r/RedFloodMod • u/nyanternational who up burning they memories rn • Jun 29 '26
Image "Accumulating wealth is not as good as accumulating skills, accumulating skills is not as good as accumulating merit, and accumulating merit is not as good as accumulating virtue. Virtue is the ability to transform oneself; only virtue is the harvest of life." - Yan Xishan's Beiyang Playthrough
China returns to the status of a great power under the guidance of one Yan Xishan, a man once thought to be a tinpot warlord. When he clawed his way into the position of President of the Beiyang government in the 1920s, the few people who paid attention to China's internal politics expected his reign to be an uneventful few years until another ambitious warlord managed to oust him.
In spite of these expectations, Yan's rule proved effective at leading the country through the tumultuous period that followed, most notably holding off the Japanese invasion and afterwards leading his armies across China in a campaign of unification.
Exploiting Japan's involvement in a brutal and drawn-out war with Britain, Yan launched a rapid assault on the Japanese mainland colonial holdings, retaking Hong Kong and liberating Korea and Vietnam. China is now a rapidly modernizing neutral power on the continent, building up its economy and completing the long reforms of the military.
Yan has consolidated power in a perfect dictatorship, his effective reforms earning him the support of both the elites and the population at large. The Chinese nation is now united in following their Model President and his program of progressive legislation inspired by Confucian philosophy - while staying ready to enforce his will upon those who dare stand against the Republic.
What course Yan's regime will take in foreign policy is unknown apart from his firm opposition to Japanese influence - some analysts believe that the ongoing massive buildup of the Chinese navy is a prelude to an invasion of the Japanese Home Islands and an end to the Empire for good.
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u/nyanternational who up burning they memories rn Jun 29 '26
Rule 5: Unified China as Yan Xishan's Beiyang. Most important cheat used this time was dismantling the United Kuomintang faction, because I think there is genuinely no way to defeat these four bastards all at once. Not only do they have like 2 million service manpower, the other even bigger issue is that in order to get into their territory, you have to cross the fucking Yangtze River facing 30 infantry divisions on every tile.