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While we all know the Qing took over China after the Ming fell, what few people know is that there were two dynasties lying around during this period, the Shun, who were led by Li Zicheng and had taken over Beijing and large swathes of northern China prior to the Manchu Invasion, and the Daxi, led by the (infamous) Zhang Xianzhong, but what if either Shun or Daxi had taken over China? What would a China ruled by either one of those dynasties look like? How powerful would they be compared to the Qing IOTL?
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