In 1911, we created a uprising that struck the valleys of our home. By 1912 we set up our provisional government that quickly collapsed to a wicked monarchist set to restore a monarchy in our homelands. Revolutionaries fled and by 1915, we were tired. We armed up against the monarchist and began a new revolution to restore what was right. Our home is torn, China is weak. It's time for everyone; The Kuomintang, and the Republic to rise against the Empire of China lead by President Yuan Shiaki, to be crushed and our home unified. This, is what if the National Protection War was successful in re-installing a true democratic regime in the Republic.
In 1913, Song Jiaoren, who after the Xinhai Revolution, was perhaps the most powerful man in all of the Republic, was assassinated by Yuan’s Beiyang Clique to create a one-party dictatorship, exiling the Kuomintang and other democratic parties into Japan and other areas. The Republic’s parliament which held more power than the President, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, held, was dissolved into Yuan Shiaki’s council of the Beiyang. We could not watch as the Republic was being turned back into another dynasty. Someone had to do something, and it needed to be us. Though, we had one other issue, the Tibetans declared a sovereign state. This war can be what can be used to reunify the fracturing China and incorporate the outer west into the Republic. We already overthrown the Yunnan faction of Yuan, and we are prepared to take the rest of his ‘Empire of China’, to keep the country unified under the revolution.
The Flag of the Republic
Though we have support of Japan, the West is too far focused in the Great War, we must stay neutral, while Yuan Shiaki aids them it weakens him and we can use it to our advantage as he sends people to Europe in work forces. It gives us more chances to rally people to field a larger number, seizing equipment and establishments for the Republic. We hold Qingdao under a agreement with Germany we made in 1914 before the war broke out, with Germany in fear of a major conflict. Germany and Austria returned their enclaves into the Republic in case Japan enters on the side of the British, leaving Japan out of the Han areas in case of major conflicts breaking out out of control. With Russia weak and to focused on the war, we must not worry about the sleeping bear tonight.
We agreed with Dr. Sun to move the capital from Peking to Nanking as he wished to ensure the Republic’s less influence of what was once the Monarchy, Yuan Shiaki and his soon to be destroyed but already weakening, Beiyang Clique that rules over our country. This will allow us to fully retain the Republic, though we convinced Sun to allow for now the use of the Five Races under One Union flag, against his flag proposal as we argued that it seemed too much siding of the Kuomintang and not a democratic party, which he agreed. We did agree though, to allow his flag proposal to remain the naval flag, and the flag of the Xinhai Revolution to become the flag of the National Protection Army of the Republic.
The Xinhai Revolution flag, the flag of the National Protection Army of the ROC.
The date, is December 25th, 1915; Christmas day. We begin today our plan of a revived Republic, and for the new Republic to take reign of a proper China, without us we will become a fragmented warlord state, and not a unified China. We go by our spirited motto on the battle, “Unified, Democratic, China."
We began tonight our invasion, the West calls the day Christmas, we call it the, Day of Breaking Chains (天破鏈), to represent us breaking our chains of a monarchy over China. We invaded from Taiyuan to a march to Peking and began at around 11 PM, a sneak attack and scaling the Peking City Walls, on surprise of sleeping imperial troops. It was around midnight of the 26th we entered the Forbidden City and caught in his chamber of slumber, Yuan Shiaki, a young teenager in the NPA, maybe only 15 years old, beheaded with his bayonet, the head of Yuan Shiaki in it’s slumber, to never wake up.
By December 29th, and the fighting with a government with no heir, and only what is left of the Beiyang, the Beiyang capitulated to us and we suited for a January 5th execution of all involved in the Beiyang Clique, and to ensure no pretenders of the monarchy, any remnants of the Qing Dynasty, including the Emperor Puyi, who was only 9 years old, secretly executed as they had sanctuary in the Forbidden City by Yuan. Any pretender can be used in the future to destroy us, we needed to rid of any threats, even if it was a child. A child, may grow up to become tomorrow’s villain.
I write back, in January 15th, of 1916. The Republic has situated in Nanking, Dr. Sun Yat-sen became President, with I, Wellington Koo, taking up the reigns as Premier of the Republic and Head of the National Assembly of the Republic.
Portrait of V.K. Wellington Koo in the late 1910s-early 1920s.
Next time I have a time to write in my journals, I have much more stories to tell of how our government is doing, but I still ponder, was what our revolution was, worth it? It took us six years to complete the revolution and the Republic is still fragile and weak. Many men can still come up and rival and plot against our government, though if he or she does, will they succeed with the public?
(Please let me know how it is, improvements, etc. trying something unique with the perspective of a politician, my first forum post might as well be something interesting you know, might as well do it on something I'm well in.)
In 1913, Song Jiaoren, who after the Xinhai Revolution, was perhaps the most powerful man in all of the Republic, was assassinated by Yuan’s Beiyang Clique to create a one-party dictatorship, exiling the Kuomintang and other democratic parties into Japan and other areas. The Republic’s parliament which held more power than the President, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, held, was dissolved into Yuan Shiaki’s council of the Beiyang. We could not watch as the Republic was being turned back into another dynasty. Someone had to do something, and it needed to be us. Though, we had one other issue, the Tibetans declared a sovereign state. This war can be what can be used to reunify the fracturing China and incorporate the outer west into the Republic. We already overthrown the Yunnan faction of Yuan, and we are prepared to take the rest of his ‘Empire of China’, to keep the country unified under the revolution.
The Flag of the Republic
Though we have support of Japan, the West is too far focused in the Great War, we must stay neutral, while Yuan Shiaki aids them it weakens him and we can use it to our advantage as he sends people to Europe in work forces. It gives us more chances to rally people to field a larger number, seizing equipment and establishments for the Republic. We hold Qingdao under a agreement with Germany we made in 1914 before the war broke out, with Germany in fear of a major conflict. Germany and Austria returned their enclaves into the Republic in case Japan enters on the side of the British, leaving Japan out of the Han areas in case of major conflicts breaking out out of control. With Russia weak and to focused on the war, we must not worry about the sleeping bear tonight.
We agreed with Dr. Sun to move the capital from Peking to Nanking as he wished to ensure the Republic’s less influence of what was once the Monarchy, Yuan Shiaki and his soon to be destroyed but already weakening, Beiyang Clique that rules over our country. This will allow us to fully retain the Republic, though we convinced Sun to allow for now the use of the Five Races under One Union flag, against his flag proposal as we argued that it seemed too much siding of the Kuomintang and not a democratic party, which he agreed. We did agree though, to allow his flag proposal to remain the naval flag, and the flag of the Xinhai Revolution to become the flag of the National Protection Army of the Republic.
The Xinhai Revolution flag, the flag of the National Protection Army of the ROC.
The date, is December 25th, 1915; Christmas day. We begin today our plan of a revived Republic, and for the new Republic to take reign of a proper China, without us we will become a fragmented warlord state, and not a unified China. We go by our spirited motto on the battle, “Unified, Democratic, China."
We began tonight our invasion, the West calls the day Christmas, we call it the, Day of Breaking Chains (天破鏈), to represent us breaking our chains of a monarchy over China. We invaded from Taiyuan to a march to Peking and began at around 11 PM, a sneak attack and scaling the Peking City Walls, on surprise of sleeping imperial troops. It was around midnight of the 26th we entered the Forbidden City and caught in his chamber of slumber, Yuan Shiaki, a young teenager in the NPA, maybe only 15 years old, beheaded with his bayonet, the head of Yuan Shiaki in it’s slumber, to never wake up.
By December 29th, and the fighting with a government with no heir, and only what is left of the Beiyang, the Beiyang capitulated to us and we suited for a January 5th execution of all involved in the Beiyang Clique, and to ensure no pretenders of the monarchy, any remnants of the Qing Dynasty, including the Emperor Puyi, who was only 9 years old, secretly executed as they had sanctuary in the Forbidden City by Yuan. Any pretender can be used in the future to destroy us, we needed to rid of any threats, even if it was a child. A child, may grow up to become tomorrow’s villain.
I write back, in January 15th, of 1916. The Republic has situated in Nanking, Dr. Sun Yat-sen became President, with I, Wellington Koo, taking up the reigns as Premier of the Republic and Head of the National Assembly of the Republic.
Portrait of V.K. Wellington Koo in the late 1910s-early 1920s.
Next time I have a time to write in my journals, I have much more stories to tell of how our government is doing, but I still ponder, was what our revolution was, worth it? It took us six years to complete the revolution and the Republic is still fragile and weak. Many men can still come up and rival and plot against our government, though if he or she does, will they succeed with the public?
(Please let me know how it is, improvements, etc. trying something unique with the perspective of a politician, my first forum post might as well be something interesting you know, might as well do it on something I'm well in.)