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Blue Dawn | Chapter 9: War of the Matches – Oak River Valley
[First] [Prev] [Next] 9.1 – The Battle of Indrapura (July 19th, 1612) Sentries on the walls of Chalong Fort scanned the horizon with boredom in their eyes, as they did every day. Nothing much ever happened at this post apart… Continue reading
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Chapter 8: The Grand Armada of Ming | Blue Dawn
[First] [Prev] [Next] 8.1 – Preparations for the Armada (1610 – 1612) China in 1610 can be described as being in a period of calm before the storm. After rising out of the ashes of the wars to eject Genghis… Continue reading
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Chapter 7: The Great People’s Revolt | Blue Dawn
[First] [Prev] [Next] 7.1 – Rumblings of Discontent (1590s) As the decades went by, the Western Children Sect grew in popularity and spread throughout South Province and into the North. Its adherents were almost exclusively poor people with just a… Continue reading
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Chapter 6: Founding the Western Children Sect | Blue Dawn
[First] [Prev] [Next] 6.1 – Heritage of the Western Children Religion is a complicated subject in China and Xinguo and we in no way have time to go wade into the details here. Basically, there are three great religions considered… Continue reading
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Chapter 5: Contacts and Voyages | Blue Dawn
[First] [Prev] [Next] 5.1 – Reign of Wei Taixun (1604 – 1625) In 1604, Wei Ruzheng died of natural causes and was succeeded by his son, Wei Taixun. Like his father, Wei Taixun never went to China to be confirmed… Continue reading
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Chapter 4: Lands and Classes | Blue Dawn
[First] [Prev] [Next] 4.1 – China and the Master of Two Provinces (1591 – 1592) When last we discussed the core territory of Xinguo, it was the year 1591. Governor Wei Yonglong was the man who’d initiated the first outright… Continue reading
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Chapter 3: The Outer Prefectures, Part 2 | Blue Dawn
[First] [Prev] [Next] 3.1 – Magala Resistance ( 1570 – 1578) As stated in Chapter 1, one of Wei Yonglong’s cost-cutting measures was that he stopped giving return gifts to the Two Magala Nations in 1570 in exchange for their… Continue reading
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Chapter 2: The Outer Prefectures, Part 1 | Blue Dawn
[Prev] [Next] A preview of a new map I’m working on for Xinguo. This part of the map is still very incomplete… will update later. 2.1 – A Survey of Redwood (1437 – 1589) To take it from the top,… Continue reading
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Chapter 1: The United Provinces | Blue Dawn
[Xin-Mei Wars V1] [Prev] [Next] 1.1 – Master of Two Provinces (1576 – 1589) In the year 221 of the Ming Epoch (1589 AD), Lady Ya of the Tao family hung herself in her room during the Siege of Narrow… Continue reading
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Chapter 7: The Siege of Dongguang | The Xin-Mei Wars Vol. 1
[First] [Prev] [Next Book] [Maps of Xinguo in the 1540s] [Maps of the West Coast in 1576] 7.1 – Prefect Huế Thành Học (June-July 1576) Hue City was founded by a man named Huế Huy Bạc in 1469. It was… Continue reading
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