CHAPTER 4: With Peace comes War
1431.02.18
Uh oh. This is usually the point most people lose as Ryukyu. Whilst they weren't active in wars anymore the THREAT of them joining is usually enough to prevent most people declaring war on you. Note Brunei just won't stay quiet.
1433.08.09
NATIONAL IDEA!!!!!!!!
Only took me 34 years. I hired a 5 star statesman for a few years to get it in the end.
Ended up taking National Bank as inflation was the only thing that I couldn't really control right now - Divine Supremacy would've got my missionaries/year to a pathetic 0.1
1435.01.12
Aceh declared war on me, citing Colonial Conquest. Looks like that difficult road is beginning. Whilst they're not strong none of us have a land route to them and their capital is on an island, so it's gonna be difficult to attack. I still can't afford a navy. ;(
Also my leader decided the middle of a war was a good time to DIE and left me with a regency council.. with 7 military skill. Haha! That might help with killing a little.
That might look like I'm getting destroyed but it's really just a couple of 1k stacks running around provinces without forts. Will be easy to mop up the savages when I'm finished doing... whatever I was doing here I can't remember. Knowing the game so far probably killing Brunei rebels.
1436.06.04
A funny thing happened in the last couple of years. I accidentally cancelled my alliance with Sukhothai, accidentally cancelled military access, accidentally cancelled my vassalisation and then accidentally declared war on them. Whoops! And somehow after all those mistakes I then accidentally annexed them. I guess without a leader I lost a bit of sanity.
I also squeezed 3 provinces out of Pegu for a large slice of badboy. I've almost got a land route to India now, and I have no idea what's going on over there yet (I'm not peeking in the save!) Hopefully they haven't united.
Another 3 stability loss events in quick succession too, uwaaaa.
I need to find a way to get cheaper land though. Another problem with Ryukyu is pagans don't seem to get any infidel style CBs on people, and they're all heathens so you can't even Unam Sanctum it up. I'm probably going to try and capture a province in the middle of India and drop my National Focus on it, then use border friction to gain a huge chunk of India for half the cost.
1439.11.26
All Hail Sho Kimpuku I Satto, he of the Earth Mother.
Right, lets not waste anymore time. There's a couple of stray Animist provinces in Taungu and Bhutan. Religious Liberation CB gives you 25% infamy for Conquest of Animist states.... or Full Annexation. > : D It's still 100% cost though, but if I leave the animist states around hopefully I can get a cheap-as-chips annexation, though that borders Ming so I'd probably sell Kachin to Shan (ironically the only province with Animism!
Oh btw Korea warned me again. Could be interesting.
1442.04.18
Taungu is too large to fully annex at this stage. Our ancestral lands shall have to hold out a little longer without us to protect them. I secured a portion of the land bridge to India, and the provinces of Chin and Naga are Animist so they shall soon fall into our hands. Pegu keeps insulting our mighty empire. Do they want to be destroyed? Very well, they shall have their dues - we will march to their capital and burn down their libraries and enslave their women and children. When the people of Pegu seek documents showing their claims to the land they shall only find ash. Ash and blood.
1442.06.01
It is done. They belong to the Three Mountains now.
Korea is still at war with me. These wayward spawn are proving to be quite problematic; I may have to divert attention to... cutting out this parasite from my affairs soon.
1442.09.30
This land belongs to the Three Mountains. We shall reclaim it promptly.
As a sidenote I think there's a few bugs regarding this triggering when it shouldn't. During this chapter I had this event 3 more times than I mention, but all of the additional times it Had a list of countries (including KOREA) but not any provinces for any of them. Still got the prestige gain. It's pretty common for it to wag out like that and always disappointing. You see the event and you're like YESSSSSSS then you hover over the button and it's just nothing arrrrgghhhh.
And our people are safe once more. Now it is time to turn out gaze back upon Aceh and Northern Raiders invading our capital.
A new heir to the throne. 3 8 8. Ei Satto takes after the Emperor well.
1445.01.18
The only thing that has saved Ryukyu on this day is that Koreans get bored easily. Having conquered most of Brunei and a few of my vassals lands, as well as my capital, they offer a white peace and wander off back home. Curious people.
Unfortunately the heir died.
On the plus side the huge rebel armies roaming indochina forced Aceh into a white peace with us.
1449.07.27
A new heir to the throne! Kei Satto is 4 6 8 - not as good as Ei Satto but hopefully he won't have an untimely death this time. Brunei rebelled AGAIN and I'm embroiled in a million colonial wars on the continent - but things are going well. I may have intentionally cropped the infamy figure out of this screenshot.
1451.07.26
Our claims to these lands are no longer being challenged. They are our lands and shall always be, for Bunei Sato has made it so. Why do people dispute our divine right to rule? Do they not learn the lessons of their defeated and broken neighbours?
Ummmmmm? Hahahaha! Maybe not.
1454.09.01
The long and drawn out war with Bhutan, Bengal and Deva Bengal is over. Their full annexation was saved only by my men being unable to find a route through the harsh wastelands to the rest of their lands. I will forgive them for now, they serve Ryukyu well and have fought many overwhelming odds to bring us here.
The Great Wall of Vassals has a breach; the province of Kachin is held by my people, and I see the hungry eyes of the Chinese Warlords vying for my lands. I must have faith; Kachin is a safe haven for the Animist peoples and I cannot bring myself to give the land away to a lesser sovereign. I will have to make preparations.
It is now unavoidable. We have grown too powerful and too many people want us now. I offer kindness to the people of this land and they refuse, they answer with insults and declarations of war. There is no hope for these savages, they know war and only war.
We will answer with steel. It is time for Ming to die.