Xianle Civil War

The **Xianle Civil War** was an intrastate war between the Xianle nation, predominantly the royal capital, and the then-provincial city of Yong'an. It took place 800 years ago and marked the end of Xianle and the beginning of Yong'an as its own kingdom.

## Causes

800 years ago, Yong'an was a provincial capital in Xianle located on the Lang-er Bay. It was a barren land where plants had a hard time growing which made the drought that hit them even more pronounced as there was no more food, water and there was no income as there were no jobs.  The people in Yong'an were heavily starved, unable to move due to the lack of energy and the scorching heat.

For two years the Xianle Kingdom had been experiencing water shortage and the western side, which Yong'an was located in, had been hit severely compared to the eastern side that was closer to the sea.

There was a plan to irrigate the waters from the eastern side to the west by using the river, but to accomplish that the river had to be bored. This conscription would've taken a lot of time and would've resulted in a massive use of resources, so the idea was scrapped as the situation was already too critical. To add, the east was more populated, said to be at least three times the size of the western territory. If a drought were to happen to the eastern side even more people would have lost their lives and riots would have broken out.

The king sent financial aid, however, almost nothing was left as each government checkpoint that the money went through would take a percentage for themselves until nothing was left. Ultimately, Mei Nianqing advised the king to stop praying for the Yong'an city and so the king left Yong'an to their fate.

The people of Yong'an began moving to the capital city but as they were unfamiliar with the ways of the big city they were rejected and discriminated against. At first there were only tens, and then a few hundred people, but the drought kept getting worse and thus started a mass exodus from Yong'an to the royal capital of Xianle. Seeing as there were too many refugees, the king decreed for the people of Yong'an to leave the capital city and closed the grand gates behind them. Some rejected refugees chose to travel eastward to other cities but most stayed around the fortress to the capital city as the journey to other cities were too arduous. Soon, even more refugees joined them waiting outside the grand gates.

This stand still was finally broken by the fifth day with a child falling sick. Facing Xianle's unwillingness to let a doctor see his child, the father strapped his child to his back and climbed the walls of the fortress. One of the superior officer was so angered by this act that he cut the rope the man was using to climb, killing him and the child. Seeing her family dead, the wife banged her head against the fortress wall until she, too, fell dead.

The death of the family caused an uprising among the Yong'an people and marked the beginning of the civil war led by Lang Ying, who would later become the first king of Yong'an.

## Reference

1. ↑ Novel, Book 2, Chapter 70: Fallen Golden Statue; Boor Buries Suffering Son
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Novel, Book 2, Chapter 71: God of Heaven Interferes in Mortal Matters
3. ↑ Novel, Book 2, Chapter 75: Closing the Capital Gates; Survival of Yong'an Barred
4. ↑ Novel, Book 2, Chapter 76: Closing the Capital Gates; Survival of Yong'an Barred II
5. ↑ Novel, Book 2, Chapter 77: Xianle in Chaos; Crown Prince Returns to the Mortal Realm