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WAR IN CHINA

THREE FEUDATORIES REVOLT, SPARKS CIVIL WAR

中國戰爭

三FEUDATORIES起義，火花內戰

PROVINCES SOUTH OF THE YANGTZE RIVER- There is chaos in southern China, and the emperor is getting himself grounded into a laborious situation.  The Three Feudatories have revolted and there is a civil war arising in China between the Three Feudatories and the Qing Empire.

            As you all may know, Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi have been the lone leaders of each of the three provinces (which cover about half of China), so they are essentially the emperors of each province.  As of three days ago, Beijing, the capital of China, has just been informed about this crucial calamity.

            The Rebellion of the Three Feudatories has been going on since August of 1673, but the information about the rebellion has just reached China’s capital, Beijing.  Emperor Kangxi spoke to the people of Beijing, stating, “The southern feudatories have been gaining more and more power over the past years, and I cannot accept that.  The provinces have become a threat to my reign, so I have set out a rebellion.”

Emperor Kangxi

The Three Feudatories have been gaining more and more power ever since a king, Wu Sangui, began having control over Yunnan.  Shunzhi, our late emperor, used to be fine with the Three Feudatories, but ever since Kangxi became emperor, they have been a complication for the Qing Empire.  As long as Kangxi has been emperor, he has yearned to terminate the Three Feudatories (in which he is trying to do now) and the southern provinces became aware of that.

            Kangxi has very good reasoning for terminating the southern provinces.  The Three Feudatories have earned half of the expenditures of China for almost the whole time since they were founded, and that money was supposed to go towards the Qing Empire’s luxurious lifestyle, so Kangxi has commenced to do something about it.  “Why should the feudatories get half the money of China if the people within them are not loyal to the Qing Empire?  Not just me, but almost all of the people outside of the Three Feudatories should be living a better lifestyle than those barbarians,” said emperor Kangxi to a small group of people in Tianjin.

            There is belief throughout the nation that this rebellion could last for years, as both sides are relatively even and this should be a tough battle for emperor Kangxi and the rest of the Qing Empire.