The PSAF was scheduled to launch the largest air attack in history against MacArthur’s last holdouts in the DC area, but the surrender of the Federalist remnants rendered the attack useless. But he needs some sort of legitimacy so it doesn't just look like he's nothing but a military dictator.Pacific States Air Force crew cheer upon hearing the radio proclamation of Peace Day, April 1941. Obviously, behind the scenes, Wu is still pulling the strings, and is the person who is really in power.
#Kaiserreich republic of china install
So, Wu Peifu, leader of the Zhili clique, needing some sort of legitimacy, is willing to install Puyi as a ceremonial monarch to appease three particular groups - the Germans, Manchu nobles (who still have sizeable influence, money, and social pull), and traditional Confucian groups who believe in the authority of the Emperor like the NCERA or the Yiguandao.
Everyone (with the exception of Zhang Zongchang, that dude didn't pretend he was anything other than a warlord) was looking for some possible way to justify their presence in China. Chinese warlords during the Warlord Era were absolutely desperate for some form of legitimacy. Like et37n said above, German influence had a lot to do with Qing restoration, but there's also another factor to it. I actually think the Qing's inclusion in Kaiserreich makes a lot of sense. The idea that the average Chinese person had some kind of seething hatred of the Qing dynasty or Manchu people in general just doesn't really hold up beyond the early 1910s. As late as 1919 several prominent figures in the government thought the monarchy would be restored at some point, and the founder of the Zhili Clique, Feng Guozhang (who was Wu Peifu's mentor), appears to have been indifferent to the monarchy given his actions in 1911. It was mostly just convenient, particularly for the warlord cliques that controlled the country. The Republic as an institution was never especially popular outside certain sections of intelligentsia, either, and even then its form was usually criticized. Most people care more about seeing an end to that chaos than they do about who's sitting on the throne, or whether a throne exists.
#Kaiserreich republic of china series
The Xinhai Revolution was sixteen years before the Qing are restored in 1927, and the time since was filled with turmoil and chaos, with the four years immediately preceding having the worst series of wars since the Taiping Rebellion. that's only true in the sense that nobody really gave a shit about them by the 1920s. As for literally no one wanting the Qing monarchy. I've mostly already answered the "how", the rest of the answer is that Wu Peifu owes them and prefers a puppet he can control to ceding more concessions or privileges to Germany. How can they reach across the world to reinstate a monarchy literally no one wants in the most populous nation on earth? That may've been true in the early 1920s, but the German intervention in China happens in 1927. Germany was battered from years of butchery and famine and death. It's really not much more than what the western powers did in China prior to and during the interwar. The German intervention is quite far from Germany doing "whatever she pleases", it's the brief occupation of an almost defenseless city (Canton), some logistical runs to support Wu Peifu's garrison at Wuchang, some legal shenanigans on the Beijing-Tianjin railway, and the deployment of the Qingdao garrison. And how does Germany even have the power to reach into China and do as she pleases?īecause it did in 1900, and still does in 1927 as it possesses concessions in China and Indochina.