Shang Fa

Supreme Fa 上法 Shàng Fǎ
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Motto: 無上五解放 wú shàng wǔ jiě fàng Rien n'est au-dessus des Cinq Libertés Nothing Above the Five Freedom
Capital and	Vives-Eaux
Recognised national languages	Principean Literary Huranian
Recognised regional languages	Huranian languages Tartares languages Hmong–Mien languages Qiangic languages
Ethnic groups	Huranians Tartares Erma people Hmong people
Religion	Macakkanism Perendism Jiaoism Neo-Macakkanism folk religion
Demonym(s)	自由人 zì yóu rén Freemen
Government	Constitutional monarchy

The Fa Dynasty, officially the Supreme Fa, and sometime also known as Shang Fa or Neidi, is a state in Surucia. Its political, economic, and financial capital is Vives-Eaux, where all of the Dynasty' institutions are gathered.

History

See also: Huran

Lin Dynasty (1571 – 1756)

The Lin Dynasty (林朝; Lín Cháo) was the first Dynasty of Huranian descent to rule over the Great Plain since the Kuang Dynasty and the Great Tribulation. It fought against both Tartares kingdoms and other Huranian states to expand its dominion over the entirety of Huran, although it never managed to do so. Despite recreating a purely Huranian court culture, the Lin remained heavily influenced by Tartares people, retaining the system of their predecessors whereas two separate governments operated in parallel with one another: one for the nomadic populations still inhabiting the Great Plain and the borderlands, and one for the urban Huranian populations.

It's during the Lin Dynasty that Auressians first arrived in Neidi, establishing trade ports and missions on the coastline under the strict overwatch of Imperial Supervisors. Tensions within Lin' aristocracy led to the Tan-Zheng Disorder (覃鄭亂; Tán-Zhèng Luàn), which tore down the imperial institution, before the Three-Brothers Uprising ended both the civil war and the Lin, establishing the Hong Dynasty in its stead.

Hong Dynasty (1750 – 1774)

The Three Brothers Uprising (兄弟起義; 三 Sān Xiōngdì Qǐyì) began as a peasant revolt in Pingding District (平定縣; Píngdìng Xiàn) against the double-taxation system established by the Zheng clan to finance their conflict against the Tan. The three Ruan brothers and their partisans managed to seize their province's military garrisons and defeat the Zheng and Imperial troops sent to repress them. Seeing their success, Ruan Yuan (阮元; Ruǎn Yuán) the eldest of the three brothers, established himself as King of the Western Mountains (西山王; Xīshān Wáng) and gave his brothers the rank of Princes.

The Ruan brothers then continued their warfare against the Zheng, crushing them after after a rapid succession of military campaigns that pushed them to their limits. During these campaigns, the Ruan also took over the Lin' capital, overthrowing the dynasty. It's then that, with the support of the western' Tartares tribes, the Ruan proclaimed their own regime : the Hong Dynasty.

The Tan, up until then spared by the Uprising, tried to profit from the chaos by launching large scale assault. The Tan columns were soundly defeated, losing their patriarch in battle. The survivors, led by the new Prince of Tan, were forced to flee north to escape the Hong troops who were now besieging their clan' capital.

Ruan Yuan died not long after, leaving his throne to his teenage son and the regency to the two surviving brothers. Quickly the relations between the two soured. Each led their independent campaigns to conquer the northern mountains and the southern border respecitvely, building the loyalty of their troops and acting as de-facto independent lords over the conquered lands. These divisions among the Hong would give the Prince of Tan the time needed to re-organize his troops and gather new supporters such as the remnants of the Northern Army as well as Auressian adventurers.

Anterior Tan (1774 – 1807)

Jean-Baptiste Chatellier as one of the twenty-four Dukes

After the Prince of Tan established his own dynasty and took the regal name of Tan Yandi, he tolerated Perenism and began employing his Blaykish supporters as officers and administrators. Principean born Jean-Baptiste Chatellier even became one of the "Pillars of the State" (zhuguo) with the honorific title of "Duke" (gong) while also serving as Resident minister for the Blaykish factories.

Tan Yandi' led large scale reforms and began the process of modernizing the state. This included getting rid of the previous dual administration in favor of a single central one, updating the program of the Imperial examination, and creating a new modern fleet based on Auressians design while also multiplying the number of canons available to the Tan' military.

When Tan Yandi' died in 1792, the throne went to his second son Tan Mingdi instead to his eldest grandson. Mingdi proved to be a much more conservative monarch, who wished to resist "Auressianisation" as he trusted neither the Principeans traders nor the Perenists missionaries. The Dynasty' administration was purged of the Reformists and Principeans who had been all powerful during his father rule. But in 1794, Viceroy Dujue refused to recognize Mingdi and instead proclaimed that his nephew was the legitimate monarch. He was supported in his rebellion by other Reformists and by the Principeans Factories. The civil war only ended in 1807, when the coalition took Beizhen the last bastion of Mingdi and arrested the monarch.

Geography

The Great Plain

the Great Plain (literary Huranian : 太平原; Tàipíngyuán) is a great delta created from silt dropped at the Queen River (后河; Hòu Hé)'s mouth over the millennia. It extends over most Shang Fa, covering an area of about 400,000 square kilometers, most of which is less than 70 metres above sea level. Although its soil is fertile, the weather is unpredictable being at the intersection of humid winds from the Ocean and dry winds from the interior of the continent. This makes the plain prone to both floods and drought. Moreover, the flatness of the plain promotes massive flooding when river works are damaged. Thourough the millenia, the plain was the population and agricultural center of the successive dynasties that controled northern Huran. This did not change with Shang Fa.

Currently, the great plain covers slightly over half of the country and is the residence of eighty percents of its population. Sorghum, Wheat, millet, maize, and cotton are the main agricultural products cultivated in the region, although there are many others.

The Huranian name of the plain can be alternatively read as either "Greatest Plain" or "Plain of the Great Peace".