Beiyang Government
“”China is so tired of being
 bossed around that they deleted  their old government and make a new, stronger government, which is accidentally weaker and controlled by a  guy from the previous government. |
—  Bill Wurtz, History of the entire world, I guess
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The Beiyang government was the internationally recognized government of the 
Republic of China between 1912 and 1928, based in 
Beijing. He was dominated by the generals of the 
Beiyang Army, giving him his name.
Dispite the name suggesting that Beiyang was a 
centralized government with control over all China, the government was heavily influenced by 
regional warlords, leading to a lack of effective central governance and contributing to widespread 
corruption. Different factions often competed and warred for legitmency.
History
On 10 March 1912, Yuan Shikai, leader of the Beiyang Army, became provisional president while located in Beijing, his power base. He refused to move to 
Nanjing, fearing further assassination attempts. It was also more economical to keep the existing Qing bureaucracy in Beijing, so the provisional senate moved north as well; the government thereby began the administration from Beijing on 10 October 1912.
On the second year of the Republic of China (1913), October 6, Yuan Shikai was elected as the first president of the Republic of China, marking the official establishment of the Beijing government and the end of the provisional government. Also in 1913, the 
southern provinces revolted against Beiyang and Yuan in what's known as the "Second Revolution", however it failed.
In 1915, Yuan Shikai tried to restore the 
monarchy by founding the 
Empire of China, but this failed quickly because the people just got rid of a monarchy and weren't ready to have another one. So in 1916 the Empire of China collapsed and China broke into several cliques and armies ruled by warlords, most of them loyal to the Beiyang Government. From this until "reunification" was known as the Warlord Era. Beiyang also tried to create a national army, but the southerners were distrustful to Beiyang, and no progress was made on this issue.
Some factions were opposed to joining WWI, but still in the end Beiyang government declared war on the 
Central Powers in August 1917 and began sending labor battalions to 
France and a token force to 
Siberia. 
Duan Qirui, the premier of the Beiyang government (had only de-facto control over Northern China) got huge loans from 
Japan, claiming to build an army of a million men to send to Europe to fight. His rivals, however, knew that this army would not be leaving the country and would be used to crush dissent.
By the 1920s, what was left of the Beiyang government has completely collapsed, and Beiyang now exists in name only. Warlords now owned the land that was once controlled by Beiyang, and different factions fought against each other. China was in complete chaos. In 1920, the cliques of Zhili and Anhui warred for control over the Beiyang government. Zhili, allied with the Fengtian Clique, won after a little more than a week and destroyed the Anhui Clique. The Beiyang Army was now permanently broken up. Zhili and Fengtian ruled most of China as the de-facto Beiyang government together until the First Zhili-Fengtian War in 1922.
In 1921, the Nationalist government was established, serving as an opposition to the Beiyang government for the control of China.
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Relationships
Friends
Empire of Japan - Supported me against 
these revolutionaries 
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Enemies
Nationalist Government - You think you’ve won, don’t you? You call yourself the true heir of the Republic, but I was here first. It was MY armies that held China together after the fall of the 
Qing! Without me, you would have been nothing more than a band of idealists preaching revolution in the south.
Trivia
- Many people confuse the Beiyang flag as a
LGBTQ+ flag, even though the Beiyang flag was made way before the LGBT movement solidified. - Some presidents of the Beiyang Government lasted only a few weeks before being kicked out by the next warlord.
Flag
The flag that the Beiyang government used is called "Five Races Under One Union", with the red representing the 
Han Chinese, yellow the 
Manchus, blue the 
Mongols, white the 
Hui Muslims (later is also represented 
Uyghurs and all other Muslim minorities), and black the 
Tibetans. This set of symbolism would later be adopted by 
Manchukuo, who changed it up a bit.
Despite the Xinhai uprising targeting a Manchu-dominated regime, the flag and its supporters unanimously advocated racial integration. They promoted a view of the non- Han ethnicities as also being Chinese, despite them being a relatively small percentage of the population.
How to draw
Beiyang Government has a drawing rating of easy.
- Draw a ball.
- Divide the ball into five stripes horizontally.
- Fill in these colours for the stripes from top to bottom: red, yellow, blue, white, black.
- Add Chinese eyes and done!
| Color Name | HEX | |
|---|---|---|
| Red | #DE2119 | |
| Yellow | #FFC500 | |
| Blue | #08639C | |
| White | #FFFFFF | |
| Black | #000000 | |
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