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I've been working on a project lately centered mainly on China. The PoD is that Hong Xiuquan never finds his brother, and the southern rebellions are much less organized. A Han general and veteran of the successful defense of Beijing during the Second Opium War seizes power from the Xianfeng Emperor after he convinces the emperor, surrounded by enemies, to sue for peace and his forces hold the Qing imperial family hostage.

Despite the end being clearly in sight for the Qing, the general becomes a close friend of the aging and depressed Xianfeng Emperor, who creates him a Duke Who Receives Grace and Guards the State, a title normally reserved for Aisin Gioro cadet lines. During the Second Opium War, the general used his experimental Yong Army (雍) to defend the Taku Forts and then Beijing, while helping win victory at Luoyang when the Franco-British forces launched an offensive along the Huanghe aimed at plundering northern China. The Yong Army was given the old name for Shaanxi, the region it was primarily drawn from, and as gratitude for his services (and without any choice) the Xianfeng Emperor gave the general an unprecedented named title as the Duke of Yong.

As this general is about to leave the capital to campaign against rebels in Henan, he hears first about a plot in the imperial family to have him murdered to snip the bud on his obvious ambitions, and leaves early to join his army and tell them that he did not intend to die, but to free the country from the Manchu. The army, demoralized after the defeat in the Second Opium War and no longer able to stomach the war against their own country for the Manchu's sake, acclaim him emperor, absorb the rebels, and move quickly to defeat his potential rivals and loyalist commanders dealing with intensifying southern rebellions, rather than going for the capital. In this way he gathers the rebels to his banner. He sets up his seat at Luoyang, which during the war had become a symbol of resistance, and refurbishes the old palace of Wu Zetian.

tl;dr

At this time, he completes the rites of a new emperor, declaring the foundation of the Great Yong (雍), after his army, his title, and the character's meaning of congruity and union, and beginning the era of Shengwu 聖武 or Holy and Martial, referring to the sacredness of the imperial institution and suggesting that it had been violated by the foreign Manchu usurpers, and the necessity of martial strength and attitude in order to drive them out.

Are these names in any way plausible?
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