Not a really surprising empire, but still...
"Why go outside? Minister, let those barbarians left their tributes, oh and who gave the most will have a honor to bow to me..."
Ming Empire with its vassels, some of vassels are forces, some are persuaded, some are released. They are : Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Tangu, Shan, Ayuhatta, Laos, Khmer, Malacca, Aech, Brunei, Ryukyu, Japan, Korean and an OPM I cant remember their name
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The Islands of Philippine are all taken from westerners(Spain/Portugal/Aquellia) and then given to Ryukyu king. Hokkaido, Guam is colonized by me and given to Japan (I diplo-annexed Japan when Daimyos still existed and then waged a long long "nterference war", and I tagged once to unite it faster). The borders of most of my vassels were re-arranged. And the Manchu was inherited (they've extended into exterior-mongolia, that still saved alot of work )
Never touched africa, america or europe to westernize, all done in asia (I waited until 1700s and finally Nizil Novgrod and Aquellia reached some place around me...)
I lead the politic/land tech at the end period of game.
DW 5.1
Next time I'd try making more barbarians to obey the celestial empire (Hey!it's Ming
)
Something interesting outside the "Chinese world":
Vij, Rajputs and Bihar had all once controlled almost of India, but finally all fell. Vij was the nearest to Hindustan (they only need Ceylon, due to bureaucrates was the 50%leading faction at that time I can't help
), Bihar was the first dominating power there, ruined by me I took Nepla and Bhutan to protect my south-western borded.
MOST of American post-colony era countries were formed, well, not all in correct positions...:rofl:
As the successor of the all-migthy-early-game-empire Jalayrids, Khorasan is very successful as AI, but too big, too ugly to vasselize and too difficult to re-arrange, but their poor technology will ruin them when whoever decide to attack.
Oh, and, I have to say the description text of temple faction is stupid (this is the most polite word I can find, I'm a Buddhist myself
).