Random question for an alternate history scenario I'm doing where  the 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, [the National Assembly]-having stratocratic [military-governed/military dominated |stratocratic|] 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  10 October – 1 December 1911 armed uprising against the post-1644, post-1912 Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled, Manchu-dominated federalist parliamentary imperial royal dynastic monarchy of the Great Qing Empire ruling over the fifteen provinces of Han excluding Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Tuva, East Turkestan, Tibet, Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and parts of India from Greater Manchuria in Wuchang, Hubei, Han China, which started from the June 17, 1911-September 15 1911 political protest movement in the Great Qing Empire against the Qing government’s plan to nationalize local railway development projects and transfer control to foreign banks, expressing mass discontent with Qing rule and galvanizing anti-Qing groups, centered in Han China’s Sichuan province, the Railway Protection Movement, [the armed uprising against the Qing in 10 October – 1 December 1911 which started from the Railway Protection Movement of  June 17, 1911-September 15 1911 ] known as the Wuchang Uprising, [the Wuchang Uprising lead against the Qing by] the post-1905, pre-1912 Han nationalist, Han supremacist, republican Tongmenghui [Revive China Society] formed [the Tongmenghui] and [the Tongmenghui] lead by [the Tongmenghui’s founder and leader] the Cantonese-Hakka medical student turned Han Nationalist revolutionary, statesman and politician Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the main branch of the post-660 BC-5 December 539 AD current reigning Japanese imperial family, the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled, post-1868, pre-1945-1947 Unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional democratic imperial royal monarchy of the Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, the entire Korean peninsula, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, Russia’s Sakhalin and [Russia’s] Kuril Islands, the Carolinas and the Marinas from [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire’s stronghold and homebase] the Japanese Home Islands, [the Tongmenghui founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the Great Japanese Empire] while he [Yat-sen] was [Yat-sen] studying [Yat-sen] in the Great Japanese Empire while [Yat-sen] in exile from the China region from [how long Yat-sen studied in the Great Japanese Empire for] 1899-1903, [Yat-sen studying in the Great Japanese Empire from 1899-1903] before [Yat-sen] leaving the Great Japanese Empire for a world trip and [Yat-sen] coming back to the Great Japanese Empire in 1905, [Yat-sen returning to the Great Japanese Empire in 1905 after his road trip] staying there, [the Great Japanese Empire] until his [Yat-sen’s] expulsion from the Great Japanese Empire in 1907, [the Tongmenghui founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen when he was studying in the Great Japanese Empire from 1899-1903 and then from 1905-1907] under the Japanese name of [the Japanese name Yat-sen used when he was studying in the Great Japanese Empire] Kikori Nakayama, [Yat-sen founding the Tongmenghui when he was studying in the Great Japanese Empire under the name of Kikori Nakayama] in [when Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Tongmenghui when he was studying in the Great Japanese Empire from 1899-1903 and then from 1905-1907 under the name of Kikori Nakayama] 1905, [the Tongmenghui founded by Dr Sun Yat-sen in 1905 when he was studying in the Great Japanese Empire from 1899-1903 and then from 1905-1907 under the name of Kikori Nakayama], [the Tongmenghui] along with elements of the the Great Qing Empire’s post-1985 modernised army corps envisioned as a regular and professional fully trained and equipped according to Western standards with a reserve, the New Army, that had defected to the Tongmenghui and other anti-Qing rebels, which later snowballed into the October 10, 1911 – February 12, 1912 national liberation movement known as the Xinhai Revolution launched by both the Tongmenghui, the millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on Militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing, pre-1368, post-1644-1662 crypto-Muslim, Han Chinese-Manchurian/Manchu/Jurchen Imperial House of Zhu-ruled absolute imperial dynastic royal monarchy of the Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of Han China that was primarily based in Northern Han China’s provinces of Henan, Shandong, Hebei, the Yellow Sand Society, 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 [Yuanzhang’s combined era and regal name] Hongwu to conquer much of China from around 1352-1371 but was later suppressed by the members of the Ming dynasty’s reigning imperial family, the crypto-Sunni Muslim Jurchen/Manchu/Manchurian-Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu ruling over Han China as Emperors of the Ming dynasty 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, the Heaven and Earth Society [the Wuchang Uprising which later became the Xinhai Revolution being launched] against both the Great Qing Empire and the Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro, [the Xinhai Revolution lead by the Tongmenghui, the Yellow Sand Society, the remnants of the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society] initially [the Xinhai Revolution] being [the Xinhai Revolution] fought [the Xinhai Revolution] to [what the Xinhai Revolution was initially fought to] restore the Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty as the government [the Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty] of the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China after the overthrow of the Qing, [the Xinhai Revolution initially being fought to restore the Ming as the government of a post-Qing Han China], [the Xinhai Revolution] leading to the collapse of the Great Qing Empire as East Turkestan came under the control of  the post-1912, pre-1944 Chinese warlord clique/Chinese military junta/Chinese bandit clique of the Xingjiang Clique during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, with the side branch of the main branch of Genghis Khan-descended, Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin, the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled, post-1696, pre-1930 semi-autonomous feudal Turco-Mongol  type of historic polity,which were  typically nomadic Turkic, Mongol and Tatar societies located on the Eurasian Steppe, politically equivalent in status to kinship-based chiefdoms and feudal monarchies in the West,  which were organised tribally, where leaders gained power on the support and loyalty of their warrior subjects, gaining tribute from subordinates as realm funding, a khaganate and absolute Islamic parliamentary sultante of the Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan’s Hami prefecture,  [the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled  Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan’s Hami prefecture] becoming  [the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled  Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan’s Hami prefecture] independent  [the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled  Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan’s Hami prefecture] from Qing control as well during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, and the post-1912, pre-1921 feudal aristocratic state of Tannu Uriankhai/Uryankhay Krai in Tuva along with the spiritual head of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia also holding the title of Bogd Gegeen, making them the top-ranked lama in Mongolia known as the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu as the Bogd Khan [Holy Emperor]-ruled post-Xinhai,post-1911, pre-1915, post-1921, pre-1925 Unitary Buddhist absolute monarchy of the feudal khanate  of the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State in Outer Mongolia, [ Tannu Uriankhai/Uryankhay Krai in Tuva and  the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State in Outer Mongolia] both  [ Tannu Uriankhai/Uryankhay Krai in Tuva and  the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State in Outer Mongolia] becoming puppets  [ Tannu Uriankhai/Uryankhay Krai in Tuva and  the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State in Outer Mongolia] of the German-Russian-Danish Imperial House of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov-ruled pre-1721, pre-1917 unitary absolute imperial parliamentary royal monarchy of the Russian Empire ruling [the Russian Empire] over Central Asia, the Caucuses, Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Finland, Siberia and the Russian Far East during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, [Tannu Uriankhai/Uryankhay Krai in Tuva and  the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State in Outer Mongolia jointly becoming puppets of the Romanov-ruled Russian Empire during and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution] Tibet becoming independent from the Qing during, after and under the Xinhai Revolution under the rule of  the post-1912, pre-1951 Llama-ruled theocratic Buddhist elective absolute royal monarchy of the Kingdom of Tibet, the mostly Hui Muslim-populated provinces of  Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia in Han China jointly [Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia] coming under the rule of the post-1912, pre-1949 Chinese noble family and later Beiyang military family of the Ma clan-ruled Xibei San Ma [Three Ma of the Northwest |Xibei San Ma|],Yunnan becoming independent from the Qing during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution under the rule of the post-1912, pre-1947-1949 Nationalist Chinese government faction/Chinese warlord Clique/military junta of the Yunnan Clique and Guangdong and Guangxi jointly [Guangdong and Guangxi] coming under the rule of the since-1925 a Soviet satellite dictatorship of 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 as a result of, during and after the Xinhai Revolution, [Tuva, Outer Mongolia, East Turkestan, Tibet and Yunnan along with Guangdong and Guangxi all becoming independent from Manchuria along with becoming sovreign, independent nations] as a result of, during and after the 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 later 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 provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China after the Qing collapse during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, [the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China becoming   the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China after the Qing collapse during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution] albiet [the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China becoming   the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China after the Qing collapse during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution] with the Han Chinese Manchuria-based, later part Manchu bandit clan of the Zhang family-ruled, post-1911, post-1928 Han Chinese bandit clique/military junta/Beiyang Government faction/Han Chinese government faction of the Fengtian Clique based [the Fengtian Clique] in [the Fengtian Clique’s homebase and stronghold] Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, [the Fengtian Clique ruling over Manchuria and Inner Mongolia as a result of, before, during and after the Xinhai Revolution] under the rule of the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces [the provinces of Fengtian, Jilin and Heilongjiang in Manchuria], [Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces] one of eight regional Viceroys [Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces] which [Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces] had [Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces] jurisdiction of military, civil, and political affairs over  the provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang and central and eastern part of Liaoning during the Aisin-GIoro-ruled Great Qing Empire and the later Beiyang Government rule after the Xinhai Revolution,  along with also being a Secretary of Defence and Secretary of Justice and Prefect of Fengtian Prefecture during the Aisin-GIoro-ruled Great Qing Empire and the later Beiyang Government rule after the Xinhai Revolution, along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the post-1911-1912, pre-1937 combined armed military wing of the Fengtian Clique and personal army of the Zhang family and thus the unofficial armed forces of Manchuria and later post-1937, pre-1947-1949 personal army of the Zhang family, which the Zhang family previously developed as an independent fighting force during the Chinese warlord era from Manchurian, Inner Mongolian and Han Units of the post-Xinhai dissolved Qing New Army, and [the Zhang family] also used to control Manchuria and [the Zhang family] intervene in the national politics of both Manchuria and China, being the dominant military force in China in the 1920s, even as it degenerated into the post-1926, pre-1928 warlord coalition led by Fengtian clique General Zhang Zuolin, which was the unofficial army of the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China , the National Pacification Army before Zuolin’s death,  the Fengtian 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 [Zuolin] of the Fengtian Clique from 1911-June 4, 1928 until his [Zuolin’s] death in [when Zuolin died] June 4, 1928, and his [Zuolin’s] eldest son and successor to his [Zuolin’s] combined roles as the combined warlord of Manchuria, head of the National Pacification Army and military dictator of the Fengtian Clique, Zhang Xueliang, who [Xueliang] ruled over the Fengtian Clique from 1926-1928, [the Zhang-family ruled Fengtian Clique based in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia after the Xinhai Revolution] being [the Zhang-family ruled Fengtian Clique based in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia after the Xinhai Revolution]  the real power behind the Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China ruling over  the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China after the Qing collapse during, after and as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, with monarchist and nationalist sentiment rising, leading to the formation of 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 post-1912, pre-1928 armed wing of the Beiyang Government and thus the combined armed forces of the first Republic of China and of the Empire of China, 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 ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928], [the Beiyang Government] success in its [the Beiyang Government's] initial goal of [the Beiyang Government] being a provisional regime  [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] never  [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] reverts  [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] to the first Republic of China post-22 March 1916 like in real life and   [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] remains   [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] as the Empire of China due to   [why the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928 in real life remains as the Empire of this timeline post- post-22 March 1916 like in real life in this timeline] [the Beiyang Government] success in its [the Beiyang Government's] initial goal of [the Beiyang Government] being a provisional regime  [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] for the restoration of the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of a post-Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire independent Han China in the manner of the partially Han Chinese sinciced side branch of the main branch of the post-660 BC reigning Japanese imperial family, the supposedly Shinto-descended Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty, the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled, post-1661, pre-1683 rump kingdom/satellite state/tributary state and provisional regency state of the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty based in southwestern Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, whose maritime power dominated varying extents of coastal regions of southeastern China and controlled the major sea lanes across both China Seas, and its vast trade network stretched from Japan to Southeast Asia at its zenith and is the first predominantly ethnic Han state in Taiwanese history,  the Tungning Kingdom albiet ruling over Han China instead of the now-Japanese controlled Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, as the first Republic of China and then as a restored  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”, with the descendants of the Ming dynasty's reigning imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu], more specifically 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/or descended from  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,  sitting on the  throne of the Emperor of Han China located in the imperial palace complex in the center of the Imperial City in Beijing, China, constructed from 1406 to 1420, which was the imperial palace and winter residence of the Emperor of China from the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty (since the Yongle Emperor) to the end of the Aisin-Gioro-Great Qing Empire, between 1420 and 1924 which was the residence of 24 Ming and Qing dynasty Emperors, and the center of political power in China for over 500 years from 1420 to 1924, along with being the home of Chinese emperors and their households and was the ceremonial and political center of the Chinese government for over 500 years being the most famous palace in all of Chinese history, along with being the largest preserved royal palace complex still standing in the world,  having 8,886 rooms in total,[3] covering 72 ha (720,000 m2)/178-acres,  being both the world’s most valuable palace and the most valuable piece of real estate anywhere in the world, along with being extremely important to the Chinese public and nation, who often view it as a cultural and heavenly link to their ancestors, the Zǐjìnchéng [Purple Forbidden City |Zǐjìnchéng|] , which can refer to the Han Chinese imperial monarchial dynastic sovereign and to the Han Chinese monarchy itself, being given its name  due to the fact the dragon was the emblem of divine imperial power in China,   along with having the power to become visible or invisible—in short, the dragon was a factotum in the “divinity business” of the Chinese emperors along with being the symbol on the Chinese imperial flag and other imperial objects, including the throne or imperial utensil, the Lóng Yǐ [Dragon Throne |Lóng Yǐ|] as Emperors of Han China like their ancestors had before 1644-1662 and thus reigning over Han China from the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing, with the 14th-century imperial palace of the early Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty built by Emperor Hongwu [Zhu Yuanzhang] of the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty, when Nanjing was the capital of China, the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng, [Forbidden City of Nanjing |Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng|],  [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] being [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] rebuilt, [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] expanded, [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] restructured and [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] made into the residence of the members of the Imperial House of Zhu ruling over Han China as Emperors of Han China once more after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing independent Han China after the Xinhai Revolution, with the Beiyang Government’s post-January 10, 1912, pre-1928 combined civil and state flag, which is a banner with Five horizontal bands of red, yellow, blue, white and black, with different colors for the major ethnicities in China during the late Qing and Beiyang era the Han (red); the Manchus (yellow); the Mongols (blue); the Hui (white); and the Tibetans (black), which represented one of the major principles upon which the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China was founded following the Xinhai Revolution lead by the Tongmenghui, the Yellow Sand Society, the Heaven and Earth Society and the renmants of the White Lotus Society against the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire, whose [the principle’s] central tenet was the harmonious existence under one nation of what were considered the five major ethnic groups in China: the Han, the Manchu, the Mongols, the Hui (Muslims), and the Tibetans, Five Races Under One Union,  [the Beiyang Government’s combined civil and national flag which was the physical embodiment of Five Races Under One Union] the Five-Colored Flag,  [the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag] replacing  [the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag] the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire's post-1889, pre-February 12, 1912 combined national flag and emblem which featured a Blue dragon on plain yellow, with a red pearl representing the sun at the upper left corner, all over Han China after the Xinhai Revolution as it [the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag] flew alongside the  the Rí Qí [Sun Flag], a orange banner [the Rí Qí] with [what the Rí Qí has] a red dot [in the middle of the Rí Qí] to [the red dot in the middle of the Rí Qí] represent the sun, [the Rí Qí] being the unofficial naval jack [the Rí Qí] of the Mongol-Manchurian Imperial House of Li-ruled post-618 AD, pre-690 AD and then post-705 AD, pre-907 AD absolute imperial dynastic monarchy of the Great Tang Empire/“Tang dynasty” over Han China from East Turkestan and the Hui-dominated Central China and then [the Rí Qí] becoming the unofficial Chinese Civil flag [the Rí Qí] during the initial Ming era, [the Rí Qí] along with the  variant of the Rí Qí, the Míng Qí [Bright Flag], which [the Mìng Qí] is [the Míng Qí] orange [the Míng Qí] with a large white dot representing the moon in the center [of the Míng Qí] with a smaller red dot representing the sun in the extreme left corner of the large white dot representing the moon in the middle of the Míng Qí, [the large white dot with the smaller red dot in its extreme left corner] representing an eclipse and he Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom’s state and national flag, a white banner  [the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom’s state and national flag] with the Chinese characters 明郑 [míng zhèng |明郑|] in the middle [of the white banner], [the 明郑 in the middle of the white banner] surrounded  [the 明郑 in the middle of the white banner] by a red ring representing the Sun, [ the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom’s state and national flag], the the first purpose-built meeting place of the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China and the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China designed by the German architect based in Qingdao, Curt Rothkegel which was built in 1913 and used intermittently for sessions of the Beiyang Government’s National Assembly during its [the Beiyang Government’s troubled history], the Guóhuì Jiùzhǐ [National Assembly Building |Guóhuì Jiùzhǐ|], began its [ Guóhuì Jiùzhǐ's] operations,  the Beiyang Government’s post-1912, pre-1928 Twelve Symbols national emblem, which [the Twelve Symbols] features a variety of symbolic elements: it has an azure dragon representing strength and adaptability, and a fenghuang (phoenix) symbolizing peace and refinement, each holding a sacrificial cup (zongyi) symbolizing devotion and loyalty, with the dragon’s surroundings including fire, the crescent moon, and possibly stars symbolizing happiness, prosperity, and longevity, while the crest features the sun represented by a three-legged crow, while the escutcheon (central shield) displays an axe head symbolizing courage, executive justice, and agriculture, overlaid with rice grains signifying nourishment and societal prosperity, with the axe head also representing the Center Great Mountain and featuring symbols of the four sacred mountains for tranquility and steadiness. The emblem incorporates elements of the wu xing (five elements) philosophy: earth, metal, water, wood, and fire, while a fu symbol at the axe’s base denotes moral discernment, with said fu symbol being interwoven with ribbons signifying Great Unity and Harmonious Society, [the Twelve Symbols national Emblem] is [the twelve Symbols National Emblem] rechosen [the twelve Symbols national emblem] as the Chinese national emblem, albiet with two crossed 18-star iron blood flags, the iron blood flag itself being the battle flag of the Xinhai Revolution, behind the main insignia of the emblem in its iconography as a tribute to the Xinhai Revolution, [ the Beiyang Government’s Twelve Symbols National Emblem] became the Chinese national emblem alongside the personalized plum blossom seal used by the members of the Imperial House of Zhu ruling over the Ming dynasty as Emperors as Han China that [the Imperial House of Zhu’s personalized plum blossom seal] was [the Imperial House of Zhu’s personalized plum blossom seal] more akin to the personalized version of the Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution, municipality or business entity in Japan known as a Mon, [the personalized Mon] used by which ever clan head of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty is currently reigning over Japan as Emperor and Empress of Japan along with the Japanese imperial family [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] which is one of of the national seals of Japan along with also being used in a manner similar to a national coat of arms of Japan, e.g., on Japanese passports, being a yellow or orange chrysanthemum with black or red outlines and background, the Imperial Seal of Japan, [the Imperial House of Zhu’s personalized plum blossom seal that was similar to the Imperial Seal of Japan] with the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese post-5 May 1921 to 9 December 1928 civil and national flag and the unofficial Taiwanese national ensign after 1947-1949, a horizontal banner with a red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles; said symbols [the red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles] symbolize the sun and rays of light emanating from it, respectively, the Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth flag, [the Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth] becoming the Chinese naval jack,   the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces, being formed from the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire’s post-December 1895, pre-1911-1912 modernized army corps which was envisioned as a regular and professional fully trained and equipped according to Western standards with a reserve and was under the control of Yuan Shikai before the Xinhai Revolution, the New Army, [ the Beiyang Government’s post-1911-1912, pre-1928 armed military wing and thus the First Republic of China’s and the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces formed from the Qing New Army] after the Xinhai Revolution, [ the Beiyang Government’s post-1911-1912, pre-1928 armed military wing and thus the First Republic of China’s and the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces formed from the Qing New Army after the Xinhai Revolution ]being [ the Beiyang Government’s post-1911-1912, pre-1928 armed military wing and thus the First Republic of China’s and the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces formed from the Qing New Army after the Xinhai Revolution ] a combined large army more specifically a Western-style Imperial Chinese Army established by the Beiyang Government in preparation for a post-Xinhai Ming restoration in post-Qing Han China, which of course never happened, playing a major role in Chinese politics for at least three decades and arguably right up to 1949, the Beiyang Army,  transitioning towards being a restored version of the Ming dynasty’s post-1368, pre-1644 combined ground warfare force and naval combat division, the Great Ming Army as the units of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire's post-1644, pre-1912 military units made up mostly of ethnic Han soldiers which operated concurrently with the Manchu-Mongol-Han Eight Banner armies which was primarily used as a police force, more specifically as a primarily as a gendarmerie or constabulary, employed to maintain local law and order and quell small-scale disturbances and also contributed the bulk of forces dispatched in major campaigns,  being extremely fragmented, with literally thousands of large and small outposts throughout the empire, many with as few as twelve men, along with being divided into garrisons of battalion size, reporting through regional brigade generals to commanders-in-chief (提督; Tídū) in each province, the  niowanggiyan turun i kūwaran [Green Standard Army | niowanggiyan turun i kūwaran|] in Han China after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of Han China after the Xinhai Revolution transition towards the Beiyang Government's post-1912, pre-1926-1928 Interior Ministry's agency which oversaw all police forces in the Beiyang Government-ruled Han China, and nominally the Zhang Family-ruled Fengtian Clique-controlled Manchuria and Inner Mongolia on a national level, being a centralized system consisted of a national headquarters in the Beiyang Government's capital of Beijing, provincial police administrations for each province, police departments and bureaus at the municipal and county level respectively, the Beiyang Government's National Police Department  after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of Han China after the Xinhai Revolution, with the  the imperial secret police that served the reigning members of the Imperial House of Zhu as Emperors of Han China that was also a imperial military body of the Great Ming State, with the authority to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecutions with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating and punishing anyone, including nobles and the emperor’s relatives along with the authority to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecutions with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating and punishing anyone, including nobles and the emperor’s relatives, and also to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecuting those deemed as enemies of the state, granted with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating, detaining them without trial and punishing them, without going through due process, whose members were bound to the reigning members of the Imperial House of Zhu as Emperors of Han China and took direct orders from them [the reigning members of the Imperial House of Zhu as Emperors of Han China], also serving as political commissary of the Great Ming State’s combined ground combat force and naval warfare force, the Great Ming Army in times of war, the Jǐnyīwèi [brocade-clothing guard/Embroidered Uniform Guard] also making a comeback, [the Beiyang Government succeeding in its goal of restoring the  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of a post-Aisin-GIoro-ruled Great Qing Empire-occupied Han China after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline] as everyone in China and Asia was expecting to happen after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline, [the Beiyang Government succeeding in its goal of restoring the  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of a post-Aisin-GIoro-ruled Great Qing Empire-occupied Han China after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline as everyone in China and Asia was expecting to happen after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline] more specifically immediately after the Xinhai Revolution, the fall of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire and the rise of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing Han China, due to   the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands still [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands] being [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands in this timeline] under the rule of [which government the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands was still under the rule of] the post-1603, pre-1863 de jure absolute imperial dynastic parliamentary monarchy but de facto feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the side branch of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty that was also a Japanese and samurai clan of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu [tent government |bakufu|], [the bakufu] popularly [the bakufu] known as [the bakufu’s more popular name] the shogunate, [the bakufu] a system of government in Japan dominated [the bakufu] by a feudal military dictatorship exercised in the name of a sei-i taishōgun [“Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians” |sei-i taishōgun|, the military rulers of Japan |the sei-i taishōgun| during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868 in Japanese history who |the sei-i taishōgun| carried out |the sei-i taishōgun| the actual duties of administration in Japan during that time period who |the sei-i taishōgun| also |the sei-i taishōgun| enjoyed civil, military, diplomatic and judicial authority within Japan], [the sei-i taishōgun] more popularly known as [the sei-i taishōgun’s more famous name] a shogun or by the shogun himself, with the hierarchy that held the bakufu together being [the hierarchy holding the bakufu] reinforced [the hierarchy holding the bakufu] by [what reinforced the hierarchy holding the bakufu together] close ties of loyalty between the collection of various powers that supported the bakufu and the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s with high prestige and special privileges, the buke [military families |buke|], [the buke] better known [the buke] outside of Japan and East Asia as [the buke’s other, more famous name] the samurai, the powerful Japanese magnates, and feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings despite being subordinate to the shogun/sei-i taishōgun and nominally to the clan head of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan as Emperor or Empress of Japan, whom the buke/samurai served as well-paid retainers, the daimyō [large private land |daimyō], [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands still being under the rule of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu in this timeline] due to 3 January 1868 Meiji Restoration in the Tokugawa bakufu that [the Meiji Restoration] lead [the Meiji Restoration] to the Japanese imperial family [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] regaining the executive power it [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] had [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] lost [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] to the various shoguns and shogunates ruling over Japan and Okinawa since 1185 and the subsequent dissolution of the Tokugawa bakufu as the government of Japan and the subsequent establishment of the Great Japanese Empire as the post-Tokugawa bakufu government of both the Japanese Home Islands and Okinawa and [the Meiji Restoration] subsequently lead to the rise of Japan as a political, military, economic and industrial superpower, not just in East Asia but the world [the Meiji Restoration in this timeline] does not lead to the displacement of the Tokugawa clan as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns and the samurai class due to the Japanese imperial family, the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato regaining its power due to the Meiji Restoration as in OTL, but [the Meiji Restoration in this timeline] is [the Meiji Restoration in this timeline] instead [what the Meiji Restoration is in this timeline] a compromise between the conservative feudal elites that support the Tokugawa clan and the bakufu system and the liberal democrats who support the imperial family in Tokugawa bakufu-ruled feudal Japan, with the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan maintaining their [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan’s] positions as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns of Japan but [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns of Japan after 1868 in this timeline] effectively only controlling Japanese local government in this timeline and [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns of Japan after 1868 in this timeline] also leading the Japanese military into battle, becoming something akin to the constitutional royal monarchs of Europe and a Germanic Reichskanzler combined  with the heads of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan and Okinawa as Emperors and Empresses of Japan respectively also becoming the combined Japanese constitutional imperial dynastic royal Japanese heads of state and of the Japanese armed forces, presiding over Japan’s national bicameral legislature divided into a a lower house, called the House of Representatives and an upper house, the House of Councillors, with members of both houses [the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors] being [the members of the House or Representatives and the House of Councilors] elected [the members of the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors] directly elected under a parallel voting system, [Japan’s bicameral legislature divided into the Houses of Representatives and Councillors] having the formal responsibility of passing laws and also nominating the Japanese Prime Minister, Japan’s bicameral legislature divided into the Houses of Representatives and Councillors] the National Diet, and also selecting the Japanese Prime Minister from the political party that wins Japan’s free and fair democratic national elections under secret ballot via, through and after the Meiji Restoration like in real life, although the buke/samurai and the daimyō are [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] not abolished [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] like in OTL after the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent formation of the post-1868, pre-1947 main branch of the supposedly Shinto-pantheon descended Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty-ruled unitary parliamentary constitutional absolute imperial royal monarchy of the Great Japanese Empire ruling [the Great Japanese Empire] over [the Great Japanese Empire] Russia’s Sahlakin and [Russia’s] Kuril Islands, the Korean peninsula, Palau, the Carolinas and the Marinas from [the Great Japanese Empire’s stronghold and homebase] the Japanese Home Islands, [the formation of the Great Japanese Empire] as the government of Japan after the Meiji Restoration but rather [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] absorbed [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] into the Great Japanese Empire’s post-1868, post-1947 hereditary peerage, the Kazoku [Magnificent/Exalted lineage |Kazoku|] in this timeline, which [the Kazoku] was [the Kazoku] formed [the Kazoku] from [what the Kazoku was formed from] the  Japanese aristocratic class and civil aristocracy of feudal Japan which was the ruling class of feudal Japanese society that exercised power on behalf of the clan head of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan as Emperor or Empress of Japan, dominating the post-794 AD, pre 1868-1912 nominal ruling Japanese government, the Japanese Imperial Court at Kyoto, the kuge [bureaucrats at the court |kuge|], [the buke/samurai and the daimyō being absorbed into the Kazoku formed from the kuge] instead of the kuge being merged with the daimyō to form the kuge like in real life during, after and via the Meji Restoration in this timeline, [the buke/samurai and the daimyō being absorbed into the Kazoku formed from the kuge instead of the kuge being merged with the daimyō to form the kuge like in real life during, after and via the Meji Restoration in this timeline] with the industrial, economic and military development that made Japan into a great military, economic, industrial and economic power after the Meiji Restoration in OTL and real life still happening and continuing unhindered in the Great Japanese Empire in this timeline, Japan has become the primary naval power in Asia, with the Korean peninsula, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, and Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands being fully integrated into Japan by this point in time, [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands still being under the rule of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu in this timeline due to the Meiji Restoration being a compromise in this timeline] and thus Yat-Sen, while [Yat-Sen] studying in Japan in this timeline, [Yat-Sen] finds himself [Yat-Sen] drifting away [Yat-Sen] from republicanism and [Yat-Sen] towards constitutional monarchism and [Yat-Sen]  finds himself [Yat-Sen] more willing to compromise with Ming monarchists, Ming restorationists and Ming revivalists in the Xinhai Revolution against the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire, a stronger presence of the Yellow Sand Society, the renmants of the original White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society in the establishment of the Beiyang Government as a result of Yat-sen being killed during the last days of the Xinhai Revolution while [Yat-Sen] leading the charge against the Qing New Army along with Shikai, [Shikai] leading the Qing New Army against the Ming monarchists, Ming restorationists and Ming revivalists, e Yellow Sand Society, the renmants of the original White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society, thus forcing the Beiyang Government's transition towards a restored  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”  as was the goal of the Xinhai Revolution after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline, as the Beiyang Government quickly transitioned towards being a restored Zheng-ruled Tungning Kingdom, and then after the coronation of a suitable descendant of the Imperial House of Zhu on the  Lóng Yǐ in the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing as Emperor of Han China , after the Xinhai Revolution, the fall of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire and the rise of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing Han China, with the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty's Míng Qí flying alongside the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag in the Great Qing Empire's and the Beiyang Government's shared capital of Beiing, [the Beiyang Governmetn becoming] a restored Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”, albiet a constitutional parliamentary one, with free and fair, democratic multi-party elections as per the wishes of the Xinhai Revolution, with said elections being dominated by the Kuomingtang,  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 post-29 May 1913-1916, pre-1945-1947 political party in Beiyang Government-ruled China of the Research Clique, and later on the post-2 December 1923 conservative, Chinese nationalist, adhering to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's  three principles of the people: nationalism, democracy and Socialism, advocating  for the elimination of China's warlords and the establishment of a strong central government, along with promoting a nationalist agenda which focused on the abolition of the special privileges and extraterritoriality which foreign powers had obtained in the China region during the last days of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire, being strongly anti-communist and consisting largely of landlords, school teachers, and businessmen, along with being based in the Zhang family-ruled Fengtian Clique, the Young China Party and the post-November 1927-9 August 1930 Chinese political party having an ideology of Chinese nationalism, Chinese imperialism, Han nationalism, Han imperialism and socialism with Chinese characterstics, the Chinese Peasants’ and Workers’ Democratic Party. 

The Beiyang Government being formed as the Empire of China from 29 December 1911 to 10 March 1912, albiet with the descendants of Chongzhen and Yongli reigning from the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing in this timeline as the current reigning Chinese imperial family, instead of Yuan Shikai declaring himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China on 12 December 1915 like in real life and [the Beiyang Government] never [the Beiyang Government] being formed as a Republic [the first Republic of China] in this timeline after the Xinhai Revolution, ironically ends up preventing the period of history in the KMT-ruled Nationalist China and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China when control over the post-Xinhai Revolution China region was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928, due to Yuan's death creating a power vacuum that spread across the provinces of Sichuan, Shanxi, Gansu Qinghai and Ningxia in Han China, Cantonia's two provinces of Guangdong, and Guangxi, along with the nations of Yunnan and East Turkestan, being characterized by constant civil war between different factions for control of the China region known as the Warlord era in this timeline due to the Xinhai Revolution succeeding in its [the Xinhai Revolution's] goal of [the Xinhai Revolution] restoring the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government [the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”] of a post-Qing independent Han China, Yat-sen's death during the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline meaning the  post-1911, pre-1924, Cantonese nationalist, Cantonese independence, Guangxi-based Nationalist Chinese government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique of the Old Guangxi Clique quickly seizes control of the KMT-ruled Nationalist China after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline, with  the Guangdong-born Cantonese lawyer and teacher turned , military general, revolutionary, federalist and politician after the Xinhai Revolution Chen Jiongming becoming the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese Chairman of the Nationalist Government after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline and so the Kuomingtang's post-16 June 1924, pre-1945 military arm and thus the main branch of the Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China's/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China's pre-1928 post- 25 December 1947 regular army, the National Revolutionary Army's  9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928  military campaign against both the Zhang family-ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia lead by Zhang Zuolin as the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces [the provinces of Fengtian, Jilin and Heilongjiang in Manchuria] along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army and later his [Zuolin's] son and [Zuolin's] successor as combined warlord of Manchuria and  commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army  after his [Zuolin's] death via [how Zuolin died] being [Zuolin] assassinated by a bomb placed in his [Zuolin's] private carriage by the Soviet Union's post-10 July 1934, pre-15 March 1946 interior ministry which had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions, being known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, which was tasked with regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps, along with mass arrests, imprisonment, torture, and executions of hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens during the Great Purge in 1936–1938, the  Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del [People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs |Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del|] on June 4, 1928 and the main branch of the Beiyang Goverment based in Beijing ruling over the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China under the nominal control of  the Beiyang Government’s of the first Republic of China’s last civilian Great President before Zuolin’s seizure of power, the Cantonese-Shanghaiese diplomat and statesman who was one of China’s representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Ku Wei-chün, better known as [ Ku Wei-chün’s more famous alias] V. K. Wellington Koo, [V. K. Wellington Koo] ruling as the Beiyang Government of the first Republic of China’s Great President from 1 October 1926 – 17 June 1927,  with the help of the Ma-clan ruled Xibei San Ma then [the Ma-clan ruled Xibei San Ma] lead by Ma Bufang and the Ma family's post-1862, pre-1949 personal army and thus Xibei San Ma's unofficial combined armed forces, the Ma Family Army, [the military operation launched by the Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China's/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army with the help of Xibei San Ma's Ma Family Army from 9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928 against both the Zhang-family ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia lead by Zhang Zuolin as the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army and later on Zhang Xueliang as combined warlord of Manchuria and  commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army  after Zuolin's death and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China lead by Koo as Great President] whose purpose was to reunify the territories of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire under the rule of he Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China known as the Northern Expedition,  [the 9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928 Northern Expedition  launched by the Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China's/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army with the help of Xibei San Ma's Ma Family Army from 9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928 against both the Zhang-family ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia lead by Zhang Zuolin as the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army and later on Zhang Xueliang as combined warlord of Manchuria and  commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army  after Zuolin's death h and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China lead by Koo as Great President whose purpose was to reunify the territories of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire under the rule of he Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China] never happens in this timeline as Yat-Sen died earlier in this timeline and thus Sun Yat-sen's most famous discyple, the Cantonese minor nobleman turned revolutionary and politician before and during the Xinhai Revolution turned ruthless corrupt warlord, puppet of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and nominal communist dictator of China from 1928 to 1945-1947, Chiang Kai-Shek, [Kai-Shek] never [Kai-Shek] succeeds Yat-Sen as Chairman of the Nationalist Government in this timeline, and [the Warlord era of modern Chinese history never happening in this timeline] also  [the Warlord era of modern Chinese history never happening in this timeline] and what would become the post-1916, pre-1926 Beiyang Government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique which was a military and political organization, which was largely a collection of military officers of the Qing New Army and then the Beiyang Government's Beiyang Army after the Xinhai Revolution of 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, [what would become the Anhui Clique and the Anhui Clique's Communications Clique and the Anhui Clique's Anfu Club during the the Warlord era of modern Chinese history in real life in this timeline] staying loyal to the main branch of the Beiyang Government ruling over Han China in this timeline due to the Xinhai Revolution succeeding in its [the Xinhai Revolution's] goal of [the Xinhai Revolution] restoring the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government [the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”] of a post-Qing Han China in this timeline

Thus the KMT-ruled Nationalist China becomes the independent Republic of Cantonia encompassing Guangdong and Guangxi after the Xinhai Revolution, with the activities of what will become the KMT's and the Nationalist Chinese National Revolutionary Army and later on, Kuomingtang’s post- 16 June 1924 armed military wing and thus Nationalist China’s post-25 December 1947 combined armed forces, consisting of the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese post-16 June 1924-25 December 1947 ground warfare branch of the Nationalist Chinese military, whose primary focus is on defense and counterattack against amphibious assault and urban warfare, the Republic of China Army, the post-1924 maritime branch of the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese armed forces,  whose primary mission is to defend the KMT-ruled Nationalist China;s territories and the sea lanes under its jurisdiction against any possible blockades, attacks, or invasion, whose operations include maritime patrols in the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, as well as readiness for counter-strike and counter-invasion operations during wartime, the Republic of China Navy (including the Marine Corps), the post-1920-25 December 1947 military aviation branch of the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese military, whose primary mission is the defense of the airspace over and around the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese territories, and whose priorities in the modern day include the development of long range reconnaissance and surveillance networks, integrating C4ISTAR systems to increase battle effectiveness, procuring counterstrike weapons, next generation fighters, and hardening airfields and other facilities to survive a surprise attack, the Republic of China Air Force and the military police body in the KMT-ruled Nationalist China responsible for protecting government leaders from assassination or capture, guarding Nationalist Chinese strategic facilities, and counterintelligence against enemy infiltrators, spies, and saboteurs, the Republic of China Military Police Force, and under the Nationalist Chinese cabinet level ministry under the Nationalist Chinese Legislative Yuan responsible for all defense and military affairs of the KMT-ruled Nationalist China, the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Defence, the Republic of China Armed Forces/Chinese National Armed Forces,  the post-1928- 1972 agency of the Nationalist Chinese Legislative Yuan responsible for home affairs and security throughout Nationalist China including population, land, construction, military service administration, national emergency services, local administration systems, law enforcement, the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of the Interior overseeing all police forces in Nationalist China on a national level, the Nationalist Chinese National Police Agency, the Nationalist Chinese  post-1927 to 1932, pre-1946 military intelligence agency devoted to intelligence gathering and covert spying operation for purposes of national security and defense, having a great influence amongst the NRA along with the post-1927 to 1932, pre-1946 Nationalist Chinese police, administration, and transportation agencies, as well as embassies and consulates abroad, involved in covert and espionage operation, including surveillance, kidnapping, assassinations, elimination and house-arrest against Chinese communists, Japanese spies as well as political dissidents, the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, [the Nationalist Chinese BOIS] later  [the Nationalist Chinese BOIS] to  [the Nationalist Chinese BOIS] become  the KMT-ruled Nationalist China’s post-1 March 1955 principal intelligence agency created to supervise and coordinate all security-related administrative organizations, military agencies and KMT organizations in Taiwan, gathering, International intelligence, Intelligence within the area of People’s Republic of China, Intelligence within the area of Taiwan, Analysis of the nation’s strategic intelligence, , Scientific and technological intelligence and telecommunications security, Control and development of secret codes (the matrix) and facilities, Armed Forces Internet Security while also taking charge of planning special tasks and is responsible for guiding, coordinating, and supporting the intelligence affairs in military and civil categories in addition to managing intelligence relevant to national security, the Nationalist Chinese National Security Bureau, [the Nationalist Chinese military, government and intelligence agencies] only having jurisdiction in Guangdong and Guangxi? 

[the Beiyang Government] success in its [the Beiyang Government's] initial goal of [the Beiyang Government] being a provisional regime  [the Beiyang Government ruling over the first Republic of China from 1912-1915, Yuan Shikai’s Empire of China from 1915-1916 and again over the first Republic of China from 1926-1928] for the restoration of the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of a post-Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire independent Han China in the manner of the partially Han Chinese sinciced side branch of the main branch of the post-660 BC reigning Japanese imperial family, the supposedly Shinto-descended Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty, the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled, post-1661, pre-1683 rump kingdom/satellite state/tributary state and provisional regency state of the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty based in southwestern Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, whose maritime power dominated varying extents of coastal regions of southeastern China and controlled the major sea lanes across both China Seas, and its vast trade network stretched from Japan to Southeast Asia at its zenith and is the first predominantly ethnic Han state in Taiwanese history,  the Tungning Kingdom albiet ruling over Han China instead of the now-Japanese controlled Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, as the first Republic of China and then as a restored  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”, with the descendants of the Ming dynasty's reigning imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu], more specifically 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/or descended from  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,  sitting on the  throne of the Emperor of Han China located in the imperial palace complex in the center of the Imperial City in Beijing, China, constructed from 1406 to 1420, which was the imperial palace and winter residence of the Emperor of China from the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty (since the Yongle Emperor) to the end of the Aisin-Gioro-Great Qing Empire, between 1420 and 1924 which was the residence of 24 Ming and Qing dynasty Emperors, and the center of political power in China for over 500 years from 1420 to 1924, along with being the home of Chinese emperors and their households and was the ceremonial and political center of the Chinese government for over 500 years being the most famous palace in all of Chinese history, along with being the largest preserved royal palace complex still standing in the world,  having 8,886 rooms in total,[3] covering 72 ha (720,000 m2)/178-acres,  being both the world’s most valuable palace and the most valuable piece of real estate anywhere in the world, along with being extremely important to the Chinese public and nation, who often view it as a cultural and heavenly link to their ancestors, the Zǐjìnchéng [Purple Forbidden City |Zǐjìnchéng|] , which can refer to the Han Chinese imperial monarchial dynastic sovereign and to the Han Chinese monarchy itself, being given its name  due to the fact the dragon was the emblem of divine imperial power in China,   along with having the power to become visible or invisible—in short, the dragon was a factotum in the “divinity business” of the Chinese emperors along with being the symbol on the Chinese imperial flag and other imperial objects, including the throne or imperial utensil, the Lóng Yǐ [Dragon Throne |Lóng Yǐ|] as Emperors of Han China like their ancestors had before 1644-1662 and thus reigning over Han China from the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing, with the 14th-century imperial palace of the early Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty built by Emperor Hongwu [Zhu Yuanzhang] of the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty, when Nanjing was the capital of China, the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng, [Forbidden City of Nanjing |Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng|],  [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] being [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] rebuilt, [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] expanded, [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] restructured and [the Nánjīng Zǐjìnchéng] made into the residence of the members of the Imperial House of Zhu ruling over Han China as Emperors of Han China once more after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing independent Han China after the Xinhai Revolution, with the Beiyang Government’s post-January 10, 1912, pre-1928 combined civil and state flag, which is a banner with Five horizontal bands of red, yellow, blue, white and black, with different colors for the major ethnicities in China during the late Qing and Beiyang era the Han (red); the Manchus (yellow); the Mongols (blue); the Hui (white); and the Tibetans (black), which represented one of the major principles upon which the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China was founded following the Xinhai Revolution lead by the Tongmenghui, the Yellow Sand Society, the Heaven and Earth Society and the renmants of the White Lotus Society against the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire, whose [the principle’s] central tenet was the harmonious existence under one nation of what were considered the five major ethnic groups in China: the Han, the Manchu, the Mongols, the Hui (Muslims), and the Tibetans, Five Races Under One Union,  [the Beiyang Government’s combined civil and national flag which was the physical embodiment of Five Races Under One Union] the Five-Colored Flag,  [the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag] replacing  [the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag] the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire's post-1889, pre-February 12, 1912 combined national flag and emblem which featured a Blue dragon on plain yellow, with a red pearl representing the sun at the upper left corner, all over Han China after the Xinhai Revolution as it [the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag] flew alongside the  the Rí Qí [Sun Flag], a orange banner [the Rí Qí] with [what the Rí Qí has] a red dot [in the middle of the Rí Qí] to [the red dot in the middle of the Rí Qí] represent the sun, [the Rí Qí] being the unofficial naval jack [the Rí Qí] of the Mongol-Manchurian Imperial House of Li-ruled post-618 AD, pre-690 AD and then post-705 AD, pre-907 AD absolute imperial dynastic monarchy of the Great Tang Empire/“Tang dynasty” over Han China from East Turkestan and the Hui-dominated Central China and then [the Rí Qí] becoming the unofficial Chinese Civil flag [the Rí Qí] during the initial Ming era, [the Rí Qí] along with the  variant of the Rí Qí, the Míng Qí [Bright Flag], which [the Mìng Qí] is [the Míng Qí] orange [the Míng Qí] with a large white dot representing the moon in the center [of the Míng Qí] with a smaller red dot representing the sun in the extreme left corner of the large white dot representing the moon in the middle of the Míng Qí, [the large white dot with the smaller red dot in its extreme left corner] representing an eclipse and he Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom’s state and national flag, a white banner  [the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom’s state and national flag] with the Chinese characters 明郑 [míng zhèng |明郑|] in the middle [of the white banner], [the 明郑 in the middle of the white banner] surrounded  [the 明郑 in the middle of the white banner] by a red ring representing the Sun, [ the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom’s state and national flag], the the first purpose-built meeting place of the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China and the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China designed by the German architect based in Qingdao, Curt Rothkegel which was built in 1913 and used intermittently for sessions of the Beiyang Government’s National Assembly during its [the Beiyang Government’s troubled history], the Guóhuì Jiùzhǐ [National Assembly Building |Guóhuì Jiùzhǐ|], began its [ Guóhuì Jiùzhǐ's] operations,  the Beiyang Government’s post-1912, pre-1928 Twelve Symbols national emblem, which [the Twelve Symbols] features a variety of symbolic elements: it has an azure dragon representing strength and adaptability, and a fenghuang (phoenix) symbolizing peace and refinement, each holding a sacrificial cup (zongyi) symbolizing devotion and loyalty, with the dragon’s surroundings including fire, the crescent moon, and possibly stars symbolizing happiness, prosperity, and longevity, while the crest features the sun represented by a three-legged crow, while the escutcheon (central shield) displays an axe head symbolizing courage, executive justice, and agriculture, overlaid with rice grains signifying nourishment and societal prosperity, with the axe head also representing the Center Great Mountain and featuring symbols of the four sacred mountains for tranquility and steadiness. The emblem incorporates elements of the wu xing (five elements) philosophy: earth, metal, water, wood, and fire, while a fu symbol at the axe’s base denotes moral discernment, with said fu symbol being interwoven with ribbons signifying Great Unity and Harmonious Society, [the Twelve Symbols national Emblem] is [the twelve Symbols National Emblem] rechosen [the twelve Symbols national emblem] as the Chinese national emblem, albiet with two crossed 18-star iron blood flags, the iron blood flag itself being the battle flag of the Xinhai Revolution, behind the main insignia of the emblem in its iconography as a tribute to the Xinhai Revolution, [ the Beiyang Government’s Twelve Symbols National Emblem] became the Chinese national emblem alongside the personalized plum blossom seal used by the members of the Imperial House of Zhu ruling over the Ming dynasty as Emperors as Han China that [the Imperial House of Zhu’s personalized plum blossom seal] was [the Imperial House of Zhu’s personalized plum blossom seal] more akin to the personalized version of the Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution, municipality or business entity in Japan known as a Mon, [the personalized Mon] used by which ever clan head of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty is currently reigning over Japan as Emperor and Empress of Japan along with the Japanese imperial family [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] which is one of of the national seals of Japan along with also being used in a manner similar to a national coat of arms of Japan, e.g., on Japanese passports, being a yellow or orange chrysanthemum with black or red outlines and background, the Imperial Seal of Japan, [the Imperial House of Zhu’s personalized plum blossom seal that was similar to the Imperial Seal of Japan] with the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese post-5 May 1921 to 9 December 1928 civil and national flag and the unofficial Taiwanese national ensign after 1947-1949, a horizontal banner with a red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles; said symbols [the red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles] symbolize the sun and rays of light emanating from it, respectively, the Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth flag, [the Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth] becoming the Chinese naval jack,   the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces, being formed from the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire’s post-December 1895, pre-1911-1912 modernized army corps which was envisioned as a regular and professional fully trained and equipped according to Western standards with a reserve and was under the control of Yuan Shikai before the Xinhai Revolution, the New Army, [ the Beiyang Government’s post-1911-1912, pre-1928 armed military wing and thus the First Republic of China’s and the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces formed from the Qing New Army] after the Xinhai Revolution, [ the Beiyang Government’s post-1911-1912, pre-1928 armed military wing and thus the First Republic of China’s and the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces formed from the Qing New Army after the Xinhai Revolution ]being [ the Beiyang Government’s post-1911-1912, pre-1928 armed military wing and thus the First Republic of China’s and the Empire of China’s unofficial combined armed forces formed from the Qing New Army after the Xinhai Revolution ] a combined large army more specifically a Western-style Imperial Chinese Army established by the Beiyang Government in preparation for a post-Xinhai Ming restoration in post-Qing Han China, which of course never happened, playing a major role in Chinese politics for at least three decades and arguably right up to 1949, the Beiyang Army,  transitioning towards being a restored version of the Ming dynasty’s post-1368, pre-1644 combined ground warfare force and naval combat division, the Great Ming Army as the units of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire's post-1644, pre-1912 military units made up mostly of ethnic Han soldiers which operated concurrently with the Manchu-Mongol-Han Eight Banner armies which was primarily used as a police force, more specifically as a primarily as a gendarmerie or constabulary, employed to maintain local law and order and quell small-scale disturbances and also contributed the bulk of forces dispatched in major campaigns,  being extremely fragmented, with literally thousands of large and small outposts throughout the empire, many with as few as twelve men, along with being divided into garrisons of battalion size, reporting through regional brigade generals to commanders-in-chief (提督; Tídū) in each province, the  niowanggiyan turun i kūwaran [Green Standard Army | niowanggiyan turun i kūwaran|] in Han China after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of Han China after the Xinhai Revolution transition towards the Beiyang Government's post-1912, pre-1926-1928 Interior Ministry's agency which oversaw all police forces in the Beiyang Government-ruled Han China, and nominally the Zhang Family-ruled Fengtian Clique-controlled Manchuria and Inner Mongolia on a national level, being a centralized system consisted of a national headquarters in the Beiyang Government's capital of Beijing, provincial police administrations for each province, police departments and bureaus at the municipal and county level respectively, the Beiyang Government's National Police Department  after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of Han China after the Xinhai Revolution, with the  the imperial secret police that served the reigning members of the Imperial House of Zhu as Emperors of Han China that was also a imperial military body of the Great Ming State, with the authority to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecutions with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating and punishing anyone, including nobles and the emperor’s relatives along with the authority to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecutions with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating and punishing anyone, including nobles and the emperor’s relatives, and also to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecuting those deemed as enemies of the state, granted with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating, detaining them without trial and punishing them, without going through due process, whose members were bound to the reigning members of the Imperial House of Zhu as Emperors of Han China and took direct orders from them [the reigning members of the Imperial House of Zhu as Emperors of Han China], also serving as political commissary of the Great Ming State’s combined ground combat force and naval warfare force, the Great Ming Army in times of war, the Jǐnyīwèi [brocade-clothing guard/Embroidered Uniform Guard] also making a comeback, [the Beiyang Government succeeding in its goal of restoring the  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of a post-Aisin-GIoro-ruled Great Qing Empire-occupied Han China after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline] as everyone in China and Asia was expecting to happen after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline, [the Beiyang Government succeeding in its goal of restoring the  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government of a post-Aisin-GIoro-ruled Great Qing Empire-occupied Han China after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline as everyone in China and Asia was expecting to happen after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline] more specifically immediately after the Xinhai Revolution, the fall of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire and the rise of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing Han China, due to   the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands still [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands] being [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands in this timeline] under the rule of [which government the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands was still under the rule of] the post-1603, pre-1863 de jure absolute imperial dynastic parliamentary monarchy but de facto feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the side branch of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty that was also a Japanese and samurai clan of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu [tent government |bakufu|], [the bakufu] popularly [the bakufu] known as [the bakufu’s more popular name] the shogunate, [the bakufu] a system of government in Japan dominated [the bakufu] by a feudal military dictatorship exercised in the name of a sei-i taishōgun [“Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians” |sei-i taishōgun|, the military rulers of Japan |the sei-i taishōgun| during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868 in Japanese history who |the sei-i taishōgun| carried out |the sei-i taishōgun| the actual duties of administration in Japan during that time period who |the sei-i taishōgun| also |the sei-i taishōgun| enjoyed civil, military, diplomatic and judicial authority within Japan], [the sei-i taishōgun] more popularly known as [the sei-i taishōgun’s more famous name] a shogun or by the shogun himself, with the hierarchy that held the bakufu together being [the hierarchy holding the bakufu] reinforced [the hierarchy holding the bakufu] by [what reinforced the hierarchy holding the bakufu together] close ties of loyalty between the collection of various powers that supported the bakufu and the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s with high prestige and special privileges, the buke [military families |buke|], [the buke] better known [the buke] outside of Japan and East Asia as [the buke’s other, more famous name] the samurai, the powerful Japanese magnates, and feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings despite being subordinate to the shogun/sei-i taishōgun and nominally to the clan head of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan as Emperor or Empress of Japan, whom the buke/samurai served as well-paid retainers, the daimyō [large private land |daimyō], [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands still being under the rule of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu in this timeline] due to 3 January 1868 Meiji Restoration in the Tokugawa bakufu that [the Meiji Restoration] lead [the Meiji Restoration] to the Japanese imperial family [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] regaining the executive power it [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] had [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] lost [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] to the various shoguns and shogunates ruling over Japan and Okinawa since 1185 and the subsequent dissolution of the Tokugawa bakufu as the government of Japan and the subsequent establishment of the Great Japanese Empire as the post-Tokugawa bakufu government of both the Japanese Home Islands and Okinawa and [the Meiji Restoration] subsequently lead to the rise of Japan as a political, military, economic and industrial superpower, not just in East Asia but the world [the Meiji Restoration in this timeline] does not lead to the displacement of the Tokugawa clan as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns and the samurai class due to the Japanese imperial family, the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato regaining its power due to the Meiji Restoration as in OTL, but [the Meiji Restoration in this timeline] is [the Meiji Restoration in this timeline] instead [what the Meiji Restoration is in this timeline] a compromise between the conservative feudal elites that support the Tokugawa clan and the bakufu system and the liberal democrats who support the imperial family in Tokugawa bakufu-ruled feudal Japan, with the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan maintaining their [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan’s] positions as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns of Japan but [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns of Japan after 1868 in this timeline] effectively only controlling Japanese local government in this timeline and [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan as sei-i taishōgun/shoguns of Japan after 1868 in this timeline] also leading the Japanese military into battle, becoming something akin to the constitutional royal monarchs of Europe and a Germanic Reichskanzler combined  with the heads of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan and Okinawa as Emperors and Empresses of Japan respectively also becoming the combined Japanese constitutional imperial dynastic royal Japanese heads of state and of the Japanese armed forces, presiding over Japan’s national bicameral legislature divided into a a lower house, called the House of Representatives and an upper house, the House of Councillors, with members of both houses [the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors] being [the members of the House or Representatives and the House of Councilors] elected [the members of the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors] directly elected under a parallel voting system, [Japan’s bicameral legislature divided into the Houses of Representatives and Councillors] having the formal responsibility of passing laws and also nominating the Japanese Prime Minister, Japan’s bicameral legislature divided into the Houses of Representatives and Councillors] the National Diet, and also selecting the Japanese Prime Minister from the political party that wins Japan’s free and fair democratic national elections under secret ballot via, through and after the Meiji Restoration like in real life, although the buke/samurai and the daimyō are [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] not abolished [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] like in OTL after the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent formation of the post-1868, pre-1947 main branch of the supposedly Shinto-pantheon descended Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty-ruled unitary parliamentary constitutional absolute imperial royal monarchy of the Great Japanese Empire ruling [the Great Japanese Empire] over [the Great Japanese Empire] Russia’s Sahlakin and [Russia’s] Kuril Islands, the Korean peninsula, Palau, the Carolinas and the Marinas from [the Great Japanese Empire’s stronghold and homebase] the Japanese Home Islands, [the formation of the Great Japanese Empire] as the government of Japan after the Meiji Restoration but rather [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] absorbed [the buke/samurai and the daimyō in this timeline] into the Great Japanese Empire’s post-1868, post-1947 hereditary peerage, the Kazoku [Magnificent/Exalted lineage |Kazoku|] in this timeline, which [the Kazoku] was [the Kazoku] formed [the Kazoku] from [what the Kazoku was formed from] the  Japanese aristocratic class and civil aristocracy of feudal Japan which was the ruling class of feudal Japanese society that exercised power on behalf of the clan head of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan as Emperor or Empress of Japan, dominating the post-794 AD, pre 1868-1912 nominal ruling Japanese government, the Japanese Imperial Court at Kyoto, the kuge [bureaucrats at the court |kuge|], [the buke/samurai and the daimyō being absorbed into the Kazoku formed from the kuge] instead of the kuge being merged with the daimyō to form the kuge like in real life during, after and via the Meji Restoration in this timeline, [the buke/samurai and the daimyō being absorbed into the Kazoku formed from the kuge instead of the kuge being merged with the daimyō to form the kuge like in real life during, after and via the Meji Restoration in this timeline] with the industrial, economic and military development that made Japan into a great military, economic, industrial and economic power after the Meiji Restoration in OTL and real life still happening and continuing unhindered in the Great Japanese Empire in this timeline, Japan has become the primary naval power in Asia, with the Korean peninsula, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, and Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands being fully integrated into Japan by this point in time, [the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire ruling over Okinawa, Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas and the Marinas from the Japanese Home Islands still being under the rule of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu in this timeline due to the Meiji Restoration being a compromise in this timeline] and thus Yat-Sen, while [Yat-Sen] studying in Japan in this timeline, [Yat-Sen] finds himself [Yat-Sen] drifting away [Yat-Sen] from republicanism and [Yat-Sen] towards constitutional monarchism and [Yat-Sen]  finds himself [Yat-Sen] more willing to compromise with Ming monarchists, Ming restorationists and Ming revivalists in the Xinhai Revolution against the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire, a stronger presence of the Yellow Sand Society, the renmants of the original White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society in the establishment of the Beiyang Government as a result of Yat-sen being killed during the last days of the Xinhai Revolution while [Yat-Sen] leading the charge against the Qing New Army along with Shikai, [Shikai] leading the Qing New Army against the Ming monarchists, Ming restorationists and Ming revivalists, e Yellow Sand Society, the renmants of the original White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society, thus forcing the Beiyang Government's transition towards a restored  Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”  as was the goal of the Xinhai Revolution after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline, as the Beiyang Government quickly transitioned towards being a restored Zheng-ruled Tungning Kingdom, and then after the coronation of a suitable descendant of the Imperial House of Zhu on the  Lóng Yǐ in the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing as Emperor of Han China , after the Xinhai Revolution, the fall of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire and the rise of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing Han China, with the Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty's Míng Qí flying alongside the Beiyang Government’s Five-Colored Flag in the Great Qing Empire's and the Beiyang Government's shared capital of Beiing, [the Beiyang Governmetn becoming] a restored Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”, albiet a constitutional parliamentary one, with free and fair, democratic multi-party elections as per the wishes of the Xinhai Revolution, with said elections being dominated by the Kuomingtang,  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 post-29 May 1913-1916, pre-1945-1947 political party in Beiyang Government-ruled China of the Research Clique, and later on the post-2 December 1923 conservative, Chinese nationalist, adhering to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's  three principles of the people: nationalism, democracy and Socialism, advocating  for the elimination of China's warlords and the establishment of a strong central government, along with promoting a nationalist agenda which focused on the abolition of the special privileges and extraterritoriality which foreign powers had obtained in the China region during the last days of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire, being strongly anti-communist and consisting largely of landlords, school teachers, and businessmen, along with being based in the Zhang family-ruled Fengtian Clique, the Young China Party and the post-November 1927-9 August 1930 Chinese political party having an ideology of Chinese nationalism, Chinese imperialism, Han nationalism, Han imperialism and socialism with Chinese characterstics, the Chinese Peasants’ and Workers’ Democratic Party. 

The Beiyang Government being formed as the Empire of China from 29 December 1911 to 10 March 1912, albiet with the descendants of Chongzhen and Yongli reigning from the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing in this timeline as the current reigning Chinese imperial family, instead of Yuan Shikai declaring himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China on 12 December 1915 like in real life and [the Beiyang Government] never [the Beiyang Government] being formed as a Republic [the first Republic of China] in this timeline after the Xinhai Revolution, ironically ends up preventing the period of history in the KMT-ruled Nationalist China and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China when control over the post-Xinhai Revolution China region was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928, due to Yuan's death creating a power vacuum that spread across the provinces of Sichuan, Shanxi, Gansu Qinghai and Ningxia in Han China, Cantonia's two provinces of Guangdong, and Guangxi, along with the nations of Yunnan and East Turkestan, being characterized by constant civil war between different factions for control of the China region known as the Warlord era in this timeline due to the Xinhai Revolution succeeding in its [the Xinhai Revolution's] goal of [the Xinhai Revolution] restoring the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government [the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”] of a post-Qing independent Han China, Yat-sen's death during the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline meaning the  post-1911, pre-1924, Cantonese nationalist, Cantonese independence, Guangxi-based Nationalist Chinese government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique of the Old Guangxi Clique quickly seizes control of the KMT-ruled Nationalist China after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline, with  the Guangdong-born Cantonese lawyer and teacher turned , military general, revolutionary, federalist and politician after the Xinhai Revolution Chen Jiongming becoming the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese Chairman of the Nationalist Government after the Xinhai Revolution in this timeline and so the Kuomingtang's post-16 June 1924, pre-1945 military arm and thus the main branch of the Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China's/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China's pre-1928 post- 25 December 1947 regular army, the National Revolutionary Army's  9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928  military campaign against both the Zhang family-ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia lead by Zhang Zuolin as the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces [the provinces of Fengtian, Jilin and Heilongjiang in Manchuria] along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army and later his [Zuolin's] son and [Zuolin's] successor as combined warlord of Manchuria and  commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army  after his [Zuolin's] death via [how Zuolin died] being [Zuolin] assassinated by a bomb placed in his [Zuolin's] private carriage by the Soviet Union's post-10 July 1934, pre-15 March 1946 interior ministry which had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions, being known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, which was tasked with regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps, along with mass arrests, imprisonment, torture, and executions of hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens during the Great Purge in 1936–1938, the  Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del [People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs |Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del|] on June 4, 1928 and the main branch of the Beiyang Goverment based in Beijing ruling over the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China under the nominal control of  the Beiyang Government’s of the first Republic of China’s last civilian Great President before Zuolin’s seizure of power, the Cantonese-Shanghaiese diplomat and statesman who was one of China’s representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Ku Wei-chün, better known as [ Ku Wei-chün’s more famous alias] V. K. Wellington Koo, [V. K. Wellington Koo] ruling as the Beiyang Government of the first Republic of China’s Great President from 1 October 1926 – 17 June 1927,  with the help of the Ma-clan ruled Xibei San Ma then [the Ma-clan ruled Xibei San Ma] lead by Ma Bufang and the Ma family's post-1862, pre-1949 personal army and thus Xibei San Ma's unofficial combined armed forces, the Ma Family Army, [the military operation launched by the Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China's/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army with the help of Xibei San Ma's Ma Family Army from 9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928 against both the Zhang-family ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia lead by Zhang Zuolin as the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army and later on Zhang Xueliang as combined warlord of Manchuria and  commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army  after Zuolin's death and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China lead by Koo as Great President] whose purpose was to reunify the territories of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire under the rule of he Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China known as the Northern Expedition,  [the 9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928 Northern Expedition  launched by the Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China's/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army with the help of Xibei San Ma's Ma Family Army from 9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928 against both the Zhang-family ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia lead by Zhang Zuolin as the first combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army and later on Zhang Xueliang as combined warlord of Manchuria and  commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army  after Zuolin's death h and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China lead by Koo as Great President whose purpose was to reunify the territories of the Aisin-Gioro-ruled Great Qing Empire under the rule of he Kuomingtang-ruled  National Government of the Republic of China/Nationalist China's/Second Republic of China] never happens in this timeline as Yat-Sen died earlier in this timeline and thus Sun Yat-sen's most famous discyple, the Cantonese minor nobleman turned revolutionary and politician before and during the Xinhai Revolution turned ruthless corrupt warlord, puppet of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and nominal communist dictator of China from 1928 to 1945-1947, Chiang Kai-Shek, [Kai-Shek] never [Kai-Shek] succeeds Yat-Sen as Chairman of the Nationalist Government in this timeline, and [the Warlord era of modern Chinese history never happening in this timeline] also  [the Warlord era of modern Chinese history never happening in this timeline] and what would become the post-1916, pre-1926 Beiyang Government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique which was a military and political organization, which was largely a collection of military officers of the Qing New Army and then the Beiyang Government's Beiyang Army after the Xinhai Revolution of 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, [what would become the Anhui Clique and the Anhui Clique's Communications Clique and the Anhui Clique's Anfu Club during the the Warlord era of modern Chinese history in real life in this timeline] staying loyal to the main branch of the Beiyang Government ruling over Han China in this timeline due to the Xinhai Revolution succeeding in its [the Xinhai Revolution's] goal of [the Xinhai Revolution] restoring the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty” as the government [the Zhu-ruled  Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/“Ming dynasty”] of a post-Qing Han China in this timeline

Thus the KMT-ruled Nationalist China becomes the independent Republic of Cantonia encompassing Guangdong and Guangxi after the Xinhai Revolution, with the activities of what will become the KMT's and the Nationalist Chinese National Revolutionary Army and later on, Kuomingtang’s post- 16 June 1924 armed military wing and thus Nationalist China’s post-25 December 1947 combined armed forces, consisting of the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese post-16 June 1924-25 December 1947 ground warfare branch of the Nationalist Chinese military, whose primary focus is on defense and counterattack against amphibious assault and urban warfare, the Republic of China Army, the post-1924 maritime branch of the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese armed forces,  whose primary mission is to defend the KMT-ruled Nationalist China;s territories and the sea lanes under its jurisdiction against any possible blockades, attacks, or invasion, whose operations include maritime patrols in the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, as well as readiness for counter-strike and counter-invasion operations during wartime, the Republic of China Navy (including the Marine Corps), the post-1920-25 December 1947 military aviation branch of the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese military, whose primary mission is the defense of the airspace over and around the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese territories, and whose priorities in the modern day include the development of long range reconnaissance and surveillance networks, integrating C4ISTAR systems to increase battle effectiveness, procuring counterstrike weapons, next generation fighters, and hardening airfields and other facilities to survive a surprise attack, the Republic of China Air Force and the military police body in the KMT-ruled Nationalist China responsible for protecting government leaders from assassination or capture, guarding Nationalist Chinese strategic facilities, and counterintelligence against enemy infiltrators, spies, and saboteurs, the Republic of China Military Police Force, and under the Nationalist Chinese cabinet level ministry under the Nationalist Chinese Legislative Yuan responsible for all defense and military affairs of the KMT-ruled Nationalist China, the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Defence, the Republic of China Armed Forces/Chinese National Armed Forces,  the post-1928- 1972 agency of the Nationalist Chinese Legislative Yuan responsible for home affairs and security throughout Nationalist China including population, land, construction, military service administration, national emergency services, local administration systems, law enforcement, the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of the Interior overseeing all police forces in Nationalist China on a national level, the Nationalist Chinese National Police Agency, the Nationalist Chinese  post-1927 to 1932, pre-1946 military intelligence agency devoted to intelligence gathering and covert spying operation for purposes of national security and defense, having a great influence amongst the NRA along with the post-1927 to 1932, pre-1946 Nationalist Chinese police, administration, and transportation agencies, as well as embassies and consulates abroad, involved in covert and espionage operation, including surveillance, kidnapping, assassinations, elimination and house-arrest against Chinese communists, Japanese spies as well as political dissidents, the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, [the Nationalist Chinese BOIS] later  [the Nationalist Chinese BOIS] to  [the Nationalist Chinese BOIS] become  the KMT-ruled Nationalist China’s post-1 March 1955 principal intelligence agency created to supervise and coordinate all security-related administrative organizations, military agencies and KMT organizations in Taiwan, gathering, International intelligence, Intelligence within the area of People’s Republic of China, Intelligence within the area of Taiwan, Analysis of the nation’s strategic intelligence, , Scientific and technological intelligence and telecommunications security, Control and development of secret codes (the matrix) and facilities, Armed Forces Internet Security while also taking charge of planning special tasks and is responsible for guiding, coordinating, and supporting the intelligence affairs in military and civil categories in addition to managing intelligence relevant to national security, the Nationalist Chinese National Security Bureau, [the Nationalist Chinese military, government and intelligence agencies] only having jurisdiction in Guangdong and Guangxi. 

Since  the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire still under the feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu post-1868 in this timeline had [ the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire still under the feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu post-1868 in this timeline] taken the now Vietnamese side branch of the Imperial House of Zhu, the Vietnamese-Han Chinese Imperial House of Nguyễn Phúc/Nguyễn dynasty-ruled post-1802, pre-1947 absolute imperial dynastic royal monarchy of the Empire of Vietnam in Vietnam as a protectorate in 1869, [Japan taking the Imperial House of Nguyễn Phúc/Nguyễn dynasty-ruled Empire of Vietnam in Vietnam as a protectorate] but [Japan] allowing the Empire of Vietnam to [the Empire of Vietnam] control the Lao Khun Lo dynasty-ruled unitary parliamentary constitutional royal monarchy of the Kingdom of Laos in Laos and [Vietnam] control the parliamentary constitutional royal monarchy of the Cambodian House of Norodom-ruled Kingdom of Cambodia in Cambodia due to the clan head of the Imperial House of Nguyễn Phúc/Nguyễn dynasty who was the founding monarch of the Empire of Vietnam, Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, who [Phúc Ánh] reigned over the Empire of Vietnam from 1804–1820 and then from 1802-1804 under the combined regal and era name of Gia Long, [Emperor Gia Long of Vietnam] being more firm in establishing the Empire of Vietnam's status as a restoration, modernization and reformation of not only the Great Ming State, but the Southern Ming/Later Ming, [Emperor Gia Long of Vietnam being  more firm in establishing the Empire of Vietnam's status as a restoration, modernization and reformation of not only the Great Ming State but the Southern Ming/Later Ming] than in real life and allowing migration of anti-Qing Han Chinese and Hui Muslims from Qing-occupied China into the Empire of Vietnam along with adopting Ming-era government customs, traditions and practices in this timeline, in the hope of reclaiming Han China [for the Ming and for the Imperial House of Zhu] in this timeline, [ the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire still under the feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu post-1868 in this timeline] decides to [ the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato-ruled Great Japanese Empire still under the feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the Tokugawa clan-ruled Tokugawa bakufu post-1868 in this timeline] make the Old Guangxi Clique-ruled Republic of Cantonia in this timeline into a semi autonomous region of  the Imperial House of Nguyễn Phúc/Nguyễn dynasty-ruled Empire of Vietnam in Vietnam in this timeline, with what will become the KMT's and Nationalist Chinese NRA and later the  the KMT's and Nationalist Chinese ROCAF/CNAF collaborating with  the Imperial House of Nguyễn Phúc/Nguyễn dynasty-ruled Empire of Vietnam's post-1802, pre-1945 main military forces, the Quân thứ [Second Army |Quân thứ|].

 The Zhang family-ruled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia ruled by Zuolin as its [the Fengtian Clique's]  combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with combined commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Clique's Fengtian Army suffers a putsch by units of the Great Japanese Empire’s post-3 January 1868 pre-November 1945 combined armed forces, the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia collaborating with  the Imperial Japanese Army’s post-1881, pre-1945 military police that also shared civilian secret police, espionage, and counter-intelligence roles within Japan and Japan’s protectorates and Japanese occupied territories with the additional duties of maintaining military discipline, enforcing conscription laws, protecting vital military zones, and investigating crimes among soldiers of the IJA along with also issueing travel permits, recruiting labor, arresting resistance, requisitioned food and supplies, spreading propaganda, and suppressed anti-Japanese sentiment in Japanese occupied territories and Japanese protectorates, the Kempeitai [gendarmerie |Kempeitai|] and Imperial Japanese Armed Forces’ naval warfare branch, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s military police concerning itself with police and personnel work within the Imperial Japanese Navy: personnel, discipline and records, having commissar roles in relation to exterior enemies or suspicious persons, watching inside inside units for possible defectors or traitors under the security doctrine of Kikosaku, while also simulataneously being operative branch of the Jōhō-kyoku [Secret Service Branch of the Imperial Japanese Navy], which [the Jōhō-kyoku] was [the Jōhō-kyoku] responsible [the Jōhō-kyoku] for [the Jōhō-kyoku] recovering and analyzing information and for the execution of undercover operations, the Tokubetsu Keisatsutai [Special Police Corps | Tokubetsu Keisatsutai|] with the help of Aisin-Gioro loyalists, Manchu monarchists, Manchu nationalists, Manchu independence groups and Manchu liberation movements, more specifically the f the post-December 1911, pre-1932, conservative, Manchurian nationalist, Manchurian royalist, Qing royalist political party and militant organization active in Beiyang Government as the first Republic of China-ruled and then Nationalist Chinese-ruled after the Northern Expedition, the Society for Monarchical Constitutionalism, [the Society for Monarchical Constitutionalism] popularly known as [the Society for Monarchical Constitutionalism's more popular name] the Royalist Party, Manchu/Manchurian and Han Chinese citizens of Manchuria who wish to see Manchuria separate from both Han China and Guangdong and Guangxi and Qing royalist, Qing restorationist and Qing monarchist officers of the Zhang family-ruled Fengtian Clique's Fengtian Army/NPA, with the combined Manchu, Mongolian and Han Chinese Qing imperial court based in the the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijinh, [the combined Manchu, Mongolian and Han Chinese Qing imperial court based in  the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing] which [the combined Manchu, Mongolian and Han Chinese Qing imperial court based in  the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing] was [the combined Manchu, Mongolian and Han Chinese Qing imperial court based in  the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing] still in operation despite the Xinhai Revolution and the balkanization of the Qing territories during and after the Xinhai Revolution,  [the combined Manchu, Mongolian and Han Chinese Qing imperial court based in  the Zǐjìnchéng in Beijing] essentially taking over the Fengtian Clique with the last member of the Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro to reign over East Turkestan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tuva, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan along with Han China from Greater Manchuria as Emperor of the Great Qing Empire, before the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent collapse of the Great Qing Empire,  the then still very young Aisin-Gioro Pu-Yi, [Pu-Yi] having the combined regal and era name of Xuangtong, [Emperor Xuangtong of the Great Qing Empire] seizing Zhuolin's combined positions of warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army in the putsch, along with[Emperor Xuangtong of the Great Qing Empire] merging these positions [warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army]  with that of Emperor of the Great Qing Empire,  with the now Qing imperial renmant-controlled Fengtian Clique then [ the now Qing imperial renmant-controlled Fengtian Clique] formally seceding [ the now Qing imperial renmant-controlled Fengtian Clique] from the Beiyang Government-ruled Han China with the approval of the Beiyang Government's National Assembly, with the Manchurian sections of f the Beiyang Government's National Assembly moving to the now Qing imperial renmant-controlled Fengtian Clique to essentially reform the Great Qing Empire’s post-1906, pre-1912 unicameral national legislature, the Advisory Council to the now Qing imperial renmant-controlled Fengtian Clique, the Fengtian Clique's Fengtian Army/NPA essentially reverts to being the Great Qing Empire's New Army once more, and the Great Qing Empire's post-1889, pre-February 12, 1912 combined National flag and ensign, a horizontal banner featuring a Blue dragon on plain yellow, with a red pearl at the upper left corner, [the Great Qing Empire's post-1889, pre-February 12, 1912 combined National flag and ensign] continues to [the Great Qing Empire's post-1889, pre-February 12, 1912 combined National flag and ensign] fly [the Great Qing Empire's post-1889, pre-February 12, 1912 combined National flag and ensign] over Manchuria. 

The restored Ming dynasty in Han China governed by the Beiyang Government and the Qing-controlled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia are [the restored Ming dynasty in Han China governed by the Beiyang Government and the Qing-controlled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria] both [the restored Ming dynasty in Han China governed by the Beiyang Government and the Qing-controlled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria] Japanese protectorates [the restored Ming dynasty in Han China governed by the Beiyang Government and the Qing-controlled Fengtian Clique in Manchuria] due to the first commander in chief of the Beiyang Government after the Xinhai Revolution, the Huangxing, Changsha, Hunan-born Chinese revolutionary leader and politician who became the Beiyang Government's Beiyang Army's first commander in chief after the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Beiyang Government as the government of post-Qing China, Huáng Xìng, [Xìng] ceding Manchuria to Japan during the Xinhai Revolution and [Xìng] enforcing the meaning of post-Xinhai Han China as China proper [the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and Chongqing (modern-day city was part of Sichuan) in Han China].

The Old Guangxi Clique-ruled Republic of Cantonia in Guangdong and Guangxi is a little more independent, but the Yunnan Clique in Yunnan becomes a restored post-982-AD, pre-1253 Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled absolute feudal dynastic royal imperial monarchy and tributary state of the Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhao-ruled post-4 February 960 AD, pre-19 March 1279 absolute imperial dynastic royal monarchy of the Great Song State/Great Song Empire/Empire of the Great Song/“Song dynasty” of the Dali Kingdom under Japanese influence and covert Japanese "assistance" allows the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan's Hami province to [the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled Kumul Khanate] take over the Xingjiang Clique ruling over the rest of East Turkestan.

What would the official name of the Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled Kumul Khanate-controlled Xingjiang Clique in East Turkestan be in both traditional Mongolian and  Eastern Turki/Uyghur language along with its government structure, government style and governing ideology? What would the official name of the Qing-controlled Fengtian Clique after the putsch against Zhang Zuolin by the Society for Constitutional Monarchism/the Royalist Party and Manchu monarchist, Manchu separatist and Manchu independence sections of the Fengtian Clique's government and the Fengtian Clique's Fengtian Army with the help of Imperial Japanese Armed Forces units stationed in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria and the help of the Japanese Kempeitai and the Japanese  Tokubetsu Keisatsutai that toppled Zuolin and made the young Emperor Xuantong of the Great Qing Empire the next combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces [the provinces of Fengtian, Jilin and Heilongjiang in Manchuria] along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army after Zuolin after Zuolin with these positions [combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces  along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army] being  [combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces  along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army] merged  [combined warlord of Manchuria,  Civil and Military Governor of the  Manchurian province of Liaoning/Mukden/Shenyang,  superintendent of military affairs in Liaoning, and Governor-General of the Three Eastern Provinces  along with the commander in chief of both the Fengtian Clique and the Fengtian Army/National Pacification Army] with the position of Emperor of the Great Qing Empire, [the name of the Qing-controlled Fengtian Clique] be in both Manchu and traditional Chinese/Mandarin along with its government structure? What would the official name of the Beiyang Government-governed Empire of China-ruled Han China be in Dungan and Traditional Chinese/Mandarin, how would the Anhui Clique along with the Anfu Club and the Communications Clique govern the Beiyang Government-governed Empire of China-ruled Han China as it transitioned from a restored Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom governed by of the noble position given to the members of the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty by the members of the Imperial House of Zhu ruling over the Ming dynasty as Emperors of Han China, starting with the founder of the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty and thus the initial Tungning Kingdom's first reigning monarch, the part Fujianese Hokkien, part Japanese scholar-official under the Ming dynasty turned general in the Great Ming Army and pirate during the 1644-1662 invasion of China by the Jurchens, being a member of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan as its imperial family due to the princess of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty Minamoto Matsu being his mother, [Princess Minamoto Matsu's of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty reigning over Japan as its imperial family's half  part Fujianese Hokkien son who grew up to be a scholar-official under the Ming dynasty turned general in the Great Ming Army and pirate during the 1644-1662 invasion of China by the Jurchens] Zheng Chenggong, [Chenggong], Prince of Yangping as de-facto Kings of China, and then as a restored Zhu-ruled Ming dynasty?