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Ch.04.03 Northern woes part I
The early Tlingit kingdom under Anxiou II
While the Japanese city states were tearing themselves apart in the south, in the north the still young Tlingit kingdom was facing its own issues as the new king Ainxiou II attempted to effectively govern the kingdom he had inherited from his late father. A kingdom which had been won and held together largely through the personal reputation and power of Ainxiou I.
With the death of the first Tlingit great king many of the vassals and tribes of the kingdom began pushing for independence from Axaa. Either rebelling openly and making war on the new king, or else quietly stopping their payment of tribute and taxes to the king.
Obviously this sudden lack of revenue could not stand, to say nothing of the rebellion of his vassal tribes, both open and quiet. But Anxiou II was limited in his ability to effectively respond to these challenges to his power through military force as large parts of the army had returned home with the death of Anxiou I. Claiming that they owed their loyalty to the dead king, not his son.
Anxiou quickly found his kingdom, a nation he had worked alongside his father for decades to help build, falling apart before his very eyes, and he was unable to stop it from happening because he lacked money to pay an army. What he needed was a miracle. And a miracle is precisely what he would stumble upon.
While the Japanese city states were tearing themselves apart in the south, in the north the still young Tlingit kingdom was facing its own issues as the new king Ainxiou II attempted to effectively govern the kingdom he had inherited from his late father. A kingdom which had been won and held together largely through the personal reputation and power of Ainxiou I.
With the death of the first Tlingit great king many of the vassals and tribes of the kingdom began pushing for independence from Axaa. Either rebelling openly and making war on the new king, or else quietly stopping their payment of tribute and taxes to the king.
Obviously this sudden lack of revenue could not stand, to say nothing of the rebellion of his vassal tribes, both open and quiet. But Anxiou II was limited in his ability to effectively respond to these challenges to his power through military force as large parts of the army had returned home with the death of Anxiou I. Claiming that they owed their loyalty to the dead king, not his son.
Anxiou quickly found his kingdom, a nation he had worked alongside his father for decades to help build, falling apart before his very eyes, and he was unable to stop it from happening because he lacked money to pay an army. What he needed was a miracle. And a miracle is precisely what he would stumble upon.
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