Guangzhou Government

Flag of the Guangzhou Government.

The **Guangzhou Government** is one of the two major factions within the ruins of China in East Asia. It is a Federal Parliamentary Republic complete with Authoritarian, Market Liberal, Conservative, and any other type of party under the sun. The Guangzhou government is younger than its Fengtian rival to the north as the nation was founded in the aftermath of the collapse of the League of Eight Provinces and after a civil war against the Guangxi Cliques. The Guangzhou government is usually counted from the date of the collapse of the League of Eight Provinces on the 25th February 1936 despite the nation offically existing much later on in the history of China. The Guangzhou government like the other factions in China did not participate during the Second Weltkrieg as it was more focused on the unification of Southern China and the crushing of the Nanjing Clique. The Guangzhou Government is decidedly against Japan and despite completely opposing ideologies the Guangzhou government aligns with the Reichspakt and will gain support from them.

## History

In 1936 the Liangguang Clique was just one of the many members of the League of Eight Provinces. But with the outbreak of the Black Monday Crisis the already unstable Chinese Empire completely collapsed and the Clique was thrown out of the Leauge as the former members of said league began to tear each other to bits. In the nearby Guangxi Clique the death of Lu would cause the clique to spiral into a Civil war and soon another civil war would begin between the Liangguang Clique and that of Guangxi. Guangxi would end up losing quite quickly to the combined forces of the clique who would conquer Guangxi. After this the federalist and now aging Chen Jionming would call for the Shantou conference in witch Hunan, Yunnan, and Sichuan would all accept the call for unification while Ma and Tibet would end up refusing. This would end ip unifying much of Southern China but instead of consolidating power the issue of the Qing Government growing power would be on the mind of these warlords. And it would end up being Zhang from the Fengtian Clique that would offer a solution for the issue of the Qing. A joint invasion of the Fengtain and Guangzhou governments would assuredly force the Qing into an impossible situation having to fight two fully fledged armies on their flanks. This would be accepted by Chen Jiongming and the attack was set to occur in April of 1939. In that month the two nations attacked at the same time starting the Fifth Zhili-Fengtian war, and the Zhili-Guangzhou War. In 1943 tragedy struck as the leader Chen Jiongming would die from Typhus while negotiating with the Legation Cities Mandate in Hong Kong, he would be replaced with the current president Chen Qiyou . Like the Fengtian the Guangzhou government would have issues fighting with the Qing being unable to make much progress until 1944 with the collapse of the Nanjing forces in the south being forced back up to the north. But unlike the Fengtian the Guangzhou would end up getting stuck once again by Defensive lines along the Yangtze River. This would cause a massive loss in potential territories as the Fengtian government would end up securing the population rich North China Plain while the Guangzhou government would end up receiving the resource Rich south. However both would decided to deal with internal issues instead of fighting each other to make sure another warlord era did not begin again. This process would begin in the Guangzhou Government by the centralization of the military witch would alienate the Sichuan Clique who would secede from the Guangzhou Government. This lead to the Guangzhou-Sichuan War a short lived conflict as Sichuan had been weakened by economic turmoil related to one of the biggest Famines in recorded history. In the current day the Guangzhou, Fengtian, Xinjiang, and Ma cliques all prepare for the greatest war in Chinese History as the war to reunify China now begins in its true Ernest.

## Military

The Military of the Guangzhou Government while not as strong as its Northern rival still quite a respectable force being easily capable of pulling off a full scale invasion of Indochina if need be. The Guangzhou army is quite acclimated to its tropical environment and the rough climate of Southern China. The Navy of Guangzhou is weak however but it is slightly stronger than that of the Fengtian giving them a slight advantage when it comes to naval warfare. The Guangzhou government also has a respectable air force albeit smaller than that of the Fengtian due to a lack of industrial power in the south.