Chianghsi Province (6.0)

Chianghsi, officially the **Province of Chianghsi ()** is a country in East Asia. It shares land borders with the Republic of Fuchien (RoF) to the south-east, the Fourth Republic of China (4RoC) to the south-west, and the Héméngguódǎng (YWS) to the east. The main area of Chianghsi is the remaining land from when the flood levels rose. Chianghsi's capital is Nanchang where most of it's urban population resides in numbering at 205,128 (1995).

## Government

### Government Type

Constitutional Republic with Stratocratic Elements

## Demographics

### Ethnic Groups

Han Chinese, Gan (Minority), Hakka (Minority)

## History

### The Yellow Way Society (1945-1951)

#### The Creation of Chianghsi

The Province of Chianghsi originally was originally born from the United Societies and the Ming Pretender Chu the Ninth in late December 1945. The United Societies army had invaded Chianghsi in their path of conquest in order to rebuild their Chinese Empire but they met a combination of Kuomintiang (KMT) and National Revolutionary Army (NRA) forces. As the battles went on upwards of 30,000 peasants travel from Anhui and Chianghsi to join the United Societies Army in Huangshan in 1945. The peasant army eventually pushed out the KMT and NRA forces from Chianghsi, leaving the province to the whims of the Taoist secret societies. During this period Chianghsi built up what is now known as the "*Five Harmonious Guilds*" who in the modern day have almost absolute control over the inner workings of the Province. These guilds were built up by the Yellow Way Society and were largely filled with secret society members, especially the Red Spear Society and the White Lotus. During this period the Five Harmonious Guilds grew incredibly powerful, taking control of infrastructure, the banks, farming lands, essentially every aspect of Chianghsi that existed, the guilds took that power. Although the Five Harmonious Guilds were more focused on the development of Chianghsi and the creation of a strong economic power in the region they did not ignore the millions of citizens that lived in the Province.

Under the rulership of the Five Harmonious Guilds the middle class grew dramatically, turning Chianghsi from a feudal serf society to a newly productive and modern nation. The guilds put as much money as they could into the development of Chianghsi into a modern nation with great cities and advanced technology. The guilds did succeed somewhat with the building up of a strong middle class and an even stronger upper class however, the lower class grew even poorer. As the poor grew in number so did crime and illegal drug use, but the Five Harmonious Guilds saw the vast amount of money to be made from legalising said drug use and some crime which would help benefit Chianghsi even more. Because of this Chianghsi is known as the largest drug exporter in China as well as being China's "*Sodom and Gomorrah*" due to the legalisation of prostitution and all sorts of gambling. Even though the Five Harmonious Guilds started out as radical Taoist millenarians, they quickly fell to corruption.

While the Five Harmonious Guilds ruled with the Yellow Way blessing, they did not rule with the blessing of the Kuomintiang. To the north-west sat the KMT 200th Division, a motorised elite force of soldiers under the leadership of General Sun Li-jen and before 1951 they would invade Chianghsi in order to restore the Republic of China.

### Undisputed Kuomintiang Rule (1951-1970)

#### Invasion of Chianghsi

On February 19th, 1950, the KMT 200th Division invaded Chianghsi. The Five Harmonious Guilds had grown stagnant and did not think the KMT would invade as there had been trade between the two groups. However, Sun Li-jen surprised the Chianghsi forces by running an incredibly fast *Blitzkrieg* tactic. Because of the surprise only one major battle ever took place which is known as the Battle of Ganzhou in which the Chianghsi peasant forces surrendered after a short but devastating attack which left thousands of Chianghsi soldiers dead. After the KMT had won the Battle of Ganzhou they begun a siege of Chianghsi where they stopped any goods from entering the nation. The Five Harmonious Guilds without all their goods being exported and imported quickly realised that the Siege of Chianghsi would be highly unprofitable and they needed to break it. After a month of being under siege the Five Harmonious Guilds called for a meeting between them and Sun Li-jen to which he accepted.

#### Harmonious Peace and Cooperation Pact

The meeting occurred within the Chianghsi capitol building on May 3rd, 1950, wherein all the Wise Masters of the Five Harmonious Guilds met with Sun Li-jen to help bring peace to Chianghsi. The Guilds offered Sun Li-jen a surrender wherein they would allow Chianghsi to be ruled by the KMT but with the advisement of the Guilds for if the KMT did not have the explicit support of the Guilds they would never be able to run Chianghsi. Although Sun Li-jen did not want to create a deal with the Guilds he knew that without their monetary support and the infrastructure they run the KMT would never fully be safe. A deal was made which is known as the "*Harmonious Peace and Cooperation Pact*" on May 10th, 1950, in which the Kuomintiang would rule unopposed until 1970 wherein the Five Harmonious Guilds will do whatever they can to ensure that the KMT stays in power in Chianghsi. After 1970 a practice known as "One Country, Two Systems" would come into place. The economy would be entirely in control by the Guilds and the Government will in theory be completely controlled by the KMT however, in practice this would not occur. Once the deal was struck the Five Harmonious Guilds announced the surrender of Chianghsi and the creation of the KMT-ruled Chianghsi Province in 1951.

#### The Provisional Government

It was decided by the Five Harmonious Guilds and by Sun Li-jen that he would rule as Supreme General of Chianghsi and would create a provisional government that would be led by a Military Clique until there was stabilisation. The Provisional Government would be headed by Sun Li-jen. The first acts of the Provisional Government was to try and absorb the peasant armies into a newly formed KMT army, however the Guilds were quick to offer an alternative suggestion. The Guilds would suggest that the peasant armies are completely dissolved (so that they themselves could absorb them) and the Guilds would offer their own personal soldiers to help bolster the army. After an army was formed from soldiers of various loyalties the KMT moved to trying to establish democracy within Chianghsi. The Five Harmonious Guilds worked with the KMT to create a democratic system that would fit Chianghsi and it's history and thus the Pu Teng (不等) system was created. The Pu Teng (unequal) system creates a system of value for votes based on who the person is, what their occupation is, and if they are affiliated with the KMT or the Five Harmonious Guilds. The argument made for the Pu Teng system is that the KMT and the Five Harmonious Guilds know what is best for Chianghsi and thus the voters associated with those two groups should have more of a say than voters who are not.

Unfortunately the Provisional Government would never live to see it's through it's promises of a civilian government and in 1960 the Province of Chiangsi would revert to a KMT military clique.

#### The Chianghsi Salvation Army

Although the plans for a democratic civilian government in Chianghsi were in place, they were quickly removed from the future of the province due to the lack of cooperation with the Five Harmonious Guilds. At every crossing the Guilds hampered the KMT from creating democratic institutions and hired bandits to regularly harass the military bases under their control. Under the order of Supreme General Sun Li-jen and his generals within the army the KMT dissolved all democratic systems in Chianghsi, took control over the press, and instituted the rule of the "Chianghsi Salvation Army". The CSA would be created to rid Chianghsi of the influence of the corrupt Five Harmonious Guilds and ensure that the province will fall under the White Sun. As decided by Supreme General Sun the CSA would have absolute power over the province until the "War-Era" was over, something that wouldn't be finalized until 1976.