How would Chinese history, government structure, politics and history change if the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed] Beiyang Government which ruled China from 1912 after the Xinhai Revolution to 1928 during which it fell to the Northern Expedition launched by the KMT-ruled Nationalist China, became the government of the fifteen provinces of Han in the China region, excluding Yunnan, which is under the rule of the Dali Kingdom ruled by the Dali Kingdom's imperial family, the Imperial House of Duan once more, and Guangdong and Guangxi, which are under Nationalist Chinese rule once more, [the fifteen provinces of Han excluding Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi coming under the rule of a restored Beiyang Government], not in its [the Beiyang Government's] form as the democratic presidential parliamentary republic of the first Republic of China but as the Empire of China proclaimed by Yuan Shikai in 1915, which he [Shikai] ruled from 1915 until sometime before his [Shikai's] death in 1916, [the he fifteen provinces of Han excluding Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi coming under the rule of a restored Empire of China] but with the descendants of the Ming dynasty's reigning imperial family, the Imperial House of Zhu, acting as this restored Empire of China's reigning imperial family instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants as a result of the latent Ming restorationist, Ming revivalist, Ming monarchist sentiment in China that had persisted from the Manchu Qing conquest of China from 1644-1662 and helped power the Taiping Rebellion, the Xinhai Revolution, the Northern Expedition and even the CCP's conquest of China under the expectation that all these movements and regimes would restore the Ming dynasty and the Imperial House of Zhu to power in China, which of course never happened, [the Empire of China, albiet with the Zhu descendants as its imperial family being restored as the government of the fifteen provinces of Han excluding Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi] after the 1989 Tianmen Square protests in Beijing against the CCP and Deng Xiaoping's business-oriented, pro-Soviet, pro-CCP-KMT unification under the auspices of Moscow and Washington, neo-Nationalist Chinese clique specifically, recieve a little bit more covert help from both the KGB and CIA, with the KGB backing the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese in exile on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands since 1947-1949 and reformist elements of Deng's Clique and the CIA backing Han Chinese nationalists, monarchists and fascists against Deng, including Ming revivalists, which results in the fall of the PRC in a event akin to the warlord period romaticized in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as Nationalist China reclaims Guangdong and Guangxi, but loses Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to Taiwanese nationalists and Taiwanese independence groups, the Dali Kingdom is restored in Yunnan, East Turkestan, Tibet and Outer Mongolia along with Manchuria becomes independent and monarchist and democratic sentiment in Han China itself leads to the strange compromise seen here: the Beiyang Government returns, but not as the first Republic of China, but as Yuan Shikai's Empire of China ruled by the Zhu descendants as its imperial family. Manchuria, which came under the rule of a restored Fengtian Clique under the rule of the descendants of Zhang Zuolin and his son and successor as head of the Fengtian Clique, Zhang Xueliang, before the Zhangs were pressured to step aside and the restored Fengtian Clique became a restored Empire of Manchukuo ruled by the descendants of the Qing imperial family, the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro, as its reigning imperial family, and Inner Mongolia's Chahar and Suiyan provinces, which became a restored Mongolian Autonomous Federation/Mengjiang ruled by the descendants of the main branch of the Genghis Khan-descended, Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin as its reigning imperial family, [the restored Manchukuo and Mengjiang], along with the restored Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan ruled by the side branch of the Imperial House of Borjigin, the Imperial House of Chagatai as its reigning imperial family, along with the liberated Lama-ruled Kingdom of Tibet in Tibet, are ironically the first to recognize the restored Chinese monarchy and neo-Ming, Manchurian, Inner Mongolian and East Turkestani forces help push Soviet and American troops out of the China region, leading to the permanent balkanization of the China region but also peace and stability.