Heavenly Kingdom Victoria 2
Imperialism part 2. Leader of taiping rebllion who wanted to establish a heavenly kingdom of supreme peace. Author of the letter to queen victoria. Victoria II: Heart of Darkness is the second expansion for the grand strategy and political simulator Victoria II. This expansion focuses on the Scramble for Africa. Compete with other colonial powers and experience international crises which require Great Power mediation if the world is to avoid war in this experience crafted by Paradox.
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We will start by furthering our efforts for westernization by importing artillery pieces from the western powers, this will aid us in our wars to gain more territory from the Chinese!
Heavenly Kingdom Victoria 2018
China has been plunged into a civil war by the Heavenly Kingdom, now is my time to strike if I want to gain extra lands from their Manchurian Substate!
The war was going terrible, I thought everything was lost but then I remembered that I could take control of the units of my fellow Japanese sub-states since I'm the Shogun :^) and I think I managed to turn it around quite well!
The timing for this war couldn't have been better! While I was in the process of turning around my little mess, the Opium wars started and the British and Portuguese started attacking China too!
We have retaken our mainland colony with the help of the other Japanese Clans :-D!
Commodore Mathew Perry is knocking at our doors and we have no other alternative but submit to the Americans, we can't handle another war right now, my hands are full with China at the moment.
Time to move further on the westernization process, this time we will reform our shipyards, this will allow us to increase the size of our shipyards thus allowing us to have a bigger and better navy and with even more range!
The Chinese are ready to negotiate, this war took a heavy toll... on the other clans HAHAHA not on me, I rebuilt my army while I used theirs to take the land, losers, try to rebel against me now :^)
And our empire grows again!
Another interesting demographic anomaly, the Vietnamese people are emigrating to the home islands, why wouldn't they? but now the small island of Tsushima has over 40% Vietnamese living in it! Its amazing how many people have moved there!
After almost 10 years at war, some reactionary rebels rose up against my rule, intending to push back on our advancements but they are no threat to us, just have to keep the capital safe and everything will work out.
The rebels have been put down and in order to move forward in our westernization efforts, I have decided to advance in our railroad reforms!
Slightly short AAR this time because something came up while I was playing, hopefully the next one will be longer and uninterrupted :-D
Overview
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.
This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.