
You begin with cores on East Guangdong, which is partly held by Tungning, you can conquer this early if you want to, its best to do this after Burgundy has attacked them, that way you won't have to fight them yourself and you'll be able to take a nice bit of land from them, along with plenty of research points that you desperately need. Despite this you suffer from the same issues as your norther neighbour, your pops will revolt as Taiping Reactionaries over and over again, reverting your reforms, to add insult to injury, you also have the terrible 'Tradition' national value.Īt least your external threats are more minimal, as nations like Japan and the Europeans aren't that interested in China, only Burgundy will be close to you, Spain may also have some influence in your little sphere of interest. And on top of this, you have the one thing that gives you an edge over your northern rival: a higher research point gain. Taiping begins in what appears to be a good position, you have a large amount of potential population to recruit, arguably the best province in the game that secures your economy: Kunming. Then finally there is Spain in the small Macao treaty port, along with any other European nations who may want to invade, Burgundy seems likely to want their own treaty port.

Outside of China to the west is Tibet and Taungu, and to the south is Vietnam who has managed to take a small chunk Yunnan. Further south we can find the other two Chinese nations, the Regency of Nanjing and the rump state of Tungning, they are weak but not to be underestimated.

Whether or not its more powerful than the northerly Qing Empire is yet to be seen. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (also referred to as Taiping) is the second of the two largest Chinese nations, located this time in the south of China.
