Qiānxiăo

### Demonym

Límíng referring to race, Qiānxie referring to people from Qiānxiăo and Sinisan/Sinisanese referring to the Chinese Límíng.

### Government

Holy Council of Yángtài (Current) and Heaven-sent Monarch (Ex-title) People-Ascended Head. (Current)

### Founded

125 AD (First Establishment), 128 AD (First Rebirth), 500 AD (Second Rebirth)

### Dissolved

127 AD (Collapse of First Qiānxiăo State), 340 AD (Collapse of Second Qiānxiăo State)

### Preceded by

Eastern Han dynasty

Qiānxiăo, or officially Qiānxiăo Dynasty (Qiānxiăo Wángcháo in Sinicese/Simplified Qiān) is a nation in East Asia. It was created on turn 0, and was the 10th nation to ever be created. Qiānxiăo has a distrust and distaste of those not of their race and that have no purpose, seeing them as a waste of oxygen. They are lead by Mei Sheng-Li.

## The Start of a Thousand Dawns

The start of Qiānxiăo was after the 1st Límíng War, where the Eastern Han Dynasty collapsed via warlords and broke into a civil war, with the area of Beijing, where modern day Qiānxiăo is, became the rebel state "Qiān-Sinicist Council State" which I will refer to as Qiān throughout this part. This state would go on to oppose the neighbours, with Qiānxiăo being the population centre of the Eastern Han, it had many supporters and loyalists to the state, helping them in military power in the Han Civil War; in the Battle of Jinan, they swiftly took down the enemy state "Ho-Li Clique."

Qiān eventually grew large enough to pressure all rebel states to subjugate into Qiān, forming the Qiānxiăo Dynasty. Qiānxiăo was unsteady though, as many of the Rebel states only joined through fear. Xuan Wu, the leader and monarch of Qiānxiăo managed to create a prosporous nation, but only around Beijing. This inevitably lead to strikes and uprisings throughout the subjugated states of Qiānxiăo. The First Qiānxiăo Dynasty lasted 2.7 Years, or 1000 Dawns. These uprisings managed to supress and conquer Eastern Han, yet again creating uneasy times in Sinisa (China).

### The Rebirth of Qiānxiăo

The nation disappeared for 2.7 years coincidentally, until in 128 AD, the Beijing State freed themselves from the Sinisan Warlord states (Which were still fighting amongst eachother). When the Beijing State broke free once again, Xuan Wu returned into leadership declared that the Qiānxiăo Dynasty was reborn once again. He swore to maintain neutrality through the Sinisan Warlord Period, a task far easier said than done in such a time.

### The Early Warlord Period

The destruction of the Qiānxiăo caused the creation of 12 warlord states, including the remnants of the Qiānxiăo dynasty. For the first century of the era, it was non-stop chaos. Ever-shifting alliance networks, confusing diplomacy and trade deals, and chaotic wars. Often the highest military commanders didn't even know who was friend or foe, sometimes even the leaders. However, after a century of this situation, the thirteen (a new nation had formed from the eastern Xinjiang) leaders agreed upon a truce. This truce would last for a month, and would allow a summit. It was agreed that this summit would be held in the peaceful territory of Beijing, in Qiānxiăo.

### The Summit

The Beijing summit of 235 lasted for two whole months, and it solved many issues. The warlords agreed on a 5 year ceasefire with each other, and the summit sorted out all but one of the territorial disputes. It did not end up achieving its goal of a lasting peace and stability in the Sinisa region, but it was a step in the right direction. It also served as a way to show off the prosperity that Qiānxiăo had enjoyed by staying neutral, which made an impression on many of the leaders.

### The Middle Warlord Period

There was one territorial dispute that had not been solved: the question of Chang'an. The traditional centre of the Sinisan realm, this was unlike any other city. It was not coveted for its real value, such as strategic or economic, but its symbolic value as being inextricably linked to the Sinisan identity. For this reason neither the Gan nor Shun dynasties would relinquish their claims. The summit split the city east and west for the time of the ceasefire, but offered no solution to the dispute in the long-term. Both sides took the ceasefire as a time to reinforce their positions, but more importantly, gain allies. The dispute snowballed rapidly into two halves of Sinisa being at each other's throats, just raring to go. Neither side wanted to break the ceasefire, so there was a year of tension; war could have broken out at any time. And after the ceasefire ended, it did.

Only one warlord maintained their neutrality: the Qiānxiăo dynasty. They watched the order that had built up over the last five years crumble around them. This civil war was long and bloody, it lasted for 45 years and is estimated to have killed a tenth of all Sinisan people. After this suffering brought several warlord empires close to collapse, they agreed to meet in Beijing once again. The war ended in a stalemate, by the time it was over neither side had changed any borders. Chang'an was to be partitioned along the borders from the 235 AD agreement, and there would be another 5 year peace.

### The Coalition Period

Not long after the peace treaty was signed, Tang Wu came to power in Qiānxiăo. He was quite narcissistic and wanted to cement his name in the history books as a great conqueror. By the year 290 AD, his patience in growing his army ran out. He invaded two warlord states, successfully. Immediately afterwards, emboldened by the decisive victories he had had in that war, he turned his eyes to the south. His expansionism disrupted the relative peace that had ensued after the Great Sinisan War, and brought back memories of the devastation of that war. Eventually the warlords met in Chang'an to decide their course of action. It was unanimously agreed that they would form a coalition to bring down Tang's Qiānxiăo.

The coalition almost immediately pushed deep into Qiānxiăo's new territories before a strong fightback beat them back. This back and forth continued for another 50 years, and it took huge tolls on Sinisa as a whole. Three warlords were couped as a result of the war, but the new government was forced to continue the war or risk the wrath of the coalition. In 338 AD, core Qiānxiăo land was first breached. The highly trained Qiānxiăo army fought valiantly, but it was not enough. Xiao Wu (Tang's son who inherited Qiānxiăo's throne) called on civilians to take up arms, but they only took up arms against him. 50 years of an unpopular had taken a massive toll on the population, and it caused massive protests at the warlord's residence ensued, and coalition troops were welcomed.

The coalition viewed Qiānxiăo as a permanent threat, one that could not be allowed to even function as a peoples anymore. It was partitioned, and totalitarian measures were brought on in its lands. The new rule crushed Qiānxiăo's populace, and many people began forming revolutionary groups. They were disjointed and completely disorganised, and the effective espionage and weapon confiscation programs of the regimes stunted many before they even began. After 3 failed rebellions, most of the Qiānxiăo population resigned themselves to their new rulers.

### The Third Dynasty

This was how the coalition rule looked for over a century and a half. After a century of stability however, the coalition warlords began fighting amongst each other. This coincided with a period of complacency in the enforcement of the draconian laws in Qiānxiăo, and it was a perfect storm for revolution. The catalyst of the rebellion was Mei Sheng-Li's leadership and administrative skills, which made the revolutionaries a proper fighting force. When war among the three nations occupying Qiānxiăo broke out, Mei saw a chance. He rallied the revolutionaries in the centre of Beijing, and marched them to the military base outside of the city. The base was burnt to the ground, and thus the Qiānxiăo Revolutionary War began.

They were fighting three nations that were already fighting each other, a far easier task than three united nations. The propaganda the revolutionary groups had been spreading for a decade and a half was paying off, and they had overwhelming popular support. Another boon to the Qiānxiăo revolution was finding an unlikely ally in Hok-kiàn, a warlord state with scores to settle. Their support tipped the war in favour of Qiānxiăo, and after five years they had liberated all the Qiānxiăo territory. The exhausted warlord states chose to take the peace offering, so they could focus on fighting each other. Sheng-Li's success and good fortune caused many to believe he was descendant of the old Qiānxiăo dynasty, and he reformed the state.