Ancien Regime
Banned
If you're unfamiliar with the Three Kingdoms Era, it is the period immediately after the fall of the Han Dynasty in which warlords contested for control of China. Eventually, around 210 AD, power coalesced in 3 major blocs, Wei in the northern core areas of China, Wu in the east and south-east (Basically modern Nanjing and Shanghai), and Shu in the south-west (modern Cheng Du and Chongqing).
Shu faced significant resource deficits throughout the conflict, but had a wealth of talented leaders, most notably Zhuge Liang. Unlike the other kingdoms, the founding ideology of Shu-Han was the reestablishment of the preceding Han Dynasty, under the rule of Liu Bei and his descendants.
So the challenge is to create a POD, no earlier than 184, that has Shu-Han achieving at worst being the dominant power in China by 300 AD.
Shu faced significant resource deficits throughout the conflict, but had a wealth of talented leaders, most notably Zhuge Liang. Unlike the other kingdoms, the founding ideology of Shu-Han was the reestablishment of the preceding Han Dynasty, under the rule of Liu Bei and his descendants.
So the challenge is to create a POD, no earlier than 184, that has Shu-Han achieving at worst being the dominant power in China by 300 AD.