Chapter 8 : for the Asian supremacy!
In 1560 the Hansa adopted a new form of government , administrative republic , and as a result all our trade stations closed
1562 : The sultan noted , amsed , that Venezia was a sunni theocracy owning only the island of Corfu
We may now modernize using them , but i'm not sure i want to do it anyway
That same year , another military reform boosted our quality (why didn't got these when i needed innovation too ?)
1564 : the Ming moved their capital to Shanxi , at least we will be able to clean the holes in our foothold and claim the CoT!
1566 : We learned that France inherited Cyprus , nothing to worry about a puny distant nation inheriting another
1569-1570 The third and final great chinese war raged
As planned , their battle thralls joined , so we fought Korea and Japan as well
Japan's fleet was sunk this time after two naval battles , and conceded defeat afterwards , korea was white peaced as i didn't want anything from them, the ming however lost several good provinces , former capital , mission objective , my new core and the remaining coastline to have a neat border.
They were allowed to keep inland provinces , as they were mostly poor and with crappy trade goods , too
In January 1571 overextansion comes back , to hinder our efforts to assimilate them 'peacefully'
1572 : the last province in the island of Java is culturally assimilated
We can see here the slow process of spreading the true faith to the chin , and we are building marketplaces nearly everywhere , when our finances allow it (that's damn expensive! up to 312 where pop is 999999)
1578 : Mansûr Shâh I Nazmizan ascends to the throne , initiating a period of quick successions , and while the subcountry of Ache is assimilated (inheritance) we do not get overextansion off as he is such a monderful ruler (admin3 /military 3 / diplo 4)
Of course , with suck a mighty king a pretender showed up but was quickly quelled.
1580 : The Ming broke and most of it is now named 'Qin'
1581 : A new sultan! Rajah Qasim I ascends but while he has a better pretention to the Malaccan throne , his stats are as stellar as his predecessor (adm 3 mil 4 dip 4).
1585 : As the provinces from the first chinese djihad cored , we lost the overextansion effect
1586 : A new sultan (again!)
Muhammad Shâh I is now the new ruler , and younger too
(and better : adm7 mil 4 dip 6)
two months after his peaceful takeover we may select a new national idea ... He decides we whould focus on exploring and colonizing the other indonesian islands , so Quest for new islands is chosen
1596 : while Madurai owns most of indian subcontinent , we dow Ceylan and quickly annex it
but their ally Taungu accepted the call and jumps to their defense.
they are still fighting our professionnal max quality janissaries
when our ruler passed out , and we got once more a new sultan , Parameswara I (5/8/8 , nice
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our New sultan decides to pacify the region and the Taungu is later forced to sword allegiance to our ruler , gaining anothervassal to hold the 'dirt inland'
for the 1600 milestone , we are by far now the wealthiest nation in the world , althouh tech is a bit behind european devils