Dai Viet — Not random

Will happen within 1 days of January 3, 1419
Checked again every 1 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1443)

Description

The Ming administered the country as if it were a province of China and ruled it harshly for the next twenty years. The forced labor of its people was used to exploit Vietnam's mines and forests solely for China's enrichment. Taxes were levied on all products including salt a dietary staple. Under the Ming, Vietnamese cultural traditions, including the chewing of betel nut, were forbidden, men were required to wear their hair long and women to dress in the Chinese style. Vietnamese Buddhism was replaced at court by Ming-sponsored neo-Confucianism, but Ming attempts to supplant popular Vietnamese religious traditions with an officially sponsored form of Buddhism were less successful. Le Loi, one of Vietnam's most celebrated heroes, is credited with rescuing the country from Ming domination in 1428. Born of a wealthy landowning family, he served as a senior scholar-official until the advent of the Ming, whom he refused to serve. The oppressed people found a new leader in the person of Le Loi, a man renowned for his courage and generosity. Under the title Prince of Pacification, he organized a resistance movement from his village and waged a guerrilla war against the enemy. By employing a strategy of surprise attacks targeting his adversary's weakest points, Le Loi managed to further weaken the enemy and at the same time to avoid combat with the superior Chinese forces. His enforcement of strict military discipline ensured that no pillaging was carried out by his troops in the regions under his control, making him a very popular hero. After a decade of gathering a resistance movement around him, Le Loi and his forces finally defeated the Chinese army in 1428. Rather than putting to death the captured Chinese soldiers and administrators, he magnanimously provided ships and supplies to send them back to China. Le Loi then ascended the Vietnamese throne, taking the reign name Le Thai To and establishing the Le dynasty (1428-1788). He renamed the country Dai Viet and immediately began the task of its reconstruction after the devastation caused by war. He reduced his army from 250,000 to 10,000 men and adopted a rotation system that enabled soldiers to return to the countryside to work and help boost food production. The legal system was reorganized and the penal system revised. A new College of National Sons (Quoc Tu Giam) was founded to educate future administrators, with admission based entirely on merit and not on the prior prerequisite of social or family status.

Actions

A. Long live the King!

• Break vassalization with China
• -60 relations with Ayutthaya
• -70 relations with Champa
• -45 relations with Lan Xang
• -30 relations with Cambodia
• Centralization +1
• Offensive Doctrine -2
• Quality +2
• Aristocracy -1
• Innovativeness +1
• +10000 cavalry in the capital province
• +28000 infantry in the capital province
• Infrastructure tech investment: +500
• +1 base tax value in Lao Cai
• +2 base tax value in Hanoi
• +1 base tax value in Tanh Noah
• Stability +3
• Event 147000 - Japanese Pirate Raids for China is triggered immediately
• Event 147002 - Spread of Le Loi's Lam Son resistance in Vietnam for China will never fire

Dai Viet — Not random

Will happen within 180 days of January 2, 1443
Checked again every 180 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1443)

Description

Le Thai Tho died in 1443, leaving the throne to his son, Le Thai Tong, whose sudden death not long after was followed by a decade of confusion and plots within the royal court. This troubled period ceased when Le Thanh Tong affirmed his power.

Actions

A. Oh no!

• Global revolt risk +4 for 120 months
• Stability -5

Dai Viet — Not random

Will happen within 180 days of January 2, 1460
Checked again every 180 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1460)

Description

Under Le Thanh Tong's thirty-six-year reign, the country propered as never before. He revised the fiscal system, encouraged agriculture and placed great emphasis on customs and moral principles. A writer himself, he founded the Tao Dan Academy and wrote the first volume of national history. Le Thanh Tong also ordered the formulation of the Hong Duc legal code, which was based on Chinese law but included distinctly Vietnamese features, such as recognition of the higher position of women in Vietnamese society than in Chinese society. Under the new code, parental consent was not required for marriage, and daughters were granted equal inheritance rights with sons. Le Thanh Tong also initiated the construction and repair of granaries, dispatched his troops to rebuild irrigation works following floods, and provided for medical aid during epidemics. A noted writer and poet himself, he encouraged and emphasized of the Confucian examination system.

Actions

A. Peace and Prosperity!

• Infrastructure tech investment: +500
• Innovativeness +1
• +1 base tax value in Hanoi
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• Stability +2

Dai Viet — Not random

Conditions

• Champa exists

Will happen within 180 days of January 2, 1465
Checked again every 180 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1471)

Description

A general redistribution of land among the entire population hadn't solved the problem of landless because of population increases and the limited amount of available land in the north. Faced with the lack of land, the Le dynasty looked towards the south where their long time enemies, the Kingdom of Champa, owned fertile deltas. In 1470, after more than 1000 years of conflicts, the Dai Viet began preparations for a final war against the Champa Kingdom. An army of some 100,000 men advanced slowly and methodically south towards the Champa capital and in 1471 the Kingdom of Champa was conquered and annexed.

Actions

A. Let us destroy the hated Cham!

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Champa for 240 months
• Start a war with Champa
• Da Nang will be considered a national province
• Da Lat will be considered a national province
• Land tech investment: +500
• Offensive Doctrine +2
• Quality +2

B. We are cowards!

• Stability -1
• +50 relations with Champa
• Offensive Doctrine -1
• Quality -1

Dai Viet — Not random

Will happen within 20 days of January 2, 1527
Checked again every 20 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 2, 1527)

Description

The degenerated Le dynasty, which endured under ten rulers between 1497 and 1527, in the end was no longer able to maintain control over the northern part of the country, much less the new territories to the south. The weakening of the monarchy created a vacuum that the various noble families of the aristocracy were eager to fill. In 1527 Mac Dang Dung, a scholar-official who had effectively controlled the Le for a decade, seized the throne, prompting other families of the aristocracy, notably the Nguyen and Trinh, to rush to the support of the Le.

Actions

A. Civil war erupts!

• A random province revolts
• A random province revolts
• A random province revolts
• A random province revolts
• A random province revolts
• Global revolt risk +5 for 588 months
• Stability -6

Dai Viet — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Annam exists
• The following must not occur:
  • Champa exists
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Own Da Nang
  • Own Da Lat

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1545
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1591)

Description

An attack on the Mac forces led by the Le general Nguyen Kim resulted in the partition of Vietnam in 1545, with the Nguyen family seizing control of the southern part of the country as far north as what is now Thanh Hoa Province. The Nguyen, who took the hereditary title 'chua', continued to profess loyalty to the Le dynasty.

Actions

A. Damn!

• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Grant independence to Annam
• Start a war with Annam
• Stability -1

Dai Viet — Not random

Conditions

• Annam exists

Will happen within 300 days of January 2, 1592
Checked again every 300 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1592)

Description

By the late sixteenth century the Trinh family had ousted the Mac family and had begun to rule the northern half of the country also in the name of the Le dynasty. In an effort to restore law and order to the territory controlled by the Macs, Lord Trinh left the southern court under the temporary control of Nguyen Kim's nephew, Nguyen Hoang, and set out for the north. After pacifying the north and re-establishing Le authority in Hanoi, Lord Trinh returned to find Nguyen Hoang well entrenched in the southerhn court as lord and master of all, and liking where he was. The Trinh, who, like the Nyuyen, took the title 'chua', spent most of the seventeenth century attempting to depose the Nguyen.

Actions

A. Nothing for Nguyen!

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Annam for 240 months
• Start a war with Annam
• Stability -1

B. We are cowards!

• Quality -2
• Stability +1
• +50 relations with Annam

Dai Viet — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 157005 - Vietnamese Division for Dai Viet has already occurred
  • Event 157009 - Ousting of the Macs for Dai Viet has already occurred
• Annam exists
• The following must not occur:
  • Annam and Dai Viet are at war

Will happen within 360 days of January 2, 1672
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 1, 1750)

Description

After major offensives by the Trinh in 1661 and 1672 foundered on the walls built by the Nguyen, a truce in the fighting ensued that lasted nearly 100 years.

Actions

A. Finally

• Stability +2
• +150 relations with Annam

B. Nothing is final!

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Annam for 360 months
• Stability -1

Dai Viet — Not random

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1783
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1785)

Description

The Tay Son Rebellion (1771-1802), ended the Le and Trinh dynasties, and was led by three brothers from the village of Tay Son in Binh Dinh Province. The brothers were of the Ho clan (to which Ho Quy Ly had belonged), and adopted the name Nguyen. The eldest brother, Nguyen Nhac, began an attack on the ruling Nguyen family by capturing Quang Nam and Binh Dinh provinces in 1772. The chief principle and main slogan of the Tay Son was 'seize the property of the rich and distribute it to the poor.' In each village the Tay Son controlled, oppressive landlords and scholar-officials were punished and their property redistributed. The Tay Son also abolished taxes, burned the tax and land registers, freed prisoners from local jails, and distributed the food from storehouses to the hungry. As the rebellion gathered momentum, it gained the support of army deserters, merchants, scholars, local officials, and bonzes. By 1786 the Tay Son had overcome the Trinh dynasty and united the country

Actions

A. Good riddance!

• A random province revolts
• A random province revolts
• Global revolt risk +5 for 432 months
• Stability -6

Dai Viet — Not random

Will happen within 10 days of September 16, 1788
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1791)

Description

In 1788 the reigning Le emperor fled north to seek Chinese assistance in defeating the Tay Son. Eager to comply, a Chinese army of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) invaded Vietnam, seized Thang Long, and invested the Le ruler as King of Annam. To save the nation, the second eldest Tay Son brother, Nguyen Hue, proclaimed himself Emperor Quang Trung in Phu Xuan and overran the Chinese troops in a whirlwind campaign. Marching north with 100,000 men and 100 elephants, Quang Trung attacked Thang Long at night and routed the Chinese army of 200,000, which retreated in disarray. Immediately following his victory, the Tay Son leader sought to reestablish friendly relations with China, requesting recognition of his rule and sending the usual tributary mission. Quang Trung stimulated Vietnam's war-ravaged economy by encouraging trade and crafts, ordering the recultivation of fallow lands, reducing or abolishing taxes on local products, and resettling landless peasants on communal lands in their own villages. Quang Trung also established a new capital at Phu Xuan (near modern Hue), a more central location from which to administer the country. He reorganized the government along military lines, giving key posts to generals, with the result that military officials for the first time outranked civilian officials. Vietnamese was substituted for Chinese as the official national language, and candidates for the bureaucracy were required to submit prose and verse compositions in chu nom rather than in classical Chinese.

Actions

A. It is a new era!

• Move capital to Tanh Noah
• Centralization +1
• Offensive Doctrine +2
• Quality +2
• Land tech investment: +1000
• Trade tech investment: +500
• Infrastructure tech investment: +500
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• +10000 infantry in the capital province
• +5000 cavalry in the capital province
• Stability +3

Dai Viet — Not random

Conditions

• Event 107004 - Birth of Vietnam for Annam has already occurred
• Own Tanh Noah
• Control Tanh Noah

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1789
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

In his drive for control and order, Gia Long adopted the Chinese bureaucratic model to a greater degree than any previous Vietnamese ruler. The new capital at Hue, two kilometers northeast of Phu Xuan, was patterned after the Chinese model in Beijing, complete with a Forbidden City, an Imperial City, and a Capital City. Vietnamese bureaucrats were required to wear Chinese-style gowns and even adopt Chinese-style houses and sedan chairs. Vietnamese women, in turn, were compelled to wear Chinese-style trousers. Gia Long instituted a law code, which followed very closely the Chinese Qing dynasty (1644-1911) model. Under the Gia Long code, severe punishment was meted out for any form of resistance to the absolute power of the government. Buddhism, Taoism, and indigenous religions were forbidden under the Confucianist administration. Traditional Vietnamese laws and customs, such as the provisions of the Hong Duc law code protecting the rights and status of women, were swept away by the new code. Taxes that had been reduced or abolished under the Tay Son were levied again under the restored Nguyen dynasty. These included taxes on mining, forestry, fisheries, crafts, and on various domestic products, such as salt, honey, and incense. Another heavy burden on the peasantry was the increased use of corvee labor to build not only roads, bridges, ports, and irrigation works but also palaces, fortresses, shipyards, and arsenals. All but the privileged classes were required to work on such projects at least sixty days a year, with no pay but a rice ration. The great Mandarin Road, used by couriers and scholar-officials as a link between Gia Dinh, Hue, and Thang Long, was started during this period in order to strengthen the control of the central government. Military service was another burden on the peasantry. In some areas one out of every three men was required to serve in the Vietnamese Imperial Army. Land reforms instituted under the Tay Son were soon lost under the restored Nguyen dynasty, and the proportion of communal lands dwindled to less than 20 percent of the total. Although chu nom was retained as the national script by Gia Long, his son and successor Minh Mang, who gained the throne upon his father's death in 1820, ordered a return to the use of Chinese ideographs.

Actions

A. OK

• Monarch Nguyen Hue will never rule
• Monarch Nguyen Quang Toan will never rule
• Monarch Gia Long becomes active
• Centralization +2
• Serfdom +2
• Innovativeness -2
• Aristocracy +1
• Move capital to Tanh Noah
• +2 base tax value in Tanh Noah
• +2000 population in Tanh Noah
• +2 base tax value in the capital province
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• +1 base tax value in a random province

Dai Viet — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Event 107004 - Birth of Vietnam for Annam has already occurred

Will happen within 20 days of January 2, 1792
Checked again every 20 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 2, 1792)
unless prevented by
Action A of 107004 - Birth of Vietnam for Annam

Description

Unfortunately, Quang Trung's promising reign was cut short by his premature death not long after, in 1792. Without leaving a successor strong enough to assume leadership of the country, the usual factionalism ensued. By this time, Nguyen Anh and his supporters had won back much of the south from Nguyen Lu, the youngest and least capable of the Tay Son brothers....

Actions

A. How unfortunate!

• Global revolt risk +10 for 120 months
• Stability -6

Dai Viet — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 106005 - Lao Disunity for Lan Xang

Description

After the murder in 1698 of Nan Tharat, Lan Xang fell into disarray. The future Sethathirat II fled to Dai Viet, and marched back with a huge Vietnamese Army. He managed to capture Vientiane, but his claim to the throne was never recognized by other family members. The ruler of Luang Prabang was proclaimed the King of Lan Xang, and Champa followed the suit.

Actions

A. Support our candidate

• -250 relations with Lan Xang
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Lan Xang for 48 months

B. Do not interfere

• +50 relations with Lan Xang
• Stability -1

Dai Viet — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 147003 - Truce with Le Loi for China

Description

Le Loi declared himself Emperor and defends China's 2nd invasion into Dai Viet.

Actions

A. Good!

• +40000 infantry in Hanoi
• +5000 cavalry in Hanoi
• +20000 infantry in Tanh Noah
• +2000 cavalry in Tanh Noah
• +10000 infantry in Lao Cai
• +1000 cavalry in Lao Cai
• Break vassalization with China
• Start a war with China
• Stability +5

Dai Viet — Random

Description

The Buddhist Kings of Southeast Asia have always treasured the possession of white elephants, enhancing royal prestige and ensuring the country's prosperity.

Actions

A. Splendid!

• Stability +1
• Global revolt risk -3 for 12 months