior, with the interior ministry being responsible for policing and security while the weaker ministry of justice handled judicial affairs and prisons, 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 federal 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 unitary constitutional parliamentary imperial monarchy of the 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 Great Qing Empire’s post-1895 modernised army corps envisioned as a regular and professional fully trained and equipped according to Western standards with a reserve, the New Army 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 Empire of China lasted for] July 6, 1915 with the formation of the Constitution Drafting Committee to draft a new constitution for the Beiyang Government as the First Republic of China the establishment of a preparatory committee on 19 August 1915, with more and more “petition groups” writing petitions demanding a change in the state system of the Beiyang Government, with Yuan Shikai receiving the “National Protector Envoy Encouraging Jin to Proclaim Emperor”, which was signed by governors of all provinces in the country, then the establishment of the “Preparatory Committee” which convened provincial civil and military officials and chambers of commerce to the Beiyang Government’s and the Great Qing Empire’s shared capital of Beijing to discuss state affairs, with most of them expressing the need to change the state system of the Beiyang Government, on 23 August 1915, with Cai E leading the soldiers to petition for imperialism on 25 August 1915, which leads to the petition to change the state system of the Beiyang Government [from the first Republic of China to a constitutional monarchy], on the Beiyang Government’s National Assembly’s Senate’s opening ceremony on 1 September 1915, with petition groups supporting the monarchy submitted petitions to the Beiyang Government’s National Assembly’s Senate, setting off a wave of petitions for the implementation of a constitutional monarchy in the following days, with the formation of the “National Petition Federation” on the 19th of September 1915 to encourage the organization of a petition group and submit a third petition to the Beiyang Govenment’s National Assembly’s Senate, demanding a national meeting, where representatives from the whole country are elected to decide on state issues, with the Beiyang Govenment’s National Assembly’s Senate passing the “Organic Law of the National Congress” on October 6, 1915, which was promulgated and implemented by Yuan Shikai two days later, with Shikai secretly establishing a ceremony preparation office on 29 November, 1915 to prepare for the enthronement and select a date to ascend the throne, with the Beiyang Govenment’s National Assembly’s Senate’s 1993 national representatives subsequently voting on the change of the Beiyang Government’s state system on 11 December, 1915 with the Beiyang Govenment’s National Assembly’s Senate unanimously approving the constitutional monarchy as a result, with the representatives of the provinces requesting Yuan Shikai to be the emperor of the Chinese Empire for the first time the same day, with Shikai accepting on 12 December 1915, [Shikai declaring the Empire of China with himself [Shikai] as the Empire of China’s first reigning combined constitutional imperial royal head of state, and of the Beiyang Army with the right to dissolve the National Assembly, “Great Emperor of the Chinese Empire” under the combined era and regal name of [Yuan’s combined regal and era name as the first “Great Emperor of the Chinese Empire”] Hóngxiàn [“Promote the constitution”] the very same day, with Shikai as the Hóngxiàn Emperor of the Chinese Empire conferring five-level knighthoods on provincial generals, patrol envoys, military envoys, garrison envoys, division commanders and those with military power in the fifteen provinces of Han under the rule of the main branch of the Beiyang Government on December 21, 22 and 23, 1915, with it being announced on December 31, 1915, that the following year, 1916 would be changed to the first year of Hongxian, taking the meaning of “carrying forward the Constitution”, with the Beiyang Government’s as the Empire of China’s name being formally changed to the Chinese Empire, and the Beiyang Government’s as the first Republic of China’s presidential palace located in the compound in Beijing that housed the Beiyang Government’s operations and seat of power, the Zhongnanhai, [the Beiyang Government’s as the first Republic of China’s presidential palace located in Zhongnanhai] to be changed to Xinhua Palace, [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] had not been dissolved after Shikai’s abidation from the Chinese throne in 1916, but [the Empire of China] had instead put the descendants of the Ming dynasty’s reigning imperial family, the crypto Sunni Muslim, Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu, more specifically the descendants of the last member of the Imperial House of Zhu to rule over Han China as the Emperor of the Ming dynasty Zhu Youjian, [Youjian] having the combined regal and era name of [Youjian’s combined regal and era name] Chongzhen, and the descendants of the last member of the Imperial House of Zhu to rule over the Ming dynasty’s post-1644, pre-1662 rump state ruling over Southern Han China and also occupying Guangdong and Guangxi, the Southern Ming/Later Ming, Zhu Youlang, [Youlang] having the combined regal and era name of [Youlang’s combined regal and era name] Yongli, [Chongzhen’s and Yongli’s descendants] on its [the Empire of China’s] throne as its [the Empire of China’s] reigning imperial family due to the Xinhai Revolution being fought to restore the Ming, along with the influence of 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, causing the post-1916, pre-1926 Beiyang Government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique of the Anhui Clique lead by Qing New Army General turned Beiyang Army general after the Xinhai Revolution, Duan Qirui, [the Anhui Clique] the Anhui Clique’s political wing, [the Anhui Clique’s political wing] the political organization in Beiyang Government-ruled Han China that was a collective of senators, representatives and government bureaucrats who had their own party roles and positions which mirrored that of the Beiyang Government, with its official goal being to generate public policy, both foreign and internal, with their well-known foreign policies was the club’s diplomacy with Japan, overall, the club’s policy to Japan was largely friendly, but with the knowledge that Japan did not have the best interests of both China and the Beiyang Government in mind, not having an official ideology but frequently making use of socialist rhetoric and watered down policies, such as the passing of progressive laws making Sunday a holiday, creating safety regulations for factories and compulsory pensions for workers, [the Anhui Clique’s political wing] the Anfu Club, the Anhui Clique’s financial wing, [the Anhui Clique’s financial wing] the powerful interest group of politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, businessmen, engineers, and labour unionists in the Beiyang Government, running on the Beiyang Government’s National Assembly on a platform of modernization, training programs and better working conditions for its rail workers, even supporting their strikes against local warlords, [the Anhui Clique’s financial wing] the Communications Clique, along with the constitionalist, statist, Han monarchist, Han nationalist, Chinese nationalist, ultranationalist and militarist, having a policy of nationalism with strong central government, liberty through the rule of law, and peaceful foreign policy of the Research Clique, [the Anhui clique along with the Anfu Club, New Communications Clique and Research Clique] which had all broken away from the main branch of the Beiyang Government after Yuan Shikai exploited the transition of the Beiyang Government from the first Republic of China to the Empire of China to make himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China, [the Anhui clique along with the Anfu Club, New Communications Clique and Research Clique] all [the Anhui clique along with the Anfu Club, New Communications Clique and Research Clique] rejoining the main branch of the Beiyang Government once the Zhu descendants become the Empire of China’s new reigning imperial family, with the post-1911, pre-1928 Han Chinese bandit clique/military junta/Beiyang Government faction/Han Chinese government faction of the Fengtian Clique based in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, [the Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia] ruled by the first combined warlord of Manchuria, commander in chief of the Fengtian Clique’s post-1911, pre-1928 unofficial combined armed forces formed from both Manchu and Han Chinese units of the New Army within Manchuria after the Xinhai Revolution, National Pacification Army and military dictator of the Fengtian Clique, the Han Chinese bandit turned bannerman under the Manchu military system, and then de-facto ruler of Manchuria through his leadership of the Fengtian Clique, Zhang Zuolin, who [Zuolin] was leader of the Fengtian Clique from 1911-1926 until his [Zuolin’s] death in [when Zuolin died] 1926, [the Fengtian Clique under Zuolin] supporting the Empire of China becoming a restored Ming dynasty in exchange for autonomy and thus the Beiyang Government survives post-1928 into the rest of the 20th century into the 21th century and beyond, even though the Fengtian Clique is taken over by the Qing Imperial Court still operating in the Forbidden City in Beijing even after the Xinhai Revolution and [the Fengtian Clique] becomes an independent Qing Manchurian-Inner Mongolian rump state, supported by the post-660 BC Shinto descended Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled post-1868, pre-1947 Unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional royal imperial monarchy of the Great Japanese Empire ruling over the Korean peninsula, Sakhalin and the Kurils, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, Okinawa, the Carolinas and the Marinas from [the Great Japanese Empire’s homebase] the Japanese Home Islands and then the post-1932, pre-1945 WW2 Imperial Japanese protectorate of the Qing Imperial family, the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled and anti-communist, Pan-Asianist, Manchu nationalist, Manchu royalist, Manchu monarchist, anti-Chinese unification, Pan-Asianist political group of the Concordia Association-ruled unitary personalist parliamentary royal constitutional parliamentary imperial monarchy under a totalitarian military dictatorship of the Empire of Manchukuo, with Inner Mongolia’s Chahar and Suiyan provinces being split off from the Qing-ruled Fengtian Clique turned Manchukuo to become the post-1939, pre-1945 Imperial Japanese protectorate of the main branch of the Genghis Khan-descended Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled absolute royal khanate of the Mongolian Autonomous Federation/Mengjiang. Japanese control over the Beiyang Goverment through the Anhui Clique and the Anfu Club means that the post-1919 Cantonese nationalist, Cantonese supremacist, Cantonese imperialist main branch of the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Han imperialist Chinese nationalist, adhering to Dr Sun Yat Sen’s three principles of the people: nationalism, democracy and Socialism Revolutionary group/political organization of the Kuomingtang [Chinese Nationalist Party]-ruled, adhering to the political principle of Dǎngguó [Party-state], which [Dǎngguó] was [Dǎngguó] modeled off the Soviet Union’s system of dictatorship and [Dǎngguó] meant that major national policies of the state’s government bureaucracy were formulated by the Kuomintang, giving the party [the Kuomingtang] supreme power over the whole nation,which meant that bureaucracy had then become the means and the tools of Kuomintang, where all the major national policies were formulated, while resulted in the party [the Kuomingtang] holding the supreme power of the whole nation with military personnel and civil servants alike were expected to owe their allegiance to Kuomintang first and the state second, unitary, adhering to Dr Sun Yat-sen’s three principles of the people: nationalism, democracy and Socialism one-party directorial presidental republic under a totalitarian military dictatorship of the National Government of the Republic of China/Nationalist China/Second Republic of China in Guangdong in Guangxi remains confined to Guangdong and Guangxi, eventually evolving into a indepedent Cantonese Republic under the influence of he post-1911, pre-1924 Nationalist Chinese government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique of the Old Guangxi Clique based in Guangxi and doesn’t try to unite China under its [Nationalist China’s] rule as a result, preventing the 1928-1947 Second Sino-Japanese War.