What is this cultural division meant to represent anyway? Currently there are something like a dozen major Chinese "dialects" (languages, actually) but the beifanren/nanfanren divide seems to not really mean anything.
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In fact, some mods Beifangren (actually this is the right of Chinese pinyin) and Nanfangren synthesis of a nation. But I still think is paredox do so in order to improve the balance, otherwise the later period of the Qing Dynasty would be too strong, but in fact did so even after the later China, especially after 1900 is still very strong). So I don't think this is very good.
Yeah, I feel it's mainly supposed to be a division for pops Qing accepts and ones it doesn't.
I have always wondered why the heck they started with Manchuria as their subject though, given how most of their primary pops are there.
I have always wondered why the heck they started with Manchuria as their subject though, given how most of their primary pops are there.
Because the Manchus took over China before the EU4 DLC that allows faster population conversion through colonization came out.
Having lived in both the north and south of China, I can confirm that there is quite a large cultural divide between the two even today. Of course it's more complex than that in reality, with many local variations and dialects, but Victoria is after all a game, not an anthropological textbook.