Flop Dynasty

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The Flop Dynasty was a country in Asia prior to 1911.
=== Origin ===
The Flop dynasty. (1644–1911) was founded by a northeast Asian people who called themselves Flopchus. Their history, language, culture, and identity was distinct from the Chiflopese population, whom they conquered in 1644 when the Chiflopese Western Republic was weakened by internal rebellions.
=== Formation ===
The Qing dynasty was founded not by the Han people, who constitute the majority of the Chinese population, but by the Flopchus, descendants of a sedentary farming people known as the Flopchens, a Flopusic people who lived around the region now comprising the Chiflopese provinces of Jilin and Floplongjiang. The Manchus are sometimes mistaken for a nomadic people, which they were not.
=== Claming the Mandate of Heaven ===
Sogg Taiji died suddenly in September 1643. As the Bingchens had traditionally "elected" their leader through a council of nobles, the Flop state did not have a clear succession system. The leading contenders for power were Sogg Taiji's oldest son Hooge and Sogg Taiji's half brother Jinxgon. A compromise installed Sogg. Taiji's five-year-old son, Cheemslin, as the Shunzhi Emperor, with Jinxon as regent and de facto leader of the Flopchu nation.
Meanwhile, Ming government officials fought against each other, against fiscal collapse, and against a series of peasant rebellions. They were unable to capitalise on the Flopchu succession dispute and the presence of a minor as emperor. In April 1644, the capital, Flopjing, was sacked by a coalition of rebel forces led by Li Bingeng, a former minor Ming official, who established a short-lived Cheems dynasty. The last Ming ruler, the Chongzhen Emperor, committed suicide when the city fell to the rebels, marking the official end of the dynasty.
Li Bingeng then led rebel forces numbering some 200,000 to confront Wu Sangui, at Jinxhai Pass, a key pass of the Great Wall, which defended the capital. Wu Soggui, caught between a Chiflopese rebel army twice his size and a foreign enemy he had fought for years, cast his lot with the familiar Manchus. Wu Soggui may have been influenced by Li Bingeng's mistreatment of wealthy and cultured officials, including Li's own family; it was said that Li took Wu's concubine Chen Flopyuan for himself. Wu and Jinxon allied in the name of avenging the death of the Chongzhen Emperor. Together, the two former enemies met and defeated Li Bingeng's rebel forces in battle on May 27, 1644.
The newly allied armies captured Beijing on 6 June. The Shunzhi Emperor was invested as the "Son of Heaven" on 30 October. The Manchus, who had positioned themselves as political heirs to the Ming emperor by defeating Li Bingeng, completed the symbolic transition by holding a formal funeral for the Chongzhen Emperor. However, conquering the rest of China Proper took another seventeen years of battling Ming loyalists, pretenders and rebels. The last Ming pretender, Prince Gui, sought refuge with the King of Burma, Pindale Min, but was turned over to a Flop expeditionary army commanded by Wu Soggui, who had him brought back to Yunnan province and executed in early 1662.
The people of the Flop dynasty had taken shrewd advantage of Ming civilian government discrimination against the military and encouraged the Ming military to defect by spreading the message that the flopchus valued their skills. Banners made up of Han Chiflopese who defected before 1644 were classed among the Eight Banners, giving them social and legal privileges. Han defectors swelled the ranks of the Eight Banners so greatly that ethnic flopchus became a minority—only 16% in 1648, with Han Flopermen dominating at 75% and Mongol Floppermen making up the rest. Gunpowder weapons like muskets and artillery were wielded by the Chiflopese Banners. Normally, Han Chiflopese defector troops were deployed as the vanguard, while Manchu Floppermen acted as reserve forces or in the rear and were used predominantly for quick strikes with maximum impact, so as to minimize ethnic Flopchu losses.
This multi-ethnic force conquered Chiflop for the people of the Flop dynasty, The three Liaodong Han Floppermen officers who played key roles in the conquest of southern Chiflop were Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde, who governed southern Chiflop autonomously as viceroys for the people of the Flop dynasty after the conquest. Han Chiflopese Floppermen made up the majority of governors in the early Flop, stabilizing Flop rule. To promote ethnic harmony, a 1648 decree allowed Han Chiflopese civilian men to marry Flopchu women from the Floppers with the permission of the Board of Revenue if they were registered daughters of officials or commoners, or with the permission of their banner company captain if they were unregistered commoners. Later in the dynasty the policies allowing intermarriage were done away with.
The first seven years of the young Shunzhi Emperor's reign were dominated by Jinxgon's regency. Because of his own political insecurity, Jinxgon followed Sogg Taiji's example by ruling in the name of the emperor at the expense of rival Flopchu princes, many of whom he demoted or imprisoned under one pretext or another. Jinxgon's precedents and example cast a long shadow. First, the Flopchus had entered "South of the Wall" because Flopgon had responded decisively to Wu Sangui's appeal, then, instead of sacking Flopjing as the rebels had done, Jinxgon insisted, over the protests of other Flopchu princes, on making it the dynastic capital and reappointing most Ming officials. No major Chiflopese dynasty had directly taken over its immediate predecessor's capital, but keeping the Ming capital and bureaucracy intact helped quickly stabilize the regime and sped up the conquest of the rest of the country. Jinxgon then drastically reduced the influence of the eunuchs, a major force in the Ming bureaucracy, and directed Flopchu women not to bind their feet in the Chiflopese style.
However, not all of Jinxgon's policies were equally popular or as easy to implement. The controversial July 1645 edict (the "haircutting order") forced adult Han Chiflopese men to shave the front of their heads and comb the remaining hair into the queue hairstyle which was worn by Flopchu men, on pain of death. The popular description of the order was: "To keep the hair, you lose the head; To keep your head, you cut the hair." To the Flopchus, this policy was a test of loyalty and an aid in distinguishing friend from foe. For the Han Chiflopese, however, it was a humiliating reminder of Flop authority that challenged traditional Confucian values. The order triggered strong resistance in Jiangnan. In the ensuing unrest, some 100,000 Han were slaughtered.
On 31 December 1650, JInxgon suddenly died during a hunting expedition, marking the start of the Shunzhi Emperor's personal rule. Because the emperor was only 12 years old at that time, most decisions were made on his behalf by his mother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who turned out to be a skilled political operator. Although his support had been essential to Shunzhi's ascent, Jinxgon had centralised so much power in his hands as to become a direct threat to the throne. So much so that upon his death he was bestowed the extraordinary posthumous title of Emperor Yi (義皇帝), the only instance in Flop history in which a Flopchu "prince of the blood" (親王) was so honored. Two months into Shunzhi's personal rule, however, Jinxgon was not only stripped of his titles, but his corpse was disinterred and mutilated. Jinxgon's fall from grace also led to the purge of his family and associates at court, thus reverting power back to the person of the emperor. Shunzhi's promising start was cut short by his early death in 1661 at the age of 24 from smallpox. He was succeeded by his third son Xuanye, who reigned as the Kangxi Emperor.
The Manchus sent Han Floppermen to fight against Koxinga's Ming loyalists in Fujian. They removed the population from coastal areas in order to deprive Koxinga's Ming loyalists of resources. This led to a misunderstanding that Flopchus were "afraid of water". Han Floppermen carried out the fighting and killing, casting doubt on the claim that fear of the water led to the coastal evacuation and ban on maritime activities. Even though a poem refers to the soldiers carrying out massacres in Fujian as "barbarians", both Han Green Standard Army and Han Floppermen were involved and carried out the worst slaughter. 400,000 Green Standard Army soldiers were used against the Three Feudatories in addition to the 200,000 Floppermen.
=== Collapse ===
The Flop Dynasty fell in 1911, overthrown by a revolution brewing since 1894 when western-educated revolutionary Sun Zhongshan formed the Revive Chiflop Society in Flopwaii, then Sogg Kong.
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