How would Chinese history change for better or for worse if during the transition of the stratocratic Beiyang Government that ruled over the fifteen provinces of Han excluding Yunnan which was under the rule of the Yunnan Clique, and Guangdong and Guangxi being under what would later become the Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China which was fighting the Old Guangxi Clique for control, although the Beiyang Government itself was literally under the control of the Fengtian Clique based in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, [the Beiyang Government] which [the Beiyang Government] was [the Beiyang Government] formed [the Beiyang Government] as the government [the Beiyang Government] of China after the 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution that toppled the Great Qing Empire which ruled over not only the eighteen provinces of Han including Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi in the China region, but Mongolia, East Turkestan, Tuva, Tibet along with parts of India from Manchuria, [after the transition of the Beiyang Government] from the first Republic of China formed on January 1, 1912 to the short-lived Empire of China founded and lead by Yuan Shikai from 1915-1916, Shikai was never able to proclaim himself Emperor but the descendants of the Ming dynasty's imperial family, the Imperial House of Zhu, were chosen by the Beiyang Government's democratically elected bicameral legislature divided into a Senate and a House of Representatives, the National Assembly as the Empire of China's reigning imperial family during the transition of the Beiyang Government from the first Republic of China into the Empire of China due to the Xinhai Revolution's Ming restorationist sentiments, and formally enthroned as such on January 1916, preventing the National Protection War of 1915-1916 against the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China, Nationalist China in Guangdong and Guangxi and the Yunnan Clique in Yunnan along with the subsequent warlord era of 1916-1928 in Chinese history which resulted from the Beiyang Government losing the National Protection War, which of course means the Anhui Clique along with its [the Anhui Clique's] political wing, the Anfu Club, and its [the Anhui Clique's] financial wing, the Old Communications Clique, never break away from the Beiyang Government, which makes China's political and economic situation more stable, although it means that China is essentially a protectorate of Imperial Japan, preventing the Northern Expedition launched in 1926-1928 against both the Fengtian Clique and the Beiyang Government by the Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China and thus preventing the Japanese invasion of China proper in 1937,  although Japan might make the Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia into a protectorate and make the restored Ming dynasty in China a protectorate as well? How would this restored Ming dynasty be governed and operate as, what would life be like there and what would be the Chinese people's reaction to the imperial restoration? How would Yuan Shikai be viewed along with Kai-shek, who is just a minor warlord in Nationalist China, and Mao Zedong, who along with the CCP remains within the Han nationalist Young China Party in the Fengtian Clique and never rises to power?