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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
 

Kaze

Banned
Puyi was not that bad of a person, he just got a raw deal for the tides of history was against him. When he tried to recapture what he believed what was his - he unfortunately joined the Japanese.

But, your timeline is so far so good.

So, what will happen when they visit World War One and Treaty of Versailles? Would the Republic declare war, sit out, or play both sides down the middle?
 
ENTRY TWO (Format slightly changed to be more readable.)
June 5th, 1916, I return to my journals in progress for my story. Without these journals, how will we as a country remember our hardship? Someone must record down what occurs in our home, better from the view of me. March 4th we held the first parliamentary elections of the National Assembly. The new National Assembly, after debates of how it should be set up and it’s power, became a unicameral parliamentary system. The Kuomintang won 250 seats of the 350 seats of the National Assembly making the KMT the majority. With Dr. Sun representing as the party president. The other 100 seats went toward- the Progressive Republican Party (75 seats), United China (15 seats), Chinese Youth Party (3 seats), Democratic Socialist Party (3 seats), China Public Interest Party, (2 seats), and the Chinese Peasants' Democratic Party (2 seats). No communist party was able to hold enough votes to gain a seat in the National Assembly, or in some cases like in Sichuan or Shanxi, local officials barred Communist even from voting or running in elections for their representatives. As 350 representatives the 35 provinces, the government-controlled cities of Peking, Shanghai, Nanking, Canton, and the special autonomous regions of Tibet, Outer-Mongolia and Tuva, and Sinkiang. Though, I was elected by my fellowmen, Chairman of the Progressive Republican Party. The Progressive Republicans and the Kuomintang lead the Pan-Blue Coalition, containing us, the Youth Party, and United China. The Pan-Blue does have our opponents, the Coalition of the People and State, containing the Democratic-Socialist party (a far-right fascist party), and the Chinese Peasants' Democratic Party. Their the closest rivals we have though hold a extremely small seating within Parliament, their followers are in militarism and I am afraid they can take advantage of China and arm up party militarizes to force people to their will. I still think it's funny Communist parties were barred from many provinces, but yet the Kuomintang is heavily anti-capitalist.. They during revolutionary times, torched capitalist establishments in Canton.

June 9th, 1916, We held a vote today concerning nationalization of the railroads and public transportation, power, water, and other utilities. It passed with 275 out of 350 ayes. The heavily capitalist parties walked out in protest, but it did no much as their parties had very small votes. The Kuomintang, who controls all state media broadcast on the radios to torch and destroy the capitalists as they will destroy the state and create a imperfect state where the poor will be cast to slavery. Newspapers like the Peking Times saying the capitalist parties like the Public Interest Party will seize the people's fair government and establish a regime based on capitalism and will make a profit on even the basics of water. The Kuomintang just a few days back seized the largest oil company in China and renamed it to the Chinese Petroleum Corporation forcing regulation of oil prices for the small independent oil companies, or risk of their companies being seized by the Kuomintang.

June 13th, 1916, today is no different from yesterday. Yesterday a rally was in Nanking by students of the Nanking University as a popular city representative, named Yang Yazhi, a non-partisan, is using bribery to protect himself from being arrested for bribing companies and police. They demand the national police to intervene and the city. I approved of authorization to forcefully remove Mr. Yang from his office, he also could be a counter-revolutionary as we found in his home a Qing dynasty flag. He can be a destabilizing force in the country.

June 15th, 1916, I appointed a man named Yi Xuegang as the Mayor of Peking, as Peking had lost most of its government officials after the National Protection War. Yi is already planning on modernizing Peking to compete with Shanghai as an economic hub and restoring the Forbidden City as a national museum with thousands of years of artifacts dating from the Republic to the ancient kingdoms.
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Peking in the 1920s
June 20th 1916, The Great War is still going on in Europe and Japan is attacking German colonies in the South Pacific. We as a national assembly got together this morning to discuss in a civil open floor, what we should do in the Great War. Germany returned us Qingdao and their concessions in China, and the West continues to hold unequal treaties on the Republic; but if we join them Japan could intervene and begin a small coastal invasion, while the Japanese are not the strongest they are much stronger than us coming out the NPA. We can not though just back stab Germany, but their colonies in Africa are falling, this could be a victory for the entente. Though, if we join them we can negotiate the removal of the unequal treaties on the Republic at the treaty. Both sides took advantage of us, but if we work with the Entente, who might just be the victors, could be the best situation for us. America is looking more and more toward hostilities on the German Empire. Maybe this war can result in Germany falling from its monarchy to a republic. I think we will just side with the Entente if it means our victory as a Republic. We can send volunteer corps.

June 25th 1916, I struck a meeting with the Entente Allied delegation to attempt to secure China’s place. With China owning Qingdao, and the Shantung peninsula, we asked nothing more but the removal of the unequal treaties and the return of Weihaiai by the British, which after negotiations were agreed upon, and in turn we can once again open trade to the our own terms. We are growing to a strong Republic, in just a few months of overthrowing Yuan, we secured ourselves a spot in ensuring our future can be plentiful for the people. Japan attempted to ask us to overturn Shantung to them, we refused and we countered it with Japan to turn over their concession in Dalian to us before 1920, which the British in order for more men to supply them as they needed heavily against the Germans, pressured Japan to agree to. The Japanese agreed, we felt not dominance over them, but instead we are being treated as an equal people, and nation.

For once, we can feel equal.
[End of Entry 2]
 
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