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Ok I'm quitting Mexico. It's clear there are going to fall apart regardless of what I do. I might come back if I can find a better nation but I'm sick of everything going wrong.
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Sino-Danish Exchange Programme
1. The King of the Danes shall receive students from the Empire of the Great Qing to study at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Kiel.
2. The Emperor of the Great Qing shall issue a remittance for these services at the sum of 10,000 taels of silver.
3. The Emperor of the Great Qing shall instruct the Bureau of Interpreters to dispatch a team of translators to the aforementioned universities so as to avoid linguistic complications.
Signed,
[X] His Excellency, Zhou Ji, Vice-President of the Board of Rites; for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
[ ] His Serene Highness, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; for His Royal Majesty, Frederik VII, King of Denmark
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
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Sino-Danish Exchange Programme
[X] His Serene Highness, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; for His Royal Majesty, Frederik VII, King of Denmark
The Netherlands hearby retracts its offer to the false emperor of Dai Nam. He is no king, merely a charlatan who pretends to be one. We are also ending all diplomatic ties with him, except as a vassal of China.
But I digress - these recent Qing statements mark a remarkable change in their policy towards my kingdom. In the past we have been friendly trading partners - now the Chinese seem eager to thrust their dominion down my throat, as they have done with Korea, or the Rykuku Kingdom. They call me 'King of Nanyue', yet when no Việt has ruled with such a title since the time of Chinese rule, a millennia ago. The Qing seem blind and foolish to the fact that I have never swore vassalage to them, and neither did my father, or my house, that of Nguyễn, or indeed any Việt is recent times. Let me reaffirm to the nations of the World, but the Chinese in particular - I am Emperor of Đại Nam, and I shall be recognised as such!
As such, I submit a demand to the Qing Kingdom, and indeed any state that would reject my Imperial title, won lawfully through military might and hereditary succession. I demand that I am recognised as Emperor of Đại Nam , not this pathetic title of King, and that my state, of Đại Nam is a sovereign, independent nation-state, and is beholden in no way whatsoever to the Qing state. It is only through such mutual respect that cordial and harmonious relations may be restored between our states, Celestial Emperor. And thus I submit to you, as peer to peer: I am a Emperor, and am not your vassal, servant, indeed slave!
明命, Ming Mang, Hoàng Đế of Đại Nam
The Mandate of London
Recognizing that peace in the Low Countries must be established,
Understanding the Cultural Ties of that area,
Agreeing that Peace can and must be restored,
The Kingdom of the Netherlands, The United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Prussia do hereby agree to the following provisions.
I. The Netherlands will be recognized as the Controller of the Low Countries. This included the Netherlands Proper, and the Southern Provinces of the Netherlands styling themselves as the Kingdom of Belgium.
II. The Kingdom of Prussia will be recognized as the ruler of the Duchy of Luxembourg. Luxembourg is to be split, with the Western Half of the Grand Duchy, including the towns of Arlon, Aubange, Bastogne, Durbuy, Marche-en-Famenne, Neufchâteau, and Virton, which will remain Dutch. The King of Prussia shall have the title of Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
III. The United Kingdom will keep all shipping lanes from Prussia and the Netherlands open.
[X] Victoria, By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith.
[X] His Royal Majesty Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia
[X] King William the Third, King of the Low Countries
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To the King of Nanyue, we have this to say; we still wish for you to visit the city of Copenhagen, and enjoy a tour of Denmark in general. We hope that we will develop strong trade relations and both our nations grow prosperous from such agreements; however, to respect our Chinese friends, we will only trade with your nation through the Qing's Board of Rites at this time. If, in the future, your two states can come to a reasonable and peaceful conclusion resulting in your full sovereignty, we will be delighted to trade with you directly; until such a time, however, we will use the proper channels for any diplomatic agreements.
The Imperial Court is perplexed by the latest utterances of the King of Nanyue. As the Emperor of the Great Qing recalls, we approached the King of Nanyue in peace and friendship. We generously offered to guarantee their kingdom against foreign aggression; to secure their borders with our own bannermen. We sought only amity and understanding, satisfied to leave the King of Nanyue to attend to his affairs in peace. Instead, he rejected our generous terms, and then proceeded to present himself amongst the peripheral states without even informing the Imperial Court in advance. It is his rashness and arrogance that has threatened stability in the South China Sea, not the conduct of the Imperial Court.
This arrogance asserts itself when he denies the cultural connection between the Central State and his kingdom. The people of Nanyue are of Han descent; the name of their land is derived from the Han dialect; and they practice Han customs and traditions. For more than a millennium, the Kingdom of Nanyue has been in union with the Central State. Only in the last years of the decayed Ming was this eternal unity severed; and it is only natural that the King of Nanyue would call upon the Great Qing to emulate their inept predecessors. What the King of Nanyue describes as the wisdom of the Ming, we see as weakness: through their laxity and indolence, they allowed their rightful realms to lapse into chaos. The people of Nanyue may have been severed from the Central State during the anarchy of Ming rule, but so too were the Koreans, the Mongols and the Jurchens. All have since accepted the will of Heaven and submitted to the Great Qing; only the King of Nanyue holds out, for fear of being deprived of his assumed title.
There is only one Emperor on Earth. There is only a single chosen Son of Heaven. The Celestial Mandate has been bequeathed to only one dynasty, embodied by its ruling sovereign; and that is the eternal dynasty of the Great Qing. We inherited the imperial splendour of our predecessors, the decayed Ming, who in turn succeeded the Great Yuan, who in turn succeeded the Song, and so on and so forth until we reach the day that the First Emperor of Qin unified the Central State and proclaimed his founder dynasty. This is the heavenly line of succession, unbroken even in times of disorder and war, spanning the pages of history for over a thousand years. This is a righteous claim, substantiated by history and the will of Heaven. Compared to this illustrious pedigree, the self-styled 'Emperor of Dai Nam' is an outrageous fraud, seeking to secure his rule by robbing the Emperor of the Great Qing of his prestige and position. This man is master of less than half a peninsula - yet he would equate himself to the Lord of all under Heaven. He is the scion of a dynasty mere decades in the making, yet he demands parity from the greatest power under Heaven. He is an usurper and a pretender, yet he acts as if he were Han Gaozu himself.
The Emperor of the Great Qing was generous to the King of Nanyue. And though the conduct of the latter has been despicable, we are still prepared to be lenient. If the King of Nanyue accepts the conditions of our original agreement, and returns to his rightful place as a vassal of the Central State, then the Imperial Court shall be prepared to receive foreign envoys on his behalf. Serenity shall be restored to the southern lands. Prosperity shall flow throughout Nanyue, as the fruits of foreign investment are reaped by the Han people. The King of Nanyue and his court shall be left to govern in peace. But if they continue to conspire against the Great Qing, and to insult the majesty of her supreme sovereign, and to affect a rift between the Han people, then the Emperor of the Great Qing shall do all that is necessary to restore order under Heaven.
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
This arrogance asserts itself when he denies the cultural connection between the Central State and his kingdom. The people of Nanyue are of Han descent; the name of their land is derived from the Han dialect; and they practice Han customs and traditions. For more than a millennium, the Kingdom of Nanyue has been in union with the Central State. Only in the last years of the decayed Ming was this eternal unity severed; and it is only natural that the King of Nanyue would call upon the Great Qing to emulate their inept predecessors. What the King of Nanyue describes as the wisdom of the Ming, we see as weakness: through their laxity and indolence, they allowed their rightful realms to lapse into chaos. The people of Nanyue may have been severed from the Central State during the anarchy of Ming rule, but so too were the Koreans, the Mongols and the Jurchens. All have since accepted the will of Heaven and submitted to the Great Qing; only the King of Nanyue holds out, for fear of being deprived of his assumed title.
There is only one Emperor on Earth. There is only a single chosen Son of Heaven. The Celestial Mandate has been bequeathed to only one dynasty, embodied by its ruling sovereign; and that is the eternal dynasty of the Great Qing. We inherited the imperial splendour of our predecessors, the decayed Ming, who in turn succeeded the Great Yuan, who in turn succeeded the Song, and so on and so forth until we reach the day that the First Emperor of Qin unified the Central State and proclaimed his founder dynasty. This is the heavenly line of succession, unbroken even in times of disorder and war, spanning the pages of history for over a thousand years. This is a righteous claim, substantiated by history and the will of Heaven. Compared to this illustrious pedigree, the self-styled 'Emperor of Dai Nam' is an outrageous fraud, seeking to secure his rule by robbing the Emperor of the Great Qing of his prestige and position. This man is master of less than half a peninsula - yet he would equate himself to the Lord of all under Heaven. He is the scion of a dynasty mere decades in the making, yet he demands parity from the greatest power under Heaven. He is an usurper and a pretender, yet he acts as if he were Han Gaozu himself.
The Emperor of the Great Qing was generous to the King of Nanyue. And though the conduct of the latter has been despicable, we are still prepared to be lenient. If the King of Nanyue accepts the conditions of our original agreement, and returns to his rightful place as a vassal of the Central State, then the Imperial Court shall be prepared to receive foreign envoys on his behalf. Serenity shall be restored to the southern lands. Prosperity shall flow throughout Nanyue, as the fruits of foreign investment are reaped by the Han people. The King of Nanyue and his court shall be left to govern in peace. But if they continue to conspire against the Great Qing, and to insult the majesty of her supreme sovereign, and to affect a rift between the Han people, then the Emperor of the Great Qing shall do all that is necessary to restore order under Heaven.
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
The King of Sardinia-Peidmont does not see why civilized, European countries are making such a big deal about the politics of Barbarian nations. We will allow the Empire of Dai Nam to visit our country, but we will likely not accept any trade deals with that or any other uncivilized nation unless they are very beneficial to us.
I would like to to remind the Emperor of China that he is in fact not the only Emperor that this land has ever seen. Why in our current era there is the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the Austrian Empire,the Empire of Brazil,and the Japanese Empire. If the Qing dynasty wishes to insult the rulers of some of the most powerful nations on this land he is heading in the right direction. I demand he apologise for this insult!
Allāhu Akbar
His Imperial Majesty, Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Allāhu Akbar
His Imperial Majesty, Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
The Emperor of the Great Qing speaks only in regards to our dispute with the King of Nanyue. We have no interest in insulting the peripheral states.
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
OOC: It's very representative of what China was like, but I can still get pissed!
[X] His Sacred and Imperial Majesty Sultan Mahmud II Khan, Emperor, Sovereign of the House of Osman, Sultan of Sultans, Khan of Khans, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe, Custodian of the Holy Sanctiaries, Emperor of Rome, Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianople and Bursa, and of the Cities of Damascus and Cairo, of all Azerbaijan, of the Magreb, of Barka, of Kairouan, of Aleppo, of the Arabic and the Persian Iraq, of Basra, of Al-Hasa strip, of Ar Raqqah, of Mosul, of Parthia, of Diyarbakir, of Cilicia, of the provinces of Erzurum, of Sivas, of Adana, of Karaman, Van, of Barbary, of Abyssinia, of Tunisia, of Tripoli, of Damascus, of Cyprus, of Rhodes, of Crete, of the province of Morea, of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and also their coasts, of Anatolia, Rumelia, Baghdad, Greece, Turkistan, Tartary, Circassia, of the two regions of Kabarda, of Georgia, of the steppe of Kypchaks, of the whole country of the Tatars, of Kefe and of all the neighboring regions, of Bosnia, of the City and Fort of Belgrade, of the province of Serbia, with all the castles and cities, of all Albania, of all Eflak and Bogdania, as well as all the dependencies and borders, and many other countries and cities.
[X]State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire Prinz Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Furst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, acting on behalf of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria; Apostolic King of Hungary; King of Bohemia, of Lombardy-Venetia, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, of Slavonia, of Galicia, of Lodomeria, and of Illyria; King of Jerusalem, and so forth; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany; Duke of Lorraine, of Salzburg, of Styria, of Carinthia, of Carniola and of the Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave in Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trient and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg, and so forth; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and of the Wendish Mark; Grand Voivode of the Voivodship of Serbia, and so forth; Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
[X] His Sacred and Imperial Majesty Sultan Mahmud II Khan, Emperor, Sovereign of the House of Osman, Sultan of Sultans, Khan of Khans, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe, Custodian of the Holy Sanctiaries, Emperor of Rome, Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianople and Bursa, and of the Cities of Damascus and Cairo, of all Azerbaijan, of the Magreb, of Barka, of Kairouan, of Aleppo, of the Arabic and the Persian Iraq, of Basra, of Al-Hasa strip, of Ar Raqqah, of Mosul, of Parthia, of Diyarbakir, of Cilicia, of the provinces of Erzurum, of Sivas, of Adana, of Karaman, Van, of Barbary, of Abyssinia, of Tunisia, of Tripoli, of Damascus, of Cyprus, of Rhodes, of Crete, of the province of Morea, of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and also their coasts, of Anatolia, Rumelia, Baghdad, Greece, Turkistan, Tartary, Circassia, of the two regions of Kabarda, of Georgia, of the steppe of Kypchaks, of the whole country of the Tatars, of Kefe and of all the neighboring regions, of Bosnia, of the City and Fort of Belgrade, of the province of Serbia, with all the castles and cities, of all Albania, of all Eflak and Bogdania, as well as all the dependencies and borders, and many other countries and cities.
[X]State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire Prinz Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Furst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, acting on behalf of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria; Apostolic King of Hungary; King of Bohemia, of Lombardy-Venetia, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, of Slavonia, of Galicia, of Lodomeria, and of Illyria; King of Jerusalem, and so forth; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany; Duke of Lorraine, of Salzburg, of Styria, of Carinthia, of Carniola and of the Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave in Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trient and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg, and so forth; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and of the Wendish Mark; Grand Voivode of the Voivodship of Serbia, and so forth; Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
[X] State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire Prinz Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Furst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, acting on behalf of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria; Apostolic King of Hungary; King of Bohemia, of Lombardy-Venetia, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, of Slavonia, of Galicia, of Lodomeria, and of Illyria; King of Jerusalem, and so forth; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany; Duke of Lorraine, of Salzburg, of Styria, of Carinthia, of Carniola and of the Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave in Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trient and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg, and so forth; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and of the Wendish Mark; Grand Voivode of the Voivodship of Serbia, and so forth; Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece.