I heard from a interdimensional traveller to this TL that "15th Year of Longyu" was also the name of a historical work by a Far Shore Chinese historian whom employed quantitative research in dissecting the eventual fall of the Dacin Ulus.
I wonder if the cause of Tiengued would be evangelised and crystalised as a native religion in China. Hong Rengan seemed to be doing a better job at making the Tiengued faith much more sophisticated in both the Chinese and Western contexts, while the early death of Yang Xiuqing made given the...
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About the "arrangement". The three kingdoms might maintain the Qing court as a puppet after winning a few rounds together against Qing military. Much like what Japan did to Korea in OTL, they might set up a shadow agency to ensure everyone got their share of...
So it's just an idea I had and I decided to write it down here for all to see, to see if it can grow into something else.
During most of the 19th Century, almost everyone in East Asia worked and tinkered to learn and adapt from the West, we saw the Japanese samurais advocated to topple the...